Former Acting Director of National Intelligence, Rick Grinnell, is at the United Nation's (UN) headquarters in New York. He talks about Ukraine's new transgender spokesperson, the recent hack of my account, and much, much more. He's also the one that stood up to the insanity of NATO and was a big actor in pushing back on them. And now he's at the UN, and he's going to be a big part in making sure that we're not just the schmucks funding NATO forever while they do nothing while we do nothing. Also, Joe Biden's border situation is getting worse and worse, and now, apparently, hackers are out to get me too. Also, make sure to like, share, and subscribe to this episode. This show is only getting bigger and bigger, and it's only getting better. You don't need to be covert to be sneaky. You can do what you need to do in the real world, and you don't even need a spy to do it. You're not a spy, you're a spy. And you're not even a spy if you're just a spy unless you're looking for someone to spy on you! You're just here to do your job, right? And that's not even half as bad as you think you're doing it, right?! In this episode, we talk about how we should all be doing our part to make the job we're supposed to be doing, and not just sitting back and waiting for someone else to do the work we're told us to do for us. We should be leading from the job, not bending over to the whims of everyone else's whimsically. We need to lead from the front, and we need to take care of us, not just bending over and letting everyone else do the rest of us. We can do our part, not the other way we can do the job that we can be the best we can we do the best they can do. We don't have to be the most important thing for us, we have the power to make us do the most of us in the most efficient way possible. We have to do our best to make sure we're getting the most out of our time and the most in the best of our day to day, and that's what we're gonna get the most accomplished in the world, not less than we can get the best possible day to the most sleep, the most beautiful day.
00:05:25.000you guys welcome to another awesome episode
00:05:54.000A lot to get into today because given all the news, I figured who better to interview today than former acting director of national intelligence Rick Grinnell.
00:06:05.000He's at the UN. Also, our former ambassador to Germany, he's the one that stood up to the insanity of what Germany wanted and was a big actor in pushing back on NATO, making sure that we're not just the schmucks funding all of this stuff forever while they do nothing.
00:06:23.000So I think that'll be really important, given that it's UN week and we're seeing some insanity out of there.
00:06:28.000Also, guys, make sure to like, share, and subscribe to this episode.
00:06:33.000This show is only getting bigger, and it's only getting better.
00:06:37.000And now, apparently, hackers are out to get me, too.
00:06:42.000As some of you may have seen, yesterday I was trending at the top of Twitter yet again, this time not due to something I actually said.
00:06:49.000But my Twitter account got hacked, and it sparked quite the media reaction.
00:06:57.000Honestly, when I saw some of the stuff, I was like, you know, and yet...
00:07:02.000There is some of it. Some of it totally inappropriate.
00:08:28.000I thought I was being punked for a moment, but apparently it was real.
00:08:32.000Ukraine is desperate for Congress and the Senate to approve billions of dollars in new funding, so they decided to throw us a bone, I guess.
00:08:51.000Everyone wants us to fund every little thing for them around the world, and we do, and yet they want us then to sit back and say, well, it's their decision and it's their this when it's your money.
00:09:03.000We should secure all the concessions we can whenever we can.
00:09:08.000That should be leading from the front, not funding it And bending a knee to ever-changing whims of everyone else around the world, guys.
00:10:51.000Under Joe Biden, illegal immigrants simply turn themselves into the Border Patrol, and then they are released into the country, never to be seen again.
00:11:04.000Some of these illegal immigrants are murderers and rapists.
00:11:07.000Trump was right about that in 2015 when he announced.
00:11:09.000That wasn't a problem when he first said it.
00:11:12.000It was only a couple weeks after, and that's what people don't understand.
00:11:16.000That's why you realize this is by design.
00:11:19.000It wasn't a problem the day he said it.
00:11:21.000But a couple weeks later, when he started gaining in the polls, when he started dominating the Republican field, and all of a sudden he became a threat, that's when it magically became racist!
00:11:31.000Some of these people could even be Chinese spies.
00:11:35.000There's been a 300% increase in Chinese nationals caught on the southern border.
00:11:50.000As long as some of them are future Democrat Party voters, as long as they, whether illegal or legal, will be counted in a future sentence, it's all good.
00:12:43.000Imagine if I started selling paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:12:47.000I'm sure a SWAT team, or maybe, since it's become commonplace, the FBI's hostage rescue team would be kicking down my door like they did my father's at Mar-a-Lago.
00:13:00.000Garland, though, has no interest whatsoever and said that he isn't investigating.
00:13:05.000Of course he's not. His job is to protect the Bidens.
00:13:09.000For all we know, he's probably in on it.
00:13:11.000It's 10% for a lot of big guys, in my opinion.
00:13:15.000Garland did so poorly that even CNN called him out.
00:13:20.000Obviously, it's very telegraphed to focus on Hunter Biden, the investigation and the indictment of Hunter Biden as well.
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00:17:42.000And with that now, joining me, my good friend, former acting director of national intelligence, former ambassador to Germany, all-around awesome guy, Rick Grinnell.
00:17:56.000I was an early adapter on Grinnell in like 2015.
00:18:00.000Mostly because the Twitter rivaled that of mine.
00:18:05.000It was aggressive. And we saw you take that to the UN. We saw you take that to an ambassadorship in Germany where you held NATO accountable and were like, you know, enough of the nonsense.
00:18:59.000You know, Don, the opposite of America first, if you want to know the polar opposite of America first when it comes to diplomacy, is consensus with the world.
00:19:10.000So there's 15 members of the Security Council, and there are five permanent members of the Security Council, which means 10 of those Security Council members get elected and they rotate.
00:19:21.000Yep. The lowest common denominator of 15 countries is what the global policy is.
00:19:27.000When you think about what's globalism, what do we do to kind of make this third world UN government?
00:19:36.000It's the lowest common denominator of what 15 countries believe.
00:19:41.000And at the UN, they believe every country is equal.
00:19:45.000And I don't believe every country is equal.
00:19:49.000But I don't believe that every country is equal.
00:19:51.000If every country was equal, then you wouldn't be asking the United States of America to pay a quarter of the bill at the UN. So I think what we're seeing right now, it's a long answer to say, we're seeing this idea of consensus, which is pushing the United States off the leadership role, not recognizing us as a superpower.
00:20:11.000And Joe Biden is really comfortable with that.
00:21:08.000I'm sure that created some headaches for you, but you believed in the policy, so it worked.
00:21:12.000And, you know, they were laughing about, you know, well, Russia's not going to ever own us because of energy, and we're going to go 100% green, and that's going to be total sense.
00:21:20.000And by the way, NATO, we'd like you to raise the spending to defend us from the enemy, Russia, that we're enriching by taking their natural gas and becoming fully dependent on them.
00:21:30.000And they laughed about it, and the media had a feel that, oh, it was so funny, so cute, and now...
00:21:35.000Trump was right. Like everything else, Trump was right.
00:21:38.000But anyone with a brain would have seen that then and been able to call it out.
00:21:43.000But I guess it was just convenient to go after Trump.
00:21:45.000But what does this say beyond sort of the basics of clearly we're just losing our standing in the world?
00:21:51.000But what's the endgame for America here?
00:21:55.000Look, I think it's really important to remember that whether we're talking about Washington, D.C., Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, Bogota, it doesn't matter, but the capitals are controlled by elites, right?
00:22:10.000You look at Brussels, which is the capital of Europe, and all of the NGOs that are based in Brussels, the NGOs that are based in Washington, D.C., they're filled with elites.
00:22:21.000They don't want to hear from the people who are paying the bills, the people who don't have power in those cities.
00:22:30.000They don't want to hear from them. They think they know everything.
00:22:32.000They think that they can control everything.
00:22:36.000So I believe that this is really a fight of elites versus the rest of us.
00:22:41.000And elites doesn't necessarily mean rich, doesn't necessarily mean uneducated, right?
00:22:50.000What it means is, is just people who want to control the system.
00:22:55.000The, uh, instead of having the power with people, the powers with a few people.
00:23:00.000And so I, I think the answer to What's happening around the world is that the elites are allowed to control the system when people like Joe Biden are in charge, because he's an elite, and he wants just the few people in Washington, D.C. to make the decision.
00:23:18.000I'll give you an example of this consensus elite idea.
00:23:22.000We in the Trump administration I felt very strongly, as you were inferring, that Chancellor Merkel, leading the Germans, made terrible decisions on energy policy.
00:23:36.000She put herself in a corner where they got rid of nuclear energy, they got rid of coal, or started to get rid of, made a policy to get rid of it.
00:23:46.000And that was because the Green Party was coming on Merkel, and she wanted to keep power.
00:23:51.000This elite system was like, well, I've got to keep power, so I'm going to grab these issues from the Green Party.
00:23:57.000She took on the Green Party policies, got rid of this energy, put herself in a hole.
00:24:02.000Germany as a manufacturing country cannot just have wind and solar power.
00:26:16.000And if you go back, Don, and you look at the floor speeches from Democratic senators when they were arguing to drop the sanctions, it's frightening.
00:26:25.000They say things like, oh, we don't want to make Russia angry.
00:26:29.000We don't want to stick it in Russia's eye.
00:26:32.000Their calculation, their strategy was so wrong, the opposite happened.
00:26:38.000You encouraged Putin, once again, through the Obama-Biden era of grabbing Crimea, you encouraged Putin, come in and do something in Ukraine, start a war because Joe Biden is weak.
00:26:53.000Yeah, so, I mean, that one is crazy to me, because when you look at everyone screaming about Russia, Russia, Russia now, you know, whether it's driving them into the arms of the Saudis, driving them into the arms of the Chinese, you know, getting off the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency, I mean, It was caused because of decisions like this.
00:27:12.000We empowered them. And so the irony, like, how come there's no one calling out all these people that were essentially, you know, pro-Russia energy, pro-Russia monetarily, give them this power.
00:27:25.000I mean, these are the same people on TV with a straight facing.
00:28:32.000He also understands weakness, and he saw weakness.
00:28:35.000I mean, the Democrats and the media will never be able to answer the question, why did Putin invade twice under a Biden president, vice president situation?
00:28:48.000Why did he do that twice, and yet he didn't do it under Donald Trump?
00:28:52.000Look, I believe that one of the reasons they kicked President Trump off Twitter Was because he was being wildly effective in going around the filter of the media and going straight to the people.
00:29:10.000But big tech and Fortune 500 companies, and you know this about me because we talk regularly, I believe that Fortune 500 companies right now are so far gone left that Republicans should not be helping them.
00:29:25.000We should not be talking about tax cuts and this UAW situation.
00:29:53.000Donald Trump, President Trump, has reorientated the Republican Party to the workers, not to the elites, which is why Mitt Romney does not like him.
00:30:04.000Because Mitt Romney, remember, is a total elite.
00:30:09.000George Bush, who I worked for, they love the elites.
00:30:26.000As I think that the elites are being defeated, I think we've got to keep calling out the media for being a protector of the ruling party and this club, this club of elites in Washington, D.C., because the people are beginning to speak.
00:30:47.000It's just the elites are pretending like we're not.
00:30:50.000Yeah, no, I mean, they're trying so hard.
00:30:51.000We saw that this week. I mean, Trump basically took the side of the autoworkers.
00:30:56.000And yet, the union that represents, you know, when I say represents, it's like, you know, they represent themselves, just like the elites represent themselves.
00:31:03.000So, I mean, it's not just in government, it's in big corporations, it's in big, you know, it's in everything.
00:31:10.000The United Auto Workers Union basically started taking shots at Trump.
00:31:15.000I'm like, so one of the biggest people in the world, with one of the largest platforms in the world, with one of the largest followings in the world, is taking your side?
00:31:23.000And you're like, well, I mean, no, we don't want that.
00:31:26.000We want to do it for Joe Biden, and it's because they know, too, that probably the vast majority of the auto workers are actually America first.
00:31:35.000They understand that the policies put forth by the Biden administration and EV, you know, electric vehicles and all that stuff, is going to send their jobs abroad, as Democrat policy and, frankly, American policy has done for the past few decades.
00:31:49.000America first is the opposite of that, and yet the people representing the stakeholders, Are spitting in the face of the guy that's actually got the best chance of representing those stakeholders, doing the most, has a consistent track record of doing so, and probably has the vast majority of those actual people, meaning the workers, not the union folks, the union workers who just pay their dues to watch it get spent to bolster Democrat policy in a trans agenda somewhere else.
00:32:20.000It doesn't make any sense, and yet it's exactly what you're talking about.
00:32:24.000Look, the union bosses are the elites.
00:32:27.000There are few people making decisions for massive amounts of people.
00:34:03.000I think next week we're going to see a big shift.
00:34:05.000I think that when President Trump goes to Detroit and campaigns with the workers, that this is going to open up a rift between the workers and the union bosses.
00:34:16.000I think that's very clear that's coming.
00:34:18.000I hear constantly, I was born in Michigan, I'm originally from Michigan, and Michigan It's all about auto manufacturers and those who supply auto parts.
00:34:31.000And these individuals, many of them have voted for Democrats traditionally, but they love President Trump.
00:34:49.000Yeah, and this is why people like Mitt Romney, the elites, they don't like President Trump, because they want to see him reflexively help, you know, the CEO of Ford, the CEO of GM. They want corporations To actually win in this situation.
00:35:08.000And I think what we've seen with the woke policies and their, you know, elitist attitudes of working towards the Democrats, why?
00:35:17.000Why are Republicans helping these people get more money at the expense of the workers?
00:35:22.000I'm 100% convinced that we've got to be on the side of the workers.
00:35:27.000Give them more money. They're the ones that are doing the job.
00:35:30.000And, you know, the elites getting tens of millions of dollars, forget it.
00:36:42.000You comply with a terrible education system because of the teachers' union.
00:36:47.000And you have a recurring theme where the unions seem to be representing themselves really well, meaning for the union leadership, at the expense of the people who they're supposed to be representing.
00:36:57.000And this is just another... Look, this is the world over right now in Trump world.
00:38:08.000It seems like the people who actually fought for real rights and stuff like that, who really were discriminated together, I don't think that many people really give a shit anymore, candidly.
00:38:16.000I think this is just one of those things that, you know, even in conservative politics, obviously there's some people that do, or the religious, on certain things, but I don't think it's nearly as much an issue as the left would want you to believe it is, even remotely, as evidenced by, like, you know, when Peter Thiel spoke at the RNC in 2016, he got a beggar standing ovation talking about those issues from Hardcore Republicans at the Republican National Convention.
00:38:40.000I was like, oh, so it's not even an issue, really.
00:38:42.000The left continues to make it an issue, but there does seem to be perhaps the biggest warring faction would be between just the regular gays who want to live life and the trans community indoctrinating our children, wanting to mutilate minors and infants and toddlers.
00:39:00.000That's the leadership, for the most part, that I see in today's left.
00:39:31.000What it is, is that it's generational and it's about power and money.
00:39:35.000So first of all, you have Gay Inc., which is controlled by Democrat operatives.
00:39:41.000This is an arm of the Democratic Party.
00:39:44.000Gay Inc. is literally a wing of the Democratic Party.
00:39:48.000They recycle all of these people who are activists within the Democratic Party, happen to be gay, and then they put them in charge of one of these gay lefty groups.
00:39:56.000So they want this to be a partisan issue for the Democrats.
00:40:00.000So they look constantly for wedge issues.
00:40:03.000When we achieve equality, they look for another wedge issue.
00:40:07.000HRC has a huge building that they have to pay for in Washington with a huge budget of personnel.
00:40:14.000And they will constantly look for a wedge issue.
00:41:18.000Young people can think about the border.
00:41:21.000They can think about global affairs and not wanting to have wars because Donald Trump is absolutely for equality and Republicans have moved.
00:41:32.000I've said this before and I really believe it.
00:41:35.000There's not a Republican Elected in Washington, D.C. that could come out and be anti-gay and survive in their next election.
00:41:54.000So, okay, so how does, you know, I call it sort of the trans mafia, right?
00:42:00.000They're representing, let's call it, you know,.01%, 1% of probably the gay community.
00:42:08.000I don't know exactly what the numbers are.
00:42:10.000Someone's going to fact check me and we've got to deal with it.
00:42:11.000But, like, let's just say it's the most powerful...
00:42:17.000It's a minute, like minutiae minority, probably in the world today.
00:42:22.000You know, on this show I have a thing, like, if you're trans, like, you are beyond reproach.
00:42:27.000You could, you know, to quote Donald Trump, you could walk down Fifth Avenue, murder someone in cold blood, and everyone would be fine with it.
00:42:36.000Because, I mean, I understand the power, and they're always looking for an issue, but...
00:42:41.000Even amongst the left, even amongst the gay community that I know, they see, you know, sure, a three-year-old, you know, I mean, you couldn't get a tattoo or smoke a cigarette for another 15 years, but, I mean, obviously you can chop off your dick, right?
00:43:04.000But again, I think mostly if I... My gay friends are conservative gays.
00:43:08.000But even still, how did they amass, you know, the trans mafia?
00:43:13.000How did they have much more power than, you know, what would have been even like, you know, the Hollywood or, you know, a strong gay representation, cabal, you know what I mean?
00:43:22.000I mean, there was disproportionate power there.
00:43:24.000But the trans thing overwhelms it all.
00:43:26.000And even to the detriment and expense of people who are openly gay and coming out, like Martina Navratilova, when she came out as a gay activist for 30 years, way before it was cool, 25 years before it was cool, and it was actually probably a serious liability at that time, she says, hey, you know what?
00:43:54.000But, you know, this is someone who's an advocate for so much of what that cause was.
00:43:59.000And she says, as one of the greatest female athletes in the history of sports, hey, like, I don't know, I don't think, you know, dudes should be playing women's sports.
00:44:17.000It's gay ink who decided to have another wedge issue.
00:44:22.000Look, I think we as a society will really pay a price, and we already are, but we're gonna pay a bigger price, for allowing Kids under the age of 18 to do this permanent to their body, to have hormones that block puberty, it's outrageous.
00:44:42.000And I literally see this as the majority of gay people don't think that that is right.
00:44:47.000The majority of my Democratic friends don't think that that's right.
00:44:52.000But they're silent. But they're still silent.
00:44:55.000Maybe to you they're not, but they're still...
00:44:57.000Why can't someone take that on from that side?
00:45:00.000Because, honestly, I feel like it's a winning issue, and I know that because if I'm on Twitter, not Truth, where it's going to be more conservative, but if I'm on Twitter, and I'm like, hey man, an 18-year-old dude that became a girl three days ago wins the Connecticut State Track Championship, I'm like, that's bullshit. And the comments are not what I'm used to on Twitter.
00:45:54.000has this power. They have the power to...
00:45:56.000And look, this goes back to corporations are funding Gay Inc.
00:46:00.000You have all of these corporations tripping over themselves to give money to HRC or the Victory Fund or whatever it is, because there's been a shakedown.
00:46:11.000They say, well, we'll say that your anti-gay will score you low if you don't give this.
00:46:17.000So it's now morphed into this trans movement.
00:46:19.000Look, I'm proud of the Log Cabin Republicans, which are the gay Republican group, because they now have a message of under 18, over 18.
00:46:29.000And what they're trying to say is, if you're under the age of 18, we need to aggressively protect kids, let kids be kids, no permanent decisions, no hormone replacements.
00:46:40.000If you're over the age of 18, Knock yourself out.
00:46:44.000But you still don't get to go into the men's bathroom if you're a biological female.
00:46:50.000And you don't get to play in sports if you're a biological male in the female sports.
00:46:57.000So we have this common sense approach to these issues, which I think is exactly what the majority of people want.
00:47:06.000Most people that I know, if you're over the age of 18, and as long as you're not trying to get into a woman's sports or a woman's bathroom, they say, you know, go live your life.
00:47:15.000There's a whole bunch of things that people do that I don't agree with, but I have the attitude of, like, if you're an adult, you get to choose your own way.
00:47:24.000Just don't, you know, go after somebody else.
00:48:28.000The fact of the matter is this misgendering thing is so ridiculous.
00:48:33.000If somebody misgenders somebody by mistake or for whatever, it's not the end of the world.
00:48:40.000I think if you're truly offended, which you shouldn't be, but if you're truly offended, you can say, you know what, I'd like to be called this or something.
00:49:38.000That's the whole thing is that, but we've created this system that, like, if you misgender, you're a horrible, terrible person, and it's just like, you know what?
00:49:46.000Everyone's really busy, and they've got a whole bunch of things to do, and life is a crisis.
00:49:51.000You've got family members with cancer, and you've got to pay your bills, and, you know, life is not perfect.
00:49:58.000The idea that misgendering somebody is like a big deal.
00:50:01.000I think it's, once again, it's gay ink trying to have a wedge issue.
00:50:05.000Trying to create a problem so that they can garner more money, more power within the political system.
00:50:13.000They applaud it. They want it because they get votes.
00:50:17.000The more that they can define it as a black and white issue, Republicans bad, Democrats good, then the sheep hear that and they just vote that way, which is why I got to, you know, give another shout out to Love Cabin.
00:50:31.000I think that group is so brave and doing great work.
00:50:35.000And certainly our work in the Middle East, which is in Arabic and Farsi of trying to push decriminalization is noble.
00:50:46.000And that was, like, one of the great ironies.
00:50:48.000I remember watching Secretary Blinken with all the Biden nonsense right after the Afghan withdrawal when he got up on a world stage and told him, you know, the world...
00:50:56.000He's shocked and dismayed that the Taliban government didn't install a more diverse and inclusive government.
00:51:08.000This is what we were told. And yet, the people that we've been fighting for 20 years that were throwing homosexuals off buildings, dousing...
00:51:14.000Like, they didn't have, like, a trans coalition.
00:52:16.000I also think it's pretty important that we mention that Zelensky, Ukrainian President Zelensky, has asked Donald Trump for a peace plan, but he hasn't asked Joe Biden for a peace plan.
00:52:28.000Now, what does that say? Well, I think it says a lot, but let's transition over, no pun intended, to the Ukraine for a little bit and with America's involvement there.
00:52:39.000I mean, this is maybe where these issues overlap.
00:52:42.000We saw last week, they literally had a trans spokesperson that we're apparently funding threatening to kill Ukraine.
00:52:52.000Anyone who doesn't agree, just spreading maybe Russian propaganda, meaning they don't agree with the talking points coming out of Ukraine, they're being funded apparently by the United States of America.
00:53:03.000they're doing this on a world stage dressed up as like a Trans-Zelensky.
00:53:08.000How can that be happening? If that was happening under Trump and we were paying
00:53:13.000someone and they were representing the American taxpayer and they were
00:53:50.000Again, we need a trans person representing us there because if we have the trans representation, the whole world is just going to bend over and they're going to give us another trillion dollars in aid and they're going to go after the Russians and we can start a ground war in Europe because we have a trans spokesperson, therefore we are beyond reproach.
00:54:09.000It literally feels like that's the game they're trying to play to me, which is insane.
00:54:33.000Ukrainian officials reached out to me.
00:54:35.000And said, hey, let me just tell you, this person was hired officially by the military, that the president's office, President Zelensky, did not approve this.
00:54:47.000And as of yesterday, President Zelensky put this person on suspension.
00:54:54.000And I thought, well, how is that happening?
00:54:59.000How is it that the president's office is not watching for two weeks the trans person from America, sounds like a robot, really going after anybody who doesn't, you know, support the line that the Ukrainian government wants?
00:57:05.000And he made that claim at the UN. Within hours, within hours, the Polish president, President Duda, stood up and literally made an analogy of Zelensky and Ukraine like a drowning victim just grabbing on and possibly pulling down the rescuers.
00:57:30.000I think that when a NATO ally like Poland stands up and says, we're not going to supply all of this, we have concerns about the way that they're acting.
00:57:42.000And Zelensky is in Washington, D.C. today.
00:57:46.000There needs to be an immediate check on that money.
00:57:49.000We've already seen corruption inside Ukraine.
00:57:54.000And let's be honest, that country was...
00:57:56.000Very corrupt before they started getting $112 billion from American taxpayers.
00:58:02.000Well, by many, you know, sort of, you know, people who do this, not like, you know, conservative reporting, but by many, Ukraine would have been ranked a more corrupt nation than Russia prior to this conflict.
00:58:13.000I think the other component that, you know, no one talks about in this war was that, you know, I sort of feel like we gave Putin every excuse in the book by saying, hey, we're going to take this little buffer zone Let's call it 500,000 miles of Ukraine, and we're just going to move NATO's border right up onto yours.
00:58:31.000To me, these talking points are overlooked.
00:58:36.000You had a stalemate, a buffer zone, a no-man's land, let's call it, that was not part of NATO, that was ethnically very Russian in many respects.
00:58:46.000This was a buffer zone, and we're like, no, no, we're just going to go right up on the Russian border.
00:58:52.000Act of aggression, whether it was an excuse, it would be a very viable one for Putin to use, or the act of aggression itself that actually started this conflict.
00:59:06.000We're only talking about war and war options.
00:59:08.000That's the only thing we're talking about.
00:59:10.000And look, as a diplomat, Don, I know you've heard me say this, but I really am passionate about it, is that I believe that the President of the United States needs to have two options in front of them, a really good war plan from DOD, And a really good diplomatic plan from the State Department.
00:59:38.000I can't conclude anything other than Joe Biden has shoved Anthony Blinken off He doesn't believe that he's a serious diplomat.
00:59:50.000There's no expectation that our Secretary of State is going to push back and try for peace.
00:59:58.000And again, you know, I'll finish with this, is that it's so frustrating to see the media just clap and applaud the Democratic line.
01:00:07.000If you want to stop a war, You better have diplomats who are really tough, not these wimpy diplomats who do culinary diplomacy like Blinken keeps pushing, but really serious diplomats.
01:00:23.000That is how you avoid war, tough diplomats at the table.
01:00:26.000Instead, the left keeps mocking the tough diplomats that Trump put in place.
01:01:15.000I mean, if Zelensky—I mean, you said this, and this is a really big deal.
01:01:19.000If Zelensky is asking Trump for a peace plan, but not asking Biden for one— What is it about?
01:01:27.000I mean, is it the only way this war ends if 2024 Trump gets to the table?
01:01:31.000Because the problem is, a Trump plan, whatever it is, in my mind, won't be effective if you have feckless leadership like Joe Biden in there.
01:01:39.000Meaning, Putin, you know, like all bullies, Putin, he understands weakness and he will prey on it.
01:02:04.000So the Trump deal, there's no doubt my father could actually get this done.
01:02:09.000But you can't do it without the power to actually get it done, without that office, because you look at what's behind it, and you go, yeah, whatever it is, they're not going to actually stand by it.
01:02:17.000They're not going to actually do this. We'll get Joe Biden to roll.
01:02:20.000Which is probably the more plausible side of things, which is they probably have more information on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and the dealing, since everyone else has it, that they would just roll that out.
01:02:31.000Or Joe knows that they have it, and so he's incapable of actually taking an aggressive position against these adversaries.
01:02:37.000Look, I think Zelensky is desperate right now.
01:02:40.000He needs to have some sort of an outside leader pushing a peace plan.
01:02:46.000Remember a while ago when the Chinese put forward a peace plan, Zelensky immediately made a comment that was positive about it.
01:02:54.000He said, wow, the Chinese have offered a peace plan envisioning territorial integrity for Ukraine.
01:03:00.000That's what he said. Quickly, the White House was like, shut up.
01:03:04.000You can't be talking about the Chinese peace plan.
01:03:07.000And they slapped him, and he shut up about it.
01:03:13.000I'll say this, and it gets a little controversial, but that Chinese peace plan was a very good start.
01:03:18.000It was not perfect. It needs change, but it did talk about territorial integrity.
01:03:24.000Let's remember that the Minsk Agreement, which was the agreement that Obama and Merkel tried to, although Obama blames Merkel, tried to do after the first grabbing of Crimea, there was also an inability to say territorial integrity for sure.
01:03:42.000There was this nebulous area of Crimea And, you know, autonomous or was it autonomous?
01:04:30.000Both sides say, ah, he's too powerful.
01:04:32.000But what he has behind him is a credible threat of military action, a credible threat of trade action, a credible threat of economic action.
01:04:45.000Look what he did with Erdogan when there was Pastor Brunson situation.
01:04:50.000The reason we got Pastor Brunson back without paying any money It's because President Trump said to President Erdogan, I'll ruin your economy.
01:04:59.000You don't give this guy back and we're going to have tariffs on tomorrow.
01:05:04.000That is a credible statement coming from President Trump.
01:05:08.000Erdogan believed President Trump would do something.
01:05:11.000The credibility of President Trump on these issues is great.
01:05:15.000I'll finish with this. I once was told by Chancellor Merkel at a cocktail reception when we were just chatting about the different situations.
01:05:26.000She said, you know, one of the problems with your president It's that we just can't figure him out.
01:05:31.000We don't know what he's going to do next.
01:05:34.000And I remember sitting there thinking, don't smile too big.
01:05:41.000But I ended up saying to her, I said, you know, Madam Chancellor, with all due respect, that's exactly where the United States wants to be, is we want to be in a position where you don't know what's next and therefore you can't predict us.
01:05:54.000So, you know, you sort of mentioned, you know, not giving money for some of these things.
01:06:00.000This week we saw a disastrous deal, right?
01:06:03.000And yet the media touted it as this big victory.
01:06:06.000Biden recently made a deal to get back five American hostages from Iran while giving back, I guess it was five, to Iran of their people.
01:08:10.000Like, you give them a treat, you're going to continue that behavior, except in this case, you're training them that you can get billions from the U.S., you can get them to roll over on policy issues, you can get them to roll over this.
01:08:20.000I mean, I can't think of a thing that would encourage more kidnappings around the world than seemingly just Biden administration policy today.
01:08:33.000It's really a dangerous, slippery slope.
01:08:35.000What's next? I have no idea what could be next, but I will tell you that this weakness coming from the Biden team is training people to test the United States.
01:08:45.000So I know you got to wrap up soon, but I wanted to understand Just for you guys and for the people watching, you're going to have a good take on both the power and the manipulation of America's intelligence agencies, as well as, let's take that all the way into DOJ and what's going on with Jack Smith.
01:09:04.000As someone who's seen it, as someone who's seen it weaponized against us, how severe is that power?
01:09:14.000Because I think there's a lot of stuff going on that the American people at any other time in history would be outraged about, and yet they've become so normalized.
01:09:24.000To these extreme reactions from whether it's the intelligence community, whether it's the Department of Justice, weaponized against their own citizenry.
01:09:35.000Look, we used to say 20 years ago that intelligence was an estimate.
01:09:40.000We were very proud of that. Intelligence is just an estimate.
01:09:44.000Sometimes we get it right, sometimes we get it wrong, sometimes we're way off, sometimes we're right on.
01:09:48.000And we need to get back to the point where we keep telling the public that intelligence is an estimate.
01:09:55.000The entire The reason that we have intelligence is to brief and prepare public policy officials so that our U.S. policy is really good, that we know how to push U.S. policy forward.
01:10:12.000You take raw intelligence, and I could go into great detail of what that is in terms of how we collect it and what types of intelligence we have, but I want to focus for a second on the analysts.
01:10:26.000And the analytical pieces, because a CIA analyst, an intelligence analyst, is somebody who writes a predictive analysis using raw intelligence.
01:11:31.000And what did they say? Well, that's what we have from the intelligence community.
01:11:36.000And we've seen them get it wildly wrong.
01:11:38.000When I was acting DNI, I famously, people didn't like it, but I told the Israeli analysts that they had a real credibility problem.
01:11:49.000They had just told the U.S. officials for years that if we moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the U.S. embassy, that we would start World War III. And they were adamant about that.
01:12:03.000And that caused the U.S. policy To slow down and to take a second look, and it really impacted in a negative way because people believed hook, line, and sinker that analysis.
01:12:17.000That analysis turned out to be not only wrong, but completely wrong, and the opposite was true.
01:12:24.000The media told me there were, like, three people that threw rocks for about seven seconds, so it was a very big deal.
01:12:29.000Almost, almost World War III. But when we moved the embassy and we showed that we were willing to do big deals, That ushered in the Abraham Accords.
01:12:42.000We were able to produce peace between Arabs and Israelis because we moved the embassy.
01:12:48.000And I will go toe to toe with anybody to say those big moves are what makes people believe that you are willing to do big things.
01:12:57.000And so we have world peace because of that.
01:13:01.000And I said to the analysts, You have a credibility problem, which is crucial to your job.
01:13:07.000No one's going to believe you anymore.
01:13:08.000Something's got to change. Maybe we've got to change the team, and we started to change the team.
01:13:13.000But the reason why I said that is because I wanted them to know that there are consequences for bad analysis.
01:13:20.000And there are negative consequences for U.S. public policy officials.
01:13:24.000I knew a ton of public policy officials who suddenly would question everything that the analysts were saying because they got it so wrong.
01:13:38.000We need to do less of the forced opinions and more of the here's An estimate of what we think.
01:13:47.000And the media have to not take raw intelligence or little pieces of an analyst's talking points and somehow make sweeping judgments about facts on it.
01:14:01.000It is an estimate and people need to go back to that.
01:14:04.000Well, I think the media is maybe the worst culprit in all of that because they take the narrative that they want to see, right?
01:14:08.000You could have two conflicting opinions, you know, one with a total credibility crisis and one, you know, backed by thousands of people.
01:14:16.000And if the other one, the one that has no credibility, actually gets them where they would like to be, that is the gospel.
01:14:23.000That becomes the gospel regardless of anything.
01:14:25.000We saw that during Russia, Russia, Russia.
01:14:27.000We saw that during Trump impeachment, one, and two.
01:14:30.000You know, the truth didn't actually matter.
01:14:32.000As the saying goes, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
01:14:36.000And, you know, it's why they have the credibility crisis they themselves have.
01:14:40.000So, you're right. I mean, I think we do have to get back To fixing all of those problems, because why would we trust our government for anything?
01:14:47.000Whether that's now in the age of COVID and after vaccinations and what we were told about masks and listening to Fauci, who's been wrong about everything for 40 years and all of these things, I think we have a severe credibility crisis across the board in government.
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