In this episode of the Great America Show, Lou Dobbs is joined by journalist and best-selling author Lee Smith to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, the Supreme Court ruling that ballots with any flaw, no matter how minor, cannot be counted in the midterms, and the Russian missile attack on Ukraine.
00:11:38.760There is no such thing as a permanent bureaucracy.
00:11:41.780It is the deep state now, managed by the left.
00:11:46.700And the Marxists are winning, and winning big.
00:11:50.220They're in control of every aspect of government, save the Supreme Court.
00:11:54.300And with John Roberts there, that is a tenuous statement at best, I guess.
00:11:59.400So we have much to be worried about and very little, frankly, to cheer when we think about going forward into this election, being assured of electoral integrity.
00:12:13.920I have no doubt that Americans are no fools.
00:12:16.860They understand they've got to get rid of these monsters that they put in the White House, that they put in charge of both houses of government, and the permanent bureaucracy, the deep state.
00:12:29.900And the only tool at hand is that vote.
00:12:33.740It is, it preys on my mind, and I pray for an honest outcome.
00:12:42.200But I also know the odds right now are difficult.
00:12:47.540I mean, you're describing something that I think, outside of our founding fathers who had fought and defeated a tyranny, I think that most Americans since that founding generation would have the idea that there were things to fear going in, not things to fear.
00:13:08.080I mean, certainly it's a shift in power, but the idea that corruption would play such a large role in an upcoming election, I mean, it's a shocking thing.
00:13:20.140And look, you were saying that, you know, you're concerned about lots of things.
00:13:26.180I mean, I think our greatest resource has always been and will continue to be the American people.
00:13:32.780And so, yeah, I'm concerned going to the elections.
00:13:35.180I'm concerned everywhere I look now, whether it's on the, you know, whether it's abroad in Eastern Europe, whether it's China, who appears to be making a larger and faster move on the United States, thanks again to its partners in the Biden White House.
00:13:51.400So there's lots of reasons we're concerned.
00:13:53.460But, I mean, our resiliency and strength is the American public, and they do see what's going on now.
00:14:02.060And fundamental to that democracy, to this great republic, is not only a concerned citizenry, but an informed citizenry.
00:14:11.460And the fourth estate in this country now is not informing the public.
00:14:15.900We've touched on this, but I think we need to also point out, what is the latest reporting from the Middle East?
00:14:22.420Why is it that Saudi Arabia chose to agree to a 2 million barrel a day reduction in OPEC production?
00:14:31.840And how is that in alignment with Russia?
00:14:34.640Even in the business press, there is very little discussion of that and its impact, nor little note as to why Joe Biden thinks he can get away with announcing he will take another 10 million barrels of oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:14:50.780And that only amounts to five days replacement within, that is, replacement of the shortage would be 2 million barrels a day, five days, 10 million barrels.
00:15:18.920When that oil, those 10 million barrels from the Strategic Reserve come online, I mean, we've heard them say it's going to happen in November.
00:15:26.940So presumably it's going to be the first few days in November before the election.
00:15:31.380How much effect that will actually have remains to be seen.
00:15:34.120But, yeah, the other thing is you're talking about Saudi Arabia and Russia as well as Saudi Arabia and China.
00:15:41.820The Biden administration, as Barack Obama before him, has done virtually everything in their power to drive Saudi Arabia toward China, toward Russia.
00:15:51.820And, you know, and I speak with a lot of a lot of people still in the Middle East where I worked for a long time.
00:15:56.560And the Saudis, I know, are extremely concerned.
00:15:59.460They don't want to they they they they they want to be partnered with the United States, not with China.
00:16:06.000I think one advantage, the one advantage that we have.
00:16:09.820Well, first of all, the fact that we're led by an insane by by a faction of insane people.
00:16:15.320Who, you know, who think upside down and at the core is a very sane and responsible citizenry.
00:16:24.500So our foreign adversaries, as well as our allies, of course, understand this, what the strategic or what America's center of gravity is.
00:16:34.520It's people. But if you look at how hard Biden and Obama before him have tried to weaken the United States abroad, as well as at home.
00:16:44.620And that brings us back to what's happening, what's happening in Ukraine.
00:16:48.440But it's not just there. It's also in Asia.
00:16:50.720It's also in the Middle East where we see Biden wanting to restore the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran that Donald Trump, thankfully, withdrew from.
00:17:10.520We know that they're if they've gone silent on the discussions, whatever they may be, that are still taking place under the table and away from the prying eyes of even the uncurious media.
00:17:23.420We are at a we are now at an inflection point, in my opinion, Lee, in this country, where the American people will decide to prevail come hell or high water for the good of the nation against a party that is expressly evil and intent upon destroying every fundamental value and institution of this great republic.
00:17:48.420There is no. But of course, they are preserving this or that they are preserving only perversity.
00:17:56.460They have turned national security into a a doormat for whatever the ambitions and digressions are that are fantasized by either Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin or the Ayatollahs.
00:18:13.100It is it is that straightforward, don't you think?
00:18:16.280Oh, I think it's a totalitarian faction.
00:18:18.340Absolutely. I mean, the idea that they they seek to infiltrate.
00:18:23.140And, well, you know, when we say totalitarianism, we may have spoken about this before.
00:18:27.140We're not just talking about using security services, banishing people, though they do do that.
00:18:34.780Right. They're using they're using the intelligence services, U.S. intelligence services to censor people, to to attack them, to go after school parents, to go after protesters, to go after dissident journalists.
00:18:48.760So they're certainly doing that. But the other part is that the the infiltration, the insinuation into every part of life, right, whether it's families, whether it's the the the bodily sovereignty, trying to impose, you know, trying to impose medical experimental medical treatments on people.
00:19:09.280Whether it's promoting the transgenderism stuff and public schools and then putting these putting these poor, vulnerable kids basically on a conveyor belt all the way into, you know, into these horrible medications and surgeries, these irreversible procedures.
00:19:28.160That's what I mean, that they want to find a way into every part of life, whether it's families, whether it's the individual, not just not just, you know, not just states and not just the country, not just foreign policy.
00:19:41.320They need to control every part of life. And that's what makes them a totalitarian faction.
00:19:47.860And universities, the national media, so-called, are aligned with the Marxist Dems, the deep state, the far left of this country.
00:20:02.640There is there is they are trying to strangle decency and American values from our society and any who would uphold those values,
00:20:13.900that decency and the interest of the of the of the of the United States.
00:20:19.440They we are absolutely their foremost enemies and they do not mean us no harm.
00:20:29.840Oh, yeah. Everything they every the way that I see it is like Obama.
00:20:34.600Joe Biden doesn't really have a foreign policy. Right.
00:21:04.060But the what the Democrats did by turning Putin right into the enemy of all things and basically forcing their hands in the situation.
00:21:14.480That's what I mean by they're projecting, they're projecting their demo, their domestic politics abroad and dragging the United States into very dangerous, into very dangerous situations.
00:21:25.700And and and whether by and by intention, whether through the stratagems of both Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, for example, the United States is destabilized at this point.
00:21:39.340This the polarization in our society, the alienation among those factions, some of which you've described, we are in a moment, a moment, I think, of the maximum foment of agitation within our society since the since the 1960s.
00:21:59.580I truly believe that. And I also believe it's true of of Europe.
00:22:05.160Europe is all but paralyzed. They can't make decisions about their economy.
00:22:10.480They are struggling to deal with the concept that their their currencies are now under assault.
00:22:18.340In some cases, the view is that the United States is responsible for much of what is happening to them.
00:22:24.800But at the same time, they have contributed so little to the defense of Ukraine and to the defense of NATO and Europe itself.
00:22:33.880Your thoughts? Well, no, I mean, and it's not just that.
00:22:37.480Look at the way that they've turned against their own citizens.
00:22:39.380Again, it's the same sort of climate change agenda.
00:22:42.240But I every time you and I speak, I'm always afraid I'm coming off and sounding a little Pollyannish.
00:22:48.480But I'm hopeful that what's going to happen this winter in Europe, the Europeans are in for a cold, hard winter.
00:22:56.640And I'm very hopeful that the Europeans will stand up and say, this is this is ridiculous.
00:23:00.900We have to hold these people accountable. We're we're we're freezing and we're going hungry.
00:23:05.520And these are the people who made these different decisions and made these different choices.
00:23:08.840So it's not just the Europeans will will refuse to to to defend the Ukrainians.
00:23:14.360They are they are they perceive their own public right as assets to be harvested, which is, of course, the way the Biden administration and the Democratic Party sees Americans right now.
00:23:25.200Right. We're a source of wealth to be harvested. We're not people.
00:23:28.760We're not fellow Americans. We're just someone from whom they can take money, whether that's whether that's by, you know, by doing surgeries on little girls.
00:23:38.420You know, sterilizing little girls, whether that's through the climate change agenda, by destroying the fossil fuel industry.
00:23:46.560It's all about transferring wealth on behalf of the oligarchy. Right.
00:23:50.380Taking middle class wealth, soaking it out.
00:23:53.900Americans who work hard and putting in the hands of people who are, say, promoting the ESG agenda.
00:24:33.820One of the things that is positive that's going on right now.
00:24:36.960And I mentioned that at least for now, the Supreme Court is an island in our federal government and our in the U.S. government power structure.
00:24:47.420The Mar-a-Lago case, Fox News is reporting, is now on the Supreme Court's shadow docket, which means that they are preparing to take on the case on procedural grounds for the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
00:25:03.680The issues of executive privilege, attorney-client privilege, the issue of search and seizure.
00:25:17.600The president, the former president of the United States, has standing without any doubt.
00:25:21.520But it is it is looking as though the Supreme Court is prepared to do its constitutional duty and take up these conflicts and these abuses on the part of the federal government.
00:25:35.900Well, we went from I'm sorry to be a Pollyannish to now I'm going to now I'm going to brag.
00:25:41.100I've been saying since at first, I thought the raid was about January 6th, trying to frame Donald Trump for January on January 6th things.
00:25:53.300And I still think that may play a role.
00:25:55.260But then I started to do a timeline and I said, no, wait a minute.
00:25:59.640This is a response to Russiagate and the Russiagate documents.
00:26:04.740And there was an article over the weekend by the New York Times reporters.
00:26:09.080I mean, it was preposterous the way it was framed, right?
00:26:11.960It's saying, oh, yeah, Trump was trying to hold on to documents to trade them for Russiagate documents.
00:26:17.600But again, the way it was framed is as the New York Times and The Washington Post have been reporting things for the last several years.
00:26:25.320But the essential kernel is that this is about this is about Russiagate.
00:26:30.640And this is about the evidence that the deep state framed Donald Trump.
00:26:36.660Evidence that the deep state has been going after Donald Trump as well as Donald Trump aides.
00:26:42.600And now, as we see with January 6th, after Donald Trump supporters.
00:26:47.220So I am thrilled that the Supreme Court is going to play its rightful part in this right now.
00:27:00.740And I hope that we have more and more clarity.
00:27:02.600And I still hope I'm still optimistic that we're going to see these documents at some point.
00:27:06.960And the people responsible for undermining for undermining the Trump presidency, for interfering in the 2016, 2018 and 2020 elections will be held accountable for the criminal conspiracy.
00:29:16.120Tomorrow here, our guest will be Asia expert, author Gordon Chang, as the Chinese Communist Party appears ready to bestow Xi Jinping an unprecedented third term as president of the People's Republic of China.
00:29:30.640What five more years of Xi's absolute power over China will mean to China will mean to the West.