The Great America Show with John Bachman, Mark Mitchell, Leo the Lion, and John Rocha. Topics covered include: - Vladimir Zelensky's trip to the White House - The Ukraine crisis - Putin's new deal with the EU - and much more!
00:09:04.060And when Zelensky, it's like, no, he's not ready, you know, kick him out, put him on the step like a like a toddler, like an unruly toddler that did something bad.
00:10:53.200I mean, I think the problem is, is that they're starting to scrape the barrel with their manpower.
00:10:57.300I think, to be honest with you, we should probably get everybody talks about an accounting of all the money that the U.S. has spent over there.
00:11:03.500I think we wanted an accounting of their male population, because if we're going to get involved in security guarantees, we have to know how ready they are to fight.
00:11:10.580And I was asking Grok, and I'll tell you what, Grok thinks that Ukraine has lost more military-aged males to flight, by far, than to casualties of war.
00:11:21.200So, that would be awful horrible to send a couple hundred thousand U.S. troops over there and get involved in World War III, have thousands of Americans die in the mud.
00:11:29.640When all the Ukrainians came over here, due to our open borders and, you know, amnesty programs, it's really demented.
00:11:37.460It's literally like, Mark, this is like two children on the playground fighting over a toy, and then you having to call the president of the United States to come in and settle this dispute.
00:11:50.360Whatever you want to look at it, $350 billion, $150 billion, the total of it is well over $300 billion, if you put the cash and the assets that we've sent over to them.
00:11:59.640Mark, they have absolutely nothing to show for it.
00:12:01.860Now, Tucker Carlson came out the other day, and I don't know if this is true or not, but he says that Ukraine, and apparently Lindsey Graham knows about this,
00:12:09.880Ukraine has been selling our weapons that we're giving them.
00:12:14.020And you and I were talking about this on the phone the other day, today, actually, about the depletion of our stockpile.
00:12:19.600And I asked you, as a former military guy, is there an expiration date on missiles, or is there an expiration date on ammunition that I don't know about,
00:12:27.260that we have some reason, you know, I've emptied out our closets, like, you know, going at a business sale?
00:12:33.900And you told me, no, there's no expiration on it.
00:12:36.120So we don't even really know what these weapons have been used for, where they've been used.
00:12:40.660Now, Tucker Carlson comes out and tells us that maybe they're being sold to Hamas, bad actors who hate Americans, who want to kill Americans.
00:12:52.400That's an act of war in my book, Mark.
00:12:58.000I think any one of these things that we're seeing is reason to step away from this whole fiasco.
00:13:03.780You know, like, even, I'll tell you the big problem is, let's say we do a deal with Zelensky, we go over there, there's a non-zero chance we're going to get a false flag.
00:13:11.860We're going to get some barracks blown up, and now all of a sudden, here we are committed to Russia.
00:13:16.140Because what Zelensky wants is to regain that territory.
00:13:19.640It's not in the best interest of America for that to happen, because it requires us, or basically all of the men in Germany, England, Canada combined, I guess.
00:13:28.960But, you know, it's a different world.
00:13:31.900They poked the bear, and now Donald Trump's in charge, and everybody should have seen this coming.
00:13:36.540And if Zelensky can't, maybe, like, fire your consultants, dude.
00:13:39.880Yeah, and you know what Donald Trump has done, because today he met with his cabinet,
00:13:44.380and he wants to figure out how to cut any aid that we have that's set to go into effect to Ukraine,
00:13:50.220and any further aid that is scheduled to go into effect he wants to cut.
00:13:54.480He's also reportedly this evening, this might be some breaking news, has halted the weapon sales, any weapon sales to Ukraine.
00:14:02.600So now that makes you wonder a little bit more if what Tucker Carlson is reporting about them selling our weapons to other countries is true.
00:14:11.020I don't know how Ukraine gets out of this.
00:14:13.240I've been saying since probably August that I think eventually we see Zelensky flee Ukraine with a duffel bag of money,
00:14:20.900never to be seen again where he goes, maybe Qatar, maybe one of those places down in the Middle East where he'll be safe.
00:14:27.900But how do you think this ends for Zelensky?
00:18:59.360But now in the last two years, the Democrat Party wins.
00:19:02.060This one was the combined 10 battleground states in September, but we asked it and got an even higher number recently.
00:19:08.100But 24 people or 24% of people said the Democrat Party, followed by 20% China, followed by 18% Republican Party, followed by 13% domestic extremists, followed by 12% Russia.
00:19:24.000So Russia is like not even the top three.
00:22:11.800I need to have a coexist sticker on my car.
00:22:15.180But if I see your little kid with a MAGA hat, I'm absolutely going to fly off the handle, you know, and then I'm going to go home and stroke a bald spot in the top of my cat and worship Rachel Maddow.
00:22:51.620I'm not saying people who Subaru are bad drivers, but they're bad drivers.
00:22:54.880But I'm just so curious because you see him constantly on the highway and nine out of ten of the coexist stickers, Mark, are either on a Toyota Yaris or a Prius or a Subaru, some sort of Subaru station wagon thing.
00:23:11.340But they constantly want to talk about threats to democracy, Mark.
00:23:14.040Now, the Republicans, there are Republicans and they're rhinos.
00:23:16.600Like I said, we're going to be joined by Leo, the line in just a few moments here to take up what we're going to do to extinguish, get rid of these rhinos and send them off into extinction.
00:23:26.540But the Democrats are the ones, Mark, who are constantly under these investigations, these federal investigations.
00:23:31.720You've got the guy down in Texas, the congressman, him and his wife, Rob.
00:23:35.040You've got Mayor Eric Adams, who had a beg and plead and offer up migrants as a way to get out of his legal issues.
00:23:42.140We now find out Kathy Hochul, who was holding his feet to the fire, received union help for a rigging bid of a nine billion dollars for a home health aid program.
00:23:51.240So it's you look at Nancy Pelosi's stock portfolio.
00:23:55.220Now, she's up there with Dan Crenshaw and a rhino who's like I said, we have him on both sides.
00:24:01.000But overwhelming me, you have the Democrats who undermine democracy.
00:24:05.220You've got Jabal Bowman, who pulled a fire alarm in Congress last year to delay a vote.
00:24:09.820OK, anybody else does that, they're going to jail.
00:25:03.580And I think they're very capable of ignoring facts that fact sets that are like the mask people, like the whole mask thing and the fact that they did it ubiquitously and still do many of them.
00:25:17.960I think it's like, show me on the doll where January 6th touched you.
00:25:23.320I think that's really where it came from.
00:25:25.440And then the mainstream media didn't care.
00:25:28.460They needed something to bang the drum on for all of Biden's presidency.
00:25:32.900And the first time around with Trump, it was J6 or not J6, a Russian hoax.
00:25:39.840And it was almost reflexively, I think, like, probably cynically, many of them probably didn't think it would take Trump out.
00:25:46.100And it turned out being actually pretty effective at getting Trump's campaign back on track, the indictments and the criminal court proceedings.
00:25:53.640So at this point, it's almost like instinct.
00:25:56.660They're just operating based on the only playbook they have, and it's failing for them.
00:26:00.820They're losing things now, time and time again.
00:26:46.280It's embarrassing for our party that we just can't seem to get it together.
00:26:49.400And it's because of outlying rhinos who just cause total corruption and chaos.
00:26:53.960For the first time, Mark, in my lifetime, we're watching the Democrats at war with themselves.
00:26:59.940Do you know how enjoyable this is to watch?
00:27:03.080Because you've got these Marxist lunatics on one end, and then you've got these people who want to be centrists, but they can't because they're dragged down now by Nancy Pelosi.
00:27:13.400They're dragged down by the Kamala Harris's of the party, tampon Tim Waltz, who wants to run for president in 2028.
00:27:20.300They're dragging these people down, and I think they're going down a path that we're – it's just not really sustainable.
00:29:37.840Tell us what your whole project is about, what you hope to accomplish, and how you're going to raise money to do this.
00:29:45.400So, John, we're a grassroots political organization solely focused on removing rhinos.
00:29:51.020We want to be Trump's ultimate tool of accountability, a precision strike force aimed at rhinos who dare to obstruct the America First, MAGA, MAHA movement.
00:30:44.340He's come in and completely obliterated that.
00:30:46.920So with his sacrifices and everything he's done, the Rhino Removal Project wants to function as his resource.
00:30:55.160And we want to go after strategic rhinos.
00:30:57.960And we'll do that through education, identifying strong primary challengers, creating a state-specific focus.
00:31:07.640So we're national, but we want to go into the states with what we call state chapter leads because we want state-specific political environment experts.
00:31:24.100I think what's interesting is that just in the last month, we now understand the calculus of one of the main reasons we have rhinos.
00:31:31.880It turns out you can't be in D.C. for more than a few years without getting onto the probably most likely FBI-led grift funnel and become a U.S. AIDS recipient or victim.
00:31:46.880And all of a sudden, you behave like Mitt Romney does, inexplicably voted to impeach Donald Trump and destroyed his favorability, making him the least favorable politician of anyone we polled.
00:32:04.660And so time and time again, you see, and again, it's because I think taxpayer money was weaponized to enable this entire oppression that we have.
00:32:14.500Democrats vote lockstep and block on dogmatic things that make absolutely no sense.
00:34:49.100Help us because pressure campaigns we've learned actually work.
00:34:52.420And then if you can go into our website, contribute, help us, support us financially because we're going up against some of the most.
00:35:02.520As Mark was talking about with USAID and with all the money that they have, they have all this taxpayer money that they funneled to themselves.
00:35:16.800Where can they follow you on Twitter, Leo?
00:35:17.900So go to the rhinoremovalproject.org, to the website.
00:35:22.800There's a link that will take you right to the community.
00:35:25.480On X, you can follow me at atleodhelion1964.
00:35:29.400But our company account is rhino underscore removal.
00:35:34.220And if you can follow those things, you'll be a part of the community.
00:35:37.300We also have a large influencer chat with people like Mark because we want these smart-minded, brilliant people to come and join us so they can help give us answers.
00:35:45.080Yeah, I'd love to see scumbag establishment politicians lose their jobs.
00:36:57.300There's been some movement in a pretty famous case.
00:37:01.720It looks like the DOJ just filed a statement of interest in Tina Peters's case.
00:37:08.380Peters is a gold star mom and the former election clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, who got locked up for exposing the massive vulnerabilities in a certain unnamed company's voting machines.
00:38:06.080Um, in terms of helping elect candidates for their party, which has been more effective in recent years, the DNC or the RNC and people say DNC more than RNC by 40 to 20%.
00:38:17.180And Republicans, um, they say RNC is better, but only 43% of them.
00:38:22.760Um, and so, um, on all these other measures, like we asked who should be the RNC head and Ronna McDaniel, uh, came in third behind Mike Lindell and Harmy Dillon.
00:38:34.880Um, and also 75% of Republicans say that the Republican party is a party of Trump and the make a great America great again movement.
00:38:42.380And we even just did, um, some private polling in, in red state, uh, for Republican primary and asking these people who's doing a better job.
00:38:52.680Republicans in DC, the Trump administration or Republicans in your state, uh, the Trump administration wins among Republicans, uh, 51, the other two are 25 and 11.
00:39:02.160And it's just over and over again, there's signs that people in the party like Trump better.
00:39:07.680And yet they have no choice, but to vote for whatever Republican candidates on the ticket, the generic ballots, always Republican plus three.
00:39:38.300You want to have dinners with lobbyists.
00:39:39.640You want to, you know, get sweet deals, uh, get amusement park tickets for the kids, vacations down in Florida, Kentucky Derby tickets, all that good stuff that I've witnessed while working on Capitol Hill.
00:49:45.680The happiness of the country is measured by.
00:49:47.560Do you think the country's on the right track is the highest it's ever been as of last week?
00:49:51.70048 percent, never seen higher in our history.
00:49:53.880And we had a huge spike increase in consumer confidence.
00:49:58.000So, listen, I think Trump has a lot of political capital.
00:50:01.160I think this is one of those things where they just trust Trump.
00:50:03.840I think he built his 50 percent supporters and it's going to take a lot to lose them.
00:50:08.020But if he is going to lose supporters, what it's going to be is a black swan economic crisis.
00:50:13.520And I don't know if this is going to do it or not.
00:50:15.980I don't know if a major stock market crash will do it or not.
00:50:18.920I think it'll probably take a few months to see if something like that has an impact.
00:50:23.020Did you guys see there was a big announcement today from Honda?
00:50:26.200And this is in direct response to the tariffs that they're going to start building the civics in Indiana.
00:50:30.880They had planned to build them in Mexico, but now they're going to build them in Indiana.
00:50:34.620So, you know, and I think they are anticipating at the White House some short term, let's call them economic speed bumps, if you will, as a result of these tariffs.
00:50:42.500It's also interesting, and I don't know if you guys have had the same effect, is because Donald Trump isn't running for reelection the next time around, they're not as concerned with how this stuff is polling.
00:50:53.820What I think they're more concerned about is the long term impact and if it's really going to work.
00:50:58.680You don't hear the concerns about the midterm elections in 2026.
00:51:02.000I know a lot of Republicans in Congress are way more concerned about that than they are at the White House right now.
00:51:07.480But I think what they're most concerned about is, you know, these tariffs actually putting them to work and making sure they work.
00:51:14.580And I think with this Honda announcement, that's a big deal for Donald Trump.
00:51:17.680We'll probably hear about that tomorrow, too.
00:51:19.820The truth of the matter is, and I want to get Mark's take on this, what you said, I don't think they're scared, John, about the 2026 elections.
00:51:25.800It's because they expect Donald Trump to pull them across the finish line every single time.
00:51:30.960None of these guys, John, if you look, I don't want to say none of them, but if you look, I bet the overwhelming majority wouldn't be brought up across the finish line.
00:51:38.260Lauren Boebert in Colorado would have not won that election after changing her district without Donald Trump.
00:51:44.740And you go down the list, you look at some of these seats in California.
00:52:21.040And that's, you know, one of the things we've seen from Donald Trump.
00:52:23.260You know, I do think that there is some coalescing around J.D. Vance right now in the Republican Party, realizing that he is going to be the guy in 2028.
00:52:33.980And, you know, you hear some talk about PAC's already starting to line up behind J.D. Vance.
00:52:38.780So that's, I think, encouraging for Republicans, too.
00:52:41.880There is never going to be another guy who can cut through the noise and just kind of get everybody in line.
00:52:46.480And when you think about, too, and, you know, Mark, I'd love to get your take on this one as well.
00:52:50.280Like when you think about the coalition that Donald Trump has built, whoever fills those shoes after him has to maintain this coalition somehow.
00:52:57.800So you have the mandate so you can get the 312 electoral college votes.
00:53:02.460And, you know, it's just hard to imagine how that's going to be possible without a guy like Donald Trump, who's willing to take the risk and put his neck out there on so many issues and lead the party.
00:53:15.780Yeah, I think we're in the midst of a major political realignment that's been going on for like five or 10 years, where 18 to 39 year olds are just vastly more supportive of Trump.
00:53:25.180Believe it or not, they have a higher job approval rating than voters over 40.
00:53:34.020And if it's not a response bias, it is actually is doomed for the Democrat Party.
00:53:38.980I think they've lost a lot of power even since the election.
00:53:41.600And I do think that there was even this time out some manner, some amount of election integrity.
00:53:47.260So I think going into 2026, Trump is not planning to lose that.
00:53:51.200And I think where we're at is this is an existential crisis for the kleptocracy, as I call it.
00:53:56.240I don't know if you agree, because you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube of every all of the fraud and waste and just absolute degeneracy that all of our elected leaders essentially have just been perpetrating on the American people.
00:54:09.500We're talking about potentially theft of trillions of dollars.
00:54:12.980So I think public opinion is going to decide how far Trump can go.
00:54:16.400But he's got a lot of cards that he can play like they can crack down on the small dollar donation Smurf network.
00:54:22.260I know of at least two election integrity bills that are being written right now.
00:54:27.120And we just covered in the last segment, too.
00:54:29.980The DOJ has now filed the notification of interest in the Tina Peters case, which I think is the first investigation we've heard about election integrity related stuff.
00:54:40.900I have no idea what's going to happen, but they have to fix it, because if the current crop of Democrats get back in control, you're just going to see everything.
00:54:48.680I think we got some breaking news here.
00:54:51.420The head of the FBI field office in New York has officially resigned after the Department of Justice has accused his office of hiding thousands of Epstein documents.
00:54:59.540John, I was told by my sources that this whole screwing of the pooch was had nothing to do with Kash Patel.
00:55:05.240It had everything to do with Pam Bondi.
00:55:08.820Mark and I were talking on the phone about this earlier today.
00:55:11.100It's mind blowing to me that a career prosecutor, a career DOJ official could have been fooled and believe that 200 documents was the total amount of documents in the Epstein files.
00:55:22.100I was told by John Solomon it's probably about 35,000 documents.
00:55:25.760She gets 200, goes on Jesse Waters, tells us they're being released.
00:55:29.680Here they are. And then comes out the next day, completely empty handed, redacts files.
00:55:35.360John, that black book. I have the fully full unredacted version from 2023 with the names and numbers.
00:55:41.100She puts out a redacted. I mean, how do you think she survives this one?
00:55:47.100Yeah, I think a lot of people are pissed.
00:55:48.660I think she's going to have to pull a rabbit out of her hat.
00:55:50.800I do. I mean, having lived in Florida for a long time and seen Pam Bondi, the attorney general in Florida, and seen how she operates.
00:55:57.940I mean, this is certainly out of character for her.
00:55:59.740I don't there was a hiccup where she said something publicly about guns, too, right before that whole Epstein debacle happened and really freaked a lot of people out about red flag laws.
00:56:09.060You know, I'm willing to give Pam Bondi a little grace.
00:56:12.360I've been waiting for this as much as anyone.
00:56:15.200But at some point, there was some staffer who was putting this stuff in the notebook, and they had to know that this was not going to be enough for people like us who are waiting to find out for these files to come out.
00:56:26.700So that is a big nugget, John, that the FBI, the Southern District of New York FBI chief guy there has resigned.
00:56:36.840So, I mean, I'm waiting like everybody else, not just for the Epstein files, too, but I'm also curious about the JFK files and the MLK files and all that other stuff as well.
00:56:46.420Mark, you did some polling on the JFK files and the MLK files.
00:57:06.080And we also found that only 27 percent of people thought that Epstein actually killed himself.
00:57:12.160And that was right around the time of his suicide.
00:57:14.980But this is, again, been kind of on the back burner for us.
00:57:18.900So much to pull on with all the USAID stuff, the government gangster stuff, the anger.
00:57:25.520And so, yeah, like I think people are paying attention to what's being uncovered in a way that they haven't before.
00:57:31.480I think mainstream media lost a lot of its viewers and a lot of its power.
00:57:36.460And I think that Elon Musk and Doge and Joe Rogan and all the other independent creators have filled that vacuum.
00:57:43.880And so one of the major questions we saw is we asked, and I think I've covered this with you before, John, but seven out of ten voters are angry at the level of waste, fraud and abuse in the government.
00:57:54.600So I think it's back to what you were saying earlier, too, about younger voters.
00:57:59.100When you talk to younger voters, they understand what's going on.
00:58:03.060They know that their Social Security is being leveraged, that their Medicare, that their due someday in the future is being leveraged right now.
00:58:09.920And they get really charged up about the Doge exercise.
00:58:13.880And that's why, you know, Elon Musk is such an important figure for those young people.
00:58:19.360They see him as a guy who can do things, obviously, with SpaceX, with Neuralink, with Tesla, with the boring company.
00:58:25.700He can do things outside of government.
00:58:27.680And so when he's focused on that and you guys know this, too, I mean, we've seen these waste books come out every single year.
00:58:33.280Going back to Tom Cobra and James Lankford does it now, it never generates the enthusiasm that we're seeing, like what we've seen with Doge.
00:58:40.340It's just, you know, it's all that stuff on steroids.
00:58:43.720And if we can actually see results coming out of these cuts, like if they can start to roll things back, I mean, if Elon can deliver a tenth of what he's promised, you know, at least that will get the ball rolling in the right direction.
00:58:55.520We can't continue to have $2 trillion deficits every single year and expect that to work out for us in the long run.
00:59:02.280And you missed the first segment we were talking about Ukraine, so I want to pivot back to that for a little bit.
00:59:08.160Our good friend Vladimir Zelensky, little Vladimir, I don't know if you can see that on your screen there.
00:59:14.560But this is a man who's sat here and attempted to call the shots, John, came to America telling us what we were going to spend because he thought that this man was still president, Joseph Robinette Biden.
00:59:27.140There's a new sheriff in town, and it's not Joe Robinette Biden anymore.
00:59:31.600This is now the Donald Trump administration, and he's tired of the games.
01:00:08.040I don't know anyone who speaks Ukrainian.
01:00:09.760I've asked several people if they could actually hear it.
01:00:11.660But did Volodymyr Zelensky actually call J.D. Vance a bitch in the Oval Office?
01:00:16.480I mean, that's, you know, there was that.
01:00:19.200But you could tell, even if he didn't say it out loud, the body language that Zelensky had in the Oval Office, rolling the eyes, just a bad scene.
01:00:27.880And then I'm sure you guys saw today that Zelensky said it's going to take a very long time to reach peace with Russia.
01:00:59.060We talked about this and I said, this is the equivalent of parenting a toddler.
01:01:03.000If they step out of line, you put them in the corner and you don't get out until you acknowledge what you did wrong and apologize.
01:01:09.380And I don't know if his handlers won't let him or I don't know if his prides to hear.
01:01:14.360If he apologizes, he's basically going to say, yeah, I was wrong in a way that everybody in Ukraine who can't elect somebody else is going to pay attention to.
01:01:24.160So that's probably really dangerous for him.
01:01:25.900And then he also admits and acknowledges that his goals are different than ours.
01:01:47.880And I think the polling bears that out, too.
01:01:49.640And you look at the trend line for Zelensky and his popularity with the American public, it is moving in the wrong direction for him.
01:01:55.980So he's on a very limited timeline where he can hopefully convince from his perspective that to the American public that this is still a war worth fighting.
01:03:00.240Mark and I were talking about this in the first segment.
01:03:02.360Tucker Carlson comes out and says that Zelensky is selling the weapons we're sending him to Hamas and other bad actors.
01:03:10.600And it really makes you wonder, because Lindsey Graham comes out, who's the biggest war hawk, perhaps, in the history of this country, second to or tied for first with John Bolton.
01:03:32.800You know, I think the only thing that matters more to Lindsey Graham than being on camera is what Donald Trump thinks of Lindsey Graham.
01:03:38.560And so that's I mean, I think, you know, Lindsey Graham is pretty, you know, wishy-washy on issues like that.
01:03:44.020So I think he felt like he had no choice.
01:03:47.060He's a very emotional person, too, Lindsey Graham is.
01:03:49.220So we saw him come out very quickly and respond emotionally.
01:03:52.620I would love to know if he's had a follow-up conversation with Zelensky or Zelensky's office has tried to call Lindsey Graham and say, please, Lindsey, help me.
01:04:03.080Another thing, too, I don't know if you guys talked about this or not, but you guys saw the new British ambassador to the United States going on television and basically telling Zelensky, like, dude, you got to go back there.
01:04:12.400Like right now, you know, tell Donald Trump that he's the best and you were wrong and make up for it.
01:04:18.080Because I think the leaders of Europe understand that they can't do this without us either.
01:04:22.880And so they're concerned now that Zelensky has possibly – I mean, you got Senator Mike Lee calling for us to get out of NATO now.
01:04:31.780And, you know, that I think is a big deal.
01:04:35.020Before the meeting happened with Zelensky, you know, I don't think anyone was really seriously questioning our support of NATO.
01:04:42.760You know, the crazy thing to me, and Mark and I talk about this often, is that, John, at any given day, like I'm not talking years, I'm talking days, we can be out of NATO ourselves, which NATO falls apart.
01:04:55.820We fund this damn thing for absolutely no reason.
01:04:58.740When push comes to shove, who the hell knows would be there to have our back if we got into a war with Russia or if we got into a war with China or Iran.
01:05:05.000These guys run with their tails between their legs, and they're happier to support Ukraine and the corruption there because the money flows back around.
01:05:15.320Everyone seems to forget, John, what happened in Ukraine over the last 10 years.
01:06:16.440You know, but we deserve better accounting on our money going over there.
01:06:21.060If the president of Ukraine is willing to admit that they don't know where half of the money is, who knows how much is really gone?
01:06:25.260Who knows how much has really been wasted?
01:06:27.400How many cars have been purchased with that?
01:06:29.200And so we're getting to this point now, and I think this is, you know, kind of the crux of this whole entire conversation, which is why we saw that blow up.
01:06:37.340I think Zelensky knows in the back of his mind that he is on a very short timeline.
01:09:33.020They try to gain political power from it.
01:09:34.520But I saw a video and it was somebody, it was a video of an A-10 warthog flying over the desert.
01:09:40.400And they said this could be the southern border of the United States.
01:09:42.800And you might imagine the mental effect that that would have, not just the Mexican government, but also the drug cartels or any of these mules moving stuff across the desert.
01:09:50.960If, like, an A-10 were just a straight, doesn't have to shoot them, but just, you know, give them a little hello, little, you know, shot across the bow.
01:09:58.820Just that type of attention will, I think, definitely change the game for these cartels, make them double think what they're doing.
01:10:07.840John, these guys, going back to Tucker, these guys have military arsenals and equipment, John, that are seen in first world countries.
01:10:15.360I mean, like, comparable to what we have here, someone told me once that they have air defense missiles, that they could defend against missiles.
01:10:24.360How the hell does Mexico get technology like that?
01:10:27.900And it makes you wonder, who are they getting it from?
01:10:41.360We did see, I think, I can't remember, it was a couple years ago.
01:10:44.860We saw some pretty heavy fighting between the cartels, and you got a chance to see they had, like, they were, like, I'm not saying they are MRAPs, but they look like MRAP vehicles, you know, heavy armored personnel carriers that they have.
01:10:59.100And, you know, but there's nothing that they have that the U.S. military can't take care of.
01:11:05.100And if they just devoted the attention to it, you know, it would be a game changer.
01:11:19.060Well, I think we wouldn't do it without the permission of the Mexican president.
01:11:23.600Wasn't there some – this came in one ear and out the other, but I thought we had some agreement where we were going to send special forces down there.
01:11:30.400It might have been just in training roles.
01:11:34.340I mean this needs to be – this is not the fake drug war of the 80s.
01:11:39.320This needs to be, like, a real broad spectrum attack.
01:11:44.100And that, in my opinion, means an attack on their funding, which I don't think we know hide nor hair of the full amount of which we're probably helping them.
01:11:53.680I mean who knows where those additional Social Security payments are going?
01:11:58.240Who knows what NGO money is being – I mean the NGOs are enabling the human trafficking at the border.
01:12:56.840And if that doesn't happen, then I think that's a sign that they're going to step in.
01:13:01.080You know, you've heard Donald Trump talk about this so much that they're going to step in with the military power to stop the flow of fentanyl.
01:13:06.680But why is China getting away with it?
01:13:08.160I mean they're the ones who are supplying it.
01:13:09.620How do they – first of all, they unleashed COVID on the world.
01:13:12.820In my opinion, it was on purpose, of the opinion of a lot of smart, very smart people.
01:14:58.540And I was asking them, well, like, why don't we have E-Verify?
01:15:01.740Like, why isn't it federally mandated?
01:15:03.600And he said, well, basically, it comes down to, you know, there's a lot going on in D.C. right now, but the big businesses still have a lot of interests.
01:15:10.900And they basically – the big companies want their slave labor, and everybody is afraid to pass that, and you're not going to be able to get any kind of unification in Congress on it.
01:15:19.160But I think it's the same kind of thing with China.
01:15:21.960Just think about how many SKUs in a Walmart come from China.
01:15:25.260How much of, like, Amazon's product offering is all Chinese products?
01:15:30.020And, like, those are, you know, multiple hundreds of millions or billions, if not trillions of dollars in revenue, those companies right there.
01:15:37.880So I think that's one of the real reasons, too.
01:15:42.840Yeah, and we have a very big issue here.
01:15:45.120And it kind of scares me a little bit that Donald Trump is not moving on it as fast as I would have liked him.
01:15:51.340I mean, I like that he's moved fast on the border, but without Tom Holman, that doesn't happen.
01:15:55.580I want to see what happens with China.
01:17:02.980Yeah, you're absolutely right about that.
01:17:05.160There's no reason why we can't manufacture more of our pharmaceuticals here in this country or in a country that's friendlier to what we're trying to do.
01:17:12.980I think you will start to see that with the modern manufacturing model coming online and more automation.
01:17:18.800We'll be able to do this stuff cheaper.
01:17:20.840And the big businesses will not have the high overhead of manpower here in this country.
01:17:42.680I mean, you guys remember Huawei and ZTE, how long it took Congress to make it illegal to use their products in the United States.
01:17:51.600It's just, you know, we've become so used to China being in everything that we have, everything that's made, that we buy.
01:17:59.320And we've got to change the mentality here in this country to realize that every time you buy something from China, you are, in fact, aiding the enemy.
01:18:05.420But real quick, Mark, before we get your response on this, I recently bought a computer from Apple.
01:18:10.840And they're so brazen about it, they don't even ship the thing, John, to America.
01:18:15.720They ship it right to your door from China.
01:18:18.680You would think they'd ship it to, like, their headquarters in Cupertino or wherever they got one of their headquarters.
01:18:23.440No, it ships right from DHL, right from the factory in China.
01:18:33.600Yeah, I'll tell you, the people get it.
01:18:37.020We polled on China, whether it was an ally or an enemy.
01:18:40.560I forget the numbers exactly, but before the Trump term, the first term, the numbers were pretty, like, nondescript.
01:18:47.480Very few people thought it was an ally, but you had a number in the, I think, like, low teens who said it was an enemy.
01:18:53.860All of a sudden, Trump gets into office, and by 2017 or 18, it was, like, 50%.
01:18:58.780And so we asked that question time and time again, and you get, like, oh, 15% say an ally, 50% say it's an enemy, and everybody else is somewhere in the middle.
01:19:07.560And we also talked about how if you ask voters who are America's biggest enemy, China comes in number two behind Democrats.
01:19:14.360So the people get it, but the problem is, is that none of the politicians do, and, you know, some people like their junk from China, but I think other people want an option, and we certainly want our manufacturing base back.
01:19:28.600And it's, like, every bit of foreign policy, every bit of, like, foreign trade has been, I think, you know, from China, this fifth generation of 5G warfare, it's, like, they've enabled the offshoring of literally everything because it's better for them.
01:19:46.400And we haven't strategically identified other partners, helped develop manufacturing bases in other countries more favorable to us.
01:19:55.360Like, geez, think about, like, we could be doing this in Russia.
01:19:58.880You know, they're a semi-democratic country with a constitution not much unlike our own.
01:22:06.000Yeah, we're streaming live at 9 p.m. Eastern, and we're going to go into the context of all of the Ukraine-Russia polling because there's a lot, and it's been kind of all over the place.
01:22:16.560And it's in preparation for what I think is going to be a major shift in public opinion after that crap we saw last Friday.
01:22:23.520I can tell you, I don't think it's blowing back on Trump yet because, again, his approval rating was 50 today, and there was very little change in the overnight numbers.
01:22:32.220But, yeah, I think we're going to see a lot of mad Americans.
01:22:34.680So check back in early next week for those results.
01:22:37.940So that will be at Rasmussen underscore poll or at my own Twitter account, Honest Pollster.
01:22:43.860And you can catch them on YouTube tonight, 9 p.m. sharp.
01:22:47.180So as we wrap up here, Mark's going to go have dinner, put the kids to bed, read them green eggs and ham, maybe, right?
01:24:26.880You know, I think the fourth turning is happening.
01:24:28.740I think one of the signs is that the 60% approval rating among 18- to 39-year-olds for Donald Trump, the Democrats, that is the worst news that they've gotten, I think, in years.