The New York Times has a story that the President has called treasonous. The U.S. is stepping up cyber warfare against Russia, Bitcoin is back up to 9,000, and the poll numbers are not as bad for Trump as everybody is saying.
00:00:43.080And this time it's all institutional money.
00:00:45.800Is this the time that we've been talking about coming for about two years where the big money gets in after they've torn it apart so they can make large sums of money?
00:01:58.180Today's show is what I've wanted to do for months and I haven't been able to just haven't been able to put it in.
00:02:20.200I haven't been able to get it in my mind exactly right yet, and I've decided just to do it, even though I don't feel it's exactly right.
00:02:29.540But I feel an urgency and have for quite some time to talk to you about a few things.
00:02:37.080And if you have a chance to listen to today's show, listen as long as you possibly can or go back and listen to the podcast.
00:02:44.220You'll find this show every day on podcast on iTunes or wherever you find your podcast and you can listen to it at your convenience.
00:02:51.940But today I think is an important one.
00:02:53.400And we're going to start by talking about what was in the New York Times.
00:02:56.500I don't know if you you read it or you just read the headlines, but the New York Times has come out with something that the president says is treason.
00:03:11.200And I guess I can understand that, but I don't agree with it because it was all vetted, apparently.
00:03:17.980And it it states it in the article through the State Department and the NSA and John Bolton.
00:03:25.720But here's what here's the basic gist of the story.
00:03:32.800Let me just give you the first paragraph.
00:03:34.080The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia's electric power grid in a warning to President Putin in a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cyber tools more aggressively.
00:03:48.960Currently, current and former government officials say now, this is the problem with it.
00:03:53.720They say it's current and former former officials.
00:03:59.420In interviews over the past three months, the officials describe the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia's grid and other targets as classified companion to a more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow's disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections.
00:04:18.960Advocates for the more aggressive strategy say it's long overdue after years of public warnings from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI that Russia has inserted malware that could sabotage American power plants, oil and gas pipelines or water supplies in any future conflict within the United States.
00:04:38.540Okay, this to me is something that we have been talking to you forever about.
00:04:45.640We have been begging someone in the government to pay attention to this.
00:04:49.960The Putin says that we are already in World War Three.
00:04:54.440He made this announcement to a group of Western reporters, oh, probably about four years ago.
00:04:59.620And he said the the governments of the West just don't understand it yet.
00:05:04.340But the next war is going to be all ones and zeros.
00:05:07.720And so there's not going to be necessarily bombs falling from the sky with us.
00:05:14.520Now, imagine if you fry our electric grid, the chaos that would ensue just in a week.
00:05:21.040But if you could find a way like an EMP to destroy us, 95 percent of all Americans die within the first year if you just keep our electricity off.
00:06:32.560Now, this is very controversial to say.
00:06:34.780And I know a lot in the media will disagree with this.
00:06:38.000But all you have to do is read their words and take people at their word.
00:06:43.120When they say they're going to kill you, you should take them at their word.
00:06:47.280It's the reason why in 99 I saw Osama bin Laden as a threat and said that he would blow up buildings and there would be body and blood and buildings in the streets of Manhattan.
00:06:56.000Before the next decade, or I said the next 10 years, and it would have Osama bin Laden's name on it.
00:07:02.700It was called crazy at the time, but it was not a prediction.
00:07:07.040It was looking at his words and saying, this is what he says he's going to do.
00:07:26.960They believe that if they can cause chaos by shutting down or destroying America and Israel, they will hasten the return of the promised one.
00:07:39.300Think of it as, you know, bringing think of it as a group of crazy Christians who are like, you know what?
00:07:45.780I'm tired of waiting for the second coming, so I'm just going to make sure that I help cause Armageddon.
00:07:51.400That's what the Iranians believe they are compelled to do.
00:10:51.920We have to do a show on Cyber Command.
00:10:53.460But in a public appearance Tuesday, President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton,
00:10:59.000said the United States was now taking a broader view of potential digital targets as part of an effort to say to Russia or anyone else,
00:11:07.500quoting, that is engaged in cyber operations against us, you will pay a price, end quote.
00:11:14.040Power grids have been a low intensity battleground for years.
00:11:17.680Since 2012, current and former officials say the United States has put reconnaissance probes into the control systems of the Russian electric grid.
00:11:27.320But now the American strategy has shifted more towards offense, officials say,
00:11:32.880with the placement of potentially crippling malware inside Russian systems at a depth and with an aggressiveness that has never been tried before.
00:11:41.820It is intended partly as a warning and partly to be poised as a direct cyber strike if a major conflict broke out between Moscow and Russia.
00:11:53.980The commander said that it's time to defend forward.
00:11:58.740They don't fear us, he said to the Senate a year ago during his confirmation hearings,
00:12:03.460but finding a way to calibrate those responses so they deter attacks without inciting dangerous escalation has been the source of constant debate.
00:12:11.140Mr. Trump issued new authorities to cyber command last summer in a still classified document known as the National Security Presidential Memorandum 13,
00:12:24.520giving General Nakasun far more leeway to conduct offensive online operations without receiving presidential approval.
00:12:33.100So when people said, well, the president probably didn't know about it, could be, could be because he gave this far reaching authority to cyber command last summer.
00:12:46.600The action inside the Russian electric grid appears to have been conducted under a little known new legal authorities.
00:12:53.100Listen to the way this is slipped in to the military authorization bill passed by Congress last summer.
00:13:01.020This is why we don't do those big omnibus.
00:13:05.480The measure approved the routine conduct of clandestine military activity in cyber state in cyberspace to deter, safeguard or defend against attacks or malicious cyber activities
00:13:38.580You don't keep giving power to different authorities.
00:13:42.280I don't know when we're going to get that, but nobody in Washington seems to get it yet.
00:13:49.080More on this and what it means and what you can do about it coming up in just a second.
00:14:02.820So I just want to give you a couple of other things.
00:14:05.220Both Nakasun and Mr. Bolton, through a spokesman, declined to answer questions about the incursions into Russia's grid.
00:14:11.120Officials of the National Security Council also declined to comment, but said that they had no national security concerns about the details of the New York Times reporting
00:14:20.520about the targeting of the Russian grid, perhaps an indication that some of the intrusions were intended to be noticed by the Russians.
00:15:35.460He knows about it, but this gives him, you know, some, some possible credibility when sitting down at the table with Moscow of, I, you know,
00:15:46.180what Vlad a little out of control there.
00:17:05.860There's disease that is starting to run out of control.
00:17:09.160We could fix this quickly, get the Democrats to sit down at the table.
00:17:14.860I think that would have been a good way for him to, uh, to handle this.
00:17:18.680Now, with this being said, I want to couple this with what we have learned from the last couple of weeks.
00:17:27.120Here we have, uh, a known enemy that is trying to cripple us.
00:17:34.340They, we know that if world war three, God forbid ever does breakout, we know that the life that we currently live will be disrupted, may not be over, but it will be disrupted.
00:17:48.840We hope that our people can disrupt them faster than they can disrupt us and get us back onto our feet.
00:17:56.160But we know that this, uh, is, is coming, if not in our lifetime, our children's lifetime, and it's going to be a big burden.
00:18:06.800Everything we have, everything we have, everything we have, everything we have, is digital.
00:18:13.180Now, that's not the only threat to everything we have.
00:20:04.340And he has been historically very, very accurate in the way he reads polls and the, and the, uh, the polls that we should pay attention to and not pay attention to.
00:20:15.860So I wanted to get his read on what is really happening with the polls.
00:20:20.640And is the president in as much trouble as the press would have you believe?
00:21:37.400I think kind of one of the important things you're seeing in the media is people basically saying Donald Trump is firing his pollsters because they showed him losing as if like he's, you know, he, if they were winning, he would have loved it.
00:22:16.860So the reason why these people are getting fired is because they believe the links, the leaks came from these pollsters.
00:22:22.440They believe these people went out there, took these polls, realized that the Trump administration was never going to let them out and decided to leak them out.
00:22:46.120No, I mean, that was interesting in that with Sarah Huckabee Sanders leaving, that was one of the people, you know, she hasn't been doing a lot of press conferences.
00:22:54.240However, she's become a pretty central advisor to him and one of the few people that he believed he could trust.
00:23:00.660I mean, Bill O'Reilly, as you pointed out, said nobody.
00:24:26.160The minute he stages, the minute he steps on his stage with Elizabeth Warren, she's done.
00:24:30.400The Elizabeth Warren thing is fascinating because it's as if the Democrats learned nothing.
00:24:35.040It's like, take Hillary Clinton and then pop with, you know, give her, fill her with, like, really leftist policies.
00:24:41.960So you'll not only lose her because of the style and her incompetence on the campaign, but you'll also lose a lot of people in the middle because they think she's too much of a socialist.
00:24:50.440Where, you know, Hillary at least tried to hide that.
00:25:18.160But if you look at that and you say, which candidate is performing best against a Donald Trump and you see Joe Biden is usually number one in all these recent polls that have come out publicly, he's beating Trump by the most.
00:25:33.860And you see people who are still have large amounts of the Democrats and America, especially who have no idea who they are.
00:25:40.440I mean, people don't have no idea who Pete Buttigieg is yet.
00:26:11.940And I think the media's take on this, which is just trying to say, oh, Donald Trump is is shallow and he doesn't want to see people losing.
00:27:45.640Otherwise, Donald Donald Trump would not be president.
00:27:49.140They are looking for somebody who who who really understands what we're facing today, or at least represents that.
00:27:56.580I will tell you, if I were if I were if I were king of the political media and I was on Donald Trump's side, I would be saying to Donald Trump and his allies, all of the people who are the 501 C3s, all of the people who are working for the president's reelection but are not connected to him.
00:28:17.980They should really just concentrate on what the hell has happened to America.
00:28:23.960They should be doing all of the stuff about, you know, gay bathroom.
00:28:28.760Are we not gay bathrooms trans transitional bathrooms?
00:28:31.980All the things that have made people uncomfortable, the silencing of voices, the crazy political correctness that's going on.
00:28:40.720I would concentrate on the left and how crazy it has become and and and show the future using their own words behind the scenes and show this is not who you are.
00:29:28.820But even that wasn't reasonable enough because that's not where we're headed.
00:29:33.280And him just doing a very positive morning in America show who we really can be not in the past show who we can be, that our future is right here.
00:31:35.220But the poll results overall for 2016 were actually really solid when it comes to the nationwide one.
00:31:43.080And honestly, the bigger lesson to learn, and this is a lesson that I certainly learned in the primary, was in the primary, like, remember, Donald Trump led all the polls.
00:31:52.680People forget because at the very end, everyone thought Hillary Clinton was going to win and Donald Trump won.
00:31:57.120Well, remember, the polls also existed for the primary.
00:31:59.880And the primary said over and over again for months, despite all the fundamentals, despite all the things that said the opposite, that Donald Trump should win the primary and is leading the primary.
00:32:11.820So in reality, like, looking at these polls and completely dismissing them is probably a little bit foolish.
00:32:20.560However, again, a lot can change in a presidential election.
00:32:24.140And, you know, remember, it was only a few weeks before the election happened when you have, you know, the Access Hollywood tape coming out and polls are swinging towards Hillary Clinton with these large margins.
00:32:34.540And he was able to whittle away at that and come all the way back to almost even in the popular vote right towards the end.
00:32:41.860He hasn't started any, you know, messaging here.
00:32:45.120The idea that because here's some of the results.
00:44:09.380And then the pilgrims, they all tried socialist, you know, it wasn't called socialism then, but they all tried this way.
00:44:15.900You know, we'll all decide and we'll all just put our money in a big heap and it doesn't work.
00:44:20.360Um, the, the, uh, a really big experiment happened in Texas, believe it or not.
00:44:27.200And if you ever look at the, uh, skyline of Texas, just Google it real quick and you'll see a big ball around ball and it's lit up at night and it's the reunion tower.
00:44:39.080Nobody knows what the reunion tower is.
00:45:41.400We were going to try a socialist experiment in America and in the West.
00:45:47.700It will, it will end exactly the same way.
00:45:52.240And it's amazing to me that people have not been taught the difference between the free market and what we're doing now, which is crony capitalism.
00:46:05.060The reason why this is failing in many ways is because of many of the things that the socialists are doing in companies like Google and Facebook.
00:46:33.760So the things that we hate about capitalism, crony capitalism, that these companies just get bigger and bigger and they don't have to abide by the laws that you have to abide to.
00:46:43.160Why is it that that Google and Facebook are having a problem right now?
00:46:48.960They're having a problem because they they don't have to pick between a publisher being a publisher where they edit and they're responsible and you can sue them or a platform, which is just an open platform and everyone can say whatever they want on it.
00:47:03.800Well, they don't want that they want both.
00:47:06.860They want to have a platform that they can edit if they choose, but not get sued if they don't choose the right ones or don't catch something because they're a platform, but have all the the benefits of being a publisher as well in control speech.
00:47:22.600Why, why, why are we having a problem because it's in bed with the government?
00:47:27.740Why are we having a problem with so many things?
00:48:30.780Therefore, everybody having their fair shot.
00:48:33.140While they're in bed with people like Google and Facebook, who will do nothing but enforce whatever it is they believe by any means necessary.
00:48:44.640That last line, she said, should not be taken lightly by any means necessary.
00:48:54.760No, you got to break a lot of eggs to make an omelet.
00:48:57.480You just listen to George Soros in his own words on 60 Minutes when he said, look, so a lot of people, you know, they hurt, but you know, it's kind of fun doing this.
00:49:09.380You're destroying people and you're destroying people and you don't care because it's not about the individual.
00:49:15.940It's for the greater good and there is no greater good without the individual.
00:49:22.480It becomes a it becomes a greater nightmare.
00:49:34.720They have made sure that our children are not educated in this and that our values and our principles are being sidelined and being silenced and discredited every step of the way.
00:49:47.040And we need to draw a line in the sand and say, no more, not a not an inch further and preserve those things in our own life, in our own homes and make sure that we know how this story usually ends.
00:50:02.560And we write ourselves into the story.
00:55:11.180If dads, dads deserve a day of looking up and saying, hey, thanks, dad, because it's, it's a hard job and harder than working construction.