Ep. 215 - 9⧸11： The Beginning Of The End Of Globalism
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Maxine Waters wants to impeach every Republican from president to dog catcher. The NFL and Nike continue to get woke and go broke, despite fake news to the contrary, though they both are getting some unlikely financial help from President Trump. Then, after another knife attack in Paris on Sunday night, we ask, on this anniversary of 9/11, has the West learned anything in the 17 years since those awful attacks? Finally, John Bolton defends the nation state while Democrats promise to tear it down.
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Watch your job. Maxine Waters wants to impeach every Republican from president to dog catcher.
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The NFL and Nike continue to get woke and go broke, despite fake news to the contrary,
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though they both are getting some unlikely financial help from President Trump.
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We will explain. Then, after another knife attack in Paris on Sunday night,
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we ask on this anniversary of 9-11, has the West learned anything in the 17 years since those awful attacks?
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Finally, John Bolton defends the nation state while Democrats promise to tear it down.
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Okay, there is so much to get to today on the 17th anniversary of 9-11 and a lot actually
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in political news that ties into that, both internationally and at home from the Trump
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So before we get into that, because I really want to spend some time going into what we've
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This is a very emotional day for a lot of New Yorkers.
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Before we go into that, into the analysis of the day, I want to run through the political
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news because there's still a lot of that going on.
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And sometimes politicians tried to hide little political and campaign actions in bigger news
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So, you know, in politics, the squeaky wheel gets the grease and the squeakiest wheel in
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I think she's the squeakiest wheel in the Democratic Party.
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We talked about it a little bit at the end of the show.
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So Maxine Waters has her strategy for the midterm elections.
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And I said, if you see him anywhere, if you see him at a restaurant, if you see him in
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a department store, even at a gasoline station, just tell him you're not welcome here or anywhere.
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They say, Maxine, please don't say impeachment anymore.
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And when they say that, I say impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment,
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I think that's because that's all Maxine Waters can say is impeachment, impeachment, impeachment,
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And I'm starting to get the feeling, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm starting to get the
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feeling that Maxine Waters doesn't like Republicans very much.
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You'll remember Maxine Waters very famously or infamously said when all of these Democrats
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were going out harassing Republicans, members of the Trump administration, she said, you bet
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Go harass them at restaurants, go harass them at the bank, go harass them when you see them
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She's saying, absolutely, go out there and harass them.
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Later on in that fundraising speech, she said, I wasn't threatening Trump supporters there,
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So this is her strategy going into the midterms, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.
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And I actually can sort of understand this strategy because what they're saying is, well,
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So what we're going to do is run on the personal grotesqueness of the president.
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We're going to say, you don't want him to be the president anymore.
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Because if the Democrats get a majority in the House, they're going to impeach the president.
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If they get a majority in the Senate or a big majority in the Senate, then they'll convict
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But the reason that I think Democrats are actually running a little scared here, that
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maybe that generic ballot for the midterm elections is not going as well for them as
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all of the expert pollsters are telling us that it is, is because of this next strategy.
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They keep calling for the removal from office of the president for the 25th Amendment because
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What does the president make of all of this talk of the 25th Amendment and some of what
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he hears on media outlets regarding the word crazy talk?
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There's a lot of, it seems like there's a lot of talk about that on many of the mainstream
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I think we would say that it's about as ridiculous as most of Bob Woodward's book.
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The fact that that's actually being honestly discussed is ridiculous.
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Frankly, it's insulting to the nearly 62 million people that came out and overwhelmingly supported
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this president, voted for him, supported his agenda, and are watching and cheering on as
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he successfully implements that agenda every single day.
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So the 25th Amendment is that if the president is incapacitated physically or mentally incapacitated,
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And I got to ask, if the Democrats are talking about this, if they're saying we need to invoke
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the 25th Amendment, the Bob Woodward book, the press corps in the, in front of Sarah Sanders,
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the press corps being the communications wing of the Democrat Party, if these elected Democrats
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are talking about this, then do they really think their electoral chances are that good?
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Because if, if I thought that I were going to win an election, then I would say, we'll
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If I didn't think I were going to win an election, then I'd be talking about 25th Amendment.
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It seems to me they're tipping their hand a little bit.
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They're kind of showing, maybe things aren't as strong as everybody wants to pretend they
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Because, you know, it was all of the experts in 2016 who told us Hillary's going to win,
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Polls coming out the night before, analyses of, of meta-analyses.
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The polls of polls saying it's guaranteed they're going to, the Democrats are going
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It was a pretty, pretty landslide victory in the electoral college.
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So we, we hear Maxine Waters saying, run, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.
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You know, there's supposed to be a legal basis of impeachment.
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They don't, we don't even see evidence of collusion.
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There's not, you know, sending mean tweets is not a crime.
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Not being very nice to Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
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But even if not, even if it's just a purely political matter, if, if they thought they were
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And by the way, I don't know if the Democrats know this.
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If you impeach Donald Trump, then you get Mike Pence.
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What are they going to do when Mike Pence comes around?
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Maxine Waters actually provides the answer on what they're going to do if they finally
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Here is what they will get with President Pence.
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I had a conversation here today when someone asked, but what about Pence?
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If you were able to impeach, Pence will be worse.
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And I said, look, one at a time, you knock one down, you knock one down, and then we'll
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We cannot be made to fear anybody who would undermine our ability to have a decent quality
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Maxine Waters has always called for lawlessness.
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So she said, you know, you've got to go harass them in the street, get in their face, harass
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You're the one who's calling for people to go harass the families of elected Republicans
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You're the one who's saying, go out in the street.
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And you're the one who's saying, use the mechanisms of our constitution to remove people
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that we don't like from office, even if they haven't committed a crime.
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Just lawlessly remove the president, and then we'll remove the vice president.
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What are we going to accuse the vice president of?
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The worst thing they've been able to accuse Mike Pence of is only having dinner with his
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The worst thing they've been able to accuse Mike Pence of is being too good a husband.
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And the projection is so loud at this point in the election, at this point before the
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She said, Maxine Waters said right there, we will not allow anybody to interfere with our
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good quality of life, to stop us from having a good quality of life.
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She has a, people who aren't from California maybe don't know that.
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Maxine Waters, so she represents South LA, Inglewood, all these pretty bad, poor neighborhoods.
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Maxine Waters has a pretty nice quality of life.
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She has a house that's worth millions of dollars.
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I've heard estimates up to four and a half million dollars.
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A punch above the average home price down in South LA, down in Inglewood.
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They're preventing us from our quality of life.
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When the Democrats in this election are accusing the Republicans of something, you can know that
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You know that they've done it at a much higher rate, much more frequently.
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So that's what Maxine Waters and the Democrats are doing.
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Donald Trump is doing exactly what we elected him to do.
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I'm not just talking about fix the economy and create jobs.
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I am talking about the actual reason we elected Donald Trump, which is to troll the entire left.
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Here is a video that Donald Trump released from his Instagram account just last night.
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Because some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back.
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And when somebody says he's going to bring all these jobs back, well, how exactly are you
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That's very soon going to be 600,000 manufacturing jobs.
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Growth during the Trump years has been much more robust.
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That would put us about 50% above Mr. Obama's performance.
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Jobs, growth, wages, doesn't get much better than that.
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More than 4 million jobs created since the election.
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Wages are growing at the fastest pace in nearly a decade.
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More Americans are now employed than ever before in the recorded history of our country.
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It was Barack Obama who has been saying all of these things.
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He was saying, you know, Donald Trump, he's just terrible.
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He's just, you know, he's degrading our politics.
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So the video wouldn't have worked if President Trump didn't have the goods to back it up.
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I'm so pleased that Republicans are finally using humor again.
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Republicans haven't really used humor at the federal level.
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But he's going, he's saying, look, this guy, womp womp, he told us it couldn't happen.
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And the experts have a lot of opinions that often aren't true.
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We'll talk about that certainly when we reflect on September 11th and when we reflect on Ambassador
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Bolton's comments yesterday on the International Criminal Court.
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Small business optimism is the highest since the Reagan administration.
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The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index is at the highest level that we have ever recorded.
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And it's not just going to the very tippy-tippy top of the socioeconomic ladder.
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This is the first time in a long time we're seeing jobs in goods-producing industries,
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They grew tremendously over the past year, 3.3%.
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This also is the best rate since 1984, since the Reagan administration.
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They told us if President Trump were elected, the economy would implode,
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that the markets would crash, the jobs are all gone.
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And that is a great thing, which makes me think from the mouth of Nancy Pelosi herself
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that Democrats in their heart of hearts actually think President Trump is going to win.
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They actually think that he's going to survive.
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Because Nancy Pelosi gave her party some hope within the last few days.
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I do agree that it's time for new blood and we should move on.
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And Hillary Clinton had won and the Affordable Care Act was protected.
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We didn't know who would come forward, but that's up to the caucus.
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They give me the honor of serving, and it's up to them to choose who comes next.
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But to have no woman at the table and to have the Affordable Care Act at risk,
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Sounds like Nancy is betting on President Trump being here for a while because that is her play right now.
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Well, the American people want the TV show to keep going on so they can talk a good talk.
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I think that the Democrats are betting on Donald Trump staying in office for a long time.
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And speaking of bad Democrat plays in recent weeks, they've somehow managed to turn against the American flag.
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This is true in, we see this especially in the National Football League, but we see it throughout corporate America and we see it among Democratic candidates.
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So you remember, we've been talking about this NFL kneeling for the flag drama now for two years.
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And in May of this year, the NFL came out and they said, no more kneeling.
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They were down 8% in 2016 when this all started.
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Analysts are predicting that they'll fall even more this year.
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So they said, okay, we've got to stop doing this in May.
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But then the politically correct crowds, the left came out and said, how dare you?
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And what are you, how are you going to police this?
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So then in July, right after they announced the policy in July, they come out and say, well, maybe there can be kneeling.
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They said, well, maybe we won't enforce the policy.
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We don't know how we're going to enforce the policy.
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Over the weekend, we saw this come to fruition.
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There were two people in the NFL who kneeled for the national anthem.
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They're 2016, 13 games, I think over the weekend.
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There's these two guys, Miami Dolphins, Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson.
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But what that really means, even though it's just two guys, this is going to keep going on.
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They're protesting the American flag, symbol of our country.
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So the part of me that is like earnestly taking in this information says this is a horrific thing to do.
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The political, cynical side, that little, that little devil voice up there says this is terrific news for conservatives.
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This is terrific news for Republicans because we've somehow gotten the left and the Democrats to protest the American flag itself.
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I wonder if this whole protest wasn't just started by some slick Republican operative, Roger Stone or Paul Manafort or somebody.
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We have right now elected Democrats applauding the flag protest.
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Ayanna Pressley running for Congress in Massachusetts is applauding this.
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I think it's Beta O'Rourke in Texas is applauding this.
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The only thing that we could do that might be more effective is to get Democrats to protest apple pie.
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We're going to say, you know, for social justice, you really ought to protest apple pie.
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Apple pie is the worst because polls show that the Americans hate this protest.
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You know, and now Nike has made this protest the face of their advertising.
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There was a, there was this, after Kaepernick became the spokesman and the big image for Nike,
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there was a poll conducted by Morning Consult showed that Nike's net favorability had fallen 34 points
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Among Republicans, the favorability fell 70 points, but across all sectors it fell.
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And then in the key demographics that Nike cynically thought it was going to boost by this,
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And if anything, there was a slight decline in favorability.
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That includes younger generations, Nike users, black customers, and others.
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They cynically thought they were going to win over those key demographics and it didn't happen.
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Obviously, the NFL ratings have been falling and falling.
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And the one aspect of this that the left is pointing out, they say Nike's sales were up over the weekend,
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That's true, but Nike's sales are always up over Labor Day weekend.
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They were up over Labor Day weekend last year as well.
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They were up more this year, but perhaps that's because the Trump economy is up.
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Our economy has jumped dramatically in the last year.
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And the left is saying, oh, he's not protesting the flag.
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When there's significant change and I feel like that flag represents what it's supposed to represent
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and this country is representing people the way that it's supposed to, I'll stand.
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If he were protesting police brutality, he could protest a police department.
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If he were protesting some specific policy, he could go outside the government office and
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And that is horribly offensive because the flag represents the country.
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And this country is the greatest country in the history of the world.
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It is the greatest country in the history of the world.
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And Americans find this very offensive when you disrespect the country because of all
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And no time is this clearer than on September 11th.
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The greatest country in the history of the world learned a real lesson 17 years ago.
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Just on Sunday night in Paris, there was another knife attack.
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The authorities are saying it wasn't terrorism or they're not willing to call it terrorism.
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But there have been many other knife attacks this year that we know are terrorism that
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have been claimed by ISIS just in Paris, just in Paris alone.
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So 17 years after September 11th, has anything changed?
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Has anything changed in global politics, in domestic politics, in our relations to one another?
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Since 9-11, 2001, there have been seven attacks on the United States by Islamic terrorists.
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I think sometimes we think there haven't really been any because 9-11 was so traumatizing to
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But there were attacks at Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, Chattanooga killed four Marines,
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one Navy sailor, San Bernardino, Pulse Nightclub, on and on.
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Many of these attacks claimed by ISIS are done in the name of ISIS.
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In the European Union, just since 2014, there have been 65 attacks.
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We're getting all of these attacks again and again, year after year after year.
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I remember 9-11 pretty well, even though I was very young.
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So I was in my sixth grade classroom in New York.
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All of our parents, basically, most of our parents worked in the city.
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I remember the strongest memory I have of that day was President Bush sitting in the Oval Office
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And he articulated perfectly what we all were feeling.
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Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack
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in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts.
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The victims were in airplanes or in their offices, secretaries, businessmen and women, military
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and federal workers, moms and dads, friends and neighbors.
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Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror.
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The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge, huge structures collapsing
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have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.
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Disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.
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It's precisely what the rest of America felt that day.
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I've never heard anyone articulate that feeling better than President Bush did in that speech.
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Because I think a lot of times what we hear is we shouldn't feel that anger anymore.
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And let's just, you know, let's just come together.
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And a lot of us feel that today because justice still has not been fully completed.
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There are five animals sitting down at Guantanamo Bay right now.
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Five animal terrorists who participated in that attack.
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Are they going to be back and forth and back and forth?
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And President Trump could do a great service to the matters of justice if he were able to hasten that along.
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We still feel that justice hasn't quite been done.
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You know, that sense of justice is what President Bush showed us on the pile at Ground Zero after September 11th.
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He showed us that sense, that feeling of justice.
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And this is, I think, the one silver lining that we might have out of that.
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Here's President Bush famously with his bullhorn.
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I want you all to know that America today, America today is on bended knee in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here,
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for the workers who work here, for the families who mourn.
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This nation stands with the good people of New York City and New Jersey and Connecticut
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as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens.
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And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.
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And the people who knocked this building down, these buildings down, will hear from all of us soon.
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That there is a satisfaction to that anger, that unyielding anger that we all felt.
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And that satisfaction will be completed in justice.
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We were reminiscing over the September 11th attacks.
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And we said, was there any silver lining to that storm cloud?
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Is there anything we can say, well, that's a consolation?
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The country was unified after September 11th for about five minutes.
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Democrats and Republicans came together after September 11th.
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The other is patriotism and sacrifice and the great sacrifices of the heroes, not only of
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that day, though there were many heroes that day on September 11th, first responders, people
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There were many heroes there, but there were many heroes afterward who enlisted, who went
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Many others came back with wounds, mental and physical.
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That sacrifice for my freedom and yours, that's a beautiful thing that also came out of that
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On an international political level, on the level of statecraft, is there anything good that
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We look at all of these attacks that are still happening.
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But there was something that we learned, which is the lie of globalism.
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We hear globalism, we hear globalization, we hear the new world order, we hear the international
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National Security Advisor John Bolton showed us that just yesterday, not coincidentally on
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the eve of September 11th, because he showed the American people what happens, and the
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rest of the world, what happens when you try to infringe on American freedom and on the
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But before September 11th, 2001, we had been told from all experts across the political
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We're moving into a period of perpetual peace and prosperity, a new world order.
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We heard it in that essay from Francis Fukuyama, The End of History.
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What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War or the passing of a particular
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period of post-war history, but the end of history as such, that is, the end point of
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mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form
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Has there been any more triumphant, triumphalist statement than that?
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We'll get into what that means and what we learned 17 years ago about that new, homogenous,
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But first, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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If you're on Facebook and YouTube, I'm shocked that you haven't been censored yet.
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You will get me, you'll get the Andrew Klavan show, you'll get the Ben Shapiro show, you'll
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get to ask questions in the mailbag, you'll get to hurry up on that because the mailbag
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Most importantly, you'll get the Leftist Tears Tumblr.
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You saw Maxine Waters, you saw Colin Kaepernick, you saw Nancy Pelosi.
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It is filling up left and right these days, so go over there and get it.
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It's the only FDA-approved vessel for your delicious Leftist Tears.
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Go over there right now and we will be right back.
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We were told that history was over and then we learned it wasn't true.
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No matter how much we said it, not everybody had to listen to us.
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We often hear in the United States that some people are on the right side of history, some
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You can be morally right and morally wrong, but you can't be historically right and historically
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On the morning of September 11th, 2001, history was moving in one direction.
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We had peace and prosperity all over the world and then that history took a turn that morning
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and we learned that history doesn't care about our ideology, doesn't care about our periods
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We learned that some people won't go along with what we tell the whole world to do.
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We saw this in the form of Islamism, political Islam, imperial Islam that sees itself as at
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Not because we helped found the state of Israel in the West.
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Not because we helped this nation in the Middle East over this nation in the Middle East.
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Because of who we are and what we believe and the culture that we have and the language
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that we speak and the land that we live in and the freedom that we have in that land.
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9-11 was not the first time that this ideology of Islamism, political Islam, tried to conquer
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And it goes back to the Battle of Vienna in 1683.
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All of these incursions of Islamic empires into Europe to try to conquer Europe, being
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The reason I bring it up is because history isn't over.
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History, the Battle of Vienna, was won by the West on September 11th, 1683.
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And the terrorists who planned those attacks knew their history.
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Lawrence Wright, who wrote the Looming Tower, won a Pulitzer Prize for it, was certain of
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History matters to other people around the world.
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And we can't tell them not to believe in it because there are two ideas.
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There are two ideas for the international order, nationalism and globalism.
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The order in which independent, free nation states get to determine their own destiny,
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get to govern themselves, have sovereignty, get to live in their freedom with their culture
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Global empire institutions that date back all the way to antiquity, all the way back to
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Rome, all the way back to the Holy Roman Empire.
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And also, we see them in supranational organizations today, like the United Nations, like the European
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Union, like the International Criminal Court, which John Bolton beautifully talked about last
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Nationalism and globalism, we saw that come into conflict 17 years ago.
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The 2016 election was in no small part a debate over nationalism and globalism.
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President Trump made that the hallmark, the center of his foreign policy.
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Here's President Trump talking about it in 2016.
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Americans must know that we're putting the American people first again.
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No country has ever prospered that failed to put its own interests first.
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Both our friends and our enemies put their countries above ours.
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We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism.
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The nation state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony.
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I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down.
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These international, supranational organizations that take away national sovereignty or the nation
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This has been a longstanding debate here in the United States.
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Basically, after World War II, it seemed that all of the Western world was moving toward
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this, what has been called the New World Order.
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Oh, the system of nation states that we developed after the Treaty of Westphalia.
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Is the United States going to chart its own course, defend its own people, defend its own interests?
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Or are we going to be told what to do and pushed around by various global interests?
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There was a clear articulation of national sovereignty, of nationalism, of putting America first.
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But the Democrats on the left are still fighting against that.
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That was the question that was raised after the end of history ended, after the end of
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Our National Security Advisor, Ambassador John Bolton, laid out this argument so beautifully
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yesterday when it comes to the International Criminal Court.
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So Ambassador Bolton yesterday was at the Federalist Society.
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He was giving a major speech on American foreign policy, and he assailed the International Criminal
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It was founded in 2002, theoretically, to prosecute war criminals.
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The international, we're going to go in, the supranational body is going to go in and
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And even if they don't want us to, we're just going to go do it.
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Now, early on, the United States, Russia, and China didn't sign on.
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The Clinton administration in 1998 made it seem as though the United States was going
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President Bush reversed all of that and said, we're not going to go along with it, largely
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So in theory, the International Criminal Court sounds great.
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In reality, all it does is take away national sovereignty.
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So countries that are advocating globalism, Europe, parts of the United States, parts of the
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American political scene, loved the idea of this.
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Today, on the eve of September the 11th, I want to deliver a clear and unambiguous message
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on behalf of the President of the United States.
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The United States will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies
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from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court.
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After all, for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us.
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When you look into the particulars of it, you see how ugly it is.
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Are we really going to agree that the super national body, you know, Venezuela, the Democratic
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Republic of the Congo, is going to tell the United States how to order our affairs?
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There's no more just body on earth than the United States, than our criminal justice system.
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If justice is going to be served anywhere on earth, it's going to be served in the United
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States, we don't need other countries telling us how to do it or what to do and allowing
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politics to infect it and allowing it to infect our international system and international
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One aspect of the International Criminal Court when it was founded is that people could be
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You know, you smash a rock or something, you could be brought up on charges for the International
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The reason that John Bolton was so precise here is because the ICC wants to go after American
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They want to go after American soldiers who served in Afghanistan or Iraq, and they want
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If you come after us, we're going to sanction you.
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We're going to not allow you to enter the United States.
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And at the same time, in the same speech, he makes an announcement that the U.S. is booting
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out the PLO's office, the Palestinians' office in the United States.
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The Department of State will announce the closure of the Palestine Liberation Organization
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As President Reagan recognized in this context, the executive has the right to decide the kind
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of foreign relations, if any, the United States will maintain.
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And the Trump administration will not keep the office open when the Palestinians refuse
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to take steps to start direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel.
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According to a 1987 law, the PLO should never have had an office there in the first place.
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And now this administration is enforcing the law.
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So much of this administration is about enforcing the law, which is a very important thing because
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as we reflect 17 years later, as we reflect and look around the world, so much of what
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we can do is to simply enforce the law and keep the order of nations going and to defend
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American national interest because the United States is the greatest country in the history
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People hate us because of our freedom, but we need to maintain that freedom.
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And if there's any silver lining, that is the silver lining of that tragic day 17 years
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So we've, it's so hard on September 11th because there, there's just no way to feel good about
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You, everyone, there's a silver lining to the storm cloud, but there's no way to say, yeah,
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It was, I speak as a New Yorker and as a little kid when it happened, it, you felt it so viscerally
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And then people all, you know, virtually everyone in New York knew somebody who was killed that
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day or knew somebody who knew somebody who was killed that day or was related to somebody.
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And then everyone around the country after 9-11, even if you weren't affected directly
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by that attack on, in New York and Washington, you were, a lot of people know, servicemen
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It's a tough day and you've got to just sit in that, I think, and try to reflect and see
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if there's, there are lessons for that, for how we move forward.
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But you can't, you can't put lipstick on a pig.
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It was good for the, you know, it was, it was good and we learned something from it and
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really, you know, it was all worth it or something in the end.
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There were some nice things that we can get out of suffering, but it's suffering nonetheless.
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Suffering can sanctify, but it's still suffering.
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So to everybody who lost somebody that day, my condolences and, you know, you'll be in
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And for people who sacrificed, went overseas, fought to defend our freedom.
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And we'll be back tomorrow and we'll be able to cover all the craziness in the news.
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