The Great America Show - DEMINT： CLIMATE AGENDA MAY CREATE GLOBAL CONFLICT

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. Russia has hypersonic missiles that fly at 9 to 12 times the speed of sound.

00:00:07.680 China has them as well. The United States doesn't.

00:00:12.100 And Russia reportedly fired some of its hypersonic missiles into Ukraine last week.

00:00:18.140 Ukraine President Zelensky wants to talk directly with Vladimir Putin.

00:00:22.820 Meanwhile, Russia attacks on Ukraine are unrelenting and the refugee crisis worsens.

00:00:28.940 President Biden talked to China President Xi Jinping, and we still don't know exactly what they said.

00:00:35.400 The New York Times admitted that Hunter Biden's laptop is authentic, which means the Times, the Bidens, leftist corporate media, big tech, social media, and the intelligence community, especially the FBI, are less than authentic, and perhaps exactly what President Trump called all of them, criminals.

00:00:55.380 I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show.

00:01:00.000 Welcome, and we thank you for being with us.

00:01:01.900 I want to say at the outset, the news from Ukraine isn't greatly improved, and the Russians appear stalemated and remain stalled in attempted advances on most major cities.

00:01:13.740 President Zelensky is trying to persuade President Putin to negotiate a ceasefire, but to this point, without luck.

00:01:20.880 And the United Nations, the European Union, the Biden administration, all clearly not exerting sufficient effort toward bringing Zelensky and Putin together for peace talks.

00:01:32.240 And I believe it is their responsibility to do so.

00:01:36.260 But in my opinion, Biden neglects most of his obligations as president, and those he does attempt to perform, he does so ineptly.

00:01:44.780 We, my friends, are caught in a dilemma, a dilemma of historic weight and consequence.

00:01:51.600 Most Americans say in polling that Biden is unfit for the high office he holds.

00:01:57.280 In polling as well, more than that number believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.

00:02:03.940 Should he be removed from office?

00:02:06.020 Well, under other circumstances, absolutely.

00:02:09.380 Do I think Vice President Kamala Harris should succeed him?

00:02:13.320 Absolutely not.

00:02:15.000 Third in line of succession?

00:02:16.980 None other than Speaker Pelosi.

00:02:19.420 We don't even have to think about that.

00:02:21.800 Absolutely not.

00:02:22.980 So what are we to do?

00:02:24.440 Now comes the hard part.

00:02:26.460 First, the Republican Party has to win the midterm elections.

00:02:30.180 And it's clear that GOP RINOs don't want to change their leadership in either the House or the Senate.

00:02:36.720 Senator Rick Scott, however, is adamant that Republicans campaign on an agenda that they promise the voters to implement.

00:02:45.560 And Senator Mitch McConnell doesn't like Scott's idea.

00:02:48.860 He'd like to play a version of Pelosi's, we'll tell you what's in the bill after we pass the bill.

00:02:54.800 McConnell wants to tell voters, trust us, we'll tell you what we'll do after the election.

00:03:01.360 Doesn't that sound marketable? 0.99

00:03:03.060 I doubt voters will be in the mood for any more political idiocy. 0.99

00:03:07.740 Don't you agree? 0.93

00:03:08.360 To take up the Republican Party's prospects and its historic opportunity this fall to win back the House and the Senate, we have with us the chairman of the Conservative Partnership Institute, Jim DeMint.

00:03:21.420 Jim has served as both congressman and senator from the great state of South Carolina and is a former president of the Heritage Foundation.

00:03:30.520 Thanks for being here on The Great America Show.

00:03:34.080 Jim DeMint, I can't tell you how great it is to be talking with you.

00:03:37.400 It's been a while, and I want to compliment you on the article that you wrote for The Federalist.

00:03:43.040 I was reading it, and I'm thinking, my goodness, it's good to have Jim DeMint's voice is always in this arena, but particularly taking on the orthodoxy that is the Republican Party right now.

00:03:55.800 Welcome to the show.

00:03:57.900 Well, Lou, thank you, and it's great to be back with you.

00:04:00.840 I appreciate you staying in the arena yourself.

00:04:03.300 And I couldn't resist writing a defense for Senator Rick Scott because I went through the same thing so often, is just wanting to tell people what we were going to do and then doing what we say.

00:04:16.440 And I see Rick, who is responsible for electing new Republicans to the Senate, did what I think is common sense.

00:04:25.640 He says, here's an example of what we'd like to do if we get the majority.

00:04:29.140 But not only did the Democrats pounce on him, but the Republican leadership did as well.

00:04:35.680 And so I just wanted folks to know that while you may not agree with every point or you want to add two or three yourself, we owe it to the American people to tell them what we're going to do if we get the majority.

00:04:49.680 Well, and Rick Scott, first of all, good on you for doing so.

00:04:55.580 And good on Rick Scott for laying out 11 points that constitute right now the agenda of the Republican Party.

00:05:03.080 Because as you pointed out in your article, no one else has put anything out there.

00:05:07.260 And heaven forbid that Mitch McConnell should even think about it.

00:05:12.000 Yeah, I know Mitch's philosophy is don't be the issue.

00:05:15.860 And he wants to run the Republican campaign on how bad Biden and the Democrats are.

00:05:21.940 And I have to admit, this year, it's probably a reasonably good strategy just to talk about how bad the other guys are.

00:05:29.960 But that's not going to take us anywhere.

00:05:32.460 And releasing your own agenda commits you to do things.

00:05:36.000 It allows people to hold you accountable to things that you said you were going to do, not just stop what the other guy's doing.

00:05:43.480 So, again, I applaud Rick Scott.

00:05:47.280 And I've just found that you've got to get behind people who are trying to do the right thing.

00:05:52.600 That's why we started the Conservative Partnership five years ago.

00:05:56.180 As I just saw, we spend a lot of time and money electing good people.

00:06:00.180 And most of them tend to go bad because the whole system pushes the wrong way.

00:06:05.220 And most people just give up because there's no support for doing the right thing.

00:06:10.220 I talk, as you might guess, to a few Republicans on this podcast.

00:06:15.460 And I'm so, so concerned about why the Republicans won't talk about what they will do.

00:06:24.080 I've heard Jim Jordan say that he'll go after an investigation on a lot of this.

00:06:31.460 And I applaud him.

00:06:32.420 And I think there's no one in Congress I think more highly of than Jim Jordan.

00:06:39.060 But at the same time, Senator Rand Paul says he's going to be the chairman of the Health Committee.

00:06:45.620 And he's going to investigate Fauci and what all is done.

00:06:48.200 And, again, I applaud that.

00:06:49.500 But, my Lord, once you've cleaned up the mess, we've got to talk about how we can restore this nation to its former glory.

00:06:59.100 And anyone who doesn't think that this country needs to be restored to its former glory just isn't paying attention.

00:07:05.900 We are the greatest country on earth.

00:07:07.920 I truly believe that.

00:07:09.320 But, man, that's faint praise right now, don't you think?

00:07:12.500 You're exactly right, Lou.

00:07:14.000 I've never been more concerned for our country.

00:07:16.720 I love our country.

00:07:18.000 It's the best country in the world.

00:07:20.340 But we're giving away our wealth, our prosperity, our opportunity, even our security in so many ways, from the border to weakness in foreign policy,

00:07:32.860 letting our military decline in ways that is beginning to be exposed because we're running out of armament to supply the Ukrainians.

00:07:41.200 But I know from my time in the office, in the House and the Senate, working with foreign leaders, is that when America is weak, the whole world becomes destabilized.

00:07:51.980 And so we're backing our way into bigger wars.

00:07:55.000 And I would just say outright, and I hope we can talk a little bit about Russia and Ukraine, the only way for the U.S. to defeat tyrants like Putin and the communist Chinese and the mullahs in Iran and the crazies in North Korea is for us to be an energy and economic superpower.

00:08:17.000 We've got enough energy to supply ourselves and our allies for 100 years and at the same time make ourselves wealthy, lower prices.

00:08:28.700 But this whole climate change agenda is going to back us into some type of huge conflict and perhaps even a nuclear conflict because it just brings us to our knees.

00:08:41.760 Yeah. And one of the things we have to be really honest about, the Republican Party shares every bit as much blame as does the Democratic Party.

00:08:52.540 For 50 years of energy dependence, with the exception of the four years of Donald Trump, for 50 years we have been dependent on OPEC.

00:09:03.700 It was a choice, it was a choice, it was a rationalization by our globalist elites, it was a choice by Wall Street, the Business Roundtable, Chamber of Commerce, the vested establishment interest in this country.

00:09:20.700 And we have to be honest about that, we've had these amazing reserves of gas and oil throughout that period, and only in the last 10 years have we really begun to focus, and we're still not energy independent, we're back to dependency in a big way.

00:09:38.740 But we have at least started to focus on how to get there and what to do and what policies work and what don't.

00:09:46.140 And in 15 months, this president has showed us what doesn't work, right?

00:09:52.800 You're exactly right.

00:09:54.060 And it's been hard for me to watch this professional liar in the White House, Psaki, saying that things like the pipeline are not going to make any difference in the prices and things like that.

00:10:05.580 That's exactly wrong, Lou.

00:10:07.260 I've watched this for over 20 years, and every time America makes a commitment to expand its energy supplies, the energy suppliers around the world, OPEC and Iran and others, increase their production and lower their prices so that it will reduce the financial incentive for America to produce more.

00:10:29.520 And it's happened.

00:10:31.520 Not only have we not done the exploration we could have, we've even capped our wells at different times over the last 20 years because the price got so low.

00:10:40.700 And you saw that happen with Donald Trump.

00:10:42.760 He came in and immediately released the development of the Keystone Pipeline, and it would probably be close to operational now if Biden hadn't killed it.

00:10:52.400 But as soon as Trump reduced regulations, opened up the completion of the pipeline, you saw gasoline and oil prices go down.

00:11:03.560 That's because the producers around the world want to reduce our incentives to be energy independent.

00:11:09.900 And, by the way, the left is insistent that we be dependent.

00:11:17.840 That's why he's – I mean, we've got to be very clear about this.

00:11:21.120 This is good and evil.

00:11:22.420 This is a president and an administration whose entire purpose is to destroy everything that Trump achieved, to then destroy everything over the course of the last 50 years, the last half century that's been achieved in this country.

00:11:39.640 They don't want us to be militarily superior.

00:11:43.320 That's reflected in the budgets that have been passed.

00:11:46.240 It's reflected in the debt that they've run up, the spending that they've created.

00:11:50.700 We're talking about over $30 trillion now in national debt and deficits that will be a trillion dollars into as far as we can see the future.

00:12:00.200 This is a disaster for national security, which you, of all people, know best.

00:12:07.080 Our national security is utterly dependent on a strong, healthy, growing economic base, and we don't have it.

00:12:17.020 And our enemies know that.

00:12:18.380 And I'll tell you, if we ever did the research, we would probably find that China and Russia and their propaganda machines are behind this whole climate change agenda and effectively getting America to disarm by removing our own energy production, including nuclear. 0.56

00:12:37.140 We're not opening new nuclear plants in America, which are zero emissions.

00:12:43.800 We've had zero accidents.

00:12:46.040 And the reason Germany and most of Europe is dependent on Russia is they've closed their nuclear plants, and they have to get their energy from Russia.

00:12:55.220 And it's really silly for us to think that burning Iranian and Russia and Venezuelan oil is somehow better for the environment than having our own.

00:13:06.580 It doesn't make any sense.

00:13:08.920 Nothing that the Germans have done in decades has made sense. 0.93

00:13:13.240 They brought in five million immigrants from the Middle East, from the Mediterranean regions, and they shut down their nuclear power plants, and they run a mercantilist economy that is utterly dependent on huge trade surpluses with the United States and the rest of Europe, indeed, the Western world.

00:13:39.900 That's not exactly a blueprint for success long term, and we're seeing it unravel now as Germany and the rest of Europe confront an invasion by Putin into Ukraine.

00:13:53.060 We have a president who doesn't seem to know what to do.

00:13:56.900 He is mostly absent throughout this.

00:13:59.400 He's dispatched, of all people, his vice president, who can barely put a sentence together, but a sentence that has no semantic purpose whatsoever.

00:14:10.500 She does not know what she's talking about.

00:14:13.720 And these are the people, and Tony Blinken, the secretary of state, Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor.

00:14:19.600 I don't want to go to war with these people at the helm.

00:14:24.300 It's one of the most frightening possibilities that I can contemplate.

00:14:28.400 I agree with you, and I've said many times in the last two months or two, I don't think any American soldier should have to fight a war under the command of Joe Biden.

00:14:39.140 Good Lord.

00:14:39.620 Because they would not let them win and go in and do what they can do.

00:14:46.900 The only way that we're going to get out of this, as I said before, is to make a major kind of moonshop type commitment, not only to energy independence, but our allies should be getting compressed natural gas from us and our tankers every day.

00:15:03.580 It's a third less polluting than oil, and we've got enough of it so that they could make the Russians drink their oil. 0.99

00:15:12.180 We're just not being smart about this, and it's not good for the environment.

00:15:17.000 It's certainly not good for the economy.

00:15:18.560 But the biggest issue right now we should see, it makes us so vulnerable to tyrants who have nuclear weapons, not just the old kind of nuclear weapons, but tactical nuclear weapons that can be used in theater.

00:15:31.980 And I'm just, I'm so worried that Putin is just itching to show us he will use those tactical nukes that we've let him develop over the last 10 years through this START treaty that Obama and some just unfortunately ignorant senators passed about 10 years ago.

00:15:56.620 Well, what do you think of this letter that Mitch McConnell organized and sent to the president demanding that he authorize the transfer of those Polish MiG-29s to be delivered to a Rammstein Air Base in Germany?

00:16:15.320 That's a U.S. base, by the way, folks, to be dispatched then into Ukraine.

00:16:21.900 It's utter madness.

00:16:23.220 It's 40 U.S. senators, Republicans, actually wanting to create the risk of World War III.

00:16:32.080 Well, Lou, I think the Ukrainians should be able to fly or drive anything they want in their own country. 0.98

00:16:39.020 Unfortunately, we've waited too late to do this at this point.

00:16:44.800 If we wanted to help supply them, I mean, the Russians showed us for a couple of months before they invaded what they were going to do. 0.60

00:16:52.660 And to try to come in at this point with planes, perhaps it could help.

00:16:58.660 But as I said before, I think at this point, Putin is getting desperate.

00:17:03.260 He's looking for an excuse to show that he would use tactical nukes.

00:17:09.460 And so we need to be careful because with Biden at the helm, there is no sense of strength.

00:17:18.780 And I don't think any country would believe that he is actually going to follow up if Russia did use a nuke.

00:17:27.380 And NATO is not going to know what to do without American leadership.

00:17:31.380 And I've heard this from foreign leaders for decades, that when America doesn't lead, the whole world devolves into chaos.

00:17:39.760 And we don't have to lead by being in wars.

00:17:42.880 We just have to lead by being economically strong, militarily ready, and talk tough.

00:17:50.580 Trump didn't get us in any wars because everyone around the world believed that he would do it if they came, if they violated anything he said.

00:18:00.940 Now, knowing him personally, he's the last person that would push the button that would get any American troop in harm's way.

00:18:08.980 And a lot of people may not believe that, but he did everything he could to keep us out of wars and to get us out of wars.

00:18:16.860 But he was tough, and people believed he would do what he said.

00:18:21.320 And I think he would.

00:18:22.220 But he would not drag us into a war that we didn't have to be in.

00:18:28.320 Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more.

00:18:30.080 And it's also clear that President Biden could back into a war, that Anthony Blinken is making statements that, for example, Colonel Douglas McGregor here on this podcast said it's the craziest thing he could have done.

00:18:49.820 And because he can't back up the threat, Blinken can't back up the threat, Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, can't back up the administration's threat for potential consequences for China if they were to supply Russia.

00:19:03.660 We have an administration that is awkward, bumbling, and wrong on so many issues when all they had to do was anticipate and to pay attention to the intelligence they developed at the beginning of the year and then had the genius to share with the Chinese, expecting them not to share that with their new strategic partner, Russia. 0.68

00:19:27.900 You can't make this stuff up.

00:19:29.740 No, and as you mentioned earlier, we don't think about it, but the debt that we have, the printing of money and the projected deficits puts China and Russia, Iran, and our adversaries in a great position to take down our dollar.

00:19:46.200 And, again, that combined with energy dependence and just having bad leadership puts America in a very vulnerable place right now.

00:19:58.780 And we've got to get the word out to Americans.

00:20:01.860 We cannot allow what happened in this last election, whether it was honest or not, and I frankly don't believe it was.

00:20:08.100 And I think we'll know more in the next year or so about what really happened.

00:20:14.700 But we've got to get Americans focused on what policies will make our country better and their lives better, and it sure isn't coming from the Democrats.

00:20:24.060 It sure isn't.

00:20:25.360 And the American people clearly know that because in poll after poll, that's reflected, talking with Robert Cahaley, talking with John McLaughlin here about the poll numbers.

00:20:38.920 They all point in the same direction, and each of them is very cautious about this because I characterize it as pointing in the direction of a historic landslide in November.

00:20:50.780 And both of them, of course, want to caution me and say, oh, no, no, it's going to be very tight.

00:20:55.880 It may be, but they point in that direction right now.

00:20:59.780 And I take nothing for granted, not after 2020.

00:21:03.520 I don't take a thing for granted.

00:21:06.740 Your judgment, if you will, of both the tired leadership and the charge of the Senate and Rick Scott's 11 items, let's talk about that.

00:21:20.280 What do you think is the most important among them?

00:21:23.960 Well, I would encourage your listeners to go to RescueAmerica.com and look at Rick Scott's points.

00:21:33.160 I think if you're an American-first type person, you're going to like all of them.

00:21:38.320 But whether you like all of them exactly the way they are or you want to add, you will see that these are things that make America stronger, make our future brighter.

00:21:49.980 And we owe it to Americans when we're running for office to tell them what we're going to do so that they can hold us accountable to those things.

00:21:59.260 And so I like the points that Rick makes.

00:22:02.680 But more than anything, I like the fact that he's willing to put it out there.

00:22:06.480 And, you know, the consultants in Washington are telling McConnell and others, don't put anything out there that the Democrats can attack.

00:22:14.540 And if people go online, they'll see that all the liberal media are attacking his points.

00:22:19.940 They're, you know, kind of misrepresenting them and criticizing them.

00:22:25.480 But they're going to do that anyway.

00:22:28.120 If you don't put out an agenda, the Democrats will make it up for you.

00:22:31.720 They're going to say you're going to increase taxes on the poor and that you're going to do all these, you know, racist things.

00:22:39.220 And so you might as well put out your own agenda and defend it.

00:22:45.640 And I think that's what Rick is very matter of fact.

00:22:49.400 He was a very good governor of Florida.

00:22:51.940 He's not flamboyant.

00:22:53.500 But there was a little bit of an understatement right there, Jim.

00:22:59.740 He's a great, great friend.

00:23:01.940 But, you know, he can give you that fan-based look.

00:23:05.100 But if you look at his points, they're really exciting.

00:23:08.840 I mean, for me, if you look at it.

00:23:11.580 And so there is a whole lot behind that serious face that Rick carries around.

00:23:17.180 I also want to compliment you for your title of your piece in The Federalist.

00:23:21.460 And I recommend everybody go to TheFederalist.com and read The GOP Establishment Wants to Take Congress This Fall Without Telling Voters Why They Should.

00:23:31.900 Jim has written a terrific article.

00:23:35.300 I'm sorry.

00:23:36.080 Go ahead, Jim.

00:23:36.500 No, that was actually my subhead.

00:23:39.720 And I don't think they liked it.

00:23:41.700 My first headline was Rick Scott, Senate Republican Leader.

00:23:47.940 And so I think The Federalist decided that might be too provocative.

00:23:52.820 And so they just used the subhead.

00:23:55.040 But, you know, the folks, Molly Hemingway, who's running that thing now editorially, she wants to bring some flair to it.

00:24:06.600 I think she did.

00:24:08.260 I want to turn to some of the items because you mentioned what the left would do with it.

00:24:13.220 And I wanted to share with you what one leftist publication did with it.

00:24:18.420 I'm not going to give them any publicity.

00:24:21.320 I don't think I want to do that.

00:24:24.000 But here we go.

00:24:25.920 Here's the way they structured a couple of Rick Scott's 11 points.

00:24:30.580 First, turn schools into patriotism factories where our kids are forced to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:24:39.640 And teachers get fired for making white children uncomfortable, i.e. critical race there.

00:24:45.580 Isn't that the way you sort of read the agenda items?

00:24:48.860 Yeah.

00:24:49.220 Oh, yeah.

00:24:51.040 I mean, again, you can look it up if you want to see the mainstream media go apoplectic.

00:24:57.840 Just look at what they said and how they distort what Rick wrote.

00:25:02.300 You know, I mean, the first point he has on education, our kids will say the Pledge of Allegiance, which I had to do when I was in school.

00:25:09.400 Salute the flag.

00:25:10.300 Learn that America is a great country.

00:25:12.860 There you go.

00:25:13.260 Choose the school that best fits them.

00:25:15.880 And that's just a good start for a good education agenda, particularly focusing on school choice.

00:25:23.540 And I think if the liberals, the left, don't want to learn the Pledge of Allegiance, then support school choice so they can send their kids to schools that teach that Russia is great or whatever they want to do.

00:25:36.360 See, I've got a different idea, Jim.

00:25:38.840 I got a different idea about that.

00:25:40.580 And I've got to say it straight up.

00:25:43.940 I'm not going to walk my tax dollars out of a public school system because I think it's the greatest equalizer in our society.

00:25:50.880 It's better than any federal program that's been created.

00:25:53.960 It's better than any one of these nonsensical left-wing initiatives that's been created over the years.

00:26:01.840 I truly believe that.

00:26:03.780 And so I'm going to walk the teachers out.

00:26:06.080 Those who insist on teaching children to hate whomever.

00:26:13.840 Walk them out.

00:26:15.000 Get them out.

00:26:15.700 Get these two big unions out of here because for two years they abused our children. 1.00

00:26:21.500 They absolutely abandoned their responsibility to those children.

00:26:26.420 And for what reason?

00:26:27.640 Not for science because they flouted the scientific findings and followed a left-wing purpose in everything they did.

00:26:36.700 So I say let's get rid of those unions. 0.67

00:26:40.480 Let's get them the heck out. 0.87

00:26:42.220 And let's do it whatever it's going to take politically to do it.

00:26:45.460 We've got to do it.

00:26:47.340 You're exactly right, Lou.

00:26:48.920 Government workers should not be allowed to form a monopoly against the taxpayers.

00:26:53.260 And in this case, teachers who are paid by taxpayers should not have a monopoly union against parents.

00:27:01.600 And so I agree with Roosevelt, who was almost a socialist as far as I'm concerned, but he did not think government workers should be unionized.

00:27:10.020 And so it doesn't make any sense.

00:27:13.780 And again, if decisions were being made by local school boards and the unions weren't involved at the national level, you'd see parents have a lot of influence.

00:27:24.320 And like you said, that would help us make our public schools better for everyone.

00:27:29.780 Absolutely.

00:27:31.300 Anyway, well, that's what Rick's saying.

00:27:33.320 But what we have seen just in defense of school choice is that when there are more choices offered, the public schools get better.

00:27:40.200 We've seen that in Florida for almost 20 years.

00:27:44.140 And I think there are lots of ways to give every child the best opportunity they have, because we're spending from 15,000, in some cases, 20,000 a year on public school students.

00:27:57.700 And with that amount of money, we could give them a world-class education.

00:28:03.620 Yeah.

00:28:03.820 Well, you know what?

00:28:04.480 We're being taxed to provide a world-class education.

00:28:07.680 Our test scores are going down.

00:28:09.140 Our teachers are worsening every year.

00:28:12.000 It's time for us to take control of that public school.

00:28:14.660 Jim, I truly understand what you're saying.

00:28:16.680 And by the way, it's a great number two for me.

00:28:19.660 But number one is take charge of these schools, give these parents and these citizens and each community control over their schools, and let's get this thing straightened out.

00:28:31.400 Let's quit playing at the edge.

00:28:34.040 Go straight at the issue, straight at the problem.

00:28:36.760 These children are being indoctrinated by the left because they mean to take over this country, if not this year, if not next year, then 10 years to 20 years down.

00:28:46.560 We already are seeing it in the polling for the two youngest quintiles and demographics.

00:28:53.680 Those folks under 30 truly believe that they would run, according to the latest polling in the Quinnipiac poll, the Democratic children in that say that they would run from the Russians if they invaded the United States.

00:29:08.680 I mean, that's the most appalling statistic I've seen in a long time.

00:29:13.500 Yeah.

00:29:13.980 Yeah, it is.

00:29:14.800 But we can turn it around pretty quickly if we change leadership in America.

00:29:21.200 And Americans just need to wake up.

00:29:24.320 And I worry about it, though, Lou.

00:29:25.800 It's hard for people to get the truth.

00:29:28.520 And if you see – if you're watching CNN and NBC, you don't know we have a border crisis.

00:29:35.640 I mean, you don't know that they're teaching our children to hate by skin color in schools.

00:29:41.340 You don't know that.

00:29:42.280 That's true at Fox.

00:29:44.120 It's true at Fox, too.

00:29:45.600 It is.

00:29:48.160 But parents saw this, like you started out with, during COVID.

00:29:52.980 It exposed a lot of what was being taught in the schools.

00:29:57.040 And the most powerful force we could have on our side are parents.

00:30:01.660 Because they're not interested in politics.

00:30:03.980 They're interested in their kids.

00:30:06.280 And that's such a clearer perspective.

00:30:09.540 So you're right.

00:30:10.800 We got the most powerful political force in this country are the teachers' unions.

00:30:14.680 And it's negative.

00:30:15.820 I found in the House and the Senate, if you ever tried to do anything to change something in public schools, the teachers' union would come out in force to try to mislead people in your state that you were trying to destroy public education.

00:30:30.440 And so we just need to – again, they should not be unionized.

00:30:34.980 I don't mind them having associations and sharing information.

00:30:39.100 But this collective bargaining tool, it should not be allowed in public schools.

00:30:45.400 It's outrageous.

00:30:46.780 I don't think there should be – now I'm going to get into real trouble.

00:30:49.380 Why in the world do we have civil service as well as public employee unions?

00:30:54.860 What are we doing here?

00:30:56.160 The only place that unions exist with any strength and any numbers is in the public sector, local and state and county and federal government.

00:31:06.780 And you pull out those unions, our taxpayer dollars are paying for the principal representation of those workers who are in civil service,

00:31:17.540 working and public employee jobs as union members.

00:31:22.380 It's insane.

00:31:24.660 It is.

00:31:25.440 It's an automatic conflict of interest because every time they vote for more government, they're voting for more for themselves.

00:31:32.220 And you don't want that kind of thing in government.

00:31:36.560 So, again, it's a good number one point by Rick Scott as well as his number two is just colorblind equality,

00:31:45.980 which makes complete sense.

00:31:48.840 Why are we trying to bring color, skin color, back into the equation on almost everything we're doing now?

00:31:56.940 And it's very divisive and it's intended to be.

00:32:01.620 And if I could just draw one parallel, because there is a parallel between what Russia has been doing in this racism thing, 0.70

00:32:10.660 because, I mean, I've spent some time in the former Eastern Soviet Union from Latvia to Estonia all the way down to Ukraine, Kyiv.

00:32:20.880 And even 10 years ago, they were saying Russia has got the biggest propaganda machine in the world.

00:32:27.780 They're trying to meddle in their elections.

00:32:29.940 They're destabilizing their government.

00:32:31.740 But they're they're trying to stoke this idea of racism because there's so many ethnic Russians living in Ukraine and Latvia and Estonia and Belarus.

00:32:42.840 And they're they're just essentially saying that these countries are racist.

00:32:46.820 And that's why Russia needs to come in and take over. 0.99

00:32:50.580 They're not racist, but that's what Russia is doing. 0.99

00:32:54.240 So anyone who doesn't think that Putin's been trying to I mean, took Belarus over years ago in 2010, the Ukrainian people revolted against a puppet government of Russia there in Kyiv and install their own prime minister who Putin quickly tried to poison.

00:33:16.680 And so this has been going on a long time and the West has certainly not integrated these countries into our economic system in a way that would have helped keep this whole Russian invasion from happening. 0.55

00:33:33.100 I think that's exactly right.

00:33:35.760 Historically, it's correct. 1.00

00:33:37.380 And and we can add one other panel to this, and that is what the United States government has been doing in that period.

00:33:43.800 In the case of the Obama administration with 2000, his election in 2008, by 2010, we were signing away 20 percent of our uranium reserves with his signature to to Russia.

00:33:59.560 Why is that and why hasn't that ever been explained?

00:34:02.740 It's ridiculous because we have to import nuclear fuel into this country.

00:34:06.800 Why are we giving up 20 percent of our reserves, most of which are in the the Western states?

00:34:14.720 It's it's stunning to me to see the things that we've done where we had an opportunity following Perestroka and Glastos in the early 90s.

00:34:23.760 Why didn't we step up to invest in Russia?

00:34:28.740 Why did we instead invest in China and why did the United States build a communist empire headquartered in Beijing instead of bring Russia into Europe and create trade balance trade relationships that could sustain an enduring peace?

00:34:49.480 Why aren't those questions discussed and what a failure of leadership it is in both parties over the course of those 30 decades?

00:34:58.020 It's I mean, 30 years and and with that, we were sitting here now facing the prospect of even greater and broader war as a result of what's happening in Ukraine.

00:35:10.340 You said you wanted to talk about that.

00:35:12.720 And I think this would be a great, great opportunity, Jim.

00:35:16.940 Oh, yeah, I'm afraid, as you indicated, we have kind of lost Russia and many of these former Soviet republics years ago by not incorporating them into the world's economic system.

00:35:31.840 And so certainly the European countries were not ready.

00:35:35.900 And again, that's what you would hear as far away as Latvia and Estonia is that they were just begging to be more of a part of the free capitalist system in the world.

00:35:51.040 But we were we were slow to do that.

00:35:53.780 And we've we've allowed Russia again to develop and corrupt and put leaders like Putin in who, again, now, like you indicated, we are probably in as much danger of nuclear war now as we were when the Soviet Union was behind the Iron Curtain.

00:36:12.300 And so but it goes back to I don't want to just talk about the problems because the solutions are right in front of us.

00:36:19.020 Russia became rich selling oil to Europe because that's where Europe had to get it and largely because of the climate agenda, which encouraged them not to produce their own energy, the same with the United States.

00:36:35.320 And so we have fallen into exactly what our adversaries want us to do, to be weak, to be dependent.

00:36:44.880 And that's what brings tyrants to the forefront.

00:36:49.020 And we're facing that now, not just in Russia, but as you indicated, in China, we're dependent for our military equipment on many components that come from China.

00:36:58.640 A lot of the minerals that are so essential to today's technology, solar and others, China has has bought control of or taken control of around the world. 0.83

00:37:11.640 Uh, these things all have solutions, but it goes back to, okay, what can we do to make America better, stronger, more prosperous, put America first.

00:37:22.640 And when we do, the world is a lot safer and more peaceful.

00:37:26.820 And all of our allies will agree with that.

00:37:29.580 If America doesn't lead the world falls into chaos.

00:37:34.540 Well, we're certainly watching that now.

00:37:36.980 Uh, give us your sense of what's going to happen.

00:37:39.720 Uh, China has also said, uh, in addition to resisting understandably the, the, the warnings and the threats from the Biden administration, they've also said they do not want to, to find themselves sanctioned by the world.

00:37:56.220 And therefore that suggested me that they're not going to support Putin going forward.

00:38:01.100 I would be surprised if that happens, but I've been surprised many times in my life, but this one does not make sense for what has been a very smart man and a very smart leadership in China.

00:38:11.180 He knows that he opens himself up to unpredictable chaos.

00:38:15.180 If he were to, uh, side up with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine, an absolute, uh, criminal act against humanity in Ukraine for which Vladimir Putin will never recover, uh, irrespective of the immediate outcome in Ukraine.

00:38:33.380 Do you agree?

00:38:34.320 Yes, I do.

00:38:34.920 I think, um, unfortunately the word Russian will be a scourge on the earth for generations.

00:38:41.080 And that's certainly not fair to a lot of good people.

00:38:44.520 There are a lot of great Russian Americans in there.

00:38:46.800 So people in Russia dying, protesting, um, uh, dying and disappearing.

00:38:52.600 Uh, but, um, the word Ukrainian will, will be a word of, of courage, uh, in nobility just because of their willingness, uh, to fight for their own country, uh, to die bravely.

00:39:05.640 But this is a proxy war that unfortunately Ukraine is in the middle of.

00:39:10.220 This is a war between good and evil, as you mentioned, and people don't understand that.

00:39:15.620 I think we're forgetting that a lot of the difference between the left and the right is a difference between secularism and people of faith.

00:39:23.560 Our founders understood that is, is that, you know, either you're dependent on God, uh, or you're going to be dependent on, on some government.

00:39:33.600 And that's why, uh, people like Putin try to throw out religion and Christianity is because it's, it's an alternate, uh, authority that people look to.

00:39:46.400 And once you have the spiritual freedom that comes from the, the peace of knowing God, uh, you demand economic freedom and all kinds of other freedom, uh, which, uh, is, is very threatening to tyrants.

00:39:59.020 So the book, Satan's dare is a novel, but it's about truth and it's about the Bible.

00:40:04.260 It's about God.

00:40:05.500 It's about suffering and why we go through it.

00:40:08.080 But I just want people to have more confidence in what we believe on the faith side, because I see that the lack of confidence and in our schools being taught that this whole universe is an accident is not scientifically based.

00:40:23.740 And that's what I show in the book, but if our kids come out of that, not believing that there is a God that we're randomly created by accident, uh, they're not going to be conservatives who are longing for freedom.

00:40:37.700 Uh, at least it's going to be rare.

00:40:40.160 Well, I, I, I can't, I have not read the book.

00:40:43.080 I intend to do so.

00:40:44.640 And, uh, I would, uh, based on what Jim Dement has said here, I would urge you to consider it.

00:40:50.920 Uh, it is, uh, Satan's dare.

00:40:53.860 I think that people who don't understand this now as a contest, uh, a war between good and evil right now on this planet, uh, desperately need to, to read another book too, uh, that we're all familiar with.

00:41:09.520 And that's the Bible.

00:41:10.320 Uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, this is a difficult, difficult time.

00:41:15.880 Uh, we, none of us can predict what will happen, but we do know one thing.

00:41:19.800 A lot of evil is at work in the world.

00:41:21.960 And we have to, uh, if we consider ourselves good people stand up against it, uh, it's a very difficult thing, uh, because so much is happening.

00:41:30.860 It's so complicated.

00:41:31.920 The chaos is, is rising by the day and to keep up with it, uh, is a difficult task.

00:41:38.740 Uh, the book is Satan's dare it's written by Jim Dement.

00:41:42.540 Uh, we urge you to, as I said, consider buying that book.

00:41:46.560 And we also would urge you to consider going to rescue america.com, rescue america.com.

00:41:53.660 Senator Rick Scott's agenda, 11 items, uh, for if you will, resurrecting America.

00:42:01.340 Uh, we appreciate it, Jim.

00:42:03.340 Uh, we always give our guests the final word here on the great America show.

00:42:08.380 Uh, please.

00:42:09.840 Well, Lou, I want to thank you and I want to thank your listeners because I can just tell your listeners, if they're listening to Lou Dobbs, uh, they're getting the truth about issues and, and a perspective that doesn't come from fear or sponsors.

00:42:25.240 It's just the truth.

00:42:27.320 And you've done that for, um, a lifetime.

00:42:29.860 And I'm grateful for that.

00:42:31.240 I do want to encourage folks to seek the truth, um, as it comes to the political decisions we have to make.

00:42:38.860 And again, the reason that I'm focusing on good and evil and Satan's dare is a defense of the Bible.

00:42:44.980 Is there choices that we have to make today?

00:42:47.880 And, uh, if we look to government and people like, whether it's Republicans or Democrats, they're not going to save us.

00:42:54.480 Um, but if we have a country that's based on, um, faith and morality and a belief in God, while we all may have our different versions of that, um, it's so different than what we're seeing coming out of Russia and China and other places in the world.

00:43:12.640 Uh, so I would just encourage people to stay engaged, um, but this country is so special.

00:43:20.320 I consider it a garden called America that God gave us, and we are stewards of that garden.

00:43:26.560 And that's why I'm still in the arena, Lou, is I'm, I'm there, not, not for myself, but my whole organization, the conservative partnership is there to support people in the arena who are trying to save this country and do the right thing.

00:43:40.280 So appreciate you and all your listeners and, and thanks for the opportunity to be back on your show.

00:43:46.000 Well, it's great to talk with you.

00:43:47.480 Thank you so much for being here.

00:43:48.800 Come back soon.

00:43:50.280 Uh, and you're right about this audience.

00:43:52.220 Uh, we, uh, the audience and I are America first all the way, uh, every day.

00:43:58.440 So, uh, you're talking to the right folks and, and we're listening to the right guy.

00:44:03.720 So, uh, we appreciate your time.

00:44:06.020 I want to say Jim DeBendt is the chairman of the conservative partnership Institute.

00:44:10.500 Uh, you can go to the website, CPI.org that CPI.org, the conservative partnership Institute.

00:44:19.940 Jim DeBendt is chairman, uh, his recommendation for rescue America.com Rick Scott's, uh, 11 item agenda, uh, for getting this country rolling again and in the right direction, rescue America.com.

00:44:34.220 So we thank you again, Jim DeBendt, we appreciate it.

00:44:37.860 You're a great American and we thank you for being in the arena.

00:44:41.320 God bless you.

00:44:42.260 Thanks Lou.

00:44:43.180 And God bless you for being with us today.

00:44:45.380 We appreciate it.

00:44:46.500 Uh, please join us tomorrow until then.

00:44:50.180 God bless you and God bless America.

The Great America Show - March 20, 2022

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