The Great America Show - February 13, 2023


COL. MACGREGOR SAYS AMERICANS SHOULD BE MOBILIZING BY THE MILLIONS BECAUSE THE U.S. IS AT SEVERE RISK OF GOING OUT OF BUSINESS


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

151.2605

Word Count

6,372

Sentence Count

396

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

28


Summary

As of this past weekend, no American should doubt we re in a Cold War with the People s Republic of China. Our F-22 fighter jets have had a busy week, shooting down 3 airborne objects with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau s permission. With Prime Minister Trudeau s approval, a U.S. military jet shot down what was presumably another Chinese surveillance balloon over northern Canada, but it was described by the military only as an unidentified airborne object. The day before that shoot-down, another unidentified object was found off the coast of Alaska, where the Alaska National Guard and the FBI are working to recover whatever remains of that object.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and welcome to The Great America Show.
00:00:04.100 Delighted to have you with us.
00:00:06.020 As of this past weekend, no American should doubt we're in a Cold War with the People's Republic of China.
00:00:12.920 Our F-22 fighter jets have had a busy week, shooting down three airborne objects.
00:00:19.160 With Prime Minister Trudeau's permission, a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down what was presumably another Chinese balloon
00:00:28.140 over northern Canada, but it was described by the U.S. military only as an unidentified airborne object,
00:00:35.960 the third such incident in a week.
00:00:38.100 The day before that shoot down over Canada, an F-22 shot down a similar, quote, airborne object off the coast of Alaska,
00:00:46.480 where the Alaska National Guard and the FBI are working in extreme weather conditions
00:00:51.060 to recover whatever remains of that object.
00:00:54.200 Canadian authorities are carrying out similar recovery efforts in northern Canada,
00:00:59.080 and the U.S. military has confirmed that the original Chinese balloon was indeed on a surveillance mission,
00:01:06.700 which the Biden regime permitted to cross the entire country before being shot down by an F-22 off the coast of South Carolina.
00:01:14.880 Oh, and did I mention Mitt Romney fully backs the Biden regime's decision to let spy balloons cross over the country for a week at a time?
00:01:25.040 You don't suppose Romney's obsequious statement supporting the Biden regime has anything to do with the Wall Street Journal news report
00:01:33.460 that the SEC is investigating the LDS Church's $100 billion investment fund for tax fraud.
00:01:43.540 We'll see. I'm sure there's no connection, aren't you?
00:01:47.220 As I said, a busy week for our F-22 fighter jets and add in another airborne object detected by radar over Montana Saturday evening.
00:01:55.800 Fighters were scrambled, but Congressman Matt Rosendale, briefed by the Pentagon,
00:02:01.380 said the fighters couldn't put eyes on the object that radar picked up about 30 miles south of the Canadian border.
00:02:08.200 And NORAD issued later a statement that also leaves open the possibility that it was a radar anomaly.
00:02:15.340 So we'll see.
00:02:16.940 While that's going on at the northern border, expect to see hundreds of thousands of migrants flooding over our southern border.
00:02:23.920 Biden wants to trade non-Mexican illegal immigrants for Mexican illegal immigrants.
00:02:30.440 Sounds like a Biden-Mayorcas deal, doesn't it?
00:02:33.380 Just when you think Biden can't get any crazier, he delivers another complication instead of a solution.
00:02:40.580 And maybe, just maybe, he could order deportations of illegal immigrants,
00:02:45.040 because, you know, they are illegal and they should be deported.
00:02:48.880 I know that's way too simple and direct for China Joe,
00:02:52.180 and he sure doesn't want to offend his friends and the Mexican drug cartels,
00:02:56.240 who are murdering hundreds of thousands of American citizens
00:02:59.900 with the fentanyl that they're pushing into the United States across that wide-open border.
00:03:05.740 Let me be clear.
00:03:07.120 Joe Biden's opening of our southern border is killing our fellow citizens.
00:03:12.540 He is a murderer.
00:03:14.340 No matter what else you want to call him, he is killing Americans with his policies.
00:03:19.040 And everyone who's going along with him is just as guilty.
00:03:23.100 Yes, Mitt Romney.
00:03:24.900 That includes you for agreeing with Biden's border and amnesty policies.
00:03:29.360 Biden won't secure the border, no matter how many Americans are killed.
00:03:33.600 And China clearly owns him.
00:03:35.660 And his regime.
00:03:37.700 Two House committees, Oversight, led by James Comer and Judiciary, led by Jim Jordan,
00:03:42.260 are pushing hard in their investigations of the president and his family's overseas business dealings.
00:03:48.840 And the corruption of the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the role of Twitter and social media as well
00:03:54.240 in censoring news media reports blocking conservative voices
00:03:58.680 and influencing the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
00:04:03.300 Here are just a few of the highlights from the Jordan Judiciary Committee hearings.
00:04:08.160 The chair now recognizes himself for an opening statement.
00:04:12.360 November 18th, 2021, an FBI whistleblower discloses to Republicans on the House Judiciary
00:04:18.700 that the FBI created a threat tag for parents voicing their concerns at school board meetings.
00:04:25.100 April 26th, 2022, another FBI whistleblower discloses that the FBI employees are being run out of the bureau
00:04:33.080 for attending conservative political events.
00:04:36.340 May 11th, 2022, another FBI whistleblower discloses that dozens of parents with the threat tag designation
00:04:45.060 to their name are investigated by the FBI.
00:04:49.040 This also happens to be the same whistleblower who said the FBI leadership, not the rank and file members,
00:04:54.720 the FBI leadership is rotted at its core.
00:04:58.060 His clearance has been revoked and he's been suspended.
00:05:00.880 June 7th, 2022, another FBI whistleblower is retaliated against after giving feedback on an anonymous survey.
00:05:11.180 July 27th, 2022, another FBI whistleblower discloses that agents are pressured to reclassify cases
00:05:18.860 as domestic violent extremism cases to hit self-created performance metrics.
00:05:24.720 September 14th, 2022, an FBI whistleblower discloses that the FBI views the Betsy Ross flag as a terrorist symbol.
00:05:35.400 September 19th, 2022, another FBI whistleblower discloses that the Washington field office
00:05:42.000 is deliberately manipulating January 6th case files.
00:05:45.940 So the FBI didn't tell you that it was fake, didn't tell you that it was hacked.
00:05:51.260 And Mr. Roth, did the story violate your policies?
00:05:55.240 In my judgment at the time, no, it did not.
00:05:57.520 Yeah, that's what you said.
00:05:58.580 Said what I would propose, excuse me, is you said it isn't clearly a violation of our hacked materials policy,
00:06:03.240 nor is it clearly a violation of anything else.
00:06:05.560 So I think what a lot of people are wondering is if it didn't violate your policies
00:06:08.660 and they didn't tell you it was fake, didn't tell you it was hacked, why'd you take it down?
00:06:13.500 The company made a decision that found that it did violate the policy.
00:06:18.480 It wasn't my personal judgment at the time that it did,
00:06:21.940 but the decision was communicated to me by my direct supervisor.
00:06:25.220 And ultimately, I didn't disagree with it enough to object.
00:06:29.100 You know, you know what, you know what I think happened, Mr. Roth?
00:06:31.400 I think, I think you guys got played.
00:06:33.820 I think you guys wanted to, wanted to take it deep down.
00:06:36.800 We saw what the chairman put up where you said, you know, everyone in the White House is a fascist.
00:06:40.980 I think you guys wanted it to be taken down.
00:06:44.520 I think you meet with these guys every week.
00:06:46.260 We know that's been established in the Twitter files.
00:06:47.940 You had weekly meetings with Mr. Chan in the run-up to the election.
00:06:50.840 They send you all kinds of emails.
00:06:52.540 They send you documents on the super secret James Bond teleporter.
00:06:55.860 You get information on that.
00:06:57.560 Meanwhile, the Biden regime is refusing to obey committee subpoenas.
00:07:02.460 And now the GOP committees have dozens of FBI whistleblowers
00:07:06.680 bringing direct evidence of corruption to the hearings.
00:07:10.260 The Biden regime is headed toward, I believe, an accounting in full, in public view.
00:07:17.540 Biden says China poses no national security threat.
00:07:21.200 Imagine that.
00:07:22.440 He's shipping $100 billion in advanced weaponry to Ukraine,
00:07:27.000 where he's also compromised, and he is playing with fire in Ukraine.
00:07:31.220 A fire Biden let Putin start.
00:07:34.080 Biden is significantly responsible for allowing Putin to have,
00:07:37.980 what Biden called at the time, a small incursion.
00:07:42.020 A year later, is it still a small incursion?
00:07:45.220 I don't think so.
00:07:46.700 So what is it going to take to wake this country up to what Biden is,
00:07:50.560 what the Marxist Dems have become?
00:07:53.260 They're destroyers.
00:07:54.400 And the Republicans, at least, have begun to fight back in the House of Representatives.
00:07:58.760 The Ukrainians have beaten back the Russian invaders,
00:08:02.040 but now Putin appears to be mounting a force twice as large as they first sent into Ukraine a year ago.
00:08:08.680 Putin is now threatening the small nation of Moldova as well,
00:08:12.160 and preparing, it appears, a huge attack on the eastern Ukrainian reclaimed Donbass region.
00:08:18.920 And with increasing frequency, Putin is repeating his threats against the West,
00:08:23.720 threatening nuclear war.
00:08:24.980 He and the Kremlin say they will not lose in Ukraine,
00:08:28.760 no matter what it takes, including nuclear war.
00:08:32.940 And now the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion is only days away.
00:08:37.460 And most military experts never dreamed Ukraine could stand up this long
00:08:42.120 against the much larger, more powerful Russian military.
00:08:45.880 And I have to say,
00:08:47.220 I didn't imagine that the Ukrainians would be able to throw back the Russians,
00:08:51.580 and in fact, embarrass the Russian military.
00:08:54.080 Our guest today is retired U.S. Army Colonel Doug McGregor.
00:08:58.680 He's a veteran of the Kosovo and Persian Gulf Wars.
00:09:02.140 Doug, it is great to have you back with us.
00:09:04.140 Welcome.
00:09:05.120 A year ago, I couldn't imagine Ukraine holding out this long.
00:09:09.060 Could you?
00:09:09.960 Well, I think you're right, and I think that's true for everybody,
00:09:12.540 including the Russians, as well as everybody in Washington.
00:09:14.920 When this business began,
00:09:17.540 it came after many, many years of frustration in Moscow with our unwillingness
00:09:22.460 to recognize their legitimate security interests in Ukraine
00:09:26.240 and our rejection out of hand of the notion that Ukraine cannot be a member of NATO.
00:09:31.480 And they wanted neutrality for Ukraine,
00:09:35.620 and they wanted equal rights under the law for Russians who live in Ukraine.
00:09:39.980 All of that was rejected.
00:09:41.240 In fact, the opposite was the case.
00:09:42.780 And so they finally decided to intervene militarily in eastern Ukraine,
00:09:47.080 in the area, frankly, where the population is overwhelmingly Russian.
00:09:50.600 But the problem was that the Russian military was actually quite small.
00:09:57.100 It was designed exclusively for defense of the homeland.
00:10:01.840 A very small force was committed to the operation.
00:10:05.400 And I think the thing that shocked both people in the West,
00:10:10.140 I think us as Americans as well as the Russians,
00:10:13.240 is that there was absolutely no willingness whatsoever in Washington
00:10:16.840 to arrange talks, to sort this out, to come to some sort of arrangement.
00:10:23.040 So things dragged on for months.
00:10:26.540 The Ukrainians were never winning as popularly thought.
00:10:30.900 They were always taking heavy casualties,
00:10:32.840 and the Russians were advancing, but very slowly.
00:10:35.580 The Russians finally decided,
00:10:36.800 well, this war is only going to end when we end it.
00:10:39.320 And so they decided to go to a war footing last summer.
00:10:42.260 They're now on a war footing.
00:10:43.760 They have 700,000-plus troops surrounding Ukraine.
00:10:47.160 They're about to launch major offenses
00:10:49.280 that I think will end the conflict, for all intents and purposes.
00:10:53.140 And the great tragedy is, in the meantime,
00:10:55.180 our unwillingness to talk with the Russians
00:10:56.880 and negotiate an end to this thing
00:10:58.420 has resulted in the destruction of the Ukrainian state
00:11:01.140 and the Ukrainian people.
00:11:03.200 Ukraine, which started out at about 37,
00:11:05.880 or excuse me, 35.4 million people,
00:11:08.800 is down to somewheres between 19 and 22 million.
00:11:12.140 More than 10 million have fled the country.
00:11:15.320 There were always 2 million-plus working outside the country
00:11:18.320 in the EU and Great Britain.
00:11:21.200 And frankly, there are about 4 million Russians
00:11:24.260 living under Russian administration
00:11:25.840 in the areas of eastern Ukraine now.
00:11:28.260 So within the area that Zelenskyy and his government control,
00:11:31.540 there are only about 19 to 22 million people left.
00:11:35.140 They're really bleeding Ukraine white.
00:11:37.680 You can go on the internet and you can watch all the videos
00:11:41.420 taken by Ukrainians of the press gangs running around
00:11:44.160 capturing teenagers on the street
00:11:46.540 and forcing them into vans and taking them off
00:11:48.640 to put on uniforms and fight at the front.
00:11:51.020 And the casualties are horrific.
00:11:53.240 So the whole thing is a catastrophe.
00:11:55.640 One would have hoped that, like every other president
00:11:58.060 that preceded him in office over the last 50, 60 years,
00:12:01.800 that President Biden would have stepped forward
00:12:03.840 and said, wait a minute, we can find a way forward.
00:12:07.220 Let's talk.
00:12:08.700 But instead of that, he did the opposite.
00:12:10.640 He's escalated this thing.
00:12:12.620 The outcome is that Russia economically
00:12:14.780 is stronger than ever.
00:12:17.080 Its military has now expanded to a level
00:12:20.560 that it has not seen since the end of the Cold War.
00:12:24.080 And we are in no position to fight anybody,
00:12:26.400 least of all Russia.
00:12:27.240 And we're staring down the barrel of a very ugly gun.
00:12:31.460 And that is where we are today.
00:12:34.720 And where we were a year ago at this time,
00:12:38.920 we still had a couple of weeks
00:12:40.960 that the Biden administration could have used
00:12:43.700 to have prevented this war.
00:12:44.940 We know now what the intelligence agencies were saying
00:12:50.160 in the months leading up to what became the invasion.
00:12:53.320 We know that there were about 200,000 Russian troops
00:12:57.020 deployed from Moldova through eastern Ukraine
00:13:00.660 on the Russian border, in Russia,
00:13:05.580 on the Ukrainian border, and in Belarus.
00:13:09.960 We now see an estimated 700,000 troops being massed
00:13:17.500 in western Russia ready to attack.
00:13:22.840 We know what happened back on the 24th
00:13:25.900 and the fallout from not proceeding
00:13:28.740 to destroy the enemy as its first objective.
00:13:32.480 This looks like this is an entirely different
00:13:35.320 both objective and wherewithal for this assault.
00:13:41.860 Well, no, you're absolutely right, Lou.
00:13:44.700 This is a totally new ballgame, let's put it bluntly.
00:13:49.020 Russia, I think the leadership in Moscow
00:13:51.560 is tired of hearing us demand regime change,
00:13:54.940 tired of us talking about dismembering Russia
00:13:57.400 and destroying its economy and its people.
00:13:59.940 They've given up on any rational discussion
00:14:03.460 whatsoever with Washington.
00:14:05.720 They've listened to the Germans
00:14:07.360 and other members of the NATO alliance
00:14:11.380 talk about the fact that the Minsk Accords,
00:14:14.080 which were devised, at least in Moscow's mind,
00:14:16.920 to address some of the issues that I mentioned earlier
00:14:19.480 about equal rights before the law for Russians,
00:14:21.760 allowing them to speak their language
00:14:23.100 and live as equal citizens in Ukraine,
00:14:25.780 that that was a facade.
00:14:27.280 There was never any interest in coming
00:14:29.080 to any agreement with the Russians
00:14:30.520 and certainly no interest in what happened
00:14:32.300 to the Russians living in Ukraine.
00:14:34.540 Merkel admitted that.
00:14:36.260 And so the cat is, so to say, out of the bag,
00:14:39.180 and the Russians have said, fine.
00:14:40.460 And we've tried everything that we possibly could
00:14:43.000 to destroy Russia short of attacking ourselves.
00:14:47.020 And we are in no position now to challenge them.
00:14:50.060 And I think what we're going to watch
00:14:51.360 is the gradual destruction
00:14:52.620 of what remains of the Ukrainian armed forces.
00:14:55.760 I think the government at Kiev at some point
00:14:58.360 will flee probably to Poland
00:15:00.460 and probably then to Miami
00:15:02.200 or some of the places
00:15:03.640 where they have their money stashed.
00:15:05.780 I think we're going to discover
00:15:06.980 that we spent hundreds of billions of dollars
00:15:08.800 on a fraud. Nothing was as it seemed.
00:15:12.760 And we now have a very dangerous enemy in Moscow
00:15:15.760 where previously there really wasn't.
00:15:17.600 I mean, the Russians may not have liked us.
00:15:19.080 We may not have liked them.
00:15:20.600 But there was always a willingness to talk.
00:15:22.680 And we had a reasonable strategic partnership
00:15:24.980 with them against ISIS,
00:15:27.000 against Islamist radicals.
00:15:29.000 That's all gone.
00:15:30.300 And in the meantime, you know,
00:15:31.960 as you pointed out for years,
00:15:33.320 China sitting on the sidelines
00:15:35.300 has watched all of this carefully
00:15:36.760 and has profited enormously.
00:15:38.800 from our diversion
00:15:39.800 into this self-destructive war.
00:15:43.400 And China is giving much greater support
00:15:47.400 to Vladimir Putin
00:15:48.780 and his forces
00:15:50.360 than has been publicly admitted
00:15:52.480 by the Biden administration.
00:15:54.640 Correct?
00:15:54.860 Well, I don't know.
00:15:57.480 It's a question of admission.
00:15:58.580 I just think the Chinese
00:16:00.160 see that they are on the menu
00:16:02.360 as far as Washington is concerned.
00:16:04.760 This is the most warlike,
00:16:07.080 dangerous, reckless administration,
00:16:09.580 I think, in American history,
00:16:12.100 certainly in the 20th century.
00:16:13.420 These people are hell-bent
00:16:14.680 to hammer everyone in the world
00:16:17.440 into line
00:16:18.420 with what they think
00:16:19.840 the rest of the world should look like.
00:16:21.300 this is everything
00:16:22.900 that was wrong
00:16:23.720 with the Bush crowd
00:16:24.760 and his successors
00:16:26.540 on steroids.
00:16:28.600 And so I think the Chinese
00:16:29.640 have said,
00:16:30.480 you know,
00:16:30.980 if we back away from Russia
00:16:32.860 and Russia,
00:16:33.680 for some reason,
00:16:34.400 isn't successful,
00:16:35.460 we're next on the menu.
00:16:36.720 So why should we do that?
00:16:38.220 So I think we've ultimately
00:16:39.360 succeeded in consolidating
00:16:41.380 the Russo-Chinese alliance.
00:16:44.140 And I agree with you completely.
00:16:48.420 And we just received this
00:16:50.040 from the Daily Mail,
00:16:51.420 and you talk about
00:16:52.620 recklessness,
00:16:54.660 reckless aggressiveness
00:16:56.320 on the part of this administration.
00:16:58.760 The headline in the Daily Mail
00:17:00.700 is this, folks,
00:17:02.180 quote,
00:17:02.980 Did Biden give the order
00:17:04.920 to destroy Putin's
00:17:06.620 Nord Stream pipeline
00:17:07.960 after the Ukraine invasion?
00:17:11.000 Bombshell report
00:17:12.240 claims Navy divers
00:17:13.560 carried out mission
00:17:15.140 to kill Russia's
00:17:16.100 gas stranglehold
00:17:17.180 on Europe
00:17:17.940 in an audacious mission
00:17:20.040 overseen
00:17:21.240 directly by the president.
00:17:24.720 Your thoughts?
00:17:26.040 Yeah,
00:17:26.440 that's an act of war.
00:17:28.960 It's not just an act of war
00:17:30.640 against Russia, per se.
00:17:32.320 It's an act of war
00:17:33.020 against the Germans.
00:17:34.640 And we've treated
00:17:35.900 the Germans essentially
00:17:37.060 as a vassal state,
00:17:38.820 bullying them into
00:17:39.980 supporting this war
00:17:41.240 against Russia and Ukraine.
00:17:42.500 The truth is,
00:17:45.160 NATO,
00:17:45.780 which the Biden administration
00:17:47.460 insists is a sacred cow,
00:17:49.760 has in fact
00:17:50.340 been severely weakened.
00:17:51.660 I do not think
00:17:53.120 NATO is going to survive
00:17:54.620 this entire experience.
00:17:56.760 I think NATO
00:17:57.360 is going to crumble.
00:17:58.560 It may not happen
00:17:59.500 overnight,
00:18:00.160 but it's going to fragment.
00:18:01.720 Because Europeans
00:18:02.600 are now scratching
00:18:04.240 their heads
00:18:04.740 and they're asking
00:18:05.260 the question,
00:18:06.420 why are we following
00:18:07.660 the United States
00:18:08.540 into this crazy war?
00:18:09.760 What is our interest
00:18:11.780 in destroying Russia?
00:18:13.240 Remember,
00:18:13.820 at the beginning
00:18:14.480 of Russia's intervention
00:18:15.700 in Ukraine,
00:18:17.340 the Russian force
00:18:18.220 was small
00:18:18.860 and everyone stood around
00:18:20.240 and said,
00:18:20.820 oh my,
00:18:21.900 I guess the Russian military
00:18:23.140 really isn't that powerful.
00:18:24.920 And then the decision
00:18:26.020 was made,
00:18:26.580 well,
00:18:26.680 if they're not that powerful
00:18:27.760 and they're not acting
00:18:28.760 ruthlessly as we would
00:18:30.080 or as we did
00:18:30.980 certainly in Iraq
00:18:31.800 and other places,
00:18:32.960 then perhaps
00:18:33.720 we can destroy it.
00:18:34.980 And the response,
00:18:36.140 of course,
00:18:36.760 has been
00:18:37.160 what you would expect
00:18:38.560 the Russians to do.
00:18:39.580 They've recovered
00:18:40.280 and they've built
00:18:41.440 this enormous force.
00:18:43.280 But the notion
00:18:44.460 that Russia was ever poised
00:18:46.440 to attack Europe
00:18:47.700 was fiction.
00:18:48.820 It wasn't true.
00:18:50.140 And in fact,
00:18:50.800 Russia today
00:18:51.480 is in no position
00:18:52.400 to attack Europe
00:18:53.400 or NATO as a whole.
00:18:54.820 But if we intervene
00:18:56.120 in this mess
00:18:56.840 against what's happened
00:18:58.600 in Ukraine
00:18:59.120 and we try to push
00:19:00.520 this issue further
00:19:01.500 with Russia,
00:19:03.100 then I think
00:19:04.060 we will have
00:19:04.560 a massive war
00:19:05.360 and the Russians
00:19:05.880 will not hesitate
00:19:06.840 to mobilize millions
00:19:08.160 in March West.
00:19:10.240 I don't think
00:19:11.000 they want to,
00:19:12.040 but that's exactly
00:19:12.880 what they'll do
00:19:13.580 if they feel
00:19:14.140 they have to.
00:19:14.720 And we are giving
00:19:15.380 them nothing.
00:19:16.800 We are unwilling
00:19:17.760 to talk.
00:19:18.560 We're unwilling
00:19:19.120 to consider anything.
00:19:21.360 Eisenhower
00:19:21.800 would have put
00:19:22.340 a stop to this
00:19:23.160 in two weeks,
00:19:23.800 as you pointed out.
00:19:25.100 I don't think Kennedy
00:19:26.120 would have allowed
00:19:26.660 this to go on.
00:19:27.520 Even Johnson,
00:19:28.680 who is probably
00:19:29.480 closest to Biden
00:19:30.740 in terms of corruption
00:19:31.800 and stupidity,
00:19:33.040 would not have
00:19:33.900 directly challenged
00:19:35.200 the Soviet Union
00:19:36.980 to a conflict.
00:19:38.160 So, no,
00:19:38.780 we're in a bizarre
00:19:40.240 situation.
00:19:41.120 And you've been
00:19:41.920 talking for years.
00:19:43.320 I listened to you
00:19:44.200 when I was on active duty
00:19:45.220 talk about the terrible
00:19:46.780 condition of our finances,
00:19:48.360 our economy.
00:19:49.300 We still have
00:19:50.220 this open border.
00:19:51.700 People are worried
00:19:52.420 about a Chinese
00:19:53.220 weather balloon.
00:19:54.300 There's a Chinese
00:19:55.140 intelligence presence
00:19:56.380 in Mexico.
00:19:57.740 Thousands of Chinese
00:19:58.900 have come into our
00:19:59.800 country illegally,
00:20:01.120 along with thousands
00:20:02.300 or millions
00:20:02.960 of other people.
00:20:04.320 We have Chinese
00:20:05.280 scientists and engineers
00:20:06.740 and our universities
00:20:07.640 and our corporate
00:20:08.400 laboratories.
00:20:09.740 Nothing is being
00:20:10.800 done about that.
00:20:12.160 And yet,
00:20:12.680 we want a war
00:20:14.020 head-on with Moscow.
00:20:15.900 It makes no sense.
00:20:18.020 And I think
00:20:19.060 that any
00:20:19.960 close watcher
00:20:21.340 of President Biden
00:20:23.440 in his years
00:20:24.080 as vice president,
00:20:25.380 before that
00:20:26.160 as a senator,
00:20:27.460 head of the
00:20:28.080 Foreign Relations
00:20:28.900 Committee,
00:20:29.900 over these years,
00:20:31.220 not making sense
00:20:33.080 as being his
00:20:33.900 long suit.
00:20:35.280 He is an erratic
00:20:37.440 and I think
00:20:38.960 extremely intellectually
00:20:40.080 limited
00:20:40.780 individual.
00:20:43.960 He's now,
00:20:45.000 to add to that,
00:20:46.300 impaired
00:20:46.800 and without
00:20:49.420 apparently any
00:20:50.540 check within
00:20:51.600 the administration.
00:20:53.060 We do not know
00:20:54.600 what he is
00:20:55.820 capable of,
00:20:56.680 but what he's
00:20:57.320 already demonstrated
00:20:58.340 should be enough
00:20:59.400 to scare
00:21:01.220 the dickens
00:21:02.580 out of any
00:21:03.100 American
00:21:03.580 about what
00:21:04.480 he would do
00:21:05.220 with a military
00:21:06.320 threat.
00:21:08.220 Well,
00:21:08.820 Lou,
00:21:09.340 you're 100%
00:21:10.280 right in the
00:21:10.880 question that
00:21:11.440 comes up in
00:21:12.120 many,
00:21:12.480 many circles
00:21:13.000 these days
00:21:13.600 that I travel
00:21:14.200 in is,
00:21:15.140 do you really
00:21:15.760 think President
00:21:16.740 Biden is in
00:21:17.720 charge?
00:21:18.920 Who is actually
00:21:20.140 driving this?
00:21:21.800 Who is making
00:21:22.620 the decisions?
00:21:24.020 And I think
00:21:25.020 those are valid
00:21:25.760 questions,
00:21:26.320 don't you?
00:21:26.780 Oh,
00:21:27.580 I think
00:21:27.860 they're very
00:21:28.280 valid,
00:21:28.740 and I think
00:21:29.200 that on this
00:21:30.600 broadcast,
00:21:31.440 I tell you,
00:21:32.100 we explore those
00:21:33.180 issues frequently
00:21:34.740 because there is
00:21:36.260 no way this man
00:21:37.340 in his mental
00:21:38.640 state,
00:21:39.480 his cognitive
00:21:40.280 limitations,
00:21:42.800 there is no
00:21:43.900 way he could
00:21:45.020 be the intellectual
00:21:46.000 force behind
00:21:46.900 the anti-American
00:21:48.600 Marxist
00:21:50.080 effort
00:21:51.160 to upend
00:21:53.300 everything
00:21:54.060 American,
00:21:54.820 our institutions,
00:21:55.820 our values,
00:21:56.380 to take
00:21:57.480 over our
00:21:58.100 schools.
00:21:58.600 There is
00:21:59.220 nothing in
00:21:59.860 this that
00:22:00.300 is haphazard,
00:22:01.620 unplanned,
00:22:02.360 or without
00:22:03.480 specific purpose.
00:22:05.900 And I'm
00:22:06.200 talking about
00:22:06.740 the destruction
00:22:07.320 of public
00:22:07.820 education,
00:22:09.120 the indoctrination
00:22:10.540 that has been
00:22:11.420 driven into
00:22:13.060 our schools
00:22:14.740 by the two
00:22:15.620 large public
00:22:17.760 unions that
00:22:18.380 happen to
00:22:18.860 represent
00:22:19.380 teachers,
00:22:21.080 so-called.
00:22:22.760 Higher education
00:22:24.020 that, as you
00:22:24.540 point out,
00:22:25.040 is infiltrated
00:22:26.040 with Chinese
00:22:27.520 front institutions,
00:22:30.280 organizations,
00:22:31.240 associations,
00:22:31.800 and their
00:22:32.640 students who
00:22:33.940 are here,
00:22:34.960 but they're not
00:22:35.660 messing around
00:22:36.400 with humanities.
00:22:37.760 They are in
00:22:38.640 advanced physics,
00:22:40.820 mathematics,
00:22:42.440 theoretical
00:22:43.120 mathematics,
00:22:44.320 as well as
00:22:44.840 applied.
00:22:45.820 They are
00:22:46.760 acquiring
00:22:48.860 intellectual property
00:22:49.960 and knowledge
00:22:50.500 from the United
00:22:51.060 States and
00:22:52.280 technology at
00:22:53.680 a rate that
00:22:54.300 is breathtaking,
00:22:55.600 and we've
00:22:56.260 been fully
00:22:56.740 aware of it
00:22:57.400 for a decade.
00:22:59.200 Yes.
00:23:00.240 I usually
00:23:01.480 compare the
00:23:02.460 Chinese influence
00:23:04.860 in the West,
00:23:05.560 especially in our
00:23:06.320 own country,
00:23:06.960 is analogous to
00:23:07.780 a crime syndicate.
00:23:10.040 If you leave
00:23:10.860 your doors
00:23:11.680 unlocked,
00:23:12.400 if you don't
00:23:13.200 take care to
00:23:14.840 ensure that your
00:23:15.560 valuables are
00:23:16.380 stored somewhere
00:23:17.120 safe,
00:23:18.180 and you walk
00:23:19.040 away from your
00:23:19.700 house for a
00:23:20.260 few hours,
00:23:21.200 they're going
00:23:21.760 to come in
00:23:22.260 and steal
00:23:22.660 everything you
00:23:23.200 own.
00:23:24.400 And this is
00:23:25.220 the problem,
00:23:25.960 as you pointed
00:23:26.860 out for many
00:23:27.900 years.
00:23:28.600 We can address
00:23:29.520 these things.
00:23:30.220 We can close
00:23:31.000 the border.
00:23:32.060 We can restore
00:23:33.180 the rule of
00:23:33.860 law.
00:23:34.620 We can get
00:23:35.280 those U.S.
00:23:36.100 troops that
00:23:36.520 are sitting in
00:23:37.120 Poland, 50,000
00:23:38.240 of them, and put
00:23:38.940 them on the
00:23:39.380 border, where
00:23:40.280 they'll do us
00:23:40.780 some good.
00:23:42.220 We can do
00:23:43.000 all of these
00:23:43.620 things, and
00:23:44.520 we're doing
00:23:44.880 nothing,
00:23:45.880 absolutely
00:23:46.320 nothing.
00:23:47.320 And I don't
00:23:48.120 understand why
00:23:49.080 the American
00:23:49.640 people are
00:23:50.280 not mobilizing
00:23:51.680 by the millions
00:23:52.460 against us,
00:23:53.580 because their
00:23:54.200 country is at
00:23:55.080 severe risk of
00:23:56.060 going out of
00:23:56.600 business.
00:23:57.300 I don't think
00:23:57.680 they understand
00:23:58.200 that.
00:23:59.260 I think you
00:24:00.400 have just
00:24:01.520 articulated the
00:24:03.160 essential issue
00:24:05.160 confronting the
00:24:06.020 United States.
00:24:07.460 Why are
00:24:08.640 Americans so
00:24:10.600 apathetic, so
00:24:12.580 reserved, in a
00:24:14.440 moment of
00:24:15.520 existential threat
00:24:17.260 and internal
00:24:19.660 distress that is
00:24:22.100 driven by one
00:24:23.120 philosophy, and
00:24:24.400 that is one
00:24:25.400 party that is
00:24:26.720 now a Marxist
00:24:28.240 dim fifth column
00:24:30.100 in the United
00:24:31.020 States.
00:24:31.720 I don't believe
00:24:32.660 there's another, a
00:24:33.900 better analogy for
00:24:36.240 what they're doing.
00:24:37.180 This is not just a
00:24:38.360 political party.
00:24:39.540 This is a
00:24:40.600 movement.
00:24:41.140 It is without
00:24:43.300 question a
00:24:44.860 Marxist
00:24:45.900 organization
00:24:46.920 hell-bent on
00:24:48.160 destroying this
00:24:48.920 country, our
00:24:49.500 institutions, our
00:24:51.120 Constitution, as
00:24:53.100 well as
00:24:53.800 anything, anything
00:24:55.780 that is remotely
00:24:57.440 akin to truth,
00:24:58.700 justice, and the
00:24:59.440 American way.
00:25:01.140 Well, if you
00:25:01.860 look or pause and
00:25:03.280 look at the
00:25:03.920 American military
00:25:04.740 establishment, you
00:25:06.740 see that it is
00:25:07.760 in ruins.
00:25:09.340 We're certainly
00:25:10.140 spending more
00:25:10.900 money than the
00:25:11.520 rest of the
00:25:12.000 world combined on
00:25:13.440 the Department of
00:25:14.040 Defense, but then
00:25:14.840 you have to look
00:25:15.380 carefully at where
00:25:16.040 the money goes, how
00:25:17.660 much of that money
00:25:18.540 is earmarked by
00:25:19.920 people in Congress
00:25:20.820 for their personal
00:25:21.800 benefits, whether
00:25:23.760 it's benefiting
00:25:24.780 them or their
00:25:25.760 constituents in their
00:25:26.800 particular district
00:25:27.760 or state, but it
00:25:29.380 doesn't have a great
00:25:30.180 deal to do with
00:25:30.980 effective defense.
00:25:32.220 Look at the
00:25:32.580 senior officers.
00:25:34.180 I mean, good
00:25:34.620 Lord, we have
00:25:35.500 more four-stars,
00:25:37.760 more three-stars
00:25:38.820 than we've ever
00:25:39.360 had in our
00:25:39.840 history for probably
00:25:40.880 the smallest force
00:25:41.960 that we've had
00:25:42.480 since before the
00:25:43.720 Second World War.
00:25:44.700 We have right now
00:25:45.760 44 four-star
00:25:47.500 generals and
00:25:48.920 admirals for a
00:25:50.500 military establishment
00:25:51.660 that is barely a
00:25:52.760 million, and we
00:25:54.160 can't even recruit
00:25:54.900 for it.
00:25:55.440 And during World
00:25:55.960 War II, when we
00:25:57.520 had 12.2 million
00:25:59.280 men in uniform, we
00:26:01.280 had seven four-stars.
00:26:03.220 And somehow
00:26:04.400 or another,
00:26:04.920 miraculously, those
00:26:06.320 seven four-stars
00:26:07.340 managed to be
00:26:08.880 effective.
00:26:09.540 We've got 44, and
00:26:11.180 the only thing they
00:26:11.820 seem to be able to
00:26:12.480 do is retire on
00:26:13.680 very fat pensions and
00:26:15.440 go to work for the
00:26:16.320 various defense
00:26:17.040 industries, banks, and
00:26:18.180 lobbyists that have
00:26:19.540 gotten us into the
00:26:20.300 mess we're in now.
00:26:22.280 The corruption is
00:26:23.960 complete in our
00:26:25.120 federal government.
00:26:25.980 It includes the
00:26:26.860 military.
00:26:27.600 It includes law
00:26:28.700 enforcement, the
00:26:29.420 Department of
00:26:29.960 Justice, our
00:26:30.600 intelligence agencies,
00:26:31.680 the FBI, the
00:26:33.800 corruption is
00:26:34.560 pervasive.
00:26:35.820 It is deep, deeply
00:26:37.780 entrenched, and I
00:26:39.380 for one, Doug, I
00:26:41.300 have no idea in
00:26:42.720 the world how to
00:26:44.160 rid ourselves of
00:26:45.500 this level of
00:26:46.240 corruption.
00:26:47.160 I think that it's
00:26:48.180 unprecedented in
00:26:50.660 really in
00:26:51.860 governance, not
00:26:53.560 just in the
00:26:54.100 United States, but
00:26:55.100 this has been a
00:26:56.260 silent coup that
00:26:58.180 has taken place
00:26:58.940 over 30 years.
00:27:00.680 we can argue the
00:27:01.880 number 35, 30
00:27:02.980 years, but to
00:27:04.840 have insinuated
00:27:05.700 this many
00:27:06.560 like-minded people
00:27:07.760 into the
00:27:08.600 permanent
00:27:08.880 bureaucracy, the
00:27:10.380 so-called deep
00:27:11.140 state, and the
00:27:12.900 Democrat Party, is
00:27:15.080 just, it's
00:27:16.000 mind-boggling to
00:27:16.900 think what they've
00:27:17.600 achieved while the
00:27:19.200 Republican Party
00:27:20.060 and our social
00:27:21.120 critics and
00:27:21.740 academia were
00:27:22.900 utterly blind to
00:27:24.000 it, or at
00:27:24.840 least averted
00:27:25.440 their eyes.
00:27:27.080 Well, I think
00:27:27.820 you've hit the
00:27:28.740 nail on the
00:27:29.220 head.
00:27:29.460 The problem
00:27:29.900 is if
00:27:30.400 Americans are
00:27:31.140 expecting anything
00:27:32.240 in terms of
00:27:33.760 viable leadership
00:27:34.820 to bring us
00:27:36.000 out of this
00:27:36.560 crisis from the
00:27:37.420 Republican Party,
00:27:38.360 they're very much
00:27:38.920 mistaken.
00:27:40.280 I think there
00:27:41.540 are millions and
00:27:42.300 millions and
00:27:42.900 millions.
00:27:43.380 I suggest there
00:27:44.480 are probably over
00:27:45.260 100 million voters
00:27:46.320 out there,
00:27:47.620 Democrats and
00:27:48.580 Republicans, who
00:27:49.340 figured out that
00:27:50.020 neither party is
00:27:50.940 remotely interested in
00:27:52.060 this country or
00:27:53.360 protecting their
00:27:54.120 interests.
00:27:54.520 the time is
00:27:55.660 right, in my
00:27:57.000 judgment now, for
00:27:57.800 that huge number
00:27:59.260 to stand up and
00:28:00.080 say no more.
00:28:01.260 I wish someone
00:28:02.600 would finally stand
00:28:03.760 up and say we
00:28:04.400 need a new party.
00:28:06.380 Yeah, I think
00:28:08.320 that's exactly
00:28:10.540 where we are.
00:28:12.020 Those are issues
00:28:13.040 that are going to
00:28:13.640 be resolved, I
00:28:14.340 think, within
00:28:14.900 probably, if we're
00:28:16.360 to succeed in
00:28:18.680 preserving this
00:28:20.600 republic, I think
00:28:21.920 they have to be
00:28:22.780 resolved, or at
00:28:24.380 least begun a
00:28:25.820 resolution, certainly
00:28:27.860 within the next six
00:28:28.740 months, perhaps at
00:28:29.920 the outside to the
00:28:31.340 end of this year.
00:28:33.020 The other thing
00:28:34.440 that you brought up
00:28:36.160 repeatedly on the
00:28:37.500 economic and
00:28:38.160 financial side is
00:28:39.220 now coming to
00:28:39.980 fruition.
00:28:40.880 I hear people all
00:28:41.760 the time say, oh,
00:28:42.700 well, we've never
00:28:43.440 defaulted.
00:28:44.340 We've just got to
00:28:45.240 print more money.
00:28:45.980 We can't default.
00:28:46.880 Well, we have
00:28:47.460 defaulted.
00:28:48.020 We defaulted twice
00:28:48.960 under Franklin
00:28:49.600 Roosevelt in 32
00:28:50.720 and 34.
00:28:51.360 And those
00:28:52.580 defaults were
00:28:53.800 called restructuring
00:28:55.080 the debt.
00:28:56.280 We were able to
00:28:57.160 do it because we
00:28:58.020 were demanding and
00:28:59.040 getting huge
00:28:59.860 quantities of gold
00:29:01.020 from Europe as
00:29:02.800 payment for World
00:29:03.860 War I debts.
00:29:05.060 The next time we
00:29:06.220 defaulted, and you've
00:29:07.460 spoken about this,
00:29:08.420 people don't
00:29:08.800 understand it, came
00:29:10.320 with Lyndon Johnson
00:29:11.300 because of his
00:29:12.080 great society and
00:29:13.140 his Vietnam War.
00:29:14.740 Nixon was
00:29:15.360 confronted with a
00:29:16.300 default, and we
00:29:17.580 went off the gold
00:29:18.940 standard because once
00:29:20.520 we left the gold
00:29:21.260 standard, we
00:29:21.880 could print.
00:29:23.140 Well, now we're
00:29:23.900 in a very serious
00:29:25.040 position.
00:29:25.900 The world is
00:29:26.860 starting to
00:29:27.700 de-dollarize.
00:29:29.160 We have bullied
00:29:30.160 and threatened so
00:29:31.040 many countries
00:29:31.880 over the years
00:29:33.500 with the financial
00:29:34.680 system that we
00:29:35.500 control.
00:29:36.280 They're just
00:29:37.020 walking away from
00:29:37.940 the dollar.
00:29:38.940 Most Americans
00:29:39.600 don't even know
00:29:40.340 it, and the
00:29:40.800 people on the
00:29:41.320 Hill have no
00:29:41.920 interest in telling
00:29:42.740 Americans the
00:29:43.500 truth.
00:29:44.560 So the crisis is
00:29:46.760 really on every
00:29:48.140 front, Lou, every
00:29:49.440 front.
00:29:50.500 You're exactly
00:29:51.000 right, and I
00:29:51.860 don't spend as
00:29:52.720 much time on
00:29:53.600 this podcast as
00:29:55.000 I should in
00:29:56.260 talking about the
00:29:57.360 dollar, in
00:29:58.420 talking about the
00:29:59.380 threat that losing
00:30:01.220 the reserve
00:30:01.800 currency status and
00:30:03.840 standing and
00:30:05.160 advantages would do
00:30:07.600 to this country.
00:30:08.480 If we can look at
00:30:09.900 any number of
00:30:10.640 perils it faces,
00:30:11.760 but that one is
00:30:12.640 certainly, that
00:30:14.640 would be, that
00:30:16.700 would be approaching
00:30:17.440 existential,
00:30:18.440 certainly.
00:30:19.440 And I should
00:30:20.380 underline what
00:30:21.440 you're saying.
00:30:22.520 We have seen
00:30:23.560 now 27 nations,
00:30:27.360 27 economies,
00:30:29.260 move back from
00:30:30.540 the dollar,
00:30:31.700 withdraw from
00:30:32.420 the dollar
00:30:32.960 circle, and as
00:30:34.860 the reserve
00:30:35.340 currency, as
00:30:36.840 and pegged
00:30:37.840 to the dollar.
00:30:39.080 That will have
00:30:40.380 in time, if it
00:30:41.520 continues the
00:30:42.260 pace, that
00:30:43.700 will have such
00:30:46.260 devastating
00:30:47.320 consequences
00:30:48.060 economically, that
00:30:49.680 I don't even
00:30:50.580 want to ponder
00:30:51.760 it, frankly.
00:30:53.280 But we do
00:30:54.120 have to take
00:30:54.840 note of also
00:30:56.180 the policies
00:30:57.320 being followed
00:30:58.020 by this
00:30:59.100 administration.
00:31:00.000 And Doug, it's
00:31:01.100 almost impossible
00:31:01.920 to imagine they've
00:31:02.740 only been in
00:31:03.300 office two years,
00:31:04.940 but they are
00:31:06.200 absolutely trying
00:31:08.580 to destroy this
00:31:09.520 economy.
00:31:10.180 And when the
00:31:11.000 president of the
00:31:11.660 United States is
00:31:12.380 standing before
00:31:13.020 the Senate and
00:31:14.560 the Congress,
00:31:15.100 the American
00:31:15.840 people, as
00:31:16.420 he was last
00:31:16.980 night, talking
00:31:17.880 about creating
00:31:19.580 jobs, when he
00:31:20.960 was talking about
00:31:21.680 actually jobs that
00:31:23.400 were lost in
00:31:25.080 COVID, but simply
00:31:26.240 people came back
00:31:27.860 to them, he's
00:31:29.020 only created 2.7,
00:31:30.360 but he stood
00:31:30.800 there and said he
00:31:31.880 had created 12
00:31:32.740 million jobs, that
00:31:34.340 this economy was
00:31:35.260 doing just fine.
00:31:36.140 We're not just
00:31:36.760 doing fine.
00:31:37.340 We have a Federal
00:31:37.960 Reserve with almost
00:31:38.940 a $9 trillion
00:31:40.060 balance sheet that
00:31:42.320 has to be run
00:31:43.080 off.
00:31:43.400 We have a
00:31:44.340 Federal Reserve
00:31:45.040 that has had the
00:31:46.840 idea that it
00:31:47.440 could manage
00:31:47.940 markets.
00:31:48.580 It is acquiring
00:31:50.080 some modesty
00:31:50.940 now.
00:31:51.340 I won't call it
00:31:51.880 full humility, but
00:31:53.780 we are in one
00:31:55.380 hell of a
00:31:56.000 circumstance.
00:31:57.620 No, you've hit
00:31:59.280 all the key
00:31:59.800 things, and I
00:32:01.160 just wish more
00:32:02.640 Americans could
00:32:03.400 hear that than
00:32:04.740 do, because I
00:32:06.800 think Americans
00:32:07.400 are good people.
00:32:09.160 Most Americans
00:32:10.040 obey the law, they
00:32:10.980 pay their taxes,
00:32:11.940 they make the
00:32:12.440 best of whatever
00:32:13.160 situation they're
00:32:14.020 in, but I don't
00:32:15.140 think they
00:32:15.480 understand the
00:32:16.240 bubble that their
00:32:17.600 government lives
00:32:18.360 in.
00:32:18.980 When you go inside
00:32:19.880 the Beltway, you're
00:32:20.900 in a different
00:32:21.300 world.
00:32:22.300 When you try to
00:32:22.840 tell people that
00:32:23.580 the food banks up
00:32:25.340 and down the East
00:32:26.180 Coast and into the
00:32:27.380 center of the
00:32:27.900 United States from
00:32:29.020 here to Kansas
00:32:29.720 City are hard
00:32:32.560 pressed to provide
00:32:34.000 enough food to the
00:32:35.720 people that actually
00:32:36.460 need them because the
00:32:37.660 situation is that
00:32:38.640 dire economically,
00:32:40.320 they look at you as
00:32:41.260 so you landed from
00:32:43.060 another planet, because
00:32:44.760 there is no scarcity
00:32:46.160 in Washington, D.C.
00:32:47.760 There's no scarcity
00:32:48.900 of anything, least
00:32:50.180 of all cash, certainly
00:32:51.720 not food, certainly
00:32:53.300 not quote-unquote the
00:32:54.460 good life.
00:32:55.540 So at some point,
00:32:56.760 somebody's got to wake
00:32:57.800 up and understand, if
00:32:59.360 you're expecting people
00:33:00.720 inside the Beltway to
00:33:01.840 save you, you're in
00:33:03.240 for a long wait.
00:33:05.240 I'm afraid that's the
00:33:06.420 case, and as the
00:33:07.340 president is hailing
00:33:09.840 his great success as
00:33:11.060 an economic leader,
00:33:14.040 right now, just about
00:33:16.020 70 percent of those
00:33:17.680 surveyed in this
00:33:19.360 economy say they are
00:33:20.900 living paycheck to
00:33:22.020 paycheck, almost a
00:33:23.860 hand-to-mouth
00:33:24.520 existence, and that is
00:33:26.680 outrageous.
00:33:27.380 I don't know, my guess
00:33:28.540 is that that is an
00:33:30.500 exaggeration statistically,
00:33:32.160 but the truth is, it
00:33:34.880 is representative of
00:33:36.380 a plight for many
00:33:37.640 Americans, and to have
00:33:39.560 it in the midst of so
00:33:40.940 much, so much money
00:33:43.140 flowing through the
00:33:43.940 system that is landing
00:33:44.920 in the pockets of so
00:33:46.040 few is remarkable.
00:33:49.140 One of the things we
00:33:50.100 know, we know that the
00:33:51.340 top 50, he was talking
00:33:52.400 about taxation, the top
00:33:54.660 50 percent of the
00:33:55.980 country pay all of the
00:33:58.900 taxes, but he was going
00:34:00.760 after the so-called one
00:34:01.780 percenters.
00:34:02.580 The one percenters pay
00:34:03.960 over 50 percent of all
00:34:05.400 the taxes.
00:34:06.720 The bottom half of the
00:34:08.680 tax payers pay something
00:34:12.200 on the, I believe it's
00:34:13.300 something on the order of
00:34:14.100 10 percent of all taxes.
00:34:16.220 It's really quite
00:34:17.160 something to behold, the
00:34:19.700 lies that ignore
00:34:21.840 statistical and, in fact,
00:34:24.280 not just statistical
00:34:25.300 representation, but the
00:34:26.480 reality of the American
00:34:28.480 economy and the American
00:34:30.020 middle class, which is
00:34:31.220 fighting for its very
00:34:34.060 existence right now.
00:34:36.460 All those points
00:34:37.260 exemplify everything
00:34:38.480 that's wrong with our
00:34:39.340 society.
00:34:40.560 I mean, all you have to
00:34:41.200 do is look at the
00:34:41.900 distribution of the tax
00:34:43.040 base.
00:34:43.960 You know your society's in
00:34:45.280 trouble.
00:34:45.940 Right.
00:34:46.920 Right.
00:34:47.580 And, you know, also to
00:34:48.840 look at the distribution
00:34:49.880 of the recruits into our
00:34:53.040 military, the volunteers,
00:34:54.740 which now are not
00:34:56.680 volunteers, and point of
00:34:58.920 fact, we can't find
00:35:00.840 enough volunteers to
00:35:02.320 fill our recruiting
00:35:03.520 goals.
00:35:04.580 The Russians have had a
00:35:06.040 way of rounding up
00:35:07.660 750,000.
00:35:09.480 It's called
00:35:09.700 conscription.
00:35:10.700 I don't know what we're
00:35:11.940 going to do, but we do
00:35:13.200 know that the quality of
00:35:14.740 the men and women who
00:35:16.380 are now being brought
00:35:17.900 into the U.S.
00:35:18.760 military standards have
00:35:19.940 repeatedly had to be
00:35:21.100 dropped.
00:35:22.260 This is not the same
00:35:23.520 military that was
00:35:24.520 envisioned and which was
00:35:26.380 a reality for at least
00:35:28.220 25 years.
00:35:29.880 This is something
00:35:30.580 entirely different.
00:35:32.320 And the general staff
00:35:33.720 officers, I will say
00:35:35.320 this, Doug, and I want
00:35:36.440 you to correct me with
00:35:37.480 your view, I think the
00:35:39.540 quality of leadership in
00:35:40.720 this military is
00:35:41.860 frightening.
00:35:44.600 I won't even quantify it
00:35:48.020 in any way.
00:35:48.940 It's just frightening to
00:35:50.260 see the quality of those
00:35:51.420 general officers.
00:35:53.400 Oh, no, you're
00:35:54.620 absolutely right.
00:35:55.500 And this is something
00:35:57.060 that's been going on for
00:35:58.060 30 years.
00:35:59.340 You can argue that in
00:36:00.560 many ways we peaked as a
00:36:02.780 great power in 1991.
00:36:05.200 And that's one of the
00:36:06.080 things I like to point out
00:36:07.040 to people.
00:36:07.540 You know, we managed to
00:36:08.480 get through 50 years or
00:36:10.840 excuse me, 40 years of
00:36:12.360 Cold War without
00:36:13.960 triggering a global
00:36:15.860 conflict, without going to
00:36:17.560 war with the Soviet Union
00:36:18.720 or China.
00:36:19.260 We managed to do that.
00:36:21.120 In addition to that, when
00:36:22.600 the Cold War ended and our
00:36:24.120 opponents collapsed, we were
00:36:26.400 prosperous.
00:36:27.300 We were successful.
00:36:28.900 Our economic strength was
00:36:30.520 unmatched.
00:36:31.900 Inside of just the last 12
00:36:34.260 months, we've collapsed.
00:36:37.340 Our military is in ruins.
00:36:39.780 And the Russians, who, quite
00:36:41.740 frankly, were not spending
00:36:42.920 prolifically on defense, have
00:36:44.780 now regained their former
00:36:46.100 stature and their economy is
00:36:47.920 booming, there's something
00:36:49.280 radically wrong with this
00:36:50.600 picture.
00:36:51.060 And you can't blame that on
00:36:52.360 the American people.
00:36:53.680 You've got to place the
00:36:54.900 blame where it belongs, and
00:36:56.040 that's in Washington with the
00:36:57.400 Biden administration.
00:36:59.360 It is.
00:37:00.320 And at the same time, the
00:37:02.860 blame as well rests with the
00:37:04.660 Republican Party, I truly
00:37:05.860 believe.
00:37:06.560 Oh, absolutely.
00:37:07.580 Yeah, you're 100% right.
00:37:09.120 They shut it aside.
00:37:10.320 The most successful
00:37:11.120 president we have seen in a
00:37:12.460 four-year period, I believe,
00:37:15.360 in the modern era, the most
00:37:17.200 successful with his
00:37:18.640 accomplishments.
00:37:19.560 And they feared him because
00:37:20.920 he didn't fear the
00:37:22.060 establishment.
00:37:23.240 He didn't fear the donor
00:37:25.220 class.
00:37:26.280 And the result has been just
00:37:29.460 an unending political
00:37:30.740 persecution of Donald Trump.
00:37:34.040 It's a sad moment.
00:37:37.800 It is a moment, though, for
00:37:38.860 people to put away tears for
00:37:42.040 what we have lost and think
00:37:43.760 about what we must regain.
00:37:46.620 Doug, I want to ask you as
00:37:48.380 we conclude here, we always
00:37:49.980 give our guests the last
00:37:51.000 word, as you know.
00:37:52.280 I would like you to give us
00:37:54.500 a sense of how you see what
00:37:57.000 looks to me to be a potential
00:37:59.180 constitutional crisis, the
00:38:01.600 military not informing
00:38:03.220 President Trump or, as it
00:38:04.660 turns out, Biden in 10
00:38:07.600 instances that were nine
00:38:09.880 instances of balloons crossing
00:38:12.380 into the U.S.
00:38:13.780 territory.
00:38:14.620 They did not inform the
00:38:16.260 commander-in-chief.
00:38:17.880 Your reaction to what may be
00:38:20.740 in prospect as a result of
00:38:22.220 that, your reaction, if you
00:38:25.000 would, please.
00:38:25.340 Well, we learned when
00:38:27.480 President Trump was in
00:38:28.860 office that the senior
00:38:31.120 leadership was not informing
00:38:33.100 him of the truth.
00:38:34.620 He gave specific directions,
00:38:37.260 instructions that we would
00:38:38.280 remove forces from Syria.
00:38:40.140 And they said, yes, sir.
00:38:41.760 And they did nothing.
00:38:42.920 In fact, they added forces to
00:38:45.120 the contingent in Syria.
00:38:47.100 They told him repeatedly that
00:38:48.940 they were doing things they
00:38:49.980 never did.
00:38:50.600 They simply ignored the
00:38:52.380 president.
00:38:53.340 And this process has
00:38:55.440 continued.
00:38:56.080 So I think you have a group
00:38:58.340 of people at the top of the
00:38:59.460 military now that are without
00:39:01.540 oversight, without supervision,
00:39:04.160 who are a force of their own.
00:39:06.680 And that has that's got to stop
00:39:09.320 a wholesale house cleaning of
00:39:11.460 the senior ranks of the armed
00:39:12.660 forces in order and then a
00:39:14.500 dramatic reduction in the
00:39:15.840 overhead.
00:39:17.020 You know, we look like a
00:39:18.760 banana republic, frankly, with
00:39:20.740 all of these three and four star
00:39:22.180 generals.
00:39:22.840 And people have no idea what the
00:39:24.840 world was like before we got
00:39:26.200 here.
00:39:26.720 You know, when when a general
00:39:28.320 officer with four stars like
00:39:30.000 Douglas MacArthur retired as
00:39:32.300 chief of staff of the army, he's he
00:39:34.860 was reduced in rank to his
00:39:36.460 permanent rank in the regular
00:39:38.280 army of two stars.
00:39:40.940 His rank was restored after the
00:39:43.040 war broke out.
00:39:44.720 But we had a very different
00:39:46.780 military in those days.
00:39:48.300 People did not expect to become
00:39:50.040 millionaires when they retired.
00:39:51.860 People did.
00:39:53.360 Treated as godlike figures for the
00:39:55.400 rest of their lives.
00:39:57.800 We have a cultural problem.
00:39:59.760 We have an economic problem.
00:40:01.180 We have a military problem, all
00:40:02.640 bound up with the Department of
00:40:03.840 Defense.
00:40:04.660 The only solution is to sweep it
00:40:06.300 out and radical surgery to
00:40:08.620 reduce this ponderous overhead.
00:40:12.060 That's vitally necessary.
00:40:13.800 And then we've got to get back to
00:40:14.920 basics in terms of principles of
00:40:17.300 civil military relations.
00:40:18.940 You can't have rogue generals
00:40:20.640 calling the Chinese to reassure the
00:40:23.720 Chinese that we're not attacking
00:40:25.400 them.
00:40:26.000 What kind of nonsense is that?
00:40:28.460 It's outrageous crap.
00:40:30.380 The man should have been relieved on
00:40:31.800 the spot.
00:40:32.260 What are we doing paying for
00:40:34.340 transgender operations in the
00:40:36.100 military?
00:40:36.500 Is that what the taxpayer expects
00:40:38.120 from the American military
00:40:39.720 establishment?
00:40:40.780 And what are we turning out from
00:40:42.120 the service academies?
00:40:43.180 We just have girls and boys in
00:40:45.240 uniform running around now.
00:40:46.760 The whole thing is rotten to the
00:40:49.260 core.
00:40:50.140 I hate to be blunt, but I think
00:40:51.840 that's where we are.
00:40:52.700 Well, we expected you to be blunt
00:40:56.040 and we would expect you, as
00:40:58.000 always, to be articulate in
00:41:01.080 expressing your insights, your
00:41:03.600 perspectives, and your wisdom.
00:41:05.500 We really appreciate you being with
00:41:07.320 us.
00:41:08.540 Colonel, you're a great American.
00:41:11.180 We appreciate your time and I look
00:41:13.060 forward to talking with you more.
00:41:15.740 And thanks for today and thanks for
00:41:18.520 your service to this great nation.
00:41:20.400 Colonel Doug McGregor.
00:41:21.540 Thank you, sir.
00:41:22.720 Okay.
00:41:23.160 Thanks, Lou.
00:41:23.860 Thanks, everybody, for being with
00:41:25.200 us today.
00:41:25.720 This week, our guests include
00:41:27.020 Congressman Byron Donalds,
00:41:28.960 Judicial Watchist Chris Farrell,
00:41:30.640 Dr. Robert Malone, on Do We or
00:41:33.080 Don't We Need Masks?
00:41:34.340 How Good or Bad Are the Vaccines?
00:41:36.920 And joining us tomorrow,
00:41:38.100 Congressman Mike Waltz.
00:41:39.880 He sits on three committees, House
00:41:41.960 Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and
00:41:43.940 Armed Services.
00:41:45.380 Join us here tomorrow when we should
00:41:47.440 know more about the Chinese balloon
00:41:49.300 broadside over the U.S.
00:41:51.060 Russia's plans against Ukraine.
00:41:53.860 And is Biden a lame duck?
00:41:55.780 What's next in the House
00:41:56.980 investigation of Biden corruption?
00:41:59.560 Please be with us here tomorrow for
00:42:01.280 all of that and more.
00:42:02.940 Till then, thanks for joining us.
00:42:05.040 God bless you and God bless America.