Drones have been flying over the Northeast for the last month and the government has no idea what's going on. Is it a government operation or are they just commercial flyers flying their drones at 10,000 feet above airports? Our guest today, Colonel Doug McGregor, CEO of Our Country, Our Choice, shares his thoughts on the matter.
00:03:21.440You'll see a red circle on the top left-hand side.
00:03:24.400That's called a temporary flight restriction, a TFR.
00:03:27.800It means you can't fly over it at a certain altitude.
00:03:30.080The one to the south of that is another TFR, looks to be over another Air Force base.
00:03:37.120But the northern one is Picatinny Arsenal, Colonel, a military base out in northern Jersey.
00:03:45.320And the TFR was issued, if you see on the screen here, on November 25th, and it's valid until December 26th.
00:03:53.200And they say it's for special security reasons.
00:03:56.840So this has been put out there now from the government for us to see.
00:04:01.040But we have John Kirby out here telling us these are just drones you buy at the convenience store, Colonel.
00:04:06.600I think John Kirby has a habit of adding to the confusion.
00:04:10.240And it's hard to explain why we're seeing these kinds of things, not just in the area that you showed me,
00:04:15.820but on the West Coast as well, other locations in the United States.
00:04:19.560And, you know, I do not have personal knowledge of what this is, but I get lots of information sent to me by people that work with us at our country, our choice.
00:04:31.240And they told me that, well, some of this is connected to some search that's underway for something radioactive.
00:04:38.820And I asked, well, what are you talking about?
00:05:02.380And then, finally, that somehow or another all the hobbyists all across the country decided we're going to fly around these places and confuse everyone for the next few days.
00:05:33.080And I've been to Picatinny Arsenal, and I know a lot of people there are very nice people.
00:05:37.840So let's just say DOD has a hand in this.
00:05:42.180The thing, and to your point about people flying more drones, the White House says people might be seeing more drones since it's darker and the skies are clear and they're not used to drones.
00:05:52.020Colonel, I flew into Newark Airport last night from Florida, and I flew out to go to Florida on Friday.
00:05:57.500When I flew out on Friday, I see these things up at 5,000 feet, 6,000 feet, 7,000 feet.
00:06:02.640The airspace over Newark, you can't overfly Newark until 7,000 feet.
00:06:50.580Well, because, look, first of all, Bill, the military commanders at installations have the authorities they need to defend themselves, their people, their interests,
00:06:58.680and certainly to protect our secrets and our national security.
00:07:02.600Sometimes the answer is to find a way to down a drone, and sometimes the answer is not.
00:07:07.940And a lot of it depends on the capability that the base commander has available to him or to her.
00:07:13.180But they have the authorities that they need.
00:07:15.580The sense that you have to shoot everything down just when you see it, even if you do believe that there's a malicious intent, doesn't comport with actual reality.
00:07:25.660So, I mean, it really depends on the situation at hand.
00:07:28.520But rest assured, commanders have the authorities that they need to take the action that they must to protect their facilities.
00:07:37.380This is the same administration who's dumping billions of dollars into Ukraine to shoot missiles into Russia, providing them with U.S. military arms.
00:07:46.540This is the same administration who waited until a spy balloon flew over the whole entire continent of the United States and then used a $400,000 sidewinder to shoot it down over the coast, off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
00:07:57.740Yet he wants to tell us with a straight face that we shouldn't be shooting anything down.
00:08:01.900And there's ways to get the drones down.
00:08:03.680It's just going to take over a month or so.
00:09:02.960Before we move on from that, because you bring up a good point, because I read the same thing about the radioactive material
00:09:07.800and the thing going missing, the container going missing.
00:09:11.060But I also saw an update on it that apparently the radioactive material that had gone missing was for, like, a PET scanner or something like that,
00:09:18.900or a CAT scanner that was going to be used in that.
00:09:22.460Why is it constantly, Colonel, that we're being, like, trolled by our U.S. government in this massive game of deception?
00:09:30.280It's almost like we're living in China, where you can't get a straight answer whether the sky is blue or the sky is gloomy one day or it's raining or it's not.
00:09:38.780We cannot get a straight answer out of this administration on literally anything.
00:09:46.940All of these things are useful distractions.
00:09:48.740I mean, right now we have a massive military buildup of Turkish troops on the border with the so-called Syrian state inside Syria, which is Kurdish.
00:10:00.520And, you know, this is something that's been developing for a long period of time.
00:10:04.780How nice to have a distraction over the skies of New York, Washington or anywhere else to divert people's attention away from serious things overseas.
00:10:13.340Too many lies for too long have destroyed the credibility of the United States government and specifically both the State Department and the Department of Defense.
00:10:27.200Before we get to that, I want to get your take on this administration that President Trump, and it can't come soon enough.
00:10:33.560It's about a month and two days before he's sworn in as 47.
00:10:37.060I want to get your take on particularly a man like Pete Hegseth, the man who's going to be running an organization that you know far too well in the military.
00:12:21.700Before we move on, I people like heads to heads to heads and some of these other folks, a lot of them, you know, never working in the field before.
00:12:29.700But we constantly have people, Colonel, that we bring in to run organizations under this administration, under the Bush administration, under the first Trump administration, who have been in these bureaucracies their entire career, have run the Pentagon their entire career, have been in the military their entire career.
00:12:47.060And they've got us into this massive mess.
00:14:24.440You know, Donald Trump's problem in the past was that he took the position that it didn't really matter who was appointed because he was the decision maker.
00:14:32.640And he seemed to think that since the buck ended with him on his desk, that he could control everything.
00:14:39.240I hope he learned for the first four years that that's not the truth at all.
00:14:57.520We need we're at a point in our history where we really need a massive overhaul, not just in the Department of Defense, but across the government.
00:15:29.580We could do things differently with energy.
00:15:31.580Well, first of all, I don't think we need a Department of Energy.
00:15:33.740You could turn the whole nuclear program for all of our nuclear power stations and everything else over to the Navy because the United States Navy has the largest number of trained, competent nuclear engineers in the world.
00:15:48.200That's what we have is a nuclear submarine fleet.
00:15:51.440They know what they're doing, especially when it comes to weapons.
00:15:54.760There are a lot of things that we can do.
00:15:56.280And I think this doge is problematic because the people that are at top of that, they don't know anything.
00:16:20.480But those are not going to count for very much in Washington if you don't know how the place works, if you don't know what the stakes and alligators in the swamp are doing.
00:16:35.260I agree with everything you're saying.
00:16:36.600The issue is, is Donald Trump has been screwed over so many times before by people in his own orbit that it's brought him to this point now where he has no choice.
00:16:45.200You look at what John Kelly and Matt Mad Dog Mattis, you look at the slew of people he had the first time, and it seemed everyone was there to sort of undermine everything he did and go against everything he did.
00:16:56.080We look at what Mark Milley did as Trump was getting ready to leave.
00:16:59.380And now we hear Joe Biden may be issuing him some sort of preemptive pardon because he did something wrong.
00:17:04.800Colonel, I want to take a quick break here.
00:17:06.460When we return, you had mentioned the money that's being dumped everywhere.
00:17:09.340$20 billion more going to Ukraine before Joe Biden leaves.
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00:19:12.820They've set fires in the Middle East, and they're uncontrolled, burning out of control, destroying everything.
00:19:20.400And so they've decided on their way out, since they can't stay in power, to throw as much gasoline as possible on them to sabotage whatever comes after them.
00:19:29.880Whatever comes after them is President Donald Trump.
00:19:32.480Now, it depends on how Trump handles these things, but we have to assume that 50% of everything you send to Ukraine is essentially lost in corruption.
00:19:46.120I mean, look, if you've got President Zelensky's wife driving a Bugatti, you know, up and down the highway between Poland and Ukraine, there's something wrong with that picture.
00:19:57.680I'm not saying that Bugatti isn't a good thing.
00:20:00.300I remember a professional basketball player was brought up on charges on something, and in order to pay a fine, he turned around to his attorney.
00:22:03.200I have no affiliation with Russia or anything like that.
00:22:05.780But if you look at it from Russia's standpoint, how do you think they look at it when you tell them NATO is going to be on their border?
00:22:14.440How do you explain that to them when they're a single country watching there, and they have an organization of NATO on their border with missiles on their border?
00:22:24.020How do you explain that if you're NATO to Russia?
00:22:26.880Well, I think the analogy is very simple, that Mexico and Cuba are both going to join the greater Russian-Chinese alliance.
00:22:35.640And as a result, large numbers of Chinese and Russian troops, technicians and military experts, along with armaments, are pouring into Mexico and into Cuba.
00:22:46.780And there's a large buildup of force in Mexico, and everybody's trying to figure out what it's for.
00:22:52.000And they finally realize it's designed to invade us and destroy us.
00:23:37.960Nobody wants to look at it from Russia's standpoint.
00:23:40.420I'm not old enough to remember, but I've read a fair amount of history about 1 October in 1962, in the 13-day period of something called the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:23:53.020It's not just you had mentioned Russia with respect to Mexico and Cuba.
00:23:58.380I invite everyone to go look at what they're doing in Honduras right now, how much money China has invested in Honduras, building electrical power plants, electrical dams in Honduras.
00:24:09.200Go look at a map, and you'll find out where Honduras is relative to the United States, and you're soon going to realize it's not just caravans that are going to be coming through that southern border.
00:26:17.040I mean, if we've learned anything, anybody's learned anything for the last century and the century that preceded it, occupying places is a disaster.
00:33:15.220It's padding the pockets of these military industrial complex folks, the Lindsey Grahams of the Senate, these folks who are all for wars overseas.
00:33:23.660Now, I don't understand something, and maybe you can explain it to me in layman's, because it seems very simple to me, yet so difficult.
00:33:32.840We watch what happens when we destroy regimes as America.
00:33:42.980Now we have Syria, another regime change, which presumably we'll see something else pop up with these folks being able to do whatever they want, free reign.
00:33:52.480When will America learn their lesson, Colonel, that we cannot be the world's police?
00:33:56.880And by us overthrowing governments, which is not our job, we're creating more destruction than we would have had in the first place with these people just running their own countries however they want to run it, as long as it's not bothering us.
00:34:10.720The bottom line is, as I wrote in the American Conservative, is that we're replacing this phony rules-based international order, which just is whatever we want, with chaos.
00:34:24.860If we can't have it our way, then we'll just become bomb throwers, arsonists, throw the gasoline on the fire and let it burn itself to the ground.
00:34:34.760That's not making us very popular around the world.
00:34:58.640And we see a partition of Syria along territorial lines between Israel and Turkey, both of whom aspire to be hegemonic powers in the region.
00:35:08.980Now, the Turks have almost 90 million people.
00:35:12.200The Israelis only have six and a half million Jews.
00:35:14.920I don't know how many are left in Israel right now since many of them left during the war.
00:35:19.400That's pretty tough to exercise hegemony with that small number.
00:35:22.380That means that that hegemony depends on us.
00:39:43.660I've seen the Israeli security measures and I visited their headquarters.
00:39:47.260The Israelis are very competent people.
00:39:49.400Not much happened over there that they would not know about.
00:39:52.020It would have taken almost no effort at all to say, well, as a just as a precautionary measure, let's bring down a reaction force of tanks and Merkava vehicle, Merkava tanks.
00:40:34.960I've always been a great admirer of the Israeli wall, simply because we should be building something like that across our Mexican border.
00:40:43.020And there are places in the north that we could use that sort of thing.
00:40:46.420But my point is, I really think they knew it was coming.
00:40:50.040Netanyahu may be responsible for this.
00:40:51.820And he decided that this would be his opportunity to leverage this event to justify mass ethnic cleansing of Arabs in Gaza and ultimately the West Bank.
00:41:03.020But as he said several weeks afterwards, we are going to settle accounts with everyone.
00:42:43.320That could happen, in which case it's still not going to end quickly, but it could spread very rapidly and become extremely damaging to everyone.
00:42:50.160But that aside, I think they would like to have this underway and put President Trump in the position of we have to support us now, because as soon as they come under serious attack, they'll scream bloody murder for us.
00:43:03.680And we'll be in another war, another endless war over in the Middle East that has absolutely nothing to do with us.
00:43:09.800Going back to, you know, we had heard reports that I believe it was Egypt had told Israel about that planned October 7th attack.
00:43:33.720The most policed country in the world, the most police territory in the world, the most secure territory in the world, the best probably intelligence in the world would allow something like this to happen.
00:43:45.840But it wouldn't be the first time in history we've seen we saw 9-11 about the intel that we knew that came in from 9-11.
00:43:52.400A friend of mine, Tony Schaefer, had tried to alert the government about one of the bombers on 9-11.
00:43:59.740We find out later, you know, at the end of the day, Colonel, it all gets brushed under the rug.
00:44:07.100It may have happened, but it wasn't good intel.
00:44:09.460Well, I'm sorry, but if someone gives you a decent intel that someone's going to blow up your country, if someone's going to do a mass killing on your homeland, you better take it and heed the warning at least somewhat.
00:44:22.020So you say Netanyahu's top priority is the destruction of Iran before Russia wraps up its victory in Ukraine.
00:44:29.560We've only got about a month before Donald Trump comes in.
00:44:33.940I mean, he goes into Gaza, which I told you before the show, I equate him invading Gaza if Rhode Island wasn't a state and the United States were to invade Rhode Island.
00:44:55.980The parallels between this Zelensky thing in Ukraine and Netanyahu in Gaza and Lebanon seem far too similar, in my opinion.
00:45:07.900Well, first of all, I think we need to set aside Zelensky.
00:45:10.880He's always been a puppet for Washington.
00:45:14.060He's going to bloviate until it becomes clear that he is either going to be killed if he stays or had better flee and, as you say, leave with stacks of cash.
00:45:22.740Although I'm sure he's already moved a lot of his wealth into banks in the United States, as well as Cyprus and other places.
00:46:41.120I mean, this is a man who talked about very different things in the Middle East, very different things in Ukraine and Russia.
00:46:46.460I think he's not in control and hasn't been for a long time, which is why I called for his removal, gee, at least a year ago, if not earlier.
00:47:51.020You know, you bring up a very interesting point about Netanyahu wanting to push his borders further.
00:47:56.220And I think it does bring in some sort of conflict if he thinks Trump is going to help him with it.
00:48:00.880And it's simply because of the Abraham Accords.
00:48:03.740How does Netanyahu get past that when President Trump is the one who has attempted to broker peace?
00:48:10.420How does he convince Trump to say, you know, you can push into the borders of Jordan, you can push into the borders of Egypt, you can push into the borders of Lebanon, you can push the borders wherever you want.
00:48:19.800Now, when four years ago, President Trump was the only reason I say this on every show I talk about foreign policy.
00:48:26.000President Trump is the only reason Israel is standing right now because of those Abraham Accords.
00:48:29.600If those Abraham Accords aren't in place, I think Israel is probably wiped off the face of the map after October 7th.
00:48:36.780But how does Netanyahu go to President Trump and say, well, now I want to expand my borders here after President Trump just four years ago brokered peace in the Middle East for this to not happen?
00:48:46.940Well, this is where we go back to the original point about arson.
00:49:52.760They've been up to this for a long time.
00:49:54.440People now don't remember when we went into Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and Iraq in 1990, 1991, the Turks asked us, please don't dismember Saddam Hussein's state.
00:50:09.240If you dismember this state, we'll end up with a hostile state on our border called Kurdistan.
00:51:46.000It goes back to the 9th and 10th centuries, roughly from 850 to 940.
00:51:52.240This is a very important mosque because the Umayyad dynasty, which was the second caliphate after Muhammad, is maybe they call it the first.
00:54:04.300I know you're strapped on time, and I really appreciate you joining us here today, Colonel.
00:54:07.500Before we wrap up, I promised we're going to talk about the war we have here at home, one that we should be fighting with terrorists here on our southern border, terrorists here in our country, the drug cartels, the drug lords, the drug manufacturers over in Mexico, the Chinese that come through that southern border.
00:54:24.660I mean, do you think in this administration, President Trump will treat these folks like the terrorists they are and extinguish them the way they should be?
00:54:32.680We heard in the first administration, according to some folks, that he maybe wanted to blow up some of those drug factories.
00:54:38.900I thought it was the most brilliant thing he could have possibly done.
00:54:41.420We've launched missiles in countries, as we spoke about all today, that have gotten us nothing, and they're for absolutely no reason.
00:55:03.900Let's stop pretending that the president of Mexico controls or exerts influence over more of the country than perhaps 40 square miles in downtown Mexico City.
00:55:37.700They've got plenty of unmanned aerial vehicles down in Mexico, some of which are armed.
00:55:43.860You can watch carefully and you'll see our javelin missiles that were purchased probably from the Ukrainian mafia or mafiosos have been sold and are now in use down in Mexico.
00:56:07.160These people, I mean, they've had a high suicide rate because so many people in the Border Patrol are absolutely beside themselves at what has happened.
00:56:15.560J.J. Carroll has written a book about treason.
00:56:19.040And he talks about the treasonous behavior of the last administration.
00:56:23.640We're talking about the current one, actually.
00:56:35.680The problem for us now is that these millions of illegals in many cases are here because they went through the organized crime state to get here.
00:56:45.780That means that they had to pay a certain price.
00:56:49.040Now, we know a lot of almost all the women between 12 and 60 are raped.
00:56:53.540But beyond that, we also know that a lot of these people are told once you get over there and we come to you and we tell you to do something, you better damn well do it.
00:57:01.880The drug mafias are present now inside our country in all the major cities and in many places in the countryside.
00:57:09.440They're also in control of so much information that it's frightening.
00:57:13.600Nothing happens in that useless Department of Homeland Security that they don't know about.
00:58:43.260But in the long run, because of inflation and this money printing, it's in real trouble.
00:58:49.180We need to take care of these things here at home now.
00:58:52.580We can't afford to have the Justice Department and judges all over the country releasing criminals onto the streets, rewarding criminals and punishing police.
00:59:18.820We need to get them down on these borders, not just on the one in the south, but also up north.
00:59:23.120And then secondly, we've got to get this nonsense, this old, acronyms, this 1945 structure has to change.
00:59:30.740The Coast Guard should not be independent of the Navy.
00:59:33.120It should be an arm of the Navy and the Navy and the Coast Guard should both be involved in protecting our waters.
00:59:38.560And the Marine Corps needs to be protecting our ports and harbors, just as we should also protect our airports.
00:59:45.540All of these things have to be done if we don't do them and we continue to focus overseas on other people's problems that are not our problems.
00:59:54.780You and I won't have much to discuss because we won't be around in four years.
00:59:59.880You brought up an excellent point, and it's one that we haven't heard yet or seen yet.
01:00:04.920Our own military patrolling our own country.
01:00:09.120You know, you hear these politicians, Colonel, we'll wrap up with this, saying it's a bad look for our military to be here at home.
01:00:15.960It's a bad look for our military to have a presence here on our southern border.
01:00:32.120What are the optics of protecting your kids from going to school and having a drug dealer sell them fentanyl that they got from a Mexican or a Venezuelan drug lord?
01:00:42.140What are the optics of burying a 14-year-old kid who was overdosed on drugs?
01:00:46.440What are the optics of walking down 42nd Street in New York City and watching a man shoot up heroin on the side of the street as you walk by with your family?
01:00:53.780Does anybody think of those optics, Colonel?
01:01:00.060What's not in their face doesn't matter.
01:01:04.480And their constituents, if they don't pay attention to their constituents, it's because donors ultimately outweigh the interests of constituents.
01:01:12.700We had all the Army's cavalry regiments on our borders from 1846 till 1948.
01:01:20.800All the so-called great men of the Second World War and the regular Army, generals, all served on the Mexican border.
01:01:28.200In the 1930s, the number one expectation was that we would be at war with Mexico at some point in the future.
01:01:56.160Right now, we have similar outposts in Mexico.
01:01:59.860And the international intrigue from intelligence organizations like Chinese and so forth, they are inextricably intertwined with the drug cartels.
01:02:10.480Now, the solution is not to start a war with China or Russia.
01:02:17.300And then you're going to have to fight a war inside our country, because if you think the drug cartels are going to take this lying down and lose all the income they get from this, you're wrong.
01:02:28.180We'll have to fight a war inside our country.
01:02:30.800And when that is underway, that's when you begin to look at where the sources are down south.
01:02:36.840But you do not, do not, and listen to this, you do not want to invade Mexico and try to transform it into something it's not.
01:02:44.640But you have to destroy the disease without killing the patient.
01:02:49.680You were talking earlier, everywhere we go, we end up killing the patient.
01:03:28.600But this is an easy war for us to fight, Colonel.
01:03:30.920You said they're not going to take a laying down, but it'll be far easier, in my opinion, to fight these cartels than it is to ship everything overseas like we do and fight a war that's never going to end.
01:03:40.400I think this is a war that we can get done in less than four years.
01:03:43.300I think it's a war we can get done in less than two years.
01:04:22.140We have two years now, from now to the Senate elections, where we're going to find out which one of these guys want to play ball and which one of these guys want to get their bills paid by these military industrial complex companies and these big donors.
01:04:35.780So we have two years, I think, to figure it out.
01:04:38.320And folks like Elon Musk is spending a lot of money to figure out who these guys are good and which ones are good and which are bad.
01:04:45.900Colonel Doug McGregor is the CEO of Our Country, Our Choice.