In this episode, President Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., where he is joined by his Senior Adviser for Global Criminal Justice and South Korea's Ambassador to the United Nations, Morse Tan, and Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights, Steve Morris.
00:05:55.340You can see that it's Australia, Japan, South Korea are all treaty allies of the United States.
00:06:03.160What holds our treaty network together is the U.S. Navy.
00:06:07.660And in a prior life, before you started draining the swamp and all those other critical tasks, you were in the Navy and you were actually assigned in the Pacific.
00:06:17.820If you can just sort of talk a little bit about what you did there and how important the Navy is.
00:06:23.320Well, I was in the 7th Fleet on a ASW destroyer, the USS Paulus Foster as the assistant engineer and then the navigator.
00:06:32.560And, you know, we trained with the Koreans, trained with the Japanese.
00:06:39.520There's a real bond and that was in the Carter administration.
00:06:42.240And we could see how the Soviet Union was increasing in power.
00:06:47.280I mean, we were an anti-submarine destroyer and we tracked Soviet submarines, right, in the South China Sea and down to the Straits of Malacca, all of it.
00:06:56.200Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, North Arabian Sea.
00:06:59.620And then I came back to the Pentagon to work as a special assistant of the chief of naval operation on the day that President Reagan came into office.
00:07:07.780And so I saw up close what it took to take down the evil empire.
00:07:15.020I mean, my beloved Pacific Fleet, if the balloon went up in the South China Sea or the Straits of Taiwan, I, you know, fear what would happen.
00:07:25.580I mean, I think right now against the PLA, if we had to break a blockade, a naval blockade of Taiwan, you might have a carrier battle group at the bottom of the ocean.
00:07:36.180You could lose seven, eight, nine, 10,000 sailors.
00:07:39.860This thing is atrophied under the Biden regime tremendously.
00:07:43.760And I think that's one of the reasons that President Trump and coming back in will strengthen the Quad and strengthen this with a real focus on confronting the Chinese Communist Party,
00:07:54.420particularly with its military buildup.
00:10:52.880There will be, Andrew Crilly here has invitations for you all to take.
00:11:02.740And you can apply to be invited and go to that.
00:11:07.800And it should be another fantastic conference.
00:11:11.300Annie Chan is someone who has invested her great wealth into trying to find solutions for what's going on in the Korean Peninsula,
00:11:24.400with the four largest militaries, with the refugee problem, with the refugee problem of those who are crossing the border, which is basically a high crime in North Korea.
00:11:35.540But they are being sent back often to their death or to concentration camps back to North Korea, a different sort of problem there.
00:11:45.860But there is a whole constellation of problems in that region that are very, very important to address that I think will be critical for the, I believe, next Trump administration to handle.
00:12:42.180And not only that, a lot of positive things happened.
00:12:44.860The remains of U.S. personnel from the Korean War were returned.
00:12:48.180And the rhetoric against the United States of America and against Trump himself stopped the propaganda coming out of North Korea.
00:12:57.580In addition to that, our citizens, the American citizens who were in North Korea, were brought home.
00:13:04.120There was a whole array of positive things that happened.
00:13:08.020And this is something that I've been sharing in various public settings after our time in the administration.
00:13:14.440Because I believe President Trump did a better job vis-a-vis North Korea than any president has since the Korean War.
00:13:26.400You know, it's ironic, of course, that the Biden team says, oh, you know, if Trump gets elected, there's going to be war.
00:13:35.500But as Rick pointed out, there was four years of peace and there were four years of historic accomplishments, including the Abraham Accords.
00:15:26.160Mercy, take it away for all these great CPACs we've done to the South.
00:15:31.360Well, Senator, thank you for being here.
00:15:33.080And thank you for letting me go before you.
00:15:34.680Welcome to all of our officials from Latin America who are visiting and joining us today in the first ever inaugural CPAC International Summit.
00:16:00.620We have representatives from Mexico, from Colombia, from Dominican Republic.
00:16:05.920And we have a very special guest with us, Patricia Bullrich, the Minister of Security, la Ministra de Seguridad de la Nación de Argentina.
00:16:17.760Gracias por estar con nosotros, Patricia.
00:16:25.020So I want to start before we dive into and talk about Argentina and specifically about this incredible election that you all won this past last year,
00:16:40.300which we're very honored to have President Javier Malay join us on Saturday.
00:16:45.180And today, CPAC started their international outreach to Latin America in Brazil.
00:17:00.040With President Jair Bolsonaro and Eduardo Bolsonaro.
00:17:04.220And that's when we learned that there's so many important ties between the United States and Latin America.
00:17:10.860And then we had the great honor of hosting CPAC Mexico with our telenovela, now presidential candidate, Eduardo Verastegui.
00:17:20.220And it was there that we met many of these incredible leaders in Latin America who were running for office in their country, one of them being President Javier Malay.
00:17:36.500And he talked specifically about the dangers and the horrors of socialism, the poverty it causes, how it destroys communities.
00:17:47.420Tell us, when you're looking at the reforms, economic reforms you're doing in Argentina, what are the biggest changes that your government is working on right now?
00:18:05.060Our president, as you said, is coming on Saturday.
00:18:10.440And really, we are very happy with what has happened in Argentina.
00:18:17.120Because for years and years, populism ruled Argentina.
00:18:22.280Now is the first time in many, many years that don't misunderstand, because I will say a word, liberal, that is not the way you understand.
00:18:39.020We call them communists in this country now, Patricia, don't worry.
00:18:42.740Well, in many years, a libertarian, a liberal president, that for us is like the opposition of the populism president, has won the elections.
00:20:22.940And 50% of the population of our country is below the poverty line.
00:20:29.840You can understand that it's only because of our political system that has destroyed all the ways of doing business.
00:20:41.740The rules of the capitalism, the way of understanding the law, the Republican values, they have generated a society that depends only on the state.
00:21:02.000We have provinces in Argentina, states, you say here states, we say provinces, we are a federal country, as the United States.
00:21:12.880And we have provinces that 70% of the population, they live from states' posts, from states' jobs.
00:21:31.860So now we are doing a very important change.
00:21:35.560We are cutting all this state that produce inflation and poverty in the population.
00:21:46.460And did you all see that video when President Malay was like ripping off, ministro de, you know, and they would go through all the things.
00:21:56.940So it's the same conversation we're seeing with across the globe, which is el estado administrativo, the administrative state, the deep state, the bureaucrats making these decisions that are destroying these countries and destroying our economies in so many ways.
00:22:12.420Is that what you're seeing in Argentina?
00:22:13.960Yes, yes, yes, in Argentina, now we are, we say, I don't know how to say it in English, but we have a motosierra, no?
00:29:18.740Well, it's a very important issue because we think that we are in a sense of urgency because today organized crime has long plagued our continent.
00:29:39.460And they are, you have a memorandum signed between Bolivia and Iran.
00:29:52.980We have Hezbollah in the free borders of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.
00:30:04.860We have had two bombings in Argentina from Hezbollah and from Iran.
00:30:12.980And now Hezbollah, and we think that Hezbollah, they do business in the free borders and they send money to fight against Israel.
00:30:37.660And the new way that the globalized criminal organization work, they buy the criminals, they pay for the criminals, so they have the criminals as proxies, you know?
00:31:02.600So, they, for example, they pay for example of Brazil, they pay to an organization that is called PCC, it's Primeiro Comando Capital.
00:31:22.160And the criminals that are in jail and they do, they prepare for doing bombings and...
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00:44:12.120There's something wrong about those here in this country who are willing to equivocate on this issue.
00:44:17.760When you have the naked evil of what Hamas has perpetrated in Israel, and you now have this major battle between good and evil, this is an opportunity for good people around the world to step up, be counted, speak out.
00:44:34.000Israel doesn't need your sympathy, but it's your opportunity to express what you believe in so that those around you and your family and your children know what you believe in.
00:44:42.580Nigel, can you address Europe's position?
00:44:45.520How are they handling, I should say, or how do you view it from kind of the outsider's perspective on their support of Israel?
00:45:10.820I think anti-Semitism, which you touched on, I'm interested to get Lizzie's take on this, but it's almost become mainstream in Britain.
00:45:18.460It's almost become mainstream, particularly through the universities, the education establishments.
00:45:23.400It's sort of veiled in criticism of Israel, but it very, very quickly moves to the other side.
00:45:28.620And we saw within the first Saturday after the 7th of October, the big march in London and, you know, open public chanting on the streets in our country, you know, from the river to the sea.
00:45:42.040So we're allowing on the streets of London, you know, the kind of rhetoric that says that Israel should not exist, Israel should be obliterated, and semi-support.
00:45:55.060Again, people don't openly say we support Hamas, but they make it pretty clear through their statements.
00:46:01.460And so what you've seen today, and I touched on it earlier, you know, Parliament Square full of Palestinian flags, and a younger generation who do not know anything of the Holocaust, who in some cases now don't even believe it happened.
00:46:17.980And so we're in a very, very frightening place.
00:46:20.240As far as Europe's concerned, the situation's actually worse.
00:46:23.520I mean, you would not, as a Jewish person today, you would not live in Brussels, you would not live in most of Paris, unless you were wealthy enough to live in a gated community.
00:46:35.140And I remember in my last year in the European Parliament, walking into the Parliament through a Jewish district, and you'd see the kids going to school with armed soldiers, taking kids into school.
00:46:48.080And that was in Strasbourg, let alone Paris or Brussels.
00:46:50.980So I'm afraid we're in a very, very bad place.
00:46:54.960And we're going to see, I mentioned this earlier, we're going to see increased sectarianism.
00:48:04.940There are far too many people internationally trying to split the difference.
00:48:09.440We know the appalling events of October 7th.
00:48:13.100And it is backed by an insidious, anti-Semitic campaign that has long been in the fringe left, but is now becoming more publicly acceptable.
00:51:49.420And, you know, our prime minister and our government has been and is being accused of being anti-Semitic by George Soros and the likes of him.
00:51:58.180And my colleague invites a member of the Hungarian parliament to a Shabbat dinner who openly calls for listening Jews.
00:52:09.900I mean, this is outrageous what is happening.
00:52:13.620And I think you have a lot to do in Europe.
00:52:15.800And the thing is, strange it might sound, that you have to win elections at home.
00:52:20.380And the problem is that if you go country by country in Europe, you will see that the Muslim voters largely outnumber those who are Jewish.
00:52:28.520So the European governments, each one of them, are anti-Israel because they want to win elections at home, except for Hungary.
00:52:38.300May I just two additional approaches or dimensions to the question?
00:52:46.260First of all, while I totally agree with Ambassador Takacs, what you should know here in the U.S. about the general European situation is, first of all, that, you know, the very first political ideology, which was anti-Semite in its roots, was socialism.
00:53:08.640That was invented by Karl Marx, all of the socialist ideas, let them be national or international, those are anti-Semite ideas.
00:53:19.260And what we should know, at least in Europe, that the nowadays left, the Vogue, inherited this anti-Semite legacy with Marxism as well.
00:53:29.780The nowadays leftist parties and leftist forces in Western Europe or anti-Semites are going against Israel.
00:53:37.840And what we should know is that the fight we do have against this anti-Israeli, anti-Semite approach is the very same fight and maybe against the very same enemy that we do have for our European way of life.
00:53:55.060And the other thing that should be mentioned is what was highlighted by Nigel Farage is that there is a very clear connection between the rising tendency of anti-Semitism and the rising tendency of illegal and not only illegal mass migration to Europe.
00:54:13.680And what shows the infantile behavior of socialist leftist parties and progressive parties all over Europe, that now they do count on the Muslim vote.
00:54:24.300But there will be a point in the near future when the proportion of Muslims and other ethnic groups, anti-Semite ethnic groups will reach a share, after which there will be no need for them to go after the Tory party or the Labour party or SPD or CDU or CS in Germany.
00:54:44.740But they will establish their own parties within Europe.
00:55:29.380If the bill comes to you, Rick, give me your address again.
00:55:31.580I think it cannot be overstated how important these relationships internationally are.
00:55:38.820I know that many have been working on this project for a long time to make sure that we are, as conservatives, sharing our ideas and ideals.
00:55:51.740I mean, we're rooted in a foundation of the Judeo-Christian traditions that Miklos talked about.
00:55:57.440And I think it's so important that we don't give up the fight.
00:56:02.920Because, you know, I think of so many times, really in human history, in world history, in biblical history, where it was so dark.
00:56:13.740And it's always darkest before the dawn.