The Great America Show - January 20, 2022


U.S. MAY APPEASE PUTIN; FAKE BALLOTS & VOTER ABUSE


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1 hour and 1 minute

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151.42775

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9,381

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511

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

31


Summary

Tony Szaszewski of the London Center for Policy Research joins us to discuss the Iranian ultimatum to the White House demanding that President Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo be put on trial for the murder of Iranian general and terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great America podcast with Lou Dobbs,
00:00:04.200 always in the fight for truth, justice, and yes, our American way of life.
00:00:09.240 And now here he is, the Peabody award-winning voice of truth, the great Lou Dobbs.
00:00:14.520 Welcome to the Great America show. Delighted to have you with us. And we have a show that
00:00:18.960 will be packed with information and perspective that you won't get anywhere else. Suddenly,
00:00:24.580 the Biden administration pivoting to the bellicose Iranians, the Iranian president drawing the
00:00:31.080 attention of the White House with a ultimatum for President Biden, demanding Biden put former
00:00:37.380 President Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo on trial. On trial? For what? For killing Iranian
00:00:45.060 general and terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani. Or Iran will carry out terrorist attacks inside the
00:00:53.100 United States and around the world. That's a pretty direct threat, isn't it? I don't know about
00:00:57.860 you, but my guess is the Iranians got the idea of demanding a trial of Trump and Pompeo by watching
00:01:04.360 the radical Dems and their Marxist wing put on another Soviet-style show trial when they formed
00:01:10.420 the so-called January 6th Committee. Or perhaps it was those two baseless impeachment efforts or the
00:01:16.660 radical Dems creation of a fraudulent special counsel investigation. But you say, those amounted to
00:01:23.680 nothing. But the Iranians, just like Pelosi and Schumer, don't care whether or not there's any base. They're just
00:01:31.280 interested in propaganda. Propaganda. Propaganda. And the Iranians named 53 people they've sanctioned. And all we
00:01:41.580 hear from the Biden National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, is this meaningless statement. Are you
00:01:46.760 ready? The United States will, quote, respond to any attacks carried out by Iran, end quote.
00:01:56.280 What does that mean? Go ahead, attack our citizens, and we'll send you a sharply worded letter? We'll
00:02:03.540 respond? Really? Well, joining us today to take up all of this is the President of the London Center for
00:02:09.960 Policy Research, CIA-trained intelligence officer, 35 years experience in national security, advisor to the
00:02:17.780 intel community, Pentagon, key members of Congress. With us, our friend, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel
00:02:25.540 Anthony Schaefer. It's great to have you with us, Tony, here on The Great America Show.
00:02:30.640 It's great to be on with you, as always, and I look forward to tearing it up here as we tore it up in the
00:02:36.880 past. So thank you for having me. A past that reaches back, what, 30 years, something like that.
00:02:41.840 That's a long time. Longer than I want to think about it. Well, you know, you get my age, and you're
00:02:47.660 kind of proud to have that lengthy perspective. So yeah, the Iranians threatening this administration
00:02:55.860 directly. And if people haven't noticed, the Iranians are only the third, third entity,
00:03:03.280 the third nation to do so. Right. Xi Jinping, his communist government has been very direct in
00:03:11.160 threatening the United States. So has the government of Vladimir Putin. And now the Iranians. And I was
00:03:19.660 only half kidding when I said they got the idea from the Dems about putting on a trial, but only half
00:03:25.080 kidding. All right. Your thoughts about this absolute ultimatum, these absolute threats against
00:03:32.600 the United States. So let's start with what they're upset about. That is the Iranians, the Soleimani
00:03:39.360 killing. Lou, people tend to forget because the public doesn't follow this as close as I wish they
00:03:46.200 should. Soleimani was killed incidental to combat operations in Iraq. He wasn't in Iran. And last
00:03:57.340 time I checked, we are still working hard to try to bring stability to Iraq. And I don't want to get
00:04:04.520 into the circumstance of how we're there. Probably a whole new show for that. But suffice it to say
00:04:09.720 that Soleimani was engaged in planning and executing acts of terror. We knew this. And he was a casualty
00:04:19.900 of combat. So that's the way I see it. I think it was a legal, as much as you're going to get these
00:04:27.340 days, a legal act to counter an act of terror. And that's what the Iranians are upset about. And that's
00:04:32.840 what they're saying, that we, the United States, and the current form of the Joe Biden White House
00:04:40.280 should, quote unquote, hold accountable or hold trials against President Trump and Mike Pompeo.
00:04:48.680 That's all I'm saying of this. Let me put it this way. The hell with the Iranians. He was killed
00:04:54.500 almost two years ago. And now suddenly, this is a subject of discussion and concern for the
00:04:59.860 state of Iran. It's absolutely ludicrous. And then to sanction American citizens, amongst others,
00:05:09.700 as if they're going to carry out these threats. And for the national security advisor, Jake Sullivan,
00:05:17.460 to say we would respond. We're going to wait until they kill somebody to respond. Why don't we take
00:05:25.040 care of business right now? Well, that's very simple. There's a very simple algorithm at work here,
00:05:29.660 I think, Tony. And I want to get your thought on this. Yeah. So that's the issue. If you take out
00:05:34.060 their infrastructure, blow up their refineries, take out about, call it $200 billion worth of
00:05:41.700 infrastructure from a distance. And every time they open their mouths, take out another $50 billion.
00:05:50.600 This has got to stop. But these milquetoast Jake Sullivans that people, the Biden administration,
00:05:58.060 are not going to get anything done. Sullivan is an apologist. And that's your point. That's the
00:06:04.100 answer to your point. The Iranians have brought this back up because they know it would get traction
00:06:08.760 with the current completely incapable national security apparatus of the Biden White House.
00:06:16.160 So one of the things we could do, and this is something that I think we should do, is consider the
00:06:22.520 fact that Iran helps support the North Korean nuclear program. And in addition to that,
00:06:32.240 the Chinese, the communist Chinese have, any given time, about two to three weeks of gas on hand.
00:06:41.280 They cannot produce their own. One of the largest providers of fuel, of oil, is Iran. So, gee,
00:06:49.700 if you want to do yourself a favor and make life difficult for other rogue countries, you could go
00:06:55.900 to the source of that, which is the Iranians. The Iranians are behind the scenes more than happy
00:07:02.100 to provide any number of resources, be it hard currency to the North Koreans for them to continue
00:07:08.220 the nuclear program, or be it the Chinese to continue to fuel their economy. These are things that
00:07:14.500 we need to be looking at. And that's part of the problem. You've helped illustrate the very issue
00:07:19.940 of the Biden White House. They are literally playing checkers on a chessboard. We have studied these
00:07:27.500 sorts of things, Lou. I often go to my Reagan mentors, friends and mentors, and kind of check my
00:07:35.100 thoughts on this. The idea has to be, how do we examine the world from the perspective of linkage?
00:07:44.380 And then if you want to affect the Chinese long-term, what can you do against the Iranians? And what can
00:07:49.280 you do at this point in time against the Iranians, which slow their ability down to either threaten or
00:07:55.680 conduct acts of terror? And there are huge vulnerabilities within the Iranian system. One of
00:08:02.660 them is that the youth there, Lou, hate their government. We missed an opportunity back in 2009
00:08:09.060 to support what was then called the Green Revolution. The idea was that, you know, there was this Arab
00:08:14.920 Spring. We should have been supporting the Persian Spring. We should have been out there trying to push
00:08:20.320 for these people to essentially throw off the yoke of theocracy. And they are a theocratic, very fascistic
00:08:28.840 country run by these mullahs and help the people of Iran to be free. Boy, and you know, if you have
00:08:39.340 your own people uprising against your government, it's darn hard to continue to develop weapons of
00:08:46.240 mass destruction, nuclear weapons, if your own people are coming at you. And I still believe we
00:08:51.220 should have done everything. And we could now do everything we can to support the Iranian people,
00:08:55.720 the Persians rising up against their theocratic government. Yeah, it's stunning, I think, to many
00:09:02.320 of us that we can watch their speedboats armed with 50 caliber weapons, harassing United States Navy
00:09:12.060 in the Persian Gulf. It's stunning to me that the United States, under a series of presidents,
00:09:20.220 Republican and Democrat have tolerated their nonsense. And they only encourage them, whether
00:09:27.140 it's their sponsorship of the Houthis in Yemen, whether it is attacking US soldiers in Iraq, as
00:09:34.200 they continue to do to this very day. And no White House points out, the Iranians were responsible for
00:09:42.640 a third of the American lives lost in Iraq, right? A third. And to think that we permit this nonsense,
00:09:53.700 this bellicose, this, these bellicose ultimatums, it's time to stop it, in my opinion.
00:10:01.160 Right. Well, I don't know if you know this, Lou. We've covered before my book, Operation Darkheart,
00:10:06.240 which covered my time in Afghanistan in 2003. Right. When I was, when we were interrogating a
00:10:11.780 US citizen in a place called Gardez, his brother, Dr. Ali Shah, was an IRGC operative who we captured
00:10:19.360 as well. So he was working for Soleimani. So these guys, think about this, Lou, in Afghanistan in 2003,
00:10:26.180 the Iranians were funding the very insurgency that was growing against us back then. So this,
00:10:32.800 there's absolutely no doubt that these guys have been up to no good. They continue to be up to no
00:10:38.300 good. And this is something that multiple administrations have not done well. I think
00:10:44.300 Trump, through his staff, were the first and only ones to take the threat seriously and do something
00:10:51.340 about it by taking Soleimani out. So again, I'm of a mind that we need to start planning now,
00:10:58.840 if we can get through the next two years, to 2024, and how we can then help influence appropriately
00:11:06.400 a return to an aggressive foreign policy that allows for us to go after these individuals who
00:11:13.880 are constantly trying to kill Americans. I don't know how we stand for this and don't do anything
00:11:19.780 about it. Yeah. No one seriously thinks that Iran would have been this bold and provocative that
00:11:29.700 Putin would move hundreds of thousands of his troops, at least a couple hundred thousand of
00:11:36.300 his troops into position with heavy armor, rockets and missiles ready to invade Ukraine. He's not there
00:11:45.620 for a simple military exercise. I guess an exercise with 200,000 soldiers would not be a simple one to
00:11:55.220 carry off. But they're in constant positioning and moving forward against that western border of Russia
00:12:04.260 with Ukraine. Trump would never have permitted that. And you would never have heard Xi Jinping
00:12:12.400 threatening, threatening Donald Trump as he has Joe Biden in the United States over the past year
00:12:20.360 since Mr. Biden has taken over the Oval Office. Right. So let's walk through that very quickly
00:12:28.680 on Ukraine and Russia. Lou, one of the best things we could do is triple down support to our Polish
00:12:34.920 allies. The Polish are extraordinarily committed to their republic and they love us. We should love them
00:12:42.200 in a military way. We should embrace that. Embrace that relationship. Two other countries which have
00:12:47.980 been reluctantly but now very much are open to the idea of joining NATO is Norway and Finland.
00:12:58.900 So those countries have both been troubled greatly by the old Soviet Union. One of them was invaded during
00:13:06.360 World War II, right before World War II, and they are continuing to be troubled now by Putin's Russia.
00:13:12.960 So why not bring them in and make NATO even stronger? These are things which, Lou, cost us nothing. This does not
00:13:20.400 endanger our blood or treasure one little bit, but does show Putin that there's going to be consequences
00:13:27.380 for his continued aggression. And again, these are things which we study on a routine basis.
00:13:33.900 And Lou, can you imagine, this was a report that came out last week and I, it's from NBC, but I know
00:13:39.900 Courtney Kuby who actually wrote it. I know and trust her. Biden administration weighs offer to Russia
00:13:47.060 to cut U.S. troops in Eastern Europe. Really? You're going to offer to cut troops in Eastern Europe at the
00:13:54.020 very time. Putin's aggressively seeking to gain territory in Ukraine. This is, this is literally
00:14:00.300 insanity. Can you imagine the expression on President Putin's face? Yeah. When his intelligence
00:14:08.160 and diplomatic leaders come to him at the Kremlin and say, you know, they will, they'll remove their
00:14:16.620 troops as he's threatening Ukraine, Poland, and all of Eastern Europe. There's just, it's impossible to
00:14:29.000 think of anything more pathetic unless it is Jake Sullivan saying, we'll have a response for you
00:14:34.880 instead of making it very clear publicly, unequivocally, that this will not be tolerated by
00:14:41.940 Western civilization. Lou, they are counting on Jake Sullivan issuing a strongly worded memo
00:14:49.280 as their only response. And unfortunately, I think that's probably what we can expect. You mentioned
00:14:55.140 China. Say that we have huge leverage on it, we choose not to use it, is the ability to essentially
00:15:03.280 upend the continued growth of the Chinese government. And let me explain that. Any given year,
00:15:11.280 China spends as much on developing internal sources of potable water for its, its huge population,
00:15:18.960 and they are constantly seeking protein. They are a very hungry population. And then you combine that
00:15:27.180 with the inherent vulnerability of the fact that their economy depends on Middle East oil far more
00:15:32.760 than ours. I mean, we were under Trump, President Trump, a net exporter of oil. We've, we're not now,
00:15:39.240 but we were, and we could go back to that quickly. China has no such option. Their geography has not
00:15:44.900 provided them the gift of, of a great deal of, of petroleum. They have a lot of coal, which they're
00:15:49.660 developing, but coal doesn't run cars. It doesn't run airplanes, doesn't run ships. And this is where
00:15:55.980 Lou is a, as a planner, I planned, you know, as one of the folks back in the nineties, looking at
00:16:02.660 vulnerabilities, the Chinese economy is, uh, is, uh, is very, very vulnerable. And, uh, when you combine that
00:16:12.460 with other regional allies, the Vietnamese, the South Koreans, the Philippines, uh, India, we could do
00:16:20.880 huge damage, uh, and not even be obvious about it regarding just interfering with shipping, uh, causing
00:16:28.260 catastrophic failures of infrastructure, just to remind them that, uh, they need to back off and
00:16:36.360 otherwise they would suffer catastrophic failure of even more. And again, going back to the principle
00:16:41.880 of, uh, of how to actually, uh, hobble an enemy without having to lose your blood and treasure.
00:16:48.800 Let me tell you, if you have, uh, a billion people who are upset about the fact they're not being fed
00:16:54.520 and don't have water, I think that internal problem would, uh, diffuse any ability of the Chinese,
00:17:00.520 uh, leadership, the PRC leadership to do expeditionary things because they have to be
00:17:05.020 focused on the inside. Again, Lou, this is not rocket science. We know this stuff.
00:17:09.520 It is not rocket science, but it is also a changing science. And Tony, let me, let me put together a
00:17:18.060 hypothesis for you to consider. And that is that we did do that. Then we have to,
00:17:24.520 examine our vulnerabilities, the United States right now, we depend on China for 98% of our
00:17:31.660 pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients, 98%. Right. We depend on China, uh, to, uh, allow us
00:17:40.640 to still gather up some rare earth in the world markets. We are absolutely dependent upon China for
00:17:48.100 the manufacturer of our clothing, uh, uh, almost every product imaginable between Walmart and Amazon.
00:17:56.380 We're talking about probably what is, I will, this is a guess, uh, not a statement of fact. Uh, I would
00:18:03.580 guess we're probably, uh, not only the largest market for Chinese exports, uh, but probably with those
00:18:11.420 two companies, I would say probably were first and second in, in terms of, uh, dependency on them for
00:18:18.900 exports of everything from appliances to clothing, you name it. Uh, and now soon automobiles, I'm sure.
00:18:25.260 Uh, we have, uh, uh, also because of DARPA, the, in the, uh, 1990s developing hypersonic missile,
00:18:35.620 uh, technology, and then putting it on the shelf in 2000, but the Chinese rated our cupboard of that
00:18:46.240 technology and so much more. So now we have a missile gap, a hypersonic missile gap with both
00:18:52.260 Russia, Russia, and China. And by the way, shipping, all of those goods and material from China, from
00:18:59.660 Asia, where we have also allowed our corporations to, uh, offshore production rather than building
00:19:06.280 it here. Uh, that shipping is 90% owned by the communist Chinese party, right? Uh, those container
00:19:14.300 ships are just basically a side hustle for the CCP, but we're totally dependent upon that shipping.
00:19:21.920 Right. Uh, and the list goes on. If we so much as raise our voice, we would have to be prepared,
00:19:29.460 uh, for them to also exact some considerable punishment because we are so dependent upon
00:19:36.200 them for finished products that it's, it's just unspeakably stupid that our leaders ever let us get
00:19:42.540 in this position. Yes, sir. No, I, I I'm one of those that really believed two years ago, this was an
00:19:48.080 opportunity because of the disruption of the supply chain for us to return to the manufacture of our
00:19:55.880 own, uh, material, especially, uh, prescription drugs, certain types of steel, certain militarily
00:20:03.720 important items. And of course, uh, the Trump white house started looking at some of that.
00:20:10.160 Uh, and I think we were making progress, uh, heck we were even looking at partnering with
00:20:14.480 Rutgers university, which is not a conservative school, their business school and examining how
00:20:18.920 to reinvigorate us manufacturing of these things. And it just, it faded away instantly when the Biden
00:20:26.040 administration came in. And to that point, Lou, uh, I think, uh, there's, uh, it is in our interest
00:20:32.540 both because, uh, we need to reinvigorate us industry. Uh, but also we should not be dependent
00:20:38.520 on someone who does not share our values. And like you said, uh, all business in China, every business
00:20:45.180 is either de facto owned by the Chinese communist party, or only exists because of the forbearance
00:20:53.420 of the Chinese communist party. There's nothing independent about its industry. And they have used
00:21:00.420 that, uh, ability to essentially imprison our economy. And it's a very dangerous situation.
00:21:06.860 And the dangerous situation that, uh, the world represents right now, principally Iran, China,
00:21:14.620 Russia internally, we're watching, uh, a, it seems almost a fifth column, uh, that has been
00:21:23.860 formed, whether it be a woke military, whether it be intelligence agencies, uh, that are being
00:21:30.460 used by the radical Dems, uh, the Marxist left, uh, to, to weaponize, uh, uh, attacks on American
00:21:40.400 citizens, uh, calling them domestic terrorists, thereby suggesting that they can use whatever
00:21:47.000 surveillance, uh, or, or, uh, response, uh, to domestic terrorists, uh, legally and, and
00:21:56.900 viably, it's disgusting. And your thoughts on what is happening with the intelligence community
00:22:03.320 with the military, uh, under this administration and this civilian and military leadership.
00:22:09.660 So this really, uh, went critical during the, the Biden, uh, I'm sorry, that the, the Obama
00:22:18.780 years, uh, one of the things, uh, one of my friends and, and, uh, someone I've worked with
00:22:23.980 over the years is Jim Woolsey, Jim, former director of CIA, uh, back in the nineties,
00:22:28.900 I was running an operation, which he briefed to president Clinton. Anyway, we've remained
00:22:32.540 friends since then. And so Jim had mentioned to me that he had gone to one of the updates,
00:22:36.440 uh, over at CIA, former directors get to go over there for updates. And he went in to get an update
00:22:41.920 from a guy named John Brennan, Lou, you, you know, John, John's, uh, uh, I could tell you some
00:22:47.520 stories about John. Anyway, he goes in and he gets this briefing. And during this briefing,
00:22:51.540 this important briefing, John Brennan bragged to all these former directors of CI that he was proud
00:22:57.820 that his primary priority had finally come true, that the CI had become the premier employer of gay
00:23:04.040 and lesbians. I don't know what that has to do with spying and keeping track of our adversaries,
00:23:12.080 but that was John Brennan's focus. And this has permeated. It's just gotten worse. And now you have
00:23:18.800 the intelligence community, you have the department of defense, all focused on gender and race issues
00:23:26.020 as their primary issue, rather than can the, can the military, uh, figure out how to break things
00:23:33.920 and kill adversaries on call. And that's why you've seen this, uh, this placement of people like,
00:23:41.760 uh, Lloyd Austin, uh, you know, uh, Lou, I know a general Austin, he was a brigadier general when we
00:23:49.260 were in Afghanistan. And I don't want to, uh, cast any aspersions beyond those. I personally know
00:23:55.860 about the man, the man was not competent. He was not competent to be a one-star general. He's not
00:24:00.600 competent to be the, the secretary of defense. And the reason you have people like Lloyd Austin
00:24:07.340 selected to be the secretary of defense is because they are malleable and they focus more on social
00:24:15.680 justice and woke issues than they do on competence and military efficiency regarding how do we
00:24:22.160 create and maintain the best possible military force to defend the United States and our allies.
00:24:29.280 Uh, and so this is very dangerous in that regard. I'll bet most Americans don't know what the size of
00:24:36.080 the U S military is, how many combat brigades we have ready for combat and deployment, uh, and compare
00:24:44.900 that to previous decades. Right. When, uh, going back to the end of the cold war to 1990, uh, 1991.
00:24:53.140 Yeah. It's, it's, it's stunning to see how few people we have in the military. And one of the reasons
00:24:59.540 we're seeing all of this wokeness is the military can't keep up its recruitment, right? The volunteer
00:25:05.620 military is, has, has, has never worked. The military doesn't want to acknowledge it. Our, our both
00:25:12.760 parties won't acknowledge it, but the, in the absence of the selective service, we are immensely,
00:25:20.380 immensely, uh, vulnerable. And we don't even have the apparatus for a column in place. And our national
00:25:28.440 guard, our reserves are depleted, uh, and not ready. Uh, it's a terrible moment. So you're no,
00:25:38.080 I appreciate your, uh, awareness of this Lou. Most other folks don't recognize what you said right
00:25:44.040 now. We are at an all time low of, uh, of actual, uh, muscle ready to go. And by, by the way, you might
00:25:51.060 find it ironic that we have more general officers than ever. We have more general officers. We had at the
00:25:55.180 height of world war II. We have all, all this, all these stars and nobody to lead because last number
00:26:02.100 I heard on that is we have today. Now think back to this folks in world war II, we had 12 million
00:26:09.320 Americans serving in the United States military. We have four times as many general staff officers
00:26:17.880 today as we had then. Yeah. If you can imagine that. Think about that. It's insane. So that's
00:26:25.540 where we're at. We have all of this, uh, all of these so-called leaders who have, uh, essentially
00:26:31.820 not, uh, not shown any ability to lead. And one of the things I think we stepped away from,
00:26:37.300 and this really started in Korea. And as a matter of fact, we want to do a retelling of this issue.
00:26:41.800 Uh, we have established Lewis system where people are measured by performance, M O P rather than
00:26:52.820 measures of effectiveness during world war II. Uh, I think Dwight Eisenhower and others, uh, general
00:26:59.640 Marshall, uh, all examined and, and judge people by their ability to achieve that no longer matters.
00:27:07.460 It's all about now, do you approach and support a specific, uh, woke objective or woke idea? Uh,
00:27:17.140 it has nothing to do with performance. And again, when you, you, you take that as a leadership
00:27:24.060 failure and you combine it with a lack of resources regarding individuals regarding a real equipment,
00:27:30.640 real training, then you've created a condition for any near peer, uh, challenger,
00:27:37.460 to likely have a really good shot at defeating us. And I, I, I, I, it pains me to say this,
00:27:43.320 but I just hope people are listening to recognize that we're not being, we're not saying we want this.
00:27:50.240 We're saying we're trying to give you all the policy guidance to wake up before it's too late.
00:27:56.200 And that's the issue, Lou, uh, to your point, we, we don't have a, a, a service. And for the,
00:28:02.760 for example, the Israelis always require some level of military service. I think it
00:28:07.320 gives them a great benefit. It allows people to understand the importance of defending their
00:28:12.100 country. Uh, and I think we should have something similar, which requires that you have some level
00:28:18.380 of service, uh, regarding having, uh, an understanding and appreciation for how important
00:28:25.240 our nation is and protecting our interests. I think it's part of why we have so many kids
00:28:30.240 turning to woke because they don't have an alternative, uh, that gives them an understanding
00:28:35.040 of why the Republic is so important, what is necessary to sustain the Republic and why we
00:28:41.760 don't have a democracy. We have a Republic, which persists to protect the interests of those
00:28:47.240 individuals who, uh, are not in the blue, um, strongholds of, of the, uh, East coast.
00:28:54.220 Yeah. You know, let's be clear. The democratic party is trying to up end, uh, everything that
00:29:02.020 is, uh, American, the American way, our traditional, uh, values, uh, our heritage. Uh, it's disgusting.
00:29:10.300 And the Republican party is in a feat organization right now. The leadership are rhinos, uh, and
00:29:17.960 they are trying to select their, uh, rhino friends, Mitch McConnell talking about retiring as, uh,
00:29:24.020 as majority leader, excuse me, minority leader in the U S Senate. He he's tapping John Thune,
00:29:31.800 who is not, I mean, these are walking political zombies, right? They are absolutely out of touch,
00:29:39.740 indolent, uh, passive to the point of, uh, uh, appalling, uh, and are incapable of leading in an
00:29:49.000 America first, uh, uh, uh, government, which is precisely what this country needs at all times.
00:29:55.560 Right. I want to say, Tony, we've covered a lot of area here. Uh, you brought up wonderful, uh,
00:30:02.080 points and issues, uh, for us to discuss, and I hope you'll come back soon to, to do so. Uh,
00:30:08.060 our custom is to give you the last, our guests, the last word. And I do so now, uh, as we conclude
00:30:14.180 here, Tony. So Lou, uh, as always, it's an honor to talk to you. I I've always appreciated your,
00:30:20.460 uh, take no prisoners approach to getting the truth out. And I think that's, what's necessary
00:30:24.940 for us to do now. Uh, we have real, uh, threats that we've identified both foreign and domestic.
00:30:31.660 I think it's time that people educate themselves and people like you, I would like to continue to
00:30:38.300 work with, to help educate folks on the fact that we have a Republic. It's not only worth saving,
00:30:44.180 it's worth saving by the fact that it will help preserve by leadership, uh, by our leading by
00:30:50.300 example, it will help preserve the world, uh, going in a direction that benefits all individuals
00:30:56.860 and prevents the return of tyranny. And I think, uh, that should be our focus. And as always, Lou,
00:31:05.020 thank you for your patriotism and, and, uh, clear and concise thoughts on how to preserve, uh,
00:31:11.380 the Republic. So thank you for having me. Tony, thank you. I appreciate you being here as always
00:31:16.480 and come back soon. Coming up next here on the great America show, Catherine Engelbrecht,
00:31:22.220 president and founder of the electoral integrity watchdog group. True the vote. We'll be talking
00:31:28.140 about her group's discovery of illegal ballots in Georgia and just how many of those ballots exist.
00:31:35.200 They believe they were, uh, quite a number and whether there were enough of them to change the
00:31:40.580 outcome of the election, at least in Georgia, Catherine Engelbrecht here with us next Georgia's
00:31:48.260 presidential vote was close 12,000 votes, the margin for Joe Biden. Now it appears there were a
00:31:54.420 significant number of illegal votes cast. The watchdog group true, the vote has video evidence and the
00:32:01.380 admission of at least one ballot harvester who says thousands of votes were likely harvested on
00:32:08.080 election night. As you may know, true, the votes work in Georgia and its discovery of what seems to
00:32:14.180 be a clear case of ballot harvesting. That is third parties collecting and delivering ballots to the
00:32:19.760 polls. That is illegal. True. The vote took its evidence to the Georgia secretary of state,
00:32:24.880 Brad Raffensperger, and he launched an investigation with us. Now Catherine Engelbrecht,
00:32:30.800 president of true, the vote. Welcome to the great America show, Catherine. We appreciate you being
00:32:36.580 with us. Thanks so much for having me, Lou. And Catherine, let's start with where you are now. Uh,
00:32:44.140 what evidence you've gathered, uh, to the degree that you can share that with us and, uh, next steps.
00:32:51.800 Sure. So, uh, where we are now is in Georgia. As you mentioned, we have filed a official complaint.
00:32:58.580 In fact, we filed three with the secretary of state and they have opened an investigation and are
00:33:03.760 working through, um, their machinations on their side to get to the point in which, uh, we can, uh,
00:33:10.940 work more closely to get to the bottom of what we believe, um, the data indicates was an organized
00:33:18.100 and widespread ballot trafficking scheme that, by the way, wasn't just in Georgia. Uh, we have similar
00:33:26.740 information in a handful of other states, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Texas. And all of
00:33:35.820 those reports are yet to drop. Um, but the, the patterns, the affiliated organizations, um, all seem
00:33:47.440 to have a common thread and, and we're very hopeful that the level of investigation and attention that,
00:33:53.580 that these reports will draw, uh, will, will prove out just, just how, um, just how subverted our
00:34:02.280 process really is. The, the idea that there's a widespread, uh, effort to, uh, harvest ballots, which
00:34:12.020 is illegal, uh, uh, on its face. Give us a sense, if you will, before we go through this so that we can
00:34:19.240 kind of organize our minds around this in Georgia, what is the kind of evidence, the type of evidence
00:34:26.200 that you have of, uh, uh, illegal, uh, uh, ballot harvesting? Well, in Georgia and every, every state's
00:34:34.200 a little different, but in Georgia, um, we had an informant who, a confidential informant, I may add,
00:34:41.420 who came forward with some information about their involvement in, uh, what was happening on the ground,
00:34:48.940 the, the, the end to end, uh, the end to end scheduling, if you will, of the ballot trafficking. And so
00:34:55.800 what we did at that point was determined based upon that. And, and, and again, it's really important
00:35:01.640 to keep in mind, we were getting this information from other states to the, the commonalities were,
00:35:06.300 um, consistent enough that we thought, okay, how do we approach, if we were going to approach this,
00:35:14.640 like taking down a cartel, what would we do? What data is available that leaves, um, trackable
00:35:22.380 evidence that would prove up these patterns. And at that point, we decided to procure geospatial data,
00:35:32.940 cell phone data, and we procured an enormous amount of it. In fact, we're now dealing with a petabyte
00:35:41.060 of data and using that data. We were able to determine geospatial, uh, uh, records. You're
00:35:52.260 talking about what is commonly referred to as the ping that can be used by usually law enforcement
00:35:58.420 to track, uh, the location of a cell phone. Is that right?
00:36:02.580 That's correct. With, with one very important addition, um, up until just a few years ago,
00:36:09.400 uh, pings were, were primarily GPS oriented and you were getting a ping from cell phone
00:36:15.140 tower to cell phone tower, and you could triangulate around that. And, you know,
00:36:18.380 it was fairly accurate, but not accurate within inches. Um, over these last few years,
00:36:23.980 we have seen the rise of what is referred to as marketing data. And that marketing data,
00:36:31.360 uh, also referred to as geospatial data, um, lives in any app you have on your phone and any app that
00:36:39.480 you have on your phone is sending up messages, packages of information about you, where you are,
00:36:45.660 um, where you've been, what your profile looks like. And that is available for sale in a, for a variety
00:36:52.820 of purposes, political campaigns, use it for get out the vote. If you've ever been to a, to a coffee
00:36:59.100 shop, to a Starbucks and you pull up and suddenly you get a text that says there's a cappuccino on
00:37:04.000 sale. That's because they're using marketing data to track you. It is, it is broadly used and that data
00:37:11.300 is available for sale. And so that was the direction that we went in. All right. Terrific. Now with that
00:37:19.180 data, uh, and have you also got, uh, well, how did you use the data, uh, as it relates to, uh, picking
00:37:29.400 up, uh, ballots and depositing them then in these drop boxes, which most States don't, uh, I think
00:37:37.640 that's accurate. I, most States I don't believe have those drop boxes. Well, our, our theory was,
00:37:44.840 and of course, at the time we didn't know what we would find when we, when we went down this path,
00:37:49.440 we let the data tell the story. Uh, our theory was, uh, if there was to be a subversion of process,
00:37:55.740 it was most likely to occur with these new drop boxes that had been privately funded. As we all now
00:38:02.120 know by CTCL backed by Mark Zuckerberg. The reason that we focused on those in particular
00:38:08.060 was because they seem to have, um, the greatest amount of confusion around the process around
00:38:16.260 where they were being put. It was all very sort of, let's just use the word shady. And so that
00:38:23.280 to us was interesting enough to, to set a geo fence around a geo fence essentially is, is plotting the
00:38:31.280 coordinates. And then with your marketing data, you can determine that the path or the pattern
00:38:36.980 of people that were coming in and out of that, of that space. And so the thought was, where did we
00:38:43.400 see patterns of abuse where people went? Not once, not twice, not three times, not five times,
00:38:49.180 but in Georgia, the average is 23 times of the people that we, that we found. And, and as you work
00:38:55.480 in these, this is just, you know, mammoth data, but once you begin to separate it, you see that there's
00:39:02.000 a certain group that falls into a certain pattern that is such an outlier that you, that you then
00:39:09.320 can dig in and learn more about what those patterns are and, and whether or not, um, the, the, the nature
00:39:17.780 of, of the, the dropping these, you know, of the repeated visits into the drop box is, is worth, uh,
00:39:23.840 going further. And so I'm going to go ahead.
00:39:27.320 Well, and then that in, in the case of Georgia, then we were able to supplement with video, um,
00:39:33.780 all States were to have had a secured, uh, video as was recommended, uh, by federal government.
00:39:40.860 But as we now know, most States didn't. And as we're learning in Georgia, they didn't keep the
00:39:45.860 data or didn't keep the video. Uh, but we also know that the attorney general, Merrick Garland sent
00:39:52.060 out a note, uh, reminding everyone to keep that data and to keep, uh, relevant, anything
00:39:59.000 relevant. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. Federal standard is to hold it for 22 months.
00:40:04.460 But, you know, if, if I had to choose a word to describe the 2020 election, the word would be
00:40:10.700 lawless. It just, it, it just didn't, there were so many new standards, never before seen, uh,
00:40:18.920 consent decrees that were being put into place, all of these new processes. And it just became
00:40:23.260 the wild West. And that's, you know, that's what we sort of, and Georgia and Georgia was principal
00:40:32.580 among those States, uh, with consent, uh, decrees and, uh, indeed, uh, carrying out an agreement,
00:40:38.920 uh, to, uh, in ways in which to change the election. Uh, and the secretary of state himself
00:40:46.080 was the, the one who negotiated that, correct? Uh, yes, um, that is true. He was
00:40:52.960 Mark Elias, who is a, is a name I'm sure your listeners are familiar with, you know, right.
00:41:01.080 He was, he wasn't, he was the orchestra conductor of, or appears to be the orchestra conductor of
00:41:06.920 lawsuits, consent decrees, and, and, and, and lawfare tactics that were happening, uh, in every
00:41:14.580 battleground state coast to coast, hundreds and hundreds of lawsuits, hundreds of, of new procedures
00:41:21.540 put into place out of the eye of, of the, the average public. So that it, it, it, it all was
00:41:27.600 happening behind the scenes in a way that, that to, you know, to wrap your mind around it in the
00:41:32.040 aftermath of the election was nearly impossible. Yeah. Well, it certainly was impossible, uh, for the,
00:41:39.460 uh, Trump campaign, uh, for the RNC and the state campaign committees themselves, because
00:41:45.880 the, the radical Dems ran wild. They were changing, uh, election rules, regulations, and laws. Uh,
00:41:55.280 sometimes the secretary of state doing it, uh, rather than the state legislature without
00:42:00.180 authorization, uh, which is a violation of most, uh, if not all the state constitutions, uh,
00:42:06.240 and frankly, federal election law. Absolutely. And in 2020, in the spring and summer of 2020,
00:42:12.440 true, the vote was filing lawsuits in those states, uh, for the very, for the very reason that you just
00:42:18.840 called out that they were not following their process. If you want to change an election law,
00:42:23.460 fine, but you've got to do it through the legislature. And this, this, you know, election by
00:42:28.220 fiat is not a direction any of us should be anxious to see take hold. So we were suing, um,
00:42:34.420 but it was happening so fast. And this was so just, just, you know, un, unexplored, this whole new
00:42:43.760 space that we had found ourselves in. And it was all happening under this fog of COVID that it was,
00:42:49.260 it was hard, almost impossible to, to really see, see what was going on more toward the horizon line,
00:42:58.360 the play that was already, you know, a foot. And, um, and so that is why, uh, in the immediate
00:43:04.280 aftermath of the election, um, where so many groups took, took a path down in a different,
00:43:10.940 a different way. We focused on what we believe to be the absolute way to prove the abuse and the type
00:43:21.300 of data and the process that we approach this with and the, and the contractors that were engaged
00:43:26.360 in this process, um, are, are very familiar. This is how law, this is how, this is how crimes are
00:43:33.300 solved routinely. This is, this is how, um, this is how many of our government agencies are identifying
00:43:41.540 patterns of criminal behavior and what we have identified as nothing less than that.
00:43:47.280 And, and with that statement, Catherine, let's examine, we're talking here well over a year after that
00:43:55.180 election. Uh, we know the resources of the federal Bureau of investigation, federal agencies, uh,
00:44:02.800 state, uh, bureaus investigation, including the GBI, the Georgia Bureau of investigation,
00:44:08.600 not a, one of them would investigate watch what were clear and obvious anomalies, irregularities
00:44:15.960 that required explanation, uh, whether in Georgia, for example, the easiest thing was to watch the videos,
00:44:23.280 of, uh, of, uh, vans pulling up as we saw in Wayne County, Michigan, uh, Detroit, Michigan, uh, all sorts
00:44:32.940 of peculiarities, uh, in this election, but not a single, as far as I know, not a single investigative
00:44:41.280 agency of either the federal government or the state governments were investigating in the months
00:44:47.720 following that election. Is that true? Well, you know, certainly that's what we, that's what we
00:44:54.480 saw from, from our vantage point. We have been nose down in this space, um, methodically working
00:45:02.120 towards investigations and, uh, in, in our, in our States and, and trying a very diligently, uh, to check
00:45:09.580 every box so that we wouldn't come up against a gotcha moment. We've, we've been very thoughtful
00:45:14.600 about the provenance of the data. We have been, uh, very, uh, intentional about the, um, authorities
00:45:21.900 and, and the agencies with which we've shared the data so that it's all got a paper trail. It's all
00:45:26.980 got a chain of custody to it. Um, there's, there's every reason to hope that where we are now, uh, will,
00:45:34.540 will, will usher in a new discussion. And yes, it is, it is late, but I will also say, uh,
00:45:41.760 ballot trafficking, which, uh, you know, it's commonly referred to the process that we're
00:45:48.400 describing is commonly referred to as ballot harvesting. And as often as I can, I encourage
00:45:52.660 people, let's get away from calling it harvesting. That is far too nice a term. This is ballot
00:45:59.000 trafficking, that this is voter abuse. And this targets the most vulnerable of our communities
00:46:05.820 who are, who are put into a process that is been going on for so long. And of course was,
00:46:12.060 you know, exploited beyond the beyond in 2020, but this has been playing out in our communities
00:46:20.060 for years and we have got to get our arms around it.
00:46:24.660 And I should point out to our listeners, you and I have been talking about voter integrity,
00:46:29.720 uh, for more than two decades, I believe that's correct. Uh, and, uh, with, you know, various
00:46:37.580 knaves and, uh, thieves and the night, uh, working to change and, and not all in one party either.
00:46:44.760 We should point out, but this time, this time, uh, the humdinger seems to be all at the, uh,
00:46:52.160 at the hands of the radical dims and the left in this country. I want to, if I may narrow down just a
00:46:58.300 bit, and I, by the way, I will exceed to your suggestion, uh, from here on, on, uh, the great
00:47:05.040 America show, uh, we'll be talking about, uh, ballot trafficking. I love that. Uh, we'll also be
00:47:12.380 talking about, uh, voter abuse. I love that too. So, uh, we're expanding our vocabulary, uh, here on
00:47:18.480 the show as live and in color, as they say. Uh, and I appreciate the council. I do want to go to
00:47:26.100 now the evidence because the secretary of state, uh, Brad Raffensperger did launch the investigation
00:47:36.540 based on your evidence. What was it be as, and I know there's some issues here of, uh, that you
00:47:44.100 would concern you on specificity, perhaps if you have a confidential, uh, informative, you, uh, you
00:47:50.120 know, as you said, they got to be sensitive to that, but what was the evidence that you've got
00:47:54.960 the geospatial evidence, uh, and you could track where they went, where did they go? Where did
00:48:01.340 they come from? Uh, where did they return? Uh, and, uh, you know, whose numbers were you tracking
00:48:08.440 ultimately? Well, to be very clear, um, what, what we presented in our data was what appears to be
00:48:19.280 the abuse of a process, um, by in, in the case of Georgia, um, 242 individual devices that, uh,
00:48:31.240 according to the data went on average, a total of 23 unique times to drop boxes within our study
00:48:39.660 period. And in Georgia, it was interesting because we were able to look at both the general election
00:48:45.700 election and the runoff election. Uh, remember that, you know, what we're doing is never
00:48:49.960 the senatorial knowledge. Correct. Correct. And so we were, you know, we were doggedly determined
00:48:57.640 to just let the data form the trail. And, and what we noticed was, um, that there was a group
00:49:05.760 that, uh, we could separate from the general population, a group of devices that followed these
00:49:11.380 patterns and that, uh, followed them, not just, uh, in, in the space of the drop boxes, but also,
00:49:18.420 uh, there's an aspect that loops in certain organizations. And so these 242 devices, let me
00:49:26.600 guess those organizations were nonprofits. Yes. Uh, yes. And so, and so what we did was we, um,
00:49:35.720 we presented that to the secretary of state, um, and, you know, are, are hopeful that this will
00:49:44.980 begin, um, a much broader investigation into all of the inner workings, um, of, of, of the,
00:49:55.320 of the entirety of what appears to be an organized effort to subvert the process. Um, and, and, you know,
00:50:03.540 I can tell you a couple of things. Number one, um, we are confident that we don't have
00:50:08.420 the full picture because all we looked at were those drop boxes that were, uh, uniquely placed,
00:50:16.320 um, in the, in the 11th hour that were, had been privately funded. And so, you know,
00:50:22.720 the Mark Zuckerberg, correct. Correct. So, because, because our hypothesis was that if,
00:50:28.960 if there was to be subversion, you would likely go to where the, the, you know, the, the link in
00:50:35.080 the chain was weakest and those drop boxes were certainly a part of it. And, and so our,
00:50:42.400 our position is, and I want to couch it very, very carefully. Um, the, the data that we have
00:50:47.900 provided to Georgia and in other states in the days ahead, um, suggests patterns that, that would
00:50:56.240 support reasonable doubt to look more closely. And that, at that point becomes a law enforcement
00:51:04.100 issue. And so I don't, you know, I don't want to say or do anything that could impede that process.
00:51:09.940 Um, but I will, I will, I will tell you it's, it's, it's widespread. Um, it is, it is the result of
00:51:21.500 tireless work over this last year, working through all manner of quality checks to make sure that
00:51:28.160 we're not picking up, you know, somebody that's standing at a bus stop or, uh, somebody that's,
00:51:34.800 you know, a UPS driver, whatever the case may be, we're making certain, uh, that those devices don't
00:51:40.960 fall into those categories as much as we can. But now the onus is going to soon shift. Um, we can go
00:51:48.520 so far and then the government has to step up. Um, but what I have, uh, said repeatedly is if the
00:51:56.060 government doesn't step up, um, then, then what we have done will be made public.
00:52:03.120 Good. All right. And, uh, what I'd like to do is invite you back here with each, you know, with each
00:52:11.060 state that you take on, uh, we'd love to have you here to talk about your progress and, uh, and the way
00:52:16.980 forward from here. Uh, would you be willing to do that? Absolutely. This is so much of what
00:52:22.860 happened to us in 2020 as a country happened because we, we weren't really as educated as we
00:52:29.080 might have been around the process and what is and isn't legal and, uh, is and isn't appropriate.
00:52:34.720 And so having those conversations and familiarizing ourselves with how it's supposed to look and feel,
00:52:41.240 I think will, will have a huge impact in the year ahead. Well, I, I want to turn, uh, and I, and I
00:52:49.000 know you will, it's just, uh, it is just a, uh, so frustrating that this comes at this time. And when,
00:52:58.000 when the people think about, well, why didn't these agencies and departments and state and, uh, uh,
00:53:04.620 federal, uh, agencies in particular, not investigate that's because apparently the election went the way
00:53:11.720 they wanted. So why investigate, right? Uh, it's, it seems that straightforward. And we say we had a
00:53:18.560 Supreme court that had two opportunities to step in. And by the way, constitutionally is required to
00:53:24.720 step in a dispute amongst, uh, and between States. And they chose not to, uh, the Supreme court was
00:53:31.980 cowardly. Uh, the federal government, uh, it was cowardly of not corrupt or both. Uh, it's,
00:53:38.620 it's very frustrating to think of the shape that our, our electoral system is in. What do you think?
00:53:45.900 Well, I, I don't just, I, I agree. Um, but I would, I would challenge us all to look at it from,
00:53:53.940 from this point of view, let 2020 be the line in the sand. Never again,
00:54:00.000 never again. We've got to move this forward in a way that citizens are hands-on in our elections.
00:54:08.640 And if 2020 had to occur in order for 2022 and years forward to be free and fair, then so be it.
00:54:17.080 But if we don't learn the lesson of 2020, then we are doomed to repeat it.
00:54:22.060 Yeah. I would encourage, uh, folks, uh, to go to true, the vote, uh, it's true, the vote.com. Correct.
00:54:29.500 Catherine. Yes.
00:54:31.340 True.org. So sorry.
00:54:33.020 True.org.
00:54:34.060 And, and go there because it's, it's, it's a very interesting read, uh, to look at the things that,
00:54:42.700 uh, true, the vote, uh, Catherine's organization is doing, uh, calling for citizen involvement.
00:54:48.300 I would urge you to do so. Uh, and we will be making that recommendation over our social media,
00:54:55.260 uh, uh, here, uh, on the, uh, on the great America show as well. Uh, I, I, I want to turn
00:55:03.500 to another development, uh, and that is Michelle Obama has just made the announcement that, uh,
00:55:10.460 she will be raising a million new, uh, voters, uh, coming in, coming into the new election.
00:55:17.980 Uh, how, what's your reaction to that?
00:55:22.300 Well, um, look, I'm all for voter registration. That's, that's great. Every eligible American
00:55:28.540 citizen should have the opportunity to participate in a process that's free and fair, and they should
00:55:33.260 be registered and that's great. Um, however, uh, I, I would presume that she is also in full support
00:55:41.260 of the legislation that is trying to be passed. Uh, and I think it's going to be brought to debate
00:55:46.380 next week called the freedom to vote act. And there's a stipulation in that bill that would
00:55:53.580 make it such that all new voter registrations are automatically absentee ballots. Yep.
00:56:00.380 Yep. So you want to talk about a, a buffet line for ballot traffickers. There you go.
00:56:08.940 Isn't it a coincidence that she has just decided to register a million new voters
00:56:13.180 concurrently with the effort, uh, in the democratic house and the democratic Senate,
00:56:18.460 uh, there's another bill called the people's vote. I believe, uh, that is, uh, the, the sister
00:56:24.780 legislation or brother legislation, depending on what you prefer to call it. Uh,
00:56:30.860 it's just, it's amazing to me what the Democrats are trying to do. They are trying to federalize
00:56:36.460 elections in this country, ladies and gentlemen. Uh, it's not really federalized there because it is
00:56:43.340 the federal government at work here, but it would be a nationalization of our elections. It would
00:56:48.620 eliminate, uh, state, uh, state power and state rights, uh, and individual citizen rights as well.
00:56:57.420 And it's a, it's a concerted effort on the part of the radical Dems, the permanent bureaucracy,
00:57:03.020 the deep state, if you prefer what we're witnessing right now, as Catherine was saying,
00:57:08.140 we've got to be smarter. We've got to be engaged. It's a participatory democracy.
00:57:12.380 There's one problem. Uh, the Republicans aren't smart enough. They're leaders to deal with this.
00:57:19.340 You mentioned Catherine Mark Elias. Uh, I once suggested that the Republican party raise half
00:57:24.940 a billion dollars, uh, give it to him, uh, to work for them because there's no Mark Elias on the side
00:57:31.980 of the, uh, the, the Patriots, the conservatives, the independence, uh, to counter, uh, the,
00:57:38.860 the immense damage that he is doing and doing under the auspices of the law and the political
00:57:45.020 system we have. Uh, he's a, he's a brilliant lawyer. Uh, he is also, uh, uh, an evil force
00:57:50.940 as far as I'm concerned because he's on the wrong side. What do you think?
00:57:56.940 Well, yeah, I agree, but I also, I want to, to give, give hope to people that you have more power
00:58:07.500 than, you know, at the local level of your elections, your involvement will change things.
00:58:15.580 Observation changes things. Input changes things. Don't, don't just take it for granted
00:58:21.020 that what's going on in your backyard is one way or the next. Get involved, you know, call
00:58:28.300 and insert yourself into the process, figure it out. Um, because they, that's, that is the one
00:58:34.460 thing that these, that these politicos that are sort of architecting what I perceive to be an
00:58:40.380 engineered obsolescence of our process. They're going to suffocate it like a boa constrictor suffocates
00:58:46.860 its prey little by little tighter and tighter until there's nowhere to go. And we just say you win,
00:58:55.020 forget it. That's what we cannot do. And we are perilously close to that point, but we're not there.
00:59:01.100 We just have to get involved. Yeah. I, I think you're right about calling, uh, 2020, the, you know,
00:59:08.060 the, uh, the line in the sand, the red line. Um, but I, I, I've got to say, I would be very specific
00:59:16.540 on this. Find out who the hell your Republican delegates are to the, uh, national convention,
00:59:23.340 find out who your Republican national committee men and women are and make damn sure you're fixing
00:59:30.140 it. If they're rhinos and make damn sure you're fixing it. If they are just, uh, establishment,
00:59:35.260 uh, uh, you know, grape gatherers, uh, it's time to give this place, uh, a good, uh, shake by the
00:59:43.580 neck. We saw it in 2010 with the tea party. We can do it again, but this is a country right now that's
00:59:50.700 in desperate need of leadership and having a weak and enfeebled president of the white house doesn't
00:59:55.980 mean that he is incapable of evil because every initiative coming out of this white house in some
01:00:02.380 way, uh, shape or fashion is intended to weaken the nation, to weaken our values, to weaken, uh,
01:00:11.180 the sovereignty of this nation. And every citizen should be concerned. Uh, you're, uh, you know,
01:00:18.060 I, I have to commend you, uh, Catherine is, uh, for all of the work you've done over the years,
01:00:23.980 but this, um, this in, uh, Georgia, this work, uh, looks like it could really be the beginning of,
01:00:31.020 uh, of truth, uh, for the election of, uh, 2020. Uh, we typically give our guests the last word
01:00:39.100 and you are no exception. This is, uh, uh, you get the last word, Catherine.
01:00:43.420 Well, I thank you for this, for this opportunity and thank you to all who are listening. I know it
01:00:49.500 has been a very difficult season that we have been through, but at the, at the core of it all,
01:00:56.140 if the elections aren't truly fair, we are not truly free, hold that in your heart, get involved
01:01:02.700 locally and we can change things. Well said, Catherine, thank you so much for being with us.
01:01:09.580 Catherine Engelbrecht, uh, the president, the founder of true, the vote, uh, the, uh, the website
01:01:17.180 is true, the vote.org. Uh, we encourage you to go there and to participate and engage, uh, and prevail.
01:01:26.300 Uh, you know, thank you very much again, Catherine, for being with us, a great delight. I hope you'll
01:01:31.100 come back soon. Uh, this is just too important a topic, uh, not, uh, not to pay great attention to
01:01:37.980 for all of us. Uh, Catherine, thanks so much. And to each and every one of you,
01:01:42.620 thanks for being with us today and God bless you all. Join us again tomorrow for the great
01:01:48.540 America podcast. Stay in the fight. Truth, justice, and the American way will prevail against all enemies,
01:01:55.020 against all odds.