On today's show, we discuss the Joe Biden and Jen Psaki controversy, the Rittenhouse case, the turkey shortage, and much, much more. Plus, we have a special guest Peter Navarro on the show to talk about his new book, In Trump Time.
00:00:00.000Today, Jen Psaki was asked about Kyle Rittenhouse and whether or not Joe Biden would apologize
00:00:16.000for implying in a video that he was a white supremacist.
00:00:19.000And Jen Psaki was basically like, what do you mean?
00:00:21.000He took pictures of the Proud Boys, right?
00:00:23.000And all of a sudden I see across Twitter people being like, well, that's securing a defamation lawsuit because it's not true.
00:00:32.000But, you know, the problem is white supremacist is an opinion.
00:00:36.000So we will see if Kyle actually ends up filing a defamation lawsuit.
00:00:40.000Now, interestingly, in his interview with Tucker Carlson, he said the phrase actual malice, which is a legal phrase, which implies young Mr. Rittenhouse has been talking with some lawyers about what Mr. Biden, Mr. President Biden said.
00:01:11.000Well, these rioters got away with it for too long.
00:01:13.000I mean, for nearly a decade, I've watched these extremists go through the streets, smashing and destroying and becoming emboldened, and finally now, they're actually worried that people are gonna go out and defend their communities.
00:01:23.000And I gotta be honest, I think there's a reasonable fear that people might go out.
00:01:26.000We don't want active conflict in that regard.
00:01:29.000And then, of course, we have the economy, which is in very serious trouble.
00:01:45.000Now, I think Americans not being able to get turkey is going to be a big wake-up call for a lot of people about what's happening with the Biden government and the economy.
00:01:52.000And we've got one of the best people imaginable to actually talk to us about this.
00:01:58.000Tim, my friend, before I do that, let me just salute you.
00:02:03.000Look, as we talk about the news today, there's a diaspora out there of folks like you who basically are speaking truth to power, and the dissonance between what the American people are being fed on the MSNBCs and CNNs and Jen Psaki's is this world Versus the reality that folks like you are bringing to the table are really important.
00:02:29.000And one of the ways I found myself here today, Tim, is through a mutual friend, Jack Pasoba, right?
00:02:37.000He's like doing really good things at human events.
00:02:40.000And one of the things I listen to is his podcast in the morning when I'm kind of working out a little bit at the beginning of the day.
00:02:51.000And, you know, listen to Basobag, it's like we find out things like the victims, right, are not Boy Scouts, right?
00:03:00.000We find out that the... In the Rittenhouse case.
00:03:04.000We find out that the mayor, the DA, and the lead detective are part of a family that seem to be consciously trying to shaped the trial in a way which is contrary to the facts.
00:03:22.000You find out that there's doctored videos that were doctored in a way to make Rittenhouse look like he would lose his self-defense thing.
00:03:32.000So then you see Biden or Psaki saying things like they're saying, and we're at a point now—I've been around a while, got a few miles on me— We're at a point now I've never seen before.
00:03:49.000It's a total breakdown of the mainstream corporate fourth estate.
00:04:45.000Senior officials in the Trump administration who was with the president all the way from the 2016 campaign where I was the top economic and trade advisor all the way to the end of what I like to refer to as his first term.
00:05:02.000So the In Trump Time phrase became essentially the ethos and culture of the administration, something I came up early on in the iconic Situation Room, sitting around with a bunch of these deep administrative state bureaucrats.
00:05:18.000I'm trying to, on behalf of the president, move a trade policy.
00:05:50.000That became like—and it really became important because I went from the China hawk in the administration, the guy who was a lot behind the steel and aluminum tariffs, the China tariffs, I ran the whole Buy American, Hire American program, I did like a dozen executive orders.
00:06:10.000And that's the subtitle of the In Trump Time book.
00:06:12.000It's my Journal of America's Plague Year.
00:06:14.000And I turned into like the quartermaster for the pandemic, trying to figure out how did it get enough PPE.
00:06:21.000And that's the subtitle of the In Trump Time book.
00:06:24.000It's my journal of America's plague year.
00:06:27.000And what I did was, it was really interesting, Tim.
00:06:29.000When I got to the White House early on, the biggest shock to me, and it was truly a shock,
00:06:39.000was that I faced as much opposition inside the White House perimeter from officials
00:06:46.000who were trying to stop the president from doing the two transformational aspects of his agenda,
00:06:53.000which was the secure borders and the fair trade policies.
00:06:58.000And so what I did was I began keeping a daily journal every night when I went home, no matter how tired I was.
00:07:05.000I recorded the notes for the day, and I did it not just because I thought I might be part of history some small or large way, but to hold people accountable.
00:07:17.000for what quickly became apparent, their disloyalty to the president himself
00:07:57.000Federal Reserve is telling people to eat soy to save money over turkeys.
00:08:02.000I mean, I expected some intervention, not that kind of intervention, but holy freaking cow.
00:08:08.000Welcome back, beautiful and amazing human beings.
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00:09:54.000This is, this is just, just, just a brand new world.
00:09:58.000Even like Vietnam, when they were like manipulating people into Vietnam, it was... No, this is, this is, that was all child's play compared to what's going on now, particularly from a macroeconomic standpoint.
00:10:46.000One of the things I wrote in those early memos was that the vaccine would have to be supplemented by therapeutics and the virus may well be around for a long time because of its ability to mutate.
00:11:11.000So make sure before we get started, head over to TimCast.com, become a member.
00:11:15.000We're going to have a members only segment where we get into the nitty gritty dark stuff that I think this one's going to be pretty bold because we've already talked about a lot of stuff that's like YouTube unfriendly.
00:11:26.000And so this is serious stuff having to do with White House policy and, you know.
00:11:30.000What's going on in China with certain labs.
00:11:32.000So you definitely want to be a member and not miss this one.
00:12:17.000So of all of the outlets that would like to make a comment on Kyle Rittenhouse and defamation, I thought this would be the funniest one to use.
00:12:25.000The Independent says that Peter Doocy asked whether or not Mr. Biden would ever apologize to Mr. Rittenhouse for suggesting online and on TV that he's a white supremacist, and Psaki responded the video was meant to show how Trump actively encouraged white supremacists and right-wing militia groups during his presidency.
00:12:40.000In her answer, she referred to a 2020 photo that showed Rittenhouse posing with a member of the Proud Boys.
00:12:46.000Mr. Biden, she added, spoke to the verdict last week.
00:12:48.000He has obviously condemned the hatred and division and violence we've seen around the country committed by groups like the Proud Boys and groups that individual has posed in photos with.
00:12:58.000Ducey's question did not address the photo referenced by Secchi, blah, blah, blah.
00:14:18.000I think Rittenhouse is talking to his lawyers, and they said, you know, we believe what Biden said about you was actual malice, or maybe something to that effect.
00:14:27.000And then Kyle was like, oh yeah, in the colloquial sense, and then says it to Tucker.
00:14:32.000But it sounds like he's being, you know, he's having these discussions.
00:14:35.000Now, truth be told, you can call someone a white supremacist, and it is not defamation.
00:16:45.000Did some basketball player wear like shoes or something?
00:16:53.000Yes, there was a Boston Celtics player that wore a shoe depicting LeBron bending over of course China bowing down To Winnie the Pooh, as he was playing against LeBron James, who's also suspended for sucker punching another player.
00:17:25.000When Colin Kaepernick protested and eventually gets booed and nobody wants to have him around, I'm like, you get political, you get into it.
00:17:34.000I think we shouldn't be afraid of politicizing things.
00:17:36.000Kwame Brown, another former NBA star, came out and he said, surprisingly, Kyle Rittenhouse acted in, quote, self-defense.
00:17:43.000He goes on to say that the case was politicized for people to make a lot of money promoting racism at the expense of a teenager.
00:17:50.000And a lot of people are resonating with those points after, of course, watching the trial that was a live stream and presented a different point of view that people were denied if, of course, they were watching the corporate media, which many of them didn't even put on the arguments that the defense was even making during this entire case, which is crazy.
00:18:09.000So the episode, I recorded a show with Joe Rogan last week.
00:18:14.000It went up yesterday and I was reading some comments And people were saying like, you know, I'm watching this for, I'm listening for 45 minutes and I swear this guy's just making all this stuff up.
00:18:26.000It's because they live in the world of CNN and MSNBC.
00:18:30.000So when I sit there and say something like, Kyle Rittenhouse didn't cross state lines with a gun.
00:18:34.000In fact, the DA, Binger, has charged Dominic Black under the same statute because of the straw purchase.
00:18:41.000And I don't think it's a straw purchase charge, but they're basically saying you provided a weapon to a minor.
00:18:44.000And then these people listen to that and they're like, that's not true.
00:18:47.000Joy Reid told me he crossed Colbert said he crossed state lines.
00:19:42.000Now, if you were watching CNN the whole time, you got punked.
00:19:45.000We were honest with you the whole time.
00:19:47.000Let me say one thing about CNN, too, because John Berman, New Day, just happened to hear the show in the morning talking about the case, Tim, and what just sickened me, Was the tone in his voice signaling that he wanted this 17-year-old person convicted?
00:20:11.000That was—he was reporting the, quote, news, which was wrong and contradictory to everything you just said.
00:20:18.000But at the same time, you could feel in his—the way he was reporting it was like, oh, we've got to get this guy convicted.
00:20:28.000A 17-year-old kid who was not guilty and found not guilty by his peers, he's being condemned to life imprisonment by the tone of that voice.
00:20:42.000Those people who listen to CNN, They buy into that.
00:21:11.000We've seen videos of people getting into fistfights with Antifa, chasing them out.
00:21:15.000Well, now what's happening is these leftist extremists are shocked and angry that, oh no, now we're dealing with resistance from people who don't want us burning down their local communities.
00:21:24.000Now the courts have said, if you attack someone and threaten great bodily harm, there's no precedent.
00:21:31.000Well, that offends the likes of Colbert.
00:21:33.000No, Colbert, when they were burning down buildings, when they were firebombing, you know, government facilities, when small towns were getting looted and ransacked, where was Colbert?
00:21:44.000Kamala Harris was fundraising for these people to bail them out.
00:21:47.000So when this ruling comes in, they say the judge is biased, SNL does a skit about it, and they say, there's white supremacy, blah, blah, blah.
00:21:54.000They're just angry that regular people have had enough of their extremism.
00:22:26.000When I was reading, you know, people were commenting on Rogan's podcast, there's actually two different political compasses.
00:22:33.000So when we say, like, you know, Luke is, like, right libertarian or whatever, how people want to describe it, and I'm, like, left-leaning libertarian, and I don't know where Ian is.
00:24:42.000And then there's the seven, is the killing of Americans with deadly fentanyl.
00:24:50.000And that's both a health crisis as well as an economic thing,
00:24:54.000because a lot of the people who die from fentanyl are working age, manufacturing blue collar workers, okay?
00:25:03.000So the libertarian, the traditional libertarian view is...
00:25:09.000Is that, well, if China wants to sell us cheap goods, we should just benefit from them.
00:25:17.000And what I'm going is, no, no, no, no, no.
00:25:18.000It's like, that's a form of economic aggression.
00:25:22.000If you take it as like a snapshot and you go into Walmart and stuff cheap, that's cool, okay.
00:25:28.000But if you play it like as a movie, over time and all your jobs go offshore, And your wages are driven down, and people go to the unemployment line, and workers wind up committing suicide because they don't have jobs.
00:25:43.000So I get back, and like in the In Trump Time book, I identify this set of what I call the Wall Street transactionalists, like Mnuchin at Treasury, Kudlow at the National Economic Council, Mulvaney, big libertarian.
00:25:58.000I try to do like buy American policies or China tariffs and these guys freak out, so I'll throw it back to you guys.
00:26:06.000Libertarian, do you do tariffs on China to protect yourself?
00:26:10.000Well, there's two different libertarians now.
00:26:13.000You've got the Mises caucus and you've got the establishment, you know, old-school type libertarians and they disagree on a lot of things.
00:26:23.000So they're probably going to say we have to protect American workers in America.
00:26:27.000And then I think their view is more like within the area that we can protect, we have libertarian
00:26:32.000values and views on how things are run.
00:26:35.000But we recognize, you know, outside of the borders.
00:26:37.000So I don't know if that's exactly their view, but I would say my view is similar to that.
00:26:42.000Like, I don't want China ripping off American workers using economic coercion and warfare to try and destroy this country.
00:26:50.000So, everything within the borders, I believe in, you know, we're very libertarian, individual liberties, individual rights, civil rights, etc.
00:26:56.000And then when it comes to international trade and stuff, we must protect the people in our community.
00:27:02.000Here's an interesting stat for you folks.
00:27:04.000Our trade deficit with China is roughly equivalent to the People's Liberation Army defense budget.
00:27:14.000And by the way, it's Tuesday, and Friday is not just Friday.
00:27:18.000It is Black Friday, and that's when everybody's going to be going to the big box baby Wal-Mart, Target, whatever, and a lot of that stuff they're going to buy when they pick up that Made in China stuff is actually going to be plows, plows into swords, plowshares into swords, because that stuff is, that money, our trade deficit goes to fund all of their weapons.
00:27:42.000And what drives me nuts is you asked at the beginning who I am.
00:27:47.000It's like the way I met Donald Trump, and I talk about The In Trump Time book, because there was some confusion there.
00:27:52.000I wrote a trilogy of China books, right?
00:28:34.000No, it's not it's like in 2006 I predicted in the coming China Wars that China would create a global pandemic because of the way they handled the viruses and it was based on my research of how SARS-1 came about my point is Here is that China is an existential threat you got Joe Biden say it's no no It's just simply a competitor and part of what I've been trying to do and what President Trump was absolutely transformative about was to raise people's awareness as they used to say in the 60s about the threat of
00:29:14.000Of communist China, the Chinese Communist Party coming after us, and they're coming after us, and there it is.
00:29:25.000So the way tariffs work, if you have a country like China that is dumping product in or stealing or whatever, The tariffs, first and foremost, offset the advantage that they've gotten from the unfair trade.
00:30:37.000It's like we knew that there would be resistance to tariffs initially among a certain segment of the public.
00:30:44.000But to get people to accept them, what we did—this was brilliant, President Trump— He got China to enter into negotiations.
00:30:51.000Every time China did something in those negotiations which was unfair, we'd raise the tariffs.
00:30:58.000And that allowed us, over time, to steadily increase the tariffs to over $100 billion in tariffs.
00:31:06.000And in a second term, I'll say this for the record, and I've talked many times with the President about this, we would have completely raised tariffs on everything to 100% and began To do what I believe has to be done, which is decouple from communist China.
00:31:22.000Because every time China makes another dollar off the United States or Europe or whatever, it's able to fuel both its military machine, but also the war China's conducting, like through the so-called Belt and Road Initiative.
00:31:39.000I don't know if you guys have talked about that.
00:31:41.000Yeah, so it's basically the colonization of Africa, Latin America, Kazakhstan, and everything like that.
00:32:51.000But the money pots are much more insidious because what China will do With government officials, it's like they'll give them trips to Beijing, or they'll put them in a think tank, they'll give them grants at universities, and these people become beholden to the Chinese, and then they wind up, like Jake Sullivan is the National Security Advisor, right?
00:33:15.000Well, they'll just do business dealings with Biden's sons.
00:33:20.000And I agree with your point when it comes to decoupling, especially from China's pharma industry, which the United States is heavily reliant on.
00:33:27.000But I think previously what you were describing was globalization instead of libertarianism.
00:33:32.000Because when we look at what China's doing, they're treating China like a conduit
00:34:22.000We have socialism for the super rich, which is orchestrated by elites like Kissinger.
00:34:27.000I take a really good short but nice shot at Henry.
00:34:32.000Yes, he's One of the dumb smart guys you meet along the way who's made millions and millions and millions of dollars from that.
00:34:42.000The funny thing about these corporations though, the funny thing about these corporations, and General Electric is the poster child for this, all of these American corporations who thought they could go over to China offshore, all the jobs and things like that, wound up getting destroyed over there.
00:35:00.000They got stripped of their technology and they wound up having competitors over there
00:35:06.000who were Chinese and then if you look like GE, it's like it hit its peak.
00:36:48.000Now that, and people say to me, that's not Joe Biden's fault this is happening.
00:36:53.000And I've said over and over again, I've done long segments talking about why it is Joe Biden's fault, one of which is the inflation, gas prices, speculation, I can get into it.
00:37:01.000But let me ask you, because you're the economics guy, what is it with the Biden administration that's resulting in inflation, high gas prices, food shortages, what is it?
00:37:13.000Let me take you back to 2016 and the Trump campaign.
00:37:18.000We had a mantra there, the way we were going to grow the economy, and it was simple.
00:37:24.000It was tax cuts, not to benefit the corporations, but simply to encourage them to bring jobs onshore.
00:37:32.000It was deregulation to lower the costs and make us more globally competitive.
00:37:38.000It was energy Independence and cheap energy, which again makes us more competitive, puts more money in consumers' pockets to help them be able to buy more and increase their wages.
00:37:55.000It was stopping the attacks, not just by China on us, but India, Europe, and everywhere else, where we had the lowest tariffs in the world and everybody was taking advantage of us.
00:38:07.000All of those, Tim, are what we call structural changes in the economy designed to increase growth and do it in a way where the productivity would increase and therefore real wages would rise and inflation would be held down.
00:38:25.000That's the structural macroeconomic approach to prosperity.
00:38:29.000Now, if you think about what went before that and what has come after that, that answers your question.
00:38:35.000Before that, What the Biden-Obama administration did for eight years was double, double the national debt from 10 to 20 trillion dollars.
00:40:52.000The Keystone Pipeline, I think, is the easiest way to explain to people the rise in prices.
00:40:56.000So, the first thing you'll get from, like, USA Today is they'll say, Biden's policies are not causing gas prices to increase, they're not causing inflation.
00:41:04.000And then when it comes to the Keystone Pipeline, they'll say, the pipeline wasn't set to deliver oil for some time anyway, so shutting it down had no impact on the amount of energy we had.
00:41:13.000But what it did is that it signaled to many investors and many companies the supply chain for oil is not going to meet the requirements in the coming years, which means by now, because those prices are going up, speculators then start buying up in fear that we won't have enough in the future.
00:41:33.000So the prices instantly start spiking.
00:41:35.000Then when gas prices start spiking, the cost of Everything goes up right afterwards.
00:43:24.000So they're strangling us out on purpose.
00:43:26.000Oh, well, the Saudis, one of the things I regret during the Trump administration, and this isn't in the Trump time book, was how the Saudis screwed our frackers when they started flooding the market with oil.
00:43:43.000See, the fracking thing, there's a threshold, right, which is much relatively higher than pumping from fields, right?
00:44:16.000But when energy prices reached a certain threshold, all of a sudden the cost stays the same, but the energy is now more valuable, they start fracking.
00:44:24.000All of a sudden we find ourselves, as you mentioned, the Saudi Arabia of fracking.
00:44:28.000A lot of left-wing activists really don't like it.
00:45:03.000But we gotta understand what's happening.
00:45:05.000Donald Trump, also, I criticized him during his presidency because he was very close with the Saudis, whether with the weapons deal, whether with geopolitics, they were hand in hand, and I believed he deserved a lot of criticism for that, personally, myself.
00:45:17.000But CNN had a very interesting headline talking about this kind of energy crisis.
00:45:22.000Recently, they had a headline that said, quote, why Biden can't do much to ease gas prices.
00:45:28.000And a couple days ago they had another article that said oil prices are finally falling thanks to China and Joe Biden literally contradicting themselves just pushing for the narrative they had another piece today that was talking about the problems with the inflation narrative and they blamed everything on it's all OPEC's problem.
00:46:04.000It's I don't think that regular Americans who like lean Democrat understand signaling and how the actions of the administration, not not the hard actions, but like what people feel and see based on what's happening will have an impact.
00:46:21.000So I'll give the example I just gave when Biden says we're shutting down Keystone.
00:46:25.000Well, of course, Keystone wasn't transporting oil.
00:46:28.000But people are predicting for the future.
00:46:31.000If we have X growth, we're going to need X percent oil increase.
00:46:34.000And investing for the future or not investing for the future.
00:46:38.000So when Biden shuts down Keystone and bans fracking on certain lands, all of a sudden people say, whoa, we're not going to have enough supply in three years.
00:47:32.000So Biden thinks putting out two and a half days worth of petroleum is going to help ease prices?
00:47:39.000Well, remember, Biden also... Bidenomics is kind of interesting.
00:47:44.000It's like he's pushing this latest $3.5 trillion bill they want to pass.
00:47:52.000And he's saying that that's going to take inflation down and pay for itself.
00:47:58.000Now, in in what world would that possibly happen?
00:48:02.000They have like a massive dose of Keynesian spending, which is look, we had a we had a $2 trillion bill that we were trying to get passed before the election at a time when the economy Needed some help but but here's the difference Our focus was on bringing our manufacturing home.
00:48:28.000We were going to spend most of that money as a way of promoting buy American hire American and And I think you mentioned, Luke, the medicines and things like that.
00:48:38.000There's a whole chapter in the In Trump Time book about this executive order I wrote on what's called essential medicines and medical countermeasures.
00:48:47.000And it was a bi-American order to basically bring home all of that stuff we need.
00:49:30.000So when the pandemic hit, like India started, it's like 80 countries, 80 countries began rationing The United States stole a plane, correct me if I'm wrong, from France that had PPP in it.
00:50:16.000It's like a Friday, late on a Friday afternoon, just working my butt off because the pandemic was like going crazy.
00:50:24.000I get a call from Health and Human Services and it's like, we got a million swabs stuck in the Italian Alps because they're getting, Northern Italy's just getting hit with a pandemic.
00:50:44.000So I call a sit room, a situation room.
00:50:46.000It's like, the cool thing about the situation room Is like, literally, you could track down anybody on the planet within five minutes, like, if you need to, right?
00:52:52.000See, these are the kind of space age type suits, right?
00:52:57.000And within 15 hours of getting that email, we had 4,000 Tyvek suits coming from all around the country.
00:53:06.000I want to ask you about what Joe Biden was doing.
00:53:09.000I was so proud of this country when you saw good corporations who would rise to the occasion.
00:53:15.000And then I had to deal with bad ones as well, like Pfizer or Honeywell, who just were in it
00:53:20.000for the money. Tim, I want to ask you about what Joe Biden was doing. A few key points that I've
00:53:26.000brought up and, you know, with your expertise, having worked in this, worked in the White House
00:53:29.000and all this stuff. So I see Joe Biden, more regulations, right?
00:53:33.000We see him say he wants the Democrats in general, they want to raise wages.
00:53:38.000They want like, you know, higher minimum wage and all that stuff.
00:53:39.000And I'm, I'm all for people getting paid.
00:53:41.000I just don't believe that you can just tell people to do it.
00:53:44.000It happens because there's a big machine of economics, but they want to raise corporate taxes.
00:53:48.000They want to eliminate tariffs and raise wages.
00:53:52.000These three things, correct me if I'm wrong, you end up with a corporation in the United States who says, okay, we're just told by the Biden administration and the Democrats, they want our corporate taxes to go up 5%.
00:54:04.000So now we're going to lose X dollars per year here in the United States.
00:54:07.000They also are saying we have to pay more.
00:54:10.000So now we're going to lose X percent more in rising wages, but they're getting rid of the tariffs.
00:54:16.000Hell, let's move the factory to China.
00:54:35.000And I'm like, if you just watch what he's doing, and then we look at this thing with the oil, it's like when the ports got backed up, He announces we're going to keep these ports up and running 24 seven or whatever you extend the hours and allow people which didn't address the actual problem that they couldn't do anything with empty, empty shipping containers.
00:54:56.000But of course, Biden comes out just I'm going to do a thing.
00:54:59.000And then these people are satisfied by it.
00:55:00.000They're like, Oh, well, you know, Biden's doing stuff.
00:55:05.000At a certain point, Biden's approval rating is in the gutter.
00:55:08.000I mean, by all, almost every poll's got him in the 30s at this point.
00:55:12.000Independent voters, approval rate for independent voters, 24% on civics.
00:55:17.000He's in the gutter because people are finally waking up and being like, yo, I think these Biden admin people are burning this country to the ground.
00:55:25.000You know, but he's happy every morning because he looks at the poll numbers and Kamala's below him.
00:56:12.000It's if people's productivity If people's productivity increases, their real wages will go up.
00:56:21.000If you simply increase the minimum wage at a time where inflation is going faster than any rise you can do, I mean, workers aren't going to be better off.
00:56:33.000But if you also raise the corporate tax and you have less investment, as Tim, you point out, the jobs are going off to China and staying here, the productivity goes down as well.
00:56:45.000The thing is, he just doesn't understand basic economics.
00:56:50.000You've said more sensible economic principles in the last half hour than any of the Biden officials have said since they got there.
00:57:01.000I think they definitely do because if you look at what's been happening, who's been benefiting from this US billionaires have gotten a 62% raise during the pandemic.
00:57:10.000There's a large transfer of wealth happening right now from the very poor to the super rich and who's Who's benefiting?
00:57:17.000Well, obviously, the billionaires are getting their way.
00:57:20.000Mom-and-pop shops were destroyed during the pandemic while, of course, Walmart, Costco, Amazon, all those other big box stores were allowed to be open as we were told two weeks to slow the spread, which was ridiculous.
00:57:31.000We all sacrificed, but the other corporations got to do whatever they wanted to do.
00:57:35.000You want to know what's really amazing?
00:57:37.000I was reading this op-ed on the economy back in 2019 because the economy was booming.
00:57:43.000I mean, from my personal experience, I tell the story of when we were setting up our first studio, the lady at the furniture store said, 2019 was the best year of my life.
00:57:52.000Our contractor who was doing work in the end was like, the best year I've had.
00:57:55.000So I'm reading this op-ed, and they said that all of these things, the leftists claim they wanted, four-day work weeks, higher wages, paid vacation, family leave, are happening thanks to capitalism and a good economy.
00:58:15.000These leftists say, we demand these things.
00:58:19.000So when these things start happening, naturally, they vote for Joe Biden, who reverses all of the things that Trump did, and then end all of that really great stuff and make a terrible economy occur.
00:58:31.000So the thing is, If you have good economic policy, the economy starts working, starts coming back, the machine starts churning, you gotta lubricate the gears, get them going.
00:58:41.000And when you have bad policy, you put gum in the works, things slow down and fall apart.
00:58:45.000These leftists seem to think, people should be paid more money.
00:58:49.000I know, we'll force people to pay them more money, as if that manifests money or economic value or labor value.
00:59:09.000It's kind of at the heart of the pandemic shock that we're facing that's going to create stagflation, which is simultaneous inflation and slow growth or recession.
00:59:21.000And if you think about what the pandemic has done, it's been like a neutron bomb to our major metropolitan areas.
00:59:28.000If you think about it, it hits like the core foundation of major cities.
00:59:33.000It's like the mass transit, it's the entertainment districts, but most of all it's the high-rise office buildings.
01:00:00.000It's like the white-collar folks, to your point as to who's like winning in the pandemic economy, the white-collar folks are sitting out in the burbs, right?
01:00:10.000Commuting on their little iPads or whatever they've got.
01:00:18.000Although they might have to have tofu for turkey, but that's another story.
01:00:23.000But those people who used to be part of the ecostructure of the cities, The janitors in the buildings, the trucks outside, the food trucks, beauticians, this, that, and the other thing, they don't have anywhere to go.
01:00:38.000And moreover, they don't have the skills to transit.
01:00:42.000So we've got this weird thing, Tim, where you got like 10 million or so people unemployed
01:01:01.000If we don't build more of what we consume here, and help train those people, those service sector refugees are simply going to fade away into oblivion.
01:01:15.000And by the way, the millennials, as Bannon loves to point out on The War Room, are turning into modern-day serfs.
01:01:27.000But, you know, you can put that virtual reality thing on your head and life looks pretty good there for a while while you stone out on some Maui Wowies.
01:01:36.000I would love to ask you this because in the beginning of Trump's presidency he was kind of battling with the Federal Reserve.
01:01:42.000He was clashing heads with the Federal Reserve.
01:01:44.000Obviously the Federal Reserve has been printing money out of thin air.
01:01:47.000That's why this kind of promotion of GMO Monsanto soybeans is absolutely ridiculous.
01:01:52.000They shouldn't be giving out nutritional advice.
01:01:54.000They should stop Printing money out of thin air.
01:01:57.000But what was going on with the Trump administration with, of course, them just literally printing money during the pandemic and giving it to all the hedge funds, giving it to all the Wall Street bankers, giving them a huge bailout?
01:02:08.000Well, another shameless plug for you in Trump time, but there is a great story about Jerome Powell in there, and it goes something like this.
01:02:15.000So, it comes time to appoint a new Fed chairman.
01:02:21.000It was either going to be Janet Yellen, give her another term, or somebody else, right?
01:02:25.000And so, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who I state flat out in the In Trump Time book, if he had never come to the administration, Donald Trump would still be president.
01:02:36.000This guy did so much damage, but one of the things he did was he was the guy who recommended Jay Powell get appointed.
01:02:47.000And he did it under the assumption, because Steve's a control freak, he thought he can control Jay Powell.
01:02:55.000Jerome Powell did something that is kind of contrary to what you just said, but I'll come back to you being right.
01:03:01.000What we were doing with our four points of that economic compass I described earlier, is we were able to grow much more faster than the Biden-Obama regime, and do so without inflation, okay?
01:03:16.000The only reason why the Fed should raise interest rates or tighten the money supply is if there's any hint of inflation.
01:03:21.000What Jerome Powell did, that SOB, He ran contractionary monetary policy in the middle of the beautiful Trump boom under the false assumption that somehow there was going to be inflation.
01:03:36.000So in our time, on our watch, as I talk about in the book, he was too contractionary.
01:03:43.000We could have hit 4% growth instead of 3% growth and that's a million job difference, okay?
01:04:01.000Biden wants easy money to stimulate the economy.
01:04:06.000But what Powell is doing is contrary, again, to the facts and evidence.
01:04:11.000Tim, as he starts doing all the stuff you're talking about, in terms of Biden undoing what Trump did, that's Provoking all manner of inflation.
01:05:01.000Food prices go up because things like fertilizer, which are energy-driven, go up.
01:05:06.000And by the way, delivering the food and other things go up.
01:05:10.000So, Jay Powell, he's a pox on this world, and the fact that we're going to see him For another term.
01:05:17.000I mean, Trump couldn't wait to get rid of that guy.
01:05:21.000We sat around scheming all the time about how if we could take him out before his term was up.
01:05:27.000And whenever I wanted to troll that friggin' Mnuchin in the Oval, I'd look at the boss and say, boss, who was that who wanted Jay Powell at the Fed?
01:05:37.000So, the other thing too, it's not just inflation, it's shrinkflation, where products get smaller, but now we actually, we have this story, I mean, from TimCast.com, and I gotta tell you, you know, this is typically not something I think would be a big story, but look at this, General Mills to raise prices by 20%!
01:06:22.000Tell me now, as the food shortages, with the price increases, with the shrinkflation, and they're gonna raise the price.
01:06:29.000Your rice checks, your Cheerios, the kid wakes up for a bowl of cereal, and now you're wondering why it's 20% more.
01:06:35.000But not only that, the boxes are smaller, and you're buying twice as often.
01:06:38.000And the food banks are reporting that they're even having a hard time feeding people because of the inflation, because of the supply chain shortages.
01:06:45.000So Peter, I was gonna ask you, I'm always looking for the silver lining here.
01:06:49.000It's like, parents will need to buy fewer diapers because they won't be able to feed the kid as much.
01:07:26.000And so the way the 70s evolved, that literally, as we came in, It started with Lyndon Johnson in 1968 with the refusal of choosing between the Vietnam War expenditures and the Great Society.
01:07:40.000There's this concept in economics called guns versus butter.
01:07:44.000It's like you have to choose one or the other in some combination in order to maintain the budget.
01:07:48.000It's like LBJ was, nah, we're not going to do it, we're going to do both.
01:08:08.000And in 1980, when Reagan ran against Carter, there was this thing called the Misery Index.
01:08:14.000It was inflation rate plus unemployment.
01:08:17.000And it was 20 percent By the time that election rolled around, mortgage rates were like 13 and 15 percent.
01:08:25.000I mean, this is like stuff that's not in your, the people who are viewing and listening to the show can't even imagine this because they've been, they grew, they've grown up in an era of like 2, 3, 4 percent mortgage rates.
01:08:52.000Paul Volcker came along as Federal Reserve Chairman.
01:08:57.000Never confuse Paul Volcker with Jerome Powell.
01:09:00.000And he induced the mother of all recessions to wring inflationary expectations out of the economy.
01:09:07.000And the only reason why that worked is because Reagan came along and did all the structural kind of changes that we've been talking about, guys.
01:09:15.000And that basically reset the economy and then we went off on our 80s boom.
01:09:21.000But that'll be a hard trick to redo because it requires both A smart Fed chairman and somebody as president who understands kind of the structural changes.
01:09:38.000I mean, we're at 28 trillion, I think, is the deficit right now.
01:09:40.000He's looking at printing three trillion more to put it to 31.
01:09:43.000How do you with the amount of having to pay interest on that?
01:09:47.000I don't see it ever being able to come back from this at this point, whereas like other than like, I don't know, economic default or something like will default on the U.S.
01:09:56.000dollar and create a new currency or something.
01:09:58.000This is like Pelosi's Hail Mary and Big Go Brandon to the world here, because if she gets away with this latest bill, this last piece of the multi-trillion dollar pipe dream, progressive, socialist, Marxist, cut a puzzle, Because there's nothing in that bill that will strengthen the economy, to be clear.
01:10:20.000It's mostly a redistribution and it's a subsidy to China because they're all the ones that are going to be riding the electric vehicle stuff.
01:14:40.000My point is simply that Biden was an accident of history engineered by Wall Street and the big corporations via Claiborne in South Carolina.
01:14:52.000Let us remember that Sanders was the frontrunner going into South Carolina.
01:14:58.000And he said something stupid and they were able to jujitsu Biden and he became the guy.
01:15:10.000I mean, I've always thought that they want him in there just for a year and then they put Kamala in, thinking that Kamala would perform better than she has.
01:15:20.000But at this point, this is why the Michelle Obama thing, it's like, you gotta run somebody like that.
01:15:49.000I was shorting cardigan sweaters going into the election.
01:15:54.000You brought up a good point with Michelle Obama, because I've been talking about this for a long time.
01:15:57.000This was essentially to ensure that Barack Obama could have control of the White House for more than just the eight years that he was there in office.
01:16:07.000four years with of course Biden because Biden of course talks to Obama.
01:16:10.000Biden is helping him with this presidency.
01:16:14.000He would of course have eight years probably with Michelle Obama.
01:16:17.000So we're talking about an indefinite policymaking by Barack Obama which I think would be absolutely
01:16:55.000And I think that you're seeing like for example with Fox News, right?
01:16:59.000It's it's a cable Everybody's plugged into cable and the demographic is way old, right?
01:17:05.000And as that demographic fades away, literally, this will be your time because people are no longer doing cable anymore.
01:17:15.000They have all these different ways of going it.
01:17:18.000But that'll be—I mean, if Michelle Obama runs in 2024, whether she wins is going to be a lot determined by how powerful CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and all those folks are.
01:17:40.000In the In Trump Time book, I go deeply into the power of the social media oligarchs in Silicon Valley and how it's just such a corrosive element.
01:17:58.000This isn't in the In Trump Time book, but it's worth talking about.
01:18:01.000It's like Zuckerberg came to the White House on a couple of occasions, and it was Kushner Who backed policy up from cracking down on the big tech oligarchs.
01:18:16.000Yeah, there was like a wing of us in the White House who wanted to do that.
01:18:26.000As so often it was on things like China or social media, Jared, in his naivete, thought he could romance Zuckerberg.
01:18:36.000And meanwhile, Zuckerberg, I don't know if you know this stat, but he spent over half a billion dollars in the six battleground states alone, which was more than what the Trump campaign spent.
01:18:49.000So these guys, you know, it's like when you, it's kind of like on Black Friday when you buy Made in China, you're basically supporting their military.
01:19:00.000When you go on Facebook or whatever and participate in all that, you do enhance the power of Zuckerberg, of Dorsey at Twitter, Pichai at Google.
01:19:13.000And that would be fine if Section 230 were not in place and they couldn't use their mechanisms.
01:19:23.000Now, Kushner made a lot of very bad policies, especially when it came to Saudi Arabia negotiating for them to get a better weapons deal.
01:19:30.000But I kind of wanted to ask you, since you were there on the ground, do you think anyone in the White House legitimately believed in the two weeks to slow the spread since I think we're on day 659 of Okay, let's unpack that a little bit.
01:20:54.000And I'm going, okay, so this is kind of like basic math.
01:20:59.000Four cases today and and it's gonna double then you got eight cases next day It's like and then say how long is it before you got a pandemic in the country, right?
01:21:09.000This is what they didn't understand So when this thing hit we we we had our cupboards were bare right for PPE, right?
01:21:17.000We've been left with with no gloves, whatever just not there and And we didn't know what we had, and this was so important.
01:21:25.000It's like we didn't know whether this looks like smallpox with what they call the R-naught of like seven, which means for every person who gets infected, seven more get infected, or whether it was more like the flu where it's like an R-naught of one, right?
01:21:41.000So the lockdown was a knee-jerk response to, in the fog of war, to something we weren't sure were there.
01:21:50.000So you can't really, honestly, Monday morning quarterback that was that was that a lot of
01:21:56.000your but that's not hold on hold on but this is a federal you're talking about
01:22:00.000you're asking about a federal question but the lockdowns were state level
01:22:03.000well no trump even actually came out later and said you know they shouldn't
01:22:06.000do this but i can't control them pence with the stop the spread was a
01:22:10.00015 day kind of thing where they asked everybody but here's the thing i was i was one of the first and there's
01:22:16.000a new york times article about this who yeah i quickly realized
01:22:21.000Okay, so here's what's going to happen.
01:22:47.000But the other part of the problem is that people who are locked down can't go to hospitals to get kidney dialysis, cancer treatments, breast biopsies, colonoscopies.
01:23:03.000And by the way, if you lock people up like rats in a cage, They're going to start taking more drugs, drinking more and eating more, and their health is going to deteriorate.
01:23:15.000So that's something that the Fauciites never clearly understood.
01:23:20.000And so there became, as we began to realize that, there became Uh, the idea where, no, no, no, we gotta, we gotta learn how to open this up, and then, like, the best model here, really, ex-post, is the Sweden model.
01:24:10.000Okay, this is me talking to the president.
01:24:13.000This is me may or may not be telling the president to fire Fauci.
01:24:20.000Yes, and I did tell the president to fire Fauci twice, and once after my showdown in Chapter 2 in the Sit Room over the China travel ban, which he was adamantly opposed to, and the president sent me to argue there on behalf.
01:24:35.000But to your point, Luke, here's the problem I had, and I always felt like custard, like in the White House, right?
01:24:42.000So in this case, you had two forces in favor of Fauci.
01:24:46.000You had the big four at the health care agencies.
01:26:13.000One other thing that I emphasize in the In Trump Time book is that Pence Never, ever should have been in charge of that task force.
01:26:21.000That was a stupid, scientific, and political decision, because he was too close to the Oval Office, right?
01:26:29.000What you needed, and as I argue in the In Trump Time book, is like, you wanted somebody who was tough, smart, who could appeal to both sides of the aisle, and would deliver this thing, whiskey straight, no chaser.
01:26:42.000Like it's the Mel Gibson, one of the Mel Gibson movies, like men will die, you know, people, Americans are going to die, right?
01:26:49.000And there's going to be a lot of them or less dying, but people are going to die no matter what you do.
01:27:22.000He struck me as like an old guard general, like a World War I general that was still on staff when World War II broke out, and you immediately realize, like, you put him in charge and he makes a blunder, and you realize he's not Abel, he's not qualified to lead anymore.
01:27:36.000You've got to immediately remove him and put in a young new general.
01:27:39.000And yeah, I'm still waiting for that to happen.
01:27:41.000So do you think it was the influence of all these four horsemen that you detailed that kept Fauci in there?
01:27:46.000Or do you think there was something else that kept him in there?
01:27:52.000It was initially the four horsemen, literally, of the pandemic, right, in the health care bureaucracy.
01:27:59.000But as Fauci gained purchase in his perch there, and his approval rating was high, he had what we call a high Q rating in TV and things like that, that's where the Mulvaney Second Act came in, where Mulvaney was too afraid to fire him, and the press people were like, they were like, they just like, they were like frozen in fear with the idea of taking him on, and it's like, no, no, no, no.
01:28:27.000I mean, I hope I can provide you with the background.
01:28:30.000That's the fun part about the In Trump Time book.
01:28:33.000It literally is the definitive insider's account of what happened there, because I was there.
01:28:44.000But a lot of these stories people just don't understand as to what happened and how it happened.
01:28:50.000And like, for example, Pence's Chief of Staff Mark Short.
01:28:54.000I mean, one of the reasons why you did not want Mike Pence running the task force is his Chief of Staff Mark Short did not believe there was a pandemic.
01:29:02.000He thought this was just kind of the flu.
01:29:05.000I mean, how can you get a task force moving And by the way, there's a funny story that's darkly funny in the In Trump Time book about this guy, Mark Short.
01:29:14.000de facto didn't believe there was a problem. And by the way, there's a funny
01:29:19.000story that's darkly funny in the In Trump Time book about this guy, Mark
01:29:23.000Schurter. I mean, early on, think about this, think about this.
01:29:25.000Short decides to send Pence out on Air Force Two out to the Seattle area where the pandemic just was developing.
01:29:35.000Like, people are dying left and right in a nursing home, and he thinks it's a good idea for Pence to go out there.
01:29:41.000Now, you might be thinking, yeah, of course we send our president or vice president out into hurricane zones or tragedies or whatever.
01:29:48.000But you don't do that in a pandemic, and here's why.
01:29:51.000It's like, it's not just Pence going out there.
01:29:54.000It's all the staff, it's all the Secret Service agents, it's the advanced staff, and guess what?
01:30:02.000They're back at the White House, right?
01:30:03.000And you have the golden opportunity—thank you, Communist China—to wipe out, effectively, the top level of government. It was insane. And that vice
01:30:16.000president's office had the highest rate of infection of any unit within the White House because of
01:30:39.000There's no, there's no sour grapes bitterness here.
01:30:42.000One time, there's a great story in the In Trump Time book about after I did a tilt with Jake Tapper one Sunday, right, which was particularly vitriolic as it always is with Tapper.
01:30:52.000I go in the Oval and we're all standing around and Mike does this like wonderful impression of me.
01:30:58.000During the debate, like, with my hand gestures and everything like that, it was hilarious.
01:31:02.000I had a really warm relationship with him.
01:31:05.000But when Mark Short took over as Chief of Staff midway through the four years, it was like this iron curtain descended over Mike, and you could no longer speak to him.
01:31:18.000Before that, I would brief him regularly, he was open to stuff, he always read the stuff we did.
01:31:23.000Mark Short comes along, he just walls the guy off.
01:31:32.000There's a great, again, another story in the Interim Time book about how I'm the guy, as the Defense Production Act coordinator, I had like five warehouses surrounded With FBI agents and Bill Barr on my side to crack down on these SOBs who were price gouging.
01:31:50.000We were ready to raid them to send a strong signal to anybody who was going to take advantage of the pandemic that they were going to suffer severe consequences.
01:33:24.000The president, greatest president in modern history, to be clear, but a lot of what he did, he did it in spite of who worked for him rather than because of it.
01:36:26.000Yeah, you'd show up, you'd sit down, he'd eventually be like, okay, I think we're out of time, have a nice day, thanks for coming, it's been a blast.
01:36:32.000I would like to point out, if you want to be president for four years, then you can sit down for two hours and talk.
01:36:38.000Trump doesn't need to come here and do that to be president.
01:36:42.000If you have patience, you have patience.
01:36:43.000But maybe one of our guests on the show will one day be president.
01:36:48.000Got a lot of people who are political, a lot of politicians.
01:36:50.000And hey, you know, some of these people are pretty young, like late, late 20s, maybe in 30 years, you know, be like, wow, I can't believe that guy's on my show.
01:37:35.000See, the thing about Trump is that I'm pretty sure if you, Luke, were like, what's up with the deal with Saudi Arabia, he'd be like, listen, listen, I'll tell you what happened with Saudi Arabia.
01:39:19.000So let me take you back to the 70s, because my first job was in the Department of Energy, and my job was to figure out how to get us off foreign oil, because we never imagined we could do what we did under President Trump, which has become Energy independence.
01:39:37.000So what happened, Tim, back in those days to start the stagflation was OPEC cartel, basically through the Saudis, did an embargo on the American people.
01:39:50.000And they had two separate oil embargoes.
01:39:55.000where the price of oil went from, you know, 30 bucks to 100 bucks overnight.
01:39:59.000There were large gas lines. I don't know if you've ever seen pictures of that.
01:40:03.000And at the same time we were having food price shocks.
01:40:07.000So Carter gets elected because of the misery associated with what was happening.
01:40:16.000And his solution is not to drill more oil or crack down on the Saudis or whatever.
01:40:23.000It was like, wear more cardigan sweaters and freeze in your home.
01:40:28.000And so he gave this famous speech, right, where he's sitting and the lights are like dark and he's got like, he's like, okay, the guy's like a former Navy nuclear guy.
01:40:37.000He's got no sense of like, look at this beautiful studio here.
01:40:40.000If he'd done it in this studio, he might have got away with it and had like Christmas gears on the sweater.
01:40:48.000But no, it was like a really dark vision.
01:40:51.000People go, I don't want to live in that America.
01:41:09.000Joe Biden comes out tomorrow, the day before Thanksgiving, because news, you know, don't eat turkeys, people are complaining, and he says, listen.
01:42:22.000We're in a 50-50 country right now and the progressives have been in the ascendancy and everything they're doing undermines us economically, socially, culturally, and boy are people fed up with that in the flyover country in Main Street.
01:42:41.000Again, to Lydia's point, look, I've never seen nothing like this.
01:42:47.000Like, during the Vietnam War, OK, the kinds of demonstrations that happened in Washington was massive.
01:42:56.000It's like stuff that's happening now with the BLM, whatever, around the White House.
01:43:02.000That was mild compared to what you saw in DC, but it was... In terms of size or violence?
01:43:35.000Yeah, that was like the boom of the decade.
01:43:38.000Yeah, it's like so this is where we're way outside in pandemic.
01:43:42.000Remember, the last pandemic we had was 1918 with the flu.
01:43:46.000And this one, look, one of the things I get, one of the things in the In Trump Time book is was my quest Right.
01:44:01.000And we've done presidential commissions for Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassination, the BP oil spill.
01:44:08.000I just want to say that as a guy who is like at the center of this.
01:44:13.000If I had been able to get the original genome of the virus from communist China at the time, we could have got a vaccine that would have been more sophisticated and quicker than we did.
01:44:30.000So it's not insignificant that we weren't able to do that.
01:44:36.000So I don't think we get to the end of the pandemic until we understand The beginning of it.
01:44:41.000And I think that's a fair question that everybody should have on their mind.
01:44:45.000All right, we're gonna read this one from Red Rumaxx.
01:44:48.000He says, UK is advertising crickets and cheeseburgers on public transport.
01:45:27.000But the problem is it's got an astringent flavor to it.
01:45:31.000So if we've done right, I would say it was not good.
01:45:34.000It was food, and I will tell you this.
01:45:37.000If I went in the kitchen and there was nothing and there was cricket bread, I'd eat it and I would not be upset.
01:45:40.000Yeah, we made it in a bread maker, but for sure if you made a no-bake bread with some sugar, some salt, you know, you can make it taste really, really good.
01:45:48.000Is there the underlying question of Why?
01:47:11.000And so they didn't understand what was missing, so they, you know, checked, and they were like, everything's the same.
01:47:15.000But what they didn't realize, and again, this may not be true, I just read it in a book.
01:47:19.000I'm saying, it's very careful, because I don't want it to... What happened was, rats would climb into the vats to drink it, and then drown and die, and sink to the bottom, and then decay.
01:47:29.000So they replaced it with fish oil, and it brought the flavor back or whatever.
01:48:30.000Although I'm starting to sleep through it.
01:48:31.000I talked to my mom last night I got these chokers for the roosters where you put them around their neck and then they go So they don't really scream very much.
01:48:39.000Yeah, you can't we can't it reinforced I don't want to I'd rather just tough it out I read too many horror stories where like what happens they have heart attacks that the roosters will try and like I'm gonna let the rooster do his thing.
01:48:50.000We'll move him to the farm eventually, I think is the plan.
01:48:53.000So yeah, we're gonna be moving the Black Stars and Dorothy to the new place so they can have their own little, you know, chicken life.
01:49:16.000No, no, but we're actually in the process of setting up Chicken City live show, so we're gonna have cameras all over.
01:49:22.000You gotta see, it's massive, it's massive.
01:49:24.000It's underneath this house, and it's really huge.
01:49:28.000So we're gonna put cameras everywhere, and they're all gonna live stream, and the cameras will rotate periodically, and then people will be able to go to the live stream 24-7 to watch the chickens do their chicken thing.
01:51:20.000If anybody should understand the importance of chain of command it should be General Mattis.
01:51:26.000Now why do I say this in answer to your questions like this is the problem we have in the military.
01:51:32.000It's not unlike the other bureaucracies where there's a culture that's been adopted where the Pentagon seems to be independent of The leadership and from what I'm really surprised at this critical race theory has has been able to metastasize so quickly in the Pentagon because it must have been going on during the Trump administration.
01:52:38.000And then they can go and watch, you know, cartoons.
01:52:40.000I heard safe spaces are bulletproof, right?
01:52:42.000No, look, I'm deeply concerned about the military.
01:52:46.000We were able to significantly increase the military budget and kind of get it back towards the trajectory it needed to be.
01:52:55.000But we're woefully unprepared for what is likely to be our I mean, you're seeing the whole doctrine of peace through strength, Reagan-Trump, right?
01:53:45.000By the way, the summit that just happened, I don't know if you watched that, but that term, like when Xi Jinping called Joe Biden his, quote, old friend.
01:54:17.000MurphyTriesDIY says, Tim wouldn't answer a call from the Situation Room because he would think it's a call for extending his car's warranty.
01:55:31.000So what happens the very next day, right, at 10 in the morning?
01:55:35.000And I'll actually show you the video of it, because I took an iPhone of it.
01:55:38.000Sure enough, a sheriff shows up with a subpoena, come knocking on your door.
01:55:44.000These people, all they're trying to do is intimidate you.
01:55:47.000And that woman in Colorado, who they're branding a domestic terrorist, and the FBI sends the six agents to, and tears her apartment up or house up to find whatever it is that's not there that they're looking for.
01:56:04.000This is part of the problem I'm seeing.
01:56:06.000It's like the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland has become essentially a jackboot.
01:56:14.000And the FBI, as an extension of that, I'm sure that most of the agents in there do not want to do that.
01:56:22.000But I would love to see some more resistance within the FBI.
01:56:26.000And I'm calling on that right now to kind of like Hey, slow down a little bit, because mothers who are worried about their kids shouldn't be searched, have to face search warrants.
01:56:39.000But anyway, that was an interesting story.
01:56:41.000It's a bummer, because I grew up with the X-Files FBI, and they were cool.
01:56:46.000Even outside of Mulder and Scully, when they had the actual FBI, there's like, hey, we're tracking down a murderer, we're gonna help protect people, but now it's so political.
01:56:56.000Well, see, I grew up with the J. Edgar.
01:57:52.000They keep doubling down, tripling down on it.
01:57:54.000I mean, I was just watching Comey rule on Netflix, right?
01:58:00.000And the whole thing is misinformation and disinformation because it sincerely kind of presents the story as if the Steele dossier were true, right?
01:58:13.000And you go through the whole thing and if you look at it, it's like, The prologue to the In Trump Time book I call the Rashomon election.
01:58:20.000I don't know if you guys, or Lydia, have you ever seen Rashomon?
02:02:11.000By the way, a little breaking news for you.
02:02:13.000Tomorrow morning, press release is going out where I'm actually recommending another book to buy at the holidays in conjunction with this.
02:02:23.000It's called The Real Anthony Fauci by Bobby Kennedy Jr.
02:02:27.000And this is my account of Fauci during the year of the plague.
02:02:31.000And Kennedy comes at it from the previous decades where Fauci was there.
02:02:36.000And I think that as a gift for the holidays, by the time you get to the end of those two books, you will have a very different view of Fauci if you still think he's Santa Claus.
02:02:49.000I know where you guys are coming from!
02:02:52.000I heard great things about that Bobby Kennedy book.
02:04:25.000And I just wanted to say before I go that the Rashomon effect is where the two people are looking at a six slash a nine and they can't figure out which is which.
02:04:32.000So there's actually an effect named, I think it's inspired by this movie that came out in 1950.
02:04:37.000Thank you very much for coming, Peter.