WEBVTT - 2/4/26: Melinda Gates Blasts Bill Over Epstein, ICE Victims Testify, US Shoots Iranian Drone

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<v Speaker 3>Good morning, and welcome to Breaking Points. I was last week.

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<v Speaker 4>Last week.

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<v Speaker 5>It was so sad without your end, but we all

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<v Speaker 5>managed to get through. I think more people are curious

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<v Speaker 5>how you were last week.

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<v Speaker 3>Was good time, Good time was had.

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<v Speaker 6>Apparently some Epstein's news dropped while I was gone here.

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<v Speaker 5>Ryan was in Cancun at Fish shows as the Epstein

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<v Speaker 5>files were being released.

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<v Speaker 4>I felt bad texting you, Oh, I.

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<v Speaker 3>Was loving it.

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<v Speaker 6>I was loving it. It added to it, it did, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 6>I mean, because this is.

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<v Speaker 5>It's not a tropical vacation without learn for people who

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<v Speaker 5>are genuinely curious about how the world works and who

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<v Speaker 5>the people are who run this world.

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<v Speaker 3>This is like, this is the moment that the window

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<v Speaker 4>It's so unbelievable.

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<v Speaker 5>It's very helpful. But this has been to your point

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<v Speaker 5>of watershed. We yeah, I mean it's been like we've

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<v Speaker 5>got the drip drip coming out for a couple of

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<v Speaker 5>years now, but nothing like the geyser of the last

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<v Speaker 5>several days.

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<v Speaker 6>And while we're on the subject of gratitude for viewers

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<v Speaker 6>who are making this possible, I was thinking, you know,

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<v Speaker 6>Mexico watching fish, it's a good time for contemplation, and

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<v Speaker 6>I was thinking about how last year we didn't go

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<v Speaker 6>to the show because my wife had just gotten out

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<v Speaker 6>of the hospital with complications from chemo, which is damn

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<v Speaker 6>near killed her. And to think that now, like a

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<v Speaker 6>year later, we're back on the beach and like celebrating it,

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<v Speaker 6>and like throughout that whole thing, you guys were so

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<v Speaker 6>cool about like missing shows, being late like that was

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<v Speaker 6>that was really that was really moving. So I just

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<v Speaker 6>really appreciate that and also my mother in law to

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<v Speaker 6>like watch the kids the whole time.

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<v Speaker 3>Big thank you to Virginia.

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<v Speaker 6>That's so so And now I'm recharged ready to go

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<v Speaker 6>get these Epstein goons.

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<v Speaker 4>So in a way, it was great timing perfect. You

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<v Speaker 4>were recharging your battery just as the world needed our

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<v Speaker 4>super soldier Ryan grim Most.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, well, we have said we have a lot to

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<v Speaker 5>get through today. We're going to start actually with Epstein

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<v Speaker 5>because the drip drip is continuing. But also what's important

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<v Speaker 5>is putting the pieces of the puzzle together, and there

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<v Speaker 5>are a few people.

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<v Speaker 4>Better Quip to do that than Ryan Grimm. So we're

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<v Speaker 4>going to.

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<v Speaker 3>Start loving reporting on this.

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<v Speaker 6>I've been addicted, you've been You've been going through it

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<v Speaker 6>like a pro.

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<v Speaker 4>It's addicting.

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, the Epstein library is addicting on the DOJ's website,

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<v Speaker 5>which is a weird thing. You don't not many people

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<v Speaker 5>get addicted to the DOJ's website.

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<v Speaker 3>But you can also now go through jmail.

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<v Speaker 6>We have all of the latest volume eleven up on

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<v Speaker 6>Gmail dot world, which is project with drop side.

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<v Speaker 4>So I find that even more addicting because it's like

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<v Speaker 4>being in the sims.

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<v Speaker 6>Right and you can and you can then like see

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<v Speaker 6>the ones that came right before it, and you can

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<v Speaker 6>put it in time and yes, the articles it links

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<v Speaker 6>to links to the articles.

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<v Speaker 5>It's yeah, it's a technological feat. It's very very cool. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>so folks should also go there.

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<v Speaker 6>If we put we put in for a pulletzer like

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<v Speaker 6>they wanted to do it. I was like, you want

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<v Speaker 6>to understand that the pulitzer is housed in Columbia, right, Like, we're.

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<v Speaker 3>Not getting a pullet. We deserve one. Yes, you like,

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<v Speaker 3>if it was a fair fight, we would get one. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>It's the most innovative journalistic project I think ever on

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<v Speaker 6>a massive data set. Uh, and it's the biggest story

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<v Speaker 6>in the world, so it deserves it. I was like,

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<v Speaker 6>I'm not sure if you followed the news around Columbia

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<v Speaker 6>University lately.

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<v Speaker 7>It's not happening.

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<v Speaker 3>Don't think they're doing it in Epstein Pulleitzer.

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<v Speaker 5>No, not to drop side, definitely, not to drop side.

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<v Speaker 3>It's free to apply. I was like, look done hard

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<v Speaker 3>to apply.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, no, that's true. A lot of new details to

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<v Speaker 5>go through. So we'll start with We're then going to

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<v Speaker 5>have Van Lathan join us once again because Renee Goods

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<v Speaker 5>family testified in Curing yesterday.

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<v Speaker 4>We have clips from that.

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<v Speaker 5>We're going to talk about it with Van and just

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<v Speaker 5>Democrats on the ending of the guard. So the government

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<v Speaker 5>shutdown technically ended yesterday. The quote unquote partial government shutdown

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<v Speaker 5>technically ended yesterday.

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<v Speaker 4>You probably didn't notice. Nobody noticed even in DC, nobody noticed.

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<v Speaker 3>Cruise right through customs yep.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh good point.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, So we will be talking to Van about DEM's

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<v Speaker 5>decision when it came to reopening the government, having he

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<v Speaker 5>joined with Republicans that sort of thing.

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<v Speaker 4>And the United States shot down in Iranian drone.

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<v Speaker 5>Yesterday, So we're going to bring the latest on that

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<v Speaker 5>story as well. Elon Musk's X offices are being raided

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<v Speaker 5>in Paris. Musk is now in a war of words

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<v Speaker 5>with Spain and this is related to teen social media bans,

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<v Speaker 5>but the raid is also related to some of those

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<v Speaker 5>horrible images that were being created on X not You probably.

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<v Speaker 6>Remember when when Grock went completely Yeah, yep, groc did

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<v Speaker 6>his thing.

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<v Speaker 5>We have a wild clip of Chuck Schumer about Israel,

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<v Speaker 5>and Gaza will break down the latest new drop site

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<v Speaker 5>reporting to talk about there, and then the Blowbok the

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<v Speaker 5>blowback guys are here to talk about Cuba.

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<v Speaker 3>They were just in Cuba. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>Uh, Trump just put out an executive order declaring Cuba

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<v Speaker 6>to be like the worst of the worst of the worst.

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<v Speaker 4>Did that happen while they were there?

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<v Speaker 3>They did?

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<v Speaker 6>And uh, he's pressuring Mexico not to sell oil to

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<v Speaker 6>Cuba because somehow it is the business of the United

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<v Speaker 6>States who Mexico sells oil to and who Cuba buys

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<v Speaker 6>it from uh. They're trying to completely.

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<v Speaker 3>Send Cuba back to the seventeenth century.

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<v Speaker 6>So we're going to talk to Brendan and know about

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<v Speaker 6>what conditions are.

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<v Speaker 3>Like there and what the what the politics are. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>now and then and.

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<v Speaker 6>Negotiations between the US and Iran, which most people suspect

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<v Speaker 6>the US is just buying so they can get all

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<v Speaker 6>their assets in place and then launch an attack. But

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<v Speaker 6>they have moved to Oman at the request of Iran.

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<v Speaker 6>They moved from Turkey to Oman. We might even get

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<v Speaker 6>Kushner involved in them. So we'll talk about them.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, lots to go through, all right, Let's start then

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<v Speaker 5>with Jeffrey Epstein. Melinda Gates was on NPR and asked

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<v Speaker 5>the most uncomfortable question anyone could ever ask an ex

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<v Speaker 5>wife you.

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<v Speaker 6>Married one that an ex wife is probably not that

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<v Speaker 6>unhappy to answer.

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<v Speaker 5>It's a little bit better than being Bill Gates's current wife,

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<v Speaker 5>as she basically says in the clip. She's asked about

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<v Speaker 5>the detailed Crystal and saga covered where in the files.

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<v Speaker 5>This was in an Epstein draft to himself. Those drafts

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<v Speaker 5>are a very bizarre hot to send. Yeah, hot, too

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<v Speaker 5>hot for send, But it was the drafts are a

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<v Speaker 5>very strange window into Jeffrey Epstein's mind. And in a

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<v Speaker 5>draft you may remember, he mentioned Bill Gates, a Russian prostitute,

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<v Speaker 5>and procuring four Bill Gates the type of medication he

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<v Speaker 5>would need to slip into Melinda's diet somewhere or another

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<v Speaker 5>to prevent her from getting an STD. Yeah, so Melinda

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<v Speaker 5>Gates was asked about this, let's roll the club.

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<v Speaker 8>I think we're having a reckoning as a society, right,

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<v Speaker 8>No girl, no girl should ever be put in the

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<v Speaker 8>situation that they were put in by Epstein and whatever

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<v Speaker 8>was going on with all of the various people around him.

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<v Speaker 8>No girl, I mean, it's just it's beyond heartbreaking, right.

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<v Speaker 8>I remember being those ages those girls were. I remember

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<v Speaker 8>my daughter's being those ages. Right. So for me, it's

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<v Speaker 8>personally hard whenever those details come up, right because brings

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<v Speaker 8>back memories of some very very painful times in my marriage.

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<v Speaker 8>But I have moved on from that. I purposely pushed

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<v Speaker 8>it away and I moved on. I'm in a really unexpected,

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<v Speaker 8>beautiful place in my life. So whatever questions remain there

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<v Speaker 8>of what I don't can't even begin to know all

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<v Speaker 8>of it. Those questions are for those people and form

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<v Speaker 8>even my ex husband. They need to answer to those things,

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<v Speaker 8>not me well, and I am so happy to be

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<v Speaker 8>away from all the muck.

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<v Speaker 9>The emails in the files suggest that Bill Gates had

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<v Speaker 9>additional affairs, and that he tried to get medication to

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<v Speaker 9>treat a sexually transmitted infection, and that he was going

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<v Speaker 9>to give you the medicine without you knowing. His representative

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<v Speaker 9>has said all of this is false. It is not

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<v Speaker 9>on you to have to respond to the details of

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<v Speaker 9>that alleged behavior. But I wonder what your dominant emotion

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<v Speaker 9>is when you read these news articles with these details.

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<v Speaker 8>Sad just unbelievable sadness. Unbelievable sadness. Right, and again I'm

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<v Speaker 8>able to take my own sadness and look at those

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<v Speaker 8>young girls and say, my god, how did they have

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<v Speaker 8>How did that happen to those girls?

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<v Speaker 10>Right?

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<v Speaker 8>And so for me, it's just sadness, sadness. For you know,

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<v Speaker 8>I've left, I had, I left my marriage, I had

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<v Speaker 8>to leave my marriage. I wanted to leave my marriage.

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<v Speaker 4>I had to leave the.

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<v Speaker 8>Fact I felt I needed to eventually leave the foundation.

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<v Speaker 5>So it's just sad and ren that's pretty close. To

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<v Speaker 5>confirmation from me Linda Gates. The divorce itself was related

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<v Speaker 5>to the Epstein allegations with Bill Gates.

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<v Speaker 4>And they're not allegations.

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, it's the confirmed relationship between Bill Gates and

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<v Speaker 5>Jeffrey Epstein. Obviously there are all kinds of different allegations

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<v Speaker 5>that circulate around that, but it's not an allegation that

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<v Speaker 5>they that they had a significant relationship. I'm not insignificant relationship.

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<v Speaker 5>And in that clip, the way, the question was asked

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<v Speaker 5>by NPR, what is your dominant emotion when you hear that?

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<v Speaker 5>As opposed to did your ex husband secretly drug you too?

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<v Speaker 4>Out of love?

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<v Speaker 3>Of course she wouldn't know.

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<v Speaker 4>I guess she wouldn't. But what is your dominant emotion

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<v Speaker 4>when you hear that clip?

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe sad too? I'm in anger? Like what what is comebag?

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<v Speaker 4>I know?

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, and you know she has said that she told

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<v Speaker 6>him this. By the way, this guy is a creep,

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<v Speaker 6>so like she didn't see him, you know, doing whatever

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<v Speaker 6>the satanic stuff they're doing, but being around him, she

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<v Speaker 6>was like, he's a creep. You should not be around him.

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<v Speaker 6>And if you're keeping around him, like this is not

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<v Speaker 6>going to work. And it's indicative of your character as well.

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<v Speaker 6>She was dead on. From other people who have met him,

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<v Speaker 6>I've gotten people have said the same thing that like

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<v Speaker 6>your creep dar like just went up in immediately, and

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<v Speaker 6>that goes sadly to the next guy we got to

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<v Speaker 6>talk about. We can put up c three here, one

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<v Speaker 6>of the for a certain subset of like gen X,

0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.839
<v Speaker 6>particular left wing people. This one has been just a

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<v Speaker 6>body blow.

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<v Speaker 4>The Woodstock ninety nine crowd.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, put up if you put up a three, and

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<v Speaker 6>before that, you know everybody everybody older than that too, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 6>put up a three. So this is an email and

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<v Speaker 6>people have tried to do some some cope around it, saying, well,

0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:41.160
<v Speaker 6>it's not from Noam Chomsky's email, so it's maybe it's

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<v Speaker 6>not him, and basically what he what?

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<v Speaker 3>What?

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<v Speaker 6>The one, the one that's circulating comes from one that

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<v Speaker 6>Nome did send directly to Jeffrey Epstein, and Epstein took

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<v Speaker 6>out some personal stuff in it and then sent it

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<v Speaker 6>to another friend saying this is this is the advice

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<v Speaker 6>that I got from Nome.

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<v Speaker 3>Now the personal.

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<v Speaker 6>Stuff I think actually plays into this, and maybe we

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<v Speaker 6>can have glenn On and we can talk about this.

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<v Speaker 3>But let's we can move on from that for now.

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<v Speaker 6>But basically what he tells Epstein says, I'm getting all

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<v Speaker 6>of his terrible press for all of these women accusing

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<v Speaker 6>me of abusing them.

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<v Speaker 3>What should you know? What should I do? And this

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<v Speaker 3>is this is twenty nineteen.

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<v Speaker 6>This is deep into me too, and it's I believe

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<v Speaker 6>this is long after the Miami Herald has done the

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<v Speaker 6>investigation into the.

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<v Speaker 3>Way that.

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<v Speaker 6>What he did in Florida was way worse than he

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<v Speaker 6>ended up getting charged with, because what he did was

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<v Speaker 6>extremely clever for his own rehabilitation. There were dozens of,

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<v Speaker 6>as we've reported, dozens of victims that they could have

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<v Speaker 6>chosen to charge him with. Yes, some as low as

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<v Speaker 6>like fourteen. He got them to make the one charge

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<v Speaker 6>somebody who was seventeen, which was very smart on his

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<v Speaker 6>part because what did he immediately start doing. It was

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<v Speaker 6>a prostitution situation. She told me she was eighteen. Turns

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<v Speaker 6>out she was seventeen and a half, and so many

0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.520
<v Speaker 6>people in the elite world were willing to be like,

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<v Speaker 6>you know what, hey, an age of consents at sixteen

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<v Speaker 6>in some states and so and also he hangs out

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<v Speaker 6>with the Secretary of State and former presidents and he's

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<v Speaker 6>on the board of this and that, and he's a billionaire.

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<v Speaker 6>Sure it's fine. But by twenty nineteen, so even if

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<v Speaker 6>you like allow for that that cleverness that he was

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<v Speaker 6>able to pull off with the cost in and the

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<v Speaker 6>Bush administration, by twenty nineteen people knew the contours of

0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.760
<v Speaker 6>that deal and the context of it. And so what

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<v Speaker 6>Noam Chelnsey basically tells him is do not respond it all. Like,

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<v Speaker 6>if you respond at all, it's just going to give

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<v Speaker 6>the vultures. He says, you know what the vultures dearly

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<v Speaker 6>want is a public response, which then provides a public

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<v Speaker 6>opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just

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<v Speaker 6>publicity seekers and cranks of all sort. And he goes

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<v Speaker 6>on and on and so to see, because you know,

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<v Speaker 6>some of us had our cope was Chompsky responds to

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<v Speaker 6>everybody he has, He emails Everybody'll like, he'll speak wherever,

0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:35.119
<v Speaker 6>He'll take any interview request. He has this voracious curiosity

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<v Speaker 6>about humanity. Epstein was funding MIT. Obviously, Chompsky wants to

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<v Speaker 6>do what he can to like get funding from my

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<v Speaker 6>t so you could like you can get there and

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<v Speaker 6>be like, look, but to see the level of emotion

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<v Speaker 6>that he had in his relationship with Epstein, knowing that

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<v Speaker 6>so many other people who met him or like, this

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<v Speaker 6>guy's creep. It's uh sitting. It doesn't mean that he

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<v Speaker 6>participated in any of the any of the sordid stuff,

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<v Speaker 6>which and I've been consistent on that, Like people want

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<v Speaker 6>to cancel every single person who's on an email with Epstein,

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<v Speaker 6>but I don't think that's fair.

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<v Speaker 3>He emailed thousands of people.

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<v Speaker 6>The people that need to be face accountability and shame

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<v Speaker 6>are the ones that participated, knew about and didn't say

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<v Speaker 6>anything or knew about and participated in what he was doing.

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<v Speaker 3>We know, at least Chomsky had a.

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<v Speaker 6>Very close relationship with him, and we know that he

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<v Speaker 6>was a creep and that it was easy to tell that,

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<v Speaker 6>and we know that he's telling him, he's guiding him

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<v Speaker 6>how to overcome this.

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<v Speaker 3>Like wall of allegations.

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<v Speaker 5>It's rather odd to see deference given to a billionaire

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<v Speaker 5>supporter of the global intelligence state as well. Right, So,

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<v Speaker 5>like it's one thing if Epstein had been a sort

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<v Speaker 5>of left aligned billionaire and I mean and I don't

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<v Speaker 5>mean Democrat, like obviously he was a dem donor and

0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:06.159
<v Speaker 5>he was close.

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<v Speaker 3>With the labor wing of Israel.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, we can put a two up on the screen. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>labor wave of Israel.

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<v Speaker 5>But a two is the news yesterday from the House side,

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<v Speaker 5>the Clintons have broken an agreement to be questioned on

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<v Speaker 5>camera to avoid those contempt of Congress charges that it

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<v Speaker 5>looked like they were barreling head on into.

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<v Speaker 4>Just a couple of weeks ago, and they sent.

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<v Speaker 5>That letter and said, no, this is all We're not

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<v Speaker 5>doing it. They're not going to pull Steve Bannon and

0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.600
<v Speaker 5>go to prison for defying the subpoena. They're not going

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<v Speaker 5>to be on camera. But that's a reminder that again

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<v Speaker 5>it's why of all of all the billionaires who have

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<v Speaker 5>gnom Chomsky's deference and trust and support.

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<v Speaker 4>Epstein's a non choice, but the worst one. It's a

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<v Speaker 4>non choice, like who else you got?

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<v Speaker 3>It's going to be worse than that.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a weird one.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and it gives throwing it to rail the entire show.

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<v Speaker 6>Chomsky was a an anarchist, and in the time that

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<v Speaker 6>I was coming up, actual socialism had been somewhat significantly

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<v Speaker 6>discredited on the left because of the collapse of the

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<v Speaker 6>Soviet Union and a lot of like American The American

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<v Speaker 6>idea in the late eighties nineties about communism was not

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<v Speaker 6>that it was this bulwark against American imperialism and like

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<v Speaker 6>an and a like vehicle for the rise of the

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<v Speaker 6>working class. It was like this was a sclerotic, authoritarian thing,

0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.800
<v Speaker 6>and that gave purchase to anarchism to really take hold

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<v Speaker 6>in like the nineties and early two thousands as an

0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:55.000
<v Speaker 6>alternative that radicals could glom onto. And you always had

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<v Speaker 6>the socialists and communists saying that's fake, that's just that's

0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:04.680
<v Speaker 6>just gloss over liberalism. And it allows them to say

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<v Speaker 6>I told you so, because the answer to how could

0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:11.640
<v Speaker 6>he align himself with somebody like this would be so interesting? Well,

0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.679
<v Speaker 6>it's actually it really was just glossed over liberalism.

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<v Speaker 4>That's so interesting. A four. Let's put a four up

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<v Speaker 4>on the screen.

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<v Speaker 5>This is an Epstein email to Peter Teal where Ryan

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<v Speaker 5>This gets into a lot of the drop site reporting here. Epstein,

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<v Speaker 5>February twenty eight, twenty sixteen. As you probably know, this

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<v Speaker 5>is to Peter Teal, I represent the Ross Childs. I

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<v Speaker 5>was hoping to figure out a way for the bank

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<v Speaker 5>that has one hundred and sixty b and management can

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<v Speaker 5>do something in tech best client lists in the world,

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<v Speaker 5>prehistoric products.

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<v Speaker 4>It can wait. Good luck in China.

0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.520
<v Speaker 5>This is like a poem, like a sick pome. I'll

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<v Speaker 5>be in Europe again twenty twenty eight, then island. So

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<v Speaker 5>if you want to come around the world going west dot,

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<v Speaker 5>come to the island dot. Or if you would like

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<v Speaker 5>to meet in Saudi at the end of the month

0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.720
<v Speaker 5>question mark and then Teal says, certainly, not in Saudi.

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<v Speaker 4>I think I will would the Middle East for the

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<v Speaker 4>next decade or so.

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<v Speaker 5>Should be back on East Coast in late April May

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<v Speaker 5>sometime in NYC or on island.

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<v Speaker 4>Then dot dot dot.

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<v Speaker 5>Lovely they have us hanging here in suspense. But Ryan

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<v Speaker 5>Dropsite has done a deep investigation into the Epstein Rothschild's connection.

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<v Speaker 3>Right yeah, so people can go read that.

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<v Speaker 6>That's Arianda Rothschild, who herself is a fascinating character because

0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.640
<v Speaker 6>she's not a Rothschild, just from Central America, married into

0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.200
<v Speaker 6>the family and then became the first kind of married

0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.720
<v Speaker 6>in person to run the bank. And she developed a

0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.080
<v Speaker 6>very close relationship with Epstein, which she denied, but which

0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:35.520
<v Speaker 6>our original.

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<v Speaker 3>Emails showed not true at all.

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<v Speaker 6>This further tightens it and shows that he was using

0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:44.520
<v Speaker 6>his linkage with her and the bank to try to

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<v Speaker 6>appeal to Teal.

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<v Speaker 3>Here that's twenty fifteen.

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<v Speaker 6>One thing I was proud of from this weekend that

0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.600
<v Speaker 6>I had a nice scoop before we hit the tarmac,

0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.120
<v Speaker 6>which was we found this three and a half hour

0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:03.359
<v Speaker 6>conversation between sin Ahood Barack and Laurence Summers that was

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<v Speaker 6>huge and pulled a piece out of it where he

0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.879
<v Speaker 6>is telling ad Barack, who's still Minister of Defense. So

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<v Speaker 6>this was February of twenty thirteen. He didn't leave the

0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.840
<v Speaker 6>ministry until March of twenty thirteen. But so he's plotting,

0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.160
<v Speaker 6>like what his next move is going to be, and

0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:20.720
<v Speaker 6>Epstein is like, you should be on the board of

0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.040
<v Speaker 6>this company called Palanteer.

0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:25.879
<v Speaker 3>He spells it for him, incorrectly, spells it incorrectly.

0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:28.800
<v Speaker 4>It's like traitors where they write the names. And then

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<v Speaker 4>that's all I could think of it.

0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.760
<v Speaker 3>And then Barack spells it back to make sure he's

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<v Speaker 3>got it.

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<v Speaker 6>Right, and gets it right no and yes, yes, even

0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.720
<v Speaker 6>though it's been way off when Epstein spelled it and

0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:41.920
<v Speaker 6>then they asked him to spell Teal. He gets that wrong.

0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:46.360
<v Speaker 6>At one point Andres and Horowitz he gets that wrong. Meanwhile,

0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:50.600
<v Speaker 6>but he's Meanwhile, Sommers is there and he tells that

0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.240
<v Speaker 6>He's like, who's Andres and Horowitz. He's like, oh, Larry's

0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:54.720
<v Speaker 6>an advised with him. He gets a million dollars a

0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.480
<v Speaker 6>year from them just to give them advice. Larry can't

0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:01.639
<v Speaker 6>even be like, I'll be spelled it wrong. So after

0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:08.320
<v Speaker 6>that Teal Epstein invests heavily in Peter Teal's companies. Twenty

0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:12.000
<v Speaker 6>twenty four, Palenteer and Israel strike up strategic agreement. Trump

0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:16.080
<v Speaker 6>basically has a strategic agreement with Palenteer. Now, so this

0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.960
<v Speaker 6>is interesting to see the kernels of this, this relationship

0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:22.520
<v Speaker 6>starting to bloom.

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<v Speaker 5>And from all of the reporting you've done on Ahood Barack,

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<v Speaker 5>what then, big picture geopolitical significance would you or how

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<v Speaker 5>would you describe the relationship in that context? What does

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<v Speaker 5>it mean that they were forming that bond at that time?

0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:43.760
<v Speaker 6>Ahu Barack played a well he goes back to Iran contract. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 6>as you're learning in this book that and when are

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<v Speaker 6>both reading now on Profits of War by Ari Ben Minsh.

0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.480
<v Speaker 6>Barack comes up there in a bunch, but so he

0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:56.959
<v Speaker 6>goes back to early which Epstein was also involved in,

0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:00.880
<v Speaker 6>but after he leaves office and twenty thirteen he tries

0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:03.760
<v Speaker 6>to come back. In twenty eighteen nineteen Epstein dying, I

0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.679
<v Speaker 6>think the rails helped to derail has come back into politics.

0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:13.520
<v Speaker 6>He played a central role in the creation or the

0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:18.760
<v Speaker 6>advent and the expansion of Israel's cyber weapons in cybersecurity industry.

0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:23.040
<v Speaker 6>Barack is on all of these keyboards. It became his thing,

0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:26.200
<v Speaker 6>and it was Epstein who guided him toward this thing

0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.200
<v Speaker 6>and telling him like, these people like Teal and these

0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:34.639
<v Speaker 6>other these are the this is the future, and you

0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:36.679
<v Speaker 6>need to be a major part of it, and you

0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:39.200
<v Speaker 6>can open the doors. You can then be the one

0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:41.879
<v Speaker 6>that can sell you know, you can build relationships with

0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:46.840
<v Speaker 6>African countries, with Asian countries around the world to help

0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:51.679
<v Speaker 6>these Israeli companies get in. And because Barack had been

0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:54.679
<v Speaker 6>at the center of Israeli intelligence for so long, he

0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:59.920
<v Speaker 6>had those relationships. So Epstein played a central role in

0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:05.720
<v Speaker 6>the expansion of the surveillance state, global surveillance state that

0:24:05.800 --> 0:24:08.240
<v Speaker 6>we have today and that continues to expand.

0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:10.439
<v Speaker 5>So this is one of the things that I've been

0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:12.879
<v Speaker 5>going through the last like forty eight hours is mentioned

0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:15.880
<v Speaker 5>in the files of the NSSA. And this is really

0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:19.919
<v Speaker 5>interesting actually in the bigger contexts that you just mentioned.

0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:23.240
<v Speaker 5>Epstein was obsessed with the idea that you can use

0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:27.280
<v Speaker 5>NSA style decryption on human cells, and so he was

0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:30.440
<v Speaker 5>engaged in this project. And maybe we can talk about

0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:33.240
<v Speaker 5>this next week or something. But where he's trying, he's

0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:36.000
<v Speaker 5>asking people to hook him up with Israeli hackers. I'm

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<v Speaker 5>looking at one email right now to this guy who's

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<v Speaker 5>at the Gates Foundation at the time, Boris Nikolic, who says,

0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:45.639
<v Speaker 5>Jeffrey Epstein says, let's think up NSSA types for Washington meeting.

0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:50.000
<v Speaker 5>All these mentions, where do you have contacts at NSA?

0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:54.359
<v Speaker 5>Can you find me the best codebreaker NSSAY type. I mean,

0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:57.960
<v Speaker 5>it's just like over and over again. And that's really

0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:01.119
<v Speaker 5>interesting that he was helping a Hubarak build the Israeli

0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:05.760
<v Speaker 5>surveillance state and then looking to mine codebreakers at the

0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:08.640
<v Speaker 5>American surveillance state for his science.

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<v Speaker 4>Like he had these what's the right We're like these

0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:20.920
<v Speaker 4>almost like millenarian ideas about technology, like he can bring about.

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<v Speaker 6>Right, and unusually he brought it about. I've seen a

0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:28.040
<v Speaker 6>lot of people who've watched his interview with either listen

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<v Speaker 6>to that conversation or they watch his interview with Bannon

0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:32.440
<v Speaker 6>and they're like, Oh, this guy is just this owner

0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:37.800
<v Speaker 6>who's just like high flutint and ideas, but he's actually

0:25:37.840 --> 0:25:41.760
<v Speaker 6>a dummy. And I would just strongly encourage people to

0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:47.439
<v Speaker 6>give that analysis a second thought. This guy, this is

0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:50.160
<v Speaker 6>not a dummy. This is a guy who can explain

0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:55.680
<v Speaker 6>and understand extraordinarily. He can take extraordinary complex systems, whether

0:25:55.720 --> 0:26:01.800
<v Speaker 6>it's global finance, global politics, science and medicine, surveillance, global surveillance,

0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:05.399
<v Speaker 6>he can he can understand them intuitively and then he

0:26:05.440 --> 0:26:08.879
<v Speaker 6>can explain them in a way that allows you to

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<v Speaker 6>understand them. That is an extremely rare quality in somebody

0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:15.639
<v Speaker 6>that is not a dummy, that is that is not

0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:21.840
<v Speaker 6>somebody just sitting around pontificating. And man's plaining like, don't

0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:23.480
<v Speaker 6>under don't underestimate this guy.

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<v Speaker 3>That's what I would say.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, one person who was not charmed by Jeffrey Epstein

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<v Speaker 4>is Norman Finkelstein.

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<v Speaker 5>Let's put this one up a five. Oh my gosh, Ryan,

0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:38.520
<v Speaker 5>this is a great email.

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<v Speaker 3>This is fun. So yeah, what's so the context here?

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<v Speaker 6>You've got some reporters who are kind of reaching out

0:26:48.080 --> 0:26:57.399
<v Speaker 6>for comment right about Dershowitz and and Epstein. Norman Norman

0:26:57.400 --> 0:27:02.240
<v Speaker 6>Finkelstein twenty fifteen responds, My guess is, if Epstein put

0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:04.600
<v Speaker 6>your daughter at age fifteen in such a position, you

0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:07.879
<v Speaker 6>wouldn't publicly describe him as a quote friend and person

0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:11.040
<v Speaker 6>of quote integrity. In fact, I would hope that you'd

0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:14.639
<v Speaker 6>promptly throttle both Epstein and Dershowitz.

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<v Speaker 5>Epstein is c seed on this email, by the way, Yes,

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<v Speaker 5>and probably I was just going to say, yeah, I

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<v Speaker 5>bet Dershwitz is one of the redacted names.

0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:26.000
<v Speaker 6>We had Dershwitz on the program a couple of years ago,

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<v Speaker 6>before Rising Rising, and I remember before Finkelstein was so

0:27:32.359 --> 0:27:35.160
<v Speaker 6>the celebrity he rightfully is today. I asked him about

0:27:35.600 --> 0:27:40.120
<v Speaker 6>his The context for this is Dershwitz basically destroyed Finkelstein's

0:27:40.119 --> 0:27:44.320
<v Speaker 6>academic career because he didn't like a review that Finkelstein

0:27:45.240 --> 0:27:46.600
<v Speaker 6>wrote of dershwitz book.

0:27:46.640 --> 0:27:48.520
<v Speaker 4>This is another piece of drop site.

0:27:48.359 --> 0:27:52.359
<v Speaker 6>Reporting well that that was actually that was about the

0:27:52.400 --> 0:27:57.960
<v Speaker 6>Israel lobby merchant, that Epstein and Dershwitz both collaborated to

0:27:58.359 --> 0:28:01.159
<v Speaker 6>try to undermine that the book the Israel lobby with

0:28:01.160 --> 0:28:02.240
<v Speaker 6>Meerscheimer and Walt.

0:28:02.320 --> 0:28:04.760
<v Speaker 4>They probably did the same thing with Singlestein.

0:28:04.320 --> 0:28:06.080
<v Speaker 3>Too well, absolutely, I.

0:28:05.840 --> 0:28:07.879
<v Speaker 4>Am collaborating behind the scenes.

0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:11.400
<v Speaker 6>Was Epstein like involved with going after Finglestein like they

0:28:11.400 --> 0:28:15.919
<v Speaker 6>could like probably yes, Oh the other fun thing, we

0:28:15.920 --> 0:28:20.160
<v Speaker 6>don't have him here. Epstein and Woody Allen hated Alan

0:28:20.200 --> 0:28:26.000
<v Speaker 6>Dershowitz so much that, which is the funniest.

0:28:25.720 --> 0:28:27.920
<v Speaker 4>The girls were gossiping behind his back.

0:28:28.160 --> 0:28:31.880
<v Speaker 6>It's the funniest ending to this that Alan Dershwitz has

0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:33.160
<v Speaker 6>dragged his.

0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:36.200
<v Speaker 3>Own meager reputation through the mud.

0:28:36.920 --> 0:28:43.800
<v Speaker 6>Do defend Woody Allen and Jeffrey Epstein to the bitter end?

0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:48.200
<v Speaker 6>And now to find out they despised the guy. They

0:28:48.240 --> 0:28:51.680
<v Speaker 6>thought he was full of himself the worst. They call

0:28:51.720 --> 0:28:54.880
<v Speaker 6>him a completely shameless name dropper.

0:28:55.320 --> 0:28:57.840
<v Speaker 3>Yea, Like they just go in on him.

0:28:57.840 --> 0:29:00.480
<v Speaker 4>Especially Woody Allen, I mean, and just.

0:29:01.000 --> 0:29:03.160
<v Speaker 3>His wife, because sometimes his wife is writing from what

0:29:03.240 --> 0:29:04.800
<v Speaker 3>he writing for him either one.

0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:07.440
<v Speaker 5>And sometimes she's just emailing as well. It's just a

0:29:07.440 --> 0:29:09.560
<v Speaker 5>lot of sunny and woody in these emails.

0:29:09.960 --> 0:29:13.719
<v Speaker 6>But the and Epstein says to whatdy Allan, No, no,

0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:16.040
<v Speaker 6>he's even worse than you think, and Alan's like, that's

0:29:16.120 --> 0:29:16.760
<v Speaker 6>not possible.

0:29:17.240 --> 0:29:19.640
<v Speaker 4>Like, I'm woody Alan, There is no there.

0:29:19.480 --> 0:29:22.440
<v Speaker 6>Is no bottom to what I think of Alan Derschwitz. Yeah,

0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:23.800
<v Speaker 6>those are his best friends.

0:29:25.040 --> 0:29:28.920
<v Speaker 5>What a team, What a team just going around the world.

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<v Speaker 7>All right.

0:29:30.200 --> 0:29:32.360
<v Speaker 5>There's also an email we should talk about here where

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<v Speaker 5>Jeffrey Epstein March of twenty eighteen, subject line writes to

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<v Speaker 5>a redacted recipient, quote he was passed away.

0:29:40.960 --> 0:29:43.800
<v Speaker 4>That's the subject line, and it's.

0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:46.480
<v Speaker 5>A Actually, it's the quote of an article that I

0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:48.800
<v Speaker 5>think was published in The Mirror in two thousand and two.

0:29:49.560 --> 0:29:53.480
<v Speaker 5>And Epstein put in Robert Maxwell and then went to

0:29:53.520 --> 0:29:56.560
<v Speaker 5>the quote, which is quote threatened Masade. He told him

0:29:56.600 --> 0:29:58.640
<v Speaker 5>that unless they gave him four hundred million pounds to

0:29:58.680 --> 0:30:00.600
<v Speaker 5>save his crumbling empire, he would have expose all he

0:30:00.640 --> 0:30:02.240
<v Speaker 5>had done for them. And that time he had free

0:30:02.240 --> 0:30:04.760
<v Speaker 5>access to Margaret Thatcher's Downing Street, Ronald Reagan's White House,

0:30:04.760 --> 0:30:07.720
<v Speaker 5>to the Kremlin, and to the corridors of power throughout Europe.

0:30:07.880 --> 0:30:10.400
<v Speaker 5>Maxwell passed away, passed on all the secrets he learned

0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:14.000
<v Speaker 5>to Mosad in Tel Aviv. In turn, they tolerated his excesses, vanities,

0:30:14.000 --> 0:30:17.320
<v Speaker 5>and insatiable appetite for luxurious lifestyle and women. He told

0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:19.120
<v Speaker 5>his controllers who they should target and how they should

0:30:19.120 --> 0:30:22.040
<v Speaker 5>do it. Henointed, he appointed himself as Israel's unofficial ambassador

0:30:22.120 --> 0:30:23.200
<v Speaker 5>to the Soviet Bloc.

0:30:23.240 --> 0:30:27.600
<v Speaker 4>And then Ryan this is it's a quote.

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<v Speaker 5>H It's quite interesting that Epstein yes, and then he

0:30:33.240 --> 0:30:36.560
<v Speaker 5>says he was passed away his passive voice as.

0:30:36.520 --> 0:30:38.320
<v Speaker 3>BFF is Maxwell's daughter.

0:30:39.680 --> 0:30:45.000
<v Speaker 6>Before Jeffrey Epstein, there was Robert Maxwell, Like the biggest,

0:30:45.320 --> 0:30:49.880
<v Speaker 6>the most similar scandal to Epstein today is actually Maxwell

0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:54.200
<v Speaker 6>when he was killed, as this is as this is

0:30:54.200 --> 0:30:58.800
<v Speaker 6>the allegation from Epstein Maxwell. And it was similar also

0:30:58.880 --> 0:31:02.840
<v Speaker 6>in the sense that there were so many obvious clues

0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:06.960
<v Speaker 6>that he was in his rarely intelligence asset.

0:31:07.360 --> 0:31:08.320
<v Speaker 3>Including his like.

0:31:10.000 --> 0:31:14.160
<v Speaker 6>His burial, like in Israel at the most prestigious place,

0:31:14.520 --> 0:31:18.360
<v Speaker 6>including Ari Benmnash saying out loud he was an asset

0:31:18.360 --> 0:31:22.000
<v Speaker 6>and I worked directly with him, including all of this evidence,

0:31:22.760 --> 0:31:26.400
<v Speaker 6>and you'd have the press calling it a giant conspiracy theory.

0:31:26.480 --> 0:31:28.680
<v Speaker 6>So it was similar in that sense where and the

0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:32.760
<v Speaker 6>public eventually I think that fought It was like, no, yeah,

0:31:32.760 --> 0:31:34.000
<v Speaker 6>I don't believe the press on this one.

0:31:34.200 --> 0:31:35.600
<v Speaker 3>The conspiracy theory is true.

0:31:35.680 --> 0:31:37.920
<v Speaker 6>And now it's a pretty I don't now it's barely

0:31:37.960 --> 0:31:41.120
<v Speaker 6>even a controversial thing to say that Maxwell wasn't at

0:31:41.280 --> 0:31:46.520
<v Speaker 6>an Israeli asset like he just he just was, and

0:31:47.520 --> 0:31:50.720
<v Speaker 6>he was. He also was, like Epstein, a bit of

0:31:50.720 --> 0:31:56.280
<v Speaker 6>a con artist and a flim flam and and frittered away,

0:31:56.520 --> 0:32:00.760
<v Speaker 6>you know, hundreds of millions of dollars. According to Ben Minash,

0:32:00.800 --> 0:32:05.320
<v Speaker 6>the thing that actually broke his empire was there was

0:32:05.360 --> 0:32:11.040
<v Speaker 6>this intramural dispute with the Israeli weapons traffickers involved in

0:32:11.040 --> 0:32:14.880
<v Speaker 6>Iran Contra, and so they moved their money from banks

0:32:14.880 --> 0:32:19.120
<v Speaker 6>that were guaranteeing Maxwell with the Iran Contra money to

0:32:19.280 --> 0:32:21.560
<v Speaker 6>the East Block so the money would be safe from

0:32:21.600 --> 0:32:23.560
<v Speaker 6>the CIA, which they were now starting to fight with.

0:32:24.160 --> 0:32:27.280
<v Speaker 6>And so once that money got pulled, now Maxwell all

0:32:27.280 --> 0:32:31.000
<v Speaker 6>of a sudden couldn't meet his monthly obligations. Maxwell then

0:32:31.160 --> 0:32:35.000
<v Speaker 6>threatened that he would you blow the whistle on all

0:32:35.040 --> 0:32:38.600
<v Speaker 6>the things that he was doing for them, And just

0:32:38.680 --> 0:32:42.800
<v Speaker 6>a pro tip for assets out there, don't do that.

0:32:42.960 --> 0:32:45.600
<v Speaker 3>Don't You're not going to win that one. Don't do that, like,

0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:49.480
<v Speaker 3>don't don't warn that. If you do it, just do it.

0:32:50.120 --> 0:32:55.160
<v Speaker 6>Don't tell them do x or I'm going to expose

0:32:55.200 --> 0:32:56.160
<v Speaker 6>all of your secrets.

0:32:56.200 --> 0:32:56.959
<v Speaker 3>Don't do that.

0:32:58.000 --> 0:33:01.320
<v Speaker 6>You're not going to make it to that point. If

0:33:01.320 --> 0:33:05.920
<v Speaker 6>you're going to leak stuff, leak it you might while.

0:33:05.720 --> 0:33:07.440
<v Speaker 4>You might end up falling off the back of your gut.

0:33:07.560 --> 0:33:09.840
<v Speaker 6>Don't walk into the room with the whists and be like,

0:33:09.920 --> 0:33:11.920
<v Speaker 6>I'm going to blow this. If you don't give me,

0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:15.600
<v Speaker 6>yeah exactly, you might wind up falling on of a

0:33:15.640 --> 0:33:18.560
<v Speaker 6>window or off the back of your yacht or uh.

0:33:19.280 --> 0:33:23.680
<v Speaker 6>One guy they said he got he'd played tennis, and

0:33:23.720 --> 0:33:25.840
<v Speaker 6>like two days later they said he died of an

0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:29.320
<v Speaker 6>aggressive form of cancer m.

0:33:28.400 --> 0:33:30.000
<v Speaker 3>That he picked up like the day before.

0:33:30.720 --> 0:33:34.240
<v Speaker 6>Like, oh, that's interesting, how that happens.

0:33:34.280 --> 0:33:37.160
<v Speaker 4>One of those things, those crazy things in life.

0:33:37.280 --> 0:33:39.479
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, pro tip, don't do it like this.

0:33:39.960 --> 0:33:42.160
<v Speaker 5>And this is i mean the gist of what it's

0:33:42.200 --> 0:33:44.600
<v Speaker 5>like going through these emails, and it's probably everyone's having

0:33:44.600 --> 0:33:48.200
<v Speaker 5>this experience on social media right now. You're seeing little

0:33:49.160 --> 0:33:53.600
<v Speaker 5>like tidbits in these single emails that like this seemed

0:33:53.680 --> 0:33:59.160
<v Speaker 5>to confirm Epstein buys the conspiracy story. It's not really

0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:02.600
<v Speaker 5>conspiracy anymore, but what has been treated as a conspiracy

0:34:02.640 --> 0:34:06.680
<v Speaker 5>in the past about Robert Maxwell being quote passed away

0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:08.000
<v Speaker 5>and it's just in.

0:34:07.960 --> 0:34:09.240
<v Speaker 4>The subject line of an email.

0:34:09.360 --> 0:34:12.560
<v Speaker 5>So there are it's wrong to call them gems, but

0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:15.160
<v Speaker 5>like gems in the context of a getting to the

0:34:15.160 --> 0:34:18.359
<v Speaker 5>bottom of what's actually going on, they're everywhere. And that's

0:34:18.360 --> 0:34:20.400
<v Speaker 5>what makes it so addicting to be buried in the

0:34:20.400 --> 0:34:24.160
<v Speaker 5>Epstein Library is you never know which silly email riddled

0:34:24.200 --> 0:34:27.799
<v Speaker 5>with typos is going to be so significant and one,

0:34:28.280 --> 0:34:31.880
<v Speaker 5>you know, throwaway email he sent what twenty eighteen?

0:34:32.280 --> 0:34:33.279
<v Speaker 4>It has huge.

0:34:33.080 --> 0:34:36.480
<v Speaker 6>Consequences and it's I love it in the sense that

0:34:36.520 --> 0:34:40.799
<v Speaker 6>its teaching people history and very recent history that is

0:34:40.840 --> 0:34:42.160
<v Speaker 6>still quite relevant to us.

0:34:43.239 --> 0:34:44.880
<v Speaker 3>We're going way long. We should probably move on.

0:34:45.080 --> 0:34:45.719
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, let's do it.

0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:49.040
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. So Van laith is joining us next to talk about.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh no, we have a part two.

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<v Speaker 3>Ice hearings. Congress probed the behavior of ice and hearings yesterday.

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<v Speaker 3>Me or mar Martinez was there, who was shot five

0:35:01.640 --> 0:35:04.880
<v Speaker 3>times by ICE agents in Chicago but survived, one of

0:35:04.920 --> 0:35:08.640
<v Speaker 3>the more high profile survivors of ice violence.

0:35:08.840 --> 0:35:10.279
<v Speaker 6>We're going to be joining in a moment by a

0:35:10.280 --> 0:35:12.440
<v Speaker 6>friend of the show. Van lath And discussed the hearings.

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<v Speaker 6>Let's start first with Martinez up on Capitol Hill.

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<v Speaker 3>This is b one.

0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:22.360
<v Speaker 10>As my attorneys showed the court, the disgusting text messages

0:35:22.800 --> 0:35:26.280
<v Speaker 10>Exem sent to his fellow Border Patrol buddies, literally bragging

0:35:26.320 --> 0:35:29.960
<v Speaker 10>about how many times he shot me. I got stick

0:35:30.040 --> 0:35:33.600
<v Speaker 10>to my stomach. Seeing how a federal law enforcement officer

0:35:34.360 --> 0:35:38.480
<v Speaker 10>will talk this way about shooting me, a woman who

0:35:38.600 --> 0:35:44.359
<v Speaker 10>he swore into was both eye opening and heartbreaking.

0:35:44.680 --> 0:35:47.320
<v Speaker 11>The true that in the body cam footage the CBP

0:35:47.440 --> 0:35:49.799
<v Speaker 11>officer told you too, and I'm so sorry for saying this.

0:35:50.880 --> 0:35:54.800
<v Speaker 11>The author told you to quote do something bitch before

0:35:54.800 --> 0:36:01.360
<v Speaker 11>he fired. Yes, the disgusting, shameful, and it gets worse.

0:36:02.120 --> 0:36:02.840
<v Speaker 7>Ms Martinez.

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<v Speaker 11>These are images of texts sent by the agent who

0:36:05.960 --> 0:36:10.360
<v Speaker 11>shot you, and they're actually were They're actually disturbing.

0:36:10.520 --> 0:36:12.280
<v Speaker 7>To read, but I think it's important for the public

0:36:12.280 --> 0:36:12.719
<v Speaker 7>to see this.

0:36:13.480 --> 0:36:17.319
<v Speaker 11>The agent LinkedIn article about your shooting and texted, read

0:36:17.320 --> 0:36:22.960
<v Speaker 11>it five shots, seven holes. I fired five rounds and

0:36:23.040 --> 0:36:24.400
<v Speaker 11>she had seven holes.

0:36:24.880 --> 0:36:25.960
<v Speaker 7>Put that in your book.

0:36:26.000 --> 0:36:31.120
<v Speaker 11>Boys, Oh well, it is what it is. Shit happens.

0:36:33.800 --> 0:36:37.280
<v Speaker 11>This is someone that works for the United States government.

0:36:38.360 --> 0:36:42.000
<v Speaker 11>I fired five rounds and she had seven holes. Now,

0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:45.840
<v Speaker 11>he was talking about you, and it's our understanding that

0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:50.520
<v Speaker 11>he was actually bragging about his aim shooting an unarmed

0:36:51.120 --> 0:36:52.360
<v Speaker 11>American citizen?

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<v Speaker 7>Is that right?

0:36:55.239 --> 0:36:55.680
<v Speaker 4>Correct?

0:36:56.480 --> 0:37:00.799
<v Speaker 6>And so we're hearing from mir Mar Martinez because she

0:37:00.960 --> 0:37:05.000
<v Speaker 6>survives that attack. We didn't hear from Renana Cole Good,

0:37:05.040 --> 0:37:07.360
<v Speaker 6>though we heard from some family members. Didn't hear obviously

0:37:07.360 --> 0:37:12.239
<v Speaker 6>from Alex Pretty who's no longer here to testify. But Van,

0:37:13.080 --> 0:37:16.520
<v Speaker 6>I'm curious when it comes to your when it comes

0:37:16.520 --> 0:37:22.000
<v Speaker 6>to your audience, is this level of brutality kind of

0:37:22.040 --> 0:37:25.160
<v Speaker 6>breaking through? And how have you how have you seen

0:37:25.239 --> 0:37:28.319
<v Speaker 6>the conversation around immigration enforcement change?

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<v Speaker 3>And also welcome to the program.

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<v Speaker 12>Oh, thank you very much, glad to have you back.

0:37:34.040 --> 0:37:35.400
<v Speaker 12>I hope you had a good time down there. I

0:37:35.480 --> 0:37:37.040
<v Speaker 12>see no tank. There was work to be done.

0:37:37.080 --> 0:37:37.520
<v Speaker 7>I can tell.

0:37:37.600 --> 0:37:38.200
<v Speaker 3>I'm feeling good.

0:37:38.239 --> 0:37:43.480
<v Speaker 7>And now what I'm seeing from my audience is rage.

0:37:43.960 --> 0:37:48.160
<v Speaker 12>I'm seeing rage, and I'm seeing a sort of wake

0:37:48.239 --> 0:37:53.040
<v Speaker 12>up call. Now, Ms Martinez, you guys just featured her.

0:37:53.080 --> 0:37:55.759
<v Speaker 12>That was a story that I saw you guys cover

0:37:56.160 --> 0:37:59.640
<v Speaker 12>that I saw majority report cover. I saw a lot

0:37:59.640 --> 0:38:03.080
<v Speaker 12>of play in independent news media cover, but I did

0:38:03.080 --> 0:38:06.600
<v Speaker 12>not see too much coverage of what happened to her

0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:10.880
<v Speaker 12>anywhere else. I say that to say that I think

0:38:11.000 --> 0:38:16.560
<v Speaker 12>that there were overreaches, brutality and violations of the Constitution

0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:21.520
<v Speaker 12>by ICE prior to Renee Good that the general public

0:38:22.000 --> 0:38:22.799
<v Speaker 12>wasn't aware of.

0:38:23.520 --> 0:38:25.200
<v Speaker 7>I don't think they understood.

0:38:25.280 --> 0:38:29.239
<v Speaker 12>I think they people got the sense in cities, particularly

0:38:29.320 --> 0:38:33.160
<v Speaker 12>with large ICE deployments, of how you know, ICE was

0:38:33.280 --> 0:38:39.280
<v Speaker 12>you know, roaming their communities and papers please sort of culture,

0:38:40.480 --> 0:38:43.759
<v Speaker 12>scaring people that they share their communities with, and there

0:38:43.760 --> 0:38:44.959
<v Speaker 12>were headlines being made.

0:38:45.520 --> 0:38:47.279
<v Speaker 7>Don't don't don't get me wrong, but.

0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:50.520
<v Speaker 12>As far as ICE agents taking out their guns, shooting

0:38:50.560 --> 0:38:54.239
<v Speaker 12>people and putting their lives in danger, American citizens and

0:38:54.320 --> 0:38:57.360
<v Speaker 12>undocumented people, I think that Renee Good and alex Pretty

0:38:57.440 --> 0:38:59.200
<v Speaker 12>was a wake up call to those people, and I

0:38:59.280 --> 0:39:00.640
<v Speaker 12>do not think they're as a way to put the

0:39:00.640 --> 0:39:01.600
<v Speaker 12>genie back in the bottom.

0:39:01.920 --> 0:39:04.880
<v Speaker 5>Let's roll this clip of renee Good's family testifying at

0:39:04.920 --> 0:39:06.200
<v Speaker 5>the same hearing yesterday.

0:39:06.280 --> 0:39:10.319
<v Speaker 13>B two, my name is Luke Ganger, and I'm here

0:39:10.360 --> 0:39:19.360
<v Speaker 13>with my brother Brent. Renee Good is our sister. We're

0:39:19.520 --> 0:39:23.919
<v Speaker 13>here on behalf of Nay's big family and those who

0:39:23.960 --> 0:39:32.040
<v Speaker 13>loved her. We're here to ask for your help. I

0:39:32.200 --> 0:39:37.399
<v Speaker 13>was talking to my four year old last week when

0:39:37.400 --> 0:39:41.080
<v Speaker 13>she noticed I was not doing well. I had to

0:39:41.080 --> 0:39:46.200
<v Speaker 13>come here today and talk to some important people. She

0:39:46.360 --> 0:39:51.120
<v Speaker 13>knows that her aunt died and that somebody caused it

0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:55.600
<v Speaker 13>to happen. The deep distress our family feels because of

0:39:55.880 --> 0:40:01.760
<v Speaker 13>Nay's loss is in such a violent and unnecessary way,

0:40:02.800 --> 0:40:11.960
<v Speaker 13>is complicated by feelings of disbelief, distress, and desperation for change.

0:40:12.800 --> 0:40:16.600
<v Speaker 13>In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation

0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:23.520
<v Speaker 13>thinking that perhaps Nay's death would bring about change in

0:40:23.560 --> 0:40:33.560
<v Speaker 13>our country, and it is not. The completely surreal scenes

0:40:33.680 --> 0:40:39.120
<v Speaker 13>taking place on the streets of Minneapolis are beyond explanation.

0:40:41.320 --> 0:40:45.120
<v Speaker 13>This is not just a bad day or a rough

0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:53.400
<v Speaker 13>week or isolated incidents. These encounters with federal agents are

0:40:53.480 --> 0:40:59.560
<v Speaker 13>changing the community and changing many lives, including ours, forever.

0:41:00.360 --> 0:41:04.240
<v Speaker 5>So Van, I kind of disagree, respectfully with Renee Good's

0:41:04.239 --> 0:41:07.680
<v Speaker 5>brother there on the point he's making about feeling as

0:41:07.760 --> 0:41:11.800
<v Speaker 5>though her death has not brought about change. Public opinion

0:41:12.120 --> 0:41:14.520
<v Speaker 5>has put a lot of pressure on the Trump administration,

0:41:14.719 --> 0:41:18.200
<v Speaker 5>and that really, I mean, the Renee Good death was

0:41:18.280 --> 0:41:22.000
<v Speaker 5>the moment that changed from my vantage point at least,

0:41:22.040 --> 0:41:23.560
<v Speaker 5>I'm curious what you make of that. And one thing

0:41:23.600 --> 0:41:26.359
<v Speaker 5>I wanted to ask too is people talk and we've

0:41:26.360 --> 0:41:29.000
<v Speaker 5>talked here about the kind of dem Tea Party moment.

0:41:29.480 --> 0:41:32.120
<v Speaker 5>It feels to me like the abolish Ice movement has

0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:36.000
<v Speaker 5>become a really critical part of like Obamacare for the

0:41:36.040 --> 0:41:40.040
<v Speaker 5>Tea Party movement was that rallying policy question. It feels

0:41:40.040 --> 0:41:42.080
<v Speaker 5>to me like abolish Ice has kind of emerged as

0:41:42.360 --> 0:41:44.720
<v Speaker 5>that for the Tea Party moment.

0:41:46.600 --> 0:41:49.120
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, so I'll take your first question first.

0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:54.680
<v Speaker 12>I tend to agree with you, I think from his

0:41:54.840 --> 0:41:59.160
<v Speaker 12>vantage point, and I hate to speak for him, but

0:41:59.280 --> 0:42:02.239
<v Speaker 12>when you are the victim of an injustice that's as

0:42:02.280 --> 0:42:07.600
<v Speaker 12>profound as the loss of a family member, then the

0:42:07.640 --> 0:42:12.920
<v Speaker 12>only elixir is for the source of that injustice to

0:42:12.960 --> 0:42:15.960
<v Speaker 12>be held accountable and then for that to stop. It

0:42:16.000 --> 0:42:19.960
<v Speaker 12>will probably be difficult for somebody that's dealing with that

0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:24.200
<v Speaker 12>type of tragedy to see what we're seeing, which is

0:42:25.080 --> 0:42:30.239
<v Speaker 12>that event being a flash point for really a political

0:42:30.360 --> 0:42:33.600
<v Speaker 12>and cultural awakening for a lot of people in terms

0:42:33.640 --> 0:42:37.480
<v Speaker 12>of how far ice has gone, what Ice really represents

0:42:37.560 --> 0:42:41.520
<v Speaker 12>right now. You're seeing it in all the podcast spaces

0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:43.680
<v Speaker 12>with a lot of the guys who are part of

0:42:43.800 --> 0:42:47.680
<v Speaker 12>laundering Trump's reputation prior to the election, and just how

0:42:47.680 --> 0:42:51.239
<v Speaker 12>they're being held accountable by their audiences for what they

0:42:51.400 --> 0:42:53.600
<v Speaker 12>told people they should do, which is go out and

0:42:53.640 --> 0:42:58.680
<v Speaker 12>support this regime. All of that's political. I think what

0:42:58.719 --> 0:43:02.080
<v Speaker 12>would be cathartic to that, gentlemen, probably is to see

0:43:02.400 --> 0:43:06.720
<v Speaker 12>one there be accountability in the death of his loved one,

0:43:06.960 --> 0:43:10.280
<v Speaker 12>and on top of that, to see ice abuses stop

0:43:10.520 --> 0:43:12.800
<v Speaker 12>or for there to be some plan for them to stop.

0:43:13.080 --> 0:43:16.040
<v Speaker 7>And we, frankly haven't seen that quite yet.

0:43:16.040 --> 0:43:19.080
<v Speaker 12>We've seen a lot of political tug of war happening,

0:43:19.120 --> 0:43:23.240
<v Speaker 12>but nothing that seems like an answer to the problem

0:43:23.440 --> 0:43:28.759
<v Speaker 12>of how they're being deployed in certain cities. To your

0:43:28.800 --> 0:43:32.200
<v Speaker 12>second question, which I have totally forgotten in that little

0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:34.520
<v Speaker 12>articulate and eloquent rant, what was.

0:43:34.440 --> 0:43:35.520
<v Speaker 7>It again about?

0:43:35.560 --> 0:43:37.960
<v Speaker 5>How so you have some Democrats voting with Republicans on

0:43:38.000 --> 0:43:42.280
<v Speaker 5>the shutdown yesterday and basically the demp tea party moment

0:43:42.600 --> 0:43:45.960
<v Speaker 5>seems to me like it's coalescing around abolish ice and

0:43:46.040 --> 0:43:49.839
<v Speaker 5>the way the Republican tea Party was coalescing around Obamacare.

0:43:49.840 --> 0:43:51.400
<v Speaker 4>And I just wanted to get your thoughts on that.

0:43:52.800 --> 0:44:00.200
<v Speaker 12>Yeah, that's funny. How can I be that's funny? The

0:44:00.280 --> 0:44:02.560
<v Speaker 12>Democrats don't.

0:44:02.320 --> 0:44:07.440
<v Speaker 4>Get it, and it's I feel like you're about to

0:44:07.480 --> 0:44:08.280
<v Speaker 4>uncork something.

0:44:08.320 --> 0:44:11.200
<v Speaker 7>Then no, no, it's you know.

0:44:11.239 --> 0:44:14.360
<v Speaker 12>I had a homeboy back in the day, and he

0:44:14.440 --> 0:44:17.360
<v Speaker 12>used to like to, you know, have an occasional drink

0:44:18.480 --> 0:44:22.320
<v Speaker 12>on Sunday night, you know, you come and he he

0:44:22.400 --> 0:44:25.680
<v Speaker 12>polished off three or four twelve packs and he'd be like,

0:44:26.000 --> 0:44:28.640
<v Speaker 12>he's a light he's a light drinker. I remember his

0:44:29.200 --> 0:44:34.399
<v Speaker 12>girl telling him, hey, enough, like enough enough of it,

0:44:34.640 --> 0:44:37.560
<v Speaker 12>like everybody had had enough. And I remember talking to him,

0:44:37.560 --> 0:44:40.480
<v Speaker 12>talking to him. We go out one time and he goes, hey, man,

0:44:40.520 --> 0:44:42.719
<v Speaker 12>I'm just gonna stay around here. I was gonna have

0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:45.880
<v Speaker 12>a couple of I'm like, nah, man, you have an issue.

0:44:45.960 --> 0:44:48.560
<v Speaker 12>You have a problem. We're dealing with you in love.

0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:50.600
<v Speaker 12>But I'm telling you, this is a serious thing. You're

0:44:50.600 --> 0:44:52.840
<v Speaker 12>gonna lose your family. I'm telling you. I'm telling you,

0:44:52.920 --> 0:44:56.160
<v Speaker 12>I'm telling you. And it wasn't until he was seeing

0:44:56.200 --> 0:44:59.719
<v Speaker 12>his kids at Barnes and Noble that he really got

0:44:59.760 --> 0:45:03.279
<v Speaker 12>the the idea that she wanted something different and he

0:45:03.360 --> 0:45:06.200
<v Speaker 12>had a serious problem. The problem was a part of

0:45:06.200 --> 0:45:08.799
<v Speaker 12>his makeup and it was time to address it. I

0:45:08.880 --> 0:45:13.480
<v Speaker 12>wonder when the Democrats are going to see themselves in

0:45:13.520 --> 0:45:16.400
<v Speaker 12>the mirror, like when they're going to what Barnes and

0:45:16.440 --> 0:45:19.040
<v Speaker 12>Noble visitation or we're going to have to arrange for

0:45:19.120 --> 0:45:23.040
<v Speaker 12>them for them to see that they are orphaning their base.

0:45:27.520 --> 0:45:29.839
<v Speaker 12>As you see me search for words. I really don't

0:45:29.880 --> 0:45:32.120
<v Speaker 12>know how to articulate it. They do not get it.

0:45:33.160 --> 0:45:37.680
<v Speaker 12>We're not going for it. That's it. We're not going

0:45:37.719 --> 0:45:40.840
<v Speaker 12>for it. We're not going for it. It can't be negotiated.

0:45:42.160 --> 0:45:45.239
<v Speaker 12>There's so many things that we're not going for, Like,

0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:49.000
<v Speaker 12>it can't be negotiated. You can't talk nice about it.

0:45:49.080 --> 0:45:52.400
<v Speaker 12>I'm wear that up on the hill everybody. There's all

0:45:52.400 --> 0:45:55.040
<v Speaker 12>these histrionics and then they all go out and have

0:45:55.080 --> 0:45:57.400
<v Speaker 12>a stake together and go to Epstein's house and all

0:45:57.440 --> 0:45:59.160
<v Speaker 12>of that stuff like that. I get that that's how

0:45:59.239 --> 0:46:03.200
<v Speaker 12>it goes. But like at this point, right now, that's over.

0:46:04.080 --> 0:46:07.720
<v Speaker 12>We want this to stop. And how much ever pain

0:46:08.480 --> 0:46:12.800
<v Speaker 12>has to happen to the general American public and project

0:46:13.480 --> 0:46:15.160
<v Speaker 12>for this to be headed off.

0:46:15.320 --> 0:46:17.439
<v Speaker 7>For this, for this part of.

0:46:17.320 --> 0:46:21.240
<v Speaker 12>It, Ice Ice overreaches for us to say, hey, abolish this.

0:46:21.239 --> 0:46:23.920
<v Speaker 12>This can't be reformed. The guts of it have to

0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:28.319
<v Speaker 12>be torn up, torn up. Immigration enforcement is a part

0:46:28.480 --> 0:46:31.520
<v Speaker 12>of having a country you have. You're gonna have borders,

0:46:31.600 --> 0:46:35.560
<v Speaker 12>You're gonna have integration, immigration reform, and reform and enforcement

0:46:35.560 --> 0:46:37.279
<v Speaker 12>excuse me, enforcement, should I say?

0:46:37.880 --> 0:46:37.960
<v Speaker 4>You?

0:46:37.960 --> 0:46:39.120
<v Speaker 7>Guys pissed me off with the question.

0:46:39.160 --> 0:46:41.520
<v Speaker 12>I'm so mad at the at the Democrats, and I'm

0:46:41.520 --> 0:46:44.719
<v Speaker 12>not coming across as articulate as I would want to.

0:46:45.080 --> 0:46:49.759
<v Speaker 12>But I have conversations with politicians. I talked to them

0:46:49.760 --> 0:46:52.920
<v Speaker 12>a lot. They called me, and they honestly don't get it.

0:46:53.680 --> 0:46:57.560
<v Speaker 12>They are still in the phase of this where they

0:46:57.600 --> 0:47:02.680
<v Speaker 12>are attempting to launder the reputation of ice to convince

0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:06.040
<v Speaker 12>me and other people like me the usefulness of ice,

0:47:06.600 --> 0:47:12.800
<v Speaker 12>where they're attempting to soft pedal it, and it really

0:47:12.920 --> 0:47:16.759
<v Speaker 12>is I'm not even baffled. I'm fascinated, right. I think

0:47:16.800 --> 0:47:18.919
<v Speaker 12>that a lot of people, if they had the conversations

0:47:18.920 --> 0:47:24.520
<v Speaker 12>that I had, they would be gobsmacked by some of

0:47:24.520 --> 0:47:27.359
<v Speaker 12>the political weakness. And I get it. It's complicated. I

0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:30.719
<v Speaker 12>understand that it's complicated. But I was on the phone

0:47:30.760 --> 0:47:33.239
<v Speaker 12>with somebody a couple of days ago. I said, man,

0:47:34.080 --> 0:47:40.279
<v Speaker 12>figure out what the figure out what desperate looks like,

0:47:40.560 --> 0:47:45.319
<v Speaker 12>figure out what truly obstructionists looks like. Figure out what

0:47:45.400 --> 0:47:49.680
<v Speaker 12>ten is and go there, figure out what ten is.

0:47:49.800 --> 0:47:52.480
<v Speaker 12>If there are all kinds of things, ICE is funded

0:47:52.480 --> 0:47:54.240
<v Speaker 12>for a long time, I get it, all that stuff,

0:47:54.400 --> 0:47:57.319
<v Speaker 12>figure out what ten is and go there. Because the

0:47:57.440 --> 0:48:01.680
<v Speaker 12>disconnect between what I feel like the political intelligency of

0:48:01.760 --> 0:48:08.000
<v Speaker 12>the left in Washington. That disconnect as it relates to

0:48:08.680 --> 0:48:11.200
<v Speaker 12>the people that I'm having conversations with that listen to

0:48:11.239 --> 0:48:11.839
<v Speaker 12>my show that.

0:48:11.840 --> 0:48:14.400
<v Speaker 7>Taught to me, it's vast.

0:48:15.920 --> 0:48:18.319
<v Speaker 12>They're talking about this issue as if it's regular, where

0:48:18.320 --> 0:48:21.000
<v Speaker 12>there are people who are seeing Americans killed on the street,

0:48:21.160 --> 0:48:22.600
<v Speaker 12>and they're like, what are you guys gonna do?

0:48:23.280 --> 0:48:25.080
<v Speaker 6>And it feels like for a while, and tell me

0:48:25.120 --> 0:48:27.120
<v Speaker 6>if this connects with what your conversation had been like

0:48:27.320 --> 0:48:31.000
<v Speaker 6>feeling for a while, Democrats thought their answer needed to

0:48:31.040 --> 0:48:34.680
<v Speaker 6>be to grow a beard and start using profanity.

0:48:34.800 --> 0:48:36.760
<v Speaker 3>Yes, and like that.

0:48:36.560 --> 0:48:42.200
<v Speaker 6>That was gonna show like how serious they were about changing,

0:48:42.960 --> 0:48:46.319
<v Speaker 6>you know, their approach to Trump and to and to politics.

0:48:47.880 --> 0:48:49.680
<v Speaker 6>I see, I can't tell if I see a little

0:48:49.680 --> 0:48:51.840
<v Speaker 6>bit less of that. Like they started realizing, okay, it

0:48:51.920 --> 0:48:56.320
<v Speaker 6>actually it's not authentic, and like if it's not coupled

0:48:56.360 --> 0:49:00.719
<v Speaker 6>with something meaningful, it doesn't doesn't really land. And so

0:49:00.800 --> 0:49:02.279
<v Speaker 6>maybe this is like an answer to what they could do,

0:49:02.360 --> 0:49:10.680
<v Speaker 6>Like the Maga movement. They they were serious about changing

0:49:10.719 --> 0:49:14.239
<v Speaker 6>the country. They like they told you, if we get

0:49:14.280 --> 0:49:17.319
<v Speaker 6>into power, we're doing We're doing We're gonna build the wall,

0:49:17.360 --> 0:49:20.279
<v Speaker 6>We're gonna do mass deportation, we're gonna do tariffs. Like

0:49:20.320 --> 0:49:26.719
<v Speaker 6>they had these big ideas that stood in for the

0:49:26.760 --> 0:49:28.879
<v Speaker 6>expression of the anger that people had, Like you've got

0:49:28.880 --> 0:49:31.360
<v Speaker 6>this anger, and we're gonna do these big fundamental things.

0:49:32.560 --> 0:49:35.799
<v Speaker 6>Democrats don't seem to have that, Like they've got profanity

0:49:35.880 --> 0:49:39.000
<v Speaker 6>some of them. Some of them have grown beards, but

0:49:39.040 --> 0:49:42.200
<v Speaker 6>they're not really there's nothing that you can grab onto

0:49:43.040 --> 0:49:45.040
<v Speaker 6>that you can say, Oh, if they get into power,

0:49:46.719 --> 0:49:48.759
<v Speaker 6>this is how the anger that I have a what's

0:49:48.800 --> 0:49:51.880
<v Speaker 6>going on is going to be expressed abolished. Ice would

0:49:51.960 --> 0:49:55.919
<v Speaker 6>be one of those things to say, like ice is irredeemable,

0:49:55.960 --> 0:49:56.719
<v Speaker 6>We're getting rid of it.

0:49:56.760 --> 0:49:58.360
<v Speaker 3>We're still doing immigration enforcement.

0:49:58.600 --> 0:50:02.239
<v Speaker 6>But this rogue agency that's killing people in the streets

0:50:03.000 --> 0:50:06.560
<v Speaker 6>like CBPS actually like killing more people in the streets.

0:50:07.000 --> 0:50:07.880
<v Speaker 3>Deal with that separately.

0:50:08.400 --> 0:50:11.319
<v Speaker 6>Uh, they gotta go like something like that, like does

0:50:11.360 --> 0:50:13.920
<v Speaker 6>that does that track that? Like they feel like they

0:50:13.920 --> 0:50:15.360
<v Speaker 6>feel like all they have to do is channel the

0:50:15.400 --> 0:50:21.680
<v Speaker 6>anger by sounding angry themselves, but without any kind of

0:50:21.760 --> 0:50:23.080
<v Speaker 6>meaning or substance behind it.

0:50:24.280 --> 0:50:24.360
<v Speaker 4>Uh.

0:50:24.520 --> 0:50:26.719
<v Speaker 12>I think you're you're you're dead on and I think

0:50:26.840 --> 0:50:31.239
<v Speaker 12>that comes or that exists because they have for so.

0:50:31.360 --> 0:50:34.160
<v Speaker 7>Long been a harm reduction party mm hm.

0:50:34.600 --> 0:50:40.200
<v Speaker 12>And that robs you a vision, right, the Republican Maga,

0:50:40.440 --> 0:50:44.520
<v Speaker 12>Trump is and wing they provided a vision to America. Now,

0:50:44.600 --> 0:50:46.360
<v Speaker 12>in my opinion and opinion of a lot of people,

0:50:46.360 --> 0:50:49.239
<v Speaker 12>that vision was grotesque, but it was a vision, nonetheless,

0:50:49.920 --> 0:50:52.600
<v Speaker 12>and behind that vision, in order for them to be

0:50:53.840 --> 0:50:56.719
<v Speaker 12>taken seriously, there had to be action. Now that action

0:50:56.880 --> 0:51:02.680
<v Speaker 12>is disorganized, it violates the constant, it's inhumane, it's the

0:51:03.000 --> 0:51:06.080
<v Speaker 12>entire list of things. But it had to exist, it

0:51:06.160 --> 0:51:13.560
<v Speaker 12>had to be there. Abolished, ice is vision, defund the police.

0:51:14.120 --> 0:51:17.360
<v Speaker 12>I know you guys don't like it. That's a vision statement,

0:51:17.480 --> 0:51:21.520
<v Speaker 12>that's a statement idea. It's a big idea, right, It's

0:51:21.560 --> 0:51:26.319
<v Speaker 12>it's something that says, hey, let's reimagine that and this

0:51:26.440 --> 0:51:27.000
<v Speaker 12>and whatever.

0:51:27.440 --> 0:51:28.759
<v Speaker 7>Is it the most popular thing?

0:51:29.160 --> 0:51:29.239
<v Speaker 4>No?

0:51:29.840 --> 0:51:32.359
<v Speaker 12>Is it something that should have been discussed for the

0:51:32.440 --> 0:51:36.520
<v Speaker 12>merits of what it actually was. Yes, are some of

0:51:36.560 --> 0:51:41.239
<v Speaker 12>these things jarring and shaking to the milk toast Boulet

0:51:41.760 --> 0:51:45.960
<v Speaker 12>bourgeoise person who doesn't want to see society set on

0:51:46.080 --> 0:51:49.200
<v Speaker 12>flames and reimagine cool, get all of that.

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<v Speaker 7>The question is what's your version of that? Like, what

0:51:52.920 --> 0:51:53.680
<v Speaker 7>is your vision?

0:51:54.080 --> 0:51:57.759
<v Speaker 12>Okay, we know that this needs to stop. How do

0:51:57.840 --> 0:52:02.440
<v Speaker 12>you imagine it stopping? How do you imagine immigration enforcement?

0:52:03.200 --> 0:52:06.680
<v Speaker 12>How do you imagine a path to citizenship? How do

0:52:06.760 --> 0:52:09.719
<v Speaker 12>you imagine humanity for people that we share borders with?

0:52:10.239 --> 0:52:14.279
<v Speaker 12>What is your version of this? And it's very difficult.

0:52:14.560 --> 0:52:19.960
<v Speaker 12>They are so concerned with not being rude that it

0:52:20.000 --> 0:52:23.200
<v Speaker 12>seems like they care more about that than actual victory

0:52:23.239 --> 0:52:26.320
<v Speaker 12>and the protection of the people who put them in power.

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<v Speaker 5>And in the politics of it, the political value of

0:52:29.040 --> 0:52:32.240
<v Speaker 5>being able to milk the energy to have the hearing

0:52:32.600 --> 0:52:36.480
<v Speaker 5>like they put together yesterday without putting their policy, like

0:52:36.520 --> 0:52:39.760
<v Speaker 5>you said, whatever they're reimagining, putting it on the table,

0:52:40.200 --> 0:52:44.080
<v Speaker 5>you can talk and end up never actually Republicans of

0:52:44.120 --> 0:52:46.439
<v Speaker 5>this with Obamaca, it's a perfect parallel. They never put

0:52:46.480 --> 0:52:48.800
<v Speaker 5>anything right now, they don't have anything. It's been fifteen

0:52:48.840 --> 0:52:50.840
<v Speaker 5>years right.

0:52:50.760 --> 0:52:56.480
<v Speaker 12>Because their resistance to Obamacare has nothing to do with

0:52:56.520 --> 0:52:59.480
<v Speaker 12>what we're trying to talk about, which is how are

0:52:59.560 --> 0:53:04.040
<v Speaker 12>people going to get to the doctor. Yeah, okay, Like

0:53:04.120 --> 0:53:07.399
<v Speaker 12>how are people going to get care? And I think

0:53:07.440 --> 0:53:11.880
<v Speaker 12>that really on both sides of this, there.

0:53:11.719 --> 0:53:13.000
<v Speaker 7>Is something happening.

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<v Speaker 12>And I really desperately hope that we can take advantage

0:53:18.760 --> 0:53:22.279
<v Speaker 12>of the moment people that want to live in a

0:53:22.360 --> 0:53:25.279
<v Speaker 12>society of freedom, that people are really getting to a

0:53:25.320 --> 0:53:28.200
<v Speaker 12>point where they're starting to ask a question. And it's

0:53:28.200 --> 0:53:31.920
<v Speaker 12>a question that all Americans should always have asked themselves,

0:53:32.440 --> 0:53:35.040
<v Speaker 12>but it's a hard question to ask, like what's in

0:53:35.080 --> 0:53:38.120
<v Speaker 12>this for me? I think the biggest thing about the

0:53:39.360 --> 0:53:42.920
<v Speaker 12>what ICE is doing in the overreaches is people are

0:53:42.920 --> 0:53:48.440
<v Speaker 12>seeing in their communities, in their societies dysfunction and chaos,

0:53:48.719 --> 0:53:53.799
<v Speaker 12>and they're going, is this changing my life? And are

0:53:53.840 --> 0:53:58.880
<v Speaker 12>things cheaper? Are societies better? Or are you injecting a

0:53:58.920 --> 0:54:02.920
<v Speaker 12>whole bunch of chaos into my world for political reasons?

0:54:02.920 --> 0:54:07.680
<v Speaker 12>For your power? We voted for a long time to uh,

0:54:08.239 --> 0:54:12.600
<v Speaker 12>I guess we know what's in it for Trump, we

0:54:12.680 --> 0:54:14.759
<v Speaker 12>know what's in it for Chuck Schumer, we know what's

0:54:14.760 --> 0:54:17.080
<v Speaker 12>in it for all of these people. They get power,

0:54:17.200 --> 0:54:20.560
<v Speaker 12>they get to continue to pull the strings of society.

0:54:20.600 --> 0:54:22.480
<v Speaker 7>We'll just ask yourself, like, what's in it for you?

0:54:22.600 --> 0:54:23.239
<v Speaker 7>What have you.

0:54:23.200 --> 0:54:25.920
<v Speaker 12>Gotten for this? Have you gotten better medical care? Do

0:54:26.040 --> 0:54:28.880
<v Speaker 12>you get lower grocery prices? What's the is any of

0:54:28.960 --> 0:54:31.600
<v Speaker 12>this working for you? And I think on both sides

0:54:31.600 --> 0:54:33.759
<v Speaker 12>of the aisle people are going it doesn't seem like

0:54:33.800 --> 0:54:35.279
<v Speaker 12>anyone's really thinking about me.

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<v Speaker 3>Yep, Ben, Always a pleasure to have you on. Look

0:54:39.360 --> 0:54:42.480
<v Speaker 3>forward to your next to Parents Higher Learning podcast.

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<v Speaker 6>Everybody check it out. Thanks so much for joining us.

0:54:45.520 --> 0:54:46.000
<v Speaker 7>No problem.

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<v Speaker 12>I would have hack because next time I want to come,

0:54:47.640 --> 0:54:49.600
<v Speaker 12>I want to fish. I want to fish and go

0:54:49.640 --> 0:54:52.800
<v Speaker 12>to fish fishing today and then we go to fish

0:54:52.840 --> 0:54:53.400
<v Speaker 12>in the evening.

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<v Speaker 7>Ryan, don't leave me out, brother.

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<v Speaker 6>You're in, You're in the crow, all right, say all

0:54:58.440 --> 0:55:02.480
<v Speaker 6>right up. Next, Iran talks are moving to Oman. Is

0:55:02.480 --> 0:55:05.000
<v Speaker 6>it just a they just like faking this so they

0:55:05.000 --> 0:55:07.840
<v Speaker 6>can get their assets in place to bomb Tehran again?

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<v Speaker 3>Probably we'll talk about it next.

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<v Speaker 5>Details out of the Arabian Sea. Let's put this first

0:55:15.320 --> 0:55:18.000
<v Speaker 5>element up on the screen. As Fox News says, here,

0:55:18.040 --> 0:55:21.439
<v Speaker 5>the US military shot down and unmanned Iranian drone after quote,

0:55:21.480 --> 0:55:25.840
<v Speaker 5>it aggressively approached a US Navy aircraft carrier with unclear intent.

0:55:26.280 --> 0:55:30.120
<v Speaker 5>A US Central Command spokesperson told Fox News. The USS

0:55:30.200 --> 0:55:34.200
<v Speaker 5>Abraham Lincoln was transiting the Arabian Sea, approximately five hundred

0:55:34.200 --> 0:55:37.600
<v Speaker 5>miles from iran southern coast, when in Iranian had one

0:55:37.719 --> 0:55:41.920
<v Speaker 5>thirty nine drone unnecessarily maneuvered toward the ship. According to

0:55:42.120 --> 0:55:46.960
<v Speaker 5>that spokesperson for Centcom Ryan, this is a reminder of

0:55:47.040 --> 0:55:51.640
<v Speaker 5>how fragile the conditions in the Middle East star right now.

0:55:51.760 --> 0:55:54.239
<v Speaker 5>And I know a lot of people on the right

0:55:54.320 --> 0:55:57.000
<v Speaker 5>who are disappointed that Trump has not made good on

0:55:57.040 --> 0:56:01.480
<v Speaker 5>his promises in Iran. But reminders they got a drone,

0:56:01.600 --> 0:56:05.160
<v Speaker 5>Reminders of plenty, yes, they got a drone. Of how quickly, quickly,

0:56:05.239 --> 0:56:08.839
<v Speaker 5>quickly this can escalate the second an American is hurt,

0:56:09.040 --> 0:56:11.440
<v Speaker 5>you have a different, completely different war.

0:56:12.160 --> 0:56:16.680
<v Speaker 6>The the like asymmetry here as wild. Like if you try,

0:56:16.760 --> 0:56:18.799
<v Speaker 6>if we try to add up the amount of money

0:56:18.920 --> 0:56:23.280
<v Speaker 6>the US spent to shoot down this was it twenty

0:56:23.280 --> 0:56:27.320
<v Speaker 6>thousand dollars drone, It would reach into well into the

0:56:27.360 --> 0:56:29.719
<v Speaker 6>probably hundreds of millions. I mean if you count the

0:56:29.760 --> 0:56:32.880
<v Speaker 6>billion dollar aircraft. Although we can keep aircraft carry we

0:56:32.880 --> 0:56:37.320
<v Speaker 6>can keep using that the missiles, the like, the equipment

0:56:38.719 --> 0:56:42.160
<v Speaker 6>this is this is a fundamental material problem for the

0:56:42.280 --> 0:56:46.520
<v Speaker 6>US going forward, that it's up against it's up against

0:56:46.920 --> 0:56:52.120
<v Speaker 6>this new cheap drone warfare with and it is using

0:56:52.719 --> 0:56:59.319
<v Speaker 6>it's older like multi billion dollar assets. We're in a

0:56:59.320 --> 0:57:01.680
<v Speaker 6>war of attrition with somebody who can actually produce them

0:57:02.400 --> 0:57:07.040
<v Speaker 6>like consistently, like China. Like we've run out of like

0:57:07.080 --> 0:57:09.400
<v Speaker 6>ten million dollars missiles pretty quickly, and they can just

0:57:09.440 --> 0:57:11.400
<v Speaker 6>keep slapping together these drones.

0:57:11.760 --> 0:57:13.920
<v Speaker 5>And I will see in this case, like there's a

0:57:14.160 --> 0:57:15.960
<v Speaker 5>you and I made disagree on this, but there's I

0:57:16.000 --> 0:57:20.880
<v Speaker 5>think an interesting test case happening right now for the

0:57:20.920 --> 0:57:25.200
<v Speaker 5>piece through strength doctrine at its best. So if Trump

0:57:26.560 --> 0:57:31.480
<v Speaker 5>de escalates by having aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea

0:57:31.680 --> 0:57:36.040
<v Speaker 5>and threatening her on but not actually going much further,

0:57:36.200 --> 0:57:38.520
<v Speaker 5>like doing what they want him to do, and they

0:57:38.640 --> 0:57:43.960
<v Speaker 5>being the neo conservative bulwark that remains in power through

0:57:44.040 --> 0:57:47.720
<v Speaker 5>Lindsay Graham and many many others here in Washington, though

0:57:47.840 --> 0:57:51.080
<v Speaker 5>not many others around the country, average voters, not a

0:57:51.120 --> 0:57:55.360
<v Speaker 5>huge constituency, of course, but by not giving into their

0:57:55.400 --> 0:58:00.640
<v Speaker 5>demands for like full scale war and using the big stick,

0:58:01.440 --> 0:58:05.760
<v Speaker 5>it's possible that fewer people die and you spare your

0:58:05.800 --> 0:58:07.280
<v Speaker 5>spared a broader conflict.

0:58:07.360 --> 0:58:11.120
<v Speaker 6>But uh, just yeah, at this point, I would take

0:58:11.160 --> 0:58:14.800
<v Speaker 6>that because my expectations of Trump are so low. But

0:58:15.320 --> 0:58:20.040
<v Speaker 6>I'm really tired of him taking credit, uh for not

0:58:20.960 --> 0:58:22.520
<v Speaker 6>doing bigger wars.

0:58:22.760 --> 0:58:24.919
<v Speaker 3>That he didn't have to do at all.

0:58:25.040 --> 0:58:27.160
<v Speaker 6>He's like, look at Venezuela, like we went in and

0:58:27.240 --> 0:58:30.720
<v Speaker 6>we went out and could have done a long term

0:58:30.760 --> 0:58:33.800
<v Speaker 6>occupation and invasion. Well you could have also just left

0:58:33.800 --> 0:58:34.280
<v Speaker 6>them alone.

0:58:34.720 --> 0:58:35.840
<v Speaker 3>Nobody will like.

0:58:35.880 --> 0:58:38.200
<v Speaker 5>We still don't know that it's not going to It's

0:58:38.240 --> 0:58:39.080
<v Speaker 5>the same thing with Iran.

0:58:39.160 --> 0:58:40.760
<v Speaker 4>I mean there's so many people who were taking victory

0:58:40.800 --> 0:58:42.880
<v Speaker 4>laps after June, like, oh, you guys were wrong.

0:58:42.960 --> 0:58:44.080
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we only did twelve days.

0:58:44.320 --> 0:58:46.400
<v Speaker 4>I'm happy to take an L, happy to take an L.

0:58:46.520 --> 0:58:48.840
<v Speaker 3>But it's February and here we are back again. Yes,

0:58:48.960 --> 0:58:51.280
<v Speaker 3>why like again? Why like? What like?

0:58:51.760 --> 0:58:52.320
<v Speaker 4>And here we.

0:58:52.280 --> 0:58:54.640
<v Speaker 5>Are with Delsi Rodriguez and Judge of Venezuela like what

0:58:54.720 --> 0:58:56.439
<v Speaker 5>was your what were you actually doing?

0:58:56.760 --> 0:58:57.800
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Good question.

0:58:58.320 --> 0:59:01.760
<v Speaker 6>So, uh, nuclear talks are kicking up, so we can

0:59:01.800 --> 0:59:07.600
<v Speaker 6>put up C three. So talks are scheduled now in Oman.

0:59:08.080 --> 0:59:12.959
<v Speaker 6>They will not be their call news meetings calling them

0:59:13.120 --> 0:59:17.200
<v Speaker 6>between the US and Iran, but Iran Iranian officials are saying, uh,

0:59:17.240 --> 0:59:20.280
<v Speaker 6>they're there are indirect talks in a sense that the

0:59:20.400 --> 0:59:22.040
<v Speaker 6>US is still refusing to kind of be in the

0:59:22.040 --> 0:59:25.080
<v Speaker 6>same room. Cutters going to be there and they're going

0:59:25.120 --> 0:59:29.160
<v Speaker 6>back and forth. There's some reporting out of Iran that

0:59:29.200 --> 0:59:32.160
<v Speaker 6>they've gotten hints that that Kushner might end up becoming

0:59:32.200 --> 0:59:34.800
<v Speaker 6>involved because we can put up C two. This is

0:59:34.800 --> 0:59:37.520
<v Speaker 6>from on Launch Media, which is very well sourced among

0:59:37.600 --> 0:59:40.920
<v Speaker 6>Iranian insiders. They were saying that one of the problems

0:59:41.440 --> 0:59:43.840
<v Speaker 6>with the last round of negotiations, besides the fact that

0:59:43.840 --> 0:59:49.400
<v Speaker 6>Trump killed all the negotiators, is that wit Cough consistently

0:59:49.440 --> 0:59:53.600
<v Speaker 6>had to fly back to the United States to get answers,

0:59:54.040 --> 0:59:56.720
<v Speaker 6>which you can imagine how frustrating that is. You're you're

0:59:56.720 --> 0:59:58.320
<v Speaker 6>in the you're in an office, you're trying to buy

0:59:58.360 --> 1:00:01.160
<v Speaker 6>a used car. Salesman like, I got to go talk

1:00:01.200 --> 1:00:03.440
<v Speaker 6>to my manager, see if I can give you, you know,

1:00:03.520 --> 1:00:06.440
<v Speaker 6>a discount on this true cote and he comes back

1:00:06.480 --> 1:00:08.280
<v Speaker 6>ten minutes later, he's like, great news.

1:00:08.480 --> 1:00:09.760
<v Speaker 3>You know, as long as you do the ten.

1:00:09.720 --> 1:00:12.440
<v Speaker 6>Year warranty, we can do this true code at this

1:00:12.560 --> 1:00:16.800
<v Speaker 6>at a discount. Imagine he had to fly back halfway

1:00:16.840 --> 1:00:19.800
<v Speaker 6>around the world every time, and then the Iranians are

1:00:19.800 --> 1:00:22.000
<v Speaker 6>sitting there twitting their thumbs and then they get bombed.

1:00:22.360 --> 1:00:26.520
<v Speaker 3>So you can imagine that those are not ideal negotiating circumstances.

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<v Speaker 3>So they're trying.

1:00:26.960 --> 1:00:29.080
<v Speaker 6>They're saying, like, can you get some more people who

1:00:29.120 --> 1:00:32.800
<v Speaker 6>are empowered to actually make deals? To me, the whole

1:00:32.840 --> 1:00:39.280
<v Speaker 6>thing is absurd, Like, it seems pretty clear Trump is

1:00:39.280 --> 1:00:43.320
<v Speaker 6>not serious about negotiations and it's just stalling because they

1:00:43.480 --> 1:00:49.280
<v Speaker 6>launched most of their anti missile defenses during the Twelve

1:00:49.320 --> 1:00:52.200
<v Speaker 6>Day War, and so they need to restock so that

1:00:52.240 --> 1:00:55.800
<v Speaker 6>they can defend Israel from whatever counter attack comes. They

1:00:55.800 --> 1:00:58.640
<v Speaker 6>can defend their other assets around the region, and they

1:00:58.640 --> 1:01:02.040
<v Speaker 6>need to get all of their naval and air assets

1:01:02.400 --> 1:01:04.240
<v Speaker 6>close enough to Iron so they can launch an attack.

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<v Speaker 3>That seems to be what they're doing.

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<v Speaker 6>In the past every time that they have invited the

1:01:11.760 --> 1:01:15.280
<v Speaker 6>Iranians to negotiate, including Solomony, who I'll keep reminding people COSTM.

1:01:15.280 --> 1:01:21.000
<v Speaker 6>Solomoney was in Bagdad when he was assassinated because he

1:01:21.200 --> 1:01:25.600
<v Speaker 6>was lord there for negotiations towards peace, Like like, it's

1:01:25.640 --> 1:01:28.840
<v Speaker 6>what it's Trump's move. He thinks it's clever, he thinks

1:01:28.880 --> 1:01:31.800
<v Speaker 6>nobody sees it coming, and he's correct at first because

1:01:32.800 --> 1:01:35.440
<v Speaker 6>that's like a maniacal thing to do. Yeah, because for

1:01:35.480 --> 1:01:37.520
<v Speaker 6>thousands of years, like the one thing that even like

1:01:37.560 --> 1:01:40.160
<v Speaker 6>Eengis Khan or whatever would like recognize and be like

1:01:41.280 --> 1:01:44.760
<v Speaker 6>people go out and talk like it's just not pragmatic

1:01:44.800 --> 1:01:47.520
<v Speaker 6>to kill that person. We'll talk to them and then

1:01:47.560 --> 1:01:48.720
<v Speaker 6>you can go back and kill each other.

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<v Speaker 7>Later.

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<v Speaker 6>Trump was like, oh, but what if we killed them

1:01:51.560 --> 1:01:53.760
<v Speaker 6>at the negotiating table when they're not looking?

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<v Speaker 3>Have you thought of that?

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<v Speaker 6>So you know, there's only so many red weddings until

1:02:02.440 --> 1:02:07.680
<v Speaker 6>people show up at the wedding and like, so that's

1:02:07.720 --> 1:02:11.960
<v Speaker 6>why I suspect that the Iranians are assuming that an

1:02:12.000 --> 1:02:12.800
<v Speaker 6>attack is coming.

1:02:13.000 --> 1:02:14.920
<v Speaker 3>You got you still got to take the invitation.

1:02:15.680 --> 1:02:19.400
<v Speaker 6>You can imagine being tapped for these negotiations if you're

1:02:19.520 --> 1:02:26.400
<v Speaker 6>an Iranian diplomat. I like, uh, really, this weekend helping

1:02:26.400 --> 1:02:27.280
<v Speaker 6>my friend move.

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<v Speaker 3>Like this is a chance of a lifetime. Would really

1:02:31.000 --> 1:02:31.560
<v Speaker 3>love to do this.

1:02:31.680 --> 1:02:34.280
<v Speaker 6>But if they can move it to am On, Oh

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<v Speaker 6>they moved it to them on, God, then can't do

1:02:37.760 --> 1:02:38.040
<v Speaker 6>them on.

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<v Speaker 3>Actually turns out, yeah, I'm gonna worn out and am On.

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<v Speaker 6>Things got a little out of control a couple of

1:02:43.640 --> 1:02:45.440
<v Speaker 6>years ago when I was there I would really love

1:02:45.600 --> 1:02:51.320
<v Speaker 6>to can't go to Aman. So yeah, and there's there's

1:02:51.360 --> 1:02:53.880
<v Speaker 6>also reporting in that article that you can go go

1:02:53.920 --> 1:02:57.000
<v Speaker 6>read that which backs up reporting that Jeremy Scalho had

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<v Speaker 6>done earlier drop Site, which is that Iran had felt

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<v Speaker 6>that the best way to de escalate these Trump attacks

1:03:05.920 --> 1:03:08.920
<v Speaker 6>was to forecast exactly what they were going to do,

1:03:10.040 --> 1:03:14.000
<v Speaker 6>tell Trump ahead of time so that there's minimal amount

1:03:14.040 --> 1:03:18.800
<v Speaker 6>of damage and no actual damage to people, to American troops,

1:03:19.600 --> 1:03:23.280
<v Speaker 6>and to announce ahead of time. We consider after we respond,

1:03:23.400 --> 1:03:26.360
<v Speaker 6>we consider this finished. And so that's what they did

1:03:26.440 --> 1:03:29.560
<v Speaker 6>multiple times, and there were people arguing at the time

1:03:29.560 --> 1:03:34.080
<v Speaker 6>inside Iran, this is only going to convey weakness and

1:03:34.160 --> 1:03:35.200
<v Speaker 6>invite more attacks.

1:03:36.000 --> 1:03:37.360
<v Speaker 3>That you have to hit Trump harder.

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<v Speaker 6>And the people who advocated for the restrained response, a

1:03:44.440 --> 1:03:47.720
<v Speaker 6>lot of them were killed, and now they're being replaced

1:03:47.760 --> 1:03:51.320
<v Speaker 6>by the people who had said, you're going to get

1:03:51.320 --> 1:03:57.240
<v Speaker 6>yourself killed with this restraint. What Trump doesn't want is

1:03:57.280 --> 1:04:00.320
<v Speaker 6>a forever war that he can't control. He's been very

1:04:00.320 --> 1:04:03.280
<v Speaker 6>clear he hates those. So what we need to do

1:04:03.840 --> 1:04:06.800
<v Speaker 6>is show him that we can pull one of those off.

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<v Speaker 6>So we need to hit American assets in Iraq American

1:04:10.320 --> 1:04:13.800
<v Speaker 6>assets in Syria, American assets in Doha, and you need

1:04:13.840 --> 1:04:16.280
<v Speaker 6>to hit Israel as much as we can.

1:04:17.000 --> 1:04:20.120
<v Speaker 3>And they've even talked about killing.

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<v Speaker 6>As many as five hundred American troops to send a

1:04:24.040 --> 1:04:30.280
<v Speaker 6>signal that they're going to be consequences to you continuing

1:04:30.280 --> 1:04:33.280
<v Speaker 6>to attack us every six months. They feel like that's

1:04:34.320 --> 1:04:36.560
<v Speaker 6>this faction feels like that's the only way to get

1:04:36.560 --> 1:04:39.440
<v Speaker 6>this to stop, that that's the only language Trump understands.

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<v Speaker 6>And the people in the room to argue against it

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<v Speaker 6>were killed by Trump. So maybe they're all bluffing and

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<v Speaker 6>or maybe the US can just annihilate their response capacity.

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<v Speaker 6>Who knows, and hopefully we won't find out. But that's

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<v Speaker 6>the current state of play.

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<v Speaker 5>Well that's I mean, just the drone strike yesterday is

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<v Speaker 5>again a reminder of how quickly this can completely change completely.

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<v Speaker 5>You can wake up one day and an American could

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<v Speaker 5>have been killed on an aircraft carrier, and we could

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<v Speaker 5>be sending more and more troops, We could be sending

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<v Speaker 5>boots on the damn ground in a heartbeat.

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<v Speaker 4>Because of how fragile this is.