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Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis join Glenn and Vaynerchandran on the Glenn Beck show to talk about China and why they think the U.S. should go to war with China. Glenn asks the question, can anyone break the back of the Trump campaign?
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Great podcast today. There is so much on the plate today. We went to San Francisco and China.
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We went into Nikki Haley and we had Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy on with us today.
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So they both got into that statement from Nikki Haley, who we have invited on the program so she can defend herself.
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But both of them had the same reaction. That is China stuff.
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China. And can anyone break the back of the Trump campaign?
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He seems to get stronger and stronger and stronger.
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Is he the candidate? And is there anything any other candidate could do to change that?
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We talk about that and so much more. Here's today's podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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OK, let's go back to our premise here. And this is a very hopeful, hopeful premise.
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An action adventure fiction writer. If you had to figure out what the heck was going on in the world and you didn't know that it was just, you know, progressives, 20 early 20th century progressives that, again, for some strange reason, hate the Jews and love eugenics.
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You might say, well, wait a minute. What have we learned in the last few years?
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We have learned that we cannot take on China with Taiwan.
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We can't do that in peacetime. OK, there's no way to do it.
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We are not prepared to do that. It's too far away from all of our bases, et cetera, et cetera.
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We've also found the endless wars are draining. OK, and we certainly could not take on three fronts because, you know, the Middle East will be on fire.
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You know that Russia would get involved and China we would be fighting.
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So we can't do three fronts. So if you are really, really sharp and you love America and you believed what everybody was saying.
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And you knew we couldn't let Taiwan go because we won't be able to make the supercomputer chips because Taiwan has the clean rooms and the highest quality to make all of the supercomputer chips.
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We don't make them. Taiwan does. We can't lose Taiwan. OK, so what do you do?
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You look at the you look at everything and you say, OK, China's economy is failing.
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They're close. But they've just upped their spending with the Navy, et cetera, et cetera.
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And everybody knows this is going to happen. So you think, OK, how can we do this?
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Because Iran can get involved. They want to defeat America.
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They continue to sell oil to China. China imports about 70 percent of its energy supplies.
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Much of that is from Iran via sanctioned and illegal oil sales.
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Plus, China might promise to help Iran finish their nuclear bomb, right?
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Then you have Russia, the other ally that we would worry about.
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In fact, a very good chance and level the playing field.
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They need to level the playing field, especially against our aircraft carriers, and they need to also keep selling oil to Europe and to China.
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Now, if you war game this, when the U.S. goes to war with China, we lose.
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But we also have to fight Russia in Europe and Iran in the Middle East.
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Those are three theaters of war. We can't handle that.
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What if Iran and Russia could not come in on China's side in three years down the road?
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Everybody looks at you and you're sitting there in the briefing room and you say, hear me out.
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What if Russia and Iran had already been taken out?
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What if they'd already been neutralized before we had to fight China?
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Everybody looks at you like you have lobsters growing out of your ears.
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We don't have any political support here in the U.S. for wars with Russia and Iran, especially in this election cycle.
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All they need is a little push and a ton of weapons, just the right motivation, and they'll take them out for us.
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The room gets silent and you're sitting there and you say, so who's dumb enough to fight two land wars in Asia?
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NATO and Israel could never know we're using them like that.
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They have to be so motivated that they'd risk their own survival and beep up their own military budgets to take Putin and the Ayatollahs out for us.
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Everybody's in on the great game all of a sudden.
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Why don't we just say Ukraine is going to be part of NATO?
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NATO will come to the rescue with guns and money.
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Ukraine does the dirty work, but we make sure they have enough to win.
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Well, Israel's going to need to be attacked and much worse than ever before.
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Why don't we just release all of the funds to Iran so they have all of the money to plan an attack on Israel?
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That is so large and so heinous that they'll be forced to use their own military to take them out, which will then force Iran to join in, and then Israel takes them out.
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We just need the weapons, guys, because we need the weapons in three years when we're going after when we're going after China and all of our weapons are outdated and old.
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We need a whole new generation, but we have all of these weapons sitting here, and there's no way with cost overruns, with everything that comes with giant military production, how are you going to get the American people to do it?
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Well, we'll just tell them the truth, we're out of armaments, and then we will have to rebuild our army.
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Maybe we could even convince China in the end, if Russia and Iran falls, they have no real allies.
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I think the only reason why I don't believe this is because I, I mean, we're evil enough to do it, but I don't believe it because I don't think we're smart enough to do it.
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I don't think there's enough, hey, we all love America here.
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There's the evil, you know, generals and the war planners and everything.
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I think there's enough of those in Washington, you know, the Lindsey Grahams that are like, yeah, we got to get them at any cost.
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There's a lot of that type of stuff that you were talking about there where you throw things out like, well, and then Israel will take out Iran.
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Like these little assumptions that you make in one half sentence is like hundreds of thousands, millions of people dead.
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It's those old games where you just used to like drag your troops around and you'd have them attack the little base and then you'd rebuild and you, you wouldn't think about the little, little guys that are going in there and dying.
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I'm reading a book or I was reading a book on JFK.
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I can't even remember the name of it, but it was the JFK assassination.
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And it's just documenting how many people hated him.
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He really had a problem with those guys, just like Donald Trump.
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And he did not like the way we were fighting the Cold War.
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And he's like, we are not going to keep escalating this war.
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And one of the generals, I can't remember his name, but he was in charge of maybe NATO strategy or he was, he was big.
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And he absolutely believed that thermonuclear war was inevitable.
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And he was pushing hard launch first launch right now.
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This is when he first gets into office launch and he actually goes around Kennedy's back and is calling him weak for not doing this.
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I mean, it was a, it was a legitimate campaign inside the Pentagon to just launch our missiles.
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I, I think maybe you've told it to me or I've heard it maybe once, but it's, it's, it's impossible to believe.
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And of course, these people, there's always somebody like that.
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How many people are doing that in Russia right now?
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How many people are going behind Vladimir Putin's back and saying, hey, like this guy won't even fire the nukes.
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I mean, they're, they're, they're giving weapons to Ukraine.
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There is a huge faction inside of Russia who's pushing that hard line approach.
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And God forbid one of them wins an argument one day over vodkas.
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Wait until you see, wait until you see what is, what we're going to show you tonight about Russia and Iran and what they're actually doing and saying to one another.
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And the language they're sharing with one another, it is spooky.
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And so I, that's the, this is the, this is the biggest worry, right?
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There's just this instability everywhere right now.
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It's instability combined with a bunch of really incompetent people who don't know what they're doing and don't know how to manage this sort of instability at the, at the helm here in America.
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And you, of course, have, I mean, our share of instability has, has been well documented here over the past few weeks, especially.
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So you put all that together and like, it's just at some point you wonder if it's all going to spiral out of control.
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So let me ask you, have you ever seen our government pay for hostages?
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I think the only time we did it was the Iran-Contra thing, right?
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I mean, I don't, off the top of my head that, I mean, that one pops to mind.
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So, uh, we had that one, but we paid, didn't we pay the Contras and they brokered the deal?
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We were paying the revolutionaries in South America.
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And they would kind of say the same thing now, right?
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I mean, they would kind of say, well, no, we're not really paying for hostages.
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We're in this program and this is going, this, these dollars are going, you know, they always have some way of getting around it technically.
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Have we ever, have we ever rewarded a terrorist state?
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I keep seeing reports that say billion and million and no, no money from the government ever seems like real money.
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So I have no idea, but I think it's $10 billion.
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The state department did and they said, well, it's cause it's for medical stuff.
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You know, they're going to find terror no matter what.
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So we might as well give them an extra 10 billion because, uh, I mean, they really said they really did.
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So it doesn't matter if we give them a bunch of extra money.
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Jeffrey Dahmer is going to kill Laotian teenagers anyway.
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So we gave him a, we sent him over a bundt cake.
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Like I've been pushing for the extra double size refrigerator freezer.
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Like just because it's like, you know, well, you know, these people are really bad actors.
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So therefore the reward isn't going to incentivize more bad acting.
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No, it would be a terrible, terrible thing to do.
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And of course we all know as the Iranians last time we tried to do this pointed out to us,
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Like they're going to give their people medicine.
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I hope, do we have enough Robitussin for the population?
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Their God says, wipe out Israel, bring the Mahdi back.
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Uh, and, uh, we'll start the end of the world war.
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Xi Jinping is now in San Francisco because we cleaned it up for him, you know, so it's nice.
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Um, what is happening in our country is truly frightening.
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We're doing things that I've never seen in America ever before.
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Uh, Xi Van Fleet is, um, somebody who grew up in communist, uh, China.
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She lived through the horrors of the cultural revolution.
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She was a school girl, uh, and she was forced into the countryside along with other young Chinese
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She escaped communism, came to America 30 years later.
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She sees the signs that are exactly the same as Mao's Marxist cultural revolution.
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She's just written a new book, uh, called Mao's America, a survivor's warning.
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Um, I, I, I, I like talking to people who lived in communism or under dictators because they
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have completely clear eyes on what we are, uh, seeing today.
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You say that, um, wokeism is Maoism with American characteristics.
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That, that's what I mean is that what you just said that you've seen things happening
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It's because you, uh, like many, many, uh, Americans don't know what happened in China
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And, uh, we know because we lived through it and that's exactly the same thing.
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Why I say Maoism with American characteristics, it's the same thing.
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The, uh, identical, identity politics, cancel culture, weaponization of, uh, young people,
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indoctrination in school, all this happened in China and happened to me.
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And, uh, it's a little different here is that in China, Mao used class to divide people
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and divide people into red class and a black class.
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Basically one is the enemy of the state and one is the ally of the, uh, the government and
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They use sexuality and it, it, it looked like it's different, but it's different.
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Well, this is indoctrination of, uh, of children.
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This is, this is something that the communists learned in the 1960s when honestly the Beatles
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song revolution came out and said, if you're walking around with the posters of chairman
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Um, and they realized that class would not do it in America.
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They had to do it based on, on race, but tell me about the, um, the four olds.
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And this to me shows how close it is to the Chinese cultural revolution.
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Yes, uh, that is, uh, Chinese style cancel culture and they are very specific.
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It is the old culture, old idea, old habits, and old custom.
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Those things, uh, to be eradicated, to get rid of, to be destroyed, including statues, uh,
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names of streets, names of stores, names of food labels, names of, uh, uh, institutions
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all have to be changed to be politically correct.
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Because they want to replace the tradition with something new.
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And here is Maoism with American characteristics.
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So Mao was much more open about what he was bringing in, wasn't he?
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I mean, here they keep denying that any of this is happening and it's all there.
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Mao was open and saying, this is what the new China will look right, look like.
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And that's the, uh, the, the part that is very deceptive.
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He was, uh, um, he, he feared that he was losing control of the party and, but he was in
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So he has to, he can be open about many, many things, but here they have to, um, to, to
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Since they use this very well, um, a very attractive slogans and, uh, and, and then a lot of people
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It gives picture, uh, give you a beautiful picture of what it stands for.
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And I tell people, we feel for it too in China.
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And what we got, we got slavery and we got really the absolute tyranny.
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So people wake up and how you wake up, not to find out yourself.
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If you'll find out yourself, that'd be too late.
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And I hope they are wise enough to hear from people like me who lived through it and, uh,
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People help us out with this because I think Antifa, BLM, social justice warriors on the
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I think those are like the Brown shirts, uh, or the red guards, um, from, from China.
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Um, but people will say, no, these are just honest people trying to X, Y, Z.
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What is the difference between BLM and Antifa and the social justice warriors and the
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Yeah, no difference because they're all indoctrinated to believe what they were told.
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And, uh, so red guards, you think they're just monsters?
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No, they, they were a lot of them from elite universities and, uh, and, uh, middle schools.
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And they're from well, uh, um, um, we're all families.
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They were not monsters, but they turned into monsters because of indoctrination.
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The first killing that took place during the cultural revolution was done by a group of
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young girls in the most prestigious middle school in Beijing.
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They beat, tortured, and killed their principal.
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And then why, why did they go after their, their teachers?
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Because they were told that those in control and those in power were the ones want to take
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And so for, for young kids, what are the, uh, people in, uh, in, in power?
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So they were the one, the first one to be the target.
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Um, so, um, here in America, um, you just said they didn't, they weren't, they weren't
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held, um, and they paid no price for it here in America.
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Our justice system has been completely dismantled, you know, defund the police, all of this stuff.
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If you're on the right side, you're not punished.
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But in China, did they do the same thing that they dismantle the justice system and the
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It's called smashing the justice system, the whole justice system, including police and
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No one can stop or dare to challenge the Red Guards.
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And that's the Chinese version of defund the police.
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So she, uh, I have been, I've been talking about this coming for two decades almost now.
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Actually, we are losing, but I do think that there is a hope.
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And I, just, uh, three years ago, I was a quiet, shy Asian American.
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And because I know if I don't, uh, speak up and, uh, and, uh, stand out and, uh, to fight
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And I do not want to live under communism again.
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During my, uh, speeches, uh, across the country, I met all sorts of people, parents, just like
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Three years ago, they were quiet, never pay attention to school board.
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They, they, they, they never got involved in, uh, local politics or, or any politics.
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They are, because they, uh, we can not, they are committed and to fight, to save this country.
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And that's exactly how we, uh, save this country.
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No, because at that, no, if you wait by then, it's too late because those people, um, don't
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exist because you can only find them in prison, in gulags or in the graves.
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Um, well, what do you think just off on another subject?
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What do you think of president Z's, uh, trip to, uh, San Francisco and how San Francisco
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I know, I just tweeted out and, uh, and, uh, and then they have people, um, welcoming him
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with, um, uh, with, uh, Chinese, uh, flag, which to me, that is a murderous flag.
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And I said, where are the social justice warrior protesters, uh, against the genocide by Xi
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She, Van Fleet, the name of her book is Mao's America, a survivor's warning.
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She compares the cultural revolution to the cultural revolution here in America to the
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Uh, and it is well worth a read and share with somebody that, you know, who maybe has
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a possibility, uh, of waking up, by the way, she was at the pro Israel rally yesterday in
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Well, I'm coming down with something, but, uh, but, uh, but other than that, great.
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Um, so, uh, Vivek, let's talk a little bit about CBDCs because you were coming out today,
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if I am not mistaken, uh, with your, uh, digital currency, um, policy.
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I mean, it's something that, that I think is important for us to understand as we go forward
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as a country, where are the threats to liberty?
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Because many of them are backdoor threats, Glenn.
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They're not the same front door threats of big government in the past.
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So you and I have talked for years at this point about the threats posed by the ESG movement
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and the capture of capital markets through ordinary dollars.
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Well, part of that whole agenda was about using the market to advance agendas that the
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government could not implement through the front door under the Constitution.
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Well, think about the combination of those two now when it comes to the capture of our own
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There's a push in the United States and in other Western countries like the UK as well
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to adopt what are called central bank digital currencies.
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The reason they're saying they want to do it is that China's doing it and that we need
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to catch up to them or else we're going to fall behind technologically.
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We have to ask ourselves why the heck China is doing this in the first place.
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It's to be able to penalize citizens in their bank account with the ultimate social credit
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score, the amount of money you have in your bank, if you're doing something that the government
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doesn't like, if you're engaging in speech or in a protest that the government does not
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approve of, like the white sheet revolution in China, for example, wiping out the amount
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of financial assets you have as a way of exercising power and dominion.
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And one of the things they'll say is, isn't that going to lead the dollar to be less strong?
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The dollar will be more strong if it is actually a currency that cannot be taken over by the
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And so while I'm dead set against central bank digital currencies, I am for the rise of
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alternative currencies that people are able in a freedom loving country and world to be
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able to avail themselves of a decentralized private cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and otherwise
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And I think that we should want more competition to the existing system without the government
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But what we should be against is the government creating a central bank digital currency of
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And Glenn, I think these are new threats to liberty.
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And I do think it's going to take someone from the next generation, if I may say, from
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my generation, to lead us forward to understand where the new threats to liberty present themselves
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And we need to wake up to these new threats today.
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That's not an endorsement, obviously, but I am a fan of yours.
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And I do like the fact that you are from a younger generation that sees what's coming
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over the horizon, especially with your your background.
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So what do you what do you suggest happens with digital assets?
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Because right now, I you know, if I had Bitcoin, but I lost it in a boating accident, I wouldn't
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want to pull it out because, honestly, I don't know exactly the tax thing.
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And I think they're doing that intentionally to.
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So, Glenn, this is another example of the cancerous administrative state.
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If the people of this country want to vote through the front door and say, hey, we don't
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want this, we don't want Bitcoin or other alternatives to the dollar to be traded in
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the U.S., which I don't think most people in this country would ever say.
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But if they did, fine, that's the law of the land.
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It's the administrative state, those three letter agencies like the SEC that are through
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the back door deciding that they want to shadow government, utilize legislating them
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out of existence, but not through the front door.
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So they're applying a set of regulatory standards that Congress never actually authorized to
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backdoor silence the new kinds of currencies that people use as alternatives to the U.S.
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And I think that that's a violation of the cardinal rule of our Constitution.
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The laws are passed through the front door, not through the back door.
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It's shameful that you have a chairman of the SEC right now, Gary Gensler, who refuses even
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in his testimony before Congress to say whether Ethereum is or is not a security for the purpose
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And so when you have regulators that get to make up after the fact the regulations that
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they're enforcing, that's what we're seeing in the energy sector.
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It's what we're seeing in the health care sector.
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It's what we're seeing across the U.S. economy.
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It's something that would make our founding fathers roll over in their graves.
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And if you want to ban something, ban it through the front door.
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Don't use the regulatory shadow government of people who are never elected to their positions
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So one of the things that I'm actually going to, I swear an oath to the Constitution as
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Well, one of the things that the most important Supreme Court case of our lifetime, it came out
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And that held that if Congress has not given a three-letter agency the power to issue a
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regulation, but they're doing it anyway, that regulation is unconstitutional.
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Well, the good news is on day one of my administration, we rescind all of the regulations
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That's a majority of the regulations that are on the books today.
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And by the way, we're going to fire 75% of the people who are working in that apparatus
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That's how we restore our constitutional republic.
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And I know that might sound scary to some people or extreme, but if somebody is not offering
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an extreme proposal or a proposal that sounds extreme, it means they're not really serious
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And I think that's what it's going to take to get the job done.
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So you are announcing today freedom to code, freedom to financial self-reliance, and freedom
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And I'm going to be speaking tomorrow at the Bitcoin, at the blockchain summit in Texas,
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and offering what I think should be not just a Republican vision, it's a pro-liberty vision
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to say that, you know what, I'm the U.S. president, I want the dollar to remain the reserve currency
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Our national debt is creating a lot of doubt about that.
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But one of the best ways we do it isn't by stifling competition to the dollar.
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It's by saying that we actually like holding our feet to the fire through accountability to
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people who do want to opt out of that system by holding Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies
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can do so without fear of regulatory, fundamental regulatory tyranny.
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And I think that that's good for the U.S. dollar in the long run.
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That's what Thomas Jefferson, he was a big proponent of financial self-reliance.
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That's what Thomas Jefferson, who was, by the way, 33 years old when he signed the Declaration
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of Independence, inventing the swivel chair while he was at it.
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These were innovators, and I think that the innovators who founded this country would embrace
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the exact policy agenda that I'm rolling out tomorrow morning to say that more competition
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is good, not bad, and we shouldn't want these regulators choking currency alternatives to
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So it's a little unfair because I haven't asked Nikki Haley to come on and actually explain
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this to me, but we're reaching out to her today.
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Um, the, she just recently said that all the code for social media should be transparent.
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It's a little ambiguous if she meant it just for the government or for everybody.
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Uh, and the other is she, for national security purposes, believes everyone should have to be
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verified as a user and your name should be, you know, uh, your name on social platforms.
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That sounds like something Xi Jinping would say, and I think that there is a deep ideological
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divide right now in the GOP, and I think it's good for us to smoke it out.
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It's not an attack on anybody, and even people listening may disagree with me on this.
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This is a good debate for us to have in our party.
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Do you want to go to the Dick Cheney version of the post-Patriot Act surveillance state,
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where, you know, our founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, they wrote
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I think you should have the freedom to do that in this country.
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It's part of what it means to be free, especially in an increasingly tyrannical government environment.
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She thinks you should be required to actually identify yourself before you post something
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on the internet or online and disclose to the government for national security reasons.
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Anytime somebody's using those words, national security, for an infringement on liberty domestically,
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I'm dead set against it, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat saying it.
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Same thing when it comes to the questions of censorship.
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I think there are other candidates who believe that if there's speech we disagree with, that
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I say a lot of the speech we're seeing is heinous in this country, even in recent weeks.
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And I think this is all in the backdrop of a divide when it comes to foreign policy in our
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country, Glenn, is I think that there are some who believe that it's the job of the U.S.
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to be the global hegemon in places like Ukraine and elsewhere, making the decisions of intervening
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in somebody else's conflict that doesn't advance the American interest.
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I believe that my sole moral duty as the next U.S. president is to the Americans right here
00:36:42.540
And those things go together because it's that foreign policy vision that also allows them
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to invoke national security as an excuse to really infringe on our liberty here at home.
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And I think it's good for us to have this debate in this GOP primary season now.
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Do you want to go the direction of the George Bush, Dick Cheney vision of the Republican Party,
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I want to lead us to the Republican Party of the future, where the Republican Party stands for
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standing for the interests of American citizens here at home by reviving the founding ideals.
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And yes, that includes the First Amendment above all, and that we will stand for that
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And so, Sarah to say, she and I have a very different vision on this.
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And I personally believe that mine is more consistent with the founding vision of this
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And if we revive that, that's how we reignite and reunite our country.
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When we look at our founding vision, it required us to have a moral center.
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Firefighters arrived to use the jaws of life to get these people out of a horrible car wreck.
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So how do we get this back to where we all feel we have personal responsibilities, not
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And rights and responsibilities go hand in hand together.
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But we've forgotten the responsibility part of that, Glenn.
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So some of this isn't going to be done by the president.
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I mean, they think the president, half the job is policy, but half the job is also the
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national character that we create, the example that we set.
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I think it's been a long time since we've had a president where I could look my son's
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in the eye and tell them, I want you to grow up and be like him, frankly.
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And I think that that's the standard I want people to hold me to.
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If I'm the next president, that's a high standard.
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But I also think that part of this comes from pastors, parents, teachers, coaches across
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The conservative movement, I think we've fallen short where for a long time we will complain
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about the left's agenda of race, gender, sexuality, climate.
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I want us talking more about the individual, family, nation, God.
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The individual, family, nation, God, that beats race, gender, sexuality, and climate if
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we have the courage to actually stand for something, not just against what the other side puts up.
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And what I'm seeing, Glenn, I'm traveling college campuses.
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I'm probably into more college campuses than any Republican candidate who's run in our
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history. And you think that people in that next generation, the assumption that many
00:39:30.680
people have is they're against these shared American values and they're leftist progressives.
00:39:40.160
They are directionless, rudderless, hungry for some direction and purpose and meaning.
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And so if we can have the courage to actually not just condemn what the left is filling that
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I've done a lot of that, including in the books I've written that you know and otherwise.
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Now we need to level up and say, here's a vision of our own.
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And young people, especially Glenn, will flock in our direction if we actually give them
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And that's part of what I'm trying to do in this race and hopefully in leading this country.
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I just have to ask you, there's an editorial in the Wall Street Journal today, an op-ed that
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We haven't taken our share of those fleeing from the Middle East and those Palestinians
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And I think that we have our own issues to deal with here at home.
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The number one lesson we need to learn is if that can happen to Israel, what happened
00:40:40.520
was wrong, it was subhuman, and it was a failure of defense and border defenses, that could happen
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right here at home with 70,000 special interest alien apprehensions from Middle Eastern countries
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So I'm far more concerned with protecting our own borders in this country than to increase
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what already is too high of a refugee and humanitarian intake of immigrants to this country.
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My view is that, to the contrary, though, Israel needs to be able to defend itself to
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We should stand diplomatically for Israel's right to do so.
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But that's different from saying that we need to bring a bunch of Gazans to the United
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And we have our own issues to deal with here at home.
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And that's my moral obligation as the next president, to look after American interests