The Great America Show - CAN TRUMP PUT AN END TO THE DEEP STATE ONCE AND FOR ALL？

00:00:00.000 hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us today

00:00:06.900 we have an action-packed show for you today we sit down we're going to be sitting down i should

00:00:12.380 say with lee smith he's a brilliant author and columnist we're going to take up the trump

00:00:17.780 transition team where they're at right now where they're heading and the the roadblocks they face

00:00:23.780 ahead we also are going to take up some of the issues that i believe the trump administration

00:00:28.040 in the early stages is going to is going to face um with some of these democrat holdovers from the

00:00:34.220 old biden administration who i believe are going to try to sneak their way into the trump administration

00:00:40.480 to do all they can to harm him and stymied any sort of things he wants to push forward with the

00:00:46.740 america first agenda so as i said our guest today we're going to get right into it is lee smith

00:00:51.320 journalist and uh brilliant brilliant author lee smith he's the author of an all-new book folks

00:00:57.420 i recommend it all to you highly go out get a copy for yourself get a copy for our friends

00:01:02.100 the title disappearing the president trump truth social and the fight for our republic lee joins us

00:01:08.660 now lee as i said always a pleasure to have you here a brilliant mind um last week we saw president

00:01:15.520 trump and former president obama at the jimmy carter funeral getting a little bit uh too close for

00:01:22.680 comfort in my opinion uh a lip-reading expert says the conversation between the two went something

00:01:29.400 like this trump says to obama i can't talk we have to find a quiet place sometime this is a matter of

00:01:34.960 importance and we need to do this outside we can deal with it today certainly the two talking for

00:01:41.420 before the um decisions started what could trump have possibly wanted to tell obama that was so

00:01:49.520 important that got kamala harris pissing and moaning uh that their two were talking uh well i i know

00:01:56.620 what i would like uh trump to have told obama which is that you have to this town's only big enough for

00:02:03.880 one sheriff this country's only big enough for one sheriff and that's me and you better get out of town

00:02:09.120 or we're gonna round up all your cow pokes and and put you all in the you know put you all in the

00:02:16.300 huska or whatever however you put it whatever the whatever the the country western uh western movie

00:02:22.660 language is for that but i mean sir i mean i've been arguing this for a while now that barack obama

00:02:28.220 there should not be a shadow white house operating out of washington dc that he's a former president he

00:02:34.320 should leave washington dc as other residences in massachusetts and hawaii uh and he should move to

00:02:40.740 one of them so i i i don't know what he said but i mean i i again i certainly think that that's

00:02:46.160 important because it's because it was barack obama who's been running the eight-year-long campaign

00:02:52.000 against donald trump i mean that's it was obama's spy chiefs was not hillary clinton remember in 2016

00:02:59.620 if it's just hillary clinton none of this stuff gets off the ground as an intelligence operation if

00:03:05.900 it's not for barack obama's spy chiefs especially james comey and john brennan so hillary clinton was

00:03:11.800 running a uh ugly dirty trick calling donald trump a a russian spy but the person who was really running

00:03:18.640 that operation was barack obama uh whether uh if we see obama picking up his tent stakes and moving out

00:03:27.780 of the colorama area within the next week or so then then i'm i'm going to guess that that is what

00:03:33.400 trump said he said uh uh move along little doggie um aside from that that's it if we don't see that

00:03:41.320 then we don't see that then you know we'll we'll find out soon or we won't maybe it's an issue of

00:03:47.200 national security and barack obama has some details on that that donald trump doesn't but um we'll see

00:03:53.460 the thing that's mind-blowing to me lee is the fact that you saw how many of these folks i mean obama

00:03:59.540 six months ago was on a stage calling trump pretty much hitler yet every time they're together there's

00:04:06.060 always smile and there's always some sort of laughter which uh begs the question i mean is there

00:04:12.700 a real animus towards president trump from obama what is the driving factor yeah behind his hatred of

00:04:18.580 president trump well i mean is it entirely personal some of it's personal i mean we've seen the footage of

00:04:26.100 uh you know what was it the the white house correspondence association dinner was that

00:04:31.220 2014 or what year was it maybe it was early it was 2011 i think something like that and uh you know i

00:04:38.820 mean trump was was talking about the uh obama's birth certificate but of course it's important to

00:04:45.340 remember the people who were pushing that operation those were obama's opponents obama's democratic

00:04:50.840 party opponents hillary clinton sydney blumenthal was pushing that that's where it came from

00:04:55.840 um you know and and of course trump got interested in this story too there's a fascinating cnn clip

00:05:01.900 from several years ago more than a decade ago now i imagine with donald trump and really

00:05:06.340 had really run this down and he absolutely believed that barack obama was not born in hawaii and you know

00:05:13.460 i i mean john it's not something i've made a careful study of but i think it's you know i i think it's

00:05:19.480 pretty serious um that there's a case to be made you know if you look at the the uh his his first book

00:05:27.260 when his book agent said that he was born in kenya and then the uh intern there said oh i made a mistake

00:05:34.060 i thought he was born in kenya so you know so that that's part of obama's personal animus but also

00:05:41.580 there's just a regular political animus i mean donald trump said said i'm going to undo all the different

00:05:46.800 things that barack obama did you know and barack obama saying there's nothing you can do but getting

00:05:51.780 those jobs back from china donald trump said well yeah i can do it uh he undid the iran deal he withdrew

00:05:57.960 from the joint comprehensive plan of action and uh you know trump got out and i believe it was may

00:06:04.400 may 2018 and this was this was the core of barack obama's foreign policy legacy so yeah and if i were

00:06:14.380 donald trump i would have some personal uh hold hold some personal uh animus toward barack obama as

00:06:22.020 well it's like yeah i know remember in in march 2017 when trump tweeted yeah i just found out that

00:06:28.140 barack obama had my uh you know wiretap the phones at trump tower and you know everyone made fun of trump

00:06:35.480 in 2017 oh psycho he's he's paranoid how dare he that turned out to be entirely true so i i think that

00:06:45.000 i think that what we're watching is we're watching the um we're watching the public

00:06:50.460 the public faces of two people who i imagine don't like each other very much at all on the other hand

00:06:57.940 we know that donald trump we don't know as much about barack obama we know that donald trump is

00:07:02.160 extremely forgiving uh yes probably sometimes he he forgives people he shouldn't be forgiving

00:07:08.760 i i say that very often here on the show i disagree with president trump maybe 0.1 of the time

00:07:15.200 and part of the issue that i often say is he's far too nice of a guy he has far too many chances and

00:07:21.040 he's been backstabbed more than anybody that we've ever seen in that white house and he gives these

00:07:26.980 people second chances i mean even recently we've seen morgan ortegas uh being appointed to a special

00:07:32.140 envoy role who spent the last four years going after him siding with de santis uh scratching

00:07:37.940 de santis's back any chance she got and president trump puts out this press statement saying well

00:07:42.220 hopefully she learned her lesson yeah there's far too many people in this world that we should be

00:07:46.600 taking the risk putting them in positions to say have you learned your lesson or not

00:07:51.220 well you know there's a whole bunch of people who have um well i'll give you one interpretation then

00:07:59.720 i'll just say why i don't agree with it one interpretation is that donald trump is a very

00:08:03.860 large coalition uh a number of people who helped put him in the white house and uh you know he he owes

00:08:10.940 all of those people something i i actually don't believe that's true i think that uh you know there

00:08:16.480 are different people who helped donald trump like rfk jr uh elon musk but they didn't put him in the

00:08:22.080 white house tulsi gabbard didn't put him in the white house right none of these people put him in

00:08:26.360 the white house none of these people stand up stood up on stage uh july 13th in pennsylvania

00:08:31.620 and got shot in the face right the people who put donald trump in the white house are american voters

00:08:36.820 and from what we understand what we understand from number crunchers is trump won uh because they

00:08:43.520 they managed to get out a whole bunch of low propensity voters meaning people who hardly ever

00:08:48.620 vote that was it right it wasn't rfk jr it wasn't elon musk it wasn't tulsi gabbard it was certainly

00:08:56.300 wasn't vivek ramaswamy but nonetheless donald trump has brought all of these people uh into his tent and

00:09:05.020 has welcomed them all and is now you know rewarding some of them and i'm sure that some of them will do a

00:09:10.720 good job and i'm concerned as you are and i'm sure most of your awesome audience is concerned too

00:09:16.280 that some of them won't do a good job and you know that they will be processed quickly uh they will be

00:09:22.820 processed out as quickly as they were processed in to donald trump's large tent right a lot of good

00:09:30.660 points you brought up there lee uh especially regarding some of these people i'd even argue

00:09:35.100 a guy like scott presler was more instrumental in carrying donald trump not carrying i should

00:09:41.140 phrase it that way but helping donald trump across the finish line in states like pennsylvania where

00:09:45.380 he was on the ground registering grassroots voters he's doing it now in new jersey so we'll see the

00:09:49.620 effect of that in the next election um but you're absolutely right some of these folks who believe

00:09:54.840 um they're owed something elon musk uh you know i love the man i think he's brilliant smartest man in

00:10:00.420 the world richest man in the world but there's an issue and you know i was scared you weren't going to be

00:10:04.700 on the same side of it as me so i looked at your twitter a few weeks ago when it was going on it

00:10:08.040 turned out you weren't john john that we're usually on the same side though i i get more excited and i

00:10:15.800 speak more clearly even when i'm arguing with you i feel like i really have to bear down and use my words

00:10:22.460 carefully there's fewer ums and ahs and so let's pick something soon that we disagree over 100 and i'll

00:10:30.720 actually sound like i know what i'm talking about so i'll be more focused but it's it's great to agree

00:10:36.040 with you because we're both we're both you know solid guys or dingbats some people and we're on the

00:10:43.060 right side of course on the right side of history yes if you conceive of it as an arc history if you

00:10:48.780 see like barack obama if you see it as an arc it's good to be on the right it's good if any of you

00:10:54.320 have been to st louis and seeing the arc seeing the arc there right you want to be on the right

00:10:59.580 side of it so i want to take up that issue that it's it's been instrumental and a lot of people on

00:11:05.640 twitter upset about it some being even censored about it we're going to take a quick break here

00:11:09.600 but when we return we're going to take up h1b visas yeah the stance president trump had in 2016

00:11:15.720 versus the stance he now has on it after he's brought on vivek ramaswamy and elan musk i want to

00:11:21.860 take that up because i think it's very important uh the stance he had and it was something that was

00:11:26.280 near and dear to lou dobbs's heart going back 20 years lee when nobody was talking about this you

00:11:31.740 don't believe me you can go find those clips on cnn so we're going to take a quick break here we're

00:11:35.940 talking with a brilliant author uh lee smith folks i encourage you all to go out and buy lee's new book

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00:13:07.660 as i mentioned before we went to break lee's new book disappearing the president trump truth social

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00:13:19.800 is absolutely brilliant lee h1b visas president trump had a stance on it in 2016 much of the the likes of

00:13:27.960 one that lou dobbs had we have americans who need jobs we shouldn't be going overseas to get these

00:13:33.980 people so vivek ramaswamy two weeks ago thinks it's smart to tweet out that americans are late

00:13:39.700 pretty much this is paraphrasing americans are lazy they're not smart enough our kids now are worried

00:13:44.400 about watching boy meets world on television instead of going out and testing now part of what he said

00:13:49.380 is true america our american education system is failing us there's no doubt about that you can look

00:13:54.640 down the board up down whichever we want to look at kids are underperforming in every single aspect of

00:14:00.040 literacy mathematics sciences compared to other countries especially china and india okay there's

00:14:06.180 no doubt about that but the way that that vivek proposes that we fix this issue is to bring more

00:14:11.860 indians into the country for h1b visas instead of looking at the core problem of fixing our schooling

00:14:17.080 system getting rid of these tenured teachers who think that it's okay just to go to school do a job

00:14:22.200 and go home and not teach our children so to what i say to vivek and elon musk if you guys are so

00:14:27.580 intent on having these foreigners because you say they're smarter than americans let's propose a 50

00:14:32.780 to 100 tariff on each one that you bring into this country if tariffs work on goods lee they work on

00:14:39.260 human beings and we'll see how fast your whole americans are stupid uh proposition works what do

00:14:46.000 you think lee well let's break this down into two parts let's talk about the h1b visa second uh what i

00:14:54.240 want to talk about first is the way that vivek put this right john i i there are very few people on the

00:15:00.960 right who think that american education is heading in the right direction or that we don't doesn't need

00:15:06.560 to be fixed but of course vivek said nothing about that in fact he underscored the point and it's not

00:15:11.760 about college because it happens earlier so what this was what was so what was so uh and and i was

00:15:19.900 going to say in politic but it's not as it was rude it was it was boorish what he said was it starts

00:15:25.240 much earlier and then he started talking about sleepovers he started talking about kids watching

00:15:29.380 cartoons so it's about families it's about parents and what he was doing was insulting american families

00:15:34.580 and insulting american parents saying your parents suck uh they didn't raise you right unlike my family

00:15:40.980 who raised me right so i'm sorry if you're going to be talking to americans right and if you're going to

00:15:45.520 be in a position of power and by the way unelected if you're going to serve as an appointed official

00:15:50.580 you better learn how to speak to americans a little differently right that was garbage and it was also

00:15:56.560 garbage when elon musk jumped in and said uh and said you know i i did the the f yourself in the face

00:16:03.780 of course everyone knows that that line comes from uh uh what what what was it the big the big

00:16:08.960 justin through tropic uh tropic thunder right there was nothing funny about it right there was nothing

00:16:15.140 funny about it because the point was what if you fight me on something that matters to me i will

00:16:21.660 destroy you like okay another guy who's an unelected official and this is how he decides to talk to

00:16:28.040 americans so go to hell the two of you go to hell okay here's the story about the h1b and i know

00:16:35.740 lou was on this a long time ago right the h1b is an instrument designed to push americans out of stem

00:16:45.580 fields right that's what it was it was designed to hurt and punish americans it's a terrible terrible

00:16:53.320 thing so when i hear people like elon musk say um well we of course we had to reform it so what does

00:16:59.800 reforming it mean for me it's like here's an instrument designed to hurt americans uh to push

00:17:06.560 them out of stem fields right and so let's reform it so that it hurts them a little less

00:17:10.800 i mean it's ridiculous right and look at the argument these guys were making for it oh it's

00:17:14.940 it's for exceptional workers it's no it's not no it's not it's for foreign workers to come in many

00:17:21.200 of them are are extraordinarily mediocre right what it's what the purpose of it was to suppress

00:17:27.900 wages to suppress american wages wages in these particular industries especially tech that's why

00:17:35.480 it was devised it was a it was an instrument higher ed came up with it because higher ed likes foreign

00:17:42.360 students coming in because they build them full tuition and and and tech industry liked it as well

00:17:48.280 because it meant cheaper labor so the idea that somehow this is what's going to save america we're

00:17:53.760 going to keep doing what we've been doing for 30 years and america's in a bad situation right now in

00:17:59.780 tech because of this one thing so guess what we're going to do we're going to double down on the same

00:18:04.440 thing so it's absolutely garbage but the most offensive thing was like look if someone wants to

00:18:10.400 make an argument and say i support the h1bvs as many people do i disagree with them wholeheartedly

00:18:16.200 for the reason i said all you want to do is hurt american workers then go ahead make your case that's

00:18:21.280 what our country is go ahead make your case lobby for your cause why is it good for me okay i'm going

00:18:25.820 to make up some crazy story to obscure the fact that it just saves me a lot of money hiring these

00:18:31.180 foreigners instead of americans make your case make your argument for for pete's sake you're welcome to

00:18:37.480 it but here's what you don't do once you come into our house and once you start insulting american

00:18:43.440 families not saying it's the educational system that's it would have been so easy to say the educational

00:18:48.980 system is betraying american families betraying american kids betraying american workers you

00:18:53.920 know i i am with you man now where are you going to take me what how are we going to fix it but i

00:18:58.700 love the way you're selling this i love the way you're you know you're framing this because i totally

00:19:02.440 agree and i think like almost everyone agrees with you but again once you come in once you walk in

00:19:07.660 to a pta meeting where i am and you say all you suck you don't know to raise your kids once you walk

00:19:12.760 into my living room and you say you should turn off the tv you're raising your kids to be morons like

00:19:17.260 all right now we're in different territory and so that was my big problem with it not just the h1b

00:19:23.680 visa it's the way that these guys thought that they can talk to americans very bad you know there's an

00:19:29.980 old saying lou used to see use all the time you know don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining

00:19:34.160 outside and that's exactly what folks like elon and vivek are doing and things were going so

00:19:39.560 similarly well they've managed now to bring donald trump onto their side lou was so staunch on this back

00:19:45.460 in 2016 and 17 i think he went after senator mike lee and referred to him as the senator from mumbai

00:19:51.320 mike lee has since come i think further right than we ever expected him to and some of these folks are

00:19:57.040 going further left this is a statement we'll see what happens with the president-elect i i think i

00:20:02.420 mean i'd like to believe look i mean okay i i think he was i i don't know i mean i don't know i'm

00:20:09.240 just giving you my my sense of it i think he was probably uh trying to calm down uh especially elon

00:20:17.220 and just say yeah right i agree with him and i'm very hopeful that this thing will be worked out

00:20:22.860 uh to the advantage to the advantage of uh to the advantage of american workers the advantage of

00:20:28.760 americans look at how long have people been complaining right we see these reports all the time

00:20:32.980 from congress how dangerous it is that we don't have enough americans americans going to stem

00:20:37.260 fields like well it's a self-inflicted national security problem congress did it to us again

00:20:43.760 with higher ed and tech and so so i i am hopeful that donald trump will agree with what seemed with

00:20:50.760 what appears to be his basis position that this is not good for american workers well this is donald

00:20:56.360 trump's statement in in march of 2016 megan kelly asked about high-skilled immigration from saying

00:21:02.680 quote the h1b program is neither high-skilled nor immigration these are temporary foreign workers

00:21:08.180 imported from abroad for explicit purposes of substituting for american workers at lower pay

00:21:13.660 i remain totally committed to eliminating rampant widespread h1b abuse and ending the outrageous

00:21:18.880 practices such as those that occurred at disney in florida when americans were forced to train

00:21:23.260 the foreign replacement i will end the forever use of h1b visas as cheap labor program

00:21:28.740 and institute an absolute requirement to hire american workers first for every visa and

00:21:33.980 immigration program no exception so i just don't understand and this goes back to the point which

00:21:39.660 what you said about owing people something for getting you across the finish line apparently um

00:21:45.340 i mean do you think he holds strong on this i just don't you know lou does is rolling in his grave

00:21:51.280 that poor man because this is something he fought for the american people is the reason why lou did this

00:21:56.400 job who didn't do it for the money he did it because he believed in something he believed in a product

00:22:01.100 and it was the education system in this country lee it was the border system in this country it was the

00:22:06.280 foreign policy in this country and each and every one of those situations those areas is failing us

00:22:12.360 especially the school system do you think donald trump addresses the core of this issue and it is our

00:22:17.800 schooling system it is not that americans are lazy we're not no we're not we're not lazy but also

00:22:24.640 look our our public education system in many places is really bad um but also we we graduate a lot of

00:22:33.060 smart kids i was talking to a you know a veteran of the of the u.s army said like yeah the idea that

00:22:37.480 that rural kids aren't capable of meeting certain challenges well they should see them on the

00:22:42.240 battlefield not just and not just in terms of combat right in terms of what they can make in terms of

00:22:47.700 what they can improvise so look i agree that our education system needs lots of work but it's

00:22:53.220 certain this is far from the case that americans uh that americans are entirely in need of remedial

00:23:00.720 education no we're we're pretty talented people right and you know again the way to put this might have

00:23:06.600 been like dei is terrible look at what dei is costing us around the country it's awful and we got to get

00:23:13.580 americans back in here and but that's and that's not the way they put it i i believe i again as i said

00:23:19.280 i don't know i would like to think i am hopeful that uh donald trump was making peace and also

00:23:26.120 perhaps nudging elon to be less uh to be less uh aggressive with with american voters with donald trump's

00:23:35.040 base and again so i'm hopeful that uh the president-elect soon to be president will will come around and

00:23:41.980 realize that this is a a big problem for the people who not only voted him voted for him but

00:23:48.200 many people who love him again that's who that's who this president uh as much as anyone owes the

00:23:54.580 american uh the american voter people you know donald trump donald trump when he said he took a bullet for

00:23:59.740 america that's correct but the the america there's lots of americans out there who are hurting and they

00:24:05.220 supported donald trump and so this is one thing that i always believed in whenever donald trump says yeah you

00:24:11.020 know they're coming after you but i'm just in the way and that's true but he should also embrace the

00:24:16.300 people who got in the way for him the people who supported him his voters this is these are the

00:24:21.780 january 6 defendants these are people who risked an awful lot some didn't even know how much they

00:24:26.480 were risking to support donald trump look at all the pro-life activists look at all the pta parents in

00:24:33.220 fact uh who were targeting for standing up for american values and american virtues those people are

00:24:39.440 donald trump supporters elon musk did not put donald trump in the white house yeah you couldn't

00:24:46.100 put it any any way better than you've put it lee i want to take one more quick break here when we come

00:24:50.500 back i want to take up your latest piece for tablet mag the deep state strikes back i want to get into

00:24:55.820 that i want to get into the transition team and i want to talk about uh some of these intel agencies and

00:25:00.580 america on the world stage um as we look forward now to uh just a about over a week until president

00:25:07.320 trump is back folks lee smith the book is disappearing the president trump truth social

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00:26:29.900 folks we're back we're talking with lee smith brilliant author the book

00:26:38.400 disappearing the president trump truth social and the fight for the republic get yourself a copy today

00:26:44.120 lee before we get into your latest for tablet mag we had mentioned dei in the last segment and i want

00:26:49.640 to give the audience an example of some of the dei of late in 2013 the los angeles department of fire

00:26:57.040 created a dei bureau and promoted their first black lesbian to weed out bigoted fire fighters on the

00:27:02.780 force they pay her four hundred thousand dollars a year as an assistant chief her name is christine

00:27:06.660 larson there you go there's one example we have another example the new la head of dwp which is the

00:27:13.020 department of water and power earns seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a yearly in in in

00:27:19.340 california uh a female by the name of jenise quinoas the man who had the job before her a man by the

00:27:27.100 name of marty adams who's a male made four hundred and forty seven thousand dollars a year doing the

00:27:32.540 same job now this is the woman who's responsible for making sure you ready how stupid this sounds lee but

00:27:38.260 this is real making sure there's water in the fire hydrants lee turns out the firemen went to

00:27:43.620 go turn on those of those fire hydrants last week during the fires and there was no water in there

00:27:50.000 how's that for dei lee well john this isn't just dei this goes back a long time and i know about this

00:27:56.440 because you know devin nunez whom i've written about former congressman as ceo of social he first came

00:28:01.980 to capitol hill i believe it was in 2002 election he first came to the hill um to fight the california

00:28:09.460 water wars because what's been going on the whole this whole garbage about the california la drought

00:28:14.380 the the you know the the water shortage there's no water shortage this is all it is policy right

00:28:20.540 there should be no problem with water anywhere in california because of the enormous ice pack in

00:28:26.920 the sierra nevada but they run off tons and tons of that water right and they say it's for

00:28:32.740 environmental reasons to protect different species but it's not it's a political instrument used to

00:28:39.560 target their political opponents or the economic base of their political opponents which is farmers

00:28:45.780 right that's what they're doing so that's part of the big thing here i think we need to you're absolutely

00:28:51.400 right about these dei hires but this needs to be seen in a bigger context what they're pushing down

00:28:57.580 the throat of californians right and the way they're rationalizing this is garbage there is no reason for

00:29:03.580 water shortages period never mind for the hydrants not to be filled but the idea that they can't you

00:29:09.480 know the idea that it costs so much money to water your lawn or do other or or or take a shower at

00:29:14.620 different times i mean it's absolutely preposterous so this is this is very bad and i you know i'm sure

00:29:20.220 you've seen as i have adam carolla talking about well all these people who voted blue and in la now

00:29:26.580 they're going to change their minds yeah i hope so but i doubt it and the reason i doubt it is because

00:29:32.840 what they have to do is then they have to turn against the politicians right who've been representing

00:29:38.180 them in their fight against the right right it's like none of them know that the water thing is is bs

00:29:46.360 yeah that it's bogus so uh you know so it's very it's very sad to see all the people it's horrible

00:29:52.420 see all the people who have uh who have lost their homes and uh it's the people who are voting it's

00:29:58.360 the people who are empowering the left finally who are responsible for this because they've empowered

00:30:02.420 they've empowered very sick uh and very damaged people to ruin the country

00:30:07.400 lee i've been saying i spoke with mark simone the other day on the shelf elections have consequences and

00:30:13.380 i don't mean to make this political by any means but when you have mayor karen bass who you could

00:30:17.820 have voted out of there last year and you decide to give her another chance uh you when you have

00:30:23.020 gavin newsom in there you have him as lieutenant governor for many years and you bring him on as

00:30:26.900 governor for two terms i mean what do you possibly think you're going to get lee um you know now all

00:30:32.380 of a sudden these hollywood elites they want to wake up because their houses are burning down

00:30:36.220 i'm sorry you're fine i don't i don't i don't think they're going to wake up how's that i don't think

00:30:41.240 they're going to wake up i mean and this is you know you look through the sweep of history this

00:30:46.300 is what happens people don't wake up so that that that that's how i see it thankfully most of the

00:30:52.760 thankfully most of the country uh or the majority of the country woke up in time this time to keep

00:30:58.920 kamala harris out of the white house but boy oh boy when you remember that she got over 70 million

00:31:04.840 votes and people are breathing easy i i i'm uh i i'd like to remind people like look uh we have a

00:31:12.380 very big problem here and it's it's it's um it's signaled by the fact that she won more than 70 million

00:31:18.000 votes and and very well she could have won uh she could have won the uh the white house the reason

00:31:24.160 i'm cautiously optimistic and i agree with you these idiots in hollywood these hollywood elites

00:31:28.160 probably aren't going to change but maybe they will behind the scenes the reason i'm cautiously

00:31:32.460 optimistic is because la for the first time got rid of gascone they brought in an independent uh

00:31:37.480 district attorney and president trump managed to pull uh change over a million votes in california

00:31:43.040 this election so now i know no other politicians are going to be able to ever do what president

00:31:47.160 trump did but you know what it's a step in the right direction and we could ask for these uh

00:31:51.560 useful idiots over there to get your head on straight um elections have consequences and this is a

00:31:57.340 consequence this is a consequence of an election this wasn't a natural disaster lee

00:32:02.400 this is completely preventable donald trump's been talking about it for years i want to turn to

00:32:07.080 before we run out of time here your latest piece for tablet mag the deep state strikes back a front

00:32:13.000 runner for a top white house intel job may be planning to run cover for the ic this according

00:32:19.400 to some sources yeah providing to uh tablet mag the folks there tabletmag.com you can check

00:32:25.540 all of lee smith's uh writings out there this fella who's allegedly going to head to the uh

00:32:32.380 the nsc adam howard working for mike turner's intel committee what can you tell us about

00:32:38.180 what we all suspected was going to happen some deep state plants were going to wiggle their way

00:32:44.060 into the administration to do exactly what they did in 2016 yeah i mean i think that's you know i mean

00:32:49.560 that's always going to be the case and that's what we saw in 2016 and they weren't prepared for it most

00:32:55.000 members of the trump team were not prepared for it during that transition my understanding is that this

00:32:59.900 transition is much smoother and they are looking to avoid the kind of um the kind of trouble that

00:33:06.180 they ran into last time and so this this piece was sourced to uh different you know congressional

00:33:12.020 and intelligent sources that uh brought to my attention that this is an issue of concern that this guy

00:33:18.080 who's coming in who's slated uh to to take this position he's not up for the he doesn't have it's not

00:33:25.360 just that he doesn't have the experience to do the job but uh but but that he he has worked along

00:33:31.340 his work to cover for the intelligence community some of the bad things that they've some of the bad

00:33:36.560 things that they've done um so i thought it was i i i i think people going in need to understand i think

00:33:43.640 uh a lot of the picks most of the picks that the you know the president-elect has chosen to lead

00:33:49.400 his national security team including national security advisor mike waltz are just terrific

00:33:53.740 they see the threats to our peace and prosperity the way that i do you know waltz uh waltz believes

00:34:01.240 the problem is china russia iran me too so it's great you look at people like mark rubio pete hegseth

00:34:08.460 these are really terrific people and um you know so i i think they're all great i hope that everyone is

00:34:14.560 is is more prepared than they were because and because first of all it's very i i should be watch what

00:34:21.180 i'm saying is it's very hard to prepare for it there is no way that people can actually prepare

00:34:26.200 for the way that the bureaucracies and the media will go to war with them this became very clear to

00:34:33.380 me when i was reporting plot against the president just the way that they will go after people i mean

00:34:38.800 it's just a swarm like you couldn't believe and even in washington people aren't accustomed to

00:34:43.440 fighting back like that so people are going to have to be prepared uh going in and this is all of

00:34:48.620 donald trump's cabinet and and you know john it's um we've been very fortunate since the november vote

00:34:57.000 that things have been relatively relatively calm right right that the you know the the we have not

00:35:03.600 seen the democrats democratic party media melt down over trump's election the way they did in 2016

00:35:09.200 but but i i do not think that this means that they're you know that they're rolling over i think

00:35:16.040 that we're going to see we're going to see a lot of the same stuff because there's some of the some

00:35:20.460 of trump's policies and initiatives go to the core of the left including open borders this is part of

00:35:27.680 their electoral strategy open borders right so the idea that trump wants to deport uh you know 10 20

00:35:34.800 million people even closing the borders that's going to be that that's a real rough issue there's a there's a

00:35:41.920 lot of rush rough issues election integrity all of these are going to touch on core progressive

00:35:48.740 democratic party concerns the first thing we have to do though lee is to get them confirmed and from

00:35:54.620 what we're hearing now uh some of these folks won't be confirmed for the first month or two uh heading

00:35:59.160 into this administration which scares me because that means you have some of these holdovers one in

00:36:04.400 particular that i'm worried about is is tulsi gabbard of the dni uh you know she needs to hit the ground

00:36:09.200 running um a guest i often have on the show his name is russ tice he's a former senior to say intel

00:36:14.940 analyst and he's a whistleblower blowing the whistle on the patriot act says that he thinks he's nervous

00:36:20.400 that tulsi is going to come in and they're going to dangle all sorts of shiny objects in front of her

00:36:25.140 and ooh and ah her and take her eye off the ball and and and that's when we're going to get some of

00:36:30.240 these people skating by under the radar uh do you suspect any sort of delay tactic the dems will try to do

00:36:37.580 to keep this going and and can the republicans do anything to to fight back against that so that

00:36:43.060 we do have these folks in the first week or two of trump's uh inauguration um well you know i mean

00:36:50.240 they're gonna they're gonna um they're gonna start hearings within the next couple weeks you know

00:36:54.860 you'll be the first uh the first batch you know uh uh hegseth i imagine we'll go early rubio

00:37:02.520 um i think cash patel by the end of by the end of january so the you know the the most important

00:37:10.320 national security officials i believe that they'll they'll be confirmed relatively relatively soon you

00:37:15.780 know there's the hearings and then there's that's only one part of the confirmation process so i think

00:37:20.860 that they've you know that they've gone to all the senators and they've done their uh you know they've

00:37:25.500 they've talked to the you know they've they've talked to the senators gop senators as well as

00:37:30.720 some democratic party senators so um no i i'm i'm i'm not that concerned that trump won't have the

00:37:38.920 people in place i mean look at that at some of that certainly not the principles but when you're

00:37:43.520 talking about the mid-level yeah yeah i don't know exactly i don't know exactly how many of those

00:37:48.120 people have gotten in but there's um or how many people have been you know how many people have been

00:37:53.680 hired i'd speak to people all the time is like yeah i'm looking at a job at state or looking at a job at

00:37:58.480 nsc and i haven't really heard anything yet so yeah i hope those people come through too because

00:38:03.080 those are those are very important positions these are the people who are you know we see it as in

00:38:08.400 terms of carrying paper but that's that's the work of the bureaucracy that's what they're doing

00:38:13.140 that's what policy is it's the work of the bureaucracy so i'm hopeful that those people uh that those

00:38:19.600 people and these are not senate most of these are not senate confirmable positions but you know we

00:38:24.560 want to see them come in as soon as possible and and uh get to work serve americans uh implement

00:38:30.280 the president's policies i've submitted my resume in an application for the chief of retribution i

00:38:35.560 still haven't heard back oh that's that that would be good for you i don't think i'm going to get the

00:38:40.120 job but i achieve retribution then you got to shave your beard into a full man too john i don't grow

00:38:48.180 enough facial hair to do so i'm already struggling with this one lee all right you're ready to make me look

00:38:52.380 bad uh before we wrap up here i know you're strapped on time i just want to get to real quick

00:38:57.400 the world the united states on the world stage now as we look forward it's been an embarrassment for

00:39:03.260 the last four years there's no doubt about it here's an image lee from uh the uh funeral processions

00:39:09.480 of jimmy carter on the left hand side for everyone who's joining us on video you can see this it's a

00:39:14.100 tale of two presidents on the left hand side you've got joe biden and you've got justin trudeau

00:39:18.520 with his head down laughing at biden as he walks in and then you look as donald trump comes and

00:39:23.660 takes a seat and justin trudeau looks like uh he's just wet his pants um with the royal family

00:39:30.900 i mean it's unbelievable i've never seen i've never seen a world leader hazed and heckled the way that

00:39:41.140 trump has gone after justin trudeau and most of it's pretty good spirited i mean donald trump's a pretty

00:39:47.480 funny guy he's really he's really you know really laid into him i think a lot of what he i think it's

00:39:53.740 a lot of what trump has been saying that shook trudeau out of the uh the premiership or is shaking

00:39:59.440 him out of the premiership in in uh in canada but a lot of the stuff that donald trump has said

00:40:04.480 i mean look remember the different things that he said he said that if the hostages are not released

00:40:11.200 in gaza by january by my inauguration there's going to be all help to pay that's very serious

00:40:16.520 different people should be taking that seriously uh whether we're talking about the iranians whether

00:40:21.700 we're talking about qatar whether we're talking about the palestinian factions like hamas so also

00:40:27.560 when donald trump is warning the chinese about uh about pushing fentanyl across our borders saying i'm

00:40:33.700 going to tear a few this much so no he's i think he's gotten off on a very um uh very strong very strong

00:40:41.820 footing and in terms of in terms of foreign policy and of course you know some of the stuff is

00:40:46.780 some of the stuff seems fantastic like greenland why greenland and people have explained to me

00:40:52.040 saying well there's a lot of resources including uh you know including rare earth minerals and um

00:40:57.880 so no i think it's a leader on the world stage it's very impressive and john and underscores the fact

00:41:04.320 that when donald trump says america first there are lots of people including some very famous people

00:41:10.000 uh who have uh you know uh who have a lot of media reach who believe that america first means oh no

00:41:16.920 no we're we're isolationists we're just gonna stay at home and just stare at ourselves and and and do

00:41:22.780 that for four years no that's not what donald trump means by america first he means that we're not going

00:41:28.120 to go looking we're not going to go scouring the world for trouble anyone messes with us we're gonna you

00:41:33.340 we're gonna give them what four but what america first means is uh america masters the world not

00:41:39.900 withdrawals from it but masters it so this is what the greenland stuff means this is what the panama

00:41:45.040 canal saying the panamanians have been messing around a little they're letting the chinese tens of

00:41:50.820 thousands of chinese troops down there causing american shipping american commerce a lot of trouble so

00:41:57.220 this is all very good the united states is a global power right a bi-coastal power with interest on the

00:42:04.080 atlantic and interest on the pacific that's what makes it a very wealthy and very powerful country

00:42:09.840 so you know and donald trump is keen to uh again to ensure america's peace and to advance our prosperity

00:42:18.900 and what that means is being a strong figure on the world stage you mentioned two things also a lot of

00:42:26.060 things that people aren't mentioning about the geographical location of greenland uh just over

00:42:30.920 the cap it's about a six hour flight over to russia and i said this somebody earlier in the sea if we go

00:42:35.500 to war over the next four years or eight years or whatever the distance is and we have greenland

00:42:39.820 the war is going to be with iran if it's a war with iran it's a proxy war with china and russia as well

00:42:45.660 most likely if we go to war with north korea it's probably with russia and china as well so russia and china

00:42:52.940 if we go to war with china it's with china and russia if we go to russia war with russia it's

00:42:56.460 with russia and china most likely is the way that the the it's looking right now so to have a six hour

00:43:03.100 flight from uh from greenland over the cap to russia i think it's very strategic as well as ships and

00:43:10.420 everything else that we'll be keeping on greenland aside from the mcdonald's that donald trump will

00:43:14.620 probably build on greenland i i i wonder how much you know how much beachfront property there is

00:43:21.720 right now so i'm talking i'm talking to people already it's like yeah man let's let's buy let's

00:43:26.720 buy some condos in greenland yeah you know they'll be worth a lot more if you know if trump winds up

00:43:32.540 buying it so if anyone wants to go in on a timeshare in greenland please reach me through the great

00:43:39.020 america show hey i'll give you lee's cell phone number right now just give me yeah so if you're

00:43:44.760 if you're interested in a place in greenland i mean you know why not yeah you didn't mention it's

00:43:51.180 it's it is beachfront lakefront property good for everyone who knows i don't know i gotta look up

00:43:55.300 more closely at a map but the other thing you mentioned lee and i want to wrap up with this is

00:44:00.360 the border and the fentanyl fight another thing i say very often the show i spoke with colonel doug

00:44:04.880 mcgregor about it we're so happy to go fight wars overseas for the last a quarter century last

00:44:10.520 century going over afghanistan going iraq going all these places we don't belong that we have no

00:44:15.260 business invading um we have a war at our southern borderly that we can fight right here at home and

00:44:21.960 we can it's the it's the first war we'll win in a very very very long time and if it means using

00:44:27.740 military presence that's fine i'm i'm more than happy uh just to have our military on our grounds

00:44:33.840 than sending them overseas to go fight somebody else's war in ukraine or or in uh israel or iran

00:44:40.260 or wherever you guys wherever our military leaders want to send them um you know i'm not in favor of

00:44:45.140 sending them anywhere but if it's at our southern border on our soil i think that's a war that we

00:44:49.720 could win and it'll be the first victory we can claim in a very long time your thoughts as we wrap

00:44:54.680 up here lee well i i mean for for me you know people are are talking about what are we going to do

00:45:00.700 the borderline well how about just close the border right i mean it's pretty it's pretty simple

00:45:06.160 solution as far as i'm concerned but of course people are still living off the fumes of the joe

00:45:11.500 biden administration where there's all this confusion no we can't close the border we need

00:45:16.440 legislation and bipartisan it's like no you just closed the border that's it right and if they're you

00:45:22.300 know the deportation operation is something else but but insofar as now people cross the border no just

00:45:27.820 just close the border that's it well i'm thinking of the drug your drug aspect of the fentanyl and

00:45:32.480 the drug factories pouring on close the border close the border and anyone who tries to come

00:45:38.080 through then that's something else i'm you look i i don't know i mean there are people i'm sure

00:45:41.740 there's all sorts of planning for this like how how deep do they want to go into mexican territory and

00:45:46.660 we know of you know intelligence work being done in mexico regarding the cartels um you know but again

00:45:53.780 right now i i think it's safe to say uh i'd like to see donald trump's first two acts on january

00:46:00.660 20 january 20th to be one shut the border shut it and uh two um pardon all non-violent j6 defenders

00:46:11.740 those are the two things that i that i i think would be just phenomenally awesome and really set the tone

00:46:17.780 and easy enough to do right oh yeah i said no i probably know i promised i was the last question

00:46:23.500 but i finally just figured something we disagree on the non-violent issue that we that we hear people

00:46:28.220 saying about not pardoning them the issue i see with that lee is by not pardoning these folks as well

00:46:33.220 as so many people and you know this better than anybody we're overcharged so if you if you went

00:46:37.820 through a door that was closed maybe you're considered a violent protester if you stole nancy

00:46:41.660 pelosi's lectern or you put your feet on maybe that's considered a violent protester so how do you

00:46:46.780 distinguish the two because this government is overcharged well well i well i'd like to think i

00:46:52.860 and i don't know but i'd like to think that right now there's a whole bunch of people on the trump

00:46:57.420 transition team not a whole bunch but at least one person is going through all these cases i mean

00:47:02.080 donald trump is you know donald trump has been very attentive to the uh to the to the different

00:47:07.280 problems with j6 families and stuff like that so i'd like to think there are people around who are

00:47:12.040 looking at that and saying we got to make that we got to change that person's life for the better

00:47:15.840 on january 2020 if that person has to has to get out so again i don't have any actual uh insight

00:47:23.880 into that but i i'd like to think that's happening i'd like to think that this would be one of

00:47:29.500 uh donald trump as president one of his one of his first acts yeah i say pardon them all and let the

00:47:37.040 democrats cry about it and let them know they can never do this again on american soil this act of

00:47:41.320 terrorism they've done to these folks for the last i mean four years it's absolutely disgusting

00:47:45.960 lee smith we thank you so much for joining us today folks the book disappearing the president

00:47:50.660 trump truth social and the fight for the republic you can get it at amazon.com barnes and noble.com

00:47:56.180 encounter books.com wherever you folks get your books lee smith thank you so much for joining us

00:48:00.800 today it's always a pleasure and always an honor to speak with you thank you john fawcett a great as

00:48:05.360 always to speak to you too and happy new year to you and your family lee thanks man you too bye

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The Great America Show - January 17, 2025

CAN TRUMP PUT AN END TO THE DEEP STATE ONCE AND FOR ALL？

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