1 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: On this episode of News World, we're going to talk 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: with Congressman Mike Waltz of Florida about the Beijing Olympics 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: and why, in fact it's a totally wrong thing to 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: be doing and what we should do instead. Conerson Waltz 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: introduced a resolution in the House on February fifteenth calling 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: on the US Olympic Committee to withdraw from the twenty 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: twenty two Winter Olympics in Beijing unless the International Olympic 8 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: Committee finds an alternative site. His decision to introduce this 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: resolution was based on a number of very significant human 10 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: rights violations carried out by the Chinese Communist Party. In 11 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: the resolution, Commerson Waltz states, quote, the Chinese Communist Party 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: has carried out a number of hainous acts in the 13 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: last year alone that should disqualify them from hosting the 14 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: two twenty two Winter Olympics. The world cannot legitimize the 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: CCPs acts of genocide in Shenjiang, the destruction the democratic 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: rights of Hong Kong, and the dangerous suppression of the 17 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan that costs lives. By sending delegations 18 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: to Beijing, I couldn't agree with Mike Moore, and on 19 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: March tenth, the Federals published our joint opinion piece that 20 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 1: we wrote together entitled why the two twenty two Winter 21 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: Olympics need to be moved from Beijing. Our straightfor a 22 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: thesis is that to protect human rights and preserve the 23 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: integrity of the Games, the two twenty two Winter Olympics 24 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: should be moved to a location outside of communist Chenna. 25 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: So I'm really pleased to welcome as my guest for 26 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: this podcast, Congressman Mike Waltz, who represents Florida's sixth congressional district. 27 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: Mike is a proud Florida native, a colonel in the 28 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: National Guard, a combat decorated Green Beret, a former White 29 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: House Impending on policy adviser, a small business owner, and 30 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: a proud father. As you can tell, he is very busy. 31 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: So welcome Mike. Thank you for joining me. Well, thank you, 32 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: mister speaker. It's great to be with you, and just 33 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: really appreciate your leadership on this. Well, let's start with 34 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 1: your take on the Chinese Comunist Party in directions, you're 35 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: clearly a man of action, but what inspired you to 36 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: introduce the resolution for the United States to withdraw from 37 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two one undred Games unless it has 38 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: moved from Bishing. Yeah. So just a little bit of history. 39 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: You know, this didn't just come out of the blue. 40 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: A number of human rights organizations, our senator from Florida, 41 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: Rick Scott, and others have been practically begging the International 42 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: Olympic Committee to move the game for years now, and 43 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: they have been met with a resounding and frankly, in 44 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: the words of one weaker human rights activist, arrogant responses 45 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: from the IOC. So once we hit a year out, 46 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: you know, I think sometimes we all think twenty twenty 47 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: two is still ways off. The games are actually this 48 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: coming February, at a year out, I decided enough is enough. 49 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: That if the IOC is not going to move the games, 50 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: which apparently they're not, even though they could, then it's 51 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 1: time for a boycott. I just cannot imagine, mister speaker, 52 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: the American flag flying over Beijing after unleashing COVID on 53 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: the world, over three million people around the world dead 54 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: and counting the cover up of the Communist Party as 55 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: it pertains to the pandemic, arresting journalist, arresting doctors, that 56 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: we're trying to blow the whistle and sound the alarm. 57 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: And then on top of that, the human rights violations 58 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: that you mentioned, which Secretary of State Pompeo, who also 59 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: agrees we need to boycott the games rightly called genocide Biden. 60 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: Secretary of State Tony B. Lincoln has agreed it's ongoing. Aside, 61 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: the report coming out of the State Department verifies that 62 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: there are millions of Muslims with shaved heads on their 63 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: knees being loaded into rail cars sent to concentration camp. 64 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 1: Sounds eerily familiar from the nineteen thirties and forties and 65 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: forced into slave labor and their women in particular, this 66 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: is just what's so sad and disgusting, are being put 67 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: through mass sterilization and in many case rape campaigns from 68 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: the Chinese prison guards in an effort to exterminate an 69 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: entire people. How can we, then, in the wake of 70 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: all of that, give the Communist Party this global platform 71 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: to further their propaganda, And how can we, as a 72 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 1: leader of the free world, along with our allies, just 73 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: shrug our shoulders, turn a blind eye and say, you know, 74 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: no big deal and let them whitewash all of these atrocities. 75 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: Enough is enough and we need to take a stand. 76 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 1: You know, you really raise an important question if you 77 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: go to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, which has this 78 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: horrifying presentation of what happened in the thirties and forties, 79 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: with the remarkable, the literal effort to exterminate Jews and 80 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: other ethnic groups, and we say never again. But what 81 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: does that mean? Never again is the nice slogan, But 82 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 1: then we just turn our blind eye, fortunately for what 83 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: you're trying to do. Over one hundred and eighty human 84 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: rights groups have signed a letter calling for a diplomatic 85 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 1: boycott of the Asian Olympics. In Britain, Senior political officials 86 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 1: have called for the British Olympic Association to move the 87 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 1: games or a boycott them. Australia, Canada, and Germany's political 88 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: leaders are debating calling for a boycott or calling to 89 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: move the games. I'm curious, with all this going on, 90 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: with the evidence about the Chinese dictatorship so clear, why 91 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: are the American Olympic Committee so stubborn and in the 92 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: long way, so arrogant in dealing with this issue. I 93 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 1: think it's a mix of two things. One they won't 94 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: take our meeting. But they have met with a number 95 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: of these groups, and I think in some ways, many 96 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: of these international organizations, whether it's the IOC, the World 97 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: Health Organization, the WHO, the US Olympic Committee, they are 98 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: awash in Chinese money and influence. There are incredible conflicts 99 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: of interest. I don't have a great explanation, but a 100 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: lot of people point to our athletes and say, well, 101 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: let our athletes go, let them compete, let them show 102 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: that in many ways the Chinese can be beat on 103 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: the international stage. They point to Jesseo in a nineteen 104 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: thirty six and how that came about. But I look 105 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: at it very differently. I really put a finger at 106 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 1: the US Olympic Committee, the International Olympic Committee and putting 107 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 1: our athletes in this position and having to set aside 108 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: their values being able to live your life with their 109 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 1: basic freedoms, or to be able to compete. There's no 110 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: reason these games couldn't have been moved. The Tokyo Summer Games, 111 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: as you know, were delayed a year because of COVID. 112 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: These could be delayed and rebid and moved away from 113 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: such gross atrocities. And we haven't even begun to talk 114 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: about what the Communist Party has done to Tibetans and 115 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: erasing their culture, what they're doing to Hong Kong right 116 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: now as we speak, with people disappearing out of their 117 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: homes in the middle of the night, and the ongoing 118 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: atrocities against Christians across China, with churches literally we could 119 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: see it on satellite imagery that are there one day 120 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: and gone the next. I would ask those people who 121 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: point to our athletes and say, would you hold the 122 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: Games in Rwanda in the middle of that genocide? Would 123 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: you held it in Germany in nineteen forty four what 124 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: we knew that they were doing in the Holocaust? Would 125 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: you have held it in Bosnia after Sharabrinka? Absolutely not 126 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: if Georgia, Just to put it in the correct context, 127 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: we've seen so many companies boycotting and so many athletes 128 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: boycotting on this lie of restrictive voting rights. If Georgia 129 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: were putting a million Muslims in concentration camps, I guarantee 130 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: you that they wouldn't step foot in Beijing to host 131 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: and to have these games. Doesn't that strike you as 132 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: sort of shocking that to use the Georgia example, there 133 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: are companies making a big deal about the Georgia election law, 134 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: who are enthusiastically investing in China, which has no elections, 135 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: none of the matter, none that are real. And yet 136 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: we have this double standard. I saw this with Facebook, 137 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: which had banned Donald Trump, but has five different Chinese 138 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: Communist party systems on Facebook. They also happen to have 139 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 1: Russian systems, and they have Cuban systems and Venezuela systems. 140 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: We're getting to this weird standard in America where we 141 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: just kind of shrug off truly evil behaviors. As I 142 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: think President Biden said the other day, well, there are 143 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 1: cultural differences. That's not exactly what we're dealing with here. 144 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: As you point out, mass rape is not a cultural difference. 145 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: Forced sterilization is not a cultural difference. This is a 146 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: regime which is anti human. Now, there is precedent for this. 147 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty when the Russians invaded Afghanistan, President Carter, 148 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: who had been pretty passive and pretty cautious about foreign policy, 149 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: suddenly decided he'd had enough and decided that we would 150 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow in response to their 151 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: December nineteen seventy nine invasion of Afghanistan. It was the 152 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: first and only time the US boycotted the Olympics. Eighty 153 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: nations at the Olympic Games, the smallest number since nineteen 154 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:08,119 Speaker 1: fifty six. The teams of fifteen countries that did participate 155 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: marsh in the opening ceremony with the Olympic flag rather 156 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: than their national flags. The Olympic flag at Olympic him 157 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: were invoked at medal ceremonies whenever athletes from these countries 158 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: won medals. Canada, West Germany and Japan joined the US 159 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: and boycotting the Games, but Carter failed to persuade Britain, France, 160 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 1: Greece and Australia also observed the boycott. But that does 161 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: give us an example of an effort in the past 162 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: to demonstrate our moral outrage when you're dealing with a 163 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: dictatorship which frankly should not ever be hosting these kind 164 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: of events. What is your hope that in Congress you 165 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: might be able to get something past Well, I just 166 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: want to address those precedents, because some people say that 167 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: that boycott in nineteen eighty didn't really accomplish anything, But 168 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: I think that's a misreading of history. I don't think 169 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,439 Speaker 1: there was a real awareness of what the Soviets were 170 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 1: doing in Afghanistan at the time, and we now know 171 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: they were carpet bombing villages, deliberately draining the swamp with 172 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 1: which the mujah Dean swam by literally exterminating the populace, 173 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: including mass landmine campaigns and shaping some of the landmines 174 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: to look like toys so that children picked them up. 175 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: The boycott put a bright spotlight on the Soviet's atrocities then, 176 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: which eventually I believe led to the very successful resistance, 177 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: which was one of the first dominoes to the fall 178 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 1: of the Soviet Union. But I also want to look 179 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: at times when we probably should have taken a stronger 180 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: stand and didn't. We all know what Germany did to 181 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: the world in the wake of nineteen thirty six, and 182 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 1: it's important to point out that Putin invaded Crimea just 183 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: months after the Sochi Olympics. As a Green Beret, I 184 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: know a bit about military planning. That meant the forces 185 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: were being readied literally as the Olympics were going on. 186 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 1: And that positive international spotlight emboldens these types of authoritarian 187 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: regimes and basically sends the signal that everything they've done 188 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: up to those games really doesn't matter. The world isn't 189 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: going to care or take a strong stand, which emboldens 190 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: them to push the envelope even further. And then, finally, 191 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: look at all of the promises that Beijing made in 192 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: the run up to the two thousand and eight Games. 193 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: People forget they just had the Olympic Games. They made 194 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: all kinds of promises to these same human rights organizations 195 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: that they would improve their behavior, improve their record, start 196 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: moving towards a reasonable, acting democratic system, and they've gone 197 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: exactly the opposite direction. I fear, mister speaker, history is 198 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: going to repeat itself. And with all of the saber 199 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: rattling that we're seeing around Taiwan in the wake of 200 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: the positive spotlight from the twenty two only two Games, 201 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: I pray this prediction is wrong. Taiwan could be next. Well. 202 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 1: I think that's right, and I think that we also 203 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: to be aware that every time these dictatorships stare us 204 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: down and they get away with whatever they're doing, they're 205 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: then emboldened to assume they can get away with the 206 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: next thing they're doing. I think it becomes a real problem. 207 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: In the case of what the Chinese have been doing. 208 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: The evidence is pretty overwhelming. Sectary of State Mike Pompeo 209 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: and the Trump administration called the treatment of Wigger's genocide. 210 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: He said that since at least March twenty seventeen, China 211 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: quote has committed crimes against humanity against the predominantly Muslim 212 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: Wiggers and other members of ethnic and religious minority groups. Again, 213 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: Pompeo came back and said, China quote has committed genocide 214 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: against the predominantly Muslim Wigers and other ethnic and religious 215 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: minority groups in Shinjohn. Sectary of State Anthony B. Lincoln, 216 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: who you might have thought would be more saw China 217 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: given the difference between Trump and Biden, came back and said, quote, 218 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,959 Speaker 1: my judgment remains that genocide was committed against the Wagers 219 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: and that has not changed. The Canadian Parliamentary Committee spoke 220 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: out against the Chinese government and said, quote, the Government 221 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: of Canada should work with its international allies and multilateral 222 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: organizations to condemn the Government of China's use of concentration 223 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: camps to unlawfully and unjustly detain Wigers and other Turkic Muslims. 224 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: The Australian Strategic Policy Institute recently published a report estimating 225 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: that more than eighty thousand wagers were transferred out of 226 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: Jijiong to work in factories across China between two thousand 227 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: and seventeen and two nineteen. They had also been tracking 228 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: via satellite Jenjong's detention system and found newly built and 229 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: renovated detention centers between two thousand nineteen and two and twenty. 230 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: They said that at least sixty one detentions sights have 231 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: been constructed and expanded between July twenty nineteen in July 232 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, including at least fourteen facilities still under construction. 233 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, even CNN had a report which outlined 234 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: leaked official records that show people can be sent to 235 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: the detention centers for simply wearing a veil or growing 236 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: a long beard. About one hundred and fourteen of the 237 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: detainees and the leaked records were sent to the camps 238 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: for having too many children, twenty five for having a 239 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: passport without having traveled internationally, and thirteen for having strong 240 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: religious traditions in their family. This is all according to CNN, 241 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: which is hardly a right wing organization. Finally, since twenty seventeen, 242 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: the US State Department has determined in its Trafficking in 243 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: Person's Report the Commons China falls under Tier three, the 244 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: most severe category of tracking activity. Given all of these 245 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: facts and the judgments being rendered by a number of countries, 246 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: do you get much pushback about how bad the Chinese 247 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: dictatorship is. Well, I just want to unpack that a 248 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,359 Speaker 1: little bit further. President Biden talked about the cultural differences. 249 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: Here's what the Han Chinese know. They know that in 250 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: Muslims society, if a young woman has been raped, not 251 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: only obviously is that a traumatic and horrific event for her, 252 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: she is often then shunned within Muslim society and even 253 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: oftentimes from her own family, and will find it incredibly 254 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: difficult to be married and to have children. So it 255 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: literally is a form of torture. But number two, it's 256 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: a form of exterminating a whole race of people on 257 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: top of the forced abortions and the forced sterilization. Back 258 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: to the point that you made earlier that I just 259 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: having difficulty wrap in my mind around the Biden administration 260 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: pretends themselves to be the defender and the proud advocate 261 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: of women's rights. This is abuse of women in the 262 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: worst form, and yet aside from Secretary of State Blinken's 263 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 1: admittance that this is genocide ongoing, essentially has kind of 264 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,199 Speaker 1: been a shoulder shrug and a shoulder shrug from the 265 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: IOC and the US Olympic Committee as well. And then 266 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: you know, I just want to take a second, mister speaker, 267 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: to take that point a little broader about the Biden 268 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: administration being the defender of women's rights. We're seeing girls, 269 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: according to international groups, that are migrating up from the 270 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: Central American countries into our southern border being sexually assaulted 271 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 1: at rates of thirty to forty percent of the girls. 272 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: Was just on a call with Afghan women and they 273 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: feel utterly abandoned or in a state of panic. It 274 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: is time for not only the Biden administration, but these 275 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: woke corporations that you referenced earlier to put their money 276 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: where their mouth is and to step up talks cheap. 277 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: But the reality is, particularly on the corporate side, there's 278 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: a lot of money to be lost. NBC will be 279 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: broadcasting the games. Coca Cola get a good portion of 280 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: its sugar from Shenjohn Province where the wagers are Nike, 281 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: Adidas and other brands get a lot of their cotton. 282 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: And what happened with the NBA where one coach said 283 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: I stand with Hong Kong and the Chinese threatened to 284 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: cut them off from their entire market. These companies are 285 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,160 Speaker 1: scared of their bottom line and are willing to set 286 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: their values aside rather than take a stand on the 287 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: very basics of human rights and women's rights. And the 288 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: Biden administration is caltoweling along with them. It's really truly sad, hypocritical, 289 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: and disgusting in many ways. Now, I keep trying to 290 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: imagine you're some corporate leader. You're making you know, in 291 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:44,640 Speaker 1: some cases several hundred million dollars a year. Somebody comes 292 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: in and says, you know, there are production and involves slavery, 293 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: an exploitation of children as young as eight or nine 294 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 1: years old, And you think to yourself, well, yeah, but gee, 295 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,919 Speaker 1: I mean, we have quarterly reports coming up, and you know, 296 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: we have to be practical. I mean, the number of 297 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: times I'm disgusted by billionaires who make their money out 298 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 1: of dictatorships explaining practicality. I'm often reminded of the people 299 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: who sold out to the Soviets or the Nazis, or 300 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 1: the fascist in Italy, or malice in China, because after all, 301 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: we have to be practical. I think the history of 302 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: America is that moral courage is far more practical than 303 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 1: bankrupt selling out. And I think that there will be 304 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: a price to pay for some of these companies and 305 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: the way they've dealt with us, and the degree to 306 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 1: which they literally would like to not even have the conversation. 307 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: And I've always thought we should probably organize stockholders to 308 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: go at every stockholder meeting of companies that are involved 309 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: in exploiting slave labor or exploiting the opportunities that dictatorships given, 310 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 1: and just force the corporate leadership publicly explain and defend 311 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 1: the kind of anti human behavior that they engage in. 312 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: And I think what you're doing in that sense is 313 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: very very important, because you're raising not just the issue 314 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: of the Olympics, but the Olympics becomes the starting point 315 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: for a genuine conversation about what our goals should be 316 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: and what our role should be in dealing with countries 317 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: whose governments are truly horrific. In that sense, I'm delighted 318 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: with what you're doing. What sort of response are you 319 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 1: getting in Congress. Well, we're getting a lot of kind 320 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: of hesitation, particularly from a number of Democrats who, again, 321 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: you know, it's time to walk the walk, not just 322 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: talk to talk when it comes to human rights and 323 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,679 Speaker 1: when it comes to women's right in particular. I have 324 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: a couple of dozen sponsors, unbelievably they're all Republican that 325 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: we have a similar resolution in the Senate. It is 326 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: more focused on demanding that the IOC move the games. 327 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: But to your point, I just wanted to pull the 328 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: thread a little bit more on the companies, mister speaker. 329 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: I built a business. I'm a proud entrepreneur. Unlike many 330 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: in Congress, I can read a balance sheet and understand 331 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: what it takes to make payroll. I want these companies 332 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: to make money all day long. But I do draw 333 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: the line with these kind of atrocities, and I draw 334 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: the line when it comes to our national security. I've 335 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 1: told many of them, some of the largest in the world, 336 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: that I will help them in Congress and help them internationally. 337 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: If you need to sell into a billion person market 338 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: sell into India right next door one point three billion 339 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: person marketplace, the world's largest democracy that is not actively 340 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: giving speeches across its leadership, as President z is in 341 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: China talking about replacing the American dream with the China 342 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: dream and actively and aggressively repressing its own people. An 343 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: Australian think tank just came out and estimates that eighty 344 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,679 Speaker 1: international global brands are benefiting from the supply chain and 345 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 1: benefiting from the slave labor that's coming out of Western China, 346 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: And in fact, not only are they benefiting, they're fighting 347 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: to keep it. We have some legislation moving through both 348 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: the House and the Senate that would cut off that 349 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:36,439 Speaker 1: supply chain and would ban these companies from benefiting from 350 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: slave labor, and they actively lobbied against it. Nike, Apple, 351 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: and a number of other firms included. It truly is hypocrisy, 352 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 1: and it's a distortion of our values as a country 353 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: and as a leader of the free world. As I 354 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: watched your effort in that of others on the slave 355 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: labor issue, I found the open lobbying opposition of these 356 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: giant corporations was astonishing. I mean, if you think about it, 357 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 1: given Apple's profit margin or Nike's profit margin, surely they 358 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: could get by without slave labor. And I don't quite 359 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 1: know how their leadership goes to dinner at night and 360 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,199 Speaker 1: goes into so called polite company. If you had to 361 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: wear an armband that said I employ slave labor, all 362 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: of a sudden will become a different story. But they 363 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: just brush all this under the rug. And it has 364 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 1: been surprising. You know, at the time of Tenement Square, 365 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: a lot of Democrats were pretty aggressive in favor of 366 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: human rights, and for some reason, maybe again because they've 367 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: gotten more and more of their money from billionaires who've 368 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 1: made their money in China. But the Democrats have become 369 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:49,400 Speaker 1: much more passive about tolerating the kind of things we're 370 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: looking at, and I'm hoping that that'll change as they're 371 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: confronted by just how truly horrible some of the Chinese behaviors. 372 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: I think you're onto. There is a speaker, and I've 373 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: seen it. It's across the board. Our politics or a 374 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 1: wash and Chinese money, the amount of illicit funds going 375 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 1: into university endowments. One of the largest recipients is the 376 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania. By the way, Hollywood, 377 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 1: our sports are all a wash. That's why this is 378 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: such an insidious adversary. And I believe the most difficult 379 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 1: and most dangerous that we've ever faced. With an economy 380 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: that is on track to be larger than ours, with 381 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: the amount of cash that is just a wash across 382 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 1: American society, a navy that is larger than ours, and oh, 383 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: by the way, they can concentrate it in one ocean, 384 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: ours a spread around the world, more launches into space 385 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: last year than the rest of the world combined. And 386 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: I think we just need a real wake up call 387 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: and my call to action for everyone listening and for 388 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,119 Speaker 1: everyone I speak to. When you pick something up and 389 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: you see made in China, put it back down. Not 390 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: only was it probably made aid on prison or slave 391 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: labor in many cases, but that's an American job. I'm 392 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: on a supply chain task force to bring that manufacturing 393 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: back home. And that's not just a job's issue, it's 394 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: a national security issue. I think of the silver lining 395 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: of COVID is that it showed that things like masks 396 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: and gloves and pharmaceuticals very quickly when we can't produce 397 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 1: them here in the United States, become a very serious issue. 398 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: And the fact that we no longer can produce penicillin, 399 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: the fact that the very rare earth and critical minerals 400 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: that power our economy, that produce electronics and microchips are 401 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 1: all lithium that will produce the batteries for a green economy. 402 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: I talk to the Democrats about this all the time. 403 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: That's all produced now in China, and their government has 404 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: created these dependencies as part of their national security strategy 405 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: so that they can turn them on and off like 406 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,919 Speaker 1: a spicket when we disagree with them geopolitically, and that 407 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: is now exactly what they're doing. And they have one 408 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: of our political parties that are sitting silent because of 409 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,640 Speaker 1: all of these factors, and it has me incredibly concerned. Well, 410 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: and of course, just this week we had the Biden 411 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: administration decide that they would steal the patent rights to 412 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: all of the vaccinations, and several people, including a former 413 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 1: head of the Food and Drug Administration, said, look, this 414 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: is like a giant gift to China. This is giving 415 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 1: the Chinese all of our basic patent information for these drugs. 416 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: They are the country most capable of manufacturing it once 417 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 1: they had the knowledge. So we're actually going to weakend 418 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 1: American companies, create a terrible precedent of stealing the property, 419 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: and then help China actually produce at lower cost, which 420 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: they will then use in their foreign policy. So it's 421 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: exactly the sort of thing you're talking about, and where 422 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: I think this whole issue of supply chain becomes central 423 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 1: to our national security strategy because it doesn't do you 424 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 1: much good to have a nuclear powered aircraft carrier if 425 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: you cannot produce the various and sundry transistors and chips 426 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: that are necessary for your equipment operate. And I think 427 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 1: we really underestimate how smart the Chinese have been about 428 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 1: building a deep, long supply chain dominance, which they're fully 429 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,159 Speaker 1: prepared to exploit if they can. I want to congratulate 430 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 1: you for the work you're already doing. I want to 431 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: encourage you to know that it's historically important what you're doing, 432 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,119 Speaker 1: not just on the Olympics, but what you're doing and 433 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,640 Speaker 1: taking on the entire question of how we deal with 434 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 1: a to tolitary and dictatorship, the size and the aggressiveness 435 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 1: of China. I wish you really well, this is going 436 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 1: to be a pretty wild and interesting Congress before it's over. 437 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: And I have a hunch that when we talk next year, 438 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: are we talking to somebody who's part of the Republican majority, 439 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: and that the American people will have decided that they 440 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,639 Speaker 1: want a party in a government that are prepared to 441 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 1: stand up for America and what's right for America. You'll 442 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: be one of the key players, Mike. And having made 443 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: that happen, well, thank you, mister speaker. You know I've 444 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: thought all over the world to defend this Republic. It's 445 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: an honor now to be representing the Floridians that I do. 446 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: But I will be damned if I am going to 447 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: be sitting in my rocking chair one day having my 448 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,880 Speaker 1: kids and grandkids grow up in a country led by 449 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 1: socialists and in a world led by Chinese communists. And 450 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: I truly feel like we are just a few breaths 451 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: away from that becoming a reality. So this great nation 452 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: is absolutely worse the fight. But I pray your prediction 453 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 1: is correct and that Nancy Pelosi is in retirement eating 454 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: ice cream back home in California this time next year. 455 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: That'll be great, And I look forward to here having 456 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: you come and join us again in the future for 457 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 1: another podcast reporting on the work you're doing. So thank 458 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: you very very much, Mike. All right, God bless see 459 00:28:55,480 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: you soon. Thank you to my guest Congressman Mike Waltz. 460 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: You can read more about boycotting the twenty twenty two 461 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 1: Winter Olympics in Beijing on our show page at newtsworld 462 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: dot com. 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