COMMUNIST CHINA HAS CORRUPTED MOST OF HOLLYWOOD, PROFESSIONAL SPORTS, ACADEMIA, WALL STREET AND CORPORATE AMERICA
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Rep. Mike Waltz (D-Illinois) joins Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show to talk about the Chinese spy balloons that have been spotted over the past week and a half over the Atlantic Ocean and the U.S. military has been shooting them down.
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Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to the Great America Show, where truth and justice and
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the American way are cherished and protected. We may not always win, but we will always fight
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and fight like hell for this country's founding values, and we're delighted you're with us.
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Incredibly, there are still a lot of our fellow citizens who don't even know there's a fight
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underway. They still don't believe that our federal government has been taken over by the
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anti-American deep state and the Marxist Dems who run the Democrat Party. Many others still don't
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believe that China is our enemy, that China isn't just an adversary, not just a competitor. They're
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our, hear me well now, they are our outright enemy, and far too many of our fellow Americans don't yet
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accept that reality. Even with our F-22 fighter jets flying overhead, shooting down Chinese balloons
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and a few phantom balloons as well, it appears, in just over a week. This puppet president of ours
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has gone from no problem, it's just another balloon surveilling our nuclear missile sites all across
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the northern U.S. for a week, to his now sudden silence and a retreat to another weekend at his
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Wilmington, Delaware home. Otherwise known as the storage dwelling for U.S. top secret classified
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documents, documents that Biden also would rather not talk about. We have overflying our northern border
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and Canada, more balloons and more unidentified so-called airborne objects, as the military likes
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to call them now, more radar anomalies and more pure bull in a high-speed flow out of the White House
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and the Pentagon as well. They did up the ante a little in their disinformation campaigns this
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weekend. They now will not rule out even alien life forms as the perpetrators of this rampant
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outbreak of Chinese high-flying spy balloons. Think of that. Space aliens are now allied with the damn
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Chai-Coms. Holy cow! Now, do you think it's just a coincidence that these big balloons started
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menacing American skies the same moment that Congress started the hearings investigating Joe
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Biden and his crime family? This third term of the Obama administration is getting just a little out
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of hand. The Marxist Dems and the deep state wanted a bright, shiny object to distract the American public
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from their perfidy. The Biden scandals and the House investigations, and they overdid that bright,
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shiny object thing, don't you think? Next thing we know, there are these big old bright balloons
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crossing high above the clouds. Even the Pentagon spokesman, a general for crying out loud, telling
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us we don't need briefings on those balloons and objects. Just look up at the sky, whatever you do.
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Look up at the sky. Don't pay attention to the Biden puppet show, the corruption and deceit of the
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Marxist Dems and their wide open border. They're pro-cartel policies, killing Americans by the
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hundreds of thousands with their fentanyl, thanks to their communist Chinese partners for supplying
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ingredients for the deadly drug. And for God's sakes, don't pay attention to what's going on in Ukraine
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or Taiwan or the Philippines or those lasers from Chinese satellites over Hawaii. Don't you dare pay
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attention to the six trillion dollars the Marxist Dems and Rhinos are stealing from taxpayers and
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will spend lavishly on support of the further corruption of crime-ridden Democrat-run cities
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all over America. Quick, look up. Is that a commie balloon that I see high in the sky?
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See something, say something, they say. And don't you dare say anything that the Marxist
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arbiters of free speech find hateful and false? Like, for example, truth or just your opinion.
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No, no, no, no, not anymore. This is the fundamental transformation being brought to us by our good
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friends in the federal government and the Marxist Democrat Party. Our guest today is one of the true
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friends of the American people, a decorated veteran serving in the U.S. Army Special Forces and now in
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the U.S. Congress. He's Congressman Mike Waltz. He's on three of the most important committees in the
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House of Representatives, the Intelligence Committee, Foreign Affairs and the Armed Services
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Committee. Congressman Waltz, great to have you with us. Let's start with the balloons and the efforts to
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recover as much of those payloads as possible. Well, I expect the Navy to get it pretty efficiently
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wrapped up given how shallow the water is. I mean, it's under 50 feet. And, you know, I give the Navy
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credit. They immediately had three very capable ships on site. Now, I don't give the administration
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credit. Those ships had time to get there because the thing just drifted over the United States for
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however, five days. So, and apparently we had way too much heads up. You know, my other point,
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Lou would be, we shot it down over the wrong ocean. Should have been, should have been shot down over
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the Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic. You don't shoot down a spy craft after it's completed its spy
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mission. That is, it's just stupefying to most of us, I believe, to think that the administration
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permitted that, the military permitted that. Why, your reaction, you were involved on every level.
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You're on the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Intelligence Committee, the Armed Services
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Committee. How is it that we have a monstrosity of a display like this before the entire world?
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Yeah, that's, well, that's the, that's the question before us. I mean, look, it's become clear
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that we did detect this over our airspace in Alaska. What is still unclear to me is what the decision
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kind of chain was, did it go to the president at that time? And, and he make a decision not to shoot
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it down, even though it's some of the most rural and sparsely populated parts of the country. And
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then all, you know, could have shot it down also, you know, over the Aleutians and over the ocean.
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Was the president involved in that decision? What did the military recommend on the front end?
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My suspicion, we still have a number of outstanding requests for information, but is that they thought
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it was just going to drift over, over Canada. Although I had asked, you know, what our engagement
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with the Canadian government was and their decision, because our command is for all of North America
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and NORAD and Colorado, not just the United States. And then finally, you know, as you've seen,
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all of the mixed messages coming out of this White House, they tried to politicize it, they tried to
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blame the Trump administration. And it was only after every national security official in the
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administration denied knowing anything about it, that the White House then had to catch up their
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spin with the facts, which was that we missed it. And our military missed it back under the Trump
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administration. That also is going to lead to all kinds of questions from a congressional oversight
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standpoint. As it well should. And to that point, this administration is, to me, the most appalling
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in this country's history. And I say that straight up, because this president is obviously, every man
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and woman in this country can stare at the television as long as they want. They, if they deny their eyes,
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they'll come to a different conclusion, but he's obviously impaired.
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This is an administration that will lie at the drop of a hat. And sometimes they don't wait that
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long. But to accuse the Trump administration as a defense, a deflection of having done nothing in
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the face of an intrusion by three previous instances of balloons over U.S. territory is outrageous.
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What is going to be the result of that? Will there be a further investigation of what is going on with
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Well, I mean, add it, Lou, as you know, add it to the list of investigations that we already have
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ongoing. So yes, I do expect there will be, and there will be, we're going to call people to the
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carpet and tell them to get in line between the border, origins of COVID, Afghanistan, accusing
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parents at school board meetings of being domestic terrorists and deploying FBI counterterrorism task
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force against them. I mean, it's just one, and we haven't even gotten, I don't think we've even
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scratched the surface of Hunter Biden's business dealings and how that impacted the big guy. So
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yes, Lou, but, you know, I don't think we have enough hours in the day to investigate this
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administration right now with everything going on.
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I sympathize, Congressman. I really do. And amongst the other things, early brief, you were, I think,
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either the first or among the very first to be briefed by this administration, I believe by the
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Defense Department. Correct me if I'm wrong. And at first they were talking about firing 20 millimeter
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cannon at this balloon, which would have given, very simply put, it would put smaller holes in the
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balloon and permit a less, a more, a slower descent, if not a controlled descent on the part of the
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payload. And then they ultimately use a sidewinder missile. I mean, did they brief you on why in the
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world that reasoning changed? Well, actually, you know, one of my colleagues, Representative August
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Pflueger was a former F-22 pilot. He's from Texas. And of course, we've been giving them a hard time
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about, you know, the Air Force high-fiving over shooting down a balloon with a $100 billion per copy
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advanced stealth fighter jet. But at least, look, I mean, we teased the Air Force. Look, I give them a lot
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of credit. That actually was a bit of a difficult shot in terms of the calculus because it was at
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altitude and the balloon was at a much higher altitude. One of the reasons the Chinese are
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sending it into the stratosphere is it's that space, that area between where aircraft can fly
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and then obviously where our satellites are. And it really is a gray zone, both for, and this is what
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we have to pull the thread on, on the Armed Services Committee is, were our sensors looking in the wrong
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direction? Were they looking kind of past that zone into space? Was it the type of signature the Chinese knew
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we would have difficulty picking up? But in terms of actually shooting it down, apparently lofting it up at
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that altitude and having it fall within our territorial waters from that altitude, they say, was pretty darn
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tough. So I'll take their word for it. Right. And I do presume that the Air Force is not going to give
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out a standing for one balloon shot, correct? I don't know. Well, you know, at the rate that
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Chinese are sending them, you know, four more does, you know, would constitute an ace. That's right.
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The standard five would hold. Five shoot downs. Yeah. But we're also teasing them about whether they
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have the kill sticker under their, you know, under the cockpit there. But look, in all seriousness, this is, I think
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this is one more bit of evidence of the tsunami of Chinese spying that's going on in this country from our
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greatest adversary that seeks to supplant us, replace us and dominate us. And they're doing it by stealing our
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technology. And it's in our universities. It's in our labs. It's in our technology centers.
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Lou, I just sent a letter over to the Secretary of Defense asking about the Chinese buying up our
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private schools, many of which have junior ROTC programs in there. And so I'm hoping that this is a
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bit of a Sputnik moment for the American public, much like it was in the 1950s when the Soviets sent up
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a satellite, you know, 12 years into the Cold War, that this is a wake up call for us to realize
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what's going on and that she is telling his country to prepare for war and is telling them that they
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are going to replace the American dream with the China dream. And he wants to export his form of
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government, his techno surveillance dictatorship around the world. And that's not, that's not a world
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I want my kids or grandkids growing up in. Amen. And I want to congratulate and commend you
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on beginning that investigation into the support of those programs. It's outrageous what we're
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already permitting in our colleges and universities to have a direct connection to ROTC programs
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is just stunning. So I commend you for that. We have an administration that shut down the task force
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that was to blunt the intelligence operations of the Chinese within the United States.
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They disbanded it. And so we are now, as usual with this administration, it seems we're following
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a compromised leader when it comes to China. And I just wonder how we're managing to survive this
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just institutionalized stupidity on the part of the Marxist Dems. I mean, the corruption is pervasive.
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There is no stomach to deal with reality and the reality that you're speaking of, which is the
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aggressiveness and the intent for world domination on the part of President Xi.
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Yeah. Well, twofold. One, and I want to be clear here because the Democrats will just throw out,
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you know, xenophobic and this is racist, anti-Asian hate, what have you. I have no issue
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with the amazing and wonderful Chinese people and culture that are suffering under this dictatorship
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under Xi and the Chinese Communist Party. But what we have to realize is that in 2017,
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Xi passed what they call their national security law that requires every Chinese citizen,
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every business corporation, you name it, to collect anything the government tells them to. So many of
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these students are well-meaning kids. They just want an education and a better life or the scientists
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that are coming over here to, you know, do cancer research or what have you. They have no choice
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if tapped on the shoulder by a Communist Party official and told, go access that supercomputer
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or that key technology and send it back. Not only do they have to, their family back home can be held
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liable. And so that's what we have to realize. And your question of why this government is doing
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nothing about it. Think about all of the institutions that the Democrats care the most
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about. Hollywood, sports industry, academia. Now they're, you know, woke corporate friends
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in Wall Street. They're all compromised. They're all making money hand over fist on their business
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in China, ignoring the gross human rights abuses, of course, while they preach social justice back
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here at home. But the institutions the Democrats care about the most are the ones that are most
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compromised by the CCP. And they're the ones, you know, telling every Democrat in Washington to turn
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their head and look the other way. And I think that is as succinct and insightful an explanation as
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there is as to what is going on with this government and some of our largest and most important and
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powerful institutions. This business of 10 instances of balloons, and as to my count, only two have had
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concurrent awareness with the administration in power at that moment. This means, straightforwardly
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to me, that the military is making decisions about what to bring to the level of the commander-in-chief
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and are making independent decisions about what will be U.S. policy on a foreign incursion and intrusion
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into the United States airspace. Am I missing something here? Well, look, I mean, that was certainly
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mine and others' concerns when the administration tried to politicize the whole matter and say, hey,
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this happened under Trump and they didn't shoot it down. So therefore, you know, what's the big deal?
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Well, stop criticizing us for not doing it either. Turns out, you know, the Pentagon, you know, kind of,
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kind of, I think, stepped in with some facts there. And it turns out that nobody in the administration
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knew, even on the military side under Trump, because we just missed, we missed them for reasons that
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are still outstanding. Some of them are classified, but some of them we still have some questions about.
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So, you know, I think they rolled that back some and they pulled that back some. But to your point,
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we need very clear answers on what types of intrusions get elevated to the president, regardless of political
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party, because that is a commander-in-chief decision, not, you know, I mean, God bless our majors and colonels
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or what have you, but what are those criteria that those decisions get elevated? And we have asked those
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I think all of us now are waiting those answers because the initial statements by this administration
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were all over the map. They were obviously in CYA mode. They were obviously lying. And I will not
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take their word for anything that they're saying either about they just found out for, you know,
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what was happening four years ago. If I had to make a view, a choice on a board, I would take
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they're lying through their teeth and they did not take it to the commander-in-chief because of the woke
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general staff officers in this Pentagon. That would be my response. And I would start an immediate
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investigation to find out what, what is going on. What kind of culture have we built from the
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secretary of defense on down across the general officers that they would even think about violating
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their oath of office and their oath of duty to the constitution. This, I, I smell a very strong
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Well, Lou, I mean, it's either the military knew and didn't inform the Trump White House or with what
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they're now saying is they didn't know and just completely missed these, these signatures. You know,
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they're, they're figuring it out as they kind of roll back the tape. But that presents a whole other
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series of questions on our military capabilities and what the Chinese are exploiting. And I think the final,
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you know, big question there is, did she know, uh, if he knew, then that was a pretty big slap in the
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face, uh, to both Biden and Blinken just before his visit. Uh, and if she didn't know, and this was
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some, you know, they took this action, someone in his military independently, uh, and, and outside of
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the chain of command, that's a whole other issue. So that's another question we have out to, uh, to our
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military and intelligence community is what did the Chinese leadership know? Why did they do this
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now? Uh, and, uh, what did they expect to gain? And what do we think they gained from it all?
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If I may say, I thought that you styled it perfectly, uh, that we are dealing with our chief
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adversary, the People's Republic of China. I don't think it's too much of a, uh, uh, a reduction in
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language to say what it really is in Anglo-Saxon terms. They are an enemy of the United States of
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America and they have made it clear. And the only one who seems to be in doubt, uh, is the leadership
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class in this country. Uh, I know that that does not include you. There are exceptions. I certainly
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acknowledge, and I, and I salute you, uh, for all the initiatives that you've taken, uh, to keep a,
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a realistic eye on policy and, uh, events, uh, and, and choice and foreign policy choices this
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country's making. Uh, I, I want to also, if I may, as we, as we wrap up here, uh, give us your sense of
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where we're headed with China. Uh, and, uh, and, and, and if, if you will also, uh, put in that,
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what is happening with a hundred billion dollars and the weaponry that is coming straight out of the
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U.S. military's, uh, arsenal? Sure. Um, well, look, uh, I would refer everyone, uh, to Chairman Xi's
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speeches before the 20th party Congress. That's, you know, basically, um, uh, that where they kind of
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pull together the entire communist party. And I put in air quotes elections, uh, within that every five
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years, the bottom line is he was telling his country to prepare for war. Uh, he said he is
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not going to pass off the Taiwan problem, uh, to the next generation. That means they're going to
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make a move. And he said, military option is on the table, said that out loud. Uh, uh, he's 70 years
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old. So that's within the next 10 years, Lou. And why does this matter? You know, why does a small
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island off the coast of, of China on the other side of the Pacific really matter the American
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people? If you take a close look at the map, uh, if China invades or somehow causes the government
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to capitulate so that they dominate Taiwan, number one, it's 90% of the world's most advanced computer
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chips. But even more important than that is they will control the shipping and trade routes
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into Japan, South Korea, uh, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, uh, arguably even India. Uh, and that's
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about 50% of global GDP. Uh, that is a major step forward towards she's vision of dominating and
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becoming the global superpower, not a global superpower. And so their military, uh, is advancing
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at a rate we have never seen before in world history. Uh, they are tripling the size of their
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nuclear arsenal. Their Navy is now larger than ours. Their space force is launching more than us
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and the rest of the world combined. And we need to recognize, I think that, uh, we are in a cold war.
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They have entered a cold war with us. Um, but the difference and why this is so much more dangerous
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we talked about is that they have compromised so many institutions in the United States. They're using,
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uh, you know, people's desire to, uh, to make money, uh, against us. And, uh, I think at the end of the
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day, historians could look back on this and say, you sold, which was a, you know, a quote from Marx,
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right? You, you know, that we sold our enemy, the rope with which, uh, they hung us. So I, I think we
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can, we can write this ship. I think we can start regaining altitude. Not only do we have to do it here
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in the United States, but we have to do it with our allies, us plus Japan, plus South Korea,
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Australia, Europe, uh, and other freedom loving countries, uh, can, can get back on the right
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track, but this is absolutely good versus evil, uh, and their form of government and, and economy
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versus ours. Uh, those are his words, uh, and the CCP's words, not mine. Well, Congressman,
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we thank you for, uh, both your service in the U.S. military, uh, and in the United States Congress.
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Uh, you are, you've been essential to both and we appreciate you being with us here on the Great
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America Show. Uh, Congressman, thanks so much. Thank you, Lou. Thanks everybody for being with us. One
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of the outstanding young Congressman Byron Donalds joins us here tomorrow. Please be with us. And until
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then, thank you and God bless you and God bless America.