WEBVTT - Strength, Strategy, and the Global Stage - August 20th, Hour 1 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:02.440 All right, Thank you, Scott Shannon, Thanks to all of 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:04.600 you for being with us. Write down our toll free 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:06.720 telephone number if you want to be a part of 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:09.319 the program as eight hundred and ninety four one Sean 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.119 if you want to join us. Well, everybody needs to 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:15.240 know a little bit of context here in the hours 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.759 leading up to the Alaska summit with President Trump and 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:24.280 Vladimir Putin Ukraine, was you know, bombing the night before 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.320 up to you know, like twelve hours before the actual 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:32.200 summit took place, and Vladimir Putin immediately there thereafter the war, 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.120 they never the ceasefire was never really one of the 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:39.040 top priorities of the president, and he pointed that out 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:50.440 and every other agreement he's been involved in from India, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, Rwanda, Congo, Serbia, Kosovo, Thailand, Cambodia, Armenia, Zabaijan, Ethiopia, 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.440 and Egypt, you know, they never had the ceasefire. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:53.880 First. 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.520 He said his goal was going in to have the 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.560 second meeting, and it looks like it's going to happen, 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.400 but I don't know that it's going to happen. I mean, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.479 at the end of the day, Donald Trump can only 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.800 do so much. I don't think there's any other world 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.520 leader that had the stature, the strength, the ability to 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.480 pull off what he's pulled off so far. Bringing Vladimir 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.520 Putin to the table. I think he did it from 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.960 a position of strength. I think by strengthening NATO. Nations 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.600 commitments to NATO played a big part in it, and 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.920 they more than doubled their percentage of GDP that they 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.399 will contribute to their defense. I think getting the European 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.640 Union to wake the hell up. I went into great 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.839 specificity in detail in this on this last night. It's 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:43.920 so frustrating on so many levels to watch the Europeans 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:48.280 be so stupid when it comes to Vladimir Putin. It's 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.200 actually mind I mean, because they're the ones that have 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:54.080 been funding Putin's war machine the entire time. You know, 0:01:54.200 --> 0:02:00.520 the President is showing by strengthening NATO, by doing a 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.760 trade deal that takes nearly a trillion dollars in energy 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:10.160 energy purchases out of Putin's pocket, by pressuring India and 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.120 with tariffs and saying you keep buying Russian oil, it's 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.720 it's going to be a fifty percent tariff on you. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.280 And he is He's going right to the heart of 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.640 the Russian economy. That's why when the President said the 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.880 consequences will be dire, he's not talking about America going 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:31.200 to war with with Vladimir Putin. He's talking about America crushing, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:37.040 crushing Vladimir Putin's economy. And you know, I think that 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.440 is the only way to get Putin's attention. I think 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:45.400 those those are the main reasons why that you know, 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.560 you finally got you finally got Putin to the table 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.440 in the first place. Now, as far as I'm concerned, 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.800 I'm I'm furious with Europe because as bad as Obama was, 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.480 you got to take this back to when Bill Clinton 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.079 pressured I just want you guys, you know you don't 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.600 need after the breakup of the Soviet Union, you guys 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.640 don't need these nuclear weapons going to be in the 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.600 best interest, We'll have security guarantees. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:06.480 Blah blah blah. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.239 The biggest mistake Ukraine ever made was given up the 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.120 nuclear weapons. They never should have listened to Bill Clinton. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.000 And when Crimea happened and it was annexed in twenty 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.520 fourteen and Obama's president, he didn't lift a finger in 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.600 spite of the fact that the US was a party 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.440 to an agreement that would guarantee security for Ukraine and 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:26.840 prevent that from happening. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.720 Nothing. Joe Biden. We know the story about Joe Biden. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:30.320 Joe Biden. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.360 You know Putin's building up troops, military equipment on the 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:34.200 Ukrainian border. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:35.400 He does absolutely nothing. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.920 But the other factor in all of this is the 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:42.400 rest of Europe and how they have grossly mismanaged this 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:48.720 regional crisis, and frankly, are are equally as responsible as 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:53.520 past democratic American presidents in terms of showing weakness and 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.680 stupidity in naivete when it comes to Vladimir Putin, because 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.520 it's them that have been funding his war machines for decades. 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.880 I pointed this out and went into great specificity in 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.360 detail on TV last night. Prior to Putin's invasion to Ukraine. 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.800 A lot of these European countries, they're buying one hundred 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.720 percent of their gas, the natural gas, which is the 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.440 lifeblood of the world's economy, from Russia. This is why 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.719 Trump what he I keep telling you what he what 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:25.240 he did with Angela Merkel was basically when he handed 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.839 her the white flag of surrender, because that's what Europe 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.880 has been doing. They're surrendering their culture, they're surrendering so 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.479 many different things. It's really spectacular to watch, you know, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.400 the decline of a continent. But major European powers like 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.520 Germany's sending tens of billions of dollars to Putin. That 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.159 funded his military build up, that's funding his war machine. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:51.120 And in Trump's first term, Europe defied his warnings, doubled 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.000 down on dumb and dumber, and they kept building more 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.680 pipelines into Russia. He was shutting down nord Stream too. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.400 If you recall back in the day, and even several 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:06.200 years ago, Europe was still sending Putin around twenty you know, 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.080 twenty two billion dollars a year for Russian energy. In 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:14.760 other words, they're funding Putin's war machine. So I say 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.200 this in light of the news that broke just earlier 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:21.360 today that NATO had to scramble warplanes because Russia hit 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.600 near the Romanian border in Ukraine, and two German warplanes 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.880 were scrambled overnight from Romania after Russia launched a large 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.719 scale missile and drone attack in Ukraine less than a 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.880 mile from the NATO borderline. Now that's Vladimir Putin's saber rattling, 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:38.320 but it doesn't really matter. 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:39.719 At the end of the day. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.640 This decision of whether the war is going to stop 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.640 is going to be made by Vladimir Putin and by 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.640 President Zolensky of Ukraine, and if they let this opportunity 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.479 pass well, the results will be devastating. The results for 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.720 Vladimir Putin are going to be severe. Economically, the lifeblood 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:05.440 of Russia's economy is the sale of energy. And right now, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.279 Lindsey Graham in the US Senate, you never get eighty 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.760 five senators to agree on anything, but they're all sitting 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.040 tight on top of a sanctions bill that will go 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.240 after Russia and their energy. And then the President will 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.920 use the power of our economy to prevent other countries 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:29.720 from buying Russian energy period And I think Plan B 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:35.200 probably starts right about now for President Trump, and that 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:39.680 is punishing Moscow, and by doing it, you're doing it economically. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.480 And then the fact that the President will sell sophisticated 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:48.279 weaponry to Ukraine is another motivation that it should motivate, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.800 you know, Putin to want to make a deal here. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.719 Do I think it's in the best interest of Ukraine 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.360 to stop this. I do because at the end of 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.480 the day, the fact that they have fought so valiantly 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.920 and so successfully. I don't think anybody at the start 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.119 of this conflict thought that we'd be three years into 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.880 this and that Russia has not been more successful than 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.440 they have been. I mean, yeah, they've hit a lot 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.640 of areas within Ukraine, but in terms of territory that 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:20.840 they gained relatively small considering what was supposed to be 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.680 the overwhelming might of the Russian army, which has not 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.440 been particularly impressive, especially in my view. You know, you 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.760 kind of use the plan that I think the president 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:36.360 used with Iran and with Hamas and funding of terror. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.440 I mean, we know that the Iranians of the number 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.080 one state sponsor of terror. We know that they helped 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.760 PLoP plan and scheme when happened October seventh, twenty twenty three. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:51.520 We know that revolutionary forces were responsible in part of 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.880 the planning, Kud's forces part of the planning. We know 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:58.480 that they provided the weaponry for Hamas in the south 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.240 and for Lebanon and the north, and for the Huti 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:06.880 rebels and other terror groups throughout the region. And you know, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:11.280 it's interesting after the fiftieth day that Donald Trump gave 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.280 Iran to go to the table and make a nuclear deal, 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.840 and they basically thumbed their middle finger at the US. 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.560 On the fifty first day, Israel went in there and 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:24.280 decimated them, absolutely decimated them, taking out their missile battery systems, 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.080 taking out their air defense systems, taken out pretty much everything, 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:31.320 which paved the way for a very difficult what ended 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:36.200 up being an extraordinar extraordinarily successful effort, and that was 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.400 to take out their nuclear sites. Now the result is 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:44.880 they the Iranians were near bankruptcy during Trump's first term 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.040 because of the sanctions that he had put on them. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.400 They were working and you saw the people in Iran 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.240 beginning to rise up because they were sick and tired 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.440 of living under these you know, rigid mullahs in Iran 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.640 and these rigid rules that were put in place. Anyway 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.120 to fast forward, we have a group of reformers now 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.520 inside of Iran and this was reported on today in 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.000 the New York Post. They're calling for a ran to 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.520 suspend their uranium and Richmond program, in other words, give 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.400 up their nuclear ambition. Why because they want to reach 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.400 a deal with the US to ease sanctions on the 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:25.280 country as they face widespread power and water shortages, and 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.760 they're struggling financially, and their people are beginning to struggle. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.679 And if they continue to struggle, you know, usually the 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.360 outcome of such a struggle ends up with some type 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:39.080 of new government taking over. And that's kind of similar 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.720 to what happened in the Cold War. I mean, Ronald 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.760 Reagan showed strength. Ronald Reagan came into office, he had 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.560 militarily what he called a gap of vulnerability. He had 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.000 planes that couldn't fly at ships that couldn't go out 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.560 to sea. We had a depleted military, very similar to 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.520 what President Trump just inherited, and he set about building 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:05.680 a six hundred ship navy and modernizing all our military equipment, 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:10.920 replenishing our military equipment, advancing our military technology. The big 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.880 issue as President Reagan went into his summit with Gorbachev 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.040 at Reikievic was the issue of strategic defense. With the 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:22.200 media in this country mocked as you know, Star Wars, well, 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.080 real life Star Wars has been happening all over the 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.679 Middle East thanks to Ronald Reagan's vision of strategic defense, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.560 and I argue that might go down in history as 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.960 his greatest legacy. I think if the President's capable of 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.920 building out a golden dome to protect America from you know, 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.920 new modern weaponry that it is being developed on a 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:47.520 daily basis, including hypersonic technology. You know, we there could 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.920 be down the line in the future at some point, 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.840 at some date, untold millions of lives that can ultimately 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.040 be said because of the technology we're beginning to develop 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.160 even today. And I know people that are working on it, 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.160 and they are going, you know, hardcore, deep in the 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.680 paint to get this done as quickly and as expeditiously 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:11.760 as humanly possible. You have a viral video of a 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:17.360 Rhode Island Democrat attorney general threatening police while resisting arrest 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.760 after being told to leave a restaurant. Linda, did you 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:26.920 see that video? It's unbelievable. See the horrible, I mean, 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.400 it's insane body camera footage showing a Rhode Island prosecutor 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.280 but rating a police officer and attempting to avoid arrest 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.680 after a drunken night out with a friend. The Rhode 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:41.720 Island Special Assistant Attorney General, Devin Flanagan Hogan, a Democrat, 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.720 arrested Thursday for allegedly trespassing at Clark cook House, a 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:50.800 swanky waterfront restaurant in Newport. I'm an ag. I'm an ag. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.440 You know what are your probable cause to detain me? For? 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.840 Hogan complaining as the cops are trying to handcuff her 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.000 and jeezus out there in the slinky little dress trying 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.920 to you know, tell them you better turn off your 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.440 You're going to regret this. You're going to regret this. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.680 Why do people do? It's sort of like those people, 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.880 famous people that walk into arrested. Do you know who 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.800 I am? You do not know who I am. I 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:21.280 can't stand these people. Unbelievable. A top Justice Department mortgage 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:27.079 fraud prosecutor is urging New York Attorney General Leticia James resign. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:32.319 The Justice Department Special Attorney for mortgage fraud Ed Martin 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.319 has now urged the New York Attorney General Letitia James 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.520 to resign as his office is investigating her for potential 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.960 mortgage fraud. He sent a letter to James attorney Abby 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.960 Lowell on August the twelfth, in which he said James 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.200 would best served the good of the state and the 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.160 nation by resigning from office. Who addressed the issues in 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.679 the referral. A resignation from office would give the people 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.400 of New York and America more peace than proceedings. It's 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.800 so interesting to watch those people that were most active 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.920 in weaponizing justice and her and Adam Schiff and all 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.360 these other people. Adam shift got the preemptive pardon. It's 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.880 going to be difficult to go after him. I don't 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.160 think Letitia James got one. I didn't see her name 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.480 on the list. I didn't see Alvin Bragg's name on 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:22.679 the list. But Adam Schiff, you know, man, Democrats, I 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.760 guess they're just so arrogant. They think they can get 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.280 away with everything. I have to hire accountants and attorneys 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.079 for every aspect of my life because I know if 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.520 I don't dot every eye and cross every tee, forget it, 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.319 they'd come after me in a heartbeat. Good news today 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:43.000 New York Times. Voters are abandoning the Democratic Party in droves. 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.560 I don't want to say the death cycle of the 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.000 Democratic Party, but there seems to be no end to this, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:54.040 one voter. One voter registration expert said anyway. According to 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.839 the detailed analysis the Times headline this morning, Democratic Party 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.840 faces a voter registration crisis. The party is bleeding support 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.760 beyond the ballot box. The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.480 long before they even go to the polls of the 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.360 thirty states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.280 lost ground to Republicans in every single one between twenty 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.800 twenty and twenty twenty four, often by a lot. The 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.400 four year swing towards Republicans adds up to four point 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:27.160 five million voters, a deep political hole. I don't even 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.680 know if this current Democratic Party can pull their way 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.520 out of that. So things are changing. And you saw 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.320 in Matt Towery insider advantage in his poll. You know, 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:40.240 every demographic is moving towards Donald Trump fifty four percent approval, 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:45.360 forty four percent disapproval, and every demographic he's on the 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.520 positive side, not on the negative side. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:52.560 So there is a movement in this country that is 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:53.280 very real. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.120 And as I have pointed out, there are most polling 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:03.440 outfits oranizations, especially if they're related to the legacy media. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:09.560 They have never really polled Donald Trump well in the 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.480 ten years he's been on the political scene. Since twenty fifteen, 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:17.160 they just haven't and they don't understand him they don't 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:23.680 understand the people that support him. They use methodologies that 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.400 are biased and designed to be biased. They will usually 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:31.400 overpoll Democrats as a means of creating an impression that 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.680 is false. You know, Like recently, up until this week, 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.160 I've been seeing poll after poll kind of showed that, oh, 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.480 Donald Trump, is that a loan? Now it's at thirty 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.640 eight percent, and it shows up on a liberal website somewhere. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.560 And then when a poll comes out by Matt Towery, 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.360 who has consistently along with Robert Kahley and John McLaughlin 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:56.480 and Rasmussen and Atlas Polling, who really only shows up 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.720 during election years, and I don't even know who they are, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.239 but they have been the people that have been consistently 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:07.200 correct and consistently right. And so when Matt Powery after 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.080 the Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin shows Trump with a 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.880 fifty four percent approval rating forty four percent dis approval rating, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.120 I believe his numbers because he was right in twenty sixteen, 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:19.680 he was right in twenty twenty, he was right in 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.520 twenty twenty four. Anyway, So for the New York Times 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.800 to hit the panic button like they have with the 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:30.720 headline the Democratic Party faces a voter registration crisis and 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:35.920 that the party's bleeding support beyond the ballot box. It's 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.920 not hard to figure out why. I mean, it's every 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.680 issue we talk about every day. I mean to see 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.720 the Democratic Party be the party of sanctuary cities and states, 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.840 the party of defund dismantled no bail laws, the party 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:57.400 of wokeism, Deiism, championing the right of men to play 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:02.640 women's sports, the party higher energy prices, the party of 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:07.320 now outright Marxism. Forget about which is the Green New 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:11.000 Deal is is basically the same thing, just with a 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.480 different name. But that's you know, cradle to grave, womb 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:18.520 to the tomb. And so this party has been radicalized. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:24.800 Any moderate voices that might exist are fearful to take 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.639 on those loud voices that now control the Democratic Party. 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.639 And you know the names Pocahontas and Grandpa Bernie. And 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.840 if you look to the younger generation, it's Mom Donnie, 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:40.000 Marxist Mum Donnie and AOC and squad members and and 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.800 so this is what people hear every day and see 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.119 every day. And Jasmine Crockett, I mean Stephen A. Smith 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:47.920 gives me a hard time because I know. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:48.360 What you're doing. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.080 Like, what do you mean you know what I'm doing? Yes, 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.600 I see, I see the Democrats that you play on 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.399 you show, you play, you play the crazies in the 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.240 Democratic Party said pretty much they're all crazy. And for 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.359 those people that might not be crazy, well, where are 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:07.040 their voices except for John Fetterman. And John Fetterman is 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.199 excoriated by his own party and is very very telling 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:15.080 to see Josh Shapiro was what I thought would be 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.359 a more moderate Democrat, definitely dipping his toe in the 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.520 water and to see if there's any appetite for him 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.600 to run in twenty twenty eight, you know, by coming 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.960 out championing the right of men and women's sports and 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.919 him coming out what was the other woke issue that 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.520 he came out with, It was one other one. I mean, 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:39.600 for him to take on these radical social positions means 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.320 to me that he knows that he if he's thinking 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.560 about running for president, he can't win if he's going 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:51.800 to be a moderate. Here's their long term problem is 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:56.960 that on every eighty twenty seventy five, twenty five, ninety ten, 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.480 ninety five to five issued they're on the wrong side. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.800 They don't want to build a wall. They lie to 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.720 us for four years. They don't even want to ever 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:12.600 call or acknowledge people that have been victims of the 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:17.480 twelve to twenty million unvetted Biden Harris, the illegals in 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.639 this country, people that are victims of murder, rape, and 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.840 their families and in the aftermath of this other violent crimes. 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.680 They don't want to deal with it. They'd rather be 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.360 the party that stands up for Brego Garcia. They'd rather 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.160 be the party of sanctuary cities. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:35.080 You know. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.720 Now, California, we find out this truck driver in Florida 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:44.680 came into the country in twenty eighteen illegally. And this 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.879 guy goes to California gets a commercial driver's license. The 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:53.600 Trump administration denied him his right to a commercial license. 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.359 Joe Biden's administration gave him a commercial license. One report 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.240 today that the guy didn't even know how to read English, 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.080 and he's out there driving a rig and he makes 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:07.679 a U turned and now we have three dead Americans. 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.320 At what point do we not recognize the democratic policies 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:13.040 aren't keeping people safe and secure? 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:14.080 You know? 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:18.320 How? How has this defund dismantled no bail law idiocy 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.159 worked out not working out very well. You know, our 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.639 nation's capital, just like New York and California and Illinois. 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.359 Look at look at how many we don't even count 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:32.000 dead people in Chicago anymore. We don't even doesn't even 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:36.200 make news anymore. The only reason it makes any news ever, 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:40.840 it's on shows like this. I mean, we have, we 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:45.240 have tried to highlight this issue since Barack Obama was president. 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.439 We could only find two, maybe three times in his 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.119 entire presidency that he talked about the murder rate and 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.560 the violence in his hometown of Chicago. You know, if 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.679 it wasn't for Giano Calwell, who lost his little brother, 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:04.200 who was murdered, innocently murdered, lauded on the streets of Chicago, 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.480 just another name, And if he hasn't been out there, 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:12.000 you know, screaming loudly and championing on on this show 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:16.160 and on Fox and other places, you know, nobody would 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:18.760 know anything about Chicago violence. But it's still going on. 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:23.040 It's still happening in cities like New York. It's still 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:25.280 you know, all these cities that have adopted all of 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:29.520 these insane no bail laws and defund and dismantle and 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:34.320 let's put in social workers' attitude and reimagine the police nonsense. 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:35.440 That's not working out. 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:35.720 Well. 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:40.639 Democrats just voted for the largest tax increase in the 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:43.160 history of the country instead of the lower the largest 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:48.160 tax decrease in American history. They claim to care about 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:51.680 working men and women, they voted to raise their taxes. 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:56.280 Donald Trump Republicans thankfully prevailed. And now we have no 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.240 tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and every American 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.479 that makes money is getting a tax cut everyone, and 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:07.119 the president's protecting social security. Democrats like Obama told us 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:12.160 forever that manufacturing was never coming back to America. All right, Well, 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:17.399 Donald Trump, he was getting excoriated by all the quote pundits, 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:23.160 the punditry class over the issue of tariffs. Well, those 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:28.120 tariffs resulted in a massive change in behavior. And America 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.960 had been ripped off, taken advantage of for so many years, 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:35.160 and it just nobody ever dared challenge the status quo. 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:38.440 He challenges the status quo on everything. He's been able 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:42.520 to control the borders. He's now deporting illegal immigrant criminals. 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:46.320 He's opened up drilling and fracking and coal mining. That's 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:48.639 going to be. We can't even begin to calculate the 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:52.119 impact that's going to have on the economy. He's gotten 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:56.200 over fifteen trillion dollars in committed moneys and manufacturing over 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:59.360 the next four years, high paying career jobs for Americans, 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.640 and that's in auto manufacturing that wasn't going to come 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:05.280 back to America. We were told, you know, we have 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:10.360 outsourced pharmaceutical manufacturing, which is dangerous to our supply chain lines. 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:15.000 You know, We've outsourced semiconductor chips, that's been dangerous. We've 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:20.440 outsourced rare earth minerals, which are vital and critical to building, 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:27.080 you know, our defense. It's necessary for our defense Department 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:29.159 in ways that I can't even begin to describe, but 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:32.560 I've talked to the experts about it, and that includes magnets. 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:35.800 You can't build cars without magnets and rarer minerals, you 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:38.920 just can't. And yet we have outsourced a lot of 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:42.919 these raw materials to other countries because of these strident 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:48.439 environmental policies of the Democrats. So when you see this 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:54.040 attrition among the Democratic Party, it should not be a surprise. 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:58.520 Of the thirty states that they tracked voter registration by 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.720 political party Democrats of lost ground to Republicans and every 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:05.240 one of them and in most cases by an awful 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:08.919 lot a lot to make a difference. And you know, 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:13.639 it's up to nearly five million voters, and there's a stampede. 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:19.840 And again this is just post twenty twenty four. If 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:24.399 Donald Trump is is able to bring the economy back 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:30.000