Episode 4728： Trump's Maximalist Strategy; Pause To Ukraine Peace Efforts
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Former CIA Director John Bolton is under investigation by the FBI and the Justice Department for his role in the Iran sanctions campaign, and his possible involvement in a cover-up. Ambassador John Bolton has come out as a vocal critic of the President and has been a frequent critic of his former boss, Donald Trump.
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Before you go, we're about to talk about Trump's retribution campaign we're seeing at the FBI and the Justice Department.
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You're obviously on his enemies list, at least Kash Patel's enemies list.
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Are you worried that they're going to come after you in some way? I mean, he's hinted at it before.
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Well, I think he's already come after me and several others in withdrawing the protection that we had from the Iranians for the attack on Qasem Soleimani.
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Right. So I think and I said in the in the new forward to the paperback edition of my book, I think it is a retribution presidency.
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Aid for TV attempt at an authoritarian takeover just so happens to be consuming the news cycle after news cycle.
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But here's the thing. It is also very real and exactly what it looks like.
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It's not just a show or a distraction. It's the real thing.
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They are sending troops into the streets. They are occupying the Capitol.
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They have a secret police force that is scooping people up, that is demanding people's I.D.
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They have an enemies list. They have the state security apparatus targeting political opponents.
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In fact, we're being told the FBI search on John Bolton's home and office was part of a, quote,
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national security investigation in search of classified records.
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Some are familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News.
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But since his time in the first Trump administration, Bolton has come out as a vocal critic of the president.
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And Chris, if you're the attorney general of New York or the junior senator from the state of California,
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two other sort of high profile perceived political enemies of the president of the United States makes pretty clear,
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doesn't it, what the president thinks about his political enemies and what might happen to them next?
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Yeah, I think that should be a real concern for them and for all Americans.
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I don't think there's a limit necessarily to what this administration is planning on doing against the enemies list.
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You know, just a couple of weeks ago, you know, there was an A.I. generated video of President Obama being arrested in the Oval Office.
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And, you know, then this opening of this broad investigation by the O.D.N.I.
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So I think anything they consider anything fair game here and, you know, we should be concerned about, you know,
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the utilization of the FBI as a tool in this political witch hunt.
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So today could have been just, you know, the first first shot in this this campaign.
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Listen, you know, my emotions have vacillated all day.
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First of all, you know, I have complete confidence in the integrity and professionalism of the FBI.
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So if the investigators found new information, part of an investigation into Ambassador Bolton
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that indicated that he was involved in a crime and then sought a search warrant, that would be one thing.
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Now it looks like that information was provided to them by the director of the CIA, a fierce loyalist to the president.
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I don't recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance.
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I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting.
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I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way.
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The president was never inappropriate with anybody.
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In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman.
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Are you saying there's a real possibility, then, that you do nothing if Putin doesn't come to the table for a ceasefire?
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If there are reasons why, I'll understand that.
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We're going to see whether or not they have a meeting.
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And if they don't, why didn't they have a meeting?
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But I'll know in two weeks what I'm going to do.
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So, bottom line, bottom line, there's no meeting planned.
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President Putin said clearly that he is ready to meet, provided this meeting is really going to have an agenda, presidential agenda.
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There's no meeting planned, Mr. Foreign Minister.
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You're saying there's no meeting planned right now.
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Christian, I'm awfully sorry you're not listening.
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But you, you cannot, cannot, I think, understand what I'm saying.
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Putin is ready to meet with Zelensky when the agenda would be ready for a summit.
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Um, I think, well, certainly my father had a background in intelligence during, because he was, uh, I believe he did in the Second World War, he was an intelligence, a British intelligence officer.
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Um, I think that my sort of belief is that once you've been an intelligence officer, you're kind of, always, it doesn't mean that you're formally employed.
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So, I don't think my dad in any formal sense was, uh, you know, employed by the, any agency, but when you, um, are very significant.
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Dan Bongino, what you have in the background, as you, as you laid out, is a series of moves that we have seen over the past seven months and an extraordinary, unprecedented use of presidential power to, to achieve the political goals and to exact retribution.
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When you see all of that conduct and you see Bolton's home being raided, you're then forced to say, okay, how are we supposed to look at this?
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Should we accept that this was done for the right reasons?
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We will learn that, you know, in the coming days.
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And if there is court papers in this and such, and if there's a prosecution, we will learn what is actually here.
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But for the moment, you have to kind of look at it and say, okay, uh, maybe there is, there is something serious here, but there's also a retribution campaign going on.
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And you have to say, well, what's really happening here?
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And it gets back to that simple, simple principle that if you, as a very powerful politician, the president of the United States, talk about ongoing investigations and what you want done to your enemies, when stuff is done to them, people tend to think you are behind it.
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As soon as something happens, in any incident I've been on the news about, it's like the cabinet secretaries are racing to get it on X to show, uh, what, you know, the favoritism.
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Um, so I'd say it was singular in this one as, as troubling, but that's just the norm now between, uh, Homeland defense and FBI that never happened before.
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Uh, I mean, Jim Comey got a ton of it for what he started to do when he talked about something, but he was backed into a corner, but now it's just, it's the norm as soon as it happens.
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And then the, the leak to the, the, the post today, uh, on this.
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So it, it, it definitely is, it's going to continue.
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Early this morning, the Texas Senate approved new congressional maps.
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They're designed to give Republicans up to five more seats in next year's midterms.
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And now that the vote has cleared the final legislative hurdle, that's the governor Greg Abbott's desk and Democrats are vowing to fight back in court in California.
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Governor Gavin Newsom and state Democrats, so they're pushing their own maps to offset GOP games.
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The voters will have the next say here in November when they'll decide whether to override the state's independent commission and adopt the new lines.
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I mean, I was told this morning by a senior FBI official that this was definitely not just about the book, that it was about a kind of drip, drip, drip of leaks by Bolton, including after 2020.
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There was also a report by Jack Posobiec this morning who said that the CIA director, John Ratcliffe had actually given FBI director, Cash Patel information that might've pertained to this raid.
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I went back and reread John Bolton's book today.
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And I mean, you have to put this in some context, which is that we're in the midst of an administration that is genuinely appearing to prosecute Russiagate.
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The long or the Russiagate hoax, I should say, the long ongoing conspiracy to remove Trump from office.
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Bolton was directly involved in the 2019 impeachment.
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And afterwards, he said that he thought that the impeachment inquiry, the impeachment process by the Democrats wasn't broad enough, that it needed to include Trump's decisions that he said were made for political purposes, which is so far outlined so far out of bounds of the Constitution.
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So you've got somebody here that was actively involved in trying to remove Trump from power and scheming in ways to remove Trump from power in 2019 and in 2020.
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Do you think this is a prelude to Brennan, Clapper, Comey, a lot of the other rapscallions who conspired to sabotage a presidency?
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I mean, look, I've been told, and I'm sure you've heard this, too, is that the Trump administration is serious.
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The FBI is serious about prosecuting the Russia collusion hoax.
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And when you kind of look at the whole thing, I mean, to some extent, they're making it up as they go along.
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But, I mean, we had e-mails, we had intelligence released a couple of weeks ago that suggested that Adam Schiff, that a conversation with Adam Schiff where he said that they were looking for, you know, maybe not criminal prosecution, but possibly impeachment.
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And you see Bolton, again, saying he's he's being very creative in his book, describing all the ways in which he thought that Trump should have been charged up with impeachment or should the impeachment process should have gone in, criticizing the Democrats for making their scope too narrow.
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He wanted it to just be around a whole set of decisions that John Bolton happened to disagree with and make that the basis of impeaching the president.
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
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You're just not going to get a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
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And where do people like that go to share the big line?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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It's Saturday, 23 August, Year of Our Lord, 2025.
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We've got a lot to talk about today on the maximalist strategy of maximizing everything
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President Trump's doing right now in the MAGA movement to sort this mess out in the country.
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Everything from taking on the cartels to shutting down these sanctuary democratic cities and cleaning them up
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to making sure that we start on the process now of the 100 seats President Trump feels is right there for the MAGA movement
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if we get our act together, including places like Texas.
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Hopefully Governor Abbott signs that thing quickly.
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I would like to see him sign it over the weekend, but maybe they wait till Monday to have some sort of little ceremony.
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John Bolton, Jack Posobiec, you have been all over this situation, and now the mainstream media, as much as it hurts them,
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are calling out, you know, your reporting and analysis.
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John Bolton, the book and the classified documents just may be one small aspect of this.
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And that's right, I broke that story here on The War Room yesterday.
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I was able to put that into greater detail regarding some of the intelligence that was shared by John Ratcliffe
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Also receiving, as we're continuing to dig into this case and now reporting,
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the next place we're going is there's that tweet from Dan Bongino saying that public corruption will not be tolerated.
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Now, what's interesting about that tweet is, of course, he's not referencing classified material or mishandling classified material.
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He's referencing actions that were taken beyond the scope of John Bolton's official duties,
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possibly for monetary gain, this, of course, being the public corruption portfolio of the FBI,
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and a lot of questions about lobbyists that John Bolton may have been working with while he was in office in the President's White House.
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Well, it's about – we'll get into it as we come through the break.
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And I think this makes sense when you connect the dot of what Ratcliffe said about the CIA is providing intelligence.
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A lot of people think that's backup to things that are in the book.
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It may also be intercepts, et cetera, about people that Bolton was working with and how he was monetizing access.
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Blockbuster news here in the war room this morning as we connect some dots.
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Washington Post now reporting, as Jack Posobiec, highlights to me that Zelensky's on the clock.
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Yes, you know, Putin, the Trump, maybe terrorists, maybe this, maybe terrorists against the CCP, people financing.
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But Zelensky better show up with some partners because President Trump ain't buying it that the guys that came over and hung out,
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the chaperones, when they got back home, President Trump's just got three questions.
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How much cash, how many arms and weapons, and how many troops, particularly troops.
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The colonel in charge of the union for the German troops, yes, the German army has a union,
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brutally goes out and gives an interview and says all the European nations are military dwarves.
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They don't have any finances, no resources, no manpower,
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and that it is a bluff and pray strategy that will not work in the Ukraine.
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He's been blasting out the thing about Maxwell saying that Epstein, she believed, didn't
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Before we get back into this, what say you, sir?
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Look, Steve, there's only one Rush Limbaugh, the harmless little fuzzball, an all-around
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good guy, the Maharashi, the most dangerous man in America.
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However, I will say that for many years, I was a student of the Limbaugh Institute for
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Advanced Conservative Studies and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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So let's explain to the audience what's going on.
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When Bongino sends this thing out, says public corruption, your antenna went up.
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This is deeper just in the book, in the classified, in the yellow legal pads and all that.
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I was pretty surprised how many boxes they took out of his house yesterday.
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Because it sounds like, when you say public corruption, it sounds like Bolton, in some
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Well, Steve, I mean, that's the definition of public corruption, monetizing your office.
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And in this case, monetizing access to the president or essentially monetizing policy or leverage.
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And if you go all the way back to 2018, when they talked about Bolton's time at the NSC,
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there is, in fact, an article from Politico that it pinged my memory, talking all about
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a longtime colleague and lobbyist of John Bolton named Matthew Friedman, a guy that he had brought
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in to be a consultant for staffing and a consultant on the outside, even while Bolton was working
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And these individuals, so he had Friedman on the outside, Matthew Friedman, and then this
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And it says in the political article right here, another Bolton friend has joined him
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McMaster being ousted following policy classes with President Trump and others.
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And, of course, the issue that they were talking about was this individual's business ties potentially
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to foreign contacts and potentially to other influences that were coming in as Bolton was
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the current national security advisor for President Trump there in the White House.
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Friedman was on the transition team initially for the first couple of weeks and then was
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And Kupperman, I think, tried to, yeah, I think Kupperman came in for, I think Kupperman one
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time was either the deputy or the assistant to the deputy or chief of staff, right?
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Friedman is also alleged very tight with Mossad.
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Do you think the law of unintended consequences are going to play in here, that you're going
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to see a lot of Bolton's direct contacts with Ukraine intelligence and with Mossad?
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Well, Steve, this is going to call it all into question.
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Whatever foreign contacts we're applying for access to the White House, potentially domestic
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When we give our elected officials and our public officials this power and this access
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and this influence, one of the great dangers, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat,
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is that you will, instead of working for the good and the betterment of the American people,
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you'll be working for your own personal gain and your own personal interests.
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And of course, if they can find a direct link between any of this lobbying that was going
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on, which again, was reported at the Times, this is Politico that I'm relying on here and
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some other stuff that people have been, pointed me to that article again from last night, that
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they're saying that I think this is probably what the big thing is on Bolton when it comes
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Well, and just to explain to the audience, I think Friedman was his business partner that
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ran a consulting business that, or advisory business, a lot of people have.
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And this is one of the reasons President Trump takes away their security clearance, because
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the way they monetize things is to use that security clearance going forward.
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It looks like potentially, and we don't know this for a fact, but you can kind of see the
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convergence here, if you're sophisticated and can read between the lines, that Bolton,
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and look, National Security Advisor is taking so many meetings, some meetings with so many
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other National Security Advisors, heads of state, particularly, you know, if it's not a major
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power, many heads of state will come in with their defense secretary and actually meet with
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the National Security Advisor because it's just not time to get on the president's schedule.
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The political article leaves open the fact that actually Friedman is monetizing, and maybe
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even Kupperman are monetizing access to Bolton to actually people to take meetings and maybe
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sign advisory agreements with them, either post or pre.
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Is that what this looks like it's trending towards?
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That's certainly what the implication is, that they're on the table for this public
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corruption, which again, Dan Bongino is the one who posted that originally.
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And so when we look at this, Steve, a lot of people in the audience will always ask me,
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why is the United States of America so focused on this foreign country or that foreign country?
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Why are we pushing for this when, you know, it seems out of nowhere?
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And unfortunately, the dirty little secret is that Washington, D.C., just like every other
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And there are times where John Bolton, potentially, given his access to the president, he's got the
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And as he said himself, in the room where it happened, the question is, was there some deal
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set up where this guy was taking money on the outside?
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This is similar to what we saw Hillary Clinton doing when she was secretary of state with
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the Clinton Foundation, not quite on that scale, but a very similar formula to what you would
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Yeah, the Mike Davis, the great, the Viceroy, who's taking a couple of days off, I think,
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has a tweet up that basically, and Jesse Waters talked about it last night, right before they
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talked about your input, Mike had something that a lot of the people that just think it
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happens to deal with the classified information in the book, the room where it happened, are
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going to be embarrassed because it's going to be much broader than that.
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And I think people should understand that if any of this is backed up by evidence, and
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I think they would have had the evidence before they went and got the, or at least had an indication
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of where the evidence was, since Ratcliffe's part of this also, is John Bolton could be looking
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for a couple of decades of hard time, essentially could die in prison.
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I mean, this is, these are pretty, these are very, very, very serious charges, and not just
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Jack, along those lines, in the Maxwell interview, she admitted that she and Epstein were at the
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beginning of helping the Clinton stand up, the Clinton Foundation.
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She also said that she doesn't think Epstein committed suicide.
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She also admitted for the first time, I think, in any public record, that her father was
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associated with, was an intelligence asset of the Mossad.
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And, and also she exonerated President Trump, said he barely knew the, you know, he knew the
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guy, but it was all public, hanging out in public places and never saw anything inappropriate.
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Uh, your assessment of Todd Blanche's, um, uh, questioning of, of Maxwell and some of these
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Uh, this is something that I, I have a little bit of background with having been, uh, served
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by the York Guantanamo Bay, conducting these types of interviews, conducting these types of
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debriefs as an analyst and, and being able to look in through all this type of information.
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But what I would say here is coming in, in the capacity that he did is, uh, is the same
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thing I would say to anyone when I was down there working in the interrogation, uh, cell
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Because there seems to be a lot more, uh, there's also times where there's information
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that's contradictory and there's also information where you got to go.
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You can't take a detainee, or in this case, a prisoner's word at its face value.
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You've got to go back and do the process of source validation.
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So any good investigator is going to take the word of their source, but then go match that
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If you have other informants, you have other sources of information, do you have other data
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points using, uh, SIGINT or communications intelligence, whatever else, documentary intelligence,
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Doc X, uh, like we've seen, of course, these questions about the files, other, some of
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the girls that they've come out and, and said various things that contradict what Ghislaine
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So it really is a good, I think it's a great start.
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The fact that it happened, I think the Todd Blanch did a fantastic job and we'll see.
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I think there's a lot of nuggets in there, but this is nowhere.
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I want, I want to, uh, hold, I know you got stuff with the family.
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I got to get to Ukraine and Gaza for a second, but I got 60 seconds here.
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Pam Bondi did say, I think on February 21st, either February or March, I think it was February
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21st that on her desk was the client's list that they were going through.
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You guys went to the White House and got a document that you guys, you and, uh, DC
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Well, I would say the question is, you know, what is a list?
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So is a list something that they write down or is a list something that an investigator
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puts together when you're tracking all of the money and you're tracking all of the people
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who, uh, so I think that's, that's really something that, uh, that people are playing
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Jack for something that said, I don't know when the AG says I'm going, it's on my desk.
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Anyway, short break, post on the other side, Harnwell, Jenny Beth Martin, all of it this
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Look, I know we're eating in, the worm is eating into Tanya Tay in the boys' time, so
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First off, I want to just go back to the Maxwell.
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You say it's the first, it's the attempt of the iceberg.
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She finally identified, I think first time ever, admitted her father was an intelligence
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A guy like him and Soros, they come out of, you know, post-war, they come out of, you
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know, Eastern Europe, really is, I think, an informant to British intelligence sources,
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And then next thing you know, they got some money, they're buying things, and they're
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Your observations on that, because that's going to, besides their thing about the Clinton,
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their association with Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, also, she doesn't think he was
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That means if he was murdered, he was murdered for a reason.
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What about this, what about her association, and people will, certain people would say that
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they are royalty when it comes to Israeli intelligence, sir?
00:31:33.460
Well, Steve, one of the interesting facts about Robert Maxwell, just right off the bat,
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that I don't think people realize, that even though he was born at the time, it was
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Czechoslovakia, but given the border shifts and the changes post-World War II, and then
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post-Soviet Union, believe it or not, the town where Robert Maxwell was born is now in
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It's Solotnbo, Ukraine, is actually where Robert Maxwell was born.
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So it's right in this border region, of course, I've talked many, many times about how the
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border regions in this area have changed myself, actually, not, not,
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my family's not too far from there, and right on the border with Poland.
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So he's right on the border today of Ukraine and Romania.
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But there really were these questions about his ties with the setting, the setting up of
00:32:25.360
Mossad, the setting up of the state when the Israelis were really first getting involved,
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and then even back to the 80s, talking about his ability for finance, his ability in arms
00:32:35.080
deals, tech transfers, surveillance, and the fact that when Robert Maxwell passed, he was
00:32:40.880
actually given a state funeral on, yes, the Mount of Olives itself outside of Jerusalem,
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one of the most honored spots that traveled there many times, of course, in Israel, and
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of course, in Christianity, of the Mount of Olives being the area where Christ went to
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pray before he was, and the, where the Garden of Gethsemane is right there, et cetera, et
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So being buried there is one of the highest honors that you can get in Israel.
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Also, the only, I think, American there's any statue or anything from, there are no statues
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There's no statues for the young men of the 8th Air Force.
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There's no statues for those that freed the camps.
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No statues for the statue for Angleton of the CA.
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Also, the interesting thing about Maxwell is the whole controversy about technology that
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they were able to get back in those days that gave them access to be able to look everywhere.
00:33:40.840
And this gets to some of the big questions about Palantir and some of these other, some
00:33:45.280
of these other companies today, about the surveillance technology, exactly who's financing
00:33:54.200
As you're speaking about Ukraine with Maxwell, let's go to Ukraine.
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Finally, we're getting some reality checks, Jack Posobiec.
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The Washington Post got a big story today, but it's a culmination of a couple of things
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that's happened is if you have been following the war room, you get in the straight skinny,
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not the happy talk at Fox, not the happy talk at NBC.
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The reality is that the chaperones, right, the chaperones of England, Italy, France, and
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It was all trying to entrap President Trump and stepping up for everything, the United
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States for everything on security guarantees and money.
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As you know, Jack, every newspaper has been reporting how their military is saying, we
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The Germans said, hey, we sent a brigade to Lithuania.
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The head of the union of the German army, yes, the German army actually has a union of their
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This colonel, and he was as blunt as anybody.
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He called the European nations individually, military dwarves.
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I think someone that understands that after you looked them in the eye, Jack Posobiec, is
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and the reason the polls did not come over, President Trump, I think, fully appreciates
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And the Washington Post story talks about that.
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Well, Steve, there's this buried way, way down in this new piece up in the Washington
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And people can see the headline is Land for Peace, Ukrainians Way, Frozen Frontline to
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And way, way down, one of Zelensky's top advisors and a guy who's always talking in media is this
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And Milovanov, he's the director of the Kiev School of Economics.
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And he says right to the Washington Post in print on the record that Zelensky is being
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He is being threatened that there will be no longer financial support or intelligence support.
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And in Ukraine, within Ukraine, no one will defend him.
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So it seems as though, in one perspective, he's getting the squeeze from the American
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But two, and of course, we've seen President Trump put pressure on both Ukraine and Russia
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But also, we have to look at the fact that he's getting, that Zelensky's facing internal
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We saw that Gallup poll where 70 percent of the country now wants negotiation.
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We've seen protests break out in front of Zelensky's office.
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And the fact, of course, that's been brought up time and time again, that once the war ends
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and martial law is ceased within Ukraine, they have to hold presidential elections because
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He'll have to stand for election immediately after the cessation of hostilities.
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Real quickly, I want to get your thoughts, and the audience does, on three things.
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Number one, they're calling up the reservists, 60,000 reservists, to commence the military
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It doesn't seem, I'm not getting the fact that the IDF's heart's in this.
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I just don't see the, I don't see the intensity.
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I don't see the urgency of going after, of going back to Gaza.
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Not for an occupation, I mean, just for the mission of taking down the remaining, I think,
00:37:35.440
Well, Steve, Gaza City, I mean, this is one of the most densely populated strips of land
00:37:42.260
So if you're talking about going door to door, conducting close quarters combat for IDF,
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whether you're a reservist, even whether you're a special forces commando, this is going to
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be some of the hardest fighting you've ever seen, this is Battle of Fallujah level on steroids
00:37:57.400
going in there against a populace that is increasingly hostile and incredibly hostile
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to any Israeli soldier that's going to be coming in at a time where, as they say, you
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know, you don't know who's Hamas, you don't know who's not.
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So going in there, boots on the ground the way that the United States did, the Marines did
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in Fallujah and the Navy SEAL, it's absolutely going to be a very high-casualty environment,
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Just like in Fallujah, there's no air assistance.
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Jack, we have an amphibious ready group, the Iwo Jima Group, and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary
00:38:48.640
Word has it that from Maduro and Venezuela all the way up to Central America, the cartels,
00:38:53.140
and in Mexico, that Pete Hexas and the team are working through plans for actual military
00:39:02.600
Well, Steve, look, you know, we've talked about the hemispheric defense here many times.
00:39:06.420
When I was in the press briefing the other day, Caroline Levitt came out and said the United
00:39:10.420
States government does not recognize Maduro as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and
00:39:16.840
was working hard to tie, you see this from the administration writ large, where they are
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working to tie the cartels' operations directly to Maduro.
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So this seems as though it's a whole-of-government approach to pressure both the cartels and Maduro
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and obviously allowing a range of options, both militarily and economic.
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So we're seeing the president really ratchet the pressure up here in the Western Hemisphere.
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Last but not least, the president's very pleased with what's happening in Washington, D.C.,
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Now, I think the 2,000, there are going to be 2,000 troops.
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They're going to be carrying weapons is the latest.
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And also the president's saying, hey, I'm looking at Chicago and New York City, which we've been
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a huge advocate, although we would say L.A. first, Chicago second, New York third.
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Your thoughts there as President Trump likes what he's seeing.
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He's out on patrol with the National Guard elements, the federalized National Guard elements.
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Mr. President, Stephen Miller, everybody who's up there, Pete Hegseth, please don't leave
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Look, we need to bukele every single major city in this country.
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It's been picked up all over about city cons versus royal cons and the rise of the city
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conservatives, the urban right, where this is people who come to politics a little bit
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differently than people who live in the small towns that want to conserve their way of life.
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For the people who come to conservatism, who come to politics from urban areas, they are fighting.
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We are fighting for our homes and our way of life that were stolen from us, and it's time to get them back.
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I want to make sure everybody gets access to your Twitter feed because you're like the Associated Press for the right, and it's pretty extraordinary.
00:41:26.700
And so as you're taking the mantle of Rush Limbaugh, as a student of Rush Limbaugh, where do people go to get the voice of Jack Posobiec over this weekend, sir?
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There's only one Rush, but maybe I can be the first post, though.
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We might have put up a special episode this weekend just to talk about all the developments this week to make sure everyone downloads Human Events Daily.
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Subscribe, that it really helps us out with our metrics.
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And, of course, at Jack Posobiec, Twitter, Getter, True Social, and, of course, Telegram.
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Jack, thank you, and thank Tanya Tay and the boys for letting the audience, letting the War Room Posse have access to you for the first hour of the show.
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Nothing but love for the War Room Posse, and, of course, Steve, thank you for all of your support as well.
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We're going to figure out the time, but we're going to have the great Aaron Reitz is going to join us on Monday.
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I've got to ask a question, a technical question.
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I made a film with Michael Pack about Fallujah, first Fallujah and second Fallujah, and a joff in the middle.
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In the interviews with the Marines and special forces and Navy SEALs like yourself, second Fallujah, we talked about that.
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You see these IDF guys that have these troops, and particularly some reservists they're calling up, have to go into Gaza City.
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When you compact down to one city and you've got 20,000 dead enders, like you had the Chechnians.
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Remember, in Fallujah, they had a strategy of bringing all the bad guys together because they wanted to kill it with one blow.
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But it was absolutely horrific, and I think the Marines will tell you, one of the toughest battles in the history of the Marine Corps, including places like Peleliu and Terawa, these amazing landings that they did in the Pacific that were bloodier than Normandy.
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Your thoughts, as the IDF gets ready to go into Gaza City, what should our audience look for as far as anticipation of how tough that's going to be for those troops?
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If IDF's going to be fighting building to building, they're going to be clearing the buildings.
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A lot of these times, when you go inside and clear these buildings with these guys, with the enemy, they're just hornets' nests.
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So they're actually going to be using bulldozers and just bulldozing over these buildings.
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In the IDF, one thing they're going to be doing different, the Marines, they're using airstrikes.
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They're dropping, they call them small diameter bombs.
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They're 50-pound GPS-guided bombs and then 250-pound GPS-guided bombs.
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And they can take down a single building or two buildings with those small bombs.
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So urban warfare, close quarters battle, it's a dirty game.
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Later on in the war, we started developing different tactics.
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We stole those tactics from LAPD and the NYPD where you actually call the people out.
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And if they don't come out, then you just blow up the whole building because it's so dangerous to go in these buildings.
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And what's worth more, an enemy combatant or one of your own operators.
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So a lot of times, you just level the buildings with the people in it if they don't come out.
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Yeah, because what people don't, like in Fallujah and here, the folks that are there is the combatants, the fighters.
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They're there to, hey, if I can take as many Americans as many IDF guys, I'm going to take them out.
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My reward will be in the afterlife, but I'm not backing off.
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Yeah, one more thing is actually in some of these buildings when you go in, you know, these guys are not just sleeping in their beds.
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They actually, they build machine gun nests inside the buildings.
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So they actually fill sandbags and build machine gun nests.
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And they have a belt-fed machine gun pointed at the front door.
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They'll put plywood over the stairs so you can't go up the stairs.
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And they build machine gun nests on the second-story landings facing the doorway.
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That's why I said sometimes you just bulldoze the buildings.
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I mean, doing close quarters battle, when you enter a building and there's a machine gun nests pointed at you, you're screwed, basically.
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So in these situations, it's just like level the buildings.
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