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Today, we try to answer the question, is it a concentration camp or is it a health spa?
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We take you to Australia today on today's program.
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biden came out uh last week okay enough biden came out last week and talked about um the supply
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chain and said it's not going to be a problem well let me just tell you the food and drug
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administration is now warning that the supply chain bottleneck is threatening the availability
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of over a hundred pharmaceutical products according to the website the agency has asked
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manufacturers to evaluate their entire supply chain including active pharmaceutical ingredients
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finished dosed forms and any components yeah they're saying that there might be some shortage on of heart
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medications antibiotics and cancer drugs but other than that santa claus is coming to town
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this is this is what biden said if you've watched the news recently you might think the shelves in
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all our stores are empty and parents won't be able to get presents for their children on the holidays
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but here's the deal no joke for the vast majority of the country that's not happening
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seriously because of the actions of the administration that we've taken in partnership
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with business and labor retailers and grocery stores and properties
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now i can't promise everybody's gonna get the gift they want on time only santa claus can keep that
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promise i also can't promise you that you can get your cancer treatments or your
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uh you know or your your blood pressure medicine or heart medicine because well it's not happening okay
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um i think maybe we should start taking things seriously has this government done anything
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to protect our critical infrastructure the first thing we should have done after covid was hey
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we're going to make sure that medicine is available here that we actually make some critical ingredients
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for medicines we didn't do it now instead we made sure that we have critical infrastructure in case
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there's ever a war we have a strategic oil reserve except let's open it up for gasoline
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because well we shut down all the pipelines and gas is getting really really pricey
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so let's open up the strategic oil reserves and make the price go down 1.8 cents
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not two cents 1.8 uh when are we going to replace that in our strategic oil reserves
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i want to talk to uh i want to talk to tim stewart he is the president of the u.s oil and gas association
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hi tim how are you glenn good morning i feel like 1973 all over again doesn't it
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it's crazy so hang on full disclosure uh tim is the brother of uh the guy who runs my ranch listen to this
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you want to talk about a family the guy who runs my ranch who also happens to be he was a full bird
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bird colonel was he not in the air force he was yeah yeah uh your brother your other brother is a federal
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judge and your other brother your other brother is a congressman but other than this lazy family stuff
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what do you have to show for it this is what you probably ought to meet you probably ought to meet
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my sisters actually because my sisters are far more impressive than the deadbeat brothers that
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are in the family i'm the weak link in all of this i'm the weak link in all of this so i understand
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right i know you're only the president of u.s oil and gas association so so tell me um what is
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happening and what what's true uh on the oil and gas situation what are we really expecting
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well sure but first you know you start out talking supply chain there's 6 000 items that are made
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from petroleum products you know that's everything from toolboxes and petroleum jelly to football cleats
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and everything else and you can't address the supply chain constraints without addressing the
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ingredients and the base materials that go into building out the supply chain the supplies for
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the chain and the administration i think is uh you know when i say we're going back to 1973 it really
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is i've been telling people like you call it feckless you call it reckless but it sure is an energy policy
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glenn what you have is uh i think i think you have a situation where people energy policy is being
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dictated by people who haven't driven themselves to work for years this is the classic
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administration you know wall street white shoe dc law firm revolving door where people who have been
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picked up in black sedans for years are now being driven to their offices to make energy policy for
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the rest of us it's really really frustrating for those of us schleps who actually have to fill up
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twice a week so can we go back to where you started before we go to gas let's go back the the products
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that are made from petroleum um you know i used to be a good friend before he passed away
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of john huntsman and i went to his office and in his lobby he had this like miniature house that
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was cut in half and it showed everything that petroleum was involved in and i mean it's everything
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it's everything right how does it how does the the uh the world live without a healthy supply of
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petroleum well it's you know it's not just gasoline and that that i think is where the administration
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really uh misses the mark is is they think well we can drop two cents from actions that we did or
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didn't take and boy look how great we are but the reality is is anybody who is waiting for anything
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to be made or is trying to make anything relies solely on this base material of which we have in
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absolute abundance across the world and particularly in the u.s and yet for whatever reason this is sort
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of that that ideological approach that if it is something that may or may not contribute to a
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carbon footprint then it's bad and that's the whole problem i think is is you have this administration
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and this confluence of events where administration arrives at the same time as demand is starting to
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increase after covid and that administration starts to make bad decisions on day one and literally every
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week they make bad decisions with regards to how do we ensure a basic supply of the basic materials we
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need well now we're now we're talking i mean they just did and talking about opening it up a second
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time the strategic oil reserve which i'm not for when a republican president does it that is for strategic
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purposes and uh you know maybe that's to keep the gas price down if you know it's going to come back
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down but with this administration if they continue to follow what they're doing gas prices or oil prices
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will not come down they'll get higher and higher as they squeeze even tighter and tighter on these
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companies am i right you're you know you're exactly right and if i could just for a second you know
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the administration opened up the strategic petroleum reserve and in response to being told
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no by opec you know they went to opec and begged please increase production well no we're going to
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keep it at what we had planned they told them and so the administration came back and said well
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we need to show we need to do something so uh see what do we do let's dust off the old marxist playbook
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that was used by venezuela let's one accuse industry of being a cartel or colluding for for higher prices
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than two we'll we'll drop more out of this strategic petroleum reserve some perspective
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50 million barrels sounds like a big number reality is glenn that represents one half of one day of
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global energy consumption it's less than two and a half days of u.s consumption but the white house
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wanted to say black we're releasing 50 million barrels because it sounds like a big number but
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compared to global crude consumption it's it's a rounding error it's tiny and the markets laughed it
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off you know within six hours the price of crude had actually increased so so it was
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sorry go ahead i'm i'm baffled myself i just say yeah i i i mean it is it is so obvious
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does do you think anybody believes that this administration is doing anything other than
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crippling the oil industry i mean do you have any research or anything that shows perception
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from people we'll see that and that's a great question you know we we sit and we scratch our
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heads we we say are they doing this on purpose are they doing this because they don't understand
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and if they don't because they don't understand then they're feckless if they're doing it on purpose
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then they're reckless and that takes me back to my my first point you know um this series of bad
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decisions and and literally it's almost week by week the reality is is um you know like i didn't buy
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president if i had a poker night i didn't buy president by biden to poker night because he
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is the worst poker player i've ever seen he sends mick he sends mixed messages all the time and every
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single day that goes to the markets and that's why the markets are are fluctuating because they can't
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figure out exactly where the administration is going well wait what what is the mixed message here
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on oil and gas great you know great question okay so on one hand they say well you know we're
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going to do everything we can to to help consumers and then literally the next day they will take an
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action that will constrain industry's ability to produce the biggest the biggest subtle signal glenn
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goes to wall street continuously uh they will use they're using financial rules they're using the sec
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the office of comptroller currency they're using the ftc and others to send subtle messages to wall
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street to say our policy says that you should not you should not invest in fossil fuel projects
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and so it's really easy to send a bank examiner in to a mid-sized bank and say let me look at your
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portfolio i see that you've got maybe three percent of your portfolio is investing in
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fossil fuels so what have you factored in the climate risk to that and the bank manager says well
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maybe not and so he walks out and says let's just unload this and what's happening is you've seen a
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squeeze of liquidity particularly for the smaller players on wall street where they can't get their
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capital expenditure budgets funded for the next couple of years because of the uncertainty the
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administration sends and it's meant and it's messages every day well they they said the the
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administration or who was it stew was it carrie came out and said the especially the small producers
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we will put them out of business yeah i mean that how how how much of our of our daily life is affected
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by the small producers but it's not the same amount that is affected by a small farmer to be honest with
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you agriculture and and the gas industry are very closely aligned in how there's how they structure you
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have a few large large players in the ag industry but it's the thousands and thousands of small farmers
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who actually make up the volume the same with oil and gas you have a few players that everybody
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identifies as big oil and beats them up where the reality is there's thousands of smaller companies
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who create and who create a tremendous volume uh and add to the portfolio day by day and it's those guys
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that are getting hit hardest when they can't get their their budgets uh uh approved by their lenders
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because wall street is is telling them don't do it because the administration is telling wall street not
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to do it so i've been i've been begging the audience to get their money out of these big lenders
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because of this and other things like it they are fully in bed with a great reset and esg standards
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which will strangle all of us to death um and uh and so i've been urging people please tell them and
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then move your money to a local bank um tell them while why you are taking your money out because
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of the esg standards you want nothing to do with it it's not going to fix the problem but it will
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certainly buy time and send a message hopefully to the market the banking market what else can we do
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well you know keep using the product for sure well i don't think i have a choice
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but yeah you know and and look i i've been doing this a long time i tell people it's a fool's errand
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to bet against this industry uh it is cyclical in nature and the reality is is that we produce
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exactly what people need and we'll keep doing that regardless of who is who is dictating policy right now
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there is a problem though glenn that that nobody talks about the white house the white house avoids at
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all at all costs and that is this issue of energy poverty and you know it's easy for me to say to
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people use our product but when the reality is look we're industries cognizant of of this fluctuating
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price mark and how hard it is for people and energy poverty is something very very real you know i don't
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know if you saw this but uh there's a gallup poll that came out last week that said 45 percent of
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americans reporting financial hardship triggered by increased prices yep seven in ten lower american households
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are experiencing real hardship and that's pushing millions of people back into what we're calling
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energy poverty it's the because you make rational decisions do i drive the 40 miles to the doctor
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do i do it on tuesday or do i do it on friday because i don't know if i can afford the fill-up for
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the rest of the week that's really concerning to us you know and uh i'm really i'm really concerned very
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really very concerned tim about this winter i mean there are a lot of people that you know use oil and
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gas for their furnace that are going to have to not not just say do i go to the doctor but do i turn the
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heat up um and that's i mean we are we're i don't think no one in the media and certainly no one in the
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administration is addressing this issue and they're pretending that it's not going to exist but it is
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it's already here right and so you know if people say well what would you tell the administration to
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do glenn i say i would say if i were to tell the president say look whatever you're going to do
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don't do it in fact they need you to stop trying to help anymore the biggest help you would do would
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be is to go back and undo what you've done since january when i said you know i'm earlier he's a
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he's a lousy poker player all he would have to do to send a signal to the saudis
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and the russians if he were to stand up and say instead of i'm going to release money or release
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oil out of the petroleum reserve or something else if you're to stand up and say i'm going to sign an
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executive order that removes all unnecessary regulatory impediments to industry and get us
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back to where we were two years ago that would send an incredibly powerful mark market signal and i
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guarantee you that prices would drop rapidly over the next few weeks and those americans would be able
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to afford it tim a couple of quick questions for you when barack obama uh stopped the drilling uh
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the deep sea drilling uh in the gulf of mexico i remember uh talking to oil experts and they said
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those things are on long-term lease you get rid of them it's going to be a long time before they're
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able even to come back and you just don't build a new one quickly can we reverse this is there going
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to be damage done in the next three years that is irreversible well so give it to some perspective
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when obama took uh office uh the the federal oil and natural gas production was about 24 or sorry about
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36 percent uh when he left it had dropped uh down to about uh 24 and natural gas had dropped to 13
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and a lot of that is reflecting on not just the offshore but also his onshore constraints and uh
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essentially they devalued the federal oil and gas assets where it is almost worth nothing the industry
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is very very reticent to try and pursue any federal onshore leases in particular uh it's just not worth
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the regulatory risk locking up the capital for 16 17 years um one last uh one last thing do you have any
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idea of what you think i think gas is going to be i mean it just hit five dollars a gallon in california
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this weekend any idea what we could be facing in the next few months well you know a lot of that is so
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there's so many unknowns i mean with that covet variant had caused a much greater uh drop in in
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crude prices than anything biden did uh but we imagine we're seeing production inventory start to
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stabilize um from industry's perspective we don't like oil that's in the 80 dollars a barrel it's too
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it's too uh difficult for us and so we're doing everything we can to to get production up to where
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it needs to be despite the federal uh intervention that's there to keep us from doing that we're
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hopeful we get down to americans can get back to work and and do what they need to do tim stewart
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president of the u.s oil and gas association uh thank you for being on with us god bless you that was great
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stew and i were just talking off air about the metaverse and believe it or not the metaverse is
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coming and we're going to be talking about it uh beginning next year uh but you ready for this
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land prices land prices in the metaverse they're now going for as high as six million dollars for a
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piece of land that doesn't exist and i'm trying to get my arms around this uh and find a way to explain
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it um because it is going to be a factor and it's going to happen much faster than anybody thinks
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uh and you need to be prepared to to understand it because if you're not going into the inner
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you um the metaverse i guarantee your children will and it will become one of those it will become
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something as as essential and i say that with air quotes as essential as a smartphone now
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because i don't like this version of the metaverse yeah which is where we just stare at our phones and
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and don't talk to each other yeah right i don't even like that let alone what this could be well
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let's go back to the real universe the actual one where there are yet some consequences um
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chris cuomo the fredo of the family was put into the little boat and taken fishing by cnn this weekend
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that's nice yeah nice little trip out to the water yeah you should see the godfather anyway um
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um so fredo is out on the boat and um when they come when you know the guy who took him fishing
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comes back and goes i don't know what happened he was uh lost at sea along with my shotgun anyway um
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they don't say what fredo did to finally get him fired this is a really interesting part of this story
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obviously we all know what cuomo has done that should have gotten him fired correct you know everything
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from helping his brother to completely failing as a host uh to lying to the network to lying to his
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own audience to previous sexual harassment allegations that were confirmed basically by
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chris cuomo himself right all of those things did not rise to the level for nope for cnn to do anything
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now eventually they did suspend him and they suspended him based on i think a couple of things one
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there were there was some additional information that came out from the state of new york and we
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covered this a little bit last week probably the worst part of this was he was actually targeting
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one of the women and calling sources to get information on one of the women but that still
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wasn't bad enough for cnn right then he also was outed as lying not only to the audience but but to the
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network itself so it's one thing to actually break every journalistic piece of ethics that's ever
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happened in the history of mankind where even their own jake tapper himself came out and said no
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journalist could possibly think this was okay this is back in may and he still didn't do anything
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so he crosses this line where now he's not only lying to the audience and you know ruining journalism
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but he's also now embarrassed his employers so and that's hard the brian stelter uh came out
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and said on saturday uh that cuomo had quote caused so many headaches and many staff members at cnn
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were very unhappy at their decision this is fascinating because number one stelter said earlier he'll be
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back in january he was the one person who was really kind of on the optimistic cuomo train here that
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he might actually be back there's a lot of reporting that he was done with zucker because of the
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embarrassment he might have had a crush on him maybe he was thinking maybe somebody will grab my butt
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i i don't know some people like different things we do have the stelter uh quote by the way it's a
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this is clip uh five uh listen to this this is about a confluence of factors about a series of headaches
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that seemed like they were never going to end i said on the air last night when the news broke this
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seems like a case of death by a thousand cuts and my reporting sense backs that assessment up this
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was about not any single headache but many headaches no that continued to pile up a hundred thousand in
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the demo will do that to you yeah uh yeah he was he was dying the ratings were dying and anderson
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cooper came in and they went up which is not a huge surprise i suppose but i i think one of the uh
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issues here um which is bizarre is that the the last cut of the thousand cuts appears to be a brand
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new sexual harassment allegation against chris cuomo that apparently has popped up over just the past few
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days and when it was reported to cnn i said okay we just got to get this over with we got to just we
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got to pull the plug on this this is this is a disaster now they don't want to go through another
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investigation on this which is what they'd probably have to do it comes through a prominent lawyer
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we don't know any of the details really yet although the two things that we know is that
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she's remaining anonymous and that it seemingly was pre-2013 so it's an older allegation uh not a
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brand new one well how old were you when you were in 2013 it seems like ancient history yeah actually i
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will say it does feel like ancient history for other reasons but not for an allegation like this
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so this this is coming from the woman who is representing the health policy advisor in cuomo's
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administration so that that lawyer was approached by this new person that said i can't take it anymore
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yes i'm watching him on tv saying these things this is just like last week or the week before and i
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cannot take it anymore and went in and filed and she's like look i just i don't want any attention
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i don't want anything i just can't take his constant lies and his imaging of himself as a saint it's
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interesting that that has been a common trigger for these allegations you know it's one thing to go up
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there to apparently just sexually harass people but it's later on you kind of have that instance where
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the host is saying something on television and you know the the victim the alleged victim is sitting
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at home and hearing wait a minute this is the same thing we've heard with don lemon right don lemon
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had this incident reportedly with or you know allegedly with this guy at a bar i don't think it's a legend
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i i mean there's all kinds of people that were there he's denying it so back it up there but yes
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but there are there are there does seem to be a significant amount of evidence that at least the
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event occurred i mean some of this other allegations on the side of that it's hard to know but at least
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that the event occurred in some form yes anyway uh it wasn't until he went on the air and said you know
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correct all these things about how allegations need to be taken seriously and i've always stood up for
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women in these situations it wasn't until that that the accuser came forward same thing here we've seen
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this multiple times now where andrew cuomo himself the same thing happened to him where he uh initially
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said to the first accusers basically i didn't do anything what are you talking about and took this
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high-minded stance and that that uh inspired his other victims uh allegedly to come forward and say okay i
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wasn't gonna say anything but now that you're doing this i have to which is an amazing and it's
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and is so utterly predictable when you know the cuomo's characters i mean i'm at the point glenn i'm not
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going to have anybody to talk about anymore they're all getting fired i it is a 100 unemployment rate as
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a babylon b said in the in the cuomo household it's worse it's a hundred percent unemployment it is it's
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sad i mean i i feel like i what am i gonna do i've based my household budget on andrew cuomo and
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chris cuomo merchandise i have to reform my entire household but no no private school anymore sorry
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kids now they're collectibles oh now they're collectibles now they're collectibles by the
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way available at andrew cuomo was awful.com or chris cuomo is worse.com but you're right like it is at
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that point where it's it's so uh over the top and you know the cuomo thing has gone down the the roll
00:28:21.200
the rails so fast remember this when andrew was going down when it was finally they came to the
00:28:27.840
end of the road with andrew and they realized this is not savable one thing they did was to leak to
00:28:33.760
every media source covering this before it happened so it was in all the initial stories
00:28:38.720
that chris cuomo actually was the one who pushed andrew over the over the edge and said you must
00:28:44.400
resign it's time they tried everything they could to save the secondary layer of cuomo's from the fall
00:28:51.600
of the first layer of cuomo's and they were unsuccessful in doing it chris was so out of control and so
00:28:58.400
acted so poorly throughout all of this that they couldn't even save him this is after uh losing
00:29:04.400
andrew i think this is a really good development look they say that you know cnn wasn't affected
00:29:12.480
cnn was greatly affected greatly affected not only in their credibility and exposed who they really
00:29:19.840
are because they still have don lemon and they have uh what's his name jack uh
00:29:24.560
you know jack uh jeffrey toobin yes jeffrey toobin so uh so anyway uh they still have toobin and they
00:29:38.800
still have don lemon so they really they are they haven't changed but the key is andrew cuomo or i
00:29:46.080
mean uh chris cuomo had lost so many viewers none of us are counted in that law i don't know
00:29:54.480
know of a soul in this audience was like you know but i really liked andrew cuomo i was watching
00:29:59.680
that show no matter what anybody says yeah no that is hardcore cnn zombies okay and uh he that audience
00:30:09.680
was going away went away went away that's a good thing that shows that even the hardcore people are
00:30:17.840
like okay okay i mean i've hit my limits here i've hit rock bottom yeah i think i'm gonna stop
00:30:25.200
drinking this kool-aid it is i think i think it's a positive i i you know i i don't think they had any
00:30:32.400
intention of getting rid of them rid of him if they could have weathered it and i think they hit that
00:30:36.960
limit where even they said there's just no there's no argument anymore it's possible that the leadership at
00:30:43.840
cnn felt so personally burned by andrew cuomo after in you know it's like it's like remember
00:30:50.080
hillary clinton when she came out she's like it's a vast right-wing conspiracy yeah yeah and then
00:30:54.160
we've proven obviously to be true it was so embarrassing to hillary right and everyone said
00:31:01.680
at the time like i can't believe she's going to stay with him just because of that i mean it's just
00:31:05.680
she made he made her go out in public and and defend him with what he knew was a lie
00:31:11.840
and that is i think part of the thing i honestly think that they would have fired him if it was
00:31:17.520
that before this this is good now this right it's too much yeah it's just i can't i what else is there
00:31:28.160
going to be if we ignore this one what else is coming next i think and you listen to stelter's
00:31:34.080
commentary on it he's right i think yeah that's the first time i do think he's right on the analysis
00:31:39.120
there they were so overwhelmed by his terrible behavior over such a long period of time they
00:31:45.360
eventually hit their wall any but normal journalistic organization would have hit it
00:31:50.400
on day one oh yeah yeah yeah but they it took them a year and a half no he hit the he's like a crash
00:31:55.920
test dummy that just put the car back into reverse backed up and slammed against the wall over and
00:32:02.160
over and over again they're following gm's like okay all right enough
00:32:22.800
jason buttrill is uh with us now hello jason hello how are you sir uh well you know i was fine until uh
00:32:30.240
you kind of read off that little list of everything going on in the world yeah i mean i was good until
00:32:35.040
then but aren't you glad that the grown-ups are not at the table oh i am great i am it's really
00:32:40.560
good boy we're being taken seriously around the world now yes and you know every time i think that
00:32:45.520
i'm done looking at ukraine they just pull me right back in i just get pulled right back it's like
00:32:50.960
godfather three oh it's just about out and they pulled me back in this is interesting so this came out
00:32:57.680
i think it was the new york times uh that u.s intelligence has now said that 170 000 russian
00:33:03.520
troops yes they'll be involved in an invasion they're saying as early as 2022 that's in a few
00:33:08.960
months anytime in a few months so like basically tomorrow yeah they're saying this could happen
00:33:13.680
and it's a big deal and normally i would think and you know i don't think putin would pull that
00:33:18.240
trigger oh yeah he is i i think he's definitely at that point of course he will and you you you can't
00:33:24.640
blame him you look at the things that i mean i never would have thought afghanistan would happen
00:33:29.120
it did happen and normally i give our leaders the benefit of the doubt on well something must have
00:33:33.680
happened no no i i think that they're just actually incompetent and i also think that they don't care
00:33:37.840
because i think they want america to return to that mediocre less than mediocre status i think that's
00:33:43.760
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a promo code that's like i need a personal um glenn 20 glenn 20 yeah um you look at some of the things
00:34:31.280
that they've done that have completely undermine our ability to just even keep stability without
00:34:35.200
having to send armed forces things that we would not do if you were being serious things were done
00:34:39.920
on the trump administration but he never got credit for like green lighting the pipeline that would
00:34:44.800
completely circumvent ukraine north stream too yep we're like why is he doing this like what is is
00:34:50.160
he working on some other kind of backroom deal like like if trump would have done this there's
00:34:55.360
all you know he's working with the russians working with the russians putin's bottom you know yeah but
00:35:00.480
biden did that and it completely kind of gave up the trump card that ukraine had in some kind of
00:35:07.440
stability because the only thing stopping putin from just rolling straight through if he wanted to
00:35:12.640
was he would be just as decimated as ukraine would be you know economically but now that's
00:35:17.600
that's gone away and all of these eastern bloc countries that were on the edge uh poland
00:35:24.160
transylvania and others are they're all they're begging us they're all saying this is trouble this
00:35:30.640
is trouble you can't let him take uh the ukraine please because he's threatening all of them yeah um
00:35:37.520
the uh ukrainian defense minister this is how dire they see their situation right now just said uh i
00:35:42.960
think yesterday that he wants u.s canadian and british troops not a chance an actual physical
00:35:50.240
presence on the front line to deter what's about to happen so they see this they see the writing of
00:35:56.160
the wall they see this is coming um this is coming but we won't we're not coming so there's 70 000
00:36:02.000
troops on the border right now that's that's that's a conservative estimate there could be as
00:36:06.560
much as 90 000 that 170 000 troops and just put these numbers into context that's more than the
00:36:12.320
entire united kingdom military not just military army marines whatever the entire military wow that's
00:36:20.640
the type of numbers we're looking at how weak england is and we haven't taken them yet right we need to
00:36:26.880
correct that i mean that's ridiculous you could have that right for the taking the queen would be
00:36:31.840
ours um yes i i see this as similar to if you want to look at this in context like a 2008 georgia
00:36:40.160
situation now i think that i think that putin did that specifically because of ukraine what was going
00:36:45.440
on in ukraine that's when you started seeing those color revolutions popping up which george soros and
00:36:51.600
our state department was part of right exactly and yeah and was a part of through 2014 yep um but
00:36:58.880
it was a direct message for him to say look if you think that you're going to take a country that we
00:37:03.840
believe is ours if you think nato and the united states can protect you they can't what are they
00:37:08.080
going to do they're trying to get in bed with georgia we'll just invade georgia they did it we
00:37:12.240
couldn't do a thing about it that's exactly the same thing that's going to happen to ukraine
00:37:16.000
now is the time for him to deliver that message if you believe anywhere in the world that a
00:37:20.240
u.s guarantee of security means anything at all no and think of that taiwan taiwan japan uh any of
00:37:28.240
these eastern bloc countries that we say don't worry we got you bro let's see what they're gonna do
00:37:32.160
australia if things if things if they take taiwan everything is on the table everything is on the
00:37:39.680
table and i don't i i mean mr neocon jason i'm sure you want war all the time but uh i don't want to go
00:37:48.480
into ukraine uh but i'm telling you the result is going to be they're going to take ukraine they'll
00:37:55.440
end up they'll just start moving forward because once you let ukraine go once you let ukraine go
00:38:02.240
china will take taiwan because we're sending the signal united states is done and and now you see one of
00:38:10.240
the other tragedies of afghanistan we told them we'd be there for them we'd protect the people
00:38:15.120
that we said that we were going to protect and instead said they go no no i mean i'm not saying
00:38:19.680
and no i don't want war i don't want u.s troops to go into ukraine we've gone we've gone over and over
00:38:24.480
on this i want to stop being everywhere all the time i want to be where we should be strategically
00:38:30.480
with a very big stick and we're sitting back going no don't do that right but there's that there's
00:38:36.400
things diplomatically that we can do to ensure that these things don't come to a head that the
00:38:40.880
administration is just bungling like nordstream 2. why would you do that those are the things that
00:38:45.840
ensure that our men and women don't have to go fight correct those types of things but they're not
00:38:50.000
doing them they're going in the opposite direction so it makes you wonder i mean are they that stupid
00:38:55.680
probably yes yes yes yes yes but they also are that anti-american yeah and that is the global
00:39:02.480
agenda right now is to mediocre the entire world we are too powerful our own countrymen don't like
00:39:09.040
that they want us to get they want us to take a few shots they want us to step back more and more and
00:39:13.760
more not in the way that like we want to step back and you never see but i want to step back without
00:39:19.600
making the world more dangerous yeah you know and you can do that you just have to realize it's been a
00:39:26.720
hundred years in the making it's going to take a few years and really good strategic planning
00:39:35.760
to be able to back out yeah and we need to be backing out but not giving the world over to
00:39:42.560
russia and china right um i'd love to put these things in the context of the adversary and to see
00:39:48.640
like because i think a lot of people and a lot of people are asking me on twitter what what is the goal
00:39:51.440
here what why is russia doing this and you i mean i've done a lot of research on ukraine through the years
00:39:56.560
for you we did this i think in 2014-ish or something like that talking about when crimea was invaded
00:40:01.280
right and this is the national this is the soul this is the spiritual soul of russia there would
00:40:07.520
probably be no russian nation without ukraine yeah that's how serious it is for them and i think most
00:40:14.480
russians don't want a prolonged fight but there is a very large nationalist that you know nationalized
00:40:19.760
you know population in russia that they see that that's how they feel and putin knows this and they
00:40:24.960
always do this throughout the centuries they you know every leader knows how to turn up the dial
00:40:28.400
on nationalism whether it's the orthodox church whether it's like ukraine belarus they know what
00:40:32.480
you do the thing that's scary now is putin's hitting up all of them right now is he hitting
00:40:36.400
up the orthodox church hitting up the orthodox church that's really dangerous um belarus which
00:40:40.640
they believe is russia and ukraine which they believe is russia so they're turning those dials look
00:40:45.680
so what's going to happen i think that's the big question right now what happens if they invade i
00:40:49.520
see a couple of different outcomes now we could see exactly the same things we saw in crimea basically
00:40:54.960
russia was already there so all they did was send in their little you know little green men yep there
00:40:59.200
was not much not not much shots fired and they just took it right now russia already is involved in a
00:41:05.840
hot war in eastern ukraine it's not reported anywhere which is a tragedy ukrainians are dying probably daily
00:41:12.560
nobody reports on it and it's been going on since 2014 it's one of the sadder things in the world right
00:41:17.680
now it's one of the reasons why the guy from gazprom was i mean when we when we looked at you know
00:41:24.560
where not gazprom um the one that hunter biden was with oh burisma yeah burisma one of the things that
00:41:32.400
guy was doing was building an army for on the russian front if you will in ukraine he was using some of
00:41:41.440
that money that that we gave to burisma uh it just suddenly disappeared and we had evidence that
00:41:50.400
some of that money was going to fight that war it's been going on and on and on and on and we just
00:41:56.800
can't i guess we just can't decide which side we're on yeah a billionaire governor that that was
00:42:02.320
absolutely insane and you know i mean we were working with them the people that are in the
00:42:06.400
administration right now biden the point man for ukraine they know russia i mean putin is very
00:42:11.040
vindictive guy right he wants revenge he knows that those people in power were the ones that
00:42:15.360
facilitated the taking of ukraine from him yeah so now is the time if you want to do something
00:42:20.640
so what do you think that biden is going to do he's kind of backed himself into a corner on this
00:42:26.800
i mean it really was he had some leeway with the pipeline doesn't have that anymore i so he has a
00:42:31.680
call with putin tomorrow um they're supposed to call and discuss ukraine this is tomorrow this
00:42:36.000
is tuesday so everyone needs to watch what that's going to be like
00:42:41.680
the so embarrassing i mean so i'm here to talk about any of this stuff you just feel like as much
00:42:47.040
as we don't like him and it's for his policies it's terrifying as a nation to have a guy at the
00:42:52.080
wheel who's literally asleep i mean he's falling asleep in these meetings at least and there's some
00:42:57.040
reporting and to be on the phone with with with putin putin is i mean he was playing three-dimensional
00:43:03.600
chess he plays that kind of chess he you know in his sleep against someone who's sharp he's
00:43:09.520
difficult he's difficult here's a situation where you have someone who is as dull as dullards can be
00:43:15.360
but you know what i would rather have biden dealing with him than kamala can you imagine
00:43:22.560
kamala harris on the phone with putin this is just oh my god this is terrible option versus
00:43:29.200
terrible option would she just cackle and dance or something like that when she got moved she was
00:43:32.880
like i don't know how to kill um but to answer your question i think that uh i think that he's going to
00:43:41.120
be forced and do big concessions on that call tomorrow um that's what what are the concessions i
00:43:46.720
know that they don't want any kind of nato involvement in ukraine whatsoever that's a big red line for him
00:43:51.280
he's going to have to back down or hopefully he can convince the rest of nato to back down well if
00:43:55.520
he backs down if nato decides to back down does he still go in and take ukraine yes i believe he
00:44:03.600
will oh my gosh i mean they basically already control it but the the the the final step will
00:44:08.400
just be in this i think the best case scenario is he just moves his troops into eastern ukraine
00:44:13.360
formally annexes and waits for his next you know move further into ukraine yeah all he has to do is
00:44:19.040
really go and sow the seeds of chaos in ukraine i mean that's that is the playbook of the former
00:44:25.760
soviet union and then he can just go in with his tanks and saying i'm just repatriating and i'm just
00:44:32.720
trying to keep the peace in ukraine because it's so out of control right yeah and and i say best case
00:44:38.400
scenario that that's only best case not for ukraine but best case for the immediate you know no bloodshed
00:44:43.120
scenario um that that happens and it's it's like it's a ukraine it's a crimea part two so then let
00:44:48.480
me take let me take you to the next uh phase that happens first now let's go to jada so let's say he
00:44:59.280
goes in and uh he just annexes ukraine and we do nothing and nato does nothing what does that tell china
00:45:09.440
it tells them exactly what they learned from afghanistan that a u.s guarantee in a certain
00:45:15.840
area means nothing threats mean nothing um and the taiwan thing is a whole lot larger i think for
00:45:22.400
the taiwan is a knockout punch for the western world because they are the number one maker of chips
00:45:29.520
china is number two if china takes taiwan they dwarf everybody and you don't have chips for you know
00:45:39.440
80 of what we need chips for that taiwan and ukraine are very interesting because they're kind
00:45:44.480
of similar in the fact that those are american interests that will draw the united states into
00:45:48.560
a larger war i'll explain as quickly as i can but the last time someone went after the middle part of
00:45:54.880
central europe uh ukraine those other countries the united states has gone to war to fight to make
00:45:59.760
sure they don't control that area it's one of the largest resource areas in the world that can
00:46:04.800
challenge the united states if one that that's what brought us into world war one or two and the
00:46:09.360
cold war because of that so that's a prelude to something larger and taiwan is the same thing
00:46:14.800
whoever can if china controls taiwan they're going to move on and contribute and try to take over the
00:46:19.120
pacific you and i that is u.s you and i have talked about this for years that the ground is being laid
00:46:27.120
for world war three the next global conflict and we're seeing it right now it is ukraine and taiwan
00:46:35.920
it's those two that are going to play or i should say russia and china that is the axis power yeah and uh
00:46:46.080
and i think they think the time to do it is right now and i quite honestly i think they're right
00:46:51.760
i have no do you have faith in the leadership at the uh of the pentagon no no i mean i would not put
00:46:59.600
my son in the military now no way no way do i want my son in the military if that's the leadership
00:47:08.800
bill get him killed get him killed so i have no faith in the administration i have no faith in the
00:47:15.840
pentagon and i think russia and china know that because they it's we are absolutely a paper tiger
00:47:24.080
right now yeah so iran one last thing they're now saying they want a better deal than what obama gave
00:47:33.600
them and remember obama just flew a whole bunch of money and landed it and put it on a pallet there at
00:47:40.080
the airport for him and gave them a deal that was time gated so they can still pursue a bomb if they
00:47:44.960
wanted to while at the same time do whatever they want with rocket technology do whatever
00:47:49.600
they want with funding all these different militias to overthrow countries like hezbollah
00:47:53.840
um yeah they want a better deal than that that's insane i if i was the president i would just step
00:47:59.680
away from the negotiating table and then reinsert what is he going to do oh he's you know that's what
00:48:05.120
they want uh right after he became uh right after the election he reassigned a large iran you know
00:48:11.280
table we have diplomats to start pursuing the the deal again it's like with friends
00:48:18.240
with friends and presidents like this who needs enemies