Ep 119 | If the Deep State Can Ruin Gen. Flynn's Life, It Can Ruin Yours | Michael Flynn | The Glenn Beck Podcast
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Summary
Gen. Michael Flynn is a three-star general who served for over twenty-five years in the United States Army and served as a National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump. He is a household name in the military and is considered to be one of the most respected generals in the country. He has been accused of lying to the FBI, lying under oath, lying to Congress, lying about his contacts with a Russian intelligence officer, and even lying to his own wife.
Transcript
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Well, a certain general has been up to no good.
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He has undermined one president and pandered to another.
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He has openly sworn allegiance to radical political ideologies.
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He's insulted millions of Americans who hold to those values.
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He likely colluded with one of our enemies, maybe even committing treason.
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I'm actually not talking about today's guest, although that's how the media has depicted him.
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I'm actually talking about General Milley, who just happens to have fashionable politics, so nobody says anything.
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He wants the woke military, so he's been celebrated.
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He's been applauded for his political grandstanding.
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I mean, it's only a matter of time before he gets nominated for a Nobel Prize or an Oscar.
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Unfortunately, today's guest is a general with the wrong politics.
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In better times, he would be known as a remarkable man with a ton of accomplishments.
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He should be seen as an example of what an American can accomplish.
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But because of the times we live in, he and his family have lived through hell.
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He has been repeatedly slandered and demonized, harassed, defamed, forced to wear the scarlet letter.
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Even his bank has canceled his credit cards and accounts.
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Because continuing the relationship creates a possible reputational risk.
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Perhaps most of all, he was targeted by the FBI for several years with the guidance of James Comey himself.
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Well, today's guest was an early victim of Russiagate.
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In the Democrats' political game, they had endless hatred and had to remove Donald Trump from the White House by any means necessary.
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Democrats had gone to great lengths to gain power, and they got it.
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We're learning more and more about the truth of the Russia hoax.
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In April, documents were released proving the FBI really did target today's guest.
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That was their goal, to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired to get to Trump.
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I had some pretty controversial guests on this podcast.
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One of the biggest reasons I started it is to have a conversation that you can't find anywhere else,
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in an era that punishes people who disagree with the norms of today.
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Even by those standards, today's guest is at a level of controversy that is hard to even quantify.
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You say his name to anyone, and you will get a response, and it's usually intense one way or the other.
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So today, welcome my podcast guest, General Michael Flynn.
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I appreciate what you have done throughout your life, but also what you're doing for this country on a daily basis to really get the truth out.
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I will tell you, and I want to get to this later, but I was shocked at the boldness of the setup of you, the way all of this went down.
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And I think this podcast is so important because if they can do this to a three-star general and they can do it to the president of the United States and nobody seems to pay for it,
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what makes the average American think they're not going to do it to them?
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Right, and they do it to the average American people all the time, Glenn.
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I call it the Department of Injustice or the Just Us Department.
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I think the boldness that America witnessed was not just the president of the United States, Donald Trump,
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but, you know, and it's not just a three-star general who served, you know, three and a half decades in the military, five years in combat.
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I was a national security advisor at the time, you know, one of the closest security advisors to the president of the United States.
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But really, Glenn, what the people in Washington, D.C., the deep state and all these characters that are now being held unaccountable,
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what they don't realize is that they did it to the American people because the American people don't, you know,
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they might love the man, Donald Trump and all that, but they believe in the Constitution and the presidency of this country,
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and they actually attacked the presidency, a duly elected president, so therefore they were attacking the American people.
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And that's what these bureaucrats and these deep staters in Washington, D.C. don't get, and they still don't get it.
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I will tell you that I don't think the American people are who, well, I know they're not, who the press think they are.
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But the one thing that I know to be true is, had Donald Trump colluded and taken money from the Russians and all of that,
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You know, they love Donald Trump, but they also have a sense of fairness and right and wrong.
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And when the left dismisses what happened to Donald Trump and mocks it and laughs about it,
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half of the country is very upset because it shows that they are not just against policies or politics.
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They are against the principles that have always driven this country that, quite honestly, maybe we've been naive,
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As I go around and I talk to different groups of people about everything about this country,
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my father, my mother, they handed off to my generation, to me and my brothers and sisters, a pretty great country.
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My generation, this is why it's, I don't blame the kids.
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I don't blame the, you know, grandkids that I have.
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I actually look at my generation and I say, we screwed this up because something that you just implied,
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And we have taken everything that we have for granted in this country.
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And now all of a sudden we're realizing that for about, you know, probably about 30 years.
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So the second half of my life, the, there has been a shift in everything, education system,
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our government and the route of the financial system, everything that's going on.
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And now we suddenly see the boldness of what just happened in this previous election,
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We've had, we've had fraudulent elections for over, well over a hundred years.
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It goes back to the Tammany Hall days in New York City and certainly in Chicago.
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But what the boldness that we just witnessed was they finally decided, you know what,
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we're just going to go for the, for the gusto here, the full gusto.
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And so now what we see, and I don't know what you want to get into, but I mean, I,
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you know, the rhyme and verse about some of the issues in these latest
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bills that they're going to pass and they're going to put additional burdens on the American people.
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My thing, Glenn, my life, and this is where they were afraid of me.
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My life has been certainly military and I can go back, you know, in all the years of,
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But the second half of my career, I really got into the, more of the senior leadership
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And I really began to understand the strategy and the policies that our country was getting
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I mean, I was very against, and I said it publicly, you know, later on in my, in my,
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in my life, certainly when I became a civilian, I very outspoken about the decision to go into
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Iraq, as an example, one of the, one of the greatest strategic failure type decisions that
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we have had certainly this century, because it's, it caused so much mayhem and, and, and
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confusion and, and, and frankly, you know, the death of, of many American service members.
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And so anyway, my, my life has been around that sort of stuff.
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And so all of a sudden I get involved in the political life of the country.
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I was, you know, I got to help him out in the, in the election run up to 2016.
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And boy, I'm going to tell you the, the, you know, the quote unquote deep state, the intelligence
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community, particularly the intelligence community and specifically the CIA, uh, you know, people
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came after me, uh, certainly the, the, the Clinton machine machinery, uh, came after me,
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because when you're the national security advisor, uh, for the United States of America, not just
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for the country or for the, uh, a president, uh, because I've always seen myself as somebody
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who is all about country first, you know, my faith is, is certainly super important, but
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country first and then, uh, and then the person, right.
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Um, you know, if I didn't think that, uh, that Donald Trump was going to ask me to do
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something illegal, ethical, or moral, I would tell him, uh, that, that, that I, I'm, you
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know, I'm going to throw my stars down, so to speak, and walk out the door because it's
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And, and I know that, um, the things that I would have become aware of, the things that
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I am aware of, the, uh, the, the, the bastions of, of corruption inside of, uh, our federal
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government, particularly the United States government, Washington, DC, they, they did not
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Is it because when you were DIA, um, you were very outspoken on Islamicists different than
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Islamic Islamicists is, is a very specific term and a very, uh, dangerous, uh, uh, element
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Was that something that you think was the beginning of their hatred towards you?
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And, uh, because I pushed back on a number of, uh, what we call these national intelligence
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estimates that are all, you know, inside that there's this inside baseball, um, on, on the
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situation in Afghanistan, the situation in Iraq, the situation in, in, uh, in our fight
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against Al Qaeda, the, you know, when the, when the message was bin Laden's dead, Al Qaeda's
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on the run, that was not the, the, the, that was not reality.
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That did not reflect reality that we knew to be true.
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And I'm a guy coming off the battlefield and my life in the military is really to try to
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And that can be another discussion if you want to go down that rat hole.
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But I will tell you that, uh, I was, I was very, I was outspoken, but I, but I was outspoken
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So I never went out and, you know, and went to the media and, you know, and did anything
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I, I was very loyal to the constitution, to my chain of command.
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This is, and I would push back and I wasn't going to, I wasn't going to be somebody who
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was going to be told, well, you just need to, you know, shut up and go away.
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Uh, because I was, uh, you know, I've said, no, I, I'm not going to sign off on one of
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these estimates that the intelligence community puts out that says that, you know, the, you
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know, the entire intelligence community agrees that this happened.
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And I was going to be one of those people that wasn't going to do it because we knew
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my agency at the time knew that that wasn't the case.
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And in fact, when we were saying, when the, when the, uh, political leaders were saying,
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uh, uh, Bin Laden's dead, Al Qaeda's on the run, Al Qaeda was actually rising.
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And I think at that time, if I have the numbers, right, I think that they were growing in like
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24 nations around the greater, uh, Islamist world that you highlighted.
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And, um, you know, you, you then fast forward after I get out of the military and I wrote a
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book called the field of fight and it's a national bestseller and, uh, the field of fight where
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I called out, this was after I get out of, out of uniform, I called out the Obama administration
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because I was, I was really deathly afraid, you know, of what, uh, we were allowing to
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happen, that we were allowing the growth of this radical form of Islamism.
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And, and I'm going to tell you, Glenn, it's still, it's still, uh, growing and it's on the
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Oh, I think, yeah, I think we're headed for a great road.
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Um, I want to get to that here in a, in a second.
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Um, the media will not leave you alone last week.
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I think it was the salad dressing, addressing story that they were putting, that you had
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said that they were putting the vaccine in salad dressing.
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I was on a, I was on a great podcast with a, with a friend and, and, uh, Thrive Time USA
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We were talking about a totally different issue, but he right away started off with whatever
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was in the news that day about the, uh, the latest, uh, message coming out of the White
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And I said, have you seen this article, uh, where the California Institute of Technology
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in Santa Barbara, California is actually studying that.
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And I just, so, so I said that, I said, have you seen this article where they're talking
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about putting some sort of vaccine into, into our salads?
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And I, and I, like as a, because it was an article that I read that morning.
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And so now the media is like, well, he's a conspiracy theorist.
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Now he's telling us that every, he's telling all these people that we're going to have it
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You know, I got to tell you, if you're trying to get the people who are anti-vaxxers to do
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it, you got to put it in some sort of a steak sauce.
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Um, uh, the, this, this, this, they're definitely after me.
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The story that, uh, the Citibank, um, stopped your family from doing chase, chase.
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Manon, um, and they were the ones that, um, uh, stopped your family from doing business
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with the bank because of, they felt it would do reputational harm.
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They sent us a letter and it was a very curt, you know, curt letter.
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The letter said that you represent reputational risk there, you know, Flynn family.
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We had two accounts that were, that were, uh, basically they closed them.
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Um, and they would no, no longer do business with them.
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Uh, you know, my, my, my credit, you know, has, is, is really superb.
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I've been one of these guys that my wife and I, you know, we pay all of our bills on time.
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So then all of a sudden we get this letter and my wife was like really upset about it.
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And, uh, you know, and I'm like reputational risk.
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And I think we had those accounts for about 10 years.
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So chase bank doesn't want to have us do business anymore.
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But then one of the things I said to my wife, I go, so what's that, what's that mean?
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Cause she, we kind of do our own little family finance stuff.
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And I said, I said, so, uh, do they still want us to pay the annual fee?
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You know, do they still want us to have this thing and pay the annual fee?
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So I told my wife, I said, you know, cancel those damn things right now.
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And I'm really upset about this and I'm going to make it a public thing because I put it
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out on, on my social media because I was just really irritated that, you know, and then
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one of their excuses was that Flynn is a common name and it was an operational oversight and
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should have never happened because Flynn is a common name.
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So, um, you know, Flynn's not a common name and, and certainly Michael Flynn, anybody that
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understands banking and records and how they do these kinds of things, they got to make
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And now we're, here we are on the, on a blaze TV talking about it.
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And I know, I know that many millions of Americans and maybe that number's, maybe I'm, um, um,
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saying too much there, but I, it's not paying me millions, but it's certainly people that
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Cause I've been contacted by people who have big accounts with Chase who said, I just want
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to confirm with you because I'm no longer going to do business with Chase.
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And, and so Chase made a huge error because like, like Washington DC does sometimes in the
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mainstream media does sometimes they don't get the sentiment of the American people.
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And, and, and how many American people got behind my family and I, and I've said this
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elsewhere, Glenn, the American people, you know, for the last four years of five years
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of my life have been buddy breathing with me and my family to help us survive because
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Because as you set up, as you said at the beginning of the show, if they can do this to
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And I know that there have been people that have come to me particularly in my family that
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have given us their, their, their sort of life story about how the Department of Justice
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And the Department of Justice, and I'll say it here, as I've said it publicly, they are
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That's what they're, the Department of Justice, particularly the, the attorney, you know, they'll
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watch this because they're watching everything that I do.
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And they're going to be, oh, that son of a gun, Flynn, there he goes again.
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Well, you know what, quit, quit seeking conviction and let's help find the truth.
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And if you're a prosecutor, you know, don't prosecute, let's, we got massive problems with
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We got massive problems with still with the opioid crisis and drug cartels bringing drugs
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We got massive, you know, we have massive corruption inside of our own government.
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Focus on the problems that our country actually has to deal with instead of kowtowing to the
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political left in this country and doing their bidding.
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If you're a lawyer of any salt, that's what you need to do.
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I will tell you, General, that I'm one of those families that stood with you.
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We don't do business with Chase, nor will I ever do business with Chase because of that.
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This is, that was a very, very disturbing thing that I honestly don't think was an, was an
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The, the, first of all, tell me personally what it was like to go through this Russia witch
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It was a horrible sense of, of betrayal by, uh, our own United elements within our own
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U S government, a huge, huge betrayal and everything that we know now.
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Uh, and we're, and we're finding out more and more.
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And I think this, this latest indictment on this Sussman character.
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So every day, more, more evidence comes out of the, of the betrayal, not just of me.
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I, you know, I, I mean, I'm, I'm a pretty upbeat guy, honestly, and I, you know, I'm
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Um, but they, they, uh, they betrayed, they being, uh, you know, elements of our federal
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government, the justice department, the intelligence community, um, people that were in our, uh,
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white house, our previous white house, previous to, to, uh, excuse me, to, uh, Donald Trump.
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Um, they betrayed me, therefore they betrayed our country.
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There's five points, uh, that they bring up on this Sussman thing.
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Um, and they say fifth prevalent rejoiner played over the last week involved invoking the name
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Even if true, the Washington post editorial board wrote the Sussman episode is far less alarming
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than the case of former national security advisor, Michael Flynn.
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You know, one of the, one of the fascinating components of this story, one of the, the senior
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agents, FBI agents by the name of Barnett, and you can go pull this up unless they've taken
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So the name Barnett, who's an FBI agent, very senior guy, and he was one of the lead agents
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Crossfire Hurricane was the, uh, the investigation with this whole Russia gate, right?
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So, so, uh, you know, just at a year ago now, October, 2020, after all the Mueller investigations
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over with my case had been dismissed by the department of justice after a special counsel
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investigated, the, the investigator, so to speak, and found egregious government misconduct.
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Uh, the department of justice says case dismissed in October.
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That was in May of 2020, uh, 20, in October of 2020.
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So fast forward about whatever that is for four or five months.
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Barnett gives a, uh, essentially a deposition, an affidavit, a 302, and it's about nine pages
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in that 302, which is really, really, uh, stunning.
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He basically says the entire effort, the entire Crossfire Hurricane effort was get Flynn to
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And that's the senior and one of the lead agents, Barnett is his name, for Crossfire Hurricane.
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So for all of this, they just love to bring in the disgraced former national security advisor,
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lied to the FBI, and then had to get a pardon by Trump.
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You know, the, the lying to the FBI, I didn't lie to the FBI.
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So if you get interviewed by the FBI, they write it down in something called a three, a
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302, which is a document that the FBI uses to capture the essence of a conversation that
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So anybody that the FBI talks to, they're supposed to write a 302.
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It's kind of like an affidavit, you know, it's a legal binding document.
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And so, you know, they don't have to record their call, their conversations.
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So they, they took notes and we now have the majority of those notes from that meeting.
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And they said they, during that meeting, they said, I didn't lie.
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Normally a 302 is supposed to be done within five days.
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I think it was four or five months later where Andy McKay, before he was fired by Trump, was
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They changed the tone of the conversation that I had with those FBI agents.
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They, they, they admitted that I didn't lie to them.
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You know, I mean, I, I, at the time I had, you know, I mean, I'm, I'm, when I'm in my
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last days or my last day with Trump, and I think Trump felt very uncomfortable.
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And he and I have had many conversations since then, since my, since my pardon, because I
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I hadn't talked to Trump once from the night I left the White House until the day that he
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called me up and said, Hey, I got to give you a pardon here.
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And I, and I, and it's called a pardon of innocence, Glenn.
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It's really not something that's normally given because I wasn't guilty of anything.
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So this is what's stunning is they did this to the national security advisor of the United
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So at the height of the Mueller investigation was when all this was coming to a head because
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and I say the height, it was really the beginning of the Mueller investigation, all the other
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characters that, that now the world knows that came out of the Mueller investigation, the principal
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character that they needed, because the other guys really, sadly, didn't really matter, but
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they still were taken to, you know, they were still, their families were, were, were hurt.
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So I, then I go through, you know, essentially a couple of years of cooperation.
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And, you know, and I think that they, they were looking for me to, to give up anything, you know, to say
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And I'm like, I'm one of these very, you know, and I hope your audience and hope you get a sense of me
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And I'm one of these very, like, you know, I'm a very honest guy.
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If I, if I, if I do, I'll tell you, I'm not going to bullshit anybody.
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Excuse my Irish, but, you know, because my business was saving people's lives in the battlefield as a
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soldier, as a, as an intelligence officer, especially as an intelligence officer that, you know, and I
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served in combat on the battlefield where I was responsible for, you know, the deaths or the lives of
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So my life is not like what they portray it to be.
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And that's our media, but that's, and you know, you know, this, I mean, I, you know, the people know
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this, the American people don't trust the institutions of government.
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They don't trust the media and they're, and they're, they're discovering other paths.
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And I will tell you for all of the, all of the people that listen to this, that are trying
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to find out if there's some snippet that Mike Flynn gives that, you know, whatever that
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The more that they do that and the more distrust they bring to themselves, the more the American
00:27:12.460
people have run to my aid and, and to the aid of, of those of us in the country.
00:27:27.340
They're now not trusting the department of defense.
00:27:30.360
And to a degree, they don't trust our senior military leaders because of this debacle in
00:27:39.980
I mean, they just, trust is such an important commodity.
00:27:47.120
If we don't have faith and trust in the institutions, we don't, we really don't have, we don't have
00:27:56.100
I will tell you too, that I told Donald Trump this when, I think it was during Kavanaugh.
00:28:03.180
Uh, I had changed my opinion of Donald Trump because I saw what he was doing and his policies
00:28:10.380
were not the policies that I thought he was going to implement.
00:28:16.740
So I, um, you know, I go on the air and say, I just want to admit I was wrong on this.
00:28:23.480
Cause I thought we were headed for a horror show.
00:28:25.300
And then I saw, I saw what they were doing to him and then what they were doing to Kavanaugh
00:28:31.060
and I got on the air and I said, the media is making me a bigger Trump supporter than
00:28:40.620
I mean, because it's, you see this injustice and this, this vendetta against him.
00:28:48.900
So let me ask you on the Trump front, I have my theories on why he could not be president
00:28:58.640
and everybody thinks the media was so mad at themselves because they helped him get
00:29:04.180
I think that there is this great reset agenda and Donald Trump would have never gone along
00:29:11.140
And they all had their plans of what the world was going to be like.
00:29:21.380
Like, like no one else has ever been targeted ever, ever.
00:29:27.000
And frankly, we are, we are, our nation is going through a massive, massive transition
00:29:32.600
and we're going to have to make a decision here.
00:29:36.000
You know, if not now, then, then very soon about which direction our country goes.
00:29:41.520
Because Trump, you know, Trump was on peak as a, as a guy out of New York businessman,
00:29:46.700
he played both sides, you know, one day he can be a good Democrat, one day he can be
00:29:52.620
So Trump knew, he knew that sort of depth, you know, of, of ugliness within the, within
00:29:58.820
that, that world of Hollywood, New York media, Washington, DC, you know, he sort of had a
00:30:04.040
very good fingertip feel for what was happening.
00:30:07.960
And he always talked, as everybody knows, he always talked, I'm one of these days, I'm
00:30:10.800
going to get involved in, I'm going to run for president one of these days and, because
00:30:15.140
I mean, you know, that's, that's the, that's the mindset that he had.
00:30:18.800
And, and so, so Donald Trump decided one day, you know, and I met with him in 2015, it was
00:30:25.940
right after he announced, I met with him right in the early days of his, of his announcement.
00:30:30.180
And, and I would just tell you that when he got involved, it was a joke, it was a big joke.
00:30:35.720
But I will tell you, in all my conversations with Donald Trump, candidate Trump, because
00:30:41.300
I'm one of these guys, you know, I'm a, I'm a stay out of war kind of guy.
00:30:45.300
I mean, you know, everybody that Trump hired after me were, were like of the neocon crowd,
00:30:50.960
So I'm not one of these, you know, I'm a, I'm a military guy that's very practical.
00:31:01.000
We talked about national, big national security issues.
00:31:05.000
We talked about domestic issues that had a national security bent.
00:31:09.900
So Donald Trump, they knew that Donald Trump was going to come in and not have,
00:31:16.080
He was actually, I mean, he was going to have very common sense, very basic American values
00:31:23.260
And so what they needed to do is they needed to turn him into this, you know, this womanizing,
00:31:27.700
you know, grotesque figure of a man that was going to, that was going to ruin the United
00:31:33.360
And, and, and of course he's up against the machine, not only the democratic left machine,
00:31:40.040
And, you know, Hillary Clinton didn't even, she didn't really, she was kind of like in
00:31:43.900
the Biden mode, but in 2016, she really didn't campaign much in the last couple of weeks of,
00:31:50.840
You know, she didn't go to a couple of States and because they, I think the system was rigged.
00:31:59.900
You know, so Trump comes into office and they had to keep beating and beating and beating on
00:32:07.320
And it turns out the guy's actually doing so many good things, you know, reducing, you
00:32:12.840
know, all the different, uh, you know, all the negative factors and he's increasing all
00:32:17.200
the positive factors and people are turning around and going, wow.
00:32:20.280
And the media kept hammering him for Russia, Russia, Russia, which is false, false, false.
00:32:25.080
And, uh, and then here we are with, cause I do have some, I do have some things that I
00:32:31.400
think that Trump needs to do now, but I, that he should have done then.
00:32:35.460
And I, and, and I was not there to help because I do one thing that I did have was a good
00:32:40.800
And I still, I still think he, he would, he would continue to make a great president is
00:32:45.940
imperfect as he is, uh, because he's a very practical sound, uh, you know, policy type
00:32:54.640
And, you know, let's, when he says make America great again, it's all of the different aspects
00:32:58.780
of our lives, you know, but I, I do think that he, he trusted people in his administration,
00:33:04.500
particularly after I left, uh, and as, as things, um, wane into 2019 and 2020, he trusted
00:33:11.860
people, particularly on this COVID issue and the, uh, and the, um, you know, some of the,
00:33:17.980
some of the, the people that we now know that were behind, uh, what we're facing now,
00:33:23.260
you know, Fauci to be one, um, you know, and so, so there's some, there's some people
00:33:28.680
that he listened to that, frankly, Glenn, and this is for your audience.
00:33:32.500
I, I hope that, you know, as you, as you play this out, I don't, I don't really pay
00:33:41.540
I don't, I don't pay any attention to them anymore.
00:33:44.920
I know what their, I know what their war strategy is.
00:33:48.460
What I worry about, Glenn, is I worry about the Republicans in name only.
00:33:52.320
I worry about the Republican establishment and the Republican establishment in this country.
00:34:09.360
They, I, you know, as I go around, I just spent, I spend these weekends going around to
00:34:14.200
these different rallies that we're having, that we're holding with a group of people who
00:34:22.760
We are doctors now because, because of the COVID nonsense.
00:34:27.240
And I call it the COVID confusion, you know, so we're going around doing these rallies and
00:34:32.260
I'm telling you, we have 3,000, five, we just had about 5,000.
00:34:40.180
These are people that are, they're, they're from all places in the country.
00:34:46.400
You know, we did a big rally in, in, uh, in, uh, Anaheim, California, you know, a while
00:34:51.980
We just did one in Colorado this, this past weekend.
00:34:55.200
So the, the sentiment of the American people right now is they can, you talk about some
00:35:01.820
Republican Senator, or you talk about the Republican establishment.
00:35:05.760
And I mean, they're like, you know, you should hear the, the, the boos and hisses coming from
00:35:11.120
You know, you can talk about, you can talk about the other side, the left, right?
00:35:14.680
And everybody knows that, that it's a, it's basically a communist view of, of a, of a,
00:35:22.540
of a, of a direction that is, that we are being dragged by the nose hairs along.
00:35:30.820
It's like they care about that, but it's not, they don't see that as the problem.
00:35:38.820
And I believe that it's a, I, I, I have a really good feel for this because I've, I've,
00:35:47.220
And I, and I, and my intelligence collection, right?
00:35:50.080
My, my judgment of what I'm seeing in this country, they do not trust.
00:35:56.320
They don't trust the Republican establishment anymore.
00:35:59.460
They really don't because I mean, Glenn, we lost faith there.
00:36:03.060
We lost faith there before we lost faith in other institutions.
00:36:12.360
So we just had this, this, this, you know, latest hearing in Arizona for the audit.
00:36:20.140
And I honestly, I don't know where you guys stood on it, but the media, the big media right
00:36:24.040
away said, even before the hearing started, they said, well, we, you know, nothing to see
00:36:31.640
In fact, he won by more boats than, than whatever in Arizona.
00:36:34.400
Well, you know, actually, I don't even think that there was a leaked reporter.
00:36:38.320
Cause if there was, I dug around in my network and I, I didn't get a leaked report.
00:36:42.000
You know, I don't know if you got a leaked report.
00:36:43.660
I didn't get one, but I, but I heard all the nonsense coming out of the media.
00:36:49.660
And I think that they, then they made up the fact that let's, let's beat this before
00:36:53.400
the thing even starts on this Friday afternoon, before the hearing even starts.
00:36:57.580
So just one piece of evidence, one piece of evidence that came out of that hearing,
00:37:01.320
there were a million, uh, well, so in late February timeframe, there was a deletion of
00:37:08.520
files, knowing that the subpoena was coming, knowing that the audit was coming.
00:37:14.960
For the person that's out there that did this, they actually have this on videotape.
00:37:19.840
Um, so during the hearing, they said there was a million pieces of evidence that were
00:37:24.480
Well, federal election law, and there's some statute, you know, five, zero, two, one, one
00:37:32.980
That says every one of those pieces of evidence that was destroyed comes with a $10,000 fine.
00:37:38.880
And I think it's a one year, uh, you know, uh, in jail.
00:37:48.360
So now you're going to tell me that there was no fraud.
00:37:50.960
And when, when I hear Republicans talking about, well, we've had fraud, like I can, I
00:37:56.440
know I can give you some names here, but they've been public about it, but they, they, uh, when
00:38:00.540
they say, well, you know, a little bit of fraud.
00:38:16.560
Uh, the other institution that nobody in our country has faith in any longer is the institution
00:38:22.100
of our election process, which is the most sacrosanct privilege that we have, because
00:38:28.040
guess what, Glenn, it makes me equal to you on that day.
00:38:34.840
Well, what we just learned is that it doesn't, uh, we have a, we have a massively broken system.
00:38:42.540
And I'm not sure the country can move forward until something, until someone is held accountable.
00:38:49.340
I just, uh, had this conversation with, uh, somebody in the house and they were talking
00:38:55.940
about, you know, the, the fraud and the possible fraud fraud and everything else.
00:39:05.980
It, it, you must have a legitimate hearing and a legitimate process that is completely
00:39:15.020
transparent and led by leaders of, of the community that everybody trusts.
00:39:29.680
I don't know if there were enough votes to, you know, vote him out of office or keep him
00:39:43.080
So whether it would have kept him in office or not, I don't know, but that has to be solved.
00:39:48.420
Let me ask you about January 6th, because, um, you know, my, my stance on this was, and
00:39:55.520
quite honestly, you'll never convince me that that was a fair election.
00:40:03.620
However, when it came to January 6th, there's nothing in the constitution on January 6th that
00:40:10.700
would have allowed anybody to overturn that and keep him because of the, the constitution's
00:40:19.700
And it seems unfair, even if we would, let's say Arizona, we found out it was massive fraud.
00:40:26.960
The constitution doesn't afford anything as a remedy to that.
00:40:32.360
Once the president has been voted by the states and the electors, it's done.
00:40:38.540
And if you don't have that solved by January 20th, um, well, I don't think there is a, if
00:40:45.280
you don't, it, it must be done by January 20th.
00:40:51.800
And I'm not talking about the, the worst thing since the civil war.
00:40:55.220
I'm talking about the, what should have been done?
00:41:04.220
And I think that's, that's really the, the, your question.
00:41:06.260
And I think that's an important issue because we have a constitutional process and it's,
00:41:14.260
I think one time where it was late in March when, uh, and I think this is back in the era
00:41:18.860
of Lincoln, but, um, but that constitutional process on the 6th of January, the decision
00:41:25.520
Some tactics that I disagree with was there were senators that came in, in the, in the morning
00:41:30.800
with, uh, they were going to vote not to, not to certify.
00:41:34.120
And then in the afternoon, because of what happened there, they voted to certify and I'm
00:41:47.340
So that, that process, that decision was made constitutionally with all of the, the,
00:41:58.780
That doesn't mean though, that we cannot continue to dig in.
00:42:03.640
To find out if, if this election actually was fraudulent.
00:42:10.560
Glenn, there's hundreds of precedent at other, in other elections down at, in the federal elections
00:42:16.300
and in state elections down below the presidency that have been overturned because of in time,
00:42:22.660
more evidence comes out, there's court, you know, there's this fight, somebody doesn't,
00:42:26.360
somebody doesn't concede and they fight for the seat.
00:42:28.760
The gal up in, uh, up in New York 22, and I forget her name now, but she, she continued
00:42:33.400
to fight and she won the seat, you know, because she found that there was fraud in, uh, in her
00:42:38.660
particular election in, uh, in the, in the New York congressional, uh, race as part of the,
00:42:44.560
So, so there, now what we're talking about though, is we're, we're talking about the presidency
00:42:49.920
and the media is beating up on everybody and, and calling, and, you know, calling us all
00:42:55.620
conspiracy theorists, like, like you saying, well, you're a conspiracy theorist.
00:42:59.200
If you believe that the three November election was fraudulent, I believe it wasn't done properly.
00:43:04.500
I actually don't care whether, in fact, this is not about Trump.
00:43:09.800
I mean, I'll get out there and I'll say, yeah, Trump was a great president.
00:43:13.560
I still support the guy, but this is an American issue.
00:43:16.240
And I said earlier that America is at a massive transition point, right?
00:43:22.340
And that transition point is we are going to go down a path of socialism or communism,
00:43:27.380
but we're going to go down this path of this continuation of the experiment in democracy
00:43:33.760
I don't really care about Trump because all of us are a blip on the historic screen of life
00:43:39.760
If we want to continue to last, you know, for, for 200 more years as a constitutional
00:43:44.520
Republic, we have got to get this resolved, you know, to have a fraudulent election at
00:43:49.880
a congressional district and get it overturned.
00:43:51.860
That's one thing, but we're talking about the presidency.
00:43:54.900
I ain't talking about president Trump right now.
00:43:57.160
I'm talking about the presidency of the United States of America.
00:44:00.520
And I can tell you from an American, as an American, as a, as a guy who still, I mean,
00:44:05.640
I grew up in a, in a, you know, you know, I love to just talk about my family, but I grew
00:44:10.320
up in a, in a, in a tough family and my father retired as a Sergeant from the army, 20 year
00:44:21.420
And as you're, as he was getting you out of bed in the morning, because you were trying
00:44:24.400
to oversleep and he's telling you to go deliver the newspapers at five o'clock.
00:44:27.300
What I'm telling you is that the American people do not trust what happened.
00:44:30.280
And I will, and the other thing that I would say is that nobody voted for the, for what
00:44:38.060
We're facing, I think we're somewhere between five and 6% inflation rate.
00:44:43.960
We've got, you know, the, the gas down the street from my house is I think $3 more than
00:44:50.420
I mean, you know, we're paying a couple extra dollars, you know, in for a gallon of milk,
00:44:55.300
you know, we, you know, there's jobless, I mean, there's a lot of things happening that
00:44:58.300
we say to ourselves as Americans, I didn't vote for this, I didn't vote for this at all.
00:45:03.040
And that's where the sentiment of the American people out there, that's what, that's what
00:45:07.320
That includes, that includes, I think, Glenn, probably, probably half of the other party.
00:45:13.400
You know, I really do believe that there's a lot of sleepers out there now that go,
00:45:25.240
One, one of the things that I saw that I thought was very hopeful was during this dishonorable
00:45:34.600
debacle in Afghanistan that America collectively woke up.
00:45:41.580
And, and to me, that shows that there is still a Judeo-Christian ethic out there of honor
00:45:51.720
And we don't see it very often, but that was so shocking to the American people that
00:45:57.920
we would leave our own behind and leave our friends behind.
00:46:01.940
I think that, uh, I, I, I think that said good things about the American people, horrible
00:46:15.720
So I'll just briefly, well, talk about Afghanistan because what I, what did I feel when that
00:46:21.420
happened and all that, not just the attack, but how we were leaving and then the attack
00:46:24.980
happened, you know, the, the attack against these 13 brave souls, uh, who, um, you know,
00:46:33.400
I was actually irritated with our military more than I was with the white house.
00:46:37.120
Cause I just know that the incompetency of the people there, literally the incompetency
00:46:42.960
So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I want to, I want to, uh, let's, let's dive into this
00:46:47.740
carefully because I, people tell me that, uh, Joe Biden is not really there.
00:46:57.520
I think he has, you know, maybe non lucid moments, but I think he knew about this.
00:47:03.120
And I think the, um, the leadership at the Pentagon knew exactly what it was going to cost, but
00:47:10.460
they didn't have the balls to do anything different.
00:47:22.760
They teach these kinds of case studies of how to, how to do these kinds of military operations
00:47:27.460
in, in infantry, you know, career courses for young officers.
00:47:31.080
I mean, so we're not, we're not that incompetent, uh, at all.
00:47:35.060
So there's gotta be a level of knowledge and complicity is a really strong word to use here.
00:47:40.260
Um, let me, let me just go back one second on the, on the American people, the honor and
00:47:47.420
Um, I also think that the American people are still the most forgiving.
00:47:52.900
And, and if, if we do something wrong and you, and you, and you admit it, right.
00:48:03.000
Uh, you know, the American people will, will forgive.
00:48:06.360
Uh, there, so Afghanistan, I think that's a big deal.
00:48:09.780
I think, I think forgiveness is one of the biggest character traits of the American citizen.
00:48:15.220
Um, one of the greatest strengths that we have is the ability to forgive, not forget, but forgive.
00:48:20.080
Afghanistan is an unforgiving, uh, uh, debacle and the American people are not going to let
00:48:27.040
this one go, uh, because we still have American citizens.
00:48:31.720
And I, I know this for a fact that are left behind, uh, you know, enemy lines.
00:48:37.460
And yet I know you're, you're helping out in an extraordinary way.
00:48:41.100
And I, and I appreciate that, uh, you know, if, from just a one, from a guy who served
00:48:46.640
over there a long period of time and know what, how horrendous these people are that
00:48:52.060
Um, but there, you know, there's these efforts to get these, these brave Americans out of
00:48:56.340
there who are just our, our, our nation surrendered.
00:49:03.500
Uh, and, and we, we, uh, basically left American citizens behind enemy lines.
00:49:09.420
I mean, that's the only way I can say it again, we're not that stupid.
00:49:17.280
I, so, so why, you know, why let me just give you my minute on that.
00:49:23.060
I, I think why is because part of it is I think when we talk about institutions and faith
00:49:27.500
and institutions, the last bastion of integrity, and I think that the American people still
00:49:36.820
I have to believe it because moms and dads are still sending their sons and daughters to
00:49:42.860
And I'm going to be paying very close attention to our recruiting numbers here this year and
00:49:47.000
next year, because I think it's, they're going to be down because of what just happened.
00:49:51.200
Um, so I think this administration actually wants to put a body blow into the military's,
00:49:56.840
uh, integrity and into the military, uh, is, you know, the confidence that the American
00:50:01.860
I actually think that that's, I mean, I don't, I can't understand, I can't explain it in any
00:50:09.560
General, you are, I mean, I'm sorry, I have tried to give the benefit of the doubt, but
00:50:16.140
again, something, if it was a mistake, if it was, you know, not intentional, occasionally
00:50:24.100
things would break to the American side, but everything that is being done is destroying
00:50:35.740
You couldn't, you couldn't come up with a better plan.
00:50:41.540
Glenn, I was on the phone the other day, Saturday, I believe early Saturday morning.
00:50:46.540
Uh, so this is Monday, early Saturday morning, whatever that date is, the 24th, maybe, um,
00:50:51.840
of, of, uh, September with a friend who was on his way.
00:50:55.780
And he was, he was at the, really, he was at the Del Rio bridge in Texas where the Haitians
00:51:02.220
Because I'm bringing, I'm, I'm, I'm making an analogy of what it is that we're talking
00:51:07.880
And so he got down there and he said, you're not going to believe this.
00:51:13.260
So remember the pictures of Friday, you know, all last week of these Haitians underneath
00:51:20.420
And he goes, yeah, they must've pulled them out of here last night.
00:51:24.640
Cause the, cause the, uh, and the administration is, you know, we'll tell you, I think, I think
00:51:29.960
what they're going to try to say is, well, we pushed them all back.
00:51:33.180
They put them on planes, trains, and automobiles, and they shipped them all over the country because
00:51:41.040
And this was a guy that was going down there to do some, he was going to get down there and
00:51:44.800
do some investigation and some work to see what they, what, how he could help.
00:51:53.440
There's no, there's, there's just trash down here.
00:51:56.740
And now I was told this morning, in fact, a few minutes before coming on your show, that
00:52:00.980
we're now looking at about another hundred thousand people from multiple countries that
00:52:05.600
are on their way up the, uh, up through Mexico now to come to the border again.
00:52:10.000
You know, I, I lived, I was stationed at Fort Huca, Arizona, which is a border, which is
00:52:14.360
federal property of military installations, the home of the army intelligence center in
00:52:18.780
And I was stationed there multiple times, particularly in there, you know, not, not, you know, right
00:52:25.280
And we used to have 10,000 illegals a month crossing federal property at that time.
00:52:34.420
I mean, so when we look at Afghanistan and we look at the decision-making that happened
00:52:39.900
there, and we look at the decision-making that's happening at our own border, because
00:52:44.160
the border is a, the reason, there's a reason why we put locks on doors.
00:52:48.880
There's a reason why we put walls up around our fences, up around our, our neighborhoods,
00:52:53.680
Because you want to keep people out and you want to keep things, the right things in.
00:52:57.980
And so we, we have a, a, a white house, cause I agree with you.
00:53:03.900
I mean, you know, does, does Joe Biden look like he doesn't know what's going on sometimes?
00:53:11.720
You know, I'm not a doctor to diagnose his mental health, but, but the decisions, the decision-making,
00:53:18.280
man, I served at the highest level of our government to support decision-making.
00:53:22.260
And we made decisions early on before I did get out of the, you know, before I did have
00:53:30.920
And the decisions being made by this white house are really just decisions that are so
00:53:36.600
against the American psyche and so against the fabric of our constitution.
00:53:41.480
And I actually think that they're, they're working towards, as I said, a transition towards
00:53:46.200
a different form of government in this country.
00:53:48.200
And you've been talking about this for a long time, Glenn, we can't get ourselves.
00:53:53.360
It's, uh, it's too late to kid yourself about it.
00:53:56.520
Um, let me talk about general Milley for a second.
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Um, you know, he made a phone call to China and said, Hey, listen, we're not going to attack.
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If something like that would come up, I'll call you in advance.
00:54:11.740
That's not the kind of conversation that the Logan act came gunning for you on.
00:54:20.280
Where does that fall to you as a general for Milley to make that phone call to talk about
00:54:29.860
Um, while the president was, it's not a transition.
00:54:33.400
The president was, was seated at the time he was working for that president.
00:54:37.640
Duly elected president is a duly elected president United States of America.
00:54:41.960
Mark Milley is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and staff is a key word.
00:54:45.820
And I'll say why here in a second, by law is the senior, uh, military advisor to the president
00:54:53.540
And, and our, the beauty of our constitution has placed the military as a subordinate to
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the, to the, uh, to the political class of our country, to the president, right?
00:55:03.580
That's why that one of the hats that the president wears is, is, is the, uh, commander in chief.
00:55:08.660
So for Milley to have done what he did, he was usurping the authority.
00:55:15.480
Uh, but he was usurping the authority of the duly elected president of the United States
00:55:20.820
And, and he was basically, you know, indicating, giving our, giving our enemy, you know, the military,
00:55:28.380
we don't look at, we don't look at the, as China as a competitor, like, uh, the commerce
00:55:34.160
department would, or as a colleague, as the state department would, we're the military.
00:55:39.940
Our business is to fight and win our nation's wars and not to, you know, not to pussyfoot
00:55:46.000
So for, for Milley to have called up his counterpart and say, Hey, don't worry if we attack, I'm
00:55:49.980
going to call you, you know, and for Trump to find out about this after the fact is obviously
00:55:55.400
he's just, he's finding out about this conversation that Milley had just recently, you know, in
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the, in, because of this book that's out, I mean, Milley should, should, he should resign
00:56:06.320
He should throw his stars down and say, I'm, you know, not throw his stars down.
00:56:09.140
He should, he should, you know, humbly hand them into somebody.
00:56:12.980
Um, we, we cannot, again, back to the American people, the American people, Mark, that's Mark's,
00:56:21.680
The American people, Mark, do not have faith and confidence in you any longer.
00:56:24.760
Because of what we just discovered, and you have not come out and denied it.
00:56:33.880
I actually know Lloyd Austin better than I know Mark Milley.
00:56:38.960
This is, this is not good for the constitution of the United States of America, which is what
00:56:50.560
And it's not good for the people of this country, because the people of this country, when they
00:56:54.420
start to have, when they start to lose faith in our, in our uniform, those that wear the
00:56:59.360
cloth of the military, and our uniform service members at the senior level, when they lose
00:57:04.200
faith, they no longer send their sons and daughters to serve our country.
00:57:09.400
Because that's not only about the health of the institution of the military, it's the health
00:57:16.320
If we don't have young men and young women who are willingly, will willingly sign on the
00:57:22.280
dotted line and give their lives for you and I to have this kind of a conversation of, you
00:57:27.580
know, a public discourse about what's, what's happening in our country.
00:57:32.360
We're, we're in trouble, Glenn, we're in trouble, Glenn, with our, with that, uh, element of
00:57:38.560
our, of our government, that institution of our government, when people start to lose faith
00:57:43.220
in the leaders of our military, you know, set aside the, the, the, the, it's not just a
00:57:48.980
losing faith in the military, the American people.
00:57:56.280
I mean, I can't imagine, can you imagine the prime, what would happen if you were still
00:58:04.320
national security advisor and the president refused to take a phone call from the British
00:58:14.020
How many people would have known that for 40 hours, the British prime minister was trying
00:58:20.700
Everybody, everybody in the white house, everybody in the inner circle, because I can tell you that
00:58:24.480
from a national security advisor's perspective, believe me, those relationships are, are extraordinary
00:58:30.640
and they're, they have to be open and honest between national security advisors of different
00:58:37.160
And I, I spoke to, uh, I spoke to damn near every national security advisor of the, of
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probably half the world, Glenn, going into that job.
00:58:45.440
You know, the one that comes out as a, you know, of course, my, my, my conversation with
00:58:52.220
But so, yeah, so everybody around the president would know that is in a key position.
00:58:57.180
Chiefs, the chief of staff, the national security advisor, the secretary of defense, the secretary
00:59:01.800
of state would all have been receiving phone calls from their counterparts saying, you know,
00:59:08.520
Instead of the other one, WTH, uh, what's going on there?
00:59:15.780
So, so, um, that's, that's another ugly episode of American leadership.
00:59:23.860
And I use the word leadership, uh, you know, in a really unsatisfying way, uh, because that's
00:59:33.220
I mean, that's what we're, we're facing a group of people talk about cabals and the use
00:59:38.820
Cabals for the great reset, the cabal inside of the white house right now.
00:59:43.880
We have not mentioned, I have not mentioned her name, Susan Rice.
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So she's in there as a, as a assistant to the president of the United States for, for
00:59:51.500
God knows what, she's got a title, but boy, I think she's doing a lot more.
00:59:57.460
People would be calling all these different key people to say, Hey, we, we need some help
01:00:03.460
And then, and then, you know, not to mention this issue with the, with this nuclear issue
01:00:07.660
out in the Pacific with the Australians and then where the French got upset, right?
01:00:11.700
I mean, these are big, big deals with our alliances and our partnerships and our, and
01:00:17.240
our friend, those, those who are friendly to us around the world, um, who are starting
01:00:26.000
And, and they're, and they're, I'll tell you what's going to happen.
01:00:29.020
What's going to happen, Glenn, is when the going gets tough and it's going to get worse
01:00:34.100
here, Glenn, the sacrifices are going to be greater going forward than they are.
01:00:40.620
So when the going gets tough, these alliances will turn on us and they'll turn on us quickly,
01:00:46.240
particularly with this crowd that's in the white house right now, um, because a lot of
01:00:52.100
I think that these leaders around the world, at least the ones that have, that have kept any
01:00:56.980
legitimacy with their own people, uh, they, they look at, they look at what's going on
01:01:00.960
and they're like, Oh man, we, we can't deal with these guys, especially if they're not
01:01:03.940
being honest, forthright, if they're not returning our calls and we've been with them for years.
01:01:09.900
I'm, I'm, I mean, they are playing chess and we're not even playing checkers.
01:01:15.080
Uh, we're, we're, we're, we're playing hopscotch that some other playground, um, China
01:01:25.160
So, cause I know, I know cause of time, but so the big winner, okay.
01:01:31.260
The big winner for your audience and for anybody that watches this on any social media, the
01:01:36.820
So the big winner, the last century was a U S century.
01:01:41.920
China made a, China made a commitment that this century was going to be the century of
01:01:47.600
That's big strategic 60,000 foot level, big winner in Afghanistan, China, the big winner
01:01:56.060
So the Chinese military is actually, is there on there, they are starting to be on a footing
01:02:05.000
Because they've stolen a lot of our technology and they just rebuilt it.
01:02:10.520
They've stolen the blueprints to make anti-aircraft weapon systems.
01:02:15.820
I mean, guarantee that that kind of stuff has happened.
01:02:24.360
And this didn't happen because of Donald Trump.
01:02:26.820
This has been going on for the better part of a, of probably four or five decades.
01:02:32.260
I can tell you, it's been going on for at least the last two and a half decades.
01:02:35.920
And I can, I can almost pinpoint the timeframe when it, when it really began in earnest in
01:02:41.360
the nineties and then in the mid to late nineties.
01:02:43.560
So, um, so China's the big winner, uh, right now we have to, um, you know, we have to really
01:02:54.240
Uh, I think that there's any legitimacy to anybody that's still in our government that
01:02:58.320
still feels, you know, that they, they have a, uh, uh, any, any, any passion for our constitution
01:03:04.460
and they're in a senior position in our U S government.
01:03:07.040
You know, they need to, they need to come, they need to step up and, and, uh, and, and
01:03:12.740
speak out, uh, and be brave because the American people want accountability and the American
01:03:19.300
people, they, they not only deserve this, but they are leadership positions and that's
01:03:23.840
courage, selfless courage, you know, with a, with an element of humility, uh, that we
01:03:30.840
need in our country right now, but we're, we're really, we're really in a, we're in a
01:03:38.860
And you, you, you know, you, you talk about this all the time and you've been talking about
01:03:43.040
it for a long time, you know, even in your case and, you know, and, and play it or not,
01:03:47.760
but the media try and the, and the, and the left tries to buttonhole who you are, right?
01:03:53.760
I've, I've, I've been, I've been, you know, watching your career and watching what you've
01:03:57.940
And actually you bring us, you bring an element, a huge element of honesty and forthrightness
01:04:08.340
And I, and I, in this first media interview we've had, we've never met, never met.
01:04:12.460
I just telling you that I know, I know what our country is feeling right now.
01:04:20.800
I made it to general through a public university.
01:04:25.820
I worked my ass off and I deployed, I took the hard jobs that nobody else wanted.
01:04:30.820
And so, you know, I'm an Irish kid from a, from a family of nine and my father, and like
01:04:37.220
He used to kick us in the rear end and get us, he'd throw us out of bed.
01:04:39.960
He did the old throw up the, throw up the, uh, the mattress like he probably did in many
01:04:46.800
So, uh, I'm just telling you that we're in a difficult spot.
01:04:51.500
The American people know it, but what they're looking for is, okay, what do I do?
01:04:58.960
My phrase that I have, uh, that I have jumped on is local action has a national impact.
01:05:05.700
So when I go out and I talk to people, I say, quit complaining about Washington, DC, quit
01:05:11.120
complaining about your state's Capitol and your governor.
01:05:17.280
Ken, you know, what are you doing for your country?
01:05:25.200
I do believe that that's one weapon system that we still have in our arsenal of millions
01:05:30.080
and millions of millions of, of really of this sort of, because you did highlight it.
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There's a Christian element in our country that still exists, and they're not people that wear
01:05:43.680
You know, there are some of those, but there's hundreds of millions of us that are really ready.
01:05:58.700
If your school board is teaching critical race theory and they're teaching filth and pornography
01:06:03.640
to our 10-year-olds in elementary school, don't complain to me about your school board.
01:06:10.580
The next time around, go, or don't show up with three people.
01:06:13.680
Show up with 3,000 to the next school board hearing.
01:06:21.080
I know we're running late, but I, in 1972, something happened in your life.
01:06:29.640
A little girl climbed into a car, and I don't believe that a man who starts out in 1972 like
01:06:40.340
this, that that ripple doesn't go all the way through your life to today.
01:06:47.360
Um, and I can't imagine, uh, I just, I just don't believe any of the dishonorable stuff
01:06:55.920
that the media tries to place on you, and it must kill you.
01:06:59.860
Tell the audience what happened to you in 1972.
01:07:04.800
I mean, 1972, we were with a bunch of, I was a kid, you know, I was born in 1958, so I was
01:07:10.420
I was a kid, you know, we were playing out in front of, in a front yard with some, with
01:07:14.000
some friends in a neighborhood, and a car, uh, was the, kids were playing in the car,
01:07:19.400
a break was released, there was two children playing at the bottom of a, of a long driveway,
01:07:24.160
car starts to roll, and so I, there was the two children were there, and there was a car
01:07:29.760
that they were playing at that was parked at the bottom of the driveway, and both those
01:07:35.660
And so I, I, I yelled, I moved quickly, you know, uh, probably instinct more than anything
01:07:42.620
else, had another kid, another kid there, and I said, grab, you know, her and these
01:07:48.160
And, you know, long story short, my hometown, um, you know, made a nice, you know, they made
01:07:54.340
a nice gesture to say thank you for saving these children, and so I appreciate you bringing
01:07:59.600
that, I don't, I don't, you know, talk about that kind of stuff, but, but, um, I, I think
01:08:05.660
my life, I define who I am, Glenn, you know, my wife and I, actually, my wife and I have
01:08:12.700
been together since I was, since 1972, okay, since we were 13 years old, been married for
01:08:18.320
over 40 years now, yeah, so, you know, everything in my life is about loyalty to something and
01:08:24.660
someone, and now, and it, and it grew in time to being loyal to this country as I understood it
01:08:32.520
So I, I just, you know, appreciate you bringing that up, um, you know, I tell people now, don't
01:08:40.460
If you look at yourself in the mirror and you're not the same person walking away from it, then
01:08:45.780
Uh, I define who I am, I don't really give a shit about the military, about the media and
01:08:50.120
what they, what, how they, you know, how they define me, I really don't.
01:08:53.560
My mom was one of these, this extraordinary woman, you know, thank God she had nine children.
01:08:59.040
Um, my mom used to say, you know, the old sticks and stones will break my bones, but
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So, you know, get back out and play in the street kind of thing, you know?
01:09:10.600
And I, that's who I am and that's who I will be.
01:09:14.100
And, you know, they can say what they want, uh, media can say what they want.
01:09:18.060
Actually, the more they attack me, I actually, in some funny way, I guess I say, you know,
01:09:22.720
be, be my guest because the American people keep coming to me and I so deeply appreciate
01:09:28.720
the American people who came to the rescue of my family and I, both morally and financially,
01:09:35.000
uh, to help us get through these last, uh, number of years of just pure political persecution.
01:09:45.600
God bless your audience and God bless all that you do for this country.
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