The Great America Show - UVALDE POLICE LIES IN COVER-UP OF SCHOOL SHOOTING

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show.

00:00:04.980 Welcome all to Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

00:00:09.200 Today we begin with the sinister, treasonous exploits of the snake rhino Senator John Cornyn of Texas,

00:00:16.880 doing the bidding of the master rhino Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,

00:00:22.400 who, of course, is on loan to the Republican Party and the U.S. Senate

00:00:26.560 from the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China.

00:00:31.240 The iniquitous Cornyn and McConnell have just sold out the American people to the Marxist Dems,

00:00:37.100 and in my opinion, in doing so, they've undercut the Republican chances of winning the midterm elections.

00:00:44.160 In less than a week, they've engineered legislation to give amnesty to illegal immigrants,

00:00:49.160 which will attract millions more illegals across our wide-open southern border,

00:00:54.380 add billions of dollars to cartel coffers,

00:00:58.480 and assure the cartel's control of the border for years to come.

00:01:03.380 Assuring cartel smuggling of more deadly drugs,

00:01:07.180 hundreds of thousands more American deaths from fentanyl and opiate deaths,

00:01:12.460 more sex trafficking of American children and women,

00:01:15.980 Cornyn and McConnell have joined with the Marxist Dems 0.97

00:01:18.960 and this puppet president to devastate life in America, 0.82

00:01:23.380 the American way of life.

00:01:25.700 Ask yourself, what would the Chinese do first if they were to successfully invade America? 1.00

00:01:32.100 They would destroy our Constitution, our rights,

00:01:35.900 no freedom of speech or assembly.

00:01:37.720 They would take our guns.

00:01:39.460 They would deny every American his or her rights to legal due process.

00:01:43.680 The First, Second, and Fourth Amendments, gone.

00:01:47.600 Our Bill of Rights, no more.

00:01:50.340 Cornyn and McConnell have handed our rights to bear arms and due process to the Marxist Dems,

00:01:56.880 and they've destroyed any semblance of our sovereignty with amnesty

00:02:00.480 for those millions who've crossed our borders with impunity,

00:02:04.620 and those millions sure now to follow.

00:02:07.420 Our country will soon not belong to American citizens 1.00

00:02:11.340 if we allow Cornyn and McConnell's sellout to stand.

00:02:16.240 We'll soon find out if Americans are courageous enough to stand up for this country.

00:02:22.240 Unfortunately, there are signs that we may not be the same as those who founded

00:02:26.760 and who've defended America and Americans for two and a half centuries.

00:02:31.840 We've just learned, for example, that the Uvalde, Texas, police chief lied in almost every material way

00:02:40.400 about why his department failed to act to save the lives of 19 schoolchildren and two of their teachers.

00:02:49.340 The tragedy in Uvalde is the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook a decade ago.

00:02:55.580 Joining us now to take up these latest developments in Uvalde is Jack Posobiec,

00:03:00.220 host of Human Events Daily, and Jack, it is great to have you with us.

00:03:04.740 Let's turn to the hearings about what happened in Uvalde

00:03:08.380 and the findings of the Texas Department of Public Safety

00:03:11.960 about the outrageous failure of Uvalde's police department to prevent this tragic loss of life.

00:03:21.040 Well, that's right, Lou, and I'm watching these hearings the way everyone else is,

00:03:24.080 and we've got the Texas Department of Public Safety is making their first public address on this,

00:03:29.800 a new hearing, new testimony from the director that's come forward on top of all this

00:03:34.480 into their review of the police department's response to this horrific event because,

00:03:39.220 and I think everyone agrees that, you know, obviously this horrific crime is something

00:03:43.040 that we didn't want to happen, but there are now questions coming up of why was it

00:03:47.240 that it appears as the police officers waited up to a full hour before breaching that room

00:03:53.040 when they knew there was an active shooter in, again, Texas active shooter crazed gunman

00:03:58.660 inside the schoolhouse full of children. We're now hearing that this chief of police,

00:04:05.120 Pete Arradondo, who was the on-scene commander there, essentially played a role in issuing what

00:04:13.220 amounted to be almost a stand-down order, and initially had told people, he had really lied to the media,

00:04:21.000 he said, first, that officers had engaged the gunman outside. Well, they looked at the

00:04:26.560 surveillance footage, and they couldn't find any evidence of that. Well, then he said, well,

00:04:30.060 no, it wasn't outside. It was actually inside, and they went to open the doors.

00:04:35.420 They're reviewing the surveillance footage, Lou. There's no footage of officers going into these

00:04:40.100 doors. Instead, what we're starting to see in drips and drabs and leaks that are coming out in this

00:04:44.800 investigation of officers, and it's very hard to watch, especially anyone who – I've got two

00:04:51.340 little kids, anyone who's a parent – that you see these officers standing stationary at the end of

00:04:58.040 the hallway. They've got long rifles. They've got body armor on. Some of them even have those

00:05:03.080 ballistic shields that would be able to offer them some semblance of protection against oncoming

00:05:10.800 bullets. They don't breach the doors. They don't go in. In fact, the director said today

00:05:15.700 that they didn't even attempt to see if the doors were unlocked. We're unwinding the lies,

00:05:23.520 really, is what it seems to be, from this police chief down there in Uvalde, Texas, who simply – and

00:05:30.420 it's something that, Lou, that you and I have talked about, where it feels though America has lost

00:05:35.660 something, whether it's courage, where it's that sense of human agency. We've put people into this

00:05:41.380 mindset of we're supposed to be waiting for guidance, or we're waiting for someone on high

00:05:46.600 to tell us what to do, when deep down, we know what the right thing is to do, and we shouldn't be

00:05:51.960 just waiting to do as we're told, and yet that seems to be what they're doing here, is that they

00:05:56.220 took a couple of shots from inside. He made the decision, as the director said today, he said,

00:06:00.480 you made the decision to put the officer's lives over the lives of the children. You stood there

00:06:06.600 and waited and gave him free reign to be able to kill these children, and you didn't respond with

00:06:12.980 all of the lessons learned, all of the training that's gone in in the past 20 years since Columbine,

00:06:17.920 and he called it an abject failure. Rule number one is go to the shooter instantly with children

00:06:25.080 involved in a public school, or a private school, any school. It's a first rule, and they've learned

00:06:31.080 that it was reinforced at Parkland as well. I mean, this is just outrageous, but in Texas,

00:06:40.240 don't mess with Texas. Are you kidding me? An entire department stands down. Jack, my first reaction

00:06:46.900 on this was, you know, God bless that young woman with her two kids who rushed in there, told everybody

00:06:53.360 to get the hell out of her way, and she got in there and got her kids. The border patrol,

00:06:59.180 off-duty border patrol agent who was called by his wife about their kids, he grabbed a shotgun from

00:07:08.220 the barber where he was getting his hair cut and rushed in there and took care of business, and his

00:07:15.360 kid mercifully was safe. Other parents tried to rush and were held back. It is just a sickening

00:07:23.300 sorrowful moment, tragedy in this country's history. It's just, this isn't just Evaldi. As you say,

00:07:32.240 this is America, and we've got to do better, and we've got to demand better, especially of those who

00:07:38.900 are wearing a badge and carrying a gun as police officers, law enforcement officers everywhere in

00:07:44.980 the country. Your thoughts about what will happen now, you know, the other part of this is, Jack, I think

00:07:52.920 about the officers, the command officers under that chief. How could they let that man say that? How could

00:08:01.160 they not simply take care of business initiative on their own? It's just, I mean, I'm just stunned by it.

00:08:10.380 Well, what's even stunning to me is that, Lou, you look at the history of this country, and

00:08:14.920 you know, in times past when something like this would have happened, you would have seen the police,

00:08:21.500 the chief of police resign, right, and realize what had happened and said, you know what, I'm going to

00:08:26.100 take responsibility for this. This happened on my watch. These failures are my failures. And yet he

00:08:32.220 hasn't done that. In fact, apparently the same chief of police was up for the city council in the recent

00:08:37.400 election. He was elected. So now he's also a member of the city council. He's sitting there on

00:08:42.680 the city council, helping the city. They've hired a law firm. They're fighting the freedom of

00:08:48.120 information requests to people are asking now for, because once we realized that, you know,

00:08:53.580 think of where we've gone on this story, right? We started on this story with Governor Abbott

00:08:57.280 praising the response of the police because the briefing that he was given, the after action report,

00:09:02.140 was that they had engaged the shooter. They ran in, they defeated the barricade and went in and

00:09:06.880 saved the day, right? And so Abbott praising the response of law enforcement. Now we're starting

00:09:11.480 to unwind these lies and realize that this was the last thing you should ever want to praise.

00:09:18.340 We're talking, I've got the article here from Texas Tribune. There were two closed doors and a wall

00:09:23.300 between the officers and the 18-year-old with an AR-15. They had a halogen bar. And a halogen bar

00:09:30.780 is that's an act like it's a forcible entry tool. It's the thing firefighters use. They had that on

00:09:36.320 their, on their person. They had ballistic shields. They had plenty of firepower, multiple long rifles,

00:09:42.740 M4s. And some of those officers were itching to go, but it was this chief of police who refuses to 0.99

00:09:48.040 resign, who's fighting to get all of this information out. So now we know why he's trying

00:09:52.320 to block the footage, right? It's not because of just the horrific nature of it. He doesn't want to

00:09:58.480 expose sources and methods or operational procedures. It's because it seems that the

00:10:02.960 more footage we're getting of this, the more of it shows officers standing there stationary

00:10:06.640 for almost a full hour, about 52 minutes while this killing was going on.

00:10:12.960 You know, I don't know how many police officers were there. I did think it was unusual when the

00:10:18.100 first reports were that the Border Patrol had a number of agents there. And I'm asking,

00:10:22.900 where the hell are the police? And the police never did show up in point of fact.

00:10:28.680 There were a lot of police officers there, but the police never showed up. I mean, it was,

00:10:34.780 it was, it was just a disaster from, it's just stunning to me that there isn't anybody in that 0.99

00:10:42.480 town that isn't telling that sheriff, that police chief to take off the damn badge and get the hell 0.99

00:10:49.240 out of office. This shouldn't take, this shouldn't take a lot of deep thought on the part of those 0.99

00:10:54.900 parents. Uh, all of those people have been betrayed by that police department, uh, and that chief.

00:11:00.960 And I, and I know that we're going to hear, Oh, there are a lot of good officers. There were no

00:11:05.300 good officers there that day who didn't take care of business. And it's that simple, in my opinion,

00:11:10.240 yours, Jack.

00:11:11.800 Well, I think that's right. And I think we've gotten to a point in our country where we will publicly shame

00:11:18.560 somebody, you know, if we, if they have a bad tweet, you know, from five years ago, or if they

00:11:24.460 misspeak or they, you know, they use a word they shouldn't have. That's the, we use public shame for

00:11:29.740 political correctness now, but we don't really have any public shame towards the ability of our

00:11:36.420 public elected leaders to be able to perform in their jobs. Because we used to have a country

00:11:42.600 where something like this happened that that chief would never be able to show his face in town

00:11:47.260 anymore. And that's the way it should be because we should hold people accountable for their

00:11:51.540 successes and for their failures. This is clearly a failure. One of the, one of the things that's so

00:11:55.720 striking to me about this story, as I go through the timeline is they, they talk about the, uh, the

00:12:00.480 Facebook live stream that was started by one of the parents at 11 45, 11 45 is only about 12 minutes

00:12:08.780 from when the shooter actually entered the school. That's how small this community is. That's how

00:12:13.960 tight knit this community is, this town that you could be there within, you heard there's a problem

00:12:19.040 at the school. You're there within 10 minutes. And I remember thinking, boy, I work about an hour from

00:12:24.220 my, you know, where I live. I don't know. I would never be able to be there within 10 minutes.

00:12:28.580 That's how small of a community this is. So, and the, and the, by the way, the director is going

00:12:34.160 through as well and, and, and going through the list of this shooter, like we saw in Parkland,

00:12:40.060 like we saw in other cases was known to law enforcement. He was a known quantity. He was

00:12:45.280 someone that had been on the radar, uh, you know, killing animals and committing abuse to animals,

00:12:50.800 walking around with a bag of dead cats and things in the past, right? He's someone that local law

00:12:56.220 enforcement knew probably shouldn't have had access to firearms. And yet prior to that, they didn't do

00:13:03.180 anything about it. And neither did the school, neither did anyone in the community. Uh, the fact

00:13:09.560 is this, this young man, mentally ill, obviously sick, uh, his parents, both of them from a broken 0.94

00:13:19.560 home, but both of them, his biological father and his biological mother are, are felons as is his 0.98

00:13:27.420 grandfather. Anybody looking for a recipe for a disaster for a young person. This kid was in that

00:13:34.660 environment and the schools didn't, as I say, no one apparently, uh, wanted to step up and do the

00:13:42.660 right thing and bring this kids to help, uh, when he was even much younger. Uh, it's a tragic story,

00:13:50.640 but this is not a story about guns. This is a story about a cowardly police department. It's a story

00:13:56.720 about a mentally ill young man, uh, who instead of getting treatment was able to buy a couple of

00:14:04.320 guns. It's just a sorry, sorry, uh, situation. There's a, uh, there's a line in, uh, C.S. Lewis and,

00:14:12.980 uh, uh, for folks who haven't read C.S. Lewis, I highly, highly recommend where he says, we, we make men

00:14:20.060 without chests and expect them of them, virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked

00:14:26.960 to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and build, bid the geldings be fruitful. And I, I love

00:14:34.120 this, this idea of the men without chests, right? We're, we're creating men without chest or we vilify

00:14:39.780 masculinity. We vilify mask, uh, manliness. We call it, it's called toxic masculinity. We're told,

00:14:45.540 you know, men shouldn't be doing that. You know, I think we could have used a little bit of toxic

00:14:50.040 masculinity in that school that day. Yeah. A lot of it in, in, in point of fact. And, and, and by the

00:14:57.220 way, in all fairness, uh, there, there are women who carry guns and wear badges. I, I would hope that 0.98

00:15:07.840 they would have stood up and done something, but no one there, uh, man, woman stepped up. And that 0.55

00:15:15.680 is, and to your earlier point, that is what is so scary right now about the America we live in.

00:15:22.780 We know that we're, we're losing our way when we have to, uh, listen to a secretary of defense,

00:15:30.620 let's talk more about gender and, uh, trans treatments, uh, and wokeness. Then we're hearing

00:15:39.000 from him on strategic positioning of the, of our fleets, uh, of our, uh, our air force, our troops.

00:15:46.020 There's no explanation for 102,000 of our troops on the Eastern flank in Europe, uh, other than the

00:15:52.480 fact that president Biden sent them there where there's the, the American people are not demanding

00:15:58.520 anything of their government. Uh, it's, uh, even those who are dependent upon it, whether it's for

00:16:05.060 welfare, for whatever it may be, it's a sorry, sorry moment in our history.

00:16:12.400 Well, we, we've become this nation of, we say we build the system and we just need to fix the system.

00:16:18.520 And we, we don't look at outcomes anymore. We don't look at results. We're not, we're not pragmatic.

00:16:23.380 We don't look at what's happening. We'll argue about things that happened hundreds of years ago,

00:16:27.540 200 years ago, but we won't talk about the violence that's going on in our cities. Um,

00:16:32.720 you mentioned the military, you know, as a prior Navy officer, I look at the seventh fleet and people

00:16:38.280 ask about, well, you know, Indo-Pacific command that was, I was, I was a seven fleet sailor. I was a

00:16:43.340 China guy. That was my focus. And they say, well, what do we need to do with, you know, China just,

00:16:47.380 China just launched their third aircraft carrier last week. Um, it's called the Fujian. The Fujian is the

00:16:52.820 province that's directly across from Taiwan. And, you know, this is how they celebrate pride

00:16:57.740 month, right? They were launching a brand new, this one for the first time, completely domestically

00:17:02.580 produced in China. Um, 100% their own systems, their own technology, the most high tech carrier

00:17:08.340 they've had, they're going to be putting that in the seas right around the Island of Taiwan.

00:17:13.780 And so people ask me to say, well, you know, what should we do to defend our allies in Taiwan?

00:17:17.960 How do we, you know, how do we protect them if China, uh, goes to, uh, create some kind of 0.67

00:17:22.580 kinetic warfare in Taiwan, across the Taiwan Strait, only about 60 miles nautically, or, um,

00:17:28.900 or they enact a blockade of some sort. And I said, the main thing we should do is fix the Navy,

00:17:32.720 just fix the Navy. And you will create a strategic deterrence factor so that the Chinese will be 0.99

00:17:39.960 looking at that situation and say, you know what? I don't want to tangle with that seventh fleet.

00:17:43.540 I don't want to mess with those guys, but when they're launching brand new aircraft carriers,

00:17:48.460 the state-of-the-art technology with all the fanfare in the world. And we're over here arguing

00:17:53.600 over what a woman is and, uh, you know, marching with our soldiers with pride flags and sailors 0.99

00:17:59.120 with pride flags and everyone's going to their wokeness training, right? You're not preparing

00:18:03.940 to defend our allies. You're not preparing to defend our interests and keep in mind. And when people

00:18:09.580 say, well, what's the point of Taiwan? Well, Taiwan is two things. It's Silicon Valley West,

00:18:12.860 and it's also the strategic maritime, uh, shipping lanes. The shipping lanes across Taiwan

00:18:18.660 is where something like 85% of the world's commerce travels through right now. So yes,

00:18:24.840 we do. We don't want China to just being completely in control of that.

00:18:28.820 President Biden has said only one thing correctly in his entire presidency. And that was the,

00:18:35.140 he said, we have commitments to defend Taiwan. And that was immediately with, uh, withdrawn and talked,

00:18:41.640 uh, uh, and, uh, taken off the board. Uh, and what's, what's to me, uh, ironic, funny,

00:18:50.620 uh, and sad at the same time is that the only thing he said that made any strategic sense in foreign

00:18:57.040 policy was when he said Taiwan must be preserved. Indeed, he is right. And the unfortunate part about 0.94

00:19:03.300 it is that, uh, Taiwan is nestled, uh, inconveniently, uh, between the South China Sea, uh, and the East

00:19:13.720 China Sea, uh, and, uh, about 80 miles at its closest point, uh, Taiwan off of the coast of mainland

00:19:21.060 China. It's not the easiest strategic, uh, enterprise to defend it, but defend it. We, we must,

00:19:28.880 because otherwise 60% of the world's, uh, ocean going traffic, uh, will be under the influence

00:19:35.920 and control of the Chinese. All right. All that, all that, uh, all the commercial goods. So every, 0.76

00:19:41.440 you know, we have this, this, this great system of globalization. I'm saying that sarcastically,

00:19:45.400 but the people who created the system of globalization made it so that we are dependent on

00:19:50.240 the maritime shipping lanes. Those maritime shipping lanes cross directly through, uh, they call it

00:19:55.300 the Luzon straight. So that's the straight on the other side of Taiwan, the Eastern coast and, uh,

00:19:59.940 Luzon, which is the Northern most Island of the Philippines. So that's, and then down through

00:20:04.600 the straight of Malacca and the South China sea. So you're talking about not only those goods,

00:20:08.820 but oil, the flow of oil to, and from the middle East from all of these situations. And so it's,

00:20:14.900 it's wonderful to me to look at that. We, we outsourced our energy, uh, right. We outsourced our

00:20:19.840 energy production to the middle East. We outsourced our manufacturing to Asia. And then we,

00:20:25.300 we decided that we're just going to cede maritime dominance in Asia to the communist Chinese party

00:20:31.760 of Beijing. And we don't really seem to have an answer for why things are going wrong, but we're

00:20:37.300 going to demonize, uh, both Russia and China. So apparently it seems like the foreign policy, um,

00:20:42.960 outcomes of this are that we are driving Russia and China together at the same time and making

00:20:49.360 enemies of them both. And that will come to be seen, I believe years from now as the greatest

00:20:54.760 geopolitical blunder in American history. Uh, and it has very specific roots, uh, in the actions,

00:21:03.160 the behavior of the Biden administration, which for months ignored, uh, Vladimir Putin's clear

00:21:09.820 declaration, uh, that he would not tolerate, uh, NATO interfering with Ukraine. Uh, and as they

00:21:18.820 continued to invite, uh, the Biden administration continued to invite, uh, Zelensky, uh, to come

00:21:25.960 into NATO, they simply put, uh, Putin in a position where, uh, in my opinion, he was compelled to act in

00:21:34.240 what he considered his nation's interest. I'm not excusing it. I'm in no way endorsing it. And I

00:21:40.420 absolutely abhor what he has done. And I think he is, you know, repulsive beyond measure, but what

00:21:48.880 Biden has done in foreign policy is to invite disaster and tragedy again. He did so, uh, numerous

00:21:57.080 times, uh, after the invasion and continues to do so. We put $60 billion in aid into Ukraine without

00:22:04.820 any understanding of what we're doing and what the outcomes to speak to your point about outcomes,

00:22:10.580 because this administration, like so many, uh, democratic administrations, uh, doesn't speak

00:22:17.280 to communicate and to clarify and to articulate vision. Uh, it obfuscates, and that is what the

00:22:24.960 language has become. And that has, that has cascaded down, uh, all levels of government. Our officials

00:22:32.340 no longer feel that they have to speak clearly and plainly, uh, they use language to avoid, uh,

00:22:39.040 understanding and meaning. And that is one of the reasons that officials like the police chief and

00:22:45.360 Evaldi and the city council too, apparently, uh, are still in place because no one is speaking plainly

00:22:52.580 either to them. And we're not hearing anything, certainly, uh, direct and specific and concrete from

00:22:58.860 them. Well, Lou, I think that's exactly right. And I just honored to hear you, uh, you break that all

00:23:04.100 down for us because that's exactly right. It's no accountability. Nobody takes responsibility for

00:23:09.720 anything. You know, when you ask someone who's in charge all the way up to the president United

00:23:13.320 States, you know, it used to be the buck stops here was on the desk for Truman. And, uh, and now it's

00:23:17.700 the buck stops wherever I say it stops, right? Look three, three weeks ago, um, I returned home from

00:23:23.720 Ukraine. I was there on the ground. I went down to the city of Odessa. We rode the rails, uh, about

00:23:28.780 1200 miles in total on these old 1950s era, uh, well, uh, 50 years old, I should say, or, or so

00:23:35.520 Soviet trains with the, uh, with the sleeper bunks in them, uh, riding at night to, uh, you know, had to

00:23:41.960 black out all the windows, black out the lights to prevent, uh, prevent any Russian air assets or drones

00:23:47.180 for knowing that there was a passenger train traveling underneath. And we then traveled from Odessa to the

00:23:53.380 city of Mykolaiv, which is the last Ukrainian held city before you get to Russian occupied territory.

00:23:58.500 And for all the chaos and the mismanagement that we could see there on the ground, the one thing

00:24:03.340 that we couldn't see very much, um, much clarity on was where exactly was the impact of this $60

00:24:10.760 billion that's being sent over because we saw volunteers coming from the West saying, um, oh,

00:24:18.060 well, we want to help out on the front line. So we've bought some body armor and some helmets,

00:24:22.700 and we're going to throw it in the back, drive it to the front lines to deliver it to soldiers.

00:24:27.280 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,

00:24:47.660 so how did, you know, how are you compensated? She said, we're not compensated. She says,

00:24:51.040 what I do is I go back to Nashville and then pick up a nursing gig for a couple of weeks or a couple 0.99

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

00:25:47.860 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,

00:26:03.080 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 1.00

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 0.91

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 0.99

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, 0.90

00:29:46.880 you know, go through the chain, right? If Russia is able to close off the Donbass in circle and 0.86

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 1.00

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, 0.98

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. 0.99

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 0.83

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 0.98

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.

00:36:14.040 Precisely. Yes.

00:36:15.720 Jack, great to talk with you. Always, uh, instructive, uh, illuminating and, uh, uh, invigorating.

00:36:22.540 Absolute honor, Lou. Thank you so much.

00:36:25.040 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.

00:36:54.600 Does that sound like America to you? Have we lost that America?

00:37:00.560 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.

The Great America Show - June 23, 2022

UVALDE POLICE LIES IN COVER-UP OF SCHOOL SHOOTING

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