AMERICA FIRST IS REPUBLICAN AGENDA
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On today's show, host Lou Dobbs talks about the latest developments in the Ukraine-Russia peace process, including a reported poison attack on a Russian oligarch, and the upcoming mid-term elections. Also, Congressman Jim Jordan joins the show to discuss his trip to Ukraine, his thoughts on the Biden-Putin summit, and much more.
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Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs. Ukraine and Russia are apparently ready to resume their
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negotiations for a ceasefire in the war that has been underway for 33 days now. President
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Vladimir Zelensky trying to create some impetus for the truce talks, saying he's now ready to
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discuss neutrality, as he put it, for Ukraine. And as Russian troop movements indicate Vladimir
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Putin is organizing his forces for what possibly could be a partitioning of Ukraine into two
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separate states, west and east. The easternmost of the states would likely include the now Russia
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recognized Republic of Donetsk and Republic of Luhansk. That's partly my speculation and presumes
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that Putin is ready to hold substantive talks. But it's also based on a Zelensky statement that he
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would compromise on the, quote, status of the Donbass region. Depending on the details, such a
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compromise and result would meet Putin's demand for a further buffer with NATO nations on Russia's
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western border and assure the security as well of the Donbass region, including the two republics of
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Donetsk and Luhansk. I'm also skeptical of whether Zelensky's political supporters will allow him
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to agree to a partitioning of Ukraine and whether Putin will agree to anything less. And the war
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goes on. And so does the bombardment of western Ukraine, including Kiev, a brutal, deadly Russian
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offensive now underway. And we've learned in the past 24 hours that the peace talks between Russia and
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Ukraine got off to an unexpected and potentially lethal start. The Wall Street Journal reporting two
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Ukrainian representatives to those talks and Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich suffered symptoms that
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resulted from what was possibly a poison attack. Some of their symptoms, including irritated eyes,
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pain and peeling flesh on their faces and hands, indicated poison. The condition of the three victims
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has improved and we're told they're no longer in danger. President Biden is still trying to explain to
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the world, and in particular to President Putin, that in no way did he intend to say he wanted Putin
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removed from his office. Although he did say that Putin, quote, cannot remain in power, end quote.
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That apparently is now inoperative in the Biden White House. And Biden's budget plan for the next fiscal
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year calls for almost $6 trillion more in spending. The Biden budget is busted already, in my view.
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There's little chance the public won't be outraged by more out-of-control Democrat spending.
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Last month, the federal budget deficit was over $200 billion, and the national debt well over $30
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trillion now. Our national debt is 125% of our total gross domestic product. That's not good. Not good
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economics, not good politics, and not good for the country. As for the loyal opposition, the Republicans'
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House members held their annual retreat to strategize ahead of the fall midterms, which they expect to put
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them back in power. To that end, the GOPers emphasized unity. Joining us now, one of the Republican
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Party's most respected House members, co-founder of the Freedom Caucus, and seven-term Congressman
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Jim Jordan, representing Ohio's 4th District. Congressman Jim Jordan, it's always great to have
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you here on the Great America Show. Let's start with the meeting, the retreat, the summit, if you will,
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over your conference over the past weekend. Your basic judgment about how positive it was?
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Oh, no, very positive. Well, the Republicans are positive. We're obviously concerned about the
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country. I mean, jeepers. This administration, you know, we've talked before, Lou, they haven't done a
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darn thing right. I mean, you look at the border. We went from secure border to chaos. You look at,
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we went from stable prices to 40-year high inflation. We went from safe streets to record
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crime. And, of course, we went from energy independence to the situation we find ourselves
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in today. And we haven't even got into foreign policy. We haven't even got into what they've
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done to our basic liberties. So, yeah, that's a mess. But the conference with Republicans in the
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House, very optimistic. You know, I always say that we should – you never want to be overconfident in
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any type of competition. But I think we're confident that if we go out and campaign hard,
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talk about what we'll do for America, run on a populist message rooted in conservative principle
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like President Trump did, that we got a great chance of taking this thing back and being in
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control next year. So, yeah, it was very positive.
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I'm hearing a lot of people talk – and by that I mean elected officials like yourself – who are
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talking about the Republicans are going to wipe out the Democrats come November. Then I hear a
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certain – then an edge of caution from them, like, well, you don't want to take anything for granted.
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But the truth is, it looks like this could be a wave election, so-called, and that you could make
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immense, perhaps even historic gains in both the House and, less or so, but significant gains in
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Well, I hope that's the case. I think there's a real chance of that. There's – you know,
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there was a piece a few weeks back in the journal that talked about a potential realignment,
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I would actually argue, just a continuation of what President Trump started running as an
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America first populist agenda. As I said before, populist agenda rooted in conservative
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principles. So I think there's that chance, because you think about it, Lou. In my mind,
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the Democrat Party has now become the party of the super-mega-wealthy who live on the coast
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and people who don't work, and Republicans are the party of everybody else. We're the party of
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families, working people, flyover country. And the Democrats have taken this attitude that,
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oh, they're so much smarter and better. How about when Anderson Cooper said,
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you know, Trump voters, stay at the Marriott and eat at Olive Garden. And I'm like,
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that's the disdain and the arrogance they have for us regular middle-class folks. And I was telling
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one group the other day, I said, you know, eating at Olive Garden and stay at the Marriott,
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that's where I'm from in Western Ohio. That's a pretty good weekend. So I do think that mindset is out
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It sounds pretty fancy to me, too, to tell you the truth.
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Is Anderson Cooper, was he a Rockefeller, a Vanderbilt? I can't remember which part of that
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I think it was, I think, I think, yeah, I think it was the latter. And I guess he stays at just
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the super five-star fancy place, the Ritz all the time. And we, you know, us regular folks stay at the
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You bet. I, as a matter of fact, my wife and I are thrilled just to stay on the farm. I want to go to,
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I want to go to that very important issue, and that is your leadership. You just brought up Donald Trump,
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in my opinion, the greatest president in modern history. He wasn't at your retreat. Why not?
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No, I don't know why the leadership decided not to do that. But I know President Trump had a great – another
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one of his great rallies over the weekend down in the great state of Georgia, important state in the
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upcoming election. But you're right. I think certainly the most effective president in our
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lifetimes maybe ever – and you and I have talked a lot about this before – but doing what he said he
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would do, and doing it when everyone was – I mean, all the Democrats were against him,
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all the mainstream press, a bunch of Republicans, everyone in the bureaucracy, which is maybe the
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most important concern. And in spite of all that, got so much done. That's the kind of leadership
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we need, and I hope we're going to have it again. I think he's going to run. I hope he does,
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As do I. And him not being there, it makes me wonder about the commitment to leadership.
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And that is, here's a man who is all you said, and in fact, more. He had the Russians against him,
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the Chinese against him. He had all of the power centers in this country against him.
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I would think that they would – your folks would want to hear from him. But be that as it may,
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I hope there's not a single Republican running for office who isn't an America First candidate,
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because that seems to me to be the essential truth of the matter. There won't be a Republican wave
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unless they are American First candidates winning.
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I agree. President Trump, I think, has fundamentally changed the party, fundamentally
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changed the country in such a positive way. In the contrast, I was talking with a person who worked
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in the Trump administration last week, and he said, think about this. President Trump,
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when you speak – and relatively speaking, he turned over to President Biden a stable and relatively
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calm world with the Abraham Accords, where we stood in the world, we were respected. He turned
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it over to Joe Biden, and Joe Biden has screwed up everything. I mean, literally everything.
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You look at what happened last summer. The picture, I think, that will be in people's minds
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as they think about the Biden administration is that picture in Afghanistan where you had people
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trying to jump on the wheels of that plane as it took off and left Afghanistan. That's the metaphor
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for just how bad the Biden administration has been. And again, what a contrast between the way
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President Trump led and his team led versus the folks running the country now.
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You know, Congressman, I have to say I'm more than a little worried about whether or not the
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Republican Party will be the party of Trump, an America First Party, or the RINOs, who, by the way,
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to me, really are – frankly, they are an alien organism in the party. And I really mean that
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they're just destroying the party and destroying representation for the American people because
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they are basically left-wingers. They're Democrats. You know, Romney is the ultimate example of a
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rhino, and he is a Democrat and a confused one at that. But most Democrats are confused, so that's
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just consistent. What is your view of rhinos and how you can get rid of them and whether or not you
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think that the American people will still vote Republican for rhinos?
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Yeah, I trust the voters. I trust the American people. I think that they've figured it out like
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they always do. They're going to elect the right kind of Republicans. They're going to come here
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and fight for them, their family, do what they said they would do, stand up for America First principles.
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You saw this begin to play out last fall in Virginia, where we learned that the Department
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of Education had communicated with the School Board Association prior to them sending the letter.
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And then we find out the Department of Justice does the memorandum that treats parents as domestic
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terrorists. And that issue, moms and dads standing up and pushing back on what was happening in their
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schools, is what put Glenn Youngkin in the governor's office in a blue state. So the country gets it.
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They're not going to stand for the Republicans who aren't committed to the principles that make
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our country a special place. And again, you saw that last fall in Virginia. A few weeks after that,
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you saw – I think this is amazing too, Lou. You saw 12 brave jurors in Kenosha, Wisconsin
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with the mob outside the courthouse. The mob outside say, we're still going to do what's
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consistent with the facts, the truth, and due process, and reach the right decision here.
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And they did. So the country is figuring it out. And they have had it with the crazy left
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and Republicans who aren't acting like Republicans.
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Yeah. I agree with you 100%. When you talk about America's figured it out, I believe voters
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have figured it out. The American public has figured it out. And I am yet to be convinced
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that the Republicans have figured it out. I'm really very serious about it. I think
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there's a huge skepticism about Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell. I think it rises to more than
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skepticism. There's great, great doubt about their leadership because really neither of them has done
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a damn thing. Well, let me just say this regarding Leader McCarthy. And I think he's done such a good
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job of keeping our team together compared to the leadership of – or lack of leadership, I guess
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you could say, compared to the previous leaders of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives.
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I always go back to this. Go back to the first impeachment. And remember, the conventional
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wisdom was that every single Democrat was going to vote to impeach President Trump,
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and a bunch of Republicans were going to join him. But we went through that process under the
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leadership of Kevin McCarthy and our team here in the House. And what happened in the end,
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Lou, was every Republican voted against impeaching President Trump. Democrats joined us, and one
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Democrat switched party. So that is so different. I guarantee that would – I don't think that would
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have happened under the previous leader. So we've got to stay focused on, as you say,
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standing up for the America First agenda of President Trump, doing what we said we did like
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President Trump did. And if the voters put us in control, if we stay focused on that,
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we're going to help frame things up for 2024 when I hope President Trump runs again.
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Well, you and me both, and tens of millions of Americans as well. I hear you. You're supporting
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Kevin McCarthy. And do you know something? I just simply can't. But I'll tell you this much. I can
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get a lot closer if Jim Jordan is for him, and you tell me that Kevin McCarthy is for Jim Jordan
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and the Trump agenda, then I can get a long ways toward Kevin McCarthy.
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Yeah. You know why? We need that to happen because that's what's good for the country.
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That would help the country. If we could stay focused as a team doing the America First agenda
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and framing up the 2024 race. So let's say that people put us back in control, Lou. We're going
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to pass some good legislation. Joe Biden is going to veto it, or it's not going to get through the
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Senate. But we're going to help frame up the 2024 race when President Trump is going to run
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against Biden or Harris, whoever the Democrats decide to put up. I think that's going to help
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bring the country together, help turn out even more voters for President Trump than he got in
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the last race, and put him in the White House. That's what we need to do in order to help change
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things and move things back in the right direction for our country.
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Well, that's good to hear. My problem is the eight months we've got here before we get to
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over seven months. I haven't seen any action taken by the RNC or the Republican Party nationally
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to secure the election, to roll back mail-in ballots, to stop the national emergency,
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to go after this president because it's for the sake of the country. I mean, we just watched a
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president commit five, five mistakes and misstatements on this trip to Europe. He has perhaps still
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escalated the war, the Russian war against Ukraine with his mouth. His mind is not there. He is impaired.
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Why in the world aren't the Republicans as a body demanding this ban do as Donald Trump did when the Democrats
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asked him to take a cognitive test? He's been asked twice, rejected it twice. Why not?
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Well, Ronnie Jackson, a colleague of ours, is a good member.
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Ronnie is. Oh, he's got the bill. He's got the bill out there. No, I heard former Speaker Gingrich on
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on an interview this past week, and he said, you know, like, he said basically the same thing, and he said,
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Look at the vice president. Yeah, well, he said something to the same effect. He said, you know,
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look, this is it. This is – everyone sees what we see, but they also see the vice president.
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When, you know, when she went to Poland a week or so ago and the thing she said – I mean, she's like – I think
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Speaker Gingrich said she should never – they should never let her leave the country again.
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I think it was something to that effect, and I'm like, wow, that's an amazing statement from
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former Speaker Gingrich, who, as you know, is a sharp guy.
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So, yeah, the country sees it. The world sees it, and what a contrast between the leadership
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and the strength and the toughness, frankly, that was projected from the Oval Office under
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President Trump and over the Secretary of State's office under Mike Pompeo.
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So what a contrast we see between that and what we now have with Biden, Harris, and Blinken.
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I mean, you can't – you couldn't have a sharper contrast.
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The people see that. The country does, and I think, again, that's going to – it's going
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to weigh on their decision and why I think we have a good chance of being in the majority.
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So what you're saying is – and what Newt said was then, we're not going to do anything
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until there's election, and meanwhile, we'll just hold our breath, sit on our hands,
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Well, I don't think we could get – I don't think we could get anything, you know,
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obviously through either the House or Senate and a bill.
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We can continue to call for it, which I think that, you know, the common-sense folks of this
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Well, I'm not asking for an impeachment. I'm not asking for the 25th Amendment.
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I am asking for a cognitive test so the American people are either assured that he is competent
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or we understand what everyone as adults are dealing with.
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We're big-time, all-American citizens, and we need to know what the hell is going on.
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And, again, it's why I think our good friend and colleague, Congressman Jackson,
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has actually introduced legislation and now talking about this issue as well as shared.
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All right. On that positive note and uplifting note, Congressman, I know that you're pressed for time
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as always, and I appreciate you being with us. Thanks so much.
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I always enjoy it. I always enjoy it. Keep up the great work, Lou. Thanks so much. Take care, brother.
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You too, Congressman. Thank you. Congressman Jim Jordan, great American.
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And now we turn to Russia's senior partner in the China-Russia Strategic Alliance.
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China President Xi Jinping is fully backing Putin and Russia, and without that backing,
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Russia would be under even greater economic pressure.
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With China's backing, Putin can continue his war on Ukraine, which has proved to be far more difficult
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than I'm sure he ever imagined. Interestingly, Xi is encountering challenges of his own at home,
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the COVID virus stubbornly reappearing at a major outbreak in another major city.
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Xi forced to lock down one of China's largest and most important cities, Shanghai.
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Twenty-five million people live and work there, a major commercial and financial center,
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as Xi is now more than two years after the deadly virus was unleashed on an unsuspecting world,
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again contending with a massive outbreak of the virus, while Vladimir Putin is struggling
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Joining us now is Asian expert, attorney, author most recently of the great U.S.-China tech war,
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Gordon Chang. Gordon is also columnist for Newsweek and regular co-host and guest on The John Batchelor Show.
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And Gordon, first of all, it's great to have you back on the show here.
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China seems to be wanting to play a very important central part in the Ukraine crisis.
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I believe that Beijing, which was really surprised by the turn of events in Ukraine,
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by the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people, now is trying to distance itself from Russia.
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But we shouldn't be fooled, Lou, because China is still backing Russia where it counts.
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It is providing Russia a refuge in its SIPs, which is its swift alternative.
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It is just basically giving Vladimir Putin the money to continue this war against Ukraine.
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So although we hear statements from Xi Jinping, the Chinese ruler, from Wang Yi, the foreign minister,
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and from others about how, you know, all of this is terrible, we shouldn't believe any of it.
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And again, China, Xi himself calling for maximum restraint, as he put it, in Ukraine.
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And I didn't have the feeling he was speaking directly to Vladimir Putin.
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I think he was referring to Western countries, to the United States, to France and Germany in particular,
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Matter of fact, not even providing humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian people.
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You know, it's difficult sometimes to decipher what Beijing is saying,
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And the important thing here is that the announcement of the $117.5 billion in new oil and gas deals on February 4th.
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A week after that, there was the announcement of the sale of 100 million metric tons of Russian coal to China.
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China then lifted restrictions on the importation of Russian wheat.
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Beijing is financing Russia's military operations in Eastern Europe.
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And they are, based on everything that we have seen in the reporting of the deal they have, they are full-on strategic partners,
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these two communist parties and powers, that is China and Russia, are they not?
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I mean, they've got decades of cooperation where they coordinate their foreign policies, where their militaries drill together.
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But this was symbolized in the 5,000-word joint statement that China and Russia issued on February 4th,
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which was just after the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, a meeting that lasted more than two and a half hours.
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And I believe it was at that meeting that the Chinese green-lighted the invasion of Ukraine,
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because it was only four days after the Olympics that Russian armor crossed the Ukrainian border.
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And that Russian armor now is, for the most part, it seems, deployed across Ukraine in various cities,
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but also part of what is a stalled offensive that one would have expected to move much quicker,
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to be even more deadly than it's been, actually, and far more successful.
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The Russian military certainly has surprised even Western intelligence agencies
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in its failure to move effectively against a lightly armed resistance.
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There are a lot of reasons for that, including basically faulty Chinese parts for their tanks.
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But the thing here, Lou, to look at, step back at a moment,
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China has called for mediation to end the fighting.
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And it's no coincidence that China only called for mediation
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after it was clear that the Russian advance had stalled.
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What they're trying to do is to give Putin a way to consolidate his gains.
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Because if there is no mediation, I believe that Ukraine will actually push Russia out of their country.
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And that's the last thing that China wants to see.
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It needs to have Putin to be successful, because this is a partnership between Moscow and Beijing.
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And if one of the partners fails, it calls into question the effectiveness of the other partner,
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And China, it may be that Xi has now made a mistake of huge proportions
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And Russia is now the one who looks like, certainly in the relationship vis-a-vis China,
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Yes, and Russia is going to become even more junior if events unfold as we think.
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You know, part of it is because as the West has disconnected Russia from the dollar accounts,
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from the SWIFT system, basically, Russia is moving into the renminbi system of China,
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moving into SIPs, which is the cross-border interbank payment system, which is China's swift
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There's more and more commodity deals that are being conducted in renminbi, the Chinese currency.
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So we're seeing Beijing basically make Russia an economic colony.
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And if all of this weren't clear enough, there are now reported talks for China to take big states in Gazprom
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and Russel, the energy and the aluminum companies.
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So this is really stunning to watch Russia become a part of a Chinese economic sphere.
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And again, with every prospect of becoming the senior partner, as well as participant,
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because their currency, their hard reserves, China is a behemoth by comparison to Russia in every way,
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in purchasing parity, in terms of assets, in terms of size of economy across the board,
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This is a peculiar partnership in that respect.
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What do you think the real purpose of that partnership is?
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I believe that China has used Russia all along as essentially the proxy.
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Russia, under Putin, has very much been willing to take on the West in ways that are very clear,
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And that's allowed China to advance its goals pretty much under the radar.
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When you go back to 9-11, just before that, the administration of George W. Bush was thinking
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But after 9-11, China became an ally in the effort to end Osama bin Laden's life.
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Something similar is occurring here, because you're hearing people in the American policy
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establishment start to talk about, well, we need China's help to constrain Russia.
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So there's this same sort of replaying of themes.
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It certainly didn't work with regard to North Korea, where George W. wanted to have the Chinese
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I mean, the Chinese will continue to do this because they get away with it.
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And they get away with it because of the naivete of American policymakers.
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It's, you know, history that doesn't repeat often rhymes.
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But in this instance, Xi Jinping looks to be playing Putin, if you will, for a dupe.
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And if one thinks about it was two years ago that Xi Jinping unleashed a deadly virus on the world,
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when he could have given warning, when he could have stopped it and chose not to.
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And now in this country, almost a million dead without any response.
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And now, two years after the Wuhan virus, we now are watching Putin destabilizing what at least is Eastern Europe.
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And certainly, the Ukrainian crisis has the potential to involve all of Europe and perhaps more.
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It looks all to be a piece of a part, doesn't it?
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You know, as Putin moves against Ukraine and tries to reconstitute the Soviet Empire,
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as he tries to reconstitute the Russian Empire, which is even broader than that,
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China is going to, I think, be even more provocative against, of course, Taiwan,
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but also India, where China is building up its forces opposing India and Ladakh, high in the Himalayas.
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But it could also be against Japan, the Philippines, Bhutan, Nepal, all across China's southern and eastern peripheries.
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And so, therefore, we could see conflict on both ends of the Eurasian landmass.
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These two countries have, Russia and China have proxies, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, even Algeria,
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where there could be problems in the near future.
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What is, in your judgment, Xi's plan and purpose here?
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He's expansionary in his policies, all of them, in every direction,
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every direction that's available to him in China.
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Because Ukraine is not going well, and his junior partner is in, appears to be, in significant trouble.
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With regard to your first question about Xi Jinping's plans,
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he's made it very clear in his pronouncements over the course of three decades
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that he believes that he is the world's only legitimate ruler.
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He's pushing the notion of Tianxia, or all under heaven.
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This is the idea that Chinese rulers had the mandate of heaven over Tianxia,
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and that not only did they have the right to rule all under heaven,
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And this is, you know, there have been a number of figures in history
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but Xi Jinping is the first to believe he should rule planet Earth
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because we've heard these Chinese officials talk about the moon and Mars
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You know, with regard to where things are going with Ukraine,
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But the problem here is that Vladimir Putin knows that if he fails,
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he's probably going to lose power and maybe lose his life,
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which means that he could use his weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine,
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So we've got to be concerned that the worst scenarios will actually play out.
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Let me ask you, you talk about the moon, the stars.
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And right next door to Russia is this little country called China.
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Why not, if you're Xi Jinping, play Putin for a dupe and a fool,
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and establish an empire that has never, you know,
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that hasn't been brought together for 5,000 years
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if we're going to start reconstituting empires?
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Yeah, this is not a theoretical concern because Chinese policymakers
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which includes Vladivostok, was lost to the czars.
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Now, this is a false narrative, but this is what the Chinese believe,
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that those treaties in the 1860s, which ceded Qing dynasty land to the czars,
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really were unequal and therefore China should get them back,
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which means that a good portion of the Russian Far East
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And we probably don't have time enough to go into why it's bad history.
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But the point is not whether it's good or bad history,
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but it's the point that this is what Chinese leaders say
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and that means Vladimir Putin is at risk of losing
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I guess because it would be sort of intramural, if you will,
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amongst communist and former communist nations.
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I don't know how you would describe properly either country, really.
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China is certainly communist, but both tyrannies, both leaders despots.
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So give us your sense of where Ukraine leads us
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as opposed to the world's focus on Vladimir Putin?
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and I think the Ukrainian people will eventually win,
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but the long-term effects will be deglobalization.
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countries are going to be trading with each other less.
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They're going to be certainly more focused at home.
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The February trade numbers show shocking declines
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And remember, the invasion only started February 24th.
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Still record trade deficits for the United States.
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Still record trade deficits for the United States,
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These are not viable in the new environment post-Ukraine.
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are going to start to locate manufacturing closer to home,
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in the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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and most of our goods inside the United States.
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I think that will be one of the long-term effects
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including, first of all, let's talk about pharmaceuticals.
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Americans have died because of polluted heparin,
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in order to obtain its unrelated geopolitical goals.
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some of this API manufacturing into the United States
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This is more of what we have to do in the future.
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But in some cases, such as you mentioned, rare earths,
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And that includes the most advanced electronics
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And they will then also, as a result of our having
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And everywhere you look, people are focused now, of course,
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It's like Vladimir Putin also has a low threshold.
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Now, Xi's reasons for the low threshold are different,
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but nonetheless, it makes both of them dangerous.
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to talk about Americans buying more electric cars
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It's, it is, tell me what in the world we're to do,
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our economy is something like 13 and a half times
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whether it be the shallowness of their philosophy,
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deliberately spread this disease beyond his borders.
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he thought they were effective in stopping disease.
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but you put these just these two acts together,
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And again, without anyone being held to account,