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00:01:38.260Hello, America, and welcome to the program. Lots to talk about, lots to cover, a lot of really important people that are going to be talking about the FBI, the SEC, Twitter, General Milley, you name it.
00:02:01.320We have it covered today. I have just a few minutes to talk to you about the economy, and we're going to start there in 60 seconds.
00:02:08.560Okay, speaking of the economy, I have no idea what is going to happen with housing prices.
00:02:19.720I have no idea. I just know the Case-Shiller Index, which is always the one that says,
00:02:24.960Hey, don't buy, you're at the top of the market, is double, double where we were back in 2008.
00:02:32.820It's never been this high. That means we are way overpriced with housing.
00:02:38.520However, you've got people like BlackRock and everybody else buying all these houses now, paying more than the asking price.
00:04:03.960I want to talk to you about a couple of things that are very, very concerning to me.
00:04:10.000Um, something I told you last night on the TV show that there are, uh, 11 things that the left has needed that I have been watching since about 2000, 2008.
00:04:24.0002008, that I started doing my homework on revolution.
00:04:28.880And I talked to people all over the world that have either witnessed them or are professors that understand this, this system.
00:06:06.240Uh, I'm telling you now new information.
00:06:09.420You are not going to recognize the American lifestyle.
00:06:14.660And I don't want to put a time on it because I'm always wrong in timing, but it could happen tomorrow.
00:06:19.600It could happen in five years from now, but it will happen.
00:06:24.820We are headed for a very different country.
00:06:29.140One where you don't have the rights that you have, and you certainly don't have the economic privileges that Americans are used to.
00:06:40.560And when I say privileges, I mean energy.
00:06:44.880I mean, going out and getting a hamburger.
00:06:46.980There's a couple of things that I want to talk to you about, and next Wednesday night, I'm doing a special on the economy that you really need to pay attention to.
00:06:58.340But something happened last night, and honestly, I wish I had a crystal ball that could give me an answer here.
00:07:05.180But something important happened in China, and I'm not sure how this is going to affect us yet.
00:07:11.300I've got my tentacles out to a few people that I respect.
00:07:15.520So far, they're all like, I don't know.
00:07:27.240Remember, there was Bear Stearns and then Lehman Brothers.
00:07:30.460When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, that's when the crap hit the fan, right?
00:07:36.620That's when we went into full-fledged tarp.
00:07:39.320We've got to destroy the free market to save the free market.
00:07:42.600That's when all the lights around the world were supposed to go out because of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
00:07:49.020Now, yesterday, and I told you about this last week, that it looked like it was coming.
00:07:58.800But yesterday, the Chinese Lehman Brothers collapsed.
00:08:04.000And it's going to have a cascading effect on the Chinese financial markets.
00:08:09.660And it's weird because I'm not sure how this is going to work because China is such a different market.
00:08:20.080The good news here is the Lehman, the Chinese version of Lehman Brothers, does not, we don't have a lot of exposure to it.
00:08:30.000According to an article I read last night, 90% of Evergrande's, that's the name of their Lehman Brothers, it's owned by Chinese investors, mostly institutional.
00:08:43.020So the losses are isolated to China or more so to China than Lehman Brothers, where they had about 50% of all of the exposure was overseas.
00:10:34.420They took all of this money and they had shovel ready projects, public housing and ghost cities.
00:10:40.520All of those things that were built were built in and around this firm.
00:10:47.000So all of those ghost cities, all of those things, there is no return on investment on things that usually the government is looking to do.
00:10:58.600When they fund these things, oh, we're investing in the future.
00:11:04.880But there is no return on that investment because no one is there paying rent.
00:11:11.060How can you invest in our country and say we're investing by helping people, paying people and giving them no job, making sure they're sitting on their butt at home and also canceling their rent payments and their mortgage payments?
00:11:49.800Because Atlas Shrugged is happening right now.
00:11:54.840Now, there's a couple of other things that I wanted to share with you.
00:11:58.640The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has said now that staff are still evacuated from 36 production platforms, and that's about 7% of all the manned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico because of Hurricane Ida.
00:12:18.980What this means is we are going to be way, way, way short of our oil.
00:12:30.880And remember, Saudi Arabia is not really a friend of ours anymore.
00:12:35.580They're not cutting us any special deals because we don't have the clout anymore.
00:13:01.940The reason why Donald Trump was so hated by the people of Davos and all of these corporations that work together and all of the deep state is because the deep state and all of these corporations and financial institutions,
00:13:20.000they've screwed things up and so they have decided that America is no longer going to be the leader of the free world and they will manage this decline and bring us into line with the rest of the world and then they'll have their great reset.
00:13:38.540This is why I say you are not going to have the privilege of your lifestyle in the coming months, years, decades, because the people who are in charge of America now no longer believe in America.
00:13:56.420If I were president of America, if I were president of the United States, Donald Trump was president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, he would not be saying, well, we're just going to give up and let's manage the decline.
00:14:07.760He would be saying, what do we do to have to get back to our full potential?
00:14:14.500That's why we were energy independent.
00:14:16.520And that is why Joe Biden took us and took us to a place where now our gas prices are going to go through the roof.
00:14:27.000One other story that came out today, the U.S. and the EU seek to partner in a joint pledge to cut methane emissions by 2030 by 30 percent.
00:14:42.480Stu, what is the main source of methane emissions?
00:14:46.520In America, there's many sources, but people like to talk about livestock.
00:14:54.200Remember, the World Economic Forum, the left, everybody, including the meat processing companies, are telling you that meat is going to be a rarity and something for special occasions only by 2030.
00:20:47.920Um, I just recorded the podcast with them and it is vital that you listen to this podcast and you share it with friends that you don't necessarily agree with.
00:21:00.260Because we must become strange bedfellows.
00:21:04.980We must stop hating the things that we are against and start loving the things that we are for.
00:21:52.680Now we're, we couldn't be further from political, uh, lineage here, but we agree on certain principles and that's where we need to get back to.
00:22:06.120So please download, if you, if you have the blaze, it's out today, uh, and you'll be able to, uh, watch it, uh, shortly after this program airs.
00:22:15.960Uh, it is the Brett, Brett Weinstein and Heather Haying, uh, interview on the Glenn Beck podcast.
00:22:23.760It'll be out everywhere on Saturday available on blaze TV.
00:22:40.340Researchers have determined that, uh, email phishing and brute force are the two most popular methods now that cyber criminals are using for ransomware and extortion attacks on corporate networks.
00:22:52.060Now the corporate network, they have your customer information usually attached to it.
00:22:57.360So you're part of this now you need somebody who's watching out for you.
00:27:02.580Well, Glenn, I always start with the fact that the Federal Election Commission is an agency that is explicitly designed by our government to limit our First Amendment rights.
00:27:12.660And as such, it really is the wrong vehicle to go after social media companies because there's really a greater harm to our First Amendment free speech rights if we were to expand the jurisdiction of the commission.
00:27:28.340And our court system has said that the sole purpose of the Federal Election Commission is to regulate constitutionally protected speech.
00:27:35.420So we have a very limited jurisdiction and we need to be very protective of what we claim to be violations of campaign finance law.
00:27:45.780And so if you would have is I understand this and I haven't heard your opinion on this.
00:27:53.680But if I understand this, if you guys would have gone after Twitter because you're looking at Twitter and you're not determining whether or not they're a publisher or an editor.
00:28:32.020You know, it is if we were to say that the decision to throttle the Hunter Biden story was a violation of campaign finance, then we would have a flood of complaints where we would have to find the same thing, whether it be you.
00:28:47.520You know, God rest his soul, it would have been every time Rush went on the radio explaining anything, it would have been all of everybody on the right would have gotten a complaint filed against them immediately if we would have found that Twitter had violated campaign finance rule.
00:29:07.760So, you know, and I can understand why people think that it's a campaign finance violation, because, you know, people of goodwill believing in the virtue of their cause are going to reach for whatever tool they seem to see available.
00:29:21.160And they think of the federal election commission as that entity that's the easiest to go after.
00:29:29.260But, you know, when you look at it, the federal election campaign act was was last amended in 2002.
00:29:36.900And so it really predates anything that we have to do in our modern world.
00:29:42.400I mean, at that time, AOL was the was the biggest thing on the Internet.
00:29:46.620And we were still using modems and desktops.
00:29:49.340So, you know, they're trying to apply a statute that that deals with technologies that are that are no longer existent and apply them to technologies where, you know, today people get all of their news, you know, in the handheld device.
00:30:09.440You know, I mean, 15 percent of adult Americans get their news from Twitter, according to a few recent writing in 2021.
00:30:16.920So we're talking about 39 million Americans getting their news from that entity.
00:30:22.480And if you're going to allow a federal agency to start to regulate what an entity of news that goes to 39 million Americans can and can't say, then we're on a very slippery slope to the government regulating what any news site can say.
00:30:39.060Right. I mean, I know our blaze Glenn Beck world footprint is about 50 million Americans a month.
00:30:47.200That's a lot of people. And we would be in this regulation. We would be massive, massive targets.
00:30:55.560So let me let me ask you this. And you can comment on this or not.
00:30:59.980But as I as I see this, you could be saying or others could be saying, look, I think this is an in kind contribution to the extent that they knew what they were doing.
00:31:16.260They knew they were swinging the election, but that because they're an editor, even though they claim they're not because they have editorial license and content, I can't call it a in kind contribution because it's technically not.
00:31:38.440But that's kind of the way it feels to me. Is right. Would that be fair to say that it would be fair?
00:31:46.080I mean, look, they decided to moderate the content that their users were allowed to see.
00:31:51.720But do you believe it was for actual business reason? I'm not asking you on the legal side.
00:31:58.680I'm asking as a person, does it does the the business?
00:32:03.420What was their business reason for doing this?
00:32:05.900Well, they have you know, they have specific algorithms that are proprietary to to Twitter.
00:32:12.960They had concerns that material on the laptop itself had been hacked.
00:32:18.100They have they actually have written business policies that they produced to the commission that show that they will not, you know, reproduce hacked materials.
00:32:27.460And they had concerns about criminal investigations that were ongoing.
00:32:33.660And so, you know, they have specific business purposes that they produced to the commission that, you know, they they're not going to allow law enforcement material to be applied.
00:32:44.940So they they had, you know, complex business reasons that exist preexisted.
00:32:51.980The story related to Hunter Biden as part of their policy.
00:32:56.580And so it was legitimate business activity on their part that reflected a commercial consideration that they have.
00:33:03.040And once you step into that realm, the commission no longer has jurisdiction over it.
00:33:10.900And, you know, the fact of the matter is, is even if that commercial activity would have had an explicit partisan bias because it was, in fact, commercial activity, it was something that cannot be regulated by the federal government.
00:33:24.620We don't want to be in the business of regulating how businesses are run and what editorial decisions they make when they're moderating those.
00:33:34.600All right. So wait. So wait. So let me ask you one question here that is a change in me.
00:33:39.500I've always been free market. I still am.
00:33:42.300I am a I am a I am a free market constitutionalist.
00:33:47.540I don't think we have a free market anymore and we haven't looked at the Constitution.
00:33:52.180I mean, God knows what the National Archives are going to say about it next.
00:33:57.000With that being said, I'm to the point now where I think conservatives need to wake up.
00:34:06.240And this may be different than your official role as the Federal Election Commission officer.
00:34:12.540We have got to stop saying, well, it's private business.
00:34:17.420They can do what they want. These businesses are colluding with each other and with the United States governor, government and a a political party.
00:34:27.560So it's not just a private thing anymore.
00:34:33.880And there's a difference between a free enterprise and a and a corporation that is not getting all kinds of favors and everything else and one that is.
00:34:48.160So when you say we can't get into this realm, do you mean as conservatives and as all aspects of the government?
00:35:04.160Well, I think first and foremost, I'm talking about the role of the Federal Election Commission.
00:35:08.620But I think if you get back to first principles in talking about what we as conservatives need to do in order to get back to our constitutional roots,
00:35:19.500we have to look towards what did the founders mean when they said that there is freedom of the press?
00:35:25.000And they did not mean that we have to protect the modern journalistic class from some sort of regulation.
00:35:32.900What they meant by that, rather, was that we need to protect the printing press and its modern analogies, the apparatus for being able to speak to the public.
00:35:44.700And we have to protect the right of anyone to be able to disseminate their opinions, whatever those opinions may be, you know, left, right or center.
00:35:55.880And that includes we have to protect the rights of Twitter to be able to disseminate their ideas, even if they're partisan and even if they, at the end, have an effect on what people believe from the news.
00:36:17.120I mean, this is the real problem with the fake news is that we still have to protect that right to put out fake news.
00:36:25.900Our founders were very, very clear on that.
00:41:21.240This is a group of people who work tirelessly to not only give you all the insurance discounts and travel benefits and all the things that you deserve, but they work tirelessly to advocate for the constitutional causes.
00:41:33.860They were critical in stopping House Bill 1, which was going to change all the elections.
00:41:42.260They're still working on it in the Senate.
00:43:50.980You're going to get the first whole month for a dollar.
00:43:53.440Then literally all you have to do is connect to your Netflix, Amazon or other streaming accounts and see what you want to filter out and start streaming.
00:44:02.560It has filters available for just a buttload of movies.
00:44:07.18012,000 TV shows, new ones coming out every single week.
00:44:11.040And it allows you to control the content.
00:44:14.280Say that you like lots of violence, but you don't like swearing.
00:45:09.000So this thing with General Milley, I do not like to use the word treason because it is so specific in the Constitution and it requires the death penalty.
00:45:24.220However, there has to be something that happens to General Milley.
00:45:29.660I am so concerned about how out of control and how we don't care about chain of command.
00:45:37.240We don't care about the Constitution anymore.
00:45:40.680General Milley is defiant over his over a pressure to resign.
00:45:56.500And the one person that I really wanted to hear from was General Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, who is the executive vice president of the Family Research Council.
00:46:07.380General, what do we what do you take from this?
00:46:17.240No, I've never I've never seen this before.
00:46:21.400I know that you could go back in time to MacArthur and say, as he ignored Harry Truman's orders and kept threatening the Chinese, that he was eventually relieved.
00:46:33.000But that's the only thing in the history of our military that I'm even aware of.
00:46:37.640Let me make one correction on what you said.
00:46:41.700Treason does not require it, does not mandate the death penalty.
00:46:46.340There are other penalties that can be assessed as well.
00:46:50.000And and treason, one of the definitions of treason and part of the statutory definition of treason is providing aid and comfort to the enemy.
00:47:02.500Now, when you tell your enemy that you are going to notify them, if we decide we're going to attack, what are you doing if you're not providing aid and comfort to the enemy?
00:47:15.940This is an unprecedented situation with Mark Milley.
00:47:21.280And I know that there are credible people that are saying, no, these phone calls are routine.
00:47:26.280It's not the fact that he was talking to the Chinese.
00:47:30.560It's the content of what he was saying to them and the fact that he did that behind the back of the president and did not inform the president.
00:47:44.580He was the senior military advisor to the president on all things military.
00:47:50.540But he has no command authority at all as the statutory advisor to the president.
00:47:57.320You would think that he would let the president know this was undermining the president.
00:48:03.500No matter how you cut it, he was undermining the president.
00:48:07.500And it's based on his his political persuasion as well as his hatred for Donald Trump.
00:48:13.140I will tell you that I would say exactly the same thing.
00:48:16.460And I think you would, too, if a general would have done this in Afghanistan and called England and said, look, I got to give you the heads up and did what we all think would have been the right thing to do for the president to do.
00:48:35.160But if a general would have done these things, I would have been out of my mind.
00:48:39.920We are run by civilians, and I hate what this president is doing to our military and to our credibility around the world and to our citizens in Afghanistan.
00:48:53.000But the thing I was proud of is I know the troops felt the same way, yet they did it because it was a legal and lawful order.
00:49:03.220Glenn, you said it, civilian control of the military.
00:49:08.980That is so fundamental to who we are as a nation.
00:49:12.540That is not only, you know, a operating principle, but it's an ethos.
00:49:45.300And it's not a Republican or Democrat issue.
00:49:48.200Every American, every American should be very concerned right now, because it's the first time in our history that we've seen this kind of thing as a rogue.
00:49:59.340I consider Mark Milley to be a rogue, not just based on this, but on other things where he went off on this white rage issue.
00:50:08.200And he was bragging about the fact that he's reading Kendi's books and and other things.
00:50:16.280Every American should be very concerned about this, because if if this had gone as far as it could have potentially gone, this would have essentially been a military coup.
00:50:28.760So let me let me ask you a couple of scenarios here and just just help me think things through.
00:50:36.560Apparently, I mean, if he would have called the Chinese and said that and you can you can dismiss this as like we've known each other for a long time.
00:50:45.780And so I'm just look, if nothing's crazy going to happen, blah, blah, blah.
00:50:53.340If the president would have said, hey, call your guys and say this is fine.
00:50:57.920But the president wasn't involved, no matter who else was involved, because this is them trying to say, well, there are lots of people that knew about this phone call.
00:51:06.180Not the president, but lots of people were in on it.
00:51:08.700Well, that to me makes it worse in that a conspiracy, then, to thwart the authority of the commander in chief.
00:51:17.360I go back to what what I said earlier.
00:51:20.100He is the senior advisor to the president on all things military.
00:51:25.760Now, you can't have those kinds of conversations and not do your statutory duties.
00:51:32.260And that is to keep the president informed.
00:53:08.900But apparently that did not have a certainly did not handle with Chris Miller.
00:53:15.000And that then calls into question, why did you not inform the secretary of defense, who is one half of the national command authorities that has the authority to deploy troops unless you were trying to undermine both him and the president?
00:54:55.320That is the way the entire system is set up.
00:54:58.640And keep this in mind, too, Glenn, when a young man or woman enlists in the military, one of the part of their oath is that they pledge to support or to obey the orders of the president.
00:55:17.080Now, the officer commissioning is just slightly different.
00:55:20.600It doesn't have those words, but it has the same meaning in terms of obeying the orders of the president because he's the commander in chief, according to Article two.
00:55:31.580So now you've got Millie in there saying, don't do anything.
00:55:36.020If you get any of these orders, don't do anything.
00:55:38.860Don't do anything until I'm in the loop.
00:56:35.220But has he routinely advised the president of of what the content of those conversations or the secretary of defense of his intent to talk to them?
00:56:45.740Because the president and the secretary of defense are the national command authorities, and they're the only ones that can deploy and put troops into harm's way.
00:56:55.120So I'm going to take a break to one minute and then, Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, Jerry, I would like you just to answer the question.
01:00:17.620On the things that people should be worried about and standing up for and making sure that somebody pays attention,
01:00:27.320how high on the priority list with everything that's going on, how high on the priority list is this?
01:00:33.360I think this is a very high priority, Glenn, because, again, every American needs to be concerned about this.
01:00:40.140Listen, look, I look at Joe Biden and his administration, and I say this is a dysfunctional administration.
01:00:50.200And, clearly, when they cut the mic off on the president routinely to make sure that he doesn't say something foolish that's going to create problems,
01:06:05.620He's getting some heat because he's coming on this program.
01:06:09.020He tweeted, I'm going to be on the Glenn Beck radio program talking about blood on my hands and the current situation on the ground in Afghanistan.
01:06:14.860And he got a lot of heat from some of his fans.
01:06:18.840If you had any shred of dignity, you wouldn't go on these shows to continue to lie about the election and vaccines.
01:06:52.780You are in the news this week because you wrote a song and I don't know when rock and roll became, you know, obey the man and don't don't question authority.
01:07:05.900But you wrote a song and I want to play a little bit of it.
01:07:45.120And I just want to ask some questions.
01:07:46.880Uh, and you are, you are asking some pretty profound questions and some questions that every American should be asking.
01:07:56.820Tell me, Willie, uh, Millie, when did you decide this will defend your sacred motto now means never mind.
01:08:05.320Um, why can't Blinken, why can't you look us in the eye?
01:08:10.220I mean, those are important things to question.
01:08:12.820Tell me where the song came from and the reaction to it.
01:08:16.160Well, you know, Glenn, I think like everybody, when, uh, the first images started coming out of Afghanistan, uh, you know, the people falling off planes and mothers throwing their babies over walls.
01:08:27.400And, uh, you know, people getting crushed at checkpoints.
01:08:31.200It kind of, in a way, reminded me of 9-11 and just the horrific images and that kind of stunned what is happening.
01:08:38.420And, uh, but it really didn't, really didn't start forming as a song till the day our 13 soldiers were killed and the 100 Afghans were killed by the suicide bomber.
01:08:47.280Like, uh, like musicians and, and probably you, you probably have a punching bag or something you do or go for a walk or a run when you get mad.
01:08:57.960And I went up there and, uh, still had no intention of writing a song.
01:09:02.300And, um, but then a few days later when I was driving my family to Mammoth for a nice weekend, I got a call from a friend and I pulled over and she said to me,
01:09:34.840You're telling me that private citizens are risk, risk, risking their lives to go rescue our people that are government left behind.
01:09:42.860And this is a tough, toughie, this, this, this woman.
01:09:46.480And she started crying and, and I'm like, what is happening?
01:09:51.340So, um, a couple of verses were written that day.
01:09:54.400And then finally, finally, when president Biden came out and gave his extraordinary success speech, um, obviously like all of us, I was kind of stunned.
01:10:04.460And, and, and I was hopeful because I've always, as you know, I've been a big supporter of the military and I was hopeful that General Milley and, and General Austin would, will come out and put some perspective on that.
01:10:14.400Because I've always felt, look, politicians are who they are, but our generals are the adults in the room.
01:10:19.000And if things get really sketchy, they'll, uh, they'll make, you know, at least make the right decisions or be honest with us.
01:10:24.700But when they started parodying the, oh, extraordinary success, look at this amazing evac, everything went according to plan.
01:10:59.620And, uh, I think a lot of people agree with the message.
01:11:03.320Um, unfortunately we're such a tribal country that there's many folks who, uh, are not interested in, uh, letting, letting me hear it.
01:11:11.020Um, and I'm not accusing Facebook of that because I think this was more of an algorithm thing.
01:11:14.880But the problem is, you know, that we've seen so many examples of censorship from big tech that when something like this happens, it's hard to give them the benefit of the doubt.
01:11:39.060And deep down, we all know what happened with a calamity.
01:11:44.280I'll tell you, John, I, I've never, I mean, I've been embarrassed by my country historically.
01:11:51.040Um, you know, there were times, uh, that I've seen some of our presidents say things, do things, and I'm like, oh, geez, that's going to leave a mark.
01:11:59.400Um, and there were times even under Donald Trump that I thought, oh, I'm embarrassed.
01:12:20.000I've, I know we've done it in the past, but in real time, this is the first time I have been shocked, horrified, scared, uh, at the lack of honor.
01:12:34.340And I think people, no matter what walk of life, I think we all felt this is dishonorable, really dishonorable.
01:12:42.580You wrote a line, I can't hear her scream if she's not, if she's not on TV.
01:12:50.060I can't hear him scream if he's not, he's not, he's not on TV.
01:12:59.260And, um, just to echo what you said, if Donald Trump were president and we were in this situation, I would write the same song and the names would change.
01:13:08.040It would be the same song because it is a moral issue.
01:13:10.540And believe me, I'm no huge Trump fan and I've been embarrassed by him before, but as this is, I think, a generational catastrophe because our word, the American word matters.
01:13:35.660She goes radio silent, you know, for a couple of days.
01:13:38.060And then I start to worry, but literally when you guys called, I hung up with her.
01:13:42.880She was telling me about a music school that was burned down by the Taliban and the children are in hiding and they're trying to get them out, but they're having struggling with the state department.
01:13:53.480Cause there's this thing called a, a lily pad transfer.
01:15:24.220I mean, when you're going after Eric Clapton for a song about COVID-19 and the lockdown, when you're going after Clapton, what has rock and roll and music become?
01:15:40.040Isn't it ironic that rock and roll, speaking to the man, now the music industry and all the publications is the man?
01:18:16.320Maybe it was last year, and you're driving around, and your car is tick-tock, tick-tock.
01:18:22.420Something, something is going to go wrong under the hood.
01:18:26.100And maybe it's something simple, squeaky belt, little adjustment.
01:18:29.300Maybe it's something fabulously expensive, like dinner at the gala, and a brand new dress that says tax the rich, or maybe a computer chip.
01:18:40.520It'll be too late if it's a computer chip.
01:18:42.960You're going to have to pay for it, or just sell your car, and you're going to have to start all over again.
01:19:54.960The only one that I'm aware of in the republicans that have retweeted his song or put out on social media, Blood on My Hands, is, I think, Burgess Meredith.
01:22:24.620Others are, others have not given in to the Taliban at all.
01:22:30.180There is a fight that is going on in Panjshir in Afghanistan by these incredible freedom fighters that are pushing back the Taliban and all of the bad guys.
01:22:45.380We have one of the guys who is the head of foreign relations for the resistant front of Afghanistan.
01:22:52.780His name is Ali Nazari, and he joins us to tell us what's really going on with a resistance in Afghanistan in 60 seconds.
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01:24:57.740Tell us the truth about that there are people that are resisting, and it's working in many cases.
01:25:06.660So you have freedom fighters in northern Afghanistan, in the Panjshir Valley, who have launched a resistance, who are being led by Commander Ahmad Masoud, the son of the late Ahmad Shah Masoud, who was assassinated two days before 9-11.
01:25:27.520The Taliban, who has been resisting the Taliban for the past few weeks, the Taliban have been unable to defeat these forces, were determined to resist and to fight these terrorists, this criminal syndicate, until we're able to bring freedom to every single citizen of Afghanistan.
01:25:59.860Because I have heard Ahmad Shah Masoud, his name brought up in reverence when I talk to people from Afghanistan.
01:26:11.700I don't really know his story, and I don't know why he was killed before 9-11, but I know now his son is leading the charge.
01:26:22.260Tell me the significance and the history that Americans should know about that.
01:26:27.060Who is he, who was he, and who's his son?
01:26:30.600Well, the late Commander Ahmad Shah Masoud, he started his struggle in the late 1970s against the Soviet Union, against Soviet aggression and communism.
01:26:42.280So, he was an ally of the United States from the late 1970s, and then, so in the 1980s, he fought against the Soviets.
01:26:51.460In the 1990s, he started his struggle against international terrorism, against the Taliban and their international terrorist friends or allies.
01:27:00.680And he was assassinated by Al-Qaeda two days before 9-11.
01:27:06.640The two events, 9-9-2001 and 9-11-2001, are interconnected.
01:27:13.3609-11 wouldn't have been possible if he was alive, because he was fighting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda throughout the five years,
01:27:23.540from 1995-1996 up to 2001 when he was assassinated.
01:27:28.000And how old was his son when his dad died?
01:28:21.560We have remnants of these special forces trained by the United States that are fighting alongside our local resistance forces.
01:28:30.900So right now, we are in a good position.
01:28:34.020We will be seeing more advances in the next few weeks or so.
01:28:38.700The Taliban are experiencing infighting.
01:28:43.180They are experiencing a rift within their group.
01:28:45.860But we're determined to fight for democracy, for fight for freedom, or for fighting for the rights of every woman and man inside Afghanistan.
01:28:58.320We're the last remaining U.S. ally in the country.
01:30:19.200How do you feel when you see people in the West and our leadership say, you know, you, you know, we went over there, we spent 20 years and the people just don't want freedom.
01:30:37.860A week ago, our leader, His Excellency Ahmed Masoud, he recorded a message to the nation.
01:30:47.220He put it up within two hours, within two hours, we had mass protests in Kabul, in Herat, in Mazar, the major cities, and even in rural Afghanistan.
01:31:01.380He called upon the people to rise up against the Taliban.
01:31:04.240So this shows the people of Afghanistan want freedom, because since August 15, especially for the past 10 days that Commander Ahmad Masoud has called upon the people to rise up against the Taliban,
01:31:20.800we're seeing everyone, women, men, old and young, rise up and express that they want freedom.
01:31:28.620So this is, this is completely wrong when people say, no, the people of Afghanistan wanted a regime like the Taliban.
01:31:35.820No, look, today, everyone is rallying and protesting for, for freedom, for their rights, for democracy.
01:31:42.860And today, the legitimacy that we've shown, and, and within, within a week, with, in two days, to be more specific, the Taliban were unable to show it in two decades,
01:32:08.180They never followed the orders of the Taliban.
01:32:11.760But our leader, he says, go protest, go rise up against the Taliban.
01:32:17.620Within a few hours, you see the masses mobilized.
01:32:22.460And within Afghanistan and outside of Afghanistan, they started their protests in favor of the National Resistance Front and in favor of freedom and independence and, and, and, and democracy inside the country.
01:32:35.240We're talking to the head of foreign relations of the National Resistance Front in Afghanistan about what's really going on there.
01:32:41.700When you hear people say, here in America, you got to stand up and protest, it doesn't really mean an awful lot here in America, because we've had that right forever.
01:32:50.800We're losing it, but we've had that right forever.
01:32:53.920But there, with the Taliban, that can mean, especially if you're a woman, a death sentence, a prison sentence, a beating, rape.
01:33:22.300And they've, there's pictures of them pointing their guns towards women.
01:33:25.560So there's a lot of risks when people come out in these Taliban controlled areas to protest, to endorse and support the National Resistance Front.
01:33:36.420But the people want to do this because they want their freedom.
01:33:40.660They don't want to give up their freedom.
01:33:42.660These people are freedom loving individuals that will not allow any oppression, any sort of oppression to come upon them.
01:33:53.320And unfortunately, right now, that oppression is coming with weapons, with arms and munitions funded by American taxpayer money, because basically everything was left for them.
01:34:06.480And all of this weaponry, all of these equipment that were purchased by American taxpayers today is in the hands of the Taliban, killing women, killing democratic forces, fighting against the last remaining U.S. ally, which is the National Resistance Front, led by Mr. Ahmad Massoud.
01:35:43.020The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, you're in the Panjshir Valley.
01:35:47.260And it's my understanding that one of the problems is it's, you know, Afghanistan is not America where we have 50 states, but we're really kind of one or, you know, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's, it's a group of tribes and areas that want their freedom to run themselves and not necessarily a national government.
01:36:09.220And it is, it is my understanding that that national government was very corrupt and that led to a lot of the soldiers just walking away because they had been sold out and there was no real local governors or no local mayors or local police.
01:36:28.540It was all run through the federal government.
01:36:30.580And that's what caused the immediate drop of arms at the very beginning.
01:36:39.800Why did the resistance, when the Afghan government still held the cities and the weapons, why did they walk away from those things?
01:36:47.920So one, one problem with Afghanistan is that Afghanistan doesn't have any ethnic majority.
01:36:53.760Basically everyone in Afghanistan are minorities.
01:36:56.940It's a country made up of ethnic minorities.
01:36:59.120And for the, for this reason, Afghanistan cannot have a highly centralized political system, which is it, which it has for centuries.
01:37:10.260And especially in the past 20 years, one of the reasons we had corruption, one of the reasons we had a weak government is because of the highly centralized presidential system.
01:37:19.140For the past 50 years, our movement, whether it's now the National Resistance Front or before that, which was led by the late commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, we have always been asking for a decentralized state where power is equally distributed between all the ethnic groups, all the provincial provinces and all the districts.
01:37:44.340So there could be a more federated states.
01:37:49.340You have to have to adopt federalism for a country like Afghanistan, meaning every region has its own autonomy, has its own decision-making process, policy-making process, because we've been failing with the same formula inside Afghanistan for the past 200 years, especially for the past 50 years.
01:38:09.420A highly centralized government will always create conflict in Afghanistan, will always result in a zero-sum game over the competition for power.
01:38:20.040And this, this is just another way of continuing internal warfare in the country.
01:38:26.820So in our perspective, if we want lasting peace in Afghanistan, if we want to end the perpetual conflict over power, we have to, we can cobble, we have to distribute power to the localities, to the different regions.
01:38:41.300Wow. It's amazing that America that used to understand federalism didn't get that in Afghanistan, and it is the solution for not only our problems, but your problems, and I think the world's problems.
01:38:53.520Local, local, local. Give people control over their own lives.
01:38:58.140Ali Nazari, from the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, blessings go with you.
01:39:05.940Keep up the fight for all things that are right and just, and against the Taliban and their ilk.
01:45:31.860And there's a method to my madness on why I'm asking the greatest bull rider of all time, as well as, and he'll tell you himself, the most humble.
01:45:42.200No evidence of him being on a bull ever, but legend has it that he has been 90 in Maine, Spain, Spokane, Fort Wayne, Alabama, and by legend we mean his YouTube channel.
01:46:42.640It's funny that you say that because I was looking up articles about the Netflix show, and I looked, and definition of a cowboy popped up.
01:46:49.880One definition was someone who tends to livestock, usually horseback.
01:46:54.800The second definition was typically aggressive or something like that.
01:46:59.980And I thought, well, we might be aggressive in that we ride a bull, but, I mean, as you might see in the show, like, we're pretty caring towards animal and our fellow human beings.
01:47:13.680I think you have to live out west and to actually have met cowboys to understand that they're some of the least aggressive guys.
01:47:21.960I mean, I suppose you could walk into a bar and find some wannabe cowboy that is aggressive.
01:47:26.800But generally speaking, cowboy, if you live out west, and to me, means a guy who, a cowboy contract, looks you in the eye, shakes your hand, and that's all you need.
01:47:45.680You gave me chill bumps the way you described it, just because, you know, I think maybe people have the old western show in mind where they envision a guy in a bar like what you're talking about, and he's real aggressive.
01:47:56.640And he's drinking from a bottle that has three X's on it, you know, and he gets in a duel.
01:48:02.100But I've never been in any duels, and my old man was kind of a description of what you just said, a mix between John Wayne and Woodrow F. Call from Lonesome Dove, and when you shook his hand, it meant something.
01:48:15.660So I am a rancher, and when I say I'm a rancher, I have a farm and a ranch, and I go there from time to time, and I'll cut, like, you know, the hay field until I get bored, and then I'll get off and I'll say,
01:48:32.060So I'm not really a rancher or a farmer, but it is the life that I tried to get away from with my family as a kid.
01:48:41.260I just wanted to live in New York City, and it is the life I would give everything to be able to return to full time.
01:48:47.620There is something about living on a farm and reconnecting with animals and the land that makes us American, and you just, you don't have to teach an awful lot of stuff, because you're taught just by living it.
01:49:09.040Absolutely. You know, the idea of the show actually came from, you know, me being a cowboy in social media, I get a lot of people that are thinking the exact same thing that you are.
01:49:20.480They'll reach out to me about wanting to learn about this lifestyle, and that's where the show idea came from.
01:49:26.160But essentially, they are seeing exactly what you're seeing.
01:49:29.400Now, some people get here and they realize, okay, I can work way less than this and make more money doing something else.
01:49:39.540Well, wait a minute. Hold on just a second.
01:49:47.940Most people with big ranches, you see, are doing it because it's a tax write-off, and you'll notice like, oh, you guys do this because you love it, you know?
01:49:58.780I haven't figured out the tax write-off thing either, so I've got to get on that as well.
01:50:05.640The changes to farming, the changes to the ranching industry over the last few years, what does it mean to America if we lose it?
01:50:17.940Well, I mean, shoot, we lose what's in the grocery store, unfortunately, you know?
01:59:04.340It's one thing to be embarrassed by a guy who's sitting on the crapper and writing crazy things just to piss people off, just to see what they do.