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[01:22.240 --> 01:38.240]  In a world of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show.
[01:38.240 --> 01:53.840]  As the clock strikes 13 it's Wednesday New Year's Eve 2025 and we are here live. Today we're going
[01:53.840 --> 02:02.000]  to be talking about looking back at a year of Trump's professional wrestling as WWE style chaos
[02:02.720 --> 02:09.360]  and in Minnesota little Mogadishu we see all the hallmarks of federal welfare
[02:09.360 --> 02:16.320]  immigration magnet and fraud at its finest. It is a microcosm of bipartisan corruption
[02:16.320 --> 02:22.800]  and apathy. Both sides knew about this. Yes it is the governor's responsibility. They didn't even
[02:22.800 --> 02:28.160]  want to talk about it and it really is shameful when you go back and look at what was known a
[02:28.160 --> 02:35.040]  decade ago and as the GOP pushed back against that. We also have rumors that have been left
[02:35.040 --> 02:41.680]  standing by Trump. Rumors of boots on the ground in Ukraine as the CIA is bombing allegedly
[02:42.800 --> 02:49.520]  bombing the ground in Venezuela. Boots on the ground in Ukraine and then of course Netanyahu's
[02:49.520 --> 02:56.720]  30 year dream may come true next year. He may get his war with Iran and have us fight it for him
[02:57.280 --> 03:01.360]  and then we're going to take a look at an unbelievably bad bill from Marsha Blackburn
[03:01.920 --> 03:05.600]  who seems to have lost all her copies of the constitution this year as well as any memory of
[03:05.600 --> 03:13.680]  it. We'll be right back. As a matter of fact when we look at this last year I want to begin
[03:13.680 --> 03:21.520]  with a look back at what Mediaite calls the Trump chaos machine. I've been saying that he is an agent
[03:21.520 --> 03:27.360]  of chaos and we need to get smart. Where's Maxwell smart in agent 86 when we need him right?
[03:28.640 --> 03:32.960]  So on social media they've got me in a cone of silence.
[03:35.040 --> 03:40.720]  But we can take a look at really how this guy operates. Yeah we've all talked about this and
[03:40.720 --> 03:46.960]  we know this. We know that he throws out one crazy thing one crazy idea one conflict after the other
[03:46.960 --> 03:51.600]  and it really is all about creating conflict unnecessarily. Look at what he did with Canada
[03:51.600 --> 04:00.320]  for example right? The bourbon industry is on the ropes between the hatred that Trump has built up
[04:01.040 --> 04:09.280]  for American products and kind of a boycott of bourbon in Canada between that and the tariffs.
[04:10.080 --> 04:16.160]  You've got distilleries in Kentucky going on business left and right and so that's just one
[04:16.160 --> 04:20.960]  industry but it's happening in a lot of different industries. It's happening with farmers for example
[04:20.960 --> 04:26.480]  because he is going to be focused more on Argentina. That's one of the things that
[04:26.480 --> 04:30.720]  Marjorie Taylor Greene said. She said well we got Zelinsky today we got Netanyahu tomorrow.
[04:31.360 --> 04:37.120]  Could we just do America? You know it's not like there's nothing happening here in America. Maybe
[04:37.120 --> 04:43.760]  you guys need to take a look at the billions of dollars in just one area of fraud that's there.
[04:43.760 --> 04:50.000]  But as they pointed out it is a deliberate what Trump does with his chaos. It is a deliberate
[04:50.000 --> 04:55.440]  stacking of controversies faster than any accountability can form and as soon as people
[04:55.440 --> 05:01.120]  start looking at it and analyzing it he moves on to something else. Just keep it coming and of course
[05:01.120 --> 05:06.560]  he understands the system. He knows that we're going to talk about it because it's just too
[05:06.560 --> 05:13.200]  outrageous too over the top and he uses that and I think it needs to be talked about
[05:13.760 --> 05:18.880]  because his conduct is outrageous. He needs to be called out on it and he needs to be called out
[05:18.880 --> 05:24.800]  about the precedents that he is setting. This is a guy who is all about chaos. He is all about
[05:24.800 --> 05:31.280]  setting precedents, dangerous precedents, illegal unconstitutional precedents that are going to be
[05:31.280 --> 05:37.600]  used by presidents and that's why they're letting these things go through. The Democrats want it.
[05:37.600 --> 05:42.320]  Republicans want it. They want to rule as a king. How many times have we heard both Democrats and
[05:42.320 --> 05:48.640]  Republicans say oh if only I could rule like a dictator in China. You know these guys can do
[05:48.640 --> 05:53.200]  whatever they want and then they all talk about well you know I could save the planet with green
[05:53.200 --> 06:00.320]  orders. You know it's uh yeah everybody wants to be a dictator right. They imagine they're going
[06:00.320 --> 06:06.320]  to be a benevolent dictator and you have their supporters wanting them to be dictators imagining
[06:06.320 --> 06:11.040]  that they're going to be benevolent dictators. Guess what? It's a fantasy. That's one of the craziest
[06:11.040 --> 06:16.320]  things about the technocracy. These guys thinking that they're going to have a more libertarian
[06:16.320 --> 06:20.960]  assault to you and they you know they talk about their dark enlightenment and all the rest of the
[06:20.960 --> 06:24.400]  stuff saying yeah we need to have libertarian principles but the only way we're going to get
[06:24.400 --> 06:30.400]  to a libertarian society is if we put in a dictator to do that. That's about the dumb-
[06:30.400 --> 06:37.200]  when you look at that and Peter Thiel and these people who are selling this Curtis Jarvin thing,
[06:37.200 --> 06:41.600]  you have to look at that and say if they really believe this, if they're not just trying to pull
[06:41.600 --> 06:45.920]  the wool over our eyes, if they really believe this, these guys are not as big a threat as they
[06:45.920 --> 06:52.080]  appear to be. They can do a lot of damage with all the money that they've got but they are truly
[06:52.080 --> 06:57.920]  fools if they think that's really going to happen. That you're going to get liberty by
[06:57.920 --> 07:03.760]  installing a dictator who's going to dictate liberty to everybody. Well the pardons rewrote
[07:03.760 --> 07:09.440]  history, the firings eliminated oversight, the diplomacy became spectacle, language became loyalty,
[07:10.400 --> 07:17.360]  access became enforcement. The media couldn't ignore it which was always the point. By the end
[07:17.360 --> 07:22.560]  of the year the pattern was unmistakable. January six pardons became background noise by February.
[07:22.560 --> 07:27.600]  The Epstein file scandal that convulsed mago world in July was recycled and then forgotten by
[07:27.600 --> 07:33.680]  September only to come back in force by December. The White House ballroom construction that would
[07:33.680 --> 07:40.640]  have politically damaged a previous presidency barely registered as October news. An assassination
[07:40.640 --> 07:47.760]  was absorbed into the churn. That's Charlie Kirk's. Courts blocked the same unconstitutional
[07:47.760 --> 07:53.440]  orders month after month while Trump simply moved on. Inspector generals were purged in a single
[07:53.440 --> 08:01.680]  night. The kill switch got flipped on 60 minutes. Gaza was pitched as a resort. Way more than 18
[08:01.680 --> 08:08.960]  holes. The Associated Press was banned from the Pentagon. The military was told democratic cities
[08:08.960 --> 08:14.080]  were training grounds and each month brought revelation and erasure in equal measure.
[08:15.600 --> 08:23.520]  Velocity replaced consequence. Spectacle replaced governance. The trap of course is that documenting
[08:23.520 --> 08:29.600]  this becomes part of the pattern. Every time every timeline proves the strategy worked. Every recap
[08:29.600 --> 08:36.560]  demonstrates how he dominated coverage. The media couldn't look away and by covering it all became
[08:36.560 --> 08:42.320]  the distribution system for the chaos. There is no neutral position when attention itself is
[08:42.320 --> 08:48.400]  the battlefield and look at the attention that they give him. You know whether it's about all
[08:48.400 --> 08:54.480]  these little minutiae about his health. Yes he's 79 years old and yeah he's got bruises on his
[08:54.480 --> 09:02.720]  hands and so forth and the speculation and the hand wringing about that. It's it is silly really
[09:02.720 --> 09:08.000]  the extent that it's happening but there are many things that he's putting in as he has this
[09:09.840 --> 09:16.080]  continually evolving cascade of spectacles and outrages. He is putting in some very
[09:16.080 --> 09:21.600]  very dangerous precedents that are there and the Republicans are all going along with it for the
[09:21.600 --> 09:27.280]  most part. I think one of the most hopeful trends is actually coming from Marjorie Taylor Greene.
[09:28.240 --> 09:35.200]  She is saying some very powerful truths and the opponents of Trump are giving her some press
[09:35.200 --> 09:43.120]  coverage and hopefully people will listen to it. It is you know what she's saying now is true she
[09:43.120 --> 09:51.040]  was a sycophant before and but now there's a a break between the two of them. She's actually
[09:51.040 --> 09:57.280]  telling some very damning truths about Trump. So perhaps that'll wake the mug up perhaps not
[09:57.280 --> 10:01.760]  perhaps they can't be waking up. There is no neutral position when attention itself is a
[10:01.760 --> 10:07.840]  battlefield. What follows is both record and admission a month by month chronicle of how
[10:07.840 --> 10:13.680]  Trump governed and how the media allowed itself to be used even as it understood what was happening
[10:14.400 --> 10:21.840]  because the media both left and right love Trump. When Trump is in they get more views
[10:22.560 --> 10:30.400]  because they can cover all of this professional wrestling all this wwe froth. It's good for both
[10:30.400 --> 10:35.760]  the left and the right media. They're both making a lot of money from it. So what they did was they
[10:35.760 --> 10:40.720]  went through in a month by month thing and I think it's interesting just to recap just as a
[10:41.440 --> 10:44.960]  at a distance how quickly things change. Remember in January
[10:45.680 --> 10:54.400]  start out with the January 6 pardons we had Doge as a co-presidency and then you had Canada
[10:55.040 --> 10:59.520]  and all the nonsense about fentanyl. Remember Jack Vesubia it goes to the border. It's amazing
[10:59.520 --> 11:03.840]  we've got this border here with Canada there's no guard dogs or towers or barbed wire people
[11:03.840 --> 11:08.960]  can just walk back and forth. It's like that was never a problem Jack it's not a problem now
[11:08.960 --> 11:15.680]  they're not bringing fentanyl in that's just Trump's nonsense and it was utter nonsense all
[11:15.680 --> 11:22.560]  this stuff about trolling them about being the 51st state and then Greenland maybe the 52nd state
[11:22.560 --> 11:31.040]  remember that and we talked about Greenland and then by February it was all about the Gaza
[11:31.040 --> 11:36.640]  resort video that he put out there the bearded belly dancers that were out there and Trump
[11:36.640 --> 11:42.800]  reposted that AI video with a lot of slop in it but it showed really what their true plans are.
[11:42.800 --> 11:48.320]  If you go back and you look at what he's doing he's got real estate developers you know Wittkopf is
[11:48.320 --> 11:53.520]  a real estate developer party partner and Kushner going they're looking to how they can grift around
[11:53.520 --> 11:59.360]  and make money off this land that they take after they kill the people on it. Then we had the fight
[11:59.360 --> 12:05.520]  at the Pentagon where he starts purging the press out of there. The Epstein stunt with all the
[12:05.520 --> 12:10.400]  binders remember that yeah look we're releasing all the stuff and they had all the useful idiots
[12:10.400 --> 12:16.720]  who by the way have not paid a price in public opinion for participating in that masquerade and
[12:16.720 --> 12:21.680]  fraud isn't that most amazing thing you know when you look at these people these hand-picked
[12:22.720 --> 12:26.960]  influencers you would think that everybody just walk away from them at that point in time but no
[12:26.960 --> 12:32.800]  they you don't it doesn't matter anymore now you can lie to people about January the 6th
[12:33.440 --> 12:37.600]  about stop the steal all the rest of stuff you can tell people that the vaccine is sugar water
[12:37.600 --> 12:41.040]  you can pretend that the pandemic is real that it came out of a
[12:42.080 --> 12:47.200]  Chinese flu it's Wu flu it came out of the Wuhan lab you can pretend all that stuff and even when
[12:47.200 --> 12:54.960]  people realize it's nonsense they still tune in and follow these guys and then he had the big
[12:54.960 --> 12:59.840]  fight that he staged with Zelensky in the Oval Office that was now we're only up to February
[12:59.840 --> 13:06.080]  with all that stuff then by March we got more tariff threats and
[13:07.840 --> 13:14.240]  they're happening there and that's really where the focus went in March by April you had liberation
[13:14.240 --> 13:24.720]  day tariffs a scheme to liberate you from low prices to liberate you from your money to liberate
[13:24.720 --> 13:31.760]  us from a lot of retail and manufacturing businesses who can't handle the constant
[13:31.760 --> 13:37.680]  changes from Trump in terms of what these taxes are look the taxes could be really high and they
[13:37.680 --> 13:43.600]  could be really low the important thing is you got to keep them at a fixed rate so people can
[13:43.600 --> 13:49.040]  make plans if you're constantly changing them there's nothing that is more destructive and
[13:49.040 --> 13:54.880]  unmanageable as I said before even about the soybean stuff why do we have the Chicago Board
[13:54.880 --> 14:01.200]  of Trade you know when they do the the commodities and they have the trading pits that are there
[14:01.200 --> 14:07.200]  that whole thing was set up to bring stability to agricultural prices you have to have stability
[14:07.200 --> 14:12.080]  in prices if you're going to be able to make a business plan and people were willing to pay
[14:12.080 --> 14:18.640]  a premium for that to have that kind of stability and so what Trump did is far more damaging than
[14:18.640 --> 14:23.200]  just nuking the Chicago Board of Trade saying that's that you guys can't operate anymore
[14:23.200 --> 14:29.360]  or we're going to take them out with a CIA drone strike and so it was a tremendous whiplash
[14:30.800 --> 14:37.440]  and of course Trump always begins with a lie about an emergency and then on the basis
[14:37.440 --> 14:44.320]  of his lying phony emergency he operates as a dictator and he defies anybody to do anything
[14:44.320 --> 14:51.360]  about it and of course congress is not going to do anything about it Mike Johnson is nothing
[14:51.360 --> 14:57.040]  other than a puppet and everybody knows it and so nothing is going to happen in congress the only
[14:57.040 --> 15:02.880]  thing the only recourse anybody has is to take them to the courts and that takes forever for
[15:02.880 --> 15:08.160]  to run through and get a hearing and come up with something so he can run on with this stuff for a
[15:08.160 --> 15:13.120]  year and then come back and say well now if you undo this policy it's going to be really really
[15:13.120 --> 15:21.680]  destructive well guess what Trump didn't care about the the open free trade system that was
[15:21.680 --> 15:25.680]  set up which by the way I've got a lot of problems with that and I've said that over many many years
[15:25.680 --> 15:31.520]  I don't like that system however that's something that has been has been set up for many decades
[15:32.400 --> 15:35.680]  and Trump had no problem at all just ripping that out in one or two days
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[17:18.240 --> 17:26.400]  destruction but his policies and the money that they've taken in over these assumed powers that
[17:26.400 --> 17:30.880]  they don't have the authority for if you take that away and they have to turn that money back in
[17:30.960 --> 17:36.960]  that's not going to be any more destructive than trump going in and ripping out decades of a
[17:36.960 --> 17:45.360]  different trade policy then by may you had npr and pbs being defunded lawsuits against the media
[17:46.080 --> 17:53.600]  and then you started seeing the escalated ice wars going into the blue states
[17:54.720 --> 17:58.640]  which at this point in time i gotta say when i look at this minnesota stuff
[17:59.600 --> 18:05.360]  it's like he wants to go to war with blue states and he wants to maybe have public opinion to
[18:05.360 --> 18:12.880]  support this why in the world when you start with minneapolis and minnesota the place that's called
[18:12.880 --> 18:17.680]  little mogadishu and it's been called that for over a decade this has been a problem going back
[18:17.680 --> 18:23.520]  a decade the republicans knew about it as well and of course it's corruption from tim waltz
[18:24.480 --> 18:30.720]  it's his responsibility he's the one who's been shutting any efforts to try to do anything about
[18:30.720 --> 18:36.000]  this down effectively and they could have embarrassed him they could have gone to war
[18:36.000 --> 18:39.840]  with him they could have gone to war with all this massive fraud there would have been public
[18:39.840 --> 18:46.080]  support for that instead trump chooses to go to other places where he's going to have a lot of
[18:46.080 --> 18:51.120]  opposition because he wants the chaos as i said from the very beginning if he wants to fix
[18:51.200 --> 18:56.800]  something about this welfare magnet stuff go to the states that are going to be on his side and
[18:56.800 --> 19:02.880]  work with them and do it in an orderly way do it with due process and so forth but yes i want to
[19:02.880 --> 19:08.560]  do that and he wants to federalize the police he wants to have a little civil war maybe a bigger
[19:08.560 --> 19:15.520]  civil war that's his goal it's not really reform he wants conflict always conflict and even when
[19:15.520 --> 19:21.680]  he could have had conflict in minnesota minneapolis he chose to go for a different
[19:21.680 --> 19:32.480]  form of conflict so then by june we're doing strikes on iran for israel we have more issues
[19:32.480 --> 19:40.080]  about the federal guard being nationalized and using them against the wishes of a state governor
[19:40.880 --> 19:48.000]  and all of this is escalating at that point in time by july he declares the upstein case
[19:48.000 --> 19:59.040]  is closed and maga is very upset about that musk quietly goes away from doge but it's still there
[19:59.920 --> 20:06.080]  they're not talking about it and then you had the at that point in time you had marjorie taylor green
[20:06.800 --> 20:13.200]  along with thomas massey and two others two other women that were there that
[20:14.480 --> 20:22.560]  pushed back to release this stuff and so you start having in july the congress is shut down early
[20:22.560 --> 20:27.760]  by mike johnson just because of the upstein documents and this is not a tabloid distraction
[20:27.760 --> 20:35.840]  folks this is something that goes to the core of the character of donald trump the core character
[20:35.840 --> 20:41.760]  of our congress and it tells us something about the people who really are the government
[20:42.320 --> 20:50.160]  the cia the people who will set up sexual blackmail honey traps even using young girls
[20:50.880 --> 20:56.960]  to get what they want that's what the cia is that's what the cia does in order to get power
[20:57.600 --> 21:03.040]  and money for its criminal wars for its drug running and all the rest of stuff they get engaged
[21:03.040 --> 21:08.400]  in prostitution pedophilia all the rest of stuff because that's the way you blackmail people today
[21:08.400 --> 21:12.880]  you got to go to pedophilia i mean pretty much everything else has been normalized
[21:13.680 --> 21:20.160]  you know there's no shame in america for anything other than pedophilia and i guess um maybe trump
[21:20.160 --> 21:26.480]  is going to fix that so that not even that is something that is uh people are ashamed of by
[21:26.480 --> 21:33.120]  august you have the summit with putin you have trump putting out his uh little ai video about
[21:33.120 --> 21:42.320]  being the king and dropping excrement on the democrat areas and um then you get to september
[21:42.320 --> 21:50.560]  a lot of things happen in september epstein resurfaces you have the uh beginning of the
[21:51.520 --> 21:57.760]  war crimes that he's conducting here attacking people in international waters where he doesn't
[21:57.760 --> 22:03.040]  have a declaration of war where these are not combatants and as i said from the very beginning
[22:03.040 --> 22:08.960]  the very first strike it's not the fact they circle back and executed people who are waving
[22:08.960 --> 22:16.720]  for help shipwrecked the classic case that is in the american military manuals why is it there
[22:16.720 --> 22:22.880]  because that was a kind of reprehensible conduct that was engaged in by the german u-boat commanders
[22:22.880 --> 22:30.480]  submarine commanders that hit a ship and they come back and kill everybody and so that abomination
[22:30.480 --> 22:34.880]  surfaced later but it was abomination from the very beginning these people were not a threat
[22:35.520 --> 22:41.920]  they were not shooting this is not in self-defense there was no declaration of war and there was no
[22:41.920 --> 22:49.040]  fentanyl all that stuff was a lie and so then he um threatens columbia and turns out that columbia
[22:49.040 --> 22:53.920]  the biggest source of cocaine is also getting a lot of money from the u.s government i mean it's
[22:53.920 --> 23:02.880]  just like the somalian thing right we're bombing el shabab and all this in somalia uh pretty much
[23:02.880 --> 23:08.080]  um a record number of bombing runs in somalia this year but at the same time we're giving them
[23:08.080 --> 23:12.160]  billions of dollars in fraud they know about it they choose not to do anything about it both
[23:12.160 --> 23:19.760]  republicans and democrats say bipartisan apathy about that and so yeah columbia we have a have
[23:19.760 --> 23:26.320]  to have a war on drugs and yet we're giving money to columbia until you have the columbian president
[23:27.360 --> 23:32.880]  say something that offends trump personally then there was the assassination of charlie kirk and
[23:32.880 --> 23:39.360]  that got a lot of attention especially the fact that at the memorials we pointed out yesterday
[23:40.560 --> 23:44.160]  instead of forgiving people trump says i hate my enemies i want to get even with them
[23:45.280 --> 23:49.920]  and showing so much grief about charlie kirk as people ask him about he says yeah it was
[23:49.920 --> 23:56.080]  terrible by the way have you seen my plans for the ballroom yet that type of thing really was a
[23:56.080 --> 24:02.720]  character defining moment just like the upstream documents if you're paying attention and and then
[24:02.720 --> 24:06.560]  this white house ballroom thing look at how it is escalating as many people are saying we only think
[24:06.560 --> 24:11.920]  they're building a bunker for trump because he wants to take us to war got to have something
[24:11.920 --> 24:16.320]  that they can get into very very quickly there who knows what they're going to do with it i mean it
[24:16.320 --> 24:24.880]  could just be fraud waste and abuse or it could be something that is really big and um so uh the
[24:24.880 --> 24:32.560]  election losses in november more seizures in venezuela we have the um civil asset forfeiture
[24:32.560 --> 24:41.840]  now of giant oil tankers with millions of barrels of oil this is the progression of the failed war
[24:41.840 --> 24:50.400]  on drugs and so all this talk about treason if you say that people should not be following
[24:50.400 --> 24:56.080]  illegal orders and of course the how shallow the democrats are in terms of their convictions
[24:56.080 --> 25:01.520]  when asked if there were any illegal orders well i can't think of anything you know i mean
[25:01.520 --> 25:06.400]  shooting people in international waters without declaration of war without any threat being made
[25:07.120 --> 25:10.720]  i can't think of anything that'd be wrong with that they said when pressed on it
[25:11.520 --> 25:18.080]  that's how pathetic the democrats are because they want this power as well and so the uh the
[25:18.080 --> 25:24.800]  shutdown that lasted forever the uh the illegal order sham fight and it was a sham fight because
[25:24.800 --> 25:29.680]  the democrats are always doing illegal orders and they're pretending that well this is just a
[25:29.680 --> 25:36.400]  hypothetical we don't want to take trump on over this illegal war with venezuela then by december
[25:37.760 --> 25:41.200]  we saw the abstain thing finally reopened after all the delaying tactics
[25:42.160 --> 25:45.360]  and we're starting to get some information that's one of the reasons why
[25:46.000 --> 25:53.040]  trump was having a bad christmas day and attacking people there but a lot of war being queued up
[25:53.040 --> 25:59.280]  for the next year here and we're ending the war here with attacks on the ground in venezuela
[25:59.760 --> 26:07.520]  allegedly the interesting thing about this i want to talk about this coming up is um supposedly it
[26:07.520 --> 26:15.680]  happened last week venezuela hasn't said anything about it uh trump dropped some hints to try to get
[26:15.680 --> 26:20.800]  the ball rolling since nobody's asking him about it and everybody's wondering you know what really
[26:20.800 --> 26:26.800]  happened because uh this is supposedly according to trump it's a devastating attack all of his
[26:26.800 --> 26:32.640]  attacks are devastating right except nobody really knows where it is there's guesses about
[26:32.640 --> 26:40.160]  it but they're not really sure so not that big of an attack but we know they're signaling us and
[26:40.160 --> 26:44.240]  this is really a trial balloon more than his attack i think you know what are people going
[26:44.240 --> 26:48.160]  to say about it well they're not going to do anything about it just like they're not going
[26:48.160 --> 26:52.240]  to do anything about all the rest of his usurpations throughout this year by year's end
[26:53.120 --> 26:59.360]  the defining feature of trump's second presidency wasn't any single scandal any single decision
[27:00.240 --> 27:05.760]  it was the sheer velocity that made remembering them nearly impossible this wasn't accidental
[27:06.320 --> 27:13.280]  trump governed through saturation confident that a media ecosystem built up to chase novelty
[27:14.000 --> 27:21.600]  would amplify every provocation while struggling to retain any of them and i think it really is
[27:21.600 --> 27:25.600]  important to understand where this guy is coming from all the years of experience that he had with
[27:25.600 --> 27:32.400]  wwe i mean he's watched these guys come up with phony narratives and he knows how the conflict
[27:32.400 --> 27:37.840]  sells so they create so he decides that he's going to create conflict where there isn't any
[27:37.840 --> 27:42.160]  conflict because he knows the people are going to tune in that's why he goes after canada and so
[27:42.160 --> 27:49.440]  forth i think another thing that ww teaches you is that people want to buy in you don't even have to
[27:49.440 --> 27:55.040]  give them necessarily a believable lie just so long as it's one that aligns with what they want
[27:55.040 --> 28:00.320]  to believe that's right absolutely you're absolutely right travis and i think it also told him how to
[28:00.320 --> 28:05.840]  use some blood squibs like they came in handy in the campaign with an earshot you know i think he
[28:05.840 --> 28:09.920]  he learned how to take a fall and to make it look like he's bleeding i don't know maybe he really
[28:09.920 --> 28:15.440]  did cut his ear with a razor blade that's what the professional wrestlers do what broke wasn't
[28:15.520 --> 28:22.800]  just decorum or tone it was muscle memory oversight became episodic court rulings became
[28:22.800 --> 28:28.880]  optional performance art the press learned that even perfect documentation doesn't guarantee
[28:28.880 --> 28:34.640]  consequences if the next spectacle arrives quickly enough the public learned to live
[28:34.640 --> 28:42.800]  inside permanent provisionality where nothing is settled and nothing is finished and outrage itself
[28:43.440 --> 28:50.480]  expires on contact the cost of the fire hose wasn't just exhaustion it was erosion
[28:51.040 --> 28:57.200]  of trust of institutional confidence and of the expectation that power must eventually answer
[28:57.200 --> 29:03.040]  for itself now that's a key thing there i think that is true and that is the hallmark of the
[29:03.040 --> 29:09.840]  fourth turning and that's why i said trump was installed as the agent of chaos as the accelerant
[29:09.840 --> 29:14.560]  as we're getting close to the end of this fourth turning they need to get this accelerated and of
[29:14.560 --> 29:21.600]  course one of the key aspects of the fourth turning is that people lose all trust in institutions and
[29:21.600 --> 29:27.920]  all confidence in him he's working at that very hard as well as working to create a civil war
[29:27.920 --> 29:34.080]  right now it's a cold civil war who knows if he's going to make it hot trump didn't break the system
[29:34.080 --> 29:40.400]  he understood it better than the system understood itself well he's out there crying wolf this
[29:40.400 --> 29:46.400]  entire year the interesting thing i think is that it might be michael wolf who ultimately has him
[29:46.400 --> 29:55.200]  crying because one of the things that they didn't mention was the fact that trump and milania have
[29:55.200 --> 30:01.520]  taken the precedent that was set of lawfare against him and they've ramped it up to 11 on the
[30:01.520 --> 30:10.320]  amplifier and they are using that as intimidation everybody and they i said it was very interesting
[30:10.320 --> 30:18.000]  that they would threaten to sue all these different people who repeated the what michael wolf said he
[30:18.000 --> 30:25.840]  learned from jeffrey epstein in the interviews and in terms of the relationship of trump and milania
[30:25.920 --> 30:30.960]  to epstein and so as people repeat what he said and what he wrote in his book
[30:31.680 --> 30:36.240]  i said it is interesting isn't it that they keep coming after the people who repeat what michael
[30:36.240 --> 30:41.920]  wolf said rather than going after michael wolf well they finally did threaten michael wolf
[30:41.920 --> 30:48.080]  they didn't do a lawsuit they just sent him a threatening letter and he said it's on i'll sue
[30:48.080 --> 30:52.480]  you i'm not going to wait for you to sue me and uh so that's going to be very interesting
[30:53.440 --> 31:00.320]  i think that'll be very interesting especially uh i guess they were concerned that he might have
[31:01.520 --> 31:06.000]  made tapes as journalists and authors usually do when they're interviewing
[31:06.000 --> 31:11.200]  who knows maybe he's got him maybe he doesn't have them but um i think it's going to be kind
[31:11.200 --> 31:17.280]  of interesting the wolf is at the door this next year for them with epstein this is not going to
[31:17.280 --> 31:24.400]  go away it just keeps building because it was something that really defines his character and
[31:24.400 --> 31:29.600]  lack of it not only what he did with jeffrey epstein but what he has done with these documents
[31:30.560 --> 31:36.560]  and so he is an accelerationist trump is the gasoline that our masters have thrown on the
[31:36.560 --> 31:44.720]  dumpster fire at this end of the fourth turning expect a much larger fire next year and so i
[31:44.720 --> 31:51.040]  guess we'd say thank you for your attention he always ends his stuff right you know and now
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[33:34.720 --> 33:40.800]  and the new york times this is from mises they point out how last week trump denounced the new
[33:40.800 --> 33:45.840]  york times as a serious threat to national security of our nation enemy of the people
[33:45.840 --> 33:52.800]  they're traitors anybody that comes against him is as they put it you know chasing women
[33:53.760 --> 33:59.760]  this is new york times right chasing women for trump was a game of ego and dominance
[34:00.720 --> 34:07.600]  female bodies were the currency and you know when you look at this game of ego and dominance
[34:08.560 --> 34:11.680]  that epstein and trump were playing with each other that's what eventually
[34:12.560 --> 34:18.480]  blew up their relationship it was ego and dominance in a war about some property in
[34:18.480 --> 34:23.600]  west palm beach which again stop and think about that i said that to karen this morning i said
[34:24.160 --> 34:30.080]  why they call it west palm beach i mean it's not even the west coast of florida it's as far east
[34:30.080 --> 34:36.640]  as you can get without getting into the ocean uh everything about that place is a lie it might be
[34:36.640 --> 34:40.800]  palm beach was not west palm beach uh west palm beach ought to be on the west coast
[34:41.520 --> 34:47.840]  at least of florida uh anyway because america's founders had seen horrific political abuses in
[34:47.840 --> 34:55.200]  england says mises in prior times the constitution specifically and narrowly defines treason
[34:56.320 --> 35:03.920]  defined like this treason against the united states shall consist only in levying war against
[35:03.920 --> 35:12.320]  them or adhering to their enemies giving them aid and comfort no person shall be convicted of
[35:12.320 --> 35:20.240]  treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession an open
[35:20.240 --> 35:27.520]  court not a confession in a star chamber right and so they had seen uh this is something that
[35:27.520 --> 35:33.680]  is a hallmark of dictators and kings that you start throwing out charges of treason to everybody
[35:34.800 --> 35:42.640]  and said no this is what treason is very special case uh trump is instead trying to use let's say
[35:42.640 --> 35:49.200]  majestic standard of treason presuming that anything that denigrates the supreme leader
[35:49.920 --> 35:57.920]  is a betrayal of the nation in other words i am the law i am the nation and that is trump's
[35:57.920 --> 36:03.440]  attitude in the wake of january the sixth clash in the u.s capital many democrats
[36:04.080 --> 36:10.080]  wanted to label any protester who entered the capital as a traitor even before trump supporters
[36:10.080 --> 36:15.040]  poured into the capital that day democrats were accusing them of sedition for filing legal
[36:15.040 --> 36:21.600]  challenges to the election results including popular twitter hashtags such as hashtag gop
[36:21.600 --> 36:28.400]  seditious traders and hashtag treason against america and we heard this over and over again
[36:29.200 --> 36:38.160]  till it lost any meaning if we go back to 2006 the author of this article was heavily involved in
[36:38.160 --> 36:43.920]  what was happening is the republicans leading the charge to condemn the media for treason
[36:44.560 --> 36:48.880]  on june 23rd 2006 the new york times revealed that the bush administration
[36:48.880 --> 36:54.240]  had been illegally vacuuming up financial records that passed through a belgium hug
[36:54.240 --> 37:00.560]  hub for national banking the bush white house quickly re-labeled the surveillance program
[37:00.560 --> 37:06.800]  the quote terrorist finance tracking program and thus the media became guilty of helping terrorists
[37:06.800 --> 37:14.640]  destroy america treasury secretary john snow denounced the new york times article as quote
[37:14.640 --> 37:20.640]  irresponsible and harmful to the security of americans and freedom loving people worldwide
[37:21.760 --> 37:27.680]  so freedom loving people miraculously became the card that they would use against the first
[37:27.680 --> 37:34.400]  amendment we just saw this as i reported yesterday in the eu if you're going to push back against
[37:34.400 --> 37:40.240]  these tyrants like theory brettan ursula fond of lying in the eu if you're going to push back
[37:40.240 --> 37:45.520]  against them well we're going to push back we are now the bastion of freedom because we are
[37:45.520 --> 37:51.760]  supporting uh censorship and because you come after the people who are supporting uh censorship
[37:52.320 --> 37:57.680]  now you're the tyrants see how upside down that that logic is well it's the same thing here or
[37:57.680 --> 38:05.760]  the bush administration if you oppose government surveillance without a warrant then you're not
[38:05.760 --> 38:13.760]  freedom loving this is what we always see from these people so he said i appeared briefly on fox
[38:14.400 --> 38:19.360]  hannity and combs the day the times story was published my criticism of the warrantless
[38:19.360 --> 38:26.640]  surveillance provoked enraged emails against me he said one guy suggested that quote every no nothing
[38:26.640 --> 38:31.760]  lying jackass like you should be rounded up and gassed with the iraqi poison gas that does not
[38:31.760 --> 38:37.840]  exist according to you like she didn't he failed to explain this connection between the
[38:38.800 --> 38:45.760]  actual illegal surveillance and the imaginary poison gas they did actually poison people with gas
[38:47.360 --> 38:53.440]  with the help of the u.s we told them where to poison the people but the other weapons of mass
[38:53.440 --> 38:58.960]  destruction were fabrication from the person that trump would elevate to the head of the cia
[38:58.960 --> 39:06.560]  gina haspel along with torture and the cover-up of the torture so he said i observed that the
[39:06.560 --> 39:12.080]  endless threats of treason prosecutions against whistleblowers reporters and editors may be a
[39:12.080 --> 39:17.680]  last-ditch attempt to prevent americans from learning about secret presidential orders
[39:18.240 --> 39:25.040]  that would make the national security agency wiretapping uh look like kid stuff seven years
[39:25.040 --> 39:30.560]  later ed snowden revealed a federal surveillance crime spree is worse than anyone suspected
[39:31.200 --> 39:37.040]  obliterating the credibility of the u.s government and in response mike rogers a republican
[39:37.840 --> 39:44.080]  publicly joked about putting snowden on a government kill list which trump's attorney general
[39:45.040 --> 39:51.920]  and uh you know former cia guy bill bar actually did with julian songe along with mike pompeo
[39:51.920 --> 39:57.680]  i appeared briefly on on fox's hannity and combs that day and he said um he you know of all the
[39:57.680 --> 40:03.520]  stuff that happened to him he's been at the epicenter of this unfortunately trump is continuing a
[40:03.520 --> 40:10.720]  long presidential tradition of saber rattling against free speech but happily the 1971 supreme
[40:10.720 --> 40:16.880]  court decision around the pentagon papers uh put up a pretty good barrier against that type of
[40:17.040 --> 40:22.960]  thing they wrote the first amendment protected the media because quote only a free and unrestricted
[40:22.960 --> 40:30.400]  press can effectively expose deception in government the government's power to censor the press was
[40:30.400 --> 40:39.200]  abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government so either going to
[40:39.200 --> 40:44.320]  have censorship by the press or we're going to have the press able to censure the government
[40:45.280 --> 40:49.840]  this is the first amendment is about as far as freedom of press goes but it goes much deeper
[40:49.840 --> 40:56.880]  than that if you're going to have a psychological war an information war a mind war against the
[40:56.880 --> 41:03.440]  people that begins with free speech that's why the first casualty of war is always the truth
[41:05.280 --> 41:12.640]  to get you to accept what is not true to get you to follow them blindly and to get you to kill
[41:13.440 --> 41:17.760]  who they wish to kill that's what we're going to be seeing a lot this next year
[41:17.760 --> 41:22.560]  i'm afraid there's going to be a lot of wars not just this year we've had wars and rumors of wars
[41:22.560 --> 41:28.160]  i think we're going to have uh more wars and rumors uh next year i think that's my take on it we'll
[41:28.160 --> 41:31.040]  talk a little bit more about that when we come back but let's take a look at some of the comments
[41:31.040 --> 41:37.920]  here travis that's right we've got markey mark in new jersey and thank you markey mark appreciate
[41:37.920 --> 41:43.280]  the support says dave there's a west palm beach it's named so because it's a separate town adjacent
[41:43.280 --> 41:48.880]  to and west of palm beach proper well it's a nice town it's not quite as nice as palm beach proper
[41:52.800 --> 41:58.240]  so i guess it does deserve its west title even if i've been there i've got some uh
[41:58.240 --> 42:04.640]  relatives down there karen does and uh but you know the thing is um i lived in tampa that was
[42:04.640 --> 42:10.000]  the actual west coast of florida so we just always look at that and shake my head and laugh but uh
[42:10.000 --> 42:16.880]  yeah i get it i know half car 61 says there are mass protests in iran against the regime there
[42:16.880 --> 42:23.360]  so why do they want to attack iran yeah uh it's because netanyahu wants to attack iran
[42:24.000 --> 42:27.360]  and we do whatever netanyahu wants to do that's that's the bottom line
[42:28.640 --> 42:33.680]  he's calling the shots wally walrus says my dictator is better than your dictator
[42:33.680 --> 42:39.200]  well i'm that's good i'm glad you've got the best dictator the greatest we got the ayatollah donald
[42:39.200 --> 42:48.000]  trump yeah half car 61 says what's happening in minnesota with this fraud is also happening here
[42:48.000 --> 42:55.600]  in maine it's happening everywhere it is a microcosm of fraud as well as bipartisan apathy
[42:55.600 --> 43:01.200]  about the fraud and apathy about the immigration stuff it is the epicenter of what they had to be
[43:01.200 --> 43:07.360]  focused on but they're not as i said for the longest time that the real issue with immigration
[43:07.360 --> 43:11.600]  is not that you go out and round up people who are building houses and mowing lawns okay they're
[43:11.600 --> 43:17.040]  actually working the real issue is this kind of stuff this is the very thing they need to go after
[43:17.760 --> 43:26.320]  criminal organized crime um you know from foreign uh terrorist organizations but they don't instead
[43:26.320 --> 43:30.560]  what do they do they go after the other stuff because they want conflict they don't want
[43:30.560 --> 43:36.640]  consensus i'm marty says the antidote to the chaos prepare as best as you can and leave it up to god
[43:36.640 --> 43:41.440]  that's right emotionally detach and disengage with a good helping of gallows humor and ridicule
[43:41.440 --> 43:48.160]  i'm no expert just doing what i can that's right hey it's ben ferguson and i want you to pause what
[43:48.160 --> 43:54.560]  you're doing for just one minute and i want you to hear about alahandra she lives in a remote community
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[45:43.520 --> 45:54.880]  details as a matter of fact before we take a break um let's do this next one here mr mcgaga
[45:54.880 --> 45:59.840]  mr mcmagga says he's thinking about opening a daycare how many kids will fit in a po box
[46:01.920 --> 46:05.520]  yeah an infinite number is like how many angels will fit on the head of a pen
[46:05.520 --> 46:13.920]  i like that mr mcmagga it's like mr magoo right and of course the maga people do suffer from
[46:13.920 --> 46:18.880]  nearsightedness don't they they can't see what's ahead they can't see what's coming they can't see
[46:18.880 --> 46:24.880]  the the trends that are being set in place here well this is actually from carl truman and it's
[46:24.880 --> 46:32.240]  exactly what i'm marty was saying relief from a world in flux said christmas is a time to focus
[46:32.240 --> 46:38.080]  our minds on things that do not change he said i was never a particular fan of the liturgical
[46:38.080 --> 46:44.960]  calendar uh there's deep suspicion of establishment church life left me suspicious that observing the
[46:44.960 --> 46:50.800]  seasons of the year in religious terms smacked of a half-hearted commitment to the bible at
[46:50.800 --> 46:58.160]  the least but as i've grown older while perhaps no wiser in general i have warmed to the calendar
[46:58.160 --> 47:04.480]  liturgical calendar especially to advent always a lover of christmas as a family festival
[47:05.120 --> 47:10.560]  i've come to appreciate it as an important religious time too perhaps the most important
[47:10.560 --> 47:16.240]  benefit it brings is an opportunity to correct the focus of our minds and draw them to those
[47:16.240 --> 47:23.200]  things that are above and away from the matters of this earth matters that are truly important
[47:23.840 --> 47:30.640]  but whose significance must always be relativized by placing them in the greater context of eternity
[47:31.520 --> 47:38.080]  he said particularly at the current moment when so much seems to be in flux and a sense of social
[47:38.080 --> 47:45.360]  acceleration leaves so many with a sense of vertigo it is vital to refocus on those things
[47:45.360 --> 47:54.160]  that do not change of which the incarnation of christ is surely the supreme and decisive example
[47:55.840 --> 48:00.480]  again what is your frame of reference you know when everything starts moving really quickly
[48:00.480 --> 48:06.400]  you know uh you can't tell uh am i moving or am i standing still or is you know is that are
[48:06.400 --> 48:12.960]  they the ones moving or am i accelerating well everything is accelerating and um uh if you're
[48:12.960 --> 48:21.200]  going to have a situation of moral relativity then you really don't know what is moving you
[48:21.200 --> 48:24.800]  don't know if you're moving you don't know if you're standing still and the other people are moving
[48:25.680 --> 48:29.440]  and so you need to have that frame of reference and you need to have that perspective
[48:30.320 --> 48:36.400]  and that's why i try to bring this back to christ because all the rest of this stuff is just passing
[48:36.400 --> 48:44.320]  away and it is passing by us at an ever-increasing rate it is accelerating by design as i just
[48:44.320 --> 48:50.800]  pointed out the design is to increase this the design is to have so much acceleration so much
[48:50.800 --> 48:56.880]  change thrown at you so quickly that you're just trying to juggle plates and you don't really
[48:56.880 --> 49:02.480]  understand what is the true perspective here so so there's no more profound expression of the
[49:02.480 --> 49:07.440]  church's teachings about christ than those we find in christmas carols for example
[49:08.800 --> 49:14.000]  and i think that's very important it's very important what we sing uh from personal
[49:14.000 --> 49:19.280]  standpoint as well as corporate worship i think you know we're told to worship god in spirit
[49:19.280 --> 49:25.920]  and in truth the music is the spirit part the lyrics should be the truth they should be biblical
[49:25.920 --> 49:29.680]  lyrics shouldn't be you know my personal experience this is what i'm going through
[49:29.680 --> 49:34.000]  and here's my personal experience type of thing which is what we're going through we're seeing
[49:34.000 --> 49:39.840]  more and more from the pop music that's out there so i started writing my own and uh because i found
[49:39.840 --> 49:46.480]  nothing i found no truth and i didn't like the music either so i went back to let me get some
[49:46.480 --> 49:52.720]  classic uh songs that have endured for centuries melodies that have endured for centuries you know
[49:52.720 --> 49:59.680]  we think of certain things like green sleeves for example and there are others like that they're
[49:59.680 --> 50:04.240]  very catchy tunes that have persisted and are still around after many many centuries
[50:05.440 --> 50:12.400]  and so if you wed the eternal biblical truth to great melodies that have been around for
[50:12.400 --> 50:17.440]  centuries that's a very powerful thing very powerful personally as well as corporately
[50:17.520 --> 50:22.800]  says thus the timing of christmas in the northern hemisphere the physically darkest time of the year
[50:23.520 --> 50:30.320]  brings out in sharp relief the idea of light bursting into darkness and the darkness signaling
[50:30.320 --> 50:37.920]  failing to overcome it and so he says these are strange times for christians the temptation
[50:37.920 --> 50:43.520]  to prioritize earthly things is acute at the moment this moment in history where so much on
[50:43.520 --> 50:48.800]  this earth seems to be at stake but compared to the eternal weight of glory that is to come these
[50:48.800 --> 50:54.880]  things are light momentary ephemera indeed they are such in comparison the glory that has already
[50:54.880 --> 51:01.120]  come in christ christmas offers an opportunity to refocus on what really counts the things
[51:01.120 --> 51:11.440]  that are above the humble nature circumstances of the incarnation
[51:13.520 --> 51:23.440]  so we should not neglect it
[51:43.520 --> 51:53.440]  so
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[56:35.680 --> 56:41.280]  Welcome back. We got an announcement. The family wanted me to make this announcement yesterday.
[56:41.280 --> 56:46.960]  We do have it up on the website saying that beginning next year, just a few days from now,
[56:47.840 --> 56:54.400]  we're going to have new show hours. The live show will begin at 10 a.m. and we will be doing
[56:54.400 --> 57:01.680]  two clock hours of show. Actually, this is kind of what I did for the first three years.
[57:02.480 --> 57:09.040]  I had a three-hour show when I was at Infowars, but it was actually two hours worth of content
[57:09.680 --> 57:16.160]  and one hour of infomercials. We were on a clock and we would go typically about 10 minutes
[57:16.720 --> 57:23.920]  and then have a five-minute infomercials that we would do. When we got to the podcast, I thought
[57:23.920 --> 57:29.520]  it was an improvement to be able to just run through on a particular topic. I don't really
[57:29.520 --> 57:35.440]  pay any attention to the clock or the time, as you've noticed. Sometimes I run out before
[57:36.080 --> 57:42.080]  we get to the end of the show, the things that I want to say. But this is kind of an intervention,
[57:42.080 --> 57:47.440]  as the liberals would call it. It's kind of an intervention on me by the family to go to this.
[57:47.440 --> 57:54.000]  They worked out this schedule for us. But I think it will free us up to do some things that are
[57:54.000 --> 57:57.040]  longer perspective and some special reports. That's what I'm hoping will happen.
[57:57.920 --> 58:05.920]  So, not necessarily looking to do things less, but to do maybe things that are more
[58:05.920 --> 58:09.280]  focused and special reports and things like that that I haven't had time to do.
[58:10.560 --> 58:15.200]  I really would like to get back to doing that. But in terms of the content, it's going to be the
[58:15.200 --> 58:20.240]  same amount of content that I had in a three-hour show when I was working on a radio clock at
[58:20.240 --> 58:25.440]  Infowars, because that's the way things are set up. I could have done that from the beginning.
[58:26.160 --> 58:32.240]  I had several people who had been carrying the show on their sites who wanted me to go to a radio
[58:32.240 --> 58:37.520]  clock so they could put it on the radio. And I chose not to do that. I wanted to stay on the
[58:37.520 --> 58:45.600]  freer format of the podcast. And so I imagine that window is closed by now anyway. But I think it's
[58:45.600 --> 58:53.200]  important to be able to stick on a topic as long as it takes to cover it. But a lot of this is for
[58:53.200 --> 58:59.520]  health reasons as well. But I think it will give us a chance to maybe step back a little bit and
[58:59.520 --> 59:05.920]  do some longer perspective things. But we will have the broadcast pretty much. What are you doing,
[59:05.920 --> 59:11.440]  Travis? You're running this thing as a repeat after the show. Yeah. After the show ends, I
[59:11.440 --> 59:18.320]  restart the broadcast so it plays out again. Yeah. And so we stop it before the new show starts.
[59:18.960 --> 59:23.600]  But it pretty much continues going on. And people will get a couple hundred people throughout the
[59:23.600 --> 59:28.400]  day coming in and they can interact with each other as a kind of a meeting place. That'll still
[59:28.400 --> 59:33.280]  be there. I need to work up a graphic that lets people know when we're actually live. I just haven't
[59:33.280 --> 59:40.720]  had the time to do it. But we will actually go live at 10 o'clock on Monday through Friday.
[59:40.720 --> 59:46.400]  Still have that there. So like you said, hopefully this gives us time to do more produced content.
[59:46.560 --> 59:51.920]  Because with the way the show is, it just runs into itself over and over again. Yeah. As soon
[59:51.920 --> 59:56.240]  as I get finished with the show, I start reading news for the next day. And so we need to get a
[59:56.240 --> 59:59.680]  little bit of a, you know, the family is right. We need to get a little bit of a perspective
[01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:07.840]  and pull back on that a little bit. That's kind of obsessive. Yeah. I get done with the show.
[01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:14.240]  I get to put the kiddo down for a nap. Then it's to work. Then he's awake. Then it's back to work.
[01:00:14.240 --> 01:00:18.320]  Yeah. As a matter of fact, we had, I think here it is right here. This was,
[01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:28.960]  can you see that? You know what? That's reference to Sisyphus, right? That's like our daily schedule
[01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:33.760]  here. As soon as the rock is rolled up the hill, it rolls back down again. And it goes on eternally.
[01:00:33.760 --> 01:00:38.080]  That was the Greek legend that was there. And so we're going to try to get a little bit away from
[01:00:38.080 --> 01:00:44.000]  the Sisyphus routine here and be able to do some different things. And hopefully you'll like
[01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:48.640]  what we do. I've got some music as I was referencing there that I'd like to get finished.
[01:00:49.680 --> 01:00:52.560]  Karen came in and said, why didn't you play in the beginning? And it's like,
[01:00:52.560 --> 01:00:57.360]  well, it's like seven minutes long. So I chose not to play that, but that's
[01:00:57.360 --> 01:01:04.080]  the kind of thing that I've been talking about. Let's talk about what's going on in Minnesota.
[01:01:04.080 --> 01:01:08.240]  That's what everybody is talking about. That is the focus of the news cycle right now,
[01:01:09.200 --> 01:01:14.400]  as well as calls for Waltz to resign. And he's got a reelection campaign coming up.
[01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:21.840]  If I was really cynical as I really am, I would say that a lot of this has to do with that.
[01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:29.280]  Although I think in reality, you know, there's been report after report after report of this
[01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:34.640]  stuff for a very long time. Everybody's known about it. I've talked about it a long time ago,
[01:01:34.720 --> 01:01:41.360]  but it was really the viral thing by this guy who went around with it. And I forget
[01:01:41.360 --> 01:01:47.360]  what his name is. I don't want to diss him here, but he went around and
[01:01:48.800 --> 01:01:52.560]  trying to look for his name here. Do you remember his name, Travis? He's a young guy,
[01:01:52.560 --> 01:02:00.080]  his social media account and got millions of views, probably tens or hundreds of millions of
[01:02:00.080 --> 01:02:05.920]  views of this stuff. And, you know, having somebody going around live like that, that's
[01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:10.880]  one of the powerful things of 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace, when he'd have the personal
[01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:17.120]  confrontations with people about the fraud and everything. And so that really brought it to
[01:02:17.120 --> 01:02:22.560]  everybody's attention. And I don't think it is purely cynical about that, but it has a lot
[01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:27.840]  with this election coming up. That's a big part of it. Republican lawmakers in the state and
[01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:35.280]  federal level have called on Waltz, who was Lala Harris's running mate. Boy, he dodged a bullet
[01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:40.000]  with that one, didn't he? Not that the other bullet is any better. I mean, it's just pick your
[01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:45.840]  poison. Waltz has defended himself that he's worked for years to crack down on fraud.
[01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:53.680]  Let's think about that. If that's true, wouldn't that be all the more reason to get rid of him?
[01:02:54.640 --> 01:02:59.280]  If you worked on this for years, this massive fraud case, and you couldn't get anything done,
[01:02:59.280 --> 01:03:04.960]  maybe it's time for you to leave. I mean, there's a no-win situation for him. He can either say,
[01:03:04.960 --> 01:03:09.520]  I had no idea it was happening. Okay, it's time for you to leave. I worked on it all this time.
[01:03:09.520 --> 01:03:13.520]  I couldn't get anything done. Okay, it's time for you to leave. Or he was fully on board with it,
[01:03:13.520 --> 01:03:18.800]  which is what a lot of people are saying, which is time for you to leave and relocate to the jail.
[01:03:19.120 --> 01:03:25.120]  The prosecutors have alleged that this is going to be billions of dollars. As a matter of fact,
[01:03:25.120 --> 01:03:33.920]  it's like $18 billion that Minnesota is consuming in welfare payments for food,
[01:03:33.920 --> 01:03:39.840]  as well as child care. And half of that, half of that at least, they think, is fraud.
[01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:46.960]  Like I said, this is a microcosm of what is going on in America. It's why we got a $40 trillion
[01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:52.400]  budget deficit. Probably half of that is fraud. The other half is unconstitutional.
[01:03:53.280 --> 01:03:57.520]  Shouldn't be doing it in the first place. The two-term governor is running for re-election 26,
[01:03:58.160 --> 01:04:04.240]  but he calls for his resignation, could derail his campaign, you think? I don't think there's
[01:04:04.240 --> 01:04:09.840]  any way he gets out of this unless there's going to be massive voter fraud. I think this is something
[01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:17.360]  that has really angered people. The ex-account, Minnesota DHS, Department of Human Services,
[01:04:17.920 --> 01:04:23.760]  which says that it represents 480 staff members at the Department of Human Services, said,
[01:04:27.040 --> 01:04:32.160]  Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota.
[01:04:33.680 --> 01:04:38.400]  In December, the Justice Department announced new charges against the 78th defendant,
[01:04:38.960 --> 01:04:43.520]  alleged to be involved in a nonprofit called Feeding Our Future. Prosecutors said the
[01:04:43.520 --> 01:04:49.280]  organization stole more than $250 million from Child Nutrition Program, leading to more than
[01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:54.080]  50 convictions. According to a New York Times report, some of the fraud cases were linked
[01:04:54.080 --> 01:05:02.480]  to parts of Minnesota's Somali community. Parts of it, yeah. Republican Representative Tom
[01:05:02.480 --> 01:05:10.800]  Emmer of Minnesota, who is the House Majority Whip in the U.S. House, said of Walz on Fox News,
[01:05:11.760 --> 01:05:16.480]  he should resign. He's a total embarrassment. We've been trying to sound the alarm on this
[01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:22.000]  for the past three years, has he? I'm going to tell you what this guy's been doing. And remember,
[01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:27.920]  this is the number three guy in Republican leadership in the House. That's what the whip is.
[01:05:28.560 --> 01:05:32.160]  And what is the duty of the whip? Why they call him the whip? Because he whips people in line.
[01:05:32.800 --> 01:05:39.680]  His job is to go around, and when the leadership has something they want done, his job is to go
[01:05:39.680 --> 01:05:45.280]  around and whip people into shape and get them on board with that agenda and to give them reason.
[01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:50.640]  So he's there for persuasion, for organization around an agenda, but he couldn't be bothered
[01:05:50.640 --> 01:05:58.560]  with all of this stuff, right? So we'll talk about what happened with Emmer quite some time ago.
[01:05:58.560 --> 01:06:05.040]  Minnesota's acting U.S. attorney has said $9 billion or more in federal funds may have been
[01:06:05.040 --> 01:06:12.480]  stolen since 2018. Who was in? Who was president in 2018? Trump, was it? And of course, a lot of
[01:06:12.480 --> 01:06:18.960]  this stuff also goes back, and this is Ilhan Omar's alibi, and she's trying to deflect away from her.
[01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:26.080]  By the way, her fortunes have, she's had a very good year. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want to
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[01:08:13.520 --> 01:08:20.160]  fortunes have skyrocketed by many millions of dollars. They've gone straight up like a musk
[01:08:20.160 --> 01:08:25.760]  rocket. One thing I wanted to point out is that when you talk about, you know, legals committing
[01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:31.200]  fraud, generally the liberal response is, well, you know, they're not the real problem. It's these
[01:08:31.200 --> 01:08:35.200]  billionaires that are hoarding all this wealth, and they're not paying their taxes. They're who
[01:08:35.200 --> 01:08:39.920]  are really, you know, causing the problems. It's like, well, now we're up to billions of dollars of
[01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:46.000]  fraud. Billions. The same number you've had an issue with before. So now that we're at billions,
[01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:51.120]  can we admit that these illegals and these refugees quote unquote are a problem, that they
[01:08:51.120 --> 01:08:56.320]  are harming the system, that they are making life worse for the average American now that they're
[01:08:56.320 --> 01:09:02.160]  soaking billions from the government? And the reports are being done on this for a very,
[01:09:02.160 --> 01:09:08.080]  very long time. You know, like I said, back in 2018 was when this stuff started. I was doing
[01:09:08.080 --> 01:09:11.920]  reports about this. We were talking about how it was a little Mogadishu there. Here's a report
[01:09:11.920 --> 01:09:17.600]  that was done locally, quite some time ago. ...closed Baraka Child Care Center yesterday morning. Well,
[01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:22.640]  investigators executed a search warrant. It's one of 10 being investigated for financial misconduct
[01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:27.040]  of the state's child care system. This, I believe, was around 2018. Jennifer merrily shares where that
[01:09:27.040 --> 01:09:32.720]  money would have gone instead. Nearly 2,400 kids are on the waiting list for Minnesota's child care
[01:09:32.720 --> 01:09:39.200]  assistance program. It helps low-income families pay for child care. Daycares are given money
[01:09:39.200 --> 01:09:45.760]  per child. But right now, state agencies are investigating financial fraud at 10 different
[01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:51.040]  centers, including Baraka Child Care Center in Minneapolis. So where there's been these
[01:09:51.040 --> 01:10:00.160]  totally fraudulent operators and stealing money and so high time and they should crack down on
[01:10:00.160 --> 01:10:05.600]  more. As part of the investigation, the BCA and Secret Service spent hours at this home in Columbia
[01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:12.000]  Heights combing through it and collecting evidence. A relative told WCCO, they are good family. They
[01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:16.880]  work hard. You know, that's all. The raid at Baraka focuses on fraudulent billing of the state
[01:10:16.880 --> 01:10:23.360]  assistance program. A child care provider investigations unit formed in 2014 to investigate
[01:10:23.360 --> 01:10:30.160]  similar cases has already closed 12 child care centers. So the latest child care scam has been
[01:10:30.160 --> 01:10:34.960]  to have 100 people enrolled, 100 kids who are enrolled in your program have 10 show up bill for
[01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:40.640]  the hundred. That happened in several cases that resulted in a conviction. In one, the criminal
[01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:46.800]  complaint reveals investigators set up cameras to capture kids who entered and exited. Over a two
[01:10:46.800 --> 01:10:53.920]  week period in 2014, the daycare billed for 950 children who did not attend the center,
[01:10:54.480 --> 01:11:01.280]  resulting in $51,000 of fraud just for that time period. There are people who have severe needs
[01:11:02.320 --> 01:11:06.640]  that we can't take care of because there's just not enough money and yet money goes out the back.
[01:11:07.840 --> 01:11:11.760]  Investigators haven't released any details about what was found in yesterday's raid.
[01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:15.920]  The office of the inspector general said it will continue to investigate fraud in the program,
[01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:21.840]  saying child care fraud is especially egregious because in addition to exploiting taxpayer money,
[01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:25.680]  it harms the families and children. The program is intended to help.
[01:11:26.720 --> 01:11:30.960]  That was a decade ago and as you heard them say, you know, back in 2014 and already, you know,
[01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:37.440]  we've got a dozen of them here and it's just been going on and on and on but it's not been on the
[01:11:37.440 --> 01:11:45.840]  radar of the Trump administration or of ICE or of the FBI but now it is because of a social media
[01:11:45.840 --> 01:11:52.000]  report that went viral. FBI director Cash Patel is now on it because the only thing that he
[01:11:52.000 --> 01:11:57.520]  investigates is social media. He's going to dismantle the large-scale fraud schemes that
[01:11:57.520 --> 01:12:03.840]  are exploiting federal programs, he said. Well, the Minnesota Fraud Committee chair claims that
[01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:11.600]  Waltz turned a blind eye to fraud warnings for years, yes. Kristen Robbins chairs the state's
[01:12:11.600 --> 01:12:17.040]  Fraud Prevention Committee and says the governor ignored whistleblowers for years and he is
[01:12:17.040 --> 01:12:23.040]  ultimately the one who is responsible, just like Trump is ultimately the one responsible
[01:12:23.040 --> 01:12:27.440]  for the fraud that happened with the pandemic nonsense and I've interviewed,
[01:12:29.040 --> 01:12:34.560]  I can't remember the guy's name now, but he was also involved in investigating the election fraud
[01:12:35.120 --> 01:12:40.720]  and he said these people... Big Britt is back again and chat says he's called Nick Shirley,
[01:12:40.720 --> 01:12:44.240]  the guy reporting. Nick Shirley is the one who did, yeah, thank you, thank you. Thank you.
[01:12:44.240 --> 01:12:53.760]  Yeah, Nick Shirley. Shirley. Don't call me Shirley. Leslie Nielsen, yeah. Anyway,
[01:12:56.400 --> 01:13:02.640]  if you go back to this stuff, it's been going on a very long time and who knew there was going to
[01:13:02.640 --> 01:13:07.360]  be COVID fraud, right? Well, it was very obvious from the very beginning that there's going to be
[01:13:07.360 --> 01:13:12.960]  fraud. As the individual I talked to, that was his specialty, he said, they contacted me and said,
[01:13:13.520 --> 01:13:18.320]  this is horrific, you know, what's going to happen? And they said, well, we haven't had any fraud yet
[01:13:18.320 --> 01:13:22.240]  and he goes, this is wide open. He says, you don't have any fraud yet because you haven't started
[01:13:22.240 --> 01:13:27.280]  paying anybody any money, but it's just an invitation to theft. And it was, not just in
[01:13:27.280 --> 01:13:33.760]  Minnesota, but in many other places. That started with Trump and with all the stuff that's going on,
[01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:42.800]  people conveniently forgotten that the fraud of the stimulus programs and the other programs,
[01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:47.760]  the CARES Act and all the rest of the stuff they put together to prepare us for universal basic
[01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:55.600]  income, that that welfare program, that psychological warfare as well as welfare program,
[01:13:56.320 --> 01:14:03.120]  that was riddled with fraud, I would say by design from the very beginning. And the Trump
[01:14:03.120 --> 01:14:09.200]  administration did nothing about that. So while Waltz and his office have touted his work to
[01:14:09.200 --> 01:14:15.200]  address these scandals, state lawmakers argue that he has had years to do so and that he has
[01:14:15.200 --> 01:14:21.600]  deliberately ignored whistleblowers. So again, the number right now that everybody seems to be
[01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:28.480]  sticking to is $9 billion. These whistleblowers have been sounding the alarm for years, she said.
[01:14:29.120 --> 01:14:36.320]  We've had hearings for almost a year now holding his agencies accountable. He's not fired anyone.
[01:14:36.880 --> 01:14:40.800]  He's not taken steps to stop the fraud on the front end and he continues to make excuses.
[01:14:41.360 --> 01:14:46.960]  So I would absolutely want him to resign, as I said weeks ago. Or I know others are looking at
[01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:53.920]  articles of impeachment, but he is responsible. He turned a blind eye for seven years and we need
[01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:59.040]  a clean house in the executive branch, she said. And again, if you go back to 2015,
[01:14:59.920 --> 01:15:05.520]  what you saw there were some raids that were being done. In 2015, that center that we talked
[01:15:05.520 --> 01:15:10.080]  about, we laughed about the Learing Center, where they supposed to be the learning center, but they
[01:15:10.640 --> 01:15:19.040]  their sign doesn't, they can't even spell learning. How's that for irony? So the learning center that
[01:15:19.040 --> 01:15:27.680]  they spelled as Learing Center, it was the FBI shut that down in 2015, but there was no penalty.
[01:15:27.680 --> 01:15:32.800]  Nobody was really punished with it. So what happened was the same people went out and changed
[01:15:32.800 --> 01:15:39.200]  the name. They got a new sign that said Learing Center and kept doing what they were doing before.
[01:15:39.200 --> 01:15:46.640]  So this is fraud, definitely the state level, but it is federal money that is being stolen as well.
[01:15:47.360 --> 01:15:52.800]  And the FBI and the Trump administration, many others did absolutely nothing with all the stuff
[01:15:52.800 --> 01:15:58.800]  that was happening at the time. They did nothing about it. And I remember covering stories about
[01:15:58.800 --> 01:16:05.680]  how these people were, you know, there was this whole network of Somalis and how they had,
[01:16:06.720 --> 01:16:11.200]  it was very structured and how they were running cash at the airport and all the rest of the stuff.
[01:16:11.200 --> 01:16:17.200]  This was known a decade ago. I reported on it a decade ago. Nobody cared to do anything about it.
[01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:23.200]  Payments are still being sent out as a matter of fact, said Robbins. She said she was shocked
[01:16:23.200 --> 01:16:28.880]  to see that the Walsh government has not even stopped paying, even though this thing is so
[01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:35.840]  riddled with fraud. She faced criticism from Democrats for talking about it, taking this
[01:16:35.840 --> 01:16:40.960]  information about the fraud to the U.S. Attorney's office. They said you should have taken this to
[01:16:40.960 --> 01:16:46.400]  the state authorities, but they weren't doing anything. She's one of multiple lawmakers who
[01:16:46.400 --> 01:16:52.240]  claimed that the local state government has retaliated against whistleblowers. Don't take
[01:16:52.240 --> 01:16:57.920]  this to the feds, bring it to us, but you're not doing anything. Walsh's office also shared a link
[01:16:58.560 --> 01:17:06.000]  to the Minnesota governor candidate, Scott Jensen, who argued in a post that Robbins'
[01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:12.480]  Fraud Committee has not advanced one substantive bill to prevent fraud, and according to several
[01:17:12.480 --> 01:17:17.680]  members of the community, its main focus has been political grandstanding. Remember, Scott Jensen
[01:17:17.680 --> 01:17:24.240]  ran for governor. He was a physician who pushed back against a lot of the lockdown stuff that
[01:17:24.240 --> 01:17:30.880]  happened, and as a Republican who was running, he criticized her Fraud Committee, said it sounds
[01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:37.360]  like they're doing exactly what the Republicans do in Congress. They grandstand with committee
[01:17:37.360 --> 01:17:43.040]  things, but they don't do anything. They just have these committees for getting media attention and
[01:17:43.040 --> 01:17:48.080]  grandstanding, but nothing is ever done by them either. This is why I say it is a microcosm
[01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:56.160]  of the bipartisan do-nothing fraud that is allowed at every level in our government now.
[01:17:57.120 --> 01:18:04.800]  So, Tom Emmer is now calling for the deportation of every Somali engaged in fraud in Minnesota.
[01:18:04.800 --> 01:18:10.560]  Well, I would support that. Why wouldn't you deport them if they are committing crimes like that?
[01:18:10.560 --> 01:18:15.280]  It's one of the things when you look at ICE bragging about, well, look at these people,
[01:18:15.280 --> 01:18:22.320]  how many that we've got here that had been convicted or charged with a crime or whatever,
[01:18:22.800 --> 01:18:29.840]  and they're out on the street. That just shows how broken our system is that they come here
[01:18:29.840 --> 01:18:37.040]  illegally, they commit crimes, they release them again. So, yeah, deport these people, absolutely.
[01:18:37.600 --> 01:18:42.000]  Deportation should be the moderate stance. That should be where you start.
[01:18:42.000 --> 01:18:42.640]  Yeah, that's right.
[01:18:42.640 --> 01:18:46.880]  That shouldn't even be considered. That should just be the standard.
[01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:51.360]  When you look at, it's probably changed now, but in Switzerland, it used to be the kind of situation
[01:18:51.360 --> 01:18:56.000]  where you'd have to live there for 10 years, and of course you had to be able to support yourself
[01:18:56.000 --> 01:19:01.520]  too, right? So, you had to live there for 10 years and not get in trouble. As a matter of fact,
[01:19:01.520 --> 01:19:06.160]  you had to not, it wasn't enough just not to get in trouble. You had to be liked. You had to be a
[01:19:06.160 --> 01:19:10.880]  good citizen in the community. You had to have letters of reference, if you want to become a
[01:19:10.880 --> 01:19:15.600]  Swiss citizen, of people who liked you and said you were a positive influence and that type of
[01:19:15.600 --> 01:19:21.360]  thing. It wasn't enough just to keep your nose clean. And then you could apply for citizenship
[01:19:21.360 --> 01:19:24.400]  after 10 years and a lot of personal references from people who lived there.
[01:19:25.280 --> 01:19:31.840]  So, yeah, when you look at Tom Emmer, he said even naturalized citizens should have their
[01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:36.960]  citizenship revoked so they can be deported. He added that he's willing to pass legislation
[01:19:36.960 --> 01:19:41.520]  to make such a move legal. I have three words regarding Somalis who have committed fraud
[01:19:41.520 --> 01:19:48.320]  against American taxpayers. Send them home. If they're here illegally, deport them immediately.
[01:19:48.960 --> 01:19:53.200]  If they're naturalized citizens, revoke their citizenship and deport them quickly thereafter.
[01:19:53.760 --> 01:19:59.440]  If we need to change the law to do that, I will. Our nation will not tolerate those who take
[01:19:59.440 --> 01:20:05.920]  advantage of our charity and who refuse to assimilate into our culture. Well, I agree with
[01:20:05.920 --> 01:20:12.320]  that. Why is he waiting until now to say this though? He's in Minnesota. He's known about this
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[01:22:00.000 --> 01:22:06.080]  Many non-Western cultures have this idea that someone is going to get rich by cheating the
[01:22:06.080 --> 01:22:11.840]  system. Someone is going to cheat and win, so it might as well be you. Because everyone else is
[01:22:11.840 --> 01:22:18.560]  already doing it. You have to cheat to even the playing field. And when you import these cultures,
[01:22:18.560 --> 01:22:24.320]  they are simply going to engage in that behavior wherever they are. I agree. I agree. You cannot,
[01:22:24.800 --> 01:22:31.040]  you can import a small number of people that you pick and choose carefully and they will gradually
[01:22:31.040 --> 01:22:35.680]  integrate over years as they intermix with the population. But if you bring in enough of them,
[01:22:35.680 --> 01:22:42.320]  they never have to integrate. They have their own personal in-group already here. And I've seen that
[01:22:42.320 --> 01:22:47.920]  type of attitude in big cities as well. You have to get them before they get us. I've seen that
[01:22:47.920 --> 01:22:52.000]  from people that I've known who lived and grew up in New York or Chicago or other places like that
[01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:56.160]  in a big city. It's like, you know, this is the way we do it in a big city. You know, you've got
[01:22:56.160 --> 01:23:04.960]  to get these other guys before they get you. Preemptively coming after them with fraud or
[01:23:04.960 --> 01:23:11.360]  whatever. And once it gets ingrained in an area, it's very hard to get it out of the culture.
[01:23:12.560 --> 01:23:18.640]  So is this a Somali issue? Well, so far 98 people have been charged in connection with the fraud,
[01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:28.000]  including 85 individuals who have Somali ancestry. So the people that they've charged, 85 out of 98
[01:23:28.000 --> 01:23:34.160]  are Somali. That's 87%, by the way. A preliminary assessment suggests that more than half of the
[01:23:34.160 --> 01:23:38.640]  $18 billion that is used, that is spent on programs like this has been stolen.
[01:23:39.600 --> 01:23:46.160]  Some Minnesota officials have expressed concern that we have narrow targeting of the Somali
[01:23:46.160 --> 01:23:52.400]  community. Well, if they are 87% of the problem, how is that narrow targeting?
[01:23:53.040 --> 01:23:59.280]  I'd say the targeting is not narrow enough. But they want to give people a pass because they're
[01:23:59.280 --> 01:24:05.520]  Somali immigrants. I would also personally bet there are most likely Democrats that are helping
[01:24:05.520 --> 01:24:10.160]  them do this. There are Democrats that are getting kickbacks and part of this money to help them
[01:24:10.160 --> 01:24:14.480]  navigate the system and set these things up for them. Because you don't get off the boat from
[01:24:14.480 --> 01:24:20.240]  Somalia know how to infiltrate the inner workings of these political systems. Someone is helping
[01:24:20.240 --> 01:24:25.600]  them do it. And it's the same type of thing we saw the Bidens in Ukraine, right? Or with the
[01:24:25.600 --> 01:24:31.920]  Trumps with Israel. You send massive amounts of money to a foreign corrupt government and guess
[01:24:31.920 --> 01:24:35.680]  what? You're going to get some kickbacks on that kind of stuff. So it's a mutually beneficial
[01:24:35.680 --> 01:24:40.800]  thing. You scratch my back, I scratch yours, right? And so you help them to get massive amounts of
[01:24:40.800 --> 01:24:46.560]  money stolen from American taxpayers, whether it's going to the Somalis or the Israelis or the
[01:24:46.560 --> 01:24:50.800]  Ukrainians. And there's going to be a kickback to you with all that stuff. But then there's other
[01:24:50.800 --> 01:24:55.840]  motivations, Travis. This Tom Emmer, who's now so such a hardcore person, we're going to have to
[01:24:55.840 --> 01:25:00.000]  get these people, if they're involved in fraud, even if they're naturalized, we revoke that
[01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:04.960]  citizenship and we send them back to where they came from. You really think he's going to do that?
[01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:08.320]  Let's look at what this guy has been doing. This is a daily caller investigation.
[01:25:09.040 --> 01:25:15.600]  Minnesotans had begged Tom Emmer to stop the Somalis over a decade ago.
[01:25:16.480 --> 01:25:21.040]  He told them it wasn't possible. As a matter of fact, he was very combative with the people.
[01:25:21.040 --> 01:25:27.680]  As a matter of fact, he even kind of called them racist. He took the line of the Democrats. As a
[01:25:27.680 --> 01:25:34.560]  matter of fact, he worked with Democrats to set up a Somali caucus. Why would he do that? I don't
[01:25:34.560 --> 01:25:39.360]  know that he was necessarily taking a kickback, but it was politically expedient for him to do
[01:25:39.360 --> 01:25:45.520]  this. He would have paid a political price if he would have talked to the Somalis. Now he's going
[01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:51.360]  to pay a political price if he doesn't talk about the Somalis. It's all about his political
[01:25:51.360 --> 01:25:57.840]  calculation. It's all about Tom Emmer. It's not about the US taxpayer. It's not about fraud or
[01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:02.160]  anything else. It's about his political career. That's how we get the kind of Congress that we
[01:26:02.160 --> 01:26:06.640]  have. That's how you get this kind of fraud, because these people are looking only at their
[01:26:06.640 --> 01:26:15.280]  self-interest. Minnesotans had begged House Majority Whip the number three guy in the GOP leadership,
[01:26:15.280 --> 01:26:21.200]  Tom Emmer, more than a decade ago to halt the flood of Somali refugees to the area,
[01:26:22.000 --> 01:26:27.440]  but he scolded them for their concerns. Minnesota's Somali population is back in
[01:26:27.440 --> 01:26:35.520]  the spotlight after YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a video canvassing multiple Somali-run
[01:26:35.520 --> 01:26:43.200]  child care centers accused of fraud. However, a resurfaced audio clip from This American Life,
[01:26:43.200 --> 01:26:51.440]  and of course that is an NPR program, showed that voters were concerned about mass Somali
[01:26:51.440 --> 01:26:59.680]  migration long before the recent controversy. In an episode that aired in October of 2016,
[01:27:00.640 --> 01:27:10.000]  journalist Zoe Chase narrated portions of the story, including a reflection on a July 2015
[01:27:10.000 --> 01:27:19.840]  town hall event. So this is Tom Emmer in 2015. This is in St. Cloud. Describing the room as
[01:27:19.840 --> 01:27:25.360]  packed, Chase said, one constituent told Emmer that he believed most people in the bar, quote,
[01:27:25.920 --> 01:27:31.200]  are here to find out how you feel about the assimilation of immigrants. And then she played
[01:27:31.200 --> 01:27:40.560]  a clip from the event. And this guy says to Tom Emmer, we didn't ask for those Somalis. Nobody
[01:27:40.560 --> 01:27:47.760]  asked us if we in St. Cloud wanted those Somalis. And we understand that social groups like the
[01:27:47.760 --> 01:27:54.000]  Lutheran Social Service and the Catholic Charities are dumping them in areas like St. Cloud.
[01:27:54.800 --> 01:28:00.960]  Okay, and so the question is, how many more are coming? We didn't ask for these people.
[01:28:00.960 --> 01:28:06.320]  Every day that you read about is talking about this. So that is the main issue today, said the
[01:28:06.320 --> 01:28:13.440]  man. There is no control. The people have no control over any immigration. The mayor doesn't,
[01:28:14.000 --> 01:28:20.320]  and I don't know who does. And so they pointed out in this report that the 2024
[01:28:21.360 --> 01:28:29.360]  census said about 107,000 Somalis live in Minnesota, 58% of them born in the US,
[01:28:30.160 --> 01:28:35.840]  87% naturalized US citizens. So these would be the people who are legally here. And of course,
[01:28:35.840 --> 01:28:41.200]  there's probably many others who are not here legally. Minneapolis has the state's largest
[01:28:41.200 --> 01:28:47.680]  Somali population with about 84,000 residents of Somali descent. And so that's why they call it
[01:28:47.680 --> 01:28:52.640]  Little Mogadishu. It's also important to note that if they're willing to steal this much money,
[01:28:52.640 --> 01:28:57.440]  they're more than willing to find ways around the immigration system. Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah,
[01:28:57.440 --> 01:29:01.680]  especially if there's a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow. And again, once you have a large
[01:29:01.680 --> 01:29:08.720]  base of any group, they will be willing to help more of their own subvert the system and bring
[01:29:08.720 --> 01:29:12.400]  them in. That's right. Yeah. They're coming here. They're poor. And it's like, let me tell you how
[01:29:12.400 --> 01:29:16.160]  to get rich. Okay. We've got this great scam. These Americans don't know what they're doing.
[01:29:16.160 --> 01:29:19.280]  They don't care. You know, the people in the federal government don't care about the money.
[01:29:19.280 --> 01:29:24.560]  I mean, they just print this stuff up. They don't care. It's just asking for the taking. It's right
[01:29:24.560 --> 01:29:29.520]  there. Just take it. Come on. And so this guy is saying, we didn't ask for this. This is forced
[01:29:29.520 --> 01:29:34.960]  upon us. This was dumped on us. What are you going to do about this? Here's Tom Emmer's response
[01:29:35.760 --> 01:29:41.120]  10 years ago. Mr. Strong Borders and we're going to send them all back today is what he's saying.
[01:29:41.120 --> 01:29:48.000]  This is what the guy said 10 years ago. And the recorded town hall, Emmer pushes back on that man
[01:29:48.720 --> 01:29:55.280]  with chase described the NPR reporter, describing the lawmaker as firing, quote, a warning shot
[01:29:55.280 --> 01:30:02.400]  at the implicit racism. This is always the case. You criticize the money that's being sent to this
[01:30:02.400 --> 01:30:09.120]  other group. You're racist, right? You're racist. That happens with the charges of anti-Semitism.
[01:30:09.120 --> 01:30:13.200]  If you don't want to see Israel getting massive amounts of money, all the rest of this stuff is
[01:30:13.200 --> 01:30:19.760]  racism. Emmer argues that Somalis are one of, quote, the fastest assimilating populations.
[01:30:20.560 --> 01:30:24.720]  Well, he certainly does assimilate into our form of government, didn't they? The kleptocracy.
[01:30:25.600 --> 01:30:30.320]  They understand our form of government, I think, better than Americans do. They understand that
[01:30:30.320 --> 01:30:38.480]  it is a thieving cesspool. They assimilated that. So he's changed his tune now, hasn't he?
[01:30:39.520 --> 01:30:44.320]  He's now an immigration hawk. But the man responded and said, well, they assimilate.
[01:30:44.320 --> 01:30:48.800]  They're one of the fastest assimilating groups. And the man says, oh, you got to be kidding me.
[01:30:50.080 --> 01:30:56.400]  Wasn't buying it. At the time of the event, chase noted the NPR reporter, chase noted that a Somali
[01:30:56.400 --> 01:31:00.080]  man was in the room with other constituents. He eventually tried to speak for himself,
[01:31:00.080 --> 01:31:04.560]  timed the group, and thickly accented English that he felt assimilated.
[01:31:07.280 --> 01:31:13.120]  He's part of the board here. He's now a good thief like the Democrats. He's assimilated
[01:31:13.120 --> 01:31:19.280]  into the Democrat party. It's all about theft. The audience continued pressing Emmer to demand
[01:31:19.280 --> 01:31:25.760]  a vote on the refugees. One constituent identified as Sue pushed back as Emmer repeatedly asked
[01:31:26.400 --> 01:31:32.240]  what she wanted him to do, telling the lawmaker that there had been a huge economic burden placed
[01:31:32.240 --> 01:31:40.080]  on them at the time because of this influx. Sue said, I think I speak for a lot of people.
[01:31:40.080 --> 01:31:46.160]  I think the city of St. Cloud needs a breather. We need to assimilate with the people that are,
[01:31:46.160 --> 01:31:55.120]  starts to say already here, and Emmer cut her off. He says, so should Minnesota impose a pause
[01:31:55.120 --> 01:32:01.280]  on Somali immigration to address community concerns? He says, what does that mean? What
[01:32:01.280 --> 01:32:07.440]  does that mean? I don't know what that means. He didn't want a pause on Somalis coming in,
[01:32:07.440 --> 01:32:12.240]  but now he's ready to throw these people back to Somali. What a fraud this guy is.
[01:32:13.120 --> 01:32:19.520]  Double talking fraud. He is the poster child of the GOP. This is a guy who is so
[01:32:19.520 --> 01:32:27.760]  successful with his peers that he's the number three guy. You've got people like Mike Johnson
[01:32:27.760 --> 01:32:33.520]  who are even worse. He's the number one guy. Going back and forth, Emmer asks Sue point blank
[01:32:33.520 --> 01:32:38.320]  if she's suggesting that, quote, no more immigrants should be allowed to come to St. Cloud, to which
[01:32:39.120 --> 01:32:41.920]  she says, well, I think there ought to be a moratorium for a short time.
[01:32:43.360 --> 01:32:46.400]  Well, that's where Emmer is saying he is now. I don't buy any of it.
[01:32:46.400 --> 01:32:50.880]  I don't understand how that's even a controversial opinion. I don't think it should be a
[01:32:50.880 --> 01:32:55.920]  controversial opinion if America were to say, no, no more immigrants ever. Sorry, we're full.
[01:32:55.920 --> 01:33:04.080]  That's because you're racist. Additional people in the background could be heard shouting that
[01:33:04.080 --> 01:33:10.080]  the pause should be for the entire United States. You're a congressman. You're the number three guy
[01:33:10.080 --> 01:33:17.040]  there. Do it for the entire United States. And then Emmer jumped in to state the request was simply
[01:33:17.040 --> 01:33:24.560]  not possible. All right, here's the thing. All I can do is respond as openly and honestly as I can,
[01:33:24.560 --> 01:33:33.440]  Sue. That's not something that I can do. He's the whip. That's what his job is. His job is to build
[01:33:33.440 --> 01:33:39.520]  consensus. His job is to organize these guys together for an agenda. It's just that he doesn't
[01:33:39.520 --> 01:33:46.720]  like that agenda of America first. He says that's not something that our constitution says that we
[01:33:46.720 --> 01:33:54.560]  can do with people who are, and then they cut him off. So now he says even naturalized citizens
[01:33:54.560 --> 01:34:02.320]  should be deported. This guy is desperate and he's as guilty as Tim Walz is, in my opinion.
[01:34:03.280 --> 01:34:10.080]  And so the Daily Caller reached out to him and he responded with a comment. He called out the failed
[01:34:10.080 --> 01:34:15.760]  immigration policies over the years and he says he's now proud to stand with the Trump fraud
[01:34:15.760 --> 01:34:20.960]  administration and hold these people accountable because Trump didn't do anything his first four
[01:34:20.960 --> 01:34:27.440]  years. Emmer hasn't done anything for a decade with any of this stuff. But now he says I'm proud to
[01:34:27.600 --> 01:34:32.480]  partner with Trump and Cash Patel, the FBI, and we're gonna hold these people accountable.
[01:34:33.600 --> 01:34:40.480]  We'll see. What Walz refused to address for seven years, he said, Nick surely uncovered in one day.
[01:34:41.680 --> 01:34:48.160]  And of course, Emmer and Trump failed to address it as well for seven years, actually for 10 years.
[01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:55.200]  Days prior to the town hall that we just talked about where Emmer was there, Emmer had joined
[01:34:55.200 --> 01:35:03.200]  with the Democrats. He had joined with, of all people, Keith Ellison, the Democrat
[01:35:03.200 --> 01:35:08.880]  congressman who, remember when he said I want to be sworn in on the Quran, not the Bible?
[01:35:10.080 --> 01:35:19.280]  That's the guy that Tom Emmer partnered with to create the Congressional Somalia Caucus.
[01:35:19.280 --> 01:35:26.880]  He's a traitor. He wants to help these people take over the federal government even. The two
[01:35:26.880 --> 01:35:34.960]  of them released a joint statement in June of 2015 touting that for them, they said the constituents
[01:35:34.960 --> 01:35:41.440]  quote that we represent Somalia is not a far-off foreign policy issue. It is a matter of domestic
[01:35:41.440 --> 01:35:47.440]  policy and national security. We are committed to advocating on behalf of all of our constituents
[01:35:47.440 --> 01:35:54.000]  while ensuring that Somalia has the tools it needs to create strong Democratic institutions.
[01:35:54.720 --> 01:35:58.160]  He put that in there with a small D, but what we're talking about is a big D, right?
[01:35:58.800 --> 01:36:05.440]  That provides safety and economic opportunity to its people. The bar where Emmer spoke in 2015,
[01:36:05.440 --> 01:36:12.320]  it gets even better. The bar where he spoke in 2015, shutting down voters' concerns about
[01:36:12.320 --> 01:36:19.200]  being flooded with Somalians and how corrupt this was. That was a restaurant at the time.
[01:36:20.080 --> 01:36:28.000]  Guess what it is today? A daycare center. So we get enough Somalians and we'll just shut down
[01:36:28.000 --> 01:36:33.440]  all the businesses. We'll set up fraudulent daycare centers and fraudulent food relief,
[01:36:33.440 --> 01:36:39.040]  pantry things, and we can all just collect a federal check. That's what they would like to have.
[01:36:40.000 --> 01:36:47.680]  Universal basic welfare. And this kind of fraud happens in every program. In Canada,
[01:36:47.680 --> 01:36:53.760]  they're having a huge issue with not being able to provide enough meals for their own poor college
[01:36:53.760 --> 01:37:00.080]  students, people who are legitimately below the poverty line. They cannot afford food because
[01:37:00.080 --> 01:37:05.840]  they've imported so many Indians and they see this as just a free meal ticket. Oh yeah, I could
[01:37:05.840 --> 01:37:11.120]  afford it, but if they're going to give me free food, I'll just take it. Yeah, it's not that we're
[01:37:11.120 --> 01:37:16.560]  cold-hearted. We just understand that the federal government doesn't do anything right. And whatever
[01:37:16.560 --> 01:37:23.680]  it does, it is rife with waste, fraud, and abuse, and graft, and corruption. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson,
[01:37:23.680 --> 01:37:29.280]  and I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act of compassion really feels.
[01:37:29.280 --> 01:37:34.720]  A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner with an amazing organization called
[01:37:34.720 --> 01:37:41.520]  Compassion International. Why? Because I wanted to sponsor a child in need. It was a nice idea,
[01:37:41.520 --> 01:37:48.960]  sure, but I had no idea just how much that simple act would change my life as well. I sponsored
[01:37:48.960 --> 01:37:55.280]  Nadia and got to watch her life change right in front of my eyes, going from starving literally
[01:37:55.280 --> 01:38:01.600]  alone on the streets to getting the healthcare and education she needs to reach her God-given
[01:38:01.600 --> 01:38:07.280]  full potential. I got to be a part of that change, and the light of that compassion not
[01:38:07.280 --> 01:38:14.720]  only illuminates in her, it illuminates now in me. That is the power of compassion. The light of
[01:38:14.720 --> 01:38:22.000]  Christ shines on all of us. Feel it for yourself, and change literally a child's life. Change the
[01:38:22.000 --> 01:38:28.560]  world, and you also change yourself. You can sponsor a child today. Visit Compassion.com.
[01:38:28.560 --> 01:38:31.520]  That's Compassion.com.
[01:38:58.560 --> 01:39:07.440]  And so, you know, I've been through this whole thing before. This is the reason why
[01:39:08.640 --> 01:39:14.560]  America worked when Alexis de Tocqueville came here. He said, in Socialist France, we will set
[01:39:14.560 --> 01:39:20.720]  up a program, and it'll, you know, go the way that we now see happening in America. But he goes in
[01:39:20.720 --> 01:39:25.760]  America back at that time, the early 1800s, when he was coming here. He said, America can see a
[01:39:25.760 --> 01:39:31.520]  problem. They set up a voluntary organization, and they take care of it locally. And when you do
[01:39:31.520 --> 01:39:36.240]  that, if you've got an association, or if you've got it running through a church or something like
[01:39:36.240 --> 01:39:40.960]  that, because as Christians, we should understand that we should have a heart to help the poor.
[01:39:40.960 --> 01:39:46.480]  That's not what the Lutheran and Catholic charities are doing. They're feeding at the trough
[01:39:46.480 --> 01:39:53.120]  of a major bureaucracy, and they're dumping people onto the government payrolls, welfare roles,
[01:39:53.120 --> 01:39:57.680]  rather than helping them personally themselves. If the churches, or if other institutions are
[01:39:57.680 --> 01:40:04.400]  doing it at a local level, they can see who needs it and who doesn't need it. And that's important.
[01:40:04.400 --> 01:40:08.480]  You want to be able to get the help to the people who really do need it. And there are people who
[01:40:08.480 --> 01:40:13.600]  really do need help, always in a society. Jesus said, you'll have the poor with you always.
[01:40:14.240 --> 01:40:20.560]  Then he tells us to help the poor. So you'll always have that. The question is, are you going
[01:40:20.560 --> 01:40:25.520]  to kick this off and say, well, I gave it the office I gave with the taxes that I paid to the
[01:40:25.520 --> 01:40:30.240]  federal government? And then they're going to waste it, and you're going to have people who don't
[01:40:30.240 --> 01:40:36.080]  deserve it. And the people who do deserve it, some of them, are not going to get help. That's what's
[01:40:36.080 --> 01:40:43.280]  so broken about this system. So as this thing grows, the restaurant that they had 10 years ago, they ate
[01:40:44.240 --> 01:40:52.240]  has now been taken over by a Somali, Ahmed Ishmael. And he's now set up a daycare center.
[01:40:52.240 --> 01:40:59.280]  He calls it Mother's Love Child Care Center. And it's got the magic number of 100 kids.
[01:41:00.880 --> 01:41:07.120]  If any of them show up, it's probably 10 of them will show up to this center. And that's why
[01:41:07.760 --> 01:41:14.320]  I don't vote anymore. Because you look at the Republicans, look at Tom Emmer. It's not going
[01:41:14.320 --> 01:41:20.400]  to do anything except hold grandstanding hearings, just like Robbins did. You know,
[01:41:20.400 --> 01:41:26.880]  Scott Jensen was right. They just grandstand. They do nothing about it. And they lock in
[01:41:26.880 --> 01:41:33.840]  the corruption. They lock in the precedents of the Democrats. Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar,
[01:41:33.840 --> 01:41:39.040]  which is where her power base is. And remember, Tom Emmer helped to set up the Congressional
[01:41:39.040 --> 01:41:48.480]  Somali Caucus. Ilhan Omar is facing an investigation. People have noticed that she has had a massive
[01:41:48.480 --> 01:41:54.560]  wealth gain. And she's not investing in gold or silver. She's made more money than you could make
[01:41:54.560 --> 01:42:00.320]  in gold or silver or Bitcoin in its best years. The conservative watchdog is scrutinizing Ilhan
[01:42:00.320 --> 01:42:07.600]  Omar's finances as outrage mounts over the massive fraud scandal engulfing Minnesota and
[01:42:07.600 --> 01:42:13.680]  questions about her rapid wealth gains. The revelation comes a day after the Post reported
[01:42:13.680 --> 01:42:21.360]  that her husband's venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details online amid questions
[01:42:21.360 --> 01:42:28.640]  about her sudden surge in wealth. So he has a venture capital firm and her net worth mysteriously
[01:42:28.640 --> 01:42:41.280]  shot up to $30 million, which is roughly a 3500% increase relative to 2023. Isn't that amazing?
[01:42:41.280 --> 01:42:48.000]  So she may be an even better investor than Nancy Pelosi. The gains largely came from her husband,
[01:42:48.560 --> 01:42:55.120]  his venture capital management firm that is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It's called
[01:42:55.200 --> 01:43:03.760]  Rose Lake Capital. Its value jumped from nearly zero in 2023 to between $5 million and $25 million
[01:43:03.760 --> 01:43:11.120]  in just a year. The firm bragged about its officers managing some $60 billion in, quote,
[01:43:11.120 --> 01:43:18.560]  previous assets, unquote. Recently, the names and the bios of Rose Lake Capital's nine officers
[01:43:18.560 --> 01:43:25.120]  removed from LinkedIn. Don't want you to see who these guys are. His winery business,
[01:43:26.000 --> 01:43:31.680]  he's got the venture capital firm that he created and instantly went from zero to hero,
[01:43:33.600 --> 01:43:40.080]  from zero to $30 million. His winery business has faced fraud allegations previously,
[01:43:41.120 --> 01:43:47.840]  and it saw its estimated value explode between $1 and $5 million in 2024,
[01:43:47.840 --> 01:43:55.600]  according to her financial disclosures. Omar has said that the real issue is the COVID-19 pandemic
[01:43:56.640 --> 01:44:03.840]  and the lack of guardrails for this scandal. Well, she'll tell you the truth, but that's a
[01:44:03.840 --> 01:44:09.440]  deflection away from her personal finances that are there. So she said, I just think a lot of
[01:44:09.440 --> 01:44:15.280]  the COVID programs are set up so quickly that there weren't guardrails created. Well, that actually
[01:44:15.280 --> 01:44:23.040]  is true. That actually is true. That may work for her to some degree, but the reality is that she's
[01:44:23.040 --> 01:44:28.160]  feeding it the trough and trading influence, obviously. Trump administration says that it's
[01:44:28.160 --> 01:44:35.760]  now going to freeze child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes. Finally, they cut
[01:44:35.760 --> 01:44:41.680]  off the tap. Isn't that amazing? All payments through the administration for children and
[01:44:41.680 --> 01:44:49.040]  families and agency within the US HHS department will require justification and receipt or photo
[01:44:49.040 --> 01:44:53.760]  evidence before money is sent. This is kind of like saying, well, after we've killed millions of
[01:44:53.760 --> 01:44:58.720]  people with a Trump shot, now we're going to do some tests about safety and efficacy. They've also
[01:44:58.720 --> 01:45:03.840]  launched a fraud reporting hotline and an email address. Wouldn't it have been nice if they would
[01:45:03.840 --> 01:45:09.280]  have done this 10 years ago? No. The announcement comes after years of investigation that began
[01:45:09.280 --> 01:45:14.720]  with a $300 million scheme at the nonprofit Feeding Our Future for which 57 defendants
[01:45:14.720 --> 01:45:19.440]  in Minnesota have now been convicted. Well, it just keeps going around and around. Do you think
[01:45:19.440 --> 01:45:25.200]  anything is really going to happen with this? We'll see. Let's look at the comments before we take
[01:45:25.200 --> 01:45:30.640]  a break, Travis. Yeah, we've got a lot. Original Babes, as I reported, Medicaid fraud in 2022,
[01:45:30.640 --> 01:45:35.920]  Charlotte, North Carolina, was being billed for home health and they never came. They were Nigerians.
[01:45:35.920 --> 01:45:40.560]  All they get is fine. Were they princes? It was a Nigerian prince who was giving you the
[01:45:40.560 --> 01:45:45.360]  home health care. I'm sorry, go ahead. They said, no arrests or closing down the fake businesses.
[01:45:45.360 --> 01:45:50.880]  The Nigerians offered me $300 a month to help me. I said no, reported them for Medicaid fraud. They
[01:45:50.880 --> 01:45:56.720]  will pay people cash to use their Medicaid, etc. They charged my Medicaid for two months when they
[01:45:56.720 --> 01:46:05.680]  came one time. Wow. Wow. There's scams everywhere. Yeah. Well, it's just ripe for the taking.
[01:46:06.800 --> 01:46:11.440]  When you look at these measures that are now being announced by the Trump administration,
[01:46:11.440 --> 01:46:15.360]  isn't that something you would have expected they would have done in the beginning? Some kind of a
[01:46:15.360 --> 01:46:20.160]  verification? All you do is ask them for the money and they just hand it out. Then they come
[01:46:20.160 --> 01:46:26.880]  around later if somebody reports it as fraudulent. Owen61, thank you very much for the support. That
[01:46:26.880 --> 01:46:32.240]  is very generous. Thank you. Thank you very much. He says, happy new year, David and family. Hey,
[01:46:32.240 --> 01:46:39.440]  that's me. Yeah, that's right. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. LordPatriot, thank you
[01:46:39.440 --> 01:46:45.760]  as well, says, what government entity in America has the credibility to investigate anything?
[01:46:47.120 --> 01:46:53.200]  That's a fair point. Yeah. That really is the point of all these people is to...
[01:46:54.800 --> 01:46:59.440]  Actually, they don't need any help that they get from Trump to destroy people's confidence in these
[01:46:59.440 --> 01:47:03.920]  institutions. We can all see and have been able to see for a long time just how corrupt they are,
[01:47:03.920 --> 01:47:08.720]  but that's a hallmark of the 4th turning that we're in. Yeah. Peasants podcast says mass
[01:47:08.720 --> 01:47:13.520]  immigration did not enhance the Cherokee Nation, for it led to our attempted expulsion from the
[01:47:13.520 --> 01:47:19.200]  Smokies via the Trail of Tears, but many of us kept our guns in Cherokee N.C. and Gatlinburg,
[01:47:19.200 --> 01:47:24.720]  Tennessee. Yeah, good for you, yeah. Yeah, that was a massive deportation, wasn't it? Yeah,
[01:47:24.720 --> 01:47:29.440]  I always talk about that because it was such a bad policy by Andrew Jackson,
[01:47:30.160 --> 01:47:35.200]  and yet nobody could stop him. I said that in the context of stopping abortion.
[01:47:36.720 --> 01:47:40.720]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want to be honest with you for a second
[01:47:40.720 --> 01:47:46.880]  about how an act of compassion really feels. A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner
[01:47:46.880 --> 01:47:52.880]  with an amazing organization called Compassion International. Why? Because I wanted to sponsor
[01:47:52.880 --> 01:48:00.240]  a child in need. It was a nice idea, sure, but I had no idea just how much that simple act
[01:48:00.240 --> 01:48:06.560]  would change my life as well. I sponsored Nadia and got to watch her life change right in front
[01:48:06.560 --> 01:48:12.320]  of my eyes, going from starving literally alone on the streets to getting the health care and
[01:48:12.320 --> 01:48:19.600]  education she needs to reach her God-given full potential. I got to be a part of that change,
[01:48:19.600 --> 01:48:24.960]  and the light of that compassion not only illuminates in her, it illuminates now in me.
[01:48:25.600 --> 01:48:33.200]  That is the power of compassion. The light of Christ shines on all of us. Feel it for yourself
[01:48:33.200 --> 01:48:39.200]  and change literally a child's life. Change the world, and you also change yourself. You can
[01:48:39.200 --> 01:48:47.760]  sponsor a child today. Visit Compassion.com. That's Compassion.com. What's going on, Texas?
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[01:49:13.280 --> 01:49:22.080]  To understand where the lines are, you can do things, sometimes bad things,
[01:49:23.040 --> 01:49:29.680]  but you have the authority to do that. It's kind of like what's going on with that. Tina Peters,
[01:49:29.680 --> 01:49:33.040]  I think, is the woman I talked about there, you know, what they're doing to her is wrong,
[01:49:33.040 --> 01:49:39.680]  but they have the authority to do that. And so, yeah, they made their decision. Let's see them
[01:49:39.680 --> 01:49:45.440]  stop me. Scenarios like this, I always think of starship troopers. Violence is the supreme
[01:49:45.440 --> 01:49:50.400]  authority from which all other authority is derived. When the government has a monopoly
[01:49:50.400 --> 01:49:56.480]  on violence, they have a monopoly on authority, and they can do as they wish. Petal Junkie says,
[01:49:56.480 --> 01:50:01.360]  the first thing you will notice in a Somali community is the trash. My neighborhood is clean,
[01:50:01.360 --> 01:50:09.360]  cross one street, and there is trash everywhere. Cleanliness, as we think of it today, is very
[01:50:09.360 --> 01:50:18.400]  much a Western thing. Keeping your cities and towns clean, that is a Western priority. You
[01:50:18.400 --> 01:50:24.320]  don't see that in India. It's something like 60% of the population still defecates outside,
[01:50:24.320 --> 01:50:32.320]  you know, wherever they are, you know. So, you're not going to get a high quality population by
[01:50:32.320 --> 01:50:36.400]  importing these. Well, that was still happening in China, even though China was rapidly getting
[01:50:36.400 --> 01:50:42.400]  Westernized, even when we went there, was it 20 years or so ago? Yesterday was my daughter's
[01:50:42.400 --> 01:50:49.760]  birthday, so, turned 24. It's amazing. You would be in these cities, which are, you know, larger
[01:50:49.760 --> 01:50:54.960]  than New York City, much higher population, and then you drive 30 minutes outside of them,
[01:50:54.960 --> 01:51:01.200]  and they're living like it's the 1700s. They may have electricity, but they don't have running
[01:51:01.200 --> 01:51:05.440]  water. They're getting it from a river. They have an outhouse where the people use the restroom,
[01:51:05.440 --> 01:51:11.040]  and they just let the pigs in to feed on it. I remember when we were there, you know,
[01:51:11.040 --> 01:51:14.560]  she had to use the bathroom, and she couldn't understand why Karen was being so
[01:51:14.560 --> 01:51:17.680]  evil and wouldn't let her use it. She just used the bathroom down the street, and it's like,
[01:51:17.680 --> 01:51:22.960]  no, we're going to go somewhere else. But she really didn't understand, didn't speak English,
[01:51:22.960 --> 01:51:26.320]  and it's like, what's going on? You're not letting me use the bathroom here. Thankfully,
[01:51:26.320 --> 01:51:30.480]  she figured that one out pretty quick. Yeah, yeah, she became a big fan of toilet paper.
[01:51:31.440 --> 01:51:36.000]  Well, let's go on. We've got Jason Barker here. You want to read that?
[01:51:36.000 --> 01:51:41.520]  Yes. Jason Barker says, maybe we can use the army of IRS agents to audit all our politicians
[01:51:41.520 --> 01:51:45.360]  and their immediate families. Well, actually, that's not going to happen. They're going to
[01:51:46.080 --> 01:51:52.000]  weaponize artificial intelligence against us, and they're going to go intensely into that.
[01:51:52.000 --> 01:51:57.360]  They're going to microscopically examine every aspect of our lives, but just like it is with
[01:51:57.360 --> 01:52:02.960]  surveillance. How dare you look at them? You're not allowed to look at me. I look at you. That's
[01:52:02.960 --> 01:52:06.080]  the way this is going to shake out. Got some comments here that I'm reading.
[01:52:06.080 --> 01:52:11.920]  Will Tuback says, Japan is clean, and so is Taiwan. And I would point out that those are two nations,
[01:52:12.800 --> 01:52:18.000]  possibly the two Asian nations that have been most heavily influenced by the West.
[01:52:18.640 --> 01:52:22.960]  Japan after- Hong Kong as well. Hong Kong was a great city. I liked that a lot.
[01:52:23.520 --> 01:52:28.880]  Again, Hong Kong had been ruled by the British. It was heavily, heavily influenced by them. Japan
[01:52:28.880 --> 01:52:37.040]  after World War II very rapidly started to adopt American ideas and culture. We were kind of there
[01:52:37.040 --> 01:52:42.080]  with our boot on their neck, and they saw it as a way of ingratiating themselves to some extent.
[01:52:42.080 --> 01:52:44.320]  And now we've adopted their Pearl Harbor techniques.
[01:52:46.000 --> 01:52:49.520]  We have days of infamy happening all the time with the Trump administration.
[01:52:49.520 --> 01:52:56.160]  And of course, Taiwan has partially been dependent upon the West for support against China,
[01:52:56.160 --> 01:53:00.720]  so they have westernized themselves to some extent as well. Because if they don't have
[01:53:00.720 --> 01:53:05.040]  western support, if China thought that America and the West weren't going to do anything if they
[01:53:05.040 --> 01:53:11.600]  invaded, they would simply go over immediately. Yeah, I agree. All right, we're going to take
[01:53:11.600 --> 01:53:16.000]  a quick break, folks, and we will be right back when we come back. I'm going to go through
[01:53:16.560 --> 01:53:24.240]  Doug Casey's top predictions for 2026. I always liked Doug's writing and had a lot of respect
[01:53:24.240 --> 01:53:29.520]  for what he did. And I think he nails a lot of this stuff really well. We'll be right back.
[01:55:46.000 --> 01:55:49.520]  You're listening to the David Knight Show.
[01:57:46.800 --> 01:57:53.600]  You're listening to the David Knight Show. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want to be honest with
[01:57:53.600 --> 01:57:59.360]  you for a second about how an act of compassion really feels. A couple of years ago, I made the
[01:57:59.360 --> 01:58:05.760]  choice to partner with an amazing organization called Compassion International. Why? Because I
[01:58:05.760 --> 01:58:13.120]  wanted to sponsor a child in need. It was a nice idea, sure, but I had no idea just how much that
[01:58:13.120 --> 01:58:19.920]  simple act would change my life as well. I sponsored Nadia and got to watch her life change
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[01:59:31.760 --> 01:59:35.680]  All right, welcome back. Let's take a look at Doug Casey's top predictions for 2026,
[01:59:35.680 --> 01:59:42.240]  what it means for you and your money. And of course, you'll find him at internationalman.com.
[01:59:43.200 --> 01:59:47.360]  He says, what do you see, he was asked, what do you see as the single most important thing
[01:59:47.360 --> 01:59:53.680]  people should prepare for in 2026? And I think he nailed it. He begins by talking about Strauss
[01:59:53.680 --> 01:59:58.320]  and Howe because that is the time that we are in. He said, Strauss and Howe asked that question in
[01:59:58.320 --> 02:00:03.280]  their book, The Fourth Turning, where I had a major turning point in the U.S., and not just
[02:00:03.280 --> 02:00:09.040]  the U.S., of course, but globally. Everybody is synchronized, unfortunately, on this thing,
[02:00:09.040 --> 02:00:14.800]  and it's going to make for a massive upheaval. I've felt for years, he said, the U.S. is headed
[02:00:14.800 --> 02:00:21.040]  towards something like a civil war. It could be as serious as the unpleasantness of the 1860s,
[02:00:21.040 --> 02:00:25.840]  but just different. The red people and the blue people in the U.S. really dislike each other.
[02:00:26.800 --> 02:00:33.600]  They can't even talk to each other. And when things get to that stage, things are typically
[02:00:33.600 --> 02:00:38.640]  solved by force, and I expect that's what's going to happen. Very likely during the next three years,
[02:00:38.640 --> 02:00:45.840]  while Trump is still in office. He is the perfect catalyst for this, said Doug Casey. And I agree,
[02:00:45.840 --> 02:00:50.960]  I've said that many times. It's the first time I've seen him say that, but we see it the same way.
[02:00:51.680 --> 02:00:57.760]  As a matter of fact, when Strauss and Howe wrote the Fourth Turning in the early 1990s, and again,
[02:00:57.760 --> 02:01:06.800]  I think it is such a tell that the establishment refuses to talk about the Fourth Turning
[02:01:07.440 --> 02:01:13.360]  as a thesis. They'll use all the labels like millennial and Gen X and Gen Z and all the
[02:01:13.360 --> 02:01:17.200]  rest of this stuff. They'll use all those labels that Strauss and Howe did. They'll talk about
[02:01:17.200 --> 02:01:22.320]  generations, but they won't talk about the context in which it all depends on what it means,
[02:01:23.520 --> 02:01:28.560]  because that was the central premise of it. That every four generations, you have a major upheaval.
[02:01:29.200 --> 02:01:32.560]  And the people who are the ones who are fighting that upheaval, of course, they're going to have
[02:01:32.560 --> 02:01:38.240]  a very different life experience. The people who come, the generation after them, it's going to be
[02:01:38.240 --> 02:01:42.480]  a very different experience for them as well, but there is a repeating pattern. And it usually
[02:01:42.480 --> 02:01:51.920]  happens about every four generations. I look back on my family and my parents' generation and
[02:01:51.920 --> 02:01:55.840]  how they were shaped by the depression that they went through and World War II that they went
[02:01:55.840 --> 02:02:00.480]  through. So it's that type of thing. And they went back 500 years in history. They said sometime in
[02:02:00.480 --> 02:02:05.920]  the mid 2000s, well, guess what? 2007, 2008, there'll be a global financial crisis. That'll
[02:02:05.920 --> 02:02:10.160]  begin the Fourth Turning and it'll finish sometime around 2029 or something like that.
[02:02:10.720 --> 02:02:14.880]  Trump is the Fourth Turning candidate that they put in. They don't want to talk about the Fourth
[02:02:14.880 --> 02:02:23.040]  Turning, but they use that knowledge of these cycles to put in somebody like Trump, as Doug
[02:02:23.040 --> 02:02:28.160]  Casey says, the perfect catalyst for all this. It's going to be exacerbated by the long-term
[02:02:28.160 --> 02:02:32.960]  migration trends. If we look 100 years down the road, it's pretty clear that with modern travel
[02:02:32.960 --> 02:02:37.360]  and communications technology, the migration of people from poor countries to rich countries
[02:02:37.360 --> 02:02:43.200]  all around the world is going to accelerate. Eventually, the U.S. will not even exist in its
[02:02:43.200 --> 02:02:48.160]  present form. Of course, that's true of every country. The colors on the map of the wall have
[02:02:48.160 --> 02:02:54.560]  been running since day one. He says, for me, that's not going to be any fun. For another, I'm a huge
[02:02:54.560 --> 02:03:00.880]  fan of traditional America. It was a unique institution in world history, the only country
[02:03:00.960 --> 02:03:07.360]  ever founded on the concepts of free thought, free markets, and individualism. A civil war,
[02:03:07.360 --> 02:03:14.240]  regardless of what form it takes, will likely overturn those things. While I hope things mellow
[02:03:14.240 --> 02:03:19.760]  out, hope isn't the best foundation for making plans. So he says, so geopolitically, what do
[02:03:19.760 --> 02:03:24.560]  you see as tensions are building across Europe, Middle East, East Asia? Where do you expect the
[02:03:24.560 --> 02:03:32.320]  major flashpoints to emerge in 2026? He said, the politicians who run Europe are uniformly
[02:03:32.320 --> 02:03:39.920]  despicable non-entities from Ursula von der Leiden, the she-wolf of the EU, on down.
[02:03:40.480 --> 02:03:46.320]  One proof of that statement is that I could be persecuted, or prosecuted should say, just for
[02:03:46.320 --> 02:03:51.760]  both of those actually, persecuted and prosecuted. I could be prosecuted just for saying that in much
[02:03:51.760 --> 02:03:58.720]  of Europe. They are soulless bureaucrats who stand for nothing but statism and collectivism.
[02:03:59.360 --> 02:04:05.520]  They're driving Europe to actively rearm, doubling military budgets, re-instituting the draft,
[02:04:05.520 --> 02:04:10.880]  talking about the necessity of war with Russia, talking about how we got to have hospital beds to
[02:04:11.440 --> 02:04:15.920]  accept all the casualties and so forth, massive numbers of casualties, and they're just going
[02:04:15.920 --> 02:04:20.640]  into this cold-blooded murder is what it is, what they're planning. I suspect that they'll get their
[02:04:20.640 --> 02:04:27.360]  way, that they'll get their war. I just hope it doesn't go nuclear or biological. Odd in that it's
[02:04:27.360 --> 02:04:36.080]  over the Ukraine, the most backward and corrupt country on the continent, perverse in that it was
[02:04:36.080 --> 02:04:45.920]  never even a country until Lenin created it in 1923. But that's not all. The euro is an Esperanto
[02:04:45.920 --> 02:04:53.600]  currency. It is the who owes you nothing of fiat currencies. It is a dead duck. All the EU's member
[02:04:53.600 --> 02:04:58.560]  countries are bankrupt welfare states. In fact, the European Union itself is going to break up.
[02:04:59.840 --> 02:05:05.280]  What's good for individual countries is totally at odds with what the 80,000, and that's what he said,
[02:05:05.280 --> 02:05:11.680]  the number, that's the accurate number of EU employees in Brussels, 80,000 bureaucrats,
[02:05:12.640 --> 02:05:19.040]  and this thing just got started. NATO, which should have been disbanded when the USSR collapsed,
[02:05:19.600 --> 02:05:27.440]  will also disappear, we can hope. Europe will, best case, become a petting zoo for Chinese tourists,
[02:05:28.880 --> 02:05:34.720]  a luxury resort for third world migrants. The Middle East, well while Trump is in office,
[02:05:34.720 --> 02:05:41.440]  we might as well adopt Israel as the 51st state. That's not going to go down well with the world's
[02:05:41.440 --> 02:05:46.800]  2 billion Mohammedans. Don't confuse the friendly relations of Washington with the governments of
[02:05:46.800 --> 02:05:52.880]  Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others among the 55 Muslim countries of political stability.
[02:05:53.760 --> 02:06:02.240]  Most of them are economic basket cases and are extremely unstable. East Asia, well it's perfectly
[02:06:02.240 --> 02:06:08.240]  irrational for China to attack Taiwan. The result would be widespread destruction on both sides,
[02:06:08.240 --> 02:06:15.440]  even if the US and or Japan didn't join the party. But governments do irrational things
[02:06:15.440 --> 02:06:21.680]  unpredictably. So what will happen with China's claim on the East and on the South China seas?
[02:06:22.400 --> 02:06:27.840]  It should be between them and six of their maritime neighbors, but the US could turn a regional dispute
[02:06:28.640 --> 02:06:33.920]  into World War III. The unexpected flashpoint, I think, is going to be Africa.
[02:06:34.720 --> 02:06:40.480]  Of the last 60 years, 55 African states, and that's only an approximate number since we don't know
[02:06:40.480 --> 02:06:48.560]  how places like Libya, Western Sahara, Somaliland, or Darfur will wind up, but 55 of them have
[02:06:48.560 --> 02:06:54.320]  developed significant armies aided by weapons and training from Europe and the United States.
[02:06:55.920 --> 02:07:02.320]  They survive on the export of raw materials, causes of perpetual conflict, and they survive
[02:07:02.320 --> 02:07:08.160]  on aid from Europe and the US, which is likely to evaporate. All of them, like almost everywhere
[02:07:08.160 --> 02:07:14.400]  in the Middle East and Central Asia, are artificial constructs with arbitrary borders. They're all
[02:07:14.400 --> 02:07:19.920]  unstable kleptocracies run from the presidential palace. You know, that brings up an issue. You
[02:07:19.920 --> 02:07:25.520]  know, what is it when we talk about artificial constructs? You know, we go through and we look at
[02:07:26.480 --> 02:07:33.200]  what was done in the Middle East. Iran, Iraq, they were all artificial constructs, right?
[02:07:33.920 --> 02:07:38.800]  Why are you going to draw those boundaries there? And as a matter of fact, what they wound up doing,
[02:07:38.800 --> 02:07:45.360]  they said, well, roughly we're going to make Iran kind of correspond to the Persian people,
[02:07:46.000 --> 02:07:53.440]  and Iraq to the Babylonians, but the Medes, the Kurds, they're now called the Kurds,
[02:07:53.520 --> 02:07:58.240]  they didn't get a homeland. And so, you know, if you're going to set up arbitrary geopolitical
[02:07:58.240 --> 02:08:04.800]  constructs and borders and you're not going to have them based around a culture and an
[02:08:04.800 --> 02:08:10.560]  ethnic group of people, it's not something that's going to survive. That's why it is so important
[02:08:10.560 --> 02:08:18.640]  to take a look at these immigration issues. America had a culture, and we had an ethnicity,
[02:08:19.440 --> 02:08:26.480]  and the people who are trying to change all that are the real traitors, because they are essentially
[02:08:26.480 --> 02:08:31.600]  taking away the very foundation of why... Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what
[02:08:31.600 --> 02:08:37.600]  you're doing for just one minute, and I want you to hear about love, generosity, and compassion.
[02:08:37.600 --> 02:08:43.760]  We say those words all the time, and they sound good, they feel good, but here's the truth. Those
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[02:08:50.240 --> 02:08:56.720]  tomorrow, there's a child in the world who doesn't know if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to
[02:08:56.720 --> 02:09:04.240]  learn, or if there's any hope at all. And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward, but
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[02:10:04.640 --> 02:10:13.440]  America should exist. America is not just an idea. It's an ethnicity, and it is a culture,
[02:10:14.160 --> 02:10:19.520]  and these people are seeking to overturn that. And so that's what creates instability everywhere,
[02:10:20.160 --> 02:10:25.920]  when you have these countries that don't have any cohesion because they have lost
[02:10:26.720 --> 02:10:32.880]  the culture and the ethnic things that glue them together. The question is, to what degree will
[02:10:32.880 --> 02:10:38.400]  Europe, or especially the US, or especially Trump, stick their nose into the African border
[02:10:38.400 --> 02:10:44.560]  wars and the civil wars? And there's going to be a lot of them. I think Africa is the big powder keg
[02:10:44.560 --> 02:10:52.480]  that nobody is talking about. Well, this interview was just before Trump stuck his
[02:10:52.480 --> 02:10:59.760]  nose into Nigeria. I think that it has more to do with wanting to get involved into Africa,
[02:10:59.760 --> 02:11:04.880]  because of course we have, just as I've got SouthCom and NorthCom, they have AFRICOM.
[02:11:05.680 --> 02:11:12.880]  So the globalist American empire has already set up these different jurisdictions around the world,
[02:11:12.880 --> 02:11:19.120]  and they've already got military commanders in charge of these areas, as if Africa was somehow
[02:11:19.680 --> 02:11:26.960]  belonged to us as colonial masters again. So the US domestic political situation, he says,
[02:11:26.960 --> 02:11:34.720]  remains combustible with deep cultural and economic fractures. Trump is purposefully and
[02:11:34.720 --> 02:11:41.360]  overtly polarizing. He may see himself as Cincinnati's, but he's more like Caesar.
[02:11:42.000 --> 02:11:47.440]  He'll keep stirring things up, if only because he knows what his adversaries will do to him when
[02:11:47.440 --> 02:11:54.480]  he's out of office. While most sensible people love his anti-wokeism, most of his economic and
[02:11:54.480 --> 02:12:00.960]  international interventionism will backfire, bigly. I suspect he'll lose the midterms,
[02:12:00.960 --> 02:12:05.920]  and the Dems in the House will impeach him yet again. Will they succeed in the Senate this time?
[02:12:05.920 --> 02:12:13.680]  Well, we'll have to see. With Trump poised, they ask him to replace Fed Chair Powell. He will exert
[02:12:13.680 --> 02:12:18.720]  a stronger influence over central bank policy. Why do you expect the monetary environment of
[02:12:18.720 --> 02:12:28.400]  2026 to look like? Casey says, the dollar will approach its intrinsic value as Trump and the Fed
[02:12:28.400 --> 02:12:37.520]  create a trillion more of them. It is a formula for chaos. Trump is a big believer in mercantilist
[02:12:37.520 --> 02:12:43.120]  style economics, which holds that the US must export more than it imports. I think he'll try
[02:12:43.120 --> 02:12:48.560]  to force that issue with foreign exchange controls of some type creating yet more distortions.
[02:12:49.440 --> 02:12:56.240]  You want to exit the dollar, own precious metals, avoid the stock market, the bond markets, get your
[02:12:56.240 --> 02:13:04.800]  money out of the US. None of this is a formula for domestic tranquility, not in 2026, 2027, or 2028,
[02:13:04.800 --> 02:13:10.960]  or beyond. I'm assuming there will be normal elections in 2028, which is not a very safe
[02:13:10.960 --> 02:13:16.400]  assumption. He said, there's no question about the fact that most of Trump's business success
[02:13:17.040 --> 02:13:23.440]  has been due to borrowing. Leverage and low interest rates and inflation made this man.
[02:13:24.320 --> 02:13:29.680]  And of course, I would also say bailouts by the Rothschilds also made him.
[02:13:30.640 --> 02:13:37.520]  And so he's also looking for sponsors and he's got them lined up. Trump's history and his
[02:13:37.520 --> 02:13:43.680]  incorrect understanding of economics tell me that the Fed will buy and monetize more government debt
[02:13:43.680 --> 02:13:49.920]  than ever, doing everything they can to artificially depress interest rates for the short run. That
[02:13:49.920 --> 02:13:56.240]  could argue for the stock market going higher in 2026, but it is a high risk bet. Are you feeling
[02:13:56.240 --> 02:14:04.480]  lucky punk? With gold over 4,000 and silver over $60, they're probably where they should be relative
[02:14:04.480 --> 02:14:10.160]  to other things, but as unstable as the world is, and because of their unique advantages,
[02:14:10.160 --> 02:14:16.400]  they're going to go higher. The smart thing is to speculate on the shares of miners, he said.
[02:14:16.960 --> 02:14:23.600]  And of course, I agree with that. And I had seen him say this years ago. As a matter of fact,
[02:14:26.080 --> 02:14:30.560]  I used to follow him pretty closely. I got a chance to meet him and talk to him personally
[02:14:30.560 --> 02:14:35.600]  in 1993 at the Libertarian Convention in Salt Lake City. Very interesting, intelligent guy.
[02:14:36.800 --> 02:14:43.440]  The problem with investing in the mines is most of them are not in the US. Most of the gold mines
[02:14:43.440 --> 02:14:51.520]  and things like that are in Canada, with Yukon, Cornelius. And so it's almost impossible to make
[02:14:51.520 --> 02:14:55.920]  money there. It really is by the time you go full circle. I mean, you've got to have these things
[02:14:55.920 --> 02:15:01.360]  have an astronomical run up before you're going to make any money because you have to change from
[02:15:01.360 --> 02:15:08.480]  American dollars into Canadian. There's a fee for that that's pretty high. And then the fees,
[02:15:08.480 --> 02:15:15.360]  at least at the time I was doing it 30 years ago, the fees on the Canadian penny stock exchange,
[02:15:15.360 --> 02:15:20.160]  where they have these things, the fees were very, very high to buy and sell these stocks. So
[02:15:20.160 --> 02:15:25.120]  you get a big hit when you go in, trading the money in there and paying the brokerage fees
[02:15:25.120 --> 02:15:29.440]  that are there. And then you get a big hit going on the way out. You got to pay those same fees
[02:15:29.440 --> 02:15:34.000]  for the brokerage and the exchange rate coming out. So it's really hard to make any money.
[02:15:34.640 --> 02:15:40.000]  And so even when you look at, yes, the mine stocks are going to go up big time,
[02:15:40.720 --> 02:15:46.800]  but your net profits on that are going to be pretty slim. And there's just so many different
[02:15:46.800 --> 02:15:52.080]  issues there. It is much, much better to own the gold and silver directly. And of course, Tony
[02:15:52.080 --> 02:15:57.920]  Aarderman can help you with that at Wise Wolf Gold. You go to davidknight.gold.com, let them know
[02:15:57.920 --> 02:16:04.400]  that you're coming from us. So again, I would just put that caveat with what he had to say.
[02:16:05.120 --> 02:16:09.680]  And when we look at what's going to happen with gold and silver, as a matter of fact,
[02:16:09.680 --> 02:16:13.840]  and we should look at that because that's a big part of what's going to be the story next year.
[02:16:14.640 --> 02:16:22.320]  As one person pointed out on this talk about putting in a new Fed chair, Trump is out there
[02:16:22.320 --> 02:16:29.040]  saying, well, right now we've got a fool at the Federal Reserve. I mean, Biden appointed him.
[02:16:29.680 --> 02:16:33.200]  It's too bad. You would have thought that he wouldn't have done that.
[02:16:34.480 --> 02:16:40.720]  Well, here's the context for it. It was actually Trump, not Biden, who appointed
[02:16:40.720 --> 02:16:44.480]  Jerome Powell. Isn't that interesting? He doesn't remember. He doesn't know that.
[02:16:45.760 --> 02:16:52.560]  And this is what he had to say here. Also, despite the fact that we have a fool
[02:16:53.120 --> 02:16:57.440]  at the Federal Reserve. I mean, Biden reappointed him. It's too bad. You would have thought he
[02:16:57.440 --> 02:17:04.720]  wouldn't have done that. But he's an absolute fool who's building a new Federal Reserve or
[02:17:04.720 --> 02:17:11.520]  he's doing a renovation of a building. Maybe he's up to $4.1 billion to do a renovation of
[02:17:12.640 --> 02:17:14.000]  a few very small buildings.
[02:17:16.560 --> 02:17:19.920]  So he's a fool because he's spending all this money to do a renovation. What is Trump doing?
[02:17:20.720 --> 02:17:24.080]  With the White House, by the way. I mean, it's just amazing. He reappointed
[02:17:24.080 --> 02:17:31.600]  this horrible guy that I put in there. So, yeah, I would just remind you that Trump
[02:17:31.600 --> 02:17:38.480]  is even better at finding value for gold than Yukon Cornelius.
[02:18:02.080 --> 02:18:10.480]  Tony Arderburn. He knows where to look to find silver and gold.
[02:18:21.360 --> 02:18:25.280]  Yeah, I know I played that a lot. I enjoyed that. I liked what Lance did with that. He
[02:18:25.280 --> 02:18:29.120]  put that together a year ago. And a year ago, it was true. I mean, and we still have the
[02:18:29.120 --> 02:18:34.080]  same fundamentals. Everybody a year ago was really hyped up about Trump. You know,
[02:18:34.080 --> 02:18:38.080]  it's now going to be crypto because Trump's going to make that happen. Well, Trump discredited
[02:18:38.080 --> 02:18:45.680]  crypto more than anything. He did not help crypto. He discredited it. He hasn't done a Bitcoin reserve
[02:18:46.240 --> 02:18:50.000]  and I don't know that's going to happen. He will do something, I think, with stablecoin.
[02:18:50.720 --> 02:18:56.080]  And I think that's why he put in Lucky Lutnik. Lucky Lutnik is going to make a lot of money
[02:18:56.080 --> 02:18:59.600]  off of stablecoin. They're going to make that happen. But I'm not so sure about what's going
[02:18:59.600 --> 02:19:06.720]  to happen with Bitcoin. But gold and silver enter a new era. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want you
[02:19:06.720 --> 02:19:12.560]  to pause what you're doing for just one minute. And I want you to hear about love, generosity,
[02:19:12.560 --> 02:19:18.240]  and compassion. We say those words all the time and they sound good. They feel good. But here's
[02:19:18.240 --> 02:19:25.280]  the truth. Those words don't mean anything unless they turn into action. And right now, not later
[02:19:25.280 --> 02:19:32.000]  today, not tomorrow, there's a child in the world who doesn't know if they'll eat, if they'll have a
[02:19:32.000 --> 02:19:39.920]  chance to learn, or if there's any hope at all. And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward,
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[02:20:47.360 --> 02:20:53.520]  it's a new era for an old error, I guess is what we could say. After an historic run that pushed
[02:20:53.520 --> 02:20:59.600]  gold and silver prices to multiple record highs in the final days of 2025, investors are asking
[02:20:59.600 --> 02:21:06.880]  the question, how long can this last? Or is something more fundamental underway? Yeah,
[02:21:06.880 --> 02:21:14.160]  when you look at what happened just this week, as some people were saying, you had all-time highs,
[02:21:14.160 --> 02:21:19.120]  new all-time highs for both gold and silver, and not only that, but for platinum and for
[02:21:19.120 --> 02:21:24.480]  palladium on the same day. What does that tell you? It tells you that people are running away
[02:21:24.480 --> 02:21:30.800]  from these fiat currencies. That's what tells you. The fiat is not fooling anybody anymore.
[02:21:31.600 --> 02:21:38.160]  So Robert Gottlieb, who used to be the director of precious metals desks at J.P. Morgan and also at
[02:21:38.240 --> 02:21:47.200]  HSBC, said, this is not 1980. This is not Reddit. This is not a corner. This is people waking up
[02:21:47.200 --> 02:21:55.360]  to hard assets as a necessity. He explained that the yellow metals defining moment came in 2022,
[02:21:55.920 --> 02:21:59.440]  after the U.S. government and its allies weaponized the U.S. dollar against Russia
[02:22:00.000 --> 02:22:05.920]  following the invasion of Ukraine. And again, I was saying that, Tony was saying that.
[02:22:06.800 --> 02:22:14.960]  That was really the end of the fool me fiat dollar. And people could see that it was a corrupt
[02:22:15.600 --> 02:22:22.240]  system that was being weaponized, and everybody started building their own structures. And so
[02:22:22.240 --> 02:22:27.600]  central banks started accumulating gold in a big way because of that. He added that the policy
[02:22:27.600 --> 02:22:35.680]  shift appears durable, as many central banks' gold reserves are still relatively low. He pointed out
[02:22:35.680 --> 02:22:41.440]  that this pillar of support is extremely important for investors. Central bank demand
[02:22:41.440 --> 02:22:46.800]  creates a persistent bid, and they need more and more of it. If they're going to create
[02:22:47.360 --> 02:22:52.000]  an alternative to the fiat dollar that they no longer trust, if they're going to have an
[02:22:52.000 --> 02:22:58.160]  alternative of bricks to the swift system of international settlement that they no longer
[02:22:58.160 --> 02:23:03.600]  trust, they're going to have to have the credibility that comes with having a stockpile of gold. And so
[02:23:03.600 --> 02:23:08.240]  the central banks need it, and I think you're going to see the stablecoin people are going
[02:23:08.240 --> 02:23:13.520]  to have to get into it as well. They're not going to want to try to tell you. For the people who
[02:23:14.720 --> 02:23:17.680]  were concerned about the fiat currency, especially about the dollar,
[02:23:18.320 --> 02:23:23.920]  how are you going to sell them on a stablecoin that's basically backed by what everybody's
[02:23:23.920 --> 02:23:30.160]  trying to run away with from the U.S. dollar? Meanwhile, silver's defining moment has emerged
[02:23:30.160 --> 02:23:37.200]  only this year. In fact, only since this summer. Gottlieb said investors are just beginning to
[02:23:37.200 --> 02:23:42.720]  realize how little silver is readily available for the global marketplace. Robust industrial
[02:23:42.720 --> 02:23:49.040]  demand has depleted above ground silver stockpiles now to critical levels. And again,
[02:23:50.800 --> 02:23:55.040]  they've been out consuming the production of silver now for six years in a big way.
[02:23:55.840 --> 02:24:02.240]  And this whole thing with the silver battery, that could really drive it if that gets widespread
[02:24:02.240 --> 02:24:09.760]  adoption. So it's only going to get worse. Gottlieb noted that there's currently no easy fix
[02:24:09.760 --> 02:24:14.400]  to the liquidity problem in the silver market. He said this is not a short-term tightness,
[02:24:14.400 --> 02:24:21.920]  we are seeing long-term backwardization. So to me, there is still structural tightness.
[02:24:22.800 --> 02:24:28.640]  Central banks have created long-term support for gold. He said that he expects robust industrial
[02:24:28.640 --> 02:24:38.000]  demand to do the same for silver. He said that he's expecting moderate gains built on structural
[02:24:38.000 --> 02:24:46.960]  support, not on mania. Gold is advancing, if gold were to advance 10 to 15 percent from where it
[02:24:46.960 --> 02:24:52.000]  already is. He said that would still translate into very meaningful absolute returns, especially
[02:24:52.000 --> 02:24:57.360]  if you put money in a savings account, what are you going to get? Less than one percent, maybe
[02:24:57.360 --> 02:25:03.760]  one-tenth of a one percent at a bank. And then you buy a t-bill or something, you're going to
[02:25:03.760 --> 02:25:10.080]  three or four percent maybe. But 10 to 15 percent would be very moderate for gold, especially for
[02:25:10.080 --> 02:25:15.760]  institutional portfolios that are reallocating towards hard assets. Meanwhile, silver remains
[02:25:15.760 --> 02:25:22.240]  the more volatile and potentially more rewarding metal. The sell-offs will be bigger and the
[02:25:22.240 --> 02:25:27.200]  corrections will be more painful. Yeah, it's starting to look to me like a roller coaster,
[02:25:27.200 --> 02:25:35.600]  like bitcoin. And so, you know, for that reason alone, I kind of back away. Well, there was another
[02:25:35.600 --> 02:25:42.880]  person who wrote an article about the loss of trust in institutions and he said it really
[02:25:42.880 --> 02:25:50.560]  kind of got kicked off in 1965. And it was, 64 was last year, they made 90 percent
[02:25:50.560 --> 02:25:55.040]  silver coins. Then after that, they decided they'd start heavily debasing the currency.
[02:25:55.040 --> 02:26:02.640]  And you also had a move away from JFK, who was going to use silver to try to take away power from
[02:26:02.640 --> 02:26:08.320]  the Federal Reserve. Of course, you know how that ended up. And you wound up with some JFK half
[02:26:08.320 --> 02:26:14.160]  dollars, but that was the only thing that came out of it. And so, if you, this is a clip talking
[02:26:14.160 --> 02:26:19.440]  about what has really happened to our purchasing powers, we get off of the gold standard. America's
[02:26:19.440 --> 02:26:24.960]  gold was supposed to back the dollar. Leaving the gold standard was the most costly mistake we ever
[02:26:24.960 --> 02:26:37.600]  made. What was so bad about gold? It kept them honest, but they wanted power. You know, kid,
[02:26:37.600 --> 02:26:43.040]  folks today think this is just how life's supposed to be. What do you mean? Back in my day,
[02:26:43.680 --> 02:26:49.200]  one job could feed a family. My mother stayed home, father worked, and we ate together every
[02:26:49.200 --> 02:26:55.680]  night. Didn't realize how good we had it. After the World War, they promised gold back dollars,
[02:26:55.680 --> 02:27:02.240]  but they broke that promise. They printed paper backed by nothing, funded wars we couldn't afford
[02:27:02.240 --> 02:27:07.760]  and shouldn't have been involved in. But France caught on and sent a warship to get back their
[02:27:07.760 --> 02:27:14.400]  gold. Truth is, if more countries followed, our vaults would be empty and game over.
[02:27:15.920 --> 02:27:20.160]  I have directed the Secretary of the Treasury to take the action necessary
[02:27:20.160 --> 02:27:26.400]  to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar in the gold. Turns out, when you fake the
[02:27:26.400 --> 02:27:32.800]  money, everything else follows and you screw the next generation over. And it snowballs, kid.
[02:27:32.800 --> 02:27:39.200]  Prices shot up, paychecks didn't, life got tougher, and nobody knew why. We tried raising our kids the
[02:27:39.200 --> 02:27:47.120]  old way, but we didn't have the time or the money. So you outsourced parenting? Yeah, I guess you
[02:27:47.120 --> 02:27:52.880]  could say we did. Government schools raised them and the TV taught them bad morals. They learned
[02:27:52.880 --> 02:27:58.800]  debt, not savings, bought houses they couldn't afford, played video games, gambling, antidepressants
[02:27:58.800 --> 02:28:05.280]  and crimes, families fractured, divorce rates doubled, birth rates plummeted. Things got so
[02:28:05.280 --> 02:28:13.440]  bad people started financing Chipotle. Financing a burrito? Yeah, it's getting bad. Obesity,
[02:28:13.440 --> 02:28:20.880]  people eating cheap slop instead of real food. We got softer, sicker and lazier. A nation in decline,
[02:28:20.880 --> 02:28:27.360]  but it didn't happen overnight. When Nixon left the gold standard, we traded sound money for a
[02:28:27.360 --> 02:28:34.080]  lifetime of debt. How will they ever pay it back? I don't think they plan to. Both sides keep spending
[02:28:34.080 --> 02:28:40.000]  like there's no tomorrow and leaving the bill to your generation. We didn't get it right, but you
[02:28:40.000 --> 02:28:47.760]  still got a chance. So take the reins, kid. Hold your ground and don't give up on sound money.
[02:28:50.880 --> 02:28:56.320]  That's a pretty good summary. I like that. That covers all the bases, doesn't it?
[02:28:57.360 --> 02:29:04.480]  And isn't it interesting that Trump is so hyper focused on a trade deficit
[02:29:05.520 --> 02:29:13.280]  and he doesn't care a whit about the government's deficit and he's going to step this thing up.
[02:29:13.280 --> 02:29:18.080]  He's going to spend more money. He's going to blow it up again and he's going to lower interest rates
[02:29:18.080 --> 02:29:20.560]  and he's going to print more money and all the rest of this stuff.
[02:29:22.320 --> 02:29:27.200]  He is just doing all the wrong things, quite frankly. Everything that you saw there, he's
[02:29:27.200 --> 02:29:33.920]  going to do that on steroids. Well, the year was 1965, a great turning point. The last 90 percent
[02:29:33.920 --> 02:29:42.080]  silver, as I said, had been dated in 1964. Every day silver coinage ended with that date for most
[02:29:42.080 --> 02:29:48.080]  denominations. Silver coins are about real money in the hands of real people, not in the hands of
[02:29:48.080 --> 02:29:55.680]  bankers or politicians. JFK had hoped to impose a nationwide silver standard as a means of restraining
[02:29:55.680 --> 02:30:01.200]  the central bank and after he was killed, that was ended. There was a welfare state to create
[02:30:01.840 --> 02:30:07.440]  and to fund, plus a big war that was building up in Southeast Asia. In such times, governments need
[02:30:07.440 --> 02:30:14.400]  resources that hard money cannot allow. The assassination of Kennedy was a devastating blow,
[02:30:14.400 --> 02:30:20.400]  especially in the way that so few actually ever believed the official story about how and why
[02:30:20.400 --> 02:30:26.320]  it happened. Government never recovered its credibility. The destruction of the money was
[02:30:26.320 --> 02:30:31.680]  the telltale sign that something had gone seriously wrong. Confidence in government
[02:30:32.320 --> 02:30:40.800]  peaked at 77 percent in 1964 and then began its long slide and it sits at 17 percent today.
[02:30:40.800 --> 02:30:43.760]  They've got a chart here where you can see it just going straight down like that.
[02:30:44.800 --> 02:30:54.240]  I gotta say, that pretty much parallels my confidence in government, although I would take
[02:30:54.240 --> 02:30:59.600]  that whole, they'd have that basic shape, that basic curve, but I would just drop it way, way down.
[02:30:59.600 --> 02:31:05.360]  It was never high as 64 percent. It just lowered the starting point and you still have that same
[02:31:07.200 --> 02:31:14.560]  curve. Mine is underwater. If the government says it, I don't believe it to start with.
[02:31:15.600 --> 02:31:20.720]  So, this is an astonishing and undeniable trend about which few will publicly speculate.
[02:31:21.520 --> 02:31:27.280]  The bigger government gets, the more it takes on, the less public trust it to do the right thing
[02:31:27.280 --> 02:31:33.600]  because we see what it's doing. This is because the people are not stupid. They follow the evidence
[02:31:33.600 --> 02:31:40.000]  of their senses and they keep in mind that the main trends happened long before independent media
[02:31:40.000 --> 02:31:46.320]  was hard at work to pull back the curtain on power as it is today. That's one of the reasons why I
[02:31:46.320 --> 02:31:52.400]  think central planning always fails. You have, no matter how smart the person is, they can be the
[02:31:52.400 --> 02:31:57.280]  smartest person in the room and if they decide that they're going to centrally plan things,
[02:31:57.280 --> 02:32:03.440]  they simply don't have sufficient data. They can't observe everything and that's why the
[02:32:03.440 --> 02:32:09.040]  collective mind of all the people who are working in something, if you have a free market,
[02:32:09.680 --> 02:32:15.760]  that works the best because people can observe things and everybody has got a mind and the
[02:32:15.760 --> 02:32:20.880]  collective intelligence and observations of the people in general in a free market are always
[02:32:20.880 --> 02:32:25.440]  going to be superior to a central planner, especially if a central planner is somebody as
[02:32:25.440 --> 02:32:33.760]  stupid as Trump and his advisors, Peter Navarro, that sack of bricks. The COVID period was another
[02:32:33.760 --> 02:32:40.720]  decisive turning point. Scientists with power ruled your life in the name of health while taking away
[02:32:40.720 --> 02:32:45.840]  the means to obtain health. The slide can only continue in the future. It's likely that the only
[02:32:45.840 --> 02:32:51.360]  kind of politician who stands a chance of getting elected is one who promises to overthrow the
[02:32:51.360 --> 02:32:59.920]  system as it is. This is our lives now, just the way things work in a society of low trust.
[02:33:00.640 --> 02:33:04.320]  Someone just asked me the chances that the government will in the future demand
[02:33:04.320 --> 02:33:08.480]  that we all turn in our silver the same way they did for gold in 33. Again, there's a lot of talk
[02:33:08.480 --> 02:33:13.520]  about this now because, and there's a reason for that, because of the bill that they passed in the
[02:33:13.520 --> 02:33:22.800]  wee hours of the morning on December the 10th. It talks about confiscating all kinds of commodities
[02:33:22.800 --> 02:33:29.040]  and metals except for gold, which is conspicuously left out. One supposes that it is possible, and
[02:33:29.040 --> 02:33:34.080]  you can imagine the rationale, industry needs supply to make the AI revolution and the energy
[02:33:34.080 --> 02:33:39.920]  transition possible. Certainly they have the power to do so, even if they don't have the authority.
[02:33:40.640 --> 02:33:48.080]  That said, how many will comply? In 1933, plenty of people did not assent with the demand to turn
[02:33:48.080 --> 02:33:53.440]  in their gold and instead found other safe havens for it. We aren't likely to go back to the silver
[02:33:53.440 --> 02:33:59.680]  standard, but people are adopting it in their own lives. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want to be
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[02:35:35.840 --> 02:35:43.360]  details. Remember that one version of the history of the word dollar says that it comes from the
[02:35:43.360 --> 02:35:51.600]  Spanish coin taller, T-A-L-E-R, and again that goes back to the Roman Empire. That was a silver
[02:35:51.600 --> 02:35:55.040]  coin. They had them. They called it taller, and as Tony has pointed out many times,
[02:35:55.600 --> 02:36:01.600]  the word rupee, which rupee is the name for the Indian currency, the word rupee is actually from
[02:36:01.600 --> 02:36:13.040]  Sanskrit for silver. So silver may break $125 an ounce, says one analyst this next year,
[02:36:14.000 --> 02:36:18.400]  but he also looks at what might happen to paper gold and paper silver especially,
[02:36:19.120 --> 02:36:25.840]  because the shortage is getting so short that it might expose the fraud behind these
[02:36:25.840 --> 02:36:32.480]  paper gold and paper silver, these ETFs. You'll see them traded as GLD or SLV.
[02:36:33.520 --> 02:36:40.880]  These paper metals that you can buy on the stock market and the Shanghai gold exchange,
[02:36:41.840 --> 02:36:50.560]  he said, could cause a force majeure. Now that's a legal term. It means something has happened
[02:36:51.200 --> 02:36:56.240]  that basically cancels this contract for both sides. It's out of our control. He said he could
[02:36:56.240 --> 02:37:01.600]  very well see that happening with these paper gold and paper silver contracts this next year
[02:37:02.080 --> 02:37:07.840]  because of this shortage, and again we've seen how this has moved from London to New York and
[02:37:08.160 --> 02:37:11.760]  various places. He said they're just shifting stuff around. They're not actually getting
[02:37:12.400 --> 02:37:16.080]  any more silver. They're just moving it around, and once people catch on to this,
[02:37:16.080 --> 02:37:21.680]  you can have a situation where they just have to declare a force majeure. He said let's say that
[02:37:22.880 --> 02:37:29.360]  gold goes to $4,400 and stays there. He says, I'm coming up with this $125 an ounce price,
[02:37:29.360 --> 02:37:35.360]  he says. If you look at the gold to silver ratio and if you drop it to about $55, which has
[02:37:35.920 --> 02:37:43.280]  been about the average since 1997, that would say that with gold at $4,400 and the gold to
[02:37:43.280 --> 02:37:49.680]  silver ratio at $55, the long-term average, he said that would give you about $80 silver,
[02:37:50.560 --> 02:37:57.520]  which we just had. Beginning of this week, we went up to like $85, and then it fell back.
[02:37:59.200 --> 02:38:03.920]  He said this does not represent, however, the bullish case. There are plenty of banks that
[02:38:03.920 --> 02:38:08.560]  are predicting that gold is going to go up to $5,000 in 2026, with some predicting,
[02:38:09.600 --> 02:38:16.800]  well, in excess of $5,000. He says, so also these five pullbacks in the gold to silver ratio
[02:38:17.520 --> 02:38:24.960]  also saw six overshoots, so they don't simply snap back to their long-term average around $55,
[02:38:24.960 --> 02:38:30.800]  but he goes the bullish case would be gold going to $5,000, and you see the ratio dropping to,
[02:38:30.800 --> 02:38:39.760]  let's say, $45. That would give us $111 silver. He said, but $45 isn't the lowest ratio in recent
[02:38:39.760 --> 02:38:47.440]  memory. Actually, 2011 was the big one, where the ratio dropped to $30, but you could take even the
[02:38:47.440 --> 02:38:54.560]  average of these last four or five drops, and you'd easily get to around $40. If you do $5,000 gold
[02:38:54.560 --> 02:39:00.720]  and divide it by $40, that's where you get the $125 silver that was the headline. He said that
[02:39:00.800 --> 02:39:05.920]  the bearish scenario would see gold falling back to about $4,000 an ounce, or maybe even back to
[02:39:05.920 --> 02:39:15.920]  $3,800, and that silver ratio might go back to $78 or $80. He said, in that case, you're looking
[02:39:15.920 --> 02:39:24.160]  at $50 silver. So again, a lot of upside, not too much downside on that. He said, but we're at the
[02:39:24.160 --> 02:39:30.080]  lowest levels of 10 years in Shanghai, and this is what I think is more important focus of this
[02:39:30.080 --> 02:39:36.640]  article. He said, we know that London remains very tight on supply. I've been likening this
[02:39:36.640 --> 02:39:41.440]  whole thing to a bit of a shell game. It was potentially in short supply in New York, so they
[02:39:41.440 --> 02:39:47.040]  moved it from London to New York if tariffs were going to be applied. So there was this arbitrage,
[02:39:47.040 --> 02:39:50.800]  and then we saw a tightening up, and it moved back to London again. And then most recently,
[02:39:51.360 --> 02:39:59.120]  a bunch of it came from China and also from India demand. So this is basically a shell game.
[02:39:59.120 --> 02:40:03.040]  Moving it around doesn't give you more silver. It just props up a different place
[02:40:03.760 --> 02:40:09.760]  at a given point in time, but you have the same amount of silver under these shells. Okay, so
[02:40:10.400 --> 02:40:18.640]  I need my $20 million ounces as delivery, and one of these exchanges says nothing until the last
[02:40:18.640 --> 02:40:25.280]  minute, and all of a sudden they tell the people, sorry, force majeure. All the contracts are off.
[02:40:26.160 --> 02:40:31.760]  We don't have the ounces. We'll have to settle in cash, and the company says,
[02:40:31.760 --> 02:40:36.080]  no, I don't want the cash. I need the silver, and this makes a major headline,
[02:40:36.720 --> 02:40:43.920]  and then you see silver gap up and go wild. He said, Asian holders of these futures contracts,
[02:40:43.920 --> 02:40:49.520]  many of them aren't using it to hedge anything. They're using it to set themselves up for
[02:40:49.520 --> 02:40:56.640]  deliveries of metal, and that's what the Shanghai exchange is meant to be. He said it's meant to be
[02:40:57.440 --> 02:41:02.960]  willing and able to deliver, and that's what brought it credibility. So he said,
[02:41:02.960 --> 02:41:09.840]  so that'd be a really big deal if this next year is the day of reckoning for these ETF exchanges.
[02:41:10.480 --> 02:41:15.520]  So get physical. Get physical with this stuff. Go to David Knight. I'll help you get to Tony
[02:41:15.520 --> 02:41:22.160]  Yarderman. You can start accumulating this stuff gradually on a month-to-month basis if you wish,
[02:41:22.160 --> 02:41:27.120]  or he can help you with any large contracts or with some kind of an IRA or something, but
[02:41:27.680 --> 02:41:31.120]  one thing you need to be aware of is the vulnerability of the dollar. If you've got
[02:41:31.120 --> 02:41:37.440]  your money parked in the bank, it is evaporating as we speak. So let's take a look at the comments,
[02:41:37.440 --> 02:41:43.040]  Travis, before we go to the next topic here in a break. That's right. We've got Marky Mark in New
[02:41:43.040 --> 02:41:47.200]  Jersey. Thank you very much, Marky Mark. We appreciate it. It says, actually, Japan started
[02:41:47.200 --> 02:41:52.800]  modernizing after Commodore Perry forced them to open up in 1853. After Perry held them at gunpoint,
[02:41:52.800 --> 02:41:57.280]  they realized they needed to modernize and arm up, and they did. Remember that they sunk the
[02:41:57.280 --> 02:42:02.560]  Russian fleet at Tsushima in 1905? Proof of their modernization efforts. They had the Zero Fighter
[02:42:02.560 --> 02:42:09.760]  in World War II. Post-World War II only accelerated what had been happening pre-World War II. And we
[02:42:09.760 --> 02:42:14.320]  have Sam Canyons, now monthly supporter. Thank you very much. And he says, may God continue to
[02:42:14.320 --> 02:42:20.480]  bless the Knight family, friends, all of us with his guidance, grace and power as we all prepare
[02:42:20.480 --> 02:42:26.480]  our hearts to do his work in this new year and until Christ's imminent return. Yes. And I want
[02:42:26.480 --> 02:42:31.440]  to thank everybody for the support that we've received. We've updated the gas gauge to show
[02:42:31.440 --> 02:42:37.040]  that we filled it up this month. We hit the target. And just by the way, you know, our schedule is
[02:42:37.040 --> 02:42:44.240]  going to be, we're going to have a rebroadcast tomorrow and one on Friday as well. Just taking
[02:42:44.240 --> 02:42:48.960]  off two days this week instead of the three that we took off last week. And just want to remind you,
[02:42:48.960 --> 02:42:55.520]  we guys mentioned this earlier in the show, that we are going to be going to, the live show will
[02:42:55.520 --> 02:43:03.120]  be two hours now a day. And we're going to start an hour later at 10 a.m. Eastern. A lot of people
[02:43:03.120 --> 02:43:07.840]  on the West Coast that, you know, the nine o'clock in the morning thing is kind of early for them
[02:43:07.840 --> 02:43:15.360]  anyway. So we're going to move it an hour back, but it will be repeated throughout the day as well.
[02:43:16.240 --> 02:43:20.320]  But if you want to interact with us, that'll be the opportunity for you to interact with us
[02:43:20.320 --> 02:43:26.560]  at those times. And as I said before, even I started on this three hour show, we're doing
[02:43:26.560 --> 02:43:31.600]  radio broadcasts and when you do radio broadcasts, you have frequent breaks and you have long
[02:43:31.600 --> 02:43:35.680]  commercial broadcasts. As a matter of fact, the clock we had typically come on, you know,
[02:43:35.680 --> 02:43:40.640]  for like 10 minutes and you have a five minute break of commercials and then come back. And it
[02:43:40.640 --> 02:43:46.720]  was so long that I would spend time trying to recap where I left off and I spent a good bit of
[02:43:46.720 --> 02:43:51.920]  my time trying to recap that. So I really didn't like that. I didn't like doing the, doing the
[02:43:51.920 --> 02:43:57.520]  clock. And so I kind of cut myself off from doing any radio broadcasting because of that.
[02:43:57.520 --> 02:44:02.480]  I like the format of a podcast where I can just talk to people and stay on a topic until we get
[02:44:02.480 --> 02:44:07.840]  finished with it and then move on to something else. And so as a result, since we're not going
[02:44:07.840 --> 02:44:14.880]  to have, you know, when I was doing it on the radio, I had three hour clock time, but actually
[02:44:14.880 --> 02:44:22.000]  it was two hours of content. And so we're still going to have two hours of content, but it won't
[02:44:22.000 --> 02:44:27.360]  be three clock hours, but we'll still leave the comment area open so you guys can talk to each
[02:44:27.360 --> 02:44:32.320]  other. Cause I know that we have got a great community of people who talk to each other. So
[02:44:33.440 --> 02:44:37.120]  all the rest of the stuff will remain the same. And hopefully it's going to free us up a little
[02:44:37.120 --> 02:44:42.800]  bit to get a little bit healthier and to also be able to do some good reports like that one
[02:44:42.800 --> 02:44:48.000]  I just played. I thought that was a very good report recapping how things have changed because
[02:44:48.640 --> 02:44:54.560]  of dishonest money. Very important for us to all understand that. Well, let's take a quick break
[02:44:54.560 --> 02:45:10.560]  folks. And we will be right back. Let me get over to the tab here.
[02:45:48.000 --> 02:46:03.920]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute. And I want
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[02:49:10.400 --> 02:49:17.120]  Well, as Marjorie Taylor Greene said, so we got Zelinsky one day and tomorrow we got Netanyahu.
[02:49:17.120 --> 02:49:22.400]  Can we just do America? Well, the answer, of course, is no. Trump says that he will support
[02:49:22.960 --> 02:49:30.080]  an Israeli attack on Iran if Tehran continues its missile program. He said on Monday he would
[02:49:30.080 --> 02:49:37.280]  support an Israeli attack on Iran. In other words, we will actually do it for them if Tehran continues
[02:49:37.280 --> 02:49:43.040]  its conventional missile program or if it works to rebuild the civilian nuclear program that was
[02:49:43.040 --> 02:49:48.960]  damaged by U.S. airstrikes during the U.S.-Israeli war in June that lasted for 12 days. And that
[02:49:48.960 --> 02:49:56.080]  stopped because Israel was taking a beating. They needed to have not only their iron dome
[02:49:56.080 --> 02:50:00.880]  thing, but they also needed to have the U.S. help them in terms of intercepting missiles. But the
[02:50:00.880 --> 02:50:08.880]  combined defense of U.S. and Israeli anti-missile systems wasn't sufficient to prevent massive
[02:50:08.880 --> 02:50:13.920]  damage being done to Israel. So they had a ceasefire and they stuck to that one.
[02:50:14.880 --> 02:50:20.880]  One will be yes, he said, and the other one we will do immediately, talking about
[02:50:21.920 --> 02:50:30.480]  Iran's missiles versus the nuclear stuff. And, of course, this is Netanyahu's wish list now
[02:50:31.040 --> 02:50:36.560]  for over 30 years. As a matter of fact, somebody put this clip together all the many times that
[02:50:36.560 --> 02:50:41.600]  he has told us that Iran is going to have a nuclear weapon in just a couple of weeks or
[02:50:41.600 --> 02:50:47.360]  maybe a couple of months. If not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short
[02:50:47.360 --> 02:50:53.600]  time. It could be a year. It could be within a few months. This is this year, 2025. The wherewithal.
[02:50:53.600 --> 02:51:00.640]  2018. Preserve knowledge to make a bomb very quickly if they wanted to do it. Iran is 2015.
[02:51:00.640 --> 02:51:07.760]  Weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs. They're very
[02:51:07.760 --> 02:51:13.760]  close. 2012 from being about 90% of having the rich uranium for an atom bomb. Iran is gearing up
[02:51:13.760 --> 02:51:20.960]  to have 2006 to produce 25 bombs, atomic bombs a year, 250 bombs in a decade. Ladies and gentlemen,
[02:51:20.960 --> 02:51:28.720]  1996 is running out. Iran will be capable of 1995 without importing anything. Nuclear bombs
[02:51:28.720 --> 02:51:34.080]  within three to five years. Wow. Okay. Well, that would have been 1998, 2000, something like that.
[02:51:34.880 --> 02:51:39.920]  What do we do with a false prophet? We should drag them outside the camp and stone them,
[02:51:39.920 --> 02:51:46.080]  especially when they're trying to get us into a war. Netanyahu was expected to ask
[02:51:46.080 --> 02:51:50.720]  Trump to support a new war against Iran over the concerns related to ballistic missiles.
[02:51:51.600 --> 02:51:57.200]  Iranian officials have been clear that they will not agree to a deal to scuttle their missile
[02:51:57.200 --> 02:52:02.800]  program because that leaves them vulnerable to the U.S. and Israel. They've made no bones
[02:52:02.800 --> 02:52:08.480]  about the fact that they seek to destroy Iran. Trump and Netanyahu held a press conference.
[02:52:08.480 --> 02:52:13.200]  Trump again expressed support for the idea of another attack on Iran. Any Israeli attacks
[02:52:13.200 --> 02:52:18.960]  in Iran would require U.S. support since U.S. military played a major role in intercepting
[02:52:18.960 --> 02:52:26.160]  Iranian missiles fired at Israel, even though the missiles made it through U.S. and Israeli
[02:52:26.160 --> 02:52:31.920]  air defenses. Ultimately, what led Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire after just 12 days.
[02:52:32.800 --> 02:52:38.400]  The U.S. also supported Israel's strikes by refueling Israeli aircraft and then launched
[02:52:38.400 --> 02:52:44.720]  its own airstrikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. Whatever they want, they get.
[02:52:45.760 --> 02:52:53.440]  So Israel has almost no support whatsoever from the people of the USA, writes one person on
[02:52:54.400 --> 02:53:02.240]  on social media. This is Furkan Gozukura who says, yet Trump and the Republicans
[02:53:02.240 --> 02:53:09.120]  tripled down every week on complete subservience to a foreign state the size of New Jersey.
[02:53:10.000 --> 02:53:16.080]  It's almost as if they don't need the votes. No, they don't. It's almost as if there's not
[02:53:16.080 --> 02:53:21.600]  really an election. There is a selection. And I believe that is definitely where we are at
[02:53:21.600 --> 02:53:28.960]  this point in time. You know, it's just like just like Emmer prostituted himself to the Somalis.
[02:53:29.520 --> 02:53:35.520]  You have Trump doing that. Many politicians are being bribed and prostituted and being bribed
[02:53:35.520 --> 02:53:43.200]  with stolen money from taxpayers. And so another person put a picture of Trump with a quote,
[02:53:43.200 --> 02:53:48.240]  I'm sorry your tax dollars are funding Somali child care fraud, but we've got to go attack
[02:53:48.240 --> 02:53:53.680]  Israel. We can't be bothered with this, right? Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want you to pause
[02:53:53.680 --> 02:53:59.840]  what you're doing for just one minute. And I want you to hear about love, generosity and compassion.
[02:53:59.840 --> 02:54:06.000]  We say those words all the time and they sound good. They feel good. But here's the truth. Those
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[02:54:18.240 --> 02:54:26.240]  a chance to learn or if there's any hope at all. And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward,
[02:54:26.240 --> 02:54:32.160]  but that child is waiting. This is where you come in with Compassion International. You have the
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[02:55:26.160 --> 02:55:31.520]  SpinQuest.com for more details. So Israel's president directly refutes Trump's
[02:55:32.560 --> 02:55:38.080]  idea of a pardon for Netanyahu. He said there has been no conversation.
[02:55:39.200 --> 02:55:45.040]  And what people in America don't really understand is, as I've pointed out many times,
[02:55:45.040 --> 02:55:51.280]  and Gerald Salinti has pointed it out, Netanyahu is not all that popular, and he really struggled
[02:55:51.280 --> 02:55:56.960]  to put together a coalition government. And he is also facing a lot of corruption charges there
[02:55:56.960 --> 02:56:02.640]  as well. And so Trump goes to Israel and he addresses the Knesset, and he says, you need
[02:56:02.640 --> 02:56:10.560]  to pardon Netanyahu. I mean, who cares about, what was it that he said here? Cigars and champagne,
[02:56:10.560 --> 02:56:15.920]  because that was part of it. There were personal bribes that he had taken and things like that,
[02:56:16.000 --> 02:56:21.200]  personal gifts that he had taken as his own. That's against the law there as it is here.
[02:56:22.240 --> 02:56:28.080]  But it wasn't simply cigars and champagne. He said, who cares about that, said Trump.
[02:56:28.800 --> 02:56:35.760]  Netanyahu has also been accused of engaging in quid pro quos and of granting regulatory favors
[02:56:36.640 --> 02:56:43.120]  in exchange for favorable coverage from media. Does this sound like somebody that we know here
[02:56:43.120 --> 02:56:49.600]  in America? I tell you, both of these guys, Netanyahu and Trump, are birds of a feather,
[02:56:50.800 --> 02:56:57.280]  and they should be jailbirds together, frankly. They are thieves. They are murderers. And so,
[02:56:57.920 --> 02:57:03.200]  and of course, Trump is also a liar. He says, so how do you not, how do you not pardon this guy,
[02:57:03.200 --> 02:57:08.160]  he said to the Knesset. He said, he's a wartime prime minister. He's a hero. How do you not give
[02:57:08.160 --> 02:57:13.600]  him a pardon? He said, I spoke to the president. He tells me that it's on its way, Trump said.
[02:57:14.160 --> 02:57:19.440]  And you can't do better than that, right? And then the Israeli president spoke up,
[02:57:19.440 --> 02:57:24.800]  Isaac Herzog. His office released a statement shortly after that. This is actually Trump not
[02:57:24.800 --> 02:57:31.120]  talking before the Knesset, but at Mar-a-Lago. So the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, said,
[02:57:32.400 --> 02:57:37.920]  he denied any conversation like this ever took place. They said, there has been no conversation
[02:57:38.000 --> 02:57:42.960]  between President Herzog and President Trump since the pardon request was submitted,
[02:57:42.960 --> 02:57:48.960]  said the statement. So in other words, Trump is just lying. And they can call him out on that
[02:57:48.960 --> 02:57:55.280]  because what's Trump going to do? Is he going to criticize his masters? He's not allowed to
[02:57:55.280 --> 02:58:01.440]  criticize Israel. They pay him. Trump needs to carry out regime change in Iran if he wants to
[02:58:01.440 --> 02:58:06.880]  be known as the peace president, says Alan Dershowitz. Alan Dershowitz, who's always a
[02:58:06.880 --> 02:58:11.840]  hardcore Democrat until it came to Trump. And then Trump is such a Zionist puppet
[02:58:12.560 --> 02:58:17.280]  that Alan Dershowitz changed sides. The rest of the world is moving away from Israel,
[02:58:17.280 --> 02:58:22.160]  but Trump is moving closer and closer to Israel, said Dershowitz. We could say same thing about
[02:58:22.160 --> 02:58:27.520]  Epstein as well. The rest of the world is moving away from him, but Trump is trying to keep all
[02:58:27.520 --> 02:58:33.520]  this stuff covered up. Dershowitz went on. He said, Israel doesn't even need American support. All
[02:58:33.520 --> 02:58:39.120]  Israel needs is a green light from Trump to go in on its own and to destroy Iran's nuclear
[02:58:39.120 --> 02:58:43.920]  facilities. So Israel doesn't need America's support, then fine. I guess we can stop sending
[02:58:43.920 --> 02:58:49.280]  them so much money and material, right? Except if you even talk about that, they shout racist,
[02:58:49.280 --> 02:58:54.800]  racist, racist at you, right? There will never be peace in the Middle East unless there is
[02:58:54.800 --> 02:59:01.840]  regime change in Iran, said Dershowitz, because that's what they want. And if they don't get it,
[02:59:01.840 --> 02:59:07.360]  they're going to keep killing people. If Trump wants to be known as the peace president,
[02:59:07.360 --> 02:59:13.920]  he has to go to war with Iran, says Dershowitz. Yeah, double-think here, isn't it? Dershowitz
[02:59:13.920 --> 02:59:20.640]  also ruled out a two-state solution. He argued that the Palestinians have not yet earned themselves
[02:59:20.640 --> 02:59:29.680]  a state. How did Israel earn statehood? Wasn't it given to them? They earned it, I guess,
[02:59:29.680 --> 02:59:34.080]  by kicking people out of their homes. He said, look, Palestinians haven't earned themselves a
[02:59:34.080 --> 02:59:40.000]  state. They have to earn a state the way the Jewish people earned a state over hundreds of years
[02:59:40.000 --> 02:59:46.000]  of state building. You mean by buying American politicians? Yeah. As a matter of fact, I mean,
[02:59:46.000 --> 02:59:54.320]  when you look at this, it was the earning the state. It hasn't got a timeline of hundreds of
[02:59:54.320 --> 03:00:00.080]  years. I mean, it was a UN declaration after World War II, but maybe he's talking about the
[03:00:00.080 --> 03:00:07.120]  involvement with the Rothschild family because, again, Dershowitz is proud of his involvement
[03:00:07.120 --> 03:00:11.520]  with the Rothschilds. That's what got him involved with Jeffrey Epstein and vice versa, right?
[03:00:12.400 --> 03:00:19.840]  I did absolutely categorically nothing wrong, and that's what lawyers do and that's what people do.
[03:00:19.920 --> 03:00:24.000]  I was introduced to him by the lady in Lord Rothschild.
[03:00:24.000 --> 03:00:26.800]  Oh, he even adopts that air when he says it.
[03:00:26.800 --> 03:00:30.960]  And he knew all the most prominent people.
[03:00:31.840 --> 03:00:38.160]  Yeah, right there with the Zionist stuff. Lord and Lady Rothschild even develops this air as
[03:00:38.160 --> 03:00:43.120]  he's talking about it. Well, you know, I talked about this AI thing and this guy has now become
[03:00:44.080 --> 03:00:50.640]  something of a fad. Everybody's doing it. I think it was one of the recent AI upgrades that
[03:00:50.640 --> 03:00:53.920]  somebody put together, a prop, I guess, that did this. And so everybody's doing it, typically
[03:00:53.920 --> 03:01:00.000]  doing it with movie stars and typically going from one classic movie to the other and, you know,
[03:01:00.640 --> 03:01:04.400]  getting there with the main character from the movie, the Godfather, whatever, Marlon Brando,
[03:01:04.400 --> 03:01:08.640]  and in the background is the Godfather set. He holds up there and takes a selfie and then he
[03:01:08.640 --> 03:01:13.520]  runs to another classic movie or something like that and does it. Well, somebody did that with
[03:01:13.520 --> 03:01:19.280]  Epstein. Epstein taking selfies with all these important people, you know, like Dershowitz is
[03:01:19.280 --> 03:01:25.440]  talking about, the Rothschilds. I thought you'd enjoy seeing this. There he is. He's taking a
[03:01:25.440 --> 03:01:32.560]  selfie with some guys in jumpsuits, prison jumpsuits. And there's Jeffrey Epstein taking
[03:01:32.560 --> 03:01:42.000]  selfies. There he is, Hugh Hefner. And there are Macaulay Culkin and Donald Trump. I'm alone.
[03:01:43.840 --> 03:01:45.520]  And Oprah Winfrey and others.
[03:01:49.840 --> 03:01:57.680]  And that's Woody Allen and his stepdaughter that he married. Bill Gates, I think. Was that Bill
[03:01:57.680 --> 03:02:08.000]  Gates? Roman Polanski. There we go. Kevin Spacey. Only the best and finest character that he hangs
[03:02:08.000 --> 03:02:20.080]  around with, right? He's going downstairs in the basement area. Oh, there we are. I guess
[03:02:20.080 --> 03:02:24.640]  that's Pam Bondi. And you got all the people there that are working on redacting the documents. And
[03:02:24.640 --> 03:02:32.000]  here's his pal in prison that he's taking a picture with. Who is that? I don't know who that is. Do
[03:02:32.000 --> 03:02:46.240]  you know who that is, Travis? Now he's going on set with Ellen Degenerate. Here we go. Stephen
[03:02:46.240 --> 03:02:53.600]  Hawkins. Of course, he was involved with Epstein. And here's the big one. The U.S. Congress is coming
[03:02:53.600 --> 03:02:58.400]  up here. I don't know who this guy is, but they got one coming up with the Congress.
[03:03:00.720 --> 03:03:02.800]  But he's not there yet. He's got a lot more people to see.
[03:03:11.760 --> 03:03:16.800]  There's Woody Allen again.
[03:03:24.400 --> 03:03:31.280]  There's the guys that are recording what's happening in his place there.
[03:03:39.920 --> 03:03:43.200]  Back to Trump. The other one is picture taken.
[03:03:45.440 --> 03:03:51.280]  And here's the big one. All the people in Congress giving him a standing ovation and applauding for
[03:03:51.280 --> 03:03:56.000]  him. They're happy to have their picture taken with Jeffrey Epstein. And there's Ghislaine Maxwell
[03:03:57.040 --> 03:04:03.440]  in her orange jumpsuit behind bars. And Harvey Weinstein is one of the last ones there. Yeah,
[03:04:04.000 --> 03:04:09.360]  isn't it great? You know, I guess Alan Dershowitz and Jeffrey Epstein, they're the real life
[03:04:09.360 --> 03:04:15.840]  zealots that are hanging around with all these celebrities and actually the scum of the earth,
[03:04:15.840 --> 03:04:22.000]  quite frankly. We'll be right back, folks. Stay with us. Oh, got the wrong one here. We'll be
[03:04:22.000 --> 03:04:32.160]  right back.
[03:04:52.000 --> 03:05:12.160]  You're listening to The David Knight Show.
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[03:07:48.720 --> 03:08:13.520]  You're listening to the David Knight Show.
[03:08:13.520 --> 03:08:19.200]  Well, as we listen to the Russian dance from the Russian composer Tchaikovsky,
[03:08:19.920 --> 03:08:25.120]  we have Zelinsky claiming that Trump is trying to sweeten the deal by giving him some boots.
[03:08:26.480 --> 03:08:29.120]  Boots for Christmas is what he wants. I'd love to give him a boot.
[03:08:31.360 --> 03:08:36.960]  Anyway, he says that Trump is offering boots on the ground. I mean, just a couple of days ago,
[03:08:36.960 --> 03:08:41.360]  he was saying, well, Trump has floated the idea that he's going to give us security guarantees
[03:08:41.360 --> 03:08:47.520]  for 15 years. Well, that would involve exactly this. But of course, he wanted it for 30, 40,
[03:08:47.520 --> 03:08:53.120]  50 years. I want to have American troops on the ground. Well, Zelinsky has now claimed
[03:08:53.840 --> 03:08:57.600]  that Trump is considering the possibility of deploying American troops to Ukraine as
[03:08:57.600 --> 03:09:03.280]  negotiations towards peace with Moscow stall. This is presumably connected with the promise
[03:09:03.280 --> 03:09:10.480]  of future security guarantees. And I find it ominous that neither Trump nor anybody in the
[03:09:10.480 --> 03:09:16.640]  Trump administration has said anything about the fact, well, no, we didn't offer him 15 years of
[03:09:16.640 --> 03:09:22.640]  security guarantees, let alone 50. And no, we didn't offer boots on the ground. No, there's crickets
[03:09:22.640 --> 03:09:28.320]  from Trump when Zelinsky is saying this. This is something of a surprise as the White House
[03:09:28.320 --> 03:09:33.440]  made no indication of this in any statement, public or based on anonymous officials.
[03:09:34.800 --> 03:09:40.240]  But they haven't denied it, you see. Throughout the nearly four year long war, the question of
[03:09:40.240 --> 03:09:46.720]  Western boots on the ground has been raised at various times. And Trump was firmly against it.
[03:09:47.680 --> 03:09:52.560]  Of course, that was when he was running for office. Once he becomes president, he's a completely
[03:09:52.560 --> 03:09:58.000]  different guy. But the US, whether under Biden or Trump, has always denied sending American troops
[03:09:58.000 --> 03:10:04.640]  into Ukraine as a solution. Instead, it is well understood that this could escalate things between
[03:10:04.640 --> 03:10:10.720]  Washington and Russia, escalate toward a full scale war, perhaps even a nuclear war.
[03:10:11.440 --> 03:10:16.240]  Zelensky made the remarks during a WhatsApp conversation with journalists. He said boots
[03:10:16.240 --> 03:10:23.360]  on the ground is a talking point that is being echoed now with EU leaders. Polish Prime Minister
[03:10:23.360 --> 03:10:30.160]  Donald Tusk said the US has declared its readiness to participate in security guarantees for Ukraine
[03:10:30.720 --> 03:10:37.440]  after concluding peace. This includes, for example, the presence of American troops on the border,
[03:10:37.440 --> 03:10:44.800]  on the line of contact between Ukraine and Russia. They want to put us right there on the front lines
[03:10:45.440 --> 03:10:49.200]  as a tripwire into war. You know, that's the interesting, you know,
[03:10:50.080 --> 03:10:56.240]  Papu Cannon got canceled because he was America first. And one of the things he said
[03:10:57.040 --> 03:11:02.480]  was that if you look at NATO, this is set up and we've got all these different agreements.
[03:11:02.480 --> 03:11:09.440]  We've got tripwires all over the world to drag us into every potential conflict. But of course,
[03:11:10.240 --> 03:11:15.200]  Trump doesn't wait for that anymore. He starts his own now. But that's exactly what NATO is.
[03:11:15.920 --> 03:11:22.560]  NATO is nothing other than, folks, a booby trap, a nuclear booby trap.
[03:11:23.520 --> 03:11:28.720]  Zelensky says US boots on the ground in Ukraine is being discussed, but troop deployment
[03:11:29.440 --> 03:11:33.840]  is really up to the United States, he says. Trump has regularly emphasized
[03:11:34.400 --> 03:11:40.480]  that he would not contemplate boots on the ground in Ukraine. For example, just last August,
[03:11:41.920 --> 03:11:47.600]  Trump pledged that American troops would not be on the ground in Ukraine. But he provided a little
[03:11:47.600 --> 03:11:52.240]  other insight in the scale of US security guarantees as he pushes to end Russia's war
[03:11:52.240 --> 03:11:59.120]  on its neighbors. You have my assurance, and I am the president, said Trump. It's kind of like
[03:11:59.120 --> 03:12:03.440]  Richard Nixon, you know. Well, when the president assures you, you can count on it, right?
[03:12:05.120 --> 03:12:11.200]  These lying thieves. When asked what assurances he has that there won't be an American boots
[03:12:11.200 --> 03:12:16.960]  on the ground to defend against another Russian incursion, he tells us that we have his word.
[03:12:18.240 --> 03:12:24.000]  What do you think Trump's word is worth? It's not worth a plug quarter, actually.
[03:12:24.640 --> 03:12:29.120]  That's not worth pennies that he banned. If he were to reverse his own policy,
[03:12:29.760 --> 03:12:35.600]  it would be hugely unpopular amongst his base. He doesn't care. He knows that whatever he does,
[03:12:35.600 --> 03:12:41.120]  they're going to follow him. Broadly, the American public would likely see such a risky move as a
[03:12:41.120 --> 03:12:49.680]  recipe for another US troop quagmire abroad in a very complex battle space. Well, there doesn't
[03:12:49.680 --> 03:12:55.680]  seem to be a lot of criticism about the quagmire he's trying to set up for some Venezuela. Trump
[03:12:55.680 --> 03:13:00.720]  has not contradicted any of this stuff, even though it's being widely discussed. You've got
[03:13:00.720 --> 03:13:06.080]  European leaders talking about it. You've got Zelensky talking about it. The Russians are
[03:13:06.080 --> 03:13:12.000]  talking about it. Trump's not saying anything. Security guarantees, US boots on the ground.
[03:13:12.720 --> 03:13:19.280]  Yeah, don't send troops. Don't send boots. Instead, what you need to do is you need to
[03:13:19.280 --> 03:13:25.600]  send him some David Knight t-shirts, maybe. Hello, it's me, Vladimir Zelensky. I'm so tired of
[03:13:25.600 --> 03:13:31.440]  wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years. You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed
[03:13:31.440 --> 03:13:37.920]  off America, I could dress better. And I could, if only David Knight would send me one of his
[03:13:37.920 --> 03:13:45.120]  beautiful gray MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue. But he
[03:13:45.120 --> 03:13:51.600]  told me to get lost. Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at TheDavidKnightShow.com.
[03:13:51.600 --> 03:13:57.520]  You should be able to buy me several hundred. Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies
[03:13:57.520 --> 03:14:03.280]  are so beautiful. I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various
[03:14:03.280 --> 03:14:08.320]  galas and social events. If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package
[03:14:08.320 --> 03:14:22.880]  of bombs and missiles coming from the USA. That's right. Don't give him boots on the ground. Give
[03:14:22.880 --> 03:14:28.960]  him the boot. At the very least, you could give him a t-shirt from TheDavidKnight.News show.
[03:14:29.520 --> 03:14:36.720]  But there was a satire video that was put out by the Russians using AI. They've got Putin as
[03:14:36.720 --> 03:14:42.080]  Santa Claus, and he's handing out gifts to various world leaders. I want to show that to you. Wait
[03:14:42.080 --> 03:14:49.920]  till you see the gift that they imagined Putin giving Zelensky. Here it is. There's Putin as
[03:14:49.920 --> 03:14:52.560]  Santa Claus. He's got his sack of gifts there.
[03:14:59.280 --> 03:15:03.280]  There's the currencies, and on the tree we have... Oh, there's an American dollar. Look,
[03:15:03.280 --> 03:15:11.600]  it's falling and crashed. There's the Indian leader, Modi. He gets a jet. He gets a jet from
[03:15:11.600 --> 03:15:15.200]  Russia. He gets some Russian arms. And here's Trump. What does he give to Trump?
[03:15:16.080 --> 03:15:17.920]  Here's a picture of himself and Trump.
[03:15:22.240 --> 03:15:34.080]  And here is Maduro. He's going to dance. Here's Erdogan of Turkey. He gets a little snow globe
[03:15:34.080 --> 03:15:45.760]  there. Ah, Kim Jong Un. What's he get? From Russia with gratitude. Yeah, a sword. There you go.
[03:15:46.560 --> 03:15:50.880]  Here's Zelensky. What did he get from Putin? That's a pair of handcuffs.
[03:15:50.880 --> 03:16:05.520]  There's Viktor Orban of Hungary. He gets gas from Russia. And the lights come on in Hungary
[03:16:05.520 --> 03:16:17.280]  because that is over. And here's Putin taking his bow as Santa Claus. Well, the US... We have more
[03:16:17.280 --> 03:16:20.320]  AI. AI can actually be kind of fun putting some of this stuff together.
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[03:18:20.160 --> 03:18:26.960]  There's reports that claim that the CIA has now done a land strike in Venezuela because, you know,
[03:18:26.960 --> 03:18:33.120]  the clown ship just ain't cutting it anymore. We got to get on land somehow.
[03:18:34.080 --> 03:18:40.880]  So we got to get this clown show on the road, on the road in Venezuela. And who are you going to
[03:18:40.880 --> 03:18:47.520]  call if you want to have an illegal war? Well, it's the CIA, of course. So Trump has claimed that the
[03:18:47.520 --> 03:18:55.120]  U.S. has, quote, knocked out, unquote, a, quote, big facility. There we go. As part of the U.S.
[03:18:55.120 --> 03:19:00.640]  campaign targeting alleged drug boats in Latin America and against Venezuela. All that is nonsense.
[03:19:01.600 --> 03:19:08.160]  CNN reported on Monday that the CIA conducted a drone strike on the port facility, a port facility
[03:19:08.160 --> 03:19:15.440]  in Venezuela, although nobody is really sure. This is such a big facility and it is so totally
[03:19:15.440 --> 03:19:22.880]  destroyed and yet nobody can find it. Nobody can find any evidence of some port that's been destroyed.
[03:19:22.880 --> 03:19:29.680]  I mean, this is such a clown show, this war. But people are going to die. People have already died.
[03:19:30.640 --> 03:19:34.880]  The president was asked by a reporter on Monday about the comments and whether the alleged attack
[03:19:35.440 --> 03:19:38.640]  was conducted by the U.S. military. He says, well, it doesn't matter.
[03:19:40.240 --> 03:19:43.760]  Military can kill people. The CIA can kill people. I can kill people. Whatever.
[03:19:45.360 --> 03:19:50.000]  But there was a major explosion at a dock area, he said, where they load the boats up with drugs.
[03:19:51.040 --> 03:19:54.000]  It was an implementation area that is no longer around.
[03:19:54.960 --> 03:20:06.160]  This is a dirty lying war from a dirty lying president. It's not about the drugs. It's not about fentanyl. He's not using that anymore, right?
[03:20:07.360 --> 03:20:11.360]  It's not about drugs at all. This is not even about the Maduro regime change.
[03:20:12.320 --> 03:20:19.120]  This is about oil. Trump is nothing other than a thief, a pirate, a murderer, a liar.
[03:20:19.520 --> 03:20:28.320]  Any U.S. attack on Venezuela would be illegal under the Constitution, which requires congressional authorization to launch a war.
[03:20:29.280 --> 03:20:35.120]  The Trump administration has been clear that its goal in this campaign against Venezuela is the ouster of Maduro,
[03:20:35.840 --> 03:20:42.080]  while using the false claims that his government is a cartel as a pretext. This is zero hedge writing.
[03:20:42.640 --> 03:20:47.360]  The seizure of two tankers, a step that is traditionally considered to be an act of war,
[03:20:48.080 --> 03:20:51.600]  has been strongly denounced by UN and many nations.
[03:20:52.240 --> 03:20:56.320]  It's been strongly denounced by anybody that has a shred of
[03:20:57.040 --> 03:20:59.760]  conscience, morality, or legal concerns.
[03:21:00.880 --> 03:21:02.880]  So it was CNN who first reported it.
[03:21:03.760 --> 03:21:09.760]  Exclusive CIA carried out a drone strike on a port facility in the Venezuelan coast. They said the details
[03:21:11.360 --> 03:21:14.640]  had not been previously reported. They had anonymous sources.
[03:21:15.440 --> 03:21:18.960]  The U.S. government believed it was being used by drug gangs to store drugs
[03:21:19.600 --> 03:21:24.080]  and move them onto boats for shipping. No one was present at the facility at the time it was struck.
[03:21:24.800 --> 03:21:27.360]  So there were no casualties according to the sources.
[03:21:28.000 --> 03:21:31.520]  It was such a busy drug port that nobody was there.
[03:21:32.240 --> 03:21:34.240]  And they don't mention fentanyl.
[03:21:34.320 --> 03:21:36.320]  It's just vague drugs in general.
[03:21:37.280 --> 03:21:39.840]  Two sources said that U.S. special forces
[03:21:40.800 --> 03:21:43.600]  were providing intelligence, but that was denied
[03:21:44.240 --> 03:21:49.440]  by a spokesperson for U.S. Special Ops Command. They said we didn't support this in any way, including
[03:21:50.000 --> 03:21:52.000]  intel support.
[03:21:52.000 --> 03:21:57.520]  So until the CIA attack earlier this month, the only known U.S. strikes on Venezuelan targets
[03:21:58.240 --> 03:22:00.880]  were against the boats in international waters,
[03:22:01.840 --> 03:22:05.520]  where we had not declared war, where we were not attacked.
[03:22:06.880 --> 03:22:09.360]  CIA declined to comment. Of course they would.
[03:22:10.320 --> 03:22:14.080]  Now if you want to talk about drugs, you'd have to put this in the context
[03:22:14.720 --> 03:22:19.200]  of the CIA as a drug pushing criminal cartel
[03:22:20.240 --> 03:22:24.720]  coming after a rival gang. That would be the context if it really were about drugs. But it's not about drugs.
[03:22:25.520 --> 03:22:27.520]  It's about oil.
[03:22:27.680 --> 03:22:31.920]  Trump acknowledged in an interview on Friday that the U.S. had knocked out some type of, quote,
[03:22:32.160 --> 03:22:38.480]  big facility where the ships come from. This guy's got like an eight-year-old understanding of what's going on, if that.
[03:22:38.960 --> 03:22:43.040]  He declined to comment when asked whether the attack was conducted by the military or the CIA.
[03:22:43.360 --> 03:22:46.800]  He said we hit all the boats and now we hit the area.
[03:22:47.760 --> 03:22:49.760]  It's the implementation area.
[03:22:50.480 --> 03:22:53.120]  That's where they implement. He actually said that.
[03:22:55.360 --> 03:23:00.400]  Did you know that, Travis? The implementation area is where they implement. What? We don't know.
[03:23:00.960 --> 03:23:04.400]  He is their useful idiot. Was that issued by the Department of Redundancy Department?
[03:23:05.360 --> 03:23:07.040]  Yeah, that's right.
[03:23:07.040 --> 03:23:11.120]  Trump is the useful idiot that these people have installed as president.
[03:23:11.920 --> 03:23:16.640]  Trump earlier this year expanded the CIA's authorities to conduct operations in Latin America,
[03:23:17.280 --> 03:23:19.280]  including inside Venezuela.
[03:23:19.520 --> 03:23:23.920]  But even then the U.S. military had the legal authority only to conduct strikes against
[03:23:24.540 --> 03:23:29.840]  suspected traffickers at sea and not on land. But you know, hey, we just change all this stuff. Look,
[03:23:30.400 --> 03:23:38.800]  it's not it's not that far off the truth when Trump put in a portrait of Joe Biden as an auto pen.
[03:23:39.600 --> 03:23:43.360]  That's closer to the truth than anybody realized and it wasn't something that was specific
[03:23:43.360 --> 03:23:45.360]  to Joe Biden and his dementia.
[03:23:46.080 --> 03:23:47.840]  All the presidents
[03:23:47.840 --> 03:23:51.520]  have been auto pens for the people who have installed them.
[03:23:52.480 --> 03:23:58.720]  Trump is an auto pen for Netanyahu. He's an auto pen for the CIA. He's an auto pen for Mossad.
[03:23:58.720 --> 03:24:02.400]  He's an auto pen for a lot of people, the billionaire
[03:24:03.520 --> 03:24:06.960]  Silicon Valley people. Trump himself is an auto pen.
[03:24:07.600 --> 03:24:09.600]  They use him as a figurehead
[03:24:09.840 --> 03:24:15.120]  and he signs this stuff into law for the special interests that are out there that are really running the country.
[03:24:15.920 --> 03:24:20.640]  You know, you could take all of our recent presidents and replace them all with a portrait of an auto pen.
[03:24:20.720 --> 03:24:22.720]  That'd be the most accurate thing you could do.
[03:24:23.520 --> 03:24:25.920]  So again, the CIA conducted
[03:24:26.480 --> 03:24:30.640]  a drone strike and a remote dock along Venezuela's coastline,
[03:24:31.440 --> 03:24:33.440]  a so-called big facility.
[03:24:33.920 --> 03:24:35.760]  And this whole article
[03:24:35.760 --> 03:24:40.720]  is about speculation as to where that could be. It was such a big facility, such a big deal
[03:24:41.520 --> 03:24:43.520]  that nobody has any idea where it could be.
[03:24:43.920 --> 03:24:45.680]  They said even after this,
[03:24:45.680 --> 03:24:49.120]  neither the CIA nor the White House nor the Pentagon would comment on it.
[03:24:49.760 --> 03:24:52.000]  Because again, we have secret wars.
[03:24:52.800 --> 03:24:54.800]  We don't debate war.
[03:24:55.600 --> 03:24:59.680]  We just do it. We're not going to tell you what we're doing about it or why we're doing it.
[03:25:01.040 --> 03:25:03.040]  It's going to be unofficially declared
[03:25:03.920 --> 03:25:05.680]  and they
[03:25:05.680 --> 03:25:08.800]  declare that it is always justified.
[03:25:09.600 --> 03:25:11.600]  Every bit of this is a lie.
[03:25:12.460 --> 03:25:16.480]  Speculation has persisted as an effort to identify which facility was hit
[03:25:17.520 --> 03:25:19.520]  and what damage was done.
[03:25:19.920 --> 03:25:23.680]  Some analysts have highlighted a mystery explosion
[03:25:24.400 --> 03:25:30.240]  at an industrial zone in San Francisco municipality. They have a San Francisco and Venezuela as well.
[03:25:30.960 --> 03:25:37.520]  However, local reports also suggest the likelihood that that fire was sparked by an electrical accident.
[03:25:38.400 --> 03:25:40.400]  So it wasn't that big a deal.
[03:25:40.560 --> 03:25:43.280]  It wasn't totally obliterated. We're not even sure
[03:25:44.080 --> 03:25:46.480]  if that was the facility that he's talking about.
[03:25:47.040 --> 03:25:49.040]  Nobody knows what he's talking about.
[03:25:49.920 --> 03:25:52.960]  This is a fantasy war. It's like fentanyl. They can't find it.
[03:25:54.160 --> 03:25:56.080]  It's amazing.
[03:25:56.080 --> 03:25:57.600]  So
[03:25:57.600 --> 03:26:03.520]  the CIA operatives, this is the way it's reported by the Sun out of the UK.
[03:26:04.080 --> 03:26:05.600]  These are the people who...
[03:26:05.600 --> 03:26:10.160]  Be careful about this site. The people who are pushing war use them a lot.
[03:26:10.720 --> 03:26:14.080]  These are the people who said a couple of days ago
[03:26:14.720 --> 03:26:17.840]  that the Iranian president has declared total war on us.
[03:26:17.920 --> 03:26:24.560]  No, it's exactly the opposite. The Iranian president was saying the US and Israel and Europe have declared total war on us.
[03:26:24.720 --> 03:26:29.360]  They're not just shooting missiles at us, but they want to destroy our economy and all the rest of this.
[03:26:30.240 --> 03:26:32.000]  So
[03:26:32.000 --> 03:26:36.960]  the Sun is saying CIA operatives launched a massive drone attack.
[03:26:38.480 --> 03:26:42.480]  So massive that nobody is actually certain where it was.
[03:26:44.160 --> 03:26:48.080]  So again, just be careful of outlets like the Sun.
[03:26:49.120 --> 03:26:50.080]  It is despicable.
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[03:28:30.100 --> 03:28:32.020]  To be cheering war
[03:28:32.020 --> 03:28:34.340]  and to be boasting about
[03:28:34.980 --> 03:28:40.420]  what you've accomplished when you've accomplished absolutely nothing and nothing is going to be accomplished with this war.
[03:28:41.620 --> 03:28:42.580]  So
[03:28:42.580 --> 03:28:45.620]  we've got just a couple of minutes left here. Do we have any comments? Yes, we do.
[03:28:45.620 --> 03:28:49.540]  We've got one from Jason Barker and of course Jason Barker is part of Knights of the Storm.
[03:28:49.540 --> 03:28:55.220]  You can find them at their website, Knights of the Storm.com and they have a schedule of our program
[03:28:55.380 --> 03:28:59.060]  and Tony's and guards and theirs as well. So go check out Knights of the Storm.com.
[03:28:59.860 --> 03:29:03.060]  He says anytime we send certain systems to allies, we send advisors.
[03:29:03.460 --> 03:29:07.540]  The thing about the term boots on the ground is that refers to getting over 50% of a unit there.
[03:29:07.620 --> 03:29:11.700]  So you can have people there and not be boots on the ground. It's a wordplay game. Yeah.
[03:29:12.340 --> 03:29:14.740]  All of it. All of it. It's all lies as
[03:29:15.700 --> 03:29:21.220]  as Audi said. At least, you know, they're not doing something like, well we issued them moccasins, so they're not wearing boots.
[03:29:23.060 --> 03:29:27.460]  Yeah, you would think if it's the CIA they're going to be using slippers because like the slippers are not making any noise there.
[03:29:27.460 --> 03:29:31.700]  But yeah, I just wish we could give all these people the boot, but we can't
[03:29:32.400 --> 03:29:33.540]  unfortunately.
[03:29:33.540 --> 03:29:37.060]  And so, you know when we look at what is coming up,
[03:29:38.260 --> 03:29:39.380]  again,
[03:29:39.380 --> 03:29:41.380]  I think one of the hopes for this year
[03:29:41.620 --> 03:29:47.540]  is that maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene, since she was so dearly loved by the MAGA people, maybe she can lead them out
[03:29:48.340 --> 03:29:50.340]  of this double thank
[03:29:50.500 --> 03:29:56.900]  cult that they've got themselves into, this delusion that they got there. And you had Scott Jennings, who actually is a conservative
[03:29:57.540 --> 03:30:02.740]  on CNN. He's very articulate. He's a good debater, but he has lost all credibility
[03:30:03.460 --> 03:30:05.860]  by becoming just a ridiculous cheerleader.
[03:30:06.580 --> 03:30:11.460]  And as they were talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene, he comes out and says Marjorie Taylor Greene has become a lib.
[03:30:12.660 --> 03:30:14.660]  Well, you've become a sycophant.
[03:30:15.140 --> 03:30:17.620]  You've got absolutely no integrity left whatsoever.
[03:30:18.180 --> 03:30:20.180]  She was talking about
[03:30:21.060 --> 03:30:24.740]  the fact that people need to start paying attention to what Trump is doing and not what he's saying.
[03:30:25.860 --> 03:30:27.700]  Well, have a happy new year.
[03:30:27.700 --> 03:30:32.180]  Thank you for all of your support. And remember, next week we're going to be starting the show
[03:30:32.820 --> 03:30:36.020]  an hour later, but it'll be a two-hour show live.
[03:30:36.500 --> 03:30:42.120]  And you can join us and we'll have the show looping around as well. So have a happy new year. Thank you.
[03:31:32.180 --> 03:31:37.140]  All things were made
[03:31:41.140 --> 03:31:45.140]  May violent through him
[03:31:49.140 --> 03:31:51.140]  In him was left
[03:31:53.940 --> 03:31:55.940]  The light
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[03:32:02.180 --> 03:32:04.340]  Oh
[03:32:32.180 --> 03:32:51.180]  In the beginning was the world, the world with God, the world was gone
[03:32:51.180 --> 03:32:59.180]  All things were made, made by Andrew King
[03:32:59.180 --> 03:33:08.180]  In him was life, the light of man
[03:33:08.180 --> 03:33:16.180]  The true light came into the world
[03:33:16.180 --> 03:33:24.180]  Though made by him is new, not here
[03:33:24.180 --> 03:33:33.180]  The Father's Son we've seen
[03:33:33.180 --> 03:33:41.180]  We've seen his glory, seeing his grace
[03:33:46.180 --> 03:33:56.180]  The Father's Son we've seen
[03:34:16.180 --> 03:34:24.180]  Though he was ill, the world was gone
[03:34:24.180 --> 03:34:32.180]  He kept the blood, equality
[03:34:32.180 --> 03:34:40.180]  But took the form of his own blood
[03:34:40.180 --> 03:34:52.180]  He lived with us, to die for us
[03:35:10.180 --> 03:35:37.180]  In you bound for my humble kin
[03:35:37.180 --> 03:35:45.180]  Who paid to death, death on the cross
[03:35:45.180 --> 03:35:54.180]  Now God has raised his name on high
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[03:36:26.180 --> 03:36:35.180]  In heaven and earth he shall confess
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