00:04:52.940Democratic Congressman Jared Huffman is making in his new book, No Profits, the Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism.
00:05:00.520Congressman Huffman writes, quote, it's theocratic, authoritarian ringleaders once dismissed as fringe now wield mainstream power, and they're using it to dismantle secular democracy from within.
00:05:13.200Merriam-Webster defines Christian nationalism as a political ideology that seeks to incorporate Christian beliefs into government decisions and policies.
00:08:24.780And when you're looking at the space race, we're behind the Russians, wherever you look0.78
00:08:28.540at America, if you didn't know better, you'd say, I think God is on their side.0.76
00:08:34.460If there's a God, it looks like he's on their side.
00:08:37.340Now, again, this is not just to say we're better. We have cast our lot with the God of the Bible and all the people in the revolution, the leaders, the people who end up being the leaders, Washington at the front of the pack, John Adams, they are not shy about talking about this, about saying this.
00:08:55.420They could not get a five minute hit on MS Now or on CNN today because they would be classified, including Abraham Lincoln, as Christian nationalists, as scary figures, as scary as Steve Bannon or Eric Bataxas.
00:09:11.720Oh, they're scary. I mean, it's so preposterous. We have to laugh. And I know you do.
00:09:16.580It's crazy that they persist in doing this.
00:09:21.880And I think I told you, I went to the Barnes & Noble in my hometown, Danbury, Connecticut.
00:09:27.680I've been here since the 70s, my hometown.
00:10:28.820The declaration signed less than 60 days ago, and here they have the largest armada in history.
00:10:34.640They have the largest expeditionary force, 32,000 combat troops, including what, 8,000
00:10:39.80010,000 mercenary hessians and they're ready to roll they didn't come over to new york and say
00:10:44.640it's going to take us months and months and months they got over there they got set up and tonight1.00
00:10:49.160they make their move and this move is it going to be a crushing blow to basically destroy the
00:10:55.220continental army sir well look on paper you got to understand there's no way they can lose on paper
00:11:01.620there's no way they can lose and it's funny too because i i think in my book i i say defending
00:11:05.880the indefensible. Washington's job was impossible. To defend New York is virtually impossible
00:11:10.920because New York is nothing but water. It's an archipelago of islands. It's just water
00:11:16.660everywhere. Long Island is an island. Manhattan is an island. Staten Island is an island. There's
00:11:23.220water. And guess what? The British have the greatest Navy in the history of the world.
00:11:29.300There's no winning against them. You're defending, you know, waterfront. You can't win.
00:11:34.540And Washington said, well, we got to do what we got to do, or we're going to do everything we can do. And we're just we're going to see how it goes. And for some reason, and this was the next day, which was tomorrow, 250 years ago, the British have them pinned down. It is over. It is all over.
00:11:53.900But for some reason that historians will ponder until history ends, General Howe does not finish
00:12:02.180the job. Nobody can understand why he would do this, but he pauses weirdly. He also does not
00:12:10.000call his Navy to seal off the East River because by the time this is all over, there's been a
00:12:15.740route. Washington's remaining forces are pinned against the East River in Brooklyn. There's
00:12:21.480nowhere to go. All Howe has to do is send, you know, a few frigates up the East River and they
00:12:27.900are absolutely locked in that you cannot escape. It's over. He doesn't do this. So he doesn't
00:12:35.580finish the job with his army. His generals were hot to trot. They were like, let's go. Let's end
00:12:41.740it. He says no. And then he does not ask the frigates to come up the East River. Why? No one
00:12:48.680knows. And so the next day, there's this insane rainstorm. It just stops everything. The winds
00:12:55.360shift. Now the frigates can't come up the river. Now there's this pause. And this is when Washington
00:13:00.720makes his great move. And all of Washington's moves, they're counterintuitive. He retreats
00:13:05.700to advance. It's like he retreats to victory. He basically does the craziest thing you can do.
00:13:12.660there's nothing else to do, but he says, okay, maybe we can escape across the East River. Now,
00:13:18.880this is right where the Brooklyn Bridge is today. So if you see the Brooklyn Bridge, that's exactly
00:13:22.620where this happened. But he had to do this secretly. He could not, the British could not
00:13:27.880know that they're doing this because they would have taken some kind of action. So they do this
00:13:32.080as soon as it's nighttime on the night of the 27th or 28th, I forget, it's probably the 28th.
00:14:08.760I don't see fogs like this ever. This is just a freakish thing happens. A fog descends as the sun is rising so that they have several more hours in which to do what they want to do this retreat. It is absolutely astonishing. The revolution should have been over at the end of August, 1776. And it was not.
00:14:31.360And Eric, Eric, hang on for one second.
00:19:05.800And now with everything going on, you heard Jeff Stein earlier, there's going to be kind of this internal civil war in the Republican Party about economic policy going forward.
00:19:17.160And remember, we're never going back, but there's going to be a little struggle on that.
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00:20:14.800off that would upset your economic plan or financial plan for the future trust me and the
00:20:20.700worry and the angst joe allen there's so much the talk about um in all your travels you got gates
00:20:29.400gave a warning smart but i want to go i'm corn fused about this and we're going to get more
00:20:34.800into it after the show i haven't had time to drill down on but the meta as evil as zuckerberg is as
00:20:41.680evil as these companies are and you've did the best thing i've seen done in all media you went
00:20:47.480over that day when they were going to testify and you interviewed these moms and dads and let
00:20:53.180america know a little bit about them and their children of what happened he got this case and i
00:20:58.240thought this time we had met a you know cornered the rat was cornered and somehow the state ags
00:21:05.620kind of let him off the hook i'm just not blown away when jim cramer is saying hey it was an
00:21:09.700existential threat and this is not this big a deal he go this is like small change your your first
00:21:15.560thoughts on this sir yeah the steve is steve the amount is is quite paltry i mean it's a little
00:21:22.280under 17 billion i think uh 16.6 billion dollars it was uh upward of a trillion dollars on the
00:21:28.900table should it have gone to court but they the the real issue here steve i mean on the one hand
00:21:36.760you could call it a sort of a win in the sense that you know they did at least get cornered
00:21:41.880to the point they settled. The issue mainly was addiction and privacy in regard to children.
00:21:49.580And everyone knows, anyone with any sense knows that these are enormous
00:21:53.840issues. The real problem is because it settled, instead of actually going through a full trial,
00:22:00.300we won't have any of the really hard evidence from inside the company that would have come out
00:22:06.000in a court case. So you have what you have now, you have a meta settling without admitting guilt,
00:22:13.460and they're promising to install certain safety features, keeping children from being online too
00:22:20.900late, time limitations, things like that. And that's all good in a sense. But yes, Steve,
00:22:26.740I think that without a doubt, they got off in essence scot-free. I mean, again, you have
00:22:33.520the documents coming from the inside in which they were training their AI to groom children.
00:22:38.520You have just the widespread effect that it's clearly had on children's socialization,
00:22:45.360adults' socialization. And for all the talk of spread of misinformation and disinformation,
00:22:51.260certainly during the era between 2020 and 2023, I think Meta in their attempt to squash
00:22:59.560disinformation and misinformation were in fact some of the largest purveyors of disinformation
00:23:04.940and misinformation in regard to covid and vaccination so yeah you know you could call
00:23:10.320it a tiny tiny tiny tiny little w now it's it's by the way misinformation about covid remember
00:23:19.960they shut us all down they deplatformed us also the 2020 election i mean zuckerberg is the rail
00:23:25.140head of evil he's the real he's the real head of evil this guy's pure evil shouldn't be hanging
00:23:31.380around the white house shouldn't be going to dinners with the president um this guy's pure
00:23:36.580evil but but we are moving the needle i mean we had these guys we got to get the details how to
00:23:42.980get off the hook and even if it means they are off the hook because we're going to fight this
00:23:46.180one like crazy but you go back they had uh abbott jonathan carl was was just eviscerating abbott
00:23:53.840the other day on this interview and we had brian harrison on here to kind of break it down about
00:23:58.860data centers you got now data centers because here's why the oligarchs are going to act like
00:24:04.500the oligarchs until you force them to stop because they got all these paid gunslingers they got every
00:24:10.300hired gun in the world uh they are oligarchs they act like oligarchs and they're just going to roll
00:24:15.740over you until you force them to stop now we are the biggest advocates that we've got to stop the0.89
00:24:21.980Chinese Communist Party because we have created the entire ecosystem for the Chinese Communist0.82
00:24:27.120Party even to have an AI industry. Both the education, the training in the labs of Chinese0.94
00:24:32.280nationals, the education of 350,000 to 500,000 students all in advanced technology courses,
00:24:39.580providing them chips. NVIDIA chips are looking the other way where they're black marketed
00:24:43.700and providing all the debt and equity capital, the entire ecosystem. That being said, the data
00:24:49.300centers are the hottest political issue in the country why people are just not going to have
00:24:53.420these oligarchs come in joe and ram it down their throats the little guy standing up and saying hey
00:24:59.260we're not going to do it abbott was the biggest cheerleader for data centers now he's got a
00:25:05.180moratorium and quite frankly it doesn't even get to what the heart of it is as brian harrison brought
00:25:10.280out because he's got the taxpayers of texas underwriting the data centers with their property
00:25:15.820taxes and sales taxes on the flock cameras and the data centers we've made huge progress have we not
00:25:23.500joe it's incredible but one of the big problems we face now steve i mean these midterms are going
00:25:30.880to insofar as technology is going to be a dominant issue that's going to revolve around these data
00:25:36.780centers and one of the big reasons that people are up in arms about this is because it's directly
00:25:41.780impacting them. It's right there. It's not something ephemeral like social media. It's
00:25:45.760not something ephemeral like AI. You've got this physical manifestation of a large-scale
00:25:51.440technological revolution that creates horrible noise. There's the fear of shooting up the
00:25:59.060utility rates and drawing out all the water for cooling. But the problem we face here,
00:26:05.560I think, is that by and large, Republicans are not stepping up to this. One reason is because
00:26:13.080Republicans, I think, are reflexively big business, right? They believe that defending
00:26:18.320business against the proles is their task and duty. But another big problem is that a lot of
00:26:24.940these cats are taking tons of money from the tech companies. And so they're basically on the hook.
00:26:31.900And so what's happening is Democrats are coming out of the woodwork.
00:26:35.160Some of them have sort of been on this a little bit.
00:26:38.880You know, AOC has actually been kind of, you know, anti-big tech.
00:26:43.120You know, she pushed Amazon out of New York and things like that.
00:26:45.760But a lot of them are just coming out of the woodwork because they know that the public is discontent.
00:26:50.000They know that Republicans are going to drop the ball on this.
00:26:54.720You have, you know, on the congressional side or the current Congress,
00:26:59.880you have people like Bernie Sanders, AOC, and just in general, as we see the democratic socialists
00:27:07.140rise up, this will be one of their leverage points. This will be one of the ways that they're
00:27:12.060able to garner a ton of votes. And I think it won't necessarily be because of overwhelming
00:27:18.000support for Democrats. It will be because so many people feel betrayed by Republicans.
00:27:24.300Well, Tom Tiffany and the governor's race in Wisconsin were winning because of Tom
00:27:29.700tiffany's stance on uh on data centers actually rogers has called for a moratorium also he's
00:27:36.580gotten with the program he's called for at least a one-year moratorium so he's gotten
00:27:39.700old-time religion uh in ohio we're getting smoked because of the data center situation there anyway
00:27:46.640stick around there's so much more bill gates has given us kind of a phony warning a lightweight
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00:30:41.020uh joe allen first off dolly parton uh an icon you were a rigger before you became the head of
00:30:49.800trans the editor for transhumanism at the war room that's that's that's it's actually that's
00:30:54.620a lateral transfer any stories in in nashville you riggers always know what's going on talk to
00:31:00.860me about Dolly Parton. Yeah, I'm actually here in the Capitol now, and it's pretty somber,
00:31:09.760I would say, as far as, you know, you've got the flags at half-mast at the municipal auditorium
00:31:15.180nearby. You have a memorial up. Listening to the radio, of course, it's just, you know,
00:31:21.100endless outpouring of, you know, grief and celebration of life and all that. And, you know,
00:31:25.920as a kid, I spent a lot of time at Dollywood. And of course, you know, all the kind of country
00:31:31.920folk saw Dolly Parton is this, you know, like a family success story, you know, like your cousin
00:31:37.260finally made it and made the big time. And, you know, given the relationships around here, maybe
00:31:41.960she is a cousin to most of us, who knows. So yeah, one of the stories I'd like to tell you, Steve,
00:31:47.400when I was on this massive tour, right after I graduated from BU 2017, you know, going all over
00:31:54.980the U.S. and we had this production assistant. I think now the PC term is tour coordinator,
00:32:00.240a British woman. She was extraordinarily jaded, right? Like she's very funny and all that,
00:32:06.100but just really jaded. And she had been at this business for decades. And so she had almost
00:32:12.400nothing good to say about any major star. Most of it was salacious gossip or, you know, horrific,
00:32:19.420incriminating stories that if it was told, then these guys would either be drugged to a prison
00:32:25.100or given a membership in the Illuminati. But she toured with Dolly Parton for two or three years
00:32:32.760and said that she was the most wonderful woman, just person that she had ever met. But as an
00:32:39.960employer, she was extremely understanding. She wanted the job done, but she was very understanding,
00:32:45.480very generous. At one point, the British PA in question had fallen on hard times and Dolly
00:32:52.360Parton just gave her the money to get her through, never asked for it back. So, you know, this is
00:32:58.460just a roadie lore, but the lore around Dolly Parton is very different than most of the other
00:33:03.820artists. You know, by all accounts, she was as sweet and kind and as generous as you hear in the
00:33:12.680the news and a tough as nails businesswoman too i mean her her music publishing remember
00:33:20.400what did she consider herself a songwriter and she wouldn't they had the opportunity to give
00:33:26.900elvis the uh for that huge hit song she says no i'm gonna record this myself i'm gonna hold it1.00
00:33:32.520and then later on whitney houston uh got it but she was just a tough uh most songwriters just get
00:33:38.660ripped off and she went through some very tough times in the industry nashville is a
00:33:42.520could i would say this nashville's a darwinian business environment would you say would you say
00:33:49.200that joe allen yeah without a doubt socially darwinian maybe even it's only lacking eugenics
00:33:55.160though unfortunately seems to be pretty disgenic around here but yes0.70
00:33:57.700unreal okay let's get back to uh your current profession which is warning people about
00:34:06.280artificial intelligence and transhumanism bill gates and and this is very important drudge got
00:34:12.940it on his mac daddy huge interview in the new york times bill gates after pushing this for decades
00:34:20.660is now giving a warning uh given uh conversations he's had at the frontier labs and what he knows
00:34:28.000is going on in the frontier labs joe is this a warning or is this bill gates trying to get
00:34:33.360himself off the hook, sir. I think that he's certainly backpedaling because he senses the
00:34:39.120danger. I also worry, Steve, that he's positioning himself to be a dominant voice in the regulation
00:34:44.560argument. You know, if there's no problem, there's nothing to regulate. Well, now he's bringing out
00:34:49.140all the problems people have been talking about for a decade plus that he has conveniently ignored
00:34:54.860for the most part. And suddenly he's concerned about the potential of AI to produce horrific
00:35:02.380bioweapons, cyber attacks, the problem of labor replacement and automation, robotics.
00:35:09.680And he's also, Steve, this is what's really rich. He's worried now about the psychological impact
00:35:16.320of these digital systems on childhood development and young people in general. Well, Bill Gates was
00:35:23.680among those who argued every child on earth should be given advanced AI tutors. The Bill and Melinda
00:35:31.220The Gates Foundation has poured gazillions of dollars into ensuring that places like
00:35:36.400Africa, where the underserved communities in America, that everyone possible has a
00:35:41.460laptop, everyone possible now has some sort of AI system from which they can learn.
00:35:46.600And now he's worried that this might rot their brains.
00:35:49.320So it could be, you know, I guess somewhere beneath this, that strange facade in that
00:35:54.280sweater, Bill Gates has a human heart beating, but I suspect more lizard-like motivations. I
00:36:02.320think that he probably sees the writing on the wall in regard to regulation, and unlike many
00:36:07.180of the Republicans who had referenced before, sees a real good opportunity to get in there and do what
00:36:12.480he's done for so often, which is funnel money through NGOs to affect American and global policy.
00:36:20.280And just one more thing on it, Steve, just, you know, with the bioweapons, it's also pretty rich that, I mean, he had forever, you know, warned of this pandemic.
00:36:31.040And then, of course, when they got COVID, he was the first guy to ensure that his solutions for a potential pandemic came through.
00:36:39.500I really wonder on this one, we're going to see more cyber attacks for sure.
00:36:46.340I mean, I think the containment breaking is just the beginning.
00:36:48.660I think it's pretty likely that some sort of bio weapon potential will be realized.
00:36:57.400But one way or the other, you're going to have Bill Gates there with all that money, all of these experts, his constellation of experts that revolve around him.
00:37:06.380And I think that he's going to be among those who just jump in and try to push regulation that will maybe do some good, but for the most part, will work to benefit his companies, his ideology, and others like him.
00:37:19.580one thing i want to go through these because he did lay out the containment issue he said it's
00:37:26.820much farther advanced in his discussion with people it they're much more they're much more
00:37:31.960favorite than they're saying publicly correct this is why he wanted to come out in this big
00:37:35.520interview with the new york times bioweapons which also the frontier labs have warned about
00:37:40.080in fact all the heads i think it said their number one fear is ai creating uh new new bioweapons
00:37:46.860the children's huge pivot from what he's been doing his foundation saying hey these
00:37:51.340the agentic ais and ais on education could actually be harmful so that's a a pivot but
00:37:57.460other people have been talking about that also he did touch the what i call the third rail in this
00:38:04.160because all the labs i think have consistently now kind of formed a praetorian guard around the
00:38:10.880mass layoffs one of the most shocking things of his he said hey the mass layoffs are coming
00:38:15.800on a societal basis we have to be prepared for that most of the folks in in back of this
00:38:22.760because they i think they realize like there's been a populist revolt against data centers
00:38:28.780because it's a physical manifestation like there's now a beginning of a revolt about these
00:38:34.260flock cameras in the surveillance state that's being set up uh people if they when they start
00:38:40.000seeing or understand there's going to be mass layoffs there'll be another populist revolt
00:38:44.360where people are going to want not just a little bit of cash tossed to him,
00:38:48.040but actually some, I think, real ownership in this
00:38:50.920so they get a piece of the action here.
00:38:52.940His warning about the mass layoffs is different than everybody else.
00:38:56.740They've kind of all put that off to the side.
00:39:01.780Gates is actually giving a warning that this is, in fact, coming, sir.
00:39:07.000Yeah, you definitely have backpedaling from people like Sam Altman.
00:39:10.400You know, he was talking about the total, the Moore's law of everything in which all labor will basically be done by AI and all the other sort of elements of a digital god.
00:39:21.460Now, he's much more moderate in his approach and restrained.
00:39:25.660He's like, well, it'll have effects, but we'll do it gradually enough that humans will have a role.
00:39:31.200As far as I know, Elon Musk is still out there talking crazy.
00:39:35.080I mean, he's talking about the end of the world via AI.
00:39:37.080We need to really ramp up getting to space before it eats everything.
00:39:41.580You know, with Gates, yeah, before, again, before, whenever somebody has a sudden conversion
00:39:46.880like this, you know, we've known forever that people behind the scenes have talked about
00:39:51.780the potential for bioweapons killing people and cyber attacks and, you know, mass, the
00:46:19.240From the writer and director of The Last 600 Meters,0.88
00:46:21.900Michael Pack, amazing film, sir. Talk to us about it. Well, it's an amazing topic, really. I mean,
00:46:30.820it is true that this is the fifth anniversary of the massacre at Abbey Gate. And we tell the story
00:46:35.700as even that little teaser reveals from the decision to go to zero by Joe Biden in April
00:46:41.360of 2021, early in his administration, all the way forward until the last plans leave at the end of
00:46:48.080August. And I think a key thing about it that is often lost is how preventable it all was.
00:46:54.180In the first part of the film, we look at the bad decisions, Biden's decision,
00:46:58.100the decision to leave Bagram, the decision not to support the Afghan allies,
00:47:02.180the decision to leave, you know, hardware behind again and again. But in the end,
00:47:08.280the net of it all was the Taliban, you know, surround Kabul, they take over Kabul. And then
00:47:13.400after they seize Kabul, as you could see even in the trailer, suddenly people stream into the
00:47:18.280airport because they are afraid the Taliban is going to kill them. And so the two things that
00:47:22.680we really focus on there are that, all right, they can't clear the airport. You know, there they are
00:47:27.760running to the gates. Airplanes cannot take off and land, as Admiral Vesely says in the film,
00:47:33.940mission failure loomed. You know, they couldn't do the evacuation. The Marines tried for a night
00:47:40.280and a day to clear the airport, but they couldn't do it. And they couldn't do it because the people
00:47:45.420in the airport figure if they leave, the Taliban will kill them. You can see them clinging to C-17s
00:47:51.340and fall into the ground. They're so desperate. So nothing the Marines did. They shot in the air,
00:47:56.040they butted them in their rifles, they tried to use non-lethal force. People aren't going to leave
00:48:00.120because they're afraid of dying. So the military brought in the zero units that had been trained
00:48:07.320by the CIA and under the CIA control and under the control of Afghan intelligence, and they
00:48:13.300cleared the airport, as one of our guys said, in a couple of hours. So how did they do it? What did
00:48:17.180they do that the Marines couldn't do? Well, they shot into crowds and ran them over with cars.
00:48:22.220So they're killing people. So now the calculus changes. Afghans figure, well, look, I'm going
00:48:27.960to be killed if I stay here. I might as well leave. So then they leave. But we have to face1.00
00:48:33.480the fact that we, the American people, had our military and our CIA oversee the murder of
00:48:40.380innocent civilians. I mean, it's a shocking thing. I'm not sure they had alternatives,
00:48:44.860but it's still a horrible thing to contemplate. And our Marines that we interviewed had to stand
00:48:50.260there and watch and do nothing. So they finally clear the airport. And then they're outside the
00:48:56.640gates. And everyone remembers, I think, the footage of them outside these gates struggling
00:49:00.460to get in. You can see it even in the teaser. They're pushing, pushing, pushing. They're
00:49:05.100throwing babies. I mean, it's like a hellscape, as we say. And the Marines at the gates have a
00:49:12.240life and death decision to make about people, and they are haunted by that. So a clearest example,
00:49:18.960I think, is that people come in at the airport and the State Department says, well, you can
00:49:23.060admit people with U.S. passports and special immigrant visas, but not their families.
00:49:27.560So young Marines, 18, 19, 20-year-old Marines, are ushering women and children out of the gate, back out, where the Taliban will kill them.
00:49:36.720And the next day, the State Department says, well, oops, now families can go too.
00:49:41.360So these Marines think, we had these people killed, and the next day they're okay.
00:49:47.120So this is what's called moral injury, a term you are probably familiar with, Steve, but I was not.
00:49:52.440and it means participating in or witnessing something that runs counter to your values.
00:49:58.560It's not like PTSD where you're in a battle situation and you witness the horrors of battle,
00:50:05.280your buddy getting his head blown off. But this is different. This is where you do something you
00:50:10.780think is wrong. And these people are haunted by it forever and to today. And I don't think they
00:50:16.480get the help and the support they need because they're not heroes and the military would rather
00:50:20.780forget about them. So I want to honor them this day as well as the 13 service members and many
00:50:27.700Afghans who were killed in the Abbey Gate bombing, to say nothing of the even larger number of
00:50:32.520civilians and other Marines and soldiers who were wounded. What I want to do is have people have a
00:50:40.000day or two to watch this and then bring you back and we'll share some clips. Where do they go today
00:51:44.520There's really just not enough time to help them.
00:51:46.400I mean, the reason really is, you know, if you're wounded in battle, even if you're one of the 13 that were killed in Abbey Gate, the Marine Corps and the military want to celebrate you.