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Speaker 1: Good evening, America, and welcome to this Just the News

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Speaker 1: Real America's Voice special brought to you by the Association

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Speaker 1: of Mature American Citizens are.

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Speaker 2: Better known as AMAC.

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Speaker 1: Tonight, we're going to be discussing how peace through strength

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Speaker 1: has changed the world in just four short weeks of

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Speaker 1: the Trump presidency. After four years of destabilization, growing violence,

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Speaker 1: and uncertainty among both American allies and adversaries, Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: has brought a clarity to foreign policy and America's security priorities.

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Speaker 2: The message is clear, America.

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Speaker 1: Won't be bullied, it won't tolerate aggression or attacks on

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Speaker 1: freedom or our citizens, and it will act first and

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Speaker 1: foremost with the interests of Americans first. That clarity, backed

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Speaker 1: by early the actions, has already triggered a realignment across

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Speaker 1: the globe.

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Speaker 2: Mexico and Canada.

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Speaker 1: While they quickly moved to fortify security at the southern

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Speaker 1: and northern borders to avoid facing American teriffs, Hamas and

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Speaker 1: Israel will they reached receise fire even before President Trump

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Speaker 1: took office, because his envoy went to the region and

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Speaker 1: did what the Biden administration could strike a deal. China

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Speaker 1: has begun negotiations on reducing the chemicals that flow from

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Speaker 1: its country as precursors to the fentanyl poison produced by

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Speaker 1: Mexican drug artels, and.

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Speaker 2: The American relationship with Russia.

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Speaker 1: While last week it was rebooted with a historic meeting

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Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia, this week now special teams are being

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Speaker 1: created to start the process of seeking a peace deal

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Speaker 1: in the Ukraine War.

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Speaker 2: These things don't happen in a vacuum.

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Speaker 1: They happened when the lens of peace through strength is

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Speaker 1: applied to US foreign policy. The Biden administration had a

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Speaker 1: different compass. It believed peace could be achieved through appeasement

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Speaker 1: in payments. America's enemies did not comply. They became more aggressive,

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Speaker 1: as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Iranian proxies

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Speaker 1: of Hamas the Hoodies and Hesbola showed. Today, the carridenstick

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Speaker 1: cl of the Trump administration's foreign policy has pushed adversaries

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Speaker 1: to this moment in history and the necessity to provide

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Speaker 1: greater strength and greater will. Tonight, we're going to be

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Speaker 1: exploring how this dynamic began and where it goes. We've

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Speaker 1: got an all star lineup of guests to take us

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Speaker 1: through this conversation. But first, I've got an amazing co

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Speaker 1: host to join me on this journey throughout the night.

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Speaker 1: She's the CEO of AMAC and my very good friend,

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Speaker 1: Rebecca Weber.

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Speaker 3: Rebecca, welcome, Oh John, it's great to be with you today. You,

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Speaker 3: under President Donald Trump, the United States really did redefine

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Speaker 3: its role on the global stage, not through endless wars

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Speaker 3: or weak diplomacy, but through unwavering strength and bold leadership.

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Speaker 3: And so we see how is peace through strength strategy

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Speaker 3: really does ensure that our enemies think twice, that our

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Speaker 3: allies step up, and that American interests come first, just

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Speaker 3: as the American people mandated. So I'm thrilled to be

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Speaker 3: here with you today to really focus on the issues

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Speaker 3: and how Donald Trump is really proving that a strong

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Speaker 3: America is a safer America.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: And it's that philosophy, a piece of strength that binds

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Speaker 1: all the patriots together who are part of the great

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Speaker 1: AMAC nation as well. So excited to have this conversation

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Speaker 1: all right, joining us now a man who served his

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Speaker 1: country on the front lines of war and today serves

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Speaker 1: it in Capitol Hill. He's retired US Marine Corp Lieutenant

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Speaker 1: General and Congressman from the great state of Michigan. Jack Bergman, Congressman.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you on the show, sir, Hey, great

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Speaker 1: to be with you all. We love your perspective because

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Speaker 1: you saw it on the front lines of the military,

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Speaker 1: and then you brought that wisdom into Congress. I think

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Speaker 1: Congress is getting a great understanding that the last four

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Speaker 1: this reassertion of American interest in strength is starting to

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Speaker 1: change the world.

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Speaker 2: What are you seeing? What are your colleagues telling.

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Speaker 4: You, Well, there are two perspectives, those who have had

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Speaker 4: their eyes opened up to not only the strengths that

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Speaker 4: President Trump brought in, but it is it's even more

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Speaker 4: magnified by the weaknesses that became evident in the last

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Speaker 4: four years of the Biden administration. And not to pick on,

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Speaker 4: you know, former presidents or whatever, but you know, Ronald

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Speaker 4: Reagan is the classic quotable peace through strength, and we

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Speaker 4: as the United States did not exhibit, did not show,

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Speaker 4: did not embody strength of will, strength of character, strength

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Speaker 5: Under the Biden administration, in no way, shape or form.

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Speaker 4: So here we are now with President Trump back in

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Speaker 4: and there is definitely the twenty first century version, I

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Speaker 3: Congressman Zelensky seems to be pushed back on Trump's diplomatic approach.

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Speaker 3: How should America respond to Ukraine's reluctance to pursue peace,

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Speaker 3: especially considering the billions of dollars in aid that we

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Speaker 4: Well, there's there's consequences for everything that's and if you think,

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Speaker 4: if anyone thinks it's just it's just like a little

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Speaker 4: how this family, you know, acts or reacts. And I

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Speaker 4: who voted for aid to Ukraine over the past, you know,

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Speaker 4: several years we asked for one thing, and that was

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Speaker 4: accountability for every dollar that was sent there, how it

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Speaker 4: was used, and what was the endgame? And did Ukraine

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Speaker 4: need more or less? But were they carrying out their

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Speaker 4: uncomfortability with you know, Ukraine and Zelensky to be able

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Speaker 4: to continue to articulate their case and why the United

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Speaker 4: guess to use modern terms. And President Trump is going

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Speaker 4: to hold everybody accountable, and that's a good thing. That's

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Speaker 4: why we voted for him. He holds himself accountable. Why

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Speaker 4: wouldn't we hold everybody else, including our allies, including entities

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Speaker 2: Good.

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Speaker 3: That's right, it's exactly with the American people mandated.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 3: The Pentagon has an eight hundred and fifty billion dollar

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Speaker 3: has called for a full accounting of military spending shouldn't

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Speaker 3: the American people demand to know where all this money

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Speaker 4: Real short answer is yes, And the Pentagon has never

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Speaker 4: passed an audit. But there is one service who has

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Speaker 5: The United States Marine Corps. And for two reasons.

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Speaker 4: Number one, we hold ourselves accountable and number two, we

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Speaker 4: their enterprise and if the if the rest of the

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Speaker 4: Pentagon needs an example on how to pass an audit,

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Speaker 5: How did you guys do it? And I can give

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Speaker 4: From the probably the two thousand and four, so we're

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Speaker 4: talking twenty years ago timeframe of doing a simple audit

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Speaker 4: at the Department of Defense wide at then Secretary Rumsfell's request,

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Speaker 4: and the subject was simple, tell me where all your

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Speaker 5: And at the time, even then.

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Speaker 4: Twenty years ago, the Marine Corps was the only one

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Speaker 5: The other services couldn't.

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Speaker 4: So the Defense Department has some catching up to do,

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Speaker 5: But there's been a.

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Speaker 4: Kind of a you know, what's the three card monte game,

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Speaker 5: There's been some of that going on in the Pentagon

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: You put a big smile on my face, Congressman, because

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Speaker 1: I had an uncle and he would come to Christmas

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Speaker 1: parties and said, I know how to fix Washington.

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Speaker 2: Just send a few more marines there. We'll get the

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Speaker 1: And just is thinking of that very fondly when you

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Speaker 1: said that, I want to turn to another theater, and

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Speaker 1: that is a theater with China. We have lots of

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Speaker 1: challenges with China. Their shipbuilding is surpassing ours, their AI

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Speaker 1: to rebalance that relationship quickly?

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Speaker 5: Well, very quickly. China is not an innovator.

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Speaker 4: We know that they are masters of intellectual property theft

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Speaker 4: They will put the money into spying and stealing as

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Speaker 5: Like the United States, you know where it puts its money.

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Speaker 4: So the first best step in dealing with China is

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Speaker 4: to make sure going back to the piece through strength,

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Speaker 5: We're not going to.

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Speaker 2: Give it to you.

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Speaker 5: We will talk with you, but we're going to stop

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Speaker 5: the stealing.

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Speaker 2: Great point, great message.

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Speaker 4: Well, an iron dome in America will look different than

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Speaker 4: It is possible and doable, especially with the use of

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Speaker 4: advanced artificial intelligence with basically quantum data, you know, computing,

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Speaker 4: to create an iron Dome like capability in our country.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: And President Trump seems to be moving in that direction

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Speaker 1: again quickly, kind of fulfilling a dream that maybe started

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Speaker 1: with Ronald Reagan. So you mentioned something that's important in

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Speaker 1: the AI and how it's going to change warfare. Part

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Speaker 1: of that AI battle is going to be one on

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Speaker 1: a different field, which is the energy field. Because these

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Speaker 1: new supercomputers need so much energy. How important is Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's energy policy to his national security policy?

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Speaker 4: Well, they're tied hand in hand. And when you think

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Speaker 4: about people who if they really, really, really are concerned

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Speaker 4: about energy, clean energy going forward, if we as a

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Speaker 4: nuclear reactors not only for the creation the generation of

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Speaker 4: different form. But that is the future of energy here

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Speaker 4: in America, and I believe it is the future of

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Speaker 2: Kurt Schlichter Kirk, Good to have you.

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Speaker 6: Back, Hey, great to be here. Always love doing the

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Speaker 1: And I think today we are looking at so much

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Speaker 6: I think that the United States is operating pretty much

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Speaker 6: It is refreshing to see that there is no backing down,

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Speaker 6: everything from Ukraine to revitalizing NATO. I'm interested in seeing

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Speaker 6: we are getting back into a warrior culture. My analysis

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Speaker 3: Thank you, k Now. Secretary Pete Heechseth recently argued that

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Speaker 6: No, I think Pete text that's exactly right. And let

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Speaker 6: and trained them. Ukraine was horribly wronged and has every

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Speaker 6: hope it is victorious. That being said, I'm not Ukrainian,

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Speaker 6: I'm American, so American interests are paramount to me. None

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Speaker 6: of this is prakt on hostility towards Ukrainians. It's on

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Speaker 6: of a responsibility. The Europeans, who outnumber US considerably, have

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Speaker 6: I know. I served in NATO in the eighties, I

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Speaker 6: the war in Ukraine. It is an America's interest that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very good points. Zelensky is now admitting that America

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Speaker 6: I think Europe needs to take a leadership role, but

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Speaker 6: I've been seeing a lot lately. Well. Trump is betraying

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Speaker 6: I actually see people write that you can't betray something

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Speaker 6: An interest in America can only be created where we

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Speaker 6: If you're going to commit American blood, if you're going

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Speaker 1: Offends great point, Kurt, I want to shift theaters for

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Speaker 2: Under Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: Basically, KA was running all over America and infiltrating corporate secrets,

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Speaker 1: Obviously tariffs and got their attention on fentanyl. Where do

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Speaker 1: Do you see a PATO to match NATO, a Pacific

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Speaker 6: Look, I think we definitely need that in the Pacific.

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Speaker 6: I think when countries like Japan, South Korea, the Philippines,

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Speaker 6: America has allowed its shipbuilding and other military industrial based

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Speaker 6: there Navy now out numbers ares. The quality isn't the same,

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Speaker 6: the experience level isn't the same, but you know, you know,

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Speaker 6: sometimes you just want to have more stuff, and that's

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Speaker 6: an advance. The fact is China is serious about the

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Speaker 6: deterred from doing that. We can only deter them with

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Speaker 6: a show of strength. As for the spies here in America,

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Speaker 6: holy cow, we've had the FBI out chasing praying grandmas

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Speaker 6: at abortion clinks and people taking selfies in the rotunda.

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Speaker 6: What a waste of resources. Look. I live in the

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Speaker 2: Great point, very good point.

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Speaker 3: You know, AMAC members are thrilled to see that President

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Speaker 6: It's done enormous damage and it is being reversed. Look,

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Speaker 6: structure and building and such. On the good side, you

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Speaker 6: have a guy like Rumsfeld, who I think was an

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Speaker 6: underrated Secretary of Defense, and you have guys like Robert

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Speaker 6: Mattnamara who was absolutely awful. We need a different kind

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Speaker 6: of guy. We need a leader. We need a guy

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Speaker 6: who's out there showing the troops. Hey, you count I'm

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Speaker 6: bringing back military culture. That's what Pete Eggs at is

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Speaker 6: Pete Eggs as the guy who can get out there

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Speaker 6: and beat most captains and lieutenants in a push up contest.

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Speaker 6: And that means something to the guys who've got pick

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Speaker 6: up a rifle and run to the top of the hill,

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Speaker 6: kill everybody at the top of the hill, and wait

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Speaker 6: to be told what hill to go to next to take.

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Speaker 6: That's what we need today. We need a hardcore leader

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Speaker 6: who's going to inspire and show Americans that our military

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Speaker 6: is back to be in a military. Look, I'm very

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Speaker 6: excited to see the current crop of army ads. Have

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Speaker 6: you guys seen those instead of having you know, Heather's

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Speaker 6: got two mommies and now she's you know, a supply sergeant.

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Speaker 6: You got. This is my squad. I'm Corporal Smith, I

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Speaker 6: carry the M two forty machine gun. I'm Corporal Garcia.

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm the grenadier and we're watch us attack

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Speaker 6: this building with all the explosions and stuff. That's what

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Speaker 6: we need. We need a hard charger right now to

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Speaker 6: reorient the military back to what it's about, which is

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Speaker 6: having the capability to stack enemy bodies if they cross us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so well said Kurt. You do such great thinking.

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Speaker 1: Your thought leadership in this space is so important, and

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Speaker 1: I think for the first time in a few years,

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Speaker 1: all those great ideas you've been righting about they're going

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Speaker 1: to get implemented on this watch.

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Speaker 2: Great honor to have you on the show today.

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Speaker 6: Always always love joining you and love being with a Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely great, great gat, great conversation.

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Speaker 1: All right, folks, don't go anywhere, because after the break,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in America to this special edition of Justin

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Speaker 1: Who's No Noise? In partnership with AMAC, the Association of

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Speaker 1: Mature American Citizens AMAX CEO Rebecca Weber and I are

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Speaker 1: bringing you this deep dive into the Trump administration's military

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Speaker 1: and foreign policy and a return to PC You Stink

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Speaker 1: with the novel Idea joining us now to talk more

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Speaker 1: about that. He's a thirty two year United States Air

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Speaker 1: Force combat vendor and retired Colonel Rob Manus.

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Speaker 2: Rob, great to have you back on the show.

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Speaker 7: Thanks for having me back, John.

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Speaker 1: I love the writing you do, the thought leadership you

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Speaker 1: apply every day. There is a lot going on, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes I don't think we look close enough to our

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Speaker 1: nearest continent, Latin America a lot of concerns with China

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Speaker 1: rumbling around that continent and trying to gain influence in

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Speaker 1: our backyard. Tell us where Trump is starting to make

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Speaker 1: progress on that.

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Speaker 7: You know, I just took a really deep look at

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Speaker 7: Panama over the last couple of weeks and everything, and

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Speaker 7: you know, the Chinese Communist Party has a company at

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Speaker 7: each into the Panama Canal, and the President has really

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Speaker 7: taken the initiative and put the Panamanian leadership on notice,

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Speaker 7: and they've responded appropriately that the Belton Road initiative from

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Speaker 7: the Chinese Communist Party is out, and support and effort

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Speaker 7: from the United States of America and controlling from the

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Speaker 7: United States of America is now in. So that's a

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Speaker 7: key choke point, actually, the key choke point for the

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Speaker 7: ability of the United States to project power not just

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Speaker 7: over in Europe but more importantly out into the Indo

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Speaker 7: Pacific region and take on the Chinese Communists.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Important.

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Speaker 3: And China just unveiled its new sixth generation fighter. Is

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Speaker 3: this a real threat to our air superiority or is

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Speaker 3: the CCP inflating its capabilities like they often.

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Speaker 7: Do well As your question implies, Rebecca, the sixth generation

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Speaker 7: Moniker on that platform is under very serious look. Most

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Speaker 7: of us that watched this and our professionals in combat

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Speaker 7: aviation have serious doubts on whether this is actually the

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Speaker 7: next generational fighter as opposed to what the United States

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Speaker 7: is currently doing with our next generation of long range

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Speaker 7: bombers and our next generation of fighters, where we are

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Speaker 7: actually getting them in the field. But the next step

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Speaker 7: is really the non sexy part, and the non sexy

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Speaker 7: part is we can't build enough things in this country

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Speaker 7: to be able to support ourselves if God forbid, the

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Speaker 7: Chinese decided to go to war with the United States

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Speaker 7: and fire off and spark.

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Speaker 8: A global war.

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Speaker 7: We can't build enough fast enough to replace the things

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Speaker 7: that we know we'll lose in a very short amount

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Speaker 7: of time. If you look at the last six or

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Speaker 7: seven war games over Taiwan between the United States and

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Speaker 7: the PRC, you'll see that within a couple of weeks

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Speaker 7: we're out of missiles, our aircraft are severely degraded, so

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Speaker 7: we don't have the capability to build enough of that.

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Speaker 7: And even more less sexy is infrastructure. We need to

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Speaker 7: build more air fields, we need to build more ports,

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Speaker 7: We need to have more mobile port capability to move

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Speaker 7: around the Pacific, and we need to build more sealif

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Speaker 7: merchant malarine ships in order to be able to control

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Speaker 7: the entire Pacific and deter China from ever going against

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Speaker 7: Taiwan kinetically.

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Speaker 3: Really good important point. I want to speak briefly about

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Speaker 3: your latest column where you discussed Senator Marco Rubio's move

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Speaker 3: to cut off US dollars that have been funding lawfare

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Speaker 3: in Latin America. How dangerous is it that our own

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Speaker 3: government was exporting the same tactics that the radical left

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Speaker 3: used against President Trump.

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Speaker 7: Well, interestingly enough, the USAID scandal that Elon Musk is

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Speaker 7: uncovered actually shows a lot of the tentacle that the

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Speaker 7: United States of America, the defenders of freedom, the beacon

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Speaker 7: on the hill for democracy, the democratic Republic of the

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Speaker 7: first kind known demand that's brought more people out of

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Speaker 7: poverty and saved more lives and created prosperity and defeated

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Speaker 7: tyranny all around the world. Is exporting legal tyranny into

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Speaker 7: countries that are supposed to be our friends and defeating

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Speaker 7: this is the worst part, defeating governments and candidates and

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Speaker 7: elections that are for freedom, and putting in place those

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Speaker 7: that are for tyranny and doing things like censorship and

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Speaker 7: taking out their political opposition through this lawfare and that

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Speaker 7: type of thing. That's a heck of a export item

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Speaker 7: to be on the record of the United States of America.

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Speaker 7: And I was proud to write that article. I'm glad

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Speaker 7: that Secretary of State Rubio is taking such a strong

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Speaker 7: stance gets this type of activity. And you know what,

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Speaker 7: thank god, Donald Trump won this election big enough this

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Speaker 7: last time, so the law fair is not having any

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Speaker 7: effect on him and on his supporters, and it's going

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Speaker 7: to generate a positive effect around the world to folks

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Speaker 7: that are running for office and that are in office

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Speaker 7: that believe in freedom and freedom of the individual as

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Speaker 7: opposed to charity. And we're starting to see that effect

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Speaker 7: already in places like Hungary, Poland. They're getting stronger where

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Speaker 7: countries like Germany and the United Kingdom which are anti

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Speaker 7: free speech obviously based on what you've seen in most

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Speaker 7: recent reporting on JD Vance's speech, and they're anti doing

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Speaker 7: their own defense. So that positive effect is very important,

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Speaker 7: and we hope to see leaders get elected in those

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Speaker 7: countries that will turn those countries back to freedom.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think JD Vance's speech was a clarion call

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Speaker 1: to all Western world to get back on the case

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Speaker 1: of freedom. It was really remarkable speech.

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Speaker 2: Colonel. I want to turn to one of the things

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Speaker 2: I think could.

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Speaker 1: Revolutionize the military warfare fighting, and that is artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people don't understand how supercomputing and artificial

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Speaker 1: intelligence are going to change battle battlegrounds, but.

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Speaker 2: They are tell us where we are.

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Speaker 1: It seems like America is a little bit ahead of China,

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Speaker 1: but China's chopping at our bit.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 7: The United States still leads in manufacturing and industrialization in

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Speaker 7: one area in the world today, and that is software

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Speaker 7: developments aka art the artificial intelligence effort that's being undertaken

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Speaker 7: right now, so we are still in the lead on that.

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Speaker 7: The concern is can it get out of control? Will

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Speaker 7: there be enough good policies in place to have adequate

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Speaker 7: guardrails so that the artificial intelligence is used for what

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Speaker 7: it's supposed to be, which is a tool to help

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Speaker 7: make better decisions that do things like saved lives and

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Speaker 7: those kind of things, especially in the military. You know,

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Speaker 7: so we've seen these drone swarm videos that are controlled

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Speaker 7: by a type of artificial intelligence, and if you can

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Speaker 7: see that on your television and open source media platforms.

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Speaker 7: Then in the dark spaces of research and development on

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Speaker 7: the military side, no matter what country you're talking about,

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Speaker 7: they are much further ahead than even that. And when

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Speaker 7: you combine what we've seen with something like the drone

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Speaker 7: swarm I just mentioned, and what's actually happening in combat

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Speaker 7: in the war in Ukraine and Russia, or between Israel

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Speaker 7: you overlay the artificial intelligence piece on that. And it's

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Speaker 7: critically important that the United States not only is in

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Speaker 7: the lead, but continues to take being the lead and

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Speaker 7: increase that lead and get control of this so that

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Speaker 7: we can use it effectively to defend ourselves and help

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Speaker 7: our allies when called upon.

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Speaker 2: So important, it's so very important.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Colonel. We hear a lot about pentagon bloat

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Speaker 3: and wasteful spending in your experience, where do you think

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Speaker 3: the most waste in the mill is in the military

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Speaker 3: and what should be cut first to make sure that

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Speaker 3: resources go where they're actually needed.

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Speaker 7: Two places. First is the acquisition system. The most critical

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Speaker 7: place to get fixed in the Department of Defense is

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Speaker 7: the acquisition system. We can't field a tanker which is

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Speaker 7: a basic passenger aircraft with some special fittings and arts

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Speaker 7: put onto it, with some avionics that can integrate it

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Speaker 7: in with military forces in the combat zone installed in it.

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Speaker 7: It took us over twenty years to field the latest tanker,

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Speaker 7: the Case forty six. The F thirty five program is

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Speaker 7: the worst acquisition program that we have ever seen. And

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Speaker 7: I spent over thirty years in the military while the

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Speaker 7: F thirty five, or a big chunk of it was

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Speaker 7: being developed. It was way beyond its delivery date. It

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Speaker 7: doesn't meet the capability that was laid down in the

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Speaker 7: initial requirements. Even today it does not, and quite frankly,

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Speaker 7: about thirty five percent of them our mission fully mission capable.

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Speaker 7: That leaves sixty five percent of your aircraft out there

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Speaker 7: not mission capable, having to be worked on by maintenance,

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Speaker 7: which is lowman So the acquisition system has got to

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Speaker 7: be fixed. I would love to see Musk take a

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Speaker 7: really hard look at that with his brilliant men and

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Speaker 7: women that he is using with DOGE and come up

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Speaker 7: with a fix for that, because it's been talked about

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Speaker 7: by multiple administrations way beyond Ronald Reagan even back during

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Speaker 7: the Vietnam War days of how bad this system is.

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Speaker 7: And the worst part is and it delivers things late,

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Speaker 7: it delivers them, it doesn't meet requirements that we know

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Speaker 7: we have the technological capability to deliver. And then when

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Speaker 7: it does get out there, you can't keep it fixed

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Speaker 7: at an adequate rate in order to fight and win

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Speaker 7: America's wars against a place like China when they're called

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Speaker 7: upon to do that. So we've got to get that fixed.

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Speaker 7: The other place is the civilian personnel system. The personnel

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Speaker 7: numbers of people we have in it are way overstated.

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Speaker 2: They're bloated.

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Speaker 7: It needs to be cut. I would love to see

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Speaker 7: a slash and burn operation from DOGE coming around that

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Speaker 7: you start with those two things, then you can start

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Speaker 7: getting into the other things that build a system that

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Speaker 7: main mission, their only mission, which is to fight and

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Speaker 7: win America's wars and be lethal to any enemy that

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Speaker 7: America or its allies.

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Speaker 1: Common sense, brilliance, Colonel, that's what we get every time

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Speaker 1: you come on the show.

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Speaker 2: Always enjoy having you on. Thanks for joining us today.

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Speaker 7: Thank you John, Thank you Rebecca.

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Speaker 2: What a great conversation.

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Speaker 1: A lot of the good ideas are elon Musk. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: he's watching and paying attention. All right, coming up after

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Speaker 1: the break, former SASANT Secretary of Stave Bobby Charles will

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after these messages. Welcome back in America

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Speaker 1: to this just the News special report. We're returning to

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Speaker 1: peace through Strength. It's all brought to you by AMAC,

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Speaker 1: let's bring back in AMAC. CEO Rebecca Whoever, as well

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Speaker 1: as our latest guest. He's a former Assistant Secretary of

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Speaker 2: He's a national spokesman for AMAC.

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Speaker 1: He's our good friend, Bobby Charles, and also the author

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite books, Cherish America, Stories of Courage,

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Speaker 2: Bobby. Good to have you on.

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Speaker 8: Always a bless to be on with you guys.

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Speaker 1: At the top of the show today, we started to

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the speed and velocity of

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Speaker 1: foreign policy successes that Donald Trump has already had in

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Speaker 1: his first four weeks. Normally, foreign policy takes a little

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Speaker 1: time to unfold, but not in this Trump presidency. He

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Speaker 1: had Mexico and Canada immediately buck on tariffs and start

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Speaker 1: securing the border better, Russia at the table now, restoring

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Speaker 1: diplomatic relations, beginning a peace process with Ukraine, so many

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Speaker 1: other things happening. Is it surprising to see the velocity

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Speaker 1: of foreign policy success for this president?

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Speaker 9: You know, in some ways, John, it is it's not

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Speaker 9: just morning in America, it's morning in the world. And

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Speaker 9: it's morning in the world because it's morning in America.

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Speaker 9: What has happened here is we have seen anything. Honestly,

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Speaker 9: I often say, we haven't seen anything like this since

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Speaker 9: Ronald Reagan. But I think he's actually far out pacing

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Speaker 9: Ronald Reagan in the speed with which President Trump is

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Speaker 9: going after these things. The bottom line is, it's it's

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Speaker 9: how you set the table makes all the difference, John,

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Speaker 9: Deterrence is one way of deterrence, and peace through strength

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Speaker 9: is one way of creating and preserving world order, and

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Speaker 9: appeasement is another approach. And Biden pushed appeasement the way

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Speaker 9: you know Neville Chamberlain pushed appeasement, and Trump is pushing

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Speaker 9: de terrence the way Reagan and Churchill pushed to turrence.

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Speaker 8: So let's get right down to it. In every single.

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Speaker 9: Situation where you have an interaction with our allies, they

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Speaker 9: are now quite well aware that we are the largest economy,

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Speaker 9: the largest military, and frankly the country that will decide

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Speaker 9: they either follow us or fall off the wagon. And

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Speaker 9: then on the adversary side, every single one of our

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Speaker 9: adversaries are back on their heels, John, So what we're

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Speaker 9: pivoting toward very quickly because people believe Donald Trump, they

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Speaker 9: trust his word, They are understanding clearly that we're on

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Speaker 9: a deterrence track and we are off the appeasement track.

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Speaker 3: Great points, Thank you, Bobby. Senator Rubio has been a

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Speaker 3: fierce advocate for a strong America first foreign policy. Now

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Speaker 3: that he's at the helm of the State Department, how

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Speaker 3: would you grate his performance so far? Is he making

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Speaker 3: the bold moves needed to reverse the global weakness that

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Speaker 3: we saw under Biden?

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Speaker 9: Great question, Rebecca, and actually a question is quite interesting

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Speaker 9: for the AMAC audience and frankly the global audience. I

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Speaker 9: did not expect Rubio to be as forward leaning as

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Speaker 9: he has been, but really two things define so far

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Speaker 9: what he's done. The first is he's walking into all

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Speaker 9: these countries from Panama to Europe with a clear Trump

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Speaker 9: like message, which is follow us or get out of

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Speaker 9: the way. And secondly, he's delivering the kind of clarity

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Speaker 9: that again I'm really gratified to see it again on

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Speaker 9: whether it's tariffs, or whether it's our defense coming back

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Speaker 9: again and how we feel about that, whether it's our

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Speaker 9: allies being told that we expect an alliance to be mutual,

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Speaker 9: whether it's our adversaries being pushed back on their heels,

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Speaker 9: or in the case of Panama, really calling the shots.

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Speaker 8: You know, one of the most.

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Speaker 9: Remarkable things he's done is to go down to Panama

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Speaker 9: and essentially completely reverse in a matter of ours, the

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Speaker 9: mental attitude and the geopolitical position of Panama. You know,

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Speaker 9: we built that canal with thirteen thousand I think Americans

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Speaker 9: died building that canal, and Theodore Roosevelt had it under.

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Speaker 9: America controlled it until Jimmy Carter decided to give it away,

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Speaker 9: and within one year of giving it away, the Chinese

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Speaker 9: controlled both ends of the canal, and Rubio, as Trump

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Speaker 9: has done, went down and said, look.

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Speaker 8: This day is over.

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Speaker 9: Our national security, both trade and warships have to be

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Speaker 9: able to pass through that canal with absolute certainty, clarity,

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Speaker 9: and no no hesitation or delay when we need them.

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Speaker 9: And so probably what we're going to find is that

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Speaker 9: China's out of the business of controlling the canal, and

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Speaker 9: we very very collegially will be in the business of

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Speaker 9: working with Panama to control the canal.

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Speaker 3: We built President Trump's idea of acquiring greenland that was

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Speaker 3: mocked by the left, but the reality is that it

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Speaker 3: could provide America with strategic advantages in the Arctic. Do

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Speaker 3: you think that this deal could actually happen under Trump,

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Speaker 3: and if so, how would it counter China and Russia's

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Speaker 9: So again, two very important aspects that come out of

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Speaker 9: that question, Rebecca, The first that you're spot on. The

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Speaker 9: first is that Greenland represents because of Arctic ice and

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Speaker 9: gain an advantage of us strategically if Greenland is essentially

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Speaker 9: allowed to be neutrable. And at the end of the day,

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Speaker 9: what that really means is China would take control of

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Speaker 9: a portion of the North Atlantic that we cannot afford

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Speaker 9: to let them take control of. So at the very least,

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Speaker 9: we're in a dialogue that didn't exist before because people

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Speaker 9: are aware of strategic concerns that Biden and frankly, you know,

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Speaker 9: everybody back to Clinton didn't really pay any attention to

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Speaker 9: could it happen?

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Speaker 8: The second big question.

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Speaker 9: You know, people didn't think the Louisiana purchase would happen.

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Speaker 9: They didn't think Alaska would happen, They didn't think Hawaii

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Speaker 9: would happen. You know, I think that Greenland is a

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Speaker 9: group is a population that looks at themselves and feels

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Speaker 9: somewhat alienated by Europe. And so you know, you know,

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Speaker 9: I put nothing out of the world of possibility. When

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Speaker 9: can incentivize behaviors and create win win deals that no

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Speaker 9: ever been able to do. And you look at the

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Speaker 9: Middle East for example, again an example of where you

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Speaker 8: You have to imagine the impossible.

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Speaker 9: For a minute and then get everybody else to start

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Speaker 9: thinking about what's possible. So could Greenland become somehow affiliated

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Speaker 1: Pretty amazing. Bobby got about a minute left. There was

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Speaker 1: a little thing that happened that has spoke big words

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Speaker 9: No, yes, So, I mean, I think it's pretty clear

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Speaker 9: that Trump is saying, we will define defend Taiwan, we

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Speaker 9: will defend freedom all over the world.

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Speaker 8: We don't want to go to war.

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Speaker 9: We want you to get your head about you and

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Speaker 9: understand that a peaceful coexistence is a far better option

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Speaker 9: than another war. I'll also note that Trump has put

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Speaker 9: the irony in this is that Trump is actually pushing China,

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Speaker 9: but China's attempt to push back is going to be useless.

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Speaker 9: They put taxes on coal, on oil gas, and pickup trucks. Well,

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Speaker 9: guess what, we make a lot of coal, oil gas,

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Speaker 9: and pickup trucks. Okay, So China's ability to push us

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Speaker 9: around is going to zero or damn closed. And I

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Speaker 9: also getting fentanyl out of this country by putting tariffs

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Speaker 1: So thank god China played right into his hands on

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Speaker 1: that one, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: Bobby, It's always a great honor to have you on. Folks.

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Speaker 1: Go check out his amazing book, Cherish America, and it

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Speaker 1: But after these messages, welcome back in America. So grateful

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Speaker 1: evening tonight, Rebecca. So much was discussed, I mean a

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Speaker 1: lot the process, but there's a clear theme, which is

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Speaker 1: when America is strong, the world is safer.

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Speaker 3: No oh yes, And we can see how Trump is

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Speaker 6: He really is.

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Speaker 3: Standing firm against our adversaries. So I think that the

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Speaker 3: Trump administration is once again proving that a strong America

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Speaker 3: through strength. What amazing guests we've had today, all of

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Speaker 1: And I have a lot of great little reminders of

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Speaker 1: a return to peace through strength. You guys have championed

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Speaker 1: this for a long time. Are moments here now to deliver.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it? Oh yeah?

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Speaker 3: None of it would be possible without over two million

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Speaker 3: AMAC members. We've got to continue the fight to put

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Speaker 3: the more members we have, the stronger our voice in

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've just scenes whether it's at the boot

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Speaker 2: You are an army to be reckoned with.

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Speaker 1: You've made America strong already, and it's been a blast

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Speaker 2: This conversation with the last half hour. Thank you, I

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Speaker 2: have last hour. Thanks for joining us. All right, folks,

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Speaker 2: one more time go to AMAC.

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Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna say good evening, have a great night.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back to our regular program.