Episode 2525: FEMA Not Responding To Ohio Desaster
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In this episode of the War Room, we have a special guest on the show this week, Ben Harnwell. Ben is a veteran of the British Foreign Office, a former Foreign Office official, an academic, an activist, a writer, a pacifist, an anti-vaccination advocate, a human rights activist, and an internationalist. He's been a long time friend of the show and has been with us through it all.
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on
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these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have
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had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do everything
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in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and where do people
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like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of these people
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had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer is to save my
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country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k band
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we have the backs of our friends and we hold our enemies to account and you know whether it's
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ukraine or israel we take care of them because it's about freedom and we can never stop fighting
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for freedom there is that populist strain and a lot of maga that wants the ukraine gravy train
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financially and otherwise to stop and even there's a growing republican consent not consensus but
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growing republican sport to say wait a minute checks and balances here what are we doing giving
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all this money to ukraine where do you come down on the money on on the military uh whether it be
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fighter jets x y and z biden was slow to the take he should have given ukraine what they needed right
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when this started and we'd be in a totally different place right now this isn't a war about ukraine
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this is a war about freedom and i don't think we need to put troops on the ground i don't think we
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need to write them blank checks but they have the passion to fight for their own freedom give them
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the ammunition to do it get with our nato allies and say hey we're not the only ones you've got to do
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it too and let them win this fight but i'll tell you what if they win this fight you won't hear
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anything from russia china or iran if they lose this fight russia's not going to stop at ukraine
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they're going to go into poland and the baltics and we've got a world war on our hands
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we have to make sure we send a message to every enemy that if you mess with our friends you're
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messing with us and you don't want to do that and that therefore is america first in essence it is
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taking care of america because we're preventing wars bottom line is there's a lot mounting evidence
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and research that shows that these vaccines might not be as safe as well people once thought what is
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your view on what's happening in terms of vaccine safety i mean they they scared people into thinking
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they had to get a vaccine they scared uh people into thinking they had to close schools they scared
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businesses into shutting down and all they did was make our country more unhealthy because they didn't
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allow people to live at the end of the day if a small business wants to open they should have the
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freedom to open and if a customer wants to walk in that business they should have the freedom to walk
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in there if parents want their children to go to school they should be able to send them
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and the child shouldn't have to be in a mask to do that because guess what elementary school kids
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learn by facial expressions and now you see all of these mental health challenges that we have for
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so many of our children and it's because of all um she's going to be my new mika um we got so much
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to get through today we've kind of reorganized the show it's friday 17 february the year of our lord
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2023 we've got a huge block that we're going to go to uh we've got uh pedro gonzalez nick sortor
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and michael patrick leahy on east palestine ohio we're gonna get to that here shortly but i had to
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start and by the way just for nicky we'll get to her vax maybe sometime later in the second hour uh
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but you know she used to send out invitations i think to her book launch where you had to show proof
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of vax i'll put that up later you had to show proof of vax to get into the book launch proof of
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vax so don't don't give me the happy talk on vax that that's all neoliberal neocon stuff i want to
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bring in uh ben harnwell uh ben you've been on top of first off the the munich arms dealers meeting
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the the let me say it a different way and what a lovely town what a lovely town to put it in munich
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right with so many great memories from munich of the 20th century what a better place what better
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place to have the arms bizarre orgy uh then uh you know the guys are beating uh plowshares into
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swords right just selling the world's nothing but the what the arms dealers the profiteers the
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warmonger profiteers because everybody's over there and now that john mccain is uh gone through this
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veil of tears you got the lindsey grams you got you got kamala harris gave an interview she actually
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come across as dumber and less informed than nikki haley if that's possible and remember when you hear
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nikki haley there with all the happy talk and the it's all about freedom um this is her wheelhouse
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remember the the the national security is supposed to be her wheelhouse uh ben harnwell put it in
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perspective we had zelinski and we're as we're getting these cuts because they're coming in hot
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so we get denver uh working overtime with our crack team here in the nation's capital
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zelinski just gave that interview in um to bbc uh and he's going to do a video here it to um
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to uh munich that uh on the day that finally the mainstream media has realized they got to catch up
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with war room they're calling it a winter offensive it started and they're pounding them on i don't know
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a four or five hundred mile front zelinski goes no land for peace absolutely no there is no deal on
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the table he will not sit down and negotiate that they've got to get back the eastern uh provinces
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donbass and the other provinces and crimea 100 return of that ben harnwell your your perspective
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on on munich and what you're hearing coming out of there well it's um really you've given me the
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challenge steve of tying all these strands together because they certainly do belong together
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well zelinski all he's doing is following through on the lead that the west have given him and they've
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reiterated it innumerable innumerable times that this war ends when he wants it to end um on under
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the terms that he wants they've given him that unilateral control and therefore uh he has no reason
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whatsoever to to think about the negotiating table um that will only change when the west says we don't
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have any more resources to send you president zelinski you're going to have to sit down and talk
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um until that happens he's going to carry on there's no reason their incentive for him to um to stop
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um and that's really what munich is about here but but but but hang on hang on one second hang
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hang on one second i want to make sure the audience understands now that's where you come
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in audience because this is all on morning mika all morning they've talked about the uh the populist
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right the maga right the trump movement right uh in the republican party that is starting to rise up and
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say absolutely not one more penny uh for ukraine and by the way we got to audit every every piece of
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cash we sent over the fox news reported yesterday 200 billion dollars fox news 200 billion dollars in
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in cash humanitarian aid basically we're paying for their gdp we're putting i think five billion
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dollars in a month to get to gap it plus arms plus arms so 200 billion is either money already there
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or commitments through this you're 200 billion dollars already the the the the key here is we're
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shutting this down and you the audiences are the ones shutting it down you're the peacemakers because
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peace has to come or the ukrainian people this is immoral the ukrainian people will be destroyed
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continue on ben i particularly want to tie together the the political had a lead story this morning
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europe the eu is no longer afraid of bannon okay they're afraid of bannon in 19 but they ain't afraid
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now i got news for you you should be 10 times more afraid now we'll get into that but at the same
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time there's a huge story ben harnwell that says that what they're really talking about is the
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trillion dollars they're going to put in to rebuild the construction business is about to explode in
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ukraine because all they're talking about is rebuilding the country and all the all the big
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construction international construction companies making making tons of money connect those dots
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for me brother harnwell and let me say at the top harnwell is the cynic i'm actually the idealist
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i come across as harder but i've actually got a soft heart ben harnwell's got that he's that he's got
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that beady-eyed englishman right that that's always in the in the counting room he's so he may live in
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rome and and going all the great churches but he's he's a cynic at heart ben harnwell the floor is
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yours well uh i don't know how to how i can live up steve to that introduction um yeah i mean look the
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thing is look i am a libertarian i've been a libertarian for a number of decades i am now thanks
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to my long familiarization with your thought a libertarian with bannonite characteristics but
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fundamentally when i see the government doing something i think it's a grift uh and all they're
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going to try to do is take my uh take the euros out of my wallet one way or another um and i view
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everything i see everything any activity government does i see it through that lens so when i see oh
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by the way um my view of our of our political leadership as i've indicated on a number of occasions
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these people are sociopaths our overlords are sociopaths so when they start preening themselves
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before the television cameras saying that they're interested in democracy and the rule of law and all
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the rest of it um and that we need to protect our values um i i say bs right it's the first thing i
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think i think how are they going to use such and such a pretext either the environment or um or ukraine
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or or whatever it is or build back better how are they going and build back better obviously i mean
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it doesn't even pretend to be anything other than than a grift but how are these people going to to
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use this this uh crisis um which of course they themselves would have created um covid is another
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great example how are they going to use this to rob me to take the money out of my hard-earned money out
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of my out of my wallet so looking at the um that is the lens call it cynical that's the the lens i've
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only ever viewed uh ukraine through and and that's why we're on the war room from day one and and we'll
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come down to the new york times piece um in just a moment it's why what the new york times is saying
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now after a year of this conflict we in the war room have been saying from day one this is an opportunity
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to make money for our overlords first for the military industrial complex and once the mic has
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sucked all the marrow out of the bone of this war the big grift uh will be in in the the reconstruction
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the rebuilding of ukraine um and you know long-standing uh viewers on the war will have heard
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us talking about this and now the new york times has picked it up and we'll come around to that article
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um i just wanted to say with regards to um to ukraine however uh and and munich i cannot help but think
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um steve you're you're you're you're a historian as well a passionate historian of the 20th century
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um well i heard that this this munich security uh conference was now and it's a rogues gallery
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right it's it's you know you all all our worst friends are there um from ursula von der lion
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kamala harris olaf schultz uh emmanuel mini macron in his uh platform shoes they're all they're all
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going to be there um preening themselves in front of the television cameras why munich well munich and
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this is simply a speculation 75 years ago this year was the munich conference where the uh
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the world the world leaders gathered together um neville chamberlain had a little bit of paper
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and peace in our time as he called it um and that was really an objective to to stop
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a world war world war ii from happening back in 1938 and they uh they ceded uh the sudetenland which
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is part of northern czechoslovakia on the czech german uh border to germany uh it wasn't enough because
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obviously uh hitler's plans exceeded far beyond simply uh the sudetenland and uh and the angelus
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to austria and all the rest of it um but that's because we're dealing with two different phenomena
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one was it was an ideologically expansionist totalitarian dictatorship and and i guess what
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they're trying to suggest is that we can't make the mistake that we made 75 years ago in pacifying
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hitler again with um vladimir putin but i think anyone who's been watching this closely and knows
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the history knows the story realizes that these are two fundamentally different phenomena but that
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is what our globalist overlords will be trying to suggest and therefore you know let's not repeat
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the accidents and the mistakes of of the past and therefore we need to be all the expansionists hang
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on hang on the expansionists this this is why i was in 19 the expansionists are are nato in the eu
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they're the ones going into the sphere of influence of what russia's had and you got this is not about
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freedom nikki this is about hard-nosed geopolitics hard-nosed geopolitics uh nick uh ben just hang on
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i'm gonna have to have you have you hang on for the hour we're gonna come in and out we're gonna get
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back to this i've got to go to break here in a second but i've got uh i've got pedro gonzalez we're
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going to have nick sorter i got michael patrick lahey uh we're going to get into you notice they're not
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talking about trillion dollars in new york times day he's talking about the construction
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business that's going to be booming this is all they're lathered up about the booming construction
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business is going to take place in ukraine okay as as they after that as he says as what ben said
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after they've taken all the money from the arms dealers they're going to go into rebuilding it
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you notice ben i missed the story in the new york times about the construction and reconstruction
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and all the money's going to go into east palestine ohio right i haven't seen that yet they kind of
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missed that one so we're gonna take a short commercial break we're gonna be we got harnwell
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gonzalez sorter michael patrick lahey all of it only in the war room we're gonna go to east palestine
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dr colin call he helps guide the defense department's ukraine security assistance delivery process which
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currently totals around 30 billion dollars it's great to have you on the show and we're at uh
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almost the one year mark since the war began how much assistance has the u.s provided for ukraine
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well as you mentioned thanks for having me on uh since the beginning of the biden administration
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about 30 billion dollars of more than 29 billion dollars since uh russia uh invaded ukraine again
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uh last february and what is that in the form of well uh the prioritization has shifted uh as the
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battle has shifted so in the initial period of the war we were very focused on providing things like
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anti-tank systems like the javelin or right stinger man portable air defense systems as the conflict
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shifted to the east we really focused on artillery so how it serves these high mars systems people have
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talked about and in the current period of the fight we're focused on air defense and armor i'm curious
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about the training that might be happening and if more will be happening and also is there too much
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of a delay like when you hear the intensity from the ukrainians it's as if they need you know
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obviously what they need now and yet then when you hear about the delivery which you're involved with
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it takes often months to get uh one you know if you could doing helicopters or abrams tanks it's a
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months-long process well i mean obviously if you're ukraine and you're in an existential fight for the
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survival of your nation you want everything and you want it right now uh i would say as someone who's
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worked at the pentagon for a number of years to include before this administration if you had told
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me a year ago we could have delivered 29 billion dollars of security assistance to anywhere on planet
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earth i would have told you that you were crazy yeah uh and so in most instances especially when
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we're drawing down from our own stocks uh-huh uh it's days between the when the president signs that
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presidential drawdown and when start and stuff starts to flow into ukraine so dr call two questions on
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further future assistance first would be we know that republicans have raised uh concerns they say
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there just won't be a blank check um how worried are you how first of all how much longer will this
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money last and then the concern is will you to get more and then what do you say that also the gop
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criticisms that this money it can't be tracked how it's being used over there and they lean on the idea
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of corruption and keith yeah well look uh i'll say this uh the congress has been very generous in
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providing uh assistance for ukraine in two types of uh buckets these presidential drawdown that allows us
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to draw out of our own dod stocks and then what's called usai money which allows us to contract
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uh for weapons uh we believe we have uh an uh you know a good amount uh to last us through this
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fiscal year um you know in terms of uh whether we can track it i mean sometimes you've heard that
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we're not going fast enough and other times you hear we're going too fast and can't keep track of
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what we're providing so it's a little damned if you do damned if you don't but in this case we're
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making sure that uh everything we send in is uh accounted for we've worked with the ukrainians to
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make sure they're scanning the objects reporting to the folks we have in the embassy now obviously
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this is a war zone uh so that creates some constraints but uh we have to be good stewards
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of taxpayer dollars and that's what we're doing has there been a special inspector general
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uh nominated yet or put in place to oversee the spending yes well there there is an oversight
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process both internal and then uh whatever congress needs we'll provide get her name that was the by the
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way has it okay that's just all lies spin the misrepresentation the way they count fox news
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had it yesterday 200 billion dollars in military aid and in humanitarian when they humanitarian is
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we're paying for their gdp um and that's also the obligations through this year it's 200 million
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and it's only going up pedro gonzalez you just got back from east palestine ohio with the hard
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working citizens of this nation compare and contrast that to what you're hearing about ukraine and
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particularly this kind of oh you know you got these hard right extremist republicans or and you saw
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he saw his smirk you saw the uh lamir uh asked the question and and and dr uh what colin call had that
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had the smirk uh pedro gonzalez your perspective and observation sir yeah i i don't think it's an
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exaggeration at all to say that these people care more about ukrainians and their kleptocracy than
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they do about middle americans in little east palestine ohio this is a village of 5 000 people
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it's 98 percent white it's blue collar a lot of the people there are you know the the quintessential
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middle american voter the people that voted democrat for many many years and then flipped for the
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republican party in 2016 to vote for trump because he was speaking their language when he talked about
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economic populism these are these are the again these are the quintessential forgotten people of
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america and everything that you just saw in that interview from the haughtiness to the preoccupation
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with foreign affairs and an irrelevant country that has nothing to do with the american interest
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that's it i mean that is why again the the people in this part of ohio feel like they've been
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completely abandoned by their government that was my impression from visiting uh the other day i spent
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several hours in east palestine talking to locals and i i actually went there to get answers and i
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left with more questions but it's precisely because the people there don't have any idea about what's
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going on in their own backyard because they don't trust the federal government they don't feel like
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they're being taken care of by the people who are supposed to be managing this crisis and yet you turn on
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tv and you constantly hear about how we need to get more money to ukraine more aid for zelensky
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um it's it's a shame i mean i tweeted this yesterday that every politician who has conflated the
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ukrainian interest with america with the american interest especially in light of what's going on
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right now in east palestine it should be ashamed of themselves it's really really disgusting and i don't
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care if it's a republican or a democrat shame on them for subordinating the american interest to ukraine
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i want to go back something you said even about taking care of them and this is you know that we
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just got ranked number one by brookings and then the new york times did this piece of the number one
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rated misinformation and one of the things the woman who did the uh who did the analysis for
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brookings said that he calls into question every day the institutions uh and political processes in
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this nation and our response is damn right we wear this with a badge of honor is it even before you get
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to the take care of them isn't a more deeper and fundamental issue is that they can't get a
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straight answer whether it's from dewine whether it's from epa whether it's from fema i mean it's
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the misdirection plays it's all this general stuff you you don't know you know one the train derailed
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that's a whole separate issue and you know they don't they want to take all the blue collar guys off
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the train working the train and put a computer up there but then you got the controlled release you got
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the controlled burn you got afterwards isn't their fundamental problem is everybody lies to them
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or just spins or because they're just trash they don't they're just in the way they don't matter so
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they're not worthy of your time to give them a straight answer pedro gonzalez yeah that's right
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and again the people that live there are in the dark about what's happening literally in their own
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backyard precisely for that reason they they can't get a straight answer from anyone they obviously don't
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trust the railroad company they mostly feel that the mayor has done a great job but he's in over his
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head and ultimately you know in the dark himself because he can't get answers that he needs when i
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was there yes uh yesterday i obtained a copy of his schedule and i think this was also reported by local
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news that a representative from norfolk southern was supposed to appear at the east palestine high
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school auditorium for a question and answer with locals but they didn't show because they said they
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didn't feel safe which is exactly how locals feel right now i spoke to people who uh have have
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experienced rashes i spoke to people who woke up in the middle of the night uh and and their children
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started puking because of what was in the air and they had to flee their homes at three in the morning
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and not knowing what had happened and then coming back uh to the town and just seeing this black cloud
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towering over east palestine and they they were at grand zero ground zero and they still don't really
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have any answers they don't even know if they should be home and what's worse is that there are people
00:25:14.700
who even if they shouldn't be there for you know health reasons or whatever or they want to leave
00:25:19.480
they can't this is an economically depressed town how are they going to afford to just get up and go
00:25:24.700
and at the same time you have the the uh values of homes already in the area are decreasing so good
00:25:30.560
luck selling your house i mean it's really really shameful and disgusting what's going on and and how
00:25:36.340
these people are being treated and how again they're being left in the dark and it's really i think useful
00:25:41.740
to contrast that with our obsession with ukraine go back to that video that you played earlier with
00:25:48.920
nikki haley and her eyes light up as she's talking about ukraine you know it's it's not that she thinks
00:25:54.540
its interests are equivalent with american interests but they're somehow superior and i i i would ask
00:26:01.320
people like nikki haley to spend a day in east palestine and talk to people who live there and
00:26:07.020
look in their faces and see the frustration and confusion and sadness and uncertainty that's kind
00:26:12.720
of lingering over them and then talk to me she talks about and by the way you know for people who
00:26:20.880
served and defended freedom uh it has a and that's why we don't like freedom and liberty thrown around
00:26:26.180
as light terms and use this always the the uh like patriotism used to be right the last uh what uh um
00:26:33.860
place to hide for for a scoundrel i think it was ben johnson said that um the um this use of the
00:26:41.640
tone of freedom the freedom of the ukraine people in a slavic war over the eastern speak eastern the russian
00:26:49.480
uh speaking eastern border of ukraine 8 000 miles away versus the freedom what does she not get about
00:26:55.980
the freedom or no freedom of the people in east palestine uh pedro gonzalez well i think nikki
00:27:04.060
violence uh excuse me i combined two things that i wanted to say nikki haley is suffering from a brain
00:27:10.220
virus that abstracts america into a thing that's not actually home to a real flesh and blood people it's
00:27:18.920
just an idea right and it's an idea that has to be exported it's an idea that you can see represented
00:27:25.320
in places like ukraine even though ukrainians are not fighting for that idea nikki haley kind of imposes
00:27:31.480
it on them that's a really dangerous place to be i mean it's it's i've often likened this to the
00:27:36.940
french jacobins who started these revolutionary wars to spread what started in france across europe
00:27:42.600
uh these were really destructive wars uh and they also uh coincided with a domestic crackdown
00:27:49.400
on wartime descent which is what we know as the the reign of terror actually the reign of terror in
00:27:54.620
france was actually a crackdown on wartime descent um but i think again pedro hang on pedro just hang
00:28:02.140
hang on one second because i want to get into this further when you say reign of terror you get my
00:28:07.520
i'm perking up pedro gonzalez chronicles the editor of chronicles i get ben harnwell trying to track
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okay welcome back um we got nick sorter we're gonna get into him uh in a minute he got a response out of
00:29:58.460
uh um mike dewine sorter's been all over this thing doing great reporting on the scene uh pedro gonzalez
00:30:05.800
chronicles um continue on sir because here's what we got to get straight as a country right we're putting
00:30:12.900
200 billion dollars right now 200 billion dollars that's and it's going to be unlimited and it's
00:30:18.640
immoral because we've lied to the ukrainian people right now and this is why the first time i think it
00:30:24.540
was um one of the british papers i put it up this morning on getter said the winter offensive the winter
00:30:30.260
offensive by the russians has started and they're pounding these guys somebody said 30 i think the ft the
00:30:35.880
other day financial time said 30 000 rounds a day artillery they're getting pounded back to the stone age
00:30:41.620
you look at those buildings it's like dresden and at the end of world war ii remember these things
00:30:46.620
always end up as wars of annihilation that's what world war ii was a war of annihilation at the end
00:30:52.040
it's not so don't believe studs turco it's not some good war that's some fantasy you've been sold and
00:30:57.000
that's not about the valor and courage and dedication of the greatest generation of this nation and the
00:31:02.680
brits okay but that was the western part the killing fields the bloodlands is exactly where it is now
00:31:09.640
and it's going to be just as bad as we get sucked into this vortex when we had these uh happy talk
00:31:15.260
um you know neocons like nicky haley babbling it's just nonsense we're in a day this we're in the third
00:31:21.740
world war and you know who fights and get you know who fights and sacrifices it's the sons and daughters
00:31:28.200
of east palestine ohio and when you lose them by your lying and you're treating them like trash
00:31:36.660
once you lose that you don't have a country anymore uh pedro gonzalez dots and observations
00:31:42.720
i think it was it was either john meersheimer or doug mcgregor that said that u.s policy in ukraine is
00:31:48.620
to fight russia to the last ukrainian to basically throw as many ukrainians as possible on russian
00:31:54.400
swords for the our foreign policy or rather washington dc's foreign policy objectives are there and it is
00:32:01.920
really ghoulish and you can go back briefly look at the history of all of the things that made this
00:32:08.040
war inevitable and what you'll find is is that the united states at every conceivable turn put the world
00:32:15.240
on this collision course again that's not to say that the american people did that because obviously
00:32:20.460
they didn't they had no say in this right but that's just the reality of it and that's part of the
00:32:25.080
problem is is precisely that that our government our policies are ultimately unaccountable to americans
00:32:31.820
and again this this goes back to uh east palestine the response from the government from our
00:32:40.480
transportations are has been that basically these things happen these things happen all the time there
00:32:45.820
are thousands of derailments every year this is unfortunate however it's nothing out of the usual
00:32:51.600
now contrast that again to the urgency to the virtually unlimited amount of resources and
00:32:59.020
attention and money and aid that we're sending to ukraine as fast as humanly possible we're not
00:33:05.460
seeing that during a crisis in here and in the american heartland that's actually affecting uh the lives
00:33:13.140
of americans in direct and really concerning ways um there there are people that i spoke to that have
00:33:20.260
shops in downtown east palestine and they told me that they come to work and and they still will
00:33:26.280
develop uh kind of a like a burning sensation in their throat and eyes uh that people will walk into
00:33:33.360
their stores and that they can still kind of smell this chemical smell and these are just you know
00:33:37.620
people that are passing through like myself these people in east palestine they don't have a choice
00:33:41.740
you talk about freedom these people are not free to go anywhere they can't afford it their homes are
00:33:47.320
i spoke to a family that worked uh the both the husband and wife work at a at a ceramics uh factory
00:33:53.220
that was actually very close to where the train derailed and this factory is home to kilns that are
00:34:00.100
over a hundred years old these two people um have lived in east palestine their entire lives they
00:34:07.100
actually met in high school there they've never left the old actually in fact the only time that the
00:34:12.140
husband has ever left east palestine was for a six-year period when he served in the air force
00:34:17.320
other than that east palestine is all he knows they have nowhere to go these people don't have
00:34:22.080
freedom to leave to get up and go and in fact they probably don't want to because they love this town
00:34:27.080
that's why they're there they're not there because the opportunity they're there because it's home
00:34:30.340
and the fact is that people like nikki haley and joe biden and you know republicans and democrats
00:34:36.460
who are preoccupied with ukraine don't care about these people and it's really shameful
00:34:41.800
it's disgusting and revolting and we're going to stop it we're going to stop it in the house of
00:34:47.820
representatives here's how much money we're going to give to ukraine nothing if the you're we okay we
00:34:53.240
did this in world war one we did it again in world war ii we did it again the cold war three times a
00:34:58.580
charm fourth time it's on the eu all those people in davos in the ski resorts all those people in
00:35:03.900
austria all those people in northern italy all those people in france and in germany germany
00:35:08.360
and the nor the scandinavian countries and hey for good let's go to chelsea and knightsbridge over
00:35:14.800
in the in london cough it up you want to do it we got no problem you pay for it and you're absolutely
00:35:21.380
correct mersheimer's correct is that we're fighting russia to the last ukraine it's immoral what
00:35:26.660
mersheimer said we're going to lead these people down the primrose path and then abandon them at the
00:35:31.580
end and this is what you're seeing now as they're getting pounded pedro how do people get to your uh
00:35:36.420
twitter all your social media and chronicles where they get your where do they get to your
00:35:41.140
writing and your thinking sir you can read my column at chronicles at chroniclesmagazine.org
00:35:46.080
and my social media and my other writing is available at contra.substack.com
00:35:51.260
pedro thank uh thank you for joining us thank you for going there we'll be back in touch
00:35:59.200
pedro one of the smartest uh young men out there let's go to uh nick sortor he's been all over this
00:36:05.700
nick we're going to try to get the clip i don't think we have it yet from newsmax but but talk to
00:36:10.360
us about what you did with mike dewine and what we're hearing about his response sir and why you did
00:36:15.400
it so essentially what happened was uh mike dewine had been asked to come on newsmax to respond to the
00:36:25.140
video uh that i posted yesterday of a resident's backyard stream and the just sheer amount of
00:36:34.900
chemicals that was in this water uh it we basically we we threw a rock in the water and this this big
00:36:44.280
pool of chemicals that had just really a really toxic smell came up off the bottom of the creek bed
00:36:51.320
and essentially turned the stream into a rainbow uh the video that you're seeing right there has now
00:36:56.640
gotten 12 million views across all platforms um and that's in 16 hours so you know it's it's getting
00:37:05.900
to the point where government officials do have to respond to this because it's really making them
00:37:10.640
look bad as it should because this is something that you know they've been telling the residents here
00:37:16.460
that oh the the the water's clean you know we've gotten we burned out all the chemicals that were
00:37:22.220
in the stream and you know everything should be fine you know they were even talking the other day
00:37:27.360
about kids playing in the water i can't even imagine having my kids go within you know 100 yards of this
00:37:35.580
water a lot of people won't even let their kids back into the town because of the water contamination
00:37:39.620
so having this video go out there i i'm really hoping that it's going to you know maybe drive some action
00:37:47.480
from them but uh but we'll see because mike dewine came on there and and again denied that there's any
00:37:53.720
sort of issue hang on i want to go to bother we're going to push this video we had it up last night
00:38:00.580
uh in the audience response it was incredible nick nick nick i want to bifurcate it because you know
00:38:06.180
the patrons brought the thing about buddha judge and the derailment and of course if these trains
00:38:10.320
were going through east hampton the hamptons they'd be they'd be solved but they're going
00:38:14.940
through the heartland america and that's where you've seen these derailments and that's big
00:38:18.400
but my biggest beef is post derailment when that when the things are on the side of the road they had
00:38:25.300
the first explosion and then they're on the side of the road with the liquid in it and they got to make
00:38:29.660
a decision what they're going to do and next thing you know we're doing a uh we're doing a uh what is a
00:38:34.760
well they they they do a controlled release of the of the liquid because they're afraid it's going
00:38:40.460
to blow up then and they've dug a ditch it goes in the ditch and then they just burn it and and you
00:38:45.500
can't get a straight answer from anybody who came up with the idea of the control release just out into
00:38:50.480
the atmosphere why didn't it go into other trucks when you just and well who decided to burn it in
00:38:54.840
this city with all these kids and people there and this is why i know we got on because that we've
00:38:59.660
gone to like he's gone to epa we've gone everywhere and you can't find anybody i'll take
00:39:04.680
responsibility for it and now what they've done to cover them they've allowed the people i mean
00:39:09.740
they had the kids come back into school they took a year off had the kids in mask because of of the
00:39:15.960
ccp covet 19 virus a year and and they couldn't four days after the blunt they're putting phosgene
00:39:22.320
gas you know like the battle of the psalm in world war one they got phosgene going up and they
00:39:28.160
get the little kids back in school on monday nick sorter your thoughts and observations
00:39:32.080
so one thing that a lot of people don't know is in this backyard where this stream is
00:39:39.860
the stream actually runs really close to the to the railroad tracks and you can see very clearly
00:39:47.360
where that water ran from the ditch you know where this controlled burn was or controlled burn if that's
00:39:54.080
what you want to call it it runs almost straight into this to this stream and but i mean you can go
00:39:59.620
miles down the stream and you're going to get the same result you're going to see the same
00:40:03.020
uh amount of chemicals in the water because we tested that as well um but digging that ditch didn't
00:40:10.620
do anything to help that's that's hardly a controlled release because you just released it into the
00:40:16.080
waterways right you know and i mean it was a exactly totally stupid decision exactly uh and you're
00:40:22.860
right we have no idea who's i've been asking that question every single day no no no no no no no
00:40:27.800
hang on this i want to be precise because at the time and i'm not trying to single out and pick on
00:40:34.260
northern southern they get their narfolk so they got their own deal they got to do
00:40:37.340
it's not a stupid decision for the railroad they got to get the tanks off the track and get the
00:40:42.000
track back open again and start moving freight right for them it's the logical thing let's get
00:40:46.880
let's tell them it's going to blow up in shards let's pump it out and then burn it that's a quick
00:40:51.600
if we got if we got to do a control from that to a truck or another train that's going to take too
00:40:55.540
long that could take a week no let's dump it out let's do a control release oh they got the creek
00:41:00.820
next to it's going to fall in the creek we don't care we're going to burn the rest right right i guarantee
00:41:05.380
you could probably burn you could probably light a mesh in that creek and it would it would burn for a
00:41:09.420
light up yet the people yes nick the the people there think they're treated like trash that they
00:41:17.860
just don't matter and they're just nuisances the in the way here sir absolutely what what they want
00:41:24.100
is uh is some sort of um and they're they're finally starting to get it just a little bit is
00:41:30.860
some sort of recognition from the the the federal government why did it take 13 days for the epa
00:41:37.880
administrator to come in for uh one of the largest environmental disasters in modern american
00:41:44.780
history right it's because they didn't want anything to do with these people and these people
00:41:49.680
knew that they knew what they thought from you know because everybody was worried about the uh the
00:41:54.520
the balloons and such last week and they a lot of them think that that was a big cover-up uh that
00:42:00.320
that was a a distraction anyway and they do firmly believe that but when it comes to
00:42:06.320
how they're feeling right now i think they feel that as soon as the media coverage goes away
00:42:13.160
that the federal government's going to go away as well they think the federal government is stalling
00:42:17.260
um doing you know much of nothing and they feel that that way about mike dewine too if i'm completely
00:42:23.700
honest with you they don't trust anything that comes out of that guy's mouth uh especially and
00:42:28.160
especially matt he didn't show up to the town hall the other day and they're not able to ask
00:42:31.520
him any questions either so oh no he's not he can't answer nick if you can i know you got to
00:42:37.420
get back to reporting just hang on for one second take a short break uh nick sartor is with us we're
00:42:41.960
going to take a short break trying to track down leahy we're all over this east palestine remember
00:42:46.400
this shows you the managed decline of our country and actually i would argue right now shows you the
00:42:51.080
bottom falling out of the country you look at the veterans and and those that gave their lives in
00:42:57.020
in defense of this country over in iraq and afghanistan where they come from is the heartland
00:43:02.600
of this nation they come from the little towns and villages of east palestine ohio okay when you
00:43:08.540
lose those people you've lost your country and when those people feel like hey we're just trash we're
00:43:13.680
just in the way that's when you lose a nation that's why this story is so important this story
00:43:19.300
gets to the heart this and the ukraine get to the heart of it all the thing itself remember always
00:43:24.240
keep the main thing the main thing short break back in the warm just a second
00:43:29.480
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00:43:38.960
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where this story's going from your perspective right now sir so what i think is going to
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i i think that like i said this video is hopefully going to really force the government's hand and
00:46:36.240
address this problem because i think they were really hoping that nobody was going to see this
00:46:40.800
right now because there's no way in hell anybody was you know from norfolk southern or the epa or anybody
00:46:48.940
knew that this was actually a problem right they had they've had to have been waiting in this water at
00:46:54.580
some point you know at a minimum just to put the booms up so but how come we didn't know about this
00:47:00.320
until now how come it took some uh some twitter reporter to go out there and and figure it out by
00:47:06.380
throwing a rock in the water you know nobody had seen this stuff before and then luckily jd vance picked
00:47:12.780
up on it too and he put he pushed it out there and uh and i think there's been a lot of waves made off
00:47:18.400
of it and i i really really sincerely hope that if we uh and believe that if we keep pushing on this
00:47:25.180
they're going to have to do something they're going to have to do something they can't leave it like
00:47:30.160
this we're going to force their hand we got a couple things up our sleeves i think are going to
00:47:35.160
help assist this nick how do people get to you and follow your reporting uh best place to do it is
00:47:41.840
going to uh twitter and uh it's at nick sorter it's right there at uh n-i-c-k-s-o-r-t-o-r
00:47:49.880
and i pretty much live tweet it throughout the day and we try to uh keep everybody as updated as
00:47:57.460
possible on it as soon as things develop it's on my twitter you look at cnn msnbc fox news the wall
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because it's it's cutting through what corporate media's failed to do okay because they're in on
00:48:27.200
the long con here nick uh tell the people out there we got their back and we're all we're all over the
00:48:32.500
war room ain't backing off this thing and the warriors like you out there that are going to report
00:48:37.520
this and make sure we get to the bottom of it so uh thank you very much it's honored to have you
00:48:41.340
on here sir thank you steve god bless thank you brother um i want to bring in i've got a very
00:48:48.660
special guest i think we may hold to the top of the hour i want to bring in joe reek not that joe's
00:48:53.220
not special joe look you got trained derailments you know we've been all over this thing you got
00:48:58.120
you know the the the situation the control release was a disaster and a lie the control burn
00:49:03.660
is terrible you've got you never know you're in east ohio you're in east palestine ohio they're
00:49:09.720
on the pennsylvania border 50 miles northwest of pittsburgh right right outside of youngstown and
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up there near akron and all of a sudden in the middle of night your life is changed it happened
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at nine o'clock at night your life is changed from that moment forward this is why everybody in this
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in in the middle of anywhere in this country it can happen anytime any place for any reason
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there's been other stories coming out where crafts or balloons have been shot down and the stories that
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they're telling us makes no sense to americans customers are calling us here at my patriot supply
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they know they're not hearing the whole story or really any of the real story of how close we were to
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a natural disaster you know we talk about these train derailments these home shot videos of the
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contamination of the land and water sources around east palestine ohio and into pennsylvania
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have people preparing for those types of disasters as well the important thing is steve is time's
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running out there's going to come a time where we're not going to have access to these items
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there's going to be a time where we're not going to have the supplies available and so the time to
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act is now and we can see how quickly life can change like you said overnight the people in in
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palestine their lives have been dramatically altered because of this one event and again my
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patriot supply we're here to help people become prepared because nobody is going to nobody cares more
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about your survival than you the government's not going to come help you out the government's not
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going to come bail you or come save you it takes days it takes weeks for them to even mobilize
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again that's even if they want to come i mean people should be in ohio right now they're not
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take take take take east palestine ohio they're not coming because you don't count the only person
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you count to is yourself and you and your family you got to have total self-reliance here uh joe how do they
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get to your guys to your advisors right now the consultants what where do they call what's the
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website what's the uh what's the phone number so give us a call we have preparedness specialists ready
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to help we have water filtration systems that they can walk you through and get the proper amount of
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filters for you and your family call us the number is 866-229-0927 you can visit our website
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mypatriotsupply.com get it done now take the initiative and get prepared for you and your
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brother thank you very much really really glad and honored that you're on here to help everybody
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go check it out right now what's happening is palestine yeah we're here for you guys
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