SUNDAY SPECIAL: THE UKRAINE AGENDA WITH JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO
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On today's episode of Human Events Daily, host Andrew Napolitano is joined by Jack Davis, an analyst for Fox News and former judge in the New Jersey Superior Court, to discuss his long career in media, including his time as a reporter for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other media outlets.
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ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard today's sunday special here on human events daily we are very
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excited to bring our guest on today we have you've known him you've followed him for a very long time
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certainly long career long career out in media appearing in both the washington times in reason
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he's been an analyst for fox news he was a judge in the new jersey superior court we are very excited
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to bring on uh the new current host of judging freedom judge andrew napolitano thank you so much
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for joining us judge oh jack it's a pleasure to be with you it's an honor to be on your very uh popular
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platform thanks for having me well i appreciate it and i have to say kudos to the new show uh i've been
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watching it very frequently i love when you do the uh the clips and the shorts of it um those are they
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always seem to catch me i say i'm not going to watch this full episode and then i watch a short
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of it and i say he sucked me in i've got to watch the full episode now well that's nice he caught me
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again that's nicely put especially coming from one professional to another uh it it's been uh enjoyable
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we started out with uh 93 viewers uh and were mocked by my former colleagues in new york but we now
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have a million a week you know where that stands uh uh against other uh platforms so i'm very happy
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with those numbers and with the following that we've developed well i've seen interview after
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interview i mean you're racking up hundreds of thousands of views per per clip i hope people
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understand that per clip and it's it's been one of the fastest growing uh channels that i've certainly
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seen on youtube and i think that one of the biggest reasons and and obviously you you cover a
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variety of issues but i really think it's because specifically of your analysis of what i and i
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wanted to call today's episode as we we hurdle towards the one year anniversary of the start of
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the ukraine war and this week we saw the reporting from seymour hirsch which obviously is offering
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a lot of information that we're not getting from the mainstream media and i think that's exactly the
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same uh vein as what you've been doing is because you're presenting analysis information on the ground
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reports on the ground sourcing that is just not found anywhere else in mainstream media particularly
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as relates to ukraine and the agenda behind the ukraine war you know it it is a head scratcher to
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me and and thank you for the compliment jack but it is a head scratcher to me why mainstream media is
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not covering uh what we do even uh my former colleagues who are still my good friends uh at fox
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uh of those folks i think only tucker carlson is presenting you know he utilizes the services of
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uh colonel uh doug mcgregor uh as frequently as i do he tucker appears to be the only major fox
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personality that is presenting this point of view new york times wall street journal which is owned by my
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former bosses uh washington post forget about it you're just not getting uh this view that the war
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is futile that there's no way that ukraine can win that there is zero american moral legal constitutional
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national security uh interest involved in the outcome of the war that every penny we spend is wasted
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that uh further destroys innocent lives russian and ukrainian uh and extends a war is not going to
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result in in putin's uh ouster is not going to result uh in uh crimea being under the control of
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kiev again you know and to be clear you present both sides you have people on that are are pro ukraine you
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have people on that are that are there uh training ukrainian soldiers and ukrainian troops you have people
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there that are are members of the cia that completely disagree with others of your guests
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and you've presented both sides of this which is really what you're supposed to do in a little
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thing that i used to call journalism or i used to think was called journalism you can't seem to find
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that on any of the major mainstream networks anymore you know as you and i were talking before we came on
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air uh my base uh followers uh would be highly critical of me when i would put on uh the young man
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and matt van dyke who who reports from kiev who's uh very pro ukraine who's a military american military
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veteran and runs some outfit called sons of liberty international which basically supplies
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technical information and know-how to the ukrainian military i want to have jack divine on jack his career
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uh jack was in charge of russian espionage monitoring russian espionage in the united states and conducting
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american espionage in russia and initially my uh regular base was highly critical of me for having
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them on now they love to hate these guys i can tell that from the messages they send but they watch
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in droves because they are happy to hear both sides uh being uh presented they are happiest as you
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pointed out when i run clips of these pro-ukrainian people before scott ritter or doug mcgregor and they
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just explode when they when they hear what's being said you know what is the what is the reason though and
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and and you you obviously have a huge career in mainstream media what is the reason that mainstream
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media has been reduced to this sort of almost propaganda narrative that promotes the death
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of these innocent people and i look we took the program we went to ukraine we broadcasted from there
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last summer we did the night train to odessa we went all the way down to mikolaev almost all the way
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to kerson we saw the the herson highway uh as we were there and the people who are caught in the
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middle of this refugees women and children going back and forth why is it that it seems like we're
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promoting this i i i i don't know the answer i suspect that cia and mi6 have um so ingratiated
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themselves with mainstream media by leaking and slipping not necessarily secrets but their version
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of events and uh journalists feel uh empowered emboldened uh and privileged uh to be able to reveal
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this in their uh journalism but they're just becoming tools uh of uh of government i mean i know that
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there are cia and mi6 agents who are telling the truth to their bosses but i don't know that that
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is making its way to the british prime minister and uh to the oval office somewhere up the food chain
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the the real data the raw data of what's happening on the ground gets translated into the version
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uh that uh joe biden and the british prime minister and i don't mean to be picking on him
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but they they do operate hand and glove their two um intelligence agencies uh want to hear
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and uh somewhere along the line that is furthered by getting back to a long-winded answer to your
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question uh mainstream media i am surprised that some of my former colleagues for mouthing
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uh the so-called party line rather than uh taking a look at things particularly now as it becomes so
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obvious so obvious that ukraine cannot uh win this war how joe biden gets out of this but without boots
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on the ground which of course would be catastrophic and immensely unpopular and and profoundly
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unconstitutional how he gets out of this without boots on the ground i don't know
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well and and of course we we keep hearing it slipped that there are trainers observers auditors
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recorders uh advisors that are already there matt matt van dyke who again is military veteran and pro
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ukraine and on the ground says they're there and jack they're not wearing uniforms what does that mean
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well that allows plausible deniability by secretary of state blinken secretary of defense austin and the
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president but but it is a violation of the geneva convention it also allows american military out of
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uniform to be shot on sight legally by the russians as spies they have no protection of the geneva
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convention uh when they're out of uniform i don't know that putin uh would do that i think he's a lot
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smarter than we give him uh credit for even though we've already started the war against them i know
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we're going to get to this by attacking uh the nordstrom uh pipeline that was an act of war uh
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but american troops are on the ground out of uniform i'm also told this is also crazy that they're
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unarmed troops in a battle zone unarmed out of uniform how crazy can you get well it's almost like
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and and and to your point you know whether or not the russian command wants that uh would would go for
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that or would order that that also doesn't necessarily you know account for any possible
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interaction that could happen on the ground uh shelling artillery indirect fire mortar fire or a you
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know a checkpoint that doesn't go wrong i mean you can think of all the permutations mind warfare etc
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let me let me add another person being killed let me add another permutation jack because you and i
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i believe that this already happened um a false flag do you remember when a missile killed two polish
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uh villagers oh that's right and in fact i got a lot of criticism for my comments about that
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oh no i was 100 with you and still am fired from russian captured russian equipment
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fired by ukrainians from ukraine at the poles because the president of poland has a hair trigger
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temper the president of poland is of the belief that somehow by some act of god crimea is going to be
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returned to control of kiev and he has 90 000 troops training with 40 000 american troops at the polish
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ukrainian border and all he needs is some little hair trigger excuse uh to send those troops over the
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border and i think uh president zelinski's people i don't know if zelinski himself could have ordered
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this but president zelinski's people thought that by making it look like the russians had attacked
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two poor polish villagers and killed them uh that this would be the hair trigger that the president of
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poland needed fortunately it wasn't unfortunately something else will probably come well and indeed you
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know one of the things that i've been very public about is why is it that president zelinski has never
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once and i i can go back but i've for weeks i i was checking this and i hadn't seen it i've never
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seen him once express any condolences to the country of poland to the citizens to the families
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for this happening even just admit saying it's a terrible act i'm so sorry that it's happened we
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never intended for this just a simple act of condolence even after poland has done so much to
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take in the people of ukraine in their time of need obviously done so much to prop up his government
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and yet he won't express a simple act of uh again condolence that something like this happened
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and he will still go and claim that it was somehow orchestrated by russia when we obviously know that's
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not true he's learned from his american masters who would never ever ever admit to something like
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this even though the the evidence is inescapable and overwhelming uh that this was fired from ukraine
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by ukrainians using captured uh russian uh equipment and was was murder was an attempt to murder two
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poor unfortunate uh polish uh villagers who happen to be uh in the sites and you're right about what
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the poles have done to alleviate uh ukraine suffering uh it's over the top well and so let's let's move on
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to the next question then because as you said never admit uh that was something that they learned from
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the americans and uh there's there's an old phrase um you know we even we even knew this when i was an
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intelligence officer uh for the united states navy they say never believe something until it's been
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officially denied and at the very start of seymour hirsch's bombshell article this uh this week that
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came out that we you could actually argue whether or not it's a bombshell and i haven't i have a take
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on that but you have these official denials from the cia from the state department from the biden
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administration this did not happen biden administration was absolutely not behind the
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bombing of nordstrom one and nordstrom two but the reason that i say that the seymour hirsch article
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isn't necessarily a bombshell it's because i look at it and say is there anyone with a right thinking
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mind that actually thought that something else happened here other than uh someone in the west
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or associated with nato took out those pipelines no no a knowledgeable person uh would believe that
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there are of course those who fall prey uh to the propaganda uh put out by your former colleagues
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put out by the cia put out by a dozen american intelligence sources and picked up by the mainstream
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media but those who have followed this with with clarity and with an understanding of the
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engineering your field uh as to how this could have happened are consistent with the dutch investigation
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which concluded this could only have been done by a government and what government could have done
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the seymour hirsch's article whatever you think of uh of cy hirsch's politics this article
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is filled with such uh detail and substantiation it is it is profoundly credible not because i want to
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believe it i wish it weren't true but it is profoundly credible again how uh biden and company get out of
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this is beyond me but jack you don't see it in mainstream media this morning you see it in on on
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websites uh you don't see it on fox you don't see it in the new york times you don't see it in the
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washington post uh i don't even know if anybody is going to ask that uh lunatic that is uh is joe
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biden's uh press spokesperson i guess they don't call them press secretary anymore uh kareem jean pierre
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i don't know if anybody's even going to ask her uh but it is clear the american involvement and where is
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this as a matter of law it's an act of war and it's an act of war against russia and against germany
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germany owned the pipeline so whoever ordered this and it could only have come from the president of
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the united states caused tens of millions of germans to suffer through a cold winter uh in order to
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inconvenience the russian treasury now they have done minimal damage to the russian uh economy but in the
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way uh have caused catastrophic injury like the destruction of this uh pipeline what joe biden says
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to the chancellor of germany i don't know what he'll say to vladimir putin when they get back on
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speaking terms i don't know but it's an act of war not declared uh by the congress totally immoral
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utterly unconstitutional and probably criminal do you judge view this in the light of so there's a
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phrase that i've noticed from even my own comment section in getting into this where they call it
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newland's private war uh victorian you know sort of a take on charlie wilson's war newland's private
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war victorian newland's war this idea that she was out publicly prior to the invasion saying that
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nordstrom would be taken down then president biden comes out and says that this pipeline will be ended
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this project will be ended how are you going to do that and he says we have the ability to do it don't
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worry uh this of course happens before again before any russian troops have crossed into ukraine or the
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donbass and there is an there is a a theory out there i guess or i should say some speculation that
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that this was always the plan that this has been uh to an extent uh all about energy it's about um
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not necessarily the specifics of the energy but also the petrodollar and the dominance of america
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over europe and western europe writ large in order to keep the european economy down to hurt uh german
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manufacturing base which of course is a boon to china it's a boon to so many other uh properties out
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but is this and has this always been a power play of not only because you're right that it that the
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russians certainly are losing money on this but i think we really do overlook the financial and
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political implications of the suffering that this has done to germany and to germans economy writ large
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oh man you you you have described this about as accurately and eloquently as i've ever heard
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described jack and and there's little that i can add thank you uh to amplify it except to say that
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the nato treaty never contemplated one nato member attacking another it's it's the opposite of that
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it's it's that all nato members will will come to the aid of one that is attacked by the way this brings
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us back to the polish president just permit me a little aside here uh one of his former cabinet
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ministers revealed just last week a harebrained scheme which would whereby poland would annex
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the western part of ukraine as a polish protectorate and as soon as a shot was fired there they would
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argue that this would uh trigger article five of course such an annexation would itself be an act of
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aggression and an act of aggression does not trigger uh article five i don't know where this is under the
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nato treaty nato i've been very critical of donald trump as you know it's probably why i'm no longer at fox
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but i'm on this trump in my view was a hundred percent uh correct uh nato is just an american uh play
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thing uh used by uh the american uh globalists and nationalists uh to suppress europe uh and to
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control europe and to pay europe's uh bills for defense there shouldn't be a nato we shouldn't be
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spending a nickel on it we shouldn't have all those uh troops there but we do and joe biden for all of his
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uh perception being an old man that's out of it uh is really um using american power uh to suppress nato
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and advance american imperialism as condemnable as that is going back to george washington and john
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adams uh far more effectively than uh barack obama or bill clinton ever did so the use of american
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imperialism the idea that uh we are the only country that is moral and we can spread americanism
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around the world that doesn't spread liberty and doesn't spread democracy ask george w bush about
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that in afghanistan and iraq it spreads violence murder torture death theft and lying these are arts
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that the american government is expert in yeah there's there's that old um there's that old quote
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from the original uh i'm trying to pull it up right now the original commander of nato about um
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uh secretary general ismay he said the original part he was the original um commander of nato
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and they asked him what the purpose of it was and he responded the purpose of nato is back in the 50s
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the purpose of nato is to keep the soviet union out the americans in and the germans down and when you
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look at this through that lens it actually is very interesting that what you're what you're seeing
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essentially is just an extension of the cold war thinking that we saw from the 1950s and maybe that
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made sense in the 1950s when the insane bolsheviks were running the kremlin and were running moscow
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uh but at the same time and this is something to your point that president trump used to talk about that
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after the sonia union fell then that nato found itself in this place where it wasn't didn't necessarily
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have a reason to exist and there are many people i think at one point that were saying perhaps nato
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could be turned into sort of an international counter-terrorism organization i would put myself
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in that camp certainly uh this was during the rise of isis this was during the rise of these various
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groups in the middle east that were getting into europe essentially through um through migrants and
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everything else that was going on there that certainly nato could find itself to pivot to uh focus on
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the the new emerging threats and that possibly there there would be some some reason for working
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with russian security services who obviously have a keen eye into those areas of daga stan and
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the caucuses where you find this the boston bombers come to mind where we were warned of the boston
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bombers by the russian fsb and then of course james comey and muller never did anything about it so
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but but but it seems though nato and you kind of see this now with a lot of folks who are sort of in
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this this next generation of intel officers and military officers that they've just adopted the cold
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war thinking and that there is no been no update whatsoever to looking at geopolitics as they are today
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it's just a continuation of that lord ismay's uh maxim that we must always do this and nobody ever
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sits down and explains why well you understand the uh uh mentality of uh naval intelligence and military
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intelligence and of intelligence officers in general far but i wouldn't i would say that they
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are mental i agree with you there yeah i mean but but but what you're saying is that they uh they assume
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the the cultural and geopolitical attitudes of the people who trained them which is usually the
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generation before uh the same thing you mentioned comey the same thing is the case uh with the fbi
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since the uh since 9-11 uh and the patriot act uh one of the worst pieces most liberty assaulting
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pieces of legislation ever enacted maybe the worst since the alien and sedition acts in 1798
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a generation of fbi agents has come of age learning how to spy on americans without using the fourth
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amendment without getting a search warrant uh from judges it's now de rigueur getting a search warrant
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is the exception rather than the norm the problem comes about when they have to use whatever evidence
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they got in federal court then they have to find some way to claim how they obtained the evidence
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lawfully the same thing i gather is the case uh with the mentality of intelligence uh agents who still
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are operating with the cold war mentality who still mistrust uh anything uh russian uh scott ritter
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who is on with me uh once a week you know is expert in this area uh arguing that the russians are
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no different than we are and want to live peacefully and want to live prosperously and they're afraid of
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us why we have weapons at their border they don't have weapons at our border the last time i looked and
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i monitor this stuff the way you do putin never uh threatened joe biden uh senator lindsey graham publicly
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asked joe biden to have putin assassinated so tell me who's crazy and who's rational all right and you
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also have the the recent comments in the interview from uh former israeli prime minister naftali bennett
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where he depicts a conversation with putin that he said would you sit down with zelinski would you
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hammer out some deal this is i think one month the time frame that he's talking about into this whole
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thing and both putin and zelinski seem to have agreed to at least a you know a premise or pretext
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for having a conversation about putting this thing back on the shelf and turning this thing off
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turning the troops back and there's this story that uh bennett uh tells saying that you know you plan
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to kill zelinski and putin says no we're actually not interested in that and then of course that's
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when zelinski starts making these these videos outside on the street and then bennett points out
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that he it wasn't until he told zelinski that putin said that that he started making all of these
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videos out on the street said no we're not we're not targeting this guy i'd be happy to to sit down
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with him and you know to go back to the the start of all of this because i do think that people have
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they're missing a lot of the context here because they do it's sort of like when you go back to if you
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ask the the typical mainstream media uh viewer about you know what happened in 2014 in ukraine
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and they'll talk about the invasion of crimea they'll consider it an annexation they'll say it
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was illegal there was in a referendum etc etc but they will never talk about maidan and we had rahim
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kasam on here last week and we were talking all about the maidan revolution how that was as the founder
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of stratfor said a textbook to a textbook political coup done by the united states clearly a color
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revolution if there ever was one and rahim was actually there in kiev in 2013-2014 when this
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was happening and some of the same names judge that you have just mentioned were actually there
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fanning the flames of this victoria newland senator lindsey graham at the time senator john mccain
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marco rubio played a role in some of this as well as in libya and syria and so it does seem to be
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that they're missing a lot of the context of and and again you know i'm sitting here as an american
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saying look i i you know i don't have skin in this game one way or the other but i also don't understand
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what the strategic national interest for americans and american national security is but we also look
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at the fact that it is it true judge that you that you've seen and in your reporting that there were
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peace terms that were actually offered even before the invasion that were completely denied
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by not only uh nato but the biden administration as well as far as i know uh it is true and from my uh
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reporting and from my education actually the the people that talk to me off air and on air it would
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be very much like president uh putin to have wanted to have done that look putin is not in the business of
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depleting his army uh and his army and military has been depleted not nearly the to the extent that
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the ukraine uh defense ministry some sort of a baghdad bob like character claims uh but but he's
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suffered seriously he didn't want to do that he would prefer to have uh returned russian-speaking
00:27:51.880
citizens and territory that has been russia's since before the american revolution back to russia without
00:28:00.200
firing a shot what's mystifying to me maybe it's not because tony blinken for all of his skills is is
00:28:09.160
really just focused on let's get putin out of office why there's not back channel negotiations going on
00:28:16.840
uh as we speak i mean there should be some american some ukrainian some russian diplomats
00:28:25.000
maybe in geneva or zurich uh speaking uh on a regular basis and i'd be surprised if that's
00:28:33.160
happening because we haven't heard a peep about it right and yes we we hear again and again that
00:28:38.760
these talks uh originally there were some talks that were going on in turkey that erdogan was brokering
00:28:43.640
some of this turkey of course has that dual relationship there um that there were talks
00:28:48.440
that are currently going on in the uae at least for prisoner transfers that have gone on a little bit
00:28:53.400
but that these deals naftali bennett talks about a deal that was scuttled uh boris johnson we have
00:28:59.720
reporting that he went over and personally told zelinski not to take any peace deals in terms of this
00:29:06.920
and then you go to the americans and and i hear this so much from the biden administration
00:29:11.160
that they barely actually talk about ukraine they'll talk about you know these these we'll
00:29:16.440
see these also by the way these very strange sort of prisoner swaps like britney griner for victor
00:29:21.400
bout it's just you know it seems ridiculous if you accept it on its face but if you look at it from
00:29:26.760
another another level they don't talk about ukraine they don't talk about how this benefits ukraine they
00:29:32.520
say we're doing this to punish russia we're doing this to deplete russia we're doing this to diminish
00:29:36.440
russia and and certainly you can see the results of that uh nordstrom 2 is gone their economic
00:29:42.360
relationship with europe is in tatters uh any hope of russia entering a an economic deal with the eu
00:29:49.000
or a schengen agreement for citizen travel etc etc i mean i think that's been scuttled for something
00:29:54.440
like the next 20 years and obviously nato has a new lease on life because of all of this and so if you
00:29:59.800
if you ask those if you ask to anthony blinken to take a uh a lie detector test
00:30:08.520
and said you know what what is what is the goal of american involvement in ukraine
00:30:14.520
is it to uh expel the russian military and russian citizens from crimea or is it to expel
00:30:24.600
president vladimir putin from office you would learn that hit the true goal is to expel
00:30:31.400
president vladimir putin from office and the same thing from victoria newland and i would imagine
00:30:37.960
um uh lloyd austin the secretary of defense uh as well and if you read between the lines what old joe
00:30:45.960
uh is saying sometimes just mouthing the words that his speech writers have written sometimes off the cuff
00:30:53.000
rationally uh speaking that is their goal their goal is to drive him from office but like much of what
00:31:00.360
government does when the pope suppress the latin mass there are more people attending the latin mass
00:31:07.560
worldwide than there were before he suppressed it god bless these people the right yes with these people
00:31:12.520
trying to drive putin from office his popularity has gone up it's so typical of government's heavy hand
00:31:22.440
of meddling in areas where it shouldn't meddle it has the opposite effect from the stated uh purpose
00:31:30.760
putin even if uh the poor guy that's in a prison camp who i love in russia even if he were out and
00:31:40.360
campaigning against him putin would win by overwhelming numbers now just because the american government has
00:31:46.840
demonized himself well and plus too i mean uh if anyone's uh studied any history of the region um
00:31:55.800
just because you get rid of rid of one russian ruler or one russian leader that doesn't necessarily
00:32:01.560
mean that the forces you unleash are going to be better i mean the last time that happened was 1917
00:32:06.360
when the germans decided to send a train car packed with communists and bolsheviks over to
00:32:11.480
moscow and st petersburg and we we saw that led to the bolshevik revolution that led to the soviet union
00:32:17.160
in charge that led to this lunatic regime that was at that point hell-bent on taking over the world and
00:32:23.000
certainly dominating all of europe uh this was completely insane so the idea that they would uh
00:32:28.760
depose the current leader and you'd get some regime or you know go look at the shah in iran for another
00:32:33.960
example uh leading to the which which set in motion the dominoes that led to you know the creation of
00:32:39.240
the ayatollah and that and the mullahs uh this idea that we are going to just and this is by the way
00:32:43.880
the the one spot where uh i always joke i say i don't i don't always agree with the libertarians but
00:32:48.680
on foreign policy i think we're very simpatico that uh you know this this idea that we are going to
00:32:54.360
simply walk around the world and knock over all these people that we don't like or who don't want
00:32:59.320
to go along with this that uh you know that it's going to make everything better it's there's no track
00:33:03.800
record of it anywhere none whatsoever correct but i do want to ask you about the finance
00:33:09.080
side of this and the fact that there is clearly not only an element of certainly the us being able
00:33:17.640
to backfill the energy sales to europe as we're seeing with europe with american elegy going through
00:33:22.200
the roof for western europe but also the idea of the petrodollar and sort of this this rise of the
00:33:28.680
new multipolar world as a potential i'll say competitor to the american backed system american hegemony
00:33:37.000
uh we said on earlier on the show this week that uh you'll you'll never know what type of trouble
00:33:42.920
the regime is willing to start when the petrodollar is on the line can you walk people through that can
00:33:47.560
you explain that well uh i'm of the view and of course you know i'm what libertarians call a true north
00:33:56.440
libertarian which means usually the most libertarian person uh in the room i'm i'm of the view that
00:34:02.680
competition uh improves the product uh i'm of the view that the dollar would actually be stronger if we
00:34:09.720
were uh competing with a petrodollar or a yuan dollar whatever you want to call it uh for uh world dominance
00:34:18.440
i'm of the view that a rising tide shift lifts all boats uh and when uh american industry and and the
00:34:27.320
american dollar uh is competing for the uh use uh by the rest of the world against another standard
00:34:36.840
um uh yardstick of measuring uh financial activity that both sides uh will will benefit from it i'm also
00:34:47.160
of the view and this goes back to john adams that we can't go around the world looking for monsters to
00:34:51.640
slay because there will be no end to our search uh we have you know this better than i do you've
00:34:58.360
probably been to many of them 903 903 military installations outside the united states around the
00:35:06.920
world uh where your former colleagues uh live and work uh and the american taxpayer and because we borrow
00:35:14.200
so much of our money taxpayers as yet unborn uh are uh are financing it no no human being can
00:35:21.480
name or be pretend to be familiar with all of that uh but we do uh we do pay for it uh we don't export
00:35:30.280
democracy when we go around the world looking for monsters to slay now i'm thinking of barack obama
00:35:37.720
using a drone to kill anwar al alaki not a nice guy but an american and never even charged with a crime
00:35:46.040
while he was sitting in a cafe with his son and the son's friend and the three of them were just
00:35:51.480
evaporated uh when we go around the world doing that we don't export democracy we don't export
00:35:58.680
liberty we don't export truth we export violence and that breeds more violence so maybe i'm not the
00:36:06.760
right person to give a full uh economic economics 101 explanation on the petrodollar uh versus the us dollar
00:36:15.560
uh but competition always improves the product uh and american imperialism uh will will bring about
00:36:24.200
the end of american liberty as we know it well i think that's i think that's right you know and i've
00:36:28.600
actually spoken to i don't know that i've said this publicly yet but i've actually spoken to members
00:36:32.840
of the trump administration who were lobbying very hard against nordstrom too uh you certainly know
00:36:38.920
we all know rick runnell had made it a huge uh part of his policy portfolio when he was the ambassador
00:36:45.080
to germany when he was there was constantly railing against this president trump of course railed against
00:36:49.160
it at the united nations this was a very well-known policy in fact when i was at the helsinki summit uh
00:36:54.920
with president trump and president putin that this was a huge point of contention between them when it
00:36:59.560
came up was north stream too but i i asked the question to uh uh to this guy i said did you ever
00:37:07.160
consider uh kinetic action to take it out did you ever consider uh you know sending in navy divers to
00:37:14.120
to just blow the thing up and he said well well no because that's world war three thinking that's the
00:37:18.920
type of stuff that gets you into situations where you might think it's a good idea if you forget the
00:37:24.920
fact that russia has the ability to respond well i mean i mean depending upon exactly who did this
00:37:34.920
if they were navy divers your buddies and then i say that with deference and respect to your career
00:37:42.840
in the military even though i've been very critical of the way it's been deployed i don't i don't criticize
00:37:48.440
the guys and girls who actually put their lives on the line i criticize management so to speak
00:37:55.640
um if joe biden used the military without notifying congress under the war powers resolution which i
00:38:05.000
think is unconstitutional but it is it is the law uh he's committed a very very serious violation
00:38:11.960
of federal law if on the other hand used intelligence agents now cy hearst says he used both but if he used
00:38:19.400
just intelligence agents as barack obama did when he was um uh getting rid of muammar qaddafi in libya
00:38:28.680
then there's no reporting uh requirement uh under american law but under the constitution
00:38:35.800
away from which the congress deviates more than it conforms uh it is absolutely unconstitutional for joe
00:38:44.120
biden or any president to instigate an act of war only the congress can declare war you want to declare
00:38:53.080
war on russia so you can blow that thing up go ahead and declare it you want to declare war on an ally
00:38:59.480
and live with the diplomatic and geopolitical fall out of that so you can destroy the allies ability
00:39:05.240
to keep their their their citizens and inhabitants warm in the winter go ahead and declare it but to
00:39:10.920
blow this up in secret is profoundly unconstitutional and unlawful and as this person that to whom you
00:39:19.000
spoke uh four or five or six years ago um the beginning of world war three maybe the beginning
00:39:27.800
of world war three is is this proxy war we're fighting in in ukraine i don't know but this overt
00:39:34.600
destruction of the property of foreign countries that wish us no ill and do not harm us at all is an act
00:39:45.320
of war to me it looks like it looks like a move of desperation that's done by and and and i've said
00:39:52.120
this many times and uh we have darren beady on who created this phrase the globalist american empire
00:39:57.800
and i do think that even though i say this to my to my followers i say this to the subscribers the
00:40:03.400
viewers that yes america was founded as a republic that's absolutely correct but along the way america
00:40:10.840
has certainly transformed and our government has certainly transformed to something that has far
00:40:15.240
more imperial in the phrase that that beady came up with this globalist american empire when you look
00:40:20.120
through when you look at america's actions through that lens when you look at the government action
00:40:23.720
through that lens it feels like an empire that is reaching out its tentacles to to claw in more
00:40:32.040
territories to keep more territories under its dominance to make sure that there's no deals that
00:40:38.040
are being made at the at the expense of the empire and it certainly seems to fit with a lot of what
00:40:43.240
you're saying about how these acts are completely unconstitutional in many cases unlawful and yet
00:40:47.800
there doesn't seem to ever be any accountability for it my um column called freedom's extinction
00:40:54.840
and it makes that a very argument you know the government that james madison uh gave us uh was a pure
00:41:03.160
uh republic uh with a lot of checks and balances uh and which basically required a consensus among the
00:41:11.880
electorate now the electorate now the electorate was you know adult white landowning males at the time
00:41:16.600
but a consensus among the electorate before any significant movement in one direction or another
00:41:23.560
was taken we no longer as as well as the protection under the fifth amendment of life liberty and property
00:41:31.320
from interference by the government requiring due process a jury trial at which the government must prove
00:41:37.400
that it's a firm's fault we are so far from that model that madison uh gave us so far from it to the
00:41:47.640
point where unelected uh bureaucrats in administrative agencies like the federal reserve uh can weaken the
00:41:58.280
value of everything that we own uh and a popularly elected president but without the
00:42:06.200
the consensus of Congress can engage in a war. These are very, very, very dangerous times.
00:42:13.920
What was everybody talking about a week ago today? A balloon, a balloon in the skies that
00:42:20.180
the government knew about for months and months and months that the government knows about. And
00:42:24.120
we send our balloons over there and they send their balloons over here. Why did we demonize
00:42:29.420
China for doing something we knew it was doing? Because old Joe wants to demonize China.
00:42:36.200
To build up a consensus for American imperialism in Taiwan. Another island.
00:42:43.480
Well, what I've, what I've said, it's impossible to defend.
00:42:46.420
What I've said so many times is, I don't know if you follow the work of Dr. John Mearsheimer,
00:42:52.020
but Mearsheimer released a warning a few months ago talking about exactly what you just said there.
00:42:57.740
This, this danger of, you know, do we understand the Chinese communist party? Do we, do we trust
00:43:03.280
them? Certainly no. But at the same time, are we really trying to escalate a two front global
00:43:09.380
conflict where on one hand we are in a, currently in a hot proxy war with Russia? I don't even know
00:43:17.780
if you can call it a proxy war because nobody's trying to hide the fact that we're in it. It's,
00:43:22.060
it's just openly in it. Um, and then at the same time, trying to escalate things with China to the
00:43:30.540
point where that Taiwan Island situation kicks off into another proxy war that the U S will find
00:43:38.180
themselves in where this would be insane front. I mean, you're, I don't, I don't know how to define
00:43:43.920
that other than the start of world war three. I don't know how else to explain it. We just can't
00:43:47.700
get enough military equipment by land or sea against the will of the Chinese government onto Taiwan.
00:43:55.440
We can't, uh, we can't expose American, uh, military in boots and uniform on the ground in
00:44:02.680
Ukraine. We simply cannot, we are not strong enough and we don't have the will. We don't have
00:44:08.140
the moral argument behind us to fight either of those wars. It would be insane. It would be
00:44:14.160
impeachable. It would be beyond imagining to try and do that, uh, at the same time, both instigated
00:44:20.580
by us. You know, this is not stopping Hitler in Europe or stopping Hirohito, uh, in Japan. This is
00:44:28.700
Joe Biden. It could be anybody fill in the blank. This is American imperialism trying to spread in Eastern
00:44:36.240
Europe, uh, and in the far East at the cost of American, uh, blood and treasure. The public simply
00:44:43.180
won't stand for it. You think LBJ was driven from office. The Democrats will be driven from office
00:44:48.100
for a generation. Well, you know, it won't be just the Democrats because you got Lindsey Graham
00:44:52.060
and, and a bunch of Kevin McCarthy controlled Republicans in the house in favor of all of this
00:45:00.000
as well. Judge, we're coming up on our last couple of minutes. Um, before I ask people what your
00:45:05.300
coordinates are, can you let us know what, what's, what should the American at home do? That's,
00:45:10.000
that's listening to us. That's, that's hearing our, uh, diagnosis of the situation. What would
00:45:15.480
the prognosis be then? What would be your plan for treatment of these issues?
00:45:22.420
Well, my plan for treatment of these issues is to bring the troops home. I would close nearly all
00:45:29.360
foreign, uh, foreign, uh, military, uh, equipment, not spending money on these, uh, on these foreign
00:45:49.220
bases. I would bring all the troops, uh, and all the, bring all the troops home and close down the
00:45:56.180
foreign bases. You, you know, this number, our military budget is greater than the budgets of
00:46:02.260
the next 12 countries combined, which of course includes Russia and China because they don't waste
00:46:10.020
it on all this imperialistic activity, uh, around the world in terms of what can be done, uh, home.
00:46:17.420
It's very, very difficult. Uh, you know, the intelligence community far better than I,
00:46:22.480
there are parts of the government that are insidious and have their claws into the, into the
00:46:27.220
Congress, whereby the Congress always votes to increase their budgets and to increase their,
00:46:32.120
uh, authorities. And those who spy on us domestically and waste our money, uh, in the military have a
00:46:38.480
lot more clout with the Congress than the average voter does. But talk about this, expose it. And if
00:46:45.160
you're Catholic, say a lot of Hail Marys. I've already got my rosary in for today, but, uh, and we'll
00:46:51.040
probably be doing another Latin rosary again later with, uh, with my boys, but judge congratulations
00:46:55.480
again on the success of the show on judging freedom. Uh, and I really think by the way,
00:47:00.660
that the success of your show in such a short time does absolutely show that there is an appetite for
00:47:07.580
this type of commentary, for this type of analysis, where can people go to find it? When can they go
00:47:12.840
find it? I mean, it seems like you're, you're, you're just putting out content like crazy these days.
00:47:16.440
Well, I put out a lot of content, so I do, um, a one-on-one interview like you and I are doing now
00:47:22.040
five days a week, Monday through Friday. Uh, and I do solos where I just sit right where I am now. And I
00:47:27.800
just talk about whatever the issue may be the FBI at Mar-a-Lago, Joe Biden declaring war on his own. I
00:47:35.320
forget what he did last week. I came up here. I was angry. It was about six o'clock at night. I called up my
00:47:39.820
producer who lives in Florida. I said, you know, get me the link. I want to go on air. What are you
00:47:43.840
going to do? I'm just going to attack Biden. I did it for 10 minutes, 450,000, uh, views and 90,000
00:47:53.320
comments, 99.9999. Those are the best ones over the top positive. I love because you'll sit there
00:48:01.480
and I'll do this too. I'm sure. And you'll plan something out and you'll have this architecture,
00:48:05.440
this great argument and you're making notes and you're reading, I've got all my articles set up
00:48:09.020
and that does, you know, it does okay. And then you'll, you'll just pop off something that comes
00:48:13.360
right from the gut and that one goes hyper viral. Correct. Correct. So, uh, it's judging freedom.
00:48:19.400
You can get it at judge and app.com. You can get it at judging freedoms channel on YouTube. You can get
00:48:25.180
it at Twitter. You can get it at Facebook. Uh, I used to be very popular with Tik TOK, but those people
00:48:31.460
over there, uh, got wise to me when I referred to abortion as homicide. Uh, and when I argued that
00:48:39.160
the federal government should not prosecute people for a conspiracy, five people to overtake the
00:48:45.000
government of the United States by violence, that is impossible to carry out a valid legal argument
00:48:51.180
made in every conspiracy case. Every time one is tried in every courthouse in the United States,
00:48:56.320
Tik TOK got furious at me. So now they use an algorithm to, uh, suppress me, but, uh, Facebook,
00:49:03.200
YouTube, um, uh, judging, uh, judge nap.com and judging freedom's own site, uh, have brought all
00:49:10.920
of my wonderful followers to look at my face and hear my voice. Well, I appreciate it. Judge
00:49:15.400
Napolitano. Make sure you guys are checking that out after you watch human events daily every day.
00:49:19.940
Keep in mind, but yeah, judging freedom. It's, it's a fantastic show. Congratulations again.
00:49:23.860
Thank you for joining us. Thank you, Jack. I hope, I hope you'll come on. I hope you'll visit with us
00:49:27.360
and you and I can have a conversation like this and I can explore your fertile brain and your
00:49:32.720
experiences, uh, in naval intelligence. Well, just wanted to say thanks again so much for joining us
00:49:38.020
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