1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is a national security threat. We have some 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: insane things happening with the administrative state. What is going 3 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: on with the Clinton lawyers Susman trial, all that's coming 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: up on. I'm right, welcome to I'm right. It's time 5 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: to talk about some foreign policy. People matter. Just hold 6 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: on a second. I'm actually not doing that the Children 7 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: of the Future type thing right now. I'm talking about people, 8 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: person to person interactions, how people interpret things. It's really 9 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: really important. And I know what you're saying right now 10 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: with Jesse that I get all that this is a 11 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: no brainer. Why are you even bringing this up? Well, 12 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: Joe Biden just got back from Korea and Japan. He 13 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: had to go do the whole Asian trip where he 14 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: goes and explains why our tanking economy is doing really 15 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: really well, you know, things like that, and Joe Biden 16 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 1: once again tripped up before I play it, before I 17 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: play it, though, Joe Biden tripped up in a major way, 18 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: and he's done this before when it comes to national security. 19 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: So what I was just saying, though, remember this people matter, 20 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: meaning when we think of our enemies and our friends, 21 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: we think of them sometimes as if they're just an 22 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: entity or a robot. Like if I was to say 23 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: China to you, he would say, oh, China is our enemy, right, 24 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 1: except you have to understand the leadership of China. They're people. 25 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: They watch TV just like you watch TV. They're on 26 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: social media too. They know what's going on. When the 27 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: President of the United States of America says things, they're people. 28 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: They are going to interpret the things he says and 29 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: then act accordingly based on the things. To president of 30 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: the United States of America says, not just what comes 31 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: out of his mouth. How's he look? Hows he sound? 32 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: They're always trying to lick their finger and stick it 33 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: in the air and figure out how strong is America? 34 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: Do they mean what they say? What will they do here? 35 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 1: What won't they do there? Did America go too far 36 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: and offend me? Did the people? Your enemies are people? 37 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: So when Joe Biden goes overseas and has a little 38 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: brain fart like this, it's not a small deal. It 39 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: might be the biggest deal in the world. Are you 40 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it 41 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: comes to that, Yes you are. That's a commitment we made. 42 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: That's a commitment we made. We are not. Look, here's 43 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: a situation. We agree with the One China policy, we 44 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: signed on to it and all the attendant agreements made 45 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: from there, but the idea that it can be taken 46 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: by force, just taken by force, is just not a 47 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: procodo dislocate the entire region and being another action similar 48 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: to what happened and in Ukraine and so a. It's 49 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: a burden that is even stronger. What did Joe Biden 50 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: just commit to World War three over Taiwan? Because that's 51 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: what he did, and it's important before we go off 52 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: about Biden, it's important to understand the leadership, the people, 53 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,959 Speaker 1: the men leading China. They were watching that TV two, 54 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: they got notified of that. If they weren't watching it live, 55 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: they got notified of that. About five seconds after that 56 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: bumbling fool said it. He said, what, no, give me 57 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: the video. Of course they're speaking mannering, but you know 58 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: it probably sounds that way in English, but it matters 59 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: a lot. That's World War three. China invades Taiwan. We're 60 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: going to send a carrier group over there with a 61 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: couple of marine regiments. Is that the plan? Joe start 62 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: lobbing nukes? At each other's at the plan, and of 63 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: course you know the White House had to come out 64 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: and started walking it back right away. Wow, No, that's 65 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: not really what he means. He didn't really mean that. 66 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: But remember this is not the first time he said that. 67 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: Remember this back in October that we are not going 68 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: to step back. We are not going to change any 69 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: of our reviews. So are you saying that that the 70 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 1: United States would come to Taiwan's defense in China attack. Yes, 71 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: we have a commitment to do that. They can keep 72 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: walking these things back. It continues to do these things 73 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: and they walk these things back. But the truth of 74 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: the matter is this, when Joe Biden speaks, because he 75 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: is the commander in chief, the entire world can change 76 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: by his words. Now that's insane, right, That's an insane 77 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: amount of power. You don't have that. I don't have 78 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 1: that power. I say a sentence on here and it 79 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: can move the world, change the world, destroy the world. 80 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: Joe Biden does have that power. Do I have to 81 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: remind you we were like fifteen minutes removed from Joe 82 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 1: Biden getting up on television and being asked about Russia 83 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: potentially invading Ukraine and Joe Biden said, well, I mean, 84 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: if it's a small little incursion, it's not that big 85 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: of a deal. And then immediately the White House tried 86 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: to walk it back, but in came Russia right off 87 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: the bat again. Vladimir Putin has television too. And this 88 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 1: brings me to my point. It goes way beyond left 89 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 1: right Republican Democrat. We have to have a functional, a 90 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: fully functional adult leading the United States of America with 91 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: all due respect. Whatever your job is, look, let's make 92 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: it about me. Let's make it about my job with 93 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: all due respect. And I love what I do here 94 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: at the first I love bringing you TV every night, 95 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: and I love just having these conversations with you. But 96 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: if someone was to sit in this chair and they 97 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: were addled with dementia, it wouldn't be the end of 98 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: the world. Might not be the best TV, or maybe 99 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: it would be the best TV, but it wouldn't be 100 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: the end of the world. Doesn't have the potential to 101 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 1: change the world, to start a nuclear war, not a 102 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: big deal. Same with your job, accountant, lawyer, housewife, whatever 103 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 1: you do. Someone in your job gets dementia, it's a 104 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: big deal. I'm not downplaying it, but doesn't change the world. 105 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: Someone with dementia, as president of the United States of 106 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: America has the potential to change or end the world. 107 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: It is a very big deal. These things that he 108 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: continues to say accidentally are not small things. And you 109 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: can tell, like in that moment, you could tell the 110 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: second he goes off script, is looking around, kind of 111 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 1: wandering around and just kind of saying whatever happens to 112 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 1: come out of his mind at the moment, and he 113 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: doesn't have that filter anymore. And again, if that's you 114 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: or your grandma, it hurts and it sucks and it's awful. 115 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: I'm not dismissing it. But it's not the end of 116 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: the world, Joe Biden saying it might be, Which brings 117 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: me to one last point on all this stuff. Our military. 118 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: I mean, we have a president out there doing a 119 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: lot of saber rattling at the moment, a lot of it, 120 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: sending billions in arms to Ukraine, providing intelligence that's getting 121 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: Russian generals killed, threatening Taiwan with war, or threatening China 122 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: with war if they invade Taiwan. So let's check in 123 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: on the military. Well, the soft purge continues. Remember I've 124 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: been warning for a long time about the soft purge 125 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: of the military. Understand that communists purging the military of 126 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: their political enemies is standard communism. That's communism, one on one. 127 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: It's one of the first things they do every single 128 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: time they get rid of all their political enemies. Why. Well, again, 129 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: the communist doesn't look at the military something that really 130 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: has to defend the nation. They look at the military 131 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: as a tool to kill their political opponents. They always have, 132 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: and our communists here no different. Why are you supposed 133 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: to do that in America. This isn't the Soviet Union 134 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: under Stalin where you could just haul a general off 135 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: in the middle of the night and have him shot 136 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: in the face. No, you have to go about it 137 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: in a different way. So what they're doing is what's 138 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: called a soft purge. It's what I call it. They're 139 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: creating an environment where the real thinking, superstud type a 140 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: men who win wars, they don't want to be in 141 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: that environment anymore. That's one part of the soft purge. 142 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:39,319 Speaker 1: The second part is that's seventeen year old boy wants 143 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: to go see what he's made of serve his country. 144 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: He's on the football team. He doesn't want to join 145 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: for this insanity he's going to go do something else 146 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: and we'll never get him at all. That's the soft purge. 147 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: Right now, there's a proposal that the US Army will 148 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:02,599 Speaker 1: allow soldiers to switch their duty station to move bases 149 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: if the area they're in doesn't affirm things like their 150 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: gender of choice. So we right now in the United 151 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: States military are getting ready to tell a man who's 152 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: decided he's a woman and wants to move out of 153 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: Texas to be located in Connecticut. We're about to tell him, Okay, Pat, 154 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: that's fine. Again the type amen, the thinking freedom fighting studs, 155 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: we need to stay in to fight. They wake up 156 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: in the morning and they see headlines think this, and 157 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: they say, man, I'm gone. I'm not realist and I'm 158 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: not staying in here for this. I'm gone. And again, 159 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: that's sixteen seventeen year old Iowa farm boy on the 160 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: wrestling team, who's who's he's growing up, growing up wanting 161 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: to be like dad. At that picture of his dad 162 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 1: in Vietnam uniform on and he says, man, I want 163 00:09:57,679 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: to I want to be like dad. That's what I 164 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: want to do. He wakes up this morning. He has 165 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: social media too, and he sees what the trans military. Ah, 166 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 1: you know, I think I'll just go to college. Never mind, 167 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: it's happening right now across the country. It's happening right now, 168 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: the rot in our military. And like I just said, 169 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: there's a reason they want the military purged of their 170 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: ideological opponents. It's so they can turn their guns on 171 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: the American citizens who opposed them. Look, the National School 172 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: Board Association just tried to sick the National Guard and 173 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: military police on who concerned parents. Quote, we asked the 174 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: Army National Guard and it's military police be deployed to 175 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: certain school districts and in related events where students in 176 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: school personnel have been subjected to acts and threats of violence. 177 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,839 Speaker 1: That's exactly right. They wanted the military to come arrest you. 178 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: Why because you didn't want your child to be taught 179 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: by this thing. So today was full of little happy 180 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: gender euphoria moments. I got called mister Micah a lot today. Well, 181 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 1: completely fem and that was really heartwarming that the kids 182 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: just got it. But my favorite reaction, and it sums 183 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,719 Speaker 1: me up so well, I feel like is I was 184 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: in a new classroom and I took off my mask 185 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: to blow my nose, and I just hear a kid 186 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: loudly whispered, Oh, she's a boy. I was like, yeah, 187 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: you got a kid. You totally got it. They're trying 188 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: to get your kid to change genders in your school. 189 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: They're trying to do this behind your back, and if 190 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: you get upset about it, they want to send the 191 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: National Guardian after you. When I tell you we're dealing 192 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:56,839 Speaker 1: with vicious, vile communists, you better understand I'm being serious. 193 00:11:57,679 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: And look, let's go. Let's finish this with some good news. 194 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: Over one point two million students have been yanked out 195 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: of public schools, one point two million in just the 196 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: past two years. That's the best news I've heard in 197 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 1: a long time. Get your kids out of these government 198 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: education camps. All right. All that may have made you uncomfortable, 199 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: but I'm right. We got Congressman Mike Johnson has been 200 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: all over the place talking about the weaponization of the 201 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: administrative state against parents. We're going to talk to him 202 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: about that. What can they do about that? That's coming 203 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: up in a second. Before we get to that, I 204 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: understand if you have any money in the stock market, 205 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,959 Speaker 1: I understand that it's been a rough couple of months. Right, 206 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: I get these texts every day from my sister. Did 207 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 1: you see what happened? I know, I know, I know this. 208 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: The guys I know who make a bunch of money 209 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:50,199 Speaker 1: in the stock market. I'm not one of them, but 210 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: the guys I know, and that's kind of what they do. 211 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 1: They always tell me, Hey, zig, whenever the public zags. 212 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: Right now, you're taking a beating and you're thinking, I 213 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: have to tucktail, and I suggest to do something different. 214 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: Go to twenty twenty two stock MarketWatch dot com. Mark 215 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: Chakin is on there. He's the one who predicted the 216 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 1: crash of twenty twenty and he thinks there's a gigantic 217 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: opportunity right now not to cut and run. Not to 218 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: cut and run for you to make money. Twenty twenty 219 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:23,679 Speaker 1: two stock market message dot com. Check it out, all right, 220 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: we'll be back. Each morning, the President of the United 221 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: States receives a highly classified briefing on the most important 222 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: issues facing the country. It's called the President's Daily Brief, 223 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 1: or PDB. It's delivered by America's spies and analysts. Well, 224 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: now you can hear your very own PDB in the 225 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: form of a podcast hosted by me Brian Dean Wright, 226 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: a former CIA operations officer. Each morning at six am Eastern, 227 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: I'll bring you fifteen to twenty minutes of the most 228 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: important issues facing the country, giving you the critical intelligence 229 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: and analysis you need to start your morning. So abortion 230 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: should be allowed in by your definition, for any reason, 231 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: for any purpose, at any stage. Right. I trust people 232 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: to make decisions about their body and then when relevant, 233 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: I think that they need to consult their medical practitioners. Okay, 234 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: and if it is listen, let me just ask you 235 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: this question. If it is not lawful and morally acceptable 236 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: to take the life of a ten year old child, 237 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: I assume you agree with that right, that would be wrong, correct? 238 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: I believe that, okay, and a two year old child 239 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: same thing. That would be murder. We would all agree 240 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: that's wrong. Then what is the principal distinction between the 241 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: human being that is two years old or nine months old, 242 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: or one week old or an hour old than one 243 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: that is eight inches further up the birth canal in 244 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: the utero? What what's the difference? Why is it okay 245 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: in the latter case and not the former cases. I 246 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: trust people to and what to do with their own bow. 247 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: We'll stop joining me now the Congressman from Louisiana, Mike Johnson, 248 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: who destroyed that young lady deservedly so in front of 249 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: that hearing congressman. The pause at the end from her 250 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: was so incredibly telling as you walked her into just 251 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: having to admit she's fine with killing unborn babies. I mean, 252 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: that's where they're at now. They're fairly open about it. Now. 253 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: They believe an unborn child, even one that's getting ready 254 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: to pop on out, can be killed and should be killed. 255 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: That's where they are. And this moment gives us all 256 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: an opportunity to point out the utter moral bankruptcy of 257 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: the left position on abortion. You know, for a while, 258 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: the debate has sort of been dormant, Jesse, because you know, 259 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: we've been struggling over defending the sanctity of human life 260 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: my whole career. Many of us have been in this 261 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: battle a long time. But now the Dob's opinion sort 262 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: of tease this up for a really thoughtful public conversation. 263 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: And what's ironic about this, Jesse, and you pointed it out, 264 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: is that the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over 265 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: our federal court system. By the way, the brazen attempt 266 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: by the Democrats to use a hearing of the House 267 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: Didiciary Committee to try to pressure the Conservative justices to 268 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: change their mind on the opinion before it comes out. 269 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: It just backward on them pretty fantastically, and we were 270 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: grateful to have those moments. It did. And I'll tell you, 271 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: I hate to be too sunny and too optimistic, but 272 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: the insanity and depravity of these people is I think 273 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: our finest weapon at this point in time. Now, obviously 274 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: that was a great line of questioning, and I applaud 275 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: you for it, but it was really the insanity of 276 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: that person that won the day for us. People look 277 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: at that, who aren't near as pro life as I 278 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: am or pro life as you are, They look at that, 279 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: and no matter which way you slice that, that person 280 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: looks like a monster and you look like a reasonable person. 281 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: This is a culture win for us. These kinds of things, well, 282 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: it is. And as John Adams said, facts are stubborn things. 283 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: We have the opportunity to point out the facts, and 284 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: we don't have to do it in a way that 285 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 1: is overly offensive or you know, we're not trying to 286 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: beat anyone over the head with these facts. We just 287 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: lay them out plainly, and people can draw their own 288 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: objective conclusions from that, and they have nowhere to run Jesse. 289 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: That's the point. There is no way to defend that position. 290 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: We have advancements in medical technology. We have a lot 291 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: more insight now than they had in nineteen seventy three 292 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 1: when row became the law of the land. Everyone can 293 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: look at an ultrasound and see this is plainly and 294 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,120 Speaker 1: clearly a human being. And so they are left then 295 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: to try to defend destroying that life. And as much 296 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: as they try to hide from it and run from it, 297 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: will have more and more opportunities, I believe, to point 298 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 1: this out and let people see this for themselves. Yeah, 299 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: I agree. I tell the story a lot. I had 300 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: a friend of mine. His mother was the most pro 301 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: abortion woman ever and now she's the hardcore pro life 302 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: and she didn't have a religious conversion. She went to 303 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 1: a museum and saw a baby in its mother's womb, 304 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: and it just had hit her over the face. Wow, 305 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: that's a human being. If she switched anyway. I have 306 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: often said that I think the most dangerous thing. We 307 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: have a bunch of problems obviously going on in the country, 308 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 1: but the most dangerous thing happening is the weaponization of 309 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 1: the administrative state against the political enemies of the Democratic Party. 310 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: And you and Jim Jordan released a memo and dozens 311 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: of instances where the DOJ started labeling terrorists threat tags 312 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 1: onto concerned parents. We now have a Department of Justice 313 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: and FBI going after parents who don't want their kids 314 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: to learn how to chop their penis off in kindergarten. 315 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,919 Speaker 1: Do I have that right, Congressman, That's one of the 316 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,479 Speaker 1: ways to put it. Yes, I mean, that's exactly what's happened. 317 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 1: As you noted, the Democrat Party has weaponized the Department 318 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: of Justice. This is so dangerous for so many reasons, 319 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: but it undermines the people's faith in our institutions. This 320 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: one's particularly important. To maintain a constitution or republic, people 321 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: have to believe in the system of justice. But they 322 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: have weaponized this agency. And so now you have the 323 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: leader of the Department of Justice, that the Attorney General, 324 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: the highest ranking law enforcement law official in our nation, 325 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: who I believe he lied to Congress Jesse, because he 326 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: appeared before us in October. We asked him specifically about 327 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: this question and he said, under oath that parents who 328 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 1: showed up at school boards to protest mass mandates and 329 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: CRT curricula and the rest were not labeled as domestic 330 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 1: terrorists by the FBI. We know that was not a 331 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 1: factual statement. He knew it at the time he made it, 332 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: because we have a whistleblowers to come forward. Now, this 333 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:29,439 Speaker 1: is explosive information, and we are not going to let 334 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: us go. Congressman, they're not losing trust in their institutions. 335 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: They've lost it, and these institutions have to have massive 336 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,919 Speaker 1: reforms of themselves or be eliminated entirely. But in the 337 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: very least, they have to have massive reforms in order 338 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: to get that back, and they don't seem to have 339 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 1: any interest in going that way. They just seem to 340 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: continue to lecture us more and punish us more and 341 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: aim their guns at us more instead of reforming themselves. 342 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: And I look, you're the congressman, I'm just a TV host. 343 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: Is there a way they can earn that trust back? 344 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: Because I can't see how that happens in reality. Well, 345 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: I think it, as you note, it has to be 346 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: preceded by some real reform. I think you need a 347 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 1: structural change from the top. The FBI, for example, has 348 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 1: had some horribly corrupt officials drawn the public's drawn into 349 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: the public's attention over the last few years because they've 350 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: weaponized that. They've used the Department of Justice. Imagine it, 351 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice as a political arm of the 352 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: National Democrat Party. It's just unconscionable. So we have to 353 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: go in committees of jurisdiction, the committees that have oversight 354 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: over this, to fix it for them, because as you 355 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,679 Speaker 1: know that there doesn't appear to be any appetite for 356 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: changing it internally. I think you're going to see some 357 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: of that when we have this big, massive red wave 358 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: election and Republicans take over again. We're having a lot 359 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: of thoughtful discussion behind the scenes on how we can 360 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 1: reform the FBI, reform the Department of Justice to make 361 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: it work for the people again where they can have 362 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: trust in it. Because Jesse, look, this is not a game. 363 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: If people do not trust in a system of justice 364 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: that is blind we have equal justice under law, we 365 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: have nothing. We don't have the rule of law in 366 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 1: this country, and that is a very dangerous outcome. The Congressman, 367 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: I'm not asking you to name names. I wouldn't do 368 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 1: that to you. I understand you're going to be with 369 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 1: the public this fear of the administrative state, because you 370 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: at least reassure us that the GOP leadership in the House, 371 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: most of them, they're right there with the hardcore freedom 372 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: fighters like yourself, and realizing this is a big problem 373 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 1: because I'm a little bit sick of hearing about the 374 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 1: great men and women of the FBI at the head 375 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: of our party. We have to reform ourselves. And if 376 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,199 Speaker 1: that's the line, then we're not going to change anything. No, 377 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: that's true. I mean we want to be careful because 378 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: I believe rank and file officers in the FBI know 379 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: many of them their patriots, They serve their country. They 380 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: got in it, and they're in it for the right reason. 381 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: We're talking about the leadership of these agencies. Then that 382 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: it's corrupt at the top, and that's part of the 383 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: swamp that Donald Trump talks about. I mean, we have 384 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: to dig in and correct that so that we could 385 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: do a service to all that are further down the chain. 386 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: I mean, that's the obvious thing. I do believe that 387 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: there is a groundswell of support amongst the Republicans in 388 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 1: the House. I think we're unified on this. In our committee. 389 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan will be the ranking member, He'll be the 390 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: Chairman of the House Judiciary. I'm on that committee other 391 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,640 Speaker 1: freedom fighters that you know, lots of our friends are there, 392 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: and we are fiercely committed in digging in on this. 393 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 1: I'm the vice chairman of the House Republicans. Now, I 394 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 1: can tell you this will be a priority of ours. 395 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: We're going to get this straight because we owe it 396 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: to the American people, and again we have to do 397 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 1: it to perverse preserve our system of justice outstanding. I 398 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: love hearing that. Congressman, thank you so much for what 399 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 1: you're doing. Please get going. Thank you Bunny YouTube. All right, 400 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 1: we've talked about a corrupt system, a lot, a corrupt 401 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: administrative state. Well, I know you probably haven't seen it 402 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: on the television, but there is an actual trial going 403 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 1: on right now that is exposing a lot of this, 404 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: and we're going to give you an update on that 405 00:22:56,119 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: with an expert next. Before we get to that, let's 406 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: talk about the health of your family. When I talk 407 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,719 Speaker 1: about Eden, pure thunderstorm. To be honest, sometimes I just 408 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: hit the fluffy parts. I love. 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Go to 418 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 1: Eden Pure deals dot com and use the code Jesse 419 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 1: and that gets you three of these for under two 420 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Go make your home smell better, fix your allergies, 421 00:23:52,200 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 1: make your family healthier. We'll be back. When the President 422 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: of the United States, who has taken an oath to 423 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: protect and defend the Constitution and by that defend the 424 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 1: American people in their interests, uses his position to inaffect 425 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: extort a foreign government for his own political purposes. I 426 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: think that is very much what the Founders worried about 427 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: in high crimes and misdemeanors. She's very worried about that 428 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: government corruption. Joining me now, Margo Cleveland, she's the senior 429 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: legal correspondent with the Federalist Marigo. First and foremost, a 430 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 1: lot of people are hearing a lot of names right now, 431 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: and because we have a disgusting, wretched media in this country, 432 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: they don't understand who these people are. They're hearing words 433 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 1: like Susman and Durham, and they don't understand what's happening. 434 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: So can you act like I just showed up here 435 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 1: from Mars? Who are these people? What's happening right now? Sure? 436 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: So Durham is the special counsel who was appointed to 437 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: investigate the investigators. So we had five years of Trump 438 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: being the bad guy, and we had Special Consul Robert 439 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: Mueller looking into what he did and of course found nothing. 440 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: And in the process we came up with evidence that 441 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,959 Speaker 1: it was actually the FBI and the DOJ who were 442 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: kind of pulling things. And we saw that first when 443 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 1: they went to get a warrant on someone who was 444 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: volunteering to help the Trump campaign named Carter Page. As 445 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 1: this material started to come out, what happened was Attorney 446 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: General Barr William Barr, under President Trump appointed John Durham 447 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: to start with the investigation, and then he appointed him 448 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 1: as a Special Consul at the end. So far John Durham, 449 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: special counsel, has been digging into what has been going on. 450 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: So it's probably about four years now. It is so 451 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: complicated and so Massy, we're just starting to get some 452 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: trials out of it. So Michael Suessman is on trial 453 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: now in a federal court in Washington, d C. Michael 454 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: Sussman had been an attorney for the firm of Perkins 455 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 1: Kuei and he represented the DNC originally when they were hacked, 456 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: but he also then started helping the Clinton campaign during 457 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen election. And what happened is he had 458 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 1: a client named Rodney Joffey, who was a tech executive 459 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: connected to a lot of different tech companies. Joffe and 460 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: some other tech experts put together this theory that Donald 461 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: Trump was communicating with Russia through Alpha Bank, which was 462 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 1: a Russian bank, and Rodney Joffey took this to Michael Sussman, 463 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,719 Speaker 1: who's now on trial, and said, hey, look at this. 464 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: Michael Sessman then went to Mark Elias, who was another 465 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: partner who was the head of the Clinton campaign's legal work, 466 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 1: and together they then worked with Fusion GPS, which was 467 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: this private investigative firm. So again it's a mass there's 468 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: all these players. But what they did is they did 469 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: a two pronged attack. They took this Alpha Bank polaks, 470 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: which it is. It was saying, oh, yeah, there's a 471 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:44,199 Speaker 1: secret communication network using something called Trump dot Com or 472 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 1: some kind of Trump connection and they're commuting painting with 473 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: Alpha Bank. They took that to the media and Michael 474 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,679 Speaker 1: Sessman texted his buddy James Baker, who was then the 475 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 1: General Consul for the FBI. So we're talking really high 476 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 1: up in the FBI. Michael Sussman texted him and said, hey, 477 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 1: I've got some sensitive information that is time sensitive. Can 478 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:18,479 Speaker 1: you meet with me. James Baker said yeah, absolutely, He 479 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 1: meets with Oh the text also said I'm bringing this 480 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: on my own behalf, not on behalf of a client. 481 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: James Baker said sure, and meets with Michael Sussman the 482 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: next day, who in the introductory comments said, look, this 483 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,120 Speaker 1: is on my own behalf. I want the FBI to 484 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: know this. This is going to hit the media. And 485 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: then he hands over two thumb drives and I think 486 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: three kind of academic papers saying look at this, Dad, 487 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: it shows that Trump's communicating with the Alpha Bank, the 488 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: Russia Bank. Baker then takes this to one of the 489 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: heads in the FBI and then they start this investigation, 490 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: which just happens to Corn's fund. With it coming out 491 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: in the media, and what do you have. You have 492 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton retweeting the article talking about Alpha Bank and 493 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: Trump and pushing again this Russia collusion. Folks. So that 494 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: is kind of the details. But if you're like most people, 495 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: you're like, okay, wait, there's so many players. What's the 496 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: bottom line? Hillary Clinton authorized this. We got this in 497 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: the Michael Sussment trial. She authorized this to be leaked 498 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: to the media. She knew that this was not something 499 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: that's been confirmed, and the people behind the scenes, Rodney Joffey, 500 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: knew it wasn't solid. They were coming up with ways 501 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 1: to make it sound good. So why is Michael Sessman 502 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: on trial. He's on trial for lying to James Baker 503 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,719 Speaker 1: when he took him this data and said, look, I'm 504 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: coming here on my own, I'm not doing this for 505 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: a client, when in fact the evidence indicates he was 506 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: there both for the Clinton campaign and for Rodney Jockey. 507 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: That what a tangled web, and that was so good 508 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: at laying that out for everybody. Margot One, I applaud 509 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 1: you for that too. Who the heck is Robbie mookh 510 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: So he was the Clinton campaign manager during twenty and sixteen, 511 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: and he actually holds the responsibility for launching the Russia 512 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 1: pollusion hoax during the eve. And this is something that's 513 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: really important to put this in perspective. Right before the 514 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: Clinton Hillary Clinton was nominated as the official Democratic candidate, 515 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: there was a dump of emails from the DNC. Someone 516 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: had hacked into it, they believe it was the Russians, 517 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: and released all these those emails showed that the DNC, 518 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: who was supposed to be impartial, was trying to sabotage 519 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders and how Hillary Clinton. So what happened is 520 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: we're about ready to nominate the Democrats are about ready 521 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: to nominate Hillary Clinton, and all the media is focusing 522 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: on Robbie I'm sorry, is focusing on the fact that 523 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 1: they were sabotaging Bernie Sanders. So what does Robbie Mook do. 524 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: He's the head of the Clinton campaign, so he's the 525 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: campaign manager. He goes on CNN and says, this is Russia. 526 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: They hacked the emails. They released them to help Donald Trump. 527 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 1: That actually launched the Russia collusion. Folks, from there we 528 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: have dribble lefter dribble of Oh there's urter Page, Oh 529 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: there's George Papadopoulos. Oh there's this investigation through the FISA court. 530 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 1: So Robbie Mooke actually was the one who launched it, 531 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,320 Speaker 1: but because he was so embedded, he was high up 532 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: in the Clinton campaign. Here's knowledge of how much Hillary 533 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: Clinton knew. And he testified at the Sessmen trial and 534 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: said she actually gave the green lights. So Hillary Clinton, 535 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 1: who you played that clip of what the founding fathers? 536 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: You know, we're concerned with Hillary Clinton pushed in the media. 537 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: She okayed the media running this hoax. She paid for it, 538 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 1: and she okayed this going to the media and pushing it. 539 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 1: And what's important here to recognize is it wasn't just 540 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: this Alpha Bank, it was the entire Russia collusion. If 541 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 1: she okayed Alpha Bank, you know that she okayed pushing 542 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: Christopher Steele's intail. You know she okayed all of this. 543 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,719 Speaker 1: Margot Cleveland, she writes at the Federalist, I don't think 544 00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 1: I have to tell you to go read all of 545 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: her stuff. They so much. Ma'm I appreciate you. Thanks, Jesse, 546 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: take care. How about that for a tangled, slimy web 547 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: of corruption. Huh that almost sounded like journalism out of Margo. 548 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: I don't know, I've never seen it before. All Right, 549 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Joe and stepping on all of 550 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 1: us with his idiotic China Taiwan comments. Before we get 551 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 1: to that, Let's get to this real quick. 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No one's even 561 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: pretending otherwise. Maybe hyperinflation. We don't know. For you, your 562 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: meat prices stay the same. Good Ranchers dot com slash Jesse. 563 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 1: Oh and as an added bonus for the lifetime of 564 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 1: your subscription, you get twenty five dollars off every box. 565 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:20,720 Speaker 1: And on a personal note, may I recommend the marinated chicken? 566 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,279 Speaker 1: Just just trust me on that. I would grab a 567 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: few marinated chickens. You won't ever look back. All right, 568 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:39,640 Speaker 1: We'll be back, mister President. It's a politic strategic ambiguity 569 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:53,279 Speaker 1: towards Taiwan dead. Could you explain nos policy you have 570 00:34:53,320 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 1: to change? You all on staated taber and then maybe okay, well, 571 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 1: now I'm even more confused than Joe joining me now 572 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: as an expert on matters like this. Stephen Yates, former 573 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: White House Deputy National Security Advisors. So Stephen, could you 574 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:15,360 Speaker 1: tell me first and foremost, what is the official American 575 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,080 Speaker 1: policy when it comes to Taiwan, especially when it comes 576 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: to Taiwan and China. Do we have one? Well, Jesse, 577 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 1: the official policy usually is what the President of United 578 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 1: States says it is. That's kind of the constitutional role 579 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,319 Speaker 1: of the President of United States. It's only kind of 580 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 1: in China policy where we allow academics and bear arcrants 581 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 1: to hijack the whole thing, and then they turn around 582 00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 1: and tell the president what our policy supposedly is. They 583 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 1: did this to George W. Bush when he said in 584 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,440 Speaker 1: two thousand and one, We'll do whatever it takes to 585 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: defend Taiwan, and they said, nope, nope, we didn't change 586 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,520 Speaker 1: the China policy or Taiwan policy. This time Joe Biden 587 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:54,000 Speaker 1: accidentally said the truth three times and his staff three 588 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: times have walked it back, making it a perfect muddle. 589 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 1: But the official line is that we are supposed to 590 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:04,319 Speaker 1: help Taiwan avoid being attacked by the mean Kamies, but 591 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 1: we don't recognize their legitimate sovereignty because they're free and 592 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,719 Speaker 1: democratic people. So go figure doesn't sound very American to me. 593 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,360 Speaker 1: It doesn't, And I guess I mean, I'm probably asking 594 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,319 Speaker 1: you to predict the future that you can't predict. But officially, 595 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,400 Speaker 1: I mean China is doing a lot of saber rattling, surprise, surprise. 596 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 1: But officially, if China starts landing a bunch of Chinese 597 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 1: marines on the shores of Taiwan, are we going to war? Well, 598 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,279 Speaker 1: in essence, I think we will, but I don't think 599 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,719 Speaker 1: that will be the first. In the biggest change in 600 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,279 Speaker 1: Asia in recent years is that our ally Japan has 601 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 1: recognized when they saw the Afghanistan debacle, when they saw 602 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:48,120 Speaker 1: NATO fail to deter Vladimir Putin, they realize that they're 603 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 1: going to have to take up some of these issues themselves. 604 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,640 Speaker 1: In Japan has a long, deep historical tide to Taiwan, 605 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 1: and so are the people of Taiwan to them. And 606 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,040 Speaker 1: I strongly suspect that Japan will be more forward leading. 607 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 1: And in fact, the Japanese government has more or less 608 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 1: discarded this strategic ambiguity and said, if China backs, the 609 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,920 Speaker 1: world can't afford to just let it fall. And they 610 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,120 Speaker 1: recognize the business reality of ninety percent of the world's 611 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,880 Speaker 1: magic chips that run the smart devices of our lives 612 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,440 Speaker 1: are manufactured out of Taiwan, and so we have to 613 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:25,360 Speaker 1: protect that territory, not just morally and strategically, but economically. Okay, 614 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,719 Speaker 1: what about Korea? Obviously South Korea is a friend to us. 615 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,879 Speaker 1: Do they have some kind of stance on all this? Well, 616 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,640 Speaker 1: South Korea was one of the longest allies of Taipei. 617 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 1: They officially switched their recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 618 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 1: the early nineteen nineties, but since then, South Korea's kind 619 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: of gone its own way. It focuses an awful lot 620 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 1: about its neighbor to the north, which one might understand, 621 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,759 Speaker 1: and so in recent years they've been less involved when 622 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,799 Speaker 1: it comes to the Taiwan contingencies. Japan leads the way 623 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:05,319 Speaker 1: in Asia, Australia sometimes pitches in India, is not aligned, 624 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,920 Speaker 1: but has made good friends with the right people around 625 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,920 Speaker 1: China's periphery. So I think there is a soft infrastructure 626 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 1: that could do some good things to help Taiwan stay free. 627 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: But if we have a president that is fumbling over 628 00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:24,960 Speaker 1: his own words and sending mixed messages and bad signals 629 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,600 Speaker 1: out there, it's the worst of all possible outcomes. Stephen, 630 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 1: I know it's kind of a nerd question, but I 631 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:37,840 Speaker 1: think it's probably matters what is Japan's military capability. Obviously 632 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,960 Speaker 1: know they were restricted quite a bit post World War 633 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:46,080 Speaker 1: Two for obvious reasons. Where are they now, Well, they're very, 634 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 1: very advanced and sophisticated, but they live in a world 635 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,479 Speaker 1: of euphemisms where they have an exceedingly robust post guard 636 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,920 Speaker 1: that other people might call a navy. But because of 637 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,919 Speaker 1: the funny existence we've imposed on them all these many 638 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 1: years that they have this domestic civil defense force. The 639 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,280 Speaker 1: same goes with other kinds of air and other power 640 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: they have. They're in space, and they have assets. They 641 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:18,240 Speaker 1: are a very substantial economy, technological power, and military power. 642 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,160 Speaker 1: If we allow them to go their own way, I 643 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,479 Speaker 1: think they're prepared to do that. I think that would 644 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,279 Speaker 1: be good for the Alliance. I think would be good 645 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,960 Speaker 1: for Japan, it would be bad for China, and so 646 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,759 Speaker 1: I say let Japan be a normal nation, as being 647 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,920 Speaker 1: one of the best down payments on restoring deterrence in 648 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,920 Speaker 1: East Asia. Okay, and I have to ask the same 649 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,319 Speaker 1: question about Taiwan. I'm sorry, I'd like to try to 650 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,360 Speaker 1: game these things out of my head. I obviously know 651 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,160 Speaker 1: China could take Taiwan, should Taiwan make them feel it 652 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,840 Speaker 1: in the process, they could, And I would say that 653 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,040 Speaker 1: China can destroy Taiwan. I think China would have a 654 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:58,720 Speaker 1: hard time taking, holding and occupying Taiwan. And so really, 655 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,080 Speaker 1: what we saw with Resist and see Ukraine, you'd see 656 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,160 Speaker 1: a lot of the same out of Taiwan. The United 657 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,080 Speaker 1: States should get out of its own way and let 658 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:10,040 Speaker 1: Taiwan buy defense articles that would inflict great pain on 659 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:14,520 Speaker 1: China should they try to attack. We've allowed the establishment 660 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,800 Speaker 1: to try to have this ambiguous policy on the notion 661 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,120 Speaker 1: that we don't want to pick a fight. But if 662 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,520 Speaker 1: the Chinese are picking the fight, I think that Americans 663 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,719 Speaker 1: would rather not send our troops but let the Taiwanese 664 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 1: have the best possible shot at defending themselves and make 665 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,919 Speaker 1: themselves something that's very, very bitter for China to try 666 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,280 Speaker 1: to swallow. All Right, I know we're kind of gaming 667 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,279 Speaker 1: this out in our heads here and putting ourselves in 668 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,360 Speaker 1: the minds of others, and that's difficult to do. But 669 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,319 Speaker 1: what if China is it necessarily serious about taking time 670 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,160 Speaker 1: on I'm not naive. I know they want it's and 671 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,120 Speaker 1: I get all that, But what if this same rattling 672 00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,160 Speaker 1: has another purpose? What purpose would that, sir? What would 673 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,080 Speaker 1: that be? I think that's an exceedingly rational line of thought, 674 00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,560 Speaker 1: and it's the most likely scenario going out in the 675 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,720 Speaker 1: near term. It is a way of sort of saying 676 00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,759 Speaker 1: that the Emperor has no close exposing the United States 677 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,600 Speaker 1: for being a feckless, week confused, bumbling power and to 678 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 1: try to assert themselves as the rising big dog on 679 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,160 Speaker 1: the block. And if you want to have an economy 680 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,400 Speaker 1: of consequence, you want a chance at prosperity and peace, 681 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,960 Speaker 1: then you better make a deal with US and forget 682 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,640 Speaker 1: about the Americans. So sewing doubt and confusion is a 683 00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,400 Speaker 1: net plus for Beijing even if they don't take the 684 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:32,680 Speaker 1: ultimate aggressive act action. All right. Finally, obviously, I've been 685 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,520 Speaker 1: loudly against lockdowns here from the beginning, and could we 686 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:41,160 Speaker 1: see the economic chaos destruction they've caused now. But China 687 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,640 Speaker 1: is still doing the lockdown thing, including some of their 688 00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,640 Speaker 1: most important cities. Has that somehow playing a role in 689 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,200 Speaker 1: this because they their economy has to be hurting at 690 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 1: this point in time. I firmly believe their economy is 691 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,840 Speaker 1: hurting much more than is reported. I mean, there's always 692 00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:00,719 Speaker 1: been a truism and an analyzing China that they're statistics 693 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,719 Speaker 1: lie more than average statistics lie, and so their economy 694 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,279 Speaker 1: is in contraction. I would estimate politically, there's going to 695 00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,680 Speaker 1: be massive pushback in the major cities like Shanghai and 696 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,239 Speaker 1: some others that have experienced these extreme lockdowns for two 697 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:19,960 Speaker 1: months now in some places, And so it's uncertainty within 698 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:23,080 Speaker 1: China can cut both ways. It can make Shiji, being 699 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,960 Speaker 1: a very risky leader who wants to have a fight 700 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,920 Speaker 1: externally so that he can wrap himself with the flag 701 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,640 Speaker 1: and have people willing to sacrifice for their country, or 702 00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,479 Speaker 1: it can make it so that people have finally fed 703 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,000 Speaker 1: up with their leader, and that pushback actually makes us 704 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,080 Speaker 1: safer as they have to take care of their own 705 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:46,640 Speaker 1: situation domestically. Yeah, Steve and Yates, thank you so much. 706 00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:50,479 Speaker 1: I appreciate you given us the time, my pleasure. Thank you, Jesse. 707 00:42:53,000 --> 00:43:05,799 Speaker 1: All right, we got light in the mood. 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