Episode 2607: The Hearings For The National Security Of Our Country
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TikTok faces a congressional hearing this week on privacy issues related to its relationship with the Chinese government. The company says it won t hand over user data to Beijing, but some worry that could be a big mistake. Alex Blumberg and Vanessa talk about the privacy issues at stakeholder hearing, and what it means for the privacy of more than 150 million Americans.
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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
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people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of these
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people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer is to
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save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k bann
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the chinese-owned app could be giving american data to the chinese government
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nbc news correspondent savannah sellers has the latest there are more than 150 million americans
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on tiktok ahead of an expected grilling on capitol hill tiktok ceo shochu using the platform to
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directly appeal to its millions of viewers some politicians have started talking about
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banning in prepared remarks true plans to highlight tiktok's massive reach while also addressing
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concerns about safety and security saying tiktok will firewall protected u.s user data from unauthorized
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foreign access and will not be manipulated by any government on wednesday tiktok creators descending
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on the capital flown in by the company they flew us first class to explain what a potential ban could
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mean for them and other users tell me what it would mean if tiktok went away right for you for your life
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oh i'd be so sad if that went away and i hope it don't happen at issue tiktok's parent company
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bite dance and its ties to china some critics fear the chinese government might get access to user data
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or use the app to spread misinformation today's hearing comes amid the backdrop of the biden
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administration's recent ultimatum to bite dance sell its stake in tiktok or face a u.s ban
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and a justice department investigation into a claim the company illegally surveilled journalists
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for which tiktok says three employees have been fired we need to ask some questions i don't trust
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what they've been telling us for jason linton whose videos on adoption and foster care
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have nearly 13 million followers it's changed his life tiktok has built us a community that we can
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share so much of those emotions so much of those moments so much of the pains we can share it and
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we can just encourage one another for me the most interesting thing is the privacy issue in that uh
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one of the things that came out in this testimony is that tiktok is on 150 million phones uh that's a lot
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of data uh and as somebody you know the number one thing i worked on at facebook was internal data
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access controls that was hard enough without my employees being under the physical control of the
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people's republic of china and so you know most of tiktok's code comes from beijing is extremely
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difficult for them to give any kind of guarantee as to the safety of u.s data as long as that's
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happening and so chu mr chu the ceo of tiktok has said not only do we not give data to the chinese
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government the chinese government has never asked us for the data do you believe him when he says that
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i don't so first we already have proof that chinese employees of byte dance were able to
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access tiktok's data to find out information about a journalist who was writing critical stories about
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tiktok right so there was already an example of that now that's not necessarily driven by the
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government but the exact same functionality that would allow them to get in there the other issue
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he's going to have is that over the last couple of years we've seen a massive crackdown on tech
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companies in china president xi is the most powerful premier and general secretary of the chinese
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communist party since mao he is has a third term which has not happened since mao and he has been
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consolidating power and in doing so he has put really powerful tech ceos in jail jack ma of alibaba
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right now as we speak the largest tech banker in china has disappeared nobody knows where he is and so
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it is very difficult for them to make the argument in a situation where that kind of power has been
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demonstrated by the chinese security services that they would be able to resist any requests from the
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chinese government so having a hundred million americans data what does that mean what could
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they do with it that could be harmful right so when you think about chinese surveillance you have to
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look at the big picture and what the chinese intelligence services have gone really good at
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is taking big chunks of data about americans and then putting them together in useful ways so they
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broke into experian and they stole all this data on americans credit profiles they broke into anthem one of
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the largest health care providers including health care to the u.s government employees
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they broke into the saber system which is that has a hotel reservation i'm sorry airplane
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reservations they broke into starwood to get the passports of people who are staying in hotels around
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the world and then they broke into the office of personnel management and stole the classification
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records over 20 million american employees with u.s employees with clearances you put all that together
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and you can build kind of knowledge about the entire life of these people who work in classified
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positions and that is an incredibly powerful functionality when you have it all together
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and so tiktok by itself yes that data is probably not incredibly valuable but when you combine it with
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all of this other of these other things and they have not stopped in that hacking campaign they continue
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to go after large holders of data on american citizens when you put that all together there's a huge number
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of questions that their intelligence services are able to answer when they have them about american
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citizens perhaps for counterintelligence purposes um but also to understand what's going on in america
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uh and to you know possibly in the long run to manipulate political sentiment um which is one of the
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bigger concerns about tiktok there are a whole bunch of experts who have pointed out okay you want to
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ban tiktok do that go ahead it's no longer available in the united states of america but there are a whole
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bunch of other companies there are a whole bunch of other apps that are effectively doing the same thing
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that's right yeah this is the funny thing is we don't really have a law in the united states that
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controls what data can you move to china we do not have a privacy law in the united states the rest of
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the developed world has come up with federal privacy laws or privacy laws that control what can you do
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with data where can it go who can access it and so i think that is the missed opportunity here is yes we
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can squish tiktok and you know everybody can pat each other on the back for this bipartisan consensus
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but in the end there are hundreds of chinese games mobile apps discussion forums social media apps
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there are dozens and dozens of potential tiktoks out there and just destroying tiktok does nothing
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to set a standard for how do we want companies to deal with data so i think yes let's talk about
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tiktok but let's use it as an example example of why we need a federal privacy law to control the
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behavior of both american and chinese companies the greatest existential threat this nation's
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ever faced the chinese communist party this is unrestricted warfare and today we're going to be
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breaking down um the interlocking and interconnecting aspects of uh big tech and uh and big finance and
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of course the national security state and why no one's doing anything about it there's a hearing today
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up on my getter page right now we're going to run a simultaneously a simultaneous run by uh
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grace and mo and jane zirkle uh of the tiktok hearing we've also got our own natalie winters
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she's focused on it to do polls for us uh that's how important this is to get to the bottom of all
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this by the way breaking news looks like the manhattan surprise wait for it manhattan da's uh and i hate
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taking any time on this not meeting today and the grand jury will meet next week uh we'll have more
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details on that later in the show so that's off the table for right now um as as as the vultures
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swarm and everything else remember the only way their last best hope is to try to stop trump
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uh with prison not going to work okay maga ascendant just remember that maga ascendant one of the reasons
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this you know they never wanted this day to come the ccp and half the people you're going to see
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you know running for oh yeah we got to get rid tiktok have either been on the payroll or in
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association with the ccp had this group last night the hill and valley group uh met you know from
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people from capitol hill and peter teal was it's all fine but you know one third of these companies
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in silicon valley bank uh were ccp companies and sequoia capitol is all over sequoia capitol is the
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biggest player in silicon valley and they are a total front for the chinese communist party
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let me repeat that they're a total front for the chinese communist party it is this bacillus
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is in our financial system it's one of the reasons silicon valley bank got bailed out oh by the way
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just a note and we'll talk about this later when corteskin was on 11 uh bank of england uh has
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notified us that they warned the fed about silicon valley bank hmm over a year ago the potential
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insolvency of silicon valley bank uh that thing is a festering sore and we're going to get all
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the pus out of it so that the people that are underwriting the bailout that would be you the
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american taxpayer and maga get a full a full frontal as we say um dr peter navarre first off i want to
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give your assessment you you and i fought this one from day one right with all the collaborate all the
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ccp collaborators in the white house in the in the administration yes there were these these wall
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street guys were the worst in the book um by josh rogan called chaos under heaven the war between
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xi and president trump about this the the uh war peter navarre peter navarre and i were proudly in the
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super hawks which don't believe the chinese communist party is a legitimate uh government of the chinese
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people that that makes us different ain't never happened in american history you've had a group of
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officials in the white house to do this and to say no you can't be a hardliner you can't be a realist
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you can't be accommodation as that's all not going to work this is not about competition they're not a
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pure competitor they're a mortal enemy to the chinese people and we put them in place we put
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them in place it was the communists in the state department in the defense department in the war
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department all of them that put these guys in place after the end of world war ii after the lao
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baijing had 35 million dead uh fighting the japanese or fighting each other because shang kai shak and
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mal spent more time fighting each other general still will try to get him to fight the japanese
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um peter i want your thoughts on tiktok why this is so big because it cuts to the heart
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of this of the money coming through and they're making money hand over fist by the way just
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understand this 150 million americans now that is half the nation almost half the nation and trust me
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it's 90 of the nation under 35 years old matt gates told me in this very room you're sitting
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here back in july that uh that the hundred seats for 100 years was not going to happen because we
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were going to lose 25 or 30 seats by a thousand votes because of tiktok because of tiktok on the
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college campuses he called it back in july this has been a weapon for the chinese communist party
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uh peter navarro your thoughts steve is as as many tiktok subscribers as you had we could at least
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strangled that teenager in its crib back in the trump administration um i actually wrote extensively
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in the taking back trump's america book a whole chapter on my tiktok moment it was one of my biggest
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failures in the white house it started i don't know if you know this steve but the whole ban on tiktok
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thing started with indra modi in india when china invaded india modi had the courage to ban every
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single chinese app so like the next day the boss goes wow okay and it set in motion a thing and i got
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very involved with the national security council writing the executive order that would have done it
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and uh sure enough uh larry kudlow larry kudlow yes and steve mnuchin uh the basically talked the boss
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out of doing it um at the time and we you know that that again then i reprise that into the podcast
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and and substack this week in an episode people can read that uh you know the punchline is there's just a
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a dizzying array of economic and national security threats posed by these chinese apps if we had had
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the the courage uh at the time when i was in the white house to ban all chinese apps that would have
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been a great blow against the evil ccp modi modi modi is a modi yeah modi is a real ally this guy
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gets it people that trash talk the indians and trash talk uh and trash talk uh modi they've been
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invaded twice let's but yeah let's not forget communist china invaded uh india twice uh and the first time
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they grabbed a significant portion um of indian territory that they're still hanging on to so
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there's there's a lot of animus between the two i mean they're they're a billion plus each we need to
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pull down we need we need to pull down we need to pull down all these ccp all these ccp oriented apps
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need to be pulled down okay starting with tiktok it's gonna she can't sell it crush it pull it okay
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it's real quick thing i'm gonna keep you through the break i know you got a punch yeah about another uh
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collaborator elon musk yeah elon musk is a is is in bed up to his neck with the chinese congress
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party tell me about the new york times elon musk and peter navarro this week yeah the way new york
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times works they do propaganda they had a lead editorial that basically says go soft on china
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i took him to task in yesterday's podcast in the substack i put it up on getter and twitter
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and true social and i checked last night and twitter had erased it totally canceled it so
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elon musk you still got your friggin bots they're working on words that they they basically
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anything's against the ccp um or even the new york times apparently uh they cleanse and that's got
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to stop uh peter navarro.substack.com peter navarro.substack.com i'll hang on steve if you want
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and now peter you can bond we got it i'll i'll do a diatribe on this i want to say you're the only
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two individuals in the history of this republic fully sanctioned by the chinese communist party
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and held in contempt by criminal contempt by congress peter navarro honored to have you on
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i'm going to start with open ai because open ai was founded in part out of a fear that artificial
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general intelligence or sort of superhuman intelligence shouldn't be in the hands of
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any one company and was perhaps coming faster than we think like it's coming soon enough and it's a big
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enough deal that i think we need to think right now about how we want this deployed um how everyone gets
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to benefit from it how we're going to govern it uh how we're going to make it safe and sort of good
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for humanity but you do believe that ai can supersede human intelligence i believe it absolutely
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will there's a big debate about time frames i think it takes like unique human arrogance to believe
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that uh ai cannot supersede humans but what about that scares you so many things right like this is
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like you know what does it mean to build something that is more capable than ourselves like what does
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that say about our humanity what's that world going to look like what's our place in that world
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i sort of think about it as there's one esker where we are at the tip where it's now about deployment
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diffusion mainstream the internet maybe took 30 years uh maybe the cloud and mobile took 15 years and
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now i think we're talking months we think of both the unintended consequences and the benefits both
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being something that we harness we started the work with open ai i would say three and a half years ago
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uh when we started building the ai supercomputer in azure to train these large models and when you
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look at gpt3 to 35 to what's coming these are non-linear developments so they're showing emergent
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capability the unveiling of the first instance of gpt4 outside of open ai was actually to you
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because we're just at the start of this you could almost call it a mania like the internet mania
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so i think education is the most interesting application i think health is the second most
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interesting i i think over the next you know five to ten years uh we will think of learning and how you
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can be helped in your learning in a very different way than just looking at material do you think
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agi eventually subsumes us are we as biology just a bootloader for a future machine intelligence
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certainly the future will be like and what humans do and how we spend our time and you know what is
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made available to us will be really quite different but that's been the case for a kind of like life
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before and after every technological revolution history which i think means some version of emerge at
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least for some of us i do suspect that even if we think like emerge is good and a lot of people are
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going to do that really long term there will be many people who don't want to i think human drives
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will sort of be remarkably the same as they have been for tens of thousands of years and there will
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be like i don't know maybe it's like an exclusion zone or something where if you want to like you
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know live the like no agi life on earth you do that people should be happy that we're a little bit
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scared of this i think people should be a little bit scared a little bit you personally i think if
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i said i were not you should either not trust me or be very unhappy i'm in this job so what is
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the worst possible outcome there's like a set of very bad outcomes one thing i'm particularly worried
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about is that these models could be used for large-scale disinformation i am worried that these
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systems now that they're getting better at writing computer code could be used for offensive cyber
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attacks would you push a button to stop this if it meant there was a five percent chance it would
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be the end of the world i would push a button to slow it down and in fact i think we will need to
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figure out ways to slow down this technology over time okay joe allen joe what have we just uh seen
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there walk me through this because this is in a strictly linked with the um the chinese communist party
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and the chinese communist party now pushed to become a hegemon um because we're in it now and
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this is one of the substrates that people have to understand as we um as we get drawn into this
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potential kinetic war the the the inextricably linked nature of artificial intelligence and where
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we're going on an arms race on artificial intelligence even as we speak joe allen
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steve i think you hit it there with the ai arms race and what you're seeing uh all of these people
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that we saw satya nadella bill gates and of course sam altman are involved in open ai uh gpt
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satya nadella as ceo of microsoft he's kind of the face of this uh he's maybe a little bit more
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subdued but what he's talking about is a total transformation of the technological landscape
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and then you have bill gates talking about how ai will transform education meaning that
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it will transform the way the younger generation thinks and i as i said uh two days ago i really do
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think that as with these ais regularly ai will prove to be perhaps the most powerful
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brainwashing tool ever deployed maybe most importantly though steve sam altman who has long
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talked like this sam altman who's the brains behind this right he's he's the guy overseeing the
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artificial intelligence development at open ai sam altman is talking about this in terms of creating
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an artificial general intelligence meaning that instead of just being a language model
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the ultimate goal is to glue together all sorts of different capacities and create something like
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a human brain only that human brain would be or that that human like digital brain would be
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far outpacing human beings and that's again how he thinks of it how he speaks of it and like his
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compadre elon musk we heard him there in the fireside chat and that was just a couple of months ago
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talking about that you have to people will basically have to merge with ai in order to keep it under
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control and we all know what elon musk's version of that looks like with a brain trode connecting you
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to ai and maybe most strikingly it kind of you know there was a lot there most strikingly sam altman
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talked about how for those humans who don't want to merge with ai perhaps there would be some kind
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of exclusionary zone something you know basically uh human beings who want to remain normal human
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beings will have to remain outside of the thrust of history and you know you talk about china and how
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this ai at this ai arms race is international china is also working towards artificial general
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intelligence that's true of baidu that's true of tencent yeah and and many others this is an
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international ai arms race this is uh bite dance intranational bite dance this is yep the um
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this is why this thing on tiktok today is because remember 150 million uh citizens of your country
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download this and not just the data it's also what they're pouring into into the minds of of these
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kids here's the problem with the ai and the artificial i just want to keep reminding people
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we're in the first 100 days of this since the launch in davos which caught all the world's elite by
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surprise with chat gpt was it version three that was version three they've released 3.5 four and
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they get version five ready to go 3.5 we're within 100 days folks 100 days i want to go back remember
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uh i uh einstein sent the letter to fdr i think in the late 1930s maybe it might have been 194 i think
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late 1930s for the atomic bomb we had the atomic bomb then the hydrogen bomb remember that overwhelmed
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the peaceful use of nuclear power atomic bomb nuclear hydrogen bomb when that got leaked to the
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russians they became a peer militarily then you had the space race with the ability to rocketry and
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delivery systems but also to get the high ground for satellites then you've had the bioweapons that's
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the fourth big one the bioweapons you saw the gain of function but the bioweapons labs all over the
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world of which nobody wants to talk about artificial intelligence here here's the problem trying to
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contain it and trying to regulate it and trying to say hey do you have exclusionary zones what can it
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be can we restrict it from use with children uh you know what are the societal impacts because it's
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overwhelming even the structures and systems of government that kind of move in a certain pace
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but here's what you've got and write this down you've got a massive arms race already
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to have total dominance of this technology and that is happening in labs in china it's happening labs in
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korea both north and south eastern europe russia all over the place western europe and the united
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states of america there's an arms race and that's going to mean it's going to get out of control you're
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not going to be able to control it not going to be able to control it you're not going to be okay i
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mean we don't we barely we don't even control biological weapons the biological weapons treaty is a joke
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as you saw from the wuhan lab um this is of the highest import joe we've talked about this for a couple
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of years and i just want to tell people i'm pretty good at seeing how a pattern recognition
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this thing joe and and we haven't even gotten back to the other sectors of virgin on the on the
00:26:02.200
singularity they are decades and decades ahead of where people thought that would be is that correct
00:26:08.280
joe allen you agree with that thesis that you know where people talk about oh this is going to take place
00:26:12.520
in 40 and 50 years we ain't looking at a 40 or 50 year horizon anymore are we sir well you know
00:26:19.000
steve there's so much argument about it i i'm not as comfortable as like ray kurzweil who says that
00:26:24.980
2045 is the date we can expect to see the singularity uh you know this is a combination of
00:26:32.640
them keeping back technologies from public awareness that we can only imagine and then they're also
00:26:40.300
projecting power so that they can appear to be as powerful as possible to their competitors but i
00:26:46.960
will say this you know bill gates in his latest blog blog post the age of ai has begun he talks about
00:26:55.060
super intelligence which is something that he rarely discusses to my awareness and he said in his post
00:27:01.060
super intelligent ais are in our future compared to a computer our brains operate as at a snail's pace
00:27:08.520
once developers can generalize a learning algorithm and run it at the speed of a computer we will have
00:27:15.300
an incredibly powerful agi he talks about it in terms of 10 years to a century he's probably probably
00:27:22.540
less confident than i am on a date but i will say this without a doubt this is what these people are
00:27:30.240
driving for this is where they want our civilization focused yes yes okay hang on i'm gonna keep you
00:27:38.780
joe we're gonna take a short break we got some housekeeping to do with some of our prominent
00:27:43.660
contributors going to tell us things that are going on from arizona to texas to capitol hill today
00:27:50.820
moms for liberty are testifying brandon shorewater's got a big event that's going to happen tonight in
00:27:57.360
dallas we've got of course todd woods in the group out in colorado springs tomorrow night and we've got
00:28:02.540
caroline wren to talk about this quite fascinating turn of events in the arizona's governor's race
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way you get change in this country okay and i realize we're a little hardcore sometimes but that's just
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the way it's got to be this is massively important because you are the chairman of the creditors
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surrender they don't really care about the inflation they don't care if the inflation
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they came out on the side of capital now on the side of the wage earners they do not care if this
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burning dumpster fire continues to burn and that is the central issue is how you put out the dumpster
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just check it out um brandon show water people are going to say bannon why are you following joe
00:32:01.580
analyst here why are you following joe allen and all this artificial intelligence and singularity and
00:32:05.860
genetic engineering and crisper and uh you know robotics uh generative robotics all of this you keep
00:32:14.480
talking about the singularity you got homo sapiens on this side and you got homo sapien plus on the
00:32:19.240
other side why are you confusing me by bringing brandon show water in what is the connective tissue sir
00:32:24.800
about the crusade you've led in this country about this issue of uh gender assignment and uh and
00:32:32.800
and transhumanism brandon show water from the christian post well very simply steve transgenderism
00:32:39.860
is transhumanism and i write about this with my co-author in our new book um exposing the gender
00:32:48.200
lie uh this we we write about this with um we talk about how the transgenderism is the on-ramp
00:32:57.800
to transhumanism because think about it would we have thought that uh you know 20 years ago
00:33:04.440
they would be giving children blockers to halt their natural normal puberty and then put on
00:33:10.480
cross-sex hormones in pursuit of a physical impossibility would we have thought that would
00:33:15.000
have been a thing well it is no coincidence that one of the main leaders in this movement
00:33:20.340
who himself claims to be trans uh we he martin rothblatt and he's actually got a tech cult called
00:33:28.700
terrasim where they live for you know forever in biostasis cybernetic biostasis as joe was referring
00:33:35.380
to earlier so this would have been inconceivable just um just a few years ago but this is where this
00:33:42.420
all goes and i know that to many people and believe me i've felt this myself that oh this is just tinfoil
00:33:48.840
hat conspiracy theory you know crazy talk but like no think about it like today we're seeing young
00:33:55.760
people have you know girls as young as 13 have their breasts surgically removed we're seeing
00:34:00.840
children being put on lupron which is a cancer drug the pediatric version is only approved for
00:34:05.640
precocious puberty these medical atrocities are happening in pursuit of this false vision of the
00:34:10.860
human person this is a flawed anthropology that we can somehow make the human being a new thing that
00:34:16.400
it has never designed or meant to be and so if it sounds crazy well that seems to be precisely the
00:34:21.220
point transgenderism is transhumanism and it's all a lie and by the way underlying both of it is money
00:34:28.360
and power okay there is so much money to be made in both of these this is this you see this in
00:34:33.560
tennessee in these situations these situations you're seeing right now where the medical profession
00:34:38.340
is uh is is throwing away the hippocratic oath because there's so much money to be made don't forget
00:34:45.080
that brandon you've got an incredible event tonight we're actually going to have it
00:34:49.000
mo and grace and jane we're going to be live streaming it on war room and my site uh give
00:34:55.200
us the details of it where's it going to be uh who's going to be on there how can people in the
00:34:59.560
local area whenever to show up where they go well i actually don't think we're live streaming it here
00:35:04.920
but um we we are definitely going to recording it and using it for our purpose but yes if you go to
00:35:09.380
christianpost.com slash events you can see unmasking gender ideology protecting children and
00:35:15.420
confronting transgenderism still time to get your tickets 7 p.m tonight here in dallas at first
00:35:21.220
baptist church it's going to be in the truett chapel we've got two great panels it's going to be an
00:35:27.080
extraordinary event they were all part of our podcast series um generation indoctrination inside
00:35:32.960
the transgender battle we're very proud of that podcast series um we are going to confront this
00:35:37.720
issue head-on we must protect children or we must protect families um that's that's just exposing the
00:35:43.620
exposing the gender exposing the gender exposing the gender lie is free also correct and people
00:35:48.460
download it it's a free and downloadable ebook yes free and downloadable ebook at christianpost.com
00:35:53.780
slash ebook slash gender hyphen lie is this 7 p.m dallas time or 7 p.m eastern daylight time
00:36:02.660
7 p.m dallas time yes 7 p.m dallas time at first baptist church yes okay we'll get court we'll get
00:36:10.140
coordinated with you guys brandon showwater thank you very much honored to have you on here
00:36:13.460
thank you steve uh moms for liberty's uh debutante ball today at 2 p.m on capitol hill tiffany justice
00:36:23.300
will testify tina deskovich the other co-founder tina what what is the opening statement about why
00:36:28.800
is tiffany up there why is moms for liberty in this and as i've you know kind of giving you guys a heads
00:36:34.380
up the democrats are going to be full on taking shots because they see you you they see moms for
00:36:39.520
liberty as a big problem thwarting their efforts in controlling the education of our children's ma'am
00:36:45.980
yeah steve we are excited that tiffany has the opportunity today the uh the uh judiciary committee
00:36:54.280
is meeting obviously they have done an investigation and released a report this week where what what and
00:37:00.140
what the report has shown is that local law enforcement across the country said there was no
00:37:03.940
need for the federal government to take these egregious actions of uh you know the threat tag
00:37:09.500
that they uh sent through the doj and down to the fbi to attach that threat tag to parents that were
00:37:15.660
showing up at school board meetings with legitimate concerns over the last couple of years
00:37:19.140
as you know the fbi has contacted parents across the country after speaking at school board meetings
00:37:23.980
some of our own moms that has happened too uh so tiffany is going up there to to let our side of
00:37:29.280
the story be be known and heard and that'll be 2 p.m correct is roughly the committee starts then and
00:37:37.180
she'll be sometime uh after two yeah she gets to speak for five minutes with her statement uh and
00:37:43.580
then it's open to questions like you said and so uh she'll have to take questions from both sides of
00:37:48.500
the aisle uh but you know tiffany is strong uh we've been in this fight for a long time we're both former
00:37:53.380
school board members and you know steve we both had to sit and listen you know after like marjory
00:37:58.400
stoneman douglas for example i sat through 12-hour board meetings where parents came and and we had
00:38:03.320
to sit and we had to listen because that's your job uh and so you know we've been through tough
00:38:07.800
things uh we've been attacked viciously for two years and she is prepared and ready to take any of
00:38:12.940
it head-on today the one thing i'm quite comfortable with is that the moms for liberty are fighters
00:38:19.640
you can you can uh you can uh you can punch back there's no doubt about that uh tina what's your
00:38:26.740
social media your coordinates and how do people get to moms for liberty yeah i hope they'll check
00:38:31.160
out our social media we'll be streaming uh today at 2 p.m the whole hearing uh tiffany's portion and
00:38:36.520
the entire thing it's all moms number four liberty on twitter on facebook on rumble on youtube you can
00:38:42.840
find us uh instagram all of the places uh i see on the screen right now you have our joyful warriors
00:38:47.500
podcast which tiffany hosts uh there's some great episodes we've been releasing from cpac so check us
00:38:53.420
out please click the button join the fight uh we uh we're growing this movement as you know over two
00:38:59.280
years we've gotten to 275 chapters and i'm proud to say as of yesterday we're in 45 states we just
00:39:05.440
brought on alaska fabulous uh we're gonna have it up uh too so for mo and uh jane zirkle and grace
00:39:15.080
will be doing that thank you very much tina look forward to the testimony today too thanks steve appreciate
00:39:20.560
you the the school board effort to take back the school boards take back the administrators change
00:39:27.460
out the teachers all tip of the spear for the parents nothing could be more important okay caroline
00:39:34.440
rand caroline rand joins us caroline we haven't had you on in a while you've been noticeably silent
00:39:39.020
on war room not silent anywhere else i've just duly note um but uh tell us about what happened was it a
00:39:45.840
defeat like the ape associated press everybody goes all it carries lakes all the headlines
00:39:50.500
is everything thrown out except for one thing then you see the one thing and it's a massive thing
00:39:55.420
so was this a victory a defeat what give us a status report a sit rub and then where do we go from here
00:40:02.420
well i would say it's the best result from any court on election day like election integrity uh that that
00:40:10.220
we've seen so but that is a little bit like being the tallest midget at this point um because we've seen
00:40:15.240
the courts reject these cases since 2020 and now 2022 but but we are excited about the thing that
00:40:20.720
they did decide to hear i mean it is big and the fake news is always going to try and downplay anything
00:40:25.400
in relation to carrie lake but you cannot downplay carrie lake and our team getting the chance to look
00:40:30.180
at these ballots and check the signatures i mean signature verification we always said this was the
00:40:34.660
smoking gun in our case and every judge though took the defendant's argument hook line and sinker to
00:40:39.740
avoid having to actually peel back the curtain on signature verification and we were astonished when
00:40:44.620
the trial court refused to consider it and and clearly the supreme court disagreed and so that
00:40:48.860
is a big deal and we had three whistleblowers who were intimately involved in the signature
00:40:53.440
verification department in maricopa county and these folks said that they were rejecting tens of
00:40:58.220
thousands of signatures up to the tune of i think 130 000 ballots and that someone was sending them
00:41:04.200
through anyway and it said one of the higher ups there and the lower courts refused to hear this
00:41:09.100
and so now the supreme court is saying no no no we you do need to hear it and that is very very big
00:41:13.400
there's still some process things that need to come out that we need to see what they're going to allow
00:41:17.000
us and discovery and things like that but but we are very excited that we are going to be able to once
00:41:21.160
again put people on notice and expose the fraud that happened in arizona
00:41:25.960
the correct me if i'm wrong but artificial intelligence comes in this by by arizona statute in the the end of
00:41:35.180
the procedures manual you have to do this humans have to look at this and verify the signatures
00:41:41.480
correct and then they use artificial intelligence just to do on some of these a quick scan am i
00:41:46.580
correct in remembering it was what that was one of the issues yeah i mean they the arizona election
00:41:52.840
statute is irrelevant katie hobbs never even read it that was part of the argument that they made was
00:41:57.180
that oh you know they're just bringing up small process crimes and it's like these are not these are the
00:42:02.260
processes that you guys laid out that you are not following and you don't get to pick and choose
00:42:05.760
the processes that work for you and like help to elect the people you want and there's also a lot
00:42:10.940
of questions as to the humans that were checking the signature verification are they republicans and
00:42:15.080
democrats and these are things again that the court would not even allow us to bring forward and the
00:42:18.960
supreme court is now saying no you can and even thinking back during the arizona audit like they fought
00:42:24.400
tooth and nail to hide these envelopes because they knew that they would not stand up to any scrutiny
00:42:29.400
and we've seen some examples of the signature steve and it's it's chicken scratch it's illegible
00:42:34.940
scrawls and it's absurd and they've been passing them through at a margin that is absolutely more
00:42:39.300
than the margin of victory in this election and think about right now it's i think it's you know
00:42:43.040
with carrie's 60 000 votes 17 000 votes separating and abe hominay is less than 300 and so this is a
00:42:49.340
massive massive deal and it's it's important and maricopa county does does not care about process and
00:42:54.940
they described the way they described this process was patently absurd anyway their timeline was off
00:42:59.980
if they actually would have gone through and done signature verification it would have required them
00:43:04.040
to verify signature every eight seconds and that would have been with people working overtime it's
00:43:08.540
humanly impossible to do so but maricopa county is lying about this they're lying about everything
00:43:13.180
in regard to signature verification and they've been lying about it since 2020 and we're going to have
00:43:17.180
our day in court on it caroline caroline hang on we're because the people remember in this fight
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one thing the maricopa county officials went more than nuts on was not to get the signature
00:43:29.980
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there was nothing and particularly for the audience maybe didn't follow it as closely as as uh the
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arizona race which was vitally important and super important for 2024 we got to win arizona
00:46:58.420
these people went nuts this is where they try to throw you and carrie into jail right wasn't it
00:47:06.300
they're trying to come out i mean they are so petrified on the scam of the of the mail-in ballots
00:47:11.800
in the in the in the signatures that are not related to the who whoever filled out the ballot
00:47:17.160
or not or i should say not related to the person that's registered to vote caroline wren
00:47:22.100
oh yeah i mean after the whistleblowers from the signature verification process in maricopa
00:47:28.000
county came forward saying they were pressured to approve bad signatures a deposition was put out
00:47:33.580
for the assistant elections director i think selah neighbor and then the attorneys were informed that
00:47:38.160
she was no longer employed by maricopa county and that all efforts to track her down have been
00:47:41.960
unsuccessful like that's beyond suspicious and then don't forget steve it was the issue of signature
00:47:47.480
verification that led to cartel lawyer in the secretary of state's office adrian fontes to refer
00:47:53.360
carrie lake to chris mays the illegitimate attorney general for prosecution like because carrie tweeted
00:48:00.060
out if you remember a few different pictures of signatures not matching and they referred her for
00:48:04.260
criminal she currently is being referred for criminal prosecution for doing that and her twitter account
00:48:08.500
shared a publicly available information information that had been live streamed and submitted into the
00:48:12.980
public record at the arizona state senate and fontes adrian fontes wants her thrown in jail for that
00:48:18.300
and you know why that was or is is because fontes was the maricopa county recorder for 2018 and 2020
00:48:24.280
he knows exactly what the signature verification process looks like and he's terrified that the
00:48:28.860
rest of us are going to find out and now because of this ruling we will
00:48:32.620
walk us through the timing of this what what is what's the course of what's the critical path here
00:48:39.500
we don't know the court did not say if it because the it was in the past filings it says this needs
00:48:46.300
to be expedited and that was not clear so we're gonna have to wait for further details to come
00:48:49.540
out right now obviously our attorneys are looking through everything there they're we're disappointed
00:48:53.580
that we're not going to get to hear on the merits of the other things although we you know we do feel
00:48:57.260
like we laid out an excellent case at the trial court level a lot of people were watching that and so
00:49:01.760
we're putting all these people on notice but this is why it is so important that carrie lake fights
00:49:05.740
when others won't be willing to every single thing matters bringing these signature
00:49:09.280
verifications back to the trial court that could be the difference for the republican nominee in 2024
00:49:13.340
and cleaning up these processes and it takes fighters like carrie lake and the republican
00:49:18.020
party needs to wake up and fight i was thinking this morning about there's a wisconsin supreme court
00:49:21.980
race happening right now that we're not really paying attention to the democrats are dumping
00:49:25.460
millions hundreds of millions of dollars into this race and like these these seats matter this these
00:49:30.440
positions matter this is how they're taking our country from us and we got to wake up and we have
00:49:34.580
to play the game and fight fire with fire that the democrats are playing and carrie lake is the
00:49:38.640
biggest fighter we have the most important yeah the most important election in uh in 2023 is
00:49:44.320
wisconsin on 4 april i think we're gonna try to get scott presser on if not today then this afternoon
00:49:48.840
we're covering this thing and it is big league important uh and right now it's a dogfight up there
00:49:53.860
the democrats put tons of money caroline it's important enough you decamped you've decamped from
00:49:59.820
mar-a-lago and you're on the you're on scene commander out in arizona we thank you for that
00:50:03.880
um and remember caroline wanted wanted wanted to take down her many appearances on worm because she
00:50:10.580
said she was getting too much fan mail so hopefully we kick it back up again what's your social what's
00:50:15.220
your social media caroline it's at caroline wren on twitter get her truth anywhere and then if you
00:50:22.180
want to read more about our case go to save arizona fun.com caroline wren thank you honored to have you on
00:50:29.860
here thank you for joining us this morning thank you carrie lake uh fights on by the way kiss prayers
00:50:35.900
for carrie lake's sister she's had a quite serious medical problems one of the reasons carrie is
00:50:40.320
uh all over helping her sister today uh really want her prayers to go out for her sister's uh health
00:50:46.520
sister's great person um out there in arizona with us make sure you have prayers for carrie's
00:50:51.780
sister um joe allen uh both remember that they try to use the ai in this in the arizona thing they
00:50:59.080
didn't want to get they didn't they could not meet the requirements of having humans do it right
00:51:05.940
and and see another situation ai but i want to go back we got a couple of minutes here brandon
00:51:10.460
showwalter is uh is this gender assignment is that the on-ramp to transhumanism sir
00:51:15.880
you know when showwalter was talking about martine rothblatt uh it's really really important i think if
00:51:23.260
the audience looks into rothblatt i've written a bit about rothblatt that is a flashpoint for where
00:51:30.900
transgenderism and transhumanism connect but there's really a couple of different strains
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though you have a sort of heteronormative transhumanism that wants to become as you know
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digitally and uh hormonally masculine for men and and the same femininity for women there's there's a
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a wide variety but there's absolutely that strain that sees a direct connection between their
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transgender sort of product uh projects and the the future of transhumanism i think too steve just the
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the idea that technology can be used to fundamentally alter a human being without a doubt transgenderism is
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sort of a test phase for that because you see not only adults doing this you see first the culture
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change and the culture change among the young and then after that you get this widespread transformation
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that is facilitated by the biomedical establishment and when you come to a point where people are
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uncomfortable with it or furious about it or disgusted with the whole process then suddenly those people
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who are uncomfortable are shoved to the side and and made to be seen as villains when they in fact
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are the only heroes joe give us uh your uh your coordinates brother that's joebot.xyz warroom.org
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under the transhumanism tab and getter and twitter at joebotxyz thank you very much steve
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