1 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: And good morning everybody on this Sunday, March the twenty ninth. 2 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt with the warning today by Malcolm Nance 3 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: black Man, spy, and Denver Wrinkleman, the former congressman, and 4 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: of course the January sixth advisor counselor staff member. Whatever 5 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:22,400 Speaker 1: you did there, it was consequential and important. It is 6 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: the thirtieth day of the war, and this war, as predicted, 7 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: is not going well. Malcolm, before he we're at war, 8 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: we had a conversation with Ken Harbaugh, and the conversation 9 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: went something like this. I said, Malcolm, Ken, have you 10 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: both sailed through the Strait of Horror Moves? And you 11 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: both responded saying yes, we have sailed through the Strait 12 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: of Horror Moves. And then I asked you to describe 13 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: the Straight of Hormuz, and you said, the Strait of 14 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: Hormuz is very narrow, and it is surrounded on both 15 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 1: sides by high grounds between Iran and Oman. And we 16 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: talked at length about the fact that air power alone 17 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: would not be able to control this vital strait, this 18 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: waterway through which a great deal of the world's oil 19 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: passes through. So here we are a month later, none 20 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: of the strategic goals the administration set out at the 21 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: beginning of the war have happened. And like we predicted 22 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: in a worst case scenario, here we are at the 23 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: escalation where there's talk of using light infantry, airborne troops, 24 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: and a marine expeditionary unit to seize islands, airports and 25 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 1: perhaps the high ground around those airports. Again with no plan, 26 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: no strategy, no press embedded with the military at all. 27 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 1: And how do you see it? 28 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 2: Gosh, you know I have sailed through the straight of 29 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 2: horm Moves. I've been through the straight of Hormor Moves 30 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 2: a dozen times in war. In the nineteen eighties we 31 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 2: had the oil tanker wars going on. Back then we 32 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 2: were escorting warships. And you know, I've been around all 33 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 2: of those islands, Kishem Island, Hengum Island, Larak, lesser to them, 34 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: greater to them, Alba Musa, Kish and did a major 35 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: naval battle off of Siri Island, which is between Albu 36 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 2: Musa and Kish Island, where Trump wants of land troops down. 37 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 2: There been in Iranian Minefield's rescued a ship that was 38 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 2: struck in and got into an anti ship missile duel 39 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 2: shot down Iranian aircraft, all in a matter of hours. 40 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: If this goes the way Iran wants it to go, 41 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 2: that straight will close as long as they wanted to close. 42 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 2: What's happening now is we are seeing a piecemeal ad 43 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 2: hoc off the top of their head, series of decisions 44 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 2: about first bringing two thousand, five hundred marines. Well, out 45 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 2: of that two five hundred marines, only about two hundred 46 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 2: and fifty of them actually shoot rifles right or machine guns. 47 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 2: There's a lot of support troops, the aviation troops. You could, 48 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 2: if you wanted to give everyone a rifle a chance 49 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 2: to do it, but. 50 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 3: It's not enough. Then they ordered another. 51 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: Amphibious readiness group to come out, which would give you 52 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 2: five thousand, which is about six hundred guys who could 53 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 2: actually shoot, but. 54 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 3: Very little lift. Then they bought. 55 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 2: In thousands of thousands of special Forces and which are 56 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 2: being secretly stationed in Israel and Jordan. And then we 57 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 2: heard about the alert of the eighty second Airborne, a 58 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:12,239 Speaker 2: thousand of their troops plus an additional two thousand of Theirs. 59 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 2: Something bigger than the straight Home moves Islands and card 60 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 2: Island is happening. And I did a substack on it 61 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 2: this morning. I'm going to do another one later. Apparently 62 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 2: we're going to paradrump thousands of troops into Iran. 63 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 3: And how would I know this? 64 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: Because Donald Trump told everyone to watch Mike Levine last night, 65 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 2: and on his show he justified the use of US 66 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 2: parachuting troops into Iran to seize nuclear materials. Him and 67 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 2: Mark Deeson, we are going to a place right now 68 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 2: that I am afraid is going to be an order 69 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 2: of magnitude worse than where we are now. 70 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: Really remarkable to think that you have Markndison, Fox News 71 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: ponded George W. Bush White House, colleague of mine and 72 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: alumni of that administration, and Mark Levine truly, truly is 73 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: Megan Kelly calls him micro even even though it's Megan Kelly. 74 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: You have to you have to give credit where credit's due. 75 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: But truly, Mark Mark Levin a world class and I 76 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: mean world class whack job. A if if if if 77 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: we if we tap out it at whack jobs at 78 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: four star rank, we haven't seen a fivear whack job 79 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: in fifty years. He's he's eligible for it. A true, 80 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: a true whack job. So you have Mark Levin and 81 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: you have Mark feeson concocting airborne jumps of the eighty 82 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: second into Iran country of ninety three million p people. 83 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: What say you denver about the state of things thirty 84 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: days in huh? 85 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 4: You know, I don't know if I can put it 86 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 4: any better than Malcolm there when you talk about the 87 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 4: lack of preparation, stupidity is terminal, and you have a 88 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 4: lack of talent, you have a lack of mission planning prowess. 89 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 4: But I don't think with me, you know, my background's 90 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 4: a little different than Malcolm's, you know, with mission planning 91 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 4: with air assets and being in certain areas forward that 92 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 4: were just a little bit bizarre, not specifically in the 93 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 4: straight of horn moves, but in oman as you guys 94 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 4: know been in UAE cutter right, that whole sort of 95 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 4: balance or that whole boundary to the straight of horror moves. 96 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 4: But I don't know if we should do mission planning 97 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 4: through MAGA influencers. 98 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 5: I don't know if that's really where we should be. 99 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 4: And I think that's why when you see people like 100 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 4: me and Malcolm, you almost get a loss of words 101 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 4: for what's happening, because we've never seen where you don't 102 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 4: have this this ethos that we've had of America to 103 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 4: have press embedded with the military. But also when we 104 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 4: certainly don't know why we're conducting these operations at this time. 105 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 4: And I do think thirty days in, I think when 106 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 4: Malcolm says it's peacemell is exactly right, because I think 107 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 4: they thought the decapitation strike this would be over in 108 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 4: two to three days. 109 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 5: I honestly believe. 110 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 4: I think people were in Trump's here saying that. But 111 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 4: I will say this, and I know we can get 112 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 4: into it later, Steve, and I think Malcolm would love 113 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 4: this conversation. Is the longer this war goes on, the 114 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 4: more the Trump family profits from it, and especially when 115 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 4: you're looking at the specific lines of investments, the self dealing, 116 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 4: the most obscene and deviant self dealing we've seen in 117 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 4: presidential history on the hundreds of millions to billions in 118 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 4: money that's being downstreamed into Trump's pockets, and not just 119 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 4: Donald but his sons, and I think right now we're 120 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 4: in a state where this war really does benefit them, 121 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 4: specifically with their investments and Anderil Pallanteer in drone companies 122 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 4: such as extend unusual machines power US and the loans 123 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 4: that they're receiving from Officer Strategic Capital at over six 124 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 4: hundred million dollars. You're talking about taxpayer money they're utilizing 125 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 4: for investments, and then getting taxpayer money for contracts, and 126 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 4: then utilizing those contracts to get other contracts, and then 127 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 4: using that money from contracts to invest in other companies 128 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 4: they've already invested in. It is one of the biggest 129 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 4: war profiteering self licking ice cream comes I've ever seen. 130 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 1: Biggest in the history of the country. I mean, we 131 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: had very substantial war profiteering during the First World War, 132 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: which led, of course famously to the Truman Committee in 133 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: the Second World War to stamp out and prevent war profiteering, 134 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: and Harry Truman was very very good at that unprecedented 135 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: as bad as the First World War historically, how should 136 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: we think about the Trump families profiteering in the first 137 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: month of war where gas prices are surging for ordinary 138 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: Americans and America's soldiers, sailors, airmen's and marines are risking 139 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: their lives, with some coming back already in flag draped caskets. 140 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: How do how do we conceptualize it? Well? 141 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 4: I don't know, Malcolm probably wants to chime in here too, 142 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 4: but I can give one example. I can give two examples. 143 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 4: The first is the example for Extend Drones in Israel, 144 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 4: Israeli based company. How incredible is it that Eric Trump 145 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 4: Junior knew to invest in February seventeenth into Extend drones 146 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 4: and then this current iteration of the Iranian more starts 147 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 4: in February twenty eighth. 148 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 5: How do and how do we how do we even 149 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 5: get our arms around this? 150 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 4: And by the way, those companies are also connected to 151 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 4: power Us and Unusual Machines to other drone companies And 152 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 4: you're like, well, Denver, what does that mean. Well, in 153 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 4: November twenty twenty four, the week I believe, the week 154 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 4: or two weeks after Trump was elected, guess who's on 155 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 4: Unusual Machines board another drone company, Donald Trump Junior. 156 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 5: And you're like wow. 157 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 4: And then you have power Us, which is really underneath 158 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 4: the front a reverse merger with another company that's you know, 159 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 4: sort of golf course specific. I shouldn't say that, but 160 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 4: you know that's actually linked to some of the mineral 161 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 4: companies too. In the overview, which is the Trump family 162 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 4: seventeen eighty nine fund, and they're doing all this stuff. 163 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 5: So there you go. 164 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you something to think about. I'm gonna 165 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna come back to you, but I'm gonna I'm 166 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 1: gonna frame up for you what I what I want 167 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: to talk about. Honestly, in my lifetime, I have seen 168 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:51,719 Speaker 1: very very very few successful congressional committee hearings. 169 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 4: UH. 170 00:11:52,559 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: The January sixth committee hearings were exceptionally done. We're exceptionally done. 171 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: There are all manner of Trump travesties that can be 172 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: investigated must be investigated, from public land selloffs to public health, 173 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 1: but there is nothing that if you were to put 174 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: one thing on the primetime the high card in all 175 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: of the corruption is this point of contact between the 176 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: use of force, Right if there's a single email that hey, 177 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: this is gonna knock Epstein off the cover of this, 178 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 1: that or the other, but the use of force and 179 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 1: the opportunities that come from killing people financially to the 180 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: to the Trump family. And so I don't know if 181 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 1: you're the if you're Hakim Jeff, and I really want 182 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: to know your opinion on this. What should they do? 183 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 1: Here are their prime time hearings. Do you begin the 184 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: hearing with a Dwight eisen Howard delivering his farewell speech 185 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 1: about the military industrial complex? How do you go about this? 186 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: Because this is this is we've reached the place in 187 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six that is the fulfillment of every degree 188 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: of the warning the Dwight Eisenhower issued and then some. 189 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 1: And I want to give you a second to think 190 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: about that, and I want to bring Malcolm back into 191 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: the conversation. I remember at the beginning of the of 192 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: the war of Russian aggression against Ukraine, you have this 193 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: image on television of two Russian soldiers in an out 194 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: of gas tank with no shells, about to be killed. 195 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: And you think there and you say, wow, how is 196 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: it that these guys at the at the end of 197 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,199 Speaker 1: the line, are the guys about to be blown up 198 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: on on video sitting in this tank with no gas 199 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: and and and and no shells in it? Right? And 200 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: they're they're at the end of this long line from 201 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: putin on down of corrupt decision making where everybody gets 202 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: a piece on the way down until these three schmows 203 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 1: are left in the tank. And so so you have 204 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: right now, uh, all of the forces we talked about 205 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: earlier in the conversation, but we have the most sophisticated 206 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: worship in the world. 207 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 2: Uh. 208 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: The Gerald Ford, the first of a new class. The 209 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: plumbing doesn't work. Uh, it is out of the combat 210 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: theater of operations. It's in Greece, and it is in Greece. 211 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: And apparently we'll be out of service for at least 212 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: two years because of a fire. And I wanted to 213 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: ask you if you have any updates on that fire. 214 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: Is there any any talk in naval circles that this 215 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: fire was was set by the crew, reported in a 216 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: Greek daily to get the ship out of combat, out 217 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: of out of combat service. And then also what is 218 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: what is the operational status of the of the Abraham Lincoln, 219 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: the second carrier on on State there? And if we 220 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: had any American ships at at State that that have 221 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: been struck since the beginning of combat between the United 222 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: States and Iran. 223 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, there have been no US warships that have 224 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 2: been struck thus far because we are keeping them really 225 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 2: far out of the war. You know, I took a 226 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 2: lot of guff early on because I was talking about 227 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 2: the Avenger class minesweepers being removed from the theater, and 228 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 2: we have all these you know, Sunshine sailors who are 229 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 2: out there saying we have these literal combat ships that 230 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 2: have a mine sweeping module on them and they're capable 231 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 2: of doing anything in the Arabian golf. We wake up 232 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 2: and find that they're actually left just after the fighting started, 233 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 2: slipped past the straight of Horn Moose and went to Malaysia. 234 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 2: There right now. Two of them are in Singapore. One 235 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 2: of them may be in the theater. But there are 236 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 2: no US warships out there in the combat area of operations. 237 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 2: We have a carrier strike Group that is launching cruise 238 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 2: missiles from ships, we have launching aircraft that are carrying 239 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 2: out combat operations from the air. There's no one actually 240 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 2: physically out there shooting at the Iranians at the surface level. 241 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 3: So no, none of our ships are in danger. 242 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:06,120 Speaker 2: The Abraham Lincoln has taken some evasive maneuvers. I look, 243 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 2: Iranian intelligence is getting their location from the Russians real 244 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 2: time thermal imaging intelligence. And I actually, you know, I 245 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 2: wrote a substack a couple of weeks ago. It's since 246 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 2: been overtaken by events called Iran can sink a carrier 247 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 2: if they had decided to put one or two hundred 248 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 2: ballistic missiles into a tight box, they could have gotten 249 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,880 Speaker 2: the Abraham Lincoln because it was operating so close. That's 250 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 2: why the Lincoln moved halfway down. Ohman, it's closeer to 251 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 2: Yemen than it is to the Straight of Hormuz. 252 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 3: With regards to the Gerald Ford. 253 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 2: I don't know about what started the fire, and usually 254 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 2: they said they reported that the fire started in the laundry. 255 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 2: I've been on ships, I've been on submarines, I've been 256 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 2: on aircraft carriers. Laundries are the place where the guys 257 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 2: don't clean out the lint. But once a fire starts 258 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 2: in the laundry, you have a lot of people. 259 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 3: Right when your damage control teams you're a party. 260 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 2: Fire control teams should be relatively easy to control, even 261 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 2: if it got into the machine started setting fire to 262 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 2: the uniforms, which are generally nylon and plastic cotton. But 263 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 2: what I'm hearing is this jumped deck and went over 264 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 2: into sleeping spaces. 265 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 3: And these sleeping. 266 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 2: Spaces are generally about twenty four people right, three racks high, right, 267 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 2: two racks over, and about twenty four people at a time, 268 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 2: and their compartmented for that to go into there to 269 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 2: where you know now I'm hearing they have lost the 270 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 2: ability for six hundred sailors to sleep. Tells me that 271 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 2: there was a not a major conflagration, right. That's like 272 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 2: during Vietnam War where an aircraft carrier, airplanes are blowing up, 273 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 2: bombs are blowing up on deck, but an internal conflagration, right, 274 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 2: and they couldn't get to it. A lot of crews 275 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 2: were sickened by the gas the gas mask. We don't 276 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 2: use the old oba oxygen breathing apparats the way you 277 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 2: used to. We use bottled air the way that fire 278 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 2: departments do our damage control teams. But you when you're 279 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 2: exercising them, they go through it really fast. So but 280 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 2: all these sailors were got inhalation sickness and to lose 281 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 2: six hundred recks. Something very bad happened there that they 282 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 2: have not told us about. Now, listen, these guys moved 283 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 2: over to Suda Bay. They're all going to be going 284 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 2: back to the United States, no shore leaf after all 285 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 2: of that time in the theater of operations. They're not 286 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 2: even letting their carrier strike air Wing conduct. 287 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 3: Carrier operations from there, which. 288 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 2: Means their combat ineffective, like that carrier wasn't. 289 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 3: It isn't even in the war, it's not. 290 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 2: So whatever happened on that ship, maybe it could have 291 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 2: been a disgruntled sailor. We had a you know, we 292 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,679 Speaker 2: had a major conflagration that destroyed the USS Boxer, an 293 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,439 Speaker 2: amphibious assault ship up that they first got started with 294 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 2: a sailor. It turns out it may have started through 295 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,639 Speaker 2: you know, spontaneous combustion. But to endanger a ship that 296 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 2: is brand new like that, we have very serious issues, 297 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 2: that's for sure. 298 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: Thirteen billion dollar warship, two nuclear reactors, five thousand sailors, 299 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: the largest most sophisticated warship built in human history, out 300 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 1: of service from a fire, uh not through combat for 301 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: more than more than two years. Uh. The Department of 302 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 1: Defense again, uh now with budgets up to a trillion 303 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: and a half dollars and it can't pass an audit. 304 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 2: Uh. 305 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: Denver back back to you. I just we've been we've 306 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: been talking. I just with a with a minute, with 307 00:20:52,840 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: a minute to think about it. The the Democrats coming 308 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 1: into the majority, which I believe will happen in the 309 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: in the House, in the in the Senate. Uh, there's 310 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: every potential for there to be a stupid hour that 311 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: rivals anything that that that MAGA is able to produce. 312 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: And let's pray that doesn't happen. Let's let's have good 313 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,640 Speaker 1: thoughts that the serious people are are going to have 314 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: a serious plan uh to do the people's work here. 315 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 1: And so when you when you think about the corruption, 316 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: when you think about the trading on all of these 317 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: prediction platforms around around life and life and death, what 318 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: is what is necessary for democrats too to to do 319 00:21:53,920 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: and and and politically? If I was giving advice and 320 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: I'm going to give some gratis advice to the Democrats, 321 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: my body language would be hear me loud and clear, 322 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: people of America. We are prepared to lose elections over 323 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: and over until we win, until we can convince enough 324 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: people that were right on this principle. But we will 325 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 1: not allow this corruption. We will. We will not allow 326 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: it around the United States armed forces will not permit it. 327 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 1: We will, we will clean it out, we will root 328 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: it out. It is a type of necritizing rot that 329 00:22:54,720 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: you get more people killed than most Americans can conceivably imagine. 330 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,640 Speaker 1: We will tolerate it. That's our position. 331 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:04,880 Speaker 3: Mm hm. 332 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 5: Well stee, oh, good good enough. 333 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I don't know how many people 334 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 4: you want me to piss off, Steve, So I think 335 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 4: maybe I just better. So I'm going to tell you 336 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 4: right now, Congress is uniquely unsuited and unqualified to do 337 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 4: an investigation of this size as well as the January 338 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 4: sixth Committee did. I don't think people understand that Congress 339 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 4: has no law enforcement authorities. It's only a public trust investigation. 340 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 4: We could not see a majority of the data we 341 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 4: had to. We had to do such massive open source 342 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 4: parsing UH to try to put it together with whether 343 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 4: you're talking about identity resolution and finding out what phone 344 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 4: numbers we were doing the Meadows text messages, when you're 345 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 4: looking at over five million hard pages of phone records, 346 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 4: when you're trying to build link maps. But people don't 347 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 4: understand as Congress can't look at glocation data, we can't 348 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 4: look at data that is actually against people silver liberties, 349 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 4: we can't put warrants out. Everybody's like, oh my god, 350 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 4: Congress subpoened them and they ignored it, and now they 351 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 4: got to slap on the wrist. That's pretty much it 352 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 4: in the day's you know, in today's environment. The other 353 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 4: thing is this the budget that you're going to need 354 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 4: for specifically file the money on the corruption and the 355 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 4: self dealing going on in the Department of Defense and 356 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 4: the intelligence community. Means you actually need a counter terrorism team, 357 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 4: a file the money the team, a forensics team. You 358 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 4: have to have moneies, You have to have the political 359 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 4: will to get your own head out of your fourth 360 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 4: point of contact and actually go get experts to actually 361 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 4: do it and not just staff all these committees with 362 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 4: friends and political flowdowns, which is what sort of happened 363 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 4: in a multiple sections of the January sixth Committee. 364 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: As well. 365 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 4: As they did, they could never get over the hump 366 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 4: because there were too many political realities that they thought 367 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 4: that they had to address rather than just tracking down 368 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 4: the bad actors. And what I've told people is as 369 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 4: data blooms, is these file the money flows bloom. As 370 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 4: you're looking at at these very complex, this complex architecture, 371 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 4: you have to have real individuals that are ready to 372 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 4: go to war, that are ready to get down into 373 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 4: the weeds, down into the metadata, down into phone records. 374 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 4: Actually have a House resolution that allows for civil liberties, 375 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 4: data and we're not going to do it. 376 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 5: That's not going to happen. 377 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 4: And then you have to have a DOJ and FBI 378 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 4: willing to be as aggressive as that is, to go 379 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,919 Speaker 4: all the way in with that type of data, hard 380 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 4: warrants right and being very honest with the American people. 381 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 5: And it's been gutted. 382 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 4: And what I've been telling people is that when you're 383 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 4: looking at the military industrial complex, when you're looking at Trump, 384 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 4: do you know there's two people that where ethics do 385 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,360 Speaker 4: not apply or the rules do not apply for contracts. 386 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 4: Those two people are the president the vice president of 387 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 4: the United States doesn't apply. So all this awfulness, you're 388 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 4: seeing this corruption, this self dealing. The Trump boys and 389 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 4: direct line for seven hundred and fifty million dollars in 390 00:25:55,280 --> 00:26:00,439 Speaker 4: contracts with investment vehicles, in accounts under management of sixty 391 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 4: billion that they have their fingers in multiple processes. 392 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 5: Let's just say the whole. 393 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 4: Supply chain for drones from critical minerals to fabrication they have. 394 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 5: They're in everything. 395 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 4: And they did this right before all these major milestones 396 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 4: because their daddy signed an executive order for one point 397 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 4: one billion dollars for drone dominance. They Andrew just got 398 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,439 Speaker 4: a twenty billion dollar contract. So are Democrats willing to 399 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 4: hire experts and get out of their own way and 400 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 4: stop screaming about, oh my god, Trump farted on camera, 401 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 4: and we need to talk about what's actually going on 402 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 4: while they're distracting over here, while the real shit's going 403 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 4: on on the other side. And it's hard for me 404 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 4: not to get so angry as a person who's tracked 405 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 4: these money flows. I mean, my company supported Ophac, you know, 406 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 4: and I'm just I'm looking at this and my head's 407 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 4: exploding because it's so obscene, so diabolical. But I'm not 408 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 4: quite sure it's illegal based on the way that we've 409 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 4: fragmented our legal system, but also all of the actual 410 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 4: caveats so the president, the Vice president those around them have, 411 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 4: and the legal protections now from the flow down to 412 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 4: the Supreme Court, and how generalized some of the federal 413 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 4: acquisition regulations are. It is. 414 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 5: It is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. 415 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 3: Steve Can I make a quick comment there. 416 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, if I were running for office 417 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 2: and at this point I've got such a ridiculously lazy 418 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 2: congressman here up in upstate New York who got elected 419 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 2: on the strength of what's going on and has never 420 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 2: uttered a word about this war. If you can just 421 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 2: imagine that, I would be coming in as the Gangbusters. 422 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 2: I would say the Democratic Party, we've got to say, 423 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 2: we're going to root this thing out, root now, no 424 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,399 Speaker 2: matter what it costs. Will pass the legislation, you know, 425 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,719 Speaker 2: if we can, but we will just stop giving you money. 426 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 2: We will use that tool. I know the Trump administration 427 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,879 Speaker 2: won't allow it. They just steal the money. And we 428 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 2: will get into a situation where we have a Congress 429 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 2: that is constitutionally, you know, dictated as the law, create 430 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 2: the laws in the land, and a president who does 431 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 2: not believe in law, and we'll get that clash. 432 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,479 Speaker 3: But if they come in there and say that's it, 433 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 3: we've had enough. 434 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 2: But it ain't gonna happen when hikeme Jeffries as speaker, 435 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 2: if he becomes speaker, love a king Jeffries. 436 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 4: That guy. 437 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 3: I can't believe that guy's from Brooklyn because he's not. 438 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 2: You know, he he's he thinks he's a senator as 439 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 2: a coolt saucer of democracy, he should be the pitbull. 440 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 2: Same with Chuck Schumer is a Senator, none of these 441 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 2: guys are willing to fight for America and tear these 442 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 2: people apart and say we're coming for every one of you, 443 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 2: you know, to protect the constitution you're you know, and 444 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 2: if there are thieves in this all, we're going to 445 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 2: root you all out. I mean, you were talking about 446 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 2: drones a minute ago. You know, Specter Works, which is 447 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 2: the one that Eric Trump got seven hundred and fifty 448 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 2: million dollars for. 449 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 3: They stole that drone from Ukraine. 450 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 2: It's a Russian drone and an Iranian drone that they stole, 451 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 2: reverse engineered in no time and are now calling I 452 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 2: got the Defense Department calling it the future of drone technology. 453 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 3: You took a drist shaggy from Ukraine and are now 454 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 3: getting billions that Ukraine. 455 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 2: Didn't get it. It's disgraceful and it has to stop. 456 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 2: And we're gonna lose people here. I really think we're 457 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 2: gonna lose a lot of people here very shortly. And 458 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 2: we should just rip this apart. If we take back, 459 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 2: when we take back to. 460 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: Congress, Malcolm, the US Navy, in the US Army or 461 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: older institutions than the country itself, and in the Navy, 462 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: we could We could talk about the Navy and its 463 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: important to America and the development of the of the 464 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: country for for a long for a long time, longer 465 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: than we have time for today. But I'm gonna ask 466 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 1: you directly, dude, is the US Navy fucked up? We 467 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 1: have a problem. 468 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 2: Well, let's start from the top, shall we? Day one 469 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,959 Speaker 2: of this administration. Actually that's not true. I believe it 470 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 2: was day two or day three. Donald Trump fired the 471 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 2: female Chief of Naval Operations who had been in plans 472 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 2: and operations for decades, who helped ship where this Navy's going. 473 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 2: And some things are screwed up in the Navy, the 474 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 2: littoral combat ship, the LCS ship program, screwed up their 475 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 2: jewelry rigging, what's going around. But when you have Donald 476 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 2: Trump fire the Chief of Naval Operations, not replace her 477 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 2: for months, Fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of 478 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 2: Staff because he was black, and not replace him until 479 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 2: you get a guy who's a psycho. 480 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 3: Fant into the job. 481 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 2: Fire the commandant of the Coastguard, you know, because it 482 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 2: was a woman. Then what you're doing is you're saying 483 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 2: you don't care whether you have the best people in 484 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 2: the job. 485 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 3: You want bros in the job. 486 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 2: You want people who are out there the Pete Hagg says, 487 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 2: And let me quote Stanley McCrystal. General Stanley McCrystal former 488 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 2: had a Special Operations about Pete Haig seth. 489 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 3: He is a. 490 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 2: National Guarden, a disgraced National Guarden major who was kicked 491 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 2: out of the DC National Guard, who is unfit to 492 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 2: even be in the Pentagon, much much less Secretary of 493 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 2: Defense who got his job by being on a friendly 494 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 2: basis with the President of the United States, pretending that 495 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 2: he's a war fighter. And what was his last words, 496 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you are a potential war criminal. 497 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 3: This is what's leading us right now. The Navy's not 498 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 3: screwed up. 499 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 2: What's screwed up is everyone above the Navy who's giving 500 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,479 Speaker 2: them orders, right giving them crazy orders. 501 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 3: Hobby. We I have been. I have been in the 502 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 3: Persian Gulf my entire career, on and off. 503 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 2: And let me tell you someone, when the first crisis 504 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 2: of the New Iranian Revolutions started in nineteen seventy nine, 505 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 2: we had marines there right supporting Operation Desert one, Operation 506 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 2: Eagle Claw. 507 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 3: To skit American hostages out of there. 508 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 2: Every year we have had Marines in the Persian Gulf 509 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 2: in case of contingency. But for this war, they didn't 510 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 2: even bother to put them on contingency until we decided 511 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 2: we were to bring in ground troops, and emergency brought 512 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 2: them over. The next contingent's not ready to come over, 513 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 2: not ready to show up for three weeks. 514 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 3: Now we're having to bring the airborne over. 515 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 2: And half of Special Operations Command is secretly living on 516 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 2: a base in Jordan and in Israel. Right now we 517 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 2: are planning things where guys are going, oh yeah, let's 518 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 2: do that. 519 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 3: That'll look cool. We'll land on that island, We'll jump, 520 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 3: this will be like normandy. We are in a bad 521 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 3: way right now. 522 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,959 Speaker 2: It is not the Navy, it's everybody above the Navy. 523 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 2: Oh and Secretary of the Navy is an art dealer 524 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:05,479 Speaker 2: who dealt in erotic art and has no maritime, nautical. 525 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 3: Or managerial experience. We are screwed. 526 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 1: There are two female Black Army colonels. Apparently have you 527 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: followed this story, Malcolm, Yes, you are who are being 528 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: denied promotion to one star rank, which which Dave earned, 529 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: And I just I wanted to ask you about it. 530 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 2: Well, Denver will back me up. You know we're both 531 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 2: intel you know intel types. I was senior in listed. 532 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 2: He was an officer. 533 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 3: And in our world, all right, I was a chief. 534 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 3: So you know my world, walk up with a coffee cup. 535 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 2: I got one human equal opportunity philosophy, and that's get 536 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 2: the fuck. 537 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,400 Speaker 3: To work, right. So what do we have out here? 538 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 2: I've got a President of the United States who refuses 539 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 2: to stand next to a black female general at Arlington 540 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 2: Cemetery where we are honoring our debt. These people, Pete 541 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 2: Hecceth is. 542 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 3: A white supremacist. He is a racist. 543 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 2: And you know I have people out there Denver who 544 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 2: will be out there saying, hey, Malcolm, you know you're 545 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,959 Speaker 2: retired navy. They can recall you on the active duty 546 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:21,760 Speaker 2: of court martial. 547 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,160 Speaker 3: Through it, bring it. You will hear a chief go 548 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 3: off in a level you will never imagine. 549 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,839 Speaker 2: And it's all public too. I mean, we are in bad, 550 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 2: bad shape. 551 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:39,719 Speaker 1: Mandle me, riddle me this. Why have not a general Millie, 552 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 1: that one of the more famous generals of the era. 553 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,319 Speaker 1: They've all been intimidated, they've all been told that they're 554 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,399 Speaker 1: going to be recalled for court martial. Why hasn't one 555 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 1: of them said fine, Fine, I'm gonna go on the diet, 556 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,840 Speaker 1: get the uniform back on, right, I'm ready, right, court 557 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 1: martial me right. There's been lots of great Americans you've 558 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: experienced trumped up charges at military court martials. We got 559 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,919 Speaker 1: we got, we got Jackie Robinson at Jackie Robinson Day, 560 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,200 Speaker 1: coming up, Jackie Robinson, just one of them. Dick Winner 561 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 1: is another great American, right, trumped up, trumped up court martials. 562 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 1: So why do you think that is? 563 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 4: So? You know what's interesting is that even me coming 564 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,840 Speaker 4: on here right and Malcolm can probably attest to this, Steve, 565 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,680 Speaker 4: I know you can. I have companies, I have people 566 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,560 Speaker 4: that I am very very. 567 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,279 Speaker 3: Responsible for it. 568 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,800 Speaker 4: But you know, data and facts are something that are incontrovertible, incontrovertible, 569 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 4: but it can get you in trouble. When I look 570 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 4: at some of the officers military officers, I wonder what 571 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,840 Speaker 4: the hell's going on because there are people like me 572 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,399 Speaker 4: out here's people like Malcolm out here that are saying, hey, 573 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 4: we have a real problem in the United States of America. 574 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,560 Speaker 4: Could and how in the hell right are we supposed 575 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,560 Speaker 4: to address it? If the very people who are serving 576 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,319 Speaker 4: this country don't stand up now we look at people 577 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 4: like Stanley in my Crystal wonderful right. We certainly have 578 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,439 Speaker 4: had generals that stepped up, But where is Millie right now? 579 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,799 Speaker 4: And you also have to look at there are so 580 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,080 Speaker 4: many And Malcolm's going to laugh at this. I think 581 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 4: you will too, Steve. There are so many consulting contracts, 582 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 4: there are so many flow down jobs or somebody waiting 583 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,160 Speaker 4: right to you know it's going to get better, and 584 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,839 Speaker 4: I don't. I still got a sort of hedge, right, 585 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,760 Speaker 4: Even with all the individuals that stand up and say this, this, 586 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 4: this and this, there's always still this little bit of hedging. 587 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:35,000 Speaker 5: And how do I know? 588 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,680 Speaker 4: Because I still sometimes wonder should I hedge based on 589 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,439 Speaker 4: what's going on and based on my responsibilities? How far 590 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,480 Speaker 4: should I go? How specific do I need to be? 591 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 4: Should I even speculate? Should I just stay right on 592 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,879 Speaker 4: the left right boundaries of what the data says when 593 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,319 Speaker 4: I know, based on my decades of experience, what that 594 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,160 Speaker 4: data actually means downstream? But if I speculate that way, 595 00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:58,680 Speaker 4: what does that do to my companies? 596 00:36:58,719 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 5: What does that do to me? 597 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 4: What is that to my family? How does that actually 598 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,080 Speaker 4: affect what happens to me in the future? It's a 599 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,400 Speaker 4: very selfish thing sometimes, right, because you're saying, well, I 600 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 4: got to worry about this, I gotta worry about that. 601 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,799 Speaker 4: I gotta worry about people. But you're also there's this 602 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:16,359 Speaker 4: little tremor right of trepidation where you're like, huh am, 603 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,160 Speaker 4: I actually right about what I'm saying. 604 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,040 Speaker 5: It's almost like when we saw. 605 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,080 Speaker 4: The first data, when I was the only one to 606 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:23,960 Speaker 4: speak out against QAN on the floor of Congress as 607 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,920 Speaker 4: a Republican misgat right, everybody said, Denver, you're crazy, that's 608 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:28,719 Speaker 4: a punchline. 609 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:30,320 Speaker 5: QAnon isn't real. 610 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,799 Speaker 4: I'm like, well, they're actually stating they want to kill 611 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:39,399 Speaker 4: congressional members on specific encrypted encrypted chats, so it might 612 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,719 Speaker 4: be I don't think that's just aspirational. And they're like, no, Denver, 613 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,360 Speaker 4: I said, well, I've seen this before. This looks a 614 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,520 Speaker 4: lot like the actual radicalization methodologies that I've. 615 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:48,239 Speaker 5: Seen in the Middle East. 616 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:48,440 Speaker 2: Uh. 617 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,759 Speaker 4: Even they might be a bunch of white people, but 618 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,960 Speaker 4: I'm a white guy, and I'm telling you I don't 619 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,080 Speaker 4: speak like this. I don't think there's any normal people 620 00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,960 Speaker 4: that speak like this. And I don't care if you're white, black, 621 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,400 Speaker 4: I don't care whatever ethnicity. 622 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 5: This is a little odd. 623 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,120 Speaker 4: But they're also say any want to kill folks and 624 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,480 Speaker 4: they want to overthrow the election. 625 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:08,080 Speaker 5: And it was like, Oh, you're full of shit. 626 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 4: Dan, I said, well, I think there's going to be 627 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 4: violence on January sixth from what they're saying. I think 628 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,560 Speaker 4: it could be large. I think it's going to be 629 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,520 Speaker 4: a lot larger and a lot worse than Charlottesville. 630 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:17,280 Speaker 5: That's what I said. 631 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,480 Speaker 4: And everyone's like, ah, you're full of shit. Well I wasn't, 632 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,720 Speaker 4: because data's data, facts or facts. 633 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:25,840 Speaker 3: And I was even. 634 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:26,359 Speaker 5: Worried about that. 635 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,080 Speaker 4: Steve, I was like, should I really say this on 636 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 4: the floor of Congress on December tenth when I gave 637 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:32,000 Speaker 4: my finals. 638 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,879 Speaker 5: You know what, what if I'm wrong? Is it really 639 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:35,600 Speaker 5: that crazy? 640 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 3: Man? 641 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:37,919 Speaker 4: I don't know if I can I trust the data? 642 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,280 Speaker 4: Can I trust what I'm saying? I think you're seeing. 643 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,440 Speaker 4: All of that is a big mess of general officers, 644 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,799 Speaker 4: other officers, other former military people who are like, I 645 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:46,400 Speaker 4: took an oath? 646 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,040 Speaker 5: Is this guy really that bad? 647 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,960 Speaker 4: And I would humbly submit Steve Malcolm, yes, yes, And 648 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,040 Speaker 4: at some point, how far. 649 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:54,400 Speaker 2: Do you go? 650 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,239 Speaker 4: And I think that's the thing, Steve. I think that's 651 00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,840 Speaker 4: what you're saying, I hope that made sense. I'm psychoanalyzing 652 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,239 Speaker 4: the entire world here, but I but I can only 653 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,680 Speaker 4: use my personal experience and the and the feelings and 654 00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,640 Speaker 4: the fear that I go through every day based on 655 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,080 Speaker 4: my military experience, my congressional experience, my companies, and my family. 656 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,439 Speaker 4: But I still feel like it's my duty to call 657 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,439 Speaker 4: out badness when I see it, and I'll use data 658 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,360 Speaker 4: in facts and do the right thing. And sometimes it 659 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,359 Speaker 4: can be painful, you just sort of deal with it, 660 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,080 Speaker 4: I guess well. 661 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: I think one of the things listening to that is 662 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:33,799 Speaker 1: that in every scenario that you can imagine and how 663 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,520 Speaker 1: it plays out in the world we live in, I 664 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,520 Speaker 1: have an absolute faith that our side is going to 665 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,200 Speaker 1: prevail in the in this fight, I don't I don't 666 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:50,360 Speaker 1: have a doubt about it, though though I think things 667 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:57,120 Speaker 1: are going to get worse before it before it gets better. Barred. 668 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:02,560 Speaker 1: None the greatest care eruption that I that I have 669 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:08,360 Speaker 1: ever seen in my life, and and I think historically 670 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,879 Speaker 1: that has ever been around the White Houses is right now. 671 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:18,400 Speaker 1: And and you specifically have the military contracts with the family, 672 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,279 Speaker 1: you have the amount of money flowing in from the 673 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:29,320 Speaker 1: Arab the Gulf Arab states to to Jared Kushner, which 674 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: is which is outrageous. And then lastly you you have 675 00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: these prediction markets and the gambling, which is it moral, unpatriotic? 676 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:49,960 Speaker 1: It is it is abominable. And the cleanup, the ethics cleanup, 677 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,520 Speaker 1: has to embrace I think a couple of broad principles 678 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,560 Speaker 1: that that Democrats should should be before and so of 679 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:04,799 Speaker 1: course no, no member, no member of Congress should be 680 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,120 Speaker 1: doing any stock trading as a member of Congress. They 681 00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 1: want to own mutual funds, they want to have their 682 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:15,120 Speaker 1: stuff in a blind trust. But no day trading, No, 683 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,680 Speaker 1: no stock trading. No, no member of Congress gets to 684 00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:23,880 Speaker 1: go be a lobbyist after after leaving Congress, right or 685 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:28,000 Speaker 1: a consultant, which is a lobbyist in a in a 686 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,880 Speaker 1: in another name. That there needs to be very tight 687 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:35,399 Speaker 1: ethics laws in the same manner. No, no retied four store, 688 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,280 Speaker 1: three store, two store should go and be a defense 689 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,319 Speaker 1: contractor or a defense lobbyist, and the rules should be 690 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,239 Speaker 1: very clear. If that's what you choose to do, then 691 00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,120 Speaker 1: you're gonna lose your grade and retired rank. You're a 692 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,920 Speaker 1: four store, then you're gonna revert to Colonel if that's 693 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,960 Speaker 1: what if that's what you want to do. But we 694 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:59,800 Speaker 1: we have to clean this up as a as a country, 695 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,440 Speaker 1: and and the Democrats are gonna have to be an 696 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:11,480 Speaker 1: intolerant party when it comes to corruption, anybody's corruption. And 697 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,920 Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party is gonna have to become the 698 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:20,479 Speaker 1: ethics party. There's there's no other way strategically to take 699 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,880 Speaker 1: that first step off the line, but through this ethics 700 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:31,759 Speaker 1: quartal mm hmm and challenging these people. And so we're 701 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,160 Speaker 1: we're at a uh and we're we're quickly at the 702 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,080 Speaker 1: at the end of our hour. Here. Let's bring it 703 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:43,240 Speaker 1: back to where where we started a month A month 704 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:48,000 Speaker 1: then or yes or no? Really quick malcolm, yes or 705 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,800 Speaker 1: no question. Are we still fighting a month from now? Yes? 706 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,279 Speaker 3: Absolutely, no question, Yes. 707 00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:02,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's that's that's three yess, yes or no 708 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:11,239 Speaker 1: right now on on this question. What country has has 709 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,000 Speaker 1: control of the straight of horror? 710 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:18,680 Speaker 2: Meus right now, Malcolm, Iran, it's it's Iran straight to command. 711 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:24,000 Speaker 1: We do not have freedom of navigation in the industraight 712 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:24,600 Speaker 1: of hornies. 713 00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,120 Speaker 2: No one has freedom of navigation. You can use the 714 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,960 Speaker 2: toll booth. Now that the Iranians are set up, not joking. 715 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:41,759 Speaker 1: And we have relieved the Iranians of sanctions for their 716 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:46,399 Speaker 1: oil at sea, so they have been able to accomplish 717 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,960 Speaker 1: with a month of fighting what they were unable to 718 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:57,880 Speaker 1: accomplish with fifteen years of negotiation. Is that correct? 719 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,600 Speaker 5: I mean it seems that way. I mean we're to 720 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:04,560 Speaker 5: a point now. 721 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:09,719 Speaker 4: That Malcolm and I know that it's it's almost incredible 722 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:13,839 Speaker 4: to me that it seems like Iranian iron strategic objectives 723 00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,239 Speaker 4: are being met with our assistance. 724 00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,359 Speaker 3: You know, there's a beautiful thing. 725 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,200 Speaker 2: If you take carg Island right, If you go to 726 00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 2: carg Island, there's like ten ships there right now. Every 727 00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:31,840 Speaker 2: one of those ships cannot be touched because they are 728 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,640 Speaker 2: there are no sanctions against the oil because they're on 729 00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:38,040 Speaker 2: the water. And once oil reaches to ship on water, 730 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:40,640 Speaker 2: Iran is free to go. That's a quarter of a 731 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:45,120 Speaker 2: billion dollars per ship, by the way. 732 00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:48,000 Speaker 1: And and the incredible thing about that, right is that 733 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:53,040 Speaker 1: any strike on that ship spikes the price of oil 734 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:59,280 Speaker 1: on the global market, which has the benefit of enriching 735 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:09,560 Speaker 1: the Iranian, enriching the Russians, hurting the Western economies, and 736 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:13,080 Speaker 1: reinforcing the Iranian regime's fundamental position. 737 00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're making bank. 738 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:22,560 Speaker 1: So Malcolm, real quick, I give you guys the last 739 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,640 Speaker 1: word here. I agree with all of these, all of 740 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:30,960 Speaker 1: these things. So we have two marine expeditionary units, we 741 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:36,480 Speaker 1: have the division ready Brigade of the eighty second Airborne 742 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:42,000 Speaker 1: seventy fifth Regiment, and all the special forces or in 743 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:49,760 Speaker 1: theater a light infantry heavy assortment. We have all sorts 744 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:56,560 Speaker 1: of rating capacity. We don't have any really occupation. We're 745 00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:00,799 Speaker 1: staying there with any type of permanence. So we're going 746 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,799 Speaker 1: to have all these light infantry units likely engaged in 747 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:09,520 Speaker 1: combat over over the next month. So a month from now, 748 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:15,080 Speaker 1: a month from now, when when we sit and we look, 749 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:20,400 Speaker 1: what are these what are these maga politicians in Washington 750 00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,080 Speaker 1: going to be telling us we need to do next 751 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:29,160 Speaker 1: in terms of escalation? What is the next posture of 752 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:33,080 Speaker 1: forces for our winning war that they're going to tell 753 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:38,440 Speaker 1: us needs to be deployed imminently lest the Republic be lost. 754 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:43,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, and Denver will enjoy this because I know he 755 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,239 Speaker 2: like as an intel guy. We both trained at the 756 00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,040 Speaker 2: same facility near in Goodfellow Air Force Bace. 757 00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,080 Speaker 3: You know, let me tell you a funny story. There 758 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,000 Speaker 3: is a ship moving right now out of. 759 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:57,719 Speaker 2: Diego Garcia and it is carrying fifty eight M one 760 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:02,640 Speaker 2: tanks and nine hundred armored PERSONANEL vehicles and trucks. That 761 00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,800 Speaker 2: is part of our prepositioned forces. The Trump administration canceled 762 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,680 Speaker 2: that contract to preposition forces the post desert storm last January, 763 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,680 Speaker 2: and last November, this ship secretly sailed up there to 764 00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:15,600 Speaker 2: Diego Garcia. 765 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,400 Speaker 3: It is now en route to the Indian Ocean. 766 00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:23,040 Speaker 2: There's also reports for Fox News that ten thousand additional 767 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:26,759 Speaker 2: soldiers are going to be called up because they are 768 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,520 Speaker 2: the ones who would be operating these tanks in APCs. 769 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:31,120 Speaker 3: So that leads me to. 770 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:35,600 Speaker 2: Believe that we are preparing to have our version of 771 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,799 Speaker 2: moving forces into Kuwait so that there can be an 772 00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,000 Speaker 2: There's an old movie you guys might want to watch 773 00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,480 Speaker 2: called A Bridge Too Far, and the name of the 774 00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,600 Speaker 2: mission was Operation Yeah, Operation Market Garden. 775 00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,239 Speaker 3: I have a bad feeling we are about to do a. 776 00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:55,200 Speaker 2: Version of Market Garden where our paratroopers jump into Iran 777 00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,600 Speaker 2: and they'll live there for a month or two digging 778 00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,040 Speaker 2: down into these tunnels, and that in our strike forces 779 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:04,520 Speaker 2: supposed to go through these Zargos Mountains and get to 780 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:08,359 Speaker 2: them because they're in any runways. There's no airports, so 781 00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:10,680 Speaker 2: all of the indications are there. And then I had 782 00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:14,239 Speaker 2: Fox News tell me last night, you know, Mark Levine say, 783 00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,840 Speaker 2: this war is now about recovering WMD's. 784 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,759 Speaker 3: Does that sound familiar? So that's where we're going to 785 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:21,360 Speaker 3: be in a month? 786 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:23,239 Speaker 1: Yeah? 787 00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, I mean, I don't know if I can 788 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,000 Speaker 4: put it much better, but I think the other thing 789 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,920 Speaker 4: we're going to see are more conspiracy theories, more insanity 790 00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:32,680 Speaker 4: about why we're in Iran. 791 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,240 Speaker 5: I think you're going to see more issues. 792 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:37,839 Speaker 4: The other thing I think they're gonna bring up again 793 00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,600 Speaker 4: and Malcolm's gonna love this is the whispers of Greenland again. 794 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:42,879 Speaker 2: Yeah. 795 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,200 Speaker 4: I think that we're gonna We're probably gonna see they're 796 00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,239 Speaker 4: gonna have to do some kind of pivot here. I 797 00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,840 Speaker 4: don't know what exactly it looks like yet Steve and Malcolm, 798 00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,040 Speaker 4: but there's got to be a pivot because they're going 799 00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,320 Speaker 4: to still be there in the next fifteen to thirty days. 800 00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:55,640 Speaker 5: What's that pivot going to look like? 801 00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,960 Speaker 4: What are the rationalizations going to be and how are 802 00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,319 Speaker 4: they going to explain away boots on the ground how 803 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,040 Speaker 4: are they going to explain away these troop movements? And 804 00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,360 Speaker 4: then where do they go from here? If all prices 805 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,160 Speaker 4: have spiked to the point where we're getting in some 806 00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,439 Speaker 4: places in the United States where diesel is over six 807 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,800 Speaker 4: dollars a gallon and regulars around five dollars a gallon, 808 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:16,759 Speaker 4: how do they actually do that. There's got to be 809 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,120 Speaker 4: something crazy cooking. They got to be coming up with 810 00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:24,760 Speaker 4: another type of bizarre disinformation propaganda campaign or conspiracy campaign, 811 00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,520 Speaker 4: and they got to start distracting. So I'm thinking, and Malcolm, 812 00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:32,040 Speaker 4: I'm thinking, we're going to see some Cuba slash Greenland 813 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:36,200 Speaker 4: slash Venezuela news in foreign interference and election coming in 814 00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:37,320 Speaker 4: the next thirty days. 815 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:43,279 Speaker 1: Yikes, Madness ahead, everybody, and for every step of it. 816 00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:48,320 Speaker 1: We will be together talking on if not next Sunday, 817 00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,560 Speaker 1: a Sunday soon after. Always great to spend some time 818 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:56,120 Speaker 1: with black Man Spy Malcolm Nance. If you don't follow 819 00:49:56,360 --> 00:50:00,680 Speaker 1: or subscribe to Malcolm, he's a must follow, And the 820 00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:06,759 Speaker 1: same with Congressman Denver Rigelmann. And these two have been 821 00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:10,239 Speaker 1: on top of what is happening from the from the 822 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,719 Speaker 1: very beginning, and I just urge you to listen to 823 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,200 Speaker 1: the voices who told you months ago what was happening, 824 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:21,399 Speaker 1: what was building, what was coming, what was next? Then 825 00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,040 Speaker 1: it happened, Who told you what was going to happen next, 826 00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:27,080 Speaker 1: after that, and next and next, And here we are 827 00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,319 Speaker 1: and are telling you what's going to happen next after this. 828 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:37,400 Speaker 1: We are two hundred and nineteen days away. Do not 829 00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:43,480 Speaker 1: let anybody tell you that it is going to be 830 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:48,240 Speaker 1: the case in November that you won't have a vote. 831 00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,919 Speaker 1: Trump doesn't have that power. We voted through World War, 832 00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:57,480 Speaker 1: Great Depression, Civil War. We're going to vote, and we're 833 00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,759 Speaker 1: going to vote these people out of all and out 834 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:05,800 Speaker 1: of power by the bushel. And we have to insist 835 00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:11,520 Speaker 1: on accountability by a democratic Congress that, for a lot 836 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,560 Speaker 1: of different reasons, as Malcolm pointed out, is going to 837 00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,480 Speaker 1: be incentivized to look the other way, to move on. 838 00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:24,840 Speaker 1: And we cannot, must not, and will not move on 839 00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:30,880 Speaker 1: from the law breaking, from the immorality, from the treachery, 840 00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:35,799 Speaker 1: from the insanity, from the gravity of what it is 841 00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:40,840 Speaker 1: that these people have done, and specifically what they have 842 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,640 Speaker 1: done in the Middle East is that they have started 843 00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:48,400 Speaker 1: a war and that they have gambled with other kids lives, 844 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:59,160 Speaker 1: other people's kids lives, right, people, our kids age lives 845 00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:07,319 Speaker 1: to get to sell weapons, and the American people can't 846 00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:11,080 Speaker 1: tolerate it. And so we got a boom in November. 847 00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,960 Speaker 1: We are going to lower the boom and come January, 848 00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,080 Speaker 1: I expect that there's going to be a full accounting 849 00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:24,600 Speaker 1: every email, every instance of religious nuttering, every instance of corruption. 850 00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:29,560 Speaker 1: If you put it down electronic record, it exists and 851 00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:33,680 Speaker 1: it will be discovered and it will be found. And 852 00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,920 Speaker 1: I think that this is going to be a major 853 00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:40,520 Speaker 1: fault line in American politics between the look away faction 854 00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:45,640 Speaker 1: inside the Democratic Party if we're back in power, and 855 00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,880 Speaker 1: that was the end goal all along versus we have 856 00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,480 Speaker 1: to make sure these people never hold power again in 857 00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:55,680 Speaker 1: the United States. And that's what our goal is to be. 858 00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:00,000 Speaker 1: And so with that, good afternoon, everybody. On this Sunday, 859 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:04,879 Speaker 1: twenty ninth of March twenty twenty six, America at War 860 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:09,320 Speaker 1: will be back next Sunday. Thank you everybody, Thanks Steve, 861 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:16,080 Speaker 1: thank you out, Thanks all right, guys, thank 862 00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,680 Speaker 3: You, yikes, oh say thank you, thank you