1 00:00:11,657 --> 00:00:14,937 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Buck Sexton Chow podcast, make sure 2 00:00:14,937 --> 00:00:17,977 Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 3 00:00:17,977 --> 00:00:23,457 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. The NYPD has arrested sixty 4 00:00:23,497 --> 00:00:25,817 Speaker 1: two year old Frank James, the man suspected of a 5 00:00:25,857 --> 00:00:29,857 Speaker 1: mass shooting in a Brooklyn subway yesterday. While law enforcement 6 00:00:29,897 --> 00:00:31,777 Speaker 1: is still looking for clues as to why James carried 7 00:00:31,817 --> 00:00:35,297 Speaker 1: out the attack, Democrats already have their answer. It's the 8 00:00:35,337 --> 00:00:39,257 Speaker 1: gun's fault. And also historic inequality is what the Mayor 9 00:00:39,257 --> 00:00:41,857 Speaker 1: of New York said. We'll get into this. Friends, it's 10 00:00:41,897 --> 00:00:52,897 Speaker 1: time for holdinge. Welcome to hold the line. I'm Buck Sexton. Look, folks, 11 00:00:53,137 --> 00:00:58,577 Speaker 1: we are in a time of elevated crime. We are 12 00:00:58,617 --> 00:01:03,017 Speaker 1: in a period here where we know, naturally there's a problem. 13 00:01:03,057 --> 00:01:06,297 Speaker 1: And so this latest shooting in New York City by 14 00:01:06,377 --> 00:01:09,737 Speaker 1: somebody who was arrested many times and was well known 15 00:01:09,777 --> 00:01:12,697 Speaker 1: to law enforcement is a reminder of just what exactly 16 00:01:13,217 --> 00:01:16,377 Speaker 1: is going wrong here. Here is a photo of the suspect, 17 00:01:16,377 --> 00:01:20,737 Speaker 1: sixty two year old Frank James, and as you see here, 18 00:01:20,777 --> 00:01:24,777 Speaker 1: he is a black man in his early sixties, and 19 00:01:24,937 --> 00:01:29,017 Speaker 1: he allegedly carried out this terror attack. It was a 20 00:01:29,097 --> 00:01:32,217 Speaker 1: terror attack, by the way, according even now to the FBI. 21 00:01:32,417 --> 00:01:34,777 Speaker 1: FBI came out and said that today I saw yesterday. 22 00:01:35,097 --> 00:01:38,137 Speaker 1: Because they early on were saying they were not investigating 23 00:01:38,137 --> 00:01:40,537 Speaker 1: it as a terror attack. That just means they hadn't 24 00:01:40,617 --> 00:01:43,737 Speaker 1: yet found enough evidence to classify it as such. Now 25 00:01:43,777 --> 00:01:47,897 Speaker 1: they have because it is. It was an act of terror. 26 00:01:48,537 --> 00:01:52,297 Speaker 1: And it's noteworthy that this suspect was known to the FBI. 27 00:01:52,737 --> 00:01:55,737 Speaker 1: Here's a headline for your Brooklyn subway attacks. Suspect previously 28 00:01:55,777 --> 00:01:59,137 Speaker 1: known to the FBI, and clear, that's right. He was 29 00:01:59,177 --> 00:02:03,457 Speaker 1: already on their radar, and somehow they had interviews, sit 30 00:02:03,537 --> 00:02:06,657 Speaker 1: downs with him and decided, oh no, this is fine, 31 00:02:06,897 --> 00:02:12,137 Speaker 1: there's no problem here. Pretty remarkable, pretty astonishing. Now, this 32 00:02:12,217 --> 00:02:15,337 Speaker 1: is one incident. It's a horrible one. Thank god, nobody 33 00:02:16,177 --> 00:02:21,777 Speaker 1: was killed. He shot ten people. He deployed a smoke grenade, 34 00:02:22,257 --> 00:02:24,137 Speaker 1: he had a gas mask on. He also had a 35 00:02:24,137 --> 00:02:26,737 Speaker 1: hatchet apparently in his bag. No one was killed. He 36 00:02:26,817 --> 00:02:29,977 Speaker 1: shot people, so I'm critically injured. But he did not 37 00:02:30,137 --> 00:02:34,537 Speaker 1: manage to have a lethal impact in this terrorist attack, 38 00:02:35,297 --> 00:02:38,937 Speaker 1: largely because his gun jam. So he also had a 39 00:02:39,057 --> 00:02:43,577 Speaker 1: very limited proficiency and understanding of firearms. Thank god, but 40 00:02:43,697 --> 00:02:45,857 Speaker 1: this could have been much worse. We could have easily 41 00:02:45,937 --> 00:02:50,817 Speaker 1: had a dozen people or more murdered on the New 42 00:02:50,897 --> 00:02:54,297 Speaker 1: York City subway during the morning rush hour by somebody 43 00:02:54,337 --> 00:02:58,897 Speaker 1: who was a career criminal, essentially arrested about a dozen 44 00:02:58,937 --> 00:03:02,657 Speaker 1: times and was known to the FBI as a possible extremist. 45 00:03:03,137 --> 00:03:05,537 Speaker 1: What kind of extremists? By the way, Oh, you won't 46 00:03:05,617 --> 00:03:12,497 Speaker 1: see much about this, but he was an abject racist, lunatic. 47 00:03:13,017 --> 00:03:17,017 Speaker 1: All right, This guy, Frank James hated white people, hated 48 00:03:17,057 --> 00:03:20,817 Speaker 1: Asian people. Made this quite clear in videos he posted 49 00:03:20,857 --> 00:03:24,297 Speaker 1: to YouTube where he said the most anti white, anti 50 00:03:24,337 --> 00:03:29,137 Speaker 1: Asian things you could possibly imagine, repeatedly. He was a racist, 51 00:03:29,137 --> 00:03:32,217 Speaker 1: saw him on the writer even calling him a black 52 00:03:32,297 --> 00:03:38,297 Speaker 1: supremacist because he wanted to attack people of other racial backgrounds. Now, 53 00:03:38,577 --> 00:03:40,497 Speaker 1: the media is not going to put it into that context, 54 00:03:40,497 --> 00:03:42,137 Speaker 1: of course, They're just going to focus on the mental 55 00:03:42,177 --> 00:03:45,257 Speaker 1: health issues here. And in the case of New York 56 00:03:45,297 --> 00:03:51,377 Speaker 1: City's Mayor Eric Adams, his whole approach right now seems 57 00:03:51,417 --> 00:03:56,217 Speaker 1: to be the focus on historical inequality as what caused 58 00:03:56,217 --> 00:04:00,497 Speaker 1: the crime, and also other failures of society. Watch this. 59 00:04:00,857 --> 00:04:02,737 Speaker 1: We are going to get better. This is going to 60 00:04:02,737 --> 00:04:06,137 Speaker 1: be a safe city. And we've been here before nineteen 61 00:04:06,177 --> 00:04:09,057 Speaker 1: eighty four, when I started my policing career, this was 62 00:04:09,137 --> 00:04:12,897 Speaker 1: a city that was open violence. Our selway systems were unsafe. 63 00:04:13,337 --> 00:04:15,737 Speaker 1: But we had to write energy and spirit to turn 64 00:04:15,817 --> 00:04:17,857 Speaker 1: that around. And we want to do it again. But 65 00:04:18,017 --> 00:04:24,737 Speaker 1: let's be clear, we're dealing with historical inequalities, historical abandonments 66 00:04:24,737 --> 00:04:27,537 Speaker 1: and failures. And as I stated, they have many rivers 67 00:04:27,577 --> 00:04:30,177 Speaker 1: that will continue to feed the sea of violence if 68 00:04:30,257 --> 00:04:33,657 Speaker 1: we don't damn each river. We have an over proliferation 69 00:04:33,697 --> 00:04:37,697 Speaker 1: of guns in our city and in our country. Now 70 00:04:37,777 --> 00:04:41,697 Speaker 1: let's understand he's completely wrong. These are these are absurd, 71 00:04:42,257 --> 00:04:46,337 Speaker 1: absurd analyzes to present, first of all, on the historic 72 00:04:46,417 --> 00:04:51,097 Speaker 1: inequalities here as it pertains to the surgeon gun and 73 00:04:51,217 --> 00:04:53,777 Speaker 1: other violence and just crime in general New York City. 74 00:04:54,177 --> 00:04:56,777 Speaker 1: New York City has already gone through a period, went 75 00:04:56,777 --> 00:04:59,337 Speaker 1: through a period in the nineties into the two thousands 76 00:04:59,377 --> 00:05:03,377 Speaker 1: of cleaning up the streets, of becoming a very safe 77 00:05:03,497 --> 00:05:06,137 Speaker 1: large city. And I lived here during it. I know 78 00:05:06,217 --> 00:05:08,537 Speaker 1: it was a very safe city. It was a remarkable 79 00:05:08,777 --> 00:05:13,617 Speaker 1: turnaround sent actually a drop in murders of ninety percent 80 00:05:13,777 --> 00:05:16,177 Speaker 1: plus since the early nineteen nineties by the time you 81 00:05:16,217 --> 00:05:19,617 Speaker 1: get to about two thousand and twelve. So what happened, 82 00:05:19,657 --> 00:05:21,617 Speaker 1: We all of a sudden got a lot more historically 83 00:05:21,697 --> 00:05:26,417 Speaker 1: unequal in the last few years. No Democrat policies about crime, 84 00:05:26,737 --> 00:05:30,377 Speaker 1: from the prosecutor's office, from the State Assembly in New York, 85 00:05:30,417 --> 00:05:33,977 Speaker 1: from the mayor's office, from the governor's office, Democrat ideas 86 00:05:33,977 --> 00:05:37,017 Speaker 1: in the media about criminal justice reform. All of that 87 00:05:37,217 --> 00:05:41,257 Speaker 1: came together and pushed away what we had learned about 88 00:05:41,297 --> 00:05:45,617 Speaker 1: actual crime fighting and made people think, oh, I guess 89 00:05:45,617 --> 00:05:47,977 Speaker 1: we can just let criminals out and not punish them 90 00:05:47,977 --> 00:05:50,857 Speaker 1: and not enforce the law and everything will be fine. 91 00:05:51,697 --> 00:05:56,337 Speaker 1: Of course this was complete maddeness. And then the focus 92 00:05:56,377 --> 00:05:58,457 Speaker 1: on the guns. Well, here you go, here's Eric Adams 93 00:05:58,457 --> 00:06:00,577 Speaker 1: again saying, we have to stop the flow of guns 94 00:06:00,577 --> 00:06:04,817 Speaker 1: into our cities, including ghost gun All across America, big 95 00:06:04,857 --> 00:06:07,657 Speaker 1: cities are dealing with this level of bindings. And so 96 00:06:07,817 --> 00:06:10,617 Speaker 1: that's why the President was right to it in place 97 00:06:10,897 --> 00:06:14,777 Speaker 1: attempt to a point a new head of the ATF, 98 00:06:15,097 --> 00:06:18,977 Speaker 1: the nominee for ATF. We need to stop the flow 99 00:06:19,057 --> 00:06:22,177 Speaker 1: of guns, including ghosts guns. That's a real crisis that 100 00:06:22,217 --> 00:06:24,497 Speaker 1: we of facing. If we want to solve this problem. 101 00:06:24,697 --> 00:06:27,137 Speaker 1: It's about all of us getting on board, not those 102 00:06:27,137 --> 00:06:30,537 Speaker 1: who are living in an alternate reality of what's taking 103 00:06:30,577 --> 00:06:34,697 Speaker 1: place in reality or no speech every day. So initial 104 00:06:34,737 --> 00:06:37,657 Speaker 1: reports just to look at how stupid this talking point 105 00:06:37,737 --> 00:06:39,617 Speaker 1: is that you're hearing from a lot of Democrats right now. 106 00:06:40,297 --> 00:06:44,297 Speaker 1: Initial reports are that this was illegally purchased firearm that 107 00:06:44,337 --> 00:06:45,977 Speaker 1: he had in the state of Ohio, and then he 108 00:06:46,017 --> 00:06:48,857 Speaker 1: took it across state lines and was in violation of 109 00:06:49,057 --> 00:06:51,537 Speaker 1: New York City and New York State law in doing so. 110 00:06:52,137 --> 00:06:55,577 Speaker 1: That's what we know as of now. How are you 111 00:06:55,617 --> 00:06:57,177 Speaker 1: going to stay? How is the City of New York 112 00:06:57,177 --> 00:06:59,657 Speaker 1: going to stop that? Are they going to search every 113 00:06:59,737 --> 00:07:01,737 Speaker 1: vehicle that enters New York City? He drove a U 114 00:07:01,737 --> 00:07:05,017 Speaker 1: haul apparently. Are they going to search every vehicle that 115 00:07:05,097 --> 00:07:06,977 Speaker 1: enters a city to make sure there's no illegal guns 116 00:07:06,977 --> 00:07:09,177 Speaker 1: coming into the city. No, They're just gonna make it 117 00:07:09,217 --> 00:07:12,977 Speaker 1: impossible for too legally owned firearms. They're going to harass 118 00:07:13,057 --> 00:07:16,737 Speaker 1: and annoy lawful gun owners or would be gun owners 119 00:07:17,017 --> 00:07:19,977 Speaker 1: and violate their Second Amendment rights and lock people up 120 00:07:20,017 --> 00:07:22,937 Speaker 1: because they didn't properly register a twenty gage shotgun that 121 00:07:22,977 --> 00:07:25,737 Speaker 1: they used to go pheasant hunting on the weekends. That's 122 00:07:25,777 --> 00:07:30,057 Speaker 1: the kind of bullcrap the New York City authorities, the NYPD, 123 00:07:30,217 --> 00:07:33,537 Speaker 1: and others are forced to do because of Democrat lunacy 124 00:07:33,657 --> 00:07:40,497 Speaker 1: on guns. Speaking of Democrat lunacy pathy, hokel whose antics 125 00:07:40,577 --> 00:07:43,617 Speaker 1: yesterday work just absurd. She showed up and seemed to 126 00:07:43,657 --> 00:07:47,537 Speaker 1: think that she was leading some kind of a political 127 00:07:47,657 --> 00:07:51,097 Speaker 1: rally against violence. We need the governor of New York 128 00:07:51,137 --> 00:07:57,737 Speaker 1: to start giving completely worthless pablum in the aftermath of 129 00:07:57,737 --> 00:08:01,017 Speaker 1: a terrorist attack on our subway. Watch this. No more 130 00:08:01,177 --> 00:08:06,297 Speaker 1: mass shootings, no more disrupting lives, no more creating heartbreak 131 00:08:06,377 --> 00:08:09,337 Speaker 1: for people just trying to live their lives as normal 132 00:08:09,377 --> 00:08:13,177 Speaker 1: New Yorkers. It has to end. It ends now, and 133 00:08:13,257 --> 00:08:16,497 Speaker 1: we are sick and tired of reading headlines about crime. 134 00:08:16,577 --> 00:08:20,137 Speaker 1: It has to stop. I'm committing the full resources of 135 00:08:20,177 --> 00:08:24,537 Speaker 1: our state to fight this surge of crime, this insanity 136 00:08:24,617 --> 00:08:26,697 Speaker 1: that is seizing our city because we want to get 137 00:08:26,737 --> 00:08:31,657 Speaker 1: back to normal, normal mass shooting. She shouts, Oh thanks, 138 00:08:31,657 --> 00:08:33,617 Speaker 1: I'm sure the criminals are going to pay close attention 139 00:08:34,057 --> 00:08:38,177 Speaker 1: to the shrill idiot governor of New York. It's outrageous, 140 00:08:38,257 --> 00:08:40,617 Speaker 1: isn't it that this person is the governor of any state. 141 00:08:41,657 --> 00:08:43,817 Speaker 1: This woman shouldn't be the governor of a lemonade stand, 142 00:08:43,897 --> 00:08:47,577 Speaker 1: and yet she runs New York States Executive Branch. Right now. 143 00:08:48,017 --> 00:08:49,737 Speaker 1: One of the reasons we have so many problems in 144 00:08:49,777 --> 00:08:54,257 Speaker 1: these blue states is because Democrats keep electing morons. All right, 145 00:08:54,297 --> 00:08:56,977 Speaker 1: it's beginning to look like Russian President Vladimir Putin's effort 146 00:08:57,057 --> 00:08:58,817 Speaker 1: to prevent By the way, she wasn't even elected. She 147 00:08:58,937 --> 00:09:01,617 Speaker 1: just was who was left after the last Democrat elected 148 00:09:01,617 --> 00:09:05,137 Speaker 1: governor you got pushed out. Putin he's trying to prevent 149 00:09:05,257 --> 00:09:08,577 Speaker 1: NATO expansion in Eastern Europe by invaded Ukraine, and guess 150 00:09:08,577 --> 00:09:11,177 Speaker 1: what that may have backfired. The nations of Sweden and 151 00:09:11,217 --> 00:09:13,857 Speaker 1: Finland are now seriously considering joining the Defensive Alliance, with 152 00:09:13,937 --> 00:09:16,577 Speaker 1: the decision expected to come within weeks. We'll have more 153 00:09:16,577 --> 00:09:19,737 Speaker 1: on that with the Heritage Foundations Nile Gardner coming up. 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Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion 174 00:10:20,257 --> 00:10:22,857 Speaker 1: of Ukraine in part to prevent the expansion of NATO 175 00:10:22,937 --> 00:10:26,137 Speaker 1: along Russia's border, while it seems his plan may have 176 00:10:26,217 --> 00:10:28,577 Speaker 1: blown up in his face. Today, the prime ministers of 177 00:10:28,577 --> 00:10:31,657 Speaker 1: Finland and Sweden met to discuss the possibility of both 178 00:10:31,777 --> 00:10:35,417 Speaker 1: nations joining the Alliance, citing Russian aggression as the catalyst 179 00:10:35,497 --> 00:10:38,977 Speaker 1: for their potential membership. Here's what Finland's Prime Minister Santa 180 00:10:39,097 --> 00:10:43,257 Speaker 1: Marin had to say earlier today. The European security architecture 181 00:10:43,537 --> 00:10:48,737 Speaker 1: have changed fundamentally after Russian's invasion of Ukraine. To change 182 00:10:48,817 --> 00:10:52,657 Speaker 1: in the security landscape make it necessary to analyze how 183 00:10:52,697 --> 00:10:56,417 Speaker 1: we best secure peace for Finland and in our region 184 00:10:56,537 --> 00:10:59,457 Speaker 1: in the future. The Prime minister added that a final 185 00:10:59,497 --> 00:11:01,897 Speaker 1: decision on whether or not Finland will apply for membership 186 00:11:02,017 --> 00:11:06,297 Speaker 1: could come within weeks. A spokesman for the Kremlin warned 187 00:11:06,297 --> 00:11:09,017 Speaker 1: against the two nations joining NATO, saying it would not 188 00:11:09,137 --> 00:11:12,217 Speaker 1: quote bring ability to the European continent. All right, well, 189 00:11:12,257 --> 00:11:14,657 Speaker 1: let's dive into this. Joining me now is Now Gardner, 190 00:11:14,737 --> 00:11:17,657 Speaker 1: director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the 191 00:11:17,737 --> 00:11:22,497 Speaker 1: Heritage Foundation Nile. Is this a big backfire for Putin? 192 00:11:22,577 --> 00:11:26,657 Speaker 1: I mean, what is it looking like? Well, but thanks 193 00:11:26,737 --> 00:11:28,977 Speaker 1: very much having me on the show today. And you know, 194 00:11:29,017 --> 00:11:31,697 Speaker 1: without a doubt, I think this is very bad news 195 00:11:31,817 --> 00:11:35,537 Speaker 1: for a Putin and for the Russian regime. I think 196 00:11:35,577 --> 00:11:39,497 Speaker 1: certainly Putin's invasion of Ukraine, which has gone incredibly badly, 197 00:11:40,497 --> 00:11:44,577 Speaker 1: is really backfiring on multiple fronts, including of course, you know, 198 00:11:44,617 --> 00:11:47,777 Speaker 1: the big picture with regard to to NATO, because you know, 199 00:11:47,897 --> 00:11:50,217 Speaker 1: without without a doubt, I think that you know, the 200 00:11:50,337 --> 00:11:53,657 Speaker 1: Native Alliance is going to expand as a result of 201 00:11:53,697 --> 00:11:58,097 Speaker 1: the Russian aggression against Ukraine and Finland and Sweden I 202 00:11:58,217 --> 00:12:01,857 Speaker 1: believe will become in short time full members of the 203 00:12:02,177 --> 00:12:05,177 Speaker 1: Native Alliance. They are on track to do so that 204 00:12:05,377 --> 00:12:09,297 Speaker 1: governments are I think committed to bringing that about. This 205 00:12:09,337 --> 00:12:12,097 Speaker 1: may happen this year, and I think there will be 206 00:12:12,217 --> 00:12:16,577 Speaker 1: unanimous support within the Native Alliance for expanding the partnership 207 00:12:16,617 --> 00:12:19,257 Speaker 1: to bring on board Finland and Sweden. They'll become the 208 00:12:19,377 --> 00:12:22,737 Speaker 1: you know, the thirty first and thirty second members of NATO. 209 00:12:23,097 --> 00:12:27,457 Speaker 1: Yen Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General, has voiced his full 210 00:12:27,737 --> 00:12:30,777 Speaker 1: support for the you know, for the expansion of the 211 00:12:30,817 --> 00:12:33,697 Speaker 1: Native Alliance, and so, you know, I do think that 212 00:12:34,297 --> 00:12:38,937 Speaker 1: you know, Putin's you know, very very you know, spectacular 213 00:12:39,217 --> 00:12:42,817 Speaker 1: unsuccessful operation Ukraine. It's all backfiring, I think for the 214 00:12:42,937 --> 00:12:45,857 Speaker 1: for the Russian dictator. What role do you think the 215 00:12:45,897 --> 00:12:50,457 Speaker 1: evidence of war crimes has played in Sweden and Finland's 216 00:12:50,457 --> 00:12:56,337 Speaker 1: obviously heightened interest in joining the NATO Alliance. Yeah, it's 217 00:12:56,337 --> 00:12:58,417 Speaker 1: a good question, you know. I think it's an important issue, 218 00:12:58,737 --> 00:13:02,417 Speaker 1: and you know, especially for a country like Sweden, for example, 219 00:13:02,417 --> 00:13:07,297 Speaker 1: which prides itself on playing a very active role in 220 00:13:07,457 --> 00:13:09,857 Speaker 1: terms of advancing you know, human rights on on the 221 00:13:09,857 --> 00:13:13,297 Speaker 1: world stage. I think the you know, the Swedish population, 222 00:13:13,657 --> 00:13:17,817 Speaker 1: the Finnish population was absolutely horrified by the tremendous barbarism 223 00:13:17,817 --> 00:13:20,137 Speaker 1: and savagery that you're seeing being carried out by the 224 00:13:20,217 --> 00:13:22,617 Speaker 1: Russians inside Ukraine. So that's a factor. But I think 225 00:13:22,617 --> 00:13:25,857 Speaker 1: the number one factor, by a long way back in 226 00:13:25,937 --> 00:13:28,697 Speaker 1: terms of the thinking in both countries, is to prevent 227 00:13:29,217 --> 00:13:33,497 Speaker 1: the Russians from you know, daring to set foot in 228 00:13:33,537 --> 00:13:36,217 Speaker 1: either of those countries. And after all, you know, Finland 229 00:13:36,257 --> 00:13:38,817 Speaker 1: shares a you know, a boarder that's over eight hundred 230 00:13:38,817 --> 00:13:41,817 Speaker 1: miles with Russia, and so the Finns, who have been 231 00:13:41,817 --> 00:13:44,497 Speaker 1: invaded twice by the Russians in the past, they are 232 00:13:44,537 --> 00:13:49,177 Speaker 1: acutely aware of the tremendous threat level. And a recent 233 00:13:49,177 --> 00:13:51,457 Speaker 1: opinion poll that came out in Finland showed actually that 234 00:13:51,817 --> 00:13:54,577 Speaker 1: by six to one margin Finns were in favor actually 235 00:13:54,577 --> 00:13:57,377 Speaker 1: of joining NATO. That the numbers are a bit closer 236 00:13:57,377 --> 00:14:00,577 Speaker 1: in Sweden but you know, for the Finns right on 237 00:14:00,617 --> 00:14:03,457 Speaker 1: the boarder with Russia, the threaten invasion is a very 238 00:14:03,537 --> 00:14:07,897 Speaker 1: very real, you know, scenario, and they are on the 239 00:14:07,977 --> 00:14:10,577 Speaker 1: on the guard. But as you point out what we're 240 00:14:10,577 --> 00:14:15,217 Speaker 1: witnessing round Ukraine, they're the horrific atrocities, the war crimes. 241 00:14:15,737 --> 00:14:19,217 Speaker 1: This is focusing things well, not only in Finland and Sweden, 242 00:14:19,257 --> 00:14:21,177 Speaker 1: but all over all over Europe when people are actually 243 00:14:21,217 --> 00:14:25,097 Speaker 1: horrified by what's happening, and they of course are also 244 00:14:25,177 --> 00:14:27,977 Speaker 1: worried that, you know, this could happen in their own countries, 245 00:14:27,977 --> 00:14:32,497 Speaker 1: that the Russians decided to invade. How quickly could they 246 00:14:32,777 --> 00:14:36,977 Speaker 1: become good? Sweden and Finland become full members of NATO 247 00:14:37,217 --> 00:14:39,737 Speaker 1: if they do apply in the coming weeks. And is 248 00:14:39,737 --> 00:14:42,377 Speaker 1: there any way that that process, I mean, can it 249 00:14:42,457 --> 00:14:45,497 Speaker 1: be expedited? Are the Russians going to try to bring 250 00:14:45,577 --> 00:14:49,377 Speaker 1: some kind of pressure to derail it if it starts 251 00:14:49,377 --> 00:14:52,857 Speaker 1: to happen, I mean, how does the actual process play out? Yeah, 252 00:14:52,937 --> 00:14:55,457 Speaker 1: that's that's a very important question. And I think there's 253 00:14:55,457 --> 00:14:58,617 Speaker 1: going to be discussion of this at the Madrid NATO summit, 254 00:14:58,657 --> 00:15:00,857 Speaker 1: which takes place in the last week of June too, 255 00:15:01,057 --> 00:15:04,177 Speaker 1: So that's where I think this will be discussed. Both 256 00:15:04,217 --> 00:15:06,777 Speaker 1: the Fins and the Swedes indicated that they would like 257 00:15:06,977 --> 00:15:09,737 Speaker 1: to it possibly move forward in the course of the 258 00:15:09,737 --> 00:15:12,937 Speaker 1: next few weeks, so in advance of the Madrid summits. 259 00:15:13,017 --> 00:15:17,657 Speaker 1: So basically it would require a unanimous vote from all 260 00:15:17,697 --> 00:15:21,217 Speaker 1: NATO members to approve this. Every NATO country has to 261 00:15:21,417 --> 00:15:26,457 Speaker 1: approve an application to join, and I would expect that 262 00:15:26,497 --> 00:15:29,097 Speaker 1: the whole Native Alliance would would support this. So I 263 00:15:29,097 --> 00:15:32,937 Speaker 1: think it would be a fast tracked process and you 264 00:15:32,977 --> 00:15:36,897 Speaker 1: could see both Finland and Sweden as full members of 265 00:15:36,937 --> 00:15:39,297 Speaker 1: the Native Alliance, I would say in the second half 266 00:15:39,297 --> 00:15:42,377 Speaker 1: of this year. So it can be a very very 267 00:15:42,457 --> 00:15:46,457 Speaker 1: quick process here. And I don't expect there's going to 268 00:15:46,497 --> 00:15:50,137 Speaker 1: be any opposition among other NATO countries to those two 269 00:15:50,217 --> 00:15:54,097 Speaker 1: nations adjoining. The Russians will you know, will huff and 270 00:15:54,137 --> 00:15:56,057 Speaker 1: puff and put, will make all kinds of threats, but 271 00:15:56,137 --> 00:15:58,377 Speaker 1: it will it will make no difference Russia does any 272 00:15:58,457 --> 00:16:03,377 Speaker 1: veto over who joins the Native Alliance. And my expectation 273 00:16:03,537 --> 00:16:06,217 Speaker 1: is that both Finland and Sweden will be full members 274 00:16:06,217 --> 00:16:09,057 Speaker 1: of the Native Alliance, certainly before the year is over, 275 00:16:09,097 --> 00:16:14,897 Speaker 1: if not significant helium and what what practical effect. Let's 276 00:16:14,937 --> 00:16:16,737 Speaker 1: say we get to the point where Finland and Sweden 277 00:16:16,777 --> 00:16:21,017 Speaker 1: are now part of the Alliance. How would you expect 278 00:16:21,057 --> 00:16:24,977 Speaker 1: that that would affect things in Europe? Could there be 279 00:16:25,457 --> 00:16:28,617 Speaker 1: a US base perhaps even in one of those countries soon? 280 00:16:28,857 --> 00:16:32,337 Speaker 1: How do you think that would play out? Yeah, that's 281 00:16:32,337 --> 00:16:33,937 Speaker 1: a good question, you know, in both countries of course. 282 00:16:33,977 --> 00:16:38,217 Speaker 1: Finland Sweden have you know, have prided themselves on neutrality 283 00:16:39,097 --> 00:16:41,777 Speaker 1: for many decades. But I think in the new reality 284 00:16:41,857 --> 00:16:44,617 Speaker 1: that we have in Europe with the Russians, you know, 285 00:16:44,697 --> 00:16:46,777 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand troops or they used have two hundred 286 00:16:46,777 --> 00:16:49,977 Speaker 1: thousand trips in Ukraine, that number's fallen significantly because they've 287 00:16:50,097 --> 00:16:52,817 Speaker 1: taken a lot of casualties. But um, you know, everyone's 288 00:16:52,817 --> 00:16:55,097 Speaker 1: seeing what was happening in Ukraine, and so I wouldn't 289 00:16:55,097 --> 00:16:58,257 Speaker 1: be surprised if you know, Finland, for example, approached the 290 00:16:58,337 --> 00:17:01,417 Speaker 1: United States or Great Britain or another you know, or 291 00:17:01,457 --> 00:17:04,657 Speaker 1: other NATO members to you know, to establish a you know, 292 00:17:04,697 --> 00:17:08,897 Speaker 1: a full permanent NATO base in Finland, and I think 293 00:17:08,897 --> 00:17:12,057 Speaker 1: that would be the wise thing to do. You know, 294 00:17:12,097 --> 00:17:15,257 Speaker 1: the Swedes have been very actively engaged in supporting Ukraine. 295 00:17:15,257 --> 00:17:19,017 Speaker 1: They've sent over ten thousand missiles to the Ukrainians actually, 296 00:17:19,017 --> 00:17:22,297 Speaker 1: and so you know, even in in Sweden, a country 297 00:17:22,377 --> 00:17:26,297 Speaker 1: that that has you know, been neutral so long, I 298 00:17:26,337 --> 00:17:28,977 Speaker 1: think there's a possibility as well of you know, NATO 299 00:17:29,057 --> 00:17:32,257 Speaker 1: and NATO based in Sweden also, so anything can happen here. 300 00:17:32,697 --> 00:17:35,097 Speaker 1: It's a very different landscape in Europe. It would be 301 00:17:35,137 --> 00:17:38,617 Speaker 1: a wise move both finn and Sweden to welcome you know, 302 00:17:38,737 --> 00:17:42,417 Speaker 1: permanent NATO basis in their in their countries. The Poles 303 00:17:42,417 --> 00:17:44,697 Speaker 1: have been seeking that for a long time and I 304 00:17:44,737 --> 00:17:46,737 Speaker 1: hope that that will be the case for Poland as well. 305 00:17:47,417 --> 00:17:49,337 Speaker 1: And also you know, the Fins and the Swedes, I mean, 306 00:17:49,377 --> 00:17:53,057 Speaker 1: they know how to fight, they have highly effective fighting forces. 307 00:17:53,417 --> 00:17:57,257 Speaker 1: They will be traditional added value to the Native alliance 308 00:17:58,017 --> 00:18:00,177 Speaker 1: um and they also know how to fight you know, 309 00:18:00,257 --> 00:18:07,937 Speaker 1: winter warfare, and they know how to fight Biden. Just 310 00:18:07,977 --> 00:18:10,577 Speaker 1: to get your take on this quickly, I didn't call 311 00:18:10,657 --> 00:18:14,097 Speaker 1: the Ukraine invasion a genocide today watch this yet I 312 00:18:14,297 --> 00:18:18,657 Speaker 1: called this genocide because it become clearer and clearer that 313 00:18:18,817 --> 00:18:20,977 Speaker 1: proved the sin of wipe out the ideas he can 314 00:18:21,017 --> 00:18:25,577 Speaker 1: feeling between Ukraine and the mount The evidence is mounting 315 00:18:26,577 --> 00:18:29,417 Speaker 1: good different nowaks last week or evidence is coming out 316 00:18:29,457 --> 00:18:34,057 Speaker 1: of literally the horrible thing be the Russians have done 317 00:18:34,497 --> 00:18:37,497 Speaker 1: gior Krane. So we're gonna only learn more and more 318 00:18:37,537 --> 00:18:42,697 Speaker 1: about the defication and for about the Morris decides internationally 319 00:18:42,817 --> 00:18:45,377 Speaker 1: is whether or not a qualifier. But it sure sees 320 00:18:45,417 --> 00:18:48,737 Speaker 1: that way to be. Actually, the Biden essentially says he's 321 00:18:48,737 --> 00:18:51,377 Speaker 1: not sure if it under international law qualifies as a genocide, 322 00:18:51,377 --> 00:18:54,377 Speaker 1: but he used the term genocide. How significant is that? 323 00:18:55,817 --> 00:18:59,217 Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's significant, and I think that clearly. 324 00:18:59,497 --> 00:19:02,897 Speaker 1: I mean, the Russians are you know, have genocidal intent 325 00:19:03,177 --> 00:19:07,897 Speaker 1: in Ukraine there ethnically cleansing parts of the country. Um, 326 00:19:07,937 --> 00:19:09,817 Speaker 1: you know, one can quible over you know, over the 327 00:19:09,857 --> 00:19:13,337 Speaker 1: use the term, you know, genocide the legal definition. But um, 328 00:19:13,697 --> 00:19:16,057 Speaker 1: you know, I do think that you know, Putin's regime 329 00:19:16,057 --> 00:19:18,897 Speaker 1: as a genocidal regime and that that is true. But 330 00:19:18,977 --> 00:19:20,977 Speaker 1: you know, with with regard to Joe Biden, you know, 331 00:19:21,737 --> 00:19:24,057 Speaker 1: it's also important that when you make comments like this 332 00:19:24,657 --> 00:19:27,617 Speaker 1: that you back up, you know, retric with you know, 333 00:19:27,657 --> 00:19:30,297 Speaker 1: with tough action on every single fund against the Russians. 334 00:19:30,337 --> 00:19:32,977 Speaker 1: You know, don't sit down with the Russians negotiating and 335 00:19:33,017 --> 00:19:35,617 Speaker 1: a rand nuclear deal while they carrying out genocide. So 336 00:19:35,817 --> 00:19:37,857 Speaker 1: you know, I hope Joe Biden lives up to you know, 337 00:19:37,897 --> 00:19:40,937 Speaker 1: the words that he uses and not does not partner 338 00:19:40,977 --> 00:19:43,737 Speaker 1: with a genocidal regime. That's absolutely madness. That's what the 339 00:19:43,737 --> 00:19:46,177 Speaker 1: Bidendministration is doing right now. So Joe Biden needs to 340 00:19:46,217 --> 00:19:49,697 Speaker 1: wake up on the Rand front. Nile. I always appreciate 341 00:19:49,737 --> 00:19:52,657 Speaker 1: the insight. Thank you so much. It's my pleasure. Thanks 342 00:19:52,737 --> 00:19:57,057 Speaker 1: very much, Bud. An expression of NATO wouldn't come without cost. 343 00:19:57,177 --> 00:19:59,337 Speaker 1: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley 344 00:19:59,417 --> 00:20:03,697 Speaker 1: recently told lawmakers that new permanent American bases in Europe 345 00:20:03,777 --> 00:20:05,737 Speaker 1: could be needed in the coming years. But is that 346 00:20:05,777 --> 00:20:08,097 Speaker 1: such a great idea? I answer the question with the 347 00:20:08,137 --> 00:20:11,577 Speaker 1: host of the President's Daily Brief podcast, Brian Dean Wright. 348 00:20:11,617 --> 00:20:13,537 Speaker 1: When we come back. First, I want to talk to 349 00:20:13,537 --> 00:20:16,377 Speaker 1: you about protecting your online data. A lot of companies 350 00:20:16,417 --> 00:20:18,697 Speaker 1: promise your privacy is guaranteed. 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We'll be right back with more all the line. 368 00:21:17,497 --> 00:21:20,217 Speaker 1: As we noted in the previous segment, with Russia's brutality 369 00:21:20,257 --> 00:21:23,377 Speaker 1: on full display in Ukraine, many of America's allies in 370 00:21:23,417 --> 00:21:25,857 Speaker 1: Eastern Europe are worried they could be next. In a 371 00:21:25,897 --> 00:21:28,697 Speaker 1: recent congressional hearing, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark 372 00:21:28,777 --> 00:21:32,657 Speaker 1: Millie told lawmakers the US should consider sending more troops 373 00:21:32,657 --> 00:21:35,737 Speaker 1: and establishing new bases in Europe to deter Putin from 374 00:21:35,777 --> 00:21:39,617 Speaker 1: further aggression. Take a look. My advice would be to 375 00:21:39,737 --> 00:21:43,497 Speaker 1: create permanent bases, but don't permanently station. So you get 376 00:21:43,537 --> 00:21:48,457 Speaker 1: the effect of permanence by rotational forces cycling through permanent bases. 377 00:21:49,177 --> 00:21:51,417 Speaker 1: And what you don't have to do is incur the 378 00:21:51,457 --> 00:21:55,457 Speaker 1: cost of family moves, px's, schools, housing and that sort 379 00:21:55,457 --> 00:21:59,337 Speaker 1: of thing. So you cycle through expeditionary forces through forward 380 00:21:59,417 --> 00:22:02,217 Speaker 1: deployed permanent bases. And I believe that a lot of 381 00:22:02,217 --> 00:22:05,697 Speaker 1: our European allies, especially those such as in the Baltics, 382 00:22:05,777 --> 00:22:08,457 Speaker 1: or Poland or Romania elsewhere, they are very very willing 383 00:22:08,537 --> 00:22:11,977 Speaker 1: to establish permanent bases. They'll build them, they'll pay form, 384 00:22:11,977 --> 00:22:15,617 Speaker 1: et cetera, sending more of America's sons and daughters to 385 00:22:15,737 --> 00:22:18,737 Speaker 1: Europe in a military capacity. What do we think about this? 386 00:22:19,257 --> 00:22:21,937 Speaker 1: Jo want I mean to answer that question is former 387 00:22:22,097 --> 00:22:25,617 Speaker 1: CIA operations officer and host of the newly launched The 388 00:22:25,697 --> 00:22:32,257 Speaker 1: President's Daily Brief the PDB podcast, Brian Dean Wright. Mister BDW. Bryant. 389 00:22:32,337 --> 00:22:34,937 Speaker 1: Great to have you, sir, Very good day to you. 390 00:22:35,857 --> 00:22:37,937 Speaker 1: So I mean, let's start with this one. You're here 391 00:22:37,937 --> 00:22:43,497 Speaker 1: and there, Mark Miller, we'll leave aside Mark Millie's fealty 392 00:22:43,737 --> 00:22:48,857 Speaker 1: to the pronoun announcing blue haired left wing gender warrior 393 00:22:49,017 --> 00:22:52,697 Speaker 1: crowd in the general American context, right, I mean, he's 394 00:22:53,257 --> 00:22:56,017 Speaker 1: a guy that seems to panar to the left specifically 395 00:22:56,057 --> 00:23:00,457 Speaker 1: on the military situation here as it's as it's projected 396 00:23:00,817 --> 00:23:04,657 Speaker 1: in Europe. What are your thoughts when you hear him saying, yeah, 397 00:23:04,737 --> 00:23:08,297 Speaker 1: let's build some permanent bases, additional permanent bases in Europe 398 00:23:08,297 --> 00:23:13,977 Speaker 1: and send more US military personnel to staff them. All Right, 399 00:23:14,017 --> 00:23:16,097 Speaker 1: a couple of things. There's already over one hundred thousand 400 00:23:16,137 --> 00:23:20,177 Speaker 1: troops in the European continent, so let's just start there. 401 00:23:20,177 --> 00:23:23,577 Speaker 1: We already have a very big footprint. Second, you'll have 402 00:23:23,617 --> 00:23:26,057 Speaker 1: to forgive me if I'm a little bit suspicious of 403 00:23:26,057 --> 00:23:28,617 Speaker 1: people in Pentagon right now. That guy that we just 404 00:23:28,737 --> 00:23:30,537 Speaker 1: heard talking about how he needs more and more and 405 00:23:30,657 --> 00:23:34,657 Speaker 1: more had a lot and then some in Afghanistan twenty 406 00:23:34,777 --> 00:23:38,257 Speaker 1: years and he lost that war. Sort of the people 407 00:23:38,257 --> 00:23:41,057 Speaker 1: down at the White House right now organizing this new 408 00:23:41,097 --> 00:23:44,617 Speaker 1: effort in Europe. So I'm a little bit suspicious of 409 00:23:44,657 --> 00:23:46,417 Speaker 1: the people who's saying we need to do all these 410 00:23:46,497 --> 00:23:49,017 Speaker 1: great big things in Europe after they just lost the 411 00:23:49,097 --> 00:23:52,137 Speaker 1: last big thing. So that's where I start right the 412 00:23:52,257 --> 00:23:55,457 Speaker 1: second pieces. Look, it may be that our European friends 413 00:23:55,497 --> 00:23:57,977 Speaker 1: build the basis, but to your point, we're sending the people, 414 00:23:58,017 --> 00:24:01,537 Speaker 1: it's our sons and daughters. But we're also hooking ourselves 415 00:24:01,657 --> 00:24:04,817 Speaker 1: up to a multi year billion dollars each year effort 416 00:24:04,897 --> 00:24:06,977 Speaker 1: to fund all of this. So it's still going to 417 00:24:07,017 --> 00:24:09,777 Speaker 1: be expected, right obviously, and we're hooking ourselves into that 418 00:24:10,097 --> 00:24:12,217 Speaker 1: for many years, if not decades to come. When you 419 00:24:12,217 --> 00:24:14,737 Speaker 1: put these bases in, you don't just rip them out 420 00:24:14,737 --> 00:24:17,417 Speaker 1: the next year. So let's be also very clear about 421 00:24:17,417 --> 00:24:20,257 Speaker 1: our long term commitment that we are signing up for, 422 00:24:20,417 --> 00:24:23,417 Speaker 1: or our elites are signing this up for. But the 423 00:24:23,417 --> 00:24:25,497 Speaker 1: other piece that I talked about in the podcast I 424 00:24:25,577 --> 00:24:28,417 Speaker 1: know you are aware of. This country was founded by 425 00:24:28,497 --> 00:24:31,897 Speaker 1: a man or multiple folks, but one in particular, George Washington, 426 00:24:31,937 --> 00:24:36,137 Speaker 1: who said very clearly, especially on the European issue, Look, 427 00:24:36,177 --> 00:24:40,857 Speaker 1: they have a very a complicated set of internal dynamics. 428 00:24:41,177 --> 00:24:44,337 Speaker 1: Let's be very careful about setting up permanent alliances. We 429 00:24:44,337 --> 00:24:46,737 Speaker 1: don't want to do it. Make sure that we base 430 00:24:46,817 --> 00:24:50,457 Speaker 1: our foreign policy on an issue or a foundation of neutrality. 431 00:24:50,977 --> 00:24:53,337 Speaker 1: That's what I think that we're forgetting in this conversation 432 00:24:53,337 --> 00:24:56,137 Speaker 1: where we're signing up for this stuff is to really 433 00:24:56,777 --> 00:24:58,937 Speaker 1: put our sons and daughters in harms way. And I 434 00:24:58,977 --> 00:25:01,257 Speaker 1: don't know that that's the best way that certainly our 435 00:25:01,257 --> 00:25:03,697 Speaker 1: founders would want us to handle this issue. I don't 436 00:25:03,737 --> 00:25:06,137 Speaker 1: think so. I don't think you probably share that to 437 00:25:06,177 --> 00:25:08,537 Speaker 1: some degree as well. We've been burned certainly the last 438 00:25:08,537 --> 00:25:11,537 Speaker 1: twenty years. I don't want to be And again, yeah, 439 00:25:11,577 --> 00:25:14,457 Speaker 1: I remember being in Afghanistan for our former employer or 440 00:25:14,497 --> 00:25:17,617 Speaker 1: ten years ago, thinking is not going to work, folks, 441 00:25:17,377 --> 00:25:19,857 Speaker 1: It's not going to happen. The mission here is never anyway. 442 00:25:19,857 --> 00:25:21,817 Speaker 1: And then we saw how it ended. It took ten 443 00:25:21,857 --> 00:25:25,337 Speaker 1: more years. But here's President Biden, by the way, the 444 00:25:25,377 --> 00:25:27,817 Speaker 1: commander in chief, Brian. It's not pretty amazing. I know, 445 00:25:28,017 --> 00:25:30,537 Speaker 1: I still haven't really gotten used to it. Announced that 446 00:25:30,577 --> 00:25:32,737 Speaker 1: he'll be sending even more aid over to Ukraine in 447 00:25:32,817 --> 00:25:34,737 Speaker 1: the form of eight hundred million dollars to help him 448 00:25:34,777 --> 00:25:37,217 Speaker 1: take the stand, help him take a stand against Russia. 449 00:25:37,217 --> 00:25:40,697 Speaker 1: I watch this one nine once again using my presidential 450 00:25:40,697 --> 00:25:45,577 Speaker 1: authority to actively to activate an additional security assistance to 451 00:25:45,697 --> 00:25:49,537 Speaker 1: continue to help Ukraine fend off Russia's assault. An additional 452 00:25:49,657 --> 00:25:53,297 Speaker 1: eight hundred million dollars in assistance that brings the total 453 00:25:53,297 --> 00:25:56,617 Speaker 1: of new US security assistance to Ukraine to one billion 454 00:25:56,657 --> 00:26:00,457 Speaker 1: dollars just this week. These are the large These are 455 00:26:00,497 --> 00:26:03,777 Speaker 1: direct transfers of equipment from our Department of Defense to 456 00:26:03,817 --> 00:26:06,817 Speaker 1: the Ukrainian military to help them as they fight against 457 00:26:06,817 --> 00:26:09,937 Speaker 1: this invasion. Is this the right move? Should we send more? 458 00:26:10,057 --> 00:26:13,137 Speaker 1: Should we provide planes? Where do you standing all that stuff? Look, 459 00:26:13,417 --> 00:26:16,577 Speaker 1: I think the interesting thing here is he's celebrating the 460 00:26:16,577 --> 00:26:19,977 Speaker 1: fact that he's sending billions of dollars to Ukraine. Meanwhile 461 00:26:20,017 --> 00:26:23,217 Speaker 1: everybody is like writing checks to all the grocery stores 462 00:26:23,297 --> 00:26:25,977 Speaker 1: and the gas stations and so forth, you know, paying 463 00:26:25,977 --> 00:26:28,817 Speaker 1: those big bills, and they're like, hey, can we focus 464 00:26:28,897 --> 00:26:32,137 Speaker 1: on on the disaster that's happening here in the United 465 00:26:32,177 --> 00:26:36,497 Speaker 1: States right now. So the context, the tone deafness of 466 00:26:36,537 --> 00:26:39,777 Speaker 1: his announcements I think are pretty alarming that most Americans say, Hey, 467 00:26:39,777 --> 00:26:42,097 Speaker 1: we got a problem here, let's let's focus our resources 468 00:26:42,097 --> 00:26:45,537 Speaker 1: on that. But okay, put that aside. The issue of 469 00:26:45,617 --> 00:26:48,417 Speaker 1: sending equipment to Ukraine. I don't necessarily have a problem 470 00:26:48,457 --> 00:26:50,097 Speaker 1: with it, and that if we are going to send 471 00:26:50,137 --> 00:26:52,937 Speaker 1: some low grade equipment that bogs putting down. I think 472 00:26:52,937 --> 00:26:55,737 Speaker 1: a reasonable person can say, hey, that's a smart move 473 00:26:55,857 --> 00:26:58,337 Speaker 1: to at least show not only putting but the rest 474 00:26:58,377 --> 00:27:00,497 Speaker 1: of the world that there's a cost when you do 475 00:27:00,537 --> 00:27:03,817 Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. All right, The piece that concerns me. 476 00:27:03,937 --> 00:27:06,697 Speaker 1: In fact, there was another little blip on the news 477 00:27:07,017 --> 00:27:10,297 Speaker 1: today hasn't been covered much. The US government's going to 478 00:27:10,337 --> 00:27:14,817 Speaker 1: give even more tactical intelligence to our Ukrainian partners, which 479 00:27:14,857 --> 00:27:18,897 Speaker 1: means that our spies and satellites are drawing in X 480 00:27:19,097 --> 00:27:21,777 Speaker 1: over the Russian soldiers heads and on their tanks and 481 00:27:21,777 --> 00:27:26,177 Speaker 1: so forth. That is a much more intense involvement by 482 00:27:26,217 --> 00:27:29,497 Speaker 1: our government in this war. It's not just equipment. So 483 00:27:29,617 --> 00:27:31,137 Speaker 1: that's the part that I think that if you're in 484 00:27:31,217 --> 00:27:34,097 Speaker 1: Moscow you are thinking about, hey, do we need to 485 00:27:34,177 --> 00:27:36,777 Speaker 1: hit the United States back? At what point does this 486 00:27:36,937 --> 00:27:40,097 Speaker 1: no longer become a spies gentleman's game? You know this 487 00:27:40,217 --> 00:27:43,817 Speaker 1: world that former guys like Putin, who are or AGB spies, 488 00:27:44,017 --> 00:27:46,977 Speaker 1: they're willing to tolerate some of this shenanigans because they 489 00:27:47,017 --> 00:27:49,537 Speaker 1: did it against us. But when you start drawing that 490 00:27:49,817 --> 00:27:53,057 Speaker 1: X on the forehead of a Russian soldier. The calculus 491 00:27:53,097 --> 00:27:55,097 Speaker 1: starts to change in Moscow, and we have to be 492 00:27:55,137 --> 00:27:57,937 Speaker 1: thinking about that, because they're going to engage in some 493 00:27:58,017 --> 00:28:01,217 Speaker 1: kind of strike against us, whether it's in places throughout 494 00:28:01,217 --> 00:28:04,817 Speaker 1: Eastern Europe, whether it's an asymmetric strike of super attacks 495 00:28:04,857 --> 00:28:07,177 Speaker 1: the United States. That's the part. When I hear about 496 00:28:07,177 --> 00:28:09,897 Speaker 1: all this money and all the equipment, I'm thinking, all 497 00:28:10,537 --> 00:28:12,737 Speaker 1: Ukraine has been invaded. We have to support them, But 498 00:28:12,857 --> 00:28:16,177 Speaker 1: what does this due in Moscow in terms? If it's 499 00:28:16,257 --> 00:28:19,377 Speaker 1: willingness to strike us, that's what we should be talking 500 00:28:19,377 --> 00:28:21,657 Speaker 1: about and thinking about when we hear this kind of 501 00:28:21,737 --> 00:28:24,497 Speaker 1: new switching gears here just for a minute or so, 502 00:28:24,617 --> 00:28:27,897 Speaker 1: Brian Russia is the only hostile foreign government that we 503 00:28:27,897 --> 00:28:29,937 Speaker 1: have to worry about. Of course, China is making its 504 00:28:30,017 --> 00:28:34,337 Speaker 1: present presence felt right here in the US by pumping 505 00:28:34,377 --> 00:28:37,057 Speaker 1: millions of dollars into American universities and colleges. According to 506 00:28:37,097 --> 00:28:42,417 Speaker 1: a recent Fox report, China based entities, including the Chinese government, 507 00:28:42,417 --> 00:28:45,257 Speaker 1: secured one hundred and twenty million dollars in contracts with 508 00:28:45,417 --> 00:28:48,177 Speaker 1: American colleges in twenty twenty one, and the Chinese institutions 509 00:28:48,257 --> 00:28:50,177 Speaker 1: entered into agreements ranging from one hundred and five to 510 00:28:50,257 --> 00:28:53,737 Speaker 1: thirty one million dollars more than two dozen other universities. 511 00:28:54,417 --> 00:28:58,817 Speaker 1: China is waging, it seems to me Brian with dollars, 512 00:28:59,057 --> 00:29:03,177 Speaker 1: a kind of economic warfare campaign, similar to the ideological 513 00:29:03,417 --> 00:29:06,337 Speaker 1: and political allies campaign the Soviets did back in the 514 00:29:06,417 --> 00:29:11,057 Speaker 1: day against the Western world, specifically against us. You were 515 00:29:11,097 --> 00:29:14,257 Speaker 1: absolutely right. Look, you and I know what these folks, 516 00:29:14,297 --> 00:29:17,857 Speaker 1: these Chinese communist folks are up. They are trying to. 517 00:29:18,017 --> 00:29:21,177 Speaker 1: In fact, they have borrowed themselves in our government, in 518 00:29:21,217 --> 00:29:24,057 Speaker 1: our press, and in our universities. And they do that 519 00:29:24,097 --> 00:29:27,137 Speaker 1: for lots of different reasons. But the university piece really 520 00:29:27,217 --> 00:29:30,457 Speaker 1: is a twofold one. They use it to steal our 521 00:29:30,537 --> 00:29:33,857 Speaker 1: intellectual property, all the ingenuity and research that's going out 522 00:29:33,897 --> 00:29:37,617 Speaker 1: at these universities. They do it to target dissidents, Chinese 523 00:29:37,617 --> 00:29:41,017 Speaker 1: citizens that are here going to school. They find them 524 00:29:41,057 --> 00:29:44,697 Speaker 1: and they target them their families. They also use these 525 00:29:44,737 --> 00:29:49,137 Speaker 1: relationships as platforms to then send their spies to pretend 526 00:29:49,177 --> 00:29:52,777 Speaker 1: that they're professor, let's say. Then they go out and 527 00:29:52,817 --> 00:29:56,297 Speaker 1: they start collecting intelligence with some of their other agents, 528 00:29:56,497 --> 00:29:59,097 Speaker 1: US agents, right, So they use it as a platform. 529 00:29:59,377 --> 00:30:01,577 Speaker 1: So there are lots of reasons why this is a bad, 530 00:30:01,657 --> 00:30:03,857 Speaker 1: bad deal. I think that the alarming piece for me 531 00:30:03,977 --> 00:30:06,377 Speaker 1: is we have a president who is compromised or may 532 00:30:06,497 --> 00:30:08,857 Speaker 1: very well be compromised by the Chinese. He's shutting down 533 00:30:08,857 --> 00:30:12,857 Speaker 1: these investigations into this stuff. That's what's alarming. We know 534 00:30:12,897 --> 00:30:15,417 Speaker 1: what's happening, and that's really what we should be talking about. 535 00:30:15,457 --> 00:30:18,777 Speaker 1: Why isn't our president outraged by these relationships and why 536 00:30:18,857 --> 00:30:20,737 Speaker 1: isn't he trying to shut it down? And I think 537 00:30:20,737 --> 00:30:24,097 Speaker 1: we all know why. The big guy isn't Brian. Good 538 00:30:24,097 --> 00:30:29,577 Speaker 1: to see you, my friend. Welcome aboard, Thank you. Mainstream 539 00:30:29,617 --> 00:30:33,137 Speaker 1: media can no longer deny the verification of Hunter Biden's laptop. 540 00:30:33,257 --> 00:30:36,617 Speaker 1: Oh no, But managing editor at the Chicago Thinker, Avida 541 00:30:36,697 --> 00:30:39,617 Speaker 1: Duffy was able to interview some of the journalists who 542 00:30:39,697 --> 00:30:41,777 Speaker 1: denied the massive story for the past few years. She'll 543 00:30:41,777 --> 00:30:43,617 Speaker 1: tell us what they had to say. It's quite amusing. 544 00:30:43,657 --> 00:30:46,297 Speaker 1: That's coming up. Let's talk about the newest sponsor here 545 00:30:46,297 --> 00:30:48,457 Speaker 1: at Hold the Line, this silencer shop. I'm a big 546 00:30:48,497 --> 00:30:50,897 Speaker 1: supporter of the Second Amendment. For many gun owners, using 547 00:30:50,897 --> 00:30:53,297 Speaker 1: a suppressor is a must. They protect your hearing and 548 00:30:53,337 --> 00:30:56,777 Speaker 1: they improve your accuracy. 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So what is 565 00:31:52,217 --> 00:31:54,817 Speaker 1: their excuse for failing to acknowledge the scandal for all 566 00:31:54,817 --> 00:31:59,617 Speaker 1: this time? Well, one Atlantic writer and Applebaum also Russia collusion, 567 00:31:59,657 --> 00:32:02,977 Speaker 1: truth or lunatic says it was because it just wasn't interesting. 568 00:32:03,057 --> 00:32:05,577 Speaker 1: Check this one out. My problem with Hunter Biden's laptop 569 00:32:05,697 --> 00:32:08,217 Speaker 1: is I think totally irrelevant. I mean, it's not whether 570 00:32:08,217 --> 00:32:11,657 Speaker 1: it's disinformation or I mean, I didn't think the Hunter 571 00:32:11,777 --> 00:32:16,257 Speaker 1: Biden's business relationships have anything to do with who should 572 00:32:16,257 --> 00:32:19,137 Speaker 1: be president of the United States. So I didn't find 573 00:32:19,177 --> 00:32:22,337 Speaker 1: I don't find it to be interesting. He doesn't find 574 00:32:22,337 --> 00:32:26,097 Speaker 1: it to be interesting. Oh okay. Our next guest is 575 00:32:26,097 --> 00:32:29,017 Speaker 1: a U Chicago student who attended that event you just 576 00:32:29,017 --> 00:32:32,097 Speaker 1: saw the clip from, says she doesn't buy this elitist 577 00:32:32,177 --> 00:32:35,097 Speaker 1: narrative coming from the MSM in general mainstream media. We've 578 00:32:35,097 --> 00:32:38,337 Speaker 1: got managing editor at the Chicago Thinker, Evita Duffy, who 579 00:32:38,417 --> 00:32:40,657 Speaker 1: joins me now with reaction. Evita, good to see it, 580 00:32:41,697 --> 00:32:44,257 Speaker 1: Good to see you. Thank you. So what was it 581 00:32:44,337 --> 00:32:48,097 Speaker 1: like at this event where you had a disinformation conference. 582 00:32:48,097 --> 00:32:50,697 Speaker 1: I know you guys have gotten a lot of conservative 583 00:32:50,697 --> 00:32:53,897 Speaker 1: media coverage about this, a disinformation conference run by the 584 00:32:53,937 --> 00:32:57,497 Speaker 1: Atlantic magazine. People like that, you get fake news Stelter. 585 00:32:57,617 --> 00:32:59,817 Speaker 1: They're a bunch of others, and you and some of 586 00:32:59,817 --> 00:33:02,737 Speaker 1: your colleagues got to ask some questions about their fake news. 587 00:33:02,737 --> 00:33:06,897 Speaker 1: How did it go right? So this is a disinformation 588 00:33:06,977 --> 00:33:09,577 Speaker 1: event that was put on by some of the greatest 589 00:33:09,577 --> 00:33:13,257 Speaker 1: purveyor of disinformation in America. So the The Insuit of 590 00:33:13,297 --> 00:33:17,217 Speaker 1: Politics ran this event with The Atlantic and David Axelrodi 591 00:33:17,337 --> 00:33:21,457 Speaker 1: really brought in experts on the subject, and our Chicago 592 00:33:21,497 --> 00:33:25,417 Speaker 1: Thinker student journalists came to ask them not got your questions, 593 00:33:25,457 --> 00:33:29,257 Speaker 1: but really honest questions about the way that they have 594 00:33:29,737 --> 00:33:33,177 Speaker 1: botched every major story over the last couple of years 595 00:33:33,937 --> 00:33:36,577 Speaker 1: and have a major agenda over and so they they've 596 00:33:36,577 --> 00:33:40,537 Speaker 1: really proved, you know, how how bad they are by 597 00:33:40,897 --> 00:33:45,057 Speaker 1: by not actually you know, coming clean and apologizing for 598 00:33:45,057 --> 00:33:47,737 Speaker 1: what they've done, but actually being dismissive of the students 599 00:33:47,737 --> 00:33:50,977 Speaker 1: who asked some questions. You saw how elitist and appam was. 600 00:33:51,017 --> 00:33:53,377 Speaker 1: And in another clip, Brian Stelter was of one of 601 00:33:53,377 --> 00:33:56,537 Speaker 1: my other Chicago Thinker colleagues. And then later on towards 602 00:33:56,577 --> 00:33:58,457 Speaker 1: the end of the event, the editor in chief of 603 00:33:58,497 --> 00:34:02,297 Speaker 1: The Atlantic actually said that the Chicago Thinkers reporting on 604 00:34:02,337 --> 00:34:07,137 Speaker 1: this entire event constitutes a disinformation campaign on social media. 605 00:34:07,217 --> 00:34:11,257 Speaker 1: So it's obvious that disinformation isn't actually disinformation, it's just 606 00:34:11,617 --> 00:34:15,377 Speaker 1: information they don't like, and they're actually even willing to 607 00:34:15,417 --> 00:34:20,057 Speaker 1: try and silence a little Chicago student newspaper for embarrassing 608 00:34:20,097 --> 00:34:22,937 Speaker 1: them publicly. Here we go. We got some great clips, 609 00:34:22,937 --> 00:34:28,257 Speaker 1: some highlights, if you will, from the disinformation event actly named, 610 00:34:28,297 --> 00:34:31,097 Speaker 1: but not in the way they thought. Here is Amy 611 00:34:31,177 --> 00:34:35,217 Speaker 1: Klobashaw refusing to answer a question from you, miss Duffy. 612 00:34:35,377 --> 00:34:38,737 Speaker 1: Let's let the audience enjoy who introduced the bill that 613 00:34:38,777 --> 00:34:42,617 Speaker 1: you talked about today that would punish social media companies 614 00:34:42,617 --> 00:34:47,897 Speaker 1: like Facebook and Twitter for having health misinformation on their platforms. 615 00:34:48,617 --> 00:34:50,457 Speaker 1: And I'm going to ask you if I were to 616 00:34:50,537 --> 00:34:54,777 Speaker 1: say that there are only two sexes, male and female, 617 00:34:55,377 --> 00:34:59,057 Speaker 1: would that be considered misinformation that you think should be 618 00:34:59,097 --> 00:35:04,737 Speaker 1: banned speech on social media platforms? Okay, I'm not going 619 00:35:04,777 --> 00:35:07,497 Speaker 1: to get into what misinformation. First of all, I think 620 00:35:07,497 --> 00:35:09,657 Speaker 1: the bill you're talking about is different than the one 621 00:35:09,697 --> 00:35:12,137 Speaker 1: we asleep been talking about, So I want to make 622 00:35:12,137 --> 00:35:15,617 Speaker 1: that clear. We've been talking about the competition bill, but 623 00:35:15,817 --> 00:35:19,417 Speaker 1: there is another bill that I have on vaccine misinformation. 624 00:35:19,697 --> 00:35:25,137 Speaker 1: It is that specific in a public health crisis. Okay, 625 00:35:25,137 --> 00:35:27,577 Speaker 1: but I don't I feel like there wasn't an answer 626 00:35:27,617 --> 00:35:29,417 Speaker 1: to your question. Was there an answer your question did 627 00:35:29,457 --> 00:35:32,737 Speaker 1: it come later? Answer? And you should. I mean, it's 628 00:35:32,817 --> 00:35:35,697 Speaker 1: your bill. You should know what kind of misinformation is 629 00:35:35,737 --> 00:35:38,777 Speaker 1: going to be considered misinformation in your own bill. So 630 00:35:38,817 --> 00:35:43,737 Speaker 1: it was a complete non answer. Here is Brian Stelter, 631 00:35:44,457 --> 00:35:48,577 Speaker 1: who sometimes I think just exists so that conservative media 632 00:35:48,777 --> 00:35:53,977 Speaker 1: has the ultimate left wing media journal guy to just 633 00:35:54,057 --> 00:35:55,937 Speaker 1: hold up and let everyone see. This is who they 634 00:35:55,977 --> 00:36:00,577 Speaker 1: say is calling balls and strikes on journalism ethics. Here 635 00:36:01,017 --> 00:36:04,937 Speaker 1: he is responding when he was asked about his network's 636 00:36:05,137 --> 00:36:08,137 Speaker 1: ethics and the history of its misinformation. Let's look at 637 00:36:08,137 --> 00:36:10,737 Speaker 1: this one. My honest answer to you and I will 638 00:36:10,777 --> 00:36:12,617 Speaker 1: all come over and talk in more detail after this 639 00:36:13,137 --> 00:36:15,577 Speaker 1: is that I think you're describing a different channel than 640 00:36:15,617 --> 00:36:18,057 Speaker 1: the one that I watch. But I understand that that 641 00:36:18,137 --> 00:36:20,737 Speaker 1: is a popular right wing narrative about CNN. I think 642 00:36:20,737 --> 00:36:24,097 Speaker 1: it's important we're talking about shared reality and democracy. All 643 00:36:24,177 --> 00:36:26,697 Speaker 1: these networks, all these news outlets, have to defend democracy 644 00:36:26,897 --> 00:36:30,897 Speaker 1: and when they screw up, admit it. But when Benjamin Hall, 645 00:36:30,937 --> 00:36:34,257 Speaker 1: the Fox correspondent was wounded in Ukraine, the news crews 646 00:36:34,257 --> 00:36:36,177 Speaker 1: at CNN and The New York Times stopped what they 647 00:36:36,177 --> 00:36:38,097 Speaker 1: were doing and they tried to help. They tried to 648 00:36:38,137 --> 00:36:39,777 Speaker 1: help him get out of the country. They tried to 649 00:36:39,817 --> 00:36:42,337 Speaker 1: find the dead crew members. That's what news outlets do, 650 00:36:42,617 --> 00:36:45,177 Speaker 1: that's how they actually do work together. To your question 651 00:36:45,217 --> 00:36:50,657 Speaker 1: about sharing those kinds of connections and trust, yeah, watching 652 00:36:50,657 --> 00:36:52,737 Speaker 1: a different channel. I don't know what channel he thinks 653 00:36:52,737 --> 00:36:54,897 Speaker 1: he works for, but it's not CNN apparently, if that's 654 00:36:54,937 --> 00:36:57,977 Speaker 1: what he thinks. No, of course not. And I mean 655 00:36:58,137 --> 00:37:00,697 Speaker 1: this is so embarrassing for the mainstream media. This entire 656 00:37:00,777 --> 00:37:06,177 Speaker 1: event has been just an utter and complete embarrassment and 657 00:37:06,377 --> 00:37:08,657 Speaker 1: the fact that they're trying to I mean, An Applebaum, 658 00:37:08,697 --> 00:37:11,057 Speaker 1: who was from that first clip, has actually blocked the 659 00:37:11,137 --> 00:37:14,537 Speaker 1: Chicago Thinker on Twitter, and then Jonah Goldberg doubled down 660 00:37:15,297 --> 00:37:19,097 Speaker 1: and defended her, essentially saying that you know that Daniel 661 00:37:19,177 --> 00:37:23,017 Speaker 1: Schmidt's question to her to Anne Ababama was trollish. I mean, 662 00:37:23,057 --> 00:37:26,817 Speaker 1: these people are losing their minds over us posting clips 663 00:37:26,857 --> 00:37:29,697 Speaker 1: of their full answers. This is not disinformation. This is 664 00:37:29,737 --> 00:37:33,217 Speaker 1: just straight up journalism that they're now trying to smear. 665 00:37:34,577 --> 00:37:37,297 Speaker 1: Oh yes they are. I mean, here's the Atlantic editor 666 00:37:37,337 --> 00:37:40,777 Speaker 1: in chief. This guy's a real windbag who calls the 667 00:37:40,897 --> 00:37:44,137 Speaker 1: Chicago Thinker where you write, and they're reporting on the 668 00:37:44,377 --> 00:37:49,097 Speaker 1: disinformation events, right, it was a disinformation seminar of sorts, 669 00:37:49,177 --> 00:37:52,977 Speaker 1: or from symposium or whatever. They say that you guys 670 00:37:52,977 --> 00:37:57,697 Speaker 1: were doing a disinformation campaign. Watch. I think one darkly 671 00:37:57,817 --> 00:38:02,337 Speaker 1: humorous but inevitable measurement of our success is that our 672 00:38:02,417 --> 00:38:06,537 Speaker 1: disinformation conference has been the subject of disinformation campaigns on 673 00:38:06,577 --> 00:38:15,817 Speaker 1: social media already. So, yeah, congratulate yourselves for that. Well, 674 00:38:15,857 --> 00:38:21,337 Speaker 1: we'll study that next year's disinformation again. What was the 675 00:38:21,417 --> 00:38:24,337 Speaker 1: disinformation exactly? I'm just wondering. I mean, that's the title 676 00:38:24,337 --> 00:38:27,417 Speaker 1: of the conference. It's like they don't know what it is. Yeah, 677 00:38:27,417 --> 00:38:29,537 Speaker 1: I mean that's what I've been saying. It's not disinformation, 678 00:38:29,577 --> 00:38:32,537 Speaker 1: it's just information they don't like and information that's been 679 00:38:32,537 --> 00:38:34,937 Speaker 1: embarrassing for them. And I think it's important to talk 680 00:38:34,977 --> 00:38:37,857 Speaker 1: about what they want to do with the disinformation that 681 00:38:37,897 --> 00:38:42,257 Speaker 1: they're so concerned about. They want to give government algorithmic 682 00:38:42,337 --> 00:38:45,977 Speaker 1: control over social media platforms to stop the spread of 683 00:38:45,977 --> 00:38:49,537 Speaker 1: whatever they deem misinformation and who's going to decide what's 684 00:38:49,577 --> 00:38:51,857 Speaker 1: true and what's not And the answer is they are. 685 00:38:52,137 --> 00:38:54,817 Speaker 1: They want to have the gate keeping power that they 686 00:38:54,897 --> 00:38:59,577 Speaker 1: lost when social media democratized information and independent journalists became 687 00:38:59,617 --> 00:39:01,697 Speaker 1: a thing. And if you watch Tucker last night, you 688 00:39:01,737 --> 00:39:04,417 Speaker 1: saw that, and we saw that in Canada, they're actually 689 00:39:04,457 --> 00:39:08,137 Speaker 1: having the government a preapproved journalist and decide who has 690 00:39:08,177 --> 00:39:11,457 Speaker 1: the ability to spread their information online and who doesn't. 691 00:39:11,657 --> 00:39:13,697 Speaker 1: And I don't know. I mean this, this conference is 692 00:39:13,777 --> 00:39:15,897 Speaker 1: kind of telling me that it's it might be coming 693 00:39:15,937 --> 00:39:19,017 Speaker 1: here soon and so disinformation right now. It should be 694 00:39:19,337 --> 00:39:22,097 Speaker 1: the scariest word in the dictionary. Anybody that hears that word, 695 00:39:22,377 --> 00:39:24,297 Speaker 1: you know that they're not talking about trying to find 696 00:39:24,297 --> 00:39:26,617 Speaker 1: the truth. They're trying to stop. They're talking about trying 697 00:39:26,617 --> 00:39:29,977 Speaker 1: to shut down people they don't like. Good to see, 698 00:39:30,297 --> 00:39:38,017 Speaker 1: avida and good work, appreciate it. A preschool teacher claimed 699 00:39:38,057 --> 00:39:42,617 Speaker 1: she makes her students choose new pronoun pins every day 700 00:39:42,657 --> 00:39:46,537 Speaker 1: to teach about diversity. They say they are in adoptrinating 701 00:39:46,577 --> 00:39:48,537 Speaker 1: your kids, folks. We'll have that video for you. And 702 00:39:48,617 --> 00:39:58,217 Speaker 1: quick hits stay with us. America's Treasury secretary goes full 703 00:39:58,257 --> 00:40:01,577 Speaker 1: blown climate alarmist, and a job listing shows just how 704 00:40:01,577 --> 00:40:04,617 Speaker 1: out of touch the Washington Post is with average Americans. 705 00:40:04,657 --> 00:40:07,817 Speaker 1: We've got those stories coming up in quick hits. Let's 706 00:40:07,817 --> 00:40:12,977 Speaker 1: get right to it. Um yelling Treasury secretary. He knows 707 00:40:13,017 --> 00:40:18,017 Speaker 1: the FED stuff well. Right, So she's been a longstanding 708 00:40:18,537 --> 00:40:21,937 Speaker 1: person involved in monetary policy and the government and all 709 00:40:21,937 --> 00:40:23,577 Speaker 1: the rest of this stuff. Right, She's somebody who you 710 00:40:23,577 --> 00:40:27,777 Speaker 1: think knows about this stuff. And here's the thing, she's 711 00:40:27,857 --> 00:40:30,737 Speaker 1: also a liberal zealot in her own way. You have 712 00:40:30,777 --> 00:40:33,257 Speaker 1: to remember this. So even some of the people who 713 00:40:33,257 --> 00:40:36,297 Speaker 1: are knowledgeable about economics at some level, knowledgeable about FED 714 00:40:36,337 --> 00:40:40,057 Speaker 1: policy monetary policy inflation obviously hasn't done a great job 715 00:40:40,617 --> 00:40:43,817 Speaker 1: stopping that from happening. But you see what their politics 716 00:40:43,857 --> 00:40:47,057 Speaker 1: are on other issues. You understand. Oh, even in areas 717 00:40:47,057 --> 00:40:51,377 Speaker 1: where they have expertise at some level, they're being influenced 718 00:40:51,377 --> 00:40:55,697 Speaker 1: by their left wing agenda. Here is the Treasury secretary 719 00:40:56,337 --> 00:41:00,137 Speaker 1: worried that the window is closing to decarbonize our Economy's quatch. 720 00:41:00,497 --> 00:41:06,137 Speaker 1: The recent IPCC reports confirm that our window of opportunity 721 00:41:06,257 --> 00:41:10,737 Speaker 1: to weave our planet worthy of our children and children 722 00:41:11,697 --> 00:41:16,297 Speaker 1: it's even closer to being permanently shut. We must redouble 723 00:41:16,337 --> 00:41:21,657 Speaker 1: our efforts to decarbonize our economies, recognizing the countries will 724 00:41:21,777 --> 00:41:27,297 Speaker 1: use a range of tools, including carbon pricing, regulation and 725 00:41:27,457 --> 00:41:33,617 Speaker 1: subsidies to achieve needed emission reductions. Green socialism, that's what 726 00:41:33,657 --> 00:41:36,897 Speaker 1: she's really talking about. Green socialism. That's what you want. 727 00:41:37,857 --> 00:41:40,977 Speaker 1: Carbon pricing. You're gonna pay extra money because you're living 728 00:41:41,017 --> 00:41:44,377 Speaker 1: life in a modern economy and having to give me friends. 729 00:41:44,617 --> 00:41:47,897 Speaker 1: Right outrageous. But this is how crazy the left is. 730 00:41:47,937 --> 00:41:51,817 Speaker 1: Even the Treasury Secretary buys into this green new deal Lunacy. 731 00:41:52,937 --> 00:41:55,457 Speaker 1: Washington Post tweeted out quite a job listing for a 732 00:41:55,537 --> 00:41:59,737 Speaker 1: reporter to cover this foreign country far far away that 733 00:41:59,817 --> 00:42:04,337 Speaker 1: the Libs don't understand, called Texas. Job posting. The Washington 734 00:42:04,337 --> 00:42:07,337 Speaker 1: Post is looking for an enterprising reporter based in Texas 735 00:42:07,377 --> 00:42:10,737 Speaker 1: to document life in Red State America and develop a 736 00:42:10,777 --> 00:42:14,417 Speaker 1: new beat mapping the culture, public policies, and politics and 737 00:42:14,497 --> 00:42:18,537 Speaker 1: a region shaped by conservative ideology. You know, it's it's 738 00:42:18,537 --> 00:42:20,737 Speaker 1: almost like they're going out there to you know, study, 739 00:42:22,297 --> 00:42:24,377 Speaker 1: you know, study a pot of dolphins in the wild. 740 00:42:24,377 --> 00:42:28,897 Speaker 1: There's like red state Texans, isn't it? This is mean? Look, 741 00:42:29,017 --> 00:42:31,257 Speaker 1: I actually think it's good that the journos might try 742 00:42:31,257 --> 00:42:33,617 Speaker 1: to learn what it's like for people who live in 743 00:42:33,617 --> 00:42:35,417 Speaker 1: the rest of the country to live their lives in 744 00:42:35,577 --> 00:42:38,537 Speaker 1: places that are read and I think it's funny. It's 745 00:42:38,577 --> 00:42:41,217 Speaker 1: just though an admission of the fact that they just 746 00:42:41,217 --> 00:42:42,817 Speaker 1: have no idea. I mean, they do live in this 747 00:42:42,897 --> 00:42:48,137 Speaker 1: alternative universe a lot of soy Lante's being consumed. Preschool 748 00:42:48,177 --> 00:42:50,377 Speaker 1: teacher here says she makes her four year olds pick 749 00:42:50,417 --> 00:42:57,297 Speaker 1: a different pronoun pen not once in a while, every day. Hi, 750 00:42:57,417 --> 00:43:00,297 Speaker 1: my name's us and I'm a preschool teacher. So my 751 00:43:00,417 --> 00:43:04,657 Speaker 1: classroom celebrates diversity. It's probably my favorite thing to teach. 752 00:43:05,097 --> 00:43:07,297 Speaker 1: We usually use kids books to talk about this kind 753 00:43:07,297 --> 00:43:10,377 Speaker 1: of thing. Recently we started wearing pronoun pins and the 754 00:43:10,457 --> 00:43:13,057 Speaker 1: kids get to pick a new pronoun pin every We 755 00:43:13,177 --> 00:43:15,377 Speaker 1: have something that picked like she her every single day, 756 00:43:15,697 --> 00:43:18,737 Speaker 1: and we have something that change it up. So diversity 757 00:43:18,817 --> 00:43:21,777 Speaker 1: is really important in my crime. So I recently realized 758 00:43:21,817 --> 00:43:24,897 Speaker 1: that there's a whole lot of really amazing figureheads and 759 00:43:25,057 --> 00:43:28,857 Speaker 1: people to look up to in this world who aren't 760 00:43:28,857 --> 00:43:34,257 Speaker 1: white or straight, or male or what have you, and 761 00:43:34,337 --> 00:43:36,217 Speaker 1: that we should learn a little bit more about these people. 762 00:43:38,377 --> 00:43:43,257 Speaker 1: They are trying to indocunate your kids. Obviously, obviously that's 763 00:43:43,297 --> 00:43:45,177 Speaker 1: ever Tonight's hold the Line the Nose Spinoos of BILLI 764 00:43:45,217 --> 00:43:46,857 Speaker 1: Radio's next builds high