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00:16:24.380Now, like 1980, we've just spent four years under a political ideology, as Carter put it, that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will.
00:16:39.280Our young people, they don't care about America anymore.
00:16:42.380They don't have pride or love for the country because we haven't raised them that way.
00:16:46.760In most cases, school is saying there's no reason to be proud of your country.
00:17:17.940And I don't want it to be the 51st state.
00:17:19.900I think it's actually pretty funny that our president is calling the prime minister the governor.
00:17:26.360But the Canadian government, led by their progressive prime minister, our governor, Justin Trudeau, is an annoying mascot for everything that is wrong in global politics.
00:17:37.440Well, he was at the hockey game on Saturday in Canada between the national Canadian team and the U.S. national team.
00:17:47.840Rumor was our boys were a little sick and tired of being booed every time the national anthem is sung.
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01:40:35.360So Senator Tom Cotton is with us to talk about his new book,
01:40:48.520The Seven Things You Can't Say About China.
01:40:50.500What really happened in Wuhan when COVID was unleashed on the world?
01:40:55.220And why did it take Ratcliffe to finally come out and say,
01:41:00.840Okay, I think it was Wuhan in a lab leak.
01:41:05.960Well, first off, Glenn, I think it's important to note that the CIA report that concluded that COVID most likely originated in those labs in Wuhan
01:41:16.940was actually completed in the final days of the Biden administration.
01:41:21.520Director Ratcliffe, to his credit, made those findings public.
01:41:24.180The CIA now agrees with the longstanding conclusion of the FBI and the Department of Energy's intelligence unit.
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01:48:10.680So we're talking to Tom Cotton about his book, Seven Things You Can't Say About China.
01:48:32.480And if I were in the Chinese military intelligence, I would already have written a report on this and given this to the Chinese Communist Party.
01:48:43.340Because Tom Cotton is not just a senator.
01:48:46.640He is also now the the head of the you're the head, aren't you, Tom, of the Senate Intelligence Committee?
01:49:14.180And if so, what is the problem with Bridge?
01:49:16.160So, Glenn, I think all the president's nominees, especially in critical national security positions, need to be aligned with his positions, most and really the most fundamental core convictions, like stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
01:49:32.300And that's something that I've explored with the nominees that we've had go through so far, Pete Hegseth, Dan Driscoll, the Secretary of the Army, that I'll be exploring with all the nominees ahead to make sure that they're aligned with the president on his central national security positions, for instance, stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
01:49:49.520So are you inferring the bridge is not for that?
01:49:53.580He has indicated in the past that he thinks containment is a plausible and practical scenario.
01:50:01.800But I look forward to meeting with him and all the other nominees and going forward in the hearings to see where they are now, especially given the fact that Israel has exposed Iran by taking out their air and missile defenses, by basically eliminating the asymmetrical threats they face on their own borders, like Hamas and Hezbollah.
01:50:18.840Those were the main deterrents that Iran had in place.
01:50:22.420And this is a threat not just to Israel or our friends in the region.
01:50:39.800And again, I'll explore it with all of the nominees that are in critical positions, like Department of Defense, like Department of State, like the intelligence community.
01:51:09.480Well, I hope not very likely, Glenn, because as George Washington said, it's the wisdom of the ages that if you want to have peace, you have to be prepared for war.
01:51:19.580And that's what China has been doing from the very beginning.
01:51:22.100Now, I think maybe Chinese communists, kind of like Russian communists before them, according to Winston Churchill, may not want war.
01:51:32.360And for them, the fruits of war is a takeover of Taiwan and even greater dominance over the global economy and essentially reducing America to an isolated economic vassal state on the other side of the war, of the other side of the world.
01:51:45.200But the way that we would avoid a war is not by accommodating or conciliating communist China.
01:51:53.040It's being so strong and having a military that is second to none and making it clear that we will defend our interests, that we deter China from starting a war.
01:52:03.000So, agree with the peace through strength.
01:52:07.920However, I don't think we could win a war against China on Taiwan.
01:52:16.620I've seen a lot of war games about a potential conflict over Taiwan, Glenn, which is the likewise hotspot for any tension between the United States.
01:52:26.260I would say that none of them in happily.
01:52:27.520Even if the Taiwanese could delay China from getting foothold on the island and the United States and our allies could come over the horizon and help them fight back, the results would be catastrophic.
01:52:40.660Even if it was a stalemate, Glenn, you could be looking at global economic depression lasting for years because of the destruction of the global semiconductor manufacturing base.
01:52:51.320We could have hundreds of aircraft lost, maybe as many as 20 ships lost, thousands of American troops killed.
01:52:58.680That's why it's so important that we be strong enough and that we signal to China, just like Reagan did to communist Russia, that they should not even think about going for the jugular in Taiwan.
01:53:09.960And I think that success related to China over the next four years would be when there's a new president in January of 2029, there's been no war, our military is stronger, Taiwan's military is stronger, and China has been deterred.
01:53:26.280That would be fantastic if we can get there.
01:53:30.460But I think, though, like the whole world seems to be on fire.
01:53:33.600And now, especially after J.D. Vance over the weekend was speaking in Germany and the head of the security conference actually wept because of what J.D. Vance said and said, well, we are so far apart.
01:53:48.220I always thought we were on the same page.
01:53:50.620J.D. Vance was talking about freedom of speech and safeguarding that.
01:53:58.560We may be the last place on Earth soon that is actually standing up for the individual right.
01:54:08.320I don't think you'd expect German leaders to stand up.
01:54:11.380Germany doesn't really have anything like freedom of speech that our people are familiar with.
01:54:16.320And Germany is deeply exposed to China as well, even as China is eating out German industry the way it's hollowed out much of American industry.
01:54:25.000Over the last 40 years, Germany is deeply exposed to China, needs access to the Chinese market, has some of its larger major industrial companies present in China, which, again, gives the Chinese communist fast leverage over Germany.
01:54:39.020That's the same is true for a lot of European countries as well.
01:54:42.980So I think if there's going to be a coalition that confronts and stops communist Chinese aggression, it's going to be led foremost by the United States and our partners in the Western Pacific, like South Korea and Japan and the Philippines and Australia and other countries that have been targeted for Chinese aggression over the years.
01:55:01.720That may not share a way of life or democratic principles, but also don't want to be Chinese colonies like Vietnam, for instance.
01:55:13.720I mean, the one thing I've seen Donald Trump do is a bunch of stuff that I never thought any president in my lifetime.
01:55:22.000He's almost rebooting the whole system and clearing out what seems to be the nest of snakes and vipers.
01:55:30.040And we know it's riddled with snakes and vipers in our intelligence community.
01:55:37.660I think that getting rid of USAID was a very positive step.
01:55:45.100What's your confidence in Tulsi Gabbard as the head of DNI and Ratcliffe and the CIA that it's not going to be business as usual at the CIA, that we are actually going to line things up with the president?
01:56:00.580I have a lot of confidence in John Ratcliffe at the CIA.
01:56:03.860It's obviously the biggest and most important intelligence agency.
01:56:06.620John Ratcliffe understands the threat that China poses.
01:56:10.580He was on the House Intelligence Committee before he became the DNI in the first Trump administration.
01:56:15.600He agrees with me that we need to get the CIA back to basics and focused on collecting the foreign intelligence that our leaders need to make sound decisions,
01:56:25.400which is very hard to do in China, as we were discussing earlier, because of the nature of their surveillance state.
01:56:31.260They have a lot of brave, patriotic professionals who want to do it, but who have been adrift over the last few years because of bad political leadership.
01:56:39.060I also have a lot of faith that Tulsi Gabbard recognizes the danger of this threat.
01:56:42.340I know Tulsi before she was the director of national intelligence, was a congresswoman from Hawaii for eight years.
01:56:51.480I've noticed that even fairly liberal Democrats from Hawaii understands intuitively the threat posed by China and North Korea,
01:57:00.240probably because they're a lot closer to the threat, that Hawaii was exposed to Chinese or North Korean attack a lot earlier than Seattle was,
01:57:08.160and then Chicago, and then Washington, and now all the way down to Miami.
01:57:11.120So I have a lot of faith that both Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe understand the nature of the threat from China
01:57:16.600and also are going to do what's necessary to get our intelligence agencies focused on that threat as the main threat we face.
01:57:24.220You know, people think that Donald Trump is just being nationalist by saying about the Panama Canal,
01:57:29.200can we stand without China without at least an agreement with Greenland for their rare minerals?
01:57:44.400Yeah, Glenn, again, that's another perfect example of how Donald Trump kind of reset a lot of the debates.
01:57:50.680We certainly can't allow China to have leverage over the Panama Canal,
01:57:54.720and Chinese-affiliated, directed, influenced, or owned companies have a lot of influence right now over the Panama Canal.
01:58:02.440Likewise, China has a lot of interest in Greenland, not only because of its potential mineral wealth,
01:58:08.740which is vast and vital in a modern electronic and digital economy,
01:58:13.420but also because it could allow a foothold in the Western Hemisphere.
01:58:17.400And going back to James Monroe more than 200 years,
01:58:19.880one of the prime objectives of any American statesman has been to deny hostile powers from the old world
01:58:27.600a foothold in the new world that they can use to project the power against the American homeland.
01:58:34.420When you look at the world today and China's influence everywhere and the way that Europe is going,
01:58:44.100what do you see happening to NATO and the Allies when it comes to the balance of power in 2030?
01:58:58.560NATO has been adrift for a long time, Glenn.
01:59:01.860NATO cast about for some missions in the 1990s and 2000s
01:59:06.820and distracted from its traditional mission while it was founded in 1945,
01:59:11.100which is to protect Europe's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
01:59:15.700And that's where NATO really needs to get back to.
01:59:17.600I frankly don't expect NATO to be a major part of standing up to China.
01:59:21.000If there is ever a conflict, it's the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
01:59:25.000It's not the Western Pacific Treaty Organization.
01:59:27.580But again, if the United States is going to be the linchpin
01:59:30.340of a coalition that contains Chinese communist aggression,
01:59:34.100we need European NATO to take much more responsibility for its own security.
01:59:39.780This is a point the president has made repeatedly now for 10 years,
01:59:43.420is that Europe needs to stop spending its money on a bunch of wasteful welfare policies
02:03:08.020I was just asking her how, if she liked, I was asking Sarah, and I was asking her what she thought of today's show on a scale from 1 to 13.6.
02:04:37.900You know, he said he would give him a chance or whatever, but it sounded like how I would sound if I was describing a nominee I didn't like.