WEBVTT - Feed Them To The Dogs 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:11.120 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm Strong. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:17.239 And Getty and now he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.360 The pardon sweeping covering offenses that Hunter Biden quote has 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.240 committed or may have committed or taken part in over 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:32.760 the past eleven years. 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:38.199 Eleven years is a very specific and not rounded amount 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:40.959 of time, So Haunter. 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:42.159 I'll give you a pardon a. 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:43.880 Few years, five years, ten years. 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:45.640 It needs to be eleven. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.000 And if you would be so kind, make sure this 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:58.040 upcoming New Year's Eve is also covered. Going to get Christy, 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.800 I didn't know pardoners could after crimes you may have 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.880 committed us. I'm surprised Biden didn't include the phrase on 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:07.800 Earth one or any. 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.400 Of the Earth in the multiverse. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.760 John Stewart had a lot of fun with the Hunter 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.360 Biden pardon last night, pointing out that yes, eleven years 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.520 is very specific. Why not twelve? Why not ten? There 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:29.800 must be some reason you chose eleven and all the 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.080 speculation that goes with that, and then just the damage 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.240 it did to all those candidates that were out there 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.640 for the entire election year saying, look at the difference 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.880 between Republicans and Democrats. We let the Justice Apartment do 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.120 its job and then live with the results. The Republican 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.559 Party fights blah blah blah blah blah, right, and Trump 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.240 claims it's all of politics. And then and then Joe 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:58.400 Biden specifically puts out a statement saying the Justice Department 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.720 is infected with politics and okay. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.880 Which happens to be in the case of Hunter Biden, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:06.720 the opposite of the truth in which he was cut 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:11.400 to probably felonious sweetheart deals by a fixed Justice department, 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.880 but he found the gumption to claim otherwise. This is 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.640 outrageous in half a dozen different ways. The idea that 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.960 a dad let his son off the hook for crimes, 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.760 I mean, everybody gets that, and it may be wrong, 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.520 and you might condemn it, but that's not where the 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.839 focus needs to be. The focus, in my opinion, needs 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:32.880 to be on the utterly insane eleven year period where 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:37.720 anything you did during that period you'll never be prosecuted for. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.639 It's not like he got convicted and sentenced to five years. 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.600 I'm commuting his sentence because he's my boy. No, this 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:48.440 is a sort of blanket license for lawlessness backward. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.960 Yeah, the Dispatch had a good piece on that. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.680 Today, some legal observers have pointed out that Joe Biden 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.680 could have structured the part in a way that didn't 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:00.079 undermine the credibility of the Justice Department but preempted targeting 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.720 by the Trump administration, because Biden is claiming that, well, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.000 when Trump gets into office, he's gonna spend all his 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.680 time trying to get Hunter Biden. Biden could have simply 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.720 issued a pardon on any uncharged crimes, but let the 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.359 tax and gun convictions stand, for instance, so that Trump 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.520 couldn't have tried to find other stuff but said, you know, 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.120 my son did these things and so he's going to 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.480 pay the price. Or he could have commuted the future 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.080 sentencing decisions in the two cases he was convicted in, 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.520 just commuted those and left it alone from that. Instead, 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.080 the President opted for a broad pardon and justified it 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:37.960 by claiming political bias by federal prosecutors. Well that's David Weiss, 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.840 who if you've been following this whole saga, remember him, 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.240 he's the Special Council. Well, he isn't taking this allegation 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.960 sitting down, writes the dispatch because Joe Biden basically called 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.720 him out and said he's corrupt over the weekend, So 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.960 weis his office filed a motion on Sunday in the 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.160 tax case requesting that the judge closed the docket on 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.640 the case and instead of simply dismissing it, which would 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.040 preserve the record of the indictment, just so it continues 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.800 to be there as opposed to going away. Prosecutors included 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.240 a thinly veiled rebuttal to Biden's claims there was none 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.280 and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.160 prosecution in the case. Weiss goes on to say, in total, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:23.320 eleven different federal judges appointed by six different presidents, including 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.800 Hunter's father, considered and rejected the defendant's claims, including his 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:32.880 claims for selective and vindictive prosecution. Wow, that's the Justice 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.719 Apartment saying, oh no, don't go claim and work corrupt 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:41.560 ufing liar. Yeah, yeah, six all those judges appointed by 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:48.479 six different presidents, on the specific complaint of we're politicizing this, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.560 have all rejected that after looking at it. But you, 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.680 Joe Biden, have found something somewhere that none of those 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:56.440 judges saw. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:01.080 It's ridiculous and maybe the senile Potus hooked all this up. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.119 I smell the unholy lavender perfume of fake doctor Jill 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.560 in all of this, right, yes, we. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.360 Can in that. 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.400 If Biden had merely said, look, he's my son and 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.159 I love him. He screwed up while he's on drugs. 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.520 He's paid back his taxes. I'm commuting his sentences, people 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:24.120 would be angry and saying this is you can't be 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.719 angry at Clinton for the Mark Rich thing. You can't 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.400 be angry at Trump for Gerald Kushner's dad. You can't 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.239 be mad at any of these presidents and then put. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:34.960 Up with this. We don't like this. 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.680 You better be careful, presidents, or there's gonna be a 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.039 price to pay. Okay, that would have been fine, but 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.800 it went so far beyond that. Not only the blanket 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.800 pardon for all sins that maybe were committed that we 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.240 don't know about, which is I mean, that's like beyond 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:54.159 what Ford gave Nixon fifty years ago. It's crazy, but 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:59.360 the indictment of his own Justice Department, in the defiance 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.880 of those eleven feral judges of all facts of the 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.960 Sweetheart deal. Weis's cooked up that got tossed out by 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.520 that good judge you in DC. 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:13.159 Why would you do all that? It's it's horrible. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.520 This has gotten and it will continue to get quadruple 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.839 the scrutiny of just commuting the sentences for the tax 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.200 and gun crimes. The answer why you would do some 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.240 of it is because you run a money laundering outfit 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:27.520 and have for decades. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.760 Ben go that's got a bit of an Okham's razor 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.320 to it. Or if that, you know, whatever's the most 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:40.480 likely is usually the right answer. Here's an interesting angle 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.919 from Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.200 As a father, I don't know if a father that 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:46.880 would have done the same thing, well, I would have 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.240 done differently. My recommendation, as the counsel would have been, 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.440 why don't you go ahead and pardon Donald Trump for 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.480 all his charges and make it you know, it had 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.360 been gone down a lot more balanced, if you will, 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.279 I'm just saying, wipe. 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.080 Them out for his legacy. 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.080 I don't know from that standpoint, does it makes it difficult? 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:05.839 Decent point from Joe Manchin. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.960 If you're believing that things got too political in our 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.800 justice system during a hot presidential election, yeah, pardon hunter 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.000 pardon Trump. Let's all just move forward and claim we're 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.440 going to do better in the future, though we won't. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.280 Yeah. I don't want to get off on this tangent, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.400 but it is what he did, and the way he 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:27.000 did it. 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:33.640 Was unnecessarily politically just terrible. David Actionlrod Smart David Actelrod 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.800 on CNN this morning said it was handled very poorly. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.960 There's all kinds of different options. You could do the 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.880 thing you were talking about about, partning Hunter as a 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:44.920 dad and everything like that, but I realize not everybody 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.960 has these connections, and that's why I'm launching the come 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.440 up with an acronym that is all about helping drug 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.400 addicts get back on their feet, some program that's never 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:55.120 going to do anything. 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.680 But you say that sort of you know, yeah, yeah, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.000 you'd promote legislation. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.960 It wouldn't even get a but it doesn't matter for 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:06.040 how troops in the field and drug addicts and whomever 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.280 else gets to second Chance or tax counseling or something. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.400 But they didn't even try, which is just either a 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.880 sign of he doesn't give a crap, or well, it's 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.520 probably that hey, let's do this for me, do this 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:23.720 for me. On January twentieth. It's the twentieth right, Yep, 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:29.760 Trump gets inaugurated. We are going to lose the pleasure, 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:37.720 the joy of listening to one Carine Jean Pierre vomit 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.760 up some of the most ridiculous word salads I've heard 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.800 in my history of watching this stuff. I mean, she 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.280 is a being asked to defend the indefensible, which is 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.200 frequently the job of the Press secretary, but b she's 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:53.679 uniquely terrible at it. And she was confronted with the absolute, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:09:01.360 undeniable dishonesty and hypocrisy of the whole hundred pardon thing 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.960 by reporters who are fairly aggressive and thirty five Michael is. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.800 Just this is. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:16.000 Like her on core song on her farewell tour. This 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:17.040 will be remembered. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.480 You have said repeatedly yourself since the election. The President 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.120 has said for months no pardon was coming. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.840 I just I wanted to ask you, could those statements 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.480 now be seen as lives. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.480 From the American people? Is there really credibility? 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:30.840 Is you hear? 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.000 Given now this announcement. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.200 First of all, one of the things that the president 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.800 always believes is to be truthful to the American people. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.719 That is something that he always truly believes. And if 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.160 you see the end of his I assume that you've 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.640 read his statement and you look at the end of 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.080 that statement, and he actually says that in the first line, 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:57.600 in the last paragraph and respects the thinking and how 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.720 the American people will actually see this in his decision making. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.000 And I would encourage everyone to read it full of 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.680 the President's statement. I think he lays out his thought process, 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.040 He lays out how he came to this decision. He 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.319 came to this decision this weekend. So let's be very 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.000 clear about that. He says it himself, it's in his voice. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.280 He said he came to this decision this weekend, and 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:25.160 he said he wrestled with us and because he believes 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.120 in the justice Simpson, but he also believes that the 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:32.679 war politics infected the process and led to a miscarriage 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:33.320 of justice. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.400 Yeah, that's my favorite part is how those last two 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.720 sentences don't go together. I believe in the justice system, 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.120 but I believe it was infected with politics, So. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.880 I don't believe in the justice system. Let's hear the 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:48.200 follow up, Michael. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.160 Does the president believe now and agree with President elect 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:56.560 Trump that the justice system has been weaponized for political 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:01.920 purposes and that it needs brute and brands reform. 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.800 No, read the president's statement seriously. Read the president's statement. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.880 He said he believes in the Department of Justice. He does. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.040 He also believes that rural politics infected the process and 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:13.840 it led to a miscarriage of justice. 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.640 He believes his son was unfairly targeted. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.560 He said that what his political opponents have done to 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.720 my son, that's his words, is cruel and enough is enough. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.040 I believe in marriage and the sanctity of marriage. I 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.520 would never cheat on my wife. You're kissing her right now. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:30.920 I would never cheat on my wife. 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.840 Why are you up your hand while you're saying this? 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.280 Wow, she is either incompetent or shameless or just being 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.760 put in an impossible position. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.360 That actually made my brain hurt. The dissonance that made 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:49.120 my brain hurt is that is yeah. Does she know 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.559 I just said two sentences that are one hundred and 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:52.960 eighty degrees opposite each other. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:58.360 Yes, I just I just contradicted myself, like back to 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:02.640 back words. So I understand the power that the Press 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.320 secretary has and how if you have an ongoing relationship 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.920 with them, you've got to be at least a little 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:14.800 diplomatic as a reporter. But why don't Moore say you 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.960 didn't come within a mile of answering my question, or 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:22.760 you just said two things that are directly contradictory in 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.199 the same paragraph. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:25.720 Sort them out for me, please. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:33.079 He believes in the justic justice system, he doesn't believe 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:34.439 in the justice system. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:35.679 Those are between. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:40.200 If the justice system has been politicized, no, absolutely not, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:46.319 but politics perverted the justice system. Wow, all right, you're 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.839 wasting my time in your sweetheart. I can't wait till 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.520 you're gone. Now shut up. I'm psick with you. I 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.199 don't care if I get access. Your mummified presidency is over. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.480 You even lying in my face for two years. Now goodbye. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.240 To get out. Somebody get her a parachute. We're going 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:03.040 to toss her out of here. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.240 dB Cooper's style, which reminds me they may have figured 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.520 out who dB Cooper was. Did you follow that story 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:09.400 while we were on break? 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:14.520 Very exciting. I saw a headline. Yeah, that's a good one. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.640 They might actually have figured it out. I mean, seriously, 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.679 I'm just not sure I care anymore. Oh, and some 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:26.959 other stuff that we have to get to stay here, 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.640 So there's craziness going on in South Korea right now. 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.360 Like I'm looking with the TV, south Korean troops descend 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:39.240 on Parliament as opposition politicians. So the president declared martial law, 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.439 et cetera, et cetera. This has all been happening in 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.040 the last couple of hours. Let's get a quick report 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.040 from CNN and then a little more for you. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.560 This is essentially the first martial law in something like 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.679 forty years in South Korea. They have enjoyed a peaceful 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:59.920 transfer of power despite increasingly divided politics that have been 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:04.520 plaguing Soul. The president un his approval rating has been 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:09.080 absolutely abysmal. As the reason for this martial law, his 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.520 opponents believe that what he's really trying to do is 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.400 to try to push through his agenda, including getting a 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.800 budget passed. He feels is impossible with his opposition in 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.560 control in parliament right now. So by enacting martial law, 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:29.560 essentially banning political activity, taking control of the media, banning 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.600 people from gathering in protests, I mean, all of these 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.400 things are now essentially illegal under martial law. 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.200 So in one report, so this sounds like the president's 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:40.600 going out of his mind, doesn't it? 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.480 So this is this report. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.200 I see our friend Mike Leins is up on CNN 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.800 talking about it, and some of the video it looks 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.640 crazy around the parliament building. I mean, South Korea is 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.000 a real country. It's not like some you know, Central 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.520 South America nut job country. South Korea is a real country, 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.800 and they got nutty stuff happening in there right now. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.760 But here's one report. We're route to the National Assembly 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.160 now we've confirmed members of law enforcement at the behest 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.560 of the president are blocking politicians from getting back into 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.400 the National Assembly. Lawmakers want to get back there and 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.080 undo the declaration of martial law. So the lawmakers are 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.560 trying to get back into Parliament to vote and saying no. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.520 Apparently they've got enough division of power the same way 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.880 we do that they could say no, you don't get 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.640 to have a martial law, but the president has got 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.080 the cops keeping them from getting back in, so they 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:31.600 can't do it. 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:33.200 Wow. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.080 Wow, this is the first declaration of martial law since 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.240 they ended their military dictatorship in the late eighties. But 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:44.520 this is the sort of stuff that like Trump derangement syndrome, 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.920 people think Trump will do right. I mean, where you 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.440 would have the military or the cops, stopping Congress from 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.920 being able to do something that would not happen in 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.800 our country. Right, But I mean, it's got a very 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.440 January sixth look to it. I'm watching it on television 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:04.640 right now. Pretty violent push and shoven trying to get 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.040 the doors open, trying to get the doors closed, depending 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.440 on whether you're the I don't know if those are 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.920 cops or military, all of them, but people are pouring in. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.520 I don't know if they're all politicians or just human beings. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.520 But that's quite a mess. So the head. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:25.240 Of the president's own party set in a Facebook post 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.680 that the president's martial law declaration is wrong and he 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.960 would work with the citizens to stop it. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.240 Hey, we got another great clip about this. Maybe we'll 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.040 get to when we come back from the commercials. This 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:40.280 is kind of exciting to watch a fully mature economy, 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:41.960 Western civilization sort of place. 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.200 Boulevart and one of our allies and one of our allies, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.040 right fun. 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.040 You say, old fathead in North Korea has got to 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:51.360 be watching this and thinking. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.480 Or thinking you're doing it all wrong. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.280 No, no, no, shoot everybody and the rest exactly. 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.920 You shoot a couple editors, you have fire amount of cannons. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.560 What are you doing here? Feed them to dog? Who pops? 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.160 And feed them to dogs? 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:13.520 Oh my god, Oh we've got more on the way. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:13.399 Armstrong and Geddy. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.400 There are police officers on the phone who are wondering 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.119 what is going on, who are calling their captains. You 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.040 can overhear them in Korean saying what are we doing? 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:28.160 What is happening right now? There are people who are 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.639 leaving bars, who are leaving restaurants, calling their moms, calling 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.920 their dads, calling their children, saying I'm coming home right now. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.720 This has not happened within the twenty first century. A 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:45.600 declaration of martial law something that remains in memories of 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.400 people from the nineteen eighties when South Korea was still 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:49.719 under a military dictatorship. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:50.000 Yeah. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.800 Well South Korea has gone nuts again, at least for today. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.119 So the president of South Korea declared martial law. It 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:02.680 looks like to keep his version of Congress Parliament from 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.440 counterbalancing any some of the things that he wants to do. 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.160 So he declared martial law so they couldn't get back 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.159 in and vote on various things. Well, one thing they 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.080 want to do, they wanted to do is get back 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.480 in and vote no, we're not going to have martial law, because, 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.800 as you just heard from those reports there, everybody you 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.880 know in Seoul is like, what the hell's going on? 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.560 I mean, this is really weird. I mean I can't 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.440 leave the school, I can't leave my place at work. 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.600 The police don't know what they're supposed to be doing. Well, 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.680 enough of the parliament got back in to the building 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.120 and we were watching it on TV live. I mean 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.080 it had a January sixth look to it. I mean 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:42.640 they were fighting through cops who were probably conflicted as 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.439 to whether or not they should have been following the 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.959 president's orders or not trying to get back into the building. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.600 But enough of them got back into the building, and 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.000 the South Korean National Assembly has decisively rejected the martial 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.840 law declaration, with one hundred and ninety of the three 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.520 hundred lawmakers voting in favor of the motion to block 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:04.080 it by law. President Youwn must comply, and it's most 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.480 likely believed that an impeachment procedure will begin immediately. 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.040 Wow wow, Well, this is a real test of the 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.240 institutions of that particular democracy. Obviously, the next twenty four 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.920 hours ago is going to or so rather is going 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.639 to be really telling do they convene the impeachment vote 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:27.600 to the police and military, you know, accept the wishes 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:28.240 of the legislatu. 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.480 Yeah, it's classic, has been this way through all through history. 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:34.960 Are the cops in the military going to follow the 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:39.440 president or not? Or the law or the law, And 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.960 that's way it always goes. And you know, going back 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.440 to Christmas Day ninety one, is that when it was 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:49.680 when Yelton was staying out on the tank, the military said, nah, 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:50.520 we ain't going to do it. 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:52.840 We ain't firing in all these people. We ain't doing it. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.720 And then it's over that direction, or sometimes it goes 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.199 the other way see Tieneman Square nineteen eighty nine. The 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.240 military does fire on all the people and the little 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:04.200 rebellions over. 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.200 Tell you what to pull back the camera a little 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.800 bit and get a broader view, folks. One of our 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:17.359 most important allies modern democracy is having a near coup 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:22.720 and never has any babies anymore and is demographically disappearing. 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.359 China's on the war path has similar demographic problems. Even 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:30.600 their allies now are starting to get pissed off about Jack. 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:34.680 This will gratify you, cheap Chinese crap getting dumped into 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:38.000 their markets and putting their manufacturers out of business. 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:41.040 Man, there is instability in the air. 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.280 And something I was reading I'm not smart enough to 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.880 completely understand, but we just the Biden administration just announced 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:51.080 some new sanctions that's going to really make it difficult 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.840 for China to get the best computer chips or make 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.160 the best computer chips. And then so they blasted back 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:01.320 with some terraf for ban or something on dual use 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.760 things that could be used for military purposes that you 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:09.080 can if you want to claim anything. So there's that 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.840 level of economic warfare going on, which is just the 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.359 burbling under the surface of the real warfare that is 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:19.159 practically inevitable. Inevitable between the United States and China. But 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:21.960 Trump is going to over the next four years as 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:25.560 he heads into his eighties. He's obviously inheriting the whole 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:31.280 Israel hamas hezbela really Israel Iran thing, and then the 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.959 Russia Ukraine thing, and then China. Is not all that 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:38.520 stuff is going to play out during his first term. 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:39.520 It ain't gonna be easy. 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.879 No, Although it's remarkable the extent to which already the 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.080 winds have shifted in the Middle East, as Trump has 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:50.159 made his support for Israel and against Iran, which is 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:52.040 unmistakably clear. 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:52.480 On that front. 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.680 I just came across this tweet from Mark Penn, who, 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.159 if you're not super into politics, and you shouldn't be, 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:01.919 you don't know this name. He was an advisor to 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:03.960 the Clintons back in the day and would go on 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:08.520 all the Sunday shows, hardcore democrat. But he tweeted out 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:12.600 Joe mentioned this earlier. Trump basically said, Hey, give back 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:14.600 the hostages or we're going to hit you so hard, 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:16.719