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00:01:18.340 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show. Great to have you with us.

00:01:27.220 The Marxist Dems looking to interfere in the 2024 presidential election dealt a major blow this

00:01:33.500 week in Minnesota. A Supreme Court judge there has rejected the Marxist Dems' unprecedented

00:01:39.940 14th Amendment insurrection challenge that would have kept Trump off the ballot in the state.

00:01:46.500 Minnesota and New Hampshire both rejecting what are desperate lawsuits with no foundation in either

00:01:52.820 fact or law. The Marxist Dems keep trying, though. The same bunch has lawsuits in courts in Michigan

00:01:59.860 and Colorado. They, too, should be rejected. Trump at a rally this week in Hialeah, Florida, said ever

00:02:07.140 since his 2016 candidacy, the Marxist Dems have put him, his family, and this country through hell with

00:02:14.580 their abuses of power. But he said in the end, we will all win. Every day since our 2016 victory,

00:02:24.100 that was some year, the sick political class we defeated has been trying to scratch and claw their

00:02:31.340 way back into total control over our lives. They are working so hard. It's actually all they're good

00:02:38.060 at. They're bad at policy. They're bad at everything. But they're only good at that. And they're really

00:02:42.300 great at cheating in elections. But we're not going to let that happen. They've put you,

00:02:49.180 me, my family, and our country through hell. But in the end, they will fail and we will win because

00:02:56.380 we will never stop fighting to save the America we love.

00:03:00.700 I believe Trump will prevail in 2024. And that means so will America. Trump's poll numbers show

00:03:08.300 a commanding lead over all of his primary opponents and a three to four point lead over

00:03:13.580 Biden and some national polls. A new poll from CNN shows Trump leading Biden among men of color.

00:03:20.460 The poll shows President Trump getting almost 50 percent support from men of color, Biden getting

00:03:25.980 just 46 percent. In the same poll, Trump is beating Biden with minority voters under 35 and beating Biden

00:03:33.020 as well in the head to head general election matchup. Turning now to the Israel Hamas war,

00:03:39.260 Joe Biden's CIA director Bill Burns in Israel meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:03:46.700 Burns has reportedly been urging Biden behind the scenes, of course, to force Israel to agree to a

00:03:52.060 ceasefire with Hamas terrorists. Israel says there's no clear justification for a ceasefire.

00:03:58.060 They fear it would only allow Hamas to regroup and to create more international pressure on Israel,

00:04:04.620 to not resume the fight, and to save Hamas from sure destruction. Israel did, however,

00:04:10.380 agree to temporary four-hour humanitarian pauses in North Gaza each day to allow hostages to evacuate.

00:04:17.900 Joining us now is our great American foreign policy and national security panel, Gordon Chang and Tony

00:04:24.460 Shafer. Great to have you with us. Let's start with the CIA director. It seems he is now a diplomat as

00:04:31.180 well as CIA director. He's being dispatched to various hot spots, including, of course, Israel and

00:04:37.180 environs. What do you make of a CIA director as a globe-trotting diplomat as well as a spook? Gordon?

00:04:44.220 Certainly. And clearly, the Biden administration wants to ceasefire. That was the initial reaction

00:04:51.580 in the first moments after the October 7th attacks. And then finally, they got their bearings and they

00:04:57.420 understood that Israel had to destroy Hamas. So they pushed back from that. But what we have seen over

00:05:03.900 the last three or four days is as Biden is losing support of Arab and Muslim Americans, you're now seeing

00:05:11.820 a full press on a ceasefire, which is what they want. And I think that's the last thing the United

00:05:18.300 States should be doing because this is not going to be solved as long as Hamas is in control of the 0.99

00:05:23.980 Gaza Strip. And Tony, your thoughts? I agree with Gordon. I think that the way to sum up the Biden

00:05:33.340 administration is they don't want to lose. They don't want to win. They don't know how to win,

00:05:39.180 but they don't want to lose. So that's why you see this, I'd say, 90-degree shifts in policy

00:05:45.100 overnight in some cases, where, yeah, you've got a Marine Corps three-star general advising the

00:05:52.540 IDF on the ground regarding urban warfare. At the same time, you've got Burns, Blinken, and others

00:05:58.700 behind the scenes trying to convince them to slow down or do the ceasefire. And Hamas is a cancer, 0.97

00:06:07.180 and that cancer has had its message amplified by Iran and by others who are wanting to continue to 0.95

00:06:16.140 weaken the United States role and hand in the Middle East. I think we are an indispensable partner. I

00:06:22.700 think we've done a lot to help others work through things, especially with the Abraham Accords. But at

00:06:28.460 this point, the Israelis took it on the chin on the 7th of October. They lost by proportion what would

00:06:35.980 have been the equivalent of us losing 50,000 people on 9-11. That is to say if the populations were

00:06:40.860 equivalent. And they have every right to go in there. And by the way, for those who are studying

00:06:47.420 the actual battle, the Israelis are doing it masterfully. They've done a three-pronged approach

00:06:54.380 to Gaza. They're doing it very meticulously. They're minimizing civilian casualties. So

00:07:00.700 this is not the time for a ceasefire. This is not the time to get in their way to try to slow them down.

00:07:05.660 Did any of us expect any different result though, really? The Israeli military has won more battles

00:07:12.620 than the United States military over the course of the past 30 years.

00:07:16.300 I just marvel at the affrontery, the arrogance of this administration and this military,

00:07:24.780 this Pentagon to go in to tell the Israeli Defense Forces how to fight a war in the Middle East on that

00:07:33.500 terrain, which is their terrain. Don't you find that astonishing? Gordon, Tony?

00:07:40.460 Well, yeah, I certainly do. And it is arrogance. And as something that Tony referred to, and that is

00:07:47.420 that the Biden administration really wants to manage the situation. And if you want to find a parallel,

00:07:53.820 it's what Biden has tried to do in Ukraine as well. He's not looking for a victory. He's just

00:07:59.580 trying to prevent the conflict from broadening out. And this is basically the approach of Jake Sullivan

00:08:07.340 and Antony Blinken and the president himself. And, you know, it might sound responsible to people

00:08:13.900 saying, oh, we can't have an escalation. But when we look at this way that this policy approach has

00:08:19.820 been applied, not only just in this administration, but in previous ones as well, it has led to this

00:08:26.220 disastrous situation in the world where we have not seen in our lifetimes such a rapid collapse of

00:08:32.940 America's standing in the world and the quick dissolution of peace and stability and order around

00:08:39.660 the world.

00:08:42.140 Go ahead. Go ahead. I'm sorry, Tony.

00:08:43.740 I was going to say that to add to Gordon's point, when you have people who are not first off, I don't

00:08:50.540 think. Tony Blinken understands the Arabs. I don't think they understand how to talk to them. I think 1.00

00:08:56.540 they have by trying to, quote unquote, manage things, they've made it far worse because what

00:09:01.340 they do then is antagonize our allies and empower our enemies. The enemies become stronger. Our allies

00:09:08.460 get upset. And so right now, and this is reflected domestically. I know I don't want to get the domestic 0.95

00:09:13.500 stuff, but the folks who support Israelis' right to retaliate are upset with the Biden administration.

00:09:20.620 Those pro-Palestinians are upset with the Biden administration. They've literally put themselves

00:09:27.740 in a position to be as weak as possible and have as least possible leverage over the situation as can

00:09:34.540 be imagined at this point.

00:09:35.660 You know, and Tony's point about the Biden administration not understanding Arab states,

00:09:42.140 if you talk to these countries in the Gulf, they are secretly rooting for Israel.

00:09:48.700 Yes. No, they do not want Hamas to exist after this. And although they say things that are

00:09:55.660 different in public, nonetheless, the private conversations in the capitals around the Gulf

00:10:02.140 and in the region are basically, yes, Israel must win.

00:10:08.540 Well, Israel must win. Israel will win. And I don't think there's ever been a question about that.

00:10:14.860 That's the sort of the interesting thing to me is I follow the amplifiers in the national left-wing

00:10:20.540 media. What do they choose to broadcast and to print? They're talking about the concern,

00:10:27.100 the desultory effects of actually having to put weapons and munitions into Israel and how that's

00:10:34.220 going to shortchange Ukraine and we won't be able to deal with a five-front war.

00:10:38.220 Well, I just, I'll carry on with Gordon. What Gordon was saying, let him jump back in. There's a

00:10:44.220 certain lack of understanding by just the way the universe works with this administration. It's not

00:10:53.740 only the Arab states. It's about China. It's about every, you know, you literally have, in my judgment, 0.69

00:11:01.820 Lou, the equivalent of a high school debating team who had been brought up on platitudes, who were fed

00:11:08.300 and reinforced in their bad thinking by these mainstream media outlets. And it becomes a huge

00:11:13.420 echo chamber. Now, Gordon, I know, goes to original sources. I do my best to go to original sources.

00:11:20.220 If I say something publicly, I'd like to believe I can back it up by a source, either private or public,

00:11:26.300 public and have and like to be reflective in the context. I say things. There's no such

00:11:33.900 effort by the Biden administration. Jean-Luc Picard, Kareen, whatever her name is,

00:11:39.420 will spout whatever the propaganda is of the day.

00:11:42.300 As best she can remember it.

00:11:44.380 Well, yeah. And then and then John Kirby. I know, John, John.

00:11:47.820 I'm sorry you do.

00:11:50.140 John is the consummate snake oil salesman. I mean, you know,

00:11:53.260 he would sell his mother to Hamas if he thought it would give him a better job at the White House. 0.63

00:11:57.900 I'm sure he was an admiral in apparently was an admiral. I knew in the US Navy.

00:12:03.900 We went around and around about the Bergdahl thing, if you recall, because I was you know,

00:12:07.740 I got information he was going to be brought up on charges. And, you know, he called me into the

00:12:12.460 Pentagon and, you know, we don't want to admit we're going to do this like, oh, OK, well, whatever.

00:12:17.340 Anyway, but back to this issue with Gordon, you have now because of their inability to to separate

00:12:24.300 what my friend Catherine Herridge calls happy talk from ground truth. You have the chaos that we now see.

00:12:31.340 Yeah, we're talking with Tony Schaefer and Gordon Chang, and we're going to talk some more.

00:12:37.020 And I can't wait to hear what they've got to say about the Biden administration and the Nobel

00:12:42.860 Peace Prize because I see a big opportunity here for a man who can barely get across the stage.

00:12:48.060 Doesn't everybody? We'll be right back. Stay with us.

00:12:56.540 We're back with Tony Schaefer and Gordon Chang. I was just saying before the break,

00:13:00.300 guys, you know, this is a real opportunity for Joe Biden, a man who can't get across the stage

00:13:06.060 without help, can't even read a teleprompter, has a hard time expressing thoughts, whether his or

00:13:13.500 anyone else's. What do you think, Gordon? Well, this would be reminiscent of Barack Obama's

00:13:20.300 Nobel Peace Prize for basically being elected president of the United States. And, you know,

00:13:26.300 I'm sure the people who hand out the prize would like to see Biden get another term.

00:13:30.940 And it's not beyond the realm of the possibility that he would actually get it.

00:13:36.060 And while we're talking about Nobel Peace Prices, if there were any justice in this world,

00:13:42.220 President Trump should have gotten it for the Abraham Accords.

00:13:45.100 Without question.

00:13:46.540 Despite everybody's expectation, the president was able to stitch together important agreements

00:13:54.220 that really at one time looked like they would make peace enduring in that region.

00:13:59.900 So, you know, we'll just have to see. But, you know, I think the American public understands that

00:14:06.860 Biden has presided over the collapse of the international system and that he's in large

00:14:12.220 part responsible for it. So I don't think that a Nobel Peace Prize will help him in his election

00:14:18.940 bid, because right now it doesn't look very good, as we've seen from the polls,

00:14:23.980 and as we can just sense from our notion of what's right and what's wrong.

00:14:28.140 Tony, do you agree with that? I mean, it seems

00:14:33.580 somewhat skeptical of the president's immense diplomatic acumen and expertise.

00:14:39.980 Come on, man.

00:14:42.140 I'm going to leave you hanging with that one.

00:14:44.140 Every man, every president I've either worked for or have been associated with or known,

00:14:50.220 other than Joe Biden, has sought to do something diplomatically that's noteworthy.

00:14:54.220 Carter did something with Menachem Begin, I believe. As I recall, there was an effort to

00:15:00.140 address the very issue we're talking about right now. Reagan and Gorbachev. Man, you know,

00:15:06.140 Bud McFarlane, God rest his soul. Bud was a close friend and told me great stories. Ambassador

00:15:10.380 Hank Cooper. I've heard some amazing stories about the diplomatic acumen of Reagan. Clinton.

00:15:18.780 Clinton worked Oslo II, signed on the White House lawn. George Bush. They all have attempted to do

00:15:26.540 things which are... Tony, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but think about this. How many Nobel Peace

00:15:33.340 Prize applications and peace prizes have been awarded to American presidents for not achieving

00:15:40.140 peace in the Middle East? Just on that one subject. I think that there should be a separate 0.96

00:15:46.620 subcommittee to the Nobel Committee, and that is for American presidents interfering in the

00:15:53.020 geopolitics of the Mideast region, and in particular, the Palestinian-Israel conflict. What do you think?

00:16:00.780 Well, look, if they... Is that too cynical of me? No, well, it's the eye of the beholder,

00:16:10.620 I suppose, Lou. I mean, look, I talked to Tony Zinni. General Zinni was commander of Central Command,

00:16:17.500 and he was the guy that went in under Bush, 40, 43. And he was there based on the fact that he was a

00:16:28.060 blue dog Democrat, he was not a Republican, and he was there under a Republican administration to try

00:16:32.940 to sort things out. And he walked away completely frustrated. He believed that there was no path

00:16:38.380 forward as long as the players on the left, the Hamas, and those guys were there. So the bottom 0.95

00:16:45.660 line is negotiating with those folks who are basically bent and committed to the destruction

00:16:50.140 of the very straight you're trying to help out is not a good idea, because it is, to your point,

00:16:54.300 meddling then. It's simply a self-aggrandizement for purposes of trying to show that the United

00:16:59.260 States has a role to play when actually I think it's probably best to not be in it. And that could be

00:17:04.540 the case right now because there's really no role for the United States within the context of Hamas.

00:17:09.180 Hamas needs to be eliminated. And why there would be interference in that objective

00:17:14.540 on the part of the Israelis by the United States is beyond me. But there it is in the midst of a

00:17:21.660 maelstrom, a tragedy visited upon the Israelis by the Hamas terrorist group. On October 7th, we have 0.62

00:17:29.660 a president who is simultaneously moving two carrier groups into the eastern Mediterranean,

00:17:34.940 and calling for a two-state solution and respecting the rights of Hamas. It's madness, 0.75

00:17:44.860 a highly, highly mad version of madness for this administration to be talking like that. Don't

00:17:53.340 you think, Gordon? Well, clearly, there's a sense when you think about it that the Biden administration

00:18:02.460 doesn't understand the seriousness of the situation in the world today, which is the reason why they're

00:18:07.900 trying to manage the Middle East. What we should be understanding is that the world has divided.

00:18:14.140 On the other side is evil. It's Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and that free societies like Israel 0.93

00:18:22.300 and the United States are threatened, and that China and its friends are going to continue until they rule 0.84

00:18:29.500 the world. Now, most Americans won't accept that characterization of what's going on. But I

00:18:35.980 believe that as we see events unfold, especially starting with the catastrophic withdrawal from

00:18:42.540 Afghanistan, that we start to understand the seriousness of this. And by the way, we Americans, 0.82

00:18:48.860 we tend to look at things and say, oh, it's over on the other side of an ocean. But remember that China 0.98

00:18:54.780 and Iran are ceding operatives into the United States, as we speak, across our southern border and 0.57

00:19:01.420 through the Florida Keys. And these are individuals who probably will wage war on the United States when

00:19:09.020 they get the signal to do so. You remember that lab in Reedley, California, the one that secret Chinese 1.00

00:19:15.500 biological weapons facility had at least 20 pathogens, according to the official count,

00:19:21.820 and almost a thousand mice that had been genetically engineered to spread disease.

00:19:26.860 War is coming to American soil. And we Americans better understand that we're in this war already 0.73

00:19:32.460 and that if we don't try to win it, we're going to lose our country.

00:19:36.620 Well, it's easily lost with the fifth column with the dimensions and the power

00:19:42.220 and the scope of the fifth column that right now is threatening the United States from within.

00:19:47.420 The Marxist Dems control all of education. They control all of the federal government.

00:19:53.260 The Marxist Dems control the Democrat Party. The Marxist Dems control the military.

00:19:58.700 And those values have been transmitted and inculcated throughout the military.

00:20:02.700 It's not this isn't just about being, you know, major or captain deep. This is pervasive throughout the

00:20:08.700 military. So, you know, I never anticipated and built a military that would value who you sleep

00:20:15.500 with and the skin color that you hold over your value of integrity and tactical skills. I mean, it's 0.99

00:20:23.900 amazing what the priorities are right now and what has happened. It's not and Biden is getting

00:20:30.060 weeping the benefit, weeping the wind of change, if you will, perhaps from multiple administrations,

00:20:36.860 starting with the Clintons. The Clintons started this trend of politicizing the military and leaders.

00:20:43.020 And they they it's it's become the policy of D. D. D. I. E. or whatever it is. D. E. I.

00:20:53.180 It's going to D. I. E. if we don't get rid of D. E. I. 1.00

00:20:56.620 D. I. diversity, equity, equity and inclusion. And so, look, I felt pretty included when I was being

00:21:02.540 yelled at by drill sergeants back in 1981 because you were all green. And that was the idea we you.

00:21:08.780 And so everything that was worked through the civil rights movement to make everybody equal to be.

00:21:16.540 How do we roll this back, Tony? How do we roll it back?

00:21:19.180 We roll it back by firing people.

00:21:22.140 We're going to get a little more granular than that.

00:21:24.780 We're going to take a quick break and we're going to be right back with Tony Schaefer and Gordon Chang.

00:21:29.180 Stay with us. We're back with Tony Schaefer and Gordon Chang.

00:21:37.820 And Tony, I rudely interrupted you for a break, but there it is.

00:21:43.580 And I think everybody would love to hear what specifically and in granular terms can be done to rescue this military from its leadership.

00:21:54.220 You have to go to centers of gravity and those centers of gravity are essentially three places in the military.

00:22:00.220 The military, the the academies and the colleges above the academy.

00:22:06.220 You have to take that back, Lou. You have to get the curriculum unhijacked.

00:22:11.020 How long does it take?

00:22:13.020 You fire the commandant and you have the commandant.

00:22:15.180 You appoint a commandant who understands the value of merit over skin color and who you sleep with.

00:22:21.020 And who makes those decision about who's the commandant?

00:22:24.220 Well, whoever the academies, the leadership of the army and military of the army.

00:22:28.940 The chiefs of each one of the branches.

00:22:31.900 And exactly.

00:22:33.660 You've got a joint chiefs that are a chairman of the joint chiefs advising the president.

00:22:38.700 The joint chiefs themselves are all on the same page polemically in terms of values.

00:22:46.060 Well, so the answer is you need to find generals who you trust to come back.

00:22:50.300 Look, they brought back Pete Schoomaker from retirement to work to run the war after 9-11 because they didn't trust the generals then.

00:22:58.620 Let me tell you, I hope I don't get in trouble because he's a great general.

00:23:01.660 Joe Dunford, fighting Joe Dunford, did a study in the Marine Corps showing that women could not serve in equal positions as men.

00:23:09.180 And he was completely dismissed for that.

00:23:11.260 I mean, they still made him chairman, but Joe never lost sight of what was necessary.

00:23:16.300 And he turned out to be Trump's favorite general because Joe was a general.

00:23:20.780 He wasn't a politician.

00:23:21.980 That's why he's not out there, you know, in the news talking about all the nonsense.

00:23:26.140 Here's the question, Joe Dunford or whomever, what's the last war he won?

00:23:31.180 What is the last war the U.S. military won?

00:23:34.580 And you have to go back over 20 years.

00:23:38.740 We have not done well.

00:23:40.380 And I'm not here to put up.

00:23:41.900 But how do we how do we actually sit here as intelligent, fairly knowledgeable, fairly intelligent?

00:23:48.520 I'm including myself to bring that average down.

00:23:50.560 I have to say to you, I don't understand how we can sit here and actually talk about the U.S. military as a fighting force that has the power that we have both invested in and which we have.

00:24:05.780 We've been ripped off by the military industrial complex, by the generals, the generals, general and flag officers of the military.

00:24:13.780 This is a joke.

00:24:15.060 Look, they're flying around and G-550s and G-650s and having a grand old time.

00:24:22.340 It's it's ridiculous what's going on.

00:24:24.580 And nobody wants to speak honestly about the state of the military right now.

00:24:29.440 Well, we do.

00:24:30.020 And then, Lou, you need an Eisenhower who understands, you know, Eisenhower started out as a lieutenant colonel at the beginning of Second World War.

00:24:36.100 He ended up as the guy in charge.

00:24:37.580 You need an Eisenhower.

00:24:38.720 We need Eisenhower so you can come through and change things.

00:24:41.200 Well, Gordon, you have the deciding vote on how we fix this thing in the military in particular.

00:24:47.360 Well, I have a different perspective needed.

00:24:51.020 That is that is the urgency of the situation involving China.

00:24:55.980 We have a military that is planning for war in the 2030s and the 2040s and building superb weapons to do that,

00:25:03.540 where I think that we need to be figuring out how we can get munitions to forces in the front line,

00:25:11.200 harden our facilities, figure out what to do in the first half hour of a war.

00:25:16.680 And we do not have a military that is actually focusing on that right now because they don't have a sense of urgency.

00:25:24.420 I think that's exactly right.

00:25:26.980 Unfortunately, I also don't see a force that could motivate a change in the United States military.

00:25:35.480 We've got Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor, days before October,

00:25:40.120 Sabbath telling the Israelis we've got this thing under control. 0.98

00:25:43.720 Peace is at hand with Hamas and with Iran. 0.99

00:25:48.680 They haven't been right about anything.

00:25:51.180 Ukraine, China, Russia or Iran.

00:25:55.680 No, I mean, the military left to its own devices will worship mediocrity and do the very least possible

00:26:01.280 because generals want to get officers get promoted by playing it safe.

00:26:04.900 You know, I've had this conversation, Lou, in the private in the past.

00:26:09.280 The military, for every Eisenhower, for every, who was it?

00:26:16.980 The father of the nuclear Navy, Rickover.

00:26:19.540 Rickover.

00:26:20.360 You have 10 people who basically love the rubbles and flourishes of being a general officer.

00:26:26.920 And they'll do, you know, they even have a finishing school now for these guys.

00:26:31.080 Tony, isn't this true of every peacetime just before a war?

00:26:36.520 Yeah.

00:26:37.320 Essentially, you've, you know, you've got the bureaucracy, which has grown and mushroomed and taken over the Pentagon.

00:26:43.440 And then what happens in a war is that everybody panics and then returns to where they should have been in the first place.

00:26:50.940 I mean, it's I think that there's a great exception to that, Gordon, and that would be World War Two.

00:26:56.680 Not only did we have a president, a commander in chief who was correctly anticipating historic developments.

00:27:04.700 We had one point four million men in uniform on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7th.

00:27:15.520 Think about that.

00:27:16.260 One point four million.

00:27:17.540 They were drilling with broomsticks and two-by-fours, but they were drilling because this, the president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, understood what was happening.

00:27:29.040 He already had his eye on George C. Marshall as the ultimate military leader, which he proved to be, and brilliantly so.

00:27:38.360 And Marshall had his eye on Eisenhower from the very beginning.

00:27:41.980 It was a remarkable period of time and remarkable prescience on the part of that.

00:27:49.420 But you had a president with a triple-digit IQ who had men and women around him who were intelligent, engaged, and weren't there to make their fortune or to, you know, maybe I'll get a ticket on Air Force One.

00:28:04.560 These people were patriots, and they were committed to not just the survival of the United States, but to the victory against the enemies, whether they be the Axis powers, the Nazis, the Japanese, you name it.

00:28:19.540 They were going to die before American force as we put them into the field. 0.97

00:28:24.300 Absolutely right, Lou.

00:28:26.520 I mean, FDR was a hero, and he did see it coming.

00:28:31.460 Unfortunately, across the American political spectrum, and this is not just Biden and the Democrats, we have a political system that does not understand the urgency of the situation.

00:28:42.900 And we have a military, as I mentioned, that does not understand that they could actually be at war tonight.

00:28:49.640 They've got slogans like U.S. forces Korea, you know, fight tonight.

00:28:54.020 But I don't think we've got a military that is actually prepared to do that.

00:28:58.440 They don't have the reloads.

00:29:00.020 They don't have the hardened facilities.

00:29:01.900 I think that they are going to be caught by surprise because we don't understand the Chinese political system.

00:29:09.120 We don't understand Xi Jinping.

00:29:10.540 We don't understand the internal dynamics inside China that could actually get that country to lash out and take us by surprise. 0.98

00:29:20.540 Isn't it interesting to think what dullards we are when there is the alternate prospect here, and that is that perhaps we're not that stupid, that really the solutions are looking straight at us. 0.94

00:29:35.020 The problems are not so convoluted, complex, and removed that we can't reach out and solve them. 0.97

00:29:43.560 We have a group of people who simply are not intellectually gifted to do the most basic requirements of leadership, which is to anticipate, to innovate, to adapt, respond, react.

00:30:00.080 And that is, you know, that's the credo of every special operations force that we have.

00:30:07.960 We need to promote those folks up, bring them onto boardrooms of corporations, put them everywhere we can. 0.99

00:30:16.080 But this is a, there is such a lassitude, as you say, Gordon, amongst our civilian leadership.

00:30:23.040 And let's be honest, Tony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, President Biden, go, I mean, really, Jennifer Granholm.

00:30:33.480 And I mean, you're talking about people who are fraudulent in their capacity and their abilities.

00:30:40.520 And we pretend it's a government.

00:30:42.560 It is a government.

00:30:43.740 But we have Shetland ponies pulling, you know, a three-ton carriage.

00:30:50.920 It is preposterous what our expectations are against what they should be.

00:30:56.420 We're going to, you guys get the last word here.

00:30:59.180 Tony, we'll begin with you.

00:31:00.560 And Gordon, you get the final wrap-up.

00:31:03.420 So to Gordon's point, Lou, Omar Bradley once said,

00:31:06.740 amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.

00:31:13.100 And Gordon's point is, you know, we have not been thinking through what would be necessary to respond rapidly.

00:31:18.160 We do have plans.

00:31:19.480 And I will say this to defend my brothers in uniform.

00:31:22.340 There are Eisenhowers. 0.99

00:31:24.400 There are Omar Bradleys out there.

00:31:25.980 But because of the malaise of the peacetime military, they've been suppressed.

00:31:29.580 They've been stuck in jobs in, you know, Alaska or other places because they don't want people who are going to be hard-edged

00:31:36.980 and think things through like you're talking about.

00:31:38.800 But they're there.

00:31:39.860 The question becomes, Lou, can they come and rise to the top when it becomes necessary?

00:31:44.360 And I think that time of necessity is coming quickly.

00:31:48.280 Gordon, the last word.

00:31:49.940 The most important thing is leadership in the Oval Office.

00:31:52.440 And we will not get very far with the current occupant because whatever reason he's being blackmailed by China, 0.71

00:32:01.200 bought by China and Ukraine, or just totally misguided, as Robert Gates once said, we're just not going to get there.

00:32:09.240 We have to hang on until 2025 on January 20.

00:32:14.160 And hopefully we will have a president like a Reagan, like a George Washington, like an FDR,

00:32:21.400 who understands the situation and who is willing to lead the United States and the international system

00:32:27.880 to peace, stability, and victory over the forces of evil.

00:32:32.060 And, yes, the other side is evil.

00:32:36.040 And they're painting pro-Palestinian and Hamas slogans on the pillars of the gates to the White House.

00:32:44.160 And demonstrating by the hundreds of thousands in our country right now.

00:32:49.280 We have a lot, a lot to overcome.

00:32:52.600 And I guess I can take solace in the beginning of knowledge is first a question.

00:32:59.200 And I'm curious to find out which way we go here from here.

00:33:03.040 And I know the American people are as well.

00:33:05.060 Thank you, gentlemen, for offering your thoughts and your insight.

00:33:08.860 We appreciate it.

00:33:09.660 Gordon Chang, Tony Schaefer, good to have you with us.

00:33:13.300 Thanks, Lou.

00:33:13.920 Thank you.

00:33:15.600 Thank you, Gordon.

00:33:16.640 Thanks, everybody, for being with us here today.

00:33:18.460 Our guest tomorrow on The Great America Show, Congressman Eli Crane,

00:33:22.320 on the congressional investigations of President Biden and the Biden crime family.

00:33:27.220 The impeachment inquiry is obviously heating up.

00:33:30.160 Please join us for that tomorrow.

00:33:31.920 Join us each and every day.

00:33:33.440 Thanks, everybody.

00:33:34.300 God bless you.

00:33:35.340 And may God bless America.

00:33:37.120 God bless you.

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