WEBVTT - Only In America 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:06.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:11.280 George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty Armstrong 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:17.840 and Katty and now he Armstrong and Hetty. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:28.080 We are suspending campaign operations. This is incredibly difficult because 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.640 I know that some will think it's an admission of kilt, 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.280 and it most certainly is not. We're not doing it 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.400 because of the allegations. We're doing it because of the 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.920 structures that are being taken away from us by those 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:39.360 in power. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.280 Those in power like Bernie Sanders and zoron Mum Dannie. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.760 I mean, when Bernie and the socialist communist mayor of 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:50.720 New York have turned on you, then you really got 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.680 no friends. So it's that Graham Platiner dude, and he 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:55.680 got out, and everybody knew he was going to get out, 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.680 and I think everybody knew that's where this story was 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.600 headed a long time ago, really, But there's a lot 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.520 of interesting stuff around that, and we welcome to the show. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.960 Are one of our favorite political analysts that exist anywhere 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:11.520 on the planet, lonhe Chen, David and Diane Stephie fellow 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.000 in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.960 the director of Domestic Policy Studies at Stanford University. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.160 Welcome to the show, Hey Jack, Good to be with you. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.000 Pretty good. Where to start? Maybe here? 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.920 One guest I had on earlier I hadn't seen the 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:31.880 latest polling was Platner way down in the polls against Collins. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:33.280 No. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.480 I think the polling was actually pretty competitive, okay, And 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.880 that's why Democrats were so keen to figure out what 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.200 to do about the situation, because they see the main 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.560 Senate race as being a critical part of their pathway 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.840 to try to take the majority of the Senate. It's 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.480 going to be a tough pathway for Democrats just because 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.000 of the states that are in play this cycle. But 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.720 I think they really felt that Plattner had an opportunity 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.600 to beat Susan Collins, and so this whole thing has 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.280 been very, very, very disruptive to their Democrat plans. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.800 Here's one of my thoughts on this, an interesting angle. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.600 I was reading Mark Alpern's newsletter earlier today, and he 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:14.359 was making the point that these voters in Maine chose 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:19.240 this guy knowing most of it. You know, the most 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:24.480 recent pretty solid rape allegation is new, but a lot 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.360 of it was known, and they still chose them, Which 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.680 makes me wonder where we are on the character issue 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.520 with candidates across this country. As long as somebody's on 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.000 our team, do we care anything about their personal lives. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.080 Yeah, it's a great question. I mean, we heard this 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:40.920 over and over again. You know, you looked at the 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:46.120 different politicians who stood behind Graham Plattner even as allegations 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:46.560 came out. 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:47.320 Not this one. 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.079 I mean, this one obviously was a more extreme version, 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.920 but there were lots of similar allegations, and not just 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.680 those allegations, but also severe lapses in judgment and character. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.119 You know, the idea that he'd have an offensive tattoo, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:01.960 that was something. You know, there were a bunch of 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.400 stories about this guy that suggested he was not exactly 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:09.640 the most savory character. And the argument that basically supporters 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.440 of his used was well, you know, he's our guy, 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.520 and it doesn't really matter because look, you know, the 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.760 other side has a bunch of scoundrels too, so we're 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.680 going to run a scoundrel and it's not going to matter. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.520 So I do think Jack, we're in a different era 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.880 in American politics. You know, if you think back to 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.720 the eighties, and nineties and even two thousands that the 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.399 character question did reflect in a much more different way 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.720 than it does today in today's politics. It's really come 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.800 down to what I call the shirts and skins era. Basically, 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.080 it just depends on if someone's on your side or not. 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.560 If someone's on your side, then what they've done is forgivable. 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.120 And you know, I think both sides have been guilty 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:46.760 of this, you. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.360 Know, in terms of the sexual stuff. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:53.000 Rapes a different case, but obviously, but the cheating on 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.800 your wife and that sort of lifestyle, from what I understand, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.880 our European friends have always marveled we care about that 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.040 because they just don't care about your private sex life. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.440 You know, obviously we're talking about legal stuff between consenting adults, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.120 but in Europe they don't care about your private sex life, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:12.920 whereas the United States we always have. So maybe we're 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.920 just moving into that sort of thinking. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:16.440 I suppose. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.080 I mean, I again, I don't want to dismiss it, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.919 because I do think that there are elements of character 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.919 that are reflections on how how people will govern. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.960 I mean, right, sorry to interrupt you, but the fact 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.880 that this guy was on various hookup sites. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.760 Trying to get laid weeks after he was married. What 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:37.920 the heck is that? 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.560 I mean, that's that's that's a different thing than some 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.240 of the affairs we've heard about in the past with 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:44.400 different totally but. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.840 I mean, just like Eric Swalwell, that was different too, right, 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.520 And and look at how long Swallwell really hung in 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.200 there until By the way, if you look at Swalwell's 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:57.120 exit video, not all that dissimilar from the Platiner one, right, 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.800 sort of disheveled saying look that this doesn't mean I'm guilt, YadA, YadA. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.719 I mean, the whole thing is just remarkable if you 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.359 look at the severe defects in character that both of 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.120 these candidates exhibited. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.560 And how well known. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.200 A lot of this was right, And I think that's 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.560 part of the challenge, is that you had so many people, 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.440 whether it was Slowwell or certainly Platiner, who because he 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.720 wore the right jersey, we're willing to say, you know what, 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.200 it doesn't matter. And you know, the argument that they 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.039 would repeatedly use was the other side does it too, 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.120 And that's when you know that our politics have entered 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.039 a new era, and frankly, I think a more troubling time. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.680 Uh, you're the perfect guy to ask about this. 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.039 So I assume the Democrats are going to take the 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.240 House for all kinds of different reasons historically, blah blah, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.400 blah blah. But why the Senate is so close to 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.440 fifty to fifty and each seat matters so much? 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.480 Why is it? Would it be such a big deal? 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.560 What would be the difference between the Republicans controlling the 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.159 Senate or the Democrats controlling the Senate in the last 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:59.640 two years of Trump's last term. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.440 I think the crucial difference is really two things. One 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.760 is appointments and nominations. You know, the President makes a 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.520 whole bunch of nominations, and the Senate's the only chamber 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.720 that really advises and consents on those. And so if 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.000 Democrats were to control the Senate, that would make it 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.520 much harder for President Trump to fill his administration. I 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.799 presume the Democrats would blockade pretty much all of his nominees, 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.039 whether for courts or for executive positions. So that's number one, 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.479 And then number two is the legislative question. Right there's 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.279 not a whole lot of legislating happening right now. Congress 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.280 doesn't do a lot of that anymore, which is kind 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.080 of funny because anybody who studied the US Constitution will 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.040 know it's Congress's job to, I don't know, make laws, but. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:40.240 Didn't really do that anymore. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.120 But to the degree that they do, it tends to 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.679 require unified control of both the House and the Senate, 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:50.359 because if one, you know, one sort of party controls 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.920 both houses, then that creates an issue. Now, in this case, 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.279 it's interesting because if the Democrats do take the House, 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.000 then that piece is less relevant for the Senate because 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.920 you've already got a roade block there. The only way 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.560 for Trump to continue to legislate would be if Republicans 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.800 were able to pull off a miracle and hold onto 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:08.520 the House and hold onto the Senate. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:10.920 So I want to ask you about this about the 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:17.040 Democratic Party and specifically their progressive or socialist wing of 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.120 the Democratic Party. I don't know if you saw that 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:25.320 video that surfaced a few days back, Scott Wiener, San 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.480 Francisco political legend who's trying to get Nancy Pelosi's seat. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:34.320 He's always been a big active part of anything LGBTQ 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.200 plus trans this sort of stuff, and he's a hero 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.880 to that crowd. He was at a big Pride event 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.320 and he got attacked by a bunch of other progressives 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.240 because he's been too friendly to Israel over the years. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.920 And then I read some analysis that said, to my mind, 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.000 crazy is in the Democratic Party the center of gravity 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:01.600 is moved from the whole sexuality thing to the Jewish 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.400 Israel support thing. Do you think that's accurate and how 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:05.160 the deal is. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.720 That I do, Jack, this has become the new litmus 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:12.000 test in progressive politics, and it has moved from I mean, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.360 we've seen the progression of this over the years, right 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.600 from issues of gender identity to race and ethnicity questions, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.840 and now I do think it's a question that a 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.200 lot of Democratic progressive activists are asking, which has a 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:31.000 candidate received money from APAC, which is the political action 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:37.440 committee that supports causes aligned with Israeli Jewish issues. And 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.680 I think that has become the litmus test now for 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.440 a lot of Democrats out there, and the question is 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.200 have you taken that money? And the funny part of this, Jack, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.559 is if you look back in Democratic Party politics, there 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.200 was a time back in the nineteen nineties and two thousands, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.320 not to date myself, but there was a time when 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.800 that was worn as a badge of honor that a 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.920 lot of Democrats wanted to be perceived as being prostry, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.200 certainly pro Jewish issues in the US, and that was 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.760 something that they wore proudly, and that has completely flipped 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:12.199 on its head. And I think it's a really disgusting 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.079 part of progressive politics in my view, the degree to 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.880 which some of this anti Semitism has been not just 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.719 tolerated but encouraged by elements of the progressive left. And 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.640 I think that's going to be a big challenge for 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.000 them going forward and could signal. The last thing I'll 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.040 say about this is a could signal of realignment. I 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.040 think of a lot of Jewish voters in the US 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.040 away from the Democratic Party. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.080 Well to the point to the point of not just 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.240 you know, we don't like what Israel is doing in 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.880 Gaza or whatever that debate they had in Michigan the 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.600 other night. That guy doesn't think Israel should exist running 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.400 against a mainstream Democrat. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.760 I mean, that's the problem is that, you know, it 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.520 starts with critiques of the Israeli government, which I mean, look, 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.679 people can have different opinions of how successful or unsuccessful 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.520 the current Israeli government has been that's a legitimate question. 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.840 But what is illegitimate, of course, is then using that 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.280 as a platform to basically say there should not be 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.199 a Jewish state. That to me is this disscussed and 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.560 I mean, it's disgusting. But it's also become frankly much 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.920 more common on the progressive left, to the point that 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.720 it is becoming a test of whether someone has taken 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.680 that position, and that is the litmus test that some 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.800 of these particularly democratic socialist organizations are using to endorse 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.880 or not endorse candidates. So it's really staggering how quickly this. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.440 Is to be I know, that's what I was about 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:33.720 to say. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.080 I can't believe that it's moved this far this fast 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.880 in my life, where you'd stand up running for office 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.880 and say I don't think the Jewish States should even exist, 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:42.439 and you. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.680 Might be the nominee. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.240 Yeah, oh, in fact, you might have a very good 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:47.559 chance of being the nominee. Right. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.000 I mean, you look at Zon Mamdani, You look at 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:54.000 some of the positions that this person is running against. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.920 Karen vass In La Nitya Raman heard some of her positions. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.079 It's remarkable to see and it's just not something I 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.840 thought I would see in my lifetime. You know, I 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.439 thought there was a basic consensus amongst both political parties 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.600 that America and the Jewish State of Israel are allies 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.160 and friends and we're going to do everything we can 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.880 to support the success of the Jewish state. That doesn't 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:18.440 seem to be the case anymore for some on the 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:19.200 progressive left. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.160 So, Lannie Jen, you are a smart, well spoken guy, 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.920 and I wanted to give you a couple of minutes too. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.119 And even though we're now. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.640 Five days out from the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.240 of this country, give me a couple of minutes on 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.960 why you think America is exceptional. Maybe I'm putting words 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.880 in your mouth, whether or not you think America is exceptional, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.240 and why pushing back against some of those detractors in 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.880 the socialist wing of the Democratic Party. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.480 Well, America is exceptional, There's just no question about it. 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.679 I mean, my family and I just get back from 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.280 a vacation. We went to Europe for a couple of weeks. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.640 And yeah, there's a lot of things that are historical 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.440 and beautiful about Europe, but the whole time you're there, 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.200 you're realizing you know that it's not America. The amount 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:07.560 of innovation, ingenuity and creativity and drive of people is 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.360 just different. But I think what makes America different is 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.240 just this idea that you can have people from all 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.920 over the world coming to a country who you know, 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.560 may not speak the language, may not know much about 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.920 what America is, and they can make a life here, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.440 and then they can have kids and grandkids that have 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.120 success far beyond the success that they had. That kind 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:32.000 of achievement and accomplishment. It's becoming less common, I will say, 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.320 but it is still something that distinguishes America in my 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.360 mind from other countries around the world. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.679 Is just the ability for people to come here. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.040 To make a life, to be successful, and to become 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.640 part of this American story, and it is it is 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.280 just the most exceptional place on earth. Jack, I really 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.200 I cringe when I hear people who make it their 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:58.440 job to look down on America who basically say, you know, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.280 I'm not proud to be in America because of X, 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.959 Y and Z. It's like, if that's really the case, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.360 if you're not proud to be in this country, to 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.559 be part of this country, there are lots of other 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.439 places around the world you can go to look down 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:09.920 on America. 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.280 I agree. I've been talking about go fund me. I'll 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:13.560 buy you a ticket. We'll send you to. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.400 Exactly I mean, you know, we'll use your frequent fire 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.160 mouths and give you a one way ticket to places 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.319 around the world where there is no respect for the 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.960 same kind of values that we have in America. And 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.200 I and I just think that this is such a 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.840 special place and it is incumbent upon all of us 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.240 to protect this place as this incredible experiment that's been 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:35.040 so successful. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:36.760 There really is nowhere else around the world. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.080 Like I heard a great interview with Jensen Huang as 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.319 the founder of this company and video which if anybody 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:46.360 has stopping congratulations but but but he you know, he 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.320 basically talks about how his story would just not have 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.080 been possible anywhere else in the world. And this is 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.080 something that I've heard over and over again, and I 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:55.440 believe it because it's my story. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.320 Well, you know, things would not have been possible. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:13:59.880 For me in any other country but America. And that 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.040 that's why I believe in this country so much. And 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.760 that's why I do think our better days are ahead 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.360 of us, because it's just such an awesome place, Jack, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.400 I mean it really is. And you know we've got 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.240 our share problems, of course, you know we've got some disagreements, 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.160 but fundamentally what a great place to live. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.120 Really, nowhere else better in the world. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.080 Lonnie Chen I knew you'd be great on that. Thank 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.760 you for your time today. I really appreciate it. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.040 Hey, thanks, Jack, had a good one. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.080 Yeah, And speaking of the guy runs n video, just 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.640 the fact that what seven of the top eight country 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.680 biggest companies in the world, most able companies in the 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.880 world are all started by foreigners who came to this land. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.640 Anyway, more on that later. 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I want to talk a little more 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.920 about American exceptionalism, something that I left out the other 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:26.840 day when we were talking about it, among other things. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:27.760 On the way stay. 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.360 Here arm Strong, he yetni. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.280 So we're just talking a lot heat chan and got 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.560 onto the topic about American exceptionalism and our culture and 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.800 why this is the greatest country on earth and it is, 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:47.080 and the reason that if you want to start something new, 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:51.880 you come here, and because even with all our regulations 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:53.880 everything like that, it's still all of a lot better 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.560 in Europe and anywhere else, and you can start a 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.720 new company. And that's why you got SpaceX, and you 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.800 got Nvidia, and you got Apple and you got all 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:01.479 these different. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.560 Sorts of things. But it reminds me so I went 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.160 to Italy years ago. I was there. Hey, Gladys, you 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:13.600 still work here? Thank you? Sorry Gladys, maybe too much coffee. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.760 Shouldn't have said that. Now she's crying. Hey, Michael, can 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.560 you put your arm around her again? 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:20.240 All right? 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.760 I was in Italy and uh, and picked up on 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.840 the lifestyle there, the fact that I don't know if 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.840 you know this, if you've never been, but they like 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.120 close everything down like around eleven o'clock in the morning 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.120 and don't open up again to one Like everybody just 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.840 takes a couple hour break in the middle of the day, 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.880 and everybody gets six weeks vacation like they do in 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.880 France and a lot of the European countries, and people 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:47.880 retire early and all this different sort of stuff. And 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.640 I remember when I was at LEAs with a younger 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:52.400 crowd and talking about why won't we do this in 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.760 the United States. This is so cool, We're so we 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.520 work so much, it's sorry to go. Yeah, here's the problem. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:04.560 These countries can't sustain their own lifestyles. They've been running 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.239 out of money for decades. And the only reason that 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.800 they haven't been taken over by China or Russia is 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.639 because we protect them with our military and our productive society. 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:19.359 It doesn't actually work. You can't be that relaxed about 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.880 your productivity and survive as a country. And whether it's 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.879 Greece or Spain, or Italy or France, it's all coming 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:26.320 to an end. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:30.520 Or England. And I was talking to a buddy of mine. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.159 He's got this new job where he works with a 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:37.560 bunch of people from different countries, and they remark regularly 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.960 about how hard Americans work, and they think it's ridiculous 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.280 that Americans work so hard. Like this guy that was 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.600 from Mexico. When he gets off at five o'clock, he 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.439 turns off his phone. There's no texting him or email 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.840 in him. When he goes on vacation, you can't reach him. 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.160 And you Americans, where you allow your boss to reach 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.200 you on vacation. That's why we've had the number one 0:17:56.240 --> 0:18:01.200 economy on planet Earth since I think eighteen seventy. It's 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:05.520 not an accident that we're so productive and so dominant 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.719 economically that we can provide the military protection for the 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:14.080 entire planet. That's one of the reasons, one of the 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.440 many ways that we're exceptional. I've got more on that later, 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.320 and some other news coming up about Iran brand new 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.360 Iran stuff, Armstrong. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:22.880 And Getty two. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:27.159 Essential Command confirms a second consecutive wave of strikes targeting 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:31.520 military military infrastructure in southern Iran, also coastally Ran. These 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.280 strikes have been described as more aggressive than the initial 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.040 wave that we saw earlier this week, sparked by attacks 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.920 on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Tran has 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.000 responded by targeting neighboring nations including. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.280 Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar. 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.600 Now Iran taking up much of the talk in Turkey, 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.360 where President Trump just was for the NATO summit. There, 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.480 he said, the fragile ceasefire deals signed last month is over. 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.760 It's sort of crazy, to be honest, with this Souded 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.640 gracing there a little bit out of it, but they 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:01.200 want to make. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.400 It do badly. Yeah. 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.640 I was a little disappointed to hear that I'd predicted 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:11.560 yesterday morning or feared yesterday morning when I first saw 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:13.080 that we're attacking Iran again. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:14.800 And I was happy to see. 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:18.920 Trump come out and say, uh, these people are liars 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.680 and scumbags. I don't know if you saw the video 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:26.920 where he was asked at the podium a couple weeks ago, 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.239 you said these are good, reasonable guys, and now you're 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:30.720 bombing them and say they're scum. 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:31.520 What changed? 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.160 And Trump said, I got to know them. And Rubio 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.320 was standing behind him in the Secretary of State and 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:42.160 started laughing, probably happy to hear Trump finally come around 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:43.280