The Great America Show - October 02, 2023


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Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley Resigns and Joe Biden is the next in line to be impeached. Also, a new report reveals that the IRS may have paid off all of Hunter Biden s debts.

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00:01:15.020 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dibes.
00:01:24.400 This is The Great America Show, and welcome.
00:01:26.860 Thank you for being with us.
00:01:28.520 In the midst of a mad confluence of momentous news events and politics,
00:01:33.560 including the impeachment of a president, a battle of refunding of the federal government,
00:01:38.140 there was one occurrence that escaped the media's attention.
00:01:41.120 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, retiring.
00:01:46.300 Hardly any note of his departure was taken in all of the turmoil in D.C.
00:01:51.900 Mark Milley, General Milley, was the most controversial chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in memory.
00:01:58.520 Milley was responsible for the botched withdrawal out of Afghanistan
00:02:02.160 and responsible for undermining President Trump, it seemed, at every chance he got.
00:02:07.720 President Trump says, in fact, Milley was a partisan, guilty of treason.
00:02:12.720 After a report came out that Milley was working with his China counterparts behind the president's back
00:02:18.340 to alert them to Trump's thinking and to assure them he would warn them of any action taken against them.
00:02:25.620 Milley sounds as subversive and compromised as the impaired puppet president, Joe Biden. 0.59
00:02:31.220 Here was Milley, Friday, taking direct aim at President Trump
00:02:35.600 as the so-called tough guy addressed those attending his retirement ceremony.
00:02:41.900 Here's Milley giving his farewell address, which sounds to me more like a plea for help from a deeply troubled man.
00:02:49.140 We don't take an oath to a tribe. We don't take an oath to a religion.
00:02:54.320 We don't take an oath to a king or a queen or a tyrant or a dictator.
00:03:00.600 We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator.
00:03:03.460 We don't take an oath to an individual.
00:03:06.300 We take an oath to the Constitution and we take an oath to the idea that it's America
00:03:11.400 and we're willing to die to protect it.
00:03:14.400 Every soldier, sailor, airman, marine, guardian, and coast guardman,
00:03:19.600 each of us commits our very life to protect and defend that document,
00:03:25.060 regardless of personal price.
00:03:28.240 General Milley downright scary.
00:03:30.740 Seemingly auditioning for something,
00:03:32.740 but I'd recommend he take a nice long vacation and get lots of rest.
00:03:37.480 In other government corruption news,
00:03:40.200 newly released emails from the House Ways and Means Committee
00:03:43.040 show that Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie Wolf ordered investigators in 2020
00:03:48.260 to remove any reference of Joe Biden from a search warrant.
00:03:53.300 In the email, Wolf, who's at the center of the IRS whistleblower allegations,
00:03:58.600 told FBI officials to only focus on a foreign agent's registration violation of Hunter Biden.
00:04:05.200 The main reason for that, there would be no connection to Joe Biden.
00:04:10.720 Also released by the Ways and Means Committee, a 2021 report from IRS investigators
00:04:16.340 that Hunter Biden's attorney, Kevin Morris, may have committed a campaign violation
00:04:21.340 by paying off all of Hunter Biden's debts.
00:04:25.240 The IRS investigators were told to stand down.
00:04:29.120 Corruption and protection for the most corrupt family in the history of this country.
00:04:34.020 It's extraordinary.
00:04:36.100 Protection that appears to have included President Obama.
00:04:40.340 The computer repair store owner, John Paul MacIsaac, who fixed Hunter Biden's laptop from hell,
00:04:47.280 has filed a lawsuit against CNN, Politico, and Hunter Biden.
00:04:51.700 MacIsaac is suing for defamation.
00:04:54.760 When MacIsaac released the laptop, he was called an agent of Russia, among other horrible things.
00:05:01.020 MacIsaac has also subpoenaed the FBI, demanding they return that laptop to him
00:05:06.960 for his lawsuits against CNN, Politico, and Biden.
00:05:11.160 He's also demanding that the FBI turn over any and all documents and communications
00:05:16.200 relating to the authentication of the laptop and associated hard drive.
00:05:23.200 Joining us now is author and columnist Lee Smith.
00:05:26.320 Lee, great to have you back with us on The Great America Show.
00:05:29.020 Welcome. We're now treated to the spectacle of Marxist jackal Jack Smith,
00:05:34.460 hiring his former assistant at The Hague as a special prosecutor for war crimes.
00:05:39.720 He's now on the special counsel team working against Donald Trump.
00:05:44.160 You're covering this and you know a lot about the deputy from The Hague
00:05:47.640 and why Jack Smith had the president of Kosovo jailed.
00:05:53.100 Please, Lee, let us in on the secrets of these two intriguing Hague prosecutors.
00:05:59.960 Well, thanks, Lou.
00:06:01.060 It's kind of a dense story.
00:06:03.420 And what I wrote this up a couple of months ago for Locals,
00:06:07.260 which is leesmith.locals.com.
00:06:12.520 And I hope people will check it out.
00:06:13.720 But it's about Jack Smith.
00:06:15.000 It comes from a conversation I had with the great Rick Grinnell,
00:06:18.660 Richard Grinnell, former the Trump, you know,
00:06:22.260 Donald Trump's envoy, the United States envoy to Germany.
00:06:25.840 And then he was acting DNI and, you know, and serving the Trump administration.
00:06:31.920 I mean, Rick Grinnell is just a superhero, all the different things he did.
00:06:37.160 And one of the things he did, many people do not know this,
00:06:40.800 but he was Donald Trump's presidential envoy for Kosovo-Serbian negotiations.
00:06:47.240 Now, as a lot of people will remember, Kosovo and Serbia, I mean, this is the former Yugoslavia.
00:06:53.840 I mean, this was a part of the world that was embroiled in conflict coming out of the Cold War.
00:07:00.380 And in the early 90s, there were lots of horrible things that went on.
00:07:04.280 And this went on for quite a while.
00:07:06.200 And Donald Trump, this is often forgotten.
00:07:09.500 Lou, I know you and I have spoken about this,
00:07:11.820 but I really believe that Donald Trump is the best foreign policy president this country has had in a century.
00:07:17.560 And we can or perhaps more.
00:07:19.560 We can go over that in more detail if you like.
00:07:21.780 But one of, you know, one of his missions was to go to different parts of the world
00:07:28.180 and see if these places were ready for peace,
00:07:36.060 if the different sides were ready to negotiate with each other and speak to each other and how.
00:07:40.960 So when Ambassador Grinnell, who's serving as presidential envoy, his whole point was like,
00:07:47.360 look, we can't keep going back and forth on all the different things that have happened.
00:07:51.620 This has been going on for a long time.
00:07:53.340 The job that the president gave him was to come up with some sort of economic plan
00:07:57.740 so that these people could flourish, right?
00:08:00.360 They're brilliant, creative people.
00:08:02.900 And so what kind of a plan do we put together to help them flourish?
00:08:05.440 And he spoke with he spoke with the guy who was the prosecutor there,
00:08:10.180 who was the prosecutor working out of the Hague.
00:08:13.700 But he was looking in particular at Kosovo and Serbia.
00:08:17.020 And the prosecutor who was there told Rick said, look, there's just this is just too dense.
00:08:23.400 I am not going to bring charges.
00:08:26.140 There's really nothing here that we're going to be able to prosecute.
00:08:29.620 So Rick was like, OK, that's fine.
00:08:32.480 This is fine.
00:08:34.240 We're going to move on.
00:08:35.220 We're going to build an economic relationship between these two great nations, formerly warring nations.
00:08:41.800 What happened was after this prosecutor left, that's when Jack Smith came in.
00:08:47.280 Of course, Jack Smith is the press special counsel, the DOJ prosecutor who is targeting
00:08:53.580 not just Donald Trump now, of course, but also Donald Trump aides.
00:08:57.360 Only a few weeks before the president of Serbia and the president of Kosovo were destined to go
00:09:04.820 to Washington, go to the White House, continue negotiations, hopefully complete negotiations
00:09:10.180 for also a celebration on the White House with President Trump.
00:09:16.160 Jack Smith charged and put in jail the president of Kosovo, Hashem Fethi.
00:09:21.900 And as Ambassador Grinnell explains, explained to me in this conversation we had.
00:09:28.200 And again, it's on my locals page so people can check out the details and people can.
00:09:34.220 Let me interject real quickly.
00:09:37.860 You can go to leesmith.locals.com and and their Lee Smith's articles will be.
00:09:47.900 And this one I recommend to you.
00:09:49.680 All of them I recommend to you highly.
00:09:51.500 Thanks very much, Lou.
00:09:53.440 And so, I mean, this is again, this is what Ambassador Grinnell, this is what Ambassador
00:09:58.040 Grinnell saw.
00:09:59.960 And according to Ambassador Grinnell, that the word there was no evidence for any of these
00:10:08.100 the charges were themselves vague.
00:10:10.980 There was no evidence for any of them.
00:10:14.020 What it looks like, according to Ambassador Grinnell, there were a couple of different things
00:10:18.340 going on, but primarily the most significant thing going on was that he believes that Jack
00:10:26.540 Smith, as a as a political operative, was looking to show up Trump.
00:10:33.280 Right.
00:10:33.740 There was not going to be any celebration of a peace accord, of any documents being signed,
00:10:40.040 any agreements being made.
00:10:41.520 There are a number of senior European officials who are talking about this all the time.
00:10:49.920 They're out there outraged that Jack Smith, that Jack Smith locked up the president of Kosovo
00:10:58.140 under these stances, right under with no evidence.
00:11:02.300 And they talk about, look, Joe Biden himself once called this man, Hashem Thachy, the president
00:11:08.880 of Kosovo, now in jail, called him the George Washington of Kosovo.
00:11:14.480 So lots of key European leaders want to know why the man that Biden called the George Washington
00:11:21.500 of Kosovo is now in a prison in The Hague because of Jack Smith.
00:11:26.720 So how long has he been in prison?
00:11:28.560 A couple of years now.
00:11:30.640 That's insane.
00:11:31.960 It's absolutely insane.
00:11:33.960 And if you follow, you also follow Ambassador Grinnell's truth social feed, his Twitter
00:11:40.980 feed, because he remarks on this quite a bit.
00:11:45.520 And when Jack Smith pulled in his deputy from The Hague, Ambassador Grinnell was talking about
00:11:53.220 it again.
00:11:54.640 So and one of the things that Grinnell says is it's incredible that none of the press is
00:12:00.080 picking up on this and it's very important for Americans to understand the nature of the special
00:12:07.980 counsel selected by Merrick Garland.
00:12:10.360 This guy is messing around in the political systems of foreign countries using that kind 0.74
00:12:18.700 of power to put in jail, a foreign president. 0.61
00:12:22.600 So I think that's very important to keep in mind, not just in terms of the corruption of
00:12:28.880 this special counsel and how he's used his political power abroad.
00:12:33.420 But if people think this isn't going to happen, that he's not looking to do the same thing
00:12:37.980 to Donald Trump on behalf of Joe Biden's Justice Department, they're nuts.
00:12:42.700 This is what this guy does.
00:12:45.020 So that's really important background for all of us to keep to keep in mind going forward.
00:12:51.240 Without any question whatsoever.
00:12:54.140 And it's very clear, I think, to most who everybody in this audience and all who follow
00:13:01.960 what is happening with Jack Smith, they understand what he is.
00:13:05.740 We know what he is.
00:13:07.120 He is a he is a partisan ideological hit man for the the Marxist dams.
00:13:12.780 That's all there is to it.
00:13:13.940 That's what his job has been at The Hague.
00:13:15.860 That's what his job has been throughout his postings.
00:13:19.880 And twice now, Merrick Garland is the man who appointed him to his his postings, which
00:13:26.700 are all he is.
00:13:28.860 He's reacted with, I'll put it this way, ideological fervor in each instance.
00:13:33.820 And we know what he's doing now, bringing in that that assistant special counsel.
00:13:38.700 We're talking with author, journalist Lee Smith.
00:13:41.500 We're going to take up more about Lee's view of what is happening in Kosovo and Serbia.
00:13:49.620 Why suddenly his Jack Smith's former assistant is now back with him in a special counsel going
00:13:58.360 after Donald Trump.
00:14:00.300 We'll be back in just moments.
00:14:02.820 Please stay with us.
00:14:03.880 We're back now talking with Lee Smith.
00:14:11.980 And Lee, let's because as you said at the beginning, this is somewhat tough to follow.
00:14:18.420 But Serbia, Kosovo, Hungary.
00:14:21.880 And by the way, we can extend this all the way to Ukraine.
00:14:24.660 All of the complexities of those relationships in the internals of Europe.
00:14:32.480 This is a fascinating place on one hand and a frustrating place on the other because the
00:14:38.240 relationships are so complex.
00:14:40.720 And what divides each one of these national entities is sometimes religion, sometimes it's
00:14:49.440 ideology, sometimes it's tribal.
00:14:51.280 Give us a sense as to how close President Trump was to reaching reconciliation, approach
00:14:59.440 mal with with Kosovo and Serbia and making them both trading partners and allies of the
00:15:06.560 United States and the rest of Western Europe.
00:15:10.660 Well, if I may, I just want to come back and if I may and substantiate my claim that Donald
00:15:16.160 Trump was the best foreign policy president in a century.
00:15:19.960 A lot of people are many Americans, many Trump supporters are rightly happy that Donald Trump
00:15:27.720 did not embroil the United States in a foreign war.
00:15:32.740 They are rightly happy about that.
00:15:34.900 But that alone does not make a good foreign policy president.
00:15:38.000 A good foreign policy president is someone who advances the interest of the United States,
00:15:45.380 who enhances our peace, who enhances the peace and prosperity of all Americans.
00:15:51.580 And that's what Donald Trump did.
00:15:53.800 One of his signature statements.
00:15:55.760 And I really I'm going to do whatever I can in my power to make sure that people know about
00:16:03.220 his speech that he gave on Saudi Arabia.
00:16:06.100 And to know that this basically outlines Donald Trump's principles on foreign policy, that it was
00:16:14.820 the Obama faction disgruntled former senior CIA officials, as well as the foreign governments of
00:16:22.980 Qatar and Turkey who were trying to who are running an operation having to do with Jamal Khashoggi,
00:16:30.180 former journalist, the late journalist, the late Saudi intelligence operative and Washington Post columnist.
00:16:39.660 Right. Washington Post columnist.
00:16:42.380 And it's terrible.
00:16:44.340 It's terrible.
00:16:45.240 What what happened to Khashoggi?
00:16:47.240 He was killed by by a Saudi team, you know, and people have can debate all sides whether they intended to kill him
00:16:56.920 or whether they intended just to drag him back to Saudi Arabia.
00:17:00.780 The point was, is that people were trying to get Donald Trump to break relations with the de facto
00:17:09.080 head of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
00:17:13.880 What Donald Trump said was our relations with Saudi Arabia are good for the United States.
00:17:21.300 It's good for American jobs.
00:17:23.120 It's good for American prosperity.
00:17:25.140 Saudi Arabia has lots of oil.
00:17:28.080 It balances.
00:17:29.840 It keeps it keeps oil affordable across the world.
00:17:34.960 And of course, Donald Trump is not supportive of journalists getting killed.
00:17:40.240 He's not supportive of people getting, you know, getting getting getting garretted.
00:17:48.300 Embassies.
00:17:49.140 You know what I want to say, if I may interject here, Lee, is the Khashoggi was many things.
00:17:55.140 He wasn't simply a journalist, as you pointed out.
00:17:58.580 And that was one element.
00:18:00.200 It is the only element that rises up in the left wing media.
00:18:03.780 And certainly none of us is in favor of anyone ever being murdered.
00:18:07.920 And he obviously was murdered.
00:18:09.540 I should say, obviously, in my opinion, he was murdered.
00:18:14.200 And the Saudi government had some role in it, I think, is also quite obvious.
00:18:18.980 Yes.
00:18:19.320 But what is not obvious is why this becomes the cause celeb of the of the Middle East when there 0.99
00:18:26.560 are so many areas of iniquity and and violence that we could focus on.
00:18:33.280 It's a it's a strange moment.
00:18:35.320 And I think it has to do because of the relationship in in part with Trump.
00:18:40.140 The fact that he reached an unthinkable agreement called the Abraham Accords, it's the one thing 0.95
00:18:50.940 that they feared Trump most for.
00:18:53.480 Initially, they were afraid he would take us to nuclear war.
00:18:56.200 At least they said they were.
00:18:57.460 But then in that moment in history, they were so afraid that he would create peace.
00:19:04.600 It's the the hypocrisy, the absolute sickening duplicity of the left is overwhelming.
00:19:15.800 And now now I just want to juxtapose Joe Biden's foreign policy, especially in this part of the
00:19:22.400 world.
00:19:22.660 Now, a lot of people will have heard about how Joe Biden is trying to promote peace between
00:19:27.760 Israel and Saudi Arabia.
00:19:29.580 Well, that's not the point.
00:19:31.780 The point is, is to break what you were talking about before the Abraham Accords.
00:19:37.340 The point is to to make those irrelevant, because the key here is, is that as the leftist
00:19:44.640 dams always want, they always want to reintroduce the Palestinian file.
00:19:50.200 They want to force the Palestinians on Israel once again. 1.00
00:19:55.000 The purpose here is to topple Benjamin Netanyahu's government and to, again, stick the Israelis 1.00
00:20:01.960 and stick the entire Middle East. 0.97
00:20:04.100 It's not just the Israelis who want to move on from the Palestinians. 1.00
00:20:07.900 It's the Arabs as well.
00:20:10.120 Right.
00:20:10.740 They want to say, look, let's go on and have some economic success.
00:20:14.620 Let's let let let's get let's let our generation flourish enough with the war that the Palestinians 1.00
00:20:22.020 are waging relentlessly.
00:20:23.960 And by the way, it's the Iranians who are backing the Iranian, the Palestinians war right 0.91
00:20:29.040 now.
00:20:29.420 So Trump's Abraham Accords, the purpose was to move away from the Iran deal that Obama
00:20:37.120 had established, right, to realign American interests with a terrorist state that embodies 0.95
00:20:43.900 Jew hatred, the Islamic Republic of Iran. 0.76
00:20:47.640 What Trump did was he set up an organism, created an organism through the Abraham Accords,
00:20:55.060 an anti-Iran bloc, by tying together American allies, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Morocco.
00:21:05.280 That was the whole project.
00:21:07.180 The Biden administration's project now is to return to Obama's Iran deal, and it's to break
00:21:14.880 that organism that built that created peace and hope across the Middle East.
00:21:22.220 That's what the Biden administration is doing.
00:21:24.180 They're not pushing for peace between Israel and Saudi.
00:21:28.580 That's the front.
00:21:29.520 That's all cover for what they're really doing behind the scenes.
00:21:32.840 They want to topple Netanyahu, and they want to reintroduce the Palestinians, and they want 1.00
00:21:37.960 to empower the Iranians.
00:21:39.840 That's the difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
00:21:43.760 The Democrats go for radical terrorists.
00:21:47.600 Whether we're talking about Palestinian leadership, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah.
00:21:53.360 Bashar al-Assad in Syria, that's who the Democrats are.
00:21:58.140 These people, it's not even foreign policy.
00:22:00.920 This is subterfuge.
00:22:02.700 This is an attack on American interests.
00:22:05.620 So compared to them, certainly Donald Trump shines.
00:22:10.140 But even on his own, this fundamental principle, again, it's not just about avoiding war.
00:22:16.140 It's about how to advance the peace and prosperity of the American people.
00:22:22.060 And you look at that in terms of Ukraine.
00:22:24.260 We all talk about how sick and crazy Ukraine is. 1.00
00:22:28.140 This is so far from advancing the peace and prosperity of the American people.
00:22:33.240 It's like a parody of foreign policy.
00:22:36.620 This has nothing to do with statesmanship.
00:22:39.520 This is a corrupt sickness.
00:22:41.360 Ukraine is the place where Biden family corruption intersects with defense contractor, with the
00:22:49.800 defense industry corruption.
00:22:51.700 It's sick and gross.
00:22:53.660 And this is what Trump was fighting.
00:22:55.340 And these are among the people who are fighting Donald Trump and are still fighting Donald Trump.
00:23:00.220 So that's the difference between a real foreign policy and a bunch of corrupt thugs.
00:23:05.640 Yeah, I think that you're exactly right.
00:23:08.100 And I think most people understand at least a part of what we're talking about here.
00:23:16.700 No one can I don't believe many people can grasp it as broadly and thoroughly as you've just
00:23:21.820 expressed it.
00:23:22.500 But most of us understand that this administration means to war on everything that is America, everything
00:23:31.740 that is pro-America, everything that is part of our heritage and part of our destiny as a
00:23:40.480 great superpower.
00:23:42.380 This administration is doing precisely what the Obama administration did.
00:23:47.140 They're trying to level the United States to remove the even the remotest identity as 0.99
00:23:56.280 exceptionalism in in either history or in our existence as a nation and great republic.
00:24:05.360 It is it's all intertwined and it has only one purpose.
00:24:09.460 It's the the fifth column that is the Marxist Dems leading the Democrat Party in this country 0.75
00:24:15.600 and our national media as well.
00:24:19.020 And a foreign policy, as you point out, that is determined to create chaos and the antithesis
00:24:25.940 of what is U.S.
00:24:27.820 interest.
00:24:28.280 We're talking with Lee Smith.
00:24:29.420 We'll be right back in just one moment.
00:24:31.200 We're back with Lee Smith.
00:24:38.460 And I have to tell you, I'm enjoying this conversation greatly because you're educating us on what
00:24:46.720 is what.
00:24:47.520 And it's it's complex, as you said, at the very outset.
00:24:50.580 It is very complicated, but it is also so important that we understand these relationships
00:24:57.340 and the forces that have been unleashed by the Marxist Dems, whether it is to subvert what
00:25:03.880 is a longstanding alliance with the the state of Israel, whether it is the relationship with
00:25:11.820 Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states, the Gulf states, which and Donald Trump isn't given
00:25:19.280 sufficient credit for all that he did to further those those interests of the United States and
00:25:24.100 those those those those nations.
00:25:26.900 But to see this administration, the Biden administration, straightforwardly chose war
00:25:34.000 over peace when they decided not to stop the invasion by Russia of Ukraine, when they decided
00:25:42.740 that arming Ukraine was far more important than winning a war or winning a peace.
00:25:49.640 And the same is true now of Saudi Arabia, who they're pushing right into the arms of the 1.00
00:25:55.400 Russians and the Chinese and away from this country. 1.00
00:26:00.520 It is something to behold.
00:26:03.200 Luke, a lot of a lot of our friends, a lot of our colleagues, a lot of Americans who shares
00:26:08.500 who share our views about the greatness of our country and the exceptional first term of
00:26:15.960 Donald Trump, a lot of them are very frustrated about foreign policy.
00:26:20.860 And I hear them and we see them on social media and they say stuff like, look, my problem
00:26:25.440 isn't Vladimir Putin.
00:26:26.640 My problem isn't Xi Jinping.
00:26:29.600 My problem is not the mullahs in Iran. 0.99
00:26:31.620 My problem is not Hezbollah. 0.97
00:26:33.240 My problem is Joe Biden.
00:26:35.940 My problem is Merrick Garland.
00:26:38.200 And you know what?
00:26:38.680 I hear them.
00:26:39.840 I understand it.
00:26:40.680 I they're absolutely right.
00:26:43.320 Our that that is the center of our problem.
00:26:46.200 But here's a very, very important thing for our friends to keep in mind.
00:26:50.940 The fact is the people who are hunting Americans here, the America first supporters, the people 0.68
00:26:59.100 who are hunting them here are partnered with our adversaries in Iran and China.
00:27:05.780 That's the issue.
00:27:07.200 So we're making this distinction and we shouldn't be making this distinction.
00:27:13.720 Joe Biden, we've seen how Joe Biden passed 16 billion dollars to the Iranians.
00:27:19.580 Again, this is an anti-American regime.
00:27:22.580 It's a regime that embodies Jew hatred. 1.00
00:27:25.300 It's it's the leading state sponsor of terror in the world.
00:27:29.400 And Joe Biden's regime just passed them 16 billion dollars.
00:27:34.460 All the talk we hear coming from Joe Biden and his officials regarding China, China, this
00:27:40.660 and China, that we're pushing back.
00:27:42.080 They're not doing anything.
00:27:43.220 It's all talk.
00:27:44.420 If we look behind the scenes, we see what's really happening.
00:27:48.420 Right.
00:27:48.640 Even their talk of the coming war with China.
00:27:51.460 It's an information operation purpose to disguise the fact that they keep pushing money to the
00:27:59.440 Chinese.
00:27:59.960 Right.
00:28:01.080 That's the relationship between Chinese Communist Party elites and American elites.
00:28:06.700 And when they talk about the coming war with China, the purpose is to say, oh, we have to keep 0.93
00:28:11.480 appeasing China unless you want us to go to war with China.
00:28:14.740 None of these things are happening.
00:28:16.820 They're getting look at what they're doing on the border.
00:28:20.280 I mean, they're working with cartels.
00:28:21.960 They're working with foreign cartels here, whether it's to push in fentanyl, whether it's
00:28:27.060 for human trafficking, all of the things that ail us here at home.
00:28:32.140 They are partnered with foreign adversaries of the United States.
00:28:37.740 So this is why I try to remind our friends and colleagues like I get it.
00:28:42.400 I get it.
00:28:43.160 You're right.
00:28:43.700 Vladimir Putin is not showing up on the doorstep of January six protesters and arresting them.
00:28:50.660 You're right.
00:28:51.800 Xi Jinping is not forcing vaccines on Americans.
00:28:55.140 One hundred percent.
00:28:56.120 You're right.
00:28:57.100 Nonetheless, these are real adversaries of the United States.
00:29:00.240 And as it turns out, these real adversaries of the United States are almost always being
00:29:07.540 supported by the people who are hunting Americans here at home.
00:29:11.920 They walk hand in hand.
00:29:14.140 I agree with you.
00:29:15.920 Let me see if I can simplify it, put it at a level that that I that that works for me.
00:29:23.100 And that is we are in a moment where there's a very real possibility that the government
00:29:28.860 will be shut down.
00:29:29.780 And I love what Congressman Andy Biggs said about that shutdown.
00:29:35.220 He said, please understand, this is simply a pause in non-essential spending.
00:29:40.340 That's all it is.
00:29:41.460 That's all it would be.
00:29:42.840 And that would be its entire impact other than the ability to use on short term basis stopgap
00:29:51.940 funding measures to see every month how how the FBI is performing, how is the Justice
00:29:58.220 Department performing?
00:29:59.640 And has the special counsel dropped all of the fictitious charges against the former
00:30:04.460 president of the United States?
00:30:06.060 All of this is a corrupt government.
00:30:08.580 There isn't one.
00:30:09.280 I truly believe this.
00:30:10.540 I don't I think that there isn't a single agency or department of the United States government
00:30:15.920 that is not corrupt right now and in the hands in the charge of the Marxist Dems, who, as
00:30:22.240 you point out, are aligned with communist China and with Iran.
00:30:26.920 And if anyone doubts that, then I truly believe it's time to do more research and and maybe
00:30:35.520 listen twice to to the Great America show each episode.
00:30:39.620 Yeah, it's it's straightforward.
00:30:41.340 And and at the same time, we have a speaker of the House, a Republican speaker of the House
00:30:46.780 who is worried about shutting down funding, which is the only weapon they've got against
00:30:51.580 this corruption right now.
00:30:53.840 And he wants to fund a government that is run by a Marxist Dem puppet president who has
00:31:02.560 a corrupt government who is attacking American citizens every day and one former another who
00:31:08.580 has opened our border, who is destroying this country and means to do so and hasn't come 1.00
00:31:14.020 up with a single policy as far as I can detect a single foreign policy that is in the interest
00:31:19.860 of the United States.
00:31:20.840 And yet the the journalistic elites, the media elites, the corporate elites all insist that
00:31:29.160 we can't shut down the government or that or as Andy Biggs put it, you know, pause and
00:31:35.280 non-essential spending for, you know, a month or two months, whatever it takes.
00:31:40.280 This is a moment in history where people have to understand how do you rationalize wanting
00:31:46.040 to impeach a president and at the same time give him every dime that he asked for?
00:31:51.300 This is madness on its face.
00:31:53.580 It's madness.
00:31:54.940 Right.
00:31:55.140 We're paying the salaries of the people who are knocking on the doors of American pro-life
00:32:00.980 activists and and and and pulling guns on their families.
00:32:05.240 That that that's that that's the important thing to keep that going, to build new FBI
00:32:10.220 headquarters somewhere, to keep paying, to keep paying the millions and millions, millions
00:32:15.540 and millions it's taking to support Jack Smith's special counsel team to go after the president
00:32:22.140 of the United States.
00:32:23.120 I think what you're underscoring, what you're underscoring here drives home more clearly
00:32:29.480 to me, because many people talk about it and sure feels like it to me that in many ways
00:32:35.580 we're living under an occupation government and the fact that we're paying, that we're paying
00:32:41.400 for them.
00:32:42.280 And basically we're being held hostage.
00:32:45.300 Right.
00:32:45.680 That's what an occupation government is.
00:32:47.500 Our money is being harvested and used by what is effectively a foreign government, not just
00:32:54.620 because of its ties to China and Iran, because it is not acting in the American interest at
00:32:59.760 all.
00:33:00.120 It is it is acting against the American interest.
00:33:03.580 It is impoverishing America.
00:33:06.440 It's not enhancing our peace.
00:33:08.720 It's certainly not enhancing our prosperity.
00:33:11.040 It's putting us in the line of fire in Eastern Europe, and it's making us poorer by the day.
00:33:18.300 I mean, what would people have said this before?
00:33:20.760 But if this is what would an occupation government do, that is not what these guys are doing,
00:33:27.140 opening the border, sending sending billions and billions of dollars and armaments to Ukraine.
00:33:33.140 What does any of this have to do with the American interest?
00:33:36.620 It's all of it.
00:33:37.520 All of it is an insult against America, Americans who love this country and want America for their
00:33:44.760 children and their grandchildren for generations to come.
00:33:47.700 And what we have witnessed is, to me, the greatest insult against this this country and our
00:33:56.620 fellow citizens at this moment in history.
00:34:00.420 They are doing all of this in full view of the American public.
00:34:05.840 There are there's a lot we don't know.
00:34:07.920 But what we do know, it's before our very eyes of what they're telling us, what we are
00:34:14.040 seeing.
00:34:14.780 We know that the Marxist party is an anti-American party.
00:34:18.880 They want to destroy us.
00:34:20.160 They want to destroy everyone who is not a Marxist, who is not a Marxist, dem agitator, politician,
00:34:30.420 ideologue, and and all of their perversity that they bring to every aspect of American
00:34:36.700 society.
00:34:38.080 We have not reacted.
00:34:40.160 We have not acted.
00:34:41.180 We have not in any way responded to what is first and foremost, the threats, the injuries
00:34:47.760 and and the danger that overhangs generations of Americans.
00:34:53.200 If we let them continue, this has to stop your thoughts as we conclude here.
00:34:58.580 Lee, we appreciate you being with us.
00:35:00.740 Well, no.
00:35:01.160 I mean, Lou, I remember one time we spoke relatively recently and you you brought you
00:35:06.560 stopped me.
00:35:07.180 I was taking I was talking about God given rights and saying, wait a minute.
00:35:10.260 Wait a minute.
00:35:11.420 Those rights are rights that have to be fought for.
00:35:13.820 So I want to I want to come back to that and say that I want to say that you're right,
00:35:19.060 that people need to stand up.
00:35:21.320 These are rights that have to be protected and we have to do it ourselves.
00:35:24.680 And this is why when I say we've spoken, I believe we're living in a meaningful time
00:35:30.040 and we're blessed to be here.
00:35:31.180 But that means we're going to have to fight for it.
00:35:33.760 What we're passing on to our children and grandchildren and something we're going to have to fight for.
00:35:37.800 And that's and that is a great distinction to something a friend was talking about this
00:35:43.580 morning, just watching Joe Biden talk about how he and Kamala were trying to revolutionize
00:35:48.260 or totally transform the way the economy works.
00:35:51.100 My friend was just saying, I can't believe this.
00:35:53.280 These people, whether it's Barack Obama talking about utterly transforming America
00:35:56.720 or Biden talking about utterly transforming the economy, it's like you have at least
00:36:00.900 half of America saying, oh, you know, oh, yeah, this guy saying he's going to destroy
00:36:04.240 America.
00:36:04.640 I guess that's OK.
00:36:06.020 Let's try it.
00:36:06.720 Let's see what's going on.
00:36:08.400 I think finally we're going to have to hold we have to hold voters responsible as well.
00:36:14.540 Right.
00:36:14.860 It's not just people like Joe Biden.
00:36:17.560 Oh, it's the Republican Party, too.
00:36:20.540 Oh, absolutely.
00:36:22.000 Absolutely.
00:36:22.900 These guys, these guys, these guys, these guys, these guys are we talk about regimes.
00:36:27.540 They're part of the regime.
00:36:29.260 They're a mid-level entity, right?
00:36:32.240 They're a mid-level regime entity that validates and amplifies regime talking points.
00:36:39.040 That's what they are.
00:36:40.020 And Matt Gaetz, Matt Gaetz has helped underscore that, as have other Republican representatives
00:36:45.560 and lawmakers and officials.
00:36:47.740 But it's very important for us to keep that in mind.
00:36:50.140 We're fighting for ourselves here.
00:36:51.960 We do not have a lot of institutional support on Capitol Hill at this point.
00:36:56.620 You know, the American people have as much support as they want.
00:37:00.660 How many of us can join together?
00:37:02.640 How many of us can coalesce around the founding principles of this country, around our laws,
00:37:10.080 our heritage and our history and the promise of our future and the future of our children?
00:37:16.620 If we can't do that, we aren't a nation at all.
00:37:20.440 And no Republican should whine or cry or in any way protest when the left knocks on the door
00:37:28.800 because they mean to knock on all those doors of those they hate.
00:37:33.940 The greatest haters in this country are the left, and they are the ones who first want to talk about hate crimes.
00:37:41.280 Every crime is hateful.
00:37:43.340 Every crime is wrong.
00:37:44.860 And they try to make distinctions, and they try to divide on every issue, whether it's linguistically,
00:37:51.860 whether it is in terms of vocabulary, or whether it is in terms of ideology and values.
00:37:58.640 These are evil, evil people, and no one should fail to understand that we are in a war against an evil
00:38:07.200 this country has never, never encountered in our history.
00:38:11.560 You get the last word here, Lee, if you will.
00:38:16.680 Well, I just want to amplify what you said.
00:38:18.880 I mean, people, you know, we've spoken about this a bit, about how what we're fighting, our struggle is not,
00:38:25.880 it's not really political.
00:38:27.920 It's mostly spiritual at this point.
00:38:30.100 And I agree with that.
00:38:31.160 And what I think is very important for people to understand what we're up against here.
00:38:35.040 This is not normal politics.
00:38:37.280 It's not a normal time fighting a pathological regime, right?
00:38:41.040 When you see the different things that are happening, whether it's promotion of the trans
00:38:46.380 agenda, whether it's opening up the borders, whether it's sending hundreds of billions of
00:38:49.900 dollars to Ukraine, whether it's paying for the salaries of first responders in Kiev and
00:38:56.960 throughout Ukraine, we're talking about sick pathological people. 1.00
00:39:00.660 That's the entire regime.
00:39:02.640 Sick pathological people have been negatively selected.
00:39:06.000 These are the people who are leading not just our political establishment, but also our cultural and our
00:39:12.560 corporate and our media establishment right now.
00:39:15.380 These are pathological people.
00:39:17.700 These are evil people.
00:39:19.260 It's important for us to keep that in mind moving forward.
00:39:22.700 What we're up against.
00:39:23.840 It's not about a matter of opinion.
00:39:25.900 Oh, you know, I think I think a boy could be a girl.
00:39:28.820 You know, this is not about opinions.
00:39:31.680 This is we're dealing with a very, very sick, pathologically warped establishment.
00:39:39.660 And we had better come to our senses.
00:39:41.880 Lee Smith, always great to talk with you.
00:39:43.600 Thanks, my friend.
00:39:44.400 Great American Lee Smith right here on The Great America Show.
00:39:49.100 God bless you, Lee.
00:39:50.560 God bless you, Lou.
00:39:51.420 Thank you so much for having me on.
00:39:53.000 As always, I really appreciate and I love speaking with you.
00:39:55.980 Thanks, everybody, for being here today.
00:39:57.600 Tomorrow, we're joined by the great political strategist and author Roger Stone.
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