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They 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:55.920 are being tortured, murdered, they are working in slave labor. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:05:02.800 And for the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party to 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.240 use this wager athlete to say everything is great. And 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.919 I got to say, NBC Savannah Guthrie, you know said, well, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:16.839 critics accuse China doing this, Well, okay, it is a genocide. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.039 Those are the facts. They are literally trying to exterminate 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:25.600 the leaguers. But NBC wants to apologize for the Chinese 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:31.080 communist atrocities and get given that, you know, I can't 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:35.160 bring myself to watch it. It just is these games 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.320 never should have happened in China. It's wrong that that 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.520 that that the International Olympic Committee allowed China to host 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.760 these games. Now, what do you think is at play here? 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.279 Because there are a couple of dynamics going on. One, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.719 you have communist China doing all sorts of heinous, horrible 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.040 things in their own country and around the world, so 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.400 people just don't want to tune in for that too. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.080 You've got this strange dynamic where an American athlete born 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.200 and raised in San Francisco. Though frankly, maybe that explains it. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.760 An American athlete choosing to compete not for America, her country, 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.280 but for China, the country that her mother is from, 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:15.320 to compete for the Chinese Communist Party. It seems so shocking, 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.000 so disgusting to me that an American would ever want 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:22.040 to compete for any other country, to say nothing of China. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.240 What is it a revulsion at China? Is a revulsion 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.400 at America? Or is it just that people are tuning 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.200 out of the mainstream media? So look, I don't know, 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.520 I mean, I don't know this athlete. I was certainly 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.800 saddened by those headlines. You know, I want to be 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.320 a little bit careful throwing rocks. I guess she has 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.400 renounced her citizenship. She's decided she wants to be a 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:46.760 Chinese national. Okay, that that is an unusual choice. That's 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.720 not a choice many people make. Most people don't go 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.880 from freedom to tyranny. Most people don't choose to subject 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:58.640 themselves to the oppression of a communist dictatorship. I don't 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.080 know what a reasoning was. I don't know her thinking was. UM. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.640 I will say I am saddened whenever anyone gives up 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:11.400 on America. UM, that that is an unfortunate thing. You know, 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.520 it reminds me if this is not exactly the same, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.040 but another guy from the San Francisco area, remember what 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.880 was his name, John Walker Lynne, the American Taliban. It 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.480 was in Marin County, and decided he wanted to go 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.800 be a Taliban. I'm not suggesting she's a terrorist, so 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.320 I don't want that to be a false equivalency. M 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.560 but it was someone born and raised in America deciding 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.760 to pledge their allegiance to a foreign power and to 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.720 an oppressive foreign power to a foreign power that that 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:50.000 commits atrocities. M you know that it's we don't know 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.520 the whole story there, but it but it's certainly a 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:57.320 dismaying development, and it speaks, I think, to a deeper problem, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.040 not just this one girl or a handful of a 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.720 fleets who want to compete for other countries. But you're 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:08.400 seeing on the left a disavowal of American power and influence, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.080 because they say America is immoral and unjust in a 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.280 terrible place, and wherever it goes, it just oppresses people. 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.760 But you're also seeing on the right a sort of 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.640 disappointment with America looking around and and saying, what are 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.640 we doing when we go overseas? Are we fighting to 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.880 I don't know, raise the Pride flag over Kndahar, What 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.680 does it even mean? I think you're seeing a little bit, 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:35.480 certainly in in certain aspects of the right, a demoralization 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.360 there as well. What are we Are we just in 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.000 a national malaise, Senator, the likes of which we might 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.520 have seen in the seventies. Look, some people are and 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.559 some are not. And unfortunately this really does follow a 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:56.400 political polarization the left. It is proudly and brazenly anti American. Yea, 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.520 whether it is you know, Nike celebrating Colin Kaepernick and 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.840 pulling the Betsy Ross flag off their shoes, which actually 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.800 truth in advertising is what they followed. Nike would put 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.760 the Chinese flag on their shoes because that's where their 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.520 shoes are made, and in fact that they would put 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.720 Chinese children on their shoes because it's Chinese children who 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:21.400 sadly are are forced far too often into slave labor. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:26.600 But the left generally, you know ESPN covering the Olympics, 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.800 there was you know, one clown on ESPN who did 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:34.720 this moral equivalence and says, well, yes, they're Chinese concentration camps, 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.800 but you know, who are we to judge because America 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:43.000 has faults also, and Michael he literally says, well, states 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:47.520 like Georgia and Texas passed voter ID laws, So apparently 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:52.800 requiring a driver's license to vote is equivalent to creating 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.640 a concentration camp, putting a million people in them, torturing them, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:01.040 raping them, murdering them. That's exactly like requiring an ID 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:05.520 to vote. It makes sense. It's the most assinine moral equivalency. 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.600 And I do wonder if you know, people that grow 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:16.520 up surrounded by that leftism, they're incapable of making judgments. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.080 You know, it was America perfect, of course not but 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:25.559 but the idea that we are literally, the Biden administration 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:32.880 is the number one customer for slave labor coming out 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.240 of communist China. John Kerry, when he was asked about 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.040 about the slave labor camps, he says, well, that's not 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.520 my department. You know, I've joked, but it's not really 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.760 a joke that John Kerry should be named the customer 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.760 of the year for the Chinese communist slave labor. Several 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.560 months ago, I introduced an amendment on the floor that 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:57.360 said it should be illegal for the US government to 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.680 purchase products and in particular or electric cars, electric batteries, 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:07.640 solar panels made with slave labor in China. Right, every 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.079 single Democrat voted no except Joe Manchon. Joe Manchon was 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.640 the one Democratic voted yes. Everyone else voted no. The 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:19.000 amendment failed, and you know, it is stunning. We are literally, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.400 you know, if you look through history at times when 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:29.040 there have been concentration camps without exception, those are shameful, deplorable, disgusting, 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:33.240 times that history is not kind to and we are 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:38.000 funding concentration camps right now by purchasing the fruits of 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:44.880 that slave labor. It's grossly immoral, and today's Democrats don't care. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:49.720 This raises my next question because a lot of people 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.520 are suggesting, well, it's ideological. You know, the radical left 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.640 to hate America, and they do hate America, and they 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.160 protest the flag, and so there's no question there's an 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:01.200 ideological element here. Well, and they're taught America is evil 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.200 and that the evil is at best equivalent and in 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:10.640 many ways worse than really evil stuff globally. And no, 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.240 they're not the same. No, George W. Bush was not 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.320 Aidolf Hitler. No, Donald Trump was not Aidolf Hitler. And 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:21.120 the nuts who say that are nuts. Right, But then 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.720 this raises this question, how does China keep getting away 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.679 with it? Is it just because we're all brainwashed? Or 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.720 is it because of cold hard cash? Is because China 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.200 owns a ton of our debt. Our businesses in America 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.080 are totally in bed with the Chinese. They make all 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:39.559 of our goods. I mean, is it is it an 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.360 economic problem? It is massively an economic problem. And by 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.280 the way, the political problem is an economic problem. So 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.080 one of the things to understand about the Democratic Party today, 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.040 they are structurally pro China. Now what does that mean. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:59.280 That means that they're leading supporters are all completely in 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.680 bed with China. So who is today's Democratic Party funded by. 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.840 It's funded by big tech, big tech, er monster supporters 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:10.520 of the Democratic Party. It's funded by big business, giant corporations, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.280 almost all of which are overwhelmingly Democrat right now. It's 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:19.000 funded by big Hollywood, and it's funded by big universities. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.680 All four of those big tech, big business, big Hollywood, 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:27.920 big universities are up to their eyeballs with the Chinese Communist. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.800 They have billions of dollars depending on the Chinese Communist. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.480 And so the people who write the checks that keep 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.959 Joe Biden in power, that keep Kamala Harris in power, 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.640 that keep Chuck Schumer in power, that keep Nancy Pelosi 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:43.920 in power, they have billions of dollars at stake with 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:51.120 keeping us intertwined with communist China. So the Democratic Party 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.960 does not want to decouple, does not want to delink. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.679 They may occasionally have a little bit of tough rhetoric 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.280 because they realize that the Chinese commun poll badly, right, 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:07.439 but they are opposed to actually doing anything about China. Well, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.680 he who pays the piper calls the tune. But then 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.520 the next question would be, how do we fix that? 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.040 If this is not merely the ideological whims of some 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:20.080 koukie leftist politicians, but this is really a structural issue, 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.960 as you say, I think quite persuasively, then what's the 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.560 answer to that? How do we fight back? Well, I 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.160 do think the debate has changed, and it's changed a lot. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.680 You know, when I got to the State a decade ago, 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.960 I was arguing then in twenty thirteen, that China poses 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.200 the single greatest geopolitical threat to the United States over 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.080 the next century. That I believe this. I think it 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:48.239 is a massive The goal of the Chinese communist dictators 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:54.680 is global domination, and they are playing the game not 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.160 on the short term, but over decades and over the 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.040 next century. And I got to say, when I got 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:06.280 to DC and started saying that that was a lonely view, 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.840 almost all of Washington thought that view was nuts. Every 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.200 Democrat did, Every Democrat remember Joe Biden used to say, 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.560 come on, man, come on man, there are friends, Come 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:23.080 on man. But back then most of the Republicans believe 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.800 that also, most of the Republicans, you know, you go 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.080 back to twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, the Republican Party was 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.520 in a very significant way the Chamber of Commerce party, 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.480 and the Chamber of Commerce looked at China and saw 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:40.240 big bucks, and the Republican enlightened view was, well, we 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.000 can make a whole lot of money in China and 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.760 eventually that human rights and democracy stuff, well, we'll worry 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.720 about it another time. You know, there's a clip that 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.440 makes the rounds now of Joe Biden way back when 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.160 this was ten years ago now saying that arising China 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.480 is good for America, it's good for the whole world, 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.920 and we should encourage arising China. And one of the 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.640 reasons why it's little tough to use that clip against 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.560 him is because many, if not most Republicans at the 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.840 same time, we're saying the exact same thing. No, that's 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.920 that's exactly right. It was there were a handful of 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:14.880 us that we're calling out the threat of China, and 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:20.600 we were we were lonely voices in Washington. I will 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.760 say two things have really changed that and they both 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.120 you know, you asked, how do we deal with this 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.000 in the long term. Two things have changed that for 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.960 the better. Number one is Donald Trump and and Trump 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:36.000 changed the discussion on China fundamentally. Trump came in, talked 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:40.200 about China, China. He changed the pronunciation, really he did. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.200 He did. I don't know a very good Trump impersonation, 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:48.320 but but he but by force of will change the 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:50.800 focus to China considerably. And I will say in the 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:55.480 Republican Party that that made a real difference. But then secondly, 0:16:55.640 --> 0:17:00.560 what really changed it was COVID and and COVID, Chinese 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:05.359 Communist government's complicity in covering up COVID, and now the 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:11.320 overwhelming evidence suggests complicity in COVID likely being released from 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:15.000 a Chinese government lab in Wuhan, and the very real 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.240 possibility that it was the Chinese Communist government that developed 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:25.159 COVID through gain a function research, and that culpability in 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.199 something that has taken so many lives in America across 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:34.440 the world, that has destroyed trillions of dollars in jobs 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:40.440 and productivity and savings, that has changed the fundamental view 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.520 of the Chinese Communist here at home and abroad. And 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.280 I think that is potent. Now, as long as the 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.240 government in the US is controlled by Biden, Schumer and Pelosi, 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.280 they're not going to do a damn thing about China. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:56.439 But I'm hopeful when the election happens in November and 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.480 we see new Republican leadership in the House and Senate 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.840 will see I hope, leaders willing to stand up and 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.359 take on China directly. And then in twenty four we 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.080 need a strong Republican president who's willing to take on 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.520 China because it's not going to happen from today's Democratic Party. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.560 So you've got the China issue seems clear enough at 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:21.200 least today, Republicans against China, Democrats very pro China, really 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:25.399 bought and paid for by China. Then there's another issue, 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.680 which is Iran. And for a much longer time, Republicans 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.200 have opposed Iran and Iran's attempts to get a nuclear 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.679 weapon and Iran's attempts to grow, and the Democrats just 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.159 keep coming back to Iran. Barack Obama signed to the 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.520 Iran nuclear Deal. Donald Trump comes into office, rips up 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.400 that deal now again. Joe Biden seems to be trying 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.960 to revive it. As far as I can tell, without 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.320 any input from the US Senate. Yeah. No, it really 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:56.240 is incredibly dangerous and it is a story the Democrats 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.440 history in Iran is horrific. You go back to Jimmy Carter, 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.640 where you know, the Shava Ran was a US ally 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:10.240 supported America and then they had an Islamist revolution led 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:14.960 by the Ayatola Komine which, among other things took Americans 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:18.720 hostage and held our Americans hostage for four hundred and 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:23.600 forty four days. And Jimmy Carter, who had undermined our 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:27.119 ally the Shaw and then sat there helplessly while the 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:31.840 revolution that displaced the Shaw held Americans hostage. Now Jimmy 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.440 Carter was even worse than sitting there helplessly. He sent 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.000 a rescue team in to try to rescue the hostages. 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.879 This is before you were alive, Michael, just a glint 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:46.520 in my father's eye. Indeed, the rescue team crashed in 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:50.800 the desert. The helicopters crashed with no opposing fire. They 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.480 weren't even confronting the enemy. I mean, it was the 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:58.879 incompetence of the Carter administration had not been mad until 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.879 we got the bidens today. But before we do that, 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:06.040 let's go in between let's go and by the way, 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:12.160 the Ayatola Cominy release the hostages the day that Ronald 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.680 Reagan was sworn in, literally as Reagan put his hand 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:18.200 on the Bible raised his hand on the oath, January twentieth, 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:22.359 nineteen eighty one, is when the Ayatola released the hostages 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.520 because he understood there was a new sheriff in town 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.879 and Reagan was going to blow the crap out of 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.000 them if they didn't let the Americans go it. You 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:36.040 couldn't ask for a better demonstration of weakness and appeasement 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:40.400 versus piece their strength. Right all right, fast forward to Obama. 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:46.800 Obama first term big domestic agenda is Obamacare and Dodd 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:52.680 Frank Obama gets reelected in twenty twelve. Obama's second term 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.119 major agenda was a nuclear deal with Iran, and in 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.920 fact Ben Rhodes, who was the Deputy National Security Advisor 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.800 in the Obama White House, he described an Iran nuclear 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.359 deal as the Obamacare of the second term, which I 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:12.080 think he meant his a compliment. You look at the 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:18.800 Obama Iran deal, John Kerry negotiated it with Iran. It 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:23.840 is absolutely catastrophic. The Iran deal on its face was 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:29.080 a total capitulation to Iran, and it is dangerous that 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:35.240 the Obama Iran Deal put in Iran unavoidably on a 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:39.800 path to having a nuclear weapon. I led the opposition 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:42.119 to the Iran Deal in the Senate, and in fact, 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.959 you know, it was interesting. As the presidential campaign started 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:51.479 getting going in twenty fifteen, I helped organize a huge 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:54.840 rally on the steps of the Capitol, thousands of people 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:58.680 in opposition to the Iran Deal. I invited Donald Trump 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:00.919 to the rally and it was interesting. He was like, 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:02.720 why would you invite me to your rally? You're running 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.879 against me. He was like, well, and I just said, well, Donald, 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.159 because when I invite you, every TV camera in the 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:13.160 universe follows you. And I want to stop this deal 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.439 because I don't want a theocratic lunatic. Now there's a 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:20.080 different Ietola. The old one was the Aetola Komeni. The 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:23.720 new Iotola is the Aetola Kamene. Just when you think 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:26.960 the iranis you can't get more confusing. The two guys 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:30.080 have almost the same name. And look, there's an easy solution. 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:33.600 Call him the Aetola. He's a bearded Jehadas who wants 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:37.200 to murder us. And by the way, the Iatola Kamene, 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:44.639 like the Ietola Komeni literally chance death to America and 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:47.280 death to Israel. And he was doing this, This is 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:51.360 not hyperbole. While John Kerry in the State Department were 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:57.480 negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, the Ayatola was leading mobs 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:00.640 in Iran chanting death to America. They actually have every 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:04.040 every year they celebrate Death to America Day and it's 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:11.160 the anniversary of the revolutionaries taking Americans hostage. And yeah, 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:13.920 there's a great political cartoon that came out about that time. 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.840 I think it was twenty fifteen that had the Ayatola 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:20.400 and had John Kerry and it had the Ayatola saying 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:24.240 death to America, and it had John Kerry saying, can 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:28.199 we meet you halfway? Yeah? Could we just be mortally 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:30.720 wounded in some way? Well, so this is what the 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:33.040 left says, because if you look at the facts on 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:36.040 the face, it seems absurd that the left would continue 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:40.400 and Democrats specifically and Carrie and Biden specifically would try 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:43.399 to get this deal. But what they have said is 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:47.080 look forget about that. That's all just pr from the malas. 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:50.200 They don't really believe it don't listen to the Republicans. 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:52.959 This deal is not only not going to give Iran 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:56.520 a bomb, but it is going to prevent Iran from 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:59.360 getting a bomb. And on an issue like Iran, as 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:01.480 we've as we've just said, it's hard to keep track 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:04.840 of the guy's names. It's difficult to know who to believe. 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:08.320 So you're right, those are the talking points. And I 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:11.760 will say a couple of things. So I actually met 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:15.399 today with a Biden nominee to be an ambassador in 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:19.080 the Middle East, and we were talking about Iran and 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:22.400 the nuclear agreement, and he made a comment he said, 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:27.480 I think everyone agrees with the foreign policy world that 0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:31.400 Iran must never get a nuclear bomb. And I sort 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:33.199 of stopped him, and I laughed and said, let me 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:35.919 be clear, I don't think everyone agrees with that. I 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:40.439 think the Biden White House is perfectly okay with Iran 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:43.160 having a nuclear weapon. And I said, look, go back 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:45.720 to the Obama white House. So when Obama was newly 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:49.040 elected president, one of the very first speeches he ever 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:51.080