00:05:14.200The president wheels up en route to Alaska.
00:05:16.740And then Beijing said right there in the, not going to discuss Iran.
00:05:21.860Don't know about that, but we'll figure all that out.
00:05:24.780Steve Portez and Philip Patrick are going to join us,
00:05:27.120talk about the economics of all this and some of the numbers that came out today.
00:05:30.920Also an update on South Carolina. We'll get to that in a moment.
00:05:33.940And the redistricting wars, I want to start with Tyler O'Neill.
00:05:36.640So, Tyler, in Alabama, I guess the attorney general of the state of Alabama is now engaged in this.
00:05:45.120And we'll get to your article in a minute.
00:05:46.360But just explain this little video that's up.
00:05:49.560Explain to the audience what's going on with our favorite target, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:05:55.820Yeah, so the SPLC is the worst of the worst.
00:05:58.920I've long said they are the tip of the spear when it comes to demonizing conservatives and Christians in America today.
00:06:06.020And that video particularly highlights one of the worst examples to me where, you know, I grew up listening to Adventures in Odyssey.
00:06:16.460I think many of us on the conservative side know that Focus on the Family is this longstanding conservative Christian organization that calls for, you know, that pushes for family values, that encourages parents to raise their children in the admonition of the Lord.
00:06:35.020And, you know, all of this is conservative Christian, but it's it's also it has implications and good lessons for those outside of the Christian community.
00:06:46.160But, you know, the focus on the family is the longest, most well-known conservative Christian nonprofit in America.
00:06:54.640And the SPLC for a long time said that they're not anti-Christian. And the only ever piece of
00:07:01.840evidence they put for that was that they didn't put focus on the family on the hate map. So
00:07:07.440essentially by their own reckoning now, you know, last year they put focus on the family on the
00:07:12.600hate map. They deep sixed that language, protecting themselves from the anti-Christian charge.
00:07:18.520And then they had this guy, R.G. Cravens, come out and justify putting focus on the hate map.
00:07:25.600And his justification essentially says what we've all known for years, that the SPLC puts conservative Christian groups on the hate map for the sin of disagreeing with LGBTQ ideology.
00:07:41.800Talk to me about what does this mean in Alabama with an attorney general?
00:07:46.040Because you've been saying, hey, you've done the analysis, you wrote the book, you've come
00:07:49.900out with these great articles, this piece right here about focus on the family.
00:08:09.520So the SPLC's headquarters is in Montgomery.
00:08:11.920Actually, this isn't the first attorney general to get involved after the indictment. First, we had Attorney General Udmeyer in Florida who filed an action here, also a subpoena demanding records for how the SPLC sells itself to donors and then where the SPLC takes that donor money and whether, you know, how much of that donor money ever went to these so-called informants.
00:08:39.500Really, they're called field sources in the indictment. These are the members of the Ku Klux Klan and other groups that the SPLC says they exist to help dismantle. Where the SPLC was actually paying these people, the SPLC says that it was all just informants so that they could prevent violence from these people later on.
00:09:01.880And they have a couple of examples where there were federal charges against people in these groups that the SPLC says this was a tip from an SPLC informant.
00:09:14.500But the indictment also shows that, you know, people like an organizer of the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally were not just being paid by the SPLC, but also had their racist posts supervised by the SPLC.
00:09:30.340So, you know, we have to see exactly what the full truth is. And that's why it's good that we have these attorneys general taking action in addition to the federal indictment demanding from the SPLC donors.
00:09:45.660Because in these situations, the SPLC, it doesn't just stand accused of committing wire fraud and bank fraud and conspiracy, but the facts of the indictment, the pleadings in the indictment, lead to a reasonable suspicion that they're also violating deceptive practices acts on the state level.
00:10:10.080So particularly in Florida, particularly in Alabama, the SPLC has other offices throughout the South.
00:10:17.000So I'm I'm curious to see if there if we're going to see more attorneys general issuing these subpoenas.
00:10:24.320But this one, since it is Alabama and the SPLC is headquartered there, really underscores how serious this investigation is.
00:10:33.180The the the attorney general of Alabama could be very aggressive here, could they not?
00:10:38.500I mean, it's their headquartered there. They're domiciled in Alabama. They have access to they could have access to all the information.
00:10:46.220I mean, do you anticipate that they're going to take the cutting edge of this investigation, at least at the state level?
00:10:52.880Yeah, I think, look, we have a deadline here of June 1st, where the SPLC has to hand over this information before the before the attorney general goes to court and gets a court order to mandate it.
00:11:07.860I highly doubt the SPLC is just going to cooperate and turn over the information, but we'll have to see.
00:18:33.020you know what, if they're so safe and so effective, like, just let's take away the
00:18:36.860liability shields. Let's just do away with the 1986 National Vaccine Injury Act. Let's just do
00:18:42.200away with the PrEP Act of 2005. And we're all good. Because you know what, when there's no
00:18:46.820liability shield for these products, they're going to be decimated by a market. Decimated.
00:18:52.640That's the reality. But it's, this is what I think people, the disconnect, and even with me
00:18:57.760sometimes. When we think of the New York Times, besides being the paper of record of our beloved
00:19:03.440republic, it's liberal, it's progressive. Wasn't it years ago that they were the people warning
00:19:09.540about big corporations and big pharma? How did it flip that MAGA, the working class and middle0.73
00:19:16.460class in this country are saying something's not right here, but the New York Times is obsessed0.74
00:19:21.820by protecting big pharma and quite frankly, not having a conversation, but destroying,
00:19:27.320this is the politics and the media personal destruction. How did that flip when the most
00:19:32.540progressive liberal paper in the country that used to, I thought, before I was in politics,
00:19:36.920just go out to Big Pharma and all the big corporations all the time, they're now the
00:19:41.060lead. They're the tip of the spear of going on offense to destroy anybody that would actually
00:19:46.120bring this topic up. Steve, I think there's a book to be written there. I still am perplexed
00:19:52.700by this transition. You know, I used to read the New York Times and think that it was really
00:19:57.940based on fact. But being a parent of a young man with autism, I have followed the New York Times
00:20:05.420on pharma and on autism for 25 years. It has never told the truth. It is always slanted.
00:20:12.920And it is, I think, you know, it's a deep state project, right? This is government and pharma,
00:20:18.040and then the media coming in, the universities, the medical profession, they're afraid of the
00:20:25.020truth. They're afraid of the liability. They will be afraid that they will be shown to have been
00:20:30.420complicit in this massive epidemic of vaccine injury. Vaccines are dysregulating people's
00:20:36.120immune system. They're causing death. They're causing severe injuries of all kinds. COVID made
00:20:41.060this much more obvious to the American public. But, you know, this isn't the first time that
00:20:45.440medicine and government have been in collusion of really dangerous things like the opioid epidemic.
00:20:50.960This is really a redux of the way that the opioid epidemic went down. So I don't know the exact way
00:20:58.280in which it's shifted, but I can tell you that for the last 30 years, they've been miserable
00:21:03.260on accountability for the vaccine injury that we see. But can the audience take that Bobby is,
00:21:11.420there's a team there and we're still grinding through on all the objectives of President Trump
00:21:16.480agrees with to get to the bottom of this vaccine problem? I believe that President Trump really
00:21:21.980cares about the childhood vaccine schedule. I think he really cares about autism. I know that
00:21:27.980Bobby Kennedy cares deeply about those issues. And Bobby has said, and he means it, if vaccines are
00:21:34.700safe and effective, he's going to be the first person to take them. It's just that there's
00:21:39.460ridiculous clinical trials. They don't test them against true placebos. There's no adverse event
00:21:44.820reporting and there's no post-marketing real surveillance. So none of the pillars of safety
00:21:51.000that you'd have to have for compulsory medicine with no liability, none of those safety provisions
00:21:56.720are there. And that's why, you know, both Bobby and Trump, I think, really do want to get to the
00:22:02.160bottom of this. Who wants to see babies be injured? And why can't we look at this and talk about this
00:22:07.940as civilized adults. You've got to be suspicious when they're like, oh, everything is perfect.
00:22:13.960We have a chronic disease epidemic, but it's not the compulsory medicine that has no liability.0.95
00:22:18.680I mean, it's ridiculous. And six anonymous sources. Perfect fake news, New York Times reporting.0.52
00:22:26.060OK, my other favorite, my other favorite Politico has not one. They have two. They have two articles
00:22:33.180today. One, how Congress has shut you guys down on all the junk food issues that you want to do,
00:22:39.880right, the processed foods. And number two, the entire rest of the Maha agenda is stalled on
00:22:45.180Capitol Hill, and principally because the Maha movement, which is their new, you know,
00:22:50.060the media's obsession, you literally have no political stroke. Your response, ma'am?0.58
00:22:55.800I think that's wishful thinking, Steve. I definitely think that the health freedom
00:23:01.100movement is very strong and is only gaining members and gaining strength. Maha has been
00:23:07.180more explicitly political. And I think you could say that there have been some fissures in MAGA,
00:23:13.400Maha. I think you could legitimately say that. You cannot say that about the strength of the
00:23:18.700health freedom movement. There are millions of Americans who are going to vote to be able to
00:23:23.620make their own decisions about their own medical choices. And that's not changed one iota. And
00:23:29.420they have every reason to be afraid of a multi-million person voting bloc when it comes
00:23:34.260to health freedom. It's a tell when Politico puts some of their best reporters on it and they have
00:23:41.500two in one day, in fact, two within a couple of hours. It shows you the powers that be in this
00:23:47.960country. The corporate powers are quite concerned about what you guys are revving up. When I read
00:23:54.840the articles, the polling is the exact opposite. It's almost like 50 percent of the people. This
00:23:59.080is a number one top priority for them. So it's like at least 10 million people. This is a top
00:24:05.180priority. It's an 80-20 issue that pharma should not have liability protection for vaccines. That's
00:24:11.920an 80-20 issue based on a poll that Zogby did for Health Freedom Defense Fund and for Brownstone.
00:24:18.480But Politico's own poll, Steve, like not three weeks ago, is that 46 percent of Americans do not approve of medical mandates and they don't trust mainstream vaccine science.
00:24:31.080So we are so close to a tipping point.
00:24:33.760So it's not so surprising that they'd be coming out with kind of, you know, misguided fake news right now because we are really getting to be a majority of the population.
00:24:43.120uh mary where do people go to find out more about uh children's health defense all the work you're
00:24:49.780doing i know you're putting up voluminous work you've got your own tv channel where do folks
00:24:53.700go to get all your content thanks steve we go to childrenshealthdefense.org no apostrophe and
00:25:00.020children's hd on x thank you ma'am i appreciate you appreciate you punching back thank you steve
00:25:07.960appreciate you. This was just a story the other day about in Louisiana, that when the media
00:25:14.080targets that you realize they've got a problem, they know something is building momentum. I tell
00:25:20.060you the Make America Healthy Again and the health freedom movement is just at the very beginning
00:25:24.420stages of building political power, but it is quite powerful and it's absolutely essential
00:25:30.840for the midterm elections. So what they did the other day in Louisiana, oh, you never hear about
00:25:37.560it it's internet thing i couldn't disagree more of course politico with uh with two of those
00:25:42.840articles um in uh south carolina the vote is no okay that didn't agree to extend this session
00:25:51.800to get uh have the possibility of having a special session i think the five we identified today
00:25:57.920the five individuals we identified today all voted no we'll have more on that if i can't get
00:26:02.560Caroline Renner de Grasso. In this hour, we'll have him back first thing in the morning. Also,
00:26:07.820Orrin Cass is going to join us. We're going to talk about some economics. China. Also, there's
00:26:13.060a housing bill that is coming forward now by the White House that's going to really focus on about
00:26:18.500young people being able to buy their own house. So Steve Cortez, we had some inflation numbers
00:26:28.000today. I know you've been running some math. Talk to me about, President Trump said, hey,
00:26:32.900if this thing would have been 1.7 if we hadn't have gone to war, is that correct? Is he getting
00:26:39.140the right information from a Navarro and Bessent in the team? Listen, I think the pre-war trajectory0.97
00:26:45.200for the economy was terrific. Real wages were growing very well, not as quickly as we wanted,
00:26:50.260but we were going in the right direction, both on prices and in wages. And those are the two
00:26:54.640things that matter most to most Americans, not the stock market, not asset prices. But
00:26:59.240unfortunately, because of this war of choice, we're heading in the exact opposite direction
00:27:03.260now. And real wages are now diving south in a very significant way. We got a very troubling
00:27:09.340inflation report today. The bond market sold off hard in price, meaning yields up. 10-year
00:27:15.020yield at 4.46 right now as we speak. As I've told you before, this has been the level that
00:27:20.100has held the market in recent months, I believe we get above four and a half. We've got a very
00:27:25.180serious problem. I think we quickly then get above 5%. 30 year yield is already above 5%. If we look
00:27:32.140at most forward looking inflation gauges, and I'm talking real world ones, not, you know,
00:27:36.640economist opinions, they are foreboding right now. So I think this just adds to the impetus
00:27:41.880that we need to wrap up this war as quickly as possible. Because I do not believe that Americans1.00
00:27:47.500who are already in a foul economic mood pre-war
00:27:50.540are going to long sustain this kind of economic pain
00:27:54.300for a mission that has not been sold to them
00:27:56.740as existential and truly necessary to the United States.
00:28:01.200Yeah, I think that President Trump said
00:28:03.480he was not going to discuss it in China.
00:29:52.820Sam Faddis, you dealt with the Persians for much of your career in service to your country, including a lot in country.0.51
00:29:59.000You wrote something on N Magazine the other day that I think would be a great thing for President Trump having his back pocket when he sat down with Xi about what his battle plan is.0.79
00:30:07.260Can you walk us through your recommendations to the President of the United States of dealing with the Iranians, sir?0.95
00:30:13.020Yeah, look, the bottom line here, Steve, in my opinion, is we're not hurting these guys enough.1.00
00:30:17.580We imposed a blockade. We're waiting for them to come to the table and make a deal. They just
00:30:22.100told us to pound sand again. So as I wrote the article, go for the jugular, up the pain level
00:30:28.180dramatically. They got six land border routes from Pakistan into Iran. The Chinese
00:30:33.860are sending in everything to support the war effort. Look at every one of those routes,
00:30:39.320take out bridges, take out the roadways, shut that off. They're moving oil out into Iraq,
00:30:45.600they being the Iranians. They're mixing it with Iraqi oil, and then they're selling it with false1.00
00:30:51.200documents on the world market as Iraqi oil. So they're still getting money. Take out all of
00:31:00.820those border crossings. I'm talking on the Iranian side. Shut them off. Seal off their land borders.1.00
00:31:06.340As of yesterday, there were something like 28 supertankers parked off the coast of Malaysia in this anchorage that are all carrying Iranian oil that they basically banked there before we blockaded the Straits.0.98
00:31:22.940And it's all being sold to the Chinese.0.98
00:31:25.640Seize every one of those tankers and sail it away and sell the oil and keep it for ourselves.1.00
00:31:30.720I mean, take down their comms internally, knock out television, knock out radio, impose a no-fly zone.
00:31:38.580I have no idea why there are planes taking off and landing from Tehran Airport in the middle of this war.
00:31:45.460Seal these guys off, cut off every contact with the outside world.0.57
00:31:51.700They think they can hold out longer than us right now.
00:31:55.920One thing you brought up twice in this, Sam Faddis, is China, both in the overland routes, coming overland to supply them, because they ain't getting that from Azerbaijan or Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan.
00:32:12.340Also, about this ghost fleet of ships that are somewhere, I don't know, around Indonesia.
00:32:17.900That's also what they're using to supply the CCP with oil.
00:32:21.220So is it your recommendation that the president should put that on the table and have a blunt conversation with Xi?
00:32:29.260Yeah, 100 percent. There's no reason we should be dancing around.
00:32:32.460I mean, the bottom line is the Iranians haven't missed a paycheck yet, the regime, because they stashed all this oil in these supertankers off the coast of Malaysia and Indonesia.0.83
00:32:42.240And it's about four months worth of oil they banked.0.76
00:32:45.000And they're selling it essentially 95 percent of it anyway to the Chinese.
00:32:49.300So the Chinese are helping them make their rocket fuel.
00:32:53.180They're giving them their electronics for their drones.0.99
00:32:55.320They're giving them the targeting data to kill our people.1.00
00:40:19.820And then some of them are trying to get out. And so how do you get out without losing your entire company?
00:40:25.020I think that'll be part of that process. But I think Jack is right.
00:40:29.120We need to return manufacturing back to America and shut out China.1.00
00:40:33.400They are dependent upon us as consumers and the rest of the Western world as consumers.0.99
00:40:38.480And we need to shut that off. We need to shut them off from access from foreign domestic investment.0.82
00:40:43.820That's what they want. If you read everything that the Chinese have put out this last week and the run up to this summit,0.96
00:40:49.040It's been two things. FDI, they want cash, they want U.S. dollars, and they want some kind of statement on Taiwan.
00:40:57.440And I don't think we should give them either one.
00:41:01.520Sam Faddis, the intelligence services, what do you think the intelligence, how they frame this, particularly in Taiwan?
00:41:06.880Do you think that they're telling them, oh, there is some rhetorical, there are some rhetorical softening you can have with Taiwan without triggering a crisis?
00:41:19.040God, I hope not, Steve, but, you know, given what the IC has been doing, entirely possible.
00:41:26.900I mean, look, one of the things we're definitely going to get pressure from Xi is to soften and begin to back away from Taiwan.0.87
00:41:36.780so if he doesn't invade he can at least shove them into a taking the hong kong bargain right
00:41:44.960which is the infamous one nation two systems lie that he foisted on hong kong and then uh obviously
00:41:54.040we know what happens there so like there shouldn't be any softening on softening on anything i mean
00:42:01.180we we need to be going the other direction taking a harder line with these guys and be prepared and
00:42:06.620just recognize the reality. They started a war with us a long time ago.
00:42:13.340Jim, for now, we've got about a minute. I'm going to hold you guys through the break.
00:42:17.440If we soften the rhetoric at all our defense of Taiwan, do we jeopardize losing the entire
00:42:23.620first island chain, sir? I think there's a risk to that in terms of perception. So I agree with
00:42:30.080Sam. We should not weaken in any way. In fact, the Taiwans last Friday just passed a 25 billion
00:42:36.600dollar, U.S. billion dollar procurement budget on their own to demonstrate to President Trump and I
00:42:42.440think the administration that they're in on this, that they're willing to defend themselves. So I
00:42:46.860don't see there's a need for us to back off. And given what we're seeing going on with Iran and0.97
00:42:52.840what's going on in the Ukraine, I think President Trump now can actually question in his mind
00:42:57.660where maybe in the first term he thought, well, they'll never be able to defend Taiwan. The
00:43:02.580Chinese can just take it. It's just right there. Well, maybe not. And so I think these other1.00
00:43:07.120events are providing him maybe some information to suggest that he can relate to Xi, which is to
00:43:13.160say, hey, guess what? You're not going to be able to take Taiwan, and here's why, and run down the
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00:45:45.780Okay, breaking news. The Supreme Court just supported the state of Missouri in the map, the redrawn map that we fought so hard for. I think there may be even another seat in Missouri. I'll get to that tomorrow. I'm going to have to grasp Caroline Wren to the degree we can free them up from the ramparts to be on on this redistricting war, folks. Bad news out of South Carolina, but there's still a way we can get to those six. Walk you through that tomorrow.
00:46:10.020We started the show with one of our former hosts and colleagues and contributors, Cash Patel, getting hammered but giving as good as he got in the Senate today, which is pure cash.
00:46:21.780In fact, he notified me and said, hey, that was pure war room there.
00:46:24.540So that's why we played that great clip at the beginning.
00:46:26.800We're going to end it today with also one of our contributors, the current Secretary of Treasury, Scott Besson.
00:46:32.540Philip Patrick has been a contributor now for five or six years.
00:46:34.880So there's a piece in The New York Times, and this piece is about how the U.S. is trying to ensure the dollar's dominance during economic turmoil, subheadling.
00:46:45.020As the government has been devising plans to keep the dollar dominant, China has been making its own moves to increase global influence in the Chinese currency, the yuan.
00:46:55.000You just said we used to have a monopoly.
00:46:56.980scott besson is basically telling people that hey one of his principal responsibilities as
00:47:03.880secretary treasurer is defense of the dollar as the prime reserve currency we are now in contested
00:47:09.860dominance is that the is that the phrase you used is this the type of activity you expect to see
00:47:14.680in a world where this is now contested dominance sir this is exactly and i think this story in on
00:47:22.220itself was very telling, because it's saying now the quiet part out loud. We are actively fighting
00:47:27.960now to defend the dollar's dominance. Besson's been discussing currency swap lines for a while.
00:47:35.580I know we had a temporary one with Argentina. Now he's looking at it in the Gulf and Asia,
00:47:40.620specifically now for the UAE, to make sure that they have access to enough US dollars for trade,
00:47:46.200and particularly oil trade. What a swap line is for those who don't know, it's fairly simple.
00:47:53.180We give another country dollars and in return, we get their local currency. And the idea is
00:47:58.960instead of letting China, as you mentioned, come in and say, hey, you can use our Chinese yuan,
00:48:04.560we kind of fill that gap. Now, the UAE isn't broke, right? They just don't have ready cash
00:48:10.400right now. Obviously, oil sales are getting hit shorter term. So a swap line is a way to give them
00:48:17.800liquidity today. Otherwise, they may choose to do something else, sell, for example, longer-term
00:48:24.160US dollar exposure like treasuries, which would put significant pressure on the bond market. So
00:48:30.920the point essentially is to keep the country inside of the dollar-based system. This is
00:48:36.740definitely smart moves from Besson, right? This is economic statecraft in action. I think Trump
00:48:43.440and Besson understand very well that when oil starts trading outside of the dollar, America
00:48:48.720starts to lose enormous leverage. And as I've said before, it's really encouraging starting to see
00:48:54.980the administration using carrots along with sticks. And Besson ultimately is doing what his number one
00:49:01.600job is, which is to defend the US dollar. However, we have to understand that there are risks with
00:49:08.640this as well. By defending the dollar, we do create more obligations for ourselves, right?
00:49:13.540If Washington is constantly borrowing, constantly printing, constantly sanctioning, and now
00:49:18.660backstopping foreign dollar markets, people eventually start to ask the question, how strong
00:49:24.820is the dollar really if it needs defending in this way? Now, as we've said many times, China's not
00:49:31.360replacing the dollar. The yuan has its own problems, lack of liquidity being probably the
00:49:37.700major one. But the world is clearly now starting to look for alternatives. You can see it in gold,
00:49:44.860you can see it in crypto, local currencies, bilateral trade systems. And that's why gold
00:49:50.160is becoming more and more important. Dollars settle transactions, but gold settles trust
00:49:56.020ultimately. So, you know, when confidence in paper system starts to fracture, central banks,
00:50:01.560investors, they move towards assets that don't depend on promises. So that's why we're seeing
00:50:06.760such an uptick in precious metals. It's why we're seeing central bank demand hitting record highs.
00:50:11.880And like I said, I think what Besant is doing is very smart. And I think it's slowing down
00:50:18.140what is, as time passes, starting to feel more and more inevitable. So he's working with the
00:50:24.740tools he has. But like I said, the fact that we're having to defend the dollar shows us that the
00:50:30.240problem is mounting. The problem is mounting, but this is why you're now in contestant dominance.
00:50:36.340Scott, being very smart, made a big deal. Alexander Priya at his comms team made a very big deal that
00:50:42.020he was not going on Air Force One with the president. He was going in advance and he was
00:50:46.440going to Japan first and then South Korea to talk to the finance ministers. What signal did that
00:50:53.380send to Beijing, sir? Listen, Beijing know that these guys know what they're doing. It's not a
00:50:59.940fight that they want to get into. And ultimately, I think coordination is the way out. We still have
00:51:06.280allies, Japan, South Korea. And I think ultimately, if we want to deal with the CCP, it's going to be
00:51:12.160through strength and through alliance. So it's encouraging to see what Besson is doing.
00:51:17.320This guy understands the problem better than almost anybody else. Like I said, I don't envy
00:51:22.920his job. I couldn't do anywhere near as good a job as him. This is about the best man we could have
00:51:29.060with about the toughest job anybody could have. He is for this time. It's the reason we pushed
00:51:35.220him so hard. He was on the show as a contributor. Part of that was to get media training and media
00:51:39.960savvy. We are very fortunate to have Scott Besson as the Secretary of Treasury, somebody that knows
00:51:46.280capital markets and particularly knows this part and has strong relationships for his years as a
00:51:51.820as a fund manager with the senior levels of South Korea's government on the finance side
00:51:56.740and the Japanese. Because there's a, you know, to defend the dollar, like I said,
00:52:02.860we can have a national conversation about should we be the prime reserve currency or not. But quite
00:52:07.060frankly, with the amount of debt we have and what we have to do right now, you have to stick with
00:52:13.660it and you have to defend it. Real quickly, where do they go to get you, Philip? Because people want
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00:52:25.360birchgold.com slash bannon or text bannon to 989898 and just get the information
00:52:32.200okay uh no obligation totally free get to meet philip patrick and the team the the
00:52:38.660ownership of physical gold in times of geopolitical and financial turbulence it's
00:52:45.420It's been a pretty good hedge for 3,000 years of man's recorded history.