In the late 1970s and early 1980s, China was a poor, poor country. Their economy was still recovering from the Cultural Revolution and was in the early stages of its rapid industrialization. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China marked the beginning of China's rapid economic and military modernization. President Donald Trump's recent state visit to Beijing revives the Nixonian tradition of pragmatic, interest-driven diplomacy with a foreign policy adversary.
00:00:50.040It's when Old Blue Eyes, the chairman of the board, gave an interview, despite the fact that he had a little cold.
00:00:55.600Well, I've got a little cold, and I'm recovering from it.
00:00:58.100So if you hear a cough tonight, just recognize the show must go on.
00:01:02.940You know, in foreign policy, timing, leverage, and national interest must guide the strategy of engagement with rising powers.
00:01:10.540President Richard Nixon grasped this principle as well as any chief executive during his groundbreaking 1972 opening to China.
00:01:18.760President Bill Clinton, on the other hand, failed his test when he championed China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the permanent normal trade relations.
00:01:28.520That's most favored nation trading status.0.68
00:01:31.840That's what made China the dangerous superpower they are today.
00:01:37.100President Donald Trump's recent state visit to Beijing revives the Nixonian tradition of pragmatic interest-driven diplomacy with a foreign policy adversary,0.94
00:01:46.900engaging from strength while delivering concrete American wins while actively correcting the
00:01:53.700structural imbalances and strategic vulnerabilities created by the failures of past policies.
00:01:59.600You see, when Nixon landed in Beijing, that was February 1972, China was still a desperately
00:02:06.360poor agrarian society, still recovering from the Cultural Revolution. Rural areas largely
00:02:13.640lacked indoor plumbing, and electricity was minimal, particularly in the rural areas.
00:02:18.880Rural electricity consumption was only about 10% of national totals in the 1960s and 70s.
00:02:26.200Its military was massive in manpower, but technologically extremely backwards,
00:02:30.460with limited projection capability. Their GDP per capita hovered around subsistence levels.
00:02:37.860Nixon, the consummate anti-communist pursued classical realpolitik, exploiting the Sino-Soviet
00:02:45.720split in order to isolate Moscow, ease pressure in Vietnam, and create a triangular balance of power.
00:02:54.320You see, Nixon needed the help of both the Chinese and the Russians to end the war in Vietnam.
00:03:01.120The Shanghai Communicare was deliberately cautious, acknowledging differences,
00:03:05.280opposing hegemonia in Asia and committing to gradual normalization and people-to-people
00:03:11.980contacts without massive technology transfers or one-sided economic concessions.
00:03:18.540Trade in 1972 stood at a mere $95.9 million. Nixon built a bridge across 22 years of hostility,
00:03:28.180famously declaring it the week that changed the world. But he did so without arming or
00:03:34.200enriching a future arrival at America's expense. Clinton's policy, on the other hand, marked a
00:03:40.460sharp and consequential departure from Nixon's success. Convinced that economic liberalization
00:03:46.460would foster political openness, the Clinton administration granted the most favored nation
00:03:52.400trading status to China in 2000 and supported China's World Trade Organization ascension in 2001.
00:04:00.520U.S. officials projected modest trade growth and mutual benefits.
00:04:09.460Pre-World Trade Organization, the U.S. goods trade deficit with China was about $83 billion.
00:04:16.860By 2015, it had ballooned to $367 billion, an annual average increase of over $20 billion a year.
00:04:26.520Imports from China surged from $102 billion to $483 billion,
00:04:31.880while U.S. exports grew far more slowly from a much smaller base.
00:04:37.020Economists estimate this China shock displaced 2.4 to 3.4 million U.S. jobs,
00:04:44.200with roughly $2.6 million of those jobs lost in manufacturing.0.94
00:04:49.780Devastating communities in electronics, apparel, furniture, and other sectors.
00:04:55.680China's economy, of course, exploded 11 times larger by some measures post-ascension fueled by foreign investment, technological transfers, and export-led growth, its military modernization rapidly shifting from coastal defense to blue water ambitions.
00:05:15.680What Nixon engaged as a weak agrarian power, Clinton's policies helped transform into an economic and military superpower.
00:05:25.680Now, President Trump's May 2026 visit to China reflects a return to the Nixonian calculus adapted by 21st century realities.
00:05:35.540Direct personal engagement, tangible reciprocal deals, and firm guardrails on strategic competition.
00:05:42.200Like Nixon's trip, it featured high-level meetings, cultural exchanges, and a warm rapport with leadership.
00:05:49.480Xi Jinping may be a wicked guy, just like Mao Zedong clearly was,
00:05:53.440but those characterizations are often immaterial pertaining to geopolitical realities.
00:06:00.500Unlike Clinton's broad market opening that disproportionately benefited China,
00:06:05.380President Trump secured very specific wins for American exporters.
00:06:10.180China committed to an initial 200 Boeing aircraft purchase,
00:06:14.380with potential expansion to 750 planes,
00:06:17.140plus hundreds of GE jet engines reopening a critical market for U.S. aviation
00:06:24.020and supporting thousands of American manufacturing jobs.
00:06:28.400Agricultural agreements promised double-digit billions in annual purchases of U.S. soybeans, beef, pork, and other farm programs.
00:06:38.200Expanded imports of American oil and natural gas further bolster U.S. energy producers.
00:06:44.320New bilateral mechanisms, including a U.S.-China Board of Trade under a reciprocal trade framework, aim to stabilize ties on a much more balanced basis.
00:06:56.240These outcomes contrast sharply with the post-Clinton imbalances.
00:07:01.780President Trump negotiates from strength, leveraging tariffs, export controls, and alliances, while delivering immediate benefits to U.S. farmers, manufacturers, and energy workers.
00:07:14.320The approach wisely manages competition without repeating that naive bet
00:07:19.480that economic integration alone would somehow moderate Beijing's behavior.
00:07:24.620Nixon engaged in a fragmented, impoverished China to encounter the Soviets.
00:07:30.520President Trump is engaging a powerful China to prevent dominance in key sectors,
00:07:35.880secure supply chain resilience, and protect critical infrastructure and technology.
00:07:41.660Trump has scored with a commitment from China not to provide weapons to Iran,
00:07:45.480and China will not support Iran's development of a nuclear weapon,
00:07:49.740at the same time getting commitments for the purchase of American agricultural products like soybean, beef, and pork.
00:09:55.980both of them, by the way, solid Trump supporters.
00:09:59.080The two will now advance to a June 27th runoff,
00:10:02.420leaving Cassidy on the outside looking in.
00:10:06.120Senator Cassidy's collapse was years in the making.
00:10:09.460He angered the Republican base by actually voting to convict President Trump after January 6th,
00:10:15.440repeatedly backing the bankrupt and failing Obamacare program,
00:10:19.460and, candidly, whoring himself out to the corrupt health care industry.
00:10:24.600Cassidy, unsurprisingly, also had deep ties to Big Pharma,
00:10:27.940including taking over $1.2 million in career contributions from the pharmaceutical and health products sector.
00:10:38.920Cassidy's opponents appointed donations from major pharma executives after Cassidy became the top Republican on the Senate Health Committee in 2023,
00:10:47.640as well as his opposition to drug pricing reforms that would have helped working families.
00:10:53.140Cassidy's defeat marks the first time since 2021 that a sitting U.S. senator has lost a regularly scheduled primary.
00:11:00.460That was when Indiana's Dick Lugar was beaten by Richard Murdoch.
00:11:04.940Letlow now enters the runoff as the Trump-aligned frontrunner.
00:11:09.600She has campaigned on border security, American energy, and fighting woke policies.
00:11:15.000She will be a reliable vote for President Trump in the U.S. Senate.0.73
00:11:18.480And the message will be sent to every other rhino that they need to vote consistently with the America First line.0.87
00:11:25.420Now, I've been in American politics for over 50 years.0.93
00:11:29.240I can tell you President Ronald Reagan was extraordinarily popular, perhaps one of the most popular presidents of my lifetime.
00:11:36.080But his endorsement never packed the kind of wallop that Donald Trump's endorsement does.
00:11:40.920He has, as he's proud to say, a 95 percent win rate in those races where he has endorsed a candidate.
00:11:47.680And that certainly continued in Louisiana
00:11:51.200Woe be it to those U.S. senators or congressmen who oppose the Trump agenda
00:12:28.940Well, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has announced that the Justice Department is actively investigating evidence that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
00:12:39.920And he's promising the American people will be seeing the results of this investigation very soon.
00:12:45.560Appearing on Fox News' Sunday morning Futures show, Blanche was asked by Maria Bartiromo
00:12:51.800about President Trump's long-standing claim that the 2020 election was stolen
00:12:56.560and about White House Chief of Staff Susie Weil's suggestion that Americans may learn
00:13:02.040President Trump actually won certain states.
00:13:05.740Blanche responded that there is a ton of evidence the election was rigged,
00:13:09.820saying that the issue has been discussed for years.
00:13:11.980He said the Justice Department has multiple investigations underway, including in Arizona, Georgia, and specifically Fulton County, Georgia.
00:13:21.100According to Blanche, investigators are examining whether the right people voted, whether eligible voters were cast, and whether each vote cast only one vote.
00:13:30.660Blanche acknowledged that the process is difficult, saying that those involved are very good at hiding misconduct.
00:13:36.200It's not the first time I've heard this.
00:13:38.240The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, once told me that those who may have been involved in election fraud were very careful to erase the evidence.
00:13:49.420Blanche said uncovering what happened in 2020 requires serious law enforcement work, prosecutors, and old-fashioned police investigation.
00:13:58.300He also said Americans will be told what the Department of Justice uncovers, whether that comes through charges, a report, or other investigative findings.
00:14:07.020To me, this is long overdue. The idea that 81 million people voted for Joe Biden, who was basically campaigning from his basement, defies all reality. The idea that Joe Biden, on average, got 20% more in the African-American-dominated precincts in the urban areas of America, 20% more than Barack Obama, is just not credible.
00:14:35.040Those who were on the ground in places like Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan watched grotesque fraud happen right before their very eyes.
00:14:44.900And in the aftermath, they were mocked, censored, smeared for telling the truth about what happened.
00:14:50.220In some places, for example, with former mayor Rudy Giuliani, they were disbarred just for zealously defending President Donald Trump and his legal claims.
00:15:01.240Those who fought back against this massive election fraud faced repercussions, including the Trump electors getting charged with multiple felonies for refusing to go along with the sham.
00:15:12.760Just to be very clear, having an alternative elector is not illegal.
00:15:18.320John Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, filed an alternative elector slate in Hawaii because on election night it appeared that Vice President Richard Nixon had carried the state.
00:15:28.260But the Kennedy forces were confident that once all the absentee ballots were counted, that Kennedy would have carried Hawaii.
00:15:35.660Therefore, he filed an alternative electorate slate.
00:15:38.700They were ultimately seated, and therefore there was no legal action against them.
00:15:44.460The formation of an alternative electorate slate pending the outcome of litigation over the outcome of the election is not in any way illegal.
00:15:54.840If you actually read the minutes of the meeting of the alternative electors in Georgia, they make it very clear that they were forming this slate of electors to protect their legal rights in the event that they were successful in their legal challenge to the outcome of the election.
00:16:13.220Somehow the folks over at MSNBC and the Biden Justice Department made this a crime when it's not a crime.
00:16:20.600Kudos to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for digging into this.
00:16:25.360Also to Tulsi Gabbard, who's been working on it for some time.
00:19:19.700The newly announced fund could go to help those who were thrown in prison or had their due process stripped from them over January 6th,
00:19:26.900or the so-called fake electors whose lives were destroyed, people like Tina Peters, who were in prison for investigating election fraud.
00:19:35.260I was glad to see that the governor of Colorado finally commuted her sentence.1.00
00:19:40.340She's in poor health, and her only crime is keeping documentation of election fraud.
00:19:47.220Also, those like myself who are targeted over the Russiagate hoax,
00:19:51.340and the lawyers who were sanctioned because they took election fraud-related cases.
00:19:55.820Recent judgments show how the tide is turning.
00:19:59.360The great General Michael Flynn, one of my greatest friends,
00:20:02.060Perhaps one of the greatest, finest Christian gentlemen I've ever met, and a true geopolitical thinker, received more than $1 million after suing over FBI conduct.
00:20:13.440And former Trump advisor Carter Page also settled claims tied to his Fourth Amendment rights being violated by the Obama deep state spooks.
00:20:22.920Now, General Flynn's victory in court is really symbolic.
00:20:27.660It is a pyrrhic victory, because I can tell you he lost far more than $1 million.
00:20:33.920But it is at least an acknowledgment that he was wronged, and I'm glad to see that.
00:20:40.160It's time for all of the victims of government reposition to finally get justice, not just me.
00:20:44.700It's a shame that the individuals responsible are not forced to pay personally, as far as I'm concerned.
00:20:49.540and it will be the taxpayers who will be footing the bill.
00:20:52.540Hopefully, those individuals responsible will pay dearly in the end,
00:20:57.460hopefully in the form of steep prison sentences,
00:20:59.600because, you see, a seditious conspiracy to bring down the government
00:22:02.420It's one continuing seditious conspiracy.
00:22:05.140You see, it began in 2016 in an Oval Office meeting chaired by Obama himself, in which they openly discussed the Clinton plan, which was the false narrative that Donald Trump was assisted to the presidency through Russian interference and assistance that never had any basis whatsoever, in fact.
00:22:27.100They used two completely fraudulent pieces of evidence, the so-called Steele dossier.
00:22:33.060That was a secret report that claimed that Donald Trump had had inappropriate interactions with Russian prostitutes while visiting Moscow as a private citizen.
00:22:44.580That turned out to be completely contrived, paid for by Hillary Clinton, by the way, whose campaign actually paid a fine for trying to disguise that expenditure as legal expenses.
00:22:54.860and the completely fake claim that the Democrat National Committee had been hacked by Russian intelligence.
00:23:04.820Once again, this was a claim invented by John Brennan for which there is no evidence whatsoever.
00:23:11.760Prosecutors in my case asserted this to be a fact over and over again.
00:23:15.080In fact, one of them, Jonathan Kravis, whose real name is Kravis, claimed in a rare filing, a surreply,
00:23:24.860that the government had additional evidence that the Russians had hacked the DNC,
00:23:30.160but that he couldn't show it to the court because it was classified.
00:24:06.440So it's time for transparency and accountability.
00:24:10.240The Democrats, of course, say that this is all about revenge and retaliation.
00:24:16.920No, it's about accountability and justice.
00:24:20.220Those who violated the law, those who violated the Constitution in their manic efforts to destroy Donald Trump and his family, their efforts to keep him off the ballot, their efforts to break him financially, their efforts to destroy him and imprison him, they really must be exposed.
00:25:10.740but my lawyers are following it very closely,
00:25:13.100and perhaps we can get some small modicum of what we lost back.
00:25:18.240In the meanwhile, President Donald Trump is taking a well-earned victory lap after a major climate panel backed away from one of the most extreme doomsday warning scenarios, which has been used for years to justify radical energy policy, essentially meant to stifle economic growth and development.
00:25:35.620The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has announced that it is adjusting its modeling framework, moving away from the high-end RCP 8.5-style projection that envisioned a 4 to 5 degree Celsius of warming by 2100.
00:25:54.640That scenario helped fuel predictions of catastrophic sea level rises, crop failures, melting glaciers, and global disaster.
00:26:04.700Isn't that what Al Gore has been predicting for years but never happened?
00:26:08.400President Trump blasted Democrats on his social media, Truth Social,
00:26:14.460noting that the climate establishment had finally admitted its projections were completely wrong.
00:26:19.560Many years after the public had already figured that out,
00:26:22.300President Trump argued that climate alarmism has been used to scare Americans,
00:26:27.460attack reliable energy, and funnel billions of dollars
00:26:30.460into these politically driven research and green subsidies.
00:26:34.620Scientists now say the most extreme forecasts have become less plausible
00:26:39.180due to renewable energy trends, climate policy, and recent emissions data.
00:26:44.460Instead, research are calling for a broader range of scenarios
00:26:48.240rather than relying on the most frightening assumptions.
00:26:52.160So, in other words, they are defaulting to what the sketchbooks have been saying from the very beginning.
00:26:57.660Americans were told for years that catastrophe was unavoidable
00:27:00.860unless they accepted higher energy prices, government mandates, and the so-called Green New Deal agenda.
00:27:08.460Anyone who did not believe this was considered to be a Neanderthal at best, or an evil villain monster at worst.
00:27:15.580Now even the climate establishment is wisely making energy independence central to their failures.
00:27:23.540Now even, pardon me, President Trump has wisely made energy independence central to his agenda,
00:27:28.200rolling back the Biden and Obama era restrictions
00:27:31.680defending oil, gas, and American workers.
00:27:35.440Nobody is doubting that the climate change
00:27:53.540the less likely man-made catastrophe will occur.
00:27:57.740Meanwhile, Cuba's communist regime is accusing the United States of building a fraudulent case for economic war and possible military action
00:28:05.820after reports accurately claim that Havana had obtained more than 300 military drones
00:28:11.960and was discussing using them against the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay.
00:28:17.000Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez blasted the report, saying that Washington was using media leaks to justify aggression.
00:28:25.080However, you notice he didn't directly deny that Cuba possesses these drones.
00:28:30.460The Trump State Department responded very sharply, calling Cuba a failed communist state
00:28:35.400that has long hosted hostile military, intelligence, and terror groups.
00:28:40.840Officials say that President Trump will protect America's and U.S. interests and the homeland from any threat.
00:28:46.880Cuba's rhetoric comes as the regime faces a deepening internal crisis.
00:28:51.160Its energy minister recently admitted that the country has run out of diesel and heavy fuel oil, leaving the power grid in critical condition.
00:29:00.140Cuba has not received regular oil supplies since December, relying recently on a shipment from Russia.
00:29:06.900In other words, no more oil from Venezuela, no more oil from Iran.
00:29:11.820The United States has also renewed an offer to provide direct humanitarian aid to the Cuban people,
00:29:16.980aid that would have to bypass regime control by working through the Catholic Church.
00:29:22.620The Cuban government has resisted these efforts because they don't want the generosity of the United States to be seen.
00:29:28.120They want to keep demonizing America as part of their continuous communist propaganda drive.
00:29:33.520Washington says the Cuban regime must choose.
00:29:35.680They can either play ball or they can face the Venezuela treatment.
00:29:39.940Join the free world or get Maduro. Those are the options.
00:29:43.500However, this socialist failed regime may be so stubborn that they choose the hard route.
00:30:47.840Glad to be back with you after a little bout of laryngitis, which is an occupational hazard for a talk show host.
00:30:55.440A key figure in Minnesota's massive pandemic era fraud scandal is now raising questions about what Congresswoman Ilhan Omar knew and when she knew it.
00:31:06.560Amy Bach, founder of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, was convicted in March of 2025 on conspiracy, bribery, and wire fraud charges tied to an alleged $250 million scheme involving federal child nutrition programs.
00:31:23.020Prosecutors said that participants submitted fake or inflated claims for meals supposedly served to low-income children, collecting millions in taxpayers' dollars for meals that never really existed.
00:31:34.760Speaking with the New York Post while awaiting sentencing,
00:31:37.520Bach said she struggles to believe that Omar did not know about the fraud.
00:31:41.740Bach denies knowingly participating in criminal conduct
00:31:44.920and says she tried to warn state officials.
00:31:48.700Scandal has already led to dozens of convictions
00:31:51.000and has placed new scrutiny on Minnesota's pandemic-era oversight failures.
00:31:56.600Omar played a key role in expanding the meal program flexibility during COVID-19