Have we made a deal with Afghanistan to be allowed to reuse Bagram Air Force Base? If so, what does that mean? And is it the Chinese as the trade war begins to heat up? We try to explore that. Also, Ken Paxton, who is running for John Corden s seat, joins us to talk about a new community, an Islamic community that is being built or proposed to be built here in Texas. And the one and only, Selena Zito, who was with the president on the day they tried to assassinate him, tells the story.
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00:03:53.400As a, you know, as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I mean, you know, they crossed the mountains and started their own community in Salt Lake.
00:04:03.300But they don't have a Mormon separate law.
00:05:20.260And we can't let that happen here in America, especially Texas.
00:05:25.180Well, yeah, countries are being taken over and the Sharia law is taken over whatever country they're in.
00:05:34.540And that's certainly we can't let that happen here.
00:05:37.440I mean, the rule of law, our Constitution, what what our founders put together is so beautiful and wonderful, given us freedom for so long.
00:05:44.760So we're not going to sacrifice that for Sharia law.
00:05:49.340It's just not going to happen in Texas.
00:05:51.320And so we're going to be very focused on that and make sure they're following our laws.
00:05:55.780And at the same time, as you said, we want to be cognizant that people have a right to have their own religion.
00:06:17.280How do you if you can't find, you know, a smoking gun with how to bring Sharia law into Texas, you know, you're not going to find that pamphlet.
00:06:27.140How are you going to be able what what could you possibly find that would be solid enough to say no?
00:06:34.640Well, so it's what you say is different sometimes than what people actually do.
00:06:39.400So we're going to be looking at what people are actually doing out there.
00:06:45.640So they are they discriminating based on whether you are a part of a certain religion, because that would create issues with, you know, fair housing laws.
00:06:55.780And so we're just going to be looking at what is the actual practice, not not not what are you saying, not what is your promotional material, you know, lawed, although the promotional material may tell us something.
00:07:07.660So it's actually what is actually happening on the ground out there.
00:07:14.000So multiple state agencies are involved in this.
00:07:19.400And are we talking about fines, injunctions, something bigger violations are found?
00:07:25.160Yeah. So so, you know, I can't issue fines, but I can certainly sue over it and get, you know, if there's a reason, get an injunction to stop it.
00:07:35.040If it's doing imminent harm, it's usually what you have to show.
00:07:38.420You have to show imminent harm that you win on the merits.
00:07:40.600Otherwise, you know, we would sue him over some type of consumer law violation or if if the governor had other violations through some of the agencies that he's directing, we could we could represent those agencies and lawsuits.
00:07:53.820So there's all kinds of different ways to address that, depending on what we find in our investigation.
00:08:00.820So when you were under investigation here in Texas, your attorney that represented you in the impeachment hearing, which was all cleared, is now representing the developers.
00:08:13.780Does that cause a conflict of interest with you at all?
00:08:16.820Um, look, I, he, I certainly didn't know about that until recently.
00:08:20.600And, uh, I, I would say obviously a little concerning that I wasn't made aware of that.
00:08:27.260And, you know, there definitely could be an argument that there's conflict because I'm still being represented by him and he's representing clients that we are investigating.
00:17:05.960You know, so this is a special correspondence to the Washington Post, and they reached out to me after the election to do this kind of work.
00:17:20.120And I really wanted to get in there and tell the people's story, in particular the steel worker's story, not only about how they feel about this sale to Nippon, but also how they feel about the tariffs.
00:17:37.440And it is, you know, walking into that steel mill, I have to tell you, it was a thrill of my career.
00:17:44.260I have wanted to go inside that mill for 30 years and have always been turned down.
00:17:49.560And I think finally I just wore them down.
00:20:12.140And so they were initially against it.
00:20:15.760But then, as they realized that U.S. Steel was never going to reinvest in their mill, if people take a look at the story, they can see the rolling mill in action.
00:20:28.880I put a free link up in my Twitter account, Zito Selena.
00:20:35.560But that rolling mill that you see there, which is like this awe-inspiring, powerful thing, is 86 years old.
00:20:45.860It's really, really difficult to be competitive with any other company or country because of the age of that mill.
00:20:55.300And it cost a billion dollars to make a new one.
00:21:01.440And the U.S. Steel has said, yeah, we're not going to do that.
00:21:05.780And so Nippon comes in and says, we're going to rebuild it.
00:21:10.280Not only are we going to rebuild it, we're going to invest in several other billion dollars into your company.
00:21:16.960And it took a lot of talks, a lot of understanding, a lot of getting more investment from Nippon, where the steelworkers, by the way, they are not aligned with the international.
00:21:48.020And it won't turn my community into places like McKeesport or Aliquippa, which are now just shells of what they once were because of steel mills left in those areas.
00:21:59.860So I just said, Selena, this week that, you know, when Donald Trump talks about bringing jobs back, he's not talking about, and hear me carefully, not talking about going back into Pittsburgh and saying, we're going to open up all the steel mills.
00:22:15.420He is talking about steel mills, but they will be smaller and different, closer to the needs, et cetera, et cetera.
00:22:23.200There are things, everything's going to change, but it's different kind of jobs and different kinds of things.
00:22:30.820We're not talking about this nostalgic, you know, rebuilding of Pittsburgh the way it was.
00:24:24.040And these are the places where we'll build them.
00:24:26.040So what is your feeling now that the tariffs, you know, everybody in Wall Street, everybody's freaking out.
00:24:35.280And I think it's starting to freak people out, the average person, you know, because everybody is, like, screaming so hard about it.
00:24:42.480You know, it's like, you know, when the media doesn't talk about gas prices, nobody says anything about gas prices, even though the average person feels it.
00:25:42.400And they, and it's really interesting to me, to a person, they almost, they are willing to have a short-term sacrifice for a long-term betterment for the country.
00:35:53.080Now, there's a couple of other reasons that, you know, you can speculate on.
00:36:00.100Are we doing counterterrorism or intelligence operations in that area?
00:36:06.360Maybe not with just China or not against China, but also, you know, this is a central place to be for Russia and China, for the United States.
00:36:18.940What do you think we would have to offer the Taliban to get this?
00:36:26.400Well, I don't think we'd be giving them anything, but I do think that we would, you know, offer our services.
00:36:35.320I don't know what to call it, offer our services, but show that we both have the same enemy in ISIS-K.
00:36:41.860And I don't think that we'd be sharing anything with them.
00:36:44.780But, I mean, if you look at our relationship with Afghanistan while the Taliban pre-2001 was in place, we didn't have a major foothold in Afghanistan.
00:36:55.520We had intelligence operatives within the country clandestinely and outside the country.
00:37:01.360That's how we managed the terror threat before.
00:37:03.540I think we're moving into a more aggressive phase where that is our stance in that area.
00:37:08.340We have some intelligence assets in the country.
00:37:11.060We have some intelligence assets in places like Pakistan and other places.
00:37:23.080But I could see some kind of accommodation to allow, let's say, and this is very dangerous, like a a la Benghazi, like a compound or something like that, that we do operate out of, like a handful of intelligence assets.
00:37:38.300Extremely dangerous, but I can see them moving in that direction.
00:38:20.260We'll build up this infrastructure, this infrastructure, this infrastructure.
00:38:23.160Eventually, the way they structure those deals, Afghanistan becomes a slave to China because then they're on the hook for a trillion dollars in infrastructure payback.
00:38:35.520So that's China's stake in this game, and that's probably what they're maneuvering to do.
00:38:40.300We would want to stop them from doing that in this overall trade war, looking down the road a decade, two decades from now.
00:38:46.960You know, everybody I've talked to, everyone has said to me, Glenn, in a trade war with China, if this doesn't back off, we're both in real trouble.
00:39:01.220China has got to have us, and we really have to have China for our medicines and everything else.
00:39:07.100And I said, so which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which one of us wins in the end?
00:39:32.020And if you, if you look at the world post-World War II, it was very similar to, who was that, that Japanese geopolitics person or philosopher, I can't remember, where he said that this was the end of history.
00:39:43.660But he was talking about, I think, World War, was he talking about World War I or World War II, I can't remember.
00:39:55.900You know, you look at, you know, books like The Clash of Civilizations that pointed out that, well, actually, you know, people are just going to move into their own, you know, racial or race or identity.
00:40:06.040And that will be the new, you know, you know, spark for war going forward.
00:40:11.220But the solution to that, thinking that this is the end of history, was to fully interconnect all these countries, the entire world, so that if we go to war or, you know, whatever, we all suffer for it.