00:02:16.260that also is today's the first day that you could file for legislation to go into the hopper for
00:02:22.160next year and that's where the true color of this comes out john hollis walk us through what they
00:02:27.000have what walk through what they have laid out today about what they want to do yeah well in
00:02:33.000typical uh radical democrat fashion they have completely performed a bait and switch
00:02:38.440on the texas electorate obviously they ran on things like affordability and you know ending
00:02:44.340corruption and things like that. And instead, what we have seen today, there has been over
00:02:48.5601,100 bills filed. Now, a vast majority of those are going to die before they even get to the
00:02:53.520floor. But some of the things that stand out in the agenda for the Democrats, first up, foremost,
00:03:00.960Obamacare expansion across the entire state, a minimum wage increase, a Muslim Heritage Day,
00:03:06.920online voter registration and expanding vote by mail, repealing ICE cooperation, decriminalizing homosexuality, whatever that means,
00:03:17.360a return to DEI, a repealing, and this is important, repealing laws that made it illegal for children to have abortions and seek gender transition surgery.
00:03:29.100They are going to make that legal again here in Texas, and a big one that many people didn't know was coming, and it certainly has been queued up, is an assault weapons ban for anyone under the age of 21.
00:03:42.240And an assault weapons ban that includes things like having a pistol grip on your rifle, having a detachable magazine, a folding or telescoping stock, a hand grip for your firing hand, suppressors, even pistols that have over 10 round magazines are considered assault weapons, including shotguns as well.
00:04:04.600And that's all coming straight here to Texas. We also, many people don't realize, we lost four Supreme Court justices this cycle. And that gives us a 5-4 Republican majority. However, there is a moderate on the court that is considered a potential swing vote that could swing any of these things in the Democrat favor at any point in time.
00:04:26.820So just like we saw with the it's essentially just a Trojan horse and they are going as radical as they can while promoting bipartisanship by bringing in very soft Republicans to be on their staffs to make it appear like they are going to work across the aisle while shoving the most radical things we have ever seen in Texas down our throats.
00:04:58.800Because I noticed they and the assault weapons ban are on two of the top agenda items they've got.
00:05:05.720Yeah, so they have never spoken about anything related to guns on the campaign
00:05:11.220because they know that Texas doesn't put up with it.
00:05:13.900We are very proud of our culture here around the Second Amendment. And we have fought tooth and nail to ensure that the Second Amendment is not infringed upon in any way in Texas, including making constitutional carry a thing here in Texas as well.
00:05:31.160And they knew if they led with that on the campaign trail, it would destroy them. And so instead now, like Brian was saying, and like you've been saying as well, they have a governor that is going to be willing to use executive action.
00:05:42.800They we only have we have a 19 to 12 Senate. So that means that if four defect, then this legislation gets through.
00:05:52.500So we have a very small firewall in the Senate that is going to need to stand their ground at all times.
00:05:58.180And we need to hope and pray that they're able to do that and that the governor doesn't circumvent them to try to get some of this more radical legislation passed,
00:06:07.120including red flag laws, which have been dead on arrival ever since they were introduced at the
00:06:14.400federal level and anywhere else. It was actually something that several Republicans had gotten
00:06:18.740behind on the federal side, and it was part of the reason why it cost them their elections in the
00:06:25.040past. So this is something that Texans do not support. We will not stand for it, and it is
00:06:30.700going to create havoc. And in my opinion, it'll also be a distraction method so then they can
00:06:36.540get some of their other radical legislation through while we're fighting over keeping our guns
00:06:41.040abbott had with his emergency powers had a covet lockup now it didn't every day wasn't locked up
00:06:48.340but it was a thousand days what is stopping her from picking you know picking first off
00:06:53.260she has the full ability to take uh senate bill four and senate bill eight which are the anti
00:07:00.180um sanctuary state laws and she can just you know sign them away what's to stop her from taking any1.00
00:07:08.440of these and taking action on the only she has unlimited she has tyrannical power as as governor1.00
00:07:14.380now the way the structure works the lieutenant governor on a day-to-day basis may have actually
00:07:19.040more power but when you talk about emergency powers the governor of texas is essentially a
00:07:25.560tyrant, sir? Yeah, well, currently there really isn't anyone that can stop her, especially since
00:07:32.600the entire state, every statewide office went Democrat. And obviously the House went Democrat
00:07:38.800as well. We do have a small firewall there in the Senate. The Supreme Court is teetering on0.97
00:07:45.240going left. And really the only people that are going to be able to stand up and do anything
00:07:49.880about it are the voters themselves. And one thing that made Abbott reverse course on a lot of those
00:07:56.160lockdown orders was the fact that people got out into the streets and they made it known that they
00:08:00.780weren't going to comply. But people went to jail. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down. What do you
00:08:05.540mean the voters themselves? You ain't voting in Texas for a while. They're rolling now. Houston
00:08:10.840is an open city. Houston is, as we speak now, is a sanctuary city. Austin and San Antonio very
00:08:17.460shortly, El Paso and Laredo and McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley. There's no voter. The voters
00:08:27.040don't come in here are not intermediaries in any of this. This is now we've turned the state over
00:08:31.720to a group of radicals that and because of the structure of state law, she's prepared and look0.99
00:08:38.440at the first look at the top hundred things they put out there about what they want to do, none of0.75
00:08:43.400which they ran on, this is the way the Bolsheviks roll, right?0.82
00:08:47.320This is why New York, California is a sanctuary state.0.94
00:09:05.900Well, and you're right in terms of there's no way to vote our way out of this currently.
00:09:09.720What I mean by the voters getting involved is there has to be public backlash.
00:09:13.400There has to be protests. There has to be people that get out there in the streets.
00:09:16.800And that's what we saw during covid. That's what that's what reversed Abbott's whole course on all that is because Texans stood up.
00:09:24.320They went out into the public and they made it clear they were not going to comply.
00:09:28.260And and, you know, we we saw some people go to jail like Shelley Luther, for example, which caused mass chaos.
00:09:33.900It was it was horrible optics for him. And so the only way that we're going to have recourse is we have to get active and get out into the streets.
00:09:41.200uh where can people find all your analysis the podcast uh everything because this texas
00:09:48.120people in dhs and ice are very very concerned about this there's a lot of people focused on
00:09:53.500this steven miller i think is very focused on this i think you'll see some things coming out
00:09:57.800in the next couple days we just can't we just can't wish that this is not going to happen this
00:10:01.680is happening the federal government's going to have to step in the trump administration is going
00:10:05.380to step in but also governor abbott and the republicans in the state are going to have to
00:10:09.700step in. So where do people go to get all your content? You can find me at John Hollis TX on
00:10:16.680X. And you can also check out our website, intels.com. We go where most Republicans won't,
00:10:24.380and we fight the battles that they're too scared to fight. So give us a call, and we are going to
00:10:28.660be on the ground here in Texas, as well as throughout the nation. Hollis, do me a favor,
00:10:33.980put up that list of what they put in today. People can see their first 50 or 100 things they want to
00:10:38.780do i think they'll be shocked uh because i think people say well gosh i don't remember that being
00:10:43.180debated on john hollis in texas thank you can we make sure neil mccabe i want to go back to the
00:10:48.240white house for you in the show because a lot more going on with this impeachment of pete hexeth
00:10:51.960there's an 8 a.m press conference by pete tomorrow morning hang on i'm gonna go brother fishback and
00:10:58.380then come back to mccabe there's an 8 a.m press conference by pete hexeth with pete hexeth for
00:11:04.660Pete Hexas tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. at the Pentagon.
00:11:07.440Real America's the worst. We're going to cover it.
00:11:08.800We're going to have David Zier, who traveled
00:11:29.480let's say, his interview. Now, that interview
00:11:32.580was done before Susie Wiles was fired. It was done on Friday. And then we got Stephen Miller,
00:11:37.220who's a much bigger hammer on these topics. But I think a lot of people were kind of shocked.
00:11:43.060The president, I think, played it down. Mark Wayne Mullen, Kung Fu Plumber, put out a tweet
00:11:49.440today that was like, I've been directed by the president to go sit down and try to make a deal,
00:11:52.840which was shocking. But the president played it down at his impromptu press conference. Just
00:11:57.540Step back for a second, because this issue kind of framed your entire run for governor of Florida, and it clearly got traction, particularly with young men who said, hey, I like what this guy's talking about because it really impacts my life.
00:12:15.460And I think that those issues got extrapolated into the general and maybe were not addressed.
00:12:31.340Not Steve Bannon, Steve Miller's in there now.
00:12:34.200I fear that the president had an opportunity this afternoon at that impromptu press conference with Dana White, of all people, to clarify this position.
00:12:42.480Now, of course, the president swears it's not amnesty.
00:12:44.900Remember, the Democrats swear it's not abortion.
00:12:47.360They call it reproductive health care.
00:12:49.040I know as the grandson of an English teacher, the power of pejorative, the power of language.
00:12:53.720So the president can say that it's not amnesty.
00:12:55.800but a rose by any other name is just as sweet and amnesty by any other name is just as foul
00:13:00.480when the president is talking about 10 to 15 million people in the country who have jobs
00:13:05.320some of whom pay taxes who are not criminals in his words that they should he said good jobs good
00:13:11.140job well well steve i'll tell you this i wish back with mealy was texting me what do you mean
00:13:16.160good job what do you mean good jobs look i actually agree with president trump there are
00:13:19.860legal aliens who do have good jobs that's the point there should be american citizens who have
00:13:24.660good jobs. Those should be their jobs to be able to contribute, to get an income, to be able to
00:13:29.640buy a home and start a family. And this is personal for me. My dad's sitting over in the living room.
00:13:33.860He was a tree trimmer for 20 years in South Florida. He had a great business,
00:13:38.280great upbringing, and he lost his business through no fault of his own because President
00:13:43.620Barack Hussein Obama, with a wave of a pen, gave illegal Haitian migrants temporary protected
00:13:50.200status and work authorization. Now, hang on. I don't think people have heard that story.0.98
00:13:53.580I want to go back and go back because your dad's here.
00:14:14.080My mom and dad had careers of their own, but it just so happened to work out that neither
00:14:17.700of them really had a full-time job at the same time.
00:14:19.720And so my dad was a tree trimmer for 20 years, Tom's Tree Service.
00:14:22.420And he had a great business doing it. He was a hurricane chaser up and down the Florida panhandle throughout Florida. And he had a great business up until Barack Hussein Obama decided to do a little government intervention and wave a magic wand to give Haitian illegal aliens temporary protected status.
00:14:38.580Look, it was a devastating earthquake. I pray for our brothers and sisters who are caught up in emergencies like that. But the solution for one person's cry for help is not to impose a new cry for help on American citizens. That's exactly what Obama did in 2010 with Haitian TPS. We've played the game through Biden, through Trump won. We've effectively ended it now. But the issue now is not just illegal immigration, but it is legalizing, formalizing and giving amnesty to illegal immigrants.
00:15:08.020Now, President Trump's not going to call it amnesty. Maria Salazar, the Republican from Miami, she's not going to call it amnesty. What does she call it, Steve? She calls it dignity or dignidad in Spanish. Call it whatever you want. Amnesty, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is an act of forgiveness.
00:15:24.280When you are forgiving illegal aliens for the crime of breaking into our country, taking our jobs, stealing our resources, taking our birthright, that is a crime for which there can be no forgiveness from this government.
00:15:36.320Forgiveness from our Lord and Savior, absolutely, after genuine repentance, but not from this government.0.99
00:20:27.160I was an oil futures trader for 10 years.
00:20:29.160The reverberations in global markets were felt at the gas pump.
00:20:31.800The average Floridian, the average American is spending $22 more today to pump up their tank than they were a day before the Iran war started.
00:20:39.520So the economic effects was the second betrayal.
00:20:41.740President Trump ran on bringing down inflation.
00:20:43.280And the third was it corroborated a nascent, perhaps even an embryonic belief among mainstream
00:20:50.640Americans that Israel and AIPAC are in charge of foreign policy. People like my dad might have
00:20:55.980been skeptical of that the day before this war started. They weren't skeptical after the war
00:21:00.420and in the ensuing weeks and months. They were validated in the view that Israel runs foreign1.00
00:21:05.480policy, not the White House. And so on all three fronts. And that's where our focus has been in
00:21:10.660the Middle East and not in hemispheric defense or the situation with the Chinese Communist Party
00:21:16.720in Taiwan trying to take over the chip plants. Is that the point? That's exactly the point. And I
00:21:22.460want to bring up the chip plants, if I may. You had Scam Altman, your favorite character, out from
00:21:26.180Silicon Valley two weeks ago. What did he say? He said, it's not a wise use of memory to be in your
00:21:32.980computer. That sounds a lot like tech bro communism. The oligarchy, Steve, that you've
00:21:37.840been warning about for years. I fear that the same people that want to come to your door and take
00:21:44.500your guns and take your kids now want to take your computer, your RAM, your memory, this idea
00:21:51.800of sexualized. Walk back through that so people understand if they didn't catch it. Just hit1.00
00:21:56.000reset for a second. Absolutely. So Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. I think we've not. I wanted
00:22:01.900to clarify another beauty another beauty he said a week and a half ago that it's an utter waste
00:22:09.960that you would have memory on your home computer that really it belongs in a data center right
00:22:15.280controlled by him centralized controlled by him controlled by jensen wong and his chinese honey
00:22:19.380pot controlled by all of them instead you should have no control and we should control now why is
00:22:26.500that so problematic for the same reason that i respect law enforcement but i still have an ar-15
00:22:31.020chambered in five, five, six and my closet at home. And my wife knows how to use it because0.84
00:22:35.600there's nothing like your own self-defense, your own control. And so I don't say this lightly in
00:22:42.480the same way you might have a gun at home for self-defense in the rare case that things hit
00:22:47.640the fan. I would suggest people to start hoarding a little bit like they do have gold and silver,
00:22:53.140a little bit of computational power. That means a nice computer, a Mac mini, a Mac studio,
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00:31:16.640fishback thank you uh for for sticking around first off there's been some announcements coming
00:31:32.520out of byron's um the new transition team that is correct me if i'm wrong i don't want to put
00:31:37.880this on you because i told you this is coming from me is the transition team down there look
00:31:42.200like a lot of bush uh adherence and a a lot of lobbyists it does maybe too much it does country
00:31:48.980club republicans i i have we kind of warned about this we we did i do want to be careful because
00:31:55.140i want to congratulate governor-elect donald's for his victory historic in many ways i truly do
00:32:01.440wish him the best. And I'm prepared to help him in any way that I can. But I'm also prepared to
00:32:05.520challenge him where I think there's a better way, Steve. And I just want to be careful to
00:32:08.940remind the governor-elect who elected him and how close his election was. I would say one thing,
00:32:17.860and I haven't said this publicly, I haven't said it to the governor-elect, but I'll say it here
00:32:20.540today. I think he should ask Governor DeSantis to stay on for six months as a senior advisor
00:32:28.980to him to to governor for what reason governor de santis ran the machine he did what he needed
00:32:38.500to do i can have some disagreements with him on foreign policy here and there he is the best
00:32:42.660governor in florida history bar none he needs and it's just i'm not saying the guy needs to live in
00:32:48.680the governor's mansion on the couch i'm simply saying you don't think he would look at that as
00:32:52.580a uh that he's got training wheels on and governor de santis is going to be there until he takes
00:32:56.680training wheels off? Not at all. I think it's something to say that he and DeSantis are not
00:33:01.280particularly close. Not anymore. Not that Ron is that close to anybody, but he's about three
00:33:06.640people, as I understand it. And the wife takes up two of those. No, it's why is there anything on a
00:33:13.520policy basis? Because DeSantis is now looking at and I've got big problems with with the governor
00:33:20.580on foreign policy i think he's a neocon and uh unreprended and well today's not the day but i'm
00:33:26.820very disturbed about the situation when he went to israel and signed these anti-american citizen
00:33:31.140laws where i just don't think it's acceptable to do that in a foreign country but he's a
00:33:36.380terrific governor like i said their focus his focus on these voter rolls everybody else talked
00:33:41.680about it once again de santis gets things done i would respectfully submit the reason that we won
00:33:49.260in Florida was the election integrity of the Florida election by Ron DeSantis really going
00:33:54.540through and grinding these? Because look, these were close. It was 100,000 votes. I mean, these
00:33:59.800were close races. Very, very close races. What would you recommend if he's going to be a senior
00:34:03.820advisor? Yes. In what areas does he need to be a senior advisor on? The first is property tax
00:34:08.580elimination. So the state voted to eliminate property taxes, to raise the homestead exemption.
00:34:12.880And you're saying to get it done, this guy can get it done? To get it done. And it's not someone
00:34:17.620who needs to be front and center. But I think having Governor DeSantis on speed dial, having
00:34:22.700his counsel, having his advice, especially dealing with the legislature in Florida, which has been
00:34:26.440especially difficult in recent years, I think it would benefit anyone. I would say that if I were
00:34:32.100in this position, if I were the governor elect right now, I would be speaking to Governor DeSantis
00:34:35.700three times a week. I would ask him if he'd consider staying on because what you need more
00:34:40.100than anything is to recognize that these two guys, they are on the same team. They're both
00:34:45.140Republicans. They're both from Florida. They ought to work together. Let's put pride aside.
00:34:49.460Let's put past disagreements aside. And I'd love to see Governor DeSantis and Governor
00:34:52.620Donald's work. One of the things about you I find intriguing is you try to be very constructive.
00:34:57.340It's not I want to attack all the time. No, but let's talk about the president and particularly
00:35:02.000the situation over the last 48 hours, because the hardest core of the MAGA base and the MAGA base are,
00:35:07.380you know, quite upset. I had somebody today say to me when he was at the press conference,
00:35:12.680And normally we have a huge audience in the press conference that said it was like Charlie Brown's teacher, right, or the adults.
00:35:18.900And I said, oh, wow, we don't want to go there.
00:35:21.520What would be your recommendation, both when he talks about mass deportations and how he talks about it vis-a-vis you've been out in the field and what people really think about it, and also about Salazar's dignity or amnesty or all that?
00:35:35.640What would be your constructive advice to the president?
00:35:40.860It would be get out of the echo chamber.
00:35:42.680go out there and talk to real people. Now, of course, he's the president of the United States.
00:35:47.240He can't easily do that. But I would just ask the president to open up the X app on his phone
00:35:50.940and scroll through the replies on his so-called amnesty post. It clearly is. They don't want to
00:35:56.700call it that. And look at what people are saying. Some of your staunchest allies.
00:36:02.260I love the president. And I say this as a genuine friend of this administration and of the president
00:36:07.600of the United States. A real friend does not tell you what you want to hear. A real friend
00:36:10.760tells you the truth. And this will be an unforgivable act of betrayal if he gives amnesty
00:36:16.520to a single illegal alien, let alone upwards of 10 to 15 million. Now, here's the fundamental
00:36:21.600issue here, Steve. When you're at Mar-a-Lago sitting between Steve Wynn and Maria Salazar,
00:36:28.220you're going to have an echo chamber of a single ideology that says they're working hard,
00:36:33.080they're paying taxes, they're not doing anything wrong. Their entire existence in this country
00:36:37.440is wrong. We need to deport and we cannot give them amnesty. Go through your your litany one0.95
00:36:44.040more time about because they say, oh, the only crime they did was coming into the country about
00:36:49.740the three you you made said, hey, these people did not have criminal charges until they raped
00:36:55.980or murdered or abused American citizens. Look, I think the president's being well intentioned
00:37:00.900when he says we want to get the violent criminals out. We do. But how do you tell whether someone's
00:37:05.420a criminal. Let's just simply go on criminal conviction. Jocelyn McGarry's two killers,
00:37:10.180neither of them had a criminal conviction. Rachel Marin's killer did not have a criminal conviction.
00:37:14.840Laken Riley's killer did not have a criminal conviction. And so where do we draw the line?
00:37:20.120The truth of the matter is, this is not minority report. We can't read someone's mind. If you're
00:37:24.600in this country, one, illegally, you have already committed the crime of being here.
00:37:28.660The second is, even if I grant that you are not going to be a violent offender,
00:37:35.420you're going to take healthcare resources. You're going to take a job. When you take a job,
00:37:39.440you take income. When you take an income, you take a down payment from a young man in my state who
00:37:42.940wants to buy a home. When you take his ability to buy a home, you take his ability to marry a God0.54
00:37:47.220fear and woman in the Catholic church. When you take that ability away, you take the ability away0.52
00:37:51.620for them to have kids and to live out the full arc of the American dream. And so let's be very
00:37:55.960clear. This is a case of whether they take opportunities from us, they are taking away
00:38:01.220our birthright and our future in this country. I want immigrants to do as well as they can as far
00:38:07.380away from us as possible. Genuinely, I wish them well. And I think Pope Leo is right. Immigrants1.00
00:38:12.580have a right not to migrate, that those leaders and their countries should do for them what they
00:38:19.940want our leaders to do for them and actually provide a real economy and real opportunity.
00:38:25.660You're speaking at a conference. Is it next week? Is it going to be live stream where you pick it
00:38:29.440up. And what's the name of the conference and who's there? It's Joel Webin's Christ is King
00:38:34.120conference. The subtitle is Joel's been a guest a couple of times, a very low key guy. Very,
00:38:38.560very low key. It's called Christ is King. And the subtitle is America after Trump.
00:38:43.700Now, for much of the last decade, when we've contemplated the question,
00:38:47.040what is America after Trump look like? It's been one that's been theoretical and academic
00:38:51.600after last Tuesday, perhaps even after the last 24 hours, we're asking that in a very
00:38:56.460existential and concrete way. What does America and the Republican Party in particular look like
00:39:01.000after President Trump? And that's going to be the focus of my speech. There's going to be a lot of
00:39:05.300great guests there. I look forward to speaking. And I look forward, really, what I've been working
00:39:08.720on since my election was a blueprint. There's different ideas about what America First is.
00:39:15.300What my team and I have been working on over the last two months and we'll work on continued
00:39:18.600is what I call blueprint. What, in fact, does the America First vision mean in practice? Policy
00:39:25.440positions let's put some meat on the boat truly nationalistic more populist and much more
00:39:29.440nationalistic james fish that's right thank you uh where do people go to get all your writings
00:39:33.040everything all your content at james fishback on facebook on x on instagram and if they want
00:39:38.400to sign up for more updates on blueprints ourblueprintnow.com perfect and we'll make
00:39:43.680sure we stream all the uh all the talks all this uh all the um everything at uh at joel's uh
00:39:49.840conference next in mckinney texas it's in irving irving okay thank you so much james fishback let's
00:39:56.440go back to the uh let's go back to the white house i still have uh mccabe okay let's go to
00:40:00.620mccabe fishback thank you so much man appreciate sir uh mccabe 8 a.m tomorrow morning uh pete
00:40:07.780hexa is going to start i guess his own defense of this impeachment i think this impeachment is
00:40:13.080very serious i don't think we ought to just dismiss it because there's some structural things
00:40:17.160and process things that are going to be able to get, you know, not, I think, maybe have it as
00:40:22.720dramatic as it could be. But they're going to come back in January. And the first thing they're
00:40:27.360going to do is impeach Pete Hexas. So what do you got for us? Right. And so, you know, obviously,
00:40:34.740the problem with impeachments is that it's presented as some kind of legal or judiciary
00:40:40.340process, but actually it's a pure political process. There may be no more pure political
00:40:47.380process in the constitution than impeachment. And so I'm, I'm very curious to see how Secretary
00:40:54.200Hegseth handles it because if he, I, I would recommend he not go step by step through each
00:41:00.920of the articles arguing his case because he's just going to get caught in the weeds. His argument
00:41:06.540Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. He should not. He should not. This is what I don't understand about the White House strategy here.
00:41:13.560I mean, Pete is set up this this press conference tomorrow, but Pete should not be making the defense of Pete.
00:41:22.180The White House or somebody, a lawyer or, you know, hire outside counsel or use somebody, the Justice Department.
00:41:28.340I don't know who you pick, but he's a senior member.
00:41:31.200You know, the power departments traditionally in the in the in the cabinet are state, treasury and war.
00:41:40.880Right. Those are the three. Now, maybe you throw DHS in there, but those are the three big power departments.
00:41:47.380The secretary of war, because I don't think we've had I think only one time in the republic's history.
00:41:51.780Have we ever I think it's Belknap back after the Civil War in Reconstruction.
00:41:56.780Exactly. Have we have we ever had a secretary of war even impeached?
00:42:01.200And so we shouldn't play their game. Right. Well, you think their mistakes or whatever in the in the in the Iran war is not the point.
00:42:09.340This is all targeted at President Trump and targeted at his constitutional abilities, whether to take out the speedboats or really to do the attacks on Iran.
00:42:19.880And so that's why I don't believe that Pete should answer these eight charges.
00:42:24.860am i wrong there or is it what i find confusing is that this doesn't seem to be
00:42:30.440like when president trump got impeached uh on this show we found very quickly constitutional
00:42:36.600lawyers came together they got a very sophisticated team and they they did a process that virtually
00:42:42.480left no damage on president trump the first or the second time but particularly the first time
00:42:47.240where they were trying to kneecap him they were trying to kneecap him neil uh in the run-up to
00:42:52.400the 2020 election, sir. Exactly. And, you know, I believe that perhaps the Pentagon leadership
00:43:02.080with Secretary Hegseth, they're sensing a vacuum that they're trying to fill. And in this situation,
00:43:08.260they're just uncomfortable just letting it sit unanswered. But I think you're correct. They
00:43:14.080should just let it sit unanswered and just move forward with the business of executing the
00:43:19.400Pentagon's missions around the world. And if there's a problem, you could talk to the president
00:43:25.360of the United States. The president has said at least three times in the press conference today,
00:43:29.600he supports the job that Pete Hegseth is doing, and he credits him with success, operational,
00:43:37.060tactical, I'll say, in the Iran theater and also the Venezuelan operation. And so there was no,
00:43:44.060you know, other times when the president is uneasy about somebody, you sort of get that
00:43:48.100sort of undercurrent or, you know, less than full throated endorsement. There is no doubt that the
00:43:54.640president of the United States relies on Secretary Hegseth. It's just where's that staffing in the
00:44:00.800middle? You know, where's the White House counsel perhaps? You know, I think maybe this is something
00:44:05.140that this might be Stephen Smith's first challenge as chief of staff. How does he respond and handle
00:44:10.900this. Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller. I'll say this too. Not Stephen A. Smith. Stephen Miller.
00:44:18.320Stephen Miller. Go ahead. I'll say this. There was a test vote on September 15th on war powers
00:44:28.520where it was 220 to 204 voting in favor of saying that the administration was in violation of the
00:44:37.500War Powers Act, with seven Republican congressmen voting with the Democrats. Of those seven,
00:44:45.860only one is returning because there was six were defeated. And then, of course, Thomas Massey
00:44:51.060lost his primary. You know, Representative Davidson, right, who is a veteran of the Afghan
00:44:58.180or Kosovo and a West Point grad, he has been against the war. He survived. He's still there.
00:45:04.700but it it's interesting right that they did the test vote and johnson speaker johnson he had no
00:45:11.980answer for it he couldn't table it he couldn't figure out any kind of parliamentary procedures
00:45:16.160so he just gaveled the session closed he said we'll deal with this after the election well
00:45:21.420it's after the election and here we are wednesday it's a privileged motion and it has to come to
00:45:27.180the floor now they can still table it i'm sure there are things they could do to to dish it off
00:45:32.600But like you said, you know, this that bill is going to be paid in January if you don't pay it now.
00:45:40.080Talk to me. What do we know about the Qatar situation, Qatar situation in regards to making some sort of diplomatic progress on this war?
00:45:50.720The president said again today he wants to let the diplomatic process play out or negotiations play out.
00:45:55.700he does not want to go back to kinetic uh war and uh you know this is going to be very important
00:46:01.800as people continue to put pressure on him and put pressure on him with um with the nuclear you know
00:46:08.500is the nukes gone or they're not gone i argue it's far beyond gone of course in israel we have
00:46:13.600the opposition party is now putting together a government in opposition to netanyahu so that's
00:46:18.760at least a part of a change. What have you heard about Qatar?
00:46:24.840What the Qataris are suggesting is some kind of management or control of the nuclear program of
00:46:33.460Iran. And for the president, that's the sine qua non, because when everything was peeled away,
00:46:39.860his only justification that remains consistent is the nuclear program. And the Qataris came here1.00
00:46:46.640today to see you know to basically push that forward and you know the Iranians you know they're
00:46:52.660starving right they're eating sticks and rocks they're not getting any cash from their oil right
00:46:57.940the closing of her moves means that it's closed to them too and so they're hurting they're not
00:47:04.360paying their bills and so it's a it's like a it's like a medieval siege and so something has to be
00:47:10.220done because even though like the president said the oil is flowing it's flowing because we have
00:47:15.960you know, we have 20 Navy ships there. So if we pulled out the Navy, what would happen?
00:47:20.860So the Qatari prime minister was here today to sort of move that ball forward. And then,
00:47:25.720of course, in the Middle East, starting tomorrow in Abu Dhabi, we have the negotiations between
00:47:33.360Russia, Ukraine, the United States, joined by the European three. So there'll be England,
00:47:39.780Germany and France, perhaps plus one if Italy joins, but there'll be NATO representation.
00:47:45.020And I was in a briefing today with U.S. officials who said that in the plan is not for Ukraine to join NATO, but to give Ukraine some kind of NATO-like national security backstop to give them some confidence so that they would get the same protections as if they were in NATO.
00:48:05.100And then on the other side, the slow, gradual lifting of the sanctions to continue the Russians in the game if they can just keep sort of from attacking each other's refineries and hometowns and everything else.
00:48:21.640I think the big takeaway of this is that the kinetic people are all worried that President Trump is going to have massive bombing raids and right after the midterms.0.72
00:48:33.060Although anything subject to change right now, and I realize they hit the Saudis, a high rise in Saudi Arabia, the Houthis did.
00:48:41.060But for right now, there's no organized effort to ramp up the kinetic part.
00:48:45.540They are trying to either negotiate, use economic warfare and or some sort of inspection program for the nukes to make sure that we wind this thing down, as you see it, Neal McCabe.
00:48:56.120that's correct although theodore roosevelt is now steaming towards fifth fleet and the president
00:49:05.320he didn't name teddy roosevelt but he did refer to that third aircraft carrier that's uh you know
00:49:12.840all loaded up armed and ready to go i said earlier today with captain finnell i wonder why that was
00:49:19.560not going back to south china sea and patrol off of there so sucked a lot of resource i've got to
00:49:25.380wind this war down and then rethink relationships with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, the whole
00:49:32.000lot of them. Time to come home. Neil McCabe, where do people get your amazing columns at that very
00:49:38.520hot media company that you write for, plus your Twitter feed? Well, the South Shore Press is hot
00:49:49.040as a pistol, and you can find my columns there at southshorepress.com, and you can find me on all
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