WEBVTT - The Late Great Virgin Mary 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:06.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:10.360 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:22.920 Arm Strong and Jetty and no he, I'm strong and Jetty. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.680 Our troops these to the Euphrates where prepaired with our 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.479 SDF partners, are there to keep a lid on ISIS 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.040 and permit violent extremist organizations from gathering strength and being 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.800 able to attack the homeland of the United States. ISIS 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.920 aspires to attack US, as we know ISIS launch a 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.800 successful attack against Russia just a few months ago. That's 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.239 why those troops are there. So any decision to bring 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.600 them out would need to weigh that going forward, and 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.800 I'm certain that the new administration will take a hard 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:51.239 look on that when they come into office. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:55.880 So Trump said we should have nothing to do with Syria. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.240 Obviously we currently do have something to do with Syria, 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.520 as we have nine hundred troops there and seventy five 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:09.600 different airstrikes yesterday in Syria. Tom Friedman mister intervene in 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.000 the Middle East, writing in the New York Times, they did, 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.360 mister President, a letter to Donald Trump. We need to 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.039 be very involved in Syria, and here's how so that's 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:19.280 a different point of view, and then he got this 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.440 La Times article. Today in Syria, militias armed by the 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.840 Pentagon are fighting those armed by the CIA, which makes 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:31.800 it quite complicated the always confusing Middle East major headline, 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.600 the regime of Bashar Ala Sade has fallen in Syria, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.200 and that is sending shockwaves not only around the region 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.760 but globally. Is various powers are revealed to be stronger, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.320 weaker than previously thought. All sorts of stuff to discuss 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.800 with Doctor Jeff mccauslin. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.680 CBS News military analyst. 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.400 Always a pleasure, Jeff, How are you doing well? 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:53.480 Guys? It's crazy with you. 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.520 Well, what's your take over this stunning collapse of the 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:58.560 government in Syria. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.840 I think I'd say three things quickly. First of all, 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.320 an amazing surprise. The Assad family had controlled this country 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.480 for over five decades in the brutal fashion in the 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.600 Civil War, seamed to have frozen about four years ago, 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.240 and suddenly in eleven days they have collapsed. Second of all, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.920 of course, this is an amazing geopolitical disaster, particularly for 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:25.000 the Russians who supported USAD for many years with military forces, 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.760 and the potential loss for them of two major bases 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.160 they've enjoyed unaval based at Tartuuse and a major air 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.880 base at Lakatia. And then also a major geopolitical disaster 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.079 for Iran because Syria, as the hub of hubs is 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.280 somebody once said in the region was a major conduit 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.240 for men material and weapons to their primary proxy in 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.320 the region, Hits Baalah. And now when you know things 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.320 were going bad, it's Valava was unwilling to support Syria, 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:56.600 Olivia was I unwilling to support Syria. Iran was unwilling 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.800 to have its allies in Iraq Militia Group support Syria, 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.560 and it collapsed. And last not as the least the 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.240 United States. You have to be aware of so called 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:10.440 catastrophic success. No one will weep for Bashir al Asada 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.520 bootle dictator. But if in return you end up with 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:18.600 a very extreme jihadi Islamic government in Syria that looks 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.800 like Afghanistan, well that won't necessarily be good either. Ye. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.440 And for some reason it just popped into my head 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.560 whoever's famous for the old saying, you Americans, you feel 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.800 like you can fix everything. It was bad news for Russia, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.760 it's bad news for Iran. What can we do to 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.080 make sure it's good news for us? Well, I think 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:36.160 with the one, can we do anything? 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.840 Yeah, it's going to be very difficult. I mean, obviously, 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.720 if you don't want a wider military intervention, those said 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.160 well we shouldn't intervene might want to look around and 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.200 realize that, as you guys said a moment ago, we've 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.160 already gotten nine hundred troops Insuria number one, and we 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.760 just did seventy five air strikes number two of the weekend, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.440 so we're already involved militarily. And now I think it's 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.040 going to be an effort by US, with allies in 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.160 the region and elsewhere, to try to find some mechanism 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.520 diplomatically and politically to pull together some kind of a 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.880 regime in Syria that can bring in together all these 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.000 various the spirit groups. You know, you've got at least 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.160 three major armies, one supported by Turkey, one supported by US, 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:21.080 and in the northeast in this group HTS, can we 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.960 get them to work together to come up with some 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.760 kind of viable government or do they turn on each 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.080 other and end up in some kind of subsequent civil war, 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.720 bringing on greater misery for the Syrian people. And more 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:33.760 and more refugees. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.440 Yeah, whether they can be taking at their word that 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.479 they'll be pluralistic and fair to religious minorities is anybody's guests. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.800 But Bear's just you know, doubling down on what you 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:48.200 said that the inability of Russia to back their client 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.000 and stave off this attack, I mean they did practically 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.159 nothing really goes to show how weakened they are by 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.520 their efforts in Ukraine, doesn't it? 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.280 Oh, it absolutely does. You know, again, they were instrumental 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.720 in making sure that Assad wasn't defeated several years ago, 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:09.320 and had devoted massive air strikes to make sure that 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.640 didn't happen. But now you know, when things become difficult, 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.840 they were unwilling to do that. They made a few 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:20.479 air strikes, but quickly back down. And so the question 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.280 now becomes, can they salvage their bases as they try 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.960 to confine some kind of relationship with the new regime. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.240 I think they'll do that. That's going to probably be 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.360 pretty difficult, based on their track record at bombing Syrians. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.600 Number one, and now they also have accepted Bashir al 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.480 Assad's application for asylum in Russia, where he'll likely live 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:40.920 out his days. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.560 Well, correct me if I'm wrong. This is also, at 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.000 least in the short term, a hell of a big 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:44.840 win for Israel. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.159 Oh, without a doubt it is. But again it could 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.600 be catastrophic success if you end up with that kind 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.400 of extreme regime. He Israeli to have moved quickly to 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.360 occupy a so called buffer zone. How they've been established 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.960 at the end of the nineteen seventy three yob Kipoor war, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.800 just to make sure that groups did not have a 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:07.240 greater ability to transit from Syria into Israel and threaten 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.880 Israel and everyone. Israelis in particular are going to be 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.040 concerned about what happens to the massive stockpiles of weapons 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:18.520 left behind and the Syrian army collapsed. What's going to 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.200 happen to, as we well know, some visual amount of 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:26.760 chemical weapons that Assad had at his disposal in the 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.760 aftermath that his armies collapsing. Certainly, what don't want to 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.680 see those things being acquired by one on one or 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.679 another of several extreme groups that operate in the leision. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:37.599 Do you think this. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.919 Helps with the pressure Trump's going to put on Putin 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.880 to come to some sort of ceasefire agreement or end 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:46.400 that war. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.839 I don't know if it helps, but it underscores just 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.440 you know, how weak I think in some ways mister 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.520 Putin's position is as well. I mean, we talk an 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.479 awful lot about the fact on the news that Russians 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.000 are gaining a more and more territory in the southeastern 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.680 portion of Ukraine. And they are. They've gained more territory 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.479 in the last month than they did in all of 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:13.640 twenty twenty three by a large member measure. But they're 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.960 doing that enormous cost. Estimates by the British intelligence is 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.480 fifteen hundred casualties in any single day. Now the Russians 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.160 exceeded two thousand casualties by most estimates on the twenty 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.240 eighth November, and November of this year may have been 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.640 the bloodiest month in the entire war for the Russians. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.200 So gaining territory, but just that enormous cost, and we're 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.840 starting to see some of the effects on the Russian 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.600 economy that we hope for for several years. Inflation rate 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.840 in Russia right now is nine percent or higher, interest 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.560 rates over twenty percent and higher, and the Russian government 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.520 has now announced reduced payments to families of soldiers who 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.000 are killed in action or families of soldiers who are wounded, 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.800 because the costs that they have been bearing for those 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.720 payments has just become enormous. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.160 Yeah. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.760 Jeff mccauslin on the line, Jeff, final question, slash thought. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.280 I know you were you're deployed to the Middle East 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:16.600 in the early nineties, commanding artillery battalion and tell us 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:16.920 just a. 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:18.200 Little bit about that experience and. 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.720 As you came away from it, what did you understand 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.200 more clearly about that part of the world. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:28.480 Well, that's a great question. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.320 I'm sure you could write a book and answer to 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.480 the question. Keep it break actually did. 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.800 When I came away, knowing that it was the you know, 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:42.200 the wide disparity across the region of various different groups, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.480 particularly based on religion Sea Ied versus Sunni. The support 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.959 for Asad in the region had basically been because frankly, 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.679 he was ahead of the Alawhites, which was a Sad 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.640 based group and serious So that's why he gained so 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.679 much support from Aura. These other groups are largely so 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.200 because the map of the Middle East is really one 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.400 drawn by Europeans in the colonial era. So consequently, in 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.400 the aftermath of these pick your wars. All those old 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:15.040 historical ties and ethnic and religious ties, there are so many, 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.400 so fundamental to people's identity rise to the surface and 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.000 make it enormously complicated for a country like Syria, which 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.199 has you know, Arabs and Christians and Shoonies and sites 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:30.040 and Alohites and whatever, to find some common ground where 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.559 they can create a structure that they all find acceptable, 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:38.480 that can also provide basic social services, pick up the garbage, 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.600 deliver the mail, provide basic police in a community, those 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.920 kind of things. So I definitely learned that. And then 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.640 the other thing you learn when you're in conflex like this, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.880 it's just the dramatic problem and the plight of you know, refugees. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.640 We saw thousands of thousands of refugees playing ahead of 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.240 dams as they moved back into southern Iraq. Will consider 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:07.280 the fact that Syria has somewhere around thirteen to fourteen 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:12.920 that million refugees, probably seven million displaced people inside Syria, 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.839 five million displaced people outside of Syria, and we saw 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:21.320 massive refugee flows early on in the civil war. So 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.280 now when we come back in the aftermath of Asad, 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.800 will this political conditions in the aftermath create conditions whereby 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.040 those people can go home and rebuild their lives after 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.000 thirteen years, or will this set off even more displacements 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.040 which will be unsettling to the countries in the region 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:40.120 and even beyond. 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:46.080 CBS News military consultant Jeff McCausland, Jeff, always interesting, Thanks 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:46.560 so much. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:47.000 For the time. 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:48.959 Take care guys. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.000 Yeah, I read about this stuff. I've read about this 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.200 stuff for so many years, and I still don't know 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:59.880 where I am. For instance, reading David Ignatius's column in 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:02.960 the Post today for the moment, Syria is a violent mosaic, 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.439 with Turkish back groups controlling western Syria all the way 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.319 to Damascus, a US back Kurdish militia controlling the northeast, 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.400 and Jordanians supported militias dominated in the south, along with 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.280 all kinds of other different splinters of kind of al Qaeda, 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.480 kind of ices, kind of whatever. I don't know is 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.880 our history of being involved in these things, have any 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:25.840 success stories? 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:26.960 Boy? 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.959 Getting back to what Jeff was saying, and to your point, 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.720 I wish that you know, if I were some sort 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.160 of supreme being, I would say, look. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.640 All those borders the Euros drew. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.120 Up in nineteen seventeen without a clue in the region 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:45.520 or whatever. It was precisely No, no, you soony, you're 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.840 over here. Gee, I go there, all right, courage, you 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.240 get your own country. Finally, congratulations, call it whatever you want, 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.320 Just redraw all those borders and maybe move people or whatever. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:01.440 But enough of the h R, never ending, stirm and drunk, 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.480 you know, final point. And Jeff led me beautifully into this. 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.160 I was gonna bring this up anyway. I was listening 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.800 to an Iranian brit who now lives in America. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:11.520 Pick a country, what. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.520 But this woman was talking about how the one thing 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.240 people don't understand is you remember the whole twelfth Madi thing, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:23.280 how a lot of Sheites are looking for, you know, 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.560 the Judgment Day essentially, and the way you bring about 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.680 Judgment Day is through a war against the unbeliever. Specifically 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:36.120 a quote when the last drop of blood falls from 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:41.400 the last Jew. Iran wants to wipe out Israel, not 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.360 for mundane geo political stuff. 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.000 It doesn't want the land. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.960 It wants the last Jew to be wiped from the 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.040 face of the earth for religious reasons. How do you 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.760 sign a treaty with people like that? And and if 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.439 they're proxies hesbler Hamas. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.199 Or right next door to you? How are you gonna have. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:03.080 A ceasefire with that? So we're gonna have Mike lions 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:04.080 On later today. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.840 Those are our two go to guys, mccauslin and Lines 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:09.640 usually when there's a story like this, and they often 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.240 don't agree. So I'll be interested to hear what Lyon 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:13.840 says about the current situation. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:14.800 I don't know. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.880 Where I am in terms of how involved we ought 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.000 to be for whatever reason right now might be to 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.080 the level of coffee I've had, just I'm feeling more. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:24.840 How about we back out and let them all fight 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.319 it out for a while and see how things turn out. Well, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.599 I have had precisely the right amount of coffee, and 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:30.640 I disagree strongly. 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.040 Okay, we got plenty to talk about. Today's stay with us. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.320 A man in Canada saved his wife after a polar 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.520 bear lunched at her, and he leaped onto the bear's back, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:44.959 shouting finish her. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:51.119 Wow. 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.200 By the way, nobody watches Saturday and Live but me. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.160 I watch it every week, have since nineteen seventy six 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.120 or whenever started. But I thought that was one of 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.120 the worst cold open and the history side of Alive 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.640 and I love Dana Carvey, I loved David Spade. 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.200 I just thought it was awful thought the jokes were terrible. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.280 It wasn't funny. I happen to see it after online. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.000 It was quaint, it was okay. It seemed like it 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.600 just did see. It seemed like an anachronism. It seemed 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.679 like something that somebody would have found funny in the 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:23.720 early nineties. Maybe, yeah, yeah, I'm tempted to keep discussing 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.160 the Middle Eastern Syria and religious fanatics and the impossibility 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.760 of negotiating with them, but I won't. I also won't 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:31.920 go too far down this road. We'll do it another time. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.680 But how Trump and company are going to attack the 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:39.360 problem with America's university is becoming these indoctrination centers for 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:44.040 postmodern neo Marxist the madness, and and we'll do that 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.280 in full at some point, because it's all through accreditation, which. 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.200 Is going to be really interesting. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.760 Look, if you're if you're not teaching, you're you're perverting 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.760 all your teaching and all your science with this woke crap. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:55.920 We're not going to accredit you. 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.520 So that could be a good cudgel to get them 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.640 to come too, or come around, come correct, whatever phrase 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.840 you want to use. But came across this. This is 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:10.280 from Yale for the IVY League, Jack, the elite of 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.640 the elite. Didn't Yale just or was it Princeton? I 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.600 guess just passed Harvard as number one. As if I 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:16.760 give a crap about any of. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.160 That, I refuse to dignify that comment. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:30.360 Agreed percentage of a's in their various concentrations. Economics, it's 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.880 just over fifty two percent. As math, for instance, it's 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:39.400 fifty five percent as well. Just cut to the bottom 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:44.680 or the top rather Women's Gender and Sexuality studies. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.200 Ninety two percent. 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:50.760 As Oh my god, there's no room for a final 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.520 nail in the coffin of higher education. But I guess 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.960 we'll have to squeeze another nail in between these two. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.960 I mean, maybe just throw a rock at it. That's 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:03.240 just embarrassing. You should be embarrassed for yourself. You made 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.960 up a major that has no relevance to the real 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.880 world or anybody's needs, and then you give everybody. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.760 An a well right, And to repeat a point that 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.120 I made a while back, and it's one of the 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:21.880 cleverest things I've heard about this. And when these professors, 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.880 whether it's Claudine Gay at Harvard or whoever else, gets 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:31.240 busted for plagiarism, of course they're plagiarizing. They are repeating 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:35.600 the incantations of a cult. They're not trying to innovate. 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:40.800 There's no science in women's gender and sexuality studies except 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:45.360 maybe around the edges. It's the repeating of their doctrines. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:50.120 They're not. Of course, they're plagiarizing. That's what they're supposed 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:50.440 to do. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.880 Wow, everybody who takes that major gets all a's pretty much. 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.920 I mean, that's just whatever, what have to do it again? 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:59.200 A B? Never mind us C. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.600 And then if I shoot the professor, I get a B. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.359 And then you go off to some lesser college and teach. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:08.000 I suppose is what you do? Oh whatever is in 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:09.320 more minds. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.080 I guess for pro assassination. Now they too are strong and. 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:18.120 They kickle tough for Matthew, right, this is for the division. 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:28.240 For the Chiefs. Desions is the d bike for the 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:40.840 defension to the Chiefs. My goodness. Then they shot their opponents. 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:41.680 Sell me. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.359 The Kansas City Chiefs the most hated team in the NFL. Right, 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.679 now except for by Chiefs fans because they always went 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.520 on the last play something crazy they the other team 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:54.160 went the game. 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:55.119 I was at last Friday. 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.359 The other team fumbles the snap before they're going to 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.000 kick the winning field goal, block a punt. This that 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.840 bounced it off the uprights and it went. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.719 Through the for the division. 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.720 They God have mercy on his soul for saying that. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.960 Oh okay, and Patrick Mahomes almost looked embarrassed afterwards, just 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:12.320 kind of. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:19.119 I know, I know, I know everybody hates this. Wow wow. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:24.240 NFL season is definitely heating out the big fun So 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.400 I don't know how to talk about this correctly. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.360 This is the assassination of the CEO of United Healthcare. 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:36.520 Oh the moment it happened, and when we first talked 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.760 about it, I thought, this is going to be ugly. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:43.199 This is what people are going to talk about the 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.760 way they hate insurance companies, and that's going to be 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:47.720 the focus of this story. And it has been for 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.240 a lot of people, including a lot of the crowd 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.240 out there who's happy the guy's dead and things that 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:55.639 needs to happen more often. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.960 Then you gotta factor this in last week and I 0:18:59.000 --> 0:18:59.920 don't have the notes in front of me. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.560 Whichever health insurance group came out and said, we'll now 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.600 double the amount that we pay for anesthesia. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:12.399 And was that a caving to threats like so you 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.920 don't get assassinated. The timing of it was a little 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:21.440 uncomfortable at the very least. I'd say that was a 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.359 frightened response. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.880 To the mood. 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:30.840 Right he y'all hate us, hate us less because of this. 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:38.520 Oh boy, so that's rewarding an assassination right, well, and 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:43.159 I don't know, there's there's kind of a fevered mood 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.800 in the land because it was who was it, Blue Cross? 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.800 It said, hey, look we're gonna put in time limits 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:54.320 for the amount of anesthesia for various procedures. And the jokes, 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.160 which were pretty good jokes, were about, hey, we're at 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.760 ten minutes turn off the gas in the middle of 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:01.560 your amputation. 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.040 You know, it's a nightmare. It's right, it's hard. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.840 You're getting heart surgery or something like that, and you're like, hey, 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.520 what's going on here? Sorry, dude, the meter ran out. 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:10.800 That's not what they meant. 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:15.080 It's just we have to get into the weeds into 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:15.679 these things. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:20.160 Well, one of my favorite podcasts were It was appalled 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:27.080 at the idea of even discussing high insurance costs, because 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:35.880 that makes it seem like it's justified even bringing it up, right. Yeah, 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:37.280 so I don't know how to approach this. 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:42.400 Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. I just I think the Pandora's 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.280 box is open on the discussion. I see their point exactly. Well, 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.359 you're basically saying, like I don't, I shouldn't have to 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.679 even have this argument. A man was assassinated on the 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.280 street for having committed no at least direct crime, depending 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.880 on who you ask. But oh, it's worth pointing out. 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:04.119 And this is a note from somebody or other Henry 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.560 who pointed out that this dude was born in nineteen 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.520 seventy four, the son of a grain silo worker, got 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:15.200 an accounting degree from Iowa, married his college sweetheart, has 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:19.040 two kids, worked his way up, joined United Healthcare, worked 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.680 his way up there. Big supporter of the Special Olympics, 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:26.000 you know, not some evil character out of a novel. 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:30.399 He's a hard working iowe. Now, are there problems with 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:32.640 health care and insurance companies and stuff like that. Yeah, 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:34.680 But the idea that you just murder him in cold 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:37.359 blood on a sidewalk is just yeah, but it's tough. 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:39.240 Well, yeah, it's obviously awful. 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:41.680 It's awful, and if you go down that road even 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:45.760 this much, it's a disaster. Were you going to try 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:50.440 to affect policy, either in the government or private business 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:53.600 by threatening people by them being scared of you? 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.080 I mean that's just said to Everything falls apart at 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.080 that point, and I mean everything. 0:21:57.800 --> 0:21:59.280 The whole thing falls apart. 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.880 Yeah, some executive, some executive at Ford says, hey, we're 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:05.919 losing so much money on electric cars now that the 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.040 federal mandate has gone. We're going to offer like one 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:10.680 or two, but that's it. We're going to go back 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:12.920 to doing what we do best. Then somebody guns him 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.280 down on the sidewalk for reasons of climate change and 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:17.480