Russia is reshaping the battlefield in Ukraine, Biden's former doctor testifies before Congress, and China is being told to stop buying U.S. farmland. Plus, an assassination attempt on the White House, and much more.
00:03:16.240We're talking about the Donetsk region.
00:03:18.660Of course, in the Kharkov region, massive, third largest city in Ukraine after Kiev and Odessa.
00:03:25.420And right there on the border with Russia, this industrial powerhouse, almost the Detroit, if you will, of Ukraine,
00:03:32.460where the Russian army is now pounding along that oblast down towards, of course, their target, the Dnepr River.
00:03:41.160And then this also happening while the op tempo is starting to increase.
00:03:47.280Russia, they're operating with more confidence now.
00:03:49.260Now, this could be in part due to the lack of weapons that some are saying for Ukraine,
00:03:55.620but also it's due to the lack of manpower because simply Ukraine doesn't have the ability to conscript and draft more men of fighting age than Russia does.
00:04:05.520And, of course, that's why they're trying to reach out to the Europeans as well.
00:04:08.920So even if the U.S. or European allies were to send more firepower their way, they still just don't have the bodies to backfill this.
00:04:17.420This has been a perennial issue for Ukraine.
00:04:19.680And speaking of bodies, by the way, we have to zoom all the way back to Kiev where an extremely high-profile assassination took place.
00:04:28.080A colonel in the Ukrainian SBU, one of the heads of their intelligence services, was shot dead in the street in Kiev,
00:04:39.100currently wanted this assassin, walked up to him in a parking lot, basically,
00:04:44.620and shot him five times in the chest, his body lying there on the street, the assassin running away.
00:04:53.620His name, Colonel Ivan Voronich, a senior operative in Ukraine's SBU, their intelligence services.
00:05:02.780Russian sources claiming that he was responsible for attacks in the backfield of Russia during this conflict.
00:05:10.060So certainly the Russians moving to increase their op-tempo and reshaping the battlefield, hitting Ukraine wherever it counts.
00:07:41.700Well, when we look at the safety and security of the United States, this is something that we've heard from members of the defense establishment, just analysts.
00:07:53.980I'm, you know, as a prior intelligence analyst myself, that when you look at the stockpiles of some of these air interceptors that we're sending to places like Israel,
00:08:01.860to places like our bases in the Middle East that we've had to defend because of Iranian counterstrikes,
00:08:06.960to places like the Red Sea with these also other types of air interceptor missiles, that our stockpiles are low.
00:08:14.720And, of course, this is going to come at a cost to not only the American taxpayer, but, of course, to our commitments around the world
00:08:20.920because of just how extended the U.S. military is in terms of war, but also our protection, our U.S. Navy coverage in the Pacific.
00:08:29.440You know, one of the intriguing things is years ago, my father began saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world.
00:08:37.780And now you'll hear people actually repeat that, and they'll begin, we shouldn't be a policeman of the world
00:08:42.220except for the fact that we have to send these weapons to Ukraine, except for the fact that we have to send free weapons to Israel
00:08:48.000and that they don't have to pay either for any of the weapons.
00:08:50.440So essentially, we're the sugar daddy of the world.
00:08:54.620He got this with the people freeloading in NATO and insisted that people pay more.
00:08:59.860But the bottom line is people are still taking advantage of us, and we're going further and further into debt.
00:09:05.880Our economy is further and further threatened by this, and it's a mistake.
00:09:10.020I fear the consequences of running a $2 trillion deficit each year.
00:09:15.320Our interest payment's over a trillion, and there are consequences.
00:09:19.460One of the consequences is, you know, the inflation, the prices rising in the grocery store.
00:09:24.700As the Fed buys our debt, you know, the value of our currency diminishes over time.
00:09:32.660And that's certainly a huge issue for a lot of people and a very serious issue.
00:09:37.380It's one that we've heard from the Secretary of Treasury and others.
00:09:40.780But it really does seem that even when it came to Doge, you know, Doge really didn't take a huge look at the Department of Defense or military spending, did they?
00:09:50.440No, and I think they're still looking, and I think there are savings to be found there.
00:09:55.420But there are people, once it's found, don't want it to be found and don't want to do anything with it.
00:10:00.140Not from Doge, but from the more traditional aspects of the neocon or the war hawk wing of the party.
00:11:03.520Yeah, there's a defense authorization bill that comes forward each year.
00:11:06.980They're working on that at the committee level and that it'll eventually come to the floor.
00:11:11.080And while we don't do a very good job at voting at individual appropriation bills, the one that we usually do is the defense authorization and the defense appropriation.
00:11:20.900There's about 12 other bills that we should do if we were doing our job.
00:11:24.860But the powers that be never bring forward the other individual bills.
00:11:28.440Ideally, we'd look at each individual bill and look at the spending on it.
00:11:32.260And we also would never shut down government then.
00:11:34.940You'd only be shutting down one department of government if you had a dispute with the Democrats.
00:11:39.580And this is what I've argued for years.
00:11:42.100Past 11 of the 12, and let's say one of the bills has 80,000 new IRS agents.
00:11:51.900But you're not shutting the entire government down.
00:11:53.600You're shutting one-twelfth of the government down that includes the IRS.
00:11:57.440There are ways in which we could push when we have a small minority but don't actually have a supermajority in order to overcome the filibuster.
00:12:05.380But we've never done it because usually we put all of the stuff together.
00:12:08.360And this is what I predict will happen in September.
00:12:11.580This isn't the last of big, beautiful bills.
00:12:14.200There's going to be a big, beautiful omnibus come the end of September, and they'll be asking us to take it or leave it.
00:12:20.000And at that point in time, there still are these questions.
00:12:22.880Are there enough conservatives remaining to try to make it a conservative spending bill instead of something that just cleans house and adds to the debt?
00:12:33.340Well, Senator, for folks out there who were – and by the way, you know, I do think that there were people in good faith who have questions about the spending and have serious concerns about the spending because the debt-to-GDP ratio is a serious problem.
00:12:46.760It sent Japan into a spiral for over a decade, and they're just now starting to climb out of it.
00:12:52.540They're still at something like 250 percent debt-to-GDP ratio, which is double what we are.
00:12:57.860But that's even, what, 15 years since their last decade was ended.
00:13:02.100So for folks out there who are serious about this, that do want to get cuts going, what should they do?
00:13:08.200How should they be talking to, and where should they be putting pressure?
00:13:12.080I think the best way to cut spending is through something like the penny plan.
00:14:03.440Most people realize that if you're short of money, you have to spend less money, even when it's for something they want.
00:14:09.140And so I really think that you could approach everything in government, every program, every program, whether it's an entitlement or not, cut 6%.
00:14:17.820And then what you would find is there's ways to do it by holding the least among us harmless.
00:14:24.100You know, if you don't want the poor to be hurt by Medicare cuts in the expense, means test it.
00:14:30.940So the poor will get the same Medicare.
00:14:33.600The wealthy will pay more for their Medicare.
00:14:35.520You know, if you make $500,000 a year in retirement, you still pay only about half of the cost of your Medicare.
00:14:44.160The government still subsidizes half of your Medicare if you make a half a million dollars.
00:22:06.600They're on those eastern Russian-speaking provinces.
00:22:09.340But at the same time, we also have to look at how Russia is changing the game and the U.S.
00:22:14.420now responding on the economic battlefield.
00:22:17.880And that is just as much a part of this as any other.
00:22:21.520Of course, the frozen Russian assets that the U.S. still has some $200 billion, something that Putin has gone to his oligarchs and said that it potentially will not come back and that they need to get used to a world of U.S. sanctions.
00:22:36.740But this, of course, is why the BRICS nations are building together all of their new payment systems, financial systems.
00:22:44.940They've got BRICS Pay, BRICS Clear, BRICS Swift, in a sense, and even BRICS Re, which is going to be a version of BRICS Reinsurance for shipping.
00:22:55.120And so they have the ability that they can put their even shipped goods, so between China and all of the other BRICS nations, they can have them on this.
00:23:06.540And, of course, they announced a huge swath of countries.
00:23:10.220Now, this global south, that's what BRICS really is, joining the BRICS nation.
00:23:13.880So even though you have the five original, you still have a list more Vietnam, very interestingly, being on that list as well,
00:23:20.380because Vietnam is a country that China has been using economically as a transshipment port to try to skirt around the tariffs with the United States.
00:23:29.620So China sends their goods to Vietnam or they sell them to a Vietnamese shell company.
00:23:33.220The Vietnamese shell company then sends them to the United States to say, oh, look, there's no tariffs because they're coming from Vietnam.
00:23:39.480They come through that Vietnam trade deal with the U.S.
00:23:42.940This, of course, is what Secretary Besant was working with Vietnam to try to close down this backdoor.
00:23:48.140But China knows exactly what they're doing.
00:23:51.080President Trump then comes out, and what does he do?
00:23:53.980He's put pressure on two of the weakest links that he could find of BRICS already.
00:23:58.920The weakest link, as everyone knows, is South Africa.
00:24:00.900So we saw, and he had President Ramaphosa, South African president there a couple of weeks ago in the Oval Office,
00:24:07.940and just absolutely put the pressure of the entire world on him,
00:24:12.120called him to the mat, not just for the humanitarian abuses that he's done to the white population there,
00:24:16.460those poor farmers that are being slaughtered, and his government certainly supporting all of it,
00:24:22.000but also now President Trump putting pressure, ratcheting it up on Brazil,
00:24:26.100and, of course, the socialist pro-CCP government of Lula there in Brazil with the 50% tariff.
00:24:33.420I wanted to bring on our partner from Allegiance Gold to really walk us through all of this
00:24:40.320because this is huge, this is heady, but it's also very important for you economically
00:24:46.320because as all of this is going on, sure, it's interesting for us to talk about.
00:31:28.500So we're seeing money, and specifically gold, migrate from the west to east.
00:31:35.060And they're strategically positioning these policies.
00:31:37.240So if you don't do anything about it now, little by little, they're going to have a lot more influence, and they're going to have a lot more control.
00:31:43.640And we cannot afford losing the dollar as a world reserve currency.