Learn English with Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton speaks on the day of remembrance for the fallen soldiers of the First World War, and reflects on the legacy of those who lost their lives in WWI and the impact it has had on the rest of the world.
00:16:53.760I was in the Navy for 10 years and the SEAL teams,
00:16:57.380and then I was a contractor for about nine years.
00:16:59.740So I was in and out of Afghanistan and Iraq from 01 to 2014.
00:17:04.560And I am very happy to support and celebrate veterans and for all those who served in every branch of service,
00:17:14.740living and dead, and also the families of veterans who sacrificed so much when the veterans went off to war.
00:17:22.180The families, I don't think they get thanked enough for the sacrifices they've made for being home alone and not knowing if their spouses are going to come home from these wars.
00:17:32.480So I'm just happy to be here and happy to celebrate this.
00:17:38.020And, of course, on the coffee, we're having a Veterans Day sale, but that's not the reason I'm here.
00:17:43.280I just wanted to celebrate veterans and celebrate the sacrifice for all the men and women.
00:17:48.080We have an issue with veterans being homeless.
00:17:51.120I promote all these veterans companies.
00:17:54.700I think it's great that you vets come back and become entrepreneurs.
00:17:58.660You've been part of large organizations which do support entrepreneurial activity in combat, right?
00:18:07.500That's kind of the whole mission is you've got to think on your own and kind of ride to the sound of the guns and get stuff done.
00:18:14.400But there are large bureaucratic organizations, as you know better than anybody.
00:18:18.260That's the reason we got such crappy coffee in the Navy is just because of the bureaucracy, because of the system.
00:18:25.280I couldn't be prouder of veterans coming out and saying, hey, I've worked inside the system.
00:18:30.100I've worked to defend my country in whatever role it was, right?
00:18:34.100I've worked to defend my country, and now it's time to do something different.
00:18:37.300So I think it's—particularly with the homeless issues and the PTSD and all that, I think it's great.
00:18:42.160And I think that's how we honor veterans for their service, also for the institutions they served, which is the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, all of it.
00:18:51.660And remember, for the longest time, the Air Force was part of the Army, the Army Air Corps.
00:22:24.280I was a breacher, so we've blown doors and blown holes in walls.
00:22:28.040And they also say it comes from firing heavy weapons all the time.
00:22:32.380For a little while, I did ground mobility in the SEAL team, so we did a lot of heavy weapons, the .50 caliber machine guns, mortars, stuff like that.
00:24:38.600You do parades before football games, graduation week.
00:24:43.320Since I was more of a—I'm going to say athlete-student, not student-athlete, but I graduated.
00:24:49.500I had my diploma from West Point, so that's what matters.
00:24:52.060But I paraded, I think, three times in my cadet career, R-Day, A-Day, and graduation parade.
00:24:59.480However, we were up here for my 15-year reunion this weekend, and the grads were actually—that's the one time that we got to step onto the plane after graduation, is out here to watch the pass and review.
00:25:17.680And I believe that some of the current cadets were heckled by my classmates.
00:25:22.540The—it is—we got those great photos of you in your cadet uniform after the—on the plane, or right off the plane.
00:25:34.160For the—for folks at home, the reason that is sacred ground, that is also where, in fact, the statues there are to the Polish officers who came over and helped form the continental—essentially a militia—into an army.
00:25:49.460The reason West Point is strategic, it's above the Hudson, you've got this stunning view, and they do a chain across there to block the British from going either up or down, either to take New York City or try to cut the country in two to cut New England off, because the Hudson Valley and the Hudson River are always a strategic asset that was being fought over.
00:26:08.760But it's on that plane, on that field right there, where the Continental Army was taken from a bunch of ragtag colonists to—and almost like a militia—into an army with drill.
00:26:21.840And, of course, the memoirs of all the leaders of the Civil War and everything is—they would come in their beast barracks at that time would be right on that plane in commemoration of how they hammered—how they hammered an army together.
00:26:33.880Moe, just hang out there. I know it's a little chilly, but hey, you're army, so you're tough.
00:26:39.700We're going to go out with the caissons, go marching along.
00:26:43.200You're in the war room today. It's Veterans Day.
00:26:45.700The President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, if we stay on schedule, we'll momentarily leave for Arlington National Cemetery.
00:26:54.040There'll be a wreath laying today by the President at Arlington.
00:26:58.760We're going to cover it all. We've got a lot to go through.
00:27:04.520The Secretary of Treasury gave a great interview, or Morning Joe, where they kind of ganged up on him, but Scott Besson.
00:27:12.240You know, he can go four or five on one at Morning Joe, and he can bench press them all.
00:27:16.780Also got some clips last night from the President's interview with Laura Ingraham, including my favorite topic, 600,000 foreign nationals here in American universities, including 350,000 Chinese.
00:27:31.120Big topic here in the war room. We'll break it all down.
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00:29:08.520The thing I was impressed about, the generation that was with you when I went up there and spent a lot of time when you were at West Point,
00:29:16.220was the fact that all of you volunteered, all you guys volunteered during a war.
00:29:24.120You knew that you guys were going to the Middle East.
00:29:27.640As failed a policy that was set aside, all these kids knew they were going.
00:29:31.600And in fact, the forced recon of World War II, they would tell you, you know, most of those guys were draftees.
00:29:38.360There were some volunteers, don't get me wrong, but a lot of them were draftees.
00:29:41.180And that's the other thing that the people were very impressed at, that all of these young men and women had volunteered in a time of war
00:29:49.440to actually go to a place where you'd be trained and then go into really into the teeth of the war,
00:29:55.520which is one of the reasons I've always admired your generation of being people that stepped up.
00:29:59.660And so people that smack talk them, I don't think have had the opportunity to see these young men and women in action.
00:30:05.320And I can tell you right now, the young men in this current generation are as based as possible.
00:30:14.160And if that's what we have to depend on going forward in the United States, we're going to be just fine.
00:33:00.960We're going to get some other shots from the historic sacred soil of the United States.
00:33:06.100Part of it, President Trump's going to be at Arlington National Cemetery.
00:33:09.180That's former General Lee's and his wife, Mary Custis Lee, their home that was turned into a federal cemetery in the middle of World War II.
00:33:19.540Well, excuse me, the Civil War and, of course, the plains of the sacred plains of West Point, which is where the Continental Army came together and actually learned how to be an army.
00:33:30.300Can I play – can I play – we'll take a break, Moe.
00:33:33.620You can warm up and maybe give us another shot of the – of Trophy Point.
00:33:37.760I've got Patrick K. O'Donnell and Tej Gill with me.
00:33:40.620Can I play the – because we're going to get a little jammed here for a time.
00:33:42.980I can tell with the president getting ready to leave on a motorcade to go to Arlington National Cemetery.
00:35:29.540And I would rather use peace through economic strength than have to be shooting at narco boats coming offshore if the government collapsed.
00:35:40.160We have a generational opportunity in Latin America to create allies.
00:36:18.660The economy is a – the Trump administration, Scott Besson, have a very definitive plan about how they've gone about and tried to not just jumpstart the economy but really do a major and fundamental restructuring of the American economy.
00:36:36.220In fact, part of this and a big part of this is in front of the Supreme Court now, even questioning does the president himself have the ability under emergency powers to do this?
00:36:48.160He is trying to – you can say rebalance.
00:36:53.000I say just reorganize the commercial relationships of the world based upon manufacturing.
00:37:00.260The theory of the case of the globalists for the last 30, 40 years is just wrong.
00:37:27.960What they wanted to do was to get to countries with lower wage costs, no social safety net, and no environmental concerns.
00:37:38.520So they could turn China into a dumping ground and poison the entire environment of the world.
00:37:42.880These capitalists, the private equity and hedge funds and Wall Street guys that worked in unison with a murderous dictatorship, let's exactly say what it is, that shipped all – they gutted, particularly starting up in the industrial heartland of this country.
00:37:59.500I might add the arsenal of democracy that won not simply the First World War but then came back and won the Second World War.
00:38:07.760Oh, no, to top it off, won the Cold War.
00:38:15.760They gutted it in front of the eyes and everybody stood around and kind of had all this happy talk and all this highfalutin talk.
00:38:22.280Trump, for all his imperfections, and he's quite imperfect.
00:38:27.920This is why his rise to greatness is so freaking impressive.
00:38:35.980Trump understands that, hey, we've got to redo these commercial relationships and start to bring manufacturing jobs back here to the United States of America.
00:38:43.220The manufacturing base drives everything else.
00:38:46.580You can't beat just a service economy.
00:38:49.340The people on Wall Street that sat there, the Gary Cohns are upsetting them, a ton of these meetings and argue that it's just dead freaking wrong.
00:38:57.520And now we got China, you know, the great Mike Rowe and the CEO.
00:39:01.640It's a piece up on Fox that Mike Rowe, the kind of dirty hands guy talking about jobs and the CEO of Ford Motor Company are both warning that China is doubling and tripling down right now to continue to hold all the manufacturing jobs,
00:39:20.000including manufacturing jobs related to artificial intelligence.
00:39:28.500And President Trump's the first guy to sit there and go, no, this is why Liberation Day was so important, that we are going to redo the commercial relationships of the world.
00:39:37.500To get to the number one consumer mark in the world, that would be the United States, you've got a golden door.
00:39:42.500You're either going to pay a fee to do that or, and what we'd like to do is to bring your manufacturing here.
00:39:50.040That's why Scott Besson was down last Friday on the show with the Secretary of Treasury, took about an hour,
00:39:56.500and I think gave a very enlightening, a very enlightening, a very enlightening interview.
00:40:02.940A very enlightening interview because we weren't asking one gotcha question after the next.
00:40:07.400The Morning Joe thing kind of loses itself.
00:40:09.360And let me give some advice to the mainstream media.
00:40:12.660You sit there four or five on one, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.
00:40:15.540It's, this is why nobody watches mainstream media.
00:40:20.040You could have had a very enlightening discussion with the Secretary of Treasury and gotten down to some of the important issues that are risk.
00:40:31.080It's like anything in business or anything in economics.
00:40:33.820There are risks involved in everything.
00:40:35.780Always the question is, how do you mitigate that risk smartly and keep upside and keep driving the upside while you're mitigating the risk?
00:40:49.400It's no, there is no endeavor you have that is risk free.
00:40:54.280You can try to mitigate it to get the risk down to, I don't know, as close to risk free as you think at the time.
00:41:01.040That is an enlightening conversation to have.
00:41:03.000And this plan has got some risk to it.
00:41:04.540This plan has, this plan is on one level, a gamble on this theory of supply side tax cuts and to basically have massive investment and give incentive, tax depreciation, all of it, to incentivize people to put capital into plant and equipment.
00:41:22.640Oh, to rebuild the manufacturing base, just like the tariff policy is to rebuild the manufacturing base.
00:41:30.040Now, it turns out the revenue from the tax, the revenue from the tariff policy is much greater than everybody thinks, and that's going to offset the deficit.
00:41:37.300And Scott Besson said right there, I got the secretary of treasury on record.
00:41:41.380That the deficits are, wait for it, driving, you know, the issue with the prices is not totally, maybe not even principally, but to a large extent driven by these massive federal deficits of $2 trillion per year.
00:42:46.260You know, I didn't know this until the guys at Field of Greens, the doctors and the experts, told me about it and then gave me information.