WEBVTT - Hold The Line w/ Buck Sexton - 04-13-22 0:00:11.657 --> 0:00:14.937 You're listening to the Buck Sexton Chow podcast, make sure 0:00:14.937 --> 0:00:17.977 you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 0:00:17.977 --> 0:00:23.457 wherever you get your podcasts. The NYPD has arrested sixty 0:00:23.497 --> 0:00:25.817 two year old Frank James, the man suspected of a 0:00:25.857 --> 0:00:29.857 mass shooting in a Brooklyn subway yesterday. While law enforcement 0:00:29.897 --> 0:00:31.777 is still looking for clues as to why James carried 0:00:31.817 --> 0:00:35.297 out the attack, Democrats already have their answer. It's the 0:00:35.337 --> 0:00:39.257 gun's fault. And also historic inequality is what the Mayor 0:00:39.257 --> 0:00:41.857 of New York said. We'll get into this. Friends, it's 0:00:41.897 --> 0:00:52.897 time for holdinge. Welcome to hold the line. I'm Buck Sexton. Look, folks, 0:00:53.137 --> 0:00:58.577 we are in a time of elevated crime. We are 0:00:58.617 --> 0:01:03.017 in a period here where we know, naturally there's a problem. 0:01:03.057 --> 0:01:06.297 And so this latest shooting in New York City by 0:01:06.377 --> 0:01:09.737 somebody who was arrested many times and was well known 0:01:09.777 --> 0:01:12.697 to law enforcement is a reminder of just what exactly 0:01:13.217 --> 0:01:16.377 is going wrong here. Here is a photo of the suspect, 0:01:16.377 --> 0:01:20.737 sixty two year old Frank James, and as you see here, 0:01:20.777 --> 0:01:24.777 he is a black man in his early sixties, and 0:01:24.937 --> 0:01:29.017 he allegedly carried out this terror attack. It was a 0:01:29.097 --> 0:01:32.217 terror attack, by the way, according even now to the FBI. 0:01:32.417 --> 0:01:34.777 FBI came out and said that today I saw yesterday. 0:01:35.097 --> 0:01:38.137 Because they early on were saying they were not investigating 0:01:38.137 --> 0:01:40.537 it as a terror attack. That just means they hadn't 0:01:40.617 --> 0:01:43.737 yet found enough evidence to classify it as such. Now 0:01:43.777 --> 0:01:47.897 they have because it is. It was an act of terror. 0:01:48.537 --> 0:01:52.297 And it's noteworthy that this suspect was known to the FBI. 0:01:52.737 --> 0:01:55.737 Here's a headline for your Brooklyn subway attacks. Suspect previously 0:01:55.777 --> 0:01:59.137 known to the FBI, and clear, that's right. He was 0:01:59.177 --> 0:02:03.457 already on their radar, and somehow they had interviews, sit 0:02:03.537 --> 0:02:06.657 downs with him and decided, oh no, this is fine, 0:02:06.897 --> 0:02:12.137 there's no problem here. Pretty remarkable, pretty astonishing. Now, this 0:02:12.217 --> 0:02:15.337 is one incident. It's a horrible one. Thank god, nobody 0:02:16.177 --> 0:02:21.777 was killed. He shot ten people. He deployed a smoke grenade, 0:02:22.257 --> 0:02:24.137 he had a gas mask on. He also had a 0:02:24.137 --> 0:02:26.737 hatchet apparently in his bag. No one was killed. He 0:02:26.817 --> 0:02:29.977 shot people, so I'm critically injured. But he did not 0:02:30.137 --> 0:02:34.537 manage to have a lethal impact in this terrorist attack, 0:02:35.297 --> 0:02:38.937 largely because his gun jam. So he also had a 0:02:39.057 --> 0:02:43.577 very limited proficiency and understanding of firearms. Thank god, but 0:02:43.697 --> 0:02:45.857 this could have been much worse. We could have easily 0:02:45.937 --> 0:02:50.817 had a dozen people or more murdered on the New 0:02:50.897 --> 0:02:54.297 York City subway during the morning rush hour by somebody 0:02:54.337 --> 0:02:58.897 who was a career criminal, essentially arrested about a dozen 0:02:58.937 --> 0:03:02.657 times and was known to the FBI as a possible extremist. 0:03:03.137 --> 0:03:05.537 What kind of extremists? By the way, Oh, you won't 0:03:05.617 --> 0:03:12.497 see much about this, but he was an abject racist, lunatic. 0:03:13.017 --> 0:03:17.017 All right, This guy, Frank James hated white people, hated 0:03:17.057 --> 0:03:20.817 Asian people. Made this quite clear in videos he posted 0:03:20.857 --> 0:03:24.297 to YouTube where he said the most anti white, anti 0:03:24.337 --> 0:03:29.137 Asian things you could possibly imagine, repeatedly. He was a racist, 0:03:29.137 --> 0:03:32.217 saw him on the writer even calling him a black 0:03:32.297 --> 0:03:38.297 supremacist because he wanted to attack people of other racial backgrounds. Now, 0:03:38.577 --> 0:03:40.497 the media is not going to put it into that context, 0:03:40.497 --> 0:03:42.137 of course, They're just going to focus on the mental 0:03:42.177 --> 0:03:45.257 health issues here. And in the case of New York 0:03:45.297 --> 0:03:51.377 City's Mayor Eric Adams, his whole approach right now seems 0:03:51.417 --> 0:03:56.217 to be the focus on historical inequality as what caused 0:03:56.217 --> 0:04:00.497 the crime, and also other failures of society. Watch this. 0:04:00.857 --> 0:04:02.737 We are going to get better. This is going to 0:04:02.737 --> 0:04:06.137 be a safe city. And we've been here before nineteen 0:04:06.177 --> 0:04:09.057 eighty four, when I started my policing career, this was 0:04:09.137 --> 0:04:12.897 a city that was open violence. Our selway systems were unsafe. 0:04:13.337 --> 0:04:15.737 But we had to write energy and spirit to turn 0:04:15.817 --> 0:04:17.857 that around. And we want to do it again. But 0:04:18.017 --> 0:04:24.737 let's be clear, we're dealing with historical inequalities, historical abandonments 0:04:24.737 --> 0:04:27.537 and failures. And as I stated, they have many rivers 0:04:27.577 --> 0:04:30.177 that will continue to feed the sea of violence if 0:04:30.257 --> 0:04:33.657 we don't damn each river. We have an over proliferation 0:04:33.697 --> 0:04:37.697 of guns in our city and in our country. Now 0:04:37.777 --> 0:04:41.697 let's understand he's completely wrong. These are these are absurd, 0:04:42.257 --> 0:04:46.337 absurd analyzes to present, first of all, on the historic 0:04:46.417 --> 0:04:51.097 inequalities here as it pertains to the surgeon gun and 0:04:51.217 --> 0:04:53.777 other violence and just crime in general New York City. 0:04:54.177 --> 0:04:56.777 New York City has already gone through a period, went 0:04:56.777 --> 0:04:59.337 through a period in the nineties into the two thousands 0:04:59.377 --> 0:05:03.377 of cleaning up the streets, of becoming a very safe 0:05:03.497 --> 0:05:06.137 large city. And I lived here during it. I know 0:05:06.217 --> 0:05:08.537 it was a very safe city. It was a remarkable 0:05:08.777 --> 0:05:13.617 turnaround sent actually a drop in murders of ninety percent 0:05:13.777 --> 0:05:16.177 plus since the early nineteen nineties by the time you 0:05:16.217 --> 0:05:19.617 get to about two thousand and twelve. So what happened, 0:05:19.657 --> 0:05:21.617 We all of a sudden got a lot more historically 0:05:21.697 --> 0:05:26.417 unequal in the last few years. No Democrat policies about crime, 0:05:26.737 --> 0:05:30.377 from the prosecutor's office, from the State Assembly in New York, 0:05:30.417 --> 0:05:33.977 from the mayor's office, from the governor's office, Democrat ideas 0:05:33.977 --> 0:05:37.017 in the media about criminal justice reform. All of that 0:05:37.217 --> 0:05:41.257 came together and pushed away what we had learned about 0:05:41.297 --> 0:05:45.617 actual crime fighting and made people think, oh, I guess 0:05:45.617 --> 0:05:47.977 we can just let criminals out and not punish them 0:05:47.977 --> 0:05:50.857 and not enforce the law and everything will be fine. 0:05:51.697 --> 0:05:56.337 Of course this was complete maddeness. And then the focus 0:05:56.377 --> 0:05:58.457 on the guns. Well, here you go, here's Eric Adams 0:05:58.457 --> 0:06:00.577 again saying, we have to stop the flow of guns 0:06:00.577 --> 0:06:04.817 into our cities, including ghost gun All across America, big 0:06:04.857 --> 0:06:07.657 cities are dealing with this level of bindings. And so 0:06:07.817 --> 0:06:10.617 that's why the President was right to it in place 0:06:10.897 --> 0:06:14.777 attempt to a point a new head of the ATF, 0:06:15.097 --> 0:06:18.977 the nominee for ATF. We need to stop the flow 0:06:19.057 --> 0:06:22.177 of guns, including ghosts guns. That's a real crisis that 0:06:22.217 --> 0:06:24.497 we of facing. If we want to solve this problem. 0:06:24.697 --> 0:06:27.137 It's about all of us getting on board, not those 0:06:27.137 --> 0:06:30.537 who are living in an alternate reality of what's taking 0:06:30.577 --> 0:06:34.697 place in reality or no speech every day. So initial 0:06:34.737 --> 0:06:37.657 reports just to look at how stupid this talking point 0:06:37.737 --> 0:06:39.617 is that you're hearing from a lot of Democrats right now. 0:06:40.297 --> 0:06:44.297 Initial reports are that this was illegally purchased firearm that 0:06:44.337 --> 0:06:45.977 he had in the state of Ohio, and then he 0:06:46.017 --> 0:06:48.857 took it across state lines and was in violation of 0:06:49.057 --> 0:06:51.537 New York City and New York State law in doing so. 0:06:52.137 --> 0:06:55.577 That's what we know as of now. How are you 0:06:55.617 --> 0:06:57.177 going to stay? How is the City of New York 0:06:57.177 --> 0:06:59.657 going to stop that? Are they going to search every 0:06:59.737 --> 0:07:01.737 vehicle that enters New York City? He drove a U 0:07:01.737 --> 0:07:05.017 haul apparently. Are they going to search every vehicle that 0:07:05.097 --> 0:07:06.977 enters a city to make sure there's no illegal guns 0:07:06.977 --> 0:07:09.177 coming into the city. No, They're just gonna make it 0:07:09.217 --> 0:07:12.977 impossible for too legally owned firearms. They're going to harass 0:07:13.057 --> 0:07:16.737 and annoy lawful gun owners or would be gun owners 0:07:17.017 --> 0:07:19.977 and violate their Second Amendment rights and lock people up 0:07:20.017 --> 0:07:22.937 because they didn't properly register a twenty gage shotgun that 0:07:22.977 --> 0:07:25.737 they used to go pheasant hunting on the weekends. That's 0:07:25.777 --> 0:07:30.057 the kind of bullcrap the New York City authorities, the NYPD, 0:07:30.217 --> 0:07:33.537 and others are forced to do because of Democrat lunacy 0:07:33.657 --> 0:07:40.497 on guns. Speaking of Democrat lunacy pathy, hokel whose antics 0:07:40.577 --> 0:07:43.617 yesterday work just absurd. She showed up and seemed to 0:07:43.657 --> 0:07:47.537 think that she was leading some kind of a political 0:07:47.657 --> 0:07:51.097 rally against violence. We need the governor of New York 0:07:51.137 --> 0:07:57.737 to start giving completely worthless pablum in the aftermath of 0:07:57.737 --> 0:08:01.017 a terrorist attack on our subway. Watch this. No more 0:08:01.177 --> 0:08:06.297 mass shootings, no more disrupting lives, no more creating heartbreak 0:08:06.377 --> 0:08:09.337 for people just trying to live their lives as normal 0:08:09.377 --> 0:08:13.177 New Yorkers. It has to end. It ends now, and 0:08:13.257 --> 0:08:16.497 we are sick and tired of reading headlines about crime. 0:08:16.577 --> 0:08:20.137 It has to stop. I'm committing the full resources of 0:08:20.177 --> 0:08:24.537 our state to fight this surge of crime, this insanity 0:08:24.617 --> 0:08:26.697 that is seizing our city because we want to get 0:08:26.737 --> 0:08:31.657 back to normal, normal mass shooting. She shouts, Oh thanks, 0:08:31.657 --> 0:08:33.617 I'm sure the criminals are going to pay close attention 0:08:34.057 --> 0:08:38.177 to the shrill idiot governor of New York. It's outrageous, 0:08:38.257 --> 0:08:40.617 isn't it that this person is the governor of any state. 0:08:41.657 --> 0:08:43.817 This woman shouldn't be the governor of a lemonade stand, 0:08:43.897 --> 0:08:47.577 and yet she runs New York States Executive Branch. Right now. 0:08:48.017 --> 0:08:49.737 One of the reasons we have so many problems in 0:08:49.777 --> 0:08:54.257 these blue states is because Democrats keep electing morons. All right, 0:08:54.297 --> 0:08:56.977 it's beginning to look like Russian President Vladimir Putin's effort 0:08:57.057 --> 0:08:58.817 to prevent By the way, she wasn't even elected. She 0:08:58.937 --> 0:09:01.617 just was who was left after the last Democrat elected 0:09:01.617 --> 0:09:05.137 governor you got pushed out. Putin he's trying to prevent 0:09:05.257 --> 0:09:08.577 NATO expansion in Eastern Europe by invaded Ukraine, and guess 0:09:08.577 --> 0:09:11.177 what that may have backfired. The nations of Sweden and 0:09:11.217 --> 0:09:13.857 Finland are now seriously considering joining the Defensive Alliance, with 0:09:13.937 --> 0:09:16.577 the decision expected to come within weeks. We'll have more 0:09:16.577 --> 0:09:19.737 on that with the Heritage Foundations Nile Gardner coming up. 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Today, the prime ministers of 0:10:28.577 --> 0:10:31.657 Finland and Sweden met to discuss the possibility of both 0:10:31.777 --> 0:10:35.417 nations joining the Alliance, citing Russian aggression as the catalyst 0:10:35.497 --> 0:10:38.977 for their potential membership. Here's what Finland's Prime Minister Santa 0:10:39.097 --> 0:10:43.257 Marin had to say earlier today. The European security architecture 0:10:43.537 --> 0:10:48.737 have changed fundamentally after Russian's invasion of Ukraine. To change 0:10:48.817 --> 0:10:52.657 in the security landscape make it necessary to analyze how 0:10:52.697 --> 0:10:56.417 we best secure peace for Finland and in our region 0:10:56.537 --> 0:10:59.457 in the future. The Prime minister added that a final 0:10:59.497 --> 0:11:01.897 decision on whether or not Finland will apply for membership 0:11:02.017 --> 0:11:06.297 could come within weeks. A spokesman for the Kremlin warned 0:11:06.297 --> 0:11:09.017 against the two nations joining NATO, saying it would not 0:11:09.137 --> 0:11:12.217 quote bring ability to the European continent. All right, well, 0:11:12.257 --> 0:11:14.657 let's dive into this. Joining me now is Now Gardner, 0:11:14.737 --> 0:11:17.657 director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the 0:11:17.737 --> 0:11:22.497 Heritage Foundation Nile. Is this a big backfire for Putin? 0:11:22.577 --> 0:11:26.657 I mean, what is it looking like? Well, but thanks 0:11:26.737 --> 0:11:28.977 very much having me on the show today. And you know, 0:11:29.017 --> 0:11:31.697 without a doubt, I think this is very bad news 0:11:31.817 --> 0:11:35.537 for a Putin and for the Russian regime. I think 0:11:35.577 --> 0:11:39.497 certainly Putin's invasion of Ukraine, which has gone incredibly badly, 0:11:40.497 --> 0:11:44.577 is really backfiring on multiple fronts, including of course, you know, 0:11:44.617 --> 0:11:47.777 the big picture with regard to to NATO, because you know, 0:11:47.897 --> 0:11:50.217 without without a doubt, I think that you know, the 0:11:50.337 --> 0:11:53.657 Native Alliance is going to expand as a result of 0:11:53.697 --> 0:11:58.097 the Russian aggression against Ukraine and Finland and Sweden I 0:11:58.217 --> 0:12:01.857 believe will become in short time full members of the 0:12:02.177 --> 0:12:05.177 Native Alliance. They are on track to do so that 0:12:05.377 --> 0:12:09.297 governments are I think committed to bringing that about. This 0:12:09.337 --> 0:12:12.097 may happen this year, and I think there will be 0:12:12.217 --> 0:12:16.577 unanimous support within the Native Alliance for expanding the partnership 0:12:16.617 --> 0:12:19.257 to bring on board Finland and Sweden. They'll become the 0:12:19.377 --> 0:12:22.737 you know, the thirty first and thirty second members of NATO. 0:12:23.097 --> 0:12:27.457 Yen Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General, has voiced his full 0:12:27.737 --> 0:12:30.777 support for the you know, for the expansion of the 0:12:30.817 --> 0:12:33.697 Native Alliance, and so, you know, I do think that 0:12:34.297 --> 0:12:38.937 you know, Putin's you know, very very you know, spectacular 0:12:39.217 --> 0:12:42.817 unsuccessful operation Ukraine. It's all backfiring, I think for the 0:12:42.937 --> 0:12:45.857 for the Russian dictator. What role do you think the 0:12:45.897 --> 0:12:50.457 evidence of war crimes has played in Sweden and Finland's 0:12:50.457 --> 0:12:56.337 obviously heightened interest in joining the NATO Alliance. Yeah, it's 0:12:56.337 --> 0:12:58.417 a good question, you know. I think it's an important issue, 0:12:58.737 --> 0:13:02.417 and you know, especially for a country like Sweden, for example, 0:13:02.417 --> 0:13:07.297 which prides itself on playing a very active role in 0:13:07.457 --> 0:13:09.857 terms of advancing you know, human rights on on the 0:13:09.857 --> 0:13:13.297 world stage. I think the you know, the Swedish population, 0:13:13.657 --> 0:13:17.817 the Finnish population was absolutely horrified by the tremendous barbarism 0:13:17.817 --> 0:13:20.137 and savagery that you're seeing being carried out by the 0:13:20.217 --> 0:13:22.617 Russians inside Ukraine. So that's a factor. But I think 0:13:22.617 --> 0:13:25.857 the number one factor, by a long way back in 0:13:25.937 --> 0:13:28.697 terms of the thinking in both countries, is to prevent 0:13:29.217 --> 0:13:33.497 the Russians from you know, daring to set foot in 0:13:33.537 --> 0:13:36.217 either of those countries. And after all, you know, Finland 0:13:36.257 --> 0:13:38.817 shares a you know, a boarder that's over eight hundred 0:13:38.817 --> 0:13:41.817 miles with Russia, and so the Finns, who have been 0:13:41.817 --> 0:13:44.497 invaded twice by the Russians in the past, they are 0:13:44.537 --> 0:13:49.177 acutely aware of the tremendous threat level. And a recent 0:13:49.177 --> 0:13:51.457 opinion poll that came out in Finland showed actually that 0:13:51.817 --> 0:13:54.577 by six to one margin Finns were in favor actually 0:13:54.577 --> 0:13:57.377 of joining NATO. That the numbers are a bit closer 0:13:57.377 --> 0:14:00.577 in Sweden but you know, for the Finns right on 0:14:00.617 --> 0:14:03.457 the boarder with Russia, the threaten invasion is a very 0:14:03.537 --> 0:14:07.897 very real, you know, scenario, and they are on the 0:14:07.977 --> 0:14:10.577 on the guard. But as you point out what we're 0:14:10.577 --> 0:14:15.217 witnessing round Ukraine, they're the horrific atrocities, the war crimes. 0:14:15.737 --> 0:14:19.217 This is focusing things well, not only in Finland and Sweden, 0:14:19.257 --> 0:14:21.177 but all over all over Europe when people are actually 0:14:21.217 --> 0:14:25.097 horrified by what's happening, and they of course are also 0:14:25.177 --> 0:14:27.977 worried that, you know, this could happen in their own countries, 0:14:27.977 --> 0:14:32.497 that the Russians decided to invade. How quickly could they 0:14:32.777 --> 0:14:36.977 become good? Sweden and Finland become full members of NATO 0:14:37.217 --> 0:14:39.737 if they do apply in the coming weeks. And is 0:14:39.737 --> 0:14:42.377 there any way that that process, I mean, can it 0:14:42.457 --> 0:14:45.497 be expedited? Are the Russians going to try to bring 0:14:45.577 --> 0:14:49.377 some kind of pressure to derail it if it starts 0:14:49.377 --> 0:14:52.857 to happen, I mean, how does the actual process play out? Yeah, 0:14:52.937 --> 0:14:55.457 that's that's a very important question. And I think there's 0:14:55.457 --> 0:14:58.617 going to be discussion of this at the Madrid NATO summit, 0:14:58.657 --> 0:15:00.857 which takes place in the last week of June too, 0:15:01.057 --> 0:15:04.177 So that's where I think this will be discussed. Both 0:15:04.217 --> 0:15:06.777 the Fins and the Swedes indicated that they would like 0:15:06.977 --> 0:15:09.737 to it possibly move forward in the course of the 0:15:09.737 --> 0:15:12.937 next few weeks, so in advance of the Madrid summits. 0:15:13.017 --> 0:15:17.657 So basically it would require a unanimous vote from all 0:15:17.697 --> 0:15:21.217 NATO members to approve this. Every NATO country has to 0:15:21.417 --> 0:15:26.457 approve an application to join, and I would expect that 0:15:26.497 --> 0:15:29.097 the whole Native Alliance would would support this. So I 0:15:29.097 --> 0:15:32.937 think it would be a fast tracked process and you 0:15:32.977 --> 0:15:36.897 could see both Finland and Sweden as full members of 0:15:36.937 --> 0:15:39.297 the Native Alliance, I would say in the second half 0:15:39.297 --> 0:15:42.377 of this year. So it can be a very very 0:15:42.457 --> 0:15:46.457 quick process here. And I don't expect there's going to 0:15:46.497 --> 0:15:50.137 be any opposition among other NATO countries to those two 0:15:50.217 --> 0:15:54.097 nations adjoining. The Russians will you know, will huff and 0:15:54.137 --> 0:15:56.057 puff and put, will make all kinds of threats, but 0:15:56.137 --> 0:15:58.377 it will it will make no difference Russia does any 0:15:58.457 --> 0:16:03.377 veto over who joins the Native Alliance. And my expectation 0:16:03.537 --> 0:16:06.217 is that both Finland and Sweden will be full members 0:16:06.217 --> 0:16:09.057 of the Native Alliance, certainly before the year is over, 0:16:09.097 --> 0:16:14.897 if not significant helium and what what practical effect. Let's 0:16:14.937 --> 0:16:16.737 say we get to the point where Finland and Sweden 0:16:16.777 --> 0:16:21.017 are now part of the Alliance. How would you expect 0:16:21.057 --> 0:16:24.977 that that would affect things in Europe? Could there be 0:16:25.457 --> 0:16:28.617 a US base perhaps even in one of those countries soon? 0:16:28.857 --> 0:16:32.337 How do you think that would play out? Yeah, that's 0:16:32.337 --> 0:16:33.937 a good question, you know, in both countries of course. 0:16:33.977 --> 0:16:38.217 Finland Sweden have you know, have prided themselves on neutrality 0:16:39.097 --> 0:16:41.777 for many decades. But I think in the new reality 0:16:41.857 --> 0:16:44.617 that we have in Europe with the Russians, you know, 0:16:44.697 --> 0:16:46.777 two hundred thousand troops or they used have two hundred 0:16:46.777 --> 0:16:49.977 thousand trips in Ukraine, that number's fallen significantly because they've 0:16:50.097 --> 0:16:52.817 taken a lot of casualties. But um, you know, everyone's 0:16:52.817 --> 0:16:55.097 seeing what was happening in Ukraine, and so I wouldn't 0:16:55.097 --> 0:16:58.257 be surprised if you know, Finland, for example, approached the 0:16:58.337 --> 0:17:01.417 United States or Great Britain or another you know, or 0:17:01.457 --> 0:17:04.657 other NATO members to you know, to establish a you know, 0:17:04.697 --> 0:17:08.897 a full permanent NATO base in Finland, and I think 0:17:08.897 --> 0:17:12.057 that would be the wise thing to do. You know, 0:17:12.097 --> 0:17:15.257 the Swedes have been very actively engaged in supporting Ukraine. 0:17:15.257 --> 0:17:19.017 They've sent over ten thousand missiles to the Ukrainians actually, 0:17:19.017 --> 0:17:22.297 and so you know, even in in Sweden, a country 0:17:22.377 --> 0:17:26.297 that that has you know, been neutral so long, I 0:17:26.337 --> 0:17:28.977 think there's a possibility as well of you know, NATO 0:17:29.057 --> 0:17:32.257 and NATO based in Sweden also, so anything can happen here. 0:17:32.697 --> 0:17:35.097 It's a very different landscape in Europe. It would be 0:17:35.137 --> 0:17:38.617 a wise move both finn and Sweden to welcome you know, 0:17:38.737 --> 0:17:42.417 permanent NATO basis in their in their countries. The Poles 0:17:42.417 --> 0:17:44.697 have been seeking that for a long time and I 0:17:44.737 --> 0:17:46.737 hope that that will be the case for Poland as well. 0:17:47.417 --> 0:17:49.337 And also you know, the Fins and the Swedes, I mean, 0:17:49.377 --> 0:17:53.057 they know how to fight, they have highly effective fighting forces. 0:17:53.417 --> 0:17:57.257 They will be traditional added value to the Native alliance 0:17:58.017 --> 0:18:00.177 um and they also know how to fight you know, 0:18:00.257 --> 0:18:07.937 winter warfare, and they know how to fight Biden. Just 0:18:07.977 --> 0:18:10.577 to get your take on this quickly, I didn't call 0:18:10.657 --> 0:18:14.097 the Ukraine invasion a genocide today watch this yet I 0:18:14.297 --> 0:18:18.657 called this genocide because it become clearer and clearer that 0:18:18.817 --> 0:18:20.977 proved the sin of wipe out the ideas he can 0:18:21.017 --> 0:18:25.577 feeling between Ukraine and the mount The evidence is mounting 0:18:26.577 --> 0:18:29.417 good different nowaks last week or evidence is coming out 0:18:29.457 --> 0:18:34.057 of literally the horrible thing be the Russians have done 0:18:34.497 --> 0:18:37.497 gior Krane. So we're gonna only learn more and more 0:18:37.537 --> 0:18:42.697 about the defication and for about the Morris decides internationally 0:18:42.817 --> 0:18:45.377 is whether or not a qualifier. But it sure sees 0:18:45.417 --> 0:18:48.737 that way to be. Actually, the Biden essentially says he's 0:18:48.737 --> 0:18:51.377 not sure if it under international law qualifies as a genocide, 0:18:51.377 --> 0:18:54.377 but he used the term genocide. How significant is that? 0:18:55.817 --> 0:18:59.217 I mean, I think it's significant, and I think that clearly. 0:18:59.497 --> 0:19:02.897 I mean, the Russians are you know, have genocidal intent 0:19:03.177 --> 0:19:07.897 in Ukraine there ethnically cleansing parts of the country. Um, 0:19:07.937 --> 0:19:09.817 you know, one can quible over you know, over the 0:19:09.857 --> 0:19:13.337 use the term, you know, genocide the legal definition. But um, 0:19:13.697 --> 0:19:16.057 you know, I do think that you know, Putin's regime 0:19:16.057 --> 0:19:18.897 as a genocidal regime and that that is true. But 0:19:18.977 --> 0:19:20.977 you know, with with regard to Joe Biden, you know, 0:19:21.737 --> 0:19:24.057 it's also important that when you make comments like this 0:19:24.657 --> 0:19:27.617 that you back up, you know, retric with you know, 0:19:27.657 --> 0:19:30.297 with tough action on every single fund against the Russians. 0:19:30.337 --> 0:19:32.977 You know, don't sit down with the Russians negotiating and 0:19:33.017 --> 0:19:35.617 a rand nuclear deal while they carrying out genocide. So 0:19:35.817 --> 0:19:37.857 you know, I hope Joe Biden lives up to you know, 0:19:37.897 --> 0:19:40.937 the words that he uses and not does not partner 0:19:40.977 --> 0:19:43.737 with a genocidal regime. That's absolutely madness. That's what the 0:19:43.737 --> 0:19:46.177 Bidendministration is doing right now. So Joe Biden needs to 0:19:46.217 --> 0:19:49.697 wake up on the Rand front. Nile. I always appreciate 0:19:49.737 --> 0:19:52.657 the insight. Thank you so much. It's my pleasure. Thanks 0:19:52.737 --> 0:19:57.057 very much, Bud. An expression of NATO wouldn't come without cost. 0:19:57.177 --> 0:19:59.337 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley 0:19:59.417 --> 0:20:03.697 recently told lawmakers that new permanent American bases in Europe 0:20:03.777 --> 0:20:05.737 could be needed in the coming years. But is that 0:20:05.777 --> 0:20:08.097 such a great idea? I answer the question with the 0:20:08.137 --> 0:20:11.577 host of the President's Daily Brief podcast, Brian Dean Wright. 0:20:11.617 --> 0:20:13.537 When we come back. First, I want to talk to 0:20:13.537 --> 0:20:16.377 you about protecting your online data. A lot of companies 0:20:16.417 --> 0:20:18.697 promise your privacy is guaranteed. We know that's not true. 0:20:19.097 --> 0:20:21.857 That's why you need a new privacy and cybersecurity application 0:20:21.897 --> 0:20:25.617 tool called Secure and Spelled SEK. 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In a 0:21:25.897 --> 0:21:28.697 recent congressional hearing, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark 0:21:28.777 --> 0:21:32.657 Millie told lawmakers the US should consider sending more troops 0:21:32.657 --> 0:21:35.737 and establishing new bases in Europe to deter Putin from 0:21:35.777 --> 0:21:39.617 further aggression. Take a look. My advice would be to 0:21:39.737 --> 0:21:43.497 create permanent bases, but don't permanently station. So you get 0:21:43.537 --> 0:21:48.457 the effect of permanence by rotational forces cycling through permanent bases. 0:21:49.177 --> 0:21:51.417 And what you don't have to do is incur the 0:21:51.457 --> 0:21:55.457 cost of family moves, px's, schools, housing and that sort 0:21:55.457 --> 0:21:59.337 of thing. So you cycle through expeditionary forces through forward 0:21:59.417 --> 0:22:02.217 deployed permanent bases. And I believe that a lot of 0:22:02.217 --> 0:22:05.697 our European allies, especially those such as in the Baltics, 0:22:05.777 --> 0:22:08.457 or Poland or Romania elsewhere, they are very very willing 0:22:08.537 --> 0:22:11.977 to establish permanent bases. They'll build them, they'll pay form, 0:22:11.977 --> 0:22:15.617 et cetera, sending more of America's sons and daughters to 0:22:15.737 --> 0:22:18.737 Europe in a military capacity. What do we think about this? 0:22:19.257 --> 0:22:21.937 Jo want I mean to answer that question is former 0:22:22.097 --> 0:22:25.617 CIA operations officer and host of the newly launched The 0:22:25.697 --> 0:22:32.257 President's Daily Brief the PDB podcast, Brian Dean Wright. Mister BDW. Bryant. 0:22:32.337 --> 0:22:34.937 Great to have you, sir, Very good day to you. 0:22:35.857 --> 0:22:37.937 So I mean, let's start with this one. You're here 0:22:37.937 --> 0:22:43.497 and there, Mark Miller, we'll leave aside Mark Millie's fealty 0:22:43.737 --> 0:22:48.857 to the pronoun announcing blue haired left wing gender warrior 0:22:49.017 --> 0:22:52.697 crowd in the general American context, right, I mean, he's 0:22:53.257 --> 0:22:56.017 a guy that seems to panar to the left specifically 0:22:56.057 --> 0:23:00.457 on the military situation here as it's as it's projected 0:23:00.817 --> 0:23:04.657 in Europe. What are your thoughts when you hear him saying, yeah, 0:23:04.737 --> 0:23:08.297 let's build some permanent bases, additional permanent bases in Europe 0:23:08.297 --> 0:23:13.977 and send more US military personnel to staff them. All Right, 0:23:14.017 --> 0:23:16.097 a couple of things. There's already over one hundred thousand 0:23:16.137 --> 0:23:20.177 troops in the European continent, so let's just start there. 0:23:20.177 --> 0:23:23.577