Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Judge Slashes Massive Bond, Plus Boeing CEO’s Emergency Exit and How Biden put ISIS Back in Business, Live with Matt Cole and Jerry Dunleavy | TRIGGERED Ep.122

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00:05:47.000 Welcome to another huge, with a capital Y, episode of Triggered.

00:05:52.000 Thank you guys so much for tuning in.

00:05:54.000 So much big, breaking news to cover.

00:05:57.000 Much of that as it relates to Me, my family, my father, Trump Organization in New York, and we will get to all of it.

00:06:06.000 Also coming up, we'll be speaking with Matt Cole.

00:06:08.000 He's the CEO of Strive Asset Management.

00:06:11.000 That's Vivek's company. They've been looking at one of the leading voices taking on DEI and ESG. And how's all of that working out?

00:06:21.000 We're going to talk to him about Boeing and what's happening there, how it's affecting your safety every time you get on an airplane.

00:06:28.000 If you're like me, and most people aren't because I travel about 300,000 commercial air miles a year, it's pretty scary.

00:06:36.000 Now, you get on a plane, you're looking in the cockpit, you're wondering, hey, is someone competent or did they just check a lot of boxes?

00:06:43.000 That's kind of scary. So...

00:06:45.000 Later, we'll also have reporter Jerry Dunleavy.

00:06:49.000 He's the author of a new book, Kabul, the untold story of Biden's fiasco and the American warriors who fought to the end, which uncovers even more shocking details about Biden's This disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan.

00:07:06.000 Remember, guys, the adults were going to be back in charge.

00:07:08.000 We were told that very clearly.

00:07:11.000 And then we had the Secretary of State.

00:07:13.000 He was very shocked.

00:07:14.000 He was shocked and dismayed that the Taliban did not... 0.99

00:07:18.000 Install a more diverse and inclusive government.

00:07:21.000 You know, these are the serious people who are the adults that are back in charge.

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00:09:30.000 We're also guys gonna begin with even more developments from the far left madness that is driving our country

00:09:38.000 quite literally off of a cliff.

00:09:40.000 Biden's America means that illegal immigrants or anyone for that matter can take over your country 1.00

00:09:47.000 and squatters can now take over your house.

00:09:50.000 They can just move in, take over, tell you to walk and there's nothing you can do about it.

00:09:57.000 I talked about it last week.

00:09:59.000 Squatting is becoming a major issue in this country.

00:10:03.000 People literally just walk into your house or break into your house, say that they reside here, and once they do that, in some of these liberal hellholes, nothing can happen.

00:10:14.000 You are powerless in your own home.

00:10:17.000 For example, two squatters were arrested for murdering a woman and stuffing her inside a duffel bag.

00:10:25.000 Liberal laws and liberal courts mean that it's very easy for someone to simply move into your house and not get evicted.

00:10:33.000 I mean, think of how insane that is.

00:10:35.000 This is happening in the United States of America, where property rights are like a basic rite of passage.

00:10:42.000 It's like almost fundamental here, and yet it doesn't matter.

00:10:47.000 In fact, there was a recent protest in Washington State over a squatter who got a restraining order against the homeowner.

00:10:55.000 This is real.

00:10:57.000 This is happening right now, and you have to see this one for yourself.

00:11:02.000 No stay! No pay!

00:11:05.000 No stay! On this rainy Saturday afternoon...

00:11:09.000 This means a lot to me and just gonna end my family.

00:11:12.000 A crush of protesters turned out once again to pressure serial squatters saying Kim to leave.

00:11:22.000 This is the second rally in as many weeks.

00:11:25.000 At this point, we're trying to call it anything in the Housing Authority under Jay Inslee.

00:11:31.000 Even after owing homeowner Jaskaran Singh tens of thousands of dollars in back rent, Kim is still refusing to leave this property in Bellevue's Woodridge neighborhood.

00:11:40.000 This has been going unchecked and seems to be expected as normal by our law and by our leaders.

00:11:46.000 So the public... What are you doing?

00:11:48.000 ...shaming... This guy has been playing with the system.

00:11:52.000 Brought the doggy today again.

00:11:54.000 Yes, he doesn't support this at all.

00:11:56.000 Adding to the absurdity of this situation, Singh's friends and family members led this weekend's rally without him.

00:12:03.000 How many can imagine someone living in your home rent-free for a year to two years?

00:12:07.000 Singh waited patiently at a park 1,000 feet away.

00:12:13.000 You haven't paid a rent for last one year.

00:12:15.000 That's because Kim accused Singh of harassment and a King County judge believed him, issuing a temporary protection order last week.

00:12:24.000 Guys, think about how upside down the world has become.

00:12:28.000 The law punishes the property owner, not the thief.

00:12:32.000 This isn't a property owner trying to throw out a renter who has a lease and is paying.

00:12:37.000 This is someone who hasn't paid in months, doesn't probably intend to because they understand that the law is designed to help them and penalize those who worked hard and perhaps bought homes and made that their business.

00:12:51.000 Meanwhile in Michigan, the geniuses there are offering $500 a month for illegal immigrants, or as they now call them, Newcomers. 1.00

00:13:02.000 Yes, guys, they're newcomers.

00:13:03.000 They're going to pay them to move there so that your tax dollars can continue to pay for them and their families in perpetuity.

00:13:12.000 Seriously. It's called the newcomer rental subsidy.

00:13:16.000 Get that. The newcomer rental subsidy. 0.89

00:13:18.000 The state of Michigan will give up to $6,000 a year to eligible illegal immigrants for them to spend on rent. 0.99

00:13:28.000 Democrats are doing all they can to encourage illegal immigrants to come to this country. 0.63

00:13:35.000 You show up to the border, you get allowed in, then you get subsidized housing, you get free schooling, you get a job with Tyson Chicken.

00:13:44.000 It's a dream for them.

00:13:46.000 But it's a nightmare for American citizens who are struggling, who have to no longer just pay for themselves, their children, their needs, and their families, but for 12 to 15 countless millions of others who are often, in cases, not going to be able to ever pay into a system.

00:14:04.000 You have to subsidize the people breaking the law.

00:14:08.000 Welcome to Democrat America. 0.52

00:14:11.000 Welcome to the Biden administration.

00:14:13.000 Now, folks, you can change this all.

00:14:16.000 You can make this insanity stop in November.

00:14:20.000 But if you sit idly by and allow apathy to take over, you're going to continue to pay for this nonsense forever while your American dream continues to be diminished.

00:14:32.000 While Democrats allow squatters to destroy property rights and subsidize housing for illegal immigrants, they're also trying to punish successful real estate developers. 0.63

00:14:43.000 Look at this article from the New York Times just yesterday.

00:14:48.000 Pinning a value to Trump's buildings is a guessing game.

00:14:52.000 Wait, what? Wait, pinning a value to his real estate is a guessing game?

00:14:59.000 Wait a minute, folks. I thought the New York Times and Attorney General Letitia James knew for a fact what every building is worth.

00:15:08.000 They told us very clearly and very loudly, Bar-a-Lago is worth $18 million.

00:15:14.000 Apparently, if Donald Trump's, you know, a pretty solid real estate guy says they're worth X, they can say it's worth 1% of X, and that's correct.

00:15:23.000 But then, all of a sudden, now they're not sure.

00:15:27.000 Ha! Now they're not sure what it's worth.

00:15:30.000 Isn't that the entire thesis of their case?

00:15:33.000 If they're not sure they're saying it, what was the purpose of the last two years?

00:15:40.000 Oh, that's right, sorry.

00:15:42.000 The political persecution of their enemies.

00:15:46.000 Going after a political opponent.

00:15:49.000 they understand Joe Biden can't win, so they'd have to try to beat him in other ways.

00:15:54.000 That's what's going on right now. Now there was a win at the appeals court today with the bond.

00:16:01.000 Remember the $463 million bond arbitrarily put on by Judge Ngoron because we made profits and

00:16:08.000 therefore those profits and anything that came from it afterwards have to be slashed and paid

00:16:13.000 for in full and even liberal law professors are saying it's insane? Well, the $463 was slashed to

00:16:20.000 $175 million.

00:16:22.000 That's the bond while we're waiting for things on appeal.

00:16:26.000 But still, it is outrageous for there to be any amount when there was no fraud and there were no damages.

00:16:33.000 Remember folks, the alleged victim of all of this, Deutsche Bank, like a probably trillion dollar institution, got on the stand and said that they wanted to do more business with us, not less.

00:16:48.000 That they were paid back in full.

00:16:50.000 That we never missed a payment.

00:16:52.000 That they made hundreds of millions of dollars and that they used the business of the Trump Organization and the deals we did together as like feathers in their cap for them to get other business.

00:17:03.000 But that doesn't matter because we live in dystopian times.

00:17:08.000 Nonetheless, folks, this is a big win in reigning in Ngoron's baseless ruling.

00:17:14.000 He's now been overturned five times in this case alone.

00:17:18.000 Think about that. Remember, when the original 463 came out, it included deals that were already ruled on by the appellate division like six months ago.

00:17:29.000 We brought them there.

00:17:30.000 They said they were out of the statute of limitations, all of this.

00:17:33.000 It didn't matter because they don't care about the rule.

00:17:37.000 The judge ignored the appellate division, the higher court, so that he could come up with a higher number in this case, because even if you do have to put up a bond, there's collateral that is gone forever.

00:17:50.000 If this thing turns into zero, you still have to spend probably tens of millions of dollars

00:17:55.000 just to get the bond to make the way for the holding pattern.

00:18:02.000 That's what's going on.

00:18:03.000 They're just trying to hurt you.

00:18:05.000 They don't care about the law.

00:18:06.000 They don't care about their own courts.

00:18:08.000 They don't care about the higher courts.

00:18:10.000 They care about nothing other than persecuting their political enemies.

00:18:15.000 The cases from Letitia James, from Alvin Bragg's unfounded campaign finance theory, right, 0.71

00:18:22.000 where they rely on convicted fraudster, liar Michael Cohen.

00:18:27.000 That's their star witness, folks.

00:18:29.000 Someone who's literally lied before Congress, was caught lying multiple times, served time in prison for it.

00:18:34.000 You know, minor details like that.

00:18:36.000 I don't know the exact details. 0.80

00:18:38.000 I don't remember them anymore because it was so ridiculous and so unfounded.

00:18:42.000 But, you know, that's going to be the star witness.

00:18:45.000 None of these things are anything more than election interference on behalf of Joe Biden.

00:18:50.000 It is all they have left.

00:18:53.000 No solutions to make your life better, just corruption to try to enrich themselves.

00:19:01.000 Polls now show Biden is losing every swing state.

00:19:06.000 Guess what, folks? You cannot win re-election with rising prices, an open border, nonstop evacuations of US embassies abroad, along with chaos at home and elsewhere.

00:19:21.000 Trillions probably going to be blown on wars that we don't know what the endgame actually means.

00:19:27.000 Inflation, gas prices, overall insanity, paying illegals while Americans suffer. 0.95

00:19:36.000 Probably not a winning formula.

00:19:38.000 But Democrats don't care about the rule of law, folks. 0.99

00:19:41.000 They care about power and they will do anything to maintain it.

00:19:44.000 The New York Post's front cover today was about how the number of violent assaults in New York subways have increased by 50%.

00:19:54.000 You know how big an increase that is?

00:19:57.000 Does Bragg do anything about this?

00:20:00.000 I mean, that's his job, right?

00:20:02.000 He's the district attorney.

00:20:04.000 Does he do anything about it?

00:20:05.000 Of course not.

00:20:08.000 So those who can and can afford to flee, like myself, do.

00:20:14.000 The rest of the people there suffer while they go on their political witch hunts.

00:20:20.000 And meanwhile, folks, it was also revealed that Joe Biden lied to Special Counsel Robert Herr.

00:20:27.000 Last time I checked, that's a federal crime.

00:20:30.000 As someone who's done 50 hours of testimony before Congress and other congressional bodies, I have a feeling that I would be in jail if this happened.

00:20:39.000 The Democrats would make sure of it. 0.99

00:20:42.000 Joe Biden told her that he defended a company sued by a welder that, quote, lost part of his penis. 0.99

00:20:52.000 You can't make this up. 1.00

00:20:53.000 I don't remember Joe Biden actually ever practicing law because he's an idiot and went right into government and has done nothing other than leech off the American taxpayers since. 0.99

00:21:02.000 But Biden claimed that his legal defense helped the company win the case. 0.97

00:21:07.000 Well, folks, there are two big problems that That case happened in 1968 when Biden was still in school.

00:21:16.000 Hmm. And the welder won the lawsuit.

00:21:19.000 So it's a complete and total lie from Joe Biden.

00:21:24.000 It's a fabrication, like so many of his other stories.

00:21:27.000 Like when he talks about losing his son on the field of battle.

00:21:31.000 When he can't remember anything else.

00:21:32.000 I don't know if that's a lie, but it shows the gross incompetence that Robert Hur, this same special prosecutor, noted to media outrage.

00:21:41.000 Will Joe Biden face any consequences for his continued lies under oath?

00:21:47.000 No, of course he won't, folks.

00:21:49.000 He's a Democrat. They don't have to play by the rules.

00:21:53.000 They are totally immune and absolved from anything from rules, law, and even decency.

00:22:00.000 Just look at Hunter. You cannot make this stuff up, folks.

00:22:04.000 Democrats are abusing the law to try to destroy their political rival, and they are ignoring the crisis at the border.

00:22:11.000 This is newly relevant due to the rise of ISIS. Yes, folks, ISIS, who Donald Trump, my father, your favorite president, basically eliminated in about two weeks.

00:22:24.000 ISIS is apparently back.

00:22:27.000 ISIS was behind the attack in Moscow, apparently, that killed over 130 people.

00:22:34.000 This is Joe Biden's only accomplishment, putting ISIS back in business.

00:22:40.000 That's Joe Biden's claim.

00:22:43.000 Joe Biden has done nothing for America, but he's put ISIS back on the map.

00:22:49.000 My father demolished them, and now they are back due to Joe Biden's incompetence, due to Democrat Party policy putting America last.

00:22:59.000 That's where we are.

00:23:01.000 Biden's own Border Patrol chief, not Trump's, Joe Biden's, went on CBS this weekend to warn that our open border is a national security threat that ISIS could take advantage of.

00:23:15.000 I'm so shocked to hear this, folks.

00:23:16.000 ISIS could take advantage of a... 0.98

00:23:18.000 Swiss cheese border that no one's watching, that everyone's let in and paid money to survive.

00:23:23.000 I'm shocked to hear this.

00:23:24.000 But again, just so you can hear it with your own ears from Joe Biden's own Border Patrol chief, here you go, folks.

00:23:35.000 dangerous people or potential terrorists who may be infiltrating the country because you are so focused on processing asylum seekers, families and others who are in distress.

00:23:45.000 Absolutely. You ask any law enforcement officer, especially somebody that works in border security, that is what keeps us up at night.

00:23:53.000 We're closing down on a million entries this fiscal year alone.

00:23:59.000 That number is a large number, but what's keeping me up at night Is the 140,000 known gotaways.

00:24:04.000 That is not part of that tally.

00:24:06.000 That is not part of that tally.

00:24:07.000 And that's just what we know.

00:24:09.000 Is that a national security risk?

00:24:11.000 That is a national security threat.

00:24:13.000 Border security is a big piece of national security.

00:24:16.000 And if we don't know who is coming into our country and we don't know what their intent is, that is a threat. 0.75

00:24:23.000 And they're exploiting a vulnerability that's on our border right now.

00:24:26.000 You mentioned... Guys, 140,000 known gotaways?

00:24:31.000 Known gotaways? I mean, imagine the unknown.

00:24:35.000 If it's ISIS, if it's other terror groups, if it's Iran-backed, you think maybe there's a lot more than that, that are unknown gotaways, that maybe were better funded or smarter or more sophisticated to be able to manipulate the system to get into their country?

00:24:50.000 You don't understand what that could do?

00:24:52.000 What those sleeper cells could accomplish in destroying our country?

00:24:56.000 That, again, is Joe Biden's That is his legacy.

00:25:01.000 Biden, Kamala Harris, and that liar, Corinne Jean-Pierre, tell us non-stop, guys, non-stop.

00:25:07.000 The border isn't a real issue, folks.

00:25:08.000 It's Republican drama, yada, yada, yada.

00:25:10.000 It's the Republicans' fault, even though we changed all the policies that made it the most secure border we'd ever have.

00:25:17.000 But here we have the current head of the Border Patrol saying that Biden's open border is a national security threat.

00:25:24.000 This is Biden's fault and everyone is taking advantage of him.

00:25:29.000 We went from remain in Mexico to Mexico's president, literally making demands from us.

00:25:36.000 Here's Mexico's president yesterday trying to extort the United States on 60 Minutes.

00:25:41.000 Think about this, folks. We had it under control.

00:25:44.000 They were working with us because of tariffs and other things.

00:25:47.000 Now Mexico is trying to extort us on a world stage?

00:25:52.000 Mexico is going to extort the United States of America because of Joe Biden's weakness and incompetence and general Democrat strategy?

00:25:59.000 Think of how insane that is.

00:26:01.000 Think of how far we have fallen.

00:26:03.000 Watch this. Okay, we're having a little trouble pulling up the video, but let's just say it sounds like straight-up extortion, okay? Mexico's president is saying that he'll flood our country with criminals if we don't do what he asks.

00:26:27.000 Imagine that. Mexico's gonna flood our country. 1.00

00:26:30.000 We're just gonna say, hey, we're gonna send you all of our criminals, all the dregs of society from not just Mexico, but from other countries. 1.00

00:26:36.000 We'll bring them in here. We'll send them into your country if you don't do what we tell you. 1.00

00:26:40.000 Mexico is making demands of America. 0.63

00:26:43.000 The American taxpayer gets to suffer the consequences.

00:26:46.000 Welcome to Joe Biden's America.

00:26:48.000 It does not have to be this way.

00:26:50.000 Guys, oh, we got the clip.

00:26:51.000 Okay, watch for yourself.

00:26:54.000 With the ear of the White House, President Lopez Obrador proposed his fix, that the United States commit $20 billion a year to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, lift sanctions on Venezuela, end the Cuban embargo, and legalize millions of law-abiding Mexicans living in the U.S. If they don't do the things that you've said need to be done, then what? The flow of migrants will continue. 0.90

00:27:24.000 Oh, you know, hey, guys, just give them another $20 billion.

00:27:28.000 I mean, we're sending another $60 to Ukraine.

00:27:30.000 Who cares? Just another $20 billion.

00:27:32.000 Can we give it to Mexico and these other countries?

00:27:34.000 It'll get, you know, passed down to exactly no one outside of the upper echelons of government.

00:27:39.000 We'll create an oligarch class of criminals throughout Latin America. 0.98

00:27:42.000 It's wonderful. What could possibly go wrong?

00:27:44.000 So, just so we're clear...

00:27:47.000 We went from having a lot of control over our border, the most ever, to a lot of control over Mexico, to Mexico extorting us on a world stage, publicly, with a straight face. 0.97

00:28:00.000 This is a clown show, people.

00:28:03.000 Finally guys, after non-stop plane issues, Boeing's CEO announced today that he will 0.91

00:28:11.000 be stepping down.

00:28:13.000 Thank God.

00:28:14.000 As I mentioned earlier, if you fly as much as me, you want the planes to work.

00:28:17.000 I'd like them to be flown by the most capable people ever.

00:28:20.000 I don't care if they check boxes or if they don't.

00:28:23.000 I just like capable. Our first guest, Matt Cole, had a great analysis today on Twitter how DEI and ESG turned Boeing into an absolute dumpster fire, okay?

00:28:36.000 We're going to get to that interview because it's a big one.

00:28:39.000 And it turns out Boeing's collapse happened after, shockingly, wait for it, folks, drumroll, after it added a DEI requirement for suppliers to Think about that.

00:28:52.000 They added a DEI requirement for suppliers of people who make airplanes that fly at like 600 miles an hour at 36,000 feet in the air.

00:29:03.000 What could possibly go wrong?

00:29:06.000 So now, after adding a DEI requirement for its suppliers, their CEO is making an emergency exit.

00:29:14.000 Who could have seen this coming, guys?

00:29:20.000 It's amazing. But we're going to have some fun with this interview.

00:29:22.000 So we're going to get to our first guest in just a second.

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00:31:31.000 How's it going, Matt? Good, Dylan.

00:31:33.000 How are you? Oh, man.

00:31:36.000 Crazy times. It feels like I'm living the Truman Show every day.

00:31:42.000 I'm just waiting for a TV camera that's not part of the podcast studio to fall out of the ceiling because I feel like I've been being punked.

00:31:48.000 How about you? Pretty much the same.

00:31:52.000 It's pretty fitting that you had an advertisement for Public Square right before we get into this conversation, because I know that's one company where DEI is not infecting it, and I think we're all having much better days today than Boeing, right?

00:32:06.000 Yeah, Boeing's having a rough day.

00:32:08.000 Honestly, it's a shame.

00:32:10.000 Listen, my dad... It has a Boeing.

00:32:12.000 His plane's a 757.

00:32:14.000 It's a Boeing. This is one of the great American companies.

00:32:17.000 I mean, if you think of sort of the original great American companies, you know...

00:32:23.000 You got, you know, General Electric.

00:32:25.000 You see them being destroyed for no reason other than they're adapting these ridiculous, you know, woke policies.

00:32:34.000 So, I mean, maybe we start with Boeing.

00:32:35.000 I'm curious about your thoughts on some of the others.

00:32:37.000 But, like, you broke down today, you know, on Twitter, X, I'm so used to still calling it Twitter, but how...

00:32:44.000 Liberal ideology destroyed this once great, iconic American company.

00:32:50.000 Can you talk about that? Because it's a big one in the sense that when doors start flying off planes, people don't want to go down in a ball of fire on a plane.

00:33:01.000 If other things happen at a bank, maybe they don't care as much, but falling out of the sky is probably something that can wake people up.

00:33:08.000 Break it down for us in detail, because it's almost shocking how insane it all is.

00:33:14.000 It is shocking. And it's important to reiterate, this is a great American company, like you said.

00:33:22.000 And personally, I still have love for these companies.

00:33:25.000 I don't love where they are, but let's actually back up a little bit.

00:33:28.000 For a 20-year period, 2000 to August of 2019, Boeing actually outperformed the S&P 500 by almost 1,000%.

00:33:39.000 10X outperformance.

00:33:40.000 It was rocking and rolling for a period of 20 years as one of the best performers in America.

00:33:46.000 And in 2019, this is when things really started to go off the rails.

00:33:51.000 And it started with this Business Roundtable initiative.

00:33:55.000 And what the Business Roundtable initiative, it was 181 CEOs of large American companies Boeing was one of them.

00:34:04.000 You could probably pick your poison of the most woke companies today in America.

00:34:09.000 They all signed this statement and this statement said that American capitalism is outdated.

00:34:16.000 And so this is the opposite of Make America great again or anything.

00:34:21.000 It's... America's not good.

00:34:23.000 And we are going to move away from that and move towards the ESG agenda, the DEI agenda, the World Economic Forum agenda.

00:34:31.000 And this marked the beginning of Boeing's downfall.

00:34:35.000 So what did we see after that? They signed that in August 2019.

00:34:39.000 2022, Boeing adds climate and DEI to their executive compensation.

00:34:45.000 And so what that means is that as much as I want to hate on this CEO, and the CEO did sign this initiative in 2019, his paycheck became dependent on implementing climate agenda and DEI agenda at his company.

00:35:01.000 So at that point, I actually think a lot of the blame was on the board of Boeing that implemented this executive compensation plan.

00:35:10.000 They also in 2022, which you briefly talked about, added that you have to look at ESG and DEI when assessing suppliers.

00:35:19.000 And so it's up and down everything at Boeing, ESG and DEI. That's literally 2022.

00:35:26.000 So then you fast forward literally one to two years later, 2023, 2024, And Boeing's planes start falling apart, literally.

00:35:36.000 It did not take long for the destruction of this company to happen.

00:35:41.000 And it has big implications, obviously, on safety, which, as an American, as someone that flies a lot, is my biggest concern.

00:35:50.000 But at Strive, we are also owners of Boeing.

00:35:53.000 And what we've seen is Boeing underperformed the S&P 500 by 135% just since 2019 when they signed that initiative.

00:36:04.000 And it's important to note that Boeing can't just do this on their own.

00:36:08.000 No corporation can just do this on their own.

00:36:11.000 Your shareholders have to bless this.

00:36:13.000 And who are the largest shareholders of Boeing, like most corporations in America?

00:36:18.000 BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard.

00:36:21.000 And they have a lot of blame in this.

00:36:23.000 And so this is where we are today.

00:36:26.000 One of the great American companies really struggling.

00:36:29.000 And we need to restore excellence there.

00:36:32.000 We need to restore meritocracy there.

00:36:34.000 It's worth defending.

00:36:35.000 It's worth defending while we also may say, I don't like this.

00:36:38.000 I might look for other. Now with Boeing, with the airplane manufacturer, it's a little bit more difficult.

00:36:43.000 You can't go to public square and buy a different airplane.

00:36:45.000 You can go and buy consumer goods, but We really need to restore excellence at these great American companies.

00:36:53.000 So, yeah, but talk about that a little bit in the sense that, you know, obviously Boeing, great American companies, and yet that happened.

00:37:00.000 What's in it for Vanguard and BlackRock?

00:37:03.000 They're destroying their own value, and I get it.

00:37:05.000 They're investing, they're playing with sort of other people's money, but their comp is still based on success in many cases.

00:37:12.000 And yet, like, Airbus, European company, obviously Boeing's biggest competitor, they don't have these problems, and yet that's in Europe, which is going to be, by all reasonable measures, much further ahead of us are the liberalized, woke-scale companies.

00:37:30.000 Of dealing with stuff.

00:37:31.000 How come it's not happening there?

00:37:32.000 How come you're not hearing about that happening at Airbus planes?

00:37:35.000 And yet, probably the same policies.

00:37:37.000 I imagine they're public companies.

00:37:38.000 I imagine they have the same sort of globalist pressure on the nonsense.

00:37:43.000 And yet, it seems to affect the American companies so much more.

00:37:48.000 There's a key difference.

00:37:49.000 So on the environmental climate agenda side, it is effectively exactly the same, where you actually have Europe imposing its standards on American companies with the blessings of the large asset managers.

00:38:03.000 But where it's different is the DEI agenda.

00:38:06.000 That's a little bit more on the American side because in Europe, they're a much more homogenous culture.

00:38:13.000 They don't actually have What's in it for them is a couple of different things.

00:38:31.000 One, their largest clients So whether it's CalPERS, the California Public Employees Retirement System, which is actually where I started my career before Vivek pulled me, thankfully, out of California into Ohio.

00:38:46.000 Solid move. Yeah, very, very solid move.

00:38:49.000 But I saw there for 16 years, the belly of the beast of what the tip of the sphere is of ESG and DEI. BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, they're the weight behind the tip of the spear.

00:38:59.000 But why? Because their largest clients, like CalPERS, like the New York Pension Funds, demand it, like European clients as well.

00:39:08.000 And so they bent the knee.

00:39:09.000 And why did they bend the knee? Because on the other side, no one was looking.

00:39:13.000 No one cared. And so what you had is a period of three to four years where a lot changed.

00:39:20.000 Right now, we have literally 75% of the companies in the S&P 500.

00:39:25.000 That tie executive compensation to ESG and DEI measures.

00:39:29.000 If you just went back to 2010, that number was zero.

00:39:34.000 Zero to 75%.

00:39:35.000 And so now you have red states pushing back.

00:39:39.000 You have people waking up and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's happening to Boeing?

00:39:42.000 What's happening to Disney?

00:39:43.000 What's happening to Google? Well, it's already been implemented.

00:39:46.000 And what happens is that because they voted and engaged publicly, they struggle as companies to take it back.

00:39:54.000 Because if they take it back, what they're doing is they're admitting on record a fiduciary breach.

00:39:59.000 They can't do that. So right now, they're kind of in this weird spot where they're trying to say,

00:40:04.000 hey, Texas, we didn't impose an environmental climate agenda that cost billions of dollars on Exxon and Chevron.

00:40:10.000 Don't divest from us. And then they'll go to California and say, California,

00:40:13.000 we still stand by everything we said for the last five years.

00:40:17.000 They're in this difficult dance that I think is really just waiting back and forth.

00:40:22.000 And we need to get back to their principles.

00:40:24.000 Yeah, well, I mean, unfunded pension liability is one of the trillion dollar problems that almost no one talks about

00:40:29.000 in America.

00:40:30.000 Right. And, you know, CalPERS, with probably hundreds of thousands of teachers that are going to be dependent on

00:40:35.000 them actually succeeding, you would think that, hey, maybe you just do what's best

00:40:41.000 for their fiduciaries.

00:40:43.000 Right. The people who paid into these pension systems instead of investing in companies that they're going to

00:40:48.000 destroy by pushing those policies.

00:40:49.000 So, you know, while CalPERS and the people in charge there may be pushing the woke agenda,

00:40:55.000 when those pensions are due and there's not enough money in the kitty to pay them, it's going to be a problem.

00:41:03.000 And it's a problem that seems like it's entirely avoidable if they didn't push this sort of insanity, you know, again, and drive people's values, the people that are actually the dependents of these funds into smithereens.

00:41:20.000 Exactly. It's It's teachers.

00:41:22.000 It's law enforcement officers.

00:41:24.000 So why did I even go to CalPERS?

00:41:26.000 I've been aligned with American capitalism since day one.

00:41:29.000 My parents were law enforcement officers.

00:41:31.000 They had their pensions tied to CalPERS.

00:41:33.000 It's exactly what you're saying.

00:41:35.000 And here's how bad and dirty this game is.

00:41:38.000 And it's not just California.

00:41:40.000 It's many states. There's a board there, and that board is actually majority appointed directly by the governor's office in California.

00:41:49.000 They have a 15-person board.

00:41:51.000 Eight of them are elected by the governor.

00:41:53.000 Seven of them, a minority, are elected by the pensioners.

00:41:57.000 So the pensioners keep putting in people that say, hey, I don't care about ESG. I don't care about DEI. We're underfunded.

00:42:03.000 Make money. But then it doesn't matter because it's so politicized from the top that you can't do anything but implement these crazy values.

00:42:12.000 Yeah, they'll bail it out with other taxpayer money in the end rather than doing what's responsible.

00:42:16.000 I mean, it seems like a vicious cycle, but I guess it never ends with these policies.

00:42:22.000 I want to talk—you wrote a great piece in The Hill about how Joe Biden's CHIPS Act is pushing companies outside of the U.S. In fact, Intel, Samsung are moving manufacturing facilities— Overseas, even the little manufacturing we have left in America is moving overseas because of DEI requirements in Biden's legislation.

00:42:44.000 For example, I guess it mandated in one case a quota for female construction workers and on-care childcare for those female construction workers.

00:42:52.000 What's going on with the CHIPS Act?

00:42:55.000 Break it down. This seems like another disaster looming.

00:43:01.000 Yeah, and it gets to the point that DEI is literally killing America.

00:43:06.000 So why do we have the CHIPS Act?

00:43:08.000 We have the CHIPS Act because of geopolitical risks with China.

00:43:12.000 There are risks that China could annex Taiwan by 2027 and Taiwan is where over 90% of the most advanced semiconductors are made.

00:43:23.000 So there's this need to onshore manufacturing of semiconductors to the United States.

00:43:29.000 So Congress approved a $280 billion act to help do that.

00:43:35.000 And so you could agree with that or disagree with that, but then what was really interesting from our perspective and where we wrote this article is we saw this dance start to occur where the White House would make an announcement.

00:43:47.000 We are about to open up the checkbooks and write a massive check to Intel, TSMC, Samsung.

00:43:53.000 And then a day or two later, Intel would make an announcement, say, we are delaying our fab.

00:43:59.000 And you would see this dance back and forth.

00:44:01.000 What the dance was showing to us was that there was a public negotiation happening between the White House and these large chip manufacturers.

00:44:09.000 So we started digging into it.

00:44:11.000 We dug into the bill.

00:44:12.000 What did we find in the bill of things that could actually cause these delays from 2025 to 2027, 2028?

00:44:20.000 We found DEI pork.

00:44:22.000 And come to find out, the Department of Commerce, at the very end of the bill negotiations, added all this pork.

00:44:28.000 They added 19 sections aimed at helping minority groups.

00:44:33.000 They required all corporations to describe how they were going to adhere to Biden's DEI-focused quote-unquote good jobs principles.

00:44:41.000 They must recruit economically disadvantaged individuals and remove quote-unquote barriers to equity.

00:44:48.000 You mentioned the female construction workers part. 1.00

00:44:51.000 Well, it's important to note that what percentage of construction workers in the U.S. do you think are female? 1.00

00:44:58.000 It's actually less than 10%.

00:45:00.000 So if you have a massive requirement to hire females, you can't find workers. 0.98

00:45:06.000 They also added some e-pork in there as well.

00:45:09.000 It wasn't just DEI pork.

00:45:10.000 They added a requirement that you should try to use 100% renewable energy.

00:45:16.000 And so when you added this up, what did you end up with?

00:45:19.000 You ended up with building a fab in America was going to cost four to five times more than it would cost to build in Asia.

00:45:28.000 And more importantly, multiple times more than it was expected to cost, even when the CHIPS bill was starting negotiations.

00:45:36.000 And lastly, it's not just about the fab facilities.

00:45:40.000 You also have chemical manufacturers.

00:45:43.000 You have material makers that are part of the supply chain for these semiconductors, and they're also delaying plants.

00:45:50.000 And so when you have plants delayed till 2027, 2028, the risk that we have here is that China annexes Taiwan, we lose our supply of chips, and our onshore manufacturers aren't online, and we're out of luck.

00:46:06.000 Yeah. No, they're not going to do us a favor in time of war.

00:46:09.000 They're probably not going to do us a favor anyway, but it never ends.

00:46:13.000 Talk about how the SEC has a new mandatory climate disclosure rule that will cost companies hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:46:24.000 What does that have to do with the SEC? Why are they getting involved?

00:46:27.000 And why is the Biden administration doing this and forcing it down corporate America's throats?

00:46:32.000 I mean, same question as it relates to CalPERS investing in any of these stocks.

00:46:36.000 It's just another cost.

00:46:37.000 It's going to hurt those pensioners.

00:46:39.000 It's going to hurt investors. What's the deal there?

00:46:43.000 Your first reaction when you see this, and this was my reaction as well, literally a couple of weeks ago, was say, wow, SEC government overreach again, three-letter agency, and then you start to peel it back.

00:46:56.000 And what we noticed was that there was hundreds of public letters to the SEC. Letters asking, begging the SEC to implement this.

00:47:05.000 Who was writing the letters?

00:47:07.000 None other than BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard.

00:47:11.000 On the record to the SEC requesting them for the quote-unquote protection of investors.

00:47:17.000 And so it's important to note that when you actually say, well, what is the protection that they're providing?

00:47:25.000 The protection is, in their words, that they view that we're in a climate emergency and that we need to see all the risks up and down the supply chain of climate and reduce those risks, reduce them by forcing corporations to reduce their emissions beyond U.S. law.

00:47:43.000 What's this disclosure rule going to do?

00:47:45.000 It's going to cost corporations literally hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:47:50.000 Just one consultant, PWC, spent over $12 billion getting ready to help companies implement this agenda.

00:48:00.000 And so again, you get back to how is this actually helping companies?

00:48:04.000 And there is no good answer.

00:48:06.000 There was some great takedowns of how This wasn't just an overreach of the SEC, but of large asset managers.

00:48:13.000 And it was a very contentious vote.

00:48:15.000 It was voted three to two on party lines and something that I think could be unwound in a future administration if it's not the Biden administration.

00:48:24.000 Yeah, I think that's one you got to get rid of because it's just never going to end.

00:48:27.000 But I mean, I guess some states are taking action against ESG investing.

00:48:34.000 Texas just divested from BlackRock.

00:48:37.000 Do you think the fight against ESG and woke companies is actually succeeding?

00:48:41.000 Do you think they can have enough critical mass to make a difference?

00:48:44.000 Are those guys just so big?

00:48:46.000 Are they such juggernauts that...

00:48:47.000 It's almost irrelevant. Even Texas pulling it doesn't really change that much or doesn't change their worldview where they're stopped pushing the woke nonsense down our throats.

00:48:57.000 I think we can win this.

00:48:59.000 It's going to take a lot.

00:49:01.000 I don't think we're there yet.

00:49:02.000 I think where we are right now is I think we are at a point where further progress has largely stalled.

00:49:09.000 But 75% of the companies in the S&P 500 have already implemented It's kind of comp tied to ESG and DEI. So it's great that Texas pulled $8 billion from BlackRock, but obviously it's a drop in the bucket for trillions.

00:49:25.000 But you saw BlackRock go unhinged.

00:49:28.000 They wrote this letter trying to humiliate the chairman of the Texas Board of Education that pulled this $8 billion.

00:49:35.000 And this is where I stepped in, actually.

00:49:38.000 I wrote a post on X just to call this out because it's crazy that you would have BlackRock try to humiliate a chairman, but then you say, well, why are they?

00:49:47.000 They're afraid because they don't want anyone else to do the same thing because they see the risk here of this ballooning into something else.

00:49:55.000 much larger. So I called them out. I called them out on a few different things that they've done

00:50:00.000 that have explicitly hurt energy companies, because this is what Texas really cares about

00:50:05.000 because of the energy companies that exist within Texas.

00:50:08.000 Well, a couple of things. One, BlackRock had actually forced onto Chevron, requiring them

00:50:15.000 to reduce their scope three emissions, which is their emissions up and down their

00:50:19.000 supply chain, beyond US regulations.

00:50:22.000 What's important about that, it's literally public that Chevron was recommending, do not let this happen.

00:50:28.000 BlackRock pushed it on anyways.

00:50:30.000 They did the same thing with Exxon, where they pushed on three climate activists on the board of Exxon.

00:50:36.000 How crazy is that?

00:50:38.000 Exxon then actually took the step in 2022 at our request of adding on additional board members that actually had real experience in energy, which is what you would think you would want for a company like Exxon back onto their board.

00:50:52.000 So they did that. They asked the SEC to- They could put Hunter Biden on.

00:50:55.000 He's an energy expert, I'm told.

00:50:57.000 Oh my goodness. They'd probably give him $100 million too.

00:51:02.000 Yeah. Anyway, so they've done that.

00:51:05.000 They've done the SEC climate disclosures, which is going to cost corporations hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:51:10.000 And they've also just said that they will force companies, this is on the record, as part of their net zero asset manager agreement, If corporations don't comply with their view of climate risk, they will literally remove their board.

00:51:24.000 So I called all that out and they got massively ratioed.

00:51:27.000 And what I hope that the end result is, is that they won't call out these good actors like Aaron Kinsey publicly again and let them choose who they think the best fiduciary is for their assets.

00:51:40.000 Well, I think that's really important.

00:51:42.000 And, you know, thanks for all the work that you're doing, pointing all this stuff out, Matt.

00:51:45.000 I really appreciate it. It's just great information.

00:51:48.000 And as more of it happens, because we know it will, we'll have to have you back on to talk about it again.

00:51:53.000 So really appreciate you being here.

00:51:55.000 Guys, it seems like to happen every day.

00:51:58.000 Thanks, bud. Guys, in just a few moments, a major new book about Biden's Afghan withdrawal with author Jerry Dunleavy.

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00:53:25.000 And guys, joining me now, co-author of the new book, Kabul, The Untold Story of Biden's Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End, Jerry Dunleavy.

00:53:35.000 Jerry, good to have you here, man.

00:53:37.000 How are you doing? I'm doing well.

00:53:39.000 Thanks for having me. So you did a lot of research for your book, and you actually found out some shocking details.

00:53:46.000 I mean, this is something that's sort of a...

00:53:48.000 It's almost a go-to in my speeches when I talk about the Afghan withdrawal. 0.91

00:53:52.000 I mean, the adults were back in charge, and morons like Anthony Blinken, our Secretary of State, get on stage, and they talk about how they're shocked and dismayed that the Taliban didn't install a more diverse and inclusive government. 0.94

00:54:04.000 So, you know, if you thought it was bad and that was... 0.97

00:54:07.000 But there's even more shocking details about this withdrawal.

00:54:12.000 And I want you to go over some of the big revelations in the book.

00:54:15.000 Can you talk about how even the COVID vaccine mandate impacted the Afghan withdrawal under Joe Biden?

00:54:23.000 Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

00:54:25.000 Let me just start with a real quick disclaimer.

00:54:28.000 I'm a senior investigator on the House Foreign Affairs Committee that's investigating this disastrous withdrawal by President Biden.

00:54:36.000 But I'm just speaking as the co-author, not on behalf of the committee or the investigation.

00:54:43.000 Shockingly, the Biden administration's obsession to some extent with the COVID vaccines did impact the withdrawal.

00:54:56.000 The U.S. Embassy in Kabul pretty much locked down for a few weeks in the summer of 2021, which slowed down efforts to process SIV applicants.

00:55:10.000 So there are very likely Afghan allies who had their exit from Afghanistan slowed down because of the Biden administration's response to COVID. Now, when it comes to the evacuation itself, the COVID vaccine mandate actually impacted the readiness and the deployment of some of our US service members.

00:55:35.000 There was a squad leader, team leaders, a surgeon for the Marine groups who were going to be deploying there who were not able to go because they had not received the COVID vaccine.

00:55:50.000 The 82nd Airborne that was preparing to go had to shuffle its forces around because members had not gotten the COVID vaccine.

00:55:58.000 And so as Afghanistan is falling apart, as the Taliban is taking over the country, as we're about to leave Americans behind, We have tens of thousands of our Afghan allies behind.

00:56:09.000 These COVID mandates by the Biden administration had an impact on the US military's ability to respond to all of that.

00:56:18.000 So you found that we missed sort of two opportunities to actually stop The deadly Kabul suicide attack.

00:56:26.000 I mean, that's sort of shocking to me.

00:56:28.000 No one seems to know about that.

00:56:31.000 What were those? I mean, this killed 13 troops.

00:56:34.000 So we had two opportunities to stop it.

00:56:36.000 No one seems to know about it.

00:56:38.000 What happened? Yeah.

00:56:40.000 So let's talk about sort of the decisions that Biden and those below him made that set up this Abigate attack. 0.93

00:56:52.000 First off, this decision to abandon Bagram Air Base.

00:56:56.000 A foolish decision for many reasons.

00:56:59.000 Keeping Bagram would have been a much smarter, safer place to do an evacuation from. 1.00

00:57:04.000 Keeping Bagram would have enabled the U.S. to keep its air assets in the country, to continue bombing ISIS-K, Al-Qaeda, stopping Taliban advances.

00:57:17.000 It's very, very, very unlikely that the Taliban would have been able to Take Kabul if we had held on to Bagram.

00:57:24.000 On top of all of that, at Bagram, there is a prison that held thousands of terrorists, ISIS-K terrorists, Taliban terrorists, Al Qaeda terrorists.

00:57:37.000 Among these ISIS-K terrorists was a man by the name of Abdul Rahman al-Lagri.

00:57:43.000 The Biden administration has refused to say his name, but he is the man that carried out the Abbey Gate bombing.

00:57:50.000 He was in prison at Bagram.

00:57:53.000 The Taliban freed him from Bagram on August 15.

00:57:57.000 So the simple fact is, if we had just held on to Bagram, the guy who carried out that attack that took the lives of those 13 U.S. service members, he still would have been behind bars rather than out there trying to kill Americans.

00:58:10.000 On top of that, there's the testimony from Sergeant Tyler Vargas Andrews, of course, the Marine sniper who has testified that he had a suspect in his sights who met the description that he had been passed of a suspicious individual.

00:58:26.000 He asked for permission to take the shot.

00:58:28.000 His commanding officer told him that, as a commanding officer, he didn't know if he had permission to give Tyler, he didn't know if he was able to give Tyler permission to take that shot.

00:58:41.000 Now, on top of that, the U.S. military, General McKenzie, In Doha around August 15th, the Taliban, as it's knocking on the gates of Kabul, actually offered to let the United States military take over security of Kabul.

00:58:59.000 And on the spot, General McKenzie turned that down.

00:59:04.000 And so that was essentially a green light for the Taliban to come into Kabul. 0.62

00:59:11.000 And so the United States military, during this evacuation, Was reliant on the Taliban to provide security outside of that airport.

00:59:22.000 And Mackenzie has later said that there were a number of times, a bunch of times, where we asked the Taliban to raid or search a suspected ISIS-K location.

00:59:34.000 And the Taliban sometimes said no.

00:59:38.000 And on top of that, just keep in mind that the U.S. did not carry out Any airstrikes against any ISIS-K locations from the time that the Taliban took over Kabul on August 15 until after the Abbey Gate bombing.

00:59:55.000 And so you kind of put all of those factors together, and it's pretty clear that the Abbey Gate bombing that took the lives of those 13 service members, it was not inevitable.

01:00:07.000 I mean, it's so frustrating, right?

01:00:09.000 And then, you know, right after that, in the aftermath of it, you know, it was like 15 minutes later, like, yeah, we bombed the guy that did it.

01:00:14.000 I'm like, wait, you didn't see it coming.

01:00:16.000 You didn't know it was going to happen.

01:00:17.000 But you imagine, you know, it turns out it was just like a, you know, a goat herder's family. 0.96

01:00:21.000 Is there any more about that?

01:00:22.000 Because they just greenlight sort of the murder of someone to check a box to make it look like they were actually doing something about it.

01:00:28.000 You know, they didn't see any of this coming.

01:00:29.000 They had no idea what was going on.

01:00:32.000 The incompetence was astounding, but magically in like 15 minutes they were able to find the guy that did it and put a hellfire missile through his head, but that clearly wasn't the case.

01:00:42.000 It didn't happen, but I guess they were just content with the media being willing to do their bidding for him and pretend like they got him.

01:00:48.000 Is there anything about that that you guys are aware of in the research on the book?

01:00:52.000 Yeah, so there were actually two US airstrikes after the Abigate bombing, because keep in mind we were relying on the Taliban.

01:01:00.000 to provide security against us, against ISIS-K. Obviously, the Taliban, shockingly, did not do a very good job of that.

01:01:08.000 So, one of the airstrikes was on August 27th, and that was an airstrike in Nangarhar province, where we said that we killed a terrorist by the name of Kabir Ayedi, who the U.S. military said was connected to the Abbey Gate bombing.

01:01:23.000 Now, raises the question of why was the U.S. not carrying out airstrikes against ISIS-K before the Abbey Gate bombing?

01:01:31.000 On August 29th, that's when we carried out an airstrike in Kabul that killed civilians.

01:01:39.000 No members of ISIS-K, just a bunch of civilians.

01:01:45.000 An airstrike that General Milley had called a righteous strike before he had to walk that back.

01:01:55.000 All of this goes back to this decision to rely on the Taliban to provide security.

01:02:01.000 You know, we've been fighting the Taliban for 20 years.

01:02:05.000 The Taliban was involved in killing, you know, probably over 2,000 U.S. service members.

01:02:11.000 But we're relying on them to provide security outside this airport, you know, with deadly results.

01:02:20.000 Yeah, I mean, we also left a biometric scanner so that anyone that helped us over the last 20 years, they can make sure they find them and snuff them out because the adults are back in charge.

01:02:28.000 But yeah, I mean, it's lunacy.

01:02:31.000 But the book also describes—we're going to talk about lunacy— How dozens of terrorists were just let into the United States after withdrawal.

01:02:41.000 How did that happen? Because, I mean, we see it coming across our border.

01:02:43.000 I'm sure there's plenty more, but this was before even that crisis really manifested itself with how bad it is.

01:02:49.000 What happened there, and how bad is that problem?

01:02:53.000 Yeah, so the Defense Department's Inspector General concluded that there were dozens of Afghans who Made it into the United States who were later found to have what the DOD Inspector General called significant security concerns related to them.

01:03:14.000 And the Inspector General said that among those concerns was known or suspected terrorist ties and latent fingerprints found on improvised explosive devices.

01:03:28.000 The DOD Inspector General also said that one Afghan who made it into the United States had actually been freed by the Taliban from prison in August of 2021.

01:03:44.000 Now, let me kind of level set here.

01:03:46.000 A lot of the Afghans that the U.S. evacuated due to heroic efforts by the U.S. military there, a lot of these Afghans were Afghans that were interpreters that Some of the people that the US evacuated did not have particular ties to the US mission in Afghanistan.

01:04:13.000 And some of them had significant security concerns, according to Defense Department investigations.

01:04:20.000 Now, how did that happen?

01:04:21.000 It happened because the Biden administration did not prepare for this.

01:04:27.000 They were not ready. We're good to go.

01:04:43.000 You know, at certain points, the airfield was completely rushed and flooded by by crowds.

01:04:50.000 You saw those images. It was a terrible visual.

01:04:52.000 Yeah, I mean, it's just brutal. I mean, again, I mean, people falling off plane, you know, plane wheels.

01:04:57.000 I mean, brutal.

01:04:59.000 Horrific, horrific images.

01:05:01.000 And, you know, this all goes to the fact that the Biden administration did not prepare Did not plan and acted way too late.

01:05:11.000 And so when you don't plan, when you don't prepare, when you act too late, you know, a handful of bad guys and maybe a handful, more than a handful, slip through.

01:05:22.000 And that's just what happens. And, you know, something to keep in mind when we're talking about the people that did get evacuated from Afghanistan, keep in mind, There were hundreds of Americans who were left behind.

01:05:36.000 Oh, yeah, the whole thing's brutal.

01:05:37.000 Yeah, I mean, America lost.

01:05:41.000 And some of those Afghan allies left behind, hundreds of them targeted by the Taliban in revenge and reprisal killing.

01:05:48.000 So those are people who have been killed.

01:05:51.000 They're not getting out. So, you know, after 20 years of war, you know, it didn't seem like we had even a fundamental understanding of, you know, this is Millie and some of these losers that are just terrible. 0.96

01:06:00.000 But, like, why would the Biden administration rely on the Taliban for security in Kabul?

01:06:06.000 Like, the whole thing's just—I mean, you're going to rely on literally the people you've been at war with for 20 years for security? 1.00

01:06:12.000 Like, who—who's dumb—you know, Joe Biden's pretty— Fucking dumb, but you're that dumb? 1.00

01:06:19.000 That's going to be your go-to? 1.00

01:06:21.000 I mean, that's the fox guarding the henhouse times a thousand.

01:06:25.000 Who thought this was a good idea?

01:06:26.000 How did that happen? Yeah.

01:06:29.000 So some of this just kind of goes back to the fundamental terrible decision that President Biden made, his decision to go to zero in Afghanistan.

01:06:38.000 Because when Biden took office, we had 2,500 troops there, along with many more, actually, NATO forces there.

01:06:47.000 And on top of that, you had the contractors, thousands of contractors as well.

01:06:53.000 So Biden decides to go to zero.

01:06:56.000 When Biden decides to go to zero, NATO can't stay there without U.S. support.

01:07:01.000 And it means pulling all the contractors as well.

01:07:03.000 So we go to zero, we pull all U.S. troops, all contractors, NATO forces all come out.

01:07:09.000 All of this being done without Biden coming up with a plan about how to keep the Afghan 0.98

01:07:15.000 military fighting, about how to keep the Afghan Air Force on the field.

01:07:19.000 This comes as the Biden administration is wildly exaggerating the size of the Afghan

01:07:24.000 military, wildly underestimating the strength of the Taliban, being completely behind the

01:07:31.000 eight ball on the speed of the Taliban's advances, making ridiculous political decisions like 0.77

01:07:37.000 setting our withdrawal date for the 20th anniversary of 9-11.

01:07:41.000 Nothing strategic about that.

01:07:44.000 Not too smart.

01:07:45.000 I think kind of a gross decision.

01:07:48.000 And you know, one of the one of the results of that decision is that on the 20th anniversary

01:07:54.000 of 9-11, you have the Taliban back in charge doing all of this in the middle of the Afghan 0.98

01:07:58.000 fighting season and refusing to just refusing to start this evacuation as soon as it needed

01:08:08.000 to be done.

01:08:10.000 Clinging to the idea of keeping a U.S. embassy open, even as the Taliban is taking Afghan

01:08:17.000 provincial capitals, even as they surround Kabul, refusing to start this evacuation.

01:08:21.000 And so by the time that we decide to start this evacuation, the Taliban has taken almost all of Afghanistan.

01:08:29.000 They've surrounded Kabul. 0.93

01:08:31.000 We have troop caps set by President Biden.

01:08:34.000 And so There you are in an impossible situation.

01:08:40.000 You rely on the Taliban to provide security.

01:08:43.000 The Taliban stops tons of our Afghan allies from getting through, beating our Afghan allies, killing some of them, beating Americans as well.

01:08:54.000 And some Americans that were left behind were left behind because they were They were terrified to try to run through that Taliban gauntlet because some of them had tried to make it through and were physically attacked by the Taliban.

01:09:13.000 And so this all goes back to a series, a cascading series of decisions made by President Biden that put these U.S. service members in an impossible situation With the Taliban right outside the gates, the Taliban enemy who they've been fighting for 20 years, while ISIS-K is roving around, some of those ISIS-K members, keep in mind, as we mentioned, freed by the Taliban just days earlier.

01:09:40.000 And one of them gets through and carries out a devastating attack that kills 13 U.S. service members, wounds dozens more U.S. service members, some of them grievously, and kills, mind you, nearly 200 Afghan soldiers 200 Afghans in that crowd as well.

01:09:59.000 What was the most surprising thing you found in your research, and what do you make of sort of Joe Biden's refusal to own up to any of the mistakes?

01:10:06.000 I mean, he refuses to say the name of the 13 dead troops, and he broke his promise to get all Americans out. 0.94

01:10:12.000 I mean, what was the biggest shock in sort of researching all of this?

01:10:17.000 Yeah, it's hard to be shocked, I suppose.

01:10:24.000 But in terms of the biggest surprise, I suppose it would be the willful blindness that the Biden administration had throughout all of this.

01:10:37.000 All of this was foreseeable.

01:10:39.000 All of this was predictable.

01:10:41.000 when you pull US troops out in rapid fashion, when you pull all the advisors and the logistics

01:10:49.000 and the contractors, when you pull the rug out from underneath the Afghan military, and

01:10:55.000 while at the same time you're in total control of the troops that are being sent in and out

01:11:16.000 of Afghanistan at once.

01:11:19.000 Jerry, you still there? I'm still here.

01:11:24.000 Can you hear me? Yeah, we got you back.

01:11:29.000 It's pretty crazy what's all going on there.

01:11:32.000 But you've also done some major reporting in the US on the security state politicizing the China election interference in 2020.

01:11:40.000 You're one of the few journalists that'll actually cover it.

01:11:44.000 Can you share with the audience what you found and how it might impact 2024?

01:11:48.000 Because it seems like a big one with what they're doing, and yet almost no one's going to talk about it.

01:11:55.000 Yeah. Well, let me just stress again now.

01:11:58.000 I'm not talking on behalf of Congress or the committee, just sort of putting my recovering journalist hat on here for a second.

01:12:05.000 So, yeah, back in 2020, The U.S. intelligence community assessed that Russia tried to influence the election, that the Iranians tried to influence the election, but that China thought about it but didn't.

01:12:29.000 Now, that was the majority opinion by the U.S. intelligence community, but there was a minority view within the intelligence community by the national intelligence officer for cyber And other members of the intelligence community who did believe that China had attempted to influence the 2020 election and had done so in an effort to try to undermine now former President Trump's re-election chances.

01:12:59.000 Now, this is sort of a big divide within the U.S. intelligence community because you have the national intelligence officer for cyber and others in there saying, hey, look, China is trying to take steps to influence a presidential election.

01:13:16.000 And you had now former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe take the side of the national intelligence officer for cyber, saying that in his view, the intelligence showed that China had attempted to influence the 2020 election.

01:13:33.000 And an analytic ombudsman, kind of a mouthful there, I actually kind of took a look at why there was this divide inside the intelligence community.

01:13:44.000 And one of the findings there was that analysts on the Russia side were much more willing to assess that Russia was influencing an election than analysts on the China side.

01:14:01.000 And one of the reasons that the Sambudsman found why was that some of the China analysts

01:14:08.000 may have been worried that if they found that China is trying to influence this election,

01:14:14.000 then that might be used by members of the Trump administration.

01:14:20.000 And so it's kind of this feeling among some of the analysts on the China side inside the

01:14:26.000 intelligence community that they didn't want their intelligence to be used in that way.

01:14:32.000 Yeah, because it would help Trump because Trump was tough on China and Joe Biden's basically been a blank check for China ever since they paid Hunter umpteen millions to do whatever it is that Hunter does, which is nothing productive or business related.

01:14:46.000 And what I'd add here is that after 2020, after that election goes by, suddenly the intelligence community is actually saying, oh, by the way, China is trying to influence the 2022 midterms.

01:15:03.000 And so they very quickly were able to shift to agreeing that China was trying to influence our elections after that 2020 election had passed by.

01:15:14.000 And so, look, I would just say China trying to influence our elections is something that really needs to be kept an eye on, along with all of these Chinese influence efforts.

01:15:27.000 In academia, targeting politicians, targeting business.

01:15:32.000 China's very serious about this.

01:15:34.000 Its United Front Work Department is very serious about this.

01:15:38.000 Its Ministry of State Security is very serious about this.

01:15:41.000 And I'm not quite convinced that the U.S. intelligence community is taking it quite as seriously as they should be.

01:15:50.000 They're definitely not, unfortunately.

01:15:52.000 But, Jerry, tell us where everyone can find the book, and I recommend you guys check it out because we have to understand exactly what we're getting into, especially as we're in an election year, when we understand sort of the gross incompetence that we're dealing with on a daily basis.

01:16:07.000 Yeah, you can get it wherever books are sold.

01:16:10.000 Check in stores.

01:16:11.000 You can go to Amazon. And if you'll indulge me real quick, I know that the Gold Star families, if they're watching or if they watch us, would probably appreciate it.

01:16:21.000 As you mentioned earlier, President Biden has never said the names of the 13 U.S. service members who were killed at Abbey Gate out loud and in public, but I'd love to real quick.

01:16:33.000 So that's David Espinoza, Nicole Gee, Darren Taylor Hoover, Ryan Christian Knauss, Hunter Lopez, Riley McCollum, Dylan Marola, Kareem Nkui, Dagan Page, Yohani Rosario, Humberto Sanchez, Jared Schmitz, and Maxton Soviak.

01:16:53.000 Our book was dedicated to them and to the other 2,448 Americans who lost their lives in Afghanistan.

01:17:01.000 And I do hope that people check out the book.

01:17:06.000 And I do hope that this debacle in Afghanistan is at least something that people keep in mind.

01:17:13.000 When they go to the ballot box there in 2024 because this was a disaster.

01:17:18.000 The Taliban's back in charge. 0.95

01:17:21.000 Americans left behind. 0.70

01:17:22.000 Afghans left behind. 13 new Gold Star families. 1.00

01:17:26.000 ISIS-K now carrying out attacks around the world and a more dangerous world with Russia, China and our other adversaries taking advantage of what happened. 0.98

01:17:38.000 Yeah, I mean, that is Joe Biden's legacy, and it's a damn shame. 0.86

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