UVALDE POLICE LIES IN COVER-UP OF SCHOOL SHOOTING
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Sen. John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell have sold out the American people to the Marxist Dems, and in doing so, have undercut the Republican chances of winning the mid-term election. In less than a week, they have engineered legislation to give amnesty to illegal immigrants, which will attract millions more illegals across our wide open southern border, add billions to cartel coffers, and assure the cartel s control of the border for years to come. Assuring cartel smuggling of deadly drugs, hundreds of thousands more American deaths from fentanyl and opiate deaths, and sex trafficking of American children and women.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show.
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Welcome all to Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
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Today we begin with the sinister, treasonous exploits of the snake rhino Senator John Cornyn of Texas,
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doing the bidding of the master rhino Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,
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who, of course, is on loan to the Republican Party and the U.S. Senate
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from the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China.
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The iniquitous Cornyn and McConnell have just sold out the American people to the Marxist Dems,
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and in my opinion, in doing so, they've undercut the Republican chances of winning the midterm elections.
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In less than a week, they've engineered legislation to give amnesty to illegal immigrants,
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which will attract millions more illegals across our wide-open southern border,
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and assure the cartel's control of the border for years to come.
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Assuring cartel smuggling of more deadly drugs,
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hundreds of thousands more American deaths from fentanyl and opiate deaths,
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more sex trafficking of American children and women,
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Cornyn and McConnell have joined with the Marxist Dems
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and this puppet president to devastate life in America,
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Ask yourself, what would the Chinese do first if they were to successfully invade America?
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They would destroy our Constitution, our rights,
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They would deny every American his or her rights to legal due process.
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The First, Second, and Fourth Amendments, gone.
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Cornyn and McConnell have handed our rights to bear arms and due process to the Marxist Dems,
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and they've destroyed any semblance of our sovereignty with amnesty
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for those millions who've crossed our borders with impunity,
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Our country will soon not belong to American citizens
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if we allow Cornyn and McConnell's sellout to stand.
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We'll soon find out if Americans are courageous enough to stand up for this country.
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Unfortunately, there are signs that we may not be the same as those who founded
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and who've defended America and Americans for two and a half centuries.
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We've just learned, for example, that the Uvalde, Texas, police chief lied in almost every material way
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about why his department failed to act to save the lives of 19 schoolchildren and two of their teachers.
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The tragedy in Uvalde is the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook a decade ago.
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Joining us now to take up these latest developments in Uvalde is Jack Posobiec,
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host of Human Events Daily, and Jack, it is great to have you with us.
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Let's turn to the hearings about what happened in Uvalde
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and the findings of the Texas Department of Public Safety
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about the outrageous failure of Uvalde's police department to prevent this tragic loss of life.
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Well, that's right, Lou, and I'm watching these hearings the way everyone else is,
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and we've got the Texas Department of Public Safety is making their first public address on this,
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a new hearing, new testimony from the director that's come forward on top of all this
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into their review of the police department's response to this horrific event because,
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and I think everyone agrees that, you know, obviously this horrific crime is something
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that we didn't want to happen, but there are now questions coming up of why was it
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that it appears as the police officers waited up to a full hour before breaching that room
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when they knew there was an active shooter in, again, Texas active shooter crazed gunman
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inside the schoolhouse full of children. We're now hearing that this chief of police,
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Pete Arradondo, who was the on-scene commander there, essentially played a role in issuing what
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amounted to be almost a stand-down order, and initially had told people, he had really lied to the media,
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he said, first, that officers had engaged the gunman outside. Well, they looked at the
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surveillance footage, and they couldn't find any evidence of that. Well, then he said, well,
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no, it wasn't outside. It was actually inside, and they went to open the doors.
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They're reviewing the surveillance footage, Lou. There's no footage of officers going into these
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doors. Instead, what we're starting to see in drips and drabs and leaks that are coming out in this
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investigation of officers, and it's very hard to watch, especially anyone who – I've got two
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little kids, anyone who's a parent – that you see these officers standing stationary at the end of
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the hallway. They've got long rifles. They've got body armor on. Some of them even have those
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ballistic shields that would be able to offer them some semblance of protection against oncoming
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bullets. They don't breach the doors. They don't go in. In fact, the director said today
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that they didn't even attempt to see if the doors were unlocked. We're unwinding the lies,
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really, is what it seems to be, from this police chief down there in Uvalde, Texas, who simply – and
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it's something that, Lou, that you and I have talked about, where it feels though America has lost
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something, whether it's courage, where it's that sense of human agency. We've put people into this
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mindset of we're supposed to be waiting for guidance, or we're waiting for someone on high
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to tell us what to do, when deep down, we know what the right thing is to do, and we shouldn't be
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just waiting to do as we're told, and yet that seems to be what they're doing here, is that they
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took a couple of shots from inside. He made the decision, as the director said today, he said,
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you made the decision to put the officer's lives over the lives of the children. You stood there
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and waited and gave him free reign to be able to kill these children, and you didn't respond with
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all of the lessons learned, all of the training that's gone in in the past 20 years since Columbine,
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and he called it an abject failure. Rule number one is go to the shooter instantly with children
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involved in a public school, or a private school, any school. It's a first rule, and they've learned
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that it was reinforced at Parkland as well. I mean, this is just outrageous, but in Texas,
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don't mess with Texas. Are you kidding me? An entire department stands down. Jack, my first reaction
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on this was, you know, God bless that young woman with her two kids who rushed in there, told everybody
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to get the hell out of her way, and she got in there and got her kids. The border patrol,
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off-duty border patrol agent who was called by his wife about their kids, he grabbed a shotgun from
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the barber where he was getting his hair cut and rushed in there and took care of business, and his
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kid mercifully was safe. Other parents tried to rush and were held back. It is just a sickening
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sorrowful moment, tragedy in this country's history. It's just, this isn't just Evaldi. As you say,
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this is America, and we've got to do better, and we've got to demand better, especially of those who
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are wearing a badge and carrying a gun as police officers, law enforcement officers everywhere in
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the country. Your thoughts about what will happen now, you know, the other part of this is, Jack, I think
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about the officers, the command officers under that chief. How could they let that man say that? How could
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they not simply take care of business initiative on their own? It's just, I mean, I'm just stunned by it.
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Well, what's even stunning to me is that, Lou, you look at the history of this country, and
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you know, in times past when something like this would have happened, you would have seen the police,
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the chief of police resign, right, and realize what had happened and said, you know what, I'm going to
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take responsibility for this. This happened on my watch. These failures are my failures. And yet he
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hasn't done that. In fact, apparently the same chief of police was up for the city council in the recent
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election. He was elected. So now he's also a member of the city council. He's sitting there on
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the city council, helping the city. They've hired a law firm. They're fighting the freedom of
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information requests to people are asking now for, because once we realized that, you know,
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think of where we've gone on this story, right? We started on this story with Governor Abbott
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praising the response of the police because the briefing that he was given, the after action report,
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was that they had engaged the shooter. They ran in, they defeated the barricade and went in and
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saved the day, right? And so Abbott praising the response of law enforcement. Now we're starting
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to unwind these lies and realize that this was the last thing you should ever want to praise.
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We're talking, I've got the article here from Texas Tribune. There were two closed doors and a wall
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between the officers and the 18-year-old with an AR-15. They had a halogen bar. And a halogen bar
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is that's an act like it's a forcible entry tool. It's the thing firefighters use. They had that on
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their, on their person. They had ballistic shields. They had plenty of firepower, multiple long rifles,
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M4s. And some of those officers were itching to go, but it was this chief of police who refuses to
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resign, who's fighting to get all of this information out. So now we know why he's trying
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to block the footage, right? It's not because of just the horrific nature of it. He doesn't want to
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expose sources and methods or operational procedures. It's because it seems that the
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more footage we're getting of this, the more of it shows officers standing there stationary
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for almost a full hour, about 52 minutes while this killing was going on.
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You know, I don't know how many police officers were there. I did think it was unusual when the
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first reports were that the Border Patrol had a number of agents there. And I'm asking,
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where the hell are the police? And the police never did show up in point of fact.
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There were a lot of police officers there, but the police never showed up. I mean, it was,
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it was, it was just a disaster from, it's just stunning to me that there isn't anybody in that
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town that isn't telling that sheriff, that police chief to take off the damn badge and get the hell
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out of office. This shouldn't take, this shouldn't take a lot of deep thought on the part of those
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parents. Uh, all of those people have been betrayed by that police department, uh, and that chief.
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And I, and I know that we're going to hear, Oh, there are a lot of good officers. There were no
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good officers there that day who didn't take care of business. And it's that simple, in my opinion,
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Well, I think that's right. And I think we've gotten to a point in our country where we will publicly shame
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somebody, you know, if we, if they have a bad tweet, you know, from five years ago, or if they
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misspeak or they, you know, they use a word they shouldn't have. That's the, we use public shame for
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political correctness now, but we don't really have any public shame towards the ability of our
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public elected leaders to be able to perform in their jobs. Because we used to have a country
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where something like this happened that that chief would never be able to show his face in town
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anymore. And that's the way it should be because we should hold people accountable for their
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successes and for their failures. This is clearly a failure. One of the, one of the things that's so
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striking to me about this story, as I go through the timeline is they, they talk about the, uh, the
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Facebook live stream that was started by one of the parents at 11 45, 11 45 is only about 12 minutes
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from when the shooter actually entered the school. That's how small this community is. That's how
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tight knit this community is, this town that you could be there within, you heard there's a problem
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at the school. You're there within 10 minutes. And I remember thinking, boy, I work about an hour from
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my, you know, where I live. I don't know. I would never be able to be there within 10 minutes.
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That's how small of a community this is. So, and the, and the, by the way, the director is going
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through as well and, and, and going through the list of this shooter, like we saw in Parkland,
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like we saw in other cases was known to law enforcement. He was a known quantity. He was
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someone that had been on the radar, uh, you know, killing animals and committing abuse to animals,
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walking around with a bag of dead cats and things in the past, right? He's someone that local law
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enforcement knew probably shouldn't have had access to firearms. And yet prior to that, they didn't do
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anything about it. And neither did the school, neither did anyone in the community. Uh, the fact
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is this, this young man, mentally ill, obviously sick, uh, his parents, both of them from a broken
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home, but both of them, his biological father and his biological mother are, are felons as is his
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grandfather. Anybody looking for a recipe for a disaster for a young person. This kid was in that
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environment and the schools didn't, as I say, no one apparently, uh, wanted to step up and do the
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right thing and bring this kids to help, uh, when he was even much younger. Uh, it's a tragic story,
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but this is not a story about guns. This is a story about a cowardly police department. It's a story
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about a mentally ill young man, uh, who instead of getting treatment was able to buy a couple of
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guns. It's just a sorry, sorry, uh, situation. There's a, uh, there's a line in, uh, C.S. Lewis and,
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uh, uh, for folks who haven't read C.S. Lewis, I highly, highly recommend where he says, we, we make men
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without chests and expect them of them, virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked
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to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and build, bid the geldings be fruitful. And I, I love
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this, this idea of the men without chests, right? We're, we're creating men without chest or we vilify
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masculinity. We vilify mask, uh, manliness. We call it, it's called toxic masculinity. We're told,
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you know, men shouldn't be doing that. You know, I think we could have used a little bit of toxic
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masculinity in that school that day. Yeah. A lot of it in, in, in point of fact. And, and, and by the
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way, in all fairness, uh, there, there are women who carry guns and wear badges. I, I would hope that
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they would have stood up and done something, but no one there, uh, man, woman stepped up. And that
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is, and to your earlier point, that is what is so scary right now about the America we live in.
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We know that we're, we're losing our way when we have to, uh, listen to a secretary of defense,
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let's talk more about gender and, uh, trans treatments, uh, and wokeness. Then we're hearing
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from him on strategic positioning of the, of our fleets, uh, of our, uh, our air force, our troops.
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There's no explanation for 102,000 of our troops on the Eastern flank in Europe, uh, other than the
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fact that president Biden sent them there where there's the, the American people are not demanding
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anything of their government. Uh, it's, uh, even those who are dependent upon it, whether it's for
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welfare, for whatever it may be, it's a sorry, sorry moment in our history.
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Well, we, we've become this nation of, we say we build the system and we just need to fix the system.
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And we, we don't look at outcomes anymore. We don't look at results. We're not, we're not pragmatic.
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We don't look at what's happening. We'll argue about things that happened hundreds of years ago,
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200 years ago, but we won't talk about the violence that's going on in our cities. Um,
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you mentioned the military, you know, as a prior Navy officer, I look at the seventh fleet and people
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ask about, well, you know, Indo-Pacific command that was, I was, I was a seven fleet sailor. I was a
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China guy. That was my focus. And they say, well, what do we need to do with, you know, China just,
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China just launched their third aircraft carrier last week. Um, it's called the Fujian. The Fujian is the
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province that's directly across from Taiwan. And, you know, this is how they celebrate pride
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month, right? They were launching a brand new, this one for the first time, completely domestically
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produced in China. Um, 100% their own systems, their own technology, the most high tech carrier
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they've had, they're going to be putting that in the seas right around the Island of Taiwan.
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And so people ask me to say, well, you know, what should we do to defend our allies in Taiwan?
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How do we, you know, how do we protect them if China, uh, goes to, uh, create some kind of
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kinetic warfare in Taiwan, across the Taiwan Strait, only about 60 miles nautically, or, um,
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or they enact a blockade of some sort. And I said, the main thing we should do is fix the Navy,
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just fix the Navy. And you will create a strategic deterrence factor so that the Chinese will be
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looking at that situation and say, you know what? I don't want to tangle with that seventh fleet.
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I don't want to mess with those guys, but when they're launching brand new aircraft carriers,
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the state-of-the-art technology with all the fanfare in the world. And we're over here arguing
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over what a woman is and, uh, you know, marching with our soldiers with pride flags and sailors
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with pride flags and everyone's going to their wokeness training, right? You're not preparing
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to defend our allies. You're not preparing to defend our interests and keep in mind. And when people
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say, well, what's the point of Taiwan? Well, Taiwan is two things. It's Silicon Valley West,
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and it's also the strategic maritime, uh, shipping lanes. The shipping lanes across Taiwan
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is where something like 85% of the world's commerce travels through right now. So yes,
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we do. We don't want China to just being completely in control of that.
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President Biden has said only one thing correctly in his entire presidency. And that was the,
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he said, we have commitments to defend Taiwan. And that was immediately with, uh, withdrawn and talked,
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uh, uh, and, uh, taken off the board. Uh, and what's, what's to me, uh, ironic, funny,
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uh, and sad at the same time is that the only thing he said that made any strategic sense in foreign
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policy was when he said Taiwan must be preserved. Indeed, he is right. And the unfortunate part about
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it is that, uh, Taiwan is nestled, uh, inconveniently, uh, between the South China Sea, uh, and the East
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China Sea, uh, and, uh, about 80 miles at its closest point, uh, Taiwan off of the coast of mainland
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China. It's not the easiest strategic, uh, enterprise to defend it, but defend it. We, we must,
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because otherwise 60% of the world's, uh, ocean going traffic, uh, will be under the influence
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and control of the Chinese. All right. All that, all that, uh, all the commercial goods. So every,
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you know, we have this, this, this great system of globalization. I'm saying that sarcastically,
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but the people who created the system of globalization made it so that we are dependent on
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the maritime shipping lanes. Those maritime shipping lanes cross directly through, uh, they call it
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the Luzon straight. So that's the straight on the other side of Taiwan, the Eastern coast and, uh,
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Luzon, which is the Northern most Island of the Philippines. So that's, and then down through
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the straight of Malacca and the South China sea. So you're talking about not only those goods,
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but oil, the flow of oil to, and from the middle East from all of these situations. And so it's,
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it's wonderful to me to look at that. We, we outsourced our energy, uh, right. We outsourced our
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energy production to the middle East. We outsourced our manufacturing to Asia. And then we,
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we decided that we're just going to cede maritime dominance in Asia to the communist Chinese party
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of Beijing. And we don't really seem to have an answer for why things are going wrong, but we're
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going to demonize, uh, both Russia and China. So apparently it seems like the foreign policy, um,
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outcomes of this are that we are driving Russia and China together at the same time and making
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enemies of them both. And that will come to be seen, I believe years from now as the greatest
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geopolitical blunder in American history. Uh, and it has very specific roots, uh, in the actions,
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the behavior of the Biden administration, which for months ignored, uh, Vladimir Putin's clear
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declaration, uh, that he would not tolerate, uh, NATO interfering with Ukraine. Uh, and as they
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continued to invite, uh, the Biden administration continued to invite, uh, Zelensky, uh, to come
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into NATO, they simply put, uh, Putin in a position where, uh, in my opinion, he was compelled to act in
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what he considered his nation's interest. I'm not excusing it. I'm in no way endorsing it. And I
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absolutely abhor what he has done. And I think he is, you know, repulsive beyond measure, but what
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Biden has done in foreign policy is to invite disaster and tragedy again. He did so, uh, numerous
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times, uh, after the invasion and continues to do so. We put $60 billion in aid into Ukraine without
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any understanding of what we're doing and what the outcomes to speak to your point about outcomes,
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because this administration, like so many, uh, democratic administrations, uh, doesn't speak
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to communicate and to clarify and to articulate vision. Uh, it obfuscates, and that is what the
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language has become. And that has, that has cascaded down, uh, all levels of government. Our officials
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no longer feel that they have to speak clearly and plainly, uh, they use language to avoid, uh,
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understanding and meaning. And that is one of the reasons that officials like the police chief and
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Evaldi and the city council too, apparently, uh, are still in place because no one is speaking plainly
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either to them. And we're not hearing anything, certainly, uh, direct and specific and concrete from
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them. Well, Lou, I think that's exactly right. And I just honored to hear you, uh, you break that all
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down for us because that's exactly right. It's no accountability. Nobody takes responsibility for
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anything. You know, when you ask someone who's in charge all the way up to the president United
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States, you know, it used to be the buck stops here was on the desk for Truman. And, uh, and now it's
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the buck stops wherever I say it stops, right? Look three, three weeks ago, um, I returned home from
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Ukraine. I was there on the ground. I went down to the city of Odessa. We rode the rails, uh, about
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1200 miles in total on these old 1950s era, uh, well, uh, 50 years old, I should say, or, or so
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Soviet trains with the, uh, with the sleeper bunks in them, uh, riding at night to, uh, you know, had to
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black out all the windows, black out the lights to prevent, uh, prevent any Russian air assets or drones
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for knowing that there was a passenger train traveling underneath. And we then traveled from Odessa to the
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city of Mykolaiv, which is the last Ukrainian held city before you get to Russian occupied territory.
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And for all the chaos and the mismanagement that we could see there on the ground, the one thing
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that we couldn't see very much, um, much clarity on was where exactly was the impact of this $60
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billion that's being sent over because we saw volunteers coming from the West saying, um, oh,
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well, we want to help out on the front line. So we've bought some body armor and some helmets,
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and we're going to throw it in the back, drive it to the front lines to deliver it to soldiers.
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Uh, my wife was talking to a nurse who was, you know, sort of in the back area that she said she
00:24:32.800
volunteered, come over from Nashville and come all the way from Tennessee to help with the
00:24:37.260
humanitarian efforts there, uh, COVID and just some of the other, you know, bevies of, of medical
00:24:42.540
issues that come when you have the mass movement of 3 million people at once. And my wife was saying,
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so how did, you know, how are you compensated? She said, we're not compensated. She says,
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what I do is I go back to Nashville and then pick up a nursing gig for a couple of weeks or a couple
00:24:56.560
of months, whatever I can find, make some money and then go back to Ukraine. They're not being paid
00:25:01.640
at all. Where's the money going? Yeah. It's, and we just, uh, I've learned that, uh, a lot of
00:25:09.800
very, uh, uh, Zelensky great American, uh, uh, uh, celebrity. Now, uh, he just, uh, banned
00:25:19.940
outlawed the opposition party in Ukraine. So he's not exactly going in the direction that, uh, uh,
00:25:27.800
most of us would, uh, would, uh, think or hope. Uh, and he is, however, though, living up to
00:25:34.940
expectations, early expectations, given the level of corruption within Ukraine, which for some
00:25:41.220
reason, people seem to want to forget, particularly 40 Republican senators who voted for a no-fly
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zone, even though that would have been a provocation, uh, for direct conflict with Russia.
00:25:55.140
Well, it really is interesting to me. And I've, I've talked about this before on the,
00:25:58.320
the war room podcast, where I feel like there's two groups of people. When you look at this,
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that there's the, I call it the escalators versus the de-escalators. And when you're looking at these
00:26:09.100
tensions on the two sides, uh, you broke it down magnificently about how the escalations rose to the
00:26:15.220
point where Vladimir Putin made the decision to cross the line and to cross into with the invasion
00:26:20.540
of Ukraine. But we're not hearing very, very many voices talk about how do we de-escalate this?
00:26:27.220
How do we get to a situation where they'll pull back the advance? How do we get to a situation where
00:26:32.540
the people who are caught in the middle of this, of this, who are living there or have family members
00:26:38.160
living there, elderly, who can't get out of these places like Mariupol or Militopol, uh, Kurson,
00:26:44.120
Harkov are, are trapped essentially. And there's fighting going on, right? And they're through no fault
00:26:50.280
of their own. They're, you know, there's shells that are coming, artillery, missiles, and, uh, both
00:26:54.860
forces fighting back and forth. My family's from Poland. So we could tell you all about that.
00:26:58.500
And when you look at it, what was so stunning to me was that when I was in Davos at the world
00:27:05.220
economic forum, Dr. Henry Kissinger actually came out himself and said, we need to get to the point
00:27:12.160
where we achieve a balance of power in Europe. You are never going to completely knock Russia out
00:27:18.200
because Russia is always going to be either part of Europe or directly adjacent to Europe, right?
00:27:23.140
They've been, they're there today. They were there yesterday. They'll be there tomorrow. As, uh,
00:27:27.280
president Macron just said in France, no, you know, no arch conservative, uh, Emmanuel Macron.
00:27:32.620
And so this, I, this understanding of that, we do have to live in a real world. We do have to
00:27:37.120
understand that geopolitic at the end of the day does rule the roost. And for all the neoliberal
00:27:43.440
moralizing of the Biden administration and Jake Sullivan and our, our secretary of state,
00:27:48.460
Tony Blinken, who seems completely AWOL at this point, I haven't, you know, heard a peep from him
00:27:53.340
in months. Uh, you know, he's got two, you know, two strikes on him now, the invasion of Ukraine
00:27:58.480
and the collapse of Afghanistan. Uh, you can't seem to find any policy from the Biden administration
00:28:05.400
that actually is operable in the real world. Yeah. Directly put, Jack there, this administration
00:28:14.220
isn't talking about diplomacy at all. In fact, when they had an opportunity after everything,
00:28:20.620
they had screwed up, uh, provoking the invasion, uh, misjudging Putin altogether. And, uh, at the end
00:28:29.920
of March, the war at that point, uh, um, no more than a, about a month, uh, long, absolutely refused
00:28:39.220
refused to let Zelensky negotiate with Putin. That was their prime opportunity to deescalate,
00:28:47.680
to negotiate. And yes, they would have had to give up the Donbass region. They would have had to give
00:28:53.860
up Eastern Ukraine. But do you know what? That's going to be the outcome of that. I am sure
00:29:01.000
irrespective. Now it's only a question. Is it Eastern Ukraine or is it all of Ukraine?
00:29:06.900
Well, Lou, from where, where I was sitting, we traveled to that port city of Odessa that,
00:29:12.740
that city, you know, founded by Catherine grade all the way back in the 1700s during the Russian
00:29:17.400
empire. So much history, so many battles that have been fought through that area.
00:29:21.460
That's the last port city that Ukraine still controls on the black sea. Now it's been mined
00:29:27.620
and there's blockade. So they're not getting the grain, these 20 million tons of grain that they're
00:29:32.180
trying to get out through that port. They can't get it through Odessa. That's the main port of
00:29:35.740
Ukraine to begin with. So if they, they lose that city, which is of course, right next to
00:29:41.600
Transnistria and Moldova, it's the last port of Ukraine. If they lose that to the Russians or,
00:29:46.880
you know, go through the chain, right? If Russia is able to close off the Donbass in circle and
00:29:51.660
envelop the forces there, that almost gives them a free hand to then drive right through
00:29:56.040
Mikolaev, uh, cut off the Kurson highway. So you can bypass that city, um, cut them off from the rest
00:30:02.040
of Ukraine. Then you go down to Odessa. If they are able to achieve that, you will get to a point
00:30:08.040
where Ukraine now becomes a landlocked country and they will have built a land bridge across the,
00:30:13.660
what was previously the entire Southern coast of Ukraine.
00:30:17.660
Yeah, it's, it is, uh, it is not yet hopeless, uh, but it is, uh, one record. I think it would
00:30:27.840
take a miracle to stave off the Russians much longer. Uh, they're just simply, there is one
00:30:33.820
thing in this, uh, actually a number of developments. One of them is that, uh, that the Black Sea fleet,
00:30:40.480
the Russian fleet has, uh, withdrawn, uh, has pulled back from the coast, uh, because of the
00:30:46.720
harpoon missiles, uh, have been provided, uh, after losing most recently, I believe it was a,
00:30:53.400
a tugboat, uh, to them, but, uh, not a great kill, but at least, uh, something that the Ukrainians,
00:30:59.820
uh, couldn't have done before, but which the Russians understand very well will affect the,
00:31:05.420
the ability, uh, in those littoral waters, uh, there, there would be just sitting ducks.
00:31:11.640
Well, that's exactly right. And those harpoon missiles, um, you're correct in that they are,
00:31:15.280
they are an absolute lethal threat. They've taken out the, the, the capital ship, the flagship of
00:31:19.440
the Black Sea fleet, the Moskva, um, one of the most, one of Russia's most formidable ships up until,
00:31:25.540
uh, when it was taken down. But what they're doing with the harpoons now, because Ukraine lost
00:31:29.460
their fleet, they don't have any ships left in the early stages of this war. They're having to build,
00:31:34.240
uh, trucks and vehicle implements to essentially jury rig the harpoon missiles to be able to,
00:31:41.520
to be affixed on the back of these trucks, then driving them into those littoral waters.
00:31:47.140
So of course, Russia's looking at that situation. They really want to take out, uh, Odessa or at
00:31:53.240
least neutralize Odessa so that it can't be driving these trucks back and forth with impunity,
00:31:58.380
taking potshots at the Russian Navy. Well, I, your thoughts, what, what does the future hold for
00:32:06.380
Ukraine? I think they've, they've been absolutely courageous. Seeing people fight for their homes,
00:32:11.600
fight for their families is, is always honorable, but I do think this is a situation where they need
00:32:17.360
to find a diplomatic outcome as soon as possible to save off the, because they will never win a war
00:32:21.980
of attrition with Russia. No one has ever been able to, to win a war of attrition with Russia. And
00:32:26.760
it has been attempted by, by Napoleon, by Hitler, by great armies. They have, no one will ever defeat
00:32:32.940
Russia in a war of tradition of attrition. It's just simply too vast, too large, too populous.
00:32:37.260
And too strong. Uh, they are, people forget they, whatever else they have, they have sufficient, uh,
00:32:45.320
nuclear weapons to be at the very least, uh, uh, formidable. Uh, only the United States has a comparable
00:32:54.600
arsenal and the capacity, uh, uh, to go to nuclear war with them. Uh, it's a, and they continue to talk
00:33:03.160
about nuclear war, the Russians, uh, and hopefully we will not get anywhere near that, uh, possibility.
00:33:10.120
I want to turn, if we may here, uh, Jack, very quickly, uh, as we wrap up the, there's a little
00:33:16.700
drumbeat now starting, uh, with, after Manuel Lopez Obrador, the president of Mexico started talking
00:33:23.400
about a, a hemispheric, uh, union, uh, much like, uh, president, uh, president Bush was pushing
00:33:31.780
years ago, the North American union. And now Obrador has started it. He started pushing it at the summit
00:33:39.780
of the Americas. Your thoughts? Well, I think this would be horrific for the United States. This
00:33:46.200
would be NAFTA on steroids. I mean, we talked before we've outsourced our energy production to
00:33:51.440
the Middle East. We've outsourced our manufacturing and our wealth base to Asia. This would essentially
00:33:56.580
be outsourcing the rest of our markets to South America and Latin America. And Hey, if you're,
00:34:02.040
if you're the president of Mexico, if you're one of the presidents of, uh, of Ecuador or Guatemala,
00:34:06.680
this probably sounds like a great deal to you, uh, economic integration, because you know, the very
00:34:11.340
next thing, Lou, that they would push for is a, a currency, a single currency to be used in that
00:34:17.100
trade block, the exact same way that the European union did, but the euro. And what we're also hearing
00:34:22.160
out of the fed is potentially the idea that this main, this Amero, if they call it the Amero wouldn't
00:34:29.180
even necessarily be a hard currency, that it may be a central bank digital currency, a cryptocurrency
00:34:35.960
controlled by, uh, an afore yet to be named, um, uh, central bank, you know, the fed having control over,
00:34:44.460
over all this, this area right now, anytime that we've seen the centralization of government power
00:34:49.680
in transnational organizations, whether it be the European union out of Brussels,
00:34:53.820
whether it be the world economic forum, whether it be the United nations, it always leads to
00:34:58.600
unintended consequences. It always breaks a law of unintended consequences. And it always leads to
00:35:03.500
diminishing outcomes for the American people. I think we should be rolling back things like this
00:35:08.160
and going back to a system of actual trade with bilateral partners, but trade that's in the interest
00:35:14.220
of our nation. And there was a certain president. I remember who had a little bit of an orange skin
00:35:19.380
tone that used to talk a lot about that just a few years ago, uh, vividly and persuasively. And, uh,
00:35:26.100
and he, his vision, uh, by the way, held the day. And now of course, Biden is doing everything he can
00:35:32.400
to reverse, uh, what was, uh, an immense, uh, amount of progress over a course of four years. Uh, Jack,
00:35:40.240
great to have you with us. Let it be also noted, uh, if we may, ladies and gentlemen, uh, that the
00:35:45.620
most recent cryptocurrency crisis, uh, the onset was in my judgment, when Janet Yellen,
00:35:54.220
esteemed treasury secretary, uh, and Jerome Powell, uh, chairman of the federal reserve
00:36:00.000
started talking seriously about a government backed digital currency. Once that madness got
00:36:07.420
seeped to their, uh, uh, uh, to their level, uh, it was, it was bound to happen.
00:36:15.720
Jack, great to talk with you. Always, uh, instructive, uh, illuminating and, uh, uh, invigorating.
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Thanks everybody for being with us here. Tomorrow will be Peter Navarro, former special assistant to
00:36:30.560
President Trump. He is the latest victim of the politically corrupt FBI and the outrageous
00:36:37.100
Marxist-dim Soviet-style January 6th committee. For refusing a committee subpoena and asserting
00:36:45.020
executive privilege, Peter was arrested by the FBI, put in handcuffs and leg irons, and thrown into a cell.
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Does that sound like America to you? Have we lost that America?
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We'll take that up here tomorrow. Please join us here on the great America show till then. God bless you and God bless America.