WEBVTT - Listen To This & We Expect Your Gratitude 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.480 Arm Strong and Jetty and No He Armstrong and Eddy. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.079 Go back with breaking news in our politics lead and 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.080 a brand new excerpt from my upcoming book with Axios 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.280 is Alex Thompson. It's called Original Sin. I'm not sure 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.239 if you've heard of it. It's on Biden's Decline. It's 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.519 called Original Sin. I'm sure you've heard on May twentieth. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.760 That's Tuesday. Original Sin that's coming out in three week, 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.080 comes out Tuesday. You will not believe what we found out. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.519 Don't news people have to tell you what they know 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:58.280 when they find it out. Isn't that the difference between 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:05.080 news and the secret? You won't believe when we found out. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:10.760 No, That's why I'm watching it. Breaking news in a week. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.600 John Stuart always been good at cutting through to the 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.640 obvious with things like that, like one of his quotes 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.520 John Stewart last night on the Daily Show. He does 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.440 it once a week. And we're about to talk about 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.399 the Jake Tapper book, which I don't know the title 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:27.039 Love and it doesn't matter. I'm not looking it up 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.800 and I refuse to mention it. But John Stewart says, 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.720 forget about the fact of how effing weird it is 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.319 that the News is selling you a book about news 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:38.280 that should have told. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.000 You was news a year ago, for free. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.800 He's selling you a book full of information he should 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:45.840 have told you last. 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.400 Year for free, which is a pretty good. 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:54.360 Point, right, I mean, that's what you do for living well. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.400 Tapper is claiming that these people weren't willing to say 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.520 this stuff out loud, a lot of them until after 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:07.279 the election, which is true. But the the ultimate point 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:12.280 of Biden's brain didn't work. Everybody already knew, so whatever. So, 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.400 as I mentioned, it's unintentionally hilarious. 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:14.800 This book. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:19.320 I bought it like a month or so ago. I 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.440 don't know, I wasn't drunk. I don't know what made 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.080 me do it, but I bought it and so it 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.919 showed up in my uh my kindle last night and 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:26.920 I started reading it, and I'm kind of angry that 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:28.720 I put money in their pocket because of all the 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:34.360 stuff we've said, and it's it's it's it's hard to 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:35.639 believe it even exists. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.079 I mean, like, like John. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.639 Stewart said, it's effing weird, yeah, that it even exists 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:42.280 as a thing. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.320 But so they took themselves so seriously. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.880 I believe they would they would do this differently if 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.720 they knew how it was going to land after all 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.720 the criticism and Mark Halprin last week, taking apart his 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.679 explanations of how tough he was and all that sort 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.280 of stuff, because they go way over the top with 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.600 the seriousness of this. The whatever page it is before 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.800 the book starts, I don't know what you call that page. 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.960 It has a couple of quotes, one from Ulysses, a 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.519 poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Though much has taken much 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.639 abides and though we are not now. I won't read 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.920 the whole thing. It's very long, but some long complicated poem, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.000 and then also a quote from King Lear William Shakespeare. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.400 They told me everything they told me I was everything 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.320 'tis a lie. I am not og proof, which I 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.600 had to look up with some disease back in the day. 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.480 But to. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:40.120 Have these like heavy literary quotes before you start to 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.400 tell us something we already knew is weird. And you 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.800 were nearly the only class of people on earth who 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.600 were either blind to it or pretending otherwise. I'll read 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.680 some more from the like the the intro before they 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.000 get to the book. The lessons from this book go 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.880 beyond one man and one political party. They speak to 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.640 or universal questions about cognitive dissonance, group think, courage, cowardice, 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:10.040 and patriotism. Yeah toward you, Yeah, with you being like 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.760 the main you and your friends, right, not off you. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.560 We knew, we knew, and we're reacting that way. That's 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.840 what drove him out of office, the polls showing you 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.760 couldn't win because we knew you're the one. This paragraph 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.320 is about you, Yes, exactly. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.560 It's funny you were talking about John Stewart cutting through 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.720 the clutter to get to the simple truth of it. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:31.360 Just occurred to me. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.680 The simple truth of this is the tone of this is. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.359 Listen to this, and we expect your gratitude. 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.040 You should be grateful. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:48.159 To us for exposing these truths, all this smugness of it. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:53.360 No, Jake, No, you're the one group of people on 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.720 earth who can't be smug about this and can't let 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:57.880 sure anybody. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.800 Hey, let's go with this long orwell quote which we 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.320 usually read part of but not the whole thing, And 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.400 I will just because it's so damn interesting, and he 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.200 puts this in there also. Georgia Orwell once wrote that 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.320 we are all capable of believing things which we know 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.719 to be untrue, and then when we are finally proved wrong, 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.480 impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.520 were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.880 process for an indefinite time. The only check on it 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.600 is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:34.240 against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. He was writing 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:35.960 about World War Two, but he could have been writing 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.960 about anytime, any era. The Germans in the back to 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.640 the quote from Orwell, the Germans and the Japanese lost 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.400 the war quite largely because their rulers were unable to 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.600 see facts which were plane to any dispassionate eye. To 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.360 see what is in fronv one's nose needs a constant struggle. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.200 Uh. Which is very very interesting. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.919 And I doubt that Jake, when he put that quote 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:04.440 in there, was thinking about himself, the being able to 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:08.240 believe something we know to be untrue, and then when 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.440 we are approved wrong, twisting. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.040 Facts to show we were right. That is exactly the 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:14.720 Jake Tapper story of the last week. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:21.560 Yeah, and then Jake writes, Jake and Alex, we should 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.560 throw in Alex Thompson's name, who gets a lot of 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.680 credit from a bunch of people for actually being kind 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.400 of tough on the Biden people, but he was not 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.520 as big a star, so didn't get mentioned as much. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.400 Here was what is in front of our noses? Yeah, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.120 your nose. You're the one with the sources. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:39.080 Yeah. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.880 This is one of the most stunning examples of a 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.159 lack of self awareness I've ever observed. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.200 As I mentioned earlier in the show, one thing that 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.440 did come out of the book that I didn't know 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:55.440 was just how much they were lying to their own people, 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.320 not just the public or Fox or whoever, or even 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.159 the media, but like their own friends. The tightest circle 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.719 was lying to people that they are friends with and 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.480 have known forever. And that's part of why those people 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:15.400 believed it. I mean, you wouldn't expect, like your own 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.600 colleagues that you have a personal relationship with, when you 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.280 go to him and say, I saw the President on 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:21.120 the TV last night. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.240 What is going on? Oh he's fine, he is fine, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.040 trust me, Behind closed doors, he's fine. 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.480 Yeah, he'd had a long day, he didn't sleep all 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:28.960 the night before, but he's sharpest attack. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.000 Yeah, I'll just read a little bit from the book. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:31.520 Uh. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.800 Publicly and privately defending the president and his acuity. I 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.400 spoke with the White House and campaign officials regularly and 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:38.960 received constant reassurance. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:40.920 He's fine, he's fine, he's fine. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.280 They all said, you know, I'm not giving Jake Tapper 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.080 a pass because again, the public figured it out without 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.280 any sources. But if Jake Tapper is going to people 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.520 he trusts and his friends with and goes out for 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.720 drinks with and saying what's up, and they're saying, trust me, 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:57.239 he's fine. 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.360 You gotta trust me on this. I'm with him every day. Okay, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:01.960 I don't know what do you do. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.440 This was the experience of dozens of officials, from politicians 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.040 to donors to left leaning pundits. In the spring of 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:13.080 twenty twenty four. This democrat called top White House officials 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.040 every day. I'm defending this guy. The top democrat told him, 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.680 someone tell me he's okay. Like it doesn't look great, 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:22.640 the press conferences don't look great. He was reassured every time. 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.040 The top democrat told us, I'd love to know which 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.040 top Democrat this was. Anita Dunn told me he was fine. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.680 That's one of the inner circles. Jeff told me he's fine. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.920 Jeff Design's chiefest staff told me he was fine. Donaldin said, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:40.280 I promise he's okay. To their faith, Yeah. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.840 To the wallow a little longer in orwell though it 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.320 sounds like Jake Tapper and these people are being told 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.319 by the friends and associates ignore the evidence of your 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:49.120 eyes and ears. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.920 The President was fond of using the formal family motto 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.880 of giving my word as a Biden, but they had another, 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.120 more private saying in the Biden family, never call a 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:07.320 fat person fat. It wasn't about politics, It was about 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.640 ignoring ugly facts. Don't say mean truths. Is how someone 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.760 close to the family put it. The Biden's greatest strength 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.439 is living in their own reality, this person told us, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.840 and Biden himself is gifted at creating it. Bo isn't 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.439 going to die Hunters, sobriety is stable. Joe always tells 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.920 the truth. Joe cares more about his family than his 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:27.520 own ambition. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:28.559 They stick to. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.720 The narrative and repeat it over and over inside and 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:32.760 outside the family. 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.360 Wow, that rings true. 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.040 From twenty twenty three, what I've been able to observe 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.800 right of their family. Yeah, from twenty twenty to until 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.199 twenty twenty four. All this resulted in an almost spiritual 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.480 refusal to admit that Biden was declining. I thought that 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:56.240 was interesting, For instance, about lying about health situations. Bo Biden, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.600 who died, the son that he referenced all the time 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.080 of cancer, was the sitting Attorney general of Delaware. He 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:06.080 had an important public position in the state. He lied 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.840 about his cancer the way his dad has been lying 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.679 about his cancer currently. In the summer of twenty thirteen, 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.680 Bo collapsed during a family vacation and underwent brain surgery 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:19.120 to remove a tumor. Bo's tumor was definitely stage four. 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.920 Biden later wrote about the post operative findings. It was 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.960 a death sentence, under wrote Bow began limiting his public 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.040 appearance as his fall. He stopped doing media interviews. He 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:32.120 appeared gaunt, but Biden and Bo's team internally debated not 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.480 to disclose about vote Bo, the Vice president's son and 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.120 state's top law enforcement officer, but ultimately said nothing. In November, 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.560 Bo told the local reporter that he'd been given a 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.360 clean bill of health. This was not that many months 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.640 before he died, So he was lying in his own state. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.960 In a position where the voters should know, you're dying 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.160 and not capable, and they. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.479 Were flying him all over the country doing these experimental 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.280 cancer treatments and everything like that. I mean, on one hand, 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.200 you got, like you brought up last hour, you've got 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:02.800 your own personal health and how much do you need 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:03.559 to share with people. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.079 But on the other hand, you're. 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.120 Not able to do your job that the people put 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.840 you in office for at all, and you're you know, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.280 you're looking at people in the face of light. But 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.520 the point I think from Jake Tapper and Alec Thompson 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.360 in the book by laying that out, is the Biden 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.079 family just created their own reality about whatever story they 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.720 wanted to and always did to the media. 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This 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:57.120 the biggest espionage operation against the US in its history. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.400 At sixty minutes, talking about the Chinese intelligence efforts against 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:06.040 the US going on right now as we speak. Let's 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.679 hear one more clip. Michae Linn will discuss why. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:13.400 Do China's espionage efforts appear to be growing so big, 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.360 so fast under c Jimping. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.200 Chi Jinping thinks it's China's time to move to the 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.600 center of the world stage. Xi Jinping looks at the 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.160 West and at the US and says, these people are 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.880 feeble minded, and I'm going to be able to beat them. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.920 Hey, I'm standing right here. I can hear you. 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.200 Hey, look at the president for the last four years. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.160 Thanks for feeble minded? Where'd you get that impression? 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.880 Says the United States as a whole, Hey, we can 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.200 hear you calling us feeble minded? 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:44.240 Yeah, I see. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.480 The problem is I'm afraid they're gonna pull it off, 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.160 replacing the United States as being the center of the world. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.320 The only thing stopping them are their own, like internal problems. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.960 We're not doing a good job of stopping them. 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.200 No, And they have a massive, massive effort to spy 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.560 on the United States, both the conventional spying, industrial espionage, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.160 and the rest of it. And I've told this story 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.800 many times before, but I was acquainted with some folks 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.640 from the FBI counter terrorism I'm sorry, counterintelligence, you know 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.560 efforts who went to a prominent college campus and told them, hey, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.080 you've got a bunch of Chinese agents on your campus, 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.840 masquerading as researchers and students and the rest of it. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.440 And we're told by the university president get off my campus, 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:29.760 you racists. We are just coming through that part of 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.320 the woke mindset, the rejection. 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:33.720 It's xenophilia. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.560 If they're foreigners, they must be good because I hate 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.160 my own country. And how dare you suggest that these 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.600 nice Chinese people might be agents? Well, this is so 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:48.480 interesting from the Free Press, a story about specifically, and 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.800 it's not unique to Stanford University, but there's a hell 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.920 of a lot of it. The story is how China 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:59.520 turned Stanford students into spies. And again, this is solid 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.240 damn journalism. It would take me half an hour to 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.640 read this whole thing to you, but it is old school, 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:09.520 many months spent journalism. Last summer, a man calling himself 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.920 Charles Chen approached several Stanford University students unsolicited using social media. 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.800 There were almost all women, and they were invariably researching 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.160 China related topics. One of them was Anna, Stanford undergrad 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.000 student working on sensitive subjects linked to Chinese economy and 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.480 military developments. At first, Chen's outreach seemed benign. He asked 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.120 about networking opportunities, but soon his messages took a strange turn. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:35.160 He and he requested anonymity. He spoke Mandarin, He spent videos. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.280 He sent videos of Americans who had gained fame in China. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.080 He encouraged Anna to visit Beijing, even offered to cover 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.520 travel expenses, on and on, told her how long to 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.600 stay in China, short enough to avoid scrutiny by the government. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.040 Then he urged her to communicate exclusively. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.000 Via the Chinese version of we Chat, a platform heavily 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.400 monitored by the Chinese Communist Party. Mentioned things he knew 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.480 about her that she had never told him, and he 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.080 asked her to delete screenshots after commenting on one of 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.240 our social media posts, and on and on it well, 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.000 with the help of experts familiar with espionage tactics and 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.639 a contacted the FBI, it revealed Charles Chen had posed 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.960 as Stanford's student for years, slightly altering his name and 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.080 online persona. He was actually an agent of the Chinese 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.879 Ministry of State Security the MSS, who the sixty Minutes 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.320 folks were talking about, whose job it was to target 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.320 Stanford's students sympathetic to China who could be used to 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:32.439 gather intelligence, and for years concerns about Chinese espionage have 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.960 quietly persisted at Stanford, yet until now, no attempt has 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.199 ever been made to gauge how pervasive it is. The 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:43.200 answer we discovered after a year long investigation is very pervasive. 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:48.600 Everything overwhelming evidence that the CCP is orchestrating a widespread 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.000 spying operation at Stanford. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:51.520 Dang it, there's so much more to say about this. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:52.919 We have to bring it back up because we're out 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.680 of time. Everyone should know the letters at MSS. Don't 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.120 ever throw around KGB or something like that. That's that's 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:03.160 in the past. MSS is what is going to ruin 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:07.520 your life. That's the mount KGB of China. I would 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.040 be delighted to go big on this anytime you want. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.719 We'll do it soon. Yeah, we've got a lot off. 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.040 You miss a segment. Get the podcast Armstrong and Getty 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:16.640 on demand. 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:19.800 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:28.480 They literally are trying to take healthcare away from millions 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.960 of Americans at this very moment in the dead of night. 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.320 Oh my god, Oh my god. It's a party of monsters. 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:40.120 That's why they're having the Republicans. They're monsters. 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.439 That's why they're having the one am vote tonight on 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.359 the big beautiful bill to try to slide through in 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:52.560 the darker night, the cutting back on Medicaid. 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.159 And so the Republicans who are actual vampires can come 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.320 out to vote too, because you know, the sun is down. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:02.120 So Craig Gottwalls originally Craig the Obamacare lawyer, because when 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.480 Obamacare was in the works and passed, Craig would talk 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.159 to us about it, longtime friend of the show, and 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.760 everything he said was true, and virtually everything he predicted happened, 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.440 in contrast to most of the coverage of it, which 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:17.520 was garbage. Well, Craig is now Craig the healthcare Guru, 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.879 and we're going to talk a little bit about Medicaid, 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.080 among other things. Craig Gottwaals, how are you, Craig. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:26.320 I'm good, How are you, gentlemen? 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:28.720 Terrific? Thank you very much. 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.000 So what do you make of Hakeem Jeffrey's quote there 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.840 and what is the reality of Medicaid? 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.880 Well, it underscores just how we can never give anything 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.639 to the government. This is why we can't have nice things. 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:43.960 Right. 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:48.320 So in nineteen sixty five, the federal government passed Medicare 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:52.879 and Medicaid, and specifically with respect to Medicaid, the whole 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:57.199 idea was, man, we need a safety net for like 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:01.160 single moms with disabled children who are falling through the cracks. 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.760 We need we need this, this mechanism to just capture 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.760 the most disadvantaged among us, to help them out, to 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:10.119 give them, to give them a lift. 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:11.680 Right, so we did. 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.880 And back when this was passed in nineteen sixty five, 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:21.840 it was designed to cover two percent of Americans. Today 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.840 it covers one in three Americans and forty one percent 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:27.880 of all babies burst in our country. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.879 Whoa forty babies born? 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:35.159 So originally forty one line the disabled, the utterly unable 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:39.120 to help themselves, and now it is approaching half of us. 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.000 Is that because we have so many more single moms 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:42.800 with blind babies? 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.040 Or what does happen? Well? 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.359 You know you got you, you know better than I jack. 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.879 This is entitlement creep, government creep that its finest. I 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.600 mean you When we when this really took took off 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:58.679 and became insane was with Obamacare in the early you know, 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:04.199 twenty teens. When Obamacare came into play, Obamacare was bribing 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:06.240 the states, because you know, the way this thing works, 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.600 it's an agreement between the state and the federal government 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:12.159 and they're shared financing, right, So the federal government couldn't 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:15.520 just say to the states, you shall expand Medicaid. But 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.040