1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,599 Speaker 1: All right, News Round Up, Information Overload Hour eight hundred 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: and nine four one Sean, you want to be a 3 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: part of the program. We on this program for years 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: have talked about the necessity, the need for energy independence, 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: why it's good for our national security, because then you 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: do longer really have to worry that much about the 7 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: hostilities that Iran brings to the narrow straits of hor Moves, 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: where a third of the world's oil supply shipped through 9 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: every single day. You don't have to worry about countries 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: in the Middle East that hate our guts. What they're 11 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 1: gonna do in terms of producing and selling energy to 12 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: us when we have more natural resources than they do it. 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 1: It's kind of amazing, you know, Sarah palinm what don't 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: you say? Drill baby, drill New Gameridge started a campaign 15 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: that said drill here, drill now, save money. You can 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: say frak here, frac now, save money. And it was 17 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: a little bit shocking, but some predictable that yesterday we 18 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: had not only Elizabeth Warren blaming price gouging for companies 19 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: for high gas prices. That is not the reason. It's 20 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: simple supplying demand dictating the price. But there was another 21 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 1: vote yesterday in the House of Representatives and once again 22 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:21,839 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party blocked an energy independence bill. Now here's 23 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,839 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren playing COVID and greedy companies are to blame 24 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: for implation. No, be Joe Biden's failed policies, But go ahead. 25 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: I think the primary cause of this bout of price 26 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: increases starts with COVID and the fact that we have 27 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: supply chain kinks and that people rapidly shifted the demand 28 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: per so that demand for services went down in demand 29 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: for goods went up. So those two have forced prices up. 30 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: That's part one. But what has also happened is that 31 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: now that we live in America where there's a lot 32 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: more concentration in certain industries, look at the oil industry, 33 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: look at meat industry, look at groceries generally that what's 34 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: happened is these companies have said, you know, we'll pass 35 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: along costs. But while we're at it and everyone's talking 36 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: about rising costs, let's just add an extra big dollar 37 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: of cost increases to expand our profits. Think about it 38 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: this way. If all that was happening was that we 39 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 1: have problems in the supply chain, so we're passing those 40 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: costs along, margins profit margins should have stayed about to 41 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: saying percentage right, they might have even shrunk a little 42 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: tiny bit. Not happening. Those margins are increasing, and they're 43 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: increasing the most where we see lots of corporate concentration. 44 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: So Part one, yes, very much the pandemic. Part two. 45 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: Companies that recognize that because they don't face a lot 46 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: of competition can goost those prices up. They're saying it 47 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: on their shareholder calls. And by the way, those greedy 48 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: oil companies that Fox Business is did a great article 49 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: analyzing this. It shows oil companies are making less money, 50 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: not more money, in these current economic conditions. Then you've 51 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: got GENA. McCarthy White House Climate Advisors saying we have 52 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: to fast track climate solutions available right now. Those solutions 53 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: are not available right now, but listen. President Biden mobilized 54 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: every federal agency to tackle a climate crisis. He committed 55 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: the US to achieving one hundred percent cobbin free electricity, 56 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: yes Cobbin Secretary Grant Home cobbin free electricity by twenty 57 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: thirty five, and reaching net zero emissions no later than 58 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: twenty fifty. But to do this, we have to fast 59 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: track the climate solutions that are available to us right now, 60 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: like more solar projects on public lands, like the launch 61 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: of a new American offshore wind industry, an electric vehicle 62 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: manufacturing right here in America, and we have seen tremendous 63 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: progress so far. No, we've not windmills, solar panels. It's 64 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: the technology, is not there? A cobbin as she says, Listen, 65 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: every problem we now face Joe Biden running out of 66 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: COVID tests around Christmas, monoclonal lantibodies around Christmas, that's his fault. 67 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: You look at the disaster at the border. He caused 68 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: that problem. We could fix it going back to Trump policies. 69 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: Same with the environment. We can warp speed monoclonal antibodies 70 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: because there's a new variant in Europe making its way 71 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: to the US. The economy energy all preventable, and we 72 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: can go back to the Trump policies that made us 73 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: energy independent. What are we going to blame Afghanistan on 74 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin too? Because they're blaming high gas prices and 75 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: inflation on Vladimir Putin and as invasion of Ukraine, even 76 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: though we had high gas prices and inflation months before 77 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: this invasion. Ever, took place anyway, new Ingridge joins us. 78 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: Now you launched right here on this program. I don't 79 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 1: even remember the year. Maybe you do drill here, drill now, 80 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: save less. If Joe Biden did follow that advice, we 81 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 1: saved money right now well as actually with your enormous help. 82 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: It was early in two thousand and eight and got 83 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: about a million, six hundred thousand Americans signed up, and 84 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 1: by that summer in the Republican Convention, people were saying, drill, baby, drill. 85 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: And by the way, people forget that just before the 86 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: economy broke, McCain was ahead by about three points ahead 87 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: of Obama because the Democrats didn't have an answer to 88 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: inexpensive gasoline and inexpensive heating oil. And you're exactly right, 89 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 1: And you know, I think what people have to start 90 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 1: realizing is we are dealing here with a religion. We're 91 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: not dealing with a political movement. When you have somebody 92 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: like John Kerry who says that he certainly hopes that 93 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: Putin is going to be aware of climate change as 94 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: he invades Ukraine, you're dealing with somebody who lives on 95 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: a different planet than you and I do. And this 96 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: is something that Theodore I had warned about all the 97 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: way back in nineteen seventy two when he said that 98 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: the liberal ideology had become a liberal theology. And the 99 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 1: other night Biden's President Biden spoke to a Democratic National 100 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: Committee fundraiser. In the entire speech, he references Ukraine and 101 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: Russia for one sentence, and that sentence is to say 102 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: that if only we had more green energy, then it 103 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: wouldn't be as big a problem. That's the total reference 104 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the middle of 105 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: the war. The entire speech is pure theology of climate change. 106 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: In a way, you read it and you think these 107 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: people like totally out of touch with reality and the 108 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: answer of courses. Yes, they are totally out of touch, 109 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: which we have. You know, as I look at all 110 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,359 Speaker 1: of this, and I look at this handling of Ukraine, 111 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: which is another mess, did you ever think we'd get 112 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: to the point where Joe Biden is going to do 113 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: even a worse deal with the Mullahs in Iran in 114 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: terms of you know, now we're going to allow Vladimir 115 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: Putina to build nuclear facilities to the cost of ten 116 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: billion dollars in Iran. That Joe wants to import oil 117 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: from Iran. There's still the number one state sponsor of terror. 118 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: They're still fighting proxy wars in the Middle East and elsewhere. 119 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: They killed Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I'm trying 120 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: to understand, why would we ever ask them for any 121 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: help or assistance and help them get rich again, or 122 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: help prop up this murdering thug dictator Maduro as Joe 123 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: sent an emissary to meet with the Venezuelans over the weekend, 124 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: Or why beg opek any further when we have all 125 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: the natural resources we could ever want and need, but 126 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: we're not tapping into them. Well, I think there's a 127 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: couple of different answers there. One, the Iranian Agreement is 128 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: really an effort to create a counterweight to Israel. I mean, 129 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: for everybody who thinks Israel is too strong and Israel 130 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: has too big a role, Iran is the one country 131 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: that could be their counterweight. And that's the driving, I 132 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: think underlying message of why they keep trying to bring 133 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: Iran back into the civilized world, even though, as you 134 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: point out, you know they actually have assassins in the 135 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: United States trying to kill officials from the Trump administration 136 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,319 Speaker 1: for having killed the General Sulimani, who had been the 137 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: leading terrorists in the world when we killed him. They 138 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: actually have this fired missiles very close to the American 139 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: consulate and Erbio, Iraq. You know, the whole notion. In 140 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: the middle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we've asked 141 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: the Russians to take the lead in negotiating a deal 142 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: with Iran. And there's a story today that Andy McCarthy, 143 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: who's normally very responsible and very well connected, he reported 144 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: this morning that there's actually a proposal that Biden has 145 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: reassured Putin that most of the sanctions will disappear as 146 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 1: part of the agreement with Iran. Now, so you have 147 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: you're Prutin invading Ukraine. You have Putin engaged in war crimes. 148 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: Even Joe Biden has used the term war criminals to 149 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: refer to Putin. And you have you have Biden trying 150 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: to cozy up to the Russians in the middle of 151 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: a of a war in a way that I'm with you. 152 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: I don't think I could have you know, I've written 153 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: this about seven novels. I don't think I could have 154 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 1: thought this one up. I don't I don't think anybody 155 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: could have thought it up. And and the fact that 156 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: this is really happening in real time just it shocks 157 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: me to, you know, right deep in my soul, how 158 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 1: stupid we are. We are really this is a very 159 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: dangerous foreign policy posture that Joe Biden has taken, and 160 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: it starts with giving up the energy independence that he 161 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: inherited and America being a net exporter of energy that 162 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: he inherited. Normally, the Senate would have to weigh in 163 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: on any treaty, but Obama didn't go to the Senate, 164 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: so I would assume that Joe Biden is just going 165 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: to do this deal and nobody's gonna have a word 166 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: to say about it. Well that they will try to 167 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: avoid it. There is a provision in law that's not 168 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: a treaty because a treaty requires an affirmative vote. There's 169 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: a provision for the House and Senate to vote, but 170 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 1: they would have to override a presidential veto. And I 171 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: think the average American, I hope, will realize this is 172 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: not politics, this is history. This is one of the 173 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: most dangerous periods we've seen, certainly in our lifetime and 174 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: maybe ever in American history. You have. You know, when 175 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: you have a vice press who is humiliatingly stupid and 176 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: goes to Poland that makes a fool of herself in 177 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,719 Speaker 1: the middle of a war where you want somebody who 178 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: has stature gravits us in seriousness, and then you realize 179 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: you have a president. If you look at the difference 180 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 1: between Zolensk, President Zelenski's passion talking to the US Congress 181 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: yesterday morning and the sort of dull I guess I 182 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: have to read this approach that bidenhead in the afternoon. 183 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: It is astonishing. I'm doing a newsletter comparing those two speeches, 184 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: and for an American, I think it is really humbling 185 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: to have an American president who is this timid, this dishonest, 186 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: and frankly, I think this cowardly cot In a former 187 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, New king Rich. You know, the 188 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: word fear comes to mind, and we talked about that 189 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: earlier with Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. And at this point, 190 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to understand the logic. I've been 191 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: making the case that we ought to follow the model 192 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: of Reagan and the model of Donald Trump, and Reagan's 193 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: model was to arm the Mujahadeen with Stinger missiles and 194 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: they were able to defeat. They were willing to fight, 195 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: and they defeated and pushed out the former Soviet Union. 196 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: Reagan also armed the Freedom Fighting Contras and they were 197 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: able to fight back against Daniel Otega and the Sandinistas. 198 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan showed us how to beat the caliphate that 199 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 1: grew under Obama and Biden. He bobbed the living hell 200 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: out of them. He told showed us how to take 201 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: out a terrorist like Solomani and El Baghdaddy and the 202 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: al Qaida leader in Yemen. And I keep going over 203 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: these things. There are ways that we can effectively counter 204 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,959 Speaker 1: hosta regimes like that of Vladimir Putin's. And remember President 205 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: she was watching without putting a single American boot on 206 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: the ground. But Joe Biden won't even sign off on 207 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: fighter jets for Ukraine, which is inexplicable to me. Yeah, 208 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: I think that it's one of those things where they 209 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: create a false sphere. You know, if it's okay to 210 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,839 Speaker 1: send surfaced air missiles and it's okay to have the 211 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: arm the Ukrainians so that they can take down Russian aircraft, etc. 212 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: What's the difference between that and allowing you the Ukrainians, 213 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: not Americans, not NATO pilots, Ukrainians to fly mid twenty nines. 214 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: And this whole thing I think has been built up 215 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 1: in Biden's head and but but it's but he goes 216 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: deeper than that. There is a desire in the State 217 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,439 Speaker 1: Department and a desire in the White House to work 218 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: with Putin, no matter how bad he is. And even 219 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: if Biden, you know, under pressure from the news media, 220 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 1: says he's a war criminal, he doesn't mean it's He's 221 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: not going to behave towards Prutin like Putin's a war criminal. 222 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: If he if he was serious about that, he would 223 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: kick the Russian out of the negotiations with Iran. But 224 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: he won't do that because they're so desperate for a 225 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: deal with the Iranian terrorists for reasons that I think 226 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: do relate directly to crowding in. You he'd kicked the 227 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: Russians out, and then he would insist that our allies 228 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: stopped importing any energy from Russia period and bankrupt him. Well, 229 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: that's just exactly right, and we could do that. But 230 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: this administration is so unable to part of his incompetence 231 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: in part of his ideology, and the two work together 232 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: in a way that's very dangerous for America. I'm gonna 233 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: have to let it go here, former Speaker of the House, 234 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 1: New Game, which we always appreciate having on the program. Sir, 235 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: thank you, quick break right back your calls on the 236 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: other side, straight ahead, all right, twenty five to the 237 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: top of the hour, eight hundred and nine four one, Sean, 238 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program, Linda, 239 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if he's first we got to talk about. 240 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: You said that your mom figured out why Tom Brady 241 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: he decided to unretire. It's hysterical. It's you know, they 242 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: have these things. They have these mom jokes, dad jokes. 243 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: And my mom says to me today, my mom actually 244 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: knows about football, so it's funny. And she comes in 245 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: and she goes, oh, I got one for you. I said, 246 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: what is it. My mom says, tom Brady, I got 247 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: one for you. She goes, tom Brady had to go 248 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: back to work because he's got to afford the gas 249 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: for his car. Gas prices are too high. And I 250 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: was like, Mom, she's hysterical. I mean it's true though, 251 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: right gas prices are so high that NFL players got 252 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: to go back to work. Tom Brady's huge into bitcoin 253 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: and ethereum, I think, and cryptocurrency, which flat lately it 254 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: has it It went to a lower price people that 255 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: had anticipated it might hit a new high. I mean, 256 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: it's the strangest thing to watch it. I only put 257 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: a little bit of money into it, but it's fun 258 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: to watch. It's hard to, you know, give value to 259 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: things that are imaginary when we can't even give things, 260 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: you know, value to things that are real. I mean, 261 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: our own dollar is worthless. They're thinking about treating you know, 262 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: oil and gas through OPEC, and well the sadies are 263 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: on now. I mean it's people are just asleep at 264 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: the switch. They don't even realize how serious all this is. 265 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: I think my favorite story though, of the day is 266 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: the New York Times. They confirmed what we've always known 267 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: and that Hunter Biden's emails decried is misinformation and basically 268 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: evaporated off of all of social media. The New York 269 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: Times confirms that Hunter Biden's emails decried as propaganda and 270 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: misinformation and fake news. Oh it was real the entire time. 271 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: And anyway, so what where's the retraction. You know, where's 272 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: no one's even paying attention. The news cycle is so 273 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: insane and so fast that you get to, like the 274 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: third day, everybody forgets already what happened last week. The 275 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: problem is that nobody even remembers that CNN and MSNBC 276 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: and all these other jerks reported it wrong. They're not 277 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: going to correct the they don't care. Now look at 278 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 1: it this way. This was two weeks, just fourteen days 279 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: before the twenty twenty presidential election, The New York Post 280 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: comes out with this bombshell about Hunter Biden's laptops. Laptop 281 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: you would think, oh my gosh, this is amazing. It's 282 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: full of incriminating details of the Biden syndicate family and 283 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:24,160 Speaker 1: their dealings with Ukraine and Russia and China. Oh those 284 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: countries sound familiar, not to mention hours and hours of 285 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: X rated videos showing the first Sun a crack addict, 286 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: doing illegal drugs, covorting with hookers, etc. Etc. Anyway, the 287 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 1: mainstream press and social media, you know, broke their necks. 288 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: They looked the other way. They took down anybody who 289 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: posted it. They labeled it totally untrue. And remember this 290 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: is an election you can make an argument forty four 291 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: thousand votes in battleground states and out of tens of 292 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 1: millions of Americans cast in their ballots, never heard of 293 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: about what was on Hunter Biden's laptop. My own lawyers 294 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: knew it was so true and knew that there was 295 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: there were things on that laptop that if I had 296 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: it in my possession, just having it in my possession 297 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: could send me to jail. And it was a big 298 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: battle between me and my lawyers. I said, I'm I'm 299 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 1: a member of the press. I should have a right 300 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 1: to have these, But think about that, you possessing it 301 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:25,959 Speaker 1: means you go to jail the guy who did it. 302 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: They're saying exactly information exactly, So you know, I was 303 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: downloaded by numerous people that saw it. We talked about it. 304 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,199 Speaker 1: I asked all the right questions of Miranda Divine and 305 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: other people and anyway people familiar with the investigation The Times. 306 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: You know, the real story here is The New York 307 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 1: Times acknowledging their role in helping to rig a presidential 308 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: election and hiding truth about Joe Biden and the family 309 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,239 Speaker 1: syndicate from the American people. Now, if you look at 310 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: the Times story, they finally her it's authentication, meaning the laptop, 311 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: the emails. Twenty three paragraphs into the story, it's not 312 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: the lead and people familiar with the Hunter Biden tax 313 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: investigation said prosecutors had examined the emails between mister Biden, 314 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: mister Archer, who was just sentenced, and others about Parisma 315 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,959 Speaker 1: and other foreign business activity. And those emails were obtained 316 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: by The New York Times from a cash of files 317 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: that appeared to have come from a laptop abandoned by 318 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: mister Biden in a Delaware repair shop. By the way, 319 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: the poor man, I think is his business has been 320 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: is going belly up as a result, the email and 321 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: others in the cash of information were authenticated by people 322 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,679 Speaker 1: familiar with them and familiar with the investigation. Now here's 323 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 1: what's missing. You're right, No apology, no explanation, three short sentences, 324 00:19:56,119 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 1: no indication that there'll be any more. Laptop story is 325 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: to follow. So The Times is dragged, kicking and screaming 326 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: into admitting that they were part of an effort. This 327 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: was a campaign donation. This is what I meant when 328 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 1: I said the the you know press, the presidential candidate 329 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:21,160 Speaker 1: protection program and evidence like illicit sexual relations and photos 330 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: and videos, etc. Prolific crack smoking. He got the picture 331 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: of Hunter with a crack pipe in his mouth as 332 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: he's fallen asleep, repeatedly using the N word. Imagine if 333 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: Don Junior, Eric or any Trump, anybody with the last 334 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: name Trump ever did that. So you have the woke 335 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 1: New York Times didn't want their readers to know any 336 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: of this. Now, would that have made in a difference 337 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: in the election? I would argue, would have. Miranda Divine 338 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: reminded us today, and remember she wrote the best selling 339 00:20:54,960 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: book The Laptop from Hell that Hunter Biden had, you know, 340 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: multiple connections to Russian oligarchs and Putin's inner sanctum. You 341 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: know truck Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson. They first reported 342 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: that nobody in the media wanted to touch that either 343 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,440 Speaker 1: except for us. In February twenty fourteen, one of the 344 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 1: Russian oligarchs, the former first Lady of Moscow, wired three 345 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: and a half million dollars into a bank account associated 346 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: with Hunter and as business partner Devin Archer. But see, 347 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: I do I disagree with you. I think you give 348 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: people way too much credit. You're very optimistic. I do 349 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: not think any of that would have mattered because people 350 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: had their minds made up and it had nothing to 351 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: do with Bidenen or Hunter. They just hated Trump, so 352 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: they hadn't anybody but Trump mindset they would have Maybe. 353 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,120 Speaker 1: I just don't think. I don't think they can get 354 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: beyond their own hate it if it was covered the 355 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: way they would have covered if if it was Trump. 356 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: Are you saying that you don't think forty four thousand 357 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: people in swing states that might have persuaded them that 358 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: families corrupt? I completely am saying that I don't think. No, 359 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: I'm no, I'm disagreeing with you. Still, I am saying 360 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 1: that forty four thousand people still would have voted for 361 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: Biden even if they had all of the information and 362 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: they weren't told. Like Ethan and I were talking about 363 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: this earlier, we have that whole montage of all the 364 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 1: left talking about how it's Russian disinformation and this is 365 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: all nonsense and it's lies and that that. I mean, 366 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 1: these people were so in the tank for anybody but 367 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 1: Trump that it really didn't matter what you said. They 368 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 1: could have seen everything on video. I mean, we have 369 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: all these video in these pictures of Hunter and these horrible, 370 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: horrible situations. We have Joe Biden trying to put words 371 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: together in form a sentence, and they're still saying that 372 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 1: he's totally fine to run the free world. I'm thinking 373 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,439 Speaker 1: to myself, Okay, at some point we all have to 374 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: have a come to Jesus moment and say that we're 375 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: bigger than this and to get beyond it. You know, 376 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 1: if it was our side of the aisle and that 377 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: was my president and he was up there doing that, 378 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: I'd be like, all right, guys, I think you're wrong. 379 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: I think this easily if they blew it up the 380 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: way they would have blown it up if it was 381 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: a Trump, I think it could have had an impact 382 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: on the election. By by the way, just like they 383 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: should have followed the laws and the constitutions of states 384 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: tweetsertaining they want to take energy from Russia. And if 385 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: this was viral the way it would have been if 386 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: it was Trump, I think it would have had a 387 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: dramatic impact on the election. I do, and I also believe. 388 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: But add to that that states that had laws that 389 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,360 Speaker 1: required partisan that allowed partisan observers to watch the vote 390 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,199 Speaker 1: count up close and personal. Uh, those things were missing. 391 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: And if you if you look at you know, all 392 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: the other anomalies. The Constitution of Pennsylvania was circumvented by 393 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: a law. When they have a process, it's called the 394 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 1: constitutional amendment. Nobody seemed to care there. Wisconsin, they had 395 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 1: the same problem with giving out handing out absentee ballots, 396 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: which is not allowed by law. Nobody wants to pay 397 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 1: attention to that. Those are all the oreguments we made 398 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: at the time, all the whistleblowers that were out there 399 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: saying they witnessed this or that or that or this. 400 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: Nobody wanted to hear from the whistleblowers, and they were 401 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 1: signing these half of davids under the penalty of perjury. 402 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: We put many of them on because you're really willing 403 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,360 Speaker 1: to go to jail just because you're like one presidential 404 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 1: candidate over another. I'm sorry, I'm not willing to do that. 405 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: But most of them weren't even saying that. Most of 406 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: them were saying regardless of what side they were on, 407 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: a lot of them weren't saying that they were for 408 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 1: Trump or for Biden, or for either party. They were 409 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: saying that they were seeing things anomalies that they hadn't 410 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: seen in their twenty years of working. They were saying that. 411 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: But also remember the Democratic Party loved whistleblowers. They loved Yeah, 412 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: they did say no whistle whistleblower because they bludge in Trump. 413 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 1: And the oddest thing about the Ukraine issue in the 414 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 1: quid pro quote nonsense is Joe is on tape bragging 415 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 1: about a quid pro quo. You're not getting a billion dollars. 416 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 1: You got six hours unless you fire this prosecutor, who, 417 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: in interviews with John Solomon ABC the Washington Post, said yeah, 418 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,400 Speaker 1: I was fired because Joe Biden insists that I get 419 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: fired before he gives the billion dollars in loan guarantees. 420 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: So Joe took taxpayer money leveraged it to get his 421 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 1: son off the hook at the prosecutor investigating his son 422 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 1: fired and you know, son of a bee, they they 423 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: they fired the guy. Can I say how I think 424 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: this would have worked? And whinner I would agree with you. 425 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 1: Do you remember in the I think it was an 426 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 1: O eight when Howard Stern went out and attributed to 427 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 1: all of the things that McCain had done to Obama? 428 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: Do you remember that? I do, I actually remember, and 429 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: I know exactly what you're saying. Yes, And you know 430 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and they were like, yeah, this is great. 431 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: I think that's the only way that you would get 432 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: people to agree is to take all the things that 433 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden did and say that Eric or Ivanka or 434 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: Don Junior did yeah. And if you were able to 435 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,199 Speaker 1: do that and get them to say in the say 436 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you know I misspoke. That was actually Hunter 437 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: Biden that did that. My bad. Now how do you feel? 438 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: And then you'll see the bias it was, and then 439 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 1: we know where we stand. That's stuff HAMI her, what's 440 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: those two? All right? Let's get a quick calling here. Um, 441 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:18,119 Speaker 1: let's say hi to is it Charlie in Houston? Hey Charlie, 442 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: you're on the Sean Hannity Show. Thanks for checking in. 443 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: Hey Sean, how are you? I'm good? Sorry? What's going 444 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 1: on here? Yes? I can hear them in the fine 445 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: go ahead, Okay, Yes, sir. I'm an engineer in Houston, 446 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: Texas for thirty years in the oil and gas industry 447 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 1: and wanted to just bring some light to your show, 448 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: pup I could please, yes, sir, yes, sir. Some of 449 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: the callers seem to be a little bit mistaken on 450 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: what it means to be energy independent. It is true, 451 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty we achieved what we considered energy independence. 452 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,439 Speaker 1: That meant that we were producing as much as we 453 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: were exporting. Correct, we're actually a net exporter if you 454 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: add it all together. Other that's a petroleum products in 455 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. That's right, correct. But the thing is, the 456 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: reason we have to continue importing crude or heavy crude, 457 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 1: is because the way our refineries are designed, most of 458 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 1: many of them now we've been changing, is that the 459 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: oil we're producing in West Texas or the Eagleford or 460 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: out there in the Premium basin, et cetera, that's all 461 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:31,120 Speaker 1: very light crude. Okay, you are correct again, right, yes, 462 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: and so you are correct on that point, yes, yes, sir. 463 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 1: So we need to import some heavy crude from somebody, 464 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: and you're right we should not get it from Putin 465 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,120 Speaker 1: bad guy, right, But we've got to get it from 466 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 1: somewhere or we cut back the production in the refineries, 467 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: think gas practices go up even more. But remember the 468 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: Keystone XIL pipeline we learned this week from the premiere 469 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: of Alberta would have been finished by now and nine 470 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: hundred thousand barrels of crude oil would be flowing into 471 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: the United States, Canadian crude oil. And remember too, he 472 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: shut down auctions on federal lands. He also shut down 473 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 1: exploration and extraction of energy oil from Anmar in Alaska 474 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,640 Speaker 1: and elsewhere in the United States. So all these restrictions 475 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: now resulted in US going from being a net exporter 476 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: to a net importer, and we artificially reduced the world's 477 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 1: supply of oil, and that drove up the price long 478 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 1: before Putin ever invaded Ukraine. That is correct about Putin 479 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: invading Ukraine. But Sean also, you need to say, when 480 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 1: Biden took office, the Keystone pipeline was five percent complete 481 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: five now right now. The projections before Biden was that 482 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: it would be finished in twenty twenty five. It was 483 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: projected according to the Alberta Premier. He has a different 484 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 1: timeframe than you do. But either way, knowing that it's 485 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: the lifeblood of the world's to me, I'd get back 486 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: to building that sucker, and I'd warp speed the building 487 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: of it and make sure it's up and running sooner. 488 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: That's right, I agree, But even if we started now, 489 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: it won't be finished before our next president. You know what, 490 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 1: maybe I'll get the premiere of Alberta on the program. 491 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: I'll ask him because he's the one that said it 492 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: would have been done by now. Anyway, appreciate the call 493 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: and thanks for all you do because what you do 494 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: in the energy industry is critical to all of us. 495 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: Thank you.