00:00:00.000Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Great America Show. It's Stephen Gardner filling in for
00:00:08.640John Fawcett while he is at his sister's wedding. He and I got together this morning and I
00:00:15.840let him know about a special guest that I have, a colonel, to talk about what's going
00:00:20.200on in the Iran war and where we are headed. Also, why the CIA had to secretly fly John
00:00:28.300Ratcliffe into Russia, what that's all about. But I'm going to go through today several arrests
00:00:34.640and accountability and why the Democrat government in Oregon tried to hide over 100 arrests. It's
00:00:43.160going to blow your mind. But as soon as I say it, you'll go, oh, Stephen, we got it. That's why.
00:00:49.400All right. On the other side of this commercial break, I have my special guest, Colonel Tony
00:00:53.600Schaefer to go through what's going on with the CIA, what's going on with Trump, what's going on
00:00:58.660with the Iran war. All right, everybody wants to know what is the next step with the Iran situation?
00:01:10.960We went from the war hawks preparing to push them into the Stone Age to now saying, wait a minute,0.77
00:01:16.960we think we can go about this a different way. To help me go through this, I have retired Colonel0.63
00:01:21.380Tony Schaefer. Colonel Schaefer, thank you so much for joining me again. Stephen, it's always great
00:01:25.780to join you. I appreciate the time. So, yeah. Let me ask you this. Do you think that this
00:01:30.680war is winding down or are we in a pause phase? The reason I ask is Secretary of State Marco Rubio
00:01:39.180said there will be no more kinetic attacks planned as of right now. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson
00:01:46.380said, we are going to overwhelm them with sanctions and aggressively go after any partner
00:01:51.540that aids them, but there will be no more military strikes. Is this signal or noise on the battlefield?
00:01:58.520What do you make of this? So the framework to understand this, that's actually taught at the
00:02:04.360war colleges, I actually spent time at the Army War College on this, is called DIME, D-I-M-E,
00:02:10.540stands for Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic. Those are the strategic tools of
00:02:17.140national power that every world leader, whether they call it dime or not, uses in some form.
00:02:24.200So what's going on is basically a coordinated and synchronized use of those four elements
00:02:32.020by this president. So even during the conflict, if you remember, Stephen, they were still doing
00:02:38.640diplomatic stuff. We were doing economic stuff. I mean, the whole thing with Venezuela was
00:02:43.340a smaller model of what we're doing. We were seizing their tankers, doing things to upset0.90
00:02:49.220them economically. But what I'll say about this conflict is that President Trump and Scott Bessent
00:02:55.340have gone farther than anybody else I know since the Reagan years to actually go after the economic,
00:03:02.060the E and the DIM equation. So, so many folks, so many presidents, world leaders kind of talk
00:03:10.040about doing, oh yeah, we're going to seize this. We're going to do that. We're going to do a
00:03:15.000sanction. This isn't about sanctioning. This is about going literally into the, into the vascular
00:03:20.840system of global commerce of money, of how it's moved and cutting it off. So this is why, and I
00:03:28.120would argue this is why uh director of ci radcliffe showed up in moscow i everybody's saying oh it's
00:03:34.360about ukraine and nato is like no it's not it's about it's about iran and basically saying you
00:03:40.800help us with iran we'll help you get out of the mess in ukraine you've made for yourself uh that's
00:03:45.900what that was about and so this is and it's about us you know xi's coming here china's coming here
00:03:51.300for a visit i think trump's going to present him some information he doesn't like regarding what
00:03:56.360we know about what they're doing. And Scott even said, I'm not giving away anything classified.
00:03:59.900Scott said, we have mapped, Scott Bacenta said, we have mapped everything down to the individual
00:04:05.800transactions of how things are done. And so, and we have a massive organization called the FinCEN,
00:04:11.600which is a hybrid of FBI, CIA, Department of War, State Department, and Department of Treasury,
00:04:17.780which actually devotes a large amount of time to tracking global commerce, especially illicit
00:04:23.800commerce. So that's what's going on. Now, will we use military force? Well, we kind of are,
00:04:30.580just not being noisy about it. Every night we're sneaking ships out. We basically have been able
00:04:37.440to blind the IRGC so they can't see, especially at night. What you can't see, you can't shoot at.
00:04:42.600And we've been moving tankers out. It's not back to the level of pre-war regarding the number
00:04:46.820coming through, but oil is starting to flow back out. So it's all about trying to demonstrate to
00:04:52.160the Iranians without having to use more military force. You're going to die as a society if you1.00
00:04:59.700don't play ball, because we're going to deprive you of any ability to stop us from what we're
00:05:03.840doing and stop your economy from functioning. OK, let me go deeper on the head of the CIA.
00:05:11.300Sure. So I see all of a sudden John Ratcliffe appears in Moscow for these meetings. Then I
00:05:19.700start tracking it back, the airplane he's on was at Andrew Air Force Base. It goes dark and then
00:05:26.500suddenly reappeared in Latvia and then suddenly appears in Moscow. So he's not there about the
00:05:33.580threats of Moscow against London. You think he's there saying, work with us. Let's get both of
00:05:39.620these wars wrapped up. Do not help Iran in any way. Yeah. So this is where the Europeans completely1.00
00:05:46.140missed the boat i mean they just had their little notably steve last week in kev they had their
00:05:51.420the uh conspiracy of the willing no that's the wrong word uh uh coalition of the willing that's
00:05:57.200what it is the coalition of the willing meeting and we weren't there we weren't we weren't a simple
00:06:04.360statement of fact we weren't there and the british were there the french were there oh la la you know
00:06:09.700uh we weren't there and we weren't there because we want we did not want to be there it wasn't like
00:06:15.160we were invited, but there was all the issues regarding Zelensky, about who's going to fund
00:06:19.520the war, about where he's going to get patriots from. These things we didn't want to be involved
00:06:24.160in. So you combine that then with this idea that the British especially keep saying, oh,
00:06:30.140there's a threat from Russia. Stephen, the Russians just took a huge loss on the battlefield,
00:06:37.220something like 47,000 casualties in a week. That's not sustainable, even with an order of
00:06:44.080magnitude larger force than Ukraine. So, and Europeans keep saying, oh, they're going to go
00:06:49.640after other elements of NATO. It's like, there's no evidence of that. They don't have the military
00:06:54.660capacity to do that. You can't have the Russians losing on the battlefield and bragging about it
00:07:00.300at the same time they're threatening you. No, it's not possible. This is a complete
00:07:05.000contradiction. So there's no evidence, zero. And we're pretty good at this. There's no evidence
00:07:11.260that the military forces of Russia have any large capability to mount on any level an all-out
00:07:20.500invasion war or intrusion, incursion, like a special military operation, it's what they call
00:07:25.340Ukraine. There's no evidence they can do that. They're now taxed to the hilt just doing what
00:07:30.580they have to do within the provinces there in Ukraine. So it's this wanting your cake and
00:07:37.960eating a tube by the Europeans is insane. So no, I don't think Radcliffe was there
00:07:41.640to worry about the Russians invading Europe. I think it's all about trying to say, basically,0.70
00:07:46.080you guys are in over your head. We can, you know, there's some things we can do to help each other
00:07:51.600to end the Iranian issue and end Ukraine. That's what I think it was about.0.96
00:07:56.120Okay. I'm hoping and praying. Wouldn't that be amazing? A two for one, as they say.
00:08:02.360Help me understand this. So seven to 10 days ago, all the American war hawks, the think tanks, they're championing Trump's idea of the largest, the biggest attack of the entire war.
00:08:18.140Trump is getting really agitated. And then all of a sudden, boom, it's like we switch to the blockade is working.
00:08:25.160Now let's do economic warfare like we've never done before. And the war hawks say we love this idea.
00:08:31.300What do you think that the shift in in tone was in D.C.?0.94
00:08:35.660Well, I just I keep telling people, read his freaking book, read Heart of the Deal.
00:08:40.620I've been through this with so many people.0.69
00:08:42.920It's like, look, he's going to go to a maximum position and then he may switch negotiating tactics because it fits what he wants to accomplish.
00:08:50.540I said this in several lectures I've done and I go in and basically I start the lecture with just a satellite picture of the Middle East.
00:08:59.240And this is for your audience. You've got a great audience. Let me explain, because they'll get it.
00:09:04.920So I go into my lectures, because I have people who are very senior people, by the way,
00:09:09.740like admirals and generals, saying, we don't understand what's going on. Can you come talk to us?
00:09:13.560Okay. So I show up, and I start with my briefing with a picture of the Middle East. I said, what
00:09:19.080do you see? What is that? What's the Middle East? No, no, no, no. What is that? What do you mean,
00:09:25.680what is that? That's land. That's a big chunk of land. Trump is a developer. He's redeveloping the
00:09:32.920land. That's what he's doing. So look at what he's trying to accomplish, not through the lens
00:09:38.200of conventional thinking, but how he goes about conducting business. And so I would fundamentally
00:09:44.120argue that he's not changed dramatically from the time he was developing real estate in Manhattan.
00:09:49.500He learned a lot of lessons. He's now doing it on a global level. So if, yeah, we've used military
00:09:54.060force. We've kind of made our point. We're going to threaten it again to get you guys thinking a
00:09:58.180certain way. And then we're going to go do something else. So you're completely off guard.
00:10:01.600That benefits him in the negotiation. So I think right now that the neocons had no,
00:10:07.040they had no other option but to go this way. Because one of the things that's been noted by
00:10:10.980me and others who have talked about this publicly, this has been one of the most, and I know this
00:10:15.600sounds outrageous, but it's true. This has been one of the most economic use of military force
00:10:20.280in the history of our nation. We have done a lot with a little. We've used a fraction of our
00:10:27.340military forces. We have not had to put boots on the ground, although we threatened a lot.
00:10:32.260And it would be amazing if we have a win, if, I'm not saying we will, but if we have a definitive
00:10:38.820win before November, not having to use boots on the ground, I think that's pretty significant.
00:10:43.640All of that makes a lot of sense. As you mentioned, President Trump, Scott Besson,
00:10:49.080We've never seen anything like this, this Operation Economic Outcast.
00:10:55.000But at the same time, the head of the War Department and Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, is saying America by no means is foreclosing military action.0.61
00:11:04.780If Iran overplays their hand or attacks the U.S. military, Washington will do what it needs to do.0.99
00:11:11.240Is this them saying we're in a defensive posture right now, but if you play stupid, you're going to find out what happens?0.99
00:11:17.640I think it's the two things are ongoing. First, his statement is completely accurate. We have not stood down. That is to say that the forces I'm aware of that I was made aware of are still forward based.0.98
00:11:32.700I don't want to say where they're at for obvious reasons, but we've got them forward based in places we don't normally have them and they're still there.
00:11:39.020And then secondly, we just relieved the Ford with the Lincoln.
00:11:45.380I'm sorry, Lincoln with the Washington.
00:11:59.080They go around with a massive task force.
00:12:01.280So that task force is still there. And there's no indication we're going to slow down. And as I mentioned, we've had this clandestine movement of ships, which, you know, I didn't brag about it. Others have. And I'm just talking about, yeah, they've acknowledged it. Yeah, we're moving ships out.
00:12:19.860So that had to be done clandestinely. That had to be done effectively using both Air Force and Navy overwatch. So it's happening. And I think, again, that's meant to demonstrate to the Iranians, dude, you may you may pretend that you control the strait, but you don't.
00:12:34.840And now you may pretend you have money, but you don't.0.87
00:12:38.040So it's all about reinforcing a theme, which this goes back to dying, diplomatic, informational,
00:14:19.460I mean, they are just going to say they're anti-American.
00:14:23.020And they and they do this anti-American stuff because they hate Trump so much.
00:14:27.900They don't want Trump to get a victory. It's like, oh, no. Oh, my God.
00:14:31.780We cannot allow, you know, you know, the orange man, orange man, bad.
00:14:37.540Orange man, bad is what rules their editorial decision making, period.
00:14:43.020It is what it is. Yeah. OK, final question. I appreciate you coming on.
00:14:48.020I know your day is very busy. Why are they being so critical of Pete Hegseth? Is it just because
00:14:54.560he's the head of the Pentagon or is he easier to take out than President Trump as far as blasting
00:15:00.820him in the media and pushing for impeachment? So, you know, full disclosure, Pete and I are
00:15:05.640friends and just take my comments with that in mind. I and I've been critical of some of the
00:15:12.980things the Pentagon is doing. It's not like I give him a free pass. I'm just I'm polite about it. But
00:15:16.860you know, I've said these are things I disagree with. So they disagree with Pete for two reasons.
00:15:23.720First, he has actually done things to reform the Pentagon in a very short amount of time,
00:15:28.780which has returned warrior ethos and lethality to the enterprise. It is what it is. He's done that.
00:15:35.160And he's done it in such a way to very publicly to remove DEI and all the other Lloyd Austin
00:15:40.820nonsense. And I know both men. I know both men. So this is not me, Tony Schaefer, speculating.
00:15:45.860I've been in combat with Lloyd Austin. I've had I've had to deal with Pete Hexteth regarding his policies in a good way.
00:15:52.880I'm a county commissioner and we have economic issues. You know, we publicly met at the kickoff.
00:15:58.620Pete and I met at the kickoff of the Arsenal of Freedom tour up in Newport News.
00:16:02.820So, you know, I'm just I'm talking about, you know, knowing both men professionally.
00:16:07.500So he's been effective and that's what they don't like.
00:16:10.100Secondly, because he's effective, he's actually said and done things which indicate he's not for the military solution first.
00:16:17.860I'm going to say this, and you may think I'm crazy.
00:16:20.240Both the Democrats and Republicans want the military enterprise to be fully engaged and expanding all the time because the left profits as much as the right from spending, from Pentagon spending.
00:17:01.100I mean, just yesterday, Hillary Clinton said Trump should back Ukraine more, but he won't because he's still under the control of the Kremlin, which is just absolute nonsense that she would say.
00:17:12.000Talk about being bitter about losing still.
00:17:14.940Colonel Schaefer, thank you very much for your time.
00:17:17.100I'm going to put links to how people can find you online so that that's super easy.
00:17:22.000We'll have you on again in the future.
00:17:31.100Over 100 people were just arrested and charged with drug trafficking, and they had enough fentanyl to kill 50 million Americans.
00:17:40.880But that's not the craziest part. I'll tell you why the Democrat government up in Oregon tried to hide a key piece of data from Trump and the American people.
00:17:52.240Glenn Beck lays out all that President Trump accomplished this week,
00:17:56.580and it's a bunch of stuff even I missed after reading the news for hours a day on your behalf.
00:18:02.800A George Soros district attorney says,
00:18:06.360once Trump is out, we must erase every part of him, starting with blowing up the ballroom.
00:18:13.040Lastly, China was caught hacking the Department of Justice,
00:18:16.560the Department of Energy, as well as NASA and the U.S. Senate.0.96
00:18:20.220Let's stop pretending that they couldn't hack an election0.99
00:18:22.860or create a divisive race war here in America.
00:18:27.120Thank you guys so much for liking and sharing these videos.
00:18:30.360These are big stories that the mainstream media isn't covering,
00:18:33.500but I'm going to cover them for you tonight.
00:18:35.740Federal prosecutors revealed a disturbing result
00:21:57.220for the president's mail-in ballot order
00:21:58.880to take effect before the midterm six to three homeland security can build a federal citizenship
00:22:04.040list and send it to the states while the attorney general can prioritize the prosecutions of
00:22:09.120officials who give ballots uh to uh ineligible voters also the state department the state
00:22:15.920department is moving to revoke the tourist and business visas of up to 200 000 people who came
00:22:20.740as visitors and then filed for asylum the largest action in american history if 14 days this month
00:22:27.560In 14 days, ICE arrested almost 1,500 people in Virginia and Maryland alone, including 400 with convictions and pending charges for crimes from sexual battery, kidnapping, robbery, attempted murder, rape, MS-13 members.
00:22:42.220One of the most successful operations ever.
00:22:45.340Also, this week, we find out State Department is moving to revoke the tourist and business visas of up to 200,000 people who came as visitors.
00:23:11.860Philadelphia Fed's manufacturing survey showed American factories having the strongest current conditions in more than five years.
00:23:18.040But more striking, the manufacturers, their expectations for the future surged to the highest level since the beginning of the Reagan boom in 1983 with the biggest one jump ever recorded.
00:23:31.060In other words, American manufacturing isn't surviving.
00:23:44.860And the man responsible is President Donald J. Trump.
00:23:48.040All right. Isn't that amazing? President Trump and his team are getting so much done, but it's almost gets no positive coverage in the mainstream media.
00:23:57.420Here's another thing not being covered. Philadelphia's Democrat district attorney, Larry Kasner, whose campaign boasted about receiving one point seven million dollars from George Soros, says that after President Trump leaves, every part of him must be erased.
00:24:17.080Jeffries said everyone connected to him must be investigated and held accountable and now
00:24:25.000Larry Cosner this district attorney he's actually saying we need to physically blow up the new
00:24:31.900ballroom in fact he said it twice and then he wants to give it away to everybody as a paperweight
00:24:38.060or be sold in order to get people's money back but the problem is the American people aren't
00:24:43.320paying for this. But listen to what this guy said. And I'm going to have a paperweight sitting on my
00:24:48.240desk. You know what that paperweight is going to be? It's going to be a piece of the ballroom
00:24:52.500after we all blow it up. That's what it's going to be. In an official, official ceremony, just so
00:25:02.460we're clear. In an official ceremony, we're going to blow it up and we're going to get the taxpayers
00:25:07.800their money back by selling all the pieces as paperweights and I will have one on my desk.
00:25:12.960All right. Now that's bananas to me. I mean, literally anybody or anything Trump does,
00:25:18.680they want it erased. They want people arrested. They want accountability for what? Making America
00:25:24.620great again for building a building on top of one that was so old. It literally like people
00:25:31.560had been complaining about it for over 10 years. And this idea of give the American people back
00:25:39.080their money? This is being paid for by the Trump family and private donors as a gift to America.
00:25:46.520Now, Americans can debate whether the project is wise or attractive, whether Trump went about it
00:25:52.900the right way. But guess what? The Supreme Court just waved their flag and said, yes, you have the
00:25:58.700right to move forward. So this is all about symbolism, extreme symbolism. We must erase
00:26:05.620everything. I mean, like this is what they did in Egypt. They literally went through and bashed1.00
00:26:10.860the faces of all of the pharaohs, maybe even the Sphinx, because they wanted to erase them.
00:26:17.360Now, Cosner, he's not a cable news commentator. He's not a YouTuber. He's an elected official
00:26:24.280talking about blowing up a building in order to erase a president. This guy should be focused on
00:26:30.980illegal immigrants that are bringing fentanyl in to kill your children. But no, he's talking1.00
00:26:36.080instead about erasing Trump. I mean, the opposition to Trump is legitimate. I get it. He's got a rough
00:26:42.580personality, but automatically calling for investigations of everybody in his inner circle
00:26:48.380is crazy to me. Erasing everything that he did, getting rid of all of his executive orders.
00:26:54.020This is exactly what they want to do. Even Hillary Clinton previously argued that the country must
00:26:59.820confront and reject Trumpism. And Hakeem Jeffries said, anybody that was connected to Trump must be
00:27:07.660investigated. This is crazy. How can our country move forward if we waste so much time and so much
00:27:14.020money? Now, the Justice Department says it has disrupted a China-linked hacking operation that
00:27:21.380penetrated some of America's most sensitive institutions, the Department of Justice, the
00:27:27.040Department of Energy, the Federal Reserve, NASA, Health and Human Services, the National Institute
00:27:34.860of Health, and even people in the Senate. This looks bad, very bad. This was hacking at the
00:27:42.660highest level of government. And not just that, they found out this operation was built to scan,
00:27:48.640steal, infect, and then conceal itself. Federal authorities seized domains associated with two
00:27:54.960platforms, QSCAN and QT Router. According to unsealed court documents, they were operated by
00:28:02.160a state-sponsored group called QTFY, which the Justice Department says was employed by a China-based
00:28:09.720technology company. Why is nobody vetting this stuff? The tools allegedly enabled these Chinese
00:28:16.540hackers to scan vulnerable internet-connected devices, infect systems, communicate with
00:28:22.600compromise devices and then hide everything. But they figured it out. And then they were able to
00:28:28.220trace it back to China's Ministry of State Security and the People's Liberation Army.
00:28:33.820This is literally a hack from the Chinese military. Now, the government says the domain seizure
00:28:39.860rendered both platforms inoperable. This is a good thing. But we have to figure out
00:28:45.100how did this happen and what else happened? I mean, the stakes couldn't be higher. In just the
00:28:50.680last month, U.S. intelligence finally admitted that they failed to brief President Trump on China
00:28:57.300involving themselves in stealing information on voter rolls from 18 states. These reports
00:29:04.040allege that Beijing had explored ways to exploit the voter rolls, rig the election, and install
00:29:10.320Joseph Robinette Biden. Instead, they said, no, no, no, let's just use cyber warfare to destroy
00:29:17.860their democracy by creating race wars so that whites and Asians and blacks and everyone in0.97
00:29:23.480between will hate each other. Well, guess what? It must have worked because that's exactly what's0.85
00:29:28.640happening. All right, that's my update for today. Man, a lot going on, right? Let me know your
00:29:34.800thoughts in the comments about these illegal immigrants with enough fentanyl to kill every1.00
00:29:39.480child in America, 50 million Americans, and why the government covered that up. This hack by China,0.89