WarRoom Battleground EP 418: Creating An America First Administration
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Join us as we take a deep dive into the "Deep Swamp" in Washington, D.C., as we are joined by a very special guest, former White House correspondent for the Daily Caller, Ronna Radano, to discuss the ongoing kerfuffle between the Trump campaign and two so-called think tanks, the Heritage and the First Policy Institute.
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this is what you're fighting for i mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing
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people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the
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authoritarians get total control and total power because this is just like in arizona this is just
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like in georgia it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and
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misrepresentations is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is
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the fight all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's
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your host stephen k bannon hey peter k navarro in for the admiral always a pleasure and an honor
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to be in the war room it is the war room it is your war room the posse you are the most potent
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political force uh here in america and my job uh is to try to give you as much information
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as i can so that you can act accordingly uh great show today we're going to take the first half of
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the hour uh with a very special guest rogan on hamley otherwise known to you as dc drano um he's going
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to come on uh in a few minutes and we're going to kind of take a look at the chessboard uh otherwise
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known as the deep swamp in washington because there's some things going on uh that frankly have
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been very disappointing uh uh to the posse and then uh the second half uh of the hour uh two very
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special friends are going to come on and do a debrief a really deep debrief on uh the communist china
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meeting with uh our fearless leader joe biden um in the clean for a day san francisco um kind of
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hilarious what they did there in a very dark way um but the two guys brad brad thayer and then the
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guy i know most personally is jim finnell jim uh most famously uh was the head of the patcom
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uh command out uh out in hawaii um which had as its mission uh to deal with the chinese communist threat
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and uh he um infamously got fired by his superiors for being too candid let us say uh about the danger
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of the communist china posed to um the u.s navy and the u.s military and to this country so they'll
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brad thayer jim finnell debrief in the second half of the hour um what i want to do is just touch on a
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couple of topics before we get to rogan uh the first thing there's been a um let us call it a
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kerfuffle um in dc that erupted this week between the trump campaign and uh a couple of so-called
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think tanks in washington one is the heritage um institute which has been around forever
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um the other is the america first policy institute which was formed um after uh donald trump uh left
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the white house uh in uh in 2021 and um i wrote a i wrote a piece about back in july of 2022 which
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basically looked at the american first policy institute first of all it's misnamed it's got
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nothing to do with mega i looked at everybody in it there are some good people uh but there's far too
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many never trumpers the person who heads it is is a woman named brooke rollins she's very nice person
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very earnest person um but she knows nothing about economic issues or trade issues uh she's strictly a
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social issue focus uh and her vice chair is larry kudlow who i fought with literally on a daily basis
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when he was in the white house made my life miserable when i was trying to implement tough
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policies on trade in china so you got like this one two punch there and then and then the fish rots
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from the head down right because you have um all these these people who are like the typical never
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trumpers who were in there and the beef that the trump campaign came out with this week they just
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finally threw up their hands and say hey afpi you're using the trump brand to raise money and that's
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taking money away from the trump presidential campaign oh and by the way please stop thinking
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you're grooming people for the new trump administration um and good for susie wiles and
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lasafita at the campaign for calling them out on that um and what i'm calling afpi out on today
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is is is simply this brooke just fold that organization up it may have served a purpose
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maybe um over the last year or so but you're not needed now nobody in that thing is needed right now
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the trump campaign has command of the policies and the messaging they don't need you and all
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you're doing is taking money away from the trump campaign that can be used to elect our next
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president and using it and i i just hate hate it when the swamp people do this the swamp creatures
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they just give it a bunch of money too much money to people who don't need the money and paying too much
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rent and just wasting it's just pure deep swamp stuff so brooke love you dearly but it's time to
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fold that shop up right now because your efforts are not needed right now the heritage institute is
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very different situation in a way heritage has been around forever and going back to the 2016 campaign
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heritage was a strong opponent of donald trump primarily because the stuff i was most involved
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with uh which was uh the trade issues and the tariffs on china and uh secondarily uh the securing our
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southern border and the problem and it's it's uh this is a case where the where the fish rots from the
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from the core out because the core problem with heritage is that it relies on dark money from
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people like the coke network all the globalists rhinos want to ship our jobs offshore and they're natural
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enemies of trump right so they went through this exercise uh they have a new ceo i i i like the direction he's
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trying to take the heritage but but let's be real here you can't have an organization which is funded
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primarily by rhino globalist coke network type money and expected to be fully supportive of trump and
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that the one story i tell uh that kind of said it all to me is this uh they reached out to me um
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i don't know it was over a year ago they were working on a policy book which as it was presented
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to me was designed to reflect what president trump policies would be in a second term or what they
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should be and uh they wanted me to do the trade chapter i i think for obvious reasons and i dutifully
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did my duty there i sent the thing in and the trade chapter reflected everything that president trump
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stands for you know tough tariffs on china to offset their their cheating um dealing with uh countries
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like germany and vietnam which are robin is blind in other ways um and the the funny part of the whole
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thing is as this thing was getting ready to go to press and go through the editorials they go oh and by
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the way um we had somebody write a rebuttal chapter to you and the the title of that chapter is the case
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for free trade i'm going wait a minute wait a minute you're you're supposed to be doing a book
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book that's reflective of the new republican party led by trump who has never said the word fair trade
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except in vain excuse me he never said the word free trade except in vain and has always supported
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fair trade that's donald trump fair trade donald trump fair trade free trade is the globalist rhino
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mantra to send our jobs offshore send our factories offshore keep your wages down here and so so he said
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okay you're gonna run that do the chapter you're gonna call it the case for free trade well then call
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mine the case for fair trade you know would be done so i just i mean it was like you got to be kidding me
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and to me that was the tell in the heritage con game there because they're still grappling with their
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internal divisions and they're they're they're doing the same kind of thing that that that the the afpi
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brooke rollins monstrosity kudlow thing is trying to do is like they're measuring drapes in the white
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house thinking that they're going to put their people in and control the policies of donald trump
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that's a fantasy okay that's a fantasy they tried that in 2016 during the transition and trump just
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just get out of here he's going to say the same thing again um so it would be nice to have a think
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tank in washington dc that was a legitimate think tank reflective of of mega policies um but it ain't
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heritage it ain't afpi it's not certainly not the american enterprise institute certainly not the cato
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institute it's certainly not the peterson institute all of which are putatively kind of republican but
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they're not they're rhinos okay so just as this thing unfolds just keep your eye open and if you
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want to call afpi tell them you want to shut it down because they're not mega um all right let's uh
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uh let's bring in uh in rogan now and uh rogan on hanley dc drano is uh is his handle on twitter
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getter and uh truth social rogan uh my brother uh would you prefer to be called dc drano or rogan tell me
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you you can call me either whatever comes out doctor all right brother let's let's go with rogan
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in case of my affection for the irish um so here's the thing let's start let's start with with mike johnson
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the new speaker and this decision this week uh to do um something which which basically kicked the can
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down the road for another 60 days and um and frankly uh upset a lot of people um in the posse
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is he is he okay i'll give you some options here multiple choice is he just dumb and getting
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outwitted um is he kind of kevin mccarthy um with a southern brawl uh none of the above what's going on
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here i think he's none of the above uh thus far you know i equate it to uh the first tee off in a golf
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match a lot of times you get a mulligan on that first one you may not be as warmed up and you know
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i do give him a little bit of leniency for the fact that he was thrown into being speaker of the house
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which i think is one of the hardest jobs in america and he had only a few weeks to completely transform
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how washington spends its money um we are let down by what he did let's let's you know not uh blow any
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smoke here we are let down on the upside no ukraine funding no israel funding on the downside no spending
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cuts and we put him in there and we stood in the breach with matt gates because we wanted washington to
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be transformed the debt is out of control and you can rattle off these numbers better than me but we
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have a two trillion dollar deficit the uh they can barely sell these treasury bonds without jacking up
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the rates uh janet yellen is over kowtowing to xi jinping bending the knee saying we need good
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economic relations with china because she wants them to actually buy these treasury bonds next time
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around and you know we're paying upwards of over a trillion dollars in debt per year when we only
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have about 4.4 trillion in annual uh tax revenue so you know 25 give or take is going right to debt
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repayment so we need massive spending cuts and spending reform we need to reign dcn mike johnson did not get
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it done in his first month i'm a mike johnson guy i know bannon i know some others they are but um the
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honeymoon is over and we are going to be expecting from now until that 60 days is up major steps to
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transform how dc spends its money otherwise i have a feeling after that 60 days if he doesn't
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come up with spending cuts he's going to lose the majority of his support in the base rogan um who's his
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uh inner circle and and are they the kind of people that we'd like to have around him that will
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carry the mega agenda or yeah how's it working do you have any insight into that i don't know
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how your process works i want to talk a little bit about that in a bit but um what are you hearing
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seeing is is he is he like a lone wolf or who's who's he listened to well i think right now there is
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a transition period right so we have seen some positive steps he fired uh a national council
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lawyer national security council for kevin mccarthy uh brian costell brought this up that actually
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shut down some of the sequoia capital investigations right so he had all the information about it
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and he coordinated with mccarthy to shut down sequoia um i know that another one of mccarthy's staffers
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uh in the speaker office was recently fired a female um so i mean there is this transition period i do
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know that he has met with some of our freedom caucus congressional representatives and is listening to
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them on their ideas and their policies you know he's kind of he hasn't really thrown any sharp elbows in
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either direction yet he's just generally been the nice guys working and talking with everybody everyone's
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kind of you know in a wait and see approach uh as for his you know internal staff uh i saw an article
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about it could that be the problem he's just too nice a guy for this job it that that could be you know
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i i i do want to give him a little bit of more time uh you know i i posted a video after he uh
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represented trump during one of the impeachments got the acquittal and he was standing right outside
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nancy pelosi's plaque on her door and he held up the newspaper it said acquitted and he looked and winked
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you know to the camera i i think he's got that dog in him as we say uh but there's a lot of gears and
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controls and buttons to to get a grasp on and you know 60 days let's and and no ukraine funding hey
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that's an improvement every single bill that kevin mccarthy passed had ukraine funding so we do have
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that one improvement uh right now they're trying to tie in the ukraine and israel funding together
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i don't think that's i hope that doesn't happen let me i'll be honest with you if i had to choose
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between no ukraine funding and significant budget cutbacks i achieve budget cutbacks every time
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because ukraine funding as large as it is as much as in screwing american taxpayers it's a rounding error
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compared to two trillion dollars and so um yeah that that doesn't um that doesn't appease me uh in
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terms of his um inner staff i mean who's who's he uh listening to um
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um i i've heard some things i i i can't disclose on the show but i have heard there is going to be
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some good things coming down the road i i think i hope that his plan is hey we didn't get everything
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we want we didn't get a lot of what we wanted on this cr but hopefully he's going to release the j6
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tapes i know that that's in the works from what i'm hearing but you know believe it when i see it
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sat on those right mccarthy had them all and when you give them to tucker and that was it did he give
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all of them to tucker not to my knowledge no i i i think they've been holding these back
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the thing is it's good politics to release this stuff they they think it's oh we don't want to
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talk about j6 and you know the election no no it's it's good politics to expose that this was a setup
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to expose that it was nancy pelosi to expose the election fraud but you know one of the biggest
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letdowns and i saw mike cernovich talking about this is you know we've fully funded this fbi so far
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and this doj that has gone after not only president trump and in the j6ers but also pro-life protesters
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uh soccer moms protesting at school board meetings i mean there needs to be some serious hammering
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over this next 60 days so you know mike johnson like i said i like him but uh this next 60 days is the gut
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check time and if he can come through and get us some wins i think he'll have a lot more uh wind in
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his sails going into the rest of 2024 and and here's another positive he supported and endorses
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president trump right kevin mccarthy in the nine months he's been in even though trump kind of helped
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him behind the scenes never said that so i do give him some credit he has kind of gone out there and with
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his christian biblical world view but we we want the the spending cuts we want the j6 tapes and we
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want to hold this weaponized government accountable well you know the three three parts of this these
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moving pieces you got yeah you got the budget piece but you got mike gallagher running the uh the
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communist china investigation that seems to be going nowhere fast and then you got judiciary not really
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doing a good job at all on uh the weaponization uh that you as you mentioned it's like for me it's like
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look it's all well and good to go after hunter biden and joe biden uh through judiciary but for me the
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the bigger issue are the school board people are the people like like uh like steve who the doj
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went after and you're like literally everybody rogan and i serve within the white house that i know
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if it was actually pro-trump um has been subpoenaed or indicted or something and and that's no and so
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but there's been just virtually no movement on any of that the congress has left this whole issue of
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executive privilege totally alone it seems it seems like like they totally ignore what's going on
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and by the way the only reason why trump is being investigated by jack smith is because kevin mccarthy
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let that j6 committee get started to begin with and act illegally as a judiciary instead of a legislative
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branch so a lot a lot of stuff going on um talk to me a little bit you know it's it's kind of fun it's
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like um you know back in the day uh i always like to study uh how writers did their craft and stuff like
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that you know writing their their their their op-eds or their books or whatever and you you you are
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kind of like the vanguard of this whole new media it's like the 250 word haiku on social media and i
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was just kind of curious uh maybe you share with your with the the viewers here and the listeners
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um what's your process is you know what's what's a day in the life of rogan look like you know how
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what do you read what you look at when do you start doing your stuff can you can you just maybe share a
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a little bit of that yeah uh president trump was joking at uh one of his rallies in west palm a few
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weeks ago he gave me a shout out i was very appreciative appreciative of it he's like these
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guys are brilliant i don't know what they do do they do it from their couch like what what i don't
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know how they do this um you know it it i basically just turned my kind of news addiction into a you know
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uh uh a career of sorts i mean what drove me to do this was seeing marxism banging on the door
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when i was uh a hollywood attorney in 2017 for years before that and i said i gotta support president
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trump i gotta help this guy and i believe that memes are the most effective form of communication
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that exists right it's a digital political cartoon but if you look at a meme that you saw 10 years
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ago right you would say oh i've seen this meme but if you showed me one of my own tweets from a week
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ago i'd be like yeah i kind of remember that maybe that was me you know so that's the power of of
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memes they call it meme warfare and you know i i i look and i try and see what isn't being said that
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needs to be said or what is the the one two or three issues that the left is focusing on uh or
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what things does president trump or or you know matt gates or some of these america first wars what
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do they need help on and that's where i try and allocate eyeballs and attention and i try and give
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people talking points that i think are effective and i will say i do believe where do you start with
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that bro like what time you get up in the morning what do you start doing do you what is it what do
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you read the newspapers the digitals the websites the drugs this to that what how do you yeah get your
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information to sort out to figure out what's important what's not what what they're missing
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walk me through i i mean i get a lot from war room i'll tell you that i love you know i don't do a lot
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of news hits these days only war room but i'm usually up around 6 6 30 and i'm you know boom right on my phone
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uh getting all the information i do look at drudge obviously don't like him as much as
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uh i used to i love looking at cnn msnbc twitter i follow a bunch of leftists i mean i want to see
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what what they're angry about uh or or you know what they do they block us out they they either
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block us or jump off the platform or ignore us i love looking at what they're saying so that i can
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tackle it aggressively so i can go boom right into it they're saying trump said this no it's boom it's
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this you know um but yeah i mean i i listen you know to youtube podcasts i i you get a lot of
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information you follow enough good people on social media you get the daily news you know when i watch
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fox news not that i do but when it happens to come on you're just reading or you're just hearing about
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tweets you saw five hours ago anyway so i think x and truth truth is amazing uh getter you know i you
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you get the most up-to-date current no bs spin on those uh platforms and then i just provide my own
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angle i provide my own thoughts and you know i i i tell people i i try to throw punches with words
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that's just kind of my style we got about 60 seconds left so this would be a great time to give all your
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uh social media handles and coordinates yep at dc drano on everything uh stands for drain the dc swamp
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and you know what one point i did want to uh bring up from earlier we were talking about you know some
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of the silver linings what mike johnson has done uh gallagher on the chinese committee he did send a
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letter requesting documents from sequoia capital which was that happened after mccarthy and and james
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colmer too he he uh finally sent out those hunter biden subpoenas so as uh tough as this cr pill has
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been to swallow i do see some glimmers of hope and i'm hoping that in the next two or three months
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mike johnson really steps up to the plate and impresses us and release those j6 tapes mr speaker
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all right my brother you take care of yourself uh i'm following you i keep watching and i uh
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i love what you're doing brother you keep throwing those jabs thank you doctor got your back all right
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my brother okay in the uh in the next part of the show we're going to bring in brad thayer and jim finnell
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to talk about uh communist china they came they saw they conquered here in san francisco
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uh and we're going to tell you what the real agenda was this is peter payne navarro in for the admiral
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hey peter k navarro in for the admiral stephen k bannon
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there's something very significant that happened in this country
00:32:59.120
this week with uh our fearful leader in the white house joe biden um and this was his um
00:33:08.320
so-called summit with the dictator xi jinping even biden called him the dictator well
00:33:13.840
good for joe once um we're going to break down what exactly happened with uh two of the very best
00:33:23.520
analysts uh of communist china that we have in the world brad thayer um and jim finnell um and as i
00:33:33.840
told you at the top of the hour um jim jim's a very special person to me when we were in the white house
00:33:41.920
when i was in the white house jim was was going through his trials and travails with paccom he
00:33:49.520
had been too tough on china for the uh for the for the navy brass um and they couldn't handle the truth
00:33:58.880
why he's now on worm but actually uh tried to get him um uh to be a be an ambassador out in southeast
00:34:07.360
asia um one thing led to another it didn't happen but um he's just doing wonderful work so i want to
00:34:14.480
welcome uh bradley thayer and jim finnell um into the world gentlemen how are you guys today
00:34:23.040
great peter thanks uh thanks for having us yeah that'd be great um let's start off um with uh with the
00:34:31.280
with the 30 000 foot view with brad uh you and i had a discussion offline about um this whole notion
00:34:39.840
of of biden coming in to save china at the worst possible time uh tell tell me what the agenda
00:34:46.640
with the real agenda tell a posse what the real agenda was of that meeting and how did it go for the us
00:34:52.800
well uh xi jinping came to san francisco uh to thank his base uh of support which are the billionaires
00:35:02.560
uh that were at the dinner uh uh last uh um in the evening uh the approximately 400 to be clear right
00:35:11.760
american businessmen right wall street types who make billions off of china right who are supporting uh
00:35:20.240
xi jinping and the chinese communist party so xi came to thank them uh by and their behavior was
00:35:26.720
appalling obviously giving them a standing ovation but um in order to uh thank his base uh he had to go
00:35:33.840
through um the biden administration i think he used the biden administration um like a doormat
00:35:41.280
uh essentially showing up and the biden administration gave him everything he wanted on mill to mill
00:35:47.360
right begging for mill to mill and jim will speak to this in just a moment right on on a fentanyl
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agreement which is basically a pie crust it's gonna be made for the philosophy let me decode on this
00:35:57.840
mill to mill um i believe what you mean is is better communications between the u.s military and the
00:36:05.520
chinese military out in the south china sea and east china sea so nothing bad happens i think that's what
00:36:10.320
what you're talking about right right uh and then on trade issues and to secure and to keep the
00:36:16.800
investment flowing xi jinping is in trouble he's facing an existential crisis because of uh the because
00:36:23.840
the regime is illegitimate because you've had decades of of uh of tyranny uh so they're in dire economic
00:36:31.920
strengths he needs investment and he needs trade from the west uh which is why he was there to thank his
00:36:37.600
base he was there to thank the billionaires and ensure that they use their political influence
00:36:43.280
uh and sustain the support uh for china also uh to shore up biden because he wants biden or gavin newsom
00:36:52.320
uh to come if biden's not able to uh to make it uh he wants uh either newsom or biden uh in office uh in 25.
00:37:01.040
so it's a wonderful photo op uh uh for uh for both of them uh actually uh at the meeting so he's shoring
00:37:08.480
up biden and newsom and he's um rewarding his base thanking them why is it a good photo op for biden
00:37:18.320
it's a good photo op because he's meeting xi jinping right and they're having um uh they're talking
00:37:23.760
about how they're great friends and that's going to be uh as you well know peter going to be used uh in uh
00:37:30.720
next year as the campaign heats up uh if uh uh biden uh essentially uh stays you think the american
00:37:39.520
public actually think that's a good thing that did biden i think the american people see absolutely see
00:37:45.680
through it uh but there are a lot of different audiences uh to whom biden is speaking and so it's
00:37:51.680
uh it's uh it's going to be uh uh an effort to um uh uh he'll tout it as a to be a feather in his uh
00:37:59.120
in his cap but it was a disastrous meeting it was horrible for the united states for our national
00:38:04.480
security interests it was a disaster it should have never happened no i mean it would be um there was a
00:38:12.160
time where american presidents took american security seriously you know it's within living memory uh
00:38:18.320
actually and uh they would have never have gone through uh this type of uh humiliation uh where
00:38:25.520
um uh really from beginning to end and emperor xi jinping came uh to essentially uh see um uh his uh
00:38:35.760
his supporters so it was a disaster at the same time peter you saw the u.s china economic and security
00:38:42.160
um review commission report that came out on the same day right which said hey the pla is preparing
00:38:50.320
for war xi jinping has told the pla to prepare for war secondly he's prepared chinese society for war
00:38:57.440
and to prepare for hardships uh in the near term uh and lasting and um significant hardships uh in the in
00:39:05.360
the near term and also thirdly that xi uses diplomacy to buy for time right while the military prepares
00:39:12.880
while the squeeze on taiwan the philippines allies and partners and on the u.s um essentially intensifies
00:39:21.120
so you have that surrealistic disconnect disconnect at one time because what you've done is you've
00:39:28.880
given me a beautiful segue to bring in uh jim finnell and jim feel free to uh call up your chart uh from
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the control room if you want but but jim you know better than anybody the seriousness of the chinese
00:39:44.640
military threat handicap that for us now go tell the posse what exactly uh we're looking at here and how
00:39:54.160
the common chinese want to kill americans yeah well first of all peter thanks for having having us on
00:40:02.000
um in terms of this meeting the big announcement for me was that they came out of this and in the and
00:40:08.560
biden said we have now this new arrangement we're going to resume the military to military cooperation
00:40:15.440
as if that had not been happening for a year because the chinese are the ones that shut it down last august
00:40:22.320
in uh 2022 when nancy pelosi went as a speaker went to taiwan she was not even there 24 hours
00:40:29.120
and the chinese made a big deal out of that and they said we're cutting off mill-to-mill uh communications
00:40:34.800
and immediately the administration went into this panic mode and they started you know they sent admiral
00:40:41.760
aquilino the commander of indo-pacific command on television uh you know to to say hey i've been trying
00:40:47.920
and they won't talk to us and everyone that went this year blinking and yelling and others carry they
00:40:53.600
all said we we want to open up mill-to-mill relations and secretary of defense austin made
00:40:58.640
similar statements so there was this continuous uh effort to say we have to resume these mill-to-mill
00:41:05.120
relations but if you go back and you look over the last 25 years we've had a number of mill-to-mill
00:41:11.600
relations uh that were you know after chanaman square in 1989 we had the defense consultative
00:41:19.360
talks that started in 1997 with the military maritime consultative agreement that was in 1998
00:41:26.800
then we had the defense policy coordination talks that started in 2005 and went on uninterrupted until
00:41:32.960
that one year break and then you had the code for unplanned encounters at sea or queues
00:41:39.040
it was established in 2014 so at the kind of at the top levels of the office of secretary of defense
00:41:44.560
you had these major connections that had gone on for over 20 years where our military was talking
00:41:50.400
with their military four-star generals four-star admirals speaking with their chinese counterparts
00:41:56.160
and it was also happening inside each of the services so the army the navy the air force the marine
00:42:02.720
corps even the coast guard down as far as you can get at the tactical level it may be at the
00:42:08.400
operational level they were talking with chinese counterparts throughout the year and they've done
00:42:12.320
this for 20 plus years so all of a sudden now we get this you know this no hair the world's on fire
00:42:18.400
because there's a war in ukraine and there's a war in gaza and now all of a sudden having mill-to-mill
00:42:25.280
is the most important thing yet nobody ever said well what happened in those 20 years of those talks
00:42:31.280
well one thing that happened was is that we gave away all of our uh tactics techniques and
00:42:36.560
procedures if you will we told them what was important for war fighting we told them that they
00:42:40.480
needed to have a non-commission or officer corps these things and they gave us nothing and so now
00:42:46.480
we're in this position now where after the trump administration that said hold on a minute uh we
00:42:51.520
can't have this secretary pompeo pompeo called it blind engagement i called it unconstrained and
00:42:58.320
unaccountable engagement so we we stopped that and that you guys did that in the trump years
00:43:03.840
and everybody said oh you're right and there was this talk about a bipartisan consensus about china
00:43:10.480
being a threat to the united states and the department of defense started taking china seriously
00:43:15.680
so what i experienced in 2014 2015 where you were not allowed to talk about china you weren't allowed
00:43:21.760
to provoke china that that changed after trump administration came in and we turned the course
00:43:27.760
of the ship of state if you will well now that's been undone with this meeting and what president
00:43:32.960
biden is now not only does he signal weakness to xi xi ping and the chinese communist party and the
00:43:39.600
central military commission but he also in a way puts doubt inside the depart our department of defense
00:43:46.400
about how strong and how hard can you be against china uh because you have the president now saying hey
00:43:51.680
it's really important that we talk to each other so anybody inside the military today that
00:43:56.720
what doesn't want to talk to china or doesn't want to take them or wants to consider them a threat
00:44:02.400
they're now going to be kind of suppressed and that's going to make us less prepared and less
00:44:06.880
ready for the conflict that china's actually been preparing for for many many years and they're now in
00:44:12.800
this what i call this decade of concern you can put up that chart which essentially says the period from
00:44:18.480
2020 to 2030 is the most dangerous time because china unlike many people you hear will say the
00:44:27.360
the quote-unquote experts will say well china takes the long view they don't want to rush any of this
00:44:32.800
well actually all the chinese leaders and mount since mao zetong have been saying to themselves and
00:44:38.480
inside the chinese literature and to their own people or to their own communist party we have to be
00:44:44.960
restored to be this great power in 2049 we're going to be this comprehensive great power well you
00:44:51.600
cannot become a comprehensive great power without having possession of everything that you say is
00:44:57.680
yours they say taiwan is theirs they say the south china sea is theirs they say the senkakus are theirs
00:45:03.200
they have a bunch of areas on the border with india that they say is theirs they even have disputes
00:45:08.000
with russia and north korea so they say this is all their territory and they're trying to get it through
00:45:14.880
you know many means as possible they got basically the south china sea when obama was president they
00:45:20.560
seized scarborough from the philippines they built seven islands in the spratleys unopposed well they
00:45:27.520
know now that they're probably still going to press taiwan but if they cannot get taiwan without force
00:45:34.080
then they're going to have to use military force and they can't use military force you know in 2040 and
00:45:40.000
expect everybody to come to beijing to have a big ceremony in 2049 so they have this idea that well
00:45:46.720
we use force in 1989 against our own people and the world was shocked about that and they they turned on
00:45:53.840
us and they called us barbarians but then less than 20 years later in 2008 they held the hosted the
00:46:00.400
olympics in 2008 and the whole world came and celebrated china so they know that in about a
00:46:06.240
year period we'll forget everything and if you look at covid they gave they gave us covid they killed
00:46:13.040
millions and we're forgetting about it now so it the bottom line is sometime between 2020 and 2030 and
00:46:20.320
it may be earlier now because of the elections in taiwan and other things that are going on in our
00:46:25.440
domestic politics that the prc may end up using military force to take taiwan and what we just
00:46:33.200
tell me give me your quick view of how effective uh the chinese military has become there was a
00:46:41.600
interesting article in the economist last week basically questioning the combat readiness of communist
00:46:48.800
china because they they weren't battle hardened um tell me how formal a foe you think they would be
00:46:57.520
um basically fighting in their own backyard against say the u.s navy yeah they're incredibly uh capable
00:47:07.520
so for 25 years they've been building what they call a counter intervention force a force to design
00:47:14.880
to keep the united states military out of the western pacific so the big threat from the u.s is
00:47:22.240
our aircraft carriers and our submarines and our bombers and guam and in that and we have a force
00:47:28.720
that's in always living in the far east but they expect us to be able to fight our way in and be able to
00:47:34.880
defeat an invasion force well the counter intervention strategy that the chinese military developed over the
00:47:41.280
last 25 years was essentially building platforms ships submarines aircraft and shore-based bomb uh
00:47:50.240
rocket forces that are designed to sink and destroy an invasion or account uh the u.s pacific fleet and
00:47:57.840
u.s pacific air forces that would come in from hawaiian guam so they designed capabilities to destroy guam
00:48:04.720
so no bombers or aircraft could land and service there they've designed missiles ballistic missiles
00:48:10.480
to sink aircraft carriers the df-21 d the df-26 they have all of their mainline surface combatants
00:48:19.600
and their submarines have anti-ship cruise missiles that have longer range than united states navy 300
00:48:25.920
kilometers uh supersonic uh they've also now fielded hypersonic weapons and then they have as i said the
00:48:32.960
shore-based uh rocket forces and what what what are what should we be doing that we're not doing both
00:48:40.560
with respect to safety of our military but also in defending helping taiwan defend itself what what
00:48:50.720
should we be doing what's it's on your checklist the first 10 things you'd like to see a new president
00:48:56.480
do in 2025 well the first thing i would do chime in here if you want yeah let me just couple seconds
00:49:04.320
and i'll turn over to you brett the first thing i would do immediately was to start deploying u.s
00:49:09.840
forces to taiwan we need to be there on the ground and use our presence as a leverage to deter china
00:49:17.360
because they're going to have to go back to the drawing board and think about it do we really want
00:49:20.480
to invade if the united states has military forces there because now we won't just be attacking taiwan
00:49:26.320
we'll be attacking american forces did taiwan would welcome that uh well at some point they're going
00:49:34.080
to have to because it's becoming increasingly clear to the taiwan uh people uh that china's threatening
00:49:40.000
them you know from 19 uh from the from the 50s until just uh three or four years ago about a 60 year
00:49:47.440
period chinese fighters never crossed the center line in the across the taiwan strait except for four
00:49:53.520
occasions in 60 years now in the last two years they're crossing hundreds of the time uh in the
00:50:01.280
in the last year and they're just multiple every day there's fighters and other aircraft that are
00:50:06.400
crossing that center line they're operating aircraft carriers on the east coast of taiwan they're
00:50:11.280
threatening taiwan they're circling the noose or you can say an anaconda they're squeezing taiwan out
00:50:17.520
and besides putting american troops in harm's way which uh we've done quite enough of that for decades
00:50:26.240
what what else can we do well it's going to take time but we need to start what they did in the
00:50:33.920
1940s a two ocean uh navy act we need to build up the fleet we need to build up our air forces which
00:50:40.080
means there's going to have to be a battle royale on capitol hill about the budget and you know we're
00:50:46.000
spending a lot of money on a lot of things that aren't really necessary to our national security
00:50:51.440
but having a fleet and an air force that can essentially make sure that we cannot be pushed
00:50:57.120
out of or destroyed out of the the western pacific and the pacific writ large threatening hawaii
00:51:03.040
threatening our west coast we need to have that and we don't have that let me let's do this because
00:51:08.000
we've only got a minute or so left i want to give brad uh or how can people get a hold of you what's your
00:51:13.920
social media stuff i'm in bradley theron getter and bradley fear and truth and and uh brad theron um
00:51:23.760
on uh on x okay um take uh take uh 30 seconds wrap it up for me and then i gotta wrap the show up brad
00:51:34.320
what what what's your top of your list jim's right that we're now look there's so much to do on the
00:51:41.040
military front and jim's right and the nuclear aspect i would add to that as well right that
00:51:45.840
as admiral richard said their growth in the nuclear capabilities have been breathtaking
00:51:50.000
we haven't matched that in terms of missile defenses as well uh hypersonic defenses but look
00:51:56.240
go to the center of gravity cut the head off the snake kill the ccp that's the point yeah right wage
00:52:03.840
political warfare on them because they are an illegitimate regime they know they're illegitimate
00:52:09.520
we need to treat them uh uh in that manner uh they are illegitimate that means no meetings with
00:52:16.320
them treat them the way we treated apartheid south africa right they were beyond the pale uh and work
00:52:23.040
with the diaspora and people of goodwill around the world uh to undermine them within china and outside of
00:52:30.560
it don't give them the time of day don't reward them don't fund them for pete's sake right the first
00:52:36.880
rule of strategy is don't fund your enemies i'm gonna have to say goodbye to you guys uh two of my
00:52:43.200
favorites i think the two very best analysts we have out there in parts of the communist china you
00:52:49.040
guys keep doing what you're doing jim we'll see you uh sometime uh across the pond and brad we'll see
00:52:55.840
you in the swamp take care gentlemen thanks peter thanks very much yes thank you all right uh 30 seconds
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