WEBVTT - Getty Be Golfin' 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:07.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:12.320 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong, and Jett 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:13.600 Kid and he. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.239 Arms range. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:29.640 Live. I'm from Studio C Hey gimli let room deep 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.960 within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound, 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:38.120 and hey y'all, today we're toiling under the title of 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.280 Joe Getty's Playing Golf. That's the title. So it's just 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.280 me and a whole bunch of guests that we've lined 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.040 up for the show today. Talked about a whole bunch 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:48.839 of different interesting things that are in the news and 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.760 aren't in the news, and I hope you can stick around, 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:53.840 and I think it will be damned interesting. Man. I 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:59.440 am riveted by Trump's visit to China right now and 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.760 taking in as much news as I can on the 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.720 whole thing. And I don't know if y'all have, but 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:13.440 definitely the headline was how aggressive President she and his 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:18.000 people have been talking about Taiwan and the hey, we're 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.560 taking Taiwan and don't think about getting the way, We're 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.160 willing to go to war with it, basically what they said, 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.600 and not much, not softened much from the way I 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.640 just presented it, which is definitely the most harsh they've 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.520 been in any of the meetings with US presidents. And 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.880 the interesting thing is, so there's these are behind closed 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.600 door conversations, a lot of these, and so you get 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.800 the Chinese readout of what was said, and then you 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.520 get the US White House readout of what was said. Well, 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:52.240 the Chinese readout had the really strong verbiage around Taiwan. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.600 The US readout didn't mention a Taiwan conversation at all. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.120 So what Trump said back is unknown. At this point, 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.960 he may I've just said nothing, just looked at the guy, 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.320 and you know sometimes in a negotiation you do that. 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.559 Somebody says something and you just sit there and listen 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.680 or look at them or don't say anything. She even 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.520 brought up the whole Thucidities trap, which we've talked about 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.560 a lot on the show over the years, Thucidities being 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:23.040 one of your ancient Greek writers thinkers. Anyway, the idea 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.760 is that in world history, anytime you have an established 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:31.200 great power and then a rising power, that rising power 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.440 in great power always go to war. And that has 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.360 happened like every time but once in world history over 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.880 many thousands of years. Obviously, we are the current great 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.720 power in China is the rising great power. And she 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.200 brought up the thucidities trap on and then that we 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.320 should try to avoid it, which I take also is 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.000 kind of a threat. But let me hit you with 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:59.840 the actual quote of what President she said. And again 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.200 there's no response that we know yet of what Trump 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.720 said back. The Taiwan question is the most important issue 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.720 in the China US relations she said, according to their readout, 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.120 if it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.960 overall stability. Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.160 even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy. Whether 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.880 Trump responded to that, I do not know. We'll talk 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.119 more about that later, and we're even trying to line 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.440 up some guests to have more idea about what's happening there. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:34.080 I think what's happening like at this moment as I speak, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.200 either live on the radio or recording it for the podcast, 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.240 Trump and She are in a private meeting after their 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:46.440 big meal there in the Great Hall. So I did 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.320 a little research on the Great Hall. I don't know 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.360 if you've watched any of this on the news. So 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:59.000 Trump gets off the plane. It's interesting how his relationship 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.320 we have with China is so important that we're willing 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.200 to just not even bring up sore points like the 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.760 fact that Trump and she are right there in Tienaman Square, 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:13.160 sight of one of the worst massacres against people seeking 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.920 freedom in my lifetime, the Tianaman Square massacre. If you 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:17.920 don't know anything about it, or you're too young, google 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.919 it or chat GPT it. Anyway, that's where Trump and 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:25.000 g first meet. Trump gets off the plane and yesterday 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.440 they go into the Great Hall, which I find very 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:33.919 interesting that there's a big, giant, huge picture of Chairman 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:39.320 Mao on the Great Hall right there, and that's overlooked. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.520 So you got the Tanneman Square masa here, We just 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:42.960 we don't even bring that up. You You know a 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.480 lot of Americans know about Tiannaman Square because they watched 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.480 it on TV every night back in the late eighties 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.320 before you slaughtered all those college kids who are trying 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.000 to get freedom. And then he got Chairman Mao's face 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.360 over that. Chairman Mao responsible for killing more people than 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.680 maybe any human being in history, almost certainly than any 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.279 human being in history makes Hitler like a punk look 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.000 like a punk. Can you imagine if you flew into 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.400 Munich or Berlin and there was a giant Hitler picture 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.160 there on the building you were walking into have negotiations. Well, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.400 in China, you're flying and there's a giant portrait of 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:20.360 mau there, who killed somewhere between thirty and fifty million 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.720 people of his own people, and he got his picture there, 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.240 and we just kind of ignore that. AnyWho doing a 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.920 little research on the Great Hall, this is the sort 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.599 of thing I would have looked up as a kid. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.600 I loved our encyclopedia set when I was a kid, 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.440 because I I would think of things I wanted to 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.360 know about and I would go grab an encyclopedia and 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.640 look it up. And it was the only way, living 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.120 out in rural middle of nowhere, that I could get 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.120 any information around anything. I would have loved these chatbots 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.160 when I was a kid, Although but I had access 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.640 to this, I probably would have just looked at Poorn 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.560 as a teenager, so I wouldn't have learned anything. He too. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:00.240 The Great Hall of China, How big is it? It 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.720 is one point eight million square feet, so the big 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.000 giant Hall that they're eating in right now. If you've 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.279 seen like right now live, they've got video. There's Elon 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.640 Musk chewing I see up on Fox because they had 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.440 this big There's Tim Cookabapple. He got all these different 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.320 diplomats and business people from the United States and China 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.800 meeting there, and before Trump and she go into a 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.680 private room to talk. But the Great Hall, which was 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:29.080 built in the fifties by Chairman Mao, is almost two 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.479 million square feet. To give you an idea how big 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:37.400 that is. That's thirty acres of an indoor ballroom. You 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.920 can't even wrap your head around how big that is. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:45.719 Thirty acres is the size of that ballroom. Holy crap, 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.920 way bigger than any of your biggest sports stadiums that 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:53.480 you've ever been to. Contains a massive central auditorium where 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.400 they're eating right now, that will hold ten thousand people 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.640 in one of the rooms. Because there's a whole bunch 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:04.640 of great, big, giant rooms, enormous banquet halls that they 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.800 can have many banquets going on at the same time, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.400 hundreds of meetings rooms and all that sort of stuff. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:16.320 But it's just insanely huge. It's bigger than the US 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.320 and the entire US Capitol. If you've ever been to 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.160 DC or the Palace of Westminster in Britain, or any 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.160 of those sites, if you've ever traveled and seen those great, big, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.280 giant buildings, this is way bigger than that. And that's 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.720 where they're meeting right now. And I m to me, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.960 the most interesting thing that I want to hear today 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:37.320 is what was Trump's response when President she basically threatened 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.440 war over the island of Taiwan. Did he just say nothing? 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.600 Because again, our print out from our White House doesn't 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.560 bring up Taiwan at all. I can get into some 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.720 more of the particulars of what they said back and forth. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.600 We should probably start the show officially because the FCC 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.320 would just love to jump on this since I'm solo 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.920 today and find me maybe throw me an FCC jail 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.440 if I don't start the show officially. I'm Jack arms Strong. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.320 He's Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday, May fourteenth, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.280 the year twenty twenty six. We are armstrong in getting 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:12.440 we approve of this program. Let's begin the show. Mark. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.120 We both believe and the China US relationship is the 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:20.880 most important bilateral relationship in the world. We must make 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.360 it work and never mess it up. 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:33.800 Yeah, they're making it very very clear that things could 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.360 go sideways if they don't get what they want and 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.920 what they want, as they emphasized over and over, President 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.360 She himself and all the spokespeople believe him that the 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.200 number one thing for them is that Taiwan becomes part 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:51.120 of China. She also stressed that Taiwan independence is fundamentally 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:56.320 incompatible with peace across the Taiwan Strait, and other words, 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.480 if Taiwan is independent, there will not be peace. The 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.480 opposite of piece is, of course, war, describing stability in 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.440 the region as in the common interest of both Beijing 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.240 and Washington. Well, it's not really in our interest to 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.920 allow the Taiwan Straight to become part of China. And 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.679 you know, we're seeing what's happening with the Straight of 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.559 Horn moves. The Taiwan Strait is every bit as big 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.720 a deal to shipping, and more importantly than that, Taiwan 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:27.480 is responsible for ninety percent of your very best computer 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:31.040 chips on planet Earth, and you don't want China controlling 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:32.839 all that. As we head into the world of ai 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:37.640 and everything like that. Let me read one more. This 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.800 is the New York Times version of it Taiwan Taiwan itself. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.000 The country pushed back after she warned Trump that the 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.840 issue of Taiwan could cause conflict between the two countries. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.840 China's military threats are the sole cause for instability in 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.319 the Taiwan Strait in the region, said a government spokeswoman. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.280 She said that Taiwan had maintained close contact with Washington 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.600 throughout the preparations for the sum and that they were 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:06.560 deeply grateful for long standing US support, which includes a 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.280 current deal for eleven billion dollars worth of weapons that 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.280 we're going to give to Taiwan. They haven't been delivered yet, 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.559 but the deal is made now. There are some pundits 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.400 out there, mostly Trump critics, who are concerned that Trump 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.520 is going to trade away the arms deal for help 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.120 with the straight of horror moves in Iran, that that's 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.440 going to be his leverage he uses on President She Hey, 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.520 we won't deliver the eleven billion dollars worth of military 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:38.920 equipment to Taiwan. If you really lean on your friend 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.360 Ran to open that straight back up again. I think 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.480 most of us freedom loving people would find that horrible. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.720 There's no indication that Trump's actually planning to do that, 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.320 so but that is worth keeping our eye on. It's 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.440 one of the headlines that's out there. Got our ear 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.760 to the ground for the conversations that are going on 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.559 in China right now, some of the other reporting over 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.000 the last twenty four hours, and a whole bunch of 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.559 other stuff to come, which we will hit in headlines 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:12.959 right after this. I definitely don't want to have all 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.400 heavy stuff today, but we have to at some point 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.840 get into this. Nick Christoph of the New York Times story, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.480 I don't know if you're aware of this or not. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.480 He had a piece in The New York Times the 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:34.679 other day claiming horrifying rapes by Israel against Palestinians that 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.360 was so over the top. I mean, it was just like, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:42.040 how could this possibly be true? Israeli's with this kind 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:47.040 of systemic raping of innocent Palestinians, blah blah blah, And 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.640 it turns out they can't back up. Christoph of the 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.040 New York Times can't back this up at all. Now 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:56.120 he's getting all kinds of pushback and starting to apologize. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.040 And this is a heck of an interesting story. How 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.360 the New York Times let one of their major columnists 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:07.720 go this far. If into like crazy Town Conspiracy World 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.560 on a story that turns out not to be true, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.439 I definitely want to talk about that later if you 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.560 don't know anything about it, And maybe this segment, if 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.280 we have time, I want to get into this new 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.680 study about smartphones and how much your brain gets better 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.680 with just two weeks of getting rid of most of 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.480 your smartphone use. Get to that in just a little bit. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.760 It's interesting and I'm thinking about trying it myself. We 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.920 have some pretty good guests lined up for the show today, 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.680 including our friend Tim Sanderfordton, the lawyer who will be 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.720 on later talking about well lots of different things, but 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:47.080 mostly his book that he wrote Proclaiming Liberty, John Adams, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.320 Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence. Tim's one of 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.640 the best people to talk about that sort of thing. 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.959 Not only is incredibly knowledgeable, he's just so good at 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.120 presenting those stories in an exciting way. I wish he 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.800 had been my eighth grade history teacher who took this 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.719 stuff and made it so dreadfully dull you wanted to 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.240 jump out a window, whereas Tim makes it exciting. And 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.120 we'll talk to Tim a little bit later, a lot 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.840 of these kind of stories around as we come up 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.000 on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birthday 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.040 of this country on July fourth this year. More on 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.960 that later. Some of the headlines going on, we mentioned 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.320 President g raising the prospect of a future US China 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:31.559 war in his meeting with Trump, which seems pretty I 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.520 don't know if belligerent's the right word, but certainly strident. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.840 Get into more on that later. Rudy Giuliani, to remember him, 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.319 revealed he was in a coma recently. Right, So, Rudy 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:49.920 Giuliani takes a crime ridden New York, becomes mayor, turns 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.600 it around, a Republican, a Democrat, a Republican in a 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:57.720 Democrat city, turns it around. It comes a super big 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.480 deal known throughout the world. Then nine to eleven happens. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:08.080 He performs magnificently America's mayor. We started calling him presidential 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.720 Candidate's got to be someday, blah blah blah blah blah. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.480 Then then he gets involved in the Trump world and 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.559 like loses his mind or I don't know what happened 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:19.360 with Rudy Giuliani. Anyway, He's gotten pretty crazy in the 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.040 last several years. Poor guy's health suok a bad turn 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.400 recently and he was in a coma just like week 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.360 before last. He was in a coma for several days. 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.760 He said yesterday that he had a significant spiritual experience 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:37.160 while in his coma and was spoken to. And the 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.880 story of how that all went down and what this 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.520 apparition said to him while he was in his coma 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.520 is pretty interesting, So we'll have to get to that 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:50.160 later in the show. You don't hear that every single day. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:54.600 M oh got the story. If you heard it late 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.040 in the show yesterday, we'll have to retell it somewhat 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:02.920 because there's pushback now. Gavin Newsom being accused of handing 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:09.800 out really expensive to taxpayers tablets to prisoners in California 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.320 where they sit around and watch porn and reach out 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.800 to kids sexually and all kinds of different horrible things. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.080 Gave all these prisoners little porn machines that we paid 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.760 way too much for. Gavin Newsom's office pushing back hard 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.920 against that story that we reported yesterday, and the originators 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.040 of the story pushing backguard against Gavin, saying, oh yeah, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.000 you did give them tablets and they are using them 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.720 for porn. So we'll have to get into that story later. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.800 If you didn't hear, it's a pretty good one and 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:42.920 mind boggling and maddening. Honda Motor reported its first annual 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:48.440 loss since nineteen fifty seven yesterday. Why I didn't even 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.480 have to read the rest of the headline to guess 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:55.120 after scaling back its electric vehicle plans, similar to Ford 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.280 and General Motors and a whole bunch of other major 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:02.960 auto makers, These that were forced into making electric cars 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:07.280 by first the Obama administration, then the Biden administration, with 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:12.000 all these various goals and regulations. The state of California 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.760 did the same thing on how many electric cars we all? 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.640 They thought, well, we got to start making electric cars. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:18.000 Is going to be the law of the land here 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.360 in just a few years. Nobody wanted them, nobody bought them. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:23.760 Ford gave up on it, GM gave up on it. 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.480 Honda lost money for the first time since the fifties 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.960 because of the electric cars, and now, at least while 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.960 Trump's president, we've moved away from that. But I find 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:37.520 that story damned interesting. These major car companies went out 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.400 there and made electric cars for you, and you just 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.200 didn't want them. I drive a cyber truck every single day, 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.840 electric car, but I know most people don't want an 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.320 electric car. They certainly don't want it for their main car. Anyway, 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.880 we'll probably get into the details on that. A lot 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.120 of people worked up over that Alex Murdaw's murder conviction 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:57.000 being overturned. Some of the details on that story for you, 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.720 and maybe the biggest story yes yesterday in its entirety, 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:08.200 this CIA whistleblower saying that doctor Fauci absolutely was hiding 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.560 the origin of COVID on purpose, and we have to 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.080 get to that one. We'll do a full segment on that, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.160 because we've been talking about this since COVID first showed 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:18.639 up on the seat. We got a lot on the 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.639 way if you missed the segment the podcast Armstrong and 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.639 Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:31.400 It was significantly influenced by Anthony Fauci's injecting himself into 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:36.280 the IC. We have documentation that shows that as of 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.640 August twelfth, the CIA was considering calling this a lab leak. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.960 That changed on August seventeenth of twenty twenty one. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.600 We just heard testimony that he intervened behind the scenes 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.440 to try and get our own intelligence agency CIAFBI to. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.440 Change their assessment of the lab. 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.800 League Why because he helped fund the Wuhan lab. He supported 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.240 and funded gain a function research and I had to 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:00.800 cover it up. 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.960 I think this is so clearly true. Thought it was 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.960 true from the beginning. They should have played the famous 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:12.399 clip from the Colbert Show when John Stewart was on 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:16.000 there and they had that little argument over where the 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.600 COVID virus came from, and John Stewart says, oh, I 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:23.439 don't know, Maybe it comes from came from a lab 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:29.159 that's studying this very thing, the Wuhan virus there in Wuhunt. Yeah. 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.560 The most obvious thing from the beginning of COVID was 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:37.119 it came out of that lab, and our government officials, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.680 mostly mostly Anthony Fauci, tried to cover up. I will 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.280 believe that till my dying day. And we got a 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:45.880 lot more information on that from yesterday's hearing, which I'm 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.960 a little suspicious about the timing of this hearing, But 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.840 here's Bill Malusian's report on Fox. Has to be on 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.800 Fox because nobody else was interested in covering this story 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:55.080 at all. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.359 Republicans say the headline from today's hearing with this active 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.320 CIA employee was testimony that there was a US government 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.280 cover up about COVID nineteen's origins, a cover up in 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.760 which he says, doctor Anthony Fauci played a very key role. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.280 James Erdman testified that back in August of twenty twenty one, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.040 right as the US intel community was about to determine 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.119 that COVID nineteen had leaked from a Chinese lab, doctor 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:22.120 Fauci injected himself into those conversations, and the lab leak 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:26.280 theory was suddenly changed to a neutral position just days later. 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.679 So that's Bien millusion to Fox. As I said, I 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:37.119 watched CBS, NBC and ABC, and unless I blinked and 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.760 missed it, they did not cover this hearing at all yesterday. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.240 I'm a little suspicious, as I said, the fact that 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.199 this hearing with a CIA whistleblower who says he has 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:50.480 direct knowledge that Anthony Faunci got injected himself into this 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:54.560 story and covered up the or pushed away the original 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:59.600 assessment that COVID probably came out of that lab. Why 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.600 did this hearing happened on the day Trump shows up 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.919 in China when all your major news hosts are broadcasting 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.359 live from China and going on and on and on 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:14.200 about that. Absolutely a giant story. Why did the hearing 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.680 happen that day? I mean that guarantees it's going to 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:20.080 get almost no coverage. Fox was on it. Bill Millusion 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:20.600 goes on. 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.439 And not a single Democrat on that Senate Homeland Security 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.080 Committee showed up to today's hearing. That fact reflected by 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.320 a row of empty chairs. The CIA says that hearing 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.840 was all just a political show, telling Fox in part quote, 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.240 the committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an agency 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:42.520 officer for testimony today without notifying the CIA. The witness 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.679 testifying today is not appearing as a whistleblower in pursuit 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.800 of the truth, but instead in response to the subpoena 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:52.240 issued by Chairman Paul. This preceding amounts to nothing more 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:56.399 than a dishonest political theater masquerading as a congressional hearing. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:21:00.359 That's the pushback of the Democrats. Now, if you remember 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:02.360 back in the day, so this this hearing is being 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.960 run by Rand Paul. He's the Republican chair of this 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.920 Senate hearing. If you remember back in the day, Rand 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.480 Paul and Anthony Fauci had a lot of run ins. 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:14.399 Those are two guys that hate each other. If they 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:19.080 lived near each other, Anthony Fauci would tackle around Paul 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.560 while he was mowing his lawn. I guarantee you, because 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.520 they hate each other. And Rand Paul has been calling 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:26.760 out Anthony Fauci of lying about this whole gain of 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:29.600 function research from the beginning. And you know, Anthony foun 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:32.400 She's saying, you don't understand science, and all the back 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.119 and forth. Okay. And then, of course, because in the 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:40.200 Trump era, everything becomes about Trump, it became a if 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:43.560 you support Trump, you have to love or you have 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.080 to hate Anthony Fauci, and which I think there's a 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.879 good reason to And if you hate Trump, you have 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:52.200 to absolutely love Anthony Fauci. And so it just broke 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:55.560 down along those lines. So here's a little from this 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:59.879 CIA whistleblower. He's a CIA agent, James Erdman. In the 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:01.520 testimony yesterday. 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:05.879 Intelligence community leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.440 the COVID pandemic originated as a result of a lab incident. 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.679 Motives are difficult to define given the scope of the 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:20.560 DIGS review. Intentional or not the ICs actions resulted in 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:26.200 cover up, wasted resources, and a failure to properly inform policymakers. 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:32.280 Public health policy would have been very different had the 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:36.000 American public been made aware that a virus from a 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:39.560 lab in China was going to serve as the foundation 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:45.720 for an Emergency Use Authorization mRNA products being mandated by 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:46.719 the former administration. 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:51.080 So the problem is, I wonder how many of you 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:56.040 even listening right now, who probably lean toward Fauci was 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:59.280 lying about this and covered it up. Who think who cares? 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:03.040 At this point? I think it's very important to nail 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:08.439 this down. It's interesting how we all there's such a 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:11.639 tendency to want to move on from COVID. I was 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:13.320 talking to a friend of mine, a really smart friend 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:14.960 of mine, the other day, and he said, part of 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:19.960 it is people either overreacted or underreacted, and in either 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:22.600 case they are kind of like embarrassed by that and 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:24.840 don't want to think about it. Either you thought it 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:29.320 was a nothing COVID and you know, million plus people died, 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:33.800 or you thought it was and everything and everything should 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:35.639