Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getti and he Armstrong and Yeddi.
Speaker 3: President Biden claimed the country's stronger because of his work
Speaker 3: to expand NATO support Ukraine, withdraw US forces from Afghanistan,
Speaker 3: and take on China. In his remarks on Afghanistan, the
Speaker 3: President only briefly mentioned the thirteen US service members who
Speaker 3: died in the suicide bombing at the Kabol Airport during
Speaker 3: the withdrawal of US forces, widely seen as one of
Speaker 3: the darkest moments of his presidency.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say so.
Speaker 4: And also just factually, it's when his ratings tanked and
Speaker 4: never recovered. It basically ended his presidency. So I realized
Speaker 4: the President is trying to shape history with his speech.
Speaker 1: Good luck with that, and horribly undermined his foreign policy
Speaker 1: goals too, as America was displayed as weak and feckless. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just going to say the whole you know,
Speaker 1: the great saying, which is so true, watch what people do,
Speaker 1: not what they say. Well, he's already done it, so
Speaker 1: he can say anything he wants.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of sad.
Speaker 4: And useless in my opinion, and according to the Bob
Speaker 4: Woodward book, it was a real indication to putin all
Speaker 4: this this administration does not have it to act together
Speaker 4: in terms of pushback to invading Ukraine when he saw
Speaker 4: the pull out of Afghanistan, right that was done more.
Speaker 2: Or less undisputed.
Speaker 1: Outside of Morning Joe a lot to get to this hour,
Speaker 1: including a chat with Congressman Tom McClintock about the wildfires
Speaker 1: in California that absolutely are to a large extent caused
Speaker 1: by politics or exacerbated by politics. Not climate change policy matters.
Speaker 1: It absolutely does. But first take a look in the
Speaker 1: China cabin.
Speaker 2: Which is admittedly China.
Speaker 1: China adoping named for a handful of that.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Michael, I had forgotten that guy. Do you
Speaker 2: have the China's a whole guy China as oh, oh, sir, true.
Speaker 1: But harsh I thought this story was so interesting. The
Speaker 1: Wall Street General reporting that China's reigning in it's once free,
Speaker 1: willing finance sector with purges and pay cuts. Chinese Letursesian
Speaker 1: ping is bringing the country's financial sector to heal, one
Speaker 1: banker at a time, and they go through the list
Speaker 1: of these guys who are often Western educated, who are
Speaker 1: very skilled, brought in enormous levels of investment and profit
Speaker 1: to China, which they finance Jesion pings goals for consolidating
Speaker 1: power and growing China's you know, global influence of that
Speaker 1: sort of thing.
Speaker 2: But he is killing the golden goose. It is clear.
Speaker 1: And I remember when you first brought us this story,
Speaker 1: some communications had been leaked. I can't remember the exact
Speaker 1: outlines of the story. But this guy is a real communist, right.
Speaker 4: I think that's what I was saying to Ian Bremmer
Speaker 4: when he said I was over egging the pudding. But
Speaker 4: there were reports that, based on things she was saying
Speaker 4: and reading and doing, here's the big story. He's actually
Speaker 4: a communist. He's not just pretending to be a communist
Speaker 4: so he can be a dictator. He actually is a communist.
Speaker 1: I think you were one of the few commentators who
Speaker 1: took that story as seriously as it should be taken,
Speaker 1: and which is what does.
Speaker 2: For us because communism doesn't work, oh no, it's miserable
Speaker 2: in every way by every measure.
Speaker 1: So many economists and bankers fear that the shakeup is
Speaker 1: going to dampen what they call the animal spirits one
Speaker 1: of my favorite Wall Street expressions. When everybody's feeling positive,
Speaker 1: it's the animal spirits. Haven't we all felt the animal
Speaker 1: spirits Friday night? Who knows, maybe a drink or two
Speaker 1: ennus the animal spirits. Anyway, financiers and regulators are becoming
Speaker 1: much more conservative to avoid mistakes that could get them
Speaker 1: in trouble. So they're starting to play a very very
Speaker 1: safe game, which if any you know, if you have
Speaker 1: any sophistication as an investor, whatsoever, you understand, the more
Speaker 1: safe you play at the lower your returns are going
Speaker 1: to be. China is also losing bankers and regulators with
Speaker 1: international experience and technical knowledge at the time when it
Speaker 1: faces complex financial risks that require more sophisticated oversight and
Speaker 1: animal spirits. Not less, they have trillions of dollars worth
Speaker 1: of off the books local government debts, they have the biggest
Speaker 1: property bubble in the history of mankind and.
Speaker 2: A shrinking pop.
Speaker 1: And they're jailing or purging anybody who has any experience
Speaker 1: and any verve in dealing with this sort of thing.
Speaker 4: I was looking at some of the videos overbreak of
Speaker 4: those cities. I mean, there's chunks of cities with all
Speaker 4: these giant buildings, and they're all empty, just building after
Speaker 4: building after building, a house after house after house that
Speaker 4: they threw up. I don't know where they thought these
Speaker 4: people were coming from, but anyway, they built all this
Speaker 4: stuff and now they're just empty. And they, like you said,
Speaker 4: a shrinking population and a shrinking economy. China could do
Speaker 4: the whole. How did you go bankrupt gradually? Then suddenly
Speaker 4: thing just collapse one of these days.
Speaker 1: And they have horrific sociological problems too. The young people
Speaker 1: don't have job prospects, they don't have hope, they don't
Speaker 1: have families, no girls. Well, right, and then so many
Speaker 1: people have invested virtually their entire self forth in the
Speaker 1: property bubble, which is now burst, and so they have
Speaker 1: their life savings invested in an apartment. Say that may
Speaker 1: may never exist. Let's see, there's one other aspect of this.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to.
Speaker 2: Where'd that go?
Speaker 1: Oh that's all right, We'll move along and come back
Speaker 1: to it later. Let's see this story. Trump and She
Speaker 1: face off expect Us China tensions as the two leaders
Speaker 1: pursue opposing agendas. That's absolutely true, and it's appropriate, and
Speaker 1: it's good any sort of You can't woo China. You
Speaker 1: can just offer them cards at the poker table of
Speaker 1: international relations that they will exploit. They are not going
Speaker 1: to be nice guys. They are not going to help us.
Speaker 1: They are not going to do anything that is not
Speaker 1: in their naked self interest. And to wit I like
Speaker 1: this John Ratcliffe, who's a rare hold over from Trump
Speaker 1: one's national security team. Ratcliffe is Trump's CIA pick and
Speaker 1: he is expected to push for bare knuckle spycraft against China.
Speaker 1: Ratcliffe is not screwing around, which I absolutely love. He's
Speaker 1: likely to push from more aggressive spying operations targeting Beijing,
Speaker 1: and that America says is about to take the gloves
Speaker 1: off and it's shadow boxing with Beijing.
Speaker 4: Well good, They took their gloves off a long time ago, right.
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: The part that I was trying to find in the
Speaker 1: analysis of China and becoming more and more communists is
Speaker 1: ta go ahead, is take the gloves off. We've discussed
Speaker 1: this before.
Speaker 4: A boxing thing like I'm taking off the soft gloves
Speaker 4: and hitting with my bare hand. Or is it a
Speaker 4: taking off the gloves sliping in the face dual thing?
Speaker 2: Oh? Or is it.
Speaker 1: You know, as a former hockey player, it's like a
Speaker 1: hockey thing to me.
Speaker 2: But I don't know what the origin is.
Speaker 1: Everybody understands what it means, but yeah, what's of gloves
Speaker 1: are we taking off?
Speaker 2: Katie? Do you have the answer?
Speaker 4: Yes, it comes from the practice of boxers removing their
Speaker 4: gloves before a fight to inflict even more damage. Okay,
Speaker 4: bare knuckle boxing. I teased yesterday the upside of dueling
Speaker 4: and how we should bring it back, and it's really interesting,
Speaker 4: So I hope I get to that today.
Speaker 1: So anyway, what the article that I can't find. They're
Speaker 1: making the point that as these headwinds grow and the
Speaker 1: challenges within China grow and confront cheshion Ping and the communists,
Speaker 1: they're going further down the road of aggressive nationalism, hostility
Speaker 1: toward outside threats.
Speaker 2: Up with China, we're the best, et cetera.
Speaker 1: The problem with that is the international community, from you know,
Speaker 1: the Western world to even the Third world.
Speaker 2: Is like whoa.
Speaker 1: China is getting weirder and meaner and more nationalistic, and
Speaker 1: they're no longer talking about how they want to help everybody,
Speaker 1: so it's going to exacerbate their wh So I'm telling
Speaker 1: you their internal political situation is unstable.
Speaker 2: The next quick look inside the China cabinet China. This
Speaker 2: is this is related to China.
Speaker 4: Chinese officials have discussed options for TikTok's US operations, including
Speaker 4: a possible sale to Elon Musk. I have no idea
Speaker 4: if Elon has any interest in buying TikTok, but you
Speaker 4: certainly got the money. I was listening to one of
Speaker 4: my favorite pundits yesterday, Harvard Lawyer of person that you
Speaker 4: see on TV now and then explaining to people who
Speaker 4: haven't done TikTok, like a lot of us grown ups,
Speaker 4: how incredibly addictive it is, saying that if you're like
Speaker 4: comparing it to YouTube or Instagram or Facebook or anything
Speaker 4: like that, it's a completely different world of engagement and
Speaker 4: how it lures you in, which I found fascinating and
Speaker 4: almost makes me want to download the TikTok app just
Speaker 4: to have had the experience. But I know that if
Speaker 4: you download the app, there all of a sudden intelle
Speaker 4: your phone and have all your information, But it's just
Speaker 4: a com It makes Instagram look like nothing in terms
Speaker 4: of guessing what you'd be interested in to waste your
Speaker 4: time and that algorithm is worth something.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, absolutely is my goodness, it's it's indisputable how
Speaker 1: successful it's been, to the point that because it's fun,
Speaker 1: people are willing to overlook statistics like this. According to
Speaker 1: a major study done on TikTok more TikTok, more than
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the content generated in an Instagram search
Speaker 1: on the Wigers was negative towards China. On Instagram. If
Speaker 1: you if you search on the wigers, it's eighty percent negative.
Speaker 1: It's eleven percent on TikTok. One in ten mentions of
Speaker 1: the wigers are negative on TikTok. Search for tion Men
Speaker 1: on YouTube generated tian Men Square the massacre etcted content
Speaker 1: that was sixty five percent negative, twenty percent on TikTok.
Speaker 1: It's unquestionably a propaganda wing of the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 1: It's owned by a hostile foreign power. There are laws
Speaker 1: about that. It's not it is not a complicated First
Speaker 1: Amendment argument in my mind, No, I don't.
Speaker 4: Think it is. That's where it gets complicated. That it's
Speaker 4: a complicated business ownership. Who gets to do what? How
Speaker 4: do you stop them? Thing for the Supreme Court to
Speaker 4: deal with, especially in the computer age, right, exactly. Internet's
Speaker 4: the way, Internet's cross boundaries and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I.
Speaker 1: Don't understand where are their factories? Would be the question
Speaker 1: to asked by every single Supreme Court justice up until
Speaker 1: roughly the current crop, because these challenges did not exist.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it looks like there might actually be an
Speaker 4: Israel Hamas peace deal, which would be a huge win
Speaker 4: for Trump. Among other things we got coming up, including
Speaker 4: a congressman who we're friends with, Tom McClintock, wrote a
Speaker 4: piece on The Wall Street Journal about how California policy
Speaker 4: used to blame for a lot of the disaster. We'll
Speaker 4: get to that this hour too.
Speaker 2: Stay around.
Speaker 6: At Kamala Harris's home in Brentwood, California, police responded to
Speaker 6: an alleged burglary, but the suspects were instead detained for
Speaker 6: violating curfew and thanks to Doug Emahoff, both of them
Speaker 6: are now pregnant.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow uh as a gut salt works edgy Hey tounished.
Speaker 4: So this on kind of that angle, thought this was interesting.
Speaker 4: Julia Roberts says, f you uses the actual word in
Speaker 4: an interview to looters as her ten million dollar home
Speaker 4: continues to be robbed during the LA fires.
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, what a beautiful example of the protected class
Speaker 1: and the unprotected class.
Speaker 2: More on that to come right.
Speaker 4: And it was pointed out by someone online that Roberts
Speaker 4: did ads for Kamala, who, of course, Kamala wouldn't even
Speaker 4: take a stand on whether theft under one thousand dollars
Speaker 4: should be a felony, wouldn't even make a comment on
Speaker 4: that policy. She was so freaking weak. And that was
Speaker 4: your hero, Julia Roberts. And now the sort of people
Speaker 4: that have been trained that crime isn't a crime are
Speaker 4: stealing from you. So I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, middle class people, working class people, really, everybody but
Speaker 1: the elite has already been battered by crime and junkies
Speaker 1: and the awful results of progressive policies.
Speaker 2: And now that it's hit.
Speaker 1: The Hollywood elite, they're like, oh, crime hurts, crime makes
Speaker 1: me sad. Yeah, wow, thanks for your perspective.
Speaker 4: So I'm not I don't know if it does this
Speaker 4: any good to bring up these stories or not. Does
Speaker 4: it convince anybody? I mean, we do it on a
Speaker 4: regular basis. Maybe it's just good to be reminded. Maybe
Speaker 4: if you get reminded enough at some point. The original
Speaker 4: science backed seven minute workout to get fit Fast research shows,
Speaker 4: and you brought up this sort of thing the other day,
Speaker 4: reshirt research shows that a very simple little bit of
Speaker 4: exercise can rapidly increase your health and how you feel
Speaker 4: and all sorts of different things. It takes so little
Speaker 4: to be better than nothing. Don't be sedentary anyway. This
Speaker 4: seven minute workout that they're touting in the New York
Speaker 4: Times today, and there's no arguing that this wouldn't be
Speaker 4: a great idea compared to nothing. It's super simple. You
Speaker 4: don't need to join a gym or buy an equipment
Speaker 4: or do anything. It's push ups and jumping jacks and
Speaker 4: set ups and stuff like that. It's basically the idea
Speaker 4: of you do as many jumping jacks as you can
Speaker 4: in thirty seconds. Then you take a little rest and
Speaker 4: you can do as many push ups, and you can
Speaker 4: do cheap push ups if you have to, whatever you
Speaker 4: can do at this point. You just do as much
Speaker 4: as you can for thirty seconds. Then you take a
Speaker 4: little break and you just do it for seven minutes.
Speaker 4: If you did that every day, it goes with the
Speaker 4: percentages of heart health and tonality and blah blah blah
Speaker 4: and less injury and all the things the benefits that
Speaker 4: you would.
Speaker 2: Get out of it.
Speaker 1: Wow, need to post that at armstrong and Getty on
Speaker 1: I'm sorry armstrong and getty dot com under hot links.
Speaker 1: I prefer the one armed push ups with a clap
Speaker 1: in between.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do a lot of those. It's the style
Speaker 2: I prefer. There is a great benefit to uh.
Speaker 4: It helps to be older because when you're young, especially
Speaker 4: as a man, it's tough. But there's a great benefit
Speaker 4: to letting go of how much weight are you're lifting,
Speaker 4: or how many of these are you doing, or how
Speaker 4: fast you're running. None, none of it matters. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you're not trying to get babes. You're trying to stiff
Speaker 4: arm the grim Reaper. I actually a completely different game.
Speaker 2: I actually am trying to get babes. It depends on
Speaker 2: your stiff arm.
Speaker 1: Well is, you're going to be busy, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to stiff arm the grim Reaper at the same time.
Speaker 4: But I'm past the age of comparing myself to other
Speaker 4: people and thinking that makes any difference. That's not what
Speaker 4: I'm trying to accomplish. I'm trying to be as fit
Speaker 4: as I can. I'm not trying to beat you, right,
Speaker 4: that's where it breaks down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so run.
Speaker 4: As fast as you can, do as many push ups
Speaker 4: as you can't, all that sort of stuff, which might
Speaker 4: be very.
Speaker 2: Slow and very few, but it's so much better than nothing. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was never a gym guy, per se.
Speaker 1: I worked out a lot to play baseball and then
Speaker 1: golf to some extent, believe it or not, but I
Speaker 1: was never enough of a gym guy. I never felt
Speaker 1: that sort of competition because it was useless. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, speaking of golf is like a guy who
Speaker 1: can't break a hundred showing up and saying, who wants
Speaker 1: some of this? You can't beat anybody. So that was
Speaker 1: my point, the point of view in the gym. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it's different in the gym than like playing golf.
Speaker 1: You can be out on the golf course and people
Speaker 1: see you, they don't really know how good you are
Speaker 1: or not. But in the gym, it is very clear.
Speaker 1: How many plates are on your bar.
Speaker 2: Few there are supposed to be plates on this bar.
Speaker 4: This bar is heavy, few and small is the I
Speaker 4: could barely lift the bar.
Speaker 2: The kidding.
Speaker 4: Tom McClintock is a congress person from California. He knows
Speaker 4: a lot about the policy over the years that may
Speaker 4: have led to these fires world did lead to these
Speaker 4: fires and disasters.
Speaker 1: Long time ember of the Natural Race Source's Commission too,
Speaker 1: he understands timber and water and infrastructure. Tom McClintock and
Speaker 1: much more to come, Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty show,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Does the buck stop with you? I mean, you're Governor
Speaker 2: of California and inviting it will be the mayor of California.
Speaker 2: We're all in this together.
Speaker 5: We're all better off.
Speaker 2: We're all better off.
Speaker 5: We're all better off, and we're working together to take.
Speaker 2: Care of people.
Speaker 4: And there wasn't a yes in there. Does the buck
Speaker 4: stop with you? To Gavin Newsom? And then haamanahammahammanahamana. And
Speaker 4: yesterday we mentioned the Mark Halpern line of health. Hell
Speaker 4: hath no fury like a celebrity scorned. Maybe that's what
Speaker 4: it takes to drive policy changes. Celebrities are upset. I
Speaker 4: don't know it's sad that that's the case, but it
Speaker 4: might be.
Speaker 1: Congressman Tom McClintock represents California's fifth congressional district, longtime friend
Speaker 1: of the Armstrong and Getty Show, member of the Natural
Speaker 1: Resources Committee, and a significantly author of an absolutely terrific
Speaker 1: piece published the other day in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: Bad policy served as kindling for California's wildfires. Tom McClintock
Speaker 1: joins us, Tom, how are.
Speaker 2: You, sir, I'm doing five?
Speaker 5: Thanks guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, lay out along in short of your piece
Speaker 4: in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 5: Well, it's not altogether complicated. Throughout all recorded history, California
Speaker 5: lost about four and a half million acres a year
Speaker 5: to catastrophic fire. This is nothing new. What is new
Speaker 5: is beginning in the nineteen hundreds, we established land management
Speaker 5: agencies to do a little gardening. You know. We auctioned
Speaker 5: off access timber to logging companies that paid us to
Speaker 5: remove that access before it could choke off the forest
Speaker 5: and burn. We leased public lands to cattle and sheep
Speaker 5: ranches to suppress brush growth through grazing. We cut fire
Speaker 5: brakes to contain fires. We used herbicides to keep brush
Speaker 5: away from residential areas. We put out fires before they
Speaker 5: could explode out of control, and fire losses in California
Speaker 5: declined from about four and a half million acres a
Speaker 5: year to about a quarter million acres a year throughout
Speaker 5: all the twentieth century. But the environmental laws that we
Speaker 5: passed have made the permitting for these practices endlessly time consuming,
Speaker 5: ultimately cost prohibitive. So we stopped doing them, and in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty fire losses we're back up to guess what
Speaker 5: about four and a half million acres a year. That's
Speaker 5: not a new normal, that is the old normal returning
Speaker 5: because the environmental laws changed policies that we're working to
Speaker 5: keep fires at a minimum.
Speaker 2: Tom.
Speaker 1: I know you as we value the environment quote unquote
Speaker 1: clean air and water and the beautiful landscapes California, et cetera.
Speaker 1: But who is this far left environmental cabal in California
Speaker 1: and how much power do they wield?
Speaker 5: Well, it's not just California, it's national laws as well.
Speaker 5: It's a national environmental policy acting, Dangerous Species Act, the
Speaker 5: Wilderness Act, and you have in California, the California Environmental
Speaker 5: Qualities Act. Of these were all passed with the promise
Speaker 5: that they would improve the forest, environment and public lands management. Well,
Speaker 5: I think after now living with these laws, for fifty years,
Speaker 5: we're entitled to ask how's the environment doing? And the
Speaker 5: answer is absolutely damning. Our force are now carrying four
Speaker 5: times the timber density of the land can support, and
Speaker 5: so we're losing them to disease, pestilence, drought, and ultimately
Speaker 5: catastrophic wildfire. I mean, all of that excess timber and
Speaker 5: growth is going to come out one way or another.
Speaker 5: Either we're going to carry it out or nature is
Speaker 5: going to burn it out.
Speaker 4: Well, a number of people have made this point, So
Speaker 4: Gavin Newsom is dropping a lot of the environmental restrictions
Speaker 4: with some sort of emergency you know, declaration, so people
Speaker 4: will make it it'll be easier to rebuild. And of course
Speaker 4: the reaction for a lot of us to that is
Speaker 4: so what's the logic there? If they can be done
Speaker 4: away with these environmental restrictions for this emergency, whyever have them?
Speaker 5: Well, exactly right, I mean, this is an admission by Newsome.
Speaker 5: I don't think he realizes it, but it's an admission
Speaker 5: by him that these laws not only have not worked,
Speaker 5: they've been counterproductive. And if this doesn't prompt a wholesale
Speaker 5: revision of them, I don't know what will well.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right.
Speaker 4: Obviously it is an admission because it's saying this will
Speaker 4: make things a lot easier and faster to rebuild.
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah.
Speaker 5: And at the same time, these laws have hampered our
Speaker 5: ability to deliver water projects for the next generation, as
Speaker 5: well as to manage our lands to keep them healthy
Speaker 5: and fire resilient. I mean, look, this is the way
Speaker 5: nature gardens, and Natures allows the gardener. If you don't
Speaker 5: believe that, just leave your own garden alone for a
Speaker 5: few years and you tell me what it's going to
Speaker 5: look like. You know, that's why we have these land
Speaker 5: management agencies to come in and do a little gardening.
Speaker 5: The environmental laws of the nineteen seventies stop them from
Speaker 5: doing that, and now Nature's coming act to do gardening
Speaker 5: her way.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the inability of California to build water storage
Speaker 1: over multiple generations now in spite of the people passing
Speaker 1: billions of dollars in bonds. We've already talked about the
Speaker 1: state imposed price controls on homeowner's insurance and now that's
Speaker 1: utterly perverted the market. But I know in your piece
Speaker 1: in the Wall Street Journal, you also touched upon how
Speaker 1: Mayor Karen Bass in La, who is cutting tens of
Speaker 1: millions of dollars from the fire budget, seems to have
Speaker 1: unlimited money for bums, junkies, and illegal immigrants.
Speaker 5: Well, again, it's a question of priorities. And this is
Speaker 5: this is where people say we should recall Karen Bass,
Speaker 5: we should recall Gavin Newsom. Well, I'm all for that,
Speaker 5: but simply replacing one left wing idiolog with another is
Speaker 5: not going to change these policies. This is the result
Speaker 5: of deliberate policies that have been placed into federal, state
Speaker 5: and local laws over many decades now at the choice
Speaker 5: of voters, and they're the wrong policies because they're wrong people.
Speaker 4: I know your your piece is all about the the resources,
Speaker 4: the environment, all that sort of stuff with the fire,
Speaker 4: but you also have this angle of we got looting
Speaker 4: and crime going on right now in a state that
Speaker 4: has made crime legal for the past, you know, quite
Speaker 4: a few years and created a culture where, of course
Speaker 4: people feel like they can go loot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, again, nothing.
Speaker 5: Strange about that. If you stop prosecuting crimes, you're going
Speaker 5: to get more crime. And that's exactly what the policy
Speaker 5: makers in California have done. That's what the sanctuary cities
Speaker 5: is all about. Sanctuary cities is specifically designed to shield
Speaker 5: criminal illegal aliens. Under federal law, when an illegal alien
Speaker 5: has committed a crime, has been sentenced for that crime,
Speaker 5: and jailed for that crime, when they're about to be released,
Speaker 5: ICE is supposed to be notified so they can be
Speaker 5: deported out of this country. The sanctuary laws stop that
Speaker 5: from happening. So I mean, these are again deliberate policies.
Speaker 5: You know, if you voted for people like Karen Bass
Speaker 5: and Gavin Newsom, this is what you voted for. And
Speaker 5: if that surprises you, you weren't paying any attention. Maybe
Speaker 5: this has been a wake up call that can't be ignored.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping you're right about that.
Speaker 4: I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 4: and the city's already looking cleaner. People have had enough.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's gonna happen for the LA area or the
Speaker 4: entire state. Well, let's spand go ahead, and Tom.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, we saw that in New York
Speaker 5: it was crime ridden and decaying. Rudy Giuliani took over
Speaker 5: and cleaned it all up. Policy matters, and the people
Speaker 5: that we elect matter because they determined policy.
Speaker 1: Connor's from Tom mcclint Hockey is online. Tom, I was
Speaker 1: just going to say, let's extend the conversation to the
Speaker 1: nation at large. What are you most excited about energized
Speaker 1: about with the incoming Trump administration majorities in both houses.
Speaker 5: Well, I remind people the American people didn't save our
Speaker 5: cunt on election night. They gave us the tools to
Speaker 5: save our country. We still have to do it. And
Speaker 5: as I see it, there are two monumental threats to
Speaker 5: our country that we're staring straight at. History is screaming
Speaker 5: a warning at us. The countries that bankrupt themselves or
Speaker 5: countries that cannot control their borders simply aren't around very long.
Speaker 5: Those are the two crises that have to be immediately addressed.
Speaker 5: I am very confident that Trump is fully determined to
Speaker 5: address them, and I think that the Congress is going
Speaker 5: to bend over backwards to get him what he needs.
Speaker 1: So the border thing, I don't dispute for a moment,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to hit you with a statement that
Speaker 1: is actually pretty damn close to true. Respond however you want,
Speaker 1: Tom McClintock, there is no constituency for fiscal conservatism. You
Speaker 1: can't get a round of applause anymore for it.
Speaker 5: I think that's changing because I think our country people
Speaker 5: are starting to awaken to the fact that our country
Speaker 5: is entering a debt spiral. Before you can provide for
Speaker 5: the common defense and promote the general welfare, you've got
Speaker 5: to be able to pay for it, and countries that
Speaker 5: bankrupt themselves can't. That's why many years ago, Mike Mullen,
Speaker 5: the former Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said
Speaker 5: that in his professional military judgment, the greatest threat to
Speaker 5: our country is the national debt. And that's when the
Speaker 5: national debt was about a third of what it is now.
Speaker 1: Congressman Tom McLintock, fifth District of cal CORNEA time you
Speaker 1: keep eating that drum and we will too well done.
Speaker 5: Good to talk, Thanks, good to talk to you guys.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: It's amazing Conservatives when any elections, because we're the no
Speaker 4: fun people. The Democrats get to say, let's go to
Speaker 4: Hawaii on vacation and eat nothing but desserts, and then
Speaker 4: we have to say, no, no, let's let's stay home
Speaker 4: this year for vacation and save the money. Because I
Speaker 4: think you're gonna have some tough times ahead, and we
Speaker 4: better not eat dessert. So I mean, there's work to
Speaker 4: be done, and eat your vegetables right right, Yeah, and
Speaker 4: yet if the dessert hoarding Hawaii vacationers, and.
Speaker 2: I've done both, So hello hippocri who went to Hawaii
Speaker 2: last summer and ate nothing but desserts. It's a metaphor.
Speaker 2: On it's a metaphor. You get the metaphor right.
Speaker 1: You've got to do the right things or you will
Speaker 1: die or go away in the country. Thomson, Absolutely right,
Speaker 1: You've got you. You cannot court fiscal disaster and throw
Speaker 1: open your borders and survive as a country. End of screed.
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Speaker 4: So I got this brand new fire in the Ventura area.
Speaker 4: They're calling the Auto Fire for some reason. Anyway, very
Speaker 4: windy today, seventy plus mile in our gusts.
Speaker 2: We'll keep our eye on that.
Speaker 4: Also, the Pete Hegzef confirmation hearing going on in Washington,
Speaker 4: DC right now.
Speaker 2: We've got some high from that. Yeah, it's gotten off
Speaker 2: to a wacky start. Multiple protesters bellowing and carrying on.
Speaker 2: They can't even do the hearing. Awesome, all on the way.
Speaker 7: Art officers enlisted, black and white, young and old, men
Speaker 7: and women, all Americans, all warriors.
Speaker 2: This hearing is for you.
Speaker 7: Thank you for figuratively and literally having my back.
Speaker 1: Who are misogamous, not only that you are a.
Speaker 4: Christy protester interrupting the Pete Hegzath hearing as they always do.
Speaker 1: Protester Old crack Pot bellowing about Vietnam Please, what do
Speaker 1: you want Peter to do about it?
Speaker 2: So I'm looking up at the TV.
Speaker 4: It looks like a lot of the questioning that I've
Speaker 4: been watching so far has been a route about the
Speaker 4: whole women serving in combat roles, which, man, I feel.
Speaker 2: Like is a I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'll have to watch the hearing to see how the
Speaker 4: conversation is going. I don't understand why this is so difficult.
Speaker 4: Sh it does it make us stronger and better fighting force.
Speaker 4: Yes or no, then go with that at the end.
Speaker 4: I don't understand why it's even an issue.
Speaker 1: But right right, you know, I hate to steal my
Speaker 1: thunder from a discussion of LA's Firefighter Corps because it's
Speaker 1: more or less the same idea. But has any soldier
Speaker 1: in a firefight ever in the history of warfare, going
Speaker 1: back to swords and shields and hurling rocks at each
Speaker 1: other ever said you know, the fight's going well, but
Speaker 1: I wish there were more women here fighting. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're getting into their entire focus effectiveness. He's getting into
Speaker 1: a conversation with Tom Cotton. As I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: TV senator military guy hegxeth them. They're talking about women's
Speaker 1: strength versus men's strengths. I mean, they're getting into the
Speaker 1: nitty gritty of this.
Speaker 2: Well good and they should.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely appropriate, and that's part of the reason that Pete,
Speaker 1: I think, would be a breath of fresh air. He
Speaker 1: is not absolutely you know, steeped in the conventional thinking
Speaker 1: in the last twenty five years, much of which has
Speaker 1: been terribly misguided in my mind.
Speaker 2: Hits seventy seven, Michael.
Speaker 7: As I've said, to many of you in private meetings.
Speaker 7: When President Trump chose me for this position, the primary
Speaker 7: charge he gave me was to bring the warrior culture
Speaker 7: back to the Department of Defense. He liked me once
Speaker 7: a Pentagon laser focused on lethality, meritocracy, war fighting, accountability,
Speaker 7: and readiness.
Speaker 1: All right, more, Fredon Babe starts screaming, taste or tays
Speaker 1: the old guy too, tas them both, tayso them till
Speaker 1: they wet themselves. If they're under hydrated, give them a
Speaker 1: good drink of water, then tas them again. So we're
Speaker 1: on the air while this is happening. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what's driving these various arguments, but if I'm the Democrats,
Speaker 1: do so, I want it to be about the things
Speaker 1: he's said about women in combat. Do they think that's
Speaker 1: the winning issue?
Speaker 4: I think the better issue if I'm a Democrat is
Speaker 4: him not being qualified to be sec deaf. It's such
Speaker 4: a giant organization. You've never run anything one one thousandth
Speaker 4: this size.
Speaker 2: Who has right?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: That's well, And my purpose in playing these clips for
Speaker 1: you is that everything he's said is from certainly our perspective,
Speaker 1: more than defensible.
Speaker 2: It's great hit seventy eight. Briefly, Michael, you may proceed
Speaker 2: to bring back war fighting.
Speaker 7: If confirmed, I'm going to work with President Trump.
Speaker 2: And this committee to one.
Speaker 7: Restore the warrior ethos to the Pentagon and throughout our
Speaker 7: fighting force. In doing so, we will re establish trust
Speaker 7: in our military, addressing the recruiting crisis, the retention crisis,
Speaker 7: and readiness crisis in our rank.
Speaker 2: All right, so that's sorry, you can fade that out, Michael.
Speaker 1: That's three protesters, like in the first few minutes of
Speaker 1: his opening statement, which is ridiculous, he accused by the
Speaker 1: way he opened his statement, or at least a significant
Speaker 1: part of it, was a what was described by the
Speaker 1: National Review as a scorched earth attack on the media,
Speaker 1: a coordinated smear campaign that's from the Kavanaugh book, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which was decried by the idiots in the media as
Speaker 1: being somehow unhinged or inappropriate. It was one of my
Speaker 1: favorite moments in observing government and public life.
Speaker 4: So Tom Cotton just explained how our standards are so
Speaker 4: low that their requirement for the two mile run is
Speaker 4: can you do it in twenty two minutes? And he
Speaker 4: said that's not running, that's barely jogging. That's a fast walk. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a really good paced walk. Is a guy who
Speaker 4: takes power walks?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: Anyway, So, like I said, they're getting into the nitty
Speaker 4: gritty of the requirements, which I'm fine with that angle.
Speaker 4: I just thought it'd be that's from a Republican. Maybe
Speaker 4: he wants to put it on this where they're pretty
Speaker 4: solidly in the right as opposed to the as he
Speaker 4: qualified stuff.
Speaker 2: Right. Whether heg Seth is the guy or not is
Speaker 2: an open question.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we have these hearings, but to push back
Speaker 1: against the military as a social experiment and a jobs
Speaker 1: program attitude that has infected Washington, d C. And I
Speaker 1: have some very good accounts from highly placed people who
Speaker 1: I know personally saying that is unquestionably the case.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Or to put it, as Pete Hegseth put it seventy nine, please, Michael, Now,
Speaker 1: it is true.
Speaker 7: And has been acknowledged that I don't have a similar
Speaker 7: biography to defense secretaries of the last thirty years. But
Speaker 7: as President Trump also told me, we've repeatedly placed people
Speaker 7: atop the Pentagon with supposedly the right credentials. Whether they retire,
Speaker 7: generals academics or defense contractor executives, and where has it
Speaker 7: gotten us.
Speaker 2: That's a good argument, he believes.
Speaker 7: And I humbly agree that it's time to give someone
Speaker 7: with dust on his boots the helm.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty good argument. It's a damn good argument.
Speaker 4: The reason we lowered the standards in a lot of
Speaker 4: cases is because we aren't getting enough recruits, and so
Speaker 4: we're widening the net to get more people to join. Now,
Speaker 4: our friend Mike Lyons says, part of the reason you
Speaker 4: aren't getting enough recruits is it just doesn't have the
Speaker 4: the challenge. You know, I want to be part of
Speaker 4: an elite unit thing that it used to have. He thinks,
Speaker 4: you know, having higher standards making it seem like, wow,
Speaker 4: you're really something. You're in the army. You were in
Speaker 4: the military brings in more people, which you might be
Speaker 4: right as opposed to just.
Speaker 2: Another job flabby people can do exactly well, yeah, exactly, yeah, Hm.
Speaker 1: I served in the army, so what A lot of
Speaker 1: America response not us, Don't get me wrong, but I
Speaker 1: see his point. I think it's a great one.
Speaker 4: We'll have more of that hearing of any interesting stuff happens.
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