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00:17:36.000I come from a long line of people that have served in the military, both my grandfathers and all enlisted, with the exception of my two brothers.
00:17:48.000But my grandfather served in World War I, both of them.
00:17:53.000One of those grandfathers served in World War I and World War II. My father served in World War II, served in the Korean War.
00:17:59.000I had a brother that served during the Vietnam era, myself or my other brother, Charlie, who's still serving.
00:18:08.000And my son have all served in every single war since really the late 1970s.
00:18:16.000I grew up in Rhode Island, state of Rhode Island, nine brothers and sisters, a great family, great mother and father, tough, tough Irish family.
00:18:25.000I decided to join the Army because that's what my father did, and my father retired as a mass sergeant out of the Army.
00:19:38.000And I actually served there from the time I was a second lieutenant to a brigadier general.
00:19:43.000So I was in operational assignments, deployed a lot, deployed to Central America, deployed to the Middle East, deployed to East Africa, deployed to the Pacific in places like Korea and other places out in the Pacific, deployed to Central Asia.
00:20:00.000I have not only about 30, almost 34 years in the Army, but I have five of those years are in combat, direct combat, primarily with airborne and special operations units.
00:20:47.000And so I had a good life, blessed life.
00:20:52.000I decided to go in the military, and as I rose through the ranks, you know, in the officer ranks from second lieutenant until I retired as the three-star lieutenant general, my last military assignment was as the senior intelligence officer for the Department of Defense.
00:21:12.000So I was heading up an organization called the Defense Intelligence Agency.
00:21:16.000It's one of the largest intel agencies in the world.
00:21:20.000And I was, you know, blessed to be chosen for that.
00:21:28.000Yeah, and I also, I had a couple of really critical jobs.
00:21:33.000I was the assistant director of national intelligence for, the subtitle was for partner engagement where I was responsible for all intelligence relationships internationally.
00:21:44.000And domestically, specifically domestically for all federal, state, and local.
00:21:50.000So I was actually, I traveled around the country quite a bit with a lot of the joint task forces that we have in our country.
00:21:56.000You know, your background with HSI. HSI, you know, fits into some of those task forces for different things, different reasons, you know, certainly the investigation side.
00:22:08.000I spent a lot of times, a lot of time You know, a third of my career worrying about the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union and all that.
00:22:15.000And then the remainder, the next two big sections of my career, we were engaged in the Balkans and then the Middle East started to draw us in.
00:22:24.000And then, of course, after 9-11, I got fully enmeshed in the war on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency.
00:22:31.000And that's when I went into the world of special operations.
00:22:34.000And really tried to help to perfect the intelligence craft to be able to go after the enemies, right?
00:22:42.000I mean, you know, capturing and killing, you know, that's what happens in war.
00:22:48.000Many of the most ruthless terrorists that we, at the time that I was serving, that we were facing around the world.
00:22:55.000And, you know, and that was my mission.
00:22:57.000That was my mission as the head of intelligence for...
00:23:00.000Many, many people and many different types of organizations to go after some of these people, high-end guys.
00:23:06.000Like, you know, you always hear a guy like Trump saying, we got al-Baghdadi, you know, we killed him like a dog.
00:23:11.000Well, there was a lot of al-Baghdadis before him, before, you know, that guy, the head of ISIS at the time.
00:23:18.000You know, we were going after the heads of al-Qaeda, you know, bin Laden and Zarqawi were two of the big names.
00:23:24.000So I, you know, I KSM, these types of guys.
00:23:48.000I just worried about our mission, worried about the people that were part of my organizations.
00:23:53.000I led some of these organizations and I was a key member, a key staff member, because the intelligence officer is right there in everything.
00:24:02.000I worked for presidents dating back to Jimmy Carter, so I've been around a while.
00:24:09.000It's a lot of different administrations.
00:24:11.000Yeah, and so definitely with the war on terror, so to speak, in these last 20 years, these last 25 years, I guess almost, where the Bush-Cheney administration, I was deeply involved there where we did a lot of briefings to them, for them, in support of them, and we can talk about that because I am not a fan at all.
00:24:32.000And then, of course, the transition into the Obama administration where he picked me, Barack Obama, and it comes out in the movie, And people can stream it from YouTube.
00:24:58.000Chose me for two really critical assignments.
00:25:02.000One was as Assistant Director of National Intelligence, and the other was as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which I just touched on both of those a second ago.
00:25:12.000And I was working with I was working with some of these, you know, the likely suspects that we bring out in the movie but also that we're dealing with right now and certainly in the Trump administration early on we dealt with.
00:25:25.000So the names like Jim Clapper, Director of National Intelligence under Obama.
00:25:30.000John Brennan, Director of the CIA. Jim Comey, Director of the FBI. Sally Yates, who was the Deputy Attorney General for the United States for the Department of Justice, and then she became the Acting Attorney General during that transition between Obama and Trump.
00:25:50.000Susan Rice, just like I'm sitting with you, Myron, I sat with Susan Rice many times to do a transition, you know, to do a turnover of the government from one national security adviser to another.
00:26:01.000It's not easy to do because it's an enormous amount of information that needs to get pushed over.
00:26:05.000And you're talking about the United States of America.
00:26:07.000At the time, we're involved in all kinds of wars.
00:26:10.000And I always tell people that, and for your audience, because you've got a different audience and a great audience, actually...
00:26:18.000You know, so as a general, as a guy in the army, and I'm talking about all this military stuff, I'm actually very anti-war.
00:26:25.000I always tell people, I always sort of precisely more define that by saying I'm anti-stupid war.
00:26:31.000And we're involved in a lot of stupid wars right now.
00:26:34.000I mean, if somebody, you know, comes up and punches you in the face like they did on 9-11, there should be a consequence to that.
00:26:41.000There should be an accounting for that.
00:26:46.000Since World War II, since the end of World War II, we have participated in a dozen wars, and we have not, and I use that word precisely, participate.
00:26:57.000We have not won since World War II. We've had some skirmishes and some battles, like a desert shield, desert storm, where we, you know, the 100-hour war, and you look at what that got us, right?
00:27:41.000But, you know, the idea is that There's this establishment military-industrial complex that exists in Washington, D.C. President Eisenhower warned us about it.
00:27:52.000I talk about this in the film and Eisenhower warned in his last speech to the United States after eight years in the military, he sits there and warns us.
00:28:03.000The guy that ends up taking over from him John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy Jr., who everybody's gotten to know, JFK, he basically is going to take on this complex.
00:28:14.000That was one of his things, especially the CIA, and he ends up getting killed for it.
00:28:19.000So they assassinated him for it, and they feared him because he became president of the United States, and he knew exactly what he wanted to do.
00:28:27.000And they knew he was going to go after them.
00:28:46.000So we made this movie over a year ago, and it finally came out a few months ago before these assassination attempts on Trump.
00:28:55.000And so in the movie, I address this business about assassinations because these are very real.
00:29:01.000Our government, you know, I'll get screamed at for disinformation, but I'm sorry.
00:29:08.000I mean, these are real things that people get involved in, and...
00:29:13.000And so I address this in the film, and then I take people through kind of where we are now.
00:29:19.000And I think where we are now, where we are right now, right here and now, as I sit here with you, Myron, we are in the throes of a takeover.
00:29:29.000And the takeover, the battle that we are facing, You know, and I can get into the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical, all those domains, but the real battle that we are facing is kind of a cognitive warfare, I call it.
00:30:00.000I'm here because you have a great, honest, authentic approach to how you do your presentations in here and how you discuss and how you relate with your audience, your great audience.
00:30:11.000You've got a beautiful audience, big audience.
00:30:13.000And I think that And a lot of them aren't aware of a lot of this stuff.
00:30:17.000A lot of younger guys that are trying to get laid or trying to make some more money, etc.
00:30:22.000But I think it's very important to understand geopolitical ramifications, understanding what's going on in politics, understanding the deep state, understanding how American politics works.
00:30:36.000And obviously we went through your career, obviously a very decorated military past.
00:30:40.000Real quick, because you mentioned that you had been all over the place.
00:30:43.000With South America, what were you doing over there?
00:30:45.000This, I'm assuming, is in the 80s, probably, right?
00:31:17.000It's kind of like what we've heard, you know, sort of weapons for drugs and then moving weapons from different organizations in Central America and then how Iran played in.
00:31:31.000So there was a big connection between...
00:31:34.000The forces and the insurgents in Central America to defeat one communist element, and then the sort of the drugs for arms trade that was going on.
00:31:47.000And, you know, that's where, like Ollie North, for those that even remember, you know, Ollie, I do, and I've met him, and I actually think he's a good man.
00:31:54.000And he was brought up, you know, he was sort of sucked into it all as a member of the National Security Council working under the President Reagan administration.
00:32:02.000So it was a it was a, you know, drugs for arms, arms for drugs.
00:32:06.000And there was a relationship between different factions, our government, the Iranian, you know, the Iranian government at the time and others who were in the market and black market of moving arms and then bringing CIA, big part of it.
00:32:22.000and then bringing drugs back into the United States.
00:32:42.000I mean, we're planning things like, you know, coups.
00:32:45.000We're planning to take over countries.
00:32:47.000But my early time, I was a platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division, put on the ground in Honduras, in eastern Honduras, in a place called Puerto Limpira.
00:33:00.000And the name of the exercise was Agustada, which means, I think, pine tree.
00:33:07.000And we were way, way over on the eastern shore.
00:33:10.000And then we tucked ourselves into the border.
00:33:12.000And so we were doing border operations at that time.
00:33:15.000Were you guys targeting, like, narco traffickers?
00:33:19.000But we were also doing collection missions.
00:33:21.000We were doing reconnaissance and surveillance-type missions.
00:33:24.000And also, you know, at that time we called it Electronic Warfare Signals Intelligence Collection.
00:33:30.000So we were there actually doing intelligence operations along the border to help the CIA and our government gather evidence and gather information on the Sandinistas.
00:34:20.000He actually worked out of Miami when he was a younger sergeant.
00:34:26.000When the Mariel Boatlift, he was an interrogator.
00:34:28.000So he was drafted by the agency to go work, drafted out of the Army, went and worked there.
00:34:34.000So really tough guys from Oxnard, California.
00:34:37.000I don't know if you get anybody from Oxnard, California, but Oxnard, California is a tough place out there in L.A. And he was a Mexican, really good guy.
00:35:11.000And that was my introduction into a deployment that was...
00:35:16.000It sort of crossed between a peace-keeping type mission, although I'm not sure we were keeping any peace, and combat operations because of where we were operating on the border, literally on the border, and setting up the kinds of things that we Set up for collection.
00:35:38.000And we also had aviation operations that were part of it.
00:35:42.000We had a security force that was part of it.
00:35:45.000So it was a fascinating introduction for me because from that point, you know, I was also involved in Grenada.
00:35:53.000So people that will forget about, you know, Grenada was another thing.
00:35:56.000Most people, maybe most of your audience, you know, weren't even born then.
00:36:00.000But I went to, I deployed to Grenada, as Mo will understand.
00:36:44.000This was in the 80s, and we actually fought the Cubans at that point in time.
00:36:49.000Some good friends of mine got wounded, and that was really the first exposure for me where I came off of the plane when we came in to the airfield, and that was the first time that I had actually seen our guys in body bags being backloaded.
00:37:58.000You do live fires, you're getting on helicopters, you're jumping out of airplanes.
00:38:02.000But that was the first time when it was like an enemy was now there to try to oppose you and kill you.
00:38:08.000And they had successfully killed a few.
00:38:10.000And we ended up getting them out of that island.
00:38:13.000Would you say the military strategy, and I kind of want to bring this full circle, for the United States back in the 80s was counter-drug, counter-communism.
00:38:20.000Let's keep this stuff at bay, collect information on these guys.
00:38:42.000You know, which was primarily America, our partners in Europe, Australia, some partners out in the Pacific, like the Republic of Korea, South Korea, Japan, and versus the Warsaw Pact, right, which was all of Eastern Europe from East Germany all the way, you know, to Moscow, right?
00:39:02.000So that was kind of the big competition.
00:39:04.000And what we were doing in our hemisphere We were stopping the rise of communism in our hemisphere.
00:39:12.000So the Reagan doctrine, what they called it, the Reagan doctrine, was to prevent wherever communism raised its head, Reagan's intent was to stop it.
00:39:22.000So whether it was in The Caribbean, whether it was in Central America or whether it was down in South America.
00:39:28.000And a lot of times we were directly involved.
00:39:31.000The United States was directly involved in helping to overthrow governments in South America that were communist.
00:39:37.000And certainly in Central America because it...
00:39:39.000And as I just mentioned, Grenada and there were other places.
00:39:43.000The Dominican Republic is another place and that's all changed.
00:39:50.000In that part of the world when Reagan came into office and his goal for his period of time was essentially to crush communism in our hemisphere and turn these countries over to where people are voting, right?
00:41:09.000I mean, Bolsonaro is a good guy, was bringing in, really bringing back in democracy and opening it up to the rest of the world, opening it up to capitalism and basically in freedom.
00:41:20.000They're actually talking about arresting him now.
00:41:22.000I saw that about a month ago, and I sort of lost a bubble on that.
00:41:26.000But I've been in touch with people and senior leaders and serious leaders in South America who are still in these democratic stronghold nations.
00:41:39.000And one of the things that they're looking forward to is if we could get our country back, because to bring this thing full circle, we are now...
00:41:48.000We're now kind of flipped on its head where we had a country of political people that were always fighting communists.
00:41:56.000The communist infiltration into the United States government, and this is real, you know, you don't want to believe me, fine, but trust me, what I say is what I believe, and it's because it's not only...
00:42:07.000You know, long experience, but I have, you know, this is my life.
00:42:13.000National Security of this country is my life.
00:42:15.000I get up in the morning early and I read executive orders or I read planning documents, you know, and I'm not a big athlete.
00:42:42.000And what happens is the people that we continue to vote for, and this is why for your audience this really...
00:42:51.000You know, I want your audience to understand how important voting is.
00:42:54.000I mean, God, we've had, you know, hundreds of thousands of men and, you know, young, primarily young men and women, primarily young men who have been, who have given their lives to this country over so many, you know, two and a half centuries, right?
00:43:17.000You know, I say if we want to make America great again and we want to make America healthy again, we got to make America vote again.
00:43:24.000And so you got to get out there and vote.
00:43:26.000And so, you know, I want people to understand that we are now facing a socialist takeover And to take it back to the film, the specific date that I can point to, and I talk about it in the film, is the 5th of January of 2017, 5 January 2017, in the Oval Office, a meeting led by Barack Obama.
00:43:54.000And they, and during that meeting, and I talk about this in detail in the film, during that meeting they talked about they had to get rid of Flynn in order to get rid of Trump.
00:44:23.000Speaking of Obama, we talked about the 80s, obviously fighting communism, which ironically enough now we are becoming what we fought against in the 80s.
00:44:32.00090s, we get into the Middle Eastern affairs with Desert Storm, etc.
00:44:40.000Yeah, and you spent, before we get into Obama, because I want to ask you this, and I really want to bring attention to this for the audience, too.
00:44:47.000You're one of the few people that were operational at a high level in the military.
00:44:52.000You weren't one of these guys that were going back and forth between D.C., doing the tours, etc.
00:44:56.000You were actually out there, on the ground, running operations, being operational, in combat, real time, in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:45:04.000And to that, I want to say thank you for your service.
00:47:41.000And no matter what we did, we did it really well.
00:47:44.000The units that I've been in and anybody that's ever served with me, You know, and that's the thing, like all this craziness that they'll, you know, I was the most Googled name in the world for two years during the time that I was persecuted.
00:50:12.000I mean, I had, at the time, we did interrogations of prisoners that we captured, and we would capture guys just to get information.
00:50:20.000We would capture, we would go after their communications.
00:50:22.000We would go after their thumb drives, their phones.
00:50:25.000We wanted anything that we could to investigate where this guy and how he operated.
00:50:31.000And that's a whole, that's a show in itself that actually talked about that particular operation the night we killed him because we ran 36 operations.
00:50:39.000The night we killed him, that night we ran 36 raids, combat raids that night.
00:50:49.000And we wanted to break apart this network.
00:50:52.000But that Nick Berg video was something that struck me and other guys in our team.
00:50:57.000And we committed to not only making Zarqawi our number one target to go after because he was part of that video, but we wanted to get all four guys that did that.
00:51:09.000Because this was a brutal way that they were trying to psyop us and to try to put fear into U.S. soldiers.
00:51:37.000And I did, and it was, you know, disgusting, but in order to understand the culture and the mindset, so, you know, the bottom line of those four is all of them were either captured or killed.
00:51:49.000So we made it a point to go after every single one of them to hold them to account for what they did to that young man who did not deserve that.
00:52:01.000To this day, I get emotional thinking about it because that was really one of the first—it wasn't the first beheading that I had seen on a video.
00:52:08.000I've seen some other really gruesome things, and we've captured people or killed people that this is what they do.
00:52:50.000And one of the things, you know, that I remember us telling him, Was that, yep, we feel good that this is a mission that we accomplished, but this thing is far from over.
00:53:22.000Iraq was probably the biggest strategic failure so far, I think, in the 21st century.
00:53:32.000Now, we're into the third decade of the 21st century.
00:53:34.000I absolutely think, and I believe strongly, with good evidence, and I can talk to you all day about this, that it was a massive, massive failure in decision-making at the highest levels of the U.S. government policy.
00:53:46.000And, of course, that's George Bush, the president at the time, Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Cheney, and there were others.
00:53:54.000Huge, huge mistake for us to go into Iraq.
00:53:57.000We could have easily just sanctioned the crap out of Saddam.
00:54:02.000Hell, if they wanted to go in there and assassinate him, they could have assassinated him, but it wouldn't have gotten anybody better.
00:55:21.000I mean, I always will treat people really well because I appreciate honesty and I appreciate...
00:55:26.000If you sit around in a big table, I mean, I've had jobs, you know, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, I'd have a staff meeting and my staff would be like 25 people, right?
00:55:36.000All sitting around a big oak table, right?
00:55:39.000I mean, it's the headquarters in Washington, D.C. And I would cherish those backbenchers when I would say, okay, we're about to make a big decision here.
00:55:47.000Is this what we want to do to everybody?
00:55:50.000And, of course, you just kind of know who the ass-kissers are.
00:55:54.000But then some little young government servant in the back row would raise their hand and go, oh, sir, I think this is pretty stupid.
00:56:01.000And I'd be like, oh, my God, I want to hug that person.
00:56:07.000For any of you that grew up, and I grew up, you know, with the story of the emperor has no clothes, right?
00:56:13.000And, you know, the emperor's riding through town on the back of a horse with no clothes on, and it finally gets to the end, and some little kid says, hey, man, you don't got any clothes on, and the emperor gets embarrassed, right, because nobody else wanted to tell the emperor they didn't have any clothes on.
00:56:26.000And that's what happens when you get higher and higher and more senior in rank, is you have all these people around you that want to tell you what they think you want to know, instead of telling you what you need to know.
00:57:07.000Do you think we needed to also go into Afghanistan, or do you think that was also a colossal failure as well?
00:57:13.000And the way we pulled out of Afghanistan.
00:57:14.000I could comment on that as well, once your opinion is on that.
00:57:16.000Yeah, so I, you know, for those, so we went into Afghanistan with the right intentions, but the wrong, and this is, you know, this is a little bit of quarterbacking.
00:57:30.000I'm Monday morning quarterbacking here a bit, you know, so people understand that.
00:57:37.000The Monday morning quarterbacking is that, When I look back at it, because I was in Afghanistan, God, I used to say I lived in Iraq and I vacationed in Afghanistan.
00:57:51.000I was over there for almost three and a half years straight.
00:57:55.000So you guys got rid of Zarqawi and then Afghanistan?
00:57:58.000I was in Afghanistan before Zarqawi even came on the scene.
00:58:02.000I had been deployed to Afghanistan early on.
00:59:00.000You know, when that whole story comes out, and if you really dig in bits and pieces, it's so ugly from a U.S. intelligence community perspective, the failures, really, the failures.
00:59:13.000And, folks, what I'm telling you is we do have good people in our country and parts of our government.
00:59:19.000But the culture of some of these organizations at the very top is where it really gets set up, you know, gets set in, right?
01:00:04.000And I was asked, well, how many enemy are we facing here?
01:00:07.000We've been told that there's only a few enemy left in Afghanistan, that everybody's out, you know, everybody's been killed or captured or whatever.
01:00:13.000And I said, at the time, this was like May, I said, well, yeah, and I knew the numbers that we had, you know, captured or killed at the time, and it was small numbers.
01:00:23.000And I said, yeah, there might be, you know, we may be facing 10,000, you know, spread across the southern and eastern part of Of Afghanistan.
01:00:32.000But I said, but there's 500,000, just like this, just like I'm pointing right now to the media.
01:00:37.000I said, there's 500,000 of them across the border in Pakistan, and that's going to be our problem.
01:00:43.000And I remember specifically giving a presentation to some leadership that came out of Washington, D.C., Who told us, don't start doing, don't start building things here because we're not going to be here for a long time.
01:00:55.000And I was like looking at him and I'm looking at him.
01:01:03.000And I told him that the greatest threat that we're going to face is information.
01:01:07.000And the information operations that these people are so good at, because Afghanistan, you know, they call it the graveyard of empires, right?
01:01:16.000The British Empire, the Soviet Empire, and now the American Empire.
01:01:21.000So you asked me about the retreat, really.
01:01:24.000I call it the retreat from Afghanistan.
01:01:57.000We are much better than that as a military.
01:02:00.000And for our military leaders, the four stars, the two stars, the generals, the admirals that were in charge of that mess, they should resign if they're not already resigned.
01:02:13.000I'm not going to sit here and say that they should be court-martialed, because they're following the orders of their civilian masters, and the orders were just absolutely insane.
01:02:22.000So we could have left in a much calmer, in a much more organized manner.
01:02:30.000People have died and are seriously wounded because of the complete debacle, frankly caused by a guy who has dementia.
01:03:27.000Whether or not we, you know, spend billions of dollars in Ukraine or billions of dollars in the Middle East or going elsewhere around the world, the number one priority is to provide for the safety and protection of the people of the United States of America, period.
01:03:41.000And here we are with this maddening, you know, invasion that's going on.
01:03:47.000And I know you've got fentanyl problems.
01:03:49.000We're here in your studio in Miami here.
01:04:39.000And what they're doing, because it's here too, right here in this city, what they're doing is in the past year they've added a little bit more horse tranquilizer to the ingredients, so it's really powerful.
01:04:51.000So I call it killed in action because that's a military term for somebody who dies on the battlefield.
01:04:55.000So the battlefield of America right now on our streets, we have over 200,000 killed in action.
01:05:00.000And we have hundreds of thousands wounded in action, another military term, wounded in action.
01:05:07.000Fentanyl is a Chinese designed and made and then introduced through the drug cartels of Mexico.
01:05:15.000And then they work with their counterparts in various criminal cartels here in the country, whether it's MS-13 or Russian cartels or Chinese cartels that are here on the streets of America, all over.
01:05:28.000I mean, this isn't, again, this isn't just Eagle Pass, Texas.
01:06:16.000So, in war, in warfare, we have something called wargaming.
01:06:21.000And so if you wargame out this question, which is a great question, and I'm not sure that it's being done to the degree that I would impose on our Department of Defense.
01:06:32.000But you have an action, a reaction, and a counteraction.
01:06:36.000So if I say, I'm going to do this, what are the reactions that you might do?
01:06:41.000So you go back and forth with these scenarios.
01:06:42.000So your reaction is going to be X. It's like a football.
01:06:46.000It's like we're in football season right now.
01:07:07.000So right now, as I wargame out what's happening in the Middle East, I gave you that sort of analogy because I want people to understand how I think and how those of us who are in this world of Of warfare, which I have a master's degree in both physically because I've experienced it, but also I have a master's degree in it.
01:08:39.000So if that's the action by Israel into Iran, then what is the reaction, right?
01:08:46.000Like the football analogy, what's the reaction of the Iranians back into Israel?
01:08:50.000Do they launch another 400 or 500 missiles, right?
01:08:54.000And then what's Israel's counteraction?
01:08:56.000Because I just said, and I want people to take this one away, this is about survival for Israel and the state of Israel.
01:09:04.000That's a really good point that you mentioned, because if you look at their escalations, whether it was the Pagers exploding, invading Lebanon, the amount of strikes they've done into Beirut, into Gaza, yeah, I guess that's a good way to put it, because they've been escalating at an unprecedented level.
01:10:12.000Now, the military guys, and you're going to hear political people go, well, it's tactical nukes, tactical nukes.
01:10:19.000Tactical nukes have more devastation than the atomic bombs that we dropped on Japan during World War II to end the fight, at least in the Pacific.
01:10:36.000We're in a really very, very dangerous time and it's leading into a very important, the most historically consequential election in our nation's history because if we don't get this one right, we go down the path of socialism where we become the United Socialist States of America.
01:10:55.000America with socialist characteristics instead of the United States of America, which is what I think all these people out here in the beautiful streets of Miami and elsewhere around this country want to continue to have all these freedoms.
01:11:23.000We don't have it in the vice president.
01:11:25.000We don't have it in the various departments.
01:11:27.000Our Secretary of State, our Secretary of Defense, I mean, when I see them operating around the world, I'm like, oh my God, it's embarrassing.
01:11:37.000You know, we need calm, measured, smart, and then shrewd and savvy.
01:11:46.000I mean, it's like playing cards, you know?
01:11:47.000I mean, I said early on in this interview that I grew up in the boys' club system, right?
01:11:53.000And, you know, you would go there—I'd go there with, like, nothing in my pocket, and I'd walk out with $5.
01:11:58.000And this is back in the—you know, this is back in, like, the— Late 60s and early 70s as a kid because I'd get dropped off or I'd walk there after school, you know?
01:12:06.000So, you know, you learn to play cards, right?
01:12:46.000You know, the drug cartels talk about Chinese influence in not only the drug trade, but also the, you know, the political behavior of our country.
01:12:54.000You know, we've talked about the physical wars that we are clearly involved in in the Middle East.
01:13:01.000We have you know, we're providing them not only Hundreds of billions of dollars, both places, both those locations, but all kinds of weapons systems.
01:13:11.000Hell, we're paying, the American taxpayer is paying for the entire war in the Middle East.
01:13:15.000We're giving billions of dollars to Iran.
01:13:17.000Iran has taken that money, given it to Hezbollah, given it to Hamas, given it to the Houthis.
01:13:22.000And we're also giving money to Israel.
01:13:24.000Because we unfroze their billions, didn't we?
01:16:22.000Right now, the numbers of military on the ground in North Carolina is like around 2,000 maybe, and there's more private organizations.
01:16:33.000I'm on a call every morning and every night with updates, and we're moving everything.
01:16:39.000We're moving everything from hygiene products, medical supplies, generators, The mountains up there right now at nighttime, they drop down into the low 30s.
01:16:50.000It's not raining up there right now, but every night it's freezing.
01:16:54.000And so there's people up there with nothing.
01:17:21.000And trust me that the money that goes into that account is going directly to support, whether it's to buy food or supplies, pay for gas, pay for generators, pay for sleeping bags.
01:17:33.000That's where tech dollars should be going, there, not billions of dollars in foreign aid.
01:17:37.000We're having to do this when we're paying billions of dollars overseas.
01:17:43.000Let me ask you this, because I know we're short for time here soon.
01:17:47.000Let's say Trump gets into office and he hires you as National Security Advisor again.
01:17:51.000How would you end the wars in Ukraine and in Israel?
01:17:55.000Yeah, so the first thing is you've got to know what your abilities are as a nation.
01:18:02.000In our case, with the right leadership and the right positions, particularly financially and economically, because we can shut down a lot of things.
01:18:12.000The United States of America is so powerful economically.
01:19:54.000Sort of throw some cards down on the table, that stick, if you will, right before the carrot, that says, we are willing to use this stick in such a powerful way that if you don't come to this table and you don't sit here and negotiate what we think we need to do, then here's the consequence.
01:20:18.000So there's a strength that comes with leadership.
01:20:21.000And it comes with demonstrated courage.
01:20:23.000It comes with demonstrated, you know, calculation.
01:20:27.000So it's not like you're just going, like they're going to blame, you know, the media will blame, you know, corporate media in this country will blame Trump and say he's a crazy man, he's going to start World War III. Trump never got us involved in any wars at all.
01:21:58.000Pray for these people because I was briefed this morning and they just found a child Wandering around in one of the small enclaves up there, half-naked, freezing, but survived.
01:22:23.000But it takes the United States of America with the right leader to sit there.
01:22:29.000And part of it is, this is one of the strengths of Trump.
01:22:34.000Would you say that we need to allow Russia to keep that 20% that they've already taken at this point?
01:22:39.000I think the people in those Donbasses, they call them provinces, states, if you will, I actually think that those people have to be given a choice to throw it on the table and vote.
01:22:53.000Do you want to stay with Russia or And I believe, because we've already seen one of these occurrences take place during the time that Biden's been in office, where they did that.
01:23:04.000And they actually voted, because most of those people are Russians, when they split up of Ukraine and the Warsaw Pact.
01:23:11.000So that, to me, would be on the table for them.
01:23:16.000And I actually believe that if it was presented correctly and done transparently, I actually think that Putin would go, okay.
01:23:25.000I think he would, because I don't think that he fears what those people want.
01:23:32.000Most of them are probably going to want to be with Russia anyway.
01:23:33.000Yeah, because that's their native, it's not just their native tongue, it's their native culture.
01:23:39.000So, you know, a lot of this, and we could do two more hours of nothing but the Budapest Accords in 1994, which we had, you know, we had four leaders sit at that table And one of them was Gorbachev, Bush, Mitterrand, and Thatcher, okay?
01:24:28.000You watch the movie about what my brother Jack said, and he's right.
01:24:33.000So what I am is I'm all about peace and trying to figure out how to get out of this mess that we're in.
01:24:42.000What we need right now in this country is we need a really, really strong leader.
01:24:46.000The one funny thing about Trump And I could be his worst nightmare, actually, because I could have turned on him, but I didn't, because there was nothing there.
01:24:57.000But one of the things about Trump, one of his leadership traits, and this is kind of, if you really understand the art of the deal, this is a guy that uses uncertainty to his advantage, okay?
01:25:10.000So he makes action, reaction, counteraction, right?
01:25:13.000So he makes the other side of the line uncertain about what it's going to do.
01:25:20.000So they have to have all kinds of options, right?
01:25:23.000I mean, you got to, you know, the middle linebacker, the deep safety, he's got to, like, be really good, best in the league if you're going to deal with a guy like Trump.
01:26:09.000So, guys, we'll probably have to do a part two on this because I wanted to talk about the Obama administration and stuff like that, but we ran out of time.
01:26:17.000So, General Flynn, can you tell the people where they can find you?
01:27:41.000Actually, watch it, so when I bring it back the second time, you guys are going to understand what we're going to talk about when we talk about the Obamas and the people that betrayed him and the sickness of the deep state.