WEBVTT - He Stayed a Dude 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:06.400 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:07.920 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.480 Jack Armstrong, Joe Jetty. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:17.920 I'm strong and Jetty and he armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:26.920 Are you worried that this strike is going to hurt 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.360 the everyday American? The farmers that need to read. They 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.640 reached the export market. They're telling me that they're gonna 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:31.960 hurt them. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.720 You start to realize who the long Shormen are, right. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:35.839 Nobody can. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.479 People never gave a shout us until now when they 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.479 finally realize that the chain is being broke. Now, cars 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.680 won't come in, food won't come in, clothing won't come in. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.120 You know how many people depend on odd jobs half 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.920 the world, and it's time for them and time for 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.120 Washington to put so much fresh on them to take 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.320 care of us, because we took care of them and 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.760 we're here at in thirty five years. It brought tom 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.039 where they are today, and they don't want to share. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.040 So it doesn't sound at all like a guy who'd 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.520 crack your head open. That's the leader of the Long Showman. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.360 That's Harold Jay Daggett, the leader of the union. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.840 Yes, but that's the leader of the union. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.520 That's not just some rank and file guys don't give 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:22.560 a us about us. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.280 That's the guy in charge. 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:26.760 Yeah, he's not just a guy who will break open 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:27.640 the head of a scab. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.080 He ses the head of the union. 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:29.399 Yeah. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.280 I realize I risk getting my teeth kicked in by 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:34.800 saying this, But so often when I hear from the 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:39.039 big unions, I think you sound like thugs. You sound 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.680 like people that have gotten your way for so long, 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.640 and you're so entitled, you feel like you deserve a 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.680 way better deal than anybody else in America gets for 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:49.440 their jobs. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.360 And you're willing to have leverage and you're willing to 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:53.120 be violent for it. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.960 And oh, by the way, regularly these big unions, it 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.320 turns out the people at the top are crooks. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:01:59.200 Happens all the time. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.520 Not saying that this guy is, but it happens all 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.720 the time with the United Auto Workers, for instance. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:10.840 Well, here's say headline from Yahu News, no notable conservative 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.720 outlet Harold Daggett, how union leader who fought mob tie 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.560 allegations is holding the US economy for ransom. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.040 Shocking. I think we would be buried the leading case. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.359 You're not paying attention and Only Fox is really covering 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.760 this story. The longshoreman went on strike last night, forty 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.200 five thousand members of this and it's going to cost 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.600 the economy about five billion dollars a day, which is 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.720 not a ton in our economy. But the whole supply 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.600 chain thing could get out of whack really really fast, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.960 and then it would be a full on political issue. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:47.320 Port employers, pressed by Biden administration officials to resolve the impass, 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.799 raised their offer on wages to a fifty percent increase 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.520 over six years from an earlier forty percent increase, along 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.960 with other improvements and benefits, in the twenty four hours 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:01.240 before the strike deadline that was rejected. The International long 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:05.360 Shorman's Association is seeking a seventy seven percent wage increase 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:09.080 over six years as a condition to sit down to talks. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.760 You come up with seventy seven percent or we're not 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.480 even discussing anything. Well, you think you're gonna get any 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.840 sympathy from the average person out there who has taken 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:23.560 a fifteen to thirty percent cut depending on your lifestyle 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.560 because of inflation, and they're wanting They're not even gonna 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.560 sit down unless they get a seventy someeven percent increase. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.480 The main sticking issue is they're saying, no automation. You 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.120 get to rule out the idea of any automation. I 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.760 don't care about AI or robots or anything like that. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:44.240 That's insane, that's absolutely insane. That's just that's never gonna happen. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.400 You can't compete as a country against the rest of 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.160 the world if you're gonna still unload trucks by hand 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.800 when everybody else is doing it automatically, much faster, much cheaper. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.200 So yesterday Joe Biden was asked, mister President, will you 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.240 intervene in the dock workers strike if they go on 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.640 strike on Tuesday, which they did at midnight last night. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:03.680 No, said the ancient president. 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.800 Why not because there's no because there's collective bargaining and 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.640 I don't believe in taft Hartly. The response to that, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.800 by one of my favorite journalists was the irony here 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.520 is at nuclear levels. Biden, who has tried in a 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:21.080 multitude of ways to illegally use executive power to get 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.680 what he wants, refuses to invoke executive authority where he 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.720 has the statutory right to do so. Taft hardly gives 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.080 the President of the United States in a situation where 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.400 it's going to harm the economy in a general way 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.040 or national security. He can jump in, jump into these 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.720 big strikes and say you got to stay at work 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.200 while we're working out the deal. He has the right 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.479 to do that. But in this case, unlike some stuff 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.960 around the immigration or canceling student loans or a number 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.520 of other things he's been willing to do illegally, he 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.000 has the legal right and is saying no. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.520 Interesting, Oh yeah, I can't wait for him to be gone. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:01.400 Coming up later, what do immigrants do for government budgets? 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.240 New research has answers. We promised, Yes, we promised that yesterday. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.520 We didn't get to it. I apologized. We'll squeeze it 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:09.320 in this hour. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.839 This is interesting and not terribly shocking. Well, I guess 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.400 when you get down to the granular details, it is 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.000 fairly shocking. But Americans are more reliant than ever on 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:24.680 government aid. An aging population, economic distress, raised dependence on 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.840 federal and state support, and it matters a hell of 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.520 a lot for our elections. As you might guess. Wall 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.000 Street Journal looking into a major study. This is a 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.839 little graphics heavy, but I can interpret it for you. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:44.480 They're talking about the share of personal income from government assistance. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.120 How in how many counties is it twenty five percent 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:54.680 or more? In nineteen seventy, government safety net money accounted 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:55.760 for significant income. 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.120 That's more than twenty five percent. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.960 Twenty five percent or more in fewer the one percent 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.680 of America's counties. So say that again, in what year 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:08.039 In nineteen seventy it was less than one percent? Okay, okay, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:13.160 In two thousand it went from less than one percent 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.040 to roughly ten percent. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.160 That's the year two than ten percent, which a tenfold 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:20.239 increase is not minor. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.240 In the year twenty twenty two, fifty three percent, more 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.279 than half of US counties drew at least a quarter 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.000 of their income from government eight. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.960 So this is we were talking about this last week, 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.640 and now that it's the average person in the bottom quintile. 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.080 I know this is a lot of complicated talking, but 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:45.360 the bottom twenty percent of income earners in America get 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:50.480 on average sixty eight thousand dollars per household of transfer payments. 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.520 And that's left out of every argument about we have 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.520 the highest inequality of any nation in the world. They 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.760 never include this stuff. And what you just talked about there, 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:07.120 that's never included in these conversations from Bernie Sanders or 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.120 probably Tim Walls tonight in the debate. People live in 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.840 paycheck to paycheck. Well, more people are getting the handouts 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.400 from the government than ever before by a lot. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.800 And as we've discussed with Craig the healthcare Guru, socialism 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:26.000 is not a light switch. It's a a fungus oh 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.960 that spreads across a country and it's programmed, crafts benefits 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:31.560 and yeah, yeah, sure. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.960 It starts getting across. There's just no stopping it. Yeah. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.440 So the big reasons for this dramatic growth are interesting. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.480 Some of them I think most conservatives would reject out 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.320 of hand. But it gets a little complicated when you 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.720 dig into it. There are much larger share of Americans 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.000 who are seniors. Period, We're living longer, and we've aged 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.080 as a population, We're not having kids anymore. And healthcare 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:59.120 raw sorry, healthcare costs have risen fairly dramatically. 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.679 As they've gotten or fantastic. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.840 The technology we have at our disposal to keep ourselves 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.720 healthy and alive is truly awe inspiring, but it costs. 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.440 Yeah, And as my doctor said last week, what exactly 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:13.080 is the point? 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.400 Sometimes he wonders. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.400 Well as we just get you know, our brains don't work, 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.800 our bodies don't work, but we hang around longer at 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:22.960 a great expense. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.239 Right, Well, it could be the money is the point 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:30.840 in at least some situations, although it's I understand it's 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.800 an odd conundrum that a person could sit around rubbing 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.760 their chin thinking about for a long time. You're not 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:41.760 going to turn down medical advances, Nope, because it's every 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.280 advance is an incremental step. It can lead toward other 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.600 advances or cures or what have you. But at the 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.080 same time you and your doctor are quite right, Hey, 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:56.680 good news. We can keep alzheimer suffering Granny alive for 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.720 one more year. We can stave off or cancer with 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.760 this new gene therapy. Blah blah blah. What are we 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.640 doing here anyway? To get back to the major threat 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:12.080 of the thing rouni here. At the same time, many communities, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.360 so it's the aging and the development of medical technology 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.160 number one. At the same time, many communities have suffered 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.920 from economic declient because of the challenges, including the loss 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.440 of manufacturing, leaving government money. Is the larger share of 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.440 people's income in such places. I you know, I could 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.040 bore you to death. I won't because I do this 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.480 for a living and kind of enjoy getting the paycheck. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:39.360 But one of the big debates in conservative circles these 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:45.880 days is the question of the reagan esque free trade 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:52.760 global economy conservatives versus what's being called the new conservatism 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:58.640 or whatever you want to call it. And everybody's always 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.680 government conservatism. People call it, yeah, industrial planning, you know. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.160 Sometimes people even call it central planning, what have you, 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.760 And are bellowing at each other about it as if 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.120 the solutions and the questions and answers are very simple. 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:12.800 They're not at all. 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.280 They're trillions of dollars at stake. So I understand why 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.599 the people making lots and lots of money want to 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.920 keep that money flowing. They don't care how much unemployment 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:26.959 there is in rural Pennsylvania, for instance. At the same time, 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:28.520 oh oh, and the other point I was going to 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.360 make the side of the new. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:32.520 Conservatives. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:39.400 Back in Reagan's day, we didn't have the situation where 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.280 our chief global adversary is our one of our chief 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:47.360 trading partners, technology partners, and practically indispensable to the world economy. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.440 So if you are pitching free global trade of a 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:57.959 reaganesque sort. You are pitching continued interaction slash dependence with China, 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:03.000 which is just a idea. Times have changed, the arguments 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.680 have to change too, So I have sympathy with both sides, 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.280 but it is not simple getting back. I'm sorry, it's 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.680 tangent after tangent. 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Another major government health program, Medicaid. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:45.000 Is counted. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.160 The analysis also includes unemployment insurance, food stamps, the Earned 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:53.120 Income Tax Credit, veterans benefits, PELL grants, COVID era payments, 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.160 and other income supports. States help pay for some of 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.480 these programs, like Medicaid, but the federal government covers the 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.360 roughly seventy seventy percent of the cost, and it doesn't 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.520 include other ways government spending floods into corners of America, 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:12.080 such as farm subsidies or military bases. So this spending 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.880 accounts for big and growing share of not only the 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.040 income of the nation, but also our national debt. We 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:23.720 are addicted to government spending slash social programs as a country. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.600 There's there's no weaning off that either. I don't believe 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.199 in no backwards. I don't think it's possible. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.240 No, but you do have to be honest about the 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.199 dollars and cents coming and going, and we're headed for 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:32.640 a cliff. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.080 So we went from one percent nineteen seventy to over 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.040 half now correct. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.120 That's unbelievable. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.360 Not very many people could tell you that, and it 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.040 won't be a topic tonight in the debate either. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:14:01.080 Stay with us. You're like a rare at the live 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:02.360 the thing a lap. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.000 He made bull the dugout Davy can supt beyond Pollock, 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.040 blub way by Pitcher dug the pilla. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.880 Wait a second, So Pete Rose baseball player, greatest hitter 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.520 of all time, all time leader in a whole bunch 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:27.320 of things, hits at bats, doubles, just all kinds of stuff. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.840 But why did that clip from nineteen seventy eight sound 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.040 like it was from nineteen thirty nine. I was alive 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.520 in nineteen seventy eight. That's not what audio sounded like 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:36.800 in nineteen seventy eight. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:41.160 It sounds like he was recorded off of a transistor radio. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.440 Or they went out of their way to make it 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.960 sound old timy. It doesn't need to sound like that. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.200 Things sounded much like they do now in nineteen seventy eight. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:52.200 But oh, so this thing. So Pete Rose died yesterday. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.640 He got banned from baseball. If you know this at all, 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.800 you know this. He was the biggest star in the sport. 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.360 Then he got banned for gambling. When he became a manager, 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.120 never bet against his team. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.320 He claims. He always bet for his team because if. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.400 You're better how he lied about everything all the time, 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:06.920 so it's difficult to say. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.080 And he never admitted it, but I guess he finally 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.400 did admit it at one point to Charlie Gibson, and 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.080 I don't remember this because I didn't care. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.960 Here we go, you're now saying for the first time publicly, yes, 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.320 I bet on baseball. I've bet on baseball in nineteen 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.680 eighty seven, in nineteen eighty eight, did you bet on 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.360 your own team? 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:29.680 Yes? 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:33.640 Did you ever believe in my team? 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.080 I mean I knew my team. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.520 Did you ever bet against your No, No, that would 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.400 be uh, that'd be the last thing I'd ever even 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:44.240 even consider. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:45.920 I believe that. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.600 I believe that too. I think he's too competitive. Yes, 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.400 he was competitive to the point of mental illness. And 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.400 I just there's no way he would bet against him 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:55.040 or his team. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.440 He was one of the most driven human beings who's 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.920 ever played sports, and everybody's driven in sports. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.600 Yeah, and he was the manager of the team at 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.800 the time, player manager for a while then just manager. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.640 And there's no way he's going to bet against himself. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.840 He's just not that kind of person. Yeah, But uh, 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.480 he was trying to get back into the good graces 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.360 of baseball when he admitted it, right, so he could 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:14.800 be in the Hall of Fame while he was alive. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.840 And yeah, he was trying to meet him halfway, you know, 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.720 confess his sins and get some measure of forgiveness. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.760 Also interesting that he was a giant star back at 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.480 a time when you made good money. 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.160 But not insane money. So he needed money. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.040 Yeah, whereas you know, you're that level of star now 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.800 and you're so incredibly wealthy, he wouldn't. Okay, kick me 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:39.160 out of the Hall of Fame or whatever. I'm worth 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:43.560 a half a billion dollars. Yeah, you do one significant contract. Yeah, 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.200 you're you're set for life and sorry your kids plus endorsement. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:50.200 That whole world has changed so much. Yeah, yeah, he had. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.600 He had an odd haircut throughout most of his career too. 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.320 He had a haircut of like a bowl haircut, the 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:01.280 Prince Valiant. Yeah, Chris Jenner, right right, Well you get 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:07.200 at least Pete's stated, dude. Anyway, Hey, hey, I fight 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.960 for team dude. All right. I love women, I treasure women, 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:11.119 but I'm on team dude. 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.639 That's your expert support analysis at least, he stated. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:15.080 Dude. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.639 Well, you hate it when one of your best dudes 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.320 changes teams, you know. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.120 So we'll get to a little bit later this hour. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:27.560 There's more info coming out. US officials say they have 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:32.119 knowledge of an imminent attack Iran is planning on Israel 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.800 ballistic missiles. The latest is that it's going to be 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.840 similar to what happened back in April that was a 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.920 big attack that it took an awful lot of technology 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.159 in different countries to work together to thwart. So this 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.080 could be happening, Well, it means, immin it could be happening. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.280 You need to and I'm anxious to hear what Mike 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.000 has to say about what Israel is going to do 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.320 next with Hesbelan how much this means to the region. 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.520 Quick look back at baseball. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.919 Was just made aware of a me that's going around 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.119 showing Pete Rose and then show Hey Otani the memes 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.040 saying Pete Rose should have had an interpreter. 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:11.000 Ah, you don't think that wasn't me? 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:12.720 And that was my interpreter over there. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:14.520 You don't think show Hayes Betten, do you? I don't 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.040 think he is, probably not. That's pretty funny joke. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:22.639 Though, Armstrong and Geeddy. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.960 So if you're into following hotspots around the world and 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.200 knowing what's going on on a moment by moment basis, 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:33.440 one of the best sites out there is osint defender. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.199 That's open source intelligence, which is followed by lots of 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.399 smart people Barrywise, Tim Sandifer and Mike Lyons who were 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:41.879 about to talk to and this is. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.639 What they say about today's news. 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:48.120 US officials have stated that the Iranian attack against Israel 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.680 will most likely begin in the next twelve to twenty 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:56.040 four hours, involving hundreds of long rage ballistic missiles, as 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.240 well as drones and cruise missiles launched against both military 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.119 and intelligence to targets. Great Scott, sounds like quite an attack. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.080 Let's discuss that and other developments in the region. We 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.040 seeing a military analyst, Mike Lyons who joins US now. Mike, 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:10.720 how are you, sir? 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:12.920 Hey, Monny, guys, great to be back. 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.520 First of all, what's your reaction to those headlines? 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.520 I'm going to be a little cynical here, and this 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.919 is sounding like an Israeli id FOP. Why would the 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:29.040 White House announce this? Why I'm not following this on 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.360 some level, Why would the Why would they come out 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.440 and say the level of attack is going to be that? 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:36.800 Why? 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.200 I just don't understand it. It's almost to the point 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:43.119 are they trying to Maybe they're prepping forces there, but 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.160 this is something that they should be somewhat silent about. 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:51.000 Is this a back channel to Iran? We you know, 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:52.760 the senior wide of official. I'm looking at the Water 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.560 Journal article says, a direct military attack from Rand against 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.200 Israel Carrie severe consequences for a rant. So I think 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:02.240 that's what that's that's what this is. It's it's that 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:06.439 level of messaging. And now we're now hit deep in it. 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.679 If we know this is going on, if this is 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.040 what's what's happening here, this is what We're past the 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:15.520 point of something that we're able to get out of 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.040 here peacefully. This is not good on a lot of 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.840 different levels. And I'm just really concerned that the United 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:24.040 States decided to make this statement here. It might be true, 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.320 it might not be true, but why the United States 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.120 would put this out to me, seems like something that 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:33.119 Israel would wanted us to do, and I'm just not 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:33.640 getting it. 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:38.200 Well, it certainly runs if if what you're saying is correct. 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:40.720 It certainly runs counter to the things Joe Biden and 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:42.840 the Secretary of State have been saying out loud, which 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.280 is all about ceasfire, ceasefires, ceasefire. 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:46.360 Israel don't go. 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.240 In, yeah, I mean, they can't get off a plane 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:50.960 fast enough in the Middle East. And the first thing 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.200 that Anthony Lincoln says is we want to cease fire, 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.600 and we want we want to de escalate situations. This 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:00.280 comment is basically now an active war saying if you 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:02.399 attack Israel, We're going to do something back at you. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:07.359 So again the whift song back and forth that the 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:11.919 administration has has been somewhat troubling to begin with. It 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.760 just goes back to there's not a consistency within this messaging. 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.879