WEBVTT - Cuba On The Brink 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.400 An hour two Sean Hannity Show told free it's eight 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:04.320 hundred and nine foot one Shawn. If you want to 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.560 be a part of the program, we have gone over 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:10.680 in great specificity, great detail, what President Trump has been 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:15.880 able to do with Israel in terms of devastating Iran 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.720 and I just I honestly, I go back to where 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.120 I've been for a long time, is if Donald Trump 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.880 cured cancer, the left in this country would would be critical, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.200 He'd have his critics. They'd be never ending, non stop. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:30.600 You know. 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.440 Now, the president over the weekend, you know, he was very, 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.760 very strategic in hitting carg Island, all the military targets 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.560 except for their oil infrastructure, which by the way, proves 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.200 to the Iranians he can wipe them out in terms 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.760 of their economy in a matter of minutes, and they 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.320 can destroy the oil within five minutes if they want. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.640 He doesn't want to do it. The President wanted a 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.960 deal unless you're, you know, a conspiracy theorist that doesn't 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.920 want to believe Steve Whitdkoff who sat there with the 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.800 Iranians and they insisted that they had an inalienable right 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:09.039 to have nuclear weapons and bragging about how they were 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.040 you know, had four hundred and sixty kilograms of sixty 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.399 percent enriched uranium, which in seven to ten days would 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.839 be weapons grade ninety percent. I'm not going to spend 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.880 a lot of time on this show arguing with people 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.319 that have learned nothing from history and are just ignorant 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.680 and just absolutely you know, married to either an ideology 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.759 or just stupid. I mean, it's really that simple. I'm 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.000 not going to argue it's stupid anyway. So this is 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:42.119 the President describing how everything on Cargo Island was destroyed 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:43.479 except for the oil. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.360 As you know, we attacked Cargo Island and knocked it, 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.440 knocked it literally destroyed everything in the island except for 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.480 the area where the oil is. I call it the pipes. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:57.560 We left the pipes. 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.640 We didn't want to do that, but that we will 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.680 do that. We can do that on five minutes notice, 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:10.440 it'll be over. But for purposes of someday rebuilding that country. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.480 I guess we did the right thing. But it's uh, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.920 it may not stay that way. Just one simple word 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:18.840 and the pipes will be gone too, but it'll take 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.040 a long time to rebuild that. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:20.600 Now. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.760 The President also it's not just the United States as 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:27.520 a matter of fact, the United this country now being 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:33.120 energy independent, we could survive one hundred percent on our 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.240 own with the lifeblood of the world's economy, which is 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.880 why energy has been so critical. Going back years ago 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.120 on the show Grill Here, Drill Now, Save Money, New 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.320 Gingrich started that, and we we champion that with him 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.919 for a long long time on this program. When when 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.720 things started in his first term to go really, really well, 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.720 we started connecting many of you out in this audience 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:01.000 with companies that were offering high paying career jobs. I 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.960 mean like one hundred thousand dollars to train you and 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.280 all the overtime you can take and a place to live. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.320 It was insane, and there were plenty of jobs available, 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.200 and people would call us and tell me that their 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.720 lives would transform because of these high paying career jobs. 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.800 And we're gonna now put all of them online again. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.880 But anyway, the President rightly is pointing out that it's 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.239 not just the United States that needs the straight of 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.959 Horror moves open. It's it's all of the rest of 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.680 the world. And now he's saying to you know, uh, 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.200 Western Europe in particular and other countries, no, you help 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:34.640 protect the straight of horn moves. 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:35.600 Here's what he said. 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.400 We are talking to other countries about working do this 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:44.520 for the policing the straight and I think we're getting 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.880 good response and we do that straight and we know 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.480 that's good. Remember as an example of many cases that 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:56.120 NATO countries, we're always there for NATO. We're helping them 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.360 with a great it's got a. 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:00.720 Notion have been within us. 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.720 Does it affect us if we've helped them? It'd be 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.200 interesting to see what country wouldn't help us with a 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.800 very small endeavor, which is just keeping the straight up 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.880 and why aren't we maintaining harbor straight? 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:18.440 But I's trow you there for China and many other countries, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.479 why aren't they doing it? And that's because we had 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.680 week leadership, to be honest with you, But I'm bringing 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.359 it up down because I think even long term, I 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.240 think it's something that by the countries should help us 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:34.679 with something that we don't need and these countries learning 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.840 and yet for years it's like for years we've been 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:40.400 maintaining and. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:41.480 Doing a great job. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.560 And now that the war is, now that. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:49.040 They've been adminished in terms of military there military has 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.920 been greatly diminishing. I think it's a good for other 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.400 countries to come in. I were really up commanding that 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.760 these countries come in and protect their old territory because 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:04.520 you their journor, it's the place from which they get 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.680 their energy, and they should come and they should help us. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.920 Now, the other story that we are monitoring and watching 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.920 is the president with Cuba. Now, the anti Castro Cubans 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.520 tried to actually burn down their local Communist party headquarters 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.160 over the weekend. I would tell you any day this 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.039 week if Cuba fell, it would not shock me. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:28.159 I know. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.359 The President is obviously dialed into what's going on in 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.360 this conflict with Iran and wants to get this wrapped 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.840 up as soon as possible. I don't know if if 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.440 if this four hundred and sixty kilograms becomes an issue 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.400 of a risk of getting into the wrong hands, and 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.680 at that point it gets a little bit more complicated 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:52.200 keeping the Strait of Hormoso open as complicated watching internally 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.360 because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris allowed all these unvetted, 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.000 you know, illegals into the country, including known terrorists from 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.240 you know, over to their countries, including countries with terroritize 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.719 that's a big worry, big concern for everybody, but we're 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.120 getting there anyway. Ambassador Nathan Sales is with us. He 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.760 was in the first Trump administration Ambassador at Large for 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:17.479 counter Terrorism and by the way, acting Secretary of State. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:21.159 He played a massive role in the maximum pressure campaign 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:25.240 against the Iranian regime and its terror proxies, and in 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.640 twenty two was sanctioned by Iran. Today he talks to 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.800 us about Iran, carg Island, and Cuba. Ambassador, First, your 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.080 thoughts on Cuba before we get into the whole Iranian 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.880 situation where we are just a little over two weeks 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:39.240 into this. 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.360 Well, Shan, thanks for having me. Things are looking better 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:47.160 for the freedom loving people of Cuba and pro democracy 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.360 elements in Cuba today than they have in recent memory. 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.720 That's not to say that the communist dictatorship is going 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:58.120 to collapse inevitably. Nothing is inevitable in geopolitics. But the 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.240 regime is weak and its needs a little bit of 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.120 a push, and maybe the long suffering people of Cuba 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.440 will find liberation at hand. What's that push look like, 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.520 who knows. It's impossible to predict, but the pressure that 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.320 this administration has been putting on the Cuban economy. And actually, 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.440 let's take a step back. Cuba has been putting pressure 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.920 on its own economy for the past two generations because 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.440 that's what communism does. It destroys markets, it destroys innovation, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.440 it destroys risk taking in the private sector. So Cuba's 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.560 economy is weak and going to fail even without help 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.640 from the United States. But what this administration has been 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.560 doing is cutting off the economic lifeblood from other countries, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.480 and that's oil Venezuela, and oil is no longer flowing 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.800 to Cuba, and the administration has clearly messaged to other 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:50.480 countries you're going to be facing American repercussions if you 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.560 continue to subsidize the Cuban regime with free or heavily 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.560 discounted oil. So I think the pieces are now in 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.520 place for maybe finally some change in Havana. 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:02.960 What do you think that looks like? 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.640 Because I can imagine if in fact, the Cuban people 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.720 are free, I could see a lot of you know, 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.960 make Cuba make a great again flags and this will 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.600 be a liberation long in the making, because they, like 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.000 the people in Venezuela, have been suffering in poverty when 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.760 both nations can be extraordinarily wealthy. I mean, the geography 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:26.440 of Cuba, with all of its waterfront and ocean front property, 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:31.400 is just spectacular. I could see immediately American investment and 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:36.000 worldwide investment in building out resort after resort after resort, 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:40.240 and property values soaring, and also the quality of life 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.960 of the Cuban people going through the roof in ways 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.720 that they never dreamed of, you know, a year ago. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.920 I think that's right. And Cuba has a number of 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:54.880 extraordinary resources that would position it to become an economic powerhouse. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.800 And you mentioned the landscape and the geography. I think 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.120 the most important resource Cuba has is human people. The 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:05.080 intellectual capital of the Cuban people, much of which is 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.800 now residing in the United States. The entrepreneurs, the innovators, 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.479 the risk takers. They don't want to live under communism, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.680 and they got out and a lot of them came 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.439 to Florida, a lot of them came to Miami. Imagine 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.120 what Cuba would look like ten years from now with 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:24.440 those entrepreneurs, unleashed by democracy and freedom to invest in 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.480 their homeland and turn it into something extraordinary. You don't 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.240 need a heavy handed government bureaucrat to dictate outcomes. They're 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.600 all you need is freedom and the resources and innovative 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.680 capabilities of the Cuban American diaspora, and great things would happen. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.880 All right, Let's move on to Iran and carg Island 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.760 and in the Northern Persian Gulf. It's about thirty four 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.920 miles northwest of the mainland. The island service as a 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:57.240 terminal for nearly all of Iran's oil exporting and they 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.480 have a loading capacity of about seven million barrels. I 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.040 think the President rightly and cleverly hit the military targets 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.040 on the island, but did ignore the oil infrastructure, but 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.760 he made it very clear that that would be an 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.920 easy target. How important is this strategically and does it 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.880 in any way you think impact whoever is in charge 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:20.280 of Iran they're thinking in terms of stopping the free 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.960 flow of oil through the straight of Horror moves? 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.640 Well, I think it's very important, and it's a direct 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.280 response to the play that we've been seeing from the 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.880 Iranian regime over the past week and a half, and 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.920 that is to hold the world's energy markets hostage by 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.559 shutting down shipping in the straits of Horror moves. I 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.400 think it's twenty million barrels a day transit the Strait, 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.240 which is a substantial percentage of the world's supply, and 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.319 that's really been cut to a trickle because of Iranian 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.720 attacks on civilian shipping. And that shouldn't come as a 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.960 surprise that Iran would attacks civilians. That's what terror regimes do. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.560 That's why I ran as the world's worst state sponsor 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.360 of terrorism. So the ad ministry's response is to say, well, 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.840 we can take a hostage too, and that strike on 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.400 Friday after the markets were closed, By the way, that 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.400 strike on Friday evening sent a very clear message we 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.680 have the capability to creator your economy. We're not doing 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.880 it because that's not the outcome we want. We don't 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.880 want death and destruction beyond what is necessary to achieve 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.160 our military and political objectives. But that should have sent 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:27.720 an extremely clear message to the Ayatola as a supreme leader, 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:32.000 if he's even conscious right now, that we're not messing around. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.600 And so hopefully the market will respond to this, and 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:38.960 hopefully the Iranian regime will start to back off of 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.000 the campaign of terror that has been waging against ships 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.040 for the past ten days. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.839 Yeah, I think it's very very critical. I quick break 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.320 more with Ambassador Nathan Sales. He served in the first 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.280 Trump administration as Ambassador at Large for counter Terrorism and 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.520 acting under Secretary of State. More with him on the 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.760 other side than your calls coming up this Monday, eight 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.719 hundred and nine four one, Sean. If you want to 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:05.640 be a part of the program, the. 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:11.640 Radio show, the mainstream media love State, this is the 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.960 Sean Hannity Show. 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.760 All right, we continue Ambassador Nathan Sales's with us now. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.120 He served in the first Trump administration as Ambassador at 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:50.120 Large for counter Terrorism, acting under Secretary of State. As 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.880 we analyze what is happening in Iran and Cuba on 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.040 the verge of collapsing. I've never in my lifetime and 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.280 I'm not a big supporter of war. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:00.200 I'm not. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:06.080 And however, after I interviewed Steve Wikoff, I realized what 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.720 the President realized and what he had to factor in, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.680 and that is they were seven to ten days away 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:16.160 from being able to enrich uranium to weapons grade in 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.080 that short period of time. And that's when Steve Wikoff 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.920 publicly said, and that's when I kind of got the 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.680 impression this was going to be a go because the 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.160 President had been amassing a huge military presence in the region. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:32.480 Is once they were hell bent on getting nuclear weapons. 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.960 I'd believe that, you know, unfortunately for President Trump in 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:38.360 this sense, but fortunately for. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:39.440 We, the American people. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.520 It's you know, how do you ever calculate how many 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:48.680 lives likely down the road are saved because he prevented 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.280 a nuclear arm torn With all my heart, I believe 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.200 in my soul that if they got this weapon, they 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.400 would use it, but you're never going to be able 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.760 to quantify that. But I don't think he had any 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.199 short in this matter. And I just think the media 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.800 has been brutally abusively corrupt, bias and unfair, and people 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.400 with their agendas nauseate me. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:10.959 Well, that's the. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:15.000 Nightmare scenario that Iran, the world's worst state sponsor of terrorism, 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.680 gets the world's deadliest weapon and they would use it. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:21.160 That doesn't necessarily mean they would use it to detonate 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.960 a bomb over Tel Aviv, but they could use it 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:25.800 in other ways. They could use it to threaten the 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.280 United States and threaten Israel and threaten our allies in 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.040 the region. They could use it to cause the mere 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.560 existence of it to sow confusion and chaos and doubt 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.680 about the strength of the American security commitment to our 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:43.120 allies in Europe. So no question, Iran cannot have a weapon. 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.800 And the fact that the regime was doubling down on 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.400 enrichment tells you everything you need to know about their priorities. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:54.320 They're not enriching uranium because they want nuclear power. They're 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.880 enriching it because they want to preserve a pathway to 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.720 a bomb. It's obvious, and at a certain point you 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.000 have to say, all right, negotiations are our first option, 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.520 and we would like to negotiate a peaceful end of 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.440 this program. But ultimately it's up to the Iranians if 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.840 they're going to take the olive branch. And the regime 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.040 decided not to take the olive branch and they got 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:13.920 the arrows instead. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.440 Spectacular that they learned nothing from Operation Midnight Hammer to 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.720 me anyway, ambassadorselves, we appreciate you being with us. 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.360 Thank you. Eight hundred nine one. Shawn is her number. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:41.560 If you want to be a part of this program. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:48.680 The Sean Hannity Show, a Thermonuclear Mma Assault on Facing News. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.520 Hannity's on right now. 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.000 All right, twenty five now to the top. Of the hour, 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.240 eight hundred nine. Shawn is her number if you want 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.840 to be a part of the program. I barely I 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.520 I didn't know the the Oscars were on last night. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.240 My understanding is I think they're moving after I guess 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.840 being on ABC since the seventies. My recollection Linda is 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.800 that they're moving to YouTube at some point. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:14.120 Is that true? 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:15.120 Yeah? 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.160 I just heard that too, because I don't know that 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.520 much about it, And in prepping for today's show, I 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.960 was like, Okay, so twenty twenty nine, they are leaving 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:27.440 ABC after how many years? Since nineteen seventy six they've 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:28.160 been on ABC. 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.040 Right years ago, I would have been inclined to at 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.400 least tune into it. You know, there was a point 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:39.560 when when Hollywood had a stature, they had a certain 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.000 class about not everybody in Hollywood. It was woke, left wing, 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.080 you know, insane the way they are now and it's 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:51.360 just it's just it has evolved into an unwatchable hate 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.680 fest and I wouldn't even bother tuning in. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:56.240 It just is not worth it. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.520 I've been watching the series ad by Roma Downey and 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.480 her husband Mark Burnett. It's actually on Fox Nation dot Com. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.320 It's a great series. I don't know if you watched it, 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.840 and I have. It's really good. It really is well. 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.960 First they have the Bible, the history of the Bible. 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.439 You watch that version, and then it leads it starts 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.920 with the Crucifixion all the way through the acts of 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.200 the Apostles. It's pretty cool, uh, and the early days 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.720 of of of the Christian faith. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:26.320 It's it's pretty fascinating. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.040 Watch Passion of the Christ this time of year. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:31.240 Yeah, it's well. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.639 I'll watch it at least once a year, sometimes twice, 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.720 sometimes more. And The Chosen is a great series. I've 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.080 watched that at least five times start to finish. I 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.200 can't wait for the you know, yeah, uh huh. I'll 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.680 watch like an episode of a night, you know, until 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.080 I finally get through all the seasons. Some nights I'll 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:49.920 sneak in two episodes because I don't want to stop 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.959 watching it, so nobody watches. Here's Jimmy Kimmel, for example. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:55.640 I guess he was given out one of the awards. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:55.960 I guess. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.680 Conan O'Brien, you know, from all I read this morning, 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:01.720 there was there's a lot of hate trumpet this thing, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.440 and it's just not a surprise. But it's not funny either, 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.560 and is this not worth anybody's time? That's the worst part. 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:12.639 They have rendered themselves irrelevant, and even the mainstream media 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.040 is writing about its lack of relevancy. Anyway, here's Kimmel. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.480 As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don't 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.840 support free speech. I'm not at liberty to say which 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:28.520 let's just leave it at North Korea and CBS. Fortunately, 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.040 fortunately for all of us, there is an international community 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:38.560 of filmmakers dedicated to telling the truth, oftentimes at great risk, 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.679 to make films that teach us, that call out injustice 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.960 and aspire us to take action. And there are also 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.360 documentaries where you walk around the White House trying on shoes. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:49.760 Here are the. 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.800 Nominees for Documentary Short Film. 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.080 I'm just not impressed. It's just not funny. 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.720 That's this whole act, every single second of every day, 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.480 and it's the is boring. And you know, there used 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:09.800 to be a time where you know, very very you 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:10.680 know what that's from. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.200 Right, wonderful life, very good? 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:17.280 Maybe it's not good, uh, and where it had prestige 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.480 and esteem and Bob Hope would you know, would go 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.680 with our troops and conflict conflict and war, et cetera, 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.600 et cetera. Those days are gone. I don't know what's 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:30.440 happened to joy Read. I don't really understand it. Once 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.200 defended her right to stay. I never called for people 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:37.200 to be fired, canceled, boycotted the way the left does 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:38.120 to conservatives. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:40.199 But just listen to this comment. 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.239 Our regem has secret police. They have secret police. Our 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.320 regime is oppressing women, taking away abortion rights, taking away 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.639 women's rights in like twenty six country, twenty six states. 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.760 Some states where they're trying to have the death penalty 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.960 for having an abortion, they also oppress women there. They 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.440 had the highest rate of women who are in stem careers. 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.400 We're kicking women out of the military, out of university. 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.359 We're saying that DEI means women can't be hired for 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.840 high positions in the sciences. So we're we're marginally better, 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.520 and we're doing it for Christianity. They're doing it for Islam. Right, 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.760 So it's like we don't get told those things because 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:16.520 it would take it would it would take away the 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.919 kind of American exceptionalism narrative. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.600 Okay, you want to you want to break that down 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.560 for me. You know what state has the death penalty 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.200 for abortion, could you know? Because I don't know. I've 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:29.320 never heard of that before. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.880 I have to say this has been an ongoing struggle 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:39.679 recently with the left making these broad, sweeping, obscene claims 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:44.240 saying and the research shows or I've heard or sources 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.359 tell me. I'm like, okay, I would be interested in 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.119 what sources and what facts you have to back up 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.920 what you're saying, because to say that there's the death 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:56.840 penalty for getting abortion, if you want to kill your baby, 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:59.440 there are plenty of places you can do it. There's 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:01.439 a lot of say people out there, and there's a 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:02.800 lot of states that let you do it. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.000 So have a A Supreme Court codified the use of 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.720 the abortion pill, which is from basically the first trimester, 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.760 so let's start there. That's nationwide. That's why it's not 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.520 the issue that it once was. To say that fast, 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:21.600 oh my god, I said, I want to make sure 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.400 that it's rare and legal, legal and rare. 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.040 And I would say early the word early to yeah. 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:29.600 Now they're like, hey, if your kid's walking, you know, 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.360 it's still okay you to take them out. I mean 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:35.399 the idea that you can have a nine month child healthy, 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.119 alive next to you on the table, and you're allowed 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.560 to kill it. That's not abortion, that's murder. 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:40.879 Guys. 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:43.600 That is a child. That isn't fanticide. 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:47.080 That is a child that is capable of living outside 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:50.520 the womb on its own. But it doesn't matter that, 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:54.520 just the absurd claims. And here's the thing. I you know, 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.000 I've spent a little bit of time, not much, but 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:00.360 a little, and you watch these people that spread these 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:05.000 these falsehoods and these conspiracies, and here's the sick part. 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:09.719 They're actually very good at spreading their lives. I know 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.800 that may sound a little contradictory. They make it so 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:16.920 convincing that if you are in I'll use Russia's term, 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:20.560 I'll steal it from him, a low information voter, a 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:24.440