The Great America Show - February 22, 2022


CHANG SAYS BIDEN MAKING OBAMA MISTAKES; TUBERVILLE WARNS BIDEN THREATENS WORLD


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 4 minutes

Words per Minute

154.4211

Word Count

9,972

Sentence Count

630

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

38


Summary

Many of us spent some time over our weekends over the weekends watching, reading, or listening to primarily corporate media for the latest news or propaganda coming out of Ukraine or Germany from the Munich Security Conference. With Russia threatening to invade Ukraine, the conference was well-timed, to say the least, and featured speeches by Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Meanwhile, with the Russian invasion forces now only a few miles from the Ukraine border, we hear from the White House that President Biden has agreed, in principle, to meet with Vladimir Putin at a summit with French President Macron. There is a catch, however, however: President Biden will meet with Putin only if he hasn t invaded Ukraine by Thursday.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great America Podcast with Lou Dobbs,
00:00:04.200 always in the fight for truth, justice, and yes, our American way of life.
00:00:09.220 And now, here he is, the Peabody award-winning voice of truth, the great Lou Dobbs.
00:00:14.380 Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Great America Show. Delighted to have you with us
00:00:18.800 and grateful for the time you spend with us. Many of us spent some time over our weekends
00:00:24.560 watching, reading, listening to primarily corporate media for the latest news or even
00:00:30.680 propaganda coming out of Ukraine or out of Germany from the Munich Security Conference.
00:00:36.840 The Munich Conference is an annual affair usually well-attended by important or just self-important
00:00:43.280 government officials and leaders. With Russia threatening to invade Ukraine, the conference
00:00:48.820 was well-timed, to say the least, and featured speeches by Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky
00:00:56.920 and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Zelensky used his speech to gently skewer the feckless
00:01:04.220 Europeans and the United States for their illogic in refusing to sanction Russia for even the threat
00:01:12.080 of invading his country, waiting instead until after the invasion of it does indeed take place
00:01:19.720 to sanction Russia. Zelensky implored the West to do more. He alone seemed to understand full well
00:01:27.920 the only effective deterrent against totalitarian nations and their leaders is force, raising the
00:01:35.220 price of pursuing their ambitions and aggression to unacceptably painful and costly
00:01:41.960 levels. It was clear to all that Europe has no appetite to respond meaningfully to
00:01:47.840 Putin, with the exception of Vice President Harris, who took the stage to declare her
00:01:54.080 confidence that the U.S. sanctions would work, would actually stop Putin from invading
00:02:00.000 Ukraine. The audience was stunned after she and Biden had declared previously that Putin's
00:02:08.460 invasion is imminent. The audience, still stunned, but now cringing at yet another display of the
00:02:16.220 Vice President's inexperience, lack of knowledge, or worse. Meanwhile, with the Russian invasion
00:02:22.800 forces now only a few miles from the Ukraine border, we hear from the White House that President
00:02:28.300 Biden has agreed, in principle only, mind you, to meet with Vladimir Putin at a summit with French
00:02:35.440 President Macron. There is a catch, however. President Biden will meet with Putin only if he hasn't invaded
00:02:44.260 Ukraine by Thursday. I've heard a lot of interesting conditions preceded in my career, but I have to tell
00:02:53.240 you, this is one of the most absurd. A peace summit, but only if there isn't war. Quite remarkable by any
00:03:02.260 standard. Against that backdrop, the Communist Chinese announced they will buy 100 million metric tons of
00:03:09.080 Russian coal, that they will be a fully supportive partner in their new strategic alliance with Russia,
00:03:15.840 announced in just the first few days of the Beijing Olympics. Russia and China, a formidable bloc, a formidable
00:03:23.780 foe geopolitically and militarily. With us now, one of the brightest geopolitical analysts, I think the preeminent
00:03:31.320 national security analyst, Gordon Chang. A great American, and we appreciate, Gordon, you being with us
00:03:37.480 to go through all that is swirling in Moscow and Kiev and Beijing and Washington. Hello, Gordon.
00:03:46.580 Hello, Lou, and thank you so much.
00:03:49.300 Well, it's great of you to take time to be with us, and we have much to talk about. Let's start first with
00:03:54.340 the White House offer in principle, mind you, in principle only, to meet with Putin and French
00:04:03.720 President Macron at a peace summit to be held Thursday, ostensibly at least. What do you make
00:04:11.860 of it? And the immediate response from the Kremlin saying that they, as of this moment, there is no
00:04:17.700 such plan. What is going on? Yeah, I don't know, Lou, but when I first heard of this, I thought of
00:04:24.840 Munich in 1938, when you had Neville Chamberlain going to the Third Reich to talk to Herr Hitler.
00:04:33.240 There's a whiff of, maybe even a stench of appeasement here. I think that the President of the United
00:04:40.300 States knows enough. He's talked to Putin enough. They had their video conference just a few days ago.
00:04:46.440 I think at this point, it's important for the United States to state its position and to impose
00:04:52.160 those sanctions that it has been talking about. Because, you know, when Biden says that an invasion
00:04:58.420 will occur, then it means that we need to put the sanctions on. We don't need to wait after people
00:05:05.300 are being killed. And so, therefore, I think that essentially the Biden team has got things
00:05:10.480 backwards, and there are going to be horrible consequences for this misguided approach
00:05:16.240 to Putin. When Zelensky, President Zelensky of Ukraine, stands before the Munich Security
00:05:23.740 Conference and basically calls out, not basically, he did, he called everyone out, the United States,
00:05:30.800 Europe, NATO, and said, what are you doing? I need sanctions now, not after, you know, we are,
00:05:37.320 you know, a devastated heap of brick and smoldering wood across Ukraine. He makes all the sense in the
00:05:47.340 world. And frankly, the powers, NATO, the European Union, and the United States look like absolute fools.
00:05:56.160 Yes. And you got to remember that there's something called the Budapest Memorandum signed in 1994
00:06:04.380 by the United States, Russia, Great Britain, and Ukraine, in which all of us agreed not to violate
00:06:12.680 Ukraine's borders. Well, Russia's already done that. In 2014, during the Obama administration,
00:06:18.600 when someone named Biden was vice president, Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine. He also took Donbass,
00:06:26.320 the eastern portion of Ukraine. And that's a violation of the Budapest Memorandum. When we
00:06:32.640 signed that, and we got substantial benefits by signing it, Lou, because we got Ukraine to give up
00:06:38.240 its nuclear arsenal. The United States gave assurances to Ukraine that we would impose costs
00:06:44.480 on Russia, and we would prevent the Russians from dismembering Ukraine. Now, this already occurred.
00:06:50.960 This is not just like 2022 is the first event in history. And so Biden needs to remember that the
00:06:57.680 United States made a solemn commitment. This solemn commitment resulted in great benefits for the
00:07:02.920 United States. And it's now our part to keep our word. Yes, and we're only eight years tardy
00:07:11.640 in doing so. Because the Obama administration, whether it is the Budapest Memorandum, whether it
00:07:20.860 is the Monroe Doctrine, they effectively made all of those inoperable, because they didn't in any way
00:07:29.040 adhere to the agreements or to the traditions of U.S. influence and its traditional role in European
00:07:40.580 security. They sound fatuous at these conferences. They look silly as they jet about doing some
00:07:49.800 version of shuttle. I don't know if you'd call it shuttle diplomacy or if it's just simply they're
00:07:55.120 all jet lagged and don't know where their next destination is. Putin, meanwhile, sits at the Kremlin
00:08:02.100 and the long table and waves, you know, at his troops that are now ready to go in, you know,
00:08:12.580 full steam ahead. I just cannot understand why the United States has been so meek, the Europeans so
00:08:19.600 effete. And because they've done this before and you and you refer to it. 1938, 1939.
00:08:27.800 1989. Appeasement, appeasement, appeasement. You just don't do that in response to totalitarian
00:08:35.740 demands or aggressions.
00:08:38.180 Yes. And we got to remember that Biden actually talked to Putin last year. And after that,
00:08:44.600 the United States started to slow walk a number of security measures, some of them involving Ukraine.
00:08:50.420 And that, I think, signaled to Putin that the Biden administration was not going to effectively
00:08:55.880 oppose him. What's occurred is that if you look back at the Trump administration, there were many
00:09:02.860 critics of Trump-Russia policy. But as we looked at this in context, what we see is that President
00:09:10.640 Trump kept the peace. He kept everyone out of war. He deterred Vladimir Putin. What we are seeing now,
00:09:18.900 according to the Biden administration, which says that Russia will invade, is the complete failure
00:09:24.000 of deterrence in the Biden term. And this is very, very much reminiscent of Obama policies toward Putin.
00:09:33.920 So we've got an approach that is now being used by the White House, which hasn't worked. And I think
00:09:40.280 they need to go back to the Trump playbook to see what can. Though, of course, at this point,
00:09:45.680 it's a very late date. And I think a spiral has occurred. And that spiral will involve not just
00:09:51.900 conflict in Eastern Europe, but the Chinese are looking at this very closely. And I think that
00:09:57.740 they are going to become even more aggressive and provocative along their Southern and Eastern
00:10:02.480 peripheries.
00:10:03.280 I'm going to approach this, if I may, with just a question that's the inverse of what everyone at
00:10:13.400 Munich were talking about. Where does Putin stop if he does invade Ukraine? Because I don't see any
00:10:24.560 reason for him to stop. Quite literally, all of Europe is before him and within his grasp if he is not
00:10:32.400 met on the borders of Ukraine. Absolutely right. You know, we go back to 2008. And George W. Bush allowed
00:10:43.620 Putin to break apart Georgia. That was a lesson that Putin took when he then broke apart Ukraine in
00:10:49.920 2014. It's clear that if Putin takes Ukraine, he's not going to stop. He wants the Baltics. He's been
00:10:57.920 very clear about that. The three Baltic republics are part of NATO. And that sets up a conflict with
00:11:04.380 the United States because of our obligations to guarantee the sovereignty and the borders
00:11:09.460 of all NATO states. So you're absolutely right. Putin looks at his near abroad, as he calls it,
00:11:17.120 and he could move all the way to the Atlantic. I don't think that he would do that. But nonetheless,
00:11:23.220 there have been a lot of events recently in Europe that I thought were incomprehensible just a couple
00:11:28.560 months ago. And what has been incomprehensible has now turned probable.
00:11:34.440 I've been talking about what is a de facto annexation that is already in place. And I will tell you,
00:11:41.780 I remain skeptical that Putin will go in to Ukraine. But you have to take the man at his word. That is his
00:11:51.420 obvious intent. But right now, with 30,000-plus Russian troops in Belarus, with brigades in Moldova,
00:12:03.740 we're looking at an encirclement here that is all but complete. It's certainly complete on Ukraine's
00:12:12.140 easternmost borders. What in the world has been had the NATO alliance or President Biden recently bragging
00:12:22.000 recently, Friday's news conference, if that's what it was, saying basically that, you know,
00:12:30.140 whatever you want, you can have, because we're just not going to play this time. I mean, he bragged
00:12:39.040 about the, I think he put it, significant intelligence capability, which is how he knew
00:12:45.200 there was an imminent invasion, and spoke of it endlessly last week, and it continues this week.
00:12:52.260 What in the world, a significant intelligence capability would have had this country on its
00:12:59.480 forward feet to deal with it years ago? Where has the intelligence community been?
00:13:06.740 Yes. And to that question, we should ask, where was the intel community on Afghanistan?
00:13:14.000 Clearly, the Biden team did not think Afghanistan would collapse in such a short period. And there
00:13:21.420 also was not only a failure of intelligence, but it was also a failure of the Biden team to understand
00:13:28.380 intelligence, to look at the situation, and of course, to put this in the context of history.
00:13:33.300 That failure has emboldened the Chinese. And we don't have to speculate, Lou, because we see what
00:13:39.480 China said as Afghanistan was falling. And we can see what Putin is doing right now, which I think is
00:13:45.780 a direct result of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. So we have a foreign policy, which
00:13:52.140 is in collapse. And Americans got to understand, this is not something that is happening in just Europe,
00:13:58.900 because if Putin invades, and when Biden then imposes the sanctions, it's clear that Putin is
00:14:07.280 going to again, cyber attack the United States. And Neuberger, the direct, the deputy national security
00:14:14.120 advisor was talking about this about three or four days ago. And even in peace times, the Russians hacked
00:14:20.080 the colonial pipeline. This time, they'll probably go after the grid. This gets serious. And by the way,
00:14:27.920 hey, Lou, Russia at this moment is involved in a nuclear weapons exercise. So it's clear that that's
00:14:35.120 a message not only to Ukraine, not only to NATO, but to the United States and the international
00:14:40.700 community. No scenarios can be kept off the table at this time.
00:14:46.020 And do you know what should be very clear to Putin? That he is conducting nuclear exercises. And that
00:14:51.640 includes the launch of missiles. And I assume there will be a hypersonic missile launch, just as he did
00:14:58.900 last year. Within that, he's sent aircraft with hypersonic missiles through the Mediterranean,
00:15:09.080 the skies over the Mediterranean, to display his power. But what is, to me, formidably
00:15:17.380 very present, is that the United States did not take our nuclear defenses to any higher level of
00:15:26.480 alert. There's no DEFCON increase here to suggest that we're taking them seriously. None by the
00:15:36.820 Europeans. This is really troubling that he can get this far with his aggressive moves and with his
00:15:44.260 obvious stated ambitions. Again, I see no limit to what the man is doing right now, because we have
00:15:53.580 a weak, a feeble leader who is so far out of his depth and capacity, physically and mentally,
00:16:03.200 that I am dreading the possibilities.
00:16:08.880 Yeah. Remember when Putin, I'm sorry, when Biden went to Europe for his trip, attending various
00:16:17.800 conferences, he landed at an RAF base in England, and talked about how climate change was the world's
00:16:25.720 number one national security threat. This is a person who just does not understand the world. And I
00:16:32.900 absolutely agree with you, the United States should be taking its military forces around the world to
00:16:38.520 higher levels of readiness. Because at this particular time, it's not just the problems in
00:16:44.120 Europe, but we can also see problems in Asia, which means that we are now at the stage where we have to
00:16:50.760 deter not just an invasion of Ukraine, but the start of global conflict.
00:16:55.660 So what are we to make of the de facto annexation of Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, are right there for
00:17:05.100 all Putin has to do is just simply reach out in there. It is, again, a de facto annexation.
00:17:12.600 Moldova, the same situation, Russian troops present, they're not leaving. This is without question,
00:17:19.820 an expansion, a westward expansion of Russia, an extension of its borders, and there is no limit
00:17:28.320 right now. What is the United States to do? The first thing is that as President Biden has talked
00:17:36.000 about a series of sanctions, if there were an invasion, those sanctions should be put in place
00:17:41.340 immediately. Biden himself said that Putin has made the decision to invade. Well, if that's the way the
00:17:48.600 president feels, then why are we waiting to impose a sanction? So that's the first thing.
00:17:54.960 I think Zelensky had that right about if you're going to do it. What I think he has wrong and what
00:18:01.820 I think Biden has wrong, and indeed the European Union, along with the United States, sanctions do
00:18:10.360 not hurt Vladimir Putin. Sanctions do not deter Vladimir Putin. And the alliance that has been
00:18:17.780 created between China and Russia means that no matter what the United States does, Russia will have
00:18:25.320 access to financial markets, to commercial banking, to all of the natural resources they need, 100
00:18:33.100 million metric tons of coal. They're already buying huge amounts of coal from Russia. It goes on.
00:18:41.940 And if Russia needs financing, who better to go to than the Chinese? This idea of sanctions is so
00:18:51.040 outmoded, so ineffective that it's impossible for us to think that this will in any way be a replacement or
00:19:05.680 supersede the need for force, because it just will not. Yeah, I agree with you. Sanctions are part of
00:19:14.320 an integrated program. And also, we've never imposed... Wait, wait, wait. I'm sorry. Let me interrupt.
00:19:21.240 Integrated with what? This administration can't carry more than one idea at a time in its portfolio
00:19:28.580 that it, when it goes into a diplomatic meeting. But this is a hapless group, and we've got to be
00:19:35.960 honest about it. And the threats, the geopolitical threats, I think, Gordon, make it all the more
00:19:41.060 important that we be candid, we be honest, we be straightforward about our limitations, our
00:19:45.280 inability, our incapacities, as well as our capacities. Yeah. The second part of that would be,
00:19:53.600 as you were talking about, is going after China, because China's made it very clear that they are
00:19:58.840 supporting Putin. Matter of fact, Putin got a big green light on February 4th, when he met with Xi
00:20:04.240 Jinping just before the opening ceremony of the Olympics, and where they issued that very long
00:20:10.380 communique, which made it clear that they had what they called a no-limits partnership, where no area
00:20:16.460 of cooperation was forbidden, was stronger than an alliance. But more important, Putin announced 117,
00:20:23.600 0.5 billion dollars in oil and gas sales to China. And when you now add, as you just talked about,
00:20:31.060 the 100 million metric tons of coal, in addition to all their existing economic relations, we have to
00:20:38.160 understand that we're facing not just Russia, we are facing a block of Russia and China. For our own
00:20:45.200 reasons, because of what China is doing to attack the United States, we should be cutting our economic
00:20:50.100 ties with China. We should be cutting our technical cooperation, investment, and all the rest of it,
00:20:56.160 because China is trying to destroy the United States, which of course is another conversation.
00:21:01.820 But the point is, as you say, the Biden team needs to see this in the broader context of a Russia and
00:21:08.580 China partnership that is intending to end peace and stability as we know it, to get rid of the
00:21:15.900 Westphalian international order and replace it with their rule. And that means this is going to be a
00:21:21.840 world which resembles the dark ages. We cannot permit that, and the Biden team doesn't see the challenge.
00:21:28.460 Yeah. Well, going back to 400 to 600 AD is unacceptable for the United States, and it should be for all of our
00:21:39.100 allies. The dark ages you speak of are already, I mean, we're seeing a dimming of the light in this
00:21:48.560 country and Canada. We're seeing totalitarian assert itself in world leaders, whether they're in the
00:21:56.480 European Union, whether it's Prime Minister Trudeau in Canada, or President Biden in the United States
00:22:04.000 and his administration that is so committed to Marxist initiatives and policies. We have to
00:22:12.740 understand that we have a significant threat within this country right now, the presence of communist
00:22:20.840 Chinese front companies, agents, and in our universities to our very government. And we've got
00:22:29.460 to deal with that reality. And there seems to be this insistence on denial that could be fatal to this
00:22:37.880 country. And in addition to all that, Lou, we've got the self-hatred, which is being promoted by
00:22:45.580 President Biden. On his first day in office, he issued his executive order on xenophobia,
00:22:51.260 which is, and he's done, issued similar orders, and authorized similar acts since then, which is,
00:23:02.120 to me, you can't hate the country that you are elected to lead. And that is exactly what Biden is
00:23:10.660 doing. And he is not defending ourselves from the Chinese. China has made it very clear that they
00:23:18.680 intend to overthrow the government of the United States. And Biden is not willing to see that.
00:23:24.620 And so therefore, he's not willing to take the measures that are necessary to protect the American
00:23:28.680 Republic. His first obligation as president, it's over all others, is to defend the United States
00:23:35.640 from foreign attack. And Biden has decided not to do that. If he doesn't want to do that, that's fine.
00:23:41.460 But he shouldn't be in the Oval Office. If he's going to stay in the Oval Office, he needs to defend
00:23:46.340 America. He's not been doing that. And he's been doing it, it's very clear now, with your analysis,
00:23:55.060 the reporting of a host of terrific authors, Peter Schweizer, I think, chief among them,
00:24:03.940 talking about the money that the Biden families receive from Chinese interests, the association
00:24:09.600 with top Chinese intelligence officers, and of course, his good friend, President Xi,
00:24:16.820 President Biden's good friend. It is deeply troubling. And to watch the relationship between
00:24:21.920 Wall Street, where you see almost daily, the invitation and promotion by Wall Street firms
00:24:28.760 to send your investment dollars to China, for crying out loud. Each company aligned with,
00:24:37.500 if not a part of the PLA and the Chinese government. It is ridiculous, the level of
00:24:46.540 just denial in this country about what is happening before our very eyes.
00:24:53.060 Absolutely. What we see is, for instance, Ray Dalio, prominent hedge fund investor,
00:24:59.500 talk up China, say that the United States is finished. These are the leading voices on Wall Street
00:25:06.060 right now. And he's by no means the only one. We see in the financial community, people like Charlie
00:25:12.240 Munger saying what great things the Communist Party has been doing. This is just wrong. And the American
00:25:18.660 people understand this. We have an election coming up in November, which is critical, because we could
00:25:24.140 lose our country. And we've got an election coming up in 2024. We've got to take back our country from
00:25:30.740 elements here who have been totally corrupted by Communist China. And by the way, since we're
00:25:37.380 talking about Hunter Biden and the great work that Peter Schweitzer has been doing, let's remember that
00:25:42.980 Hunter Biden, by his own admission, is a troubled individual. He's been on Chinese soil. And if he's
00:25:49.320 ever engaged in a compromising act, China's Ministry of State Security will have evidence of that. And the thing
00:25:56.500 that I'm concerned about most, Lou, is that China will use blackmail against the President of the United
00:26:04.180 States relating to the conduct of his son. And that we may never know about. So it is not just the money
00:26:11.120 trail. It's also what Hunter Biden probably did inside China. It's interesting, too, that the Democratic Party
00:26:20.200 has not taken responsibility or own ownership of of the Biden presidency, because to put forward such a
00:26:29.840 weak and tired and for all I know, ill person. He is a man of no energy. He is a man incapable of
00:26:40.260 finishing sentences. He is a man incapable of a demanding schedule. And we are now facing a
00:26:49.480 severe test, I believe, for this country. And we have a, you know, Donald Rumsfeld used to say,
00:26:55.760 you go to war with the army you have, not the one you necessarily want. The same can be said of
00:27:02.920 commanders in chief. Certainly, this is not the commander in chief that I would choose if we are
00:27:08.900 to go to war. And frankly, the generals and the admirals of the Pentagon, I mean, they are such
00:27:14.320 colossal failures and inept bureaucrats before they are warriors. It's we are in a terrible, terrible state
00:27:23.780 in this country. And it's because we continue to refuse to see what's before us. Milley, the chairman of
00:27:33.100 the Joint Chiefs of Staff, going to China, calling China up his counterparts to say, you know, President
00:27:42.120 Trump just might launch an attack. But if but if he does, you'll be the first I call said the chief
00:27:49.480 military advisor to the President of the United States. And there is no consequence except other
00:27:55.720 than for him to also now be the chief advisor to Joe Biden. Your thoughts? Yeah, what General Milley did
00:28:03.660 was treasonous. Remember, it's it's also we've got a Constitution, which if someone like Milley believes that
00:28:12.120 the President of the United States is not capable of serving as commander in chief, there's a constitutional
00:28:17.440 provision. Milley decided that he was going to abrogate the Constitution. Also, what Milley did, I think, apart
00:28:25.320 from the constitutional issues and apart from the treason of all of this, it was extremely ill advised
00:28:32.000 because I think that it hurt the United States with regard to China, because Milley did not
00:28:38.660 understand the effect of his words on China, which is a whole nother conversation. But obviously, that's
00:28:44.980 a minor issue in comparison to the constitutional issues that Milley's conduct raised. And he should not
00:28:51.240 be serving as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And by the way, Lou, while we're on that topic,
00:28:56.980 we do have a military which now is not effective. It is now we've seen what Biden has done to
00:29:04.500 undermine our ability to wage wars. This is a serious issue. We don't have the military that we did four
00:29:11.980 years ago. Yeah, the only person I've seen be held accountable for anything was the Marine Lieutenant
00:29:18.760 colonel who wanted accountability on the part of his superiors for the disaster that was Afghanistan.
00:29:25.000 We have seen no one held to account. We've seen the Army produce a report that laid the blame
00:29:32.280 squarely on a White House that was indecisive and contradictory in its orders and requests of the
00:29:41.780 military in that surrender. I call it a surrender because it was more surrender than withdrawal.
00:29:48.120 And they they couldn't even get that right. So we are in we're in one heck of a position
00:29:56.120 historically. I don't know that there's ever been a point in the United States in U.S. history,
00:30:01.740 in modern U.S. history, in which our military, our civilian leadership has been more suspect in terms
00:30:08.740 of its capacity, its intelligence, its commitment to this nation. And it's straightforwardly there again,
00:30:16.440 staring us straight in the face and our politicians are not responding to it because they are part of
00:30:23.100 the same malaise that grips the civilian and military leadership in this country.
00:30:31.400 Absolutely, Lou. You know, people used to say or still say that Biden's the worst president in U.S.
00:30:38.300 history. And I always said, oh, no, no, you don't know. James Buchanan is definitely the worst.
00:30:44.200 I'm starting to change my view about that. I think Biden is actually worse than James Buchanan
00:30:48.600 because this is someone at least James Buchanan loved the United States.
00:30:55.460 I'm not sure about Biden and the way that he has acted and the way that he has governed.
00:31:01.400 It is just indescribable.
00:31:05.920 It truly is. I want to turn very quickly to what should be our response to the Chinese as part of
00:31:15.500 the axis between Moscow and Beijing. What should be our posture, our reaction? And why don't we have
00:31:26.420 a doctrine that is publicly available so that we know what our military will do given certain
00:31:33.420 specific threats? Because it's the first time that I know of that we have a seriously
00:31:38.980 challenged military. You have to go back to the era of the Soviet Union to find anything approaching
00:31:48.280 this level of threat. And yet we knew what the doctrine was, whether it be nuclear, whether it
00:31:55.340 be conventional weapons, we know nothing about what the military is planning, our national
00:32:02.260 security apparatus, what it's planning and thinking.
00:32:06.560 My context for all of this is that apart from Ukraine and apart from China's relations with
00:32:13.280 Moscow, the United States needs to end trade, end investment, and end technical cooperation
00:32:20.400 with China for reasons that China has been attacking the United States. And that it's been
00:32:25.940 attacking with coronavirus, with fentanyl, with the theft of our intellectual property across the
00:32:31.920 board. But just in the context of Ukraine, I believe that the president of the United States
00:32:38.200 must state publicly that it will hold China accountable the same way it holds Russia accountable
00:32:44.620 for whatever Russia does in Eastern Europe. China has made it very clear that they're backing
00:32:50.260 Putin to the hilt. They are not only rhetorically, but also we see, of course, with these oil and gas
00:32:58.020 and coal deals, it's time for the United States to make that plain in public that we do hold China
00:33:06.200 accountable for Russia's actions. I think that to hold China accountable for Russia's actions, we first have
00:33:15.420 to hold China accountable for its actions. Remember, five million people have been killed by the China
00:33:22.260 virus. We have governments all over the world who refuse to call it a China virus or the Wuhan virus, although
00:33:30.100 they know full well that's where it originated. They also know full well that President Xi, as you and I have
00:33:36.120 discussed, knew full well that he was unleashing on an unsuspecting world a deadly virus that would
00:33:43.800 take lives and that would infect millions and millions of people around the world. Not a single government
00:33:51.140 even intimated that they should be held accountable, the Chinese, for the moral equivalent murder. We have
00:33:59.700 right now a feckless world leadership that wants to have global government. If this doesn't dissuade
00:34:10.080 anyone in their right mind from that possibility, that thought, that ambition, I don't know what would.
00:34:17.880 Yes. As of today, we have about 945,000 Americans that have been killed by coronavirus. Each one of those
00:34:26.100 deaths should be considered a murder. And the reason is that Xi Jinping lied about contagiousness of this
00:34:32.780 disease. They knew that coronavirus was highly transmissible human to human. They told the world
00:34:39.580 it was not, that lulled public health officials around the world into not taking precautions. And in
00:34:45.920 addition, while they were locking down their own country, in other words, telling the world they thought
00:34:51.120 lockdowns were effective, they were pressuring other countries, including the United States,
00:34:56.320 not to impose travel restrictions and quarantines on arrivals from China. And it was those arrivals
00:35:01.340 who took a disease that should have been confined to Wuhan and the central parts of China and made it a
00:35:06.700 global pandemic. This was a murder. This is 5.9 million people outside of China have been killed by
00:35:13.900 this disease. Each one of those 5.9 million deaths is a murder. Absolutely. And what we have to do is
00:35:23.180 hope that this country comes to its senses. And I'm talking about everyone listening to this
00:35:27.200 podcast, to everyone, their families, because the American people are going to have to find the energy
00:35:36.540 and the compelling need to make certain that our elected officials move in the national interest.
00:35:46.020 There's something called America first. They heard of a couple of years ago. We don't hear that anymore.
00:35:52.000 But we must put America first. That doesn't mean America only, but it does mean America first.
00:35:58.000 And our national leadership has already forgotten the Trump lessons of 2016 to 2020. Hopefully,
00:36:07.220 we can change the leadership. Maybe we can even get Donald Trump back in the White House. But right now,
00:36:15.680 the lessons of America first should be at the forefront of most people's thinking on
00:36:20.440 every geopolitical issue that we confront. Gordon, you always get the last word on this show. And I
00:36:28.980 will defer to you now and say thanks for being with us. And please take it away.
00:36:34.460 Lou, we don't have a president who understands the nature of the challenge from China. He won't call
00:36:41.500 China an adversary. He'd mostly say he's a competitor. Well, China has no problem calling us an enemy.
00:36:48.300 In May 2019, People's Daily, which is official, it is the most authoritative publication in China,
00:36:55.700 declared a people's war on the United States. So we can lose our republic. We're a far stronger
00:37:00.920 country than China on almost every metric. But we can lose our country because we don't have a
00:37:07.060 president who is defending us. So this is not just a question of not America first. This is a question
00:37:13.400 of America last. This is a question of America not defending itself. Lou, you from the very beginning,
00:37:20.380 you were the first person to talk about this. Red China, red storm rising. The world needs to turn
00:37:26.620 to you now because if we don't, we are going to end up in a position of the dark ages. And although most
00:37:35.080 people think that that is an exaggeration, we can see where the world is trending and I don't see
00:37:40.140 anything stopping it. So clearly, we need to start defending ourselves. Amen, brother. We appreciate
00:37:48.140 it. Gordon, as always, thank you for being with us. We thank you for your insight, your perspectives,
00:37:53.980 and come back soon, would you please? It's been far too long. Gordon Chang, great American, great friend.
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00:38:38.680 Thanks. God bless you and God bless America. Want to thank you for being with us, for sharing part
00:38:44.360 of your day with us as always, for all your support and making this show, the Great America show,
00:38:50.540 a top rated podcast. And I have to tell you, I'm enjoying this show like none other. We put our
00:38:56.440 mission statement straight out there. We're all about this great nation, our great Americans,
00:39:01.340 and that means you and all who care about America, who believe wholeheartedly in truth,
00:39:07.400 justice, the American way. That's you and me, us. And those who don't like our pride in this great
00:39:15.380 country, they just, well, I've got a message for them. Just take the devil and the hindmost.
00:39:21.360 This isn't the time for patriots to step back or step aside. Too many Americans have done just that
00:39:28.040 in the face of the Marxist left's full-on assault on our country's founding values, their attack on
00:39:34.020 our character, our beliefs, our nation. And they've hurt too many folks. They've done too much damage
00:39:39.900 to this country, to our institutions, and it is time for all of us to stand up, especially so with
00:39:47.540 President Biden presiding over the calamity that is his presidency. We know what he is. We know what
00:39:54.960 he and the radical Dems, the Marxist left, have done to all of us, to this great country, and what
00:40:00.980 they mean to do. Whether it's Biden's embrace of President Xi Jinping or cowering before President
00:40:07.820 Putin, this White House is creating great danger for America, even the world. And he is lost as a man
00:40:16.240 and as a leader. We'll be taking up these issues and more with Senator Tommy Tuberville today.
00:40:22.900 He's been to Ukraine. He's talked with President Zelensky, and he's called on President Biden to act
00:40:28.760 against Russian aggression. And Senator Tuberville is concerned that our military civilian leadership
00:40:34.820 and top Pentagon leaders don't have our forces combat ready. We're pleased to welcome back to the
00:40:41.580 Great America show now. Senator Tommy Tuberville. Senator Tuberville, great to have you with us
00:40:46.840 here on the Great America show. It's always good to talk with you. We're delighted to see you. And we
00:40:53.400 know you've got a busy schedule ahead of you. We also know that you are significantly involved in
00:41:01.480 what is going on. You've been to Ukraine. You've talked with President Zelensky. There is so much
00:41:09.420 unwinding right now in the face of a threatened invasion of Ukraine. What are your thoughts
00:41:16.280 about the prospects? Well, flawed decisions lead to failed outcomes. And we saw this during
00:41:22.600 Afghanistan. It was poorly organized, poorly thought of. And now we're going into the same
00:41:27.880 situation, Lou, with Ukraine. I mean, this hadn't just started now. This has been going for several
00:41:33.480 years where they've came in and taken over Crimea, Russia, I'm talking about. And then they've changed the
00:41:38.920 government in Belarus. They've taken over a little bit of the eastern part of the country in Ukraine.
00:41:44.860 And there's been thousands of people in Ukraine that have been shot and killed by snipers coming
00:41:51.980 from the Russian side. So they've been in a little bit of a civil war, but it looks like
00:41:56.720 Putin wants something. I mean, he's got his hand out and he's looking for some kind of stance on NATO
00:42:04.660 when it comes to Ukraine. He's looking for Nord Stream 2 pipeline to be 100% efficient and you
00:42:11.400 just get out of my way. They're a one-trick pony in Russia. All they got is energy. They got gas and
00:42:18.020 oil. And that's how they pumped their economy up. And they know if we shut that down, then they've got
00:42:23.100 huge problems. But we have not done anything in terms of sanctions. I wanted to see, as you said,
00:42:28.720 Zelensky a few months ago and the president there said, listen, I don't, coach, I don't want people
00:42:33.780 on the ground from America. I just need some help. And we've given him a little bit of help,
00:42:38.680 but he wanted sanctions too. And we should have put those on back in the summer. We should have
00:42:43.780 let Putin really know how it was going to be. And we didn't do it. We've drug our feet. And
00:42:48.400 I guess they were more busy over here, the Democrats, more busy and running our economy into the ground
00:42:54.380 and want to make sure they got that done before they got us into another mess like they're getting
00:42:59.280 us into with Russia. But it's a huge problem. We've got huge problems. And only one guy knows who's
00:43:06.560 going to make the decision here. And his name is Vladimir Putin.
00:43:12.500 Yeah. And I understand you're headed to Munich for meetings. Tell us what your schedule is to the
00:43:20.400 you can and what the subjects will be. Yeah, we're leaving this afternoon. There's about 15 of us
00:43:25.700 senators leaving. We're going to national security conference in Munich. It's a yearly deal, but it's
00:43:30.780 really big this year. I think even we've got some of the administration going over. But there will be
00:43:37.840 lots of talk about Ukraine, lots of talk about Russia. Be a lot of talk about space. There's going to
00:43:45.460 be a lot of talk about obviously nuclear with the hypersonic missile being tested by China not too
00:43:52.960 long ago. There's a lot of things on the table. We got more problems than we could ever imagine.
00:43:58.820 But for some unknown reason, the Democrats are over here just trying to run our country into the ground
00:44:03.900 before they even look into any of these other problems. But as Republicans, we're going to do our
00:44:09.460 due diligence and try to hold the rope and don't let go of it and keep our country as safe as we
00:44:15.020 possibly can. The Marxist left has in this country, and I'll call the Democratic Party whatever it wants
00:44:23.140 to be called, but I'm also going to call them what I believe they are. They have become full-on radical
00:44:30.000 Dems. They are the Marxist left. They're attacking this country's most cherished institutions, attacking our
00:44:36.920 founding values, and they are either through malfeasance or utter sins of omission, not protecting
00:44:47.060 this country, not protecting our borders, for example. I can't imagine a conference, frankly,
00:44:52.420 in this hemisphere on sovereignty and border security. That's just not part of the agenda
00:45:00.400 for this administration, and it certainly should be. But I'm sorry. Go ahead, Senator.
00:45:07.840 Lou, for the life of me, I can't figure these people out. As you said, this is not the Democratic
00:45:13.940 Party that you and I knew. This is the progressive left. The progressives are running the party.
00:45:19.580 Even if there are a few moderate Democrats, they're really scared to make a decision against
00:45:24.920 the progressive left, all the woke identity politics folks. It's just amazing to watch all
00:45:33.740 this happen. But I will say this. I was in a meeting the other day with Blinken, Secretary
00:45:39.560 of State Blinken, and General Milley, and Secretary of Defense Austin, and Homeland Security Secretary
00:45:47.560 of Marokas. And we all had an opportunity to ask questions. And this was pretty much about Ukraine.
00:45:53.580 And Marokas gets up there, and he talks about the borders of Ukraine, how we've got to protect them,
00:45:58.180 and I'd had enough of it. And my question was, you're so worried about those borders over there,
00:46:04.860 Secretary of Marokas. Why in the world don't we do just a little bit of something down on the
00:46:10.020 southern border, where our border patrol is overwhelmed, drugs are coming in by the pound,
00:46:16.480 not by the ground, but by the pound. And this country is going to be in serious trouble,
00:46:21.460 even more to the fact of the crime that we have. And he wouldn't answer my question. He said,
00:46:26.920 well, this is not a proper place to answer the question. He didn't answer it because he doesn't
00:46:31.040 have an answer, because they could care less about protecting the taxpayers of this country.
00:46:36.620 They're more worried about getting us in another war over in Ukraine.
00:46:40.520 Yeah, Senator, I've said about on this broadcast, I've said
00:46:45.300 that Marokas being in charge of homeland security is akin to me putting an arsonist in charge of a
00:46:53.340 fire department. It is outrageous. This man is a radicalized leftist. He is, and by the way,
00:47:00.800 progressive, we should all, I think, acknowledge it. Certainly, those of us who are conservative,
00:47:06.520 who are Republican, this is not a progressive party. This is a Marxist party. They are being
00:47:13.520 driven by, flat out, in our face, Marxists, and at every turn, and including this president,
00:47:23.100 who was supposed to be a conciliator. He was supposed to be a bridge, a, if you will, a placeholder.
00:47:30.620 He is anything but. You would think the man had been elected by a hundred million votes and that
00:47:37.420 there were cheering parades in the streets as the results were announced that he had indeed been
00:47:44.600 elected. That isn't who he is. He barely got in. He didn't campaign. He was in his basement,
00:47:51.680 and he did not have an agenda remotely, uh, approaching, uh, the left, uh, the Marxist left
00:48:00.100 direction that he's taken the entire country. Exactly. And you're exactly right. We probably
00:48:05.680 shouldn't use the word progressive. That's just a polite way to say communist, to be honest with
00:48:09.500 you. And, uh, it is, uh, uh, and it's getting worse and worse. I mean, they, but they see the light
00:48:15.480 at the end of the tunnel, or we do see the light in the tunnel. If we can somehow gain back control
00:48:20.060 and we can get the Republicans even to vote our way, there's some Republicans that don't vote
00:48:24.660 sometimes the way that we would like to them, but that, you know, that's, that's part of
00:48:28.840 voting for your state. Uh, but I will say this too, I, you know, the, I'm on the armed services
00:48:35.040 committee and there's not a, uh, hearing that doesn't go by that. I have either Millie or,
00:48:40.780 or Blinken or, or secretary Austin that I raised cane about this woke military that they're trying to
00:48:47.460 train, you know, 6 million hours, Lou, 6 million hours that we spent on training, uh, all of our,
00:48:55.180 uh, military personnel in being, you know, uh, worrying about equity and woke politics,
00:49:02.260 identity politics. And as I told Senator, secretary Austin, secretary Austin, your job is not to
00:49:08.120 educate. It is to build a killing machine. And, uh, if you're going to continue to down this path,
00:49:14.760 this country is not going to make it. We need people that will fight for this country that love
00:49:20.320 this country. They're looking, they're trying to run out extremist out, uh, you know, and, and we know
00:49:26.060 that people have different thoughts, but at the end of the day, if you're in the military, you go into
00:49:30.020 the military to protect the United States of America. And, uh, we've had a lot of people lose their
00:49:36.080 lives for this country, but now we've got a group in there that wants to absolutely just, uh, build a
00:49:42.300 military on, on, uh, marshmallows. You know, everybody feel good about themselves. I mean,
00:49:49.120 that's not what this is about. It's about discipline, hard work, and fighting for your country.
00:49:54.320 Without question. And you're absolutely right. And I want to be sure everybody heard that.
00:49:59.680 I want to make sure I heard that 6 million hours of training, woke training in our military.
00:50:07.120 Exactly. 6 million hours. And, uh, there's not many days go by that they don't have some kind of,
00:50:13.400 uh, training, uh, as you know, if they're on, if, if, if, unless they're out in the field,
00:50:18.440 but if they're in the classroom, they're, they're going to be talking about, uh, uh, all the things
00:50:23.340 that, uh, the progressive and communist left want to infiltrate, uh, in their minds. And, you know,
00:50:28.720 we're having, we're having, uh, very good, uh, officers and, uh, and unenlisted, uh, personnel
00:50:37.660 all across the military, Lou. They're getting out saying, I didn't get in this for this reason.
00:50:42.980 I didn't get in here to, to learn about, uh, you know, how to really treat people. I know how to
00:50:47.880 treat people. You know, I understand how to treat people. Uh, I treat them like we're all the same.
00:50:53.380 I don't care what color you are, what religion you are. We're all the same, but they are running
00:50:58.540 out, uh, good military people just right and left. I want to tell you this too, Lou. I had a,
00:51:04.060 we had a meeting, uh, we did a two-year study on, uh, the accessibility of getting people in the
00:51:09.700 military because we, we don't have enough people that we can take into the military. Now, uh, there's
00:51:14.500 about 30 to 35 million every year at a younger age, 18, 19, 20, that are really eligible to be in
00:51:21.000 the military, uh, 30, 35 million. And after they go through and kick, uh, you know, the
00:51:27.460 qualifications out of having a high school diploma, not having a felony, not doing drugs,
00:51:33.040 all those things, we only have 450,000 people eligible for our military. And it all starts
00:51:39.680 in education. It all starts with moral values. It all starts with family. You know, they're
00:51:44.020 trying to tear down the nuclear family and, and we've got kids out there just running amok
00:51:48.740 and then drugs are just, just killing them. But the communist, uh, left, they don't, they don't
00:51:54.620 understand that. They, they think that, uh, everybody should, uh, just live and, and, and go
00:52:00.660 in the direction of how they direct them, you know, the left. Yeah. And, and for them, of course,
00:52:06.760 they're talking about a combat ready, uh, military, uh, readiness. Uh, they don't have to be too
00:52:14.700 worried because right next to their shoulder then is a, a Marxist or a communist in China,
00:52:21.080 uh, in Russia. Uh, and to them, it's all just one big happy world. So long as they follow the same
00:52:28.380 ideology. We're talking about one worlders here and that world doesn't resemble anything like
00:52:35.260 America. And, and we have people in this country who do not comprehend that basic fundamental
00:52:41.840 reality of politics, uh, and the alignment of the two parties with world powers. It's, it's deeply
00:52:50.260 disturbing. Well, the one thing that they really did not like president Trump, uh, and about was
00:52:57.220 when he got in office, he went straight after China and China Lou is our, our, our problem. Now,
00:53:03.100 now Russia wants some power. They're very centrally located, recently located in Europe, China. They want
00:53:09.680 to control the world and they're working so hard and fast. And unfortunately, uh, our big corporations
00:53:16.060 are funding a lot of the things that, uh, by doing business with them, that is giving them the money
00:53:21.240 to, to build satellites, to build submarines, to build, they have more ships now in their Navy than
00:53:26.320 we do. And, uh, president Trump came in, he put tariffs on them. He was doing the right things,
00:53:31.580 but the progressive communist left do not like us going after China. They want us to leave China
00:53:37.460 alone. I got news for them. China's not going to leave us alone. Uh, I do not want to be speaking
00:53:42.620 Chinese here in a few years. And so we need to wake up and smell the roses here and understand that
00:53:47.740 Russia is a problem, but China is the one that wants to take over the world. And they are working
00:53:53.020 every day towards that direction. You know, I, I look at, uh, Russia, uh, and its designs on,
00:53:59.980 uh, on Ukraine. And also, as you mentioned, Belarus, Moldova, I mean, they have already have achieved
00:54:07.100 their de facto annexation of Moldova and Belarus. The Eastern border of Ukraine is focused on a civil
00:54:17.320 war that's been going on since 2014. We know how that's going to end. Uh, and we might, because
00:54:25.440 our Germany, uh, you name it, whatever the country is in Europe, uh, Poland, uh, Hungary,
00:54:35.100 they're just not going to be involved in a conflict. They don't have the wherewithal militarily. They
00:54:40.880 don't have the stomach for it politically. And, and without the United States, nothing will happen
00:54:47.000 to stop Vladimir Putin, in my opinion, your thoughts. Well, you're exactly right. You know,
00:54:52.480 we've bailed Germany out in Europe many, many times, uh, the United States taxpayer has,
00:54:57.300 we don't need to continue to do that. Now we are in NATO and I understand that. And, but this is,
00:55:02.280 this is NATO's fight, but it's not from our side. And in terms of, Hey, I'm for, I'm for helping them,
00:55:08.740 sending them missiles, javelin missiles, anti-tank missiles, and all those things. Uh,
00:55:13.900 but this is Europe's Europe's problem. Now, uh, do they want to be a communist, uh,
00:55:22.220 country and all those areas? Most of them don't, but we need to get some help out of,
00:55:27.960 out of Germany. Germany is, is soft peddling this, uh, president Trump told Merkel, you,
00:55:33.900 you signed this deal with, uh, with the pipeline for energy. Uh, you're going to sell your soul.
00:55:39.160 And she did. And, uh, now they're, they're soft peddling whether or not they're going to do
00:55:44.500 anything about, about the pipeline. But the only good thing that I've heard president Biden say was
00:55:50.100 a situation of you come in, we're going to close the pipeline down. Well, we'll see what happens
00:55:54.780 there because it looks like they're probably going to do some kind of invasion, whether it's a short
00:55:59.580 term or maybe long-term we'll find that out probably in the next few days. Yeah. And, uh, or as, uh,
00:56:06.040 as president Biden basically signal to Vladimir Putin, just so it's a minor incursion, his expression,
00:56:13.220 minor incursion, uh, you know, where we can just talk about it. That'd be fine. I mean, that was,
00:56:18.400 it's just, it's inexplicable that this man is in the white house, uh, leading the United States of
00:56:25.360 America and indeed quote unquote, the free world. Uh, I just, it's, it's hard to, it's hard to take
00:56:33.160 some days when you look at what we're dealing with. The good news is the American people are awake
00:56:38.900 to what he is. His poll numbers are a disaster. Uh, it looks like the Republican party is going to
00:56:46.480 have a wave election come November because the American people aren't going to put up with any
00:56:50.860 more of this. And, and that's a wonderful thing, but there's a lot to be done, including, uh, John
00:56:56.460 Durham, uh, the special counsel and his report, uh, to the people in a filing on the factual basis
00:57:04.620 for Hillary Clinton, uh, for the democratic party and, uh, some very powerful law firms to have gone
00:57:12.740 off gone after, uh, president Trump is both a candidate and a sitting president. It's outrageous.
00:57:19.740 It's beyond belief. And the left-wing media still is not reporting the story. They have missed the
00:57:26.620 biggest scandal in this country's history and have done so eagerly willfully over the course of the
00:57:34.660 past six years. Your thoughts. Never seen anything like it, Lou. It is, uh, we knew it was coming.
00:57:40.700 We just didn't know how bad it was going to be. And it's going to get worse as we go. Every day I
00:57:45.180 walk over from my office to vote in the Capitol. You have to walk by these millennials that are
00:57:50.320 mostly mainstream media. And, you know, they want to ask you questions, this or that. And
00:57:54.620 sure. Uh, last few days, they've been asked me questions before I answer. I said, before I
00:57:58.520 answer this, when are you, when are you coming out with an article about the Durham report and how bad
00:58:02.460 it is and how bad Hillary Clinton and, and her goons went after and, and pretty much spied on the
00:58:08.600 president of the United States as is that not news. And they look at me like I'm crazy. Uh, but, uh,
00:58:16.200 I'm going to continue to do that. And, uh, sooner or later, they're going to have to,
00:58:20.840 they're going to have to start writing this and, and, you know, you and I can talk about it and,
00:58:25.160 and get it out there as much as possible. But until the mainstream media finally decides,
00:58:29.880 says we were wrong. Uh, president Trump was, uh, uh, spied on, uh, Hillary Clinton was actually the
00:58:38.760 one in, in charge of the Russia collusion, not president Trump, because they pushed all that
00:58:44.040 narrative. And they know now if they admitted Lou, that they were wrong, they're going to give back
00:58:48.680 their Pulitzer prizes at the New York times. Uh, I mean, these people are, they're, they're, uh, I,
00:58:55.160 I don't know how to explain them. I mean, they, they, they just, uh, they don't love this country
00:58:59.640 anymore. They would rather win a Pulitzer prize and then save the United States of America from
00:59:06.440 total destruction by exploding from within with all kinds of things that's going after a sitting
00:59:12.200 president. It's just, it, it's mind boggling to me how we can get to this point, but the NSA director
00:59:18.280 who has still got a job, uh, and he knew all about this, uh, uh, it's going to be an interesting few
00:59:25.080 months. And you and I went to Watergate Lou, uh, and every day, you know, uh, Nixon was taking it
00:59:31.320 from right to left and people were after him. Uh, this should be the same way. Absolutely. Uh, it is,
00:59:37.960 and it's far, far worse than Watergate by, I mean, president Trump is exactly right. It it's far worse
00:59:44.200 than Watergate, but it's even worse than that. This is the worst scandal in this nation's history.
00:59:50.680 Uh, it is an outrage. Uh, it is, it is just in, it's totally unthinkable that we have let this occur
01:00:00.120 and have watched a president be impeached twice to have a special counsel convened against him, uh,
01:00:07.880 for him to be forced to undergo three years of FBI investigation and not one, one person and the
01:00:17.080 left wing Marxist corporate owned media in this country will acknowledge that it's kind of amazing
01:00:23.320 that a person under that kind of scrutiny and that kind of deep investigation doesn't face a single
01:00:31.400 charge. And they don't even ask the question, gee, I wonder if he is an innocent man persecuted by vile,
01:00:40.200 uh, enemies of this nation and the American people. Exactly. And I think Lou, at the end of the day,
01:00:47.640 you're going to, you're going to find a lot of ties to all these people that went after president Trump,
01:00:51.960 that were doing things behind the scenes, uh, whether it was small or large for four years,
01:00:57.480 even the media have, uh, the, the common denominator is going to be China. Uh, China is going to be the
01:01:06.280 common denominator between all these things that have happened, all the collusion, all the corruption
01:01:12.040 in the media, all the things that have gone on behind the scenes. And, uh, uh, I think you're going
01:01:17.640 to see them start, the rats are going to start running for the hole here pretty soon. Uh, I just,
01:01:22.360 I think, uh, Durham, uh, the guy's slow, but you know, I've talked to people that work in the DOJ
01:01:28.600 for him and they've all said, listen, whatever he does, he's going to do it thorough. He's not
01:01:33.480 going to be fast. He's going to be slow, but when he comes out with something, it's going to be true.
01:01:38.680 And so, uh, uh, it's taken a while, uh, and I hate it for president Trump and really even his family
01:01:44.520 and the country for what, what has happened to, uh, to the sitting president. But, uh, this will all
01:01:50.120 come out in the wash and, uh, you know, I think there's going to be a lot more things come out and,
01:01:55.560 and, uh, you can imagine they're, they're trying to do everything they possibly can in the White
01:01:59.800 House and the administration to start blocking things. But I think the cat's out of the bag.
01:02:05.320 Well, I think you're right. And, uh, as we conclude here, I'm just going to say one thing. This is my
01:02:10.280 sort of vision of American politics for the next couple of years. I truly believe that Durham will
01:02:16.120 get everything out there so that the Democrats, the, the radical Democrats, the Marxists left in
01:02:22.040 this country will be called to account, including their big fancy law firms, all of those who've been
01:02:28.280 involved in this. And, and so my vision is this, that they'll come out in time that the American
01:02:33.640 people will assimilate it, put it together with what they know right now. And president Trump will
01:02:39.640 be reelected president of the United States by acclamation. They won't even have the,
01:02:45.560 they, they will be too ashamed to even put up a candidate. Uh, and I, I know that's a little
01:02:51.400 fanciful, but that's my dream. Yeah. It doesn't hurt the dream. Lou. It doesn't.
01:03:00.440 Absolutely. Especially if you're an American, uh,
01:03:04.120 I want to just say, thanks, uh, Senator for being here. I wish you, uh, uh, uh, safe travels
01:03:09.880 and you get the last word here on the great America show as always it, uh, your, your concluding
01:03:17.240 thoughts. Well, thank you for what you do. Uh, again, I've, I've kept up with you. Most of my
01:03:22.840 political life is as a taxpayer, but the one thing I want to tell the American people, everything
01:03:28.040 sounds of gloom, gloom and doom, but it's really not. We live in the best place on earth, United
01:03:33.800 States of America, and this country will survive because of its people, because of people that
01:03:39.800 love this country. And I'm looking forward to being part of it. Senator, uh, we're delighted
01:03:44.680 you are. And thank you for being with us here on the great America show. Thanks to Senator
01:03:49.400 Tuberville for being with us. And thanks also to Gordon Chang, two great Americans. Thanks for
01:03:55.640 listening. Hope to see you tomorrow. Our guest will be another great American, Joel Pollack,
01:04:01.720 the senior editor at large for Breitbart news and host of Breitbart on Sirius XM Patriot 125.
01:04:09.720 Looking forward to our discussion tomorrow. Hope you'll be with us till then. God bless you
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