1 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: We're going to honor the fallen tonight. We have a 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:08,799 Speaker 1: gigantic announcement to make tonight and a little bit of 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: breaking news, a little bit of journalism on this show. 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: This GOP amnesty deal. We've found out who's behind it. Oh, 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: that's coming up, and I'm right, all right, we have 6 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: to do something that's difficult. We do it a lot 7 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: on the show, but sadly it happens a lot. We 8 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: have to honor the fallen. As you know, as you've 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: probably heard by now, we have three US service members 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 1: killed in Jordan. It was up near the Syrian border. 11 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: All the details of it. Look, it's muddy right now, 12 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: and it's going to be muddy. I'm sure there are 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: a lot of reasons behind this. But look, let's keep 14 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: in mind, this is not politics. Those are people, Those 15 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: are husbands, fathers. People need prayer right now because they're 16 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: getting the knock at the door. Every military spouse, child 17 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: dreads the knock you pray never comes. So keep those 18 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: families in your prayers, please. And that leads me to 19 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: the people who run this country. I've tried to explain 20 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: something before, I'm gonna try to explain it again because 21 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: this is something really hard to really digest about where 22 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: we are as a nation. The people who run this country, 23 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: and it's not unique to a president or a senator, 24 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: or a professor or a medium mogul or what. The 25 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: people who run our institutions. They are so different from 26 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: you morally. They are so different on the inside. And 27 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: I've used this example before. It's gonna sound weird, but 28 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: I want you to picture if I could dissect you, 29 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: and I could actually look at your soul right You're 30 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: a human being and you have a soul, and I 31 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 1: could open you up and look at it right with me. 32 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: If I could do that to you, and then I 33 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: could do that to them one of the people who 34 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: run the country, it would look like two different things. 35 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 1: Because these people are different than you on a deeply 36 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: visceral level. Your moral code, your values, They don't share 37 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: any of them. If anything, I wouldn't find a soul 38 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: inside of them. Three US service members just died. This 39 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: is the Press Secretary's statement, the Press Secretary of the 40 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: United States of America. 41 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 2: What I will say, our deepest, obviously, our deepest condolences 42 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 2: go out and our heartfelt condolences go out to the 43 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 2: families who lost three three brave, three brave, three brave 44 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 2: of three folks who are military, folks who are brave, 45 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 2: who are always fighting, who are fighting on behalf and 46 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 2: of this administration of the American people. Obviously, more so 47 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 2: more importantly, we lost those souls. 48 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: Fighting on behalf of this administration. I need to say 49 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 1: something again, and it's really really important that we understand 50 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,119 Speaker 1: just how evil and soulless these people are. When you 51 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: heard three service members died, you probably bowed your head 52 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: and prayed. Maybe you picked up your phone, texted a buddy, Hey, 53 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: do you see that. Maybe you talk to your husband, 54 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: your wife about it. But it stirred something in you. 55 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: It's sad, right, the people who run our country, they 56 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: don't feel any of that, none of it. It's not 57 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: in them. It's not in the middle everything. For these 58 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: dirty communists, everything is just about power, getting it, keeping it, 59 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: rewarding your friends, punishing your enemies. There is no good, bad, sad. 60 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: There's none of that inside of these people. The military, 61 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: by how could you give a statement so cold about 62 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: the military? She made it political. They're serving this administration. 63 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: How could you do that? Well? Again, they don't look 64 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: at the military like you or I look at the military. 65 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: To them, the military and everyone in it, they're just playthings. 66 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: They're just pawns to be used, and they don't want 67 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: to be inconvenienced by those pawns. They're just pawns speaking 68 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: of don't want to be inconvenience. Do I need to 69 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: remind you? Do I need to remind you with the 70 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: President of the United States of America did when he 71 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: and met the families of thirteen dead troops coming back 72 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: from Afghanistan. People, this picture is famous, and the video 73 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 1: of all this stuff is famous, but there's a reason 74 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 1: behind this. 75 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 3: Sergeant Nicole g who was one of the two female 76 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 3: Marines who were killed among the thirteen. She was the 77 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,359 Speaker 3: one who posted that Instagram post holding the baby saying 78 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 3: I love my job just a few days ago. 79 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: Why would you do that? You know, Joe Biden, to 80 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: give him credit, his brain is so rotted out with 81 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: dementia that he's not good as good as he used 82 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: to be at hiding what he really feels. Why would 83 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: you go meet these families, these grieving families, your daughter, 84 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: your baby girl, your son. He's laying there in a 85 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: coffin and you're sitting there checking your watch cut someplace 86 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: to be. Remember, they testified all of them that he 87 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: did it repeatedly. It wasn't a one off. It was 88 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: over and over again. Oh my gosh, how much longer? Oh? 89 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: But why would you do that again? If you could 90 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: open him up and look at his soul, you wouldn't 91 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: even recognize that as human. Why would you check his watch? Oh? 92 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: Why does he have to be inconvenienced by these dead troops? 93 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 1: Dead troops are just something for him to use. He 94 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 1: doesn't want to be there. He's board, it's hot out. 95 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,840 Speaker 1: I want to go get some ice cream again. What's 96 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: inside of these people? It's nothing like what's inside of you. 97 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: And that brings me to one final point here. There's 98 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: a state rep in Texas echoing what we are hearing 99 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: far too often in this country from the President on down. 100 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: His name's Jean Wu. But I don't want to single 101 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: out Gean Wu, who's just a moron. He said this quote, 102 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 1: it's all fun and games talking about Texas. It's all 103 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 1: fun and games until someone eats a drone fired hell 104 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: fire missile. This comes on the heels of Joe Biden 105 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: once again, and he loves this line. He repeats this 106 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: line a lot many Democrats do. Comes on the heels 107 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: of Joe Biden threatening the American people with air strikes. 108 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 4: I didn't see a whole lot of patriots that out 109 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 4: there walking around making sure that we have these weapons. Well, 110 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,679 Speaker 4: and if you really want to worry about the government, 111 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 4: you need to f sixteen. 112 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: These people. Why do you think they all talk about 113 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: this now? Eric swaalwell, huh, you got nukes. We got nukes. 114 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: Geen wu oh, I'll send a hell fire missile President 115 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: of the United States of America. You gotta have sixteen's 116 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: I do. Why has this become a mainstream Democrat talking point? 117 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: Because they think about it and behind closed doors they 118 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: talk about it. And boy is that pretty revealing, isn't it? 119 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: Sit there and digest what it means that now Democrats 120 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: top to bottom, behind closed doors, talk about that military 121 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: sending it after you. All that may have made you uncomfortable. 122 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: I hope it did, But I am right. We have 123 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: so much to get to. And speaking of the military, 124 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: all kinds of senators out there now, Lindsey Graham, John Cornyn, 125 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: Republican Democrat, all of them, it's time to Winvadey Ron. Okay, 126 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: so let's set aside all emotion. Let's talk about the 127 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 1: United States military. Are we ready? Globes going crazy? Are 128 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: we ready? Let's find out. Let's talk to some experts 129 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: about that next. Before we talk to them, let's keep 130 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: in mind that these soulless people, they're also the ones 131 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:50,839 Speaker 1: running the monetary system. They're the ones printing money, spending money. 132 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: They do. I need to remind you the most powerful 133 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, just recently gave a 134 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: speech where he braged to the people that they didn't 135 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: have to cut a single penny from the federal budget. 136 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: He bragged about it. Do you have gold and silver yet? 137 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: You really need to act as if they're attacking the money, 138 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: because they are. Call Oxford Gold Group and let them 139 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 1: get you some financial security that these evil people can't touch. 140 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: They'll mail it to your front door. It's easy, it's 141 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: fully insured. It's not gold bars. You don't need a 142 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 1: bank vault. Everyone needs some physical gold or silver. They 143 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 1: can't do it unless you call them eight three three 144 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: nine five gold call them. Okay, we'll be back. Are 145 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: we ready for war? Big one? Maybe a two front war, 146 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 1: a small one? What is the status of our military? 147 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: We love to point towards and we'd love to be 148 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: proud of it. I'm proud of it, but what is reality? 149 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: The reality I hear from people on the inside is 150 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: different than what we want to hear. So we thought 151 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: it'd probably be a good idea to bring in the experts. 152 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: Heritage Foundations wonderful. They always do this US Military Index, 153 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: a military strength index. Essentially, they look at the military 154 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: and they say, are we ready? We're not ready? What's weak? 155 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: What's strong? Joining me now? Lieutenant Colonel Dakota Wood, Senior 156 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation, also marine Robert Greenway, director of 157 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: Center for National Defense, Heritage Foundation, green beret, So I 158 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 1: think these guys probably know a little bit about what 159 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: they're talking about. Robert, let's go with you first. What 160 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: goes into this? What are you basing the strength strengths weaknesses? 161 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: What are you basing it off? 162 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 5: Of all available public information? And for the last ten years, 163 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 5: Dakota and a team here at Heritage with other partners, 164 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 5: have created a report Guard that evaluates the operating environment, 165 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 5: the threatstore Now no interests in our military and our 166 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 5: partners and allies ability to address and meet those threats. 167 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 5: And for the last ten years it's been a decade 168 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 5: of decline. And we've annotated this exhaustively and comprehensively to 169 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 5: show that unless we address and er and arrest this trend, 170 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 5: that we're not going to be sufficiently capable of addressing 171 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 5: the threats notably from the People's Republic of China, but 172 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 5: also Russia, Iran, Venezuela and others that threaten to spoil 173 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 5: and counter our interests. 174 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: Colonel, as much as it pains me to say having 175 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: an air force is critically important these days, having a 176 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 1: good one is very very important these days. And I 177 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: could my eyesbot popped out of my skull and you 178 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: called ours, well, our state of readiness very weak? Why 179 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 1: we see all these fancy planes and missiles and why 180 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 1: are we very weak? Yeah, Well, our colleague JB. 181 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 6: Venable wrote that section A career F sixteen pilot an 182 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 6: amazing number of hours knows exactly what he's talking about. 183 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 6: He compares flying hours during the Cold War, where the 184 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 6: average pilot will be well in excess of two hundred hours, 185 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 6: maybe even three hundred hours a year, and looking at 186 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 6: the averages for pilots today, which is fewer than one 187 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 6: hundred and thirty hours. I mean, this is the level 188 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 6: of flying that we made fun of the Soviets for 189 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 6: during the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties. The average age 190 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 6: of an air force fighter is thirty years old. I mean, 191 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 6: the planes are older than the pilots buying them. So 192 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 6: you don't have enough pilots, you don't have enough aircraft. 193 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 6: The aircraft we have are very old, and the pilots 194 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 6: who are in those airplanes are flying perhaps half of 195 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 6: what they did the last time we went up against 196 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 6: a peer competitor on a global scale. 197 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:43,719 Speaker 1: So when you look at all those numbers. 198 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 6: Old planes, not enough people, not enough equipment, and not 199 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 6: flying very much at all, we could only conclude that 200 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 6: the air Force is very weak as a war fighting organization. 201 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: Robert, you hear the colonel talk about these things, and 202 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: it sounds as if we were a poor country. It 203 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: sounds like we're Yemen try to get some planes in 204 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: the sky. Our military budget is staggering. We don't have what. 205 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: We don't have the money, we don't have the gas 206 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: wearing not up there more. 207 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 5: Well, in Yeman's defense, they have external corporate sponsorship in 208 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 5: the form of Iran. But your points well taken. We 209 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 5: are not a poor country. We are not spending a 210 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:21,199 Speaker 5: small amount in but what we are doing is getting 211 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 5: less return out of that investment for a number of 212 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 5: different reasons. One inflation is really extracting a lot of 213 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 5: our buying power. The budget process and continuing resolutions prevents 214 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 5: us from making long term strategic investments. And let's be honest, 215 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 5: there's waste within the Department on programs and activities that 216 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 5: frankly don't yield us some more capable armed forces. And 217 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 5: so all things considered, we can make better use of 218 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 5: the funding that we have to get a more capable military. 219 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 5: And I don't think that surprises anyone. 220 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: Okay, colonel, let's go to what is Honestly, this really 221 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: breaks my heart, but our Navy. I love making fun 222 00:13:58,080 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: of the Navy. But if you only had to pick 223 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 1: one branch, probably to secure this nation of ours, it 224 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: would probably be the Navy, if you had to pick one, 225 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: and they're not doing well either. How's that possible? 226 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 6: Well, here you're talking to a colonel special fort I 227 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 6: mean a career Special Forces officer, and Robert myself in 228 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 6: the Marine Corps. Everybody likes to take shots of the Navy, 229 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:18,959 Speaker 6: but you are a Navy counterpart. We look at the 230 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 6: numbers of ships, almost six hundred ships during. 231 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: The Cold War. 232 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 6: Today's Navy is at two hundred and ninety two. We 233 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 6: perhaps keep a third of them out, so roughly ninety 234 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 6: to one hundred of those ships the same level of 235 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 6: presence we did during the Cold War with twice the Navy. 236 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 6: So the only way you can do that is to 237 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 6: work the ships in their crews twice as much as 238 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 6: you did in the past. We have maintenance backlogs because 239 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 6: our shipyards are anywhere from one hundred and fifty to 240 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 6: two hundred and thirty years old. You don't have the 241 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 6: same parts supply trained shipyard workers, and a lot of 242 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 6: these ships that deploy, it is not uncommon for them 243 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 6: to be undermanned by fifteen percent. And the Navy just 244 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 6: lowered its fruiting standards to take what are called Category 245 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 6: four individuals, those that would test in at the lowest 246 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 6: level of the various qualification exams to join the military service. 247 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 6: So again it's a Navy that's too small. Over half 248 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 6: the ships are greater than twenty years old. It's working 249 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 6: at ships and crews twice as much as it did 250 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 6: in the past, and having a really hard time recruiting 251 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 6: people to join the service. 252 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: Robert, can you speak to the service members who were 253 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: just built Obviously our prayers for their families. A lot 254 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: of people are confused about the circumstances. Why do we 255 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: even have people in Jordan, Why are they up by Syria? 256 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: Why are we being attacked, Who's doing the attacking? What's 257 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: going on? 258 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 5: Well, look, you're right, those of us that serve know 259 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 5: all too well the costs associated with it, and so 260 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 5: we're all tremendously sympathetic to those that just lost a 261 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 5: family member and a loved one, those that are mourning 262 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 5: those that lost, and those that are dealing with a 263 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 5: family member that now is wounded in requiring medical evacuation. 264 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 5: But look, this was predictable. This was in many ways inevitable. 265 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 5: We had experience going into this attack, one hundred and 266 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 5: fifty across the region just since October. It was only 267 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 5: a matter of time, and provided the administration continues to 268 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 5: appease Iran and not impose costs on the people responsible 269 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 5: for these attacks, it's likely to continue. To your question 270 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 5: on why are we there, we are at this garrison 271 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 5: and at this life support facility on the Jordanias Syrian 272 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 5: border to do two things. One is to continue the 273 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 5: prosecution of the effort against Isis. The second is we 274 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 5: sit astride the major line of communication the Iranians are 275 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 5: using to resupply all their surrogates and proxies from Tehran 276 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 5: all the way to Bairut Lebanon, and that threatens Israel, 277 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 5: and it also threatens the US and all of our 278 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 5: partners and allies. Absent that critical position, we would be 279 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 5: unable to do so. But either way, if you feel 280 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 5: we should stay or go, we have to impose costs 281 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 5: on those days just killed our service members and wounded 282 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 5: several dozen others. And that price, that cost has to 283 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,120 Speaker 5: be borne by those responsible. And that's not a militia 284 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 5: group in the middle of the desert. That's Iran who 285 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 5: provided the training, equipment, the expertise, and the drone in 286 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 5: this case. 287 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: All right, I can't let either of you go without 288 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 1: asking the colonel about the Marine Corps rating because I 289 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: noticed the Marine Corps ain't doing too shabby out there. 290 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: Why that's parochial. 291 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 6: Now, we looked at service focus, right, So I did 292 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,360 Speaker 6: say in that section that the Marine Corps is too small. 293 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 6: It says it's only a one war force. I get 294 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 6: that they don't plan to change, but even doing what 295 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 6: they intend to do in a very distributed operations environment, 296 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 6: you have to expect casualties. You have to put a 297 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 6: lot of small teams out in the battle space, and 298 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 6: they just need more people. But where they're really strong 299 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 6: is an almost completely modernized air arm They're introducing very 300 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 6: advanced modern weapons, whether it's anti air or anti ship. 301 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 6: They have focused all of their concepts, development and testing 302 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 6: and evaluation to incorporate drones and other man's systems. So 303 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 6: they're very serious and they're making very rapid progress and 304 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 6: adapting the service to the. 305 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: Modern combat environment. 306 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 6: I mean drawing lessons from Ukraine, the Middle East and elsewhere, 307 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,719 Speaker 6: returning to their sea based routes. So they seem to 308 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 6: be have a good head of esteam, heading in the 309 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 6: direct direction and unafraid to make these changes, where in 310 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 6: the other services it's one delayed program after another. They're 311 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 6: very very short people, and they seem kind of unfocused 312 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 6: in many ways. I mean, the Air Force is spending 313 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 6: more on research and development to have capabilities in twenty 314 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 6: thirty than they are on buying modern combat aircraft coming 315 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 6: off the assembly line today. So if your pilots aren't flying, 316 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 6: you're not getting modern aircraft replace old stuff. But you're 317 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 6: making bets on the future and twenty thirty five, you 318 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 6: know where are their So it had to do with 319 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 6: a focus and priorities issue in the Marine Corps. 320 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: Gentlemen, Thank you both. I appreciate you very much, simplified. 321 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna talk about our southern border. Look, 322 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: that's eye opening stuff when it comes to the military, 323 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: isn't it. Because it's a source of pride for us. 324 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: It is for me. If it's rotting out from underneath us. 325 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: We need to understand. We need to know why, We 326 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 1: need to know what's going on. Look, what are we 327 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: gonna do? All right, before we get to the border, 328 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: let's do this. Let's get you out of your timeshare. 329 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: I know you don't want to be there anymore. You 330 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: want out. I know the annual fees of double special assessments. 331 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: You probably can't even get in anymore, can you. They're 332 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: all famous for that. Now I'm sorry, I call next 333 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: year and you want out, holl loan start transfer. I 334 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: know that you've been lied to. I know they've told 335 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: you you're not allowed out. Sorry, you have to pay 336 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,400 Speaker 1: for life. Sorry. I know what they've told you. I've 337 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: heard this over and over and over and over and 338 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 1: over again. Loans Start Transfer will legally and permanently get 339 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:07,640 Speaker 1: you out. They guarantee it in writing. They even give 340 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 1: you a specific time frame. This is a family business. 341 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: They have an A plus rating for the Better Business 342 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: Bureau for a reason. They can't help you unless you 343 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:22,360 Speaker 1: call them. Eight four four three one zero two six 344 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: four six. All right, we'll be back. All right, let's 345 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:39,239 Speaker 1: have a talk. And might be hard to hear. I 346 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 1: think that we all need that a lot, right, I 347 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: know I personally need it in my own life a lot. 348 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: I need talks. I need to hear the truth. The 349 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 1: truth is hard to digest, So let's just have it out, 350 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: all right. The border things a big old mess. Supreme Court, 351 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: the federal government fighting with Texas, Texas putting up more 352 00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: razor why are this border patrol? 353 00:20:59,640 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 4: This? 354 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,679 Speaker 1: This border patrol that, and it's really really bad. Federal 355 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,120 Speaker 1: government has opened up the southern border. They have done 356 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: this on purpose. Remember that didn't screw it up. It's 357 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,360 Speaker 1: a central part of the communist plan to collapse America 358 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: flood the country with illegals. This is the Cloward pivot strategy. 359 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 1: It's been around since the sixties. They're just perfecting it now, 360 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,879 Speaker 1: all right. So they need the border open, Texas needs 361 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: the border close. That we cannot withstand this without end 362 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,719 Speaker 1: all right. So there's a big fight. And now that 363 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: there's a conflict, kind of an argument between the federal 364 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: government one of the states. A lot of people are 365 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: talking about civil war this and civil war that is 366 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: not going to be a civil war? What is this 367 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 1: going to turn into a civil war? 368 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 2: I mean, you've got the Texas rights versus federal rights, both. 369 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 5: Sides with guns, and we believe constitutionally we are right. 370 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: We have a right to defend our citizens. We have 371 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: a right to defend this country. All right, civil war? 372 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: I heard that a lot civil wars are going to 373 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: be a civil war. Let's before we start talking about 374 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: anything as horrible, unspeakably horrible as a civil war. I 375 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: feel like we need to dig into something. I feel 376 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: like we need to dig into the traders on our 377 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: own side is we need to get them out. So 378 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 1: how do these people get into office James Langford is 379 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: out there right now trying to negotiate a bill that 380 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: would allow millions more illegals in before anybody even deports anybody. Again, 381 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,959 Speaker 1: Senator naked Kendall, you can put it up again, producer. 382 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 1: This is a picture of James Langford. A lot of 383 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 1: people don't realize this is actually what he looks like. 384 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: Is see that's Senator Langford right there, and he's negotiating 385 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: with Democrats as we speak, to amnesty a bunch of 386 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: illegals and to prevent the United States of America from 387 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: deporting people until one point eight million more coming in. 388 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: So it's crazy, right, it's crazy, and he's out there 389 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: trying to make up excuse at all. It's just because 390 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 1: there's an election here why people don't like it. 391 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 7: It is interesting Republicans four months ago would not give 392 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 7: funding for Ukraine, for Israel, and for our southern border 393 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 7: because we demanded changes in policy. So we actually locked 394 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 7: arms together and said we're not going to give you 395 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 7: money for this. 396 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: We want to change in law. 397 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 7: And now it's interesting a few months later, when we're 398 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 7: finaling it at the end, they're like, oh, just kidding, 399 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 7: I actually don't want to change in law because the 400 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 7: presidential election year. 401 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: You know, So, how did we end up with a 402 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: senator like this? There has to be a story behind this, right, 403 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: and the other senators with him, I mean the Mitch 404 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: McConnell's and Seohn Cornin's and the Mitt Romney's. How are 405 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: these guys betraying us all the time? There has to 406 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 1: be there have to be some evil powers behind them. 407 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 1: Well we here on I'm right, we did some digging 408 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,919 Speaker 1: into this. You wanted to know how are these people 409 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: in power? How did we end up on our side 410 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: with these people who were knifing us in the back. 411 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: So look, you remember you remember James Langford back when 412 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: Saint George Floyd died. Do you remember when he went 413 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 1: to the television set and he started talking about how 414 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,919 Speaker 1: we needed to give in to the communist demands and 415 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:23,959 Speaker 1: start changing the name of military basis. You remember this. 416 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 8: We are also seeing now efforts to rename military bases 417 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 8: across the country. The Senate, the Senate Armed Service Committee 418 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 8: voted on that, and this week we've seen leading voices 419 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 8: like General David Petraea saying it's time to stop having 420 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 8: a military bases named after Confederate generals like Braxton Bragg. 421 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:42,360 Speaker 1: Is it time. 422 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 9: I do? Actually, I think the right way to be 423 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 9: able to do this is to be able to have 424 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 9: to study, to be able to look at where the 425 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 9: name come from. What do we need to have to 426 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 9: be able to take a serious look at it, and 427 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 9: then to be able to transition. There are lots of 428 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 9: great leaders, military leaders that are around the country that 429 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 9: are modern leaders that we can continue to be able 430 00:24:58,960 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 9: to honor. 431 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, now, the removing statues of Thomas Jefferson because Senator 432 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,919 Speaker 1: Naked Kendall decided to throw blood in the water for 433 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 1: the sharks. It was never about the Confederacy or anything 434 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 1: like that. It was just about destroying America's history. So 435 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: how does this guy stay in office? Well, like I said, 436 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: we did some digging into it and we found why 437 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: it's ugly. You're ready for this after that, after we've 438 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: been on television and did all that, he actually had 439 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 1: a primary in the h let me check my numbers again. Yeah, 440 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,919 Speaker 1: very red state of Oklahoma. He had a primary and 441 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 1: in red Oklahoma, James Langford got sixty four percent of 442 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 1: the primary vote. Wasn't even close. The GOP primary voter 443 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: in Red Oklahoma he's not in Maine. He's not in 444 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: New Hampshire. In Red Oklahoma, the GOP primary voter rand 445 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: the polls to vote Senator Naked Kendall back into office. 446 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 1: Oh don't think it's just YOUU Oklahoma. Who is the 447 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: power behind these men? Why can't we get them out 448 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: of office? I live in Red Texas. They always say that, right, 449 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: Red Texas. In fact, I see all these Texans out 450 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: there there, Come and take it. We've had enough with 451 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: standing up to you and then John Cornyn's doing Texans wrong. 452 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: But how is John Cornyn still in office from Red Texas? 453 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked? Is last primary? I have the 454 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: results right here. He got seventy six percent of the 455 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: GOP primary voters vote in Red Texas. Come and take it. 456 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 1: What's happening? There's a primary election? Go John? You see 457 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: I can keep going? Should I keep going? I think 458 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,679 Speaker 1: I will. Mitch McConnell, everyone, this is all Mitch McConnell's idea. 459 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: He's the one who told Senator Naked Kendall go get 460 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: a border deal, going, arrange a border deal. We need 461 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: to do this amnesty plan. We got to do it 462 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: for Trump's in office. And you're mad about that, right, 463 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: I'm mad about that. Gosh, Mitch McConnell sucks. How horrible 464 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: is that? Oh well, I found why he's in office. 465 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 1: He had a primary too, Just recently he had a 466 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,719 Speaker 1: primary two Let's see, this is twenty twenty uh eighty 467 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: two percent of the primary vote. Do you want me 468 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: to keep going? I can, I'll stop, but I could 469 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: talk about Mitt Romney's primary results in Utah, Tom Tillis 470 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 1: John Thune. Our most despicable GOP senators come from the 471 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: reddest states in the United States of America. And they 472 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:48,680 Speaker 1: come from those red states because GOP primary voters are 473 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: lazy and stupid. And I'm sick to death of it. 474 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: I'm sick to death of the GOP primary voter running 475 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: to the polls, voting for what's failed time in time again, 476 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: and then waking up one day and looking at the 477 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: news and seeing there's an amnesty be able, looking around 478 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,439 Speaker 1: saying what how did this happen? How did it happen? 479 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: You sat on your butt on primary day, That's how 480 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: it happened, or even worse, you ran out to the guy. 481 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 1: I see James Langford on the news. He's awesome heard 482 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: the Langford again. We'll vote for the R and we 483 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 1: look around wondering who did this to us? Grab a mirror, 484 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: that's who did this to us. I saw everyone's mad 485 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: about the ilhan Omar comments this weekend. Let's let's talk 486 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 1: about this real quick. 487 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 10: Welcome son. 488 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, how can we have somebody in there 489 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: who's loyal to another country? Well, the up primary voter 490 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: has this in common with the people who elected her. 491 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: They all get exactly what they deserve. I'm tired of 492 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:16,239 Speaker 1: the complaining. I'm tired of blaming these useless senators on 493 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: our side. We deserve representatives like iohan Omar. We do. 494 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: She's an accurate reflection of who we are. We deserve 495 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: senators like Senator Naked Kendall. We deserve them. We are 496 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: blessed to live in a country where, if we care enough, 497 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: we can get off our butts and go do something. 498 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: And we don't. Time and time again, we don't, and 499 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 1: then we look around one day a maybe Trump can 500 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: save us. Nothing nobody can save a people who don't 501 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 1: care enough to save themselves. Maybe that made you uncomfortable too, 502 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 1: but I am right. We have a new announcement. Great 503 00:29:53,920 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: announcement actually, and we'll give it to you next. All right, 504 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 1: we need something, We desperately need something. We need somebody 505 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: to track all the endless corrupt trials that are happening 506 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: in the United States of America, especially this year, because 507 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: this year is going to be unlike anything we've seen. 508 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: It's gonna be insane, awful, but insane. And how are 509 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: we supposed to keep straight on all that? I can't 510 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: help you. Josh Hammer can, though. My buddy Josh Hammer 511 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: has a new podcast launching today. It is titled well 512 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: Hold on America on Trial? Is it America on Trial 513 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: with Josh Hammer? Josh? Is it America on Trial with 514 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: Josh Hammer? Is it just America on Trial? Is my 515 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 1: face going to be anywhere on this thing? Tell me 516 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: about this podcast? 517 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 10: Jesse, great to join you as always. Yeah, I'm really 518 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 10: excited to launch this new show today. At the first 519 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 10: America on Trial. American Trial with Josh Hammer would be 520 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 10: the full title, but I think on Adam Spotify you 521 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 10: can find the at America on Trials. So we're going 522 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 10: to come to you every morning with short digestible twelve 523 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 10: to fifteen. On the shorter end fifteen to twenty men. 524 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 10: On the longer end episodes, we're going to go around 525 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 10: the Horn. That's what we're calling the opening seven, where 526 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 10: I'm going to go through all the various trials. We'll 527 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 10: go to Alvin Brad, We'll go to Fannie Willis, We'll 528 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 10: go to Jack Smith, We'll go to the Hunter Biden, 529 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 10: gun and tax charges, Donald Trump, the Fourteenth Amendment, ballot 530 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 10: access stuff, the civil lawsuit, would Tiss James, the Attorney 531 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 10: General in New York. There's just so much stuff. Egen Carroll, 532 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 10: the defamation lawsuit. It is a lot. There is a 533 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 10: lot going on right now, and there really is no 534 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 10: one show that is tracking it all for you, that 535 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 10: is telling you what you need to pay attention to. 536 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 10: And then every day, Jesse, We're going to do a 537 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 10: deep dive on an issue of the day. So, for example, 538 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 10: on our launch episode today, I did a deep dive 539 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 10: on the damages that were awarded just on Friday, Friday 540 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 10: afternoon in the Egen Carroll defamation case. This outrageous sixty 541 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 10: five million dollars impunitive damages on top of eighteen plus 542 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 10: million in compensatory damages, probably outright unconstitutional in my view 543 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 10: and my understanding of the relevant legal doctrine. So there's 544 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 10: really no one doing this show, Jesse, so we're really 545 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 10: excited to launch it there. And yeah, go ahead and 546 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 10: describe right now to America on trial. 547 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, there is nobody doing the show, and I'm glad 548 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 1: you're doing it because I need to understand these things. 549 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: In fact, break down this Egene Carol thing, because look, Josh, 550 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: there's a thousand stories and scandals every day. All I 551 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: remember about this woman is she was a nutjob, to 552 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: the point the media stopped having her on. She was 553 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 1: very clearly a deranged nutjob, accused Trump of some really 554 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 1: horrible things, and yet he's got a stroker an eighty 555 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: million dollar check. Why So it is confusing. 556 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 10: So in twenty nineteen, Egen Carroll comes forward with allegations 557 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 10: that Donald Trump groped her sexually assaulted her in the 558 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 10: dressing room or the back area of a Bergdorf Goodman 559 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 10: off Fifth Avenue in New York City twenty twenty five 560 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 10: years ago or so, and she immediately filed two lawsuits, 561 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 10: both civil lawsuits because the criminal statute limitations on these 562 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 10: relevant crimes had long expired, so she could only go 563 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 10: the civil route. 564 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: So earlier last year. 565 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 10: In the first of the two lawsuits, the jury awarded 566 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 10: her five million dollars in damages for both defamation and 567 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,360 Speaker 10: sexual assault. Defamation comes in here because after she came 568 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 10: out to The New Yorker, the liberal rag back in 569 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 10: twenty nineteen, that's who published this story where she was 570 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 10: talking about this alleged sexual assault. After that, when Trump 571 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 10: was sitting as the acting president, you know, he spouted 572 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 10: off on her, said that she's a liar, she's this, 573 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 10: she's that. 574 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: You know. 575 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,479 Speaker 10: Jesse, My quick take on this, and I'm sure you'd 576 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 10: agree on this, is, you know what men would not 577 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 10: spout off on a woman who is saying things that 578 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,640 Speaker 10: he believes to be completely fabricated and falls from twenty 579 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 10: five to thirty years ago. You know, I remember watching 580 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 10: the Brett Kavanaugh hearing in September twenty eighteen with Christine 581 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 10: Blasi four. When Brett Cavanaugh got up there and he 582 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 10: was defiant. He stood up straight in his chair. You know, 583 00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 10: he didn't literally pound this chest, but that's kind of 584 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 10: what effect. And he accused the Senate Democrats on the 585 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 10: Senate Judiciary Committee of seeking revenge for the Clintons. And 586 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 10: there were some people. Then in twenty eight team said, oh, 587 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 10: Breg Cavanaugh is not acting judicial. This is not the 588 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 10: comportment we won from a Supreme Court justice, to which 589 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 10: I said, nonsense. 590 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:15,880 Speaker 1: That is bs. 591 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 10: I would never want a man sitting on the Supreme 592 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 10: Court who is not going to defend this reputation when 593 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 10: it is besmirshed and smeared in this fashion. So that's 594 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 10: kind of how I feel about Donald Trump too. So 595 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,720 Speaker 10: in any event, last year, of the five million dollars 596 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,400 Speaker 10: in defamation, but she had this second loss, and this 597 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 10: second lawsume they finally reached the verdict or the jury 598 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 10: reached its verdict in federal court this past Friday, eighteen 599 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,719 Speaker 10: point three million in compensatory damages, which means that that's 600 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 10: all she needed to make hole non charly sure how 601 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 10: they arrived at that, and then because they were feeling vindictive, 602 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,319 Speaker 10: they slapped sixty five million impunitive damages on top of that, 603 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:57,000 Speaker 10: highly highly unusual. That ratio of punitive to compensatory damages 604 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 10: of over three to one is probably unconstitutional as well. 605 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:01,760 Speaker 10: But Trump going to appeal it. I think we'll probably 606 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:02,800 Speaker 10: be successful on appeal. 607 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,520 Speaker 1: Okay, let's set that aside. People, can go get all 608 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: the details from your podcast again podcast is America on Trial. 609 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 1: Let's stay in New York for a minute, Josh, and 610 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: just hit the high points on the tiss James Leatitia James, 611 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 1: What's she doing? A lot of people don't realize there 612 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 1: are two separate things going on in New York. What's 613 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:22,399 Speaker 1: she doing? 614 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,840 Speaker 10: Well, there's actually three separate things going on in New 615 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 10: York if you want to include the Alvin Bragg criminal prosecution. 616 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,560 Speaker 10: I mean that was the first criminal prosecutions out of 617 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 10: the gay People have forgotten about this because the Fannie 618 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 10: Wilson case and Georgia and the two federal prosecutions from 619 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 10: Jack Smith and Florida and Washington, DC are getting all 620 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 10: the attention and properly so. The Alvin Bragg case was 621 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 10: panned across the board. Even the liberal commentators on CNN 622 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 10: had a very hard time defending it. The Jake Tappers 623 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,640 Speaker 10: of the world, no one really was trying to defend this, 624 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,399 Speaker 10: this prosecution that Alvin Bragg was bringing there. 625 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 1: But anyway, you have that, and you have this e. 626 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 10: Gene Carol case defamation cases which are also being held 627 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 10: in federal court there in New York and then in 628 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,359 Speaker 10: state court, you have the Attorney General of New York, 629 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,799 Speaker 10: Tiss James, who ran, just as Alvin Bragg ran for 630 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,480 Speaker 10: District Attorney in Manhattan. Tiss James ran on an explicitly 631 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 10: get Trump platform. Jesse, she was not hiding the ball. 632 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,920 Speaker 10: She made very clear that she was running for office 633 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,440 Speaker 10: in no small part to try to use the power 634 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,319 Speaker 10: of the state to file litigation to get Donald Trump. 635 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 10: And sure enough, that is what she has done. So 636 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,000 Speaker 10: she has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump and against 637 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,759 Speaker 10: the Trump organization, essentially alleging that they have run this 638 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:34,560 Speaker 10: organization in fraudulent fashion, that they have undervalued their properties 639 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 10: in order to get certain tax breaks, that they have 640 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 10: misrepresented their holdings to the financial institutions and the banks 641 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,279 Speaker 10: in order to secure more favorable loans, things of the 642 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,760 Speaker 10: nature there, and she's seeking three hundred and seventy million 643 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:51,240 Speaker 10: dollars in damages. There, you have a justice named Justice 644 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,520 Speaker 10: in Goron, who is the sitting judge in this case. 645 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,720 Speaker 10: He liked many of these other judges, is vehementally anti 646 00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,719 Speaker 10: Trump there. So Trump is facing an uphill climb there. 647 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 10: It's totally unjust, and Jesse, it also should be chilling 648 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,840 Speaker 10: for anyone who ever wants to start a business in 649 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,359 Speaker 10: New York State that the power of the state could 650 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,759 Speaker 10: be used in this fashion to try to bankrupt your 651 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,840 Speaker 10: business simply because you don't agree with the way the 652 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,120 Speaker 10: banks appraised your property. 653 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,560 Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sorry to stay in New York. But one 654 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,480 Speaker 1: last thing on this before we move on. I want 655 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,120 Speaker 1: to get to this Texas Supreme Court dust up. But 656 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,640 Speaker 1: the Alvin Bragg trial. Obviously, anyone with the brain understands 657 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,960 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is legally and a great deal of 658 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,800 Speaker 1: trouble for his DC trial just because of the jury pool, 659 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,799 Speaker 1: the judge, the jury pool. He's in a great deal 660 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:39,080 Speaker 1: of trouble. New York City is not exactly rural Oklahoma. 661 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:40,680 Speaker 1: Is he in trouble there? 662 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 10: He probably is, at least because, I mean, for the 663 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:46,720 Speaker 10: very simple reason of the jury pool. 664 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:47,000 Speaker 1: Right. 665 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,759 Speaker 10: I mean again, this we're talking about Manhattan. I mean, 666 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,759 Speaker 10: this is New York County, New York. I mean, this 667 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,440 Speaker 10: is one of the most liberal counties in the United States. 668 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,120 Speaker 10: If it was Staten Island, maybe slightly different stories. Staten 669 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 10: Island actually is the only red count of the five 670 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,160 Speaker 10: counties that collectively comprise New York City. But in Manhattan, 671 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:04,880 Speaker 10: in New York County, you're not going to get a 672 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,560 Speaker 10: favorable jury pool for Donald Trump to put him mildly there. 673 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,360 Speaker 10: This case is just so laughably frivolous, Jesse, that I 674 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,359 Speaker 10: have to think that when it is inevitably appealed, if 675 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 10: it does come out against Trump, then the appellate court 676 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,840 Speaker 10: in New York State probably would ultimately rule in Trump's 677 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,000 Speaker 10: favor there. Obviously, it's very hard to make these predictions 678 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,280 Speaker 10: without seeing how the trial unfolds there, But the appellate 679 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,919 Speaker 10: courts in New York State and their state courts tend 680 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,839 Speaker 10: to be at least a little more legitimate there. You're 681 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,360 Speaker 10: not dealing with an inherently biased jury pool. 682 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 1: Of that matter. 683 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 10: A million dollar question, Jesse, of course, is you know 684 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,759 Speaker 10: the timeline such that this appeal might happen in New 685 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,920 Speaker 10: York State, or the appeal might happen down in Georgia 686 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,160 Speaker 10: in the Fannie Willis case. You know, will Trump be 687 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,480 Speaker 10: president of the United States by that time, And if 688 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,440 Speaker 10: he actually is president while he is simultaneously dealing with 689 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,879 Speaker 10: these state prosecutions in Georgia and New York State at 690 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 10: that point, what happens to the prosecutors just drop it 691 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,840 Speaker 10: or you know, it's literally unchartered waters, which you know, 692 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:57,560 Speaker 10: shameless plug. 693 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,759 Speaker 1: That's why this podcast is needed. Yeah, no, it is 694 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,040 Speaker 1: frigging needed. Okay, what happened between the Supreme Court and Texas? 695 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,640 Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of what's that word misinformation out there? 696 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,359 Speaker 1: There's a ton of misinformation. So I read the order. 697 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,239 Speaker 10: I read the judicial order from the US Supreme Court 698 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,279 Speaker 10: last week, which, by the way, Jesse, First, it must 699 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 10: be said that not just John Roberts, but Amy Coney 700 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,400 Speaker 10: Barrett unfortunately went quite wildly on this one. This is 701 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,239 Speaker 10: a big case, and to put it mildly and unfortunately unfortunately, 702 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,440 Speaker 10: one of Trump's nomin knees, Amy Cony Barrett, actually go 703 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,480 Speaker 10: to with the liberals on this one. The judicial order 704 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,920 Speaker 10: basically says that the Border Patrol, in this case, the 705 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,120 Speaker 10: border patrol that is working under the Joe Biden administration 706 00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,719 Speaker 10: and Secretary of my ORC is that they have permission 707 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,960 Speaker 10: to go down to the Rio Grand, go down to 708 00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,960 Speaker 10: the border and to snip the razor wire that Texas 709 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 10: the Department in Public Safety, the Texas Rangers, Greg addad 710 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:52,440 Speaker 10: that all of them had put up. Here's what the 711 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 10: judicial order does not say so, it permits the Border 712 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,880 Speaker 10: Patrol agents to go there. Instead, it does not enjoin, 713 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,719 Speaker 10: meaning it does not forbid Texas from putting up additional 714 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,960 Speaker 10: razor wire. So right now, if Texas wanted to put 715 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,080 Speaker 10: up additional razor wire all along the Rio Grand, they 716 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,480 Speaker 10: could do so and they would not be wilfully violating 717 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,320 Speaker 10: the US Supreme Court. Now again, the Border Patrol, according 718 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,240 Speaker 10: to this order, can go in and snip down that wire. 719 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,800 Speaker 10: So what you essentially could come to is a Mexican 720 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,120 Speaker 10: standoff pun very much intended, where it's basically a question 721 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,879 Speaker 10: as to who drops their weapon first. I mean, will 722 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:28,920 Speaker 10: it be Texas if they're putting up new buire, or 723 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,279 Speaker 10: will it be the Border Patrol they're allegedly going to 724 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 10: start stipping wire. Now the people who are kind of 725 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,799 Speaker 10: wetting their beds here and are saying, oh my god, 726 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,840 Speaker 10: this is a constitutional crisis, This is John C. Calhoun 727 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:42,600 Speaker 10: and nullification, it's actually none of that. In our constitutional system, Jesse, 728 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,960 Speaker 10: both the federal government and the states have sovereign power. 729 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,080 Speaker 10: In fact, the states created the federal government in the 730 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,840 Speaker 10: first place. They were sovereign entities when they created the 731 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:55,279 Speaker 10: federal government when they seated limited enumerated powers to that 732 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:58,960 Speaker 10: federal government. And as Anthony Scalia wrote quite quite prolifically 733 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,520 Speaker 10: in the twenty twelve case Arizona versus the United States, 734 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 10: if these states thought that they would give up sovereignty 735 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,239 Speaker 10: as a condition of creating the federal government, they never 736 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,200 Speaker 10: would have created the federal government in the first place. 737 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,439 Speaker 10: So Texas has every right, every right to keep out 738 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,439 Speaker 10: this invasion from its border. I sincerely hope that Greg 739 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,719 Speaker 10: Abbott keeps on doing so. This is not nullification, This 740 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,319 Speaker 10: is not relitigating the Civil War. This is not a 741 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:25,359 Speaker 10: constitutional crisis. If anything, it is a crisis of sovereignty, 742 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,360 Speaker 10: and it is a crisis of national civics that people 743 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,360 Speaker 10: fail to understand the virtue and the righteousness with which 744 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:32,440 Speaker 10: Greg Abbott is acting. 745 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,359 Speaker 1: Go download America on Trial. You want to know where 746 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,480 Speaker 1: to find Josh's podcast, the first TV dot com slash podcast. 747 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,480 Speaker 1: My friend, congratulations, I know it will be a gigantic success. 748 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:53,799 Speaker 1: All right, there's a light in the mood. I take 749 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:58,000 Speaker 1: special joy in. I don't know that you will, but 750 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:09,799 Speaker 1: it makes me laugh. You can watch it next. All right, 751 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,279 Speaker 1: it is time to lighten the mood. And look, let's 752 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:18,160 Speaker 1: be honest with you. People hurting themselves not too badly. 753 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,320 Speaker 1: You don't want anyone to be injured, hurt, not injured. 754 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,640 Speaker 1: People hurting themselves is funny. Slapstick comedy is funny. I 755 00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,040 Speaker 1: grew up, I'd watched the street the three Stooges all 756 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,280 Speaker 1: the time, hit each other and slap it was hilarious. 757 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:35,600 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's funny, And sledding is fun and people 758 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:40,440 Speaker 1: hurting themselves is fun. And sometimes reporters get in the way. 759 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:50,279 Speaker 1: And anyway, here it is. I'm rolling, all right. 760 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,680 Speaker 11: So I've got my trustee stop watching. Here they come 761 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:53,640 Speaker 11: down the hill. 762 00:42:53,800 --> 00:43:01,360 Speaker 12: Looks like rheez. 763 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:05,480 Speaker 11: Bad idea at Riverside Park, problet news. But got my 764 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:09,000 Speaker 11: trustee stopped watching. Here they come down the hill looks. 765 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:15,320 Speaker 12: Like rooming in the main and here, oh, bad idea 766 00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,239 Speaker 12: at Riverside Park, proble Bule news. 767 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,279 Speaker 1: How about the composure on that guy He just got 768 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,120 Speaker 1: wiped out and did a flip, just lay there on 769 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,719 Speaker 1: the ground. Hey, this is Bob from KBC. That's amazing. 770 00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:36,000 Speaker 1: I'll see them all