The Great America Show with Lou Dobbs and Nigel Farage. Great America is a weekly conservative political talk show hosted by former White House correspondent for the New York Times and host of CNN's "The Situation Room" where the hosts discuss current events in American politics. This week's guests: Myra Flores, the newly elected congresswoman from Texas, and Boris Johnson stepping down as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
00:03:00.440He and his boss in the White House are among the vast number of reasons political analysts are now saying the radical Dems will go down to a historic defeat in the midterm elections in just over three months.
00:03:13.200There's also raging, rampant runaway inflation, a slowing economy, are markets in turmoil, a foreign policy designed by moronic Marxist Dems,
00:03:23.780and the massive national debt created by Biden's insane spending, like spending $50 billion for corrupt Ukraine,
00:03:33.280all of the military hardware, equipment, including aircraft, being shipped to Ukraine.
00:03:37.900And now Ukraine's first lady is personally asking Biden for more, more, and more again.
00:03:46.100What happened to the tens of billions already sent?
00:03:49.400And where are the Europeans in the defense of Ukraine?
00:03:52.800Where are their tens of billions of dollars?
00:03:58.040Why is Biden now sending more of our American troops to defend Europe and possibly Ukraine?
00:04:04.980We have with us today one of the world's best-known conservatives.
00:04:08.960He's Nigel Farage, longtime British politician, member of the European Parliament, and founder of Brexit, the British exit from the European Union.
00:04:19.820He's a supporter and good friend of President Trump.
00:04:23.000Nigel, thanks for being with us today, and great to have you here.
00:04:26.460Boris Johnson, stepping down as prime minister, conservative seemingly unsettled at best.
00:08:04.460And when we learned that what was happening in Downing Street were these enormous drinking sessions going on till 3, 4 in the morning, you know, a whole culture of do as I say, not as I do.
00:08:18.120And then, again, you see, when Johnson was confronted with this, he said no rules were broken.
00:08:29.460And when it turns out they didn't obey the rules at all times, he sort of said, well, no harm was meant by – you know, you can't – you just – when you're caught doing wrong, you have to tell the truth.
00:08:41.500And, yeah, Johnson is a larger-than-life party animal.
00:08:45.800And I'd be the last person on earth to condemn and criticize that.
00:08:50.760I'm not a pruritum by any means at all.
00:08:53.580I think people should live their lives to the full.
00:08:56.220But, you know, the charges of hypocrisy, the charges of double standards, and the charges of lying when you're caught, you know, that just enraged millions of people.
00:09:07.360I mean, you know, I've got friends of mine couldn't go and visit their dying relatives.
00:09:12.760Friends of mine couldn't go to funerals.
00:09:28.480And there's a reason I think that perhaps we in the United States are very sensitive to it is because the globalist elites – and I put that in quotation marks – but the globalist elites we don't really have much use for.
00:09:47.240That is, those of us who are, you know, America first, who are conservative, and who really believe that, you know, what's good for, you know, the man and the woman on the street better be exactly what's good enough for the so-called elites.
00:10:05.560It's – this country has sort of gotten refocused on egalitarianism.
00:10:12.340Certainly, there's nothing that all Americans agree on, but certainly that is a view of the – most Americans.
00:10:26.600Yeah, I think the other point that comes across here that's very interesting is, you know, over the last week I've spoken to a lot of American commentators, a lot of – you know, I've done American news channels from CNBC to Fox to whatever.
00:10:39.380And, you know, the CNBC view was quite funny.
00:10:45.460I was on, you know, I was on Squawk Box, you know, and I was being told – you mean Boris Johnson has gone because he didn't tell the truth?
00:10:56.040Well, if that was applied in Washington, there'd be no one left, to which I replied, well, maybe in this old country, with all of its faults, we hold our public servants to a higher standard.
00:12:00.280But then again, like you say, the American political system is broken right now because of what the hard left in this country has done, which is seize control of the Democrat Party.
00:12:14.240And they are, following Marxist doctrine, trying their best to take over every aspect of our society as well as the economy itself.
00:12:24.540It's really quite a moment in American history.
00:12:28.300What is the perception of the U.S. leadership, this White House, and the policy?
00:12:38.800You know, I mean, we just can't believe that the leader of the free world, the leader of America, is this doddering duffer called Joe Biden.
00:12:46.400I mean, America, by virtue of its size, its success, its military power, its cultural leadership, whether that be in film or in music or in many other ways, is led by this idiot who can barely string a sentence together.
00:13:02.420So when people now talk about America over here on this side of the pond, believe me, at the moment, it's not with awe, it's virtually with pity.
00:13:11.740And I kind of fear that what is happening in America today is a symptom of the Western world in quite radical precipitous decline, which, unless it's turned around pretty quickly, it's going to lead to the end of our way of life as we know it.
00:13:34.340And we have the external threats, and, yeah, you know, Putin's one of them, but actually China's far bigger, something that has been forgotten, ignored, Iran, now getting close to a nuclear weapon.
00:13:46.500Okay, I know Biden's in the Middle East at the moment, but, hey, it's all a bit late.
00:13:51.120And then we have the internal, the internal enemy, which is a new form of Marxism, which has pervaded our academic institutions, much of our mainstream media,
00:14:01.740which actually wants us to believe that everything about ourselves, our nation, our history, the building of all that we understand, the defense of it in two world wars at massive cost,
00:14:15.060that somehow, Lou, we are racist, horrible, bigoted, nasty people.
00:14:21.180And the truth, of course, is we're anything but.
00:14:23.840So we've got these external problems, but I think the internal ones, in a way, are actually more serious.
00:14:29.440And the fact that the Democrat Party, which, let's face it, you know, those of us that are free marketeers, those of us that are Reaganites,
00:14:37.780we've never agreed with the Democrats on economic policy or social policy, but we never questioned.
00:15:29.100Why in the world would they take the responsibility for putting this oath in the Oval Office?
00:15:35.560The Democrat Party and Biden, frankly, in 2020, were pawns of the giant social media companies, the huge amount of mainstream media,
00:15:47.060a totally one-sided election, fought under a system of mass mail-out ballots, which has never been reliable anywhere it's been tried in the world.
00:15:57.500So, actually, the Democrats didn't do this.
00:16:00.900The Democrats were enabled to do this.
00:16:02.980And, you know, I don't want to sound overly negative on this podcast because it is within our power, both on your side of the pond and this.
00:16:14.220It is within our power to turn this around.
00:16:23.340It needs those that listen to your podcast and others to say, right, up with this we will not put.
00:16:31.520We're actually going to stand up and do something about this.
00:16:34.640So, whilst I'm worried about the state we're in, I think it is becoming more obvious to ordinary, decent people.
00:16:43.300I'm not talking about those that live in D.C. or live in London or, like you and I, work in politics and media.
00:16:50.520I'm talking about, yeah, the ordinary Joe out there, the families, they've got 2.3 kids, a dog and a mortgage, and they're doing their jobs and they're living their lives.
00:17:00.900And I think it's becoming more obvious to those people that something is going wrong.
00:17:05.600And provided, provided we can find the means to motivate and mobilize those people to make a stand, to talk to their kids, to talk to their parents, to talk to their friends, to talk to their family, this is still salvable.
00:17:22.620This is not the end of the West, but the threat we face is that unless we do something, it will be.
00:17:29.160I still think, I still believe, and don't forget, you know, as Mr. Brexit, I mean, I was told for years I was whistling in the wind and waiting my time, but we still got there.
00:17:41.580The fact is, the fact is, ordinary, decent people are not that engaged with politics or current affairs, but they do know one thing, the difference between right and wrong.
00:17:53.640And it's our job, it's our job as people who believe in free speech, who people who hate totalitarianism, who people who, you know, allow different points of view and critical thinking and believe in those things, and actually believe that our forebears, you know, fought and died in wars so that we could have these freedoms.
00:18:16.340And I certainly believe in that very, very strongly indeed.
00:18:20.420And it's for us to try and inspire these people to stand up, to take a stand.
00:18:27.120So I'm worried, very worried about where we are, very worried that someone like Joe Biden can become leader of the free world.
00:18:37.840But I certainly haven't given up, because we can still win this, we can still turn this around.
00:18:43.020Well, I love it when you say leader of the free world, because I don't feel that America is so alone.
00:18:49.200But on the other hand, I feel so sorry for the rest of Western civilization, because it's enough that we have to deal with this burden and this threat and this challenge.
00:19:00.020I wish I were as sunny about it all as you seem to be, or at least want to be.
00:19:04.600But, you know, in this country, a citizen doesn't get the right to be a, going about their lives and being bystanders.
00:19:13.680In this country, you have to be a citizen.
00:19:16.360And that means being engaged in participatory democracy, which is what this republic is all about.
00:19:22.380And these fools who have taken over the Democrat Party, the Marxist Dems, the hard left, they mean to destroy everything our society, our culture, our heritage and history is about.
00:19:39.280And we have a group of people who are just going on their merry way, assuming that this is still about the loyal opposition, and this is about the difference in social policy that can be fused with a compromise, an intelligent and heartfelt compromise.
00:20:19.060We're fighting, though, for a culture war, for the future of everything, the founding fathers and those who built our civilizations, our societies.
00:22:02.020And I think that that is a subset of a, as well as a causal agent, in much of the dissonance around the European Union and our two countries.
00:22:16.860Margaret Thatcher once said, the closer America and the UK are, the safer the world is.
00:22:24.360And 40 years on, that has a, I think, terrific resonance.
00:22:29.840But we don't get everything right, but in the really, really big decisions about freedom, about liberty, about being prepared to stand up and make sacrifices for what is right,
00:22:43.120that generally, the UK and America together have done some amazing things.
00:22:48.100And if it wasn't for, if it wasn't for Churchill holding out, America coming in, Europe would have been led by the Nazis for 50, 60 years.