The Great America Show - LOU DOBBS ON THE POLITICAL WEEK

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and thanks for being with us for this weekend edition of The Great America

00:00:04.800 Show, a brief summary of developments of importance and interest. I hope you're having a great

00:00:10.420 weekend. There are lots of things happening in the background, however. Among those stories,

00:00:17.560 the breaking report of special counsel John Durham's allegations that Hillary Clinton paid

00:00:23.760 a technology company to spy on Donald Trump in both the Trump Tower and the White House. If true,

00:00:32.760 if proved, it will be the beginning of President Trump's vindication and a long series of charges

00:00:39.620 and trials of the principles who led the crime of the century, the conspiracy to besmirch a

00:00:47.140 presidential candidate and to overthrow a sitting president. So to begin, the persecution and

00:00:55.280 exoneration of President Trump. Fox News and Daily Mail were the first news outlets, I believe,

00:01:02.500 to report the astonishing headline that lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company

00:01:08.940 to infiltrate servers belonging to Trump Tower and later the White House. That's right,

00:01:16.780 the White House. That, according to special counsel John Durham in a court filing.

00:01:22.700 The Washington Examiner's Jerry Dunleavy reported that the special counsel says he's building a case

00:01:28.660 to show that an indicted Democratic lawyer on the payroll of the Clinton campaign

00:01:34.040 and a technology executive were spying on White House internet traffic as well as the Trump Tower.

00:01:42.660 If all of this is proved in court, these developments will likely lead, in my opinion,

00:01:49.500 to President Trump's vindication, his exoneration, and an avalanche of investigations should the

00:01:56.040 Republicans win back the House and the Senate in these upcoming midterm elections.

00:02:01.820 President Trump, for his part, is understandably furious after the special counsel said in that

00:02:09.980 court filing that Hillary Clinton's team had spied on him both as a candidate and President of the

00:02:16.240 United States. The 45th President accused the Clinton campaign of treason, which he said once would

00:02:24.240 have merited execution. It is my opinion that President Trump has been proved right in all respects

00:02:30.500 of what he called a scandal far larger than Watergate, and that he will not only be vindicated, as I said,

00:02:37.400 but he will now see his persecutors in all likelihood stand trial and meet justice.

00:02:45.100 Let's turn to the Freedom Convoy now. We're following the Freedom Convoy and their demonstrations

00:02:51.640 against their government's mandated vaccines. The demonstrations up in Canada have been underway

00:02:58.640 for more than two weeks now, and we've witnessed the most dramatic and likely successful civil rights

00:03:04.760 protest in modern Canadian history. The truckers have inspired protests and demonstrations from New

00:03:11.500 Zealand and Australia to France. It is now truly a global demonstration. There have been remarkably

00:03:20.540 no incidents of violence in the Freedom Convoy and the confrontation with Canadian authorities,

00:03:27.480 and there have been few arrests. The number of arrests, however, is likely to rise now that we have

00:03:33.280 reports of Canadian police moving in deliberately and slowly to remove some of the truckers who've

00:03:39.760 blocked the cross-border traffic on the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit. Those

00:03:47.480 demonstrations showing the extraordinary courage, in my opinion, of those truckers to stand up for their

00:03:53.660 rights and the rights of their fellow Canadians as they protest against the vaccine mandates and their

00:04:00.060 imperious, authoritarian, hapless Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. And in Europe, Putin's invasion in plain sight.

00:04:10.420 I'm fairly sure most of the world has missed the fait accompli of Putin's threatened invasion of Ukraine.

00:04:16.940 While the Russian president cajoles and threatens Ukraine and unnerves much of Europe, Putin has already

00:04:24.580 begun a joint military exercise with the small but strategically located Belarus, which borders Ukraine

00:04:32.180 to its south, Poland to its west, Lithuania and Latvia to the north, and Russia, Russia to the east. Putin has

00:04:42.700 already positioned combat-ready forces and weaponry for what is a de facto annexation of the nation

00:04:52.300 Belarus, or the staging, perhaps, of additional troops and materiel for his now widely accepted

00:04:59.740 invasion of Ukraine, or both. We're keeping, of course, a wary watch on the Russian troops' mast on the

00:05:06.860 eastern border of Ukraine in the Donbass region of the country, and certainly any movement of

00:05:12.680 Russians now based in Belarus as well. President Biden has had several phone call discussions with

00:05:19.400 Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the only result has been for the White House to warn Americans

00:05:25.120 in Ukraine to get out and to get out quickly. The White House has nothing to report in the way of

00:05:31.640 progress that would lessen the probability of a Russian invasion of the Donbass area of Ukraine.

00:05:37.800 And Biden and his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, have achieved absolutely nothing diplomatically

00:05:44.680 that would blunt Putin's ambitions, and they've shown no sign of recognizing what Putin has already

00:05:51.840 accomplished in pushing Russia beyond its current borders. And by the way, the national media has failed

00:06:00.340 to recognize what Putin has done in Belarus as well. Europe is likely, again, in my opinion,

00:06:07.680 to be on the verge of becoming far more Russian, and the Europeans and the United States clearly have 0.84

00:06:13.340 no idea how to stop or to slow Putin's expansionary strategy. Even if they did, I see no sign whatsoever

00:06:21.600 that the Europeans have the stomach to stop him. And I have to say, we're on the edge of what could be a

00:06:28.540 protracted period of destabilization in both Europe and Asia. And with the rising influence of

00:06:35.160 communist China in this hemisphere, that destabilization could well extend to South and

00:06:40.880 Central America. The Chinese are constructing a nuclear power plant in Argentina, building an

00:06:47.440 alliance with Cuba, have a significant influence in Panama through their investment in infrastructure,

00:06:53.780 including the canal, as well as a growing presence throughout the country.

00:06:57.840 And the region. And now what is happening with the pandemic, the perpetual pandemic,

00:07:04.460 and this authoritarian president that we have in the White House? Well, let's take a look at

00:07:11.180 Biden's polls plunging and Democrats divided. For the first time in his presidency, Joe Biden's

00:07:17.920 numbers in the Real Clear Politics poll of polls average dropped below 40 percent, and the reaction

00:07:23.800 among blue state governors was almost immediate. Eight blue state governors announced they were rolling

00:07:30.100 back their China virus mandates and, in a number of cases, dropping their mask mandates within days,

00:07:36.760 most dropping the mandates by the first of March. Dr. Peter McCullough, our show's go-to authority on the

00:07:43.340 virus and the government policies in response to the pandemic, is delighted that the CDC finally recognizes

00:07:50.260 herd immunity, herd immunity and the natural immunity that, in some cases, is stronger than vaccine

00:07:56.000 immunization. McCullough questions why it took so long for those blue states to begin lifting mask

00:08:02.840 mandates, given the clear declining trajectory of the Omicron variant wave. Meanwhile, President Biden

00:08:10.260 went into his accustomed denial posture this week, saying the governors were being premature in lifting

00:08:16.720 those mask mandates, even as other governors have also started following suit. And the president,

00:08:23.720 in an NBC News interview, said he rejects outright claims in a U.S. Army report on the disastrous

00:08:30.960 Afghan withdrawal. That report revealed there were frustrating periods of dangerous White House

00:08:38.180 indecision, instances of interference as well, that contributed to many of the military's absolute

00:08:45.040 failure to execute an organized, orderly, efficient, safe withdrawal of forces and civilians. The result

00:08:54.480 of which meant that thousands of Americans and friendly Afghans were left in Afghanistan to fend for

00:09:01.800 themselves. Not only did Biden reject the Army report, but its conclusions and his press secretary

00:09:08.920 went him one better. Jen Psaki initially denied the existence of the Army report and its findings

00:09:15.680 altogether. Such is the Biden presidency. Thanks for being with us for this weekend edition of the

00:09:24.280 Great America Show report. Please join us tomorrow for our regular edition of the Great America Show.

00:09:30.840 Tomorrow, our guests will be Kash Patel and Dr. Peter McCullough. We'll be talking pandemic. We'll be talking

00:09:38.520 President Trump's vindication and what lies ahead. Please be with us for that. I look forward to seeing you

00:09:46.000 tomorrow. Until then, God bless you and God bless America.

The Great America Show - February 06, 2022

LOU DOBBS ON THE POLITICAL WEEK

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