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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty Show. The greatest geopolitical threat to the
Speaker 1: United States right now, Congressman Delaney, Well, the biggest geopolitical
Speaker 1: challenge is China, But geopolitical threat remins nuclear weapons, right
Speaker 1: So those are you know that? Got your question? Totally?
Speaker 1: Get it? Go ahead, Governorsley. The biggest threat to the
Speaker 1: security United States is Donald Trump, and there's no grass
Speaker 1: greatest geo political threat. The greatest threat that we face
Speaker 1: is the fact that we were at a greater risk
Speaker 1: of nuclear war today than ever before in history. Center
Speaker 1: threats economic threat, China. But our major threat right now
Speaker 1: is what's going on in the Mid East with Iran.
Speaker 1: If we don't get trying to keep it at cleer,
Speaker 1: slimmer than what we've been going here. One or two
Speaker 1: existential threat is climate change. We have to confront it
Speaker 1: before it's too late. Center one, Climate Change Center Booker,
Speaker 1: Nuclear Proliferation and Climate Change Secretary Castra China, and Climate
Speaker 1: Change Congressman Ryan China. Without a question, they're wiping us
Speaker 1: around the world economically, and Mr Mayor Russia because they're
Speaker 1: trying to undermine our democracy and they've been doing a
Speaker 1: pretty damn good job of that. We need to stop them.
Speaker 1: But the Trump blasts got the biggest cheer of the night.
Speaker 1: People were just hankering for that. I'm surprised more candidates
Speaker 1: didn't take the easy because we've been in front of
Speaker 1: crowds like that where we can say something mean about
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosian, people are gonna how with applause or laughter
Speaker 1: or something. I mean, it's just the lowest of low
Speaker 1: hanging fruit, and very few people for it. Sometimes the
Speaker 1: cheapest pleasures of the finest pleasures. I'd like to congratulate
Speaker 1: Corey Booker for almost getting through nuclear proliferation. Tom Rogan
Speaker 1: is a commentary writer for The Washington Examiner. He writes
Speaker 1: on foreign policy, but is certainly up on the issues
Speaker 1: of the day, and Tom joins us. Now, Tom, how
Speaker 1: are you, sir? With you? Thanks for having me. It's
Speaker 1: our pleasure. We're both great fans of your contributions to
Speaker 1: Special Report with Brett Bear. Terrific job. Oh well, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. I really appreciate that. So listen, I
Speaker 1: know your your most recent piece in the Washington Examiner
Speaker 1: is about Elizabeth Warren appearing to be everything she is,
Speaker 1: which is intelligent, well informed, forceful. I can't standard policies,
Speaker 1: but she's an impressive plan. Um, But you think that's
Speaker 1: actually good news for the president? Well, I do. I
Speaker 1: think when we think about what will actually decide this election,
Speaker 1: which is the the general election race between two candidates
Speaker 1: and their running mates, I think, in terms of Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Warren's policy positions and President Trump's economy, his position on
Speaker 1: a lot of foreign policy issues China is the most
Speaker 1: dominant one. He is in a better place to be
Speaker 1: able to use persuade people who have not yet made
Speaker 1: their minds up at that block of the center that
Speaker 1: he would his presidency for another four years would be
Speaker 1: preferable to hers for a new four years. I don't
Speaker 1: think it would be terribly difficult for him to make
Speaker 1: the argument that her policies would be an enormous gamble economically,
Speaker 1: chuck off the economy, increase unemployment, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Speaking of low hanging fruit, I think that is yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think the policy detail here of what she's proposing,
Speaker 1: which is, uh, you know, really far further to the
Speaker 1: left than in a clearly objective sense than the campaign
Speaker 1: would like to admit. And we take for example, a
Speaker 1: supporting Senator Sanders Bernie Sanders healthcare plan, which would deny
Speaker 1: the right of individual choice, which Democrats tend to talk
Speaker 1: a lot about. That would be something that President Trump
Speaker 1: we could expect to go on have plan to quite
Speaker 1: dramatically increase taxes and regulation in the economy, which, in
Speaker 1: an environment of hyper competitiveness around the world, would seem
Speaker 1: to be a poor choice. And it's not simply that
Speaker 1: these are poor policy decisions. On the point of the
Speaker 1: strong economy allows President Trump to say, why take a
Speaker 1: gamble on these divergent approaches to governing the economy when
Speaker 1: my economy is doing so so well? And the incumbent factor,
Speaker 1: of course, is that the economy needs to remain healthy
Speaker 1: into into late next year. Congressman Ryan talking about, Look,
Speaker 1: we've got a perception problem where people think we're, you know,
Speaker 1: a coastal party of ivy leaguers. We need to get
Speaker 1: back to you know, Midwestern working class roots. That sort
Speaker 1: of attitude has got to scare Trump. It did, it does.
Speaker 1: But you know, the advantage for President Trump's that the
Speaker 1: Democratic primary process, and the best I think evidence for
Speaker 1: this is Ensley's comment that Trump is the greatest collector
Speaker 1: to the world, secure to American security. The primary basis
Speaker 1: so far to the left and so driven by the
Speaker 1: belief that Trump is an admiration who can be defeated
Speaker 1: by a pretty far left candidate that I I just
Speaker 1: don't think, you know, Ryan Delaney, I don't think they
Speaker 1: get near the denomination, and so yes, on paper, it
Speaker 1: would be a serious concern for the president. I think
Speaker 1: it's a concern with Joe Biden. Um. But again that
Speaker 1: the pressures from the left and the Democratic Party in
Speaker 1: some way are an equalizing force, uh, you know for
Speaker 1: President Trump. Tom Rogan, commentary writer for The Washington Examiner.
Speaker 1: I was just looking at your Biotom that you're a U.
Speaker 1: S U. S. Citizen with a British accent. He likes
Speaker 1: William Shakespeare, Larry David and Harald Pilkington. You have no idea,
Speaker 1: how my heart, Carl Pilkington. That's fabulous, man. You make
Speaker 1: me want to run back and listen to the old
Speaker 1: Ricky Gervais podcasts. I know they're all on YouTube, so
Speaker 1: that's what I do and I'm having a bad day.
Speaker 1: That's such a good idea. What do you think of
Speaker 1: all the Spanish speaking last night? That was a landmark event,
Speaker 1: really the amount of Spanish in a national debate. How
Speaker 1: many people like that? How many people does that turn
Speaker 1: off in a general election strategy? Well, I think I
Speaker 1: think the concern here and we will be saw. You know,
Speaker 1: with President Trump does actually better with Hispanic American US
Speaker 1: than than I think people expect around as I understand that, Uh,
Speaker 1: certainly there's an opportunity for conservatives to boost that in
Speaker 1: the future. I think the concern for Democrats is that
Speaker 1: if you do this in a way that seems disingenuous,
Speaker 1: seems that you are just offering platitudes to people rather
Speaker 1: than policy prescriptions. And again we think about the growth
Speaker 1: of employment at the minority level of the minority amounts,
Speaker 1: which is unprecedented quite frankly under the current economy. But
Speaker 1: that is something President Trump can point to what makes
Speaker 1: it life better words or action. And secondly, I think
Speaker 1: there is a danger that the general election voters will
Speaker 1: regard this as the same kind of thing that turn't
Speaker 1: that allowed people to vote for President Trump even if
Speaker 1: they didn't like him, because they thought, well, at least
Speaker 1: he doesn't care about political correctness. I think political correctness
Speaker 1: is so anathema to a lot of Americans outside you know,
Speaker 1: the major metropolitan areas that frankly, it's a big danger.
Speaker 1: It seems it seemed too contrived, it seemed too disingenuous,
Speaker 1: And in that I think it was it's a political
Speaker 1: opportunity for the President Trump well, in that attitude towards
Speaker 1: political correctness describes a lot of people on the left
Speaker 1: as well. I think there's just a growing awareness that
Speaker 1: it is obnoxious and suffocating in the rest of it.
Speaker 1: Tom Listen, it's an obvious question, but what the heck
Speaker 1: gets fund to bandy about? Who do you think really
Speaker 1: gained some steam last night? In particular, I think I
Speaker 1: think Elizabeth Warren for the reason that she held her
Speaker 1: own and maintain momentum, and I think, you know, frankly,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's looking. I think like Joe Biden and
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders running into the there's the three fronts interesting.
Speaker 1: Tom Rogan, commentary writer for the Washington Examiner. Tom were
Speaker 1: about out of time. Enjoyed the chat very much. I
Speaker 1: hope we can do it again. Yes, it was great,
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on. I really appreciate our pleasure.
Speaker 1: Well done. Thanks. I think Mayor Pete would like to
Speaker 1: argue with that and maybe put forth tonight an opportunity
Speaker 1: to be in a in a group of four that
Speaker 1: stand out from everybody else. But we'll see. Um we
Speaker 1: got this text. Please give Rachel Maddow some credit for
Speaker 1: being the best moderator. I think she was the best
Speaker 1: of the bunch last night. I think Rachel Maddow Brett
Speaker 1: Bear together would be pretty good to cover most sides
Speaker 1: of it. That would be good. I would she would
Speaker 1: be much more aggressively progressive than he would be aggressively
Speaker 1: uh conservative, but they could probably work that out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think she's a very bright and reasonable person. She
Speaker 1: just you know, she was also the most forceful person
Speaker 1: there and being willing to shut people up. No, no,
Speaker 1: you stop, you know, I mean she's the only one
Speaker 1: willing to do that. Ye, what's coming up in your news?
Speaker 1: Marshal Spray Court closing out this session with decisions on
Speaker 1: two major cases. One of the Democratic candidates on the
Speaker 1: death penalty for people who clog up the left lane.
Speaker 1: Yet not yet the Court every year for the last
Speaker 1: twenty seven years, we want cruel and unusual. Lot of
Speaker 1: the Democratic candidates made a lot of noise at last
Speaker 1: night's debate, and we've got more proof Amazon is taking
Speaker 1: over the world. So Mayor Pete and granted a lot
Speaker 1: of the talking head stuff that gets thrown around with
Speaker 1: great enthusiasm. You know, days later it's forgotten. But the
Speaker 1: consensus that Mayor Pete really looked weak in dealing with
Speaker 1: this cop crisis there in his hometown. It's pretty widespread.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if the loom is an off his rose. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll find out. Yeah, the I remember all the pundits
Speaker 1: saying Elizabeth Warren's gonna get it from all sides last night.
Speaker 1: She didn't get one arrow her way. If you pardon
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