00:00:57.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:06.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:51.000It was a million Christians killed 100 years ago.
00:01:55.000Hitler famously said, who remembers the Armenians before his own genocide that he did on the Jewish people?
00:02:02.000And you're seeing Erdogan, the head of Turkey, pushing, prodding, allowing, enabling Azerbaijan to take over and kick out 120,000 Christians in Nagora-Karabakh, which had been a Armenian settlement within Azerbaijan and now threatening Armenia.
00:02:24.000I mean, Azerbaijan is with the backing of Turkey to attack Armenia proper.
00:02:29.000That's what's taking place, and nobody's talking about it.
00:02:32.000That's what's really discouraging about this.
00:03:38.000What has happened is 120,000 Armenian Christians who have lived in the same place.
00:03:44.000Their ancestors have for 2,000 years have been run out of Nagora-Karabakh.
00:03:48.000And now they're concerned about Armenia proper being attacked by Azerbaijan.
00:03:53.000Well, yeah, talk more just about the focus of our, so we're super concerned as a country, I guess, about Russia and Ukraine.
00:04:00.000For good reason, Israel and the Gaza thing gets a lot of attention, but this has just been so de-emphasized.
00:04:05.000And just talk more to our audience about Armenia, a Christian country, the oldest Christian country in the world.
00:04:13.000And there was a genocide of the Armenian people, but Turkey, a member of NATO, did the genocide, and then it gets covered up in the Western world.
00:04:30.000As I mentioned earlier, about a million, could be a million and a half Armenian Christians were just killed by the Ottoman, the falling of the Ottoman Empire.
00:04:39.000And it was just kind of not anybody paid much attention to it.
00:04:44.000Armenia is a small Christian country that's kind of right there in the Middle East.
00:05:58.000But, you know, for example, on social media, there's massive uproar about the plight of the Muslims and this nonsense about Israeli genocide on Gaza, all a bunch of trash, right?
00:06:48.000I don't know which or if it's both or what the case of it is, but you've just got large-scale Christian persecution taking place.
00:06:58.000I just saw another report today of Christians being killed in Nigeria.
00:07:03.000You're seeing the Catholic community being thrown out of Nicaragua, some of their institutions by Ortega.
00:07:10.000The Chinese are at war with all faiths, Christians included.
00:07:15.000And I don't know why, but it's up to us to stand up for it and not to be embarrassed about standing up for Christians around the world that are being persecuted.
00:07:24.000It seems like a lot of times people kind of, well, I don't want to speak out about it.
00:07:31.000These are key brothers and sisters that are being persecuted, locked up, killed in various places around the world.
00:07:38.000Ambassador, any other aspects to this issue you want to make sure our audience is aware of or anything you'd like to plug that are action items for our audience?
00:07:48.000Yeah, they can go on a website, 120,000reasons.org, 120,000, that's the number of Christians that got run out of Nagora Karabakh, 120,000reasons.org for more information.
00:08:04.000And the one thing they really can do is push their members of Congress not to sell weaponry to Azerbaijan, push the Biden administration not to sell weaponry to Azerbaijan.
00:08:16.000that we've been supplying weapons to them and that's got to cease and we need to supply help to Armenia.
00:09:02.000Unfortunately, a lot of times in the Middle East, you get these refugee populations that are used as pawns in kind of the battle over Israel and Israel's position in the Middle East, which the Iranians, and that's who's behind this, are trying to push out into the sea.
00:09:23.000Even from moving from southern Gaza to north, from northern Gaza to southern Gaza, the UN says it's impossible and that it's a human rights catastrophe.
00:09:32.000Has the UN called what's happening in Armenia and Azerbaijan a human rights catastrophe?
00:09:41.000There was a former UN special rapporteur that has spoke out about the conditions and the nature of genocide being there in Armenia, but the UN itself hasn't spoken out.
00:10:23.000We need people really to speak out on it.
00:10:25.000And we need to not be complicit with the United States.
00:10:30.000Just to repeat, everybody, such an important story.
00:10:33.000The UN international communities are lecturing Israel for allegedly perpetuating a genocide, which is false, and that people can't move to southern Gaza, but they're perfectly fine with 120,000 Christians being moved in 10 days in Armenia.
00:10:49.000It really doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:10:50.000Ambassador Brownbach, thank you so much.
00:10:56.000America's colleges and universities today are less concerned with critical thinking than with indoctrination.
00:11:02.000It is no wonder why so many young Americans embrace cancel culture, deny free speech to conservatives, and even celebrate terrorism.
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00:11:20.000As stated in Hillsdale's founding document in 1844, Hillsdale's original mission was to offer the kind of serious liberal arts education needed to preserve the blessings of civil and religious liberty across the land.
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00:11:59.000Eric Adams, mayor of New York, not my favorite guy, but he has been one of the loudest complainers when it comes to the amount of illegals coming into the country.
00:12:07.000Non-stop flow of foreigners coming into America, many of whom find their way to New York.
00:14:09.000Eric Adams flew a little too close to the sun.
00:14:13.000Eric Adams, otherwise known as Icarus, complained a little bit too much and he just got some chin music, a little bit of a warning brushback pitch.
00:14:21.000You better shut up, is what they're saying.
00:14:23.000Brianna Suggs, we have no idea what the search warrant is about, but this is typical Stalinistic FBI, Southern District of New York tactics.
00:16:47.000Honestly, absent like narco-trafficking, or that if she was literally receiving donations from the Chinese Communist Party and laundering them back to Eric Adams, it is reprehensible to have the FBI raid the home of a political fundraiser.
00:17:31.000We can make a difference standing for life by giving free ultrasounds with our friends at pre-born.
00:17:36.000In a Dobbs world, states decide about abortion, and so many liberal states are taking extreme stands, even allowing abortion up to literally the second before a baby is born.
00:17:48.000And in California, the demand for abortions has increased 400% in part because the state is inviting women and girls to come to California for the sole purpose of aborting their baby.
00:18:46.000This is, people would say, what plan do you have?
00:18:49.000And the plan I had was a new speaker, change, change the institution, make it more transparent, more open, and get a guy that we all trust.
00:18:59.000And I think we're off to a good start with Mike Johnson because he answers and fits the bill to all of that.
00:19:05.000And I'll just tell you something different.
00:19:10.000He asked for a meeting with the Freedom Caucus today.
00:19:56.000I'm not for a CR that lasts more than, say, 10 days.
00:20:00.000And the reason is you need to keep the pressure on members of Congress.
00:20:04.000The Senate doesn't want to do anything.
00:20:06.000They just want to be able to do an omnibus.
00:20:08.000And the way you prevent that is you do short-term CRs.
00:20:11.000If you kick it down the road to, say, even January, the Senate guaranteed is going to pull an omnibus out of its hat and try to get that through.
00:20:41.000If you can't get your work done by November 17th, then and you want to extend government operations without a shutdown, then you're going to have to make some concessions there in order to get that through, I believe.
00:22:07.000So that's why the whole deal was to try to fix the infrastructure.
00:22:12.000And then you had a person who was going around the infrastructure fixes we had.
00:22:15.000So now you have to make a personnel change because you changed the infrastructure and the person that you brought in is not conforming to the new infrastructure.
00:22:27.000And so that's, if we're going to turn this ship around, and if we don't, by the way, you can't dither around anymore, Charlie, because a year from now we'll be sitting at 36 and a half, 37 trillion.
00:22:53.000I'm not saying we should aim for one, but we shouldn't be held hostage by it, right?
00:22:58.000This needs to be a negotiation, not hostage, not a hostage situation where we're willing to do whatever it is.
00:23:03.000Andy, talk about the psychology of Christmas break and how members seem to lose all principles, guardrails of reality, just so that they could get back on a flight on the evening of December 21st.
00:23:18.000You're laughing, but there's, it's, it's ridiculously true, isn't it?
00:24:22.000But if you do longer term, by longer term, I mean anything over eight days, eight to 10 days, then you basically kick this thing down in a way that the pressure is off to solve the problem.
00:24:40.000And so my position is use short-term CRs to leverage the Senate.
00:24:46.000They got to get their work done, even the House.
00:24:48.000If the Senate has now passed, finally has passed three bills.
00:24:53.000We didn't pass one of those corresponding, which is the Ag Bill.
00:24:57.000That doesn't mean you can't get into a conference committee situation right now and basically hammer this thing out.
00:25:03.000But they're like, oh, no, no, no, Andy.
00:25:08.000Nothing is ahead of the ball game right now, Charlie.
00:25:11.000We're already so far behind that they need to be off their duffs, getting together and sorting out the issues so that we can see if we can come to a consensus in both the House and Senate, say, on the Ag Bill or the upcoming transportation issue, T-Head bill, the Thud bill, because it stinks and lands bad.
00:25:32.000So is it your position, Andy, that you would like to see the 12 appropriation bills passed prior to Christmas break?
00:26:02.000Put their own stupid Christmas plans aside.
00:26:05.000And I think it's such a, you know this, Andy, the district you represent.
00:26:08.000There are people that work in the ER and the hospitals on Christmas Day, police officers that have to work on Christmas Day, you know, the pilots and flight attendants.
00:26:26.000It's that go do something for the country.
00:26:28.000And so is it your position then that we kind of need to force the hand of Congress to get something substantively done and not kick this?
00:26:37.000Because the one thing I didn't like when Mike Johnson said, well, maybe we have to do a CR through January 15th.
00:26:43.000I was like, boy, if you think you're going to get a courageous caucus on January the 15th, it's going to be even worse than before Christmas.
00:27:00.000So where we are, and here's my position.
00:27:03.000Even if you can't get the 12 bills done, if we've taken a floor vote on every one of those 12 bills, that doesn't prevent you from negotiating because something came out of the rules committee that was the appropriate props bill in the house.
00:27:15.000That means you know you have a bill to negotiate from.
00:32:21.000And I'll just say, do they not believe that that money is getting a significant portion of it is getting siphoned off?
00:32:29.000And I'm not sure that Americans even understand that some of that money is going to pay for pensions for Ukraine government employees.
00:32:38.000It's going to fund the legislative body in Ukraine.
00:32:44.000And it's being siphoned off and basically embezzled by ne'er-do-wells in the corruptocracy, kleptocracy, whatever you want to call it, of Ukraine, which we knew going.
00:33:18.000You've got the cadre of warhawks that continue to want to go.
00:33:22.000But now some of the kind of neoconservative warhawks have actually come out and they said, wait a second, we need to know what the mission is.
00:33:31.000We need to know where the material is.
00:33:33.000And they want answers to all those questions before they actually give any more money to Ukraine.
00:33:38.000The administration, I think, is, I've been told that they've actually responded to some of that and they're trying to assuage what is actually a small minor revolt amongst Republicans to prevent them from getting more money.
00:33:55.000But never forget, this is an effort on the part of the Biden administration to keep this war going without end, without an objective.
00:34:12.000Since you're beginning, it's a bunch of abstractions and platitudes of like defending democracy and that Putin is terrible.
00:34:18.000And I mean, Andy, the last thing I'll just say is that I find it just repugnant, to be honest, the fascination of foreign borders while our own is being overrun.
00:34:36.000By the time Biden gets out of office, more than 10 million people will illegally have entered the country.
00:34:41.000And in southern Arizona, just not too far south of where you and I live, they are releasing now tens of thousands of people into the community.
00:35:17.000I was looking at videos of the Valley, you know, Valley of the Sun, Phoenix metro area today, and the amount of homelessness is just increasing.
00:35:27.000And with that will come the crime, as you say.
00:35:30.000And not to mention the national security issue of the number of Syrians coming through the Tucson and Yuma sectors now has gone way up, Charlie, and other Mideaster countries that have terrorist cells in them.
00:35:44.000And the question is for us is, Are they coming here?