This episode is brought to you by Survival, a Parcast Original. On August 6th, 1945, a massive nuclear bomb is dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first atomic bomb to ever be exploded, and it changed the course of history.
00:13:15.960And it took about 100,000 American lives to get across the Pacific to be in a position to be able to claim Tinian from where the B-29s were in range of Tokyo.
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00:16:57.040I want to thank my production crew and also the guys in Denver who put together a mini masterpiece right there, about 10 minutes long.
00:17:05.980No other show today will show you like that.
00:17:07.920They'll show Hiroshima, you know, Morning Jones, all over that.
00:17:11.000And look, obviously the victims are important.
00:17:12.980But as important are the people that had to make the decision and what the information they had when they made the decision.
00:17:20.280Because in the New York Times, I think the headlines in the New York Times today, you know, this day has been dedicated to peace.
00:17:29.440But you're facing a world in the Third World War.
00:17:33.420The kinetic part of the Third World War has already started.
00:17:36.460We have now, we've been told that the casualties in Ukraine are much higher than have been reported.
00:17:41.600So you have, I don't know, 2 million dead and wounded in Ukraine.
00:17:45.140You have, I don't know, over 100,000 in Gaza.
00:17:50.220They're talking about in the Times of Israel, not Breitbart or not the war rumors, reporting that the son of Netanyahu is tweeting out that there's a mutiny
00:18:00.140in a coup going on by the chief of staff of the IDF because they are adamantly opposed.
00:18:06.360The Israeli army is adamantly opposed about an occupation of Gaza.
00:18:26.160Can't deny what the reality is in both of these situations.
00:18:30.800And, of course, the main thing, the Chinese Communist Party continues to do rehearsals for an invasion of Taiwan.
00:18:37.180So, Dr. – so, Cleo Pascal, pick up where you left off about Tinian, the importance of it, the importance of the launch, all of it, ma'am.
00:18:45.080Yeah, so in 1933 in this great exercise, because you're talking about when is it an exercise and when is it a practice run.
00:18:52.840And 1933, we had the first takeoff of an airplane in Micronesia, and that was part of this Japanese exercise.
00:19:02.120And they also had the civil-military fusion going on where they originally said that it was a sugar factory building a baseball field, but it was actually a runway.
00:19:12.120So, we're starting to see a lot of the same parallels in the way that Japan was emplacing itself, the way that it was covering over exercises, the civil-military fusion component of it, with the Chinese activity across the area.
00:19:26.760Tinian itself was, once it was liberated by the Americans, actually, is about the shape of Manhattan, shape and size of Manhattan.
00:19:37.420And so, when the Seabees rebuilt it to be able to put in the Northfield runways where the Enola Gay took off from, they actually renamed all the streets after streets in Manhattan.
00:19:48.360So, if you go to Tinian today, you get – there's a central park and a Broadway, and it's a little bit of America.
00:19:55.660But you're also seeing the Chinese casino relics.
00:20:00.500You're seeing the money coming in, and I am extremely concerned that what you're actually seeing on the ground now, in parallel to what you saw in the 30s, is the coming in of the Chinese businesses that are going to be used by domestic politicians,
00:20:19.660including people like the Deputy Assistant Secretary that we've spoken about, and the woman representing Tinian, who is from Tinian in Congress, to go for economic independence, which leads to independence of the Marianas,
00:20:35.840and maybe with a compact or free association like you see with the others.
00:20:39.800And then you have exactly the same situation that you had 75 years ago, where right off of Guam, 60 miles from Guam, you have a sort of independent place under the control of an aggressive Asian power.
00:20:55.640And that proximity to Asia that allowed the Enola Gay to take off and be in range would also allow, in the other direction, the U.S. security or U.S. vulnerability.
00:21:08.380So understanding exactly how we got to this point 80 years ago, where the U.S. could be in a geographic position to defend itself from an aggressive Asian power,
00:21:20.460and that geographic position has been held on to for 80 years, including through a plebiscite that made the people of Tinian and the rest of the Marianas decide to join the U.S.,
00:21:29.840is now at a critical point where this may not be the case anymore in 5, 10 years down the line.
00:21:38.380And we lost over 100,000 men just to fight our way to get there.
00:21:41.980Just to get there, you lost probably some of the worst combat in the history of the United States, and particularly the Marine Corps, which was in the Navy,
00:21:51.180which were absolutely magnificent in that entire campaign.
00:21:54.140Dr. Bradley Thayer, there's a lot of criticism by people who don't know better, who have studied history, don't understand what's going on.
00:22:02.700But, oh, the United States was barbaric in doing this, and today on Morning Joe, you get the whole, the United States is the bad guy, the United States is evil.
00:22:09.700Put in perspective what today means, sir, in reality, not in beatnik-like fantasy.
00:22:17.480Sure, Stephen. Great to join you again. Four quick points. First, it was the immediate cause. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the immediate cause of the end of this horrific war.
00:22:30.760And as a result, it saved many hundreds of thousands of American lives and many millions of Japanese lives who would have been killed in what was called Operation Downfall,
00:22:41.360which was going to be the invasion of Kyushu and of Honshu in November of 45 and March of 46.
00:22:49.080So, secondly, it realized the victory for which so many Americans and Chinese, of course, and Australians and British, Dutch, Filipinos, had died, and their sacrifice.
00:23:02.760You had about 364,000 Americans killed and wounded and missing in the Pacific War alone,
00:23:10.080and not counting about 27,000 Americans who were POWs in Japan who would have been executed if the invasion of Japan had occurred.
00:23:20.600It also kept the Soviets from getting an occupation zone, because if the war had gone on, the Soviets would have invaded essentially the northern part of Japan
00:23:31.140and would have had an occupation zone.
00:23:34.240And thankfully, MacArthur said no, when after the war, they asked for one.
00:23:40.140Next, it was the dawn of the atomic age, right?
00:23:43.180This is August 6th is significant because it's the dawn of the atomic age in which we live, in which we encountered the Cold War, of course, and the world that we face today.
00:23:54.500It also underscores the need for a strong industrial base for the United States to possess.
00:24:00.340The triumph of American science and industry that made possible the atomic bombs, as well as the B-29 to deliver the atomic bomb.
00:24:10.440We've done about four years, Steve, four years to do both the Manhattan Project and the B-29.
00:24:16.880And that organization really helped so much to underscore we have and must have a strong industrial base as we move into the future in the war against the Chinese—
00:24:29.540then the confrontation against the Chinese Communist Party.
00:24:32.000And lastly, it defined the nature of the war in the Pacific, where—and those lessons are salient today, right?
00:24:40.000That is, we face a formidable enemy in the Chinese Communist Party.
00:24:46.540Islands matter, obviously, in the Pacific.
00:24:50.100In essence, this is the reverse CENTCOM, right?
00:24:52.860Today, we face the prospect of high-intensity great power warfare against a pier in the People's Republic of China.
00:25:01.500And you need to have a very strong Navy, very strong Air Force, of course, in order to deal with that adversary.
00:25:11.120And we're not in that position today, sadly.
00:25:14.700So August 6th of 1945, the 80th anniversary, allows us to appreciate the sacrifice.
00:25:22.940It allows us to appreciate the lives saved by that.
00:25:26.720E.B. Sledge, in his famous book with the Old Breed, his memoir of the Pacific campaign, Peleliu and Okinawa, in which he was involved with the 1st Marine Division, right,
00:25:38.500underscored that the atomic bomb saved him and saved his, essentially, his comrades because they were going to get killed in the invasion of Japan.
00:25:51.260And so, again, hundreds of thousands of American lives saved and millions of Japanese lives saved as a result of this conflict, the atomic bombing.
00:26:03.520When you read Sledge's book, it's written when he's a professor at the University of Alabama, I think it was.
00:26:10.140I think it was an English professor in his old age, but it's about his thinking as a young man.
00:26:33.340There was a huge fight of the Imperial Japanese High Command, the Emperor, all of it.
00:26:38.320And they were still, even after the second atomic weapon was dropped on Nagasaki, my point is there were some very tough hombres in the Japanese high command that just said, hey, we're going to fight to the death.
00:26:51.900We'll just fight the Americans the entire way.
00:29:37.400I just ask you, you are broadcasting right now to an international audience, people right around the world, who simply won't understand gerrymandering.
00:30:04.720We are a democratic republic here in the United States.
00:30:08.940And in our states, the way it works, and this is true here in Texas, the voters do not vote on every issue on their own.
00:30:16.660They elect people like me and 149 others in the Texas House of Representatives to be their voice, to be their fighter for the things that they believe in.
00:30:27.280And it is incumbent on the 150 of us in the Texas House of Representatives to show up, to do our job, to roll up our sleeves, and to vote or debate or amend, but to do the hard work of governing on behalf of the people of Texas.
00:30:42.700And so that's what I'm trying to do here is to say we got elected, we ran.
00:30:46.480So you don't have an issue, then, with what the Democrats have done in Illinois?
00:30:50.000You don't have a problem with gerrymandering?
00:30:51.340Well, what I have an issue with what's going on in Illinois is not that their legislature has written maps that they believe are appropriate for them.
00:31:00.460My issue is with the hypocrisy that Illinois has done a much more aggressive redistricting map that much more heavily favors the Democrats than the maps that the Texas Republicans are considering right now.
00:31:15.420So there's nobody in Illinois with a straight face can criticize anything that the state of Texas is doing, because, quite frankly, we're redistricting much less aggressively for the purposes of political advantage than Democrat states like California, New York, and Illinois.
00:31:32.920Brian Harrison joins us because of the war and posse and Brian Harrison at the tip of the spear.
00:31:40.520This is the number one political story in the world, Brian, after your hits on internationalists, particularly BBC, I literally was contacted from people all over the world because that goes out on BBC internationally, globally, and particularly to decision-makers all over the world.
00:31:54.800Greg, tell me, what is your sense that the international media is actually worse than the American media?
00:32:09.500Well, they basically handled them the same way I've had to handle, you know, CNN and other, you know, liberal mainstream media outlets for the last week as well.
00:32:16.240It's sort of like, how dare you Texans do something that the voters of Texas want you to do, because we don't like what you're doing, therefore it's somehow evil and morally repugnant and wrong, and you should cover your face in shame.
00:32:31.40030 million Texans elected me and 150 other people to come down here and do what they want.
00:32:37.220That's what we're trying to accomplish down here.
00:32:38.680And every one of these, you know, hypocrites, dishonest, cynical, showboating, sham Democrats from Governor Pritzker to Governor Newsom and the Democrats in all those states that have been radically and in extreme fashion gerrymandering their states for the last 10 years, they don't have a leg to stand on in terms of, you know, criticizing what we're doing down here in Texas.
00:33:03.200Because even the maps, if we pass the maps that we're trying to pass right now, we would still be less gerrymandered than New York, California and Illinois.
00:33:15.480Okay, these leftists, these radicals, these socialists, they have no problem with states redrawing maps to maximize partisan political advantage.
00:33:23.920They're just angry that a Republican state is trying to do it.
00:34:02.980CNN got very angry with me because I actually, they were criticizing our redistricting.
00:34:07.980I held up a map of Illinois and I put it in the camera and I told the host, I was like, did you or anybody at CNN ever drag Pritzker, put his face on TV and say, defend Illinois 13, which is a map.
00:34:19.280The district is like the size of a pinky that runs all the way across the entire state.
00:34:25.120And then CNN didn't like that very much.
00:34:27.440I was on 15 minutes with Caitlin Collins in the first 15 minutes of her show.
00:34:30.620And they did their best to fact check me to say, no, no, no, we, we covered it.
00:34:35.020But every clip they showed wasn't one single excerpt of CNN ever asking any Democrat in any Democrat state, legislator or governor to defend the gerrymandering that's been going on.
00:34:47.640So unintentionally, CNN proved the point that you and the posse and I all know to be true.
00:34:53.580These Democrats, it's nothing but projection.
00:34:58.440These people are fundamentally dishonest frauds.
00:35:01.420OK, one of the reasons you've been the leader of this and done such a great job, there's rhetoric and there's performance art and then there's reality.
00:35:08.360The Republican establishment has to understand we're getting this done.
00:35:23.100Let's just go through the punch list of what you're recommending, because last night your recommendation that, hey, if they want to hang out in Illinois and we can't get to the long, long, long arm of the law can't get to them.
00:35:33.000Then every week you're out, we pick up another seat.
00:35:40.280So walk through exactly what Brian Harrison's punch list for the Republican establishment to get done here in the next 24 to 48 hours.
00:35:49.100Yeah, happy to do it. And I'll go one step backwards in time.
00:35:52.740In fact, my staff is shooting over to yours right now, a very short video, because context is everything here.
00:35:57.900I'll go through the list of things that I would do if I were the governor or if I were the speaker.
00:36:02.320But we got to back up a couple of days because it's not like the Democrats snuck out of town and nobody saw this coming.
00:36:08.600And did it despite the best efforts of Texas Republican leadership to keep him here.
00:36:12.660The opposite is true. The Democrats, you know, fled the state with the full cooperation of the establishment RINO leadership of the Texas House.
00:36:22.900And in fact, I can prove it. Nobody has to take my word for me.
00:36:25.640It was just seven days ago. We were on the floor of the Texas House.
00:36:28.640We had the maps filed. They were in the system.
00:36:31.760We had the Democrats in town. The Democrats were on the floor of the Texas House.
00:36:35.900We were in the chamber. We had an official quorum.
00:36:38.760All we had to do was what the speaker did a few days ago, which is do a call of the house, which basically says you can't leave.
00:36:45.700And if you do, you're going to be arrested. He didn't do that.
00:36:48.440Instead, what did our RINO speaker do? He adjourned the house after only seven minutes.
00:36:53.920I screamed to the top of my lungs. Objection.
00:36:56.900He ignored the objection, gaveled them out, opened the doors on Wednesday so they could literally walk down the hall of the Capitol
00:37:04.020into the open arms of Hakeem Jeffries, who had flown down here from Washington, D.C.
00:37:09.260So you've got to start there. The Republican.
00:37:11.860This is as much of a failure of a Republican elected leadership in Texas as it is anything else,
00:37:17.400because if Republicans had wanted to stop this from happening, they had all the tools they chose to let the Democrats leave.
00:37:22.900So that's number one. But number two, let's put that aside for a second.
00:37:25.400Now we are where we are. They're hiding behind Governor Pritzker and Gavin Newsom and in California.
00:37:31.420They're all over the place. OK, number one, we should start with the basics.
00:37:35.380All right. The parking spots. OK, until the parking spots are gone.
00:37:38.040I know you're not even pretending to try. OK, not one parking spot has been been revoked.
00:37:41.920All right. Seniority. These people care about their seniority because that's how they get on their committees.
00:37:47.500That's how they get their big palatial office spaces. OK, but let's talk about the big action.
00:37:51.940There's lots of talk from the governor and other people about vacating their seats and having special elections.
00:37:56.280Well, as of it's been a week since the Democrats last had quorum, there have been zero seats vacated.
00:38:03.160Zero. We've had civil arrest warrant signed. We've had zero arrests.
00:38:08.840OK, I want seats vacated now. I want arrests made now. I want charges.
00:38:13.720These people may well have committed criminal bribery offenses that that those legal proceedings need to get started right now.
00:38:21.180And one thing that's going to shock, well, maybe the posse knows this, but most folks across America don't know this.
00:38:25.960Democrats hold powerful committee chairmanship in the state of Texas.
00:38:30.700Yes. Imagine if Nancy Pelosi or AOC were chairman of Ways and Means.
00:38:34.940You know, AOC was Energy and Commerce. I mean, that that is literally what goes on here in the state of Texas.
00:38:40.240Not one Democrat chairmanship has been revoked.
00:38:43.880OK, their budgets should be slashed. So even if we can't fire the Democrat staffers, we have the power to not pay them.
00:38:50.100So why are the Democrat staffers all being paid while their bosses are outside of the country?
00:38:56.060We haven't had one single office be defunded. And then, yeah, what I'm calling the Harrison proposal.
00:39:00.400You mentioned it. Let's play hardball. I'm sick of the Democrats being the only one that fight aggressively for the future of this country.
00:39:06.420Republicans should be fighting as hard to save America as the Democrats are on destroying it.
00:39:10.600And for every one week you're gone, we're adding one more Republican seat to the map.
00:39:14.820So you want to be gone one week? Cool. We just went from from plus five to plus six.
00:39:19.320You're gone two weeks. We went from plus five to plus seven.
00:39:22.660Let's play fire or fight fire with fire. As Gavin Newsom said, I want to do that, too, but more aggressively.
00:39:27.680And then and then finally, the easiest thing we could do, because it doesn't involve the courts.
00:39:31.780There's no legal questions. This is purely whether they want to use the power they have or not.
00:39:36.340If I'm the Republican speaker of the Texas House, as long as I'm the speaker, if you're a Democrat and you're abdicating your constitutional responsibilities,
00:39:44.960any bill you ever want to pass that's got your name on it, dead on arrival.
00:39:49.900It will never see the light of day in the floor of the Texas House.
00:39:52.600And if I'm the governor of the state of Texas, this is super easy for Governor Abbott.
00:39:56.280Say to those Democrats right now, every one of you that hasn't shown up, any bill that's got your name on it, automatic veto.
00:40:03.320Don't even bother sending it to my desk. That would make a difference.
00:40:07.660The Democrats would pay attention to action right now.
00:40:09.740But right now, the Democrats in Illinois, California and New York, I can watch them on TV.
00:40:14.000They're literally mocking the elected Republican leadership in the state of Texas.
00:41:19.500Why the hell haven't you taken their parking spots away?
00:41:21.860I'm talking the basics. Oh, and by the way, I have it on very good authority that there are multiple Democrats still residing within the boundaries of the state of Texas and that elected leadership in Texas is aware of this.
00:41:36.280Those are the low hanging fruit for arrests.
00:41:38.980Why have there been no arrests made if Democrats are, in fact, residing within the bounds of Texas?
00:41:45.120And if you're the governor or speaker, why haven't you promised to kill every bill of every one of these Democrats that has fled the state?
00:41:52.660There is no question as to the authority of that.
00:41:54.680Some of these things, I know there are lawyers on both sides.
00:41:56.560OK, well, this might take a court proceeding.
00:41:57.920That might not take a court proceeding.
00:41:59.080The facts of the matter are the governor could kill and veto every bill by any of these Democrats.
00:45:30.260You've got everything on the treasonous conspiracy in Russiagate.
00:45:33.360And you've got 150, 175 lawsuits on President Trump's Article II power.
00:45:38.580They're all interconnected, and they're interconnected because this is how the Democrats are going to run now because they can't beat you at the polls.
00:45:47.180And now that we've got people like Seagal Chata in Nevada, the new U.S. attorney that says on local TV last night with the interviewer, she's now the acting attorney general, you know, what are your priorities?
00:46:00.660They fully melt down because they know it's going to be harder to steal elections.
00:46:04.520Alex Marlow has written that battle plan.
00:46:06.680It's called Breaking the Law, Exposing the Weaponization of America's Legal System Against Donald J. Trump, in which President Trump on the cover says it's a must read.
00:46:16.320So, Alex, you just heard Harrison, both with the BBC and then on the war room down in Austin.
00:46:26.340When you joined up with Breitbart, when was it, 12 years ago or so, and Andrew's there, and Andrew is fighting to try to make conservatives cool and fun and make sure that we're not scolds.
00:46:39.460And now we got Sidney Sweeney in the jeans, and the left is like, you guys take her.
00:46:43.600And we're like, okay, that sounds great.
00:46:45.440And then now we've got the Republican establishment is completely irrelevant here.
00:46:50.180And you got guys like Brian out there going on BBC, and the BBC is saying, well, isn't this unfair that we're gerrymandering?
00:46:55.940And then Brian just goes, I don't care.
00:47:53.360He didn't have to win them, but he had to at least survive them while he was running for president, running for president from a courthouse because of massive election interference.
00:48:00.220That was controlled from the top, from the Joe Biden White House, blatantly illegal, needs to be investigated, and we need to start seeing some heads roll over this thing.
00:48:08.360However, no one can really even sort out the six cases in their head.
00:48:11.600Julie Kelly can, but most people can't do this.
00:48:14.300And I tried to write something so that people could actually understand the extent of the lawfare, the extent that it's connected to the other hoaxes of our time.
00:48:21.540One of the things that I really wanted to highlight to you and the posse on the show today was the Stormy Daniels case, the one case that ended in convictions, criminal convictions for Trump, never should have happened.
00:48:31.720The reason why that case ended up in a conviction was because of the Russian collusion hoax.
00:48:35.820Michael Cohen was a key subject of the Russiagate investigation.
00:48:39.340The government was able to get access to his Gmail account, the Justice Department, and the special counsel from Robert Mueller's investigation.
00:48:46.860All of this started with the Russiagate hoax.
00:48:48.480If there is no Russiagate hoax, there is no Stormy Daniels conviction, which, by the way, we've got to throw out all those convictions on that front.
00:48:54.960But the point is no one understands the interconnectivity of all of the lawfare.
00:49:35.140This is the most important area for Democrats.
00:49:38.380It's where their weapons are pointed at us, downrange right at us, yet the intellectual legal elite of the, by and large, of the Republican Party doesn't want to touch this.
00:50:03.180Yeah, but it's because of all the money.
00:50:04.460It's because they've taken all these loans.
00:50:06.160They've gone through the system, and then now finally they can make some money, and they're not going to be welcomed in polite society if they take on jobs for President Trump or connected to the conservative movement.
00:50:20.160I like you talking about you being the hero.
00:50:22.780You've got to think yourself as a main character in this.
00:50:25.060And attorneys, conservative attorneys have to stand up, have their voices heard right now because there's a massive effort to blackball conservative attorneys,
00:50:32.420people who work for Trump and help President Trump.
00:50:34.880And we're not just talking about keeping you out of the best firms.
00:50:37.340We're talking about making it so that you might not even be able to practice law at all.
00:51:11.880One more time, before we end this segment, the top of the hour, I want to know where people can go get the book,
00:51:17.500where they can get all your writings, where they can get access to you and access to this amazing primer on this war that we're fighting now.
00:52:04.020And you see in Texas, when the war on posse and the grassroots of Texas get their back, put their back to the wheel, their shoulder to the wheel here, great things happen.
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