WarRoom Battleground EP 547： Failure Of Congress; Lessons From The Battle Of Midway
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In this episode of the War Room Battlefield, we cover the breaking news that Prime Minister Modi won a third term but the party didn t get the seats they wanted, but the big shocker was where the losses came.
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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 the
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fight all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's your
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host stephen k bannon it's tuesday 4 june in the year of our lord 2024 it is the 35th um anniversary of
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tiananmen square it's the fourth anniversary of our foundation of the as a co-founder of the new
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federal state of china it's the 82nd uh anniversary of the battle of midway and we're just days before
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the 80th um commemoration anniversary of the landings at normandy so we've a lot to go through
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today i want to start with some pretty big breaking news uh one i want to go to india as you know we
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cover uh president modi there very closely i think one of the greatest nationalist leaders in the world
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today dave ramaswamy joins us been here riding shotgun with us for years to go through this dave
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unprecedented third term for president modi but uh correct me if i'm wrong and you know india
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a thousand times better than i do but on the politics of it as you've mentored me uh he failed
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to get a majority lost some seats but the most important things it would be the equivalent of trump
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uh losing oklahoma or trump losing missouri or you know south dakota or montana some of these and
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that's why i gotta have you explain it to me modi won unprecedented third term but the party didn't
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get the seats they wanted but the big shocker was where the losses came sir yes steve thanks again for
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having me uh you know modi as i've said many times before prime minister modi he's a michael
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jordan of democracy and just to give you an idea how difficult a three-peat is he's the only prime
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minister of india to win a third term since 1962 so it's been since 62 years since nehru who is a
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legendary first prime minister of india and the other commonality like you mentioned there's a lot
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of similarities between india and america in terms of democracy and the heartland versus the urban area
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battle that goes on and you're right modi's alliance did win a majority so he's gonna take office
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as the prime minister yet again but one thing which happened is and you touched upon it which is it would
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be in the core belt or core voting belt uh like in the american heartland oklahoma kansas
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in sort of a clean sweep uh modi in his heartland of north india lost a lot of seats across multiple
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states so that tells you something that even though overall they like the party's message the bjp
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translating to the indian people's party and their performance over the last 10 years still a lot of
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voters i guess felt slighted and their issues weren't really addressed but how's it but but
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hang on but but how's that so nobody saw this coming i mean that is like you said from nehru who
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was you know one of the founders of modern india and had worked with gandhi for so long
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and is iconic this is the first three-peat you've had modi is a charismatic figure i actually think and
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i always point to lessons that modi can teach president trump even about a nationalist agenda
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that's how strong i think modi is the most nationalistic leader in the world you know as
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prime minister but but how do you square that with it would literally be like trump lost some of the
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the biggest trump states it just doesn't make any or lost a bunch of house in in 20 at this in this
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election we lost house seats and senate seats in um in in the in basically the most trump
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strongholds it just something doesn't make sense what what do you think happened
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no steve that's a great analogy let me zoom in on that and you nailed it it's not like losing the
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whole state but you're absolutely right it would be like trump losing and the republican party
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losing congressional seats and senate seats and let me give you the reason why which is
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you know modi overall like trump it's a it's a secret sauce it's like the secret ingredient he's
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a secret ingredient in grandma's apple pie nobody knows exactly what it is but it sure works wonders
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but sometimes at the state level and you see this with president trump the state party leaders
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had given modi a list of candidates and it was rejected so those were the grassroots candidates
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who were overruled in favor of the party headquarters in delhi baby that was okay there's a big there's a
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big lesson here there's a very big lesson here the grassroots who swept up in really modi's nationalism
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uh were rejected in the party apparatus the rhinos or tories let's say put their own guys in i might
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want to add the greatest uh event that president trump had before wildwood new jersey drew a hundred
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thousand was howdy modi uh i think it was in houston it was on houston or new orleans one of the it was
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unbelievable and i mean the affection of the two leaders for houston the affection of the two leaders
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for each other the commonality and purpose and then president trump obviously went to india i think
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even during the pandemic just in the incredible outpouring of love and affection uh from uh from
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the indian people and particularly the nationalists in india who put their country one thing i love about
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modi you never doubt where he's coming from india is always first and the indian citizens are always
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first on any deal he cuts and that's i think is a beacon and he's not an isolationist we're not
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isolationist and you can see him modi uh so it was the grassroots slates that got rejected for the
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party apparatchiks and uh and and the voters sent a signal to to prime minister modi hey we love you
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but we don't like some of the deal baggage that you have absolutely steve and you see this all the
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time and you nailed it it's kind of like the rnc headquarters versus the maga base and sometimes
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you see it online on truth social when president trump endorses a candidate and the maga base
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is just shaking their head like who whispered in his ear that's analogous to something which went down here
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unbelievable dave social media where do people get to to you for more more commentary and analysis
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your understanding of indian politics is uh is is second to none so where do people go
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no steve i'm not on social media i'm usually on your show i haven't done your show in a while but
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hopefully later this year you get you for both you get it for both geopolitics and indian affairs
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yeah so for both geopolitics and indian affairs i appreciate your support and i always love being on
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your show and talking to your very enlightened and intelligent audience geopolitics uh indian
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politics national security and also you know bent maga pretty well you're not too shabby here about
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domestic politics uh dave ramaswamy uh anyway congratulations president modi a prime minister
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modi gets the three-peat and uh we're off to the races there's a lesson there president trump
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yeah yeah don't don't don't don't take your base for granted that's a message that they're going
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to send a message a strong time and and and steve the other messages yeah absolutely and steve the
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other message is you know your base it's very easy to please them with policy issues you don't have
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to pander to enemies who will never vote for you that's the other message big time lessons learned
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from india the world's largest democracy and hey the way they pull off that election takes a month but
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at the end you know nobody's complaining it's all hand counted it's amazing a big lesson there for the
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united states of america thank you sir appreciate it i appreciate you we got some victories we're
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going to talk about but we're going on offense at the same time mark payoletta when i pull up my
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morning punch bowl jake sherman in the team and they've got uh the lead story is how the democrats
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assault on the supreme court was a flop how it failed to connect and how they're rethinking their
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strategy right now because they're licking their wounds about this i gotta say thank you mark payoletta
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thank you war room posse thank you everybody associated with this it ain't gonna stop i understand
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that that's where we're going offense but man oh man i did not think i'd see that headline off of
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jake sherman's inside baseball punch bowl that follows everything on capitol hill about what
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happened to durbin and schumer in this crowd your thoughts sir yeah you know steve it's been this
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unprecedented attack on the supreme court and i want to thank you and the posse if you having me on
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to talk about this and let people know how outrageous these attacks have been they're completely baseless
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right there's no basis at all for recusals right they're trying to they don't control right the left
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doesn't control the supreme court anymore it used to for many many years and they're enraged so they
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want to take out justices they want to make them recuse they want to dirty them up with bogus ethics
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charges and it's not working you know part of it is you know the the supreme court approval rating has
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gone down because of these attacks and that's outrageous and so i'm glad it's not really you know
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they're licking their wounds and they're you know their view is this is not working but we need to
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defend the supreme court even more and in my view i think the american people also see that sheldon
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white house okay sheldon white house is the one leading this attack and he's just he's unethical
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all right and i i i posted up today the fact that um tom fitton several months ago had filed a complaint
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with the senate ethics committee to look at what sheldon white house does on behalf of his wife and his
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wife's organization she makes millions of dollars in the environmental space and he has repeatedly
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introduced legislation and done things you know in his official capacity to help her group she's
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made millions um and he one group that she joined uh back in 22 23 called running tides um it has to do
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with uh capturing uh carbon from the sea right what did what did sheldon white house introduce shortly
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after that legislation to fund programs and projects to cap you know capture carbon from the sea so you
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know the senate ethics major you know sheldon white house wants to talk about accountability
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and having uh entities being able to question the justices they should take a look in the mirror he
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should take a look in the mirror the senate ethics committee should investigate um sheldon white
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house there's a complaint that was filed i think it was a 21 page letter from tom fitton and judicial watch
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good friend um bringing um bringing bringing the receipts i've i've been writing on white house and
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his uh work with uh helping his his wife over the years um this is what we need to do we need to bring
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accountability to those senators right who are throwing stones and attacking great americans like
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justice clarence thomas like sam alito that's what's going on here there needs to be more sunshine
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and more focus on the senate and in what they're doing their lack of accountability i think the
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senate ethics committee hasn't held anyone accountable for something since 2004 right it's a joke they talk
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about having an ethics committee they don't do anything they protect each other if you'll remember
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what do we call him uh senator goldbars right menendez is walking around the senate he's indicted by the
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justice department right as a foreign agent for a for a foreign government uh you know and and they
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allow him to have classified briefings they allow him to vote on things and it's just outrageous the
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hypocrisy and lack of accountability in the senate you see the same thing in the house right with
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democrat henry cuellar another guy who's accepting you know allegedly accepting bribes and indicted by the
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biden justice department and and and and i think as a foreign agent um cra where i'm a senior fellow
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center for renewing america run by you know headed by russ vote uh we filed a complaint against
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representative jamie raskin who you know somehow forgot to disclose that his wife had a 1.5 million
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dollar asset um and he only disclosed it after she sold it uh so you know they want to look at the
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supreme court the supreme court is our most independent institution right now the supreme court
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is fine ethically right they you know they're they're actually subject to recusal laws they're
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unlike unlike the congress you know the congress is the only entity of our three branches that does
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not have a conflict of interest law that applies to them they conveniently accepted themselves
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exempted themselves from it they do have an ethics code that's pretty broad in terms of allowing
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them to do things on behalf of their own financial interests but i think that as tom fitton's letter lays out
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senator whitehouse crosses that line um in terms of helping his wife out so um yeah you know there
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are attacks on the supreme court you saw some of the polling today steve that shows that um the congress
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the united states congress's approval rating is at i think uh 18 percent right approval rating their
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disapproval rating is something like 68 percent 68 percent of the american people think
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not well of the united states congress and yet here is senator whitehouse and others right attacking
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the supreme court they've helped lower the supreme court's approval rating i think it's in the 30s
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right now maybe 35 or so um and they're in and their disapproval is up but it's nothing like uh the
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congress and the posse the american people need to get out there defend the supreme court defend justice
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thomas defend justice alito uh these are good people uh these are good people you know great
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justices and great americans and of course the left is attacking their wives for what for flying flags
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right the appeal to heaven flag um uh in the alito's case right attacking jenny thomas right for being a
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political activist uh just outrageous stuff but um but but again good news but we need to keep the heat on
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yeah i want to just go back through that before i lose you because this is so important and remember
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the theory of the case they're trying to they're trying to contract the court now about the the trump
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decisions to expand the court later if they win they want to pack the court but let me go back through
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this so it's pretty official up on capitol hill the first wave of this attack which they went all in
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we've kind of beaten off um and that is you know uh jake sherman and other insiders are saying hey
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it was a and they're using harsh terms it was a flop it was a failure uh they're gonna they're gonna
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shut down this avenue attack they're gonna think of something else your point is that hey we beat
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off that attack because the war and posse and other cra you were out there we were forced
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multiplied got that information out to people right and and people didn't back off and particularly
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what i think was great is roberts and alito didn't back off right and particularly alito's wife who
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is as you know the top of my short list for vp uh right now because i i think she's amazing
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um yeah she's great american she tough we need she tough as boot leather i want her i love her um
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you're saying now though the time is to hold those if they're going to play that kind of thing is that
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let's go back and have full transparency and let's start looking at conflicts of interest
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if they're talking about jenny thomas and they're talking about um what martha and uh alito uh you
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know with the with the flags let's go ahead and talk about real conflicts of interest and let's get on
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with it uh and that we got to push it it'll be quite hard is the ethics committee in in the senate
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like the house it doesn't matter who controls it you can actually put forward senators can go through
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or people can go through and put forward what tom finton's talking about not just one side controls
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it and therefore there's never any investigations you know it's still an inside club right i think
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the senate ethics committee is worse than the house ethics committee but they're both pretty bad they
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don't take action against members i think i put up something i think it's been there were like 1500
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complaints that were filed and nothing's come of any of them um um tom jones from american
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accountability foundation another good friend he filed an ethics complaint against jamie raskin
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representative raskin over these same allegations about not disclosing his wife's assets a million
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dollars um um you know until after he sold it and they never acted on it cra came in and followed up
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with another complaint this year a couple months ago um i think what the american people need to do
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what the pasta need to do is make this more public right these are you know this is inside swamp
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stuff in terms of the ethics committee think about it i don't think the ethics committee has done
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anything on senator menendez is that insane i mean here's a guy who is a foreign it's alleged to be a
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foreign agent uh walking around with gold bars and the senate ethics committee is like oh you know we'll
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just we'll just sit on our hands and let that go on same thing with raskin so i think having more
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right i think what's happened right the media the left-wing media has gone after the supreme court
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something fierce right every day you're reading about these justices all these smears and yet all
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of these things that are going on in the senate and the congress nobody's really paying attention
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to them because there's no media attention to them right they go in they're going to protect
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themselves they're not going to really do a heavy duty you know senator white house is talking about
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having to give statements right justices having to give statements let's see senator white house give
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a statement about whether he coordinated with his wife whether he was helping his wife whether he
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talked to her about her business concerns one other thing i love chief justice roberts slamming the door
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right on durbin and white house trying to insert themselves into an ongoing case make no mistake
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right when you seek to go talk to the supreme court the justices and the chief justice about an ongoing
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case and who should be recused you are trying to mess with an ongoing case that is unethical in my
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opinion okay congress separate branch they have oversight they are not allowed in my opinion to do
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anything like that you know a recusal matter right is a entirely judicial opinion a decision um and the
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supreme court all nine justices issued the code of ethics right all of them all nine of them um saying
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that recusals are left up to individual justices not the court uh mark where did they get your book
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where they get your writings where they get you at cra in particular your social media because we're
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in this fight and now we're pivoting and going on offense sure um at mark payoletta on x uh mark
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payoletta.com is my website my book uh that you have right there uh created equal clearance thomas's
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own words is just published today in paperback it's a fantastic read on justice thomas i urge you to buy it
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you won't regret it uh our greatest living american our greatest justice um and um and again at cra
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center for renewing america is doing great work with with uh with russ vote
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no no russ vote amazing across the board and you particularly are the tip of the spear on this the
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supreme court the federal judiciary vitally important mark payoletta is my mentor if we hadn't had mike
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davis mark payoletta and don mcgan you would not have this great court trust me these guys thought it
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through and it was just magnificent work mark you never get enough credit thank you sir thanks steve
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thanks for having me on uh it is the 35th commemoration of tiananmen square dr thayer did
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amazing job last night which was really dawn in beijing um it is uh the 82nd uh commemoration or
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anniversary of midway which uh as a naval officer is one of the greatest victories in the history of the
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united states navy or any navy but i want to start i got a thayer dr thayer and captain finnell i got
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to start with this and i got it late to denver if you can't put it up uh it's an article i think it's
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from the telegraph but it's uh it's about this uh i believe the singapore uh defense uh conference
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captain finnell you you've brought up many times that there's an admiral now really in charge of the
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pla which is pretty extraordinary given it is still a land-based um military but they did this as a
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signal that hey it'll be the navy that will take taiwan this brother through i mean you've teed it up
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to this audience but this brother threw down hard about hey anybody that gets any notions of that it's
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not a province of the chinese communist party in mainland china you will essentially be destroyed
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can you give me your thoughts first about uh this kind of new throwdown uh in regards to uh the
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people's liberation army slash navy in taiwan sir well good evening steven thanks for having us on
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uh yeah admiral dong jun is the new commander the minister of defense for the prc first time in the
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history of the prc that they've had an admiral and he was down at the shangri-la dialogue uh three-day
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event uh were big defense uh discussions that happen every year in singapore and this was his
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year is just taking the job and uh and he was down there and he as the title of the article you guys
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highlighted he talked about that he would crush uh anyone he talked specifically to taiwan we'll crush
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the separatists in taiwan but he also said or anybody else who gets involved which is a direct
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threat to the united states and this admiral is not somebody that's just uh talking out of the side of
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this you know just you know blowing smoke i mean this guy's got background in this uh 10 years ago
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he was the east china sea fleet commander but he was then appointed to be the first uh commander of
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the joint operations command center that is still in existence still stood up today but it was the first
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command center that the prc and the pla stood up to take taiwan from a joint perspective like we fight
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wars so for a decade he had he founded that he was the first commander of it and he has been working on
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how to defeat and destroy uh the united states navy the u.s to be able to take taiwan and before he was
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the commander or the minister of defense he was the commander of the pla navy and in 2022 in december
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riel a big complicate with all of the senior admirals and senior officers and the focus of
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the meeting was to how to defeat the united states navy in a great power war at sea and and that was a
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the conference that he had two two years ago so he's been focused on joint warfare he's commanded
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their navy which is going to be the prime uh one of the prime elements of their joint force obviously
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the strategic rocket force and the air forces but he's been uh kind of that leader and so
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xi xi ping picking him out of you know all the army officers all the rocket force officers all the
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air force officers and taking this admiral is a clear signal and then the fact that dong joom
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goes down to uh singapore and says hey we're going to crush anybody that gets in the way because
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taiwan belongs to us now that's taiwan belongs to us isn't new but the fact that they're talking about
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crushing us matches similar language that xi xi ping gave this last year where he said he would crush
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people so so so dr thayer correct me if i'm wrong at the shangri-li strategic dialogue did not general
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austin the secretary of defense get up there and say we're not close to a war with china we're not close
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to hostilities uh we need to talk this out it is is general austin gotten the memo yet from uh from
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the chinese admiral who just threw down at the same conference sir uh steve it's great to join you thanks
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for having us on this evening um general uh austin is not the secretary of defense lloyd austin has
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not gotten the memo uh not gotten the memo uh uh from admiral dong and of course is still uh favoring
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engagement policies which dong was wise enough to uh throw that out too uh jim did an excellent job
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identifying those elements uh admiral dong also threatened the philippines a u.s ally uh uh critically
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and thereby threatened the united states directly and you have the american uh secretary of defense
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lloyd austin at the same meeting essentially advocating engagement uh with the chinese communist
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party so it's the uh realization of course and just another example of how the biden administration
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how does that how how does that play to our allies in the india pacific india australia the maybe vietnam
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south korea i got about 45 seconds how would that play to them the kowtowing to the ccp
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anniversary of uh tianemans square the bloodshot in tianemans square what do you mean he also took a punch
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a punch at incrementalism what what he said uh what what edmund said uh was uh that traditionally the
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red line had been if taiwan declares independence but what dung what dong signaling uh in his address
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at the shangri-la dialogue in singapore was that if taiwan crosses uh essentially smaller measures if
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the taiwanese take smaller measures not declaring their independence
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uh but uh smaller measures towards de facto uh independence china may move against them the prc
00:32:14.640
may move against them at the end of the day it doesn't matter what the what taiwan does or these
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steps the p the prc is going to invade taiwan they're going to attack taiwan uh and so we need americans
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need to recognize that and steve also as you noted 35th anniversary of tianemans square 35 years ago we
00:32:35.040
could have ejected these guys from power right we could have thrown the chinese communist party out
00:32:40.640
now 35 years later what are we dealing with right they're a militarily potent force who can credibly
00:32:47.360
threaten not just taiwan and u.s allies but the u.s itself a lot has changed in 35 years and not in our
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favor um you're absolutely correct we had every opportunity to throw them out let me turn to captain
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finnell it's also the 82nd commemoration anniversary of midway and so i want to connect these two uh
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captain finnell you know i was a naval officer when you were still in short pants but that's okay
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um a surface warfare officer before many years before you went to the academy um a lot of my colleagues who
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who many of whom became or some became admirals and a lot of captains and and real war fighters
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a lot of these folks say hey look the chinese such the pla situations you know bad we got to stay on
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top of it but if you look to midway you see that these guys will never they can't fight the ship and
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they particularly can't fight in today's complex combined arms naval warfare that they've just never
00:33:51.920
been in this type of hostile action and that changes everything and you need a navy that has that
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lineage and that showed in the imperial navy although with their victory over the russians in 1905
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they really didn't have they really weren't terrific in the tactics and particularly in the moment those
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decisions you have to make in that unforgiving minute that affect battles and midway is the example
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talk to me about midway the implications of what it shows about the imperial japanese navy
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and are is it analogous to today's people's liberation navy that may be overwhelming maybe
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huge like the the imperial japanese navy but you have people that have never had to what we call in
00:34:34.960
the navy fight the ship right steve well first of all i'm not a ring knocker so we got to clear that up
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um the uh oh my gosh now now i really love you now i really love you brother
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we love the academy we love the naval academy we do too but anyway uh the the lesson from midway
00:34:54.960
there's a couple of lessons uh the one that immediately for me is into my background of
00:35:00.000
intelligence is you know the battle of midway we almost lost it it wasn't it wasn't because the
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japanese were inferior uh war fighters or inferior in their navy as you're kind of suggesting i mean
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they have some substantial differences between us that eventually uh caused them to lose but they
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almost defeated us and it was only because of strategic intelligence and by a guy named commander
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joe rochefort who's stationed out there in oahu at station hypo at the radio intelligence unit that was
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basically broke from the leadership in washington dc after 7 december when we were you know a surprise
00:35:39.280
attack that killed thousands of people and he said i'm not going to follow the guidance from washington
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and listen and try to decode uh the imperial admiral's code from the imperial japanese navy i'm
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going to go listen to the operational codes and so from december 8th until the battle of midway his
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team down in the basement on uh on pearl harbor there they worked night and day 24 7 to break that
00:36:02.560
code so they could understand where the uh the japanese navy's striking force the keto butai was
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going and there was great disagreement inside the military inside the navy and the war department
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and they all you know some people thought they were going to the philippines some people thought they
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were going to alaska some thought they may come to back to hawaii some thought maybe the west coast
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uh but it was the guys in oahu that actually had the receipts as they say today they had the data
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that showed that it was going to be a midway and it was because of their hard work and not following
00:36:34.880
people in washington who were more concerned about careerism which is hard to believe in the war but
00:36:40.480
there was that and so uh that was the reason that we were able to make sure that we had our forces in
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position uh at midway our carriers and at the end of the battle the three-day battle you know they the
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japanese lost four carriers and we lost just one but it was so close and if we had not been
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pre-positioned if we had not had the search patterns and we had some luck and what we were able to find
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from the japanese fleet uh we could have lost and uh and so i think that's the first lesson the other
00:37:09.840
lesson is is that the japanese they went in with uh training of their aviators uh they were kind of
00:37:16.800
knights if you will they were bushido uh they were you know not they didn't have as many aviators as
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we did we had enlisted pilots that would fly we had everybody on our team that was trained to a
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minimum standard to be able to fight and win whereas the japanese focused their aviation on just a handful
00:37:35.040
relatively compared to the mass that the u.s was able to bring and so in a way the japanese uh were very
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fortunate uh or not fortunate that they lost at midway because if they had won there would have
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been nothing to stop them from coming to the west coast and then even even then uh you know they still
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had to fight a military on the u.s side that just had the mass and i think that's something that we don't
00:38:01.520
think about today so in terms of your specific question what did the japanese not have because
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they haven't had the experience how does that apply to the chinese today i think the chinese
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have mass today they're massing against us and so they're going to make up for uh what they don't
00:38:17.360
have an experience with mass and i would submit they are practicing in joint warfare and so while they
00:38:23.760
haven't had combat experience neither has the u.s navy and naval warfare since the battle of midway in
00:38:30.240
some ways when we've done some things but in relative terms the u.s pacific fleet the u.s navy
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hasn't engaged in naval warfare with a peer competitor for for a long long time and so
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i think we make it too much out of this comparison and we have to look at mass we have to look at the
00:38:49.360
numbers of people and numbers of ships the numbers of missiles and then we have to throw in they have
00:38:55.360
a deep deep uh drive to take taiwan this is a national obsession it's a nationalistic thing that they want to do
00:39:03.440
uh dr thayer i want to tell everybody where to get the book you guys are also working on some other
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stuff that we'll be able to announce hopefully pretty shortly um real quickly on the 35th uh
00:39:17.520
anniversary of tiananmen um where you have three quarters of the business establishment the financial
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establishment wants to have a hard re-engagement with the ccp what message would you have to allow
00:39:30.560
baxing you know we've got a massive audience that gets to the vpn to the mainland and to taiwan other
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places what message would you have to those folks on the 35th anniversary of the bloodshed of tiananmen
00:39:41.200
square the message is that we saw what the charity of the chinese communist party and that was identified
00:39:49.120
of course 35 years ago and it hasn't changed uh since that uh time so the message for the chinese
00:39:56.720
people is that there are people of goodwill uh who support you around the world who are working
00:40:02.000
assiduously uh in conjunction with uh friends and allies and people within of course the the uh people
00:40:09.440
of china uh themselves uh to overthrow this illegitimate and in essence colonial regime the soviets put
00:40:17.200
them in power there's nothing chinese about them uh and that needs to be recognized they're absolutely
00:40:23.200
illegitimate and they are uh a tyrannical communist regime as all communist regimes are it's time to
00:40:30.640
essentially uh close this chapter this horrible chapter in chinese history and open a new one
00:40:37.120
where china follows its own path uh informed by taiwan uh but also the greatness of its civilization
00:40:44.720
uh the greatness of its history uh to uh have a new form of government uh which is freed from communist
00:40:52.160
tyranny amen brother that's one of our our most important things i think we do here at the world
00:40:59.600
support lao baijing in their overthrow of these uh of these murderous dictators uh dr thayer where
00:41:07.280
where do you go to get the book that you and captain finnell wrote uh all your writings your joint uh
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these great essays you do uh op-eds over american greatness where do people go to get all of it
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and you wrote the foreword steve and we're very grateful to you for that uh amazon or wherever you
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buy books and then i met bradley thayer on getter bradley thayer at truth and brad thayer uh at x uh
00:41:28.000
thanks steve thank you very much thank you captain finnell just for our leave for 60 seconds because i
00:41:34.960
took it in your voice are you concerned now that we may not be on top of the intel the true intel about
00:41:41.840
the the uh the capabilities capacities and intentions of the ccp and pla slash pln in taiwan are you
00:41:50.800
concerned at all about that in the in the intelligence thing or you think we're as on top
00:41:54.400
of it as folks were in um at midway i think our folks out in hawaii and farther west in japan and
00:42:04.160
in the region are on it i always have questions and concerns about the folks in washington because
00:42:09.760
that's where things get politicized and as general matt has said this uh this week here up in monterey
00:42:15.040
you know our our victory our sustained uh as a nation our sustainment as a nation isn't guaranteed
00:42:22.240
we have to fight for it we have to work for it and china is coming for us and they have built the mass
00:42:27.760
they have built the capability and i still don't see people in washington waking up and saying that
00:42:32.720
this is seriously important and when they don't say that that has ripple on effects to our readiness
00:42:38.480
and our capabilities and we're seeing it reflected in our ships and our submarines and whatnot
00:42:46.080
amen brother i want everybody to get this book we'll push it out thank you guys
00:42:50.240
35th commemoration of um tenement square what have we learned ben harnwell this weekend of course i had uh
00:42:59.680
i had uh uh peter mckelvaney on today about nigel's amazing um rally it was almost particularly
00:43:07.760
for uk politics it was as trumpian as you could get on the size and scale of enthusiasm but this
00:43:13.680
weekend starts the european parliamentary elections we saw that modi came up short on his on not him
00:43:20.880
himself but at people and we turns out from dave ramaswamy dave ramaswamy tells us because they had
00:43:26.400
grassroots people that wanted to run and the the establishment party said no no no no no we want
00:43:31.200
establishment people is this what what lessons are we taking walk us through give us a tour de horizon
00:43:38.240
on what we're going to see this weekend with the european parliamentary elections particularly
00:43:43.440
the rise of the populist sovereignty nationalist right well with regards to moji's victory i couldn't
00:43:51.040
help but note having won a third victory the obviously as a populist nationalist himself one
00:43:57.120
of the original ones i think along with victor orban in hungary so the world's uh mainstream media
00:44:03.040
opinion reported this victory um that's not bad going is it no three consecutive victories say well
00:44:10.800
this time he hasn't got the landslide victory and that he was hoping for um which i think is somewhat
00:44:16.720
missing the point the point is is that if you run a government successfully and competently
00:44:22.160
along populist nationalist lines you will be returned to office um victor orban himself as a
00:44:28.160
comparison has has now clocked up four landslide victories on exactly the same thing that i think
00:44:34.000
really ought to be the message um and of course that pivots steve right away into the european elections
00:44:39.520
which you're talking about which i think start on on the 6th of june and run on um to the 9th because
00:44:44.960
of course different member states will have elections on different days um look i i'm looking
00:44:51.040
at this you can see right now here in italy for example in the uk it's they're panicking and you
00:44:56.800
know that they're panicking that they're the mainstream center-right governments uh because
00:45:02.320
with days to go they're now talking like an opposition right they're not standing on their records
00:45:08.400
they're saying if we win we're going to tighten we're going to do something about immigration like as
00:45:13.440
as if they haven't been in power for years right um will it be successful i don't think so um i'm
00:45:20.400
going to have great fun breaking down the results when they come through and analyzing them uh really
00:45:25.840
however i have to say to some extent even though we're just now under the shadow of this election
00:45:30.240
steve i have to say that what the press call that the far right that the alt right the non-establishment
00:45:38.000
right it does need to get its acts together to some degree um they've made a few um mr their own
00:45:46.960
goals right a few uh mistakes that they should not have done on on on unforced on tell us about the
00:45:53.760
unforced errors what unforced errors well look you know i've got to come back and hit this thing about
00:45:59.440
about maximilian kra uh in the afd um you know we we did we did cover this very very briefly i think
00:46:07.920
we wanted to come back to it as well um this is the guy who said that basically the ss um in in the
00:46:15.840
second world war was basically comprised of farmers like i think he said like 90 000 farmers that had been
00:46:22.080
dragged in across the country and you can't treat every single ss officer as a criminal he said i want to know
00:46:28.160
what each and every individual ss officer did and before saying that they were criminal now of
00:46:34.880
course to say that now i'm not going to get even into the merits of of his argument um but to say this
00:46:41.120
a couple of weeks before the european elections is i it's full foolish steve it's foolish because you
00:46:47.520
know the consequences that the mainstream media are going to do and they're going to smoke out some
00:46:52.640
politicians who've been pitching themselves as non-establishment right um who are then going
00:46:59.760
to desperately pivot to the center which i think to some degree is is is what marine le pen has done
00:47:07.120
having said all of this steve there were some local elections in germany um just the weekend before
00:47:13.600
last where in in thuringia where um where the afd which was everyone was expecting it to collapse
00:47:19.840
uh actually pulled something like 27 out of the hat um and the cdu uh i think was like a percent ahead
00:47:29.280
of them the cdu vote had fallen the fd the afds had had risen so its vote is still one in four right
00:47:37.360
and its vote has still held up even though um marine le pen uh agitating and successfully agitating to have
00:47:46.320
the um the afd kicked out of the independence and democracy grouping in the european parliament has
00:47:52.720
been a sort of as it has discredited to them let's put it like that the the wider result we're going to
00:47:58.800
see um um after the elections most independent commentators seem to be suggesting that the the king
00:48:07.920
maker uh in terms of the the power groupings and the horse tradings that will emerge after the
00:48:14.240
elections because of course until then no one really knows what the arithmetic is going to be
00:48:18.240
and it is all of it get the horse trading is all a game of arithmetic the king maker is going to be
00:48:23.200
georgia maloney um that's that's presumed given the the various ideological uh um
00:48:31.680
for well the press this morning the press this morning say it's gonna it's gonna be it's gonna be
00:48:35.760
a partnership between le pen and maloney is gonna set the the basically the right the far right and the
00:48:43.200
right uh in in a power position to actually rule in brussels do you buy that steve i have to come
00:48:52.640
back to what i said it will all you know it's not georgia maloney's decision it's not marine le pen's
00:48:58.960
decision um i would definitely throw victor alban into this mix whose current delegation the european
00:49:05.280
parliament isn't in the line uh with any political grouping since he was kicked out of the christian the
00:49:10.720
the center right christian democratic grouping the european people's party which is the largest group
00:49:16.000
um it's none of their decisions i'll tell you whose decision is it's going to be the european peoples
00:49:21.760
uh of the 27 member states it's going to be their decision as to who's going to be power breaker who's
00:49:27.840
a king maker who's going to go up who's going to go down it's individual voters what's going to happen
00:49:32.960
after that is um they are steve they are all vying they are all sort of putting out feelers rubbing up
00:49:40.560
against one another uh trying to strengthen their alliances uh so that when the horse trading does take
00:49:47.200
place afterwards i have to say this which i wouldn't necessarily said a month ago i think ursula von
00:49:52.480
the lion could be in difficulty now um as she seeks a second mandate as president of the european
00:50:01.040
commission but again let's see how the votes uh it will be huge steve it will be huge but it will be
00:50:05.920
very much deserved yeah we'll be drilled we'll drill down on these individual because it's all about the
00:50:12.320
muscle people bring uh ben where they get to your social media and you're in the tremendous engagement
00:50:18.480
you get on getter thanks steve uh my social media platform of choice is getter uh as you just
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correctly said and folks if you want to tap in my surname harnwell into the search box either in the
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app or on getter.com you'll you'll find my posts waiting for your perusal thanks steve thanks so much
00:50:39.520
god bless thank you i'm always honored to repost those because it's so great and you get such i'm
00:50:45.360
jealous of your engagement but hey what can i do i can only support you um thanks steve
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