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[01:28.800 --> 01:35.800] In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
[01:35.800 --> 01:38.800] It's the David Knight Show.
[01:44.800 --> 01:52.800] As the clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday, New Year's Eve 2025, and we are here live.
[01:52.800 --> 02:01.800] Today we're going to be talking about looking back at a year of Trump's professional wrestling as WWE style chaos.
[02:01.800 --> 02:11.800] And in Minnesota, Little Mogadishu, we see all the hallmarks of federal welfare, immigration, magnet, and fraud at its finest.
[02:11.800 --> 02:17.800] It is a microcosm of bipartisan corruption and apathy.
[02:17.800 --> 02:21.800] Both sides knew about this. Yes, it is the governor's responsibility.
[02:21.800 --> 02:28.800] They didn't even want to talk about it, and it really is shameful when you go back and look at what was known a decade ago.
[02:28.800 --> 02:30.800] And as the GOP pushed back against that.
[02:30.800 --> 02:35.800] We also have rumors that have been left standing by Trump.
[02:35.800 --> 02:44.800] Rumors of boots on the ground in Ukraine, as the CIA is bombing, allegedly bombing the ground in Venezuela.
[02:44.800 --> 02:47.800] Boots on the ground in Ukraine.
[02:47.800 --> 02:52.800] And then, of course, Netanyahu's 30-year dream may come true next year.
[02:52.800 --> 02:56.800] He may get his war with Iran and have us fight it for him.
[02:56.800 --> 03:01.800] And then we're going to take a look at an unbelievably bad bill from Marsha Blackburn,
[03:01.800 --> 03:05.800] who seems to have lost all of her copies of the Constitution this year, as well as any memory of it.
[03:05.800 --> 03:07.800] We'll be right back.
[03:08.800 --> 03:18.800] As a matter of fact, when we look at this last year, I want to begin with a look back at what Mediaite calls the Trump Chaos Machine.
[03:18.800 --> 03:23.800] I've been saying that he is an agent of chaos and we need to get smart.
[03:23.800 --> 03:27.800] Where's Maxwell Smart in Agent 86 when we need him, right?
[03:27.800 --> 03:33.800] So on social media, they've got me in a cone of silence.
[03:34.800 --> 03:38.800] But we're going to take a look at really how this guy operates.
[03:38.800 --> 03:41.800] We've all talked about this and we know this.
[03:41.800 --> 03:46.800] We know that he throws out one crazy thing, one crazy idea, one conflict after the other.
[03:46.800 --> 03:49.800] And it really is all about creating conflict unnecessarily.
[03:49.800 --> 03:53.800] Look at what he did with Canada, for example, right?
[03:53.800 --> 04:02.800] The bourbon industry is on the ropes between the hatred that Trump has built up for American products
[04:02.800 --> 04:06.800] and kind of a boycott of bourbon in Canada.
[04:06.800 --> 04:12.800] Between that and the tariffs, you've got distilleries in Kentucky going out of business left and right.
[04:12.800 --> 04:15.800] And so that's just one industry.
[04:15.800 --> 04:17.800] But it's happening in a lot of different industries.
[04:17.800 --> 04:24.800] It's happening with farmers, for example, because he is going to be focused more on Argentina.
[04:24.800 --> 04:26.800] That's one of the things that Marjorie Taylor Greene said.
[04:26.800 --> 04:28.800] She said, well, we've got Zelinsky today.
[04:28.800 --> 04:30.800] We've got Netanyahu tomorrow.
[04:30.800 --> 04:32.800] Could we just do America?
[04:32.800 --> 04:36.800] You know, it's not like there's nothing happening here in America.
[04:36.800 --> 04:43.800] Maybe you guys need to take a look at the billions of dollars in just one area of fraud that's there.
[04:43.800 --> 04:47.800] But as they pointed out, it is a deliberate – what Trump does with his chaos,
[04:47.800 --> 04:54.800] it is a deliberate stacking of controversies faster than any accountability can form.
[04:54.800 --> 04:58.800] And as soon as people start looking at it and analyzing it, he moves on to something else.
[04:58.800 --> 04:59.800] Just keep it coming.
[04:59.800 --> 05:01.800] And of course, he understands the system.
[05:01.800 --> 05:08.800] He knows that we're going to talk about it because it's just too outrageous, too over the top.
[05:08.800 --> 05:10.800] And he uses that.
[05:10.800 --> 05:14.800] And I think it needs to be talked about because his conduct is outrageous.
[05:14.800 --> 05:16.800] He needs to be called out on it.
[05:16.800 --> 05:20.800] He needs to be called out about the precedents that he is setting.
[05:20.800 --> 05:22.800] This is a guy who is all about chaos.
[05:22.800 --> 05:28.800] He is all about setting precedents, dangerous precedents, illegal,
[05:28.800 --> 05:32.800] unconstitutional precedents that are going to be used by presidents.
[05:32.800 --> 05:35.800] And that's why they're letting these things go through.
[05:35.800 --> 05:37.800] The Democrats want it. Republicans want it.
[05:37.800 --> 05:38.800] They want to rule as a king.
[05:38.800 --> 05:41.800] How many times have we heard both Democrats and Republicans say,
[05:41.800 --> 05:46.800] oh, if only I could rule like a dictator in China.
[05:46.800 --> 05:48.800] You know, these guys can do whatever they want.
[05:48.800 --> 05:53.800] And then they all talk about, well, you know, I could save the planet with green orders.
[05:54.800 --> 05:58.800] You know, it's everybody wants to be a dictator, right?
[05:58.800 --> 06:01.800] They imagine they're going to be a benevolent dictator.
[06:01.800 --> 06:04.800] And you have their supporters wanting them to be dictators,
[06:04.800 --> 06:07.800] imagining that they're going to be benevolent dictators.
[06:07.800 --> 06:09.800] Guess what? It's a fantasy.
[06:09.800 --> 06:12.800] That's one of the craziest things about the technocracy.
[06:12.800 --> 06:16.800] These guys thinking that they're going to have a more libertarian assault to you.
[06:16.800 --> 06:20.800] And they, you know, they talk about their dark enlightenment and all the rest of this stuff.
[06:20.800 --> 06:22.800] Yeah, we need to have libertarian principles.
[06:22.800 --> 06:28.800] But the only way we're going to get to a libertarian society is if we put in a dictator to do that.
[06:28.800 --> 06:29.800] That's about the dumb.
[06:29.800 --> 06:36.800] When you look at that and Peter Thiel and these people who are selling this Curtis Jarvin thing,
[06:36.800 --> 06:39.800] you have to look at that and say, if they really believe this,
[06:39.800 --> 06:41.800] if they're not just trying to pull the wool over our eyes,
[06:41.800 --> 06:46.800] if they really believe this, these guys are not as big a threat as they appear to be.
[06:46.800 --> 06:49.800] They can do a lot of damage with all the money that they've got.
[06:49.800 --> 06:53.800] But they are truly fools if they think that's really going to happen.
[06:53.800 --> 07:00.800] That you're going to get liberty by installing a dictator who's going to dictate liberty to everybody.
[07:00.800 --> 07:03.800] Well, the pardons rewrote history.
[07:03.800 --> 07:04.800] The firings eliminated oversight.
[07:04.800 --> 07:06.800] The diplomacy became spectacle.
[07:06.800 --> 07:09.800] Language became loyalty.
[07:09.800 --> 07:11.800] Access became enforcement.
[07:11.800 --> 07:15.800] The media couldn't ignore it, which was always the point.
[07:15.800 --> 07:18.800] By the end of the year, the pattern was unmistakable.
[07:18.800 --> 07:21.800] January six pardons became background noise by February.
[07:21.800 --> 07:27.800] The Epstein file scandal that convulsed mago world in July was recycled and then forgotten by September,
[07:27.800 --> 07:30.800] only to come back in force by December.
[07:30.800 --> 07:35.800] The White House ballroom construction that would have politically damaged a previous presidency
[07:35.800 --> 07:38.800] barely registered as October news.
[07:38.800 --> 07:42.800] An assassination was absorbed into the churn.
[07:42.800 --> 07:44.800] That's Charlie Kirk's.
[07:44.800 --> 07:50.800] Courts blocked the same unconstitutional orders month after month while Trump simply moved on.
[07:50.800 --> 07:53.800] Inspector generals were purged in a single night.
[07:53.800 --> 07:56.800] The kill switch got flipped on 60 minutes.
[07:56.800 --> 07:59.800] Gaza was pitched as a resort.
[07:59.800 --> 08:01.800] Way more than 18 holes.
[08:01.800 --> 08:05.800] The Associated Press was banned from the Pentagon.
[08:05.800 --> 08:09.800] The military was told democratic cities were training grounds
[08:09.800 --> 08:14.800] and each month brought revelation and erasure in equal measure.
[08:14.800 --> 08:17.800] Velocity replaced consequence.
[08:17.800 --> 08:20.800] Spectacle replaced governance.
[08:20.800 --> 08:24.800] The trap, of course, is that documenting this becomes part of the pattern.
[08:24.800 --> 08:27.800] Every timeline proves the strategy worked.
[08:27.800 --> 08:32.800] Every recap demonstrates how he dominated coverage.
[08:32.800 --> 08:38.800] The media couldn't look away, and by covering it all, became the distribution system for the chaos.
[08:38.800 --> 08:42.800] There is no neutral position when attention itself is the battlefield.
[08:42.800 --> 08:45.800] And look at the attention that they give him.
[08:45.800 --> 08:49.800] You know, whether it's about all these little minutiae about his health.
[08:49.800 --> 08:51.800] Yes, he's 79 years old.
[08:51.800 --> 08:54.800] And yeah, he's got bruises on his hands and so forth.
[08:54.800 --> 08:57.800] The speculation and the hand-wringing about that.
[08:57.800 --> 09:02.800] It is silly, really, the extent that it's happening.
[09:02.800 --> 09:05.800] But there are many things that he's putting in.
[09:05.800 --> 09:13.800] As he has this continually evolving cascade of spectacles and outrages,
[09:13.800 --> 09:18.800] he is putting in some very, very dangerous precedents that are there.
[09:18.800 --> 09:21.800] And the Republicans are all going along with it, for the most part.
[09:21.800 --> 09:26.800] I think one of the most hopeful trends is actually coming from Marjorie Taylor Greene.
[09:26.800 --> 09:30.800] She is saying some very powerful truths.
[09:30.800 --> 09:35.800] And the opponents of Trump are giving her some press coverage.
[09:35.800 --> 09:38.800] And hopefully, people will listen to it.
[09:38.800 --> 09:42.800] It is, you know, what she's saying now is true.
[09:42.800 --> 09:44.800] She was a sycophant before.
[09:44.800 --> 09:49.800] But now there is a break between the two of them.
[09:49.800 --> 09:53.800] She's actually telling some very damning truths about Trump.
[09:53.800 --> 09:55.800] So perhaps that will wake them all up.
[09:55.800 --> 09:56.800] Perhaps not.
[09:56.800 --> 09:58.800] Perhaps they can't be waking up.
[09:58.800 --> 10:01.800] There is no neutral position when attention itself is a battlefield.
[10:01.800 --> 10:04.800] What follows is both record and admission,
[10:04.800 --> 10:07.800] a month-by-month chronicle of how Trump governed
[10:07.800 --> 10:10.800] and how the media allowed itself to be used,
[10:10.800 --> 10:13.800] even as it understood what was happening.
[10:13.800 --> 10:18.800] Because the media, both left and right, love Trump.
[10:18.800 --> 10:21.800] When Trump is in, they get more views.
[10:21.800 --> 10:27.800] Because they can cover all of this professional wrestling, all this WWE froth.
[10:27.800 --> 10:31.800] It's good for both the left and the right media.
[10:31.800 --> 10:34.800] They're both making a lot of money from it.
[10:34.800 --> 10:37.800] So what they did was they went through a month-by-month thing.
[10:37.800 --> 10:41.800] And I think it's interesting, just to recap, just at a distance,
[10:41.800 --> 10:43.800] how quickly things changed.
[10:43.800 --> 10:44.800] Remember in January?
[10:44.800 --> 10:46.800] Started out with the January 6th pardons.
[10:46.800 --> 10:50.800] We had Doge as a co-presidency.
[10:50.800 --> 10:55.800] And then you had Canada and all the nonsense about fentanyl.
[10:55.800 --> 10:57.800] Remember Jack Vesubia, it goes to the border.
[10:57.800 --> 10:59.800] It's amazing, we've got this border here with Canada
[10:59.800 --> 11:02.800] and there's no guard dogs or towers or barbed wire.
[11:02.800 --> 11:04.800] People can just walk back and forth.
[11:04.800 --> 11:06.800] It's like, that was never a problem, Jack.
[11:06.800 --> 11:07.800] It's not a problem now.
[11:07.800 --> 11:09.800] They're not bringing fentanyl in.
[11:09.800 --> 11:12.800] That's just Trump's nonsense.
[11:12.800 --> 11:14.800] And it was utter nonsense.
[11:14.800 --> 11:18.800] All this stuff about trolling them about being the 51st state.
[11:18.800 --> 11:21.800] And then Greenland, maybe the 52nd state.
[11:21.800 --> 11:22.800] Remember that?
[11:22.800 --> 11:25.800] And we talked about Greenland.
[11:25.800 --> 11:30.800] And then by February, it was all about the Gaza Resort video
[11:30.800 --> 11:31.800] that he put out there.
[11:31.800 --> 11:34.800] The bearded belly dancers that were out there.
[11:34.800 --> 11:38.800] And Trump reposted that AI video with a lot of slop in it,
[11:38.800 --> 11:41.800] but it showed really what their true plans are.
[11:41.800 --> 11:43.800] If you go back and you look at what he's doing,
[11:43.800 --> 11:45.800] he's got real estate developers.
[11:45.800 --> 11:48.800] You know, Witkoff is a real estate developer partner,
[11:49.800 --> 11:51.800] and Kushner going,
[11:51.800 --> 11:54.800] they're looking at how they can grift around and make money
[11:54.800 --> 11:57.800] off this land that they take after they kill the people on it.
[11:57.800 --> 11:59.800] Then we had the fight at the Pentagon
[11:59.800 --> 12:02.800] where he starts purging the press out of there.
[12:02.800 --> 12:05.800] The Epstein stunt with all the binders.
[12:05.800 --> 12:06.800] Remember that?
[12:06.800 --> 12:08.800] Yeah, look, we're releasing all this stuff,
[12:08.800 --> 12:11.800] and they had all the useful idiots who, by the way,
[12:11.800 --> 12:13.800] have not paid a price in public opinion
[12:13.800 --> 12:16.800] for participating in that masquerade and fraud.
[12:16.800 --> 12:18.800] Isn't that the most amazing thing?
[12:18.800 --> 12:20.800] You know, when you look at these people,
[12:20.800 --> 12:22.800] these hand-picked influencers,
[12:22.800 --> 12:24.800] you would think that everybody would just walk away from them
[12:24.800 --> 12:25.800] at that point in time,
[12:25.800 --> 12:29.800] but no, it doesn't matter anymore.
[12:29.800 --> 12:32.800] You can lie to people about January the 6th,
[12:32.800 --> 12:34.800] about stop the steal and all the rest of the stuff.
[12:34.800 --> 12:36.800] You can tell people that the vaccine is sugar water.
[12:36.800 --> 12:39.800] You can pretend that the pandemic is real,
[12:39.800 --> 12:42.800] that it came out of a Chinese flu, it's Wu flu,
[12:42.800 --> 12:44.800] it came out of the Wuhan lab.
[12:44.800 --> 12:46.800] You can pretend all that stuff,
[12:46.800 --> 12:48.800] and even when people realize it's nonsense,
[12:48.800 --> 12:52.800] they still tune in and follow these guys.
[12:52.800 --> 12:55.800] And then he had the big fight that he staged
[12:55.800 --> 12:57.800] with Zelensky in the Oval Office.
[12:57.800 --> 13:00.800] Now we're only up to February with all that stuff.
[13:00.800 --> 13:04.800] Then by March, we got more terror threats,
[13:04.800 --> 13:07.800] and they're happening there,
[13:07.800 --> 13:10.800] and that's really where the focus went in March.
[13:10.800 --> 13:15.800] By April, you had Liberation Day terrorists,
[13:15.800 --> 13:21.800] a scheme to liberate you from low prices,
[13:21.800 --> 13:23.800] to liberate you from your money,
[13:23.800 --> 13:26.800] to liberate us from a lot of retail
[13:26.800 --> 13:29.800] and manufacturing businesses who can't handle
[13:29.800 --> 13:32.800] the constant changes from Trump
[13:32.800 --> 13:34.800] in terms of what these taxes are.
[13:34.800 --> 13:36.800] Look, the taxes could be really high
[13:36.800 --> 13:37.800] and they could be really low.
[13:37.800 --> 13:40.800] The important thing is you've got to keep them
[13:40.800 --> 13:43.800] at a fixed rate so people can make plans.
[13:43.800 --> 13:45.800] If you're constantly changing them,
[13:45.800 --> 13:47.800] there's nothing that is more destructive
[13:47.800 --> 13:48.800] and unmanageable.
[13:48.800 --> 13:51.800] As I said before, even about the soybean stuff,
[13:51.800 --> 13:54.800] why do we have the Chicago Board of Trade
[13:54.800 --> 13:57.800] when they do the commodities
[13:57.800 --> 13:59.800] and they have the trading pits that are there?
[13:59.800 --> 14:02.800] That whole thing was set up to bring stability
[14:02.800 --> 14:04.800] to agricultural prices.
[14:04.800 --> 14:06.800] You have to have stability in prices
[14:06.800 --> 14:09.800] if you're going to be able to make a business plan.
[14:09.800 --> 14:12.800] People were willing to pay a premium for that
[14:12.800 --> 14:14.800] to have that kind of stability.
[14:14.800 --> 14:17.800] What Trump did is far more damaging
[14:17.800 --> 14:20.800] than just nuking the Chicago Board of Trade
[14:20.800 --> 14:21.800] and saying,
[14:21.800 --> 14:23.800] that's it, you guys can't operate anymore.
[14:23.800 --> 14:26.800] We're going to take them out with a CIA drone strike.
[14:26.800 --> 14:29.800] It was a tremendous whiplash.
[14:29.800 --> 14:33.800] Of course, Trump always began to lie
[14:33.800 --> 14:35.800] about an emergency.
[14:35.800 --> 14:38.800] Then on the basis of his lying, phony emergency,
[14:38.800 --> 14:41.800] he operates as a dictator
[14:41.800 --> 14:44.800] and he defies anybody to do anything about it.
[14:44.800 --> 14:47.800] Of course, Congress is not going to do anything about it.
[14:47.800 --> 14:51.800] Mike Johnson is nothing other than a puppet
[14:51.800 --> 14:53.800] and everybody knows it.
[14:53.800 --> 14:55.800] Nothing is going to happen in Congress.
[14:55.800 --> 14:57.800] The only recourse anybody has
[14:57.800 --> 14:59.800] is to take them to the courts.
[14:59.800 --> 15:01.800] That takes forever
[15:01.800 --> 15:03.800] for it to run through and get a hearing
[15:03.800 --> 15:05.800] and come up with something.
[15:05.800 --> 15:07.800] He can run on with this stuff for a year
[15:07.800 --> 15:09.800] and then come back and say,
[15:09.800 --> 15:11.800] well, now if you undo this policy,
[15:11.800 --> 15:13.800] it's going to be really, really destructive.
[15:13.800 --> 15:15.800] Well, guess what?
[15:15.800 --> 15:20.800] Trump didn't care about the open free trade system
[15:20.800 --> 15:22.800] that was set up.
[15:22.800 --> 15:24.800] By the way, I've got a lot of problems with that
[15:24.800 --> 15:26.800] and I've said that over many, many years.
[15:26.800 --> 15:28.800] I don't like that system, however.
[15:28.800 --> 15:31.800] It has been set up for many decades
[15:31.800 --> 15:33.800] and Trump had no problem at all
[15:33.800 --> 15:35.800] just ripping that out in one or two days.
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[16:28.800 --> 16:30.800] And it does cause a lot of destruction.
[16:30.800 --> 16:32.800] But his policies and the money
[16:32.800 --> 16:34.800] that they've taken in
[16:34.800 --> 16:36.800] over these assumed powers
[16:36.800 --> 16:38.800] that they don't have the authority for,
[16:38.800 --> 16:40.800] if you take that away
[16:40.800 --> 16:42.800] and they have to turn that money back in,
[16:42.800 --> 16:44.800] that's not going to be any more destructive
[16:44.800 --> 16:46.800] than Trump going in
[16:46.800 --> 16:48.800] and ripping out decades
[16:48.800 --> 16:50.800] of a different trade policy.
[16:50.800 --> 16:52.800] That's not going to be any more destructive
[16:52.800 --> 16:54.800] than Trump going in
[16:54.800 --> 16:56.800] and ripping out decades
[16:56.800 --> 16:58.800] of a different trade policy.
[16:58.800 --> 17:00.800] Then by May, you had NPR and PBS
[17:00.800 --> 17:02.800] being defunded,
[17:02.800 --> 17:04.800] lawsuits against the media,
[17:04.800 --> 17:06.800] and then you started seeing
[17:06.800 --> 17:08.800] the escalated ice wars
[17:08.800 --> 17:10.800] going into the blue states,
[17:10.800 --> 17:12.800] which at this point in time,
[17:12.800 --> 17:14.800] I've got to say,
[17:14.800 --> 17:16.800] when I look at this Minnesota stuff,
[17:16.800 --> 17:18.800] it's like he wants to go to war
[17:18.800 --> 17:20.800] with blue states
[17:20.800 --> 17:22.800] and he wants to maybe have public opinion
[17:22.800 --> 17:24.800] to support this.
[17:24.800 --> 17:26.800] Why in the world would you start
[17:26.800 --> 17:28.800] with Minneapolis
[17:28.800 --> 17:30.800] and Minnesota, the place that's called
[17:30.800 --> 17:32.800] Little Mogadishu?
[17:32.800 --> 17:34.800] And it's been called that for over a decade.
[17:34.800 --> 17:36.800] This has been a problem going back a decade.
[17:36.800 --> 17:38.800] The Republicans knew about it as well.
[17:38.800 --> 17:40.800] And of course, it's corruption
[17:40.800 --> 17:42.800] from Tim Walz.
[17:42.800 --> 17:44.800] It's his responsibility.
[17:44.800 --> 17:46.800] He's the one who's been
[17:46.800 --> 17:48.800] shutting any efforts
[17:48.800 --> 17:50.800] to try to do anything about this down
[17:50.800 --> 17:52.800] effectively.
[17:52.800 --> 17:54.800] And they could have embarrassed him.
[17:54.800 --> 17:56.800] They could have gone to war with him.
[17:56.800 --> 17:58.800] They could have gone to war with all this massive fraud.
[17:58.800 --> 18:00.800] There would have been public support for that.
[18:00.800 --> 18:02.800] Instead, Trump chooses to go
[18:02.800 --> 18:04.800] to other places
[18:04.800 --> 18:06.800] where he's going to have a lot of opposition
[18:06.800 --> 18:08.800] because he wants the chaos.
[18:08.800 --> 18:10.800] As I said from the very beginning,
[18:10.800 --> 18:12.800] if he wants to fix something about this welfare magnet stuff,
[18:12.800 --> 18:14.800] go to the
[18:14.800 --> 18:16.800] states that are going to be on his side
[18:16.800 --> 18:18.800] and work with them.
[18:18.800 --> 18:20.800] And do it in an orderly way.
[18:20.800 --> 18:22.800] It would do process and so forth.
[18:22.800 --> 18:24.800] But he doesn't want to do that.
[18:24.800 --> 18:26.800] He wants to federalize the police.
[18:26.800 --> 18:28.800] He wants to have a little civil war.
[18:28.800 --> 18:30.800] Maybe a bigger civil war.
[18:30.800 --> 18:32.800] That's his goal. It's not really reform.
[18:32.800 --> 18:34.800] He wants conflict.
[18:34.800 --> 18:36.800] Always conflict.
[18:36.800 --> 18:38.800] And even when he could have had conflict
[18:38.800 --> 18:40.800] in Minnesota, Minneapolis,
[18:40.800 --> 18:42.800] he chose to go for a different form
[18:42.800 --> 18:44.800] of conflict.
[18:44.800 --> 18:46.800] So then by June, we're doing
[18:46.800 --> 18:48.800] strikes on Iran
[18:48.800 --> 18:50.800] for Israel.
[18:50.800 --> 18:52.800] We have more issues
[18:52.800 --> 18:54.800] about the federal guard being nationalized
[18:54.800 --> 18:56.800] and using them against
[18:56.800 --> 18:58.800] the wishes of a
[18:58.800 --> 19:00.800] state governor.
[19:00.800 --> 19:02.800] And
[19:02.800 --> 19:04.800] all of this is escalating at that point in time.
[19:04.800 --> 19:06.800] By July,
[19:06.800 --> 19:08.800] he declares the Epstein case is closed.
[19:08.800 --> 19:10.800] And MAGA
[19:10.800 --> 19:12.800] is very upset about that.
[19:12.800 --> 19:14.800] Musk
[19:14.800 --> 19:16.800] quietly
[19:16.800 --> 19:18.800] goes away from Doge, but it's still there.
[19:18.800 --> 19:20.800] They're not talking about it.
[19:20.800 --> 19:22.800] And then you had
[19:22.800 --> 19:24.800] at that point in time,
[19:24.800 --> 19:26.800] you had Marjorie Taylor Greene
[19:26.800 --> 19:28.800] along with Thomas Massey
[19:28.800 --> 19:30.800] and two others,
[19:30.800 --> 19:32.800] two other women that were there
[19:32.800 --> 19:34.800] that pushed back
[19:34.800 --> 19:36.800] to release this stuff.
[19:36.800 --> 19:38.800] And so you start having in July
[19:38.800 --> 19:40.800] the Congress
[19:40.800 --> 19:42.800] is shut down early
[19:42.800 --> 19:44.800] by Mike Johnson just because of the Epstein
[19:44.800 --> 19:46.800] documents. And this is not a tabloid
[19:46.800 --> 19:48.800] distraction, folks. This is something that
[19:48.800 --> 19:50.800] goes to the core
[19:50.800 --> 19:52.800] of the character
[19:52.800 --> 19:54.800] of Donald Trump, the core
[19:54.800 --> 19:56.800] character of our Congress.
[19:56.800 --> 19:58.800] And
[19:58.800 --> 20:00.800] it tells us something about the people who really
[20:00.800 --> 20:02.800] are the government, the CIA.
[20:02.800 --> 20:04.800] The people who will set up
[20:04.800 --> 20:06.800] sexual blackmail,
[20:06.800 --> 20:08.800] honey traps, even
[20:08.800 --> 20:10.800] using young girls
[20:10.800 --> 20:12.800] to get what they want. That's what the CIA
[20:12.800 --> 20:14.800] is. That's what the CIA does
[20:14.800 --> 20:16.800] in order to get power
[20:16.800 --> 20:18.800] and money for its criminal
[20:18.800 --> 20:20.800] wars, for its drug running
[20:20.800 --> 20:22.800] and all the rest of stuff. They get engaged
[20:22.800 --> 20:24.800] in prostitution, pedophilia,
[20:24.800 --> 20:26.800] all the rest of stuff, because that's the way
[20:26.800 --> 20:28.800] you blackmail people today. You've got to go to
[20:28.800 --> 20:30.800] pedophilia. I mean, pretty much
[20:30.800 --> 20:32.800] everything else has been normalized.
[20:32.800 --> 20:34.800] You know, there's no shame
[20:34.800 --> 20:36.800] in America for anything other than
[20:36.800 --> 20:38.800] pedophilia. And I guess
[20:38.800 --> 20:40.800] maybe Trump is going to fix that
[20:40.800 --> 20:42.800] so that not even that is
[20:42.800 --> 20:44.800] something that is
[20:44.800 --> 20:46.800] people are ashamed of. By August
[20:46.800 --> 20:48.800] you have the summit with Putin.
[20:48.800 --> 20:50.800] You have Trump putting out
[20:50.800 --> 20:52.800] his little AI video
[20:52.800 --> 20:54.800] about being the king and dropping excrement
[20:54.800 --> 20:56.800] on the Democrat
[20:56.800 --> 20:58.800] areas. And
[20:58.800 --> 21:00.800] then you
[21:00.800 --> 21:02.800] get to September. A lot of things
[21:02.800 --> 21:04.800] happen in September. Epstein
[21:04.800 --> 21:06.800] resurfaces. You have
[21:06.800 --> 21:08.800] the
[21:08.800 --> 21:10.800] beginning of the Venezuelan
[21:10.800 --> 21:12.800] war crimes that he's conducting
[21:12.800 --> 21:14.800] here, attacking
[21:14.800 --> 21:16.800] people in international waters
[21:16.800 --> 21:18.800] where he doesn't have a declaration
[21:18.800 --> 21:20.800] of war, where these are not combatants.
[21:20.800 --> 21:22.800] And as I said from the very beginning,
[21:22.800 --> 21:24.800] the very first strike, it's
[21:24.800 --> 21:26.800] not the fact they circled back
[21:26.800 --> 21:28.800] and executed people who were waving
[21:28.800 --> 21:30.800] for help, shipwrecked. The
[21:30.800 --> 21:32.800] classic case
[21:32.800 --> 21:34.800] that is in the American military
[21:34.800 --> 21:36.800] manuals. Why is it there? Because
[21:36.800 --> 21:38.800] that was a kind of reprehensible
[21:38.800 --> 21:40.800] conduct that was engaged in
[21:40.800 --> 21:42.800] by the German U-boat commanders,
[21:42.800 --> 21:44.800] submarine commanders. They'd hit a ship
[21:44.800 --> 21:46.800] and they'd come back and kill everybody.
[21:46.800 --> 21:48.800] And so
[21:48.800 --> 21:50.800] that abomination surfaced
[21:50.800 --> 21:52.800] later. But it was abomination from the very beginning.
[21:52.800 --> 21:54.800] These people were not a threat.
[21:54.800 --> 21:56.800] They were not shooting.
[21:56.800 --> 21:58.800] This was not in self-defense.
[21:58.800 --> 22:00.800] There was no declaration of war.
[22:00.800 --> 22:02.800] And there was no fentanyl. All of that stuff
[22:02.800 --> 22:04.800] was a lie. And so
[22:04.800 --> 22:06.800] then he threatens
[22:06.800 --> 22:08.800] Colombia. And it turns out that Colombia,
[22:08.800 --> 22:10.800] the biggest source of cocaine,
[22:10.800 --> 22:12.800] is also getting a lot of money
[22:12.800 --> 22:14.800] from the U.S. government. I mean, it's just like
[22:14.800 --> 22:16.800] the Somalian thing, right?
[22:16.800 --> 22:18.800] We're bombing El Shabab
[22:18.800 --> 22:20.800] in Somalia.
[22:20.800 --> 22:22.800] Pretty much
[22:22.800 --> 22:24.800] a record number of bombing
[22:24.800 --> 22:26.800] runs in Somalia this year.
[22:26.800 --> 22:28.800] But at the same time, we're giving them billions of dollars in fraud.
[22:28.800 --> 22:30.800] They know about it. They choose
[22:30.800 --> 22:32.800] not to do anything about it. Both Republicans
[22:32.800 --> 22:34.800] and Democrats. It's a bipartisan
[22:34.800 --> 22:36.800] apathy about that.
[22:36.800 --> 22:38.800] And so, yeah, Colombia,
[22:38.800 --> 22:40.800] we have to have a war on drugs.
[22:40.800 --> 22:42.800] And yet we're giving money to
[22:42.800 --> 22:44.800] Colombia. Until
[22:44.800 --> 22:46.800] you have the Colombian president
[22:46.800 --> 22:48.800] say something that offends
[22:48.800 --> 22:50.800] Trump personally.
[22:50.800 --> 22:52.800] Then there was the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
[22:52.800 --> 22:54.800] And that got a lot of attention.
[22:54.800 --> 22:56.800] Especially the fact that
[22:56.800 --> 22:58.800] the memorials were pointed out
[22:58.800 --> 23:00.800] yesterday. Instead
[23:00.800 --> 23:02.800] of forgiving people, Trump says, I hate my enemies.
[23:02.800 --> 23:04.800] I want to get even with them.
[23:04.800 --> 23:06.800] And showing so much grief
[23:06.800 --> 23:08.800] about Charlie Kirk, as people ask
[23:08.800 --> 23:10.800] him about it, he says, yeah, it was terrible. By the way,
[23:10.800 --> 23:12.800] have you seen my plans for the ballroom yet?
[23:12.800 --> 23:14.800] That type of thing.
[23:14.800 --> 23:16.800] It really was a character
[23:16.800 --> 23:18.800] defining moment, just like
[23:18.800 --> 23:20.800] the Epstein documents, if you're paying
[23:20.800 --> 23:22.800] attention. And then this
[23:22.800 --> 23:24.800] White House ballroom thing, look at how it is escalating.
[23:24.800 --> 23:26.800] As many people are saying, well, I think they're building
[23:26.800 --> 23:28.800] a bunker for Trump. Because he
[23:28.800 --> 23:30.800] wants to take us to war.
[23:30.800 --> 23:32.800] Got to have something that they can get into
[23:32.800 --> 23:34.800] very, very quickly there. Who knows what they're going
[23:34.800 --> 23:36.800] to do with it. I mean, it could just be
[23:36.800 --> 23:38.800] fraud, waste, and abuse.
[23:38.800 --> 23:40.800] Or it could be something that is really big.
[23:40.800 --> 23:42.800] And
[23:42.800 --> 23:44.800] so the
[23:44.800 --> 23:46.800] election losses in November.
[23:46.800 --> 23:48.800] More seizures in Venezuela.
[23:48.800 --> 23:50.800] We have the
[23:50.800 --> 23:52.800] civil asset forfeiture now
[23:52.800 --> 23:54.800] of giant oil tankers with
[23:54.800 --> 23:56.800] millions of barrels of oil.
[23:56.800 --> 23:58.800] This is the
[23:58.800 --> 24:00.800] progression of the
[24:00.800 --> 24:02.800] failed war on drugs.
[24:02.800 --> 24:04.800] And so
[24:04.800 --> 24:06.800] all this talk about treason,
[24:06.800 --> 24:08.800] if you say that
[24:08.800 --> 24:10.800] people should not be following illegal
[24:10.800 --> 24:12.800] orders. And of course,
[24:12.800 --> 24:14.800] how shallow the Democrats are
[24:14.800 --> 24:16.800] in terms of their convictions. When asked
[24:16.800 --> 24:18.800] if there were any illegal orders,
[24:18.800 --> 24:20.800] well, I can't think of anything.
[24:20.800 --> 24:22.800] I mean, shooting people in international waters
[24:22.800 --> 24:24.800] without declaration of war, without any
[24:24.800 --> 24:26.800] threat being made.
[24:26.800 --> 24:28.800] I can't think of anything that would be wrong
[24:28.800 --> 24:30.800] with that, they said when pressed on it.
[24:30.800 --> 24:32.800] That's how pathetic the Democrats
[24:32.800 --> 24:34.800] are, because they want this power as
[24:34.800 --> 24:36.800] well. And so
[24:36.800 --> 24:38.800] the shutdown that lasted
[24:38.800 --> 24:40.800] forever, the illegal
[24:40.800 --> 24:42.800] order sham fight, and it was a sham
[24:42.800 --> 24:44.800] fight, because the
[24:44.800 --> 24:46.800] Democrats are always doing illegal orders.
[24:46.800 --> 24:48.800] And they're pretending that
[24:48.800 --> 24:50.800] well, this is just a hypothetical. We
[24:50.800 --> 24:52.800] don't want to take Trump on over this
[24:52.800 --> 24:54.800] illegal war with Venezuela.
[24:54.800 --> 24:56.800] Then by December,
[24:56.800 --> 24:58.800] we saw the Epstein thing
[24:58.800 --> 25:00.800] finally reopened after all the delaying tactics.
[25:00.800 --> 25:02.800] And
[25:02.800 --> 25:04.800] we're starting to get some information. It's one of the reasons
[25:04.800 --> 25:06.800] why Trump was having a bad
[25:06.800 --> 25:08.800] Christmas day.
[25:08.800 --> 25:10.800] And attacking people there. But
[25:10.800 --> 25:12.800] a lot of war being queued up
[25:12.800 --> 25:14.800] for the next year here.
[25:14.800 --> 25:16.800] And we're ending the war here with
[25:16.800 --> 25:18.800] attacks on the ground in Venezuela.
[25:18.800 --> 25:20.800] Allegedly.
[25:20.800 --> 25:22.800] The interesting thing about this, I want to talk about this
[25:22.800 --> 25:24.800] coming up, is
[25:26.800 --> 25:28.800] supposedly it happened last week.
[25:28.800 --> 25:30.800] Venezuela hasn't said anything about it.
[25:30.800 --> 25:32.800] Trump dropped some
[25:32.800 --> 25:34.800] hints
[25:34.800 --> 25:36.800] to try to get the ball rolling since nobody
[25:36.800 --> 25:38.800] is asking him about it.
[25:38.800 --> 25:40.800] And everybody is wondering, you know, what really
[25:40.800 --> 25:42.800] happened, because
[25:42.800 --> 25:44.800] this is supposedly, according to Trump, it's a
[25:44.800 --> 25:46.800] devastating attack. All of his
[25:46.800 --> 25:48.800] attacks are devastating, right?
[25:48.800 --> 25:50.800] Except, nobody really knows
[25:50.800 --> 25:52.800] where it is. There's guesses about it, but
[25:52.800 --> 25:54.800] they're not really sure.
[25:54.800 --> 25:56.800] So, not that big of an attack.
[25:56.800 --> 25:58.800] But we know
[25:58.800 --> 26:00.800] they're signaling us, and this is really a
[26:00.800 --> 26:02.800] trial balloon more than an attack, I think.
[26:02.800 --> 26:04.800] You know, what are people going to say about it?
[26:04.800 --> 26:06.800] Well, they're not going to do
[26:06.800 --> 26:08.800] anything about it, just like they're not going to do anything about all the rest
[26:08.800 --> 26:10.800] of his usurpations
[26:10.800 --> 26:12.800] throughout this year. By year's end,
[26:12.800 --> 26:14.800] the defining feature of Trump's second
[26:14.800 --> 26:16.800] presidency wasn't any single
[26:16.800 --> 26:18.800] scandal, any single decision.
[26:18.800 --> 26:20.800] It was the sheer
[26:20.800 --> 26:22.800] velocity that made remembering them nearly
[26:22.800 --> 26:24.800] impossible. This wasn't
[26:24.800 --> 26:26.800] accidental. Trump governed
[26:26.800 --> 26:28.800] through saturation, confident
[26:28.800 --> 26:30.800] that a media ecosystem
[26:30.800 --> 26:32.800] built up to chase novelty
[26:32.800 --> 26:34.800] would amplify
[26:34.800 --> 26:36.800] every provocation while struggling
[26:36.800 --> 26:38.800] to retain any of them.
[26:38.800 --> 26:40.800] And I think
[26:40.800 --> 26:42.800] it really is important to understand where this guy is
[26:42.800 --> 26:44.800] coming from. All the years of experience
[26:44.800 --> 26:46.800] that he had with WWE, I mean, he's watched
[26:46.800 --> 26:48.800] these guys come up with phony
[26:48.800 --> 26:50.800] narratives, and he knows
[26:50.800 --> 26:52.800] how the conflict sells.
[26:52.800 --> 26:54.800] So they create, so he decides
[26:54.800 --> 26:56.800] that he's going to create conflict
[26:56.800 --> 26:58.800] where there isn't any conflict, because he knows
[26:58.800 --> 27:00.800] that people are going to tune in. That's why
[27:00.800 --> 27:02.800] he goes after Canada and so forth.
[27:02.800 --> 27:04.800] I think another thing that WWE
[27:04.800 --> 27:06.800] teaches you is that
[27:06.800 --> 27:08.800] people want to buy in. You
[27:08.800 --> 27:10.800] don't even have to give them necessarily a believable
[27:10.800 --> 27:12.800] lie, just so long as it's one
[27:12.800 --> 27:14.800] that aligns with what they want to believe.
[27:14.800 --> 27:16.800] That's right.
[27:16.800 --> 27:18.800] You're absolutely right, Travis.
[27:18.800 --> 27:20.800] And I think it also told him how to use some blood
[27:20.800 --> 27:22.800] squibs that came in handy in the
[27:22.800 --> 27:24.800] campaign with the earshot.
[27:24.800 --> 27:26.800] I think he learned how to
[27:26.800 --> 27:28.800] take a fall and to make it look like he's bleeding.
[27:28.800 --> 27:30.800] Maybe he really did cut his ear with
[27:30.800 --> 27:32.800] a razor blade. That's what the professional
[27:32.800 --> 27:34.800] wrestlers do. What broke
[27:34.800 --> 27:36.800] wasn't just decorum or tone,
[27:36.800 --> 27:38.800] it was muscle memory.
[27:38.800 --> 27:40.800] Oversight became episodic.
[27:40.800 --> 27:42.800] Court rulings became optional
[27:42.800 --> 27:44.800] performance art.
[27:44.800 --> 27:46.800] The press learned that even perfect documentation
[27:46.800 --> 27:48.800] doesn't guarantee
[27:48.800 --> 27:50.800] consequences if the next spectacle
[27:50.800 --> 27:52.800] arrives quickly enough.
[27:52.800 --> 27:54.800] The public learned to live inside
[27:54.800 --> 27:56.800] permanent
[27:56.800 --> 27:58.800] provisionality, where nothing is
[27:58.800 --> 28:00.800] settled and nothing is finished.
[28:00.800 --> 28:02.800] And outrage itself
[28:02.800 --> 28:04.800] expires on contact.
[28:04.800 --> 28:06.800] The cost of the fire
[28:06.800 --> 28:08.800] hose wasn't just exhaustion.
[28:08.800 --> 28:10.800] It was erosion
[28:10.800 --> 28:12.800] of trust, of institutional
[28:12.800 --> 28:14.800] confidence, and of the expectation
[28:14.800 --> 28:16.800] that power must eventually answer
[28:16.800 --> 28:18.800] for itself. Now that's a key
[28:18.800 --> 28:20.800] thing there. I think that is true.
[28:20.800 --> 28:22.800] And that is the hallmark of
[28:22.800 --> 28:24.800] the fourth turning. And that's why I said Trump
[28:24.800 --> 28:26.800] was installed as the agent
[28:26.800 --> 28:28.800] of chaos, as the
[28:28.800 --> 28:30.800] accelerant, as we're getting close
[28:30.800 --> 28:32.800] to the end of this fourth turning. They need to
[28:32.800 --> 28:34.800] get this accelerated. And of course,
[28:34.800 --> 28:36.800] one of the key aspects of the fourth
[28:36.800 --> 28:38.800] turning is that people lose
[28:38.800 --> 28:40.800] all trust in
[28:40.800 --> 28:42.800] institutions and all confidence in them. He's
[28:42.800 --> 28:44.800] working at that very hard, as
[28:44.800 --> 28:46.800] well as working to create a
[28:46.800 --> 28:48.800] civil war. Right now it's a cold
[28:48.800 --> 28:50.800] civil war. Who knows if he's going to make
[28:50.800 --> 28:52.800] it hot. Trump didn't
[28:52.800 --> 28:54.800] break the system. He understood it
[28:54.800 --> 28:56.800] better than the system understood itself.
[28:56.800 --> 28:58.800] Well,
[28:58.800 --> 29:00.800] he's out there crying wolf this entire
[29:00.800 --> 29:02.800] year. The interesting thing, I
[29:02.800 --> 29:04.800] think, is that it might be Michael
[29:04.800 --> 29:06.800] Wolf who ultimately has him crying.
[29:06.800 --> 29:08.800] Because
[29:08.800 --> 29:10.800] one of the things that they didn't mention
[29:10.800 --> 29:12.800] was the fact that Trump
[29:12.800 --> 29:14.800] and Melania have
[29:14.800 --> 29:16.800] taken the precedent that was set
[29:16.800 --> 29:18.800] of lawfare against
[29:18.800 --> 29:20.800] them, and they've ramped it up to 11
[29:20.800 --> 29:22.800] on the amplifier.
[29:22.800 --> 29:24.800] And
[29:24.800 --> 29:26.800] they are using that as
[29:26.800 --> 29:28.800] intimidation, everybody. And they
[29:28.800 --> 29:30.800] said it was very interesting that they
[29:30.800 --> 29:32.800] would threaten to sue all these
[29:32.800 --> 29:34.800] different people who repeated
[29:34.800 --> 29:36.800] what
[29:36.800 --> 29:38.800] Michael Wolf said he learned from
[29:38.800 --> 29:40.800] Jeffrey Epstein in the interviews,
[29:40.800 --> 29:42.800] in terms of the relationship
[29:42.800 --> 29:44.800] of Trump
[29:44.800 --> 29:46.800] and Melania to Epstein.
[29:46.800 --> 29:48.800] And so as people
[29:48.800 --> 29:50.800] repeat what he said and what he wrote in his book,
[29:50.800 --> 29:52.800] I said, it is interesting,
[29:52.800 --> 29:54.800] isn't it, that they keep coming after the
[29:54.800 --> 29:56.800] people who repeat what Michael Wolf said
[29:56.800 --> 29:58.800] rather than going after Michael Wolf. Well, they
[29:58.800 --> 30:00.800] finally did threaten
[30:00.800 --> 30:02.800] Michael Wolf. They didn't do a lawsuit,
[30:02.800 --> 30:04.800] they just sent him a threatening letter.
[30:04.800 --> 30:06.800] And he said, it's on.
[30:06.800 --> 30:08.800] I'll sue you. I'm not going to wait for you
[30:08.800 --> 30:10.800] to sue me. And
[30:10.800 --> 30:12.800] so that's going to be very interesting.
[30:12.800 --> 30:14.800] I think that will be very interesting.
[30:14.800 --> 30:16.800] Especially
[30:16.800 --> 30:18.800] I guess they were concerned
[30:18.800 --> 30:20.800] that he might have
[30:20.800 --> 30:22.800] made tapes, as
[30:22.800 --> 30:24.800] journalists and authors usually do
[30:24.800 --> 30:26.800] when they're interviewing. Who knows?
[30:26.800 --> 30:28.800] Maybe he's got them, maybe he doesn't have them.
[30:28.800 --> 30:30.800] But I think it's going to be
[30:30.800 --> 30:32.800] kind of interesting. The wolf
[30:32.800 --> 30:34.800] is at the door this next year for them
[30:34.800 --> 30:36.800] with Epstein. This is not
[30:36.800 --> 30:38.800] going to go away. It just keeps
[30:38.800 --> 30:40.800] building. Because it was something
[30:40.800 --> 30:42.800] that really defines
[30:42.800 --> 30:44.800] his character and lack of it.
[30:44.800 --> 30:46.800] Not only what he did with Jeffrey
[30:46.800 --> 30:48.800] Epstein, but what he has done with these
[30:48.800 --> 30:50.800] documents. And so
[30:50.800 --> 30:52.800] he is an accelerationist. Trump is the gasoline
[30:52.800 --> 30:54.800] that our
[30:54.800 --> 30:56.800] masters have thrown on the dumpster
[30:56.800 --> 30:58.800] fire at the end of the fourth
[30:58.800 --> 31:00.800] turning. Expect a
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[31:02.800 --> 31:04.800] And so I guess
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[32:12.800 --> 32:14.800] Yeah, Trump
[32:14.800 --> 32:16.800] treason and the New York Times. This is
[32:16.800 --> 32:18.800] from Mises.
[32:18.800 --> 32:20.800] They point out how last week Trump denounced
[32:20.800 --> 32:22.800] the New York Times
[32:22.800 --> 32:24.800] as a serious threat to national security
[32:24.800 --> 32:26.800] of our nation, enemy of the people. They're
[32:26.800 --> 32:28.800] traitors. Anybody
[32:28.800 --> 32:30.800] that comes against him is, as they
[32:30.800 --> 32:32.800] put it, you know,
[32:32.800 --> 32:34.800] chasing women. This is
[32:34.800 --> 32:36.800] New York Times, right? Chasing women
[32:36.800 --> 32:38.800] for Trump was a game of
[32:38.800 --> 32:40.800] ego and dominance.
[32:40.800 --> 32:42.800] Female bodies were
[32:42.800 --> 32:44.800] the currency.
[32:44.800 --> 32:46.800] And when you look at this game of
[32:46.800 --> 32:48.800] ego and dominance
[32:48.800 --> 32:50.800] that Epstein and Trump were playing
[32:50.800 --> 32:52.800] with each other, that's what eventually
[32:52.800 --> 32:54.800] blew up their relationship.
[32:54.800 --> 32:56.800] It was ego and dominance
[32:56.800 --> 32:58.800] in a war about some property
[32:58.800 --> 33:00.800] in West Palm Beach. Which,
[33:00.800 --> 33:02.800] again, stop and think about that. I said that
[33:02.800 --> 33:04.800] to Karen this morning. I said,
[33:04.800 --> 33:06.800] why do they call it West Palm Beach? I mean, it's not even
[33:06.800 --> 33:08.800] the west coast of
[33:08.800 --> 33:10.800] Florida. It's as far east as you
[33:10.800 --> 33:12.800] can get without getting into the ocean.
[33:12.800 --> 33:14.800] Everything about that place is a
[33:14.800 --> 33:16.800] lie.
[33:16.800 --> 33:18.800] It might be Palm Beach, but it's not West Palm Beach.
[33:18.800 --> 33:20.800] West Palm Beach ought to be on the
[33:20.800 --> 33:22.800] west coast, at least of
[33:22.800 --> 33:24.800] Florida. Anyway,
[33:24.800 --> 33:26.800] because America's founders had seen
[33:26.800 --> 33:28.800] horrific political abuses in England,
[33:28.800 --> 33:30.800] says Mises,
[33:30.800 --> 33:32.800] in prior times, the Constitution specifically
[33:32.800 --> 33:34.800] and narrowly
[33:34.800 --> 33:36.800] defines treason.
[33:36.800 --> 33:38.800] Defined like this, treason
[33:38.800 --> 33:40.800] against the United States shall consist
[33:40.800 --> 33:42.800] only
[33:42.800 --> 33:44.800] in levying war against them
[33:44.800 --> 33:46.800] or adhering
[33:46.800 --> 33:48.800] to their enemies, giving
[33:48.800 --> 33:50.800] them aid and comfort.
[33:50.800 --> 33:52.800] No person shall be convicted
[33:52.800 --> 33:54.800] of treason unless on the
[33:54.800 --> 33:56.800] testimony of two witnesses to the same
[33:56.800 --> 33:58.800] overt act or
[33:58.800 --> 34:00.800] on confession in open
[34:00.800 --> 34:02.800] court. Not a confession in a
[34:02.800 --> 34:04.800] star chamber, right?
[34:04.800 --> 34:06.800] And so they had seen
[34:06.800 --> 34:08.800] this is something that is a hallmark
[34:08.800 --> 34:10.800] of dictators and kings
[34:10.800 --> 34:12.800] that you start throwing out
[34:12.800 --> 34:14.800] charges of treason to everybody.
[34:14.800 --> 34:16.800] And they said, no,
[34:16.800 --> 34:18.800] this is what treason is, a very special case.
[34:20.800 --> 34:22.800] Trump is instead
[34:22.800 --> 34:24.800] trying to use, let's say, a majestic
[34:24.800 --> 34:26.800] standard of treason, presuming that
[34:26.800 --> 34:28.800] anything that denigrates
[34:28.800 --> 34:30.800] the supreme leader
[34:30.800 --> 34:32.800] is a betrayal of the nation.
[34:32.800 --> 34:34.800] In other words, I am
[34:34.800 --> 34:36.800] the law. I am the
[34:36.800 --> 34:38.800] nation. And that is Trump's
[34:38.800 --> 34:40.800] attitude.
[34:40.800 --> 34:42.800] In the wake of January the 6th clash
[34:42.800 --> 34:44.800] in the U.S. Capitol, many Democrats
[34:44.800 --> 34:46.800] were accused of treason, one to label any
[34:46.800 --> 34:48.800] protestor who entered the Capitol
[34:48.800 --> 34:50.800] as a traitor.
[34:50.800 --> 34:52.800] Even before Trump supporters poured into the
[34:52.800 --> 34:54.800] Capitol that day, Democrats were accusing
[34:54.800 --> 34:56.800] them of sedition for filing
[34:56.800 --> 34:58.800] legal challenges to the election results,
[34:58.800 --> 35:00.800] including popular Twitter hashtags
[35:00.800 --> 35:02.800] such as
[35:02.800 --> 35:04.800] hashtag GOP seditious traders
[35:04.800 --> 35:06.800] and hashtag treason
[35:06.800 --> 35:08.800] against America.
[35:08.800 --> 35:10.800] And we heard this over and over again
[35:10.800 --> 35:12.800] till it lost any meaning.
[35:12.800 --> 35:14.800] In June 2006,
[35:14.800 --> 35:16.800] the author of this article
[35:16.800 --> 35:18.800] was heavily involved in
[35:18.800 --> 35:20.800] what was happening as the Republicans
[35:20.800 --> 35:22.800] leading the charge
[35:22.800 --> 35:24.800] to condemn the media for treason.
[35:24.800 --> 35:26.800] On June 23rd, 2006,
[35:26.800 --> 35:28.800] the New York Times revealed that the Bush administration
[35:28.800 --> 35:30.800] had been illegally
[35:30.800 --> 35:32.800] vacuuming up financial records that
[35:32.800 --> 35:34.800] passed through a Belgium hub
[35:34.800 --> 35:36.800] for national banking.
[35:36.800 --> 35:38.800] The Bush White House quickly
[35:38.800 --> 35:40.800] re-labeled the surveillance program,
[35:40.800 --> 35:42.800] the quote, terrorist finance
[35:42.800 --> 35:44.800] tracking program,
[35:44.800 --> 35:46.800] and thus the media became guilty of helping
[35:46.800 --> 35:48.800] terrorists destroy America.
[35:48.800 --> 35:50.800] Treasury Secretary
[35:50.800 --> 35:52.800] John Snow denounced
[35:52.800 --> 35:54.800] the New York Times article as
[35:54.800 --> 35:56.800] quote, irresponsible and harmful
[35:56.800 --> 35:58.800] to the security of Americans
[35:58.800 --> 36:00.800] and freedom-loving people worldwide.
[36:00.800 --> 36:02.800] So freedom-loving
[36:02.800 --> 36:04.800] people miraculously
[36:04.800 --> 36:06.800] became the
[36:06.800 --> 36:08.800] card that they would use against the First Amendment.
[36:08.800 --> 36:10.800] We just saw this,
[36:10.800 --> 36:12.800] as I reported yesterday,
[36:12.800 --> 36:14.800] in the EU. If you're going to push back
[36:14.800 --> 36:16.800] against these tyrants
[36:16.800 --> 36:18.800] like Thierry Breton,
[36:18.800 --> 36:20.800] Ursula Fond of lying in the EU,
[36:20.800 --> 36:22.800] if you're going to push back against them,
[36:22.800 --> 36:24.800] well, we're going to push back. We are now
[36:24.800 --> 36:26.800] the bastion of freedom because we are supporting
[36:26.800 --> 36:28.800] censorship.
[36:28.800 --> 36:30.800] And because you come after the people
[36:30.800 --> 36:32.800] who are supporting censorship,
[36:32.800 --> 36:34.800] now you're the tyrants.
[36:34.800 --> 36:36.800] See how upside down that
[36:36.800 --> 36:38.800] logic is. Well, it's the same thing here with the Bush
[36:38.800 --> 36:40.800] administration.
[36:40.800 --> 36:42.800] If you oppose
[36:42.800 --> 36:44.800] government surveillance without a warrant,
[36:44.800 --> 36:46.800] then you're not freedom-loving.
[36:48.800 --> 36:50.800] This is what we always see from these people.
[36:50.800 --> 36:52.800] So he said,
[36:52.800 --> 36:54.800] I appeared briefly on Fox,
[36:54.800 --> 36:56.800] Hannity and Combs the day the
[36:56.800 --> 36:58.800] Times story was published.
[36:58.800 --> 37:00.800] My criticism of the warrantless surveillance
[37:00.800 --> 37:02.800] provoked enraged emails against
[37:02.800 --> 37:04.800] me, he said. One guy
[37:04.800 --> 37:06.800] suggested that, quote, every
[37:06.800 --> 37:08.800] no-nothing lying jackass like you
[37:08.800 --> 37:10.800] should be rounded up and gassed with the Iraqi
[37:10.800 --> 37:12.800] poison gas that does not exist
[37:12.800 --> 37:14.800] according to you.
[37:14.800 --> 37:16.800] Well, actually it didn't. He failed
[37:16.800 --> 37:18.800] to explain this connection between the
[37:18.800 --> 37:20.800] actual illegal surveillance
[37:20.800 --> 37:22.800] and the imaginary poison gas.
[37:22.800 --> 37:24.800] They did actually
[37:24.800 --> 37:26.800] poison people with gas
[37:26.800 --> 37:28.800] with the help
[37:28.800 --> 37:30.800] of the US. We told them where
[37:30.800 --> 37:32.800] to poison the people.
[37:32.800 --> 37:34.800] But the other weapons of mass destruction were
[37:34.800 --> 37:36.800] fabrication from
[37:36.800 --> 37:38.800] the person that Trump would elevate to the head
[37:38.800 --> 37:40.800] of the CIA, Gina Haspel,
[37:40.800 --> 37:42.800] along with torture
[37:42.800 --> 37:44.800] and the cover-up of
[37:44.800 --> 37:46.800] the torture. So he said, I observed
[37:46.800 --> 37:48.800] that the endless threats of treason
[37:48.800 --> 37:50.800] prosecutions against whistleblowers,
[37:50.800 --> 37:52.800] reporters and editors may be a
[37:52.800 --> 37:54.800] last-ditch attempt to
[37:54.800 --> 37:56.800] prevent Americans from learning about
[37:56.800 --> 37:58.800] secret presidential orders
[37:58.800 --> 38:00.800] that would make the National Security Agency
[38:00.800 --> 38:02.800] wiretapping look like
[38:02.800 --> 38:04.800] kid stuff.
[38:04.800 --> 38:06.800] Seven years later, Ed Snowden
[38:06.800 --> 38:08.800] revealed federal surveillance crime
[38:08.800 --> 38:10.800] sprees worse than anyone
[38:10.800 --> 38:12.800] suspected, obliterating the
[38:12.800 --> 38:14.800] credibility of the US government.
[38:14.800 --> 38:16.800] And in response, Mike Rogers,
[38:16.800 --> 38:18.800] a Republican,
[38:18.800 --> 38:20.800] publicly joked about putting Snowden on
[38:20.800 --> 38:22.800] a government kill list,
[38:22.800 --> 38:24.800] which Trump's attorney general
[38:24.800 --> 38:26.800] and
[38:26.800 --> 38:28.800] former CIA guy, Bill Barr,
[38:28.800 --> 38:30.800] actually did with Julian Assange,
[38:30.800 --> 38:32.800] along with Mike Pompeo.
[38:32.800 --> 38:34.800] I appeared briefly on
[38:34.800 --> 38:36.800] Fox's Hannity and Combs that day,
[38:36.800 --> 38:38.800] and he said, with all the stuff
[38:38.800 --> 38:40.800] that happened to him, he's been at the epicenter
[38:40.800 --> 38:42.800] of this. Unfortunately,
[38:42.800 --> 38:44.800] Trump is continuing a long
[38:44.800 --> 38:46.800] presidential tradition of
[38:46.800 --> 38:48.800] saber-rattling against free speech.
[38:48.800 --> 38:50.800] But happily, the 1971
[38:50.800 --> 38:52.800] Supreme Court decision around
[38:52.800 --> 38:54.800] the Pentagon Papers
[38:54.800 --> 38:56.800] put up a pretty good barrier
[38:56.800 --> 38:58.800] against that type of thing. They wrote,
[38:58.800 --> 39:00.800] the First Amendment protected the media
[39:00.800 --> 39:02.800] because, quote, only a free
[39:02.800 --> 39:04.800] and unrestricted press
[39:04.800 --> 39:06.800] can effectively expose deception
[39:06.800 --> 39:08.800] in government.
[39:08.800 --> 39:10.800] The government's power to censor the press
[39:10.800 --> 39:12.800] was abolished so that
[39:12.800 --> 39:14.800] the press would remain forever
[39:14.800 --> 39:16.800] free to censure
[39:16.800 --> 39:18.800] the government.
[39:18.800 --> 39:20.800] So we're either going to have censorship by
[39:20.800 --> 39:22.800] the press, or we're going to have the press
[39:22.800 --> 39:24.800] able to censure the government.
[39:24.800 --> 39:26.800] So the First Amendment is about
[39:26.800 --> 39:28.800] as far as freedom of press goes.
[39:28.800 --> 39:30.800] But it goes much deeper than that.
[39:30.800 --> 39:32.800] If you're going to have
[39:32.800 --> 39:34.800] a psychological war,
[39:34.800 --> 39:36.800] an information war, a mind war
[39:36.800 --> 39:38.800] against the people,
[39:38.800 --> 39:40.800] it begins with free speech.
[39:40.800 --> 39:42.800] That's why the first casualty of war
[39:42.800 --> 39:44.800] is always the truth.
[39:44.800 --> 39:46.800] To get you to accept
[39:46.800 --> 39:48.800] what is not true.
[39:48.800 --> 39:50.800] To get you to follow them blindly.
[39:50.800 --> 39:52.800] And to get you to kill
[39:52.800 --> 39:54.800] who they wish to kill.
[39:54.800 --> 39:56.800] That's what we're going to be seeing a lot
[39:56.800 --> 39:58.800] this next year.
[39:58.800 --> 40:00.800] I'm afraid there's going to be a lot of wars.
[40:00.800 --> 40:02.800] This year we've had wars and rumors of wars.
[40:02.800 --> 40:04.800] I think we're going to have
[40:04.800 --> 40:06.800] more wars and rumors next year, I think.
[40:06.800 --> 40:08.800] That's my take on it.
[40:08.800 --> 40:10.800] We'll talk a little bit more about that when we come back.
[40:10.800 --> 40:12.800] But let's take a look at some of the comments here, Travis.
[40:12.800 --> 40:14.800] That's right.
[40:14.800 --> 40:16.800] We've got Marky Mark in New Jersey.
[40:16.800 --> 40:18.800] And thank you, Marky Mark. Appreciate the support.
[40:18.800 --> 40:20.800] It says, Dave, there is a West Palm Beach.
[40:20.800 --> 40:22.800] It's named so because it's a separate town
[40:22.800 --> 40:24.800] adjacent to and west of Palm Beach Proper.
[40:24.800 --> 40:26.800] Well, it's a nice town.
[40:26.800 --> 40:28.800] It's not quite as nice as Palm Beach Proper.
[40:32.800 --> 40:34.800] So, I guess it does
[40:34.800 --> 40:36.800] deserve its West title.
[40:36.800 --> 40:38.800] I've been there. I've got some
[40:38.800 --> 40:40.800] realtors down there. Karen does.
[40:40.800 --> 40:42.800] But you know, the thing is
[40:42.800 --> 40:44.800] I lived in Tampa.
[40:44.800 --> 40:46.800] That was the actual west coast of Florida.
[40:46.800 --> 40:48.800] So we just always look at that and shake
[40:48.800 --> 40:50.800] my head and laugh. But yeah,
[40:50.800 --> 40:52.800] I get it. I know.
[40:52.800 --> 40:54.800] Hathkar 61
[40:54.800 --> 40:56.800] says there are mass protests in Iran against the regime
[40:56.800 --> 40:58.800] there. So why do they
[40:58.800 --> 41:00.800] want to attack Iran?
[41:00.800 --> 41:02.800] Yeah, it's because Netanyahu
[41:02.800 --> 41:04.800] wants to attack Iran.
[41:04.800 --> 41:06.800] And we do whatever Netanyahu wants to do.
[41:06.800 --> 41:08.800] That's the bottom line.
[41:08.800 --> 41:10.800] He's calling the shots.
[41:10.800 --> 41:12.800] Wally Walrus says my dictator is
[41:12.800 --> 41:14.800] better than your dictator.
[41:14.800 --> 41:16.800] That's good. I'm glad you've got the best dictator.
[41:16.800 --> 41:18.800] The greatest.
[41:18.800 --> 41:20.800] We've got the Ayatollah Donald Trump.
[41:22.800 --> 41:24.800] Hathkar 61
[41:24.800 --> 41:26.800] says what's happening in Minnesota
[41:26.800 --> 41:28.800] with this fraud is also happening here
[41:28.800 --> 41:30.800] in Maine. It's happening everywhere.
[41:30.800 --> 41:32.800] It is a microcosm of
[41:32.800 --> 41:34.800] fraud as well as
[41:34.800 --> 41:36.800] bipartisan apathy about the
[41:36.800 --> 41:38.800] fraud and apathy
[41:38.800 --> 41:40.800] about immigration stuff. It is the epicenter
[41:40.800 --> 41:42.800] of what they had to be focused on.
[41:42.800 --> 41:44.800] But they're not. As I said for the longest
[41:44.800 --> 41:46.800] time, the real issue
[41:46.800 --> 41:48.800] with immigration is not that you go out
[41:48.800 --> 41:50.800] and round up people who are building houses
[41:50.800 --> 41:52.800] and mowing lawns. They're actually working.
[41:52.800 --> 41:54.800] The real issue is this
[41:54.800 --> 41:56.800] kind of stuff. This is the very thing they
[41:56.800 --> 41:58.800] need to go after. Criminal
[41:58.800 --> 42:00.800] organized crime
[42:00.800 --> 42:02.800] from foreign
[42:02.800 --> 42:04.800] terrorist organizations.
[42:04.800 --> 42:06.800] But they don't. Instead
[42:06.800 --> 42:08.800] what do they do? They go after the other stuff because
[42:08.800 --> 42:10.800] they want conflict.
[42:10.800 --> 42:12.800] They don't want consensus.
[42:12.800 --> 42:14.800] I'm Marty says the antidote to the chaos
[42:14.800 --> 42:16.800] prepare as best as you can and leave it up to
[42:16.800 --> 42:18.800] God. That's right. Emotionally detach
[42:18.800 --> 42:20.800] and disengage with a good helping of gallows
[42:20.800 --> 42:22.800] humor and ridicule. I'm no expert
[42:22.800 --> 42:24.800] just doing what I can.
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[43:32.800 --> 43:34.800] let's do this next
[43:34.800 --> 43:36.800] one here. Mr. McGaga. Mr. Mcmaggis
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[43:38.800 --> 43:40.800] How many kids will fit in a P.O. box?
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[43:44.800 --> 43:46.800] how many angels will fit on the head of a pen.
[43:46.800 --> 43:48.800] I like that. Mr. Mcmagga.
[43:48.800 --> 43:50.800] It's like Mr.
[43:50.800 --> 43:52.800] Magoo, right? And of course
[43:52.800 --> 43:54.800] the Magga people do suffer from
[43:54.800 --> 43:56.800] nearsightedness, don't they?
[43:56.800 --> 43:58.800] They can't see what's ahead.
[43:58.800 --> 44:00.800] They can't see what's coming. They can't see the
[44:00.800 --> 44:02.800] trends that are being set in place here.
[44:02.800 --> 44:04.800] Well this is actually from
[44:04.800 --> 44:06.800] Carl Truman and it's exactly what I'm
[44:06.800 --> 44:08.800] Marty was saying.
[44:08.800 --> 44:10.800] Relief from a world in flux.
[44:10.800 --> 44:12.800] Said Christmas is a time
[44:12.800 --> 44:14.800] to focus our minds on things that do
[44:14.800 --> 44:16.800] not change.
[44:16.800 --> 44:18.800] He said I was never a particular fan of the
[44:18.800 --> 44:20.800] liturgical calendar.
[44:20.800 --> 44:22.800] There's deep suspicion of establishment
[44:22.800 --> 44:24.800] church life left me
[44:24.800 --> 44:26.800] suspicious that observing the seasons of the
[44:26.800 --> 44:28.800] year in religious terms
[44:28.800 --> 44:30.800] smacked of a half-hearted
[44:30.800 --> 44:32.800] commitment to the Bible at the least.
[44:32.800 --> 44:34.800] But as I've grown older
[44:34.800 --> 44:36.800] while perhaps no wiser in general
[44:36.800 --> 44:38.800] I have warmed to
[44:38.800 --> 44:40.800] the calendar, liturgical calendar, especially
[44:40.800 --> 44:42.800] to Advent.
[44:42.800 --> 44:44.800] Always a lover of Christmas as a
[44:44.800 --> 44:46.800] family festival.
[44:46.800 --> 44:48.800] I've come to appreciate it as an important
[44:48.800 --> 44:50.800] religious time too.
[44:50.800 --> 44:52.800] Perhaps the most important benefit
[44:52.800 --> 44:54.800] it brings is an opportunity to
[44:54.800 --> 44:56.800] correct the focus of our minds
[44:56.800 --> 44:58.800] and draw them to those things that are above
[44:58.800 --> 45:00.800] and away from the matters
[45:00.800 --> 45:02.800] of this Earth.
[45:02.800 --> 45:04.800] Matters that are truly important
[45:04.800 --> 45:06.800] but whose significance must
[45:06.800 --> 45:08.800] always be relativized by placing
[45:08.800 --> 45:10.800] them in the greater context
[45:10.800 --> 45:12.800] of eternity.
[45:12.800 --> 45:14.800] He said particularly at the current moment when so
[45:14.800 --> 45:16.800] much seems to be in flux
[45:16.800 --> 45:18.800] and a sense of
[45:18.800 --> 45:20.800] social acceleration
[45:20.800 --> 45:22.800] leaves so many with a sense
[45:22.800 --> 45:24.800] of vertigo, it is
[45:24.800 --> 45:26.800] vital to refocus on those things that
[45:26.800 --> 45:28.800] do not change.
[45:28.800 --> 45:30.800] Of which the incarnation
[45:30.800 --> 45:32.800] of Christ
[45:32.800 --> 45:34.800] is surely the supreme and decisive
[45:34.800 --> 45:36.800] example.
[45:36.800 --> 45:38.800] Again, what is your frame of
[45:38.800 --> 45:40.800] reference when everything starts moving
[45:40.800 --> 45:42.800] really quickly?
[45:42.800 --> 45:44.800] You can't tell.
[45:44.800 --> 45:46.800] Am I moving or am I standing still?
[45:46.800 --> 45:48.800] Are they the ones moving or am I
[45:48.800 --> 45:50.800] accelerating? Well everything is accelerating.
[45:52.800 --> 45:54.800] If you're going to
[45:54.800 --> 45:56.800] have a situation
[45:56.800 --> 45:58.800] of moral relativity
[45:58.800 --> 46:00.800] then you really don't know
[46:00.800 --> 46:02.800] what is moving.
[46:02.800 --> 46:04.800] You don't know if you're moving, you don't know if you're
[46:04.800 --> 46:06.800] standing still and the other people are moving.
[46:06.800 --> 46:08.800] And so you need to have that frame of reference
[46:08.800 --> 46:10.800] and you need to have that perspective.
[46:10.800 --> 46:12.800] And that's why I
[46:12.800 --> 46:14.800] try to bring this back to Christ.
[46:14.800 --> 46:16.800] Because all the rest of this stuff
[46:16.800 --> 46:18.800] is just passing away.
[46:18.800 --> 46:20.800] And it is passing by us
[46:20.800 --> 46:22.800] at an ever increasing rate.
[46:22.800 --> 46:24.800] It is accelerating.
[46:24.800 --> 46:26.800] My design, as I just pointed out,
[46:26.800 --> 46:28.800] the design is to increase this.
[46:28.800 --> 46:30.800] The design is to have so much
[46:30.800 --> 46:32.800] acceleration, so much change
[46:32.800 --> 46:34.800] thrown at you so quickly
[46:34.800 --> 46:36.800] that you're just trying to juggle plates.
[46:36.800 --> 46:38.800] And you don't really understand
[46:38.800 --> 46:40.800] what is the true perspective here.
[46:40.800 --> 46:42.800] So there's no more
[46:42.800 --> 46:44.800] profound expression of the Church's teachings
[46:44.800 --> 46:46.800] about Christ than those we find
[46:46.800 --> 46:48.800] in Christmas carols, for example.
[46:48.800 --> 46:50.800] And I think that's
[46:50.800 --> 46:52.800] very important. It's very important what we
[46:52.800 --> 46:54.800] sing.
[46:54.800 --> 46:56.800] From a personal standpoint, as well as
[46:56.800 --> 46:58.800] corporate worship, I think.
[46:58.800 --> 47:00.800] You know, we're told to worship God in spirit
[47:00.800 --> 47:02.800] and in truth. The music is
[47:02.800 --> 47:04.800] the spirit part. The lyrics
[47:04.800 --> 47:06.800] should be the truth.
[47:06.800 --> 47:08.800] They should be biblical lyrics.
[47:08.800 --> 47:10.800] Shouldn't be, you know, my personal experience.
[47:10.800 --> 47:12.800] This is what I'm going through and here's my personal experience.
[47:12.800 --> 47:14.800] Which is what we're going through
[47:14.800 --> 47:16.800] or seeing more and more from the pop music
[47:16.800 --> 47:18.800] that's out there.
[47:18.800 --> 47:20.800] That's why I started writing my own.
[47:20.800 --> 47:22.800] Nothing. I found no truth
[47:22.800 --> 47:24.800] and I didn't like the music either.
[47:24.800 --> 47:26.800] So I went back to
[47:26.800 --> 47:28.800] let me get some classic
[47:28.800 --> 47:30.800] songs that have endured
[47:30.800 --> 47:32.800] for centuries. Melodies
[47:32.800 --> 47:34.800] that have endured for centuries. You know, we
[47:34.800 --> 47:36.800] think of certain things like
[47:36.800 --> 47:38.800] Green Sleeves, for example.
[47:38.800 --> 47:40.800] And there are others like that.
[47:40.800 --> 47:42.800] They're very catchy tunes that
[47:42.800 --> 47:44.800] have persisted and are still around after many
[47:44.800 --> 47:46.800] many centuries.
[47:46.800 --> 47:48.800] And so if you wed
[47:48.800 --> 47:50.800] the eternal Biblical truth
[47:50.800 --> 47:52.800] to great melodies
[47:52.800 --> 47:54.800] that have been around for centuries, that's a very
[47:54.800 --> 47:56.800] powerful thing. Very powerful
[47:56.800 --> 47:58.800] personally as well as corporately.
[47:58.800 --> 48:00.800] He says thus, the timing of Christmas in the Northern
[48:00.800 --> 48:02.800] Hemisphere, the physically
[48:02.800 --> 48:04.800] darkest time of the year,
[48:04.800 --> 48:06.800] brings out in sharp relief the idea
[48:06.800 --> 48:08.800] of light bursting into darkness.
[48:08.800 --> 48:10.800] And the darkness
[48:10.800 --> 48:12.800] signally failing to overcome
[48:12.800 --> 48:14.800] it. And
[48:14.800 --> 48:16.800] so he says, these are strange times
[48:16.800 --> 48:18.800] for Christians. The temptation
[48:18.800 --> 48:20.800] to prioritize earthly things
[48:20.800 --> 48:22.800] is acute at the moment, this moment
[48:22.800 --> 48:24.800] in history, where so much on
[48:24.800 --> 48:26.800] this earth seems to be at stake.
[48:26.800 --> 48:28.800] But compared to the eternal weight of
[48:28.800 --> 48:30.800] glory that is to come, these things are
[48:30.800 --> 48:32.800] light momentary ephemera.
[48:32.800 --> 48:34.800] Indeed they are such in
[48:34.800 --> 48:36.800] comparison to the glory that has already come in Christ.
[48:36.800 --> 48:38.800] Christmas offers
[48:38.800 --> 48:40.800] an opportunity to refocus on what really
[48:40.800 --> 48:42.800] counts. The things that are
[48:42.800 --> 48:44.800] above. The humble nature.
[48:46.800 --> 48:48.800] Circumstances
[48:48.800 --> 48:50.800] of the Incarnation.
[48:54.800 --> 48:56.800] We should not neglect it.
[49:16.800 --> 49:18.800] We should not neglect it.
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[53:14.800 --> 53:20.000] Well, welcome back and we've got an announcement.
[53:20.000 --> 53:25.360] The family wanted me to make this announcement yesterday, but we do have it up on the website
[53:25.360 --> 53:30.760] saying that beginning next year, just a few days from now, we're going to have new show
[53:30.760 --> 53:31.760] hours.
[53:31.760 --> 53:39.600] The live show will begin at 10 a.m. and we will be doing two clock hours of show.
[53:39.600 --> 53:45.080] Basically, this is kind of what I did for the first three years.
[53:45.080 --> 53:51.720] I had a three-hour show when I was at Infowars, but it was actually two hours worth of content
[53:51.720 --> 53:54.080] and one hour of infomercials.
[53:54.080 --> 53:59.400] So we were on a clock and we would go like about typically about 10 minutes and then
[53:59.400 --> 54:02.920] have a five-minute infomercials that we would do.
[54:02.960 --> 54:09.840] So when we got to the podcast, I thought it was an improvement to be able to just run
[54:09.840 --> 54:10.840] through on a particular topic.
[54:10.840 --> 54:16.400] I don't really pay any attention to the clock or the time, as you've noticed.
[54:16.400 --> 54:21.600] Sometimes I run out before we get to the end of the show, the things that I want to say.
[54:21.600 --> 54:25.320] But this was kind of an intervention, as the liberals would call it.
[54:25.320 --> 54:29.520] It's kind of an intervention on me by the family to go to this.
[54:29.520 --> 54:31.640] They worked out this schedule for us.
[54:31.640 --> 54:37.200] But I think it will free us up to do some things that are longer perspective and some
[54:37.200 --> 54:38.200] special reports.
[54:38.200 --> 54:40.000] That's what I'm hoping will happen.
[54:40.000 --> 54:48.400] So not necessarily looking to do things less, but to do maybe things that are more focused
[54:48.400 --> 54:52.480] and special reports and things that I haven't had time to do.
[54:52.480 --> 54:54.520] And I really would like to get back to doing that.
[54:54.520 --> 54:58.600] But in terms of the content, it's going to be the same amount of content that I had in
[54:59.600 --> 55:05.360] when I was working on a radio clock at Infowars, because that's the way things are set up.
[55:05.360 --> 55:08.600] And I could have done that from the beginning.
[55:08.600 --> 55:13.520] I had several people who had been carrying the show on their sites who wanted me to go
[55:13.520 --> 55:17.240] to a radio clock so they could put it on the radio.
[55:17.240 --> 55:18.320] And I chose not to do that.
[55:18.320 --> 55:22.160] I wanted to stay on the freer format of the podcast.
[55:22.160 --> 55:26.020] And so I imagine that window is closed by now anyway.
[55:26.900 --> 55:31.900] But I think it's important to be able to stick on a topic as long as it takes to cover it.
[55:31.900 --> 55:37.140] But a lot of this is for health reasons as well.
[55:37.140 --> 55:42.660] But I think it will give us a chance to maybe step back a little bit and do some longer
[55:42.660 --> 55:43.820] perspective things.
[55:43.820 --> 55:48.260] But we will have the broadcast pretty much – what are you doing, Travis?
[55:48.260 --> 55:51.420] You're running this thing as a repeat after the show.
[55:51.420 --> 55:52.420] Yeah.
[55:52.420 --> 55:56.460] When the show ends, I restart the broadcast so it plays out again.
[55:56.460 --> 55:57.460] Yeah.
[55:57.460 --> 56:01.140] And so we stop it before the new show starts.
[56:01.140 --> 56:05.420] But it pretty much continues going on and people will get a couple hundred people throughout
[56:05.420 --> 56:10.020] the day coming in and they can interact with each other as kind of a meeting place.
[56:10.020 --> 56:11.020] That will still be there.
[56:11.020 --> 56:14.500] I need to work up a graphic that lets people know when we're actually live.
[56:14.500 --> 56:17.020] I just haven't had the time to do it.
[56:17.020 --> 56:22.900] But we will actually go live at 10 o'clock on Monday through Friday.
[56:22.900 --> 56:23.900] Still have that there.
[56:23.900 --> 56:28.820] And like you said, hopefully this gives us time to do more produced content.
[56:28.820 --> 56:33.140] Because with the way the show is, it just runs into itself over and over again.
[56:33.140 --> 56:34.140] Yeah.
[56:34.140 --> 56:37.420] As soon as I get finished with the show, I start reading news for the next day.
[56:37.420 --> 56:40.460] And so we need to get a little bit of – the family is right – we need to get a little
[56:40.460 --> 56:44.420] bit of a perspective and pull back on that a little bit.
[56:45.380 --> 56:46.380] Kind of obsessive.
[56:46.380 --> 56:47.380] Yeah.
[56:47.380 --> 56:49.820] I get done with the show.
[56:49.820 --> 56:55.100] I get to put the kiddo down for a nap, then it's to work, then he's awake, then it's
[56:55.100 --> 56:56.100] back to work.
[56:56.100 --> 56:57.100] Yeah.
[56:57.100 --> 56:59.980] As a matter of fact, we had – I think here it is right here.
[56:59.980 --> 57:06.700] This was – can you see that?
[57:06.700 --> 57:07.700] You know what?
[57:07.700 --> 57:08.700] That's reference to Sisyphus.
[57:08.700 --> 57:09.700] Right?
[57:09.700 --> 57:11.260] That's like our daily schedule here.
[57:11.300 --> 57:14.140] As soon as the rock is rolled up the hill, it rolls back down again.
[57:14.140 --> 57:15.860] And it goes on eternally.
[57:15.860 --> 57:18.340] That was the Greek legend that was there.
[57:18.340 --> 57:23.500] And so we're going to try to get a little bit away from the Sisyphus routine here and
[57:23.500 --> 57:24.860] be able to do some different things.
[57:24.860 --> 57:26.740] And hopefully you'll like what we do.
[57:26.740 --> 57:31.820] I've got some music, as I was referencing there, that I'd like to get finished.
[57:31.820 --> 57:34.060] Karen came in and said, why didn't you play in the beginning?
[57:34.060 --> 57:36.860] And it's like, well, it's like seven minutes long.
[57:36.860 --> 57:38.580] So I chose not to play that.
[57:38.620 --> 57:42.060] But that's the kind of thing that I've been talking about.
[57:42.060 --> 57:45.540] Let's talk about what's going on in Minnesota.
[57:45.540 --> 57:47.580] That's what everybody is talking about.
[57:47.580 --> 57:51.500] That is the focus of the news cycle right now.
[57:51.500 --> 57:54.420] As well as calls for Waltz to resign.
[57:54.420 --> 57:57.020] And he's got a re-election campaign coming up.
[57:57.020 --> 58:03.860] If I was really cynical as I really am, I would say that a lot of this has to do with
[58:03.860 --> 58:04.860] that.
[58:05.060 --> 58:12.260] I think in reality, there's been report after report after report of this stuff for a very
[58:12.260 --> 58:13.260] long time.
[58:13.260 --> 58:14.260] Everybody's known about it.
[58:14.260 --> 58:16.820] I've talked about it a long time ago.
[58:16.820 --> 58:23.500] But it was really the viral thing by this guy who went around with, and I forget what
[58:23.500 --> 58:24.500] his name is.
[58:24.500 --> 58:32.020] I don't want to diss him here, but he went around and trying to look for his name here.
[58:32.020 --> 58:33.500] Do you remember his name, Travis?
[58:33.900 --> 58:41.180] He's a young guy, has a social media account, and got millions of views, probably tens or
[58:41.180 --> 58:43.980] hundreds of millions of views of this stuff.
[58:43.980 --> 58:50.140] And having somebody going around live like that, that's one of the powerful things of
[58:50.140 --> 58:54.220] 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace, when he'd have the personal confrontations with people about
[58:54.220 --> 58:57.820] the fraud and everything.
[58:57.820 --> 59:00.900] So that really brought it to everybody's attention.
[59:00.900 --> 59:06.380] And I don't think it is purely cynical about that, but it has a lot with this election
[59:06.380 --> 59:07.380] coming up.
[59:07.380 --> 59:08.380] That's a big part of it.
[59:08.380 --> 59:15.380] Republican lawmakers on the state and federal level have called on Waltz, who was Lala Harris's
[59:15.380 --> 59:16.380] running mate.
[59:16.380 --> 59:19.260] Boy, he dodged a bullet with that one, didn't he?
[59:19.260 --> 59:23.380] Not that the other bullet is any better, I mean, he says, pick your poison.
[59:23.380 --> 59:29.420] Waltz has defended himself that he's worked for years to crack down on fraud.
[59:29.420 --> 59:32.020] Just think about that.
[59:32.020 --> 59:36.420] If that's true, wouldn't that be all the more reason to get rid of him?
[59:36.420 --> 59:40.580] If you worked on this for years, this massive fraud case, and you couldn't get anything
[59:40.580 --> 59:43.180] done, maybe it's time for you to leave.
[59:43.180 --> 59:45.820] I mean, there's a no-win situation for him.
[59:45.820 --> 59:50.620] He can either say, I had no idea it was happening, okay, it's time for you to leave, I worked
[59:50.620 --> 59:54.420] on it all this time, I couldn't get anything done, okay, it's time for you to leave, or
[59:54.420 --> 59:58.340] he was fully on board with it, which is what a lot of people are saying, which is time
[59:58.340 --> 01:00:02.980] for you to leave and relocate to the jail.
[01:00:02.980 --> 01:00:06.500] Prosecutors have alleged that this is going to be billions of dollars.
[01:00:06.500 --> 01:00:13.820] As a matter of fact, it's like $18 billion that Minnesota is consuming in welfare payments
[01:00:13.820 --> 01:00:22.780] for food as well as childcare, and half of that, half of that at least, they think, is
[01:00:22.780 --> 01:00:23.780] fraud.
[01:00:23.780 --> 01:00:27.340] Like I said, this is a microcosm of what is going on in America.
[01:00:27.340 --> 01:00:31.620] That's why we got a $40 trillion budget deficit.
[01:00:31.620 --> 01:00:33.020] Probably half of that is fraud.
[01:00:33.020 --> 01:00:37.220] The other half is unconstitutional, shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
[01:00:37.220 --> 01:00:43.060] The two-term governor is running for re-election in 26, but calls for his resignation could
[01:00:43.060 --> 01:00:44.980] derail his campaign, you think?
[01:00:44.980 --> 01:00:50.100] I don't think there's any way he gets out of this, unless there's going to be massive
[01:00:50.100 --> 01:00:51.100] voter fraud.
[01:00:51.100 --> 01:00:54.780] I think this is something that has really angered people.
[01:00:55.660 --> 01:01:01.100] The ex-account, Minnesota DHS, Department of Human Services, which says that it represents
[01:01:01.100 --> 01:01:09.140] 480 staff members at the Department of Human Services, said, I'm Waltz, I'm sorry, Tim
[01:01:09.140 --> 01:01:15.820] Waltz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota.
[01:01:15.820 --> 01:01:21.300] In December, the Justice Department announced new charges against the 78th defendant, alleged
[01:01:21.300 --> 01:01:25.180] to be involved in a non-profit called Feeding Our Future.
[01:01:25.180 --> 01:01:30.420] Prosecutors said the organization stole more than $250 million from Child Nutrition Program,
[01:01:30.420 --> 01:01:33.500] leading to more than 50 convictions.
[01:01:33.500 --> 01:01:36.860] According to a New York Times report, some of the fraud cases were linked to parts of
[01:01:36.860 --> 01:01:40.180] Minnesota's Somali community.
[01:01:40.180 --> 01:01:43.300] Parts of it, yeah.
[01:01:43.300 --> 01:01:50.740] Republican Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, who is the House Majority Whip in the U.S.
[01:01:51.140 --> 01:01:56.460] said of Waltz on Fox News, he should resign, he's a total embarrassment.
[01:01:56.460 --> 01:02:01.180] We've been trying to sound the alarm on this for the past three years, has he?
[01:02:01.180 --> 01:02:03.180] I'm going to tell you what this guy's been doing.
[01:02:03.180 --> 01:02:09.220] And remember, this is the number three guy in Republican leadership in the House.
[01:02:09.220 --> 01:02:10.680] That's what the whip is.
[01:02:10.680 --> 01:02:12.140] And what is the duty of the whip?
[01:02:12.140 --> 01:02:13.140] Why they call him the whip?
[01:02:13.140 --> 01:02:14.940] Because he whips people in line.
[01:02:14.940 --> 01:02:21.380] His job is to go around, and when the leadership has something they want done, his job is to
[01:02:21.380 --> 01:02:26.580] go around and whip people into shape and get them on board with that agenda and to give
[01:02:26.580 --> 01:02:27.580] them reason.
[01:02:27.580 --> 01:02:32.540] So he's there for persuasion, for organization around an agenda, but he couldn't be bothered
[01:02:32.540 --> 01:02:35.780] with all of this stuff, right?
[01:02:35.780 --> 01:02:41.020] So we'll talk about what happened with Emmer quite some time ago.
[01:02:41.220 --> 01:02:47.380] Acting U.S. attorney has said $9 billion or more in federal funds may have been stolen
[01:02:47.380 --> 01:02:48.380] since 2018.
[01:02:48.380 --> 01:02:49.380] Who was in?
[01:02:49.380 --> 01:02:52.380] Who was president in 2018?
[01:02:52.380 --> 01:02:53.860] Trump, was it?
[01:02:53.860 --> 01:02:56.220] And of course, a lot of this stuff also goes back.
[01:02:56.220 --> 01:03:02.380] And this is Ilhan Omar's alibi, and she's trying to deflect away from her, by the way.
[01:03:02.380 --> 01:03:03.700] Her fortunes have...
[01:03:03.700 --> 01:03:05.180] She's had a very good year.
[01:03:05.180 --> 01:03:06.180] I mean...
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[01:04:05.700 --> 01:04:13.860] She's kind of tapped into the Nancy Pelosi vibe of making wonderful investments somehow.
[01:04:13.860 --> 01:04:20.140] She and her husband's fortunes have skyrocketed by many millions of dollars.
[01:04:20.140 --> 01:04:23.260] They've gone straight up like a musk rocket.
[01:04:23.260 --> 01:04:28.060] One thing I wanted to point out is that when you talk about, you know, legalists committing
[01:04:28.060 --> 01:04:33.000] fraud, generally the liberal response is, well, you know, they're not the real problem.
[01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:35.920] It's these billionaires that are hoarding all this wealth and they're not paying their
[01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:36.920] taxes.
[01:04:36.920 --> 01:04:39.560] They're who are really, you know, causing the problems.
[01:04:39.560 --> 01:04:43.040] It's like, well, now we're up to billions of dollars of fraud.
[01:04:43.040 --> 01:04:44.320] Billions.
[01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:46.960] The same number you've had an issue with before.
[01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:51.560] So now that we're at billions, can we admit that these illegals and these refugees, quote
[01:04:51.560 --> 01:04:56.040] unquote, are a problem, that they are harming the system, that they are making life worse
[01:04:56.040 --> 01:04:57.960] for the average American?
[01:04:57.960 --> 01:05:01.440] Now that they're soaking billions from the government?
[01:05:02.200 --> 01:05:05.400] The reports are being done on this for a very, very long time.
[01:05:05.400 --> 01:05:11.080] You know, like I said, back in 2018 was when this stuff started, I was doing reports about
[01:05:11.080 --> 01:05:12.080] this.
[01:05:12.080 --> 01:05:13.640] We were talking about how it was a little Mogadishu there.
[01:05:13.640 --> 01:05:16.320] Here's a report that was done locally, quite some time ago.
[01:05:16.320 --> 01:05:21.200] ...closed Baraka Child Care Center yesterday morning while investigators executed a search
[01:05:21.200 --> 01:05:22.200] warrant.
[01:05:22.200 --> 01:05:26.000] It's one of 10 being investigated for financial misconduct of the state's child care...
[01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:28.040] This, I believe, was around 2018.
[01:05:28.040 --> 01:05:31.200] ...Jennifer Merrily shares where that money would have gone instead.
[01:05:31.240 --> 01:05:36.480] Only 2,400 kids are on the waiting list for Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program.
[01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:39.960] It helps low-income families pay for child care.
[01:05:39.960 --> 01:05:43.080] Daycares are given money per child.
[01:05:43.080 --> 01:05:49.360] But right now, state agencies are investigating financial fraud at 10 different centers, including
[01:05:49.360 --> 01:05:51.560] Baraka Child Care Center in Minneapolis.
[01:05:51.560 --> 01:05:58.760] ...where there's been these totally fraudulent operators and stealing money.
[01:05:58.760 --> 01:06:00.960] And so high time.
[01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:02.960] And they should crack down on more.
[01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:07.200] As part of the investigation, the BCA and Secret Service spent hours at this home in
[01:06:07.200 --> 01:06:10.520] Columbia Heights, combing through it and collecting evidence.
[01:06:10.520 --> 01:06:12.200] A relative told WCCO...
[01:06:12.200 --> 01:06:15.880] They are good family, they work hard, you know, that's all.
[01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:20.520] The raid at Baraka focuses on fraudulent billing of the state assistance program.
[01:06:20.520 --> 01:06:26.800] A child care provider investigations unit formed in 2014 to investigate similar cases
[01:06:26.800 --> 01:06:29.200] has already closed 12 child care centers.
[01:06:29.560 --> 01:06:34.920] So the latest child care scam has been to have 100 people enrolled, 100 kids enrolled
[01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:38.080] in your program, have 10 show up, bill for the 100.
[01:06:38.080 --> 01:06:41.680] That happened in several cases that resulted in a conviction.
[01:06:41.680 --> 01:06:47.120] In one, the criminal complaint reveals investigators set up cameras to capture kids who entered
[01:06:47.120 --> 01:06:48.640] and exited.
[01:06:48.640 --> 01:06:55.520] Over a two-week period in 2014, the daycare billed for 950 children who did not attend
[01:06:55.520 --> 01:07:01.280] the center, resulting in $51,000 of fraud just for that time period.
[01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:06.560] There are people who have severe needs that we can't take care of because there's just
[01:07:06.560 --> 01:07:07.560] not enough money.
[01:07:07.560 --> 01:07:10.480] And yet money goes out the back.
[01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:14.080] Investigators haven't released any details about what was found in yesterday's raid.
[01:07:14.080 --> 01:07:17.600] The Office of the Inspector General said it will continue to investigate fraud in the
[01:07:17.600 --> 01:07:22.800] program, saying child care fraud is especially egregious because in addition to exploiting
[01:07:22.800 --> 01:07:26.160] taxpayer money, it harms the families and children.
[01:07:26.160 --> 01:07:28.000] The program is intended to help.
[01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:33.040] That was a decade ago and as you heard them say, you know, back in 2014 and already, you
[01:07:33.040 --> 01:07:36.120] know, we've got a dozen of them here.
[01:07:36.120 --> 01:07:41.200] And it's just been going on and on and on, but it's not been on the radar of the Trump
[01:07:41.200 --> 01:07:45.000] administration or of ICE or of the FBI.
[01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:49.320] But now it is because of a social media report that went viral.
[01:07:49.320 --> 01:07:55.360] FBI Director Cash Patel is now on it because the only thing that he investigates is social
[01:07:55.360 --> 01:07:56.360] media.
[01:07:56.360 --> 01:08:01.680] He's going to dismantle the large-scale fraud schemes that are exploiting federal programs,
[01:08:01.680 --> 01:08:02.680] he said.
[01:08:02.680 --> 01:08:09.320] Well, the Minnesota Fraud Committee chair claims that Waltz turned a blind eye to fraud
[01:08:09.320 --> 01:08:12.080] warnings for years, yes.
[01:08:12.080 --> 01:08:17.040] Kristen Robbins chairs the state's Fraud Prevention Committee and says the governor ignored whistleblowers
[01:08:17.040 --> 01:08:18.800] for years.
[01:08:18.960 --> 01:08:25.200] And he is ultimately the one who is responsible, just like Trump is ultimately the one responsible
[01:08:25.200 --> 01:08:28.520] for the fraud that happened with the pandemic nonsense.
[01:08:28.520 --> 01:08:35.160] And I've interviewed, I can't remember the guy's name now, but he was also involved in
[01:08:35.160 --> 01:08:37.560] investigating the election fraud.
[01:08:37.560 --> 01:08:39.560] And he said, these people...
[01:08:39.560 --> 01:08:43.680] Big Brit is back again in chat, he's called Nick Shirley, the guy reporting on this stuff.
[01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:45.920] Nick Shirley is the one who did, yeah, thank you, thank you.
[01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:46.920] Thank you.
[01:08:46.920 --> 01:08:47.920] Yeah, Nick Shirley.
[01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:49.560] Shirley.
[01:08:49.560 --> 01:08:52.560] Don't call me Shirley.
[01:08:52.560 --> 01:08:55.560] Leslie Nielsen, yeah.
[01:08:55.560 --> 01:09:03.640] Anyway, if you go back to this stuff, it's been going on a very long time.
[01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:06.240] And who knew there was going to be COVID fraud, right?
[01:09:06.240 --> 01:09:10.520] Well, it was very obvious from the very beginning that there was going to be fraud.
[01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:15.840] As the individual I talked to, that was his specialty, they contacted me and said, this
[01:09:15.840 --> 01:09:16.840] is horrific.
[01:09:17.280 --> 01:09:18.280] You know, what's going to happen?
[01:09:18.280 --> 01:09:20.480] And they said, well, we haven't had any fraud yet.
[01:09:20.480 --> 01:09:22.280] And he goes, this is wide open.
[01:09:22.280 --> 01:09:25.680] He says, you don't have any fraud yet because you haven't started paying anybody any money,
[01:09:25.680 --> 01:09:28.520] but it's just an invitation to theft.
[01:09:28.520 --> 01:09:31.880] And it was, not just in Minnesota, but in many other places.
[01:09:31.880 --> 01:09:34.120] That started with Trump.
[01:09:34.120 --> 01:09:40.280] And with all this stuff that's going on, people have conveniently forgotten that the fraud
[01:09:40.280 --> 01:09:46.520] of the stimulus programs and the other programs, the CARES Act and all the rest of the stuff
[01:09:46.520 --> 01:09:51.200] they put together to prepare us for universal basic income.
[01:09:51.200 --> 01:09:59.200] That that welfare program, that psychological warfare as well as welfare program, that was
[01:09:59.200 --> 01:10:04.840] riddled with fraud, I would say by design from the very beginning.
[01:10:04.840 --> 01:10:08.160] And the Trump administration did nothing about that.
[01:10:08.160 --> 01:10:13.920] So while Waltz in his office have touted his work to address these scandals, state lawmakers
[01:10:13.920 --> 01:10:21.360] argue that he has had years to do so and that he has deliberately ignored whistleblowers.
[01:10:21.360 --> 01:10:28.040] So again, the number right now that everybody seems to be sticking to is $9 billion.
[01:10:28.040 --> 01:10:31.520] These whistleblowers have been sounding the alarm for years, she said.
[01:10:31.520 --> 01:10:37.040] We've had hearings for almost a year now holding his agencies accountable.
[01:10:37.040 --> 01:10:39.280] He's not fired anyone.
[01:10:39.280 --> 01:10:43.720] He's not taken steps to stop the fraud on the front end and he continues to make excuses.
[01:10:43.720 --> 01:10:47.520] So I would absolutely want him to resign, as I said weeks ago.
[01:10:47.520 --> 01:10:51.760] Or I know others are looking at articles of impeachment.
[01:10:51.760 --> 01:10:53.000] But he is responsible.
[01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:58.120] He turned a blind eye for seven years and we need a clean house in the executive branch,
[01:10:58.120 --> 01:10:59.120] she said.
[01:10:59.120 --> 01:11:05.080] And again, if you go back to 2015, what you saw there were some raids that were being
[01:11:05.080 --> 01:11:10.320] done in 2015, that center that we talked about, we laughed about the Learing Center where
[01:11:10.400 --> 01:11:15.960] they supposed to be the learning center, but their sign doesn't, they can't even spell
[01:11:15.960 --> 01:11:16.960] learning.
[01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:20.280] How's that for irony?
[01:11:20.280 --> 01:11:26.600] So the learning center that they spelled as Learing Center, it was the FBI shut that down
[01:11:26.600 --> 01:11:29.120] in 2015.
[01:11:29.120 --> 01:11:30.120] But there was no penalty.
[01:11:30.120 --> 01:11:31.960] Nobody was really punished with it.
[01:11:31.960 --> 01:11:35.520] So what happened was the same people went out and changed the name.
[01:11:35.520 --> 01:11:41.480] They got a new sign that said Learing Center and kept doing what they were doing before.
[01:11:41.480 --> 01:11:48.360] So this is fraud, definitely the state level, but it is federal money that is being stolen
[01:11:48.360 --> 01:11:49.960] as well.
[01:11:49.960 --> 01:11:54.640] And the FBI and the Trump administration, many others, did absolutely nothing with all
[01:11:54.640 --> 01:11:57.000] this stuff that was happening at the time.
[01:11:57.000 --> 01:11:58.960] They did nothing about it.
[01:11:58.960 --> 01:12:04.400] And I remember covering stories about how these people were, you know, there was this
[01:12:04.400 --> 01:12:11.080] whole network of Somalis and how they had, it was very structured, how they were running
[01:12:11.080 --> 01:12:13.560] cash at the airport and all the rest of the stuff.
[01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:15.880] This was known a decade ago.
[01:12:15.880 --> 01:12:17.720] I reported on it a decade ago.
[01:12:17.720 --> 01:12:19.840] Nobody cared to do anything about it.
[01:12:19.840 --> 01:12:23.960] Payments are still being sent out, as a matter of fact, said Robbins.
[01:12:23.960 --> 01:12:30.320] She said she was shocked to see that the Walsh government has not even stopped paying, even
[01:12:30.320 --> 01:12:32.840] though this thing is so riddled with fraud.
[01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:38.680] She faced criticism from Democrats for talking about it, taking this information about the
[01:12:38.680 --> 01:12:41.320] fraud to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
[01:12:41.320 --> 01:12:45.880] They said, you should have taken this to the state authorities, but they weren't doing
[01:12:45.880 --> 01:12:47.000] anything.
[01:12:47.000 --> 01:12:52.040] She's one of multiple lawmakers who claimed that the local state government has retaliated
[01:12:52.080 --> 01:12:54.280] against whistleblowers.
[01:12:54.280 --> 01:12:55.280] Don't take this to the feds.
[01:12:55.280 --> 01:12:58.440] Bring it to us, but you're not doing anything.
[01:12:58.440 --> 01:13:06.400] Walsh's office also shared a link to the Minnesota governor candidate, Scott Jensen, who argued
[01:13:06.400 --> 01:13:12.280] in a post that Robbins' Fraud Committee has not advanced one substantive bill to prevent
[01:13:12.280 --> 01:13:17.080] fraud and according to several members of the community, its main focus has been political
[01:13:17.080 --> 01:13:18.080] grandstanding.
[01:13:18.080 --> 01:13:21.480] Remember, Scott Jensen ran for governor.
[01:13:21.480 --> 01:13:27.880] He was a physician who pushed back against a lot of the lockdown stuff that happened.
[01:13:27.880 --> 01:13:33.360] And as a Republican who was running, he criticized her Fraud Committee, said it sounds like they're
[01:13:33.360 --> 01:13:37.280] doing exactly what the Republicans do in Congress.
[01:13:37.280 --> 01:13:42.440] They grandstand with committee things, but they don't do anything.
[01:13:42.440 --> 01:13:46.280] They just have these committees for getting media attention and grandstanding, but nothing
[01:13:46.280 --> 01:13:47.720] is ever done by them either.
[01:13:47.720 --> 01:13:56.560] This is why I say it is a microcosm of the bipartisan do-nothing fraud that is allowed
[01:13:56.560 --> 01:13:59.960] at every level in our government now.
[01:13:59.960 --> 01:14:07.560] So Tom Emmer is now calling for the deportation of every Somali engaged in fraud in Minnesota.
[01:14:07.560 --> 01:14:09.760] Well, I would support that.
[01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:13.000] Why wouldn't you deport them if they are committing crimes like that?
[01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:18.520] When you look at ICE bragging about, well, look at these people, how many that we've
[01:14:18.520 --> 01:14:25.400] got here that had been convicted or charged with a crime or whatever, and they're out
[01:14:25.400 --> 01:14:26.840] on the street.
[01:14:26.840 --> 01:14:34.680] That just shows how broken our system is that they come here illegally, they commit crimes,
[01:14:34.680 --> 01:14:36.960] they release them again.
[01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:40.680] And so yeah, deport these people, absolutely.
[01:14:40.680 --> 01:14:42.760] Deportation should be the moderate stance.
[01:14:42.760 --> 01:14:44.920] That should be where you start.
[01:14:44.920 --> 01:14:47.680] That shouldn't even be considered.
[01:14:47.680 --> 01:14:49.280] That should just be the standard.
[01:14:49.280 --> 01:14:53.080] When you look at, it's probably changed now, but in Switzerland it used to be the kind
[01:14:53.080 --> 01:14:56.480] of situation where you'd have to live there for 10 years.
[01:14:56.480 --> 01:14:59.440] And of course you had to be able to support yourself too.
[01:14:59.440 --> 01:15:03.120] So you had to live there for 10 years and not get in trouble.
[01:15:03.120 --> 01:15:06.840] As a matter of fact, it wasn't enough just not to get in trouble.
[01:15:06.840 --> 01:15:11.220] You had to be liked, you had to be a good citizen in the community, you had to have
[01:15:11.220 --> 01:15:15.860] letters of reference, if you want to become a Swiss citizen, of people who liked you and
[01:15:15.860 --> 01:15:18.500] said you were a positive influence and that type of thing.
[01:15:18.500 --> 01:15:21.080] It wasn't enough just to keep your nose clean.
[01:15:21.080 --> 01:15:25.560] And then you could apply for citizenship after 10 years and a lot of personal references
[01:15:25.560 --> 01:15:27.620] from people who lived there.
[01:15:27.620 --> 01:15:34.020] So yeah, when you look at Tom Emmer, he said even naturalized citizens should have their
[01:15:34.020 --> 01:15:37.180] citizenship revoked so they can be deported.
[01:15:37.180 --> 01:15:40.980] He added that he's willing to pass legislation to make such a move legal.
[01:15:40.980 --> 01:15:46.060] I have three words regarding Somalis who have committed fraud against American taxpayers.
[01:15:46.060 --> 01:15:48.580] Send them home.
[01:15:48.580 --> 01:15:51.320] If they're here illegally, deport them immediately.
[01:15:51.320 --> 01:15:56.120] If they're naturalized citizens, revoke their citizenship and deport them quickly thereafter.
[01:15:56.120 --> 01:15:59.600] If we need to change the law to do that, I will.
[01:15:59.600 --> 01:16:04.340] Our nation will not tolerate those who take advantage of our charity and who refuse to
[01:16:04.340 --> 01:16:06.420] assimilate into our culture.
[01:16:06.420 --> 01:16:09.340] Well, I agree with that.
[01:16:09.340 --> 01:16:12.660] Why is he waiting until now to say this though?
[01:16:12.660 --> 01:16:13.660] He's in Minnesota.
[01:16:13.660 --> 01:16:16.220] He's known about this for the longest time.
[01:16:16.220 --> 01:16:18.620] He has really changed his tune.
[01:16:18.620 --> 01:16:23.580] I also want to say this is just a natural outgrowth of this culture.
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[01:18:16.180 --> 01:18:18.180] or other places like that in a big city.
[01:18:18.180 --> 01:18:21.180] It's like, you know, this is the way we do it in a big city.
[01:18:21.180 --> 01:18:24.180] You've got to get these other guys before they get you.
[01:18:24.180 --> 01:18:31.180] Preemptively, you know, coming after them with fraud or whatever.
[01:18:31.180 --> 01:18:37.180] And once it gets ingrained in an area, it's very hard to get it out of the culture.
[01:18:37.180 --> 01:18:40.180] So, is this a Somali issue?
[01:18:40.180 --> 01:18:45.180] Well, so far, 98 people have been charged in connection with the fraud, including 85
[01:18:45.180 --> 01:18:48.180] individuals who have Somali ancestry.
[01:18:48.180 --> 01:18:53.180] So, the people that they've charged, 85 out of 98 are Somali.
[01:18:53.180 --> 01:18:56.180] That's 87%, by the way.
[01:18:56.180 --> 01:19:01.180] A preliminary assessment suggests that more than half of the $18 billion that is spent
[01:19:01.180 --> 01:19:04.180] on programs like this has been stolen.
[01:19:04.180 --> 01:19:10.180] Some Minnesota officials have expressed concern that we have narrow targeting of the Somali
[01:19:10.180 --> 01:19:11.180] community.
[01:19:11.180 --> 01:19:17.180] Well, if they are 87% of the problem, how is that narrow targeting?
[01:19:17.180 --> 01:19:20.180] I'd say the targeting is not narrow enough.
[01:19:20.180 --> 01:19:25.180] But they want to give people a pass because they're Somali immigrants.
[01:19:25.180 --> 01:19:31.180] I would also personally bet there are most likely Democrats that are helping them do this.
[01:19:31.180 --> 01:19:35.180] There are Democrats that are getting kickbacks and part of this money to help them navigate
[01:19:35.180 --> 01:19:37.180] the system and set these things up for them.
[01:19:37.180 --> 01:19:43.180] Because you don't get off the boat from Somalia and know how to infiltrate the inner workings
[01:19:43.180 --> 01:19:44.180] of these political systems.
[01:19:44.180 --> 01:19:46.180] Someone is helping them do it.
[01:19:46.180 --> 01:19:50.180] And it's the same type of thing we saw with the Bidens in Ukraine, right?
[01:19:50.180 --> 01:19:52.180] Or with the Trumps with Israel.
[01:19:52.180 --> 01:19:57.180] You send massive amounts of money to a foreign corrupt government and guess what?
[01:19:57.180 --> 01:19:59.180] You're going to get some kickbacks on that kind of stuff.
[01:19:59.180 --> 01:20:01.180] So, it's a mutually beneficial thing.
[01:20:01.180 --> 01:20:03.180] You scratch my back, I scratch yours, right?
[01:20:03.180 --> 01:20:08.180] And so you help them to get massive amounts of money stolen from American taxpayers,
[01:20:08.180 --> 01:20:12.180] whether it's going to the Somalis or the Israelis or the Ukrainians.
[01:20:12.180 --> 01:20:15.180] And there's going to be a kickback to you with all that stuff.
[01:20:15.180 --> 01:20:17.180] But then there's other motivations, Travis.
[01:20:17.180 --> 01:20:20.180] There's Tom Emmer, who's now such a hardcore person.
[01:20:20.180 --> 01:20:21.180] We're going to have to get these people.
[01:20:21.180 --> 01:20:25.180] If they're involved in fraud, even if they're naturalized, we revoke that citizenship
[01:20:25.180 --> 01:20:28.180] and we send them back to where they came from.
[01:20:28.180 --> 01:20:30.180] You really think he's going to do that?
[01:20:30.180 --> 01:20:31.180] Let's look at what this guy has been doing.
[01:20:31.180 --> 01:20:34.180] This is a daily caller investigation.
[01:20:34.180 --> 01:20:41.180] Minnesotans had begged Tom Emmer to stop the Somalis over a decade ago.
[01:20:41.180 --> 01:20:43.180] He told them it wasn't possible.
[01:20:43.180 --> 01:20:46.180] As a matter of fact, he was very combative with the people.
[01:20:46.180 --> 01:20:50.180] As a matter of fact, he even kind of called them racist.
[01:20:50.180 --> 01:20:52.180] He took the line of the Democrats.
[01:20:52.180 --> 01:20:57.180] As a matter of fact, he worked with Democrats to set up a Somali caucus.
[01:20:57.180 --> 01:20:59.180] Why would he do that?
[01:20:59.180 --> 01:21:01.180] I don't know that he was necessarily taking a kickback,
[01:21:01.180 --> 01:21:05.180] but it was politically expedient for him to do this.
[01:21:05.180 --> 01:21:10.180] He would have paid a political price if he would have talked to the Somalis.
[01:21:10.180 --> 01:21:15.180] Now he's going to pay a political price if he doesn't talk about the Somalis.
[01:21:15.180 --> 01:21:17.180] It's all about his political calculation.
[01:21:17.180 --> 01:21:20.180] It's all about Tom Emmer.
[01:21:20.180 --> 01:21:21.180] It's not about the U.S. taxpayer.
[01:21:21.180 --> 01:21:23.180] It's not about fraud or anything else.
[01:21:23.180 --> 01:21:25.180] It's about his political career.
[01:21:25.180 --> 01:21:27.180] That's how we get the kind of Congress that we have.
[01:21:27.180 --> 01:21:29.180] That's how you get this kind of fraud,
[01:21:29.180 --> 01:21:34.180] because these people are looking only at their self-interest.
[01:21:34.180 --> 01:21:38.180] Minnesotans had begged House Majority Whip the number three guy
[01:21:38.180 --> 01:21:41.180] in the GOP leadership, Tom Emmer,
[01:21:41.180 --> 01:21:46.180] more than a decade ago to halt the flood of Somali refugees to the area.
[01:21:46.180 --> 01:21:50.180] But he scolded them for their concerns.
[01:21:50.180 --> 01:21:54.180] Minnesota's Somali population is back in the spotlight after YouTuber Nick Shirley
[01:21:54.180 --> 01:22:01.180] posted a video canvassing multiple Somali-run child care centers accused of fraud.
[01:22:01.180 --> 01:22:07.180] However, a resurfaced audio clip from this American life
[01:22:07.180 --> 01:22:11.180] and of course that is an NPR program,
[01:22:11.180 --> 01:22:16.180] showed that voters were concerned about mass Somali migration
[01:22:16.180 --> 01:22:19.180] long before the recent controversy.
[01:22:20.180 --> 01:22:25.180] In an episode that aired in October of 2016,
[01:22:25.180 --> 01:22:30.180] journalist Zoe Chase narrated portions of the story,
[01:22:30.180 --> 01:22:35.180] including a reflection on a July 2015 town hall event.
[01:22:35.180 --> 01:22:41.180] So this is Tom Emmer in 2015.
[01:22:41.180 --> 01:22:43.180] This is in St. Cloud.
[01:22:43.180 --> 01:22:46.180] Describing the room as packed, Chase said,
[01:22:46.180 --> 01:22:50.180] One constituent told Emmer that he believed most people in the bar,
[01:22:50.180 --> 01:22:55.180] quote, are here to find out how you feel about the assimilation of immigrants.
[01:22:55.180 --> 01:22:59.180] And then she played a clip from the event.
[01:22:59.180 --> 01:23:02.180] And this guy says to Tom Emmer,
[01:23:02.180 --> 01:23:05.180] We didn't ask for those Somalis.
[01:23:05.180 --> 01:23:10.180] Nobody asked us if we in St. Cloud wanted those Somalis.
[01:23:10.180 --> 01:23:14.180] And we understand that social groups like the Lutheran Social Service
[01:23:14.180 --> 01:23:19.180] and the Catholic Charities are dumping them in areas like St. Cloud.
[01:23:19.180 --> 01:23:23.180] Okay, and so the question is, how many more are coming?
[01:23:23.180 --> 01:23:25.180] We didn't ask for these people.
[01:23:25.180 --> 01:23:28.180] Every day that you read about is talking about this.
[01:23:28.180 --> 01:23:31.180] So that is the main issue today, said the man.
[01:23:31.180 --> 01:23:33.180] There is no control.
[01:23:33.180 --> 01:23:37.180] The people have no control over any immigration.
[01:23:37.180 --> 01:23:40.180] The mayor doesn't, and I don't know who does.
[01:23:40.180 --> 01:23:47.180] And so they pointed out in this report that the 2024 census
[01:23:47.180 --> 01:23:51.180] said about 107,000 Somalis live in Minnesota,
[01:23:51.180 --> 01:23:54.180] 58% of them born in the U.S.,
[01:23:54.180 --> 01:23:58.180] 87% naturalized U.S. citizens.
[01:23:58.180 --> 01:24:00.180] So these would be the people who are legally here,
[01:24:00.180 --> 01:24:03.180] and of course there's probably many others who are not here legally.
[01:24:03.180 --> 01:24:07.180] Minneapolis has the state's largest Somali population,
[01:24:07.180 --> 01:24:10.180] with about 84,000 residents of Somali descent.
[01:24:10.180 --> 01:24:14.180] And so that's why they call it Little Mogadishu.
[01:24:14.180 --> 01:24:17.180] It's also important to note that if they're willing to steal this much money,
[01:24:17.180 --> 01:24:21.180] they're more than willing to find ways around the immigration system.
[01:24:21.180 --> 01:24:25.180] Oh yeah, sure, especially if there's a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow.
[01:24:25.180 --> 01:24:28.180] And again, once you have a large base of any group,
[01:24:28.180 --> 01:24:34.180] they will be willing to help more of their own subvert the system and bring them in.
[01:24:34.180 --> 01:24:35.180] That's right.
[01:24:35.180 --> 01:24:37.180] Yeah, they're coming here, they're poor, and it's like,
[01:24:37.180 --> 01:24:39.180] let me tell you how to get rich, okay?
[01:24:39.180 --> 01:24:40.180] We've got this great scam.
[01:24:40.180 --> 01:24:41.180] These Americans don't know what they're doing.
[01:24:41.180 --> 01:24:42.180] They don't care.
[01:24:42.180 --> 01:24:44.180] You know, the people in the federal government don't care about the money.
[01:24:44.180 --> 01:24:45.180] I mean, they just print this stuff up.
[01:24:45.180 --> 01:24:47.180] They don't care.
[01:24:47.180 --> 01:24:49.180] It's just asking for the taking.
[01:24:49.180 --> 01:24:50.180] It's right there.
[01:24:50.180 --> 01:24:51.180] Just take it.
[01:24:51.180 --> 01:24:52.180] Come on.
[01:24:52.180 --> 01:24:54.180] And so this guy is saying, we didn't ask for this.
[01:24:54.180 --> 01:24:55.180] This is forced upon us.
[01:24:55.180 --> 01:24:56.180] This was dumped on us.
[01:24:56.180 --> 01:24:58.180] What are you going to do about this?
[01:24:58.180 --> 01:25:01.180] Here's Tom Emmer's response 10 years ago.
[01:25:01.180 --> 01:25:02.180] 10 years ago.
[01:25:02.180 --> 01:25:06.180] Mr. Strong Borders and we're going to send them all back today is what he's saying.
[01:25:06.180 --> 01:25:09.180] This is what the guy said 10 years ago.
[01:25:09.180 --> 01:25:15.180] In the recorded town hall, Emmer pushes back on that man with Chase,
[01:25:15.180 --> 01:25:19.180] the NPR reporter, describing the lawmaker as firing, quote,
[01:25:19.180 --> 01:25:23.180] a warning shot at the implicit racism.
[01:25:23.180 --> 01:25:25.180] This is always the case.
[01:25:25.180 --> 01:25:28.180] You criticize the money that's being sent to this other group.
[01:25:29.180 --> 01:25:30.180] Right?
[01:25:30.180 --> 01:25:31.180] You're racist.
[01:25:31.180 --> 01:25:34.180] That happens with the charges of anti-Semitism.
[01:25:34.180 --> 01:25:37.180] If you don't want to see Israel getting massive amounts of money,
[01:25:37.180 --> 01:25:39.180] all the rest of this stuff is racism.
[01:25:39.180 --> 01:25:42.180] Emmer argues that Somalis are one of, quote,
[01:25:42.180 --> 01:25:45.180] the fastest assimilating populations.
[01:25:45.180 --> 01:25:48.180] Well, he certainly does assimilate into our form of government,
[01:25:48.180 --> 01:25:49.180] didn't they?
[01:25:49.180 --> 01:25:50.180] The kleptocracy.
[01:25:50.180 --> 01:25:52.180] They understand our form of government, I think,
[01:25:52.180 --> 01:25:54.180] better than Americans do.
[01:25:54.180 --> 01:25:58.180] They understand that it is a thieving cesspool.
[01:25:58.180 --> 01:26:00.180] They assimilated that.
[01:26:00.180 --> 01:26:04.180] So he's changed his tune now, hasn't he?
[01:26:04.180 --> 01:26:06.180] He's now an immigration hawk.
[01:26:06.180 --> 01:26:09.180] But the man responded and said, well, they assimilate.
[01:26:09.180 --> 01:26:11.180] They're one of the fastest assimilating groups.
[01:26:11.180 --> 01:26:15.180] And the man says, oh, you've got to be kidding me.
[01:26:15.180 --> 01:26:16.180] Wasn't buying it.
[01:26:16.180 --> 01:26:20.180] At the time of the event, Chase noted, the NPR reporter Chase,
[01:26:20.180 --> 01:26:23.180] noted that a Somali man was in the room with other constituents.
[01:26:23.180 --> 01:26:25.180] He eventually tried to speak for himself,
[01:26:25.180 --> 01:26:32.180] turned the group and thickly accented English that he felt assimilated.
[01:26:32.180 --> 01:26:34.180] He's part of the board here.
[01:26:34.180 --> 01:26:37.180] He's now a good thief like the Democrats.
[01:26:37.180 --> 01:26:39.180] He's assimilated into the Democrat party.
[01:26:39.180 --> 01:26:41.180] It's all about theft.
[01:26:41.180 --> 01:26:46.180] The audience continued pressing Emmer to demand a vote on the refugees.
[01:26:46.180 --> 01:26:51.180] One constituent, identified as Sue, pushed back as Emmer repeatedly asked
[01:26:51.180 --> 01:26:55.180] what she wanted him to do, telling the lawmaker that there had been
[01:26:55.180 --> 01:27:02.180] a huge economic burden placed on them at the time because of this influx.
[01:27:02.180 --> 01:27:05.180] Sue said, I think I speak for a lot of people.
[01:27:05.180 --> 01:27:08.180] I think the city of St. Cloud needs a breather.
[01:27:08.180 --> 01:27:11.180] We need to assimilate with the people that are,
[01:27:11.180 --> 01:27:15.180] it starts to say already here, and Emmer cut her off.
[01:27:15.180 --> 01:27:21.180] He says, so should Minnesota impose a pause on Somali immigration
[01:27:21.180 --> 01:27:24.180] to address community concerns?
[01:27:24.180 --> 01:27:26.180] And he says, what does that mean?
[01:27:26.180 --> 01:27:28.180] What does that mean?
[01:27:28.180 --> 01:27:30.180] I don't know what that means.
[01:27:30.180 --> 01:27:32.180] So he didn't want a pause on Somalis coming in,
[01:27:32.180 --> 01:27:35.180] but now he's ready to throw these people back to Somali.
[01:27:35.180 --> 01:27:38.180] What a fraud this guy is.
[01:27:38.180 --> 01:27:41.180] Double talking fraud.
[01:27:41.180 --> 01:27:43.180] He is the poster child of the GOP.
[01:27:43.180 --> 01:27:49.180] This is a guy who is so successful with his peers
[01:27:49.180 --> 01:27:51.180] that he's the number three guy.
[01:27:51.180 --> 01:27:54.180] You've got people like Mike Johnson who are even worse.
[01:27:54.180 --> 01:27:56.180] He's the number one guy.
[01:27:56.180 --> 01:28:00.180] Going back and forth, Emmer asks Sue point blank if she's suggesting
[01:28:00.180 --> 01:28:03.180] that, quote, no more immigrants should be allowed to come to St. Cloud,
[01:28:03.180 --> 01:28:08.180] to which she says, well, I think there ought to be a moratorium for a short time.
[01:28:08.180 --> 01:28:10.180] Well, that's where Emmer is saying he is now.
[01:28:10.180 --> 01:28:11.180] I don't buy any of it.
[01:28:11.180 --> 01:28:14.180] I don't understand how that's even a controversial opinion.
[01:28:14.180 --> 01:28:15.180] Yeah.
[01:28:15.180 --> 01:28:17.180] I don't think it should be a controversial opinion if America were to say,
[01:28:17.180 --> 01:28:19.180] no, no more immigrants ever.
[01:28:19.180 --> 01:28:20.180] Sorry.
[01:28:20.180 --> 01:28:21.180] We're full.
[01:28:21.180 --> 01:28:25.180] That's because you're racist.
[01:28:25.180 --> 01:28:29.180] Additional people in the background could be heard shouting that the pause
[01:28:29.180 --> 01:28:32.180] should be for the entire United States.
[01:28:32.180 --> 01:28:33.180] You're a congressman.
[01:28:33.180 --> 01:28:35.180] You're the number three guy there.
[01:28:35.180 --> 01:28:37.180] Do it for the entire United States.
[01:28:37.180 --> 01:28:45.180] And then Emmer jumped in to state the request was simply not possible.
[01:28:45.180 --> 01:28:46.180] All right.
[01:28:46.180 --> 01:28:47.180] Here's the thing.
[01:28:47.180 --> 01:28:50.180] All I can do is respond as openly and honestly as I can, Sue.
[01:28:50.180 --> 01:28:53.180] That's not something that I can do.
[01:28:53.180 --> 01:28:55.180] He's the whip.
[01:28:55.180 --> 01:28:57.180] That's what his job is.
[01:28:57.180 --> 01:28:59.180] His job is to build consensus.
[01:28:59.180 --> 01:29:03.180] His job is to organize these guys together for an agenda.
[01:29:03.180 --> 01:29:08.180] It's just that he doesn't like that agenda of America first.
[01:29:08.180 --> 01:29:12.180] He says that's not something that our constitution says that we can do with
[01:29:12.180 --> 01:29:13.180] people who are.
[01:29:13.180 --> 01:29:17.180] And then they cut him off.
[01:29:17.180 --> 01:29:21.180] So now he says even naturalized citizens should be deported.
[01:29:21.180 --> 01:29:28.180] This guy is desperate and he's as guilty as Tim Walz is in my opinion.
[01:29:28.180 --> 01:29:32.180] And so the Daily Caller reached out to him and he responded.
[01:29:32.180 --> 01:29:37.180] He called out the failed immigration policies over the years and he says he's
[01:29:37.180 --> 01:29:42.180] now proud to stand with the Trump fraud administration and hold these people
[01:29:42.180 --> 01:29:46.180] accountable because Trump didn't do anything his first four years.
[01:29:46.180 --> 01:29:50.180] Emmer hasn't done anything for a decade with any of this stuff.
[01:29:50.180 --> 01:29:55.180] But now he says I'm proud to partner with Trump and Cash Patel, the FBI, and
[01:29:55.180 --> 01:29:57.180] we're going to hold these people accountable.
[01:29:57.180 --> 01:29:59.180] We'll see.
[01:29:59.180 --> 01:30:04.180] What Walz refused to address for seven years, he said, Nick surely uncovered
[01:30:04.180 --> 01:30:05.180] in one day.
[01:30:05.180 --> 01:30:12.180] And of course, Emmer and Trump failed to address it as well for seven years,
[01:30:12.180 --> 01:30:13.180] actually for ten years.
[01:30:13.180 --> 01:30:18.180] Days prior to the town hall that we just talked about where Emmer was there,
[01:30:18.180 --> 01:30:21.180] Emmer had joined with the Democrats.
[01:30:21.180 --> 01:30:28.180] He had joined with, of all people, Keith Ellison, the Democrat congressman.
[01:30:28.180 --> 01:30:34.180] You remember when he said I want to be sworn in on the Koran, not the Bible?
[01:30:34.180 --> 01:30:41.180] That's the guy that Tom Emmer partnered with to create the
[01:30:41.180 --> 01:30:45.180] Congressional Somalia Caucus.
[01:30:45.180 --> 01:30:47.180] He's a traitor.
[01:30:47.180 --> 01:30:51.180] He wants to help these people take over the federal government even.
[01:30:51.180 --> 01:30:56.180] The two of them released a joint statement in June of 2015 touting that
[01:30:56.180 --> 01:31:02.180] for them, they said the constituents, quote, that we represent Somalia is not
[01:31:02.180 --> 01:31:04.180] a far-off foreign policy issue.
[01:31:04.180 --> 01:31:07.180] It is a matter of domestic policy and national security.
[01:31:07.180 --> 01:31:12.180] We are committed to advocating on behalf of all of our constituents while
[01:31:12.180 --> 01:31:16.180] ensuring that Somalia has the tools it needs to create strong,
[01:31:16.180 --> 01:31:18.180] democratic institutions.
[01:31:18.180 --> 01:31:22.180] He put that in there with a small D, but what we're talking about is a big D,
[01:31:22.180 --> 01:31:23.180] right?
[01:31:23.180 --> 01:31:27.180] That provides safety and economic opportunity to its people.
[01:31:27.180 --> 01:31:31.180] The bar where Emmer spoke in 2015, it gets even better.
[01:31:31.180 --> 01:31:37.180] The bar where he spoke in 2015, shutting down voters' concerns about being
[01:31:37.180 --> 01:31:42.180] flooded with Somalians and how corrupt this was.
[01:31:42.180 --> 01:31:44.180] That was a restaurant at the time.
[01:31:44.180 --> 01:31:46.180] Guess what it is today?
[01:31:46.180 --> 01:31:50.180] A daycare center.
[01:31:50.180 --> 01:31:54.180] So when we get enough Somalians in, we'll just shut down all the businesses,
[01:31:54.180 --> 01:31:58.180] we'll set up fraudulent daycare centers and fraudulent food relief,
[01:31:58.180 --> 01:32:02.180] pantry things, and we can all just collect a federal check.
[01:32:02.180 --> 01:32:07.180] That's what they would like to have, universal basic welfare.
[01:32:07.180 --> 01:32:11.180] And this kind of fraud happens in every program.
[01:32:11.180 --> 01:32:15.180] In Canada, they're having a huge issue with not being able to provide enough
[01:32:15.180 --> 01:32:21.180] meals for their own poor college students, people who are legitimately below
[01:32:21.180 --> 01:32:23.180] the poverty line.
[01:32:23.180 --> 01:32:27.180] They cannot afford food because they've imported so many Indians and they see
[01:32:27.180 --> 01:32:29.180] this as just a free meal ticket.
[01:32:29.180 --> 01:32:32.180] Oh, yeah, I could afford it, but if they're going to give me free food,
[01:32:32.180 --> 01:32:33.180] I'll just take it.
[01:32:33.180 --> 01:32:36.180] Yeah, it's not that we're cold-hearted.
[01:32:36.180 --> 01:32:40.180] We just understand that the federal government doesn't do anything right.
[01:32:40.180 --> 01:32:46.180] Whatever it does, it is rife with waste, fraud and abuse and graft and corruption.
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[01:33:47.180 --> 01:33:50.180] And so, you know, I've been through this whole thing before.
[01:33:50.180 --> 01:33:56.180] This is the reason why America worked when Alexis de Tocqueville came here.
[01:33:56.180 --> 01:34:02.180] He said in Socialist France, we will set up a program and it'll, you know,
[01:34:02.180 --> 01:34:05.180] go the way that we now see happening in America.
[01:34:05.180 --> 01:34:09.180] But he goes in America back at that time, the early 1800s when he was coming here.
[01:34:09.180 --> 01:34:11.180] He said Americans see a problem.
[01:34:11.180 --> 01:34:15.180] They set up a voluntary organization and they take care of it locally.
[01:34:15.180 --> 01:34:19.180] And when you do that, if you've got an association or if you got it running
[01:34:19.180 --> 01:34:22.180] through a church or something like that, because as Christians,
[01:34:22.180 --> 01:34:25.180] we should understand that we should have a heart to help the poor.
[01:34:25.180 --> 01:34:29.180] That's not what the Lutheran and Catholic charities are doing.
[01:34:29.180 --> 01:34:34.180] They're feeding at the trough of a major bureaucracy and they're dumping people
[01:34:34.180 --> 01:34:39.180] onto the government payrolls, welfare roles, rather than helping them personally
[01:34:39.180 --> 01:34:44.180] themselves. If the churches or if other institutions are doing it at a local
[01:34:44.180 --> 01:34:48.180] level, they can see who needs it and who doesn't need it.
[01:34:48.180 --> 01:34:49.180] And that's important.
[01:34:49.180 --> 01:34:52.180] You want to be able to get the help to the people who really do need it.
[01:34:52.180 --> 01:34:56.180] And there are people who really do need help, always in a society.
[01:34:56.180 --> 01:34:59.180] Jesus said, you'll have the poor with you always.
[01:34:59.180 --> 01:35:01.180] Then he tells us to help the poor.
[01:35:01.180 --> 01:35:04.180] So you'll always have that.
[01:35:04.180 --> 01:35:07.180] The question is, are you going to kick this off and say, well, I gave it the
[01:35:07.180 --> 01:35:11.180] office I gave with the taxes that I paid to the federal government.
[01:35:11.180 --> 01:35:13.180] And then they're going to waste it.
[01:35:13.180 --> 01:35:16.180] And you're going to have people who don't deserve it.
[01:35:16.180 --> 01:35:20.180] And the people who do deserve it, some of them are not going to get help.
[01:35:20.180 --> 01:35:23.180] That's what's so broken about this system.
[01:35:23.180 --> 01:35:28.180] So as this thing grows, the restaurant that they had 10 years ago, they had
[01:35:28.180 --> 01:35:34.180] has now been taken over by a Somali, Ahmed Ishmael.
[01:35:34.180 --> 01:35:37.180] And he's now set up a daycare center.
[01:35:37.180 --> 01:35:40.180] He calls it Mother's Love Child Care Center.
[01:35:40.180 --> 01:35:45.180] And it's got the magic number of 100 kids.
[01:35:45.180 --> 01:35:50.180] If any of them show up, it's probably 10 of them will show up to the center.
[01:35:51.180 --> 01:35:57.180] And that's why I don't vote anymore, because you look at the Republicans,
[01:35:57.180 --> 01:35:59.180] look at Tom Emmer.
[01:35:59.180 --> 01:36:03.180] It's not going to do anything except hold grandstanding hearings,
[01:36:03.180 --> 01:36:05.180] just like Robbins did.
[01:36:05.180 --> 01:36:07.180] You know, Scott Jensen was right.
[01:36:07.180 --> 01:36:08.180] They just grandstand.
[01:36:08.180 --> 01:36:10.180] They do nothing about it.
[01:36:10.180 --> 01:36:13.180] And they lock in the corruption.
[01:36:13.180 --> 01:36:17.180] They lock in the precedents of the Democrats.
[01:36:17.180 --> 01:36:21.180] Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar, which is where her power base is.
[01:36:21.180 --> 01:36:26.180] And remember, Tom Emmer helped to set up the Congressional Somali Caucus.
[01:36:26.180 --> 01:36:30.180] Ilhan Omar is facing an investigation.
[01:36:30.180 --> 01:36:34.180] People have noticed that she has had a massive wealth gain,
[01:36:34.180 --> 01:36:38.180] and she's not investing in gold or silver.
[01:36:38.180 --> 01:36:41.180] She's made more money than you could make in gold or silver or bitcoin
[01:36:41.180 --> 01:36:43.180] in its best years.
[01:36:43.180 --> 01:36:46.180] The cover to Watchdog is scrutinizing Ilhan Omar's finances
[01:36:46.180 --> 01:36:52.180] as outrage mounts over the massive fraud scandal engulfing Minnesota
[01:36:52.180 --> 01:36:56.180] and questions about her rapid wealth gains.
[01:36:56.180 --> 01:36:59.180] The revelation comes a day after the Post reported that her husband's
[01:36:59.180 --> 01:37:05.180] venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details online
[01:37:05.180 --> 01:37:08.180] amid questions about her sudden surge in wealth.
[01:37:08.180 --> 01:37:14.180] So he has a venture capital firm, and her net worth mysteriously shot up
[01:37:14.180 --> 01:37:24.180] to $30 million, which is roughly a 3,500% increase relative to 2023.
[01:37:24.180 --> 01:37:26.180] Isn't that amazing?
[01:37:26.180 --> 01:37:31.180] So she may be an even better investor than Nancy Pelosi.
[01:37:31.180 --> 01:37:35.180] The gains largely came from her husband, his venture capital management firm
[01:37:35.180 --> 01:37:39.180] that is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
[01:37:39.180 --> 01:37:42.180] It's called Rose Lake Capital.
[01:37:42.180 --> 01:37:46.180] Its value jumped from nearly zero in 2023
[01:37:46.180 --> 01:37:50.180] to between $5 million and $25 million in just a year.
[01:37:50.180 --> 01:37:55.180] The firm bragged about its officers managing some $60 billion in
[01:37:55.180 --> 01:37:58.180] quote, previous assets, unquote.
[01:37:58.180 --> 01:38:03.180] Recently, the names and the bios of Rose Lake Capital's nine officers
[01:38:03.180 --> 01:38:05.180] were removed from LinkedIn.
[01:38:05.180 --> 01:38:08.180] Don't want you to see who these guys are.
[01:38:08.180 --> 01:38:14.180] His winery business, he's got the venture capital firm that he created
[01:38:14.180 --> 01:38:21.180] and instantly went from zero to hero, from zero to $30 million.
[01:38:21.180 --> 01:38:25.180] His winery business has faced fraud allegations previously,
[01:38:25.180 --> 01:38:32.180] and it saw its estimated value explode between $1 and $5 million in 2024
[01:38:32.180 --> 01:38:35.180] according to her financial disclosures.
[01:38:35.180 --> 01:38:41.180] Omar has said that the real issue is the COVID-19 pandemic
[01:38:41.180 --> 01:38:45.180] and the lack of guardrails for this scandal.
[01:38:45.180 --> 01:38:49.180] Well, she'll tell you the truth, but that's a deflection
[01:38:49.180 --> 01:38:52.180] away from her personal finances that are there.
[01:38:52.180 --> 01:38:56.180] So she said, I just think a lot of the COVID programs are set up so quickly
[01:38:56.180 --> 01:38:59.180] that there weren't guardrails created.
[01:38:59.180 --> 01:39:01.180] Well, that actually is true.
[01:39:01.180 --> 01:39:02.180] That actually is true.
[01:39:02.180 --> 01:39:05.180] That may work for her to some degree,
[01:39:05.180 --> 01:39:08.180] but the reality is that she's feeding of the trough
[01:39:08.180 --> 01:39:11.180] and trading influence, obviously.
[01:39:11.180 --> 01:39:15.180] Trump administration says that it's now going to freeze childcare funds
[01:39:15.180 --> 01:39:19.180] to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes.
[01:39:19.180 --> 01:39:22.180] Finally, they cut off the tap.
[01:39:22.180 --> 01:39:24.180] Isn't that amazing?
[01:39:24.180 --> 01:39:27.180] All payments through the Administration for Children and Families,
[01:39:27.180 --> 01:39:30.180] an agency within the US HHS department,
[01:39:30.180 --> 01:39:34.180] will require justification and a receipt or photo evidence
[01:39:34.180 --> 01:39:36.180] before money is sent.
[01:39:36.180 --> 01:39:37.180] This is kind of like saying,
[01:39:37.180 --> 01:39:40.180] well, after we've killed millions of people with a Trump shot,
[01:39:40.180 --> 01:39:43.180] now we're going to do some tests about safety and efficacy.
[01:39:43.180 --> 01:39:47.180] They've also launched a fraud reporting hotline and an email address.
[01:39:47.180 --> 01:39:51.180] Wouldn't it have been nice if they would have done this 10 years ago?
[01:39:51.180 --> 01:39:52.180] No.
[01:39:52.180 --> 01:39:54.180] The announcement comes after years of investigation
[01:39:54.180 --> 01:39:57.180] with a $300 million scheme at the nonprofit Feeding Our Future
[01:39:57.180 --> 01:40:01.180] for which 57 defendants in Minnesota have now been convicted.
[01:40:01.180 --> 01:40:03.180] Well, it just keeps going around and around.
[01:40:03.180 --> 01:40:06.180] Do you think anything is really going to happen with this?
[01:40:06.180 --> 01:40:08.180] We'll see.
[01:40:08.180 --> 01:40:10.180] Let's look at the comments before we take a break, Travis.
[01:40:10.180 --> 01:40:11.180] Yeah, we've got a lot.
[01:40:11.180 --> 01:40:12.180] Original Babes says,
[01:40:12.180 --> 01:40:16.180] I reported Medicaid fraud in 2022, Charlotte, North Carolina,
[01:40:16.180 --> 01:40:19.180] was being billed for home health and they never came.
[01:40:19.180 --> 01:40:20.180] They were Nigerians.
[01:40:20.180 --> 01:40:22.180] All they get is fine.
[01:40:22.180 --> 01:40:23.180] Were they princes?
[01:40:23.180 --> 01:40:26.180] Was the Nigerian prince who was giving you the home health care?
[01:40:26.180 --> 01:40:27.180] I'm sorry, go ahead.
[01:40:27.180 --> 01:40:30.180] They said, no arrests or closing down the fake businesses.
[01:40:30.180 --> 01:40:33.180] The Nigerians offered me $300 a month to help me.
[01:40:33.180 --> 01:40:35.180] I said no, reported them for Medicaid fraud.
[01:40:35.180 --> 01:40:39.180] They will pay people cash to use their Medicaid, et cetera.
[01:40:39.180 --> 01:40:43.180] They charged my Medicaid for two months when they came one time.
[01:40:43.180 --> 01:40:45.180] Wow.
[01:40:45.180 --> 01:40:47.180] There's scams everywhere.
[01:40:47.180 --> 01:40:48.180] Yeah.
[01:40:48.180 --> 01:40:51.180] Well, it's just ripe for the taking.
[01:40:51.180 --> 01:40:54.180] When you look at these measures that are now being announced
[01:40:54.180 --> 01:40:56.180] by the Trump administration,
[01:40:56.180 --> 01:40:58.180] isn't that something you would have expected they would have done
[01:40:58.180 --> 01:40:59.180] in the beginning?
[01:40:59.180 --> 01:41:00.180] Some kind of a verification?
[01:41:00.180 --> 01:41:02.180] No, they just, all you do is ask them for the money
[01:41:02.180 --> 01:41:04.180] and they just hand it out.
[01:41:04.180 --> 01:41:08.180] And then they come around later if somebody reports it as fraudulent.
[01:41:08.180 --> 01:41:11.180] Owen61, thank you very much for the support.
[01:41:11.180 --> 01:41:12.180] That is very generous.
[01:41:12.180 --> 01:41:13.180] Thank you.
[01:41:13.180 --> 01:41:14.180] Thank you very much.
[01:41:14.180 --> 01:41:16.180] He says, Happy New Year, David and family.
[01:41:16.180 --> 01:41:19.180] Hey, that's me.
[01:41:20.180 --> 01:41:21.180] Yeah, that's right.
[01:41:21.180 --> 01:41:22.180] Thank you very much.
[01:41:22.180 --> 01:41:23.180] I appreciate it.
[01:41:23.180 --> 01:41:25.180] Lord Patriot, thank you as well.
[01:41:25.180 --> 01:41:28.180] Says, what government entity in America has the credibility
[01:41:28.180 --> 01:41:31.180] to investigate anything?
[01:41:31.180 --> 01:41:33.180] That's a fair point.
[01:41:33.180 --> 01:41:34.180] Yeah.
[01:41:34.180 --> 01:41:39.180] And that really is the point of all these people is to,
[01:41:39.180 --> 01:41:42.180] actually they don't need any help that they get from Trump
[01:41:42.180 --> 01:41:44.180] to destroy people's confidence in these institutions.
[01:41:44.180 --> 01:41:47.180] We can all see and have been able to see for a long time
[01:41:47.180 --> 01:41:48.180] just how corrupt they are.
[01:41:48.180 --> 01:41:50.180] But that's a hallmark of the 4th turning that we're in.
[01:41:50.180 --> 01:41:51.180] Yeah.
[01:41:51.180 --> 01:41:54.180] Peasants Podcast says, Mass immigration did not enhance
[01:41:54.180 --> 01:41:57.180] the Cherokee Nation, for it led to our attempted expulsion
[01:41:57.180 --> 01:41:59.180] from the Smokies via the Trail of Tears.
[01:41:59.180 --> 01:42:02.180] But many of us kept our guns in Cherokee NC
[01:42:02.180 --> 01:42:04.180] and Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
[01:42:04.180 --> 01:42:05.180] Yeah, good for you.
[01:42:05.180 --> 01:42:06.180] Yeah.
[01:42:06.180 --> 01:42:08.180] Yeah, that was massive deportation, wasn't it?
[01:42:08.180 --> 01:42:11.180] Yeah, I always talk about that because, you know,
[01:42:11.180 --> 01:42:14.180] it was such a bad policy by Andrew Jackson.
[01:42:14.180 --> 01:42:16.180] And yet nobody could stop him.
[01:42:16.180 --> 01:42:17.180] Nobody could stop him.
[01:42:17.180 --> 01:42:20.180] I said that in the context of stopping abortion.
[01:42:20.180 --> 01:42:21.180] You know, if you...
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[01:43:23.180 --> 01:43:27.180] You can do things, sometimes bad things,
[01:43:27.180 --> 01:43:30.180] but you have the authority to do that.
[01:43:30.180 --> 01:43:32.180] It's kind of like what's going on with that,
[01:43:32.180 --> 01:43:36.180] that Tina Peters I think is the woman I talked about there,
[01:43:36.180 --> 01:43:38.180] you know, what they're doing to her is wrong,
[01:43:38.180 --> 01:43:40.180] but they have the authority to do that.
[01:43:40.180 --> 01:43:43.180] And so, yeah.
[01:43:43.180 --> 01:43:45.180] They made their decision, let's see them stop me.
[01:43:45.180 --> 01:43:49.180] Scenarios like this, I always think of starship troopers.
[01:43:49.180 --> 01:43:51.180] Violence is the supreme authority
[01:43:51.180 --> 01:43:54.180] from which all other authority is derived.
[01:43:54.180 --> 01:43:56.180] When the government has a monopoly on violence,
[01:43:56.180 --> 01:43:58.180] they have a monopoly on authority,
[01:43:58.180 --> 01:44:00.180] and they can do as they wish.
[01:44:00.180 --> 01:44:03.180] Petal Junkie says the first thing you will notice
[01:44:03.180 --> 01:44:05.180] in a Somali community is the trash.
[01:44:05.180 --> 01:44:06.180] My neighborhood is clean.
[01:44:06.180 --> 01:44:11.180] Cross one street and there is trash everywhere.
[01:44:11.180 --> 01:44:13.180] Cleanliness, as we think of it today,
[01:44:13.180 --> 01:44:17.180] is very much a Western thing.
[01:44:17.180 --> 01:44:20.180] Keeping your cities and towns clean,
[01:44:20.180 --> 01:44:23.180] that is a Western priority.
[01:44:23.180 --> 01:44:25.180] You don't see that in India.
[01:44:25.180 --> 01:44:27.180] It's something like 60% of the population
[01:44:27.180 --> 01:44:32.180] still defecates outside, you know, wherever they are, you know.
[01:44:32.180 --> 01:44:37.180] So, you're not going to get a high-quality population
[01:44:37.180 --> 01:44:39.180] by importing these.
[01:44:39.180 --> 01:44:40.180] Well, that was still happening in China,
[01:44:40.180 --> 01:44:42.180] even though China was rapidly getting Westernized
[01:44:42.180 --> 01:44:44.180] even when we went there.
[01:44:44.180 --> 01:44:46.180] Was it 20 years or so ago?
[01:44:46.180 --> 01:44:49.180] Yesterday was my daughter's birthday, so.
[01:44:49.180 --> 01:44:51.180] Turned 24.
[01:44:51.180 --> 01:44:52.180] It's amazing.
[01:44:52.180 --> 01:44:53.180] You would be in these cities,
[01:44:53.180 --> 01:44:56.180] which are larger than New York City,
[01:44:56.180 --> 01:44:58.180] much higher population,
[01:44:58.180 --> 01:45:00.180] and then you drive 30 minutes outside of them,
[01:45:00.180 --> 01:45:02.180] and they're living like it's the 1700s.
[01:45:02.180 --> 01:45:05.180] They may have electricity,
[01:45:05.180 --> 01:45:06.180] but they don't have running water.
[01:45:06.180 --> 01:45:08.180] They're getting it from a river.
[01:45:08.180 --> 01:45:10.180] They have an outhouse where the people use the restroom,
[01:45:10.180 --> 01:45:13.180] and they just let the pigs in to feed on it.
[01:45:13.180 --> 01:45:16.180] And I remember when we were there, you know,
[01:45:16.180 --> 01:45:17.180] she had to use the bathroom,
[01:45:17.180 --> 01:45:20.180] and she couldn't understand why Karen was being so evil
[01:45:20.180 --> 01:45:21.180] and wouldn't let her use it.
[01:45:21.180 --> 01:45:22.180] She just used the bathroom down the street,
[01:45:22.180 --> 01:45:24.180] and I was like, no, we're going to go somewhere else.
[01:45:24.180 --> 01:45:27.180] But she really didn't understand.
[01:45:27.180 --> 01:45:29.180] Didn't speak English, and I was like, what's going on?
[01:45:29.180 --> 01:45:31.180] You're not letting me use the bathroom here.
[01:45:31.180 --> 01:45:33.180] Thankfully, she figured that one out pretty quick.
[01:45:33.180 --> 01:45:34.180] Yeah, yeah.
[01:45:34.180 --> 01:45:38.180] She became a big fan of toilet paper.
[01:45:38.180 --> 01:45:39.180] Well, let's go on.
[01:45:39.180 --> 01:45:40.180] We've got Jason Barker here.
[01:45:40.180 --> 01:45:41.180] You want to read that?
[01:45:41.180 --> 01:45:42.180] Yes.
[01:45:42.180 --> 01:45:43.180] Jason Barker says,
[01:45:43.180 --> 01:45:45.180] maybe we can use the army of IRS agents
[01:45:45.180 --> 01:45:48.180] to audit all our politicians and their immediate families.
[01:45:48.180 --> 01:45:50.180] Well, actually, that's not going to happen.
[01:45:50.180 --> 01:45:51.180] They're going to use,
[01:45:51.180 --> 01:45:54.180] they're going to weaponize artificial intelligence against us,
[01:45:54.180 --> 01:45:57.180] and they're going to go intensely into that.
[01:45:57.180 --> 01:46:01.180] They're going to microscopically examine every aspect of our lives,
[01:46:01.180 --> 01:46:03.180] but just like it is with surveillance.
[01:46:03.180 --> 01:46:05.180] How dare you look at them?
[01:46:05.180 --> 01:46:06.180] You're not allowed to look at me.
[01:46:06.180 --> 01:46:07.180] I look at you.
[01:46:07.180 --> 01:46:09.180] That's the way this is going to shake out.
[01:46:09.180 --> 01:46:11.180] Got some comments here that I'm reading.
[01:46:11.180 --> 01:46:12.180] Will Toobox says,
[01:46:12.180 --> 01:46:14.180] Japan is clean, and so is Taiwan.
[01:46:14.180 --> 01:46:17.180] And I would point out that those are two nations,
[01:46:17.180 --> 01:46:20.180] possibly the two Asian nations
[01:46:20.180 --> 01:46:23.180] that have been most heavily influenced by the West.
[01:46:23.180 --> 01:46:25.180] Japan after World War II.
[01:46:25.180 --> 01:46:26.180] Hong Kong as well.
[01:46:26.180 --> 01:46:27.180] Hong Kong was a great city.
[01:46:27.180 --> 01:46:28.180] I liked that a lot.
[01:46:28.180 --> 01:46:29.180] Of course.
[01:46:29.180 --> 01:46:31.180] Again, Hong Kong had been ruled by the British.
[01:46:31.180 --> 01:46:34.180] It was heavily, heavily influenced by them.
[01:46:34.180 --> 01:46:36.180] Japan after World War II,
[01:46:36.180 --> 01:46:41.180] very rapidly started to adopt American ideas and culture.
[01:46:41.180 --> 01:46:43.180] We were kind of there with our boot on their neck,
[01:46:43.180 --> 01:46:47.180] and they saw it as a way of ingratiating themselves to some extent.
[01:46:47.180 --> 01:46:51.180] And now we've adopted their Pearl Harbor techniques.
[01:46:51.180 --> 01:46:55.180] We have days of infamy happening all the time with the Trump administration.
[01:46:55.180 --> 01:46:56.180] And of course,
[01:46:56.180 --> 01:46:59.180] Taiwan has partially been dependent upon the West
[01:46:59.180 --> 01:47:01.180] for support against China.
[01:47:01.180 --> 01:47:04.180] So they have westernized themselves to some extent as well.
[01:47:04.180 --> 01:47:07.180] Because if they don't have Western support,
[01:47:07.180 --> 01:47:09.180] if China thought that America and the West
[01:47:09.180 --> 01:47:11.180] weren't going to do anything if they invaded,
[01:47:11.180 --> 01:47:13.180] they would simply go over immediately.
[01:47:13.180 --> 01:47:15.180] Yeah, I agree.
[01:47:15.180 --> 01:47:18.180] All right, we're going to take a quick break, folks,
[01:47:18.180 --> 01:47:20.180] and we will be right back when we come back.
[01:47:20.180 --> 01:47:24.180] I'm going to go through Doug Casey's top predictions for 2026.
[01:47:24.180 --> 01:47:30.180] I always liked Doug's writing and had a lot of respect for what he did.
[01:47:30.180 --> 01:47:33.180] And I think he nails a lot of this stuff really well.
[01:47:33.180 --> 01:47:35.180] We'll be right back.
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[01:52:58.180 --> 01:53:01.180] Let's take a look at Doug Casey's top predictions for 2026,
[01:53:01.180 --> 01:53:03.180] what it means for you and your money.
[01:53:03.180 --> 01:53:08.180] And of course, you'll find him at InternationalMan.com.
[01:53:08.180 --> 01:53:10.180] He says, what do you see, he was asked,
[01:53:10.180 --> 01:53:13.180] what do you see as the single most important thing
[01:53:13.180 --> 01:53:15.180] people should prepare for in 2026?
[01:53:15.180 --> 01:53:17.180] And I think he nailed it.
[01:53:17.180 --> 01:53:19.180] He begins by talking about Strauss and Howe,
[01:53:19.180 --> 01:53:21.180] because that is the time that we are in.
[01:53:21.180 --> 01:53:24.180] He said, Strauss and Howe asked that question in their book,
[01:53:24.180 --> 01:53:25.180] The Fourth Turning.
[01:53:25.180 --> 01:53:28.180] We're at a major turning point in the US.
[01:53:28.180 --> 01:53:31.180] And not just the US, of course, but globally.
[01:53:31.180 --> 01:53:34.180] Everybody is synchronized, unfortunately, on this thing,
[01:53:34.180 --> 01:53:38.180] and it's going to make for a massive upheaval.
[01:53:38.180 --> 01:53:40.180] I've felt for years, he said,
[01:53:40.180 --> 01:53:42.180] the US is headed towards something like a civil war.
[01:53:42.180 --> 01:53:46.180] It could be as serious as the unpleasantness of the 1860s,
[01:53:46.180 --> 01:53:47.180] but just different.
[01:53:48.180 --> 01:53:50.180] The red people and the blue people in the US
[01:53:50.180 --> 01:53:52.180] really dislike each other.
[01:53:52.180 --> 01:53:55.180] They can't even talk to each other.
[01:53:55.180 --> 01:53:58.180] And when things get to that stage,
[01:53:58.180 --> 01:54:00.180] things are typically solved by force,
[01:54:00.180 --> 01:54:02.180] and I expect that's what's going to happen.
[01:54:02.180 --> 01:54:04.180] Very likely during the next three years,
[01:54:04.180 --> 01:54:06.180] while Trump is still in office.
[01:54:06.180 --> 01:54:11.180] He is the perfect catalyst for this, said Doug Casey.
[01:54:11.180 --> 01:54:13.180] And I agree, I've said that many times.
[01:54:13.180 --> 01:54:15.180] It's the first time I've seen him say that.
[01:54:15.180 --> 01:54:17.180] But we see it the same way.
[01:54:17.180 --> 01:54:18.180] As a matter of fact, you know,
[01:54:18.180 --> 01:54:21.180] when Straus and Howe wrote the Fourth Turning
[01:54:21.180 --> 01:54:22.180] in the early 1990s,
[01:54:22.180 --> 01:54:26.180] and again, I think it is such a tell
[01:54:26.180 --> 01:54:30.180] that the establishment, excuse me,
[01:54:30.180 --> 01:54:34.180] refuses to talk about the Fourth Turning as a thesis.
[01:54:34.180 --> 01:54:36.180] They'll use all the labels like millennial
[01:54:36.180 --> 01:54:40.180] and Gen X and Gen Z and all the rest of this stuff.
[01:54:40.180 --> 01:54:42.180] They'll use all those labels that Straus and Howe did.
[01:54:42.180 --> 01:54:44.180] They'll talk about generations,
[01:54:44.180 --> 01:54:46.180] but they won't talk about the context
[01:54:46.180 --> 01:54:49.180] in which it all depends on what it means,
[01:54:49.180 --> 01:54:51.180] because that was the central premise of it.
[01:54:51.180 --> 01:54:53.180] That every four generations,
[01:54:53.180 --> 01:54:55.180] you have a major upheaval.
[01:54:55.180 --> 01:54:56.180] And the people who are the ones
[01:54:56.180 --> 01:54:58.180] who are fighting that upheaval, of course,
[01:54:58.180 --> 01:55:00.180] they're going to have a very different life experience.
[01:55:00.180 --> 01:55:03.180] The people who come, the generation after them,
[01:55:03.180 --> 01:55:05.180] it's going to be a very different experience
[01:55:05.180 --> 01:55:07.180] for them as well, but there is a repeating pattern.
[01:55:07.180 --> 01:55:11.180] And it usually happens about every four generations.
[01:55:12.180 --> 01:55:17.180] I look back on my family and my parents' generation
[01:55:17.180 --> 01:55:19.180] and how they were shaped by the depression
[01:55:19.180 --> 01:55:20.180] that they went through,
[01:55:20.180 --> 01:55:22.180] and World War II that they went through.
[01:55:22.180 --> 01:55:23.180] So it's that type of thing.
[01:55:23.180 --> 01:55:25.180] And they went back 500 years in history.
[01:55:25.180 --> 01:55:27.180] They said, sometime in the mid-2000s,
[01:55:27.180 --> 01:55:29.180] well, guess what, 2007, 2008,
[01:55:29.180 --> 01:55:31.180] there'll be a global financial crisis.
[01:55:31.180 --> 01:55:32.180] That'll begin the Fourth Turning,
[01:55:32.180 --> 01:55:35.180] and it'll finish sometime around 2029
[01:55:35.180 --> 01:55:36.180] or something like that.
[01:55:36.180 --> 01:55:39.180] Trump is the Fourth Turning candidate that they put in.
[01:55:39.180 --> 01:55:41.180] They don't want to talk about the Fourth Turning,
[01:55:41.180 --> 01:55:45.180] but they use that knowledge of these cycles
[01:55:45.180 --> 01:55:49.180] to put in somebody like Trump, as Dicasey says,
[01:55:49.180 --> 01:55:51.180] the perfect catalyst for all this.
[01:55:51.180 --> 01:55:55.180] It's going to be exacerbated by the long-term migration trends.
[01:55:55.180 --> 01:55:56.180] If we look 100 years down the road,
[01:55:56.180 --> 01:55:58.180] it's pretty clear that with modern travel
[01:55:58.180 --> 01:55:59.180] and communications technology,
[01:55:59.180 --> 01:56:02.180] the migration of people from poor countries
[01:56:02.180 --> 01:56:04.180] to rich countries all around the world
[01:56:04.180 --> 01:56:06.180] is going to accelerate.
[01:56:07.180 --> 01:56:10.180] Eventually, the US will not even exist in its present form.
[01:56:10.180 --> 01:56:12.180] Of course, that's true of every country.
[01:56:12.180 --> 01:56:14.180] The colors on the map of the wall
[01:56:14.180 --> 01:56:16.180] have been running since day one.
[01:56:16.180 --> 01:56:19.180] He says, for me, that's not going to be any fun.
[01:56:19.180 --> 01:56:23.180] For another, I'm a huge fan of traditional America.
[01:56:23.180 --> 01:56:26.180] It was a unique institution in world history,
[01:56:26.180 --> 01:56:30.180] the only country ever founded on the concepts of free thought,
[01:56:30.180 --> 01:56:32.180] free markets, and individualism.
[01:56:32.180 --> 01:56:35.180] A civil war, regardless of what form it takes,
[01:56:35.180 --> 01:56:38.180] will likely overturn those things.
[01:56:38.180 --> 01:56:40.180] While I hope things mellow out,
[01:56:40.180 --> 01:56:43.180] hope isn't the best foundation for making plans.
[01:56:43.180 --> 01:56:45.180] So I said, so geopolitically,
[01:56:45.180 --> 01:56:47.180] what do you see as tensions are building
[01:56:47.180 --> 01:56:49.180] across Europe, the Middle East, East Asia?
[01:56:49.180 --> 01:56:53.180] Where do you expect the major flashpoints to emerge in 2026?
[01:56:53.180 --> 01:56:57.180] He said, the politicians who run Europe
[01:56:57.180 --> 01:57:01.180] are uniformly despicable non-entities
[01:57:01.180 --> 01:57:06.180] from Ursula von der Leiden, the she-wolf of the EU, on down.
[01:57:06.180 --> 01:57:10.180] One proof of that statement is that I could be persecuted
[01:57:10.180 --> 01:57:13.180] or prosecuted should say, just for both of those actually,
[01:57:13.180 --> 01:57:15.180] persecuted and prosecuted.
[01:57:15.180 --> 01:57:19.180] I could be prosecuted just for saying that in much of Europe.
[01:57:19.180 --> 01:57:23.180] They are soulless bureaucrats who stand for nothing
[01:57:23.180 --> 01:57:25.180] but statism and collectivism.
[01:57:25.180 --> 01:57:28.180] They're driving Europe to actively rearm,
[01:57:28.180 --> 01:57:30.180] doubling military budgets,
[01:57:30.180 --> 01:57:32.180] reinstituting the draft,
[01:57:32.180 --> 01:57:34.180] talking about the necessity of war with Russia,
[01:57:34.180 --> 01:57:37.180] talking about how we've got to have hospital beds
[01:57:37.180 --> 01:57:39.180] to accept all the casualties and so forth,
[01:57:39.180 --> 01:57:41.180] massive numbers of casualties,
[01:57:41.180 --> 01:57:43.180] and they're just going into this cold-blooded murder,
[01:57:43.180 --> 01:57:45.180] is what it is, what they're planning.
[01:57:45.180 --> 01:57:47.180] I suspect that they'll get their way,
[01:57:47.180 --> 01:57:49.180] that they'll get their war.
[01:57:49.180 --> 01:57:52.180] I just hope it doesn't go nuclear or biological.
[01:57:52.180 --> 01:57:55.180] Odd in that it's over the Ukraine,
[01:57:55.180 --> 01:58:00.180] the most backward and corrupt country on the continent,
[01:58:00.180 --> 01:58:04.180] perverse in that it was never even a country
[01:58:04.180 --> 01:58:08.180] until Lenin created it in 1923.
[01:58:08.180 --> 01:58:10.180] But that's not all.
[01:58:10.180 --> 01:58:13.180] The euro is an Esperanto currency.
[01:58:13.180 --> 01:58:16.180] It is the who owes you nothing of fiat currencies.
[01:58:16.180 --> 01:58:18.180] It is a dead duck.
[01:58:18.180 --> 01:58:21.180] All the EU's member countries are bankrupt welfare states.
[01:58:21.180 --> 01:58:25.180] In fact, the European Union itself is going to break up.
[01:58:25.180 --> 01:58:28.180] What's good for individual countries is totally at odds
[01:58:28.180 --> 01:58:30.180] with, what, the 80,000,
[01:58:30.180 --> 01:58:32.180] and that's what he said, the number,
[01:58:32.180 --> 01:58:36.180] that's the accurate number of EU employees in Brussels,
[01:58:36.180 --> 01:58:38.180] 80,000 bureaucrats.
[01:58:38.180 --> 01:58:40.180] And this thing just got started.
[01:58:40.180 --> 01:58:43.180] NATO, which should have been disbanded
[01:58:43.180 --> 01:58:45.180] when the USSR collapsed,
[01:58:45.180 --> 01:58:48.180] will also disappear, we can hope.
[01:58:48.180 --> 01:58:52.180] Europe will, best case, become a petting zoo
[01:58:52.180 --> 01:58:54.180] for Chinese tourists,
[01:58:54.180 --> 01:58:58.180] a luxury resort for third world migrants.
[01:58:58.180 --> 01:59:01.180] The Middle East, well, while Trump is in office,
[01:59:01.180 --> 01:59:05.180] we might as well adopt Israel as the 51st state.
[01:59:05.180 --> 01:59:07.180] That's not going to go down well
[01:59:07.180 --> 01:59:09.180] with the world's two billion Mohammedans.
[01:59:09.180 --> 01:59:12.180] Don't confuse the friendly relations of Washington
[01:59:12.180 --> 01:59:14.180] with the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar,
[01:59:14.180 --> 01:59:18.180] and others among the 55 Muslim countries
[01:59:18.180 --> 01:59:20.180] of political stability.
[01:59:20.180 --> 01:59:23.180] Most of them are economic basket cases
[01:59:23.180 --> 01:59:26.180] and are extremely unstable.
[01:59:26.180 --> 01:59:29.180] East Asia, well, it's perfectly irrational
[01:59:29.180 --> 01:59:31.180] for China to attack Taiwan.
[01:59:31.180 --> 01:59:34.180] The result would be widespread destruction on both sides,
[01:59:34.180 --> 01:59:38.180] even if the US and or Japan didn't join the party.
[01:59:38.180 --> 01:59:43.180] But governments do irrational things unpredictably.
[01:59:43.180 --> 01:59:45.180] So what will happen with China's claim
[01:59:45.180 --> 01:59:48.180] on the East and on the South China Seas?
[01:59:48.180 --> 01:59:51.180] It should be between them and six of their maritime neighbors,
[01:59:51.180 --> 01:59:57.180] but the US could turn a regional dispute into World War III.
[01:59:57.180 --> 02:00:00.180] The unexpected flashpoint, I think, is going to be Africa.
[02:00:00.180 --> 02:00:04.180] Over the last 60 years, 55 African states,
[02:00:04.180 --> 02:00:06.180] and that's only an approximate number,
[02:00:06.180 --> 02:00:08.180] since we don't know how places like Libya,
[02:00:08.180 --> 02:00:12.180] Western Sahara, Somaliland, or Darfur
[02:00:12.180 --> 02:00:17.180] will wind up, 55 of them have developed significant armies
[02:00:17.180 --> 02:00:22.180] aided by weapons and training from Europe and the United States.
[02:00:22.180 --> 02:00:25.180] They survive on the export of raw materials,
[02:00:25.180 --> 02:00:28.180] causes of perpetual conflict,
[02:00:28.180 --> 02:00:30.180] and they survive on aid from Europe and the US,
[02:00:30.180 --> 02:00:32.180] which is likely to evaporate.
[02:00:32.180 --> 02:00:35.180] All of them, like almost everywhere in the Middle East
[02:00:35.180 --> 02:00:38.180] and Central Asia, are artificial constructs
[02:00:38.180 --> 02:00:40.180] with arbitrary borders.
[02:00:40.180 --> 02:00:43.180] They're all unstable kleptocracies
[02:00:43.180 --> 02:00:45.180] run from the presidential palace.
[02:00:45.180 --> 02:00:47.180] You know, that brings up an issue.
[02:00:47.180 --> 02:00:50.180] What is it when we talk about artificial constructs?
[02:00:50.180 --> 02:00:53.180] You know, we go through and we look at
[02:00:53.180 --> 02:00:56.180] what was done in the Middle East.
[02:00:56.180 --> 02:01:00.180] Iran, Iraq, they were all artificial constructs, right?
[02:01:00.180 --> 02:01:03.180] Why are you going to draw those boundaries there?
[02:01:03.180 --> 02:01:06.180] And as a matter of fact, what they wound up doing,
[02:01:06.180 --> 02:01:09.180] they said, well, roughly we're going to make Iran
[02:01:09.180 --> 02:01:12.180] correspond to the Persian people,
[02:01:12.180 --> 02:01:15.180] and Iraq to the Babylonians,
[02:01:15.180 --> 02:01:19.180] but the Medes, the Kurds, they're now called the Kurds,
[02:01:19.180 --> 02:01:21.180] they didn't get a homeland.
[02:01:21.180 --> 02:01:23.180] And so, if you're going to set up
[02:01:23.180 --> 02:01:26.180] arbitrary geopolitical constructs and borders,
[02:01:26.180 --> 02:01:29.180] and you're not going to have them based around
[02:01:29.180 --> 02:01:32.180] a culture and an ethnic group of people,
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[02:02:57.180 --> 02:02:59.180] America is not just an idea.
[02:02:59.180 --> 02:03:03.180] It's an ethnicity, and it is a culture.
[02:03:03.180 --> 02:03:06.180] And these people are seeking to overturn that.
[02:03:06.180 --> 02:03:09.180] And so that's what creates instability everywhere.
[02:03:09.180 --> 02:03:11.180] When you have these countries
[02:03:11.180 --> 02:03:14.180] that don't have any cohesion
[02:03:14.180 --> 02:03:17.180] because they have lost the culture
[02:03:17.180 --> 02:03:20.180] and the ethnic things that glue them together.
[02:03:20.180 --> 02:03:23.180] And the question is to what degree will Europe,
[02:03:23.180 --> 02:03:25.180] or especially the US, or especially Trump,
[02:03:25.180 --> 02:03:28.180] stick their nose into the African border wars
[02:03:28.180 --> 02:03:30.180] and the civil wars?
[02:03:30.180 --> 02:03:31.180] And there's going to be a lot of them.
[02:03:31.180 --> 02:03:34.180] I think Africa is the big powder keg
[02:03:34.180 --> 02:03:36.180] that nobody is talking about.
[02:03:36.180 --> 02:03:41.180] Well, this interview was just before
[02:03:41.180 --> 02:03:44.180] Trump stuck his nose into Nigeria.
[02:03:44.180 --> 02:03:46.180] I think that it has more to do
[02:03:46.180 --> 02:03:49.180] with wanting to get involved into Africa.
[02:03:49.180 --> 02:03:50.180] Because, of course, we have,
[02:03:50.180 --> 02:03:53.180] just as I got SouthCom and NorthCom,
[02:03:53.180 --> 02:03:55.180] they have AfriCom.
[02:03:55.180 --> 02:03:59.180] So the globalist American empire
[02:03:59.180 --> 02:04:01.180] has already set up these different jurisdictions
[02:04:01.180 --> 02:04:02.180] around the world,
[02:04:02.180 --> 02:04:04.180] and they've already got military commanders
[02:04:04.180 --> 02:04:06.180] in charge of these areas,
[02:04:06.180 --> 02:04:09.180] as if Africa was somehow belonged to us
[02:04:09.180 --> 02:04:12.180] as colonial masters again.
[02:04:12.180 --> 02:04:16.180] So the US domestic political situation, he says,
[02:04:16.180 --> 02:04:19.180] remains combustible with deep cultural
[02:04:19.180 --> 02:04:21.180] and economic fractures.
[02:04:21.180 --> 02:04:27.180] Trump is purposefully and overtly polarizing.
[02:04:27.180 --> 02:04:29.180] He may see himself as Cincinnati's,
[02:04:29.180 --> 02:04:31.180] but he's more like Caesar.
[02:04:31.180 --> 02:04:33.180] He'll keep stirring things up,
[02:04:33.180 --> 02:04:36.180] if only because he knows what his adversaries
[02:04:36.180 --> 02:04:38.180] will do to him when he's out of office.
[02:04:38.180 --> 02:04:42.180] While most sensible people love his anti-wokeism,
[02:04:42.180 --> 02:04:45.180] most of his economic and international interventionism
[02:04:45.180 --> 02:04:48.180] will backfire, bigly.
[02:04:48.180 --> 02:04:50.180] I suspect he'll lose the midterms
[02:04:50.180 --> 02:04:51.180] and the Dems in the House
[02:04:51.180 --> 02:04:53.180] will impeach him yet again.
[02:04:53.180 --> 02:04:55.180] Will they succeed in the Senate this time?
[02:04:55.180 --> 02:04:57.180] Well, we'll have to see.
[02:04:57.180 --> 02:04:59.180] With Trump poised, they ask him
[02:04:59.180 --> 02:05:02.180] to replace Fed Chair Powell.
[02:05:02.180 --> 02:05:04.180] He will exert a stronger influence
[02:05:04.180 --> 02:05:05.180] over central bank policy.
[02:05:05.180 --> 02:05:08.180] Why do you expect the monetary environment
[02:05:08.180 --> 02:05:11.180] of 2026 to look like?
[02:05:11.180 --> 02:05:12.180] Casey says,
[02:05:12.180 --> 02:05:16.180] the dollar will approach its intrinsic value
[02:05:16.180 --> 02:05:21.180] as Trump and the Fed create a trillion more of them.
[02:05:21.180 --> 02:05:24.180] It is a formula for chaos.
[02:05:24.180 --> 02:05:28.180] Trump is a big believer in mercantilist-style economics,
[02:05:28.180 --> 02:05:31.180] which holds that the US must export more than it imports.
[02:05:31.180 --> 02:05:34.180] I think he'll try to force that issue
[02:05:34.180 --> 02:05:36.180] with foreign exchange controls of some type
[02:05:36.180 --> 02:05:38.180] creating yet more distortions.
[02:05:38.180 --> 02:05:41.180] You want to exit the dollar,
[02:05:41.180 --> 02:05:42.180] own precious metals,
[02:05:42.180 --> 02:05:45.180] avoid the stock market and the bond markets,
[02:05:45.180 --> 02:05:47.180] get your money out of the US.
[02:05:47.180 --> 02:05:51.180] None of this is a formula for domestic tranquility.
[02:05:51.180 --> 02:05:58.180] I'm assuming there will be normal elections in 2028,
[02:05:58.180 --> 02:06:01.180] which is not a very safe assumption.
[02:06:01.180 --> 02:06:02.180] He said,
[02:06:02.180 --> 02:06:04.180] there's no question about the fact
[02:06:04.180 --> 02:06:06.180] that most of Trump's business success
[02:06:06.180 --> 02:06:08.180] has been due to borrowing.
[02:06:08.180 --> 02:06:11.180] Leverage and low interest rates and inflation
[02:06:11.180 --> 02:06:13.180] made this man.
[02:06:13.180 --> 02:06:15.180] And of course,
[02:06:15.180 --> 02:06:18.180] I would also say bailouts by the Rothschilds
[02:06:18.180 --> 02:06:20.180] also made him.
[02:06:20.180 --> 02:06:23.180] And so he's also looking for sponsors,
[02:06:23.180 --> 02:06:25.180] and he's got them lined up.
[02:06:25.180 --> 02:06:28.180] Trump's history and his incorrect understanding of economics
[02:06:28.180 --> 02:06:32.180] tell me that the Fed will buy and monetize
[02:06:32.180 --> 02:06:34.180] more government debt than ever,
[02:06:34.180 --> 02:06:36.180] doing everything they can to artificially depress
[02:06:36.180 --> 02:06:39.180] interest rates for the short run.
[02:06:39.180 --> 02:06:42.180] That could argue for the stock market going higher in 2026,
[02:06:42.180 --> 02:06:45.180] but it is a high-risk bet.
[02:06:45.180 --> 02:06:47.180] Are you feeling lucky, punk?
[02:06:47.180 --> 02:06:51.180] With gold over $4,000 and silver over $60,
[02:06:51.180 --> 02:06:54.180] they're probably where they should be relative to other things,
[02:06:54.180 --> 02:06:57.180] but as unstable as the world is,
[02:06:57.180 --> 02:06:59.180] and because of their unique advantages,
[02:06:59.180 --> 02:07:01.180] they're going to go higher.
[02:07:01.180 --> 02:07:06.180] The smart thing is to speculate on the shares of miners, he said.
[02:07:06.180 --> 02:07:08.180] And of course, I agree with that.
[02:07:08.180 --> 02:07:12.180] And I had seen him say this years ago.
[02:07:12.180 --> 02:07:15.180] As a matter of fact,
[02:07:15.180 --> 02:07:18.180] I used to follow him pretty closely.
[02:07:18.180 --> 02:07:20.180] I got a chance to meet him and talk to him personally
[02:07:20.180 --> 02:07:23.180] in 1993 at the Libertarian Convention in Salt Lake City.
[02:07:23.180 --> 02:07:26.180] Very interesting, intelligent guy.
[02:07:26.180 --> 02:07:29.180] The problem with investing in the mines
[02:07:29.180 --> 02:07:32.180] is most of them are not in the U.S.
[02:07:32.180 --> 02:07:35.180] Most of the gold mines and things like that are in Canada,
[02:07:35.180 --> 02:07:38.180] with Yukon, Cornelius.
[02:07:38.180 --> 02:07:42.180] And so it's almost impossible to make money there.
[02:07:42.180 --> 02:07:44.180] It really is by the time you go full circle.
[02:07:44.180 --> 02:07:46.180] You've got to have these things have an astronomical run-up
[02:07:46.180 --> 02:07:48.180] before you're going to make any money,
[02:07:48.180 --> 02:07:52.180] because you have to change from American dollars into Canadian.
[02:07:52.180 --> 02:07:54.180] There's a fee for that that's pretty high.
[02:07:54.180 --> 02:07:57.180] And then the fees,
[02:07:57.180 --> 02:08:00.180] at least at the time I was doing it 30 years ago,
[02:08:00.180 --> 02:08:04.180] the fees on the Canadian penny stock exchange
[02:08:04.180 --> 02:08:06.180] where they have these things,
[02:08:06.180 --> 02:08:09.180] the fees were very, very high to buy and sell these stocks.
[02:08:09.180 --> 02:08:11.180] So you get a big hit when you go in,
[02:08:11.180 --> 02:08:13.180] trading the money in there
[02:08:13.180 --> 02:08:15.180] and paying the brokerage fees that are there.
[02:08:15.180 --> 02:08:17.180] And then you get a big hit going on the way out.
[02:08:17.180 --> 02:08:19.180] You've got to pay those same fees for the brokerage
[02:08:19.180 --> 02:08:21.180] and the exchange rate coming out.
[02:08:21.180 --> 02:08:23.180] So it's really hard to make any money.
[02:08:23.180 --> 02:08:26.180] And so even when you look at,
[02:08:26.180 --> 02:08:29.180] yes, the mine stocks are going to go up big time,
[02:08:29.180 --> 02:08:33.180] but your net profits on that are going to be pretty slim.
[02:08:33.180 --> 02:08:36.180] And there's just so many different issues there.
[02:08:36.180 --> 02:08:40.180] It is much, much better to own the gold and silver directly
[02:08:40.180 --> 02:08:43.180] and, of course, Tony Aarderman can help you with that
[02:08:43.180 --> 02:08:45.180] at WiseWolf Gold.
[02:08:45.180 --> 02:08:47.180] You can go to davidknight.gold
[02:08:47.180 --> 02:08:49.180] and let them know that you're coming from us.
[02:08:49.180 --> 02:08:52.180] So, again, I would just put that caveat
[02:08:52.180 --> 02:08:54.180] with what he had to say.
[02:08:54.180 --> 02:08:56.180] And when we look at what's going to happen
[02:08:56.180 --> 02:08:59.180] with gold and silver, as a matter of fact,
[02:08:59.180 --> 02:09:01.180] and we should look at that,
[02:09:01.180 --> 02:09:04.180] because that's a big part of what's going to be the story next year.
[02:09:04.180 --> 02:09:07.180] As one person pointed out on this talk
[02:09:07.180 --> 02:09:11.180] about putting in a new Fed chair,
[02:09:11.180 --> 02:09:13.180] Trump is out there saying,
[02:09:13.180 --> 02:09:17.180] well, right now we've got a fool at the Federal Reserve.
[02:09:17.180 --> 02:09:19.180] I mean, Biden appointed him.
[02:09:19.180 --> 02:09:20.180] It's too bad.
[02:09:20.180 --> 02:09:24.180] You would have thought that he wouldn't have done that.
[02:09:24.180 --> 02:09:27.180] Well, here's the context for it.
[02:09:27.180 --> 02:09:31.180] It was actually Trump, not Biden, who appointed Jerome Powell.
[02:09:31.180 --> 02:09:32.180] Isn't that interesting?
[02:09:32.180 --> 02:09:33.180] He doesn't remember.
[02:09:33.180 --> 02:09:35.180] He doesn't know that.
[02:09:35.180 --> 02:09:38.180] And this is what he had to say here.
[02:09:38.180 --> 02:09:44.180] Also, despite the fact that we have a fool at the Federal Reserve.
[02:09:44.180 --> 02:09:45.180] I mean, Biden reappointed him.
[02:09:45.180 --> 02:09:46.180] It's too bad.
[02:09:46.180 --> 02:09:48.180] You would have thought he wouldn't have done that.
[02:09:48.180 --> 02:09:54.180] But he's an absolute fool who's building a new Federal Reserve
[02:09:54.180 --> 02:09:56.180] or he's doing a renovation of a building.
[02:09:56.180 --> 02:10:04.180] Maybe he's up to $4.1 billion to do a renovation of a few very small buildings.
[02:10:05.180 --> 02:10:08.180] So he's a fool because he's spending all this money to do a renovation.
[02:10:08.180 --> 02:10:11.180] What is Trump doing with the White House, by the way?
[02:10:11.180 --> 02:10:12.180] I mean, it's just amazing.
[02:10:12.180 --> 02:10:17.180] He reappointed this horrible guy that I put in there.
[02:10:17.180 --> 02:10:24.180] So, yeah, I would just remind you that Trump is even better at finding,
[02:10:24.180 --> 02:10:28.180] he's even better at finding value for gold than Yukon Cornelius.
[02:10:28.180 --> 02:10:30.180] That's right, boys and girls.
[02:10:30.180 --> 02:10:34.180] There's a post-election sale on silver and gold.
[02:10:34.180 --> 02:10:38.180] Trump's euphoria has caused a dip in silver and gold.
[02:10:38.180 --> 02:10:45.180] It's time to buy some metals with fiat dollars before they come to their sense is.
[02:10:45.180 --> 02:10:52.180] Go to davidknight.gold to get in touch with the wise wolf himself, Tony Arterburn.
[02:10:52.180 --> 02:10:56.180] He knows where to look to find silver and gold.
[02:10:56.180 --> 02:11:11.180] Yeah, I know I played that a lot.
[02:11:11.180 --> 02:11:12.180] I enjoyed that.
[02:11:12.180 --> 02:11:14.180] I liked what Lance did with that.
[02:11:14.180 --> 02:11:16.180] He put that together a year ago.
[02:11:16.180 --> 02:11:17.180] And a year ago it was true.
[02:11:17.180 --> 02:11:19.180] I mean, and we still have the same fundamentals.
[02:11:19.180 --> 02:11:23.180] Everybody a year ago was really hyped up about Trump.
[02:11:23.180 --> 02:11:25.180] You know, it's now going to be crypto because Trump's going to make that happen.
[02:11:25.180 --> 02:11:30.180] Well, Trump discredited crypto more than anything.
[02:11:30.180 --> 02:11:32.180] He did not help crypto.
[02:11:32.180 --> 02:11:33.180] He discredited it.
[02:11:33.180 --> 02:11:35.180] He hasn't done a Bitcoin reserve.
[02:11:35.180 --> 02:11:37.180] And I don't know that's going to happen.
[02:11:37.180 --> 02:11:39.180] He will do something, I think, with stablecoin.
[02:11:39.180 --> 02:11:43.180] And I think that's why he put in Lucky Lutnik.
[02:11:43.180 --> 02:11:46.180] Lucky Lutnik's going to make a lot of money off of stablecoin.
[02:11:46.180 --> 02:11:47.180] They're going to make that happen.
[02:11:47.180 --> 02:11:50.180] But I'm not so sure about what's going to happen with Bitcoin.
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[02:12:53.180 --> 02:12:56.180] Says Robert Gottlieb.
[02:12:56.180 --> 02:13:03.180] I think it's a new era for an old error, I guess, is what we could say.
[02:13:03.180 --> 02:13:06.180] After an historic run that pushed gold and silver prices
[02:13:06.180 --> 02:13:09.180] to multiple record highs in the final days of 2025,
[02:13:09.180 --> 02:13:14.180] investors are asking the question, how long can this last?
[02:13:14.180 --> 02:13:17.180] Or is something more fundamental underway?
[02:13:17.180 --> 02:13:21.180] Yeah, when you look at what happened just this week,
[02:13:21.180 --> 02:13:25.180] as some people were saying, you had all-time highs,
[02:13:25.180 --> 02:13:28.180] new all-time highs for both gold and silver,
[02:13:28.180 --> 02:13:32.180] and not only that, but for platinum and for palladium on the same day.
[02:13:32.180 --> 02:13:34.180] What does that tell you?
[02:13:34.180 --> 02:13:37.180] It tells you that people are running away from these fiat currencies.
[02:13:37.180 --> 02:13:39.180] That's what it tells you.
[02:13:39.180 --> 02:13:42.180] Their fiat is not fooling anybody anymore.
[02:13:42.180 --> 02:13:47.180] So Robert Gottlieb, who used to be the director of precious metals desks
[02:13:47.180 --> 02:13:51.180] at JP Morgan and also at HSBC, said,
[02:13:51.180 --> 02:13:56.180] this is not 1980, this is not Reddit, this is not a corner,
[02:13:56.180 --> 02:14:01.180] this is people waking up to hard assets as a necessity.
[02:14:01.180 --> 02:14:06.180] He explained that the yellow metals defining moment came in 2022,
[02:14:06.180 --> 02:14:10.180] after the US government and its allies weaponized the US dollar against Russia
[02:14:11.180 --> 02:14:14.180] following the invasion of Ukraine.
[02:14:14.180 --> 02:14:18.180] And again, I was saying that, Tony was saying that.
[02:14:18.180 --> 02:14:23.180] That was really the end of the fool me fiat dollar.
[02:14:23.180 --> 02:14:30.180] And people could see that it was a corrupt system that was being weaponized,
[02:14:30.180 --> 02:14:33.180] and everybody started building their own structures,
[02:14:33.180 --> 02:14:38.180] and so central banks started accumulating gold in a big way because of that.
[02:14:38.180 --> 02:14:41.180] He said that the policy shift appears durable,
[02:14:41.180 --> 02:14:46.180] as many central banks' gold reserves are still relatively low.
[02:14:46.180 --> 02:14:52.180] He pointed out that this pillar of support is extremely important for investors.
[02:14:52.180 --> 02:14:56.180] Central bank demand creates a persistent bid,
[02:14:56.180 --> 02:14:58.180] and they need more and more of it.
[02:14:58.180 --> 02:15:03.180] If they're going to create an alternative to the fiat dollar that they no longer trust,
[02:15:03.180 --> 02:15:10.180] an alternative of bricks to the swift system of international settlement that they no longer trust,
[02:15:10.180 --> 02:15:14.180] they're going to have to have the credibility that comes with having a stockpile of gold.
[02:15:14.180 --> 02:15:16.180] And so the central banks need it,
[02:15:16.180 --> 02:15:22.180] and I think you're going to see the stablecoin people are going to have to get into it as well.
[02:15:22.180 --> 02:15:24.180] They're not going to want to try to tell you.
[02:15:24.180 --> 02:15:29.180] For the people who are concerned about the fiat currency, especially about the dollar,
[02:15:29.180 --> 02:15:32.180] how are you going to sell them on a stablecoin
[02:15:32.180 --> 02:15:38.180] that's basically backed by what everybody's trying to run away with from the U.S. dollar?
[02:15:38.180 --> 02:15:42.180] Meanwhile, silver's defining moment has emerged only this year.
[02:15:42.180 --> 02:15:45.180] In fact, only since this summer.
[02:15:45.180 --> 02:15:52.180] Gottlieb said investors are just beginning to realize how little silver is readily available for the global marketplace.
[02:15:52.180 --> 02:15:57.180] Robust industrial demand has depleted above-ground silver stockpiles now
[02:15:57.180 --> 02:15:59.180] to critical levels.
[02:15:59.180 --> 02:16:06.180] And again, they've been out-consuming the production of silver now for six years in a big way.
[02:16:06.180 --> 02:16:14.180] And this whole thing with the silver battery, that could really drive it if that gets widespread adoption.
[02:16:14.180 --> 02:16:18.180] So it's only going to get worse.
[02:16:18.180 --> 02:16:23.180] Gottlieb noted that there's currently no easy fix to the liquidity problem in the silver market.
[02:16:23.180 --> 02:16:25.180] He said this is not a short-term tightness.
[02:16:25.180 --> 02:16:29.180] We are seeing long-term backwardization.
[02:16:29.180 --> 02:16:33.180] So to me, there is still structural tightness.
[02:16:33.180 --> 02:16:36.180] Central banks have created long-term support for gold.
[02:16:36.180 --> 02:16:42.180] He said that he expects robust industrial demand to do the same for silver.
[02:16:42.180 --> 02:16:52.180] He said that he's expecting moderate gains built on structural support, not on mania.
[02:16:53.180 --> 02:16:59.180] If gold were to advance 10 to 15 percent from where it already is,
[02:16:59.180 --> 02:17:02.180] he said that would still translate into very meaningful absolute returns,
[02:17:02.180 --> 02:17:06.180] especially if you put money in a savings account, what are you going to get?
[02:17:06.180 --> 02:17:12.180] Less than one percent, maybe one-tenth of a one percent at a bank.
[02:17:12.180 --> 02:17:16.180] And then you buy a T-bill or something, three or four percent maybe.
[02:17:16.180 --> 02:17:20.180] But 10 to 15 percent would be very moderate for gold,
[02:17:20.180 --> 02:17:25.180] especially for institutional portfolios that are reallocating towards hard assets.
[02:17:25.180 --> 02:17:31.180] Meanwhile, silver remains the more volatile and potentially more rewarding metal.
[02:17:31.180 --> 02:17:35.180] The sell-offs will be bigger and the corrections will be more painful.
[02:17:35.180 --> 02:17:39.180] Yeah, it's starting to look to me like a roller coaster, like Bitcoin.
[02:17:39.180 --> 02:17:45.180] And so, you know, for that reason alone, I kind of back away.
[02:17:45.180 --> 02:17:53.180] Well, there was another person who wrote an article about the loss of trust in institutions.
[02:17:53.180 --> 02:17:57.180] And he said it really kind of got kicked off in 1965.
[02:17:57.180 --> 02:18:03.180] And it was, 64 was last year, they made 90 percent silver coins.
[02:18:03.180 --> 02:18:06.180] Then after that, they decided they would start heavily debasing the currency.
[02:18:06.180 --> 02:18:12.180] And you also had a move away from JFK, who was going to use silver
[02:18:12.180 --> 02:18:15.180] to try to take away power from the Federal Reserve.
[02:18:15.180 --> 02:18:17.180] Of course, you know how that ended up.
[02:18:17.180 --> 02:18:22.180] And you wound up with some JFK half-dollars, but that was the only thing that came out of it.
[02:18:22.180 --> 02:18:28.180] And so, this is a clip talking about what has really happened to our purchasing powers.
[02:18:28.180 --> 02:18:30.180] We get off of the gold standard.
[02:18:30.180 --> 02:18:33.180] America's gold was supposed to back the dollar.
[02:18:33.180 --> 02:18:37.180] Leaving the gold standard was the most costly mistake we ever made.
[02:18:42.180 --> 02:18:44.180] What was so bad about gold?
[02:18:44.180 --> 02:18:47.180] It kept them honest, but they wanted power.
[02:18:47.180 --> 02:18:52.180] You know, kid, folks today think this is just how life's supposed to be.
[02:18:52.180 --> 02:18:53.180] What do you mean?
[02:18:53.180 --> 02:18:56.180] Back in my day, one job could feed a family.
[02:18:56.180 --> 02:19:01.180] My mother stayed home, father worked, and we ate together every night.
[02:19:01.180 --> 02:19:03.180] Didn't realize how good we had it.
[02:19:03.180 --> 02:19:08.180] After the World War, they promised gold-backed dollars, but they broke that promise.
[02:19:08.180 --> 02:19:13.180] They printed paper backed by nothing, funded wars we couldn't afford
[02:19:13.180 --> 02:19:15.180] and shouldn't have been involved in.
[02:19:15.180 --> 02:19:19.180] But France caught on and sent a warship to get back their gold.
[02:19:19.180 --> 02:19:26.180] Truth is, if more countries followed, our vaults would be empty and game over.
[02:19:26.180 --> 02:19:31.180] I have directed the Secretary of the Treasury to take the action necessary
[02:19:31.180 --> 02:19:35.180] to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar in the gold.
[02:19:35.180 --> 02:19:39.180] Turns out, when you fake the money, everything else follows,
[02:19:39.180 --> 02:19:42.180] and you screw the next generation over.
[02:19:42.180 --> 02:19:43.180] And it snowballs, kid.
[02:19:43.180 --> 02:19:48.180] Prices shot up, paychecks didn't, life got tougher, and nobody knew why.
[02:19:48.180 --> 02:19:53.180] We tried raising our kids the old way, but we didn't have the time or the money.
[02:19:53.180 --> 02:19:55.180] So you outsourced parenting?
[02:19:57.180 --> 02:19:59.180] Yeah, I guess you could say we did.
[02:19:59.180 --> 02:20:03.180] Government schools raised them, and the TV taught them bad morals.
[02:20:03.180 --> 02:20:06.180] They learned debt, not savings, bought houses they couldn't afford,
[02:20:06.180 --> 02:20:10.180] played video games, gambling, antidepressants, and crimes.
[02:20:10.180 --> 02:20:15.180] Families fractured, divorce rates doubled, birth rates plummeted.
[02:20:15.180 --> 02:20:19.180] Things got so bad, people started financing Chipotle.
[02:20:19.180 --> 02:20:21.180] Financing a burrito?
[02:20:21.180 --> 02:20:23.180] Yeah, it's getting bad.
[02:20:23.180 --> 02:20:27.180] Obesity, people eating cheap slop instead of real food.
[02:20:27.180 --> 02:20:30.180] We got softer, sicker, and lazier.
[02:20:30.180 --> 02:20:34.180] A nation in decline, but it didn't happen overnight.
[02:20:34.180 --> 02:20:40.180] When Nixon left the gold standard, we traded sound money for a lifetime of debt.
[02:20:40.180 --> 02:20:42.180] How will they ever pay it back?
[02:20:42.180 --> 02:20:43.180] I don't think they plan to.
[02:20:43.180 --> 02:20:49.180] Both sides keep spending like there's no tomorrow and leaving the bill to your generation.
[02:20:49.180 --> 02:20:52.180] We didn't get it right, but you've still got a chance.
[02:20:52.180 --> 02:20:55.180] So, take the reins, kid.
[02:20:55.180 --> 02:20:59.180] Hold your ground, and don't give up on sound money.
[02:21:01.180 --> 02:21:04.180] That's a pretty good summary. I like that.
[02:21:04.180 --> 02:21:08.180] That covers all the bases, doesn't it?
[02:21:08.180 --> 02:21:16.180] And isn't it interesting that Trump is so hyper-focused on a trade deficit,
[02:21:16.180 --> 02:21:22.180] and he doesn't care a whit about the government's deficit,
[02:21:22.180 --> 02:21:25.180] and he's going to step this thing up, he's going to spend more money,
[02:21:25.180 --> 02:21:29.180] he's going to blow it up again, and he's going to lower interest rates,
[02:21:29.180 --> 02:21:32.180] and he's going to print more money, and all the rest of this stuff.
[02:21:32.180 --> 02:21:37.180] He is just doing all the wrong things, quite frankly.
[02:21:37.180 --> 02:21:40.180] Everything that you saw there, he's going to do that on steroids.
[02:21:40.180 --> 02:21:43.180] Well, the year was 1965, a great turning point.
[02:21:43.180 --> 02:21:49.180] The last 90% silver, as I said, had been dated in 1964.
[02:21:49.180 --> 02:21:54.180] Everyday silver coinage ended with that date for most denominations.
[02:21:54.180 --> 02:21:58.180] Silver coins are about real money in the hands of real people,
[02:21:58.180 --> 02:22:01.180] not in the hands of bankers or politicians.
[02:22:01.180 --> 02:22:05.180] JFK had hoped to impose a nationwide silver standard
[02:22:05.180 --> 02:22:10.180] as a means of restraining the central bank, and after he was killed, that was ended.
[02:22:10.180 --> 02:22:14.180] There was a welfare state to create and to fund,
[02:22:14.180 --> 02:22:17.180] plus a big war that was building up in Southeast Asia.
[02:22:17.180 --> 02:22:22.180] In such times, governments need resources that hard money cannot allow.
[02:22:22.180 --> 02:22:25.180] The assassination of Kennedy was a devastating blow,
[02:22:25.180 --> 02:22:29.180] especially in the way that so few actually ever believed
[02:22:29.180 --> 02:22:32.180] the official story about how and why it happened.
[02:22:32.180 --> 02:22:35.180] Government never recovered its credibility.
[02:22:35.180 --> 02:22:38.180] The destruction of the money was the telltale sign
[02:22:38.180 --> 02:22:41.180] that something had gone seriously wrong.
[02:22:41.180 --> 02:22:46.180] Confidence in government peaked at 77% in 1964,
[02:22:46.180 --> 02:22:51.180] and then began its long slide, and it sits at 17% today.
[02:22:51.180 --> 02:22:55.180] And they've got a chart here where you can see it just going straight down like that.
[02:22:55.180 --> 02:23:03.180] And I've got to say, that pretty much parallels my confidence in government,
[02:23:03.180 --> 02:23:05.180] although I would take that whole...
[02:23:05.180 --> 02:23:08.180] I'd have that basic shape, that basic curve,
[02:23:08.180 --> 02:23:10.180] but I would just drop it way, way down.
[02:23:10.180 --> 02:23:13.180] It was never high as 64%.
[02:23:13.180 --> 02:23:18.180] It just lowered the starting point, and you still have that same curve.
[02:23:18.180 --> 02:23:22.180] Mine is underwater.
[02:23:22.180 --> 02:23:26.180] If the government says it, I don't believe it to start with.
[02:23:26.180 --> 02:23:32.180] So this is an astonishing and undeniable trend about which few will publicly speculate.
[02:23:32.180 --> 02:23:35.180] The bigger government gets, the more it takes on,
[02:23:35.180 --> 02:23:40.180] the less public trust it to do the right thing, because we see what it's doing.
[02:23:40.180 --> 02:23:43.180] This is because the people are not stupid.
[02:23:43.180 --> 02:23:46.180] They follow the evidence of their senses.
[02:23:46.180 --> 02:23:51.180] And they keep in mind that the main trends happened long before independent media
[02:23:51.180 --> 02:23:56.180] was hard at work to pull back the curtain on power, as it is today.
[02:23:56.180 --> 02:24:00.180] That's one of the reasons why I think central planning always fails.
[02:24:00.180 --> 02:24:03.180] You have, no matter how smart the person is,
[02:24:03.180 --> 02:24:06.180] they can be the smartest person in the room,
[02:24:06.180 --> 02:24:08.180] and if they decide that they're going to centrally plan things,
[02:24:08.180 --> 02:24:11.180] they simply don't have sufficient data.
[02:24:11.180 --> 02:24:14.180] They can't observe everything.
[02:24:14.180 --> 02:24:19.180] And that's why the collective mind of all the people who are working in something,
[02:24:19.180 --> 02:24:22.180] if you have a free market, that works the best,
[02:24:22.180 --> 02:24:27.180] because people can observe things, and everybody has got a mind,
[02:24:27.180 --> 02:24:31.180] and the collective intelligence and observations of the people in general in a free market
[02:24:31.180 --> 02:24:35.180] are always going to be superior to a central planner,
[02:24:35.180 --> 02:24:40.180] especially if a central planner is somebody as stupid as Trump and his advisors,
[02:24:40.180 --> 02:24:43.180] Peter Navarro, that sack of bricks.
[02:24:43.180 --> 02:24:46.180] The COVID period was another decisive turning point.
[02:24:46.180 --> 02:24:50.180] Scientists with power ruled your life in the name of health
[02:24:50.180 --> 02:24:54.180] while taking away the means to obtain health.
[02:24:54.180 --> 02:24:56.180] The slide can only continue in the future.
[02:24:56.180 --> 02:25:00.180] It's likely that the only kind of politician who stands a chance of getting elected
[02:25:00.180 --> 02:25:05.180] is one who promises to overthrow the system as it is.
[02:25:05.180 --> 02:25:12.180] This is our lives now, just the way things work in a society of low trust.
[02:25:12.180 --> 02:25:16.180] Someone just asked me the chances that the government will in the future demand
[02:25:16.180 --> 02:25:19.180] that we all turn in our silver the same way they did for gold in 1933.
[02:25:19.180 --> 02:25:22.180] Again, there's a lot of talk about this now, and there's a reason for that,
[02:25:22.180 --> 02:25:29.180] because of the bill that they passed in the wee hours of the morning on December the 10th.
[02:25:29.180 --> 02:25:35.180] It talks about confiscating all kinds of commodities and metals,
[02:25:35.180 --> 02:25:39.180] except for gold, which was conspicuously left out.
[02:25:39.180 --> 02:25:42.180] It proposes that it is possible, and you can imagine the rationale,
[02:25:42.180 --> 02:25:47.180] industry needs supply to make the AI revolution and the energy transition possible.
[02:25:47.180 --> 02:25:52.180] Certainly they have the power to do so, even if they don't have the authority.
[02:25:52.180 --> 02:25:54.180] That said, how many will comply?
[02:25:54.180 --> 02:26:00.180] In 1933, plenty of people did not assent with the demand to turn in their gold
[02:26:00.180 --> 02:26:03.180] and instead found other safe havens for it.
[02:26:03.180 --> 02:26:05.180] We aren't likely to go back to the silver standard,
[02:26:05.180 --> 02:26:08.180] but people are adopting it in their own lives.
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[02:27:09.180 --> 02:27:14.180] Remember that one version of the history of the word dollar
[02:27:14.180 --> 02:27:19.180] says that it comes from the Spanish coin taller, T-A-L-E-R.
[02:27:19.180 --> 02:27:22.180] And again, that goes back to the Roman Empire.
[02:27:22.180 --> 02:27:25.180] That was a silver coin they had then, they called it taller.
[02:27:25.180 --> 02:27:28.180] And as Tony has pointed out many times, the word rupee,
[02:27:28.180 --> 02:27:32.180] which rupee is the name for the Indian currency, the word rupee,
[02:27:32.180 --> 02:27:36.180] is actually from Sanskrit for silver.
[02:27:36.180 --> 02:27:45.180] So silver may break $125 an ounce, says one analyst this next year.
[02:27:45.180 --> 02:27:50.180] But he also looks at what might happen to paper gold and paper silver especially.
[02:27:50.180 --> 02:27:56.180] Because the shortage is getting so short that it might expose the fraud
[02:27:56.180 --> 02:28:01.180] behind these paper gold and paper silver, these ETFs.
[02:28:01.180 --> 02:28:05.180] You'll see them traded as GLD or SLV.
[02:28:05.180 --> 02:28:10.180] These paper metals that you can buy in the stock market
[02:28:10.180 --> 02:28:14.180] and the Shanghai gold exchange.
[02:28:14.180 --> 02:28:18.180] He said it could cause a force majeure.
[02:28:18.180 --> 02:28:20.180] Now that's a legal term.
[02:28:20.180 --> 02:28:25.180] It means something has happened that basically cancels this contract
[02:28:25.180 --> 02:28:28.180] for both sides, that's out of our control.
[02:28:28.180 --> 02:28:30.180] He said he could very well see that happening
[02:28:30.180 --> 02:28:34.180] with these paper gold and paper silver contracts this next year
[02:28:34.180 --> 02:28:36.180] because of this shortage.
[02:28:36.180 --> 02:28:41.180] And again, we've seen how this has moved from London to New York and various places.
[02:28:41.180 --> 02:28:43.180] He said they're just shifting stuff around.
[02:28:43.180 --> 02:28:45.180] They're not actually getting any more silver.
[02:28:45.180 --> 02:28:47.180] They're just moving it around.
[02:28:47.180 --> 02:28:50.180] And once people catch on to this, you can have a situation
[02:28:50.180 --> 02:28:53.180] where they just have to declare a force majeure.
[02:28:53.180 --> 02:28:57.180] He said let's say that gold goes to $4,400 and stays there.
[02:28:57.180 --> 02:29:02.180] He says, I'm coming up with this $125 an ounce price, he says.
[02:29:02.180 --> 02:29:07.180] If you look at the gold to silver ratio and if you drop it to about 55,
[02:29:07.180 --> 02:29:12.180] which has been about the average since 1997,
[02:29:12.180 --> 02:29:17.180] that would say that with gold at $4,400 and the gold to silver ratio at 55,
[02:29:17.180 --> 02:29:22.180] the long-term average, he said that would give you about $80 silver,
[02:29:22.180 --> 02:29:24.180] which we just had.
[02:29:24.180 --> 02:29:28.180] We had like the beginning of this week, we went up to like $85,
[02:29:28.180 --> 02:29:30.180] and then it fell back.
[02:29:30.180 --> 02:29:34.180] He said this does not represent, however, the bullish case.
[02:29:34.180 --> 02:29:39.180] There are plenty of banks that are predicting that gold is going to go up to $5,000 in 2026,
[02:29:39.180 --> 02:29:44.180] with some predicting, well, an excess of $5,000.
[02:29:44.180 --> 02:29:49.180] He says so also these five pullbacks in the gold to silver ratio
[02:29:49.180 --> 02:29:52.180] also saw six overshoots.
[02:29:52.180 --> 02:29:57.180] So they don't simply snap back to their long-term average around 55,
[02:29:57.180 --> 02:30:01.180] but he goes the bullish case would be gold going to 5,000
[02:30:01.180 --> 02:30:05.180] and you see the ratio dropping to let's say 45.
[02:30:05.180 --> 02:30:09.180] So that would give us $111 silver.
[02:30:09.180 --> 02:30:12.180] He said, but 45 isn't the lowest ratio in recent memory.
[02:30:12.180 --> 02:30:18.180] Actually, 2011 was the big one where the ratio dropped to 30,
[02:30:18.180 --> 02:30:23.180] but you could take even the average of these last four or five drops
[02:30:23.180 --> 02:30:25.180] and you'd easily get to around 40.
[02:30:25.180 --> 02:30:28.180] So if you do $5,000 gold and divide it by 40,
[02:30:28.180 --> 02:30:32.180] that's where you get the $125 an ounce silver that was the headline.
[02:30:32.180 --> 02:30:37.180] So he said the bearish scenario would see gold falling back to about 4,000 an ounce
[02:30:37.180 --> 02:30:40.180] or maybe even back to 3,800,
[02:30:40.180 --> 02:30:46.180] and that silver ratio might go back to 78 or 80.
[02:30:46.180 --> 02:30:50.180] He said, in that case, you're looking at $50 silver.
[02:30:50.180 --> 02:30:55.180] So again, a lot of upside, not too much downside on that.
[02:30:55.180 --> 02:30:59.180] He said, we're at the lowest levels of 10 years in Shanghai,
[02:30:59.180 --> 02:31:02.180] and this is what I think is more important focus of this article.
[02:31:02.180 --> 02:31:07.180] He said, we know that London remains very tight on supply.
[02:31:07.180 --> 02:31:11.180] I've been likening this whole thing to a bit of a shell game.
[02:31:11.180 --> 02:31:13.180] It was potentially in short supply in New York,
[02:31:13.180 --> 02:31:15.180] so they moved it from London to New York.
[02:31:15.180 --> 02:31:19.180] If tariffs were going to be applied, so there was this arbitrage.
[02:31:19.180 --> 02:31:22.180] And then we saw a tightening up and it moved back to London again.
[02:31:22.180 --> 02:31:28.180] And then most recently, a bunch of it came from China and also from India, demand.
[02:31:28.180 --> 02:31:31.180] So this is basically a shell game.
[02:31:31.180 --> 02:31:33.180] Moving it around doesn't give you more silver,
[02:31:33.180 --> 02:31:38.180] it just props up a different place at a given point in time.
[02:31:38.180 --> 02:31:41.180] But you have the same amount of silver under these shells.
[02:31:41.180 --> 02:31:46.180] OK, so I need my $20 million ounces as delivery.
[02:31:46.180 --> 02:31:51.180] And one of these exchanges says nothing until the last minute.
[02:31:51.180 --> 02:31:56.180] And all of a sudden they tell the people, sorry, force majeure.
[02:31:56.180 --> 02:31:58.180] All the contracts are off.
[02:31:58.180 --> 02:32:00.180] We don't have the ounces.
[02:32:00.180 --> 02:32:03.180] We'll have to settle in cash.
[02:32:03.180 --> 02:32:05.180] And the company says, no, I don't want the cash.
[02:32:05.180 --> 02:32:06.180] I need the silver.
[02:32:06.180 --> 02:32:08.180] And this makes a major headline.
[02:32:08.180 --> 02:32:13.180] And then you see silver gap up and go wild.
[02:32:13.180 --> 02:32:15.180] He said, Asian holders of these futures contracts,
[02:32:15.180 --> 02:32:19.180] many of them aren't using it to hedge anything.
[02:32:19.180 --> 02:32:22.180] They're using it to set themselves up for deliveries of metal.
[02:32:22.180 --> 02:32:26.180] And that's what the Shanghai Exchange is meant to be.
[02:32:26.180 --> 02:32:31.180] He said, it's meant to be willing and able to deliver.
[02:32:31.180 --> 02:32:34.180] And that's what brought it credibility.
[02:32:34.180 --> 02:32:36.180] So he said, so that'd be a really big deal
[02:32:36.180 --> 02:32:42.180] if this next year is the day of reckoning for these ETF exchanges.
[02:32:42.180 --> 02:32:44.180] So get physical.
[02:32:44.180 --> 02:32:45.180] Get physical with this stuff.
[02:32:45.180 --> 02:32:46.180] Go to David Knight.GOLD.
[02:32:46.180 --> 02:32:48.180] I'll help you get to Tony Yarderman.
[02:32:48.180 --> 02:32:51.180] You can start accumulating this stuff gradually
[02:32:51.180 --> 02:32:54.180] on a month-to-month basis, if you wish.
[02:32:54.180 --> 02:32:56.180] Or he can help you with any large contracts
[02:32:56.180 --> 02:32:58.180] or with some kind of an IRA or something.
[02:32:58.180 --> 02:33:02.180] But one thing you need to be aware of is the vulnerability of the dollar.
[02:33:02.180 --> 02:33:05.180] If you've got your money parked in the bank, it is evaporating.
[02:33:05.180 --> 02:33:06.180] As we speak.
[02:33:06.180 --> 02:33:09.180] Let's take a look at the comments, Travis,
[02:33:09.180 --> 02:33:12.180] before we go to the next topic here in a break.
[02:33:12.180 --> 02:33:13.180] That's right.
[02:33:13.180 --> 02:33:15.180] We've got Marky Mark in New Jersey.
[02:33:15.180 --> 02:33:16.180] Thank you very much, Marky Mark.
[02:33:16.180 --> 02:33:17.180] We appreciate it.
[02:33:17.180 --> 02:33:19.180] It says, actually, Japan started modernizing
[02:33:19.180 --> 02:33:22.180] after Commodore Perry forced them to open up in 1853.
[02:33:22.180 --> 02:33:24.180] After Perry held them at gunpoint,
[02:33:24.180 --> 02:33:27.180] they realized they needed to modernize and arm up.
[02:33:27.180 --> 02:33:28.180] And they did.
[02:33:28.180 --> 02:33:31.180] Remember that they sunk the Russian fleet at Tsushima in 1905?
[02:33:31.180 --> 02:33:33.180] Proof of their modernization efforts,
[02:33:33.180 --> 02:33:35.180] they had the Zero Fighter in World War II.
[02:33:35.180 --> 02:33:40.180] Post-World War II only accelerated what had been happening pre-World War II.
[02:33:40.180 --> 02:33:43.180] And we have Sam Canyons, now monthly supporter.
[02:33:43.180 --> 02:33:44.180] Thank you very much.
[02:33:44.180 --> 02:33:47.180] And he says, may God continue to bless the Knight family,
[02:33:47.180 --> 02:33:50.180] friends, all of us with his guidance.
[02:33:50.180 --> 02:33:52.180] Grace and power as we all prepare our hearts
[02:33:52.180 --> 02:33:56.180] to do his work in this new year and until Christ's imminent return.
[02:33:56.180 --> 02:33:57.180] Yes.
[02:33:57.180 --> 02:34:00.180] And I want to thank everybody for the support that we've received.
[02:34:00.180 --> 02:34:04.180] We've updated the gas gauge to show that we filled it up this month.
[02:34:04.180 --> 02:34:06.180] We hit the target.
[02:34:06.180 --> 02:34:09.180] And just by the way, you know, our schedule is going to be,
[02:34:09.180 --> 02:34:15.180] we're going to have a rebroadcast tomorrow and one on Friday as well.
[02:34:15.180 --> 02:34:19.180] Just taking off two days this week instead of the three that we took off last week.
[02:34:19.180 --> 02:34:23.180] And just to remind you, we guys mentioned this earlier in the show,
[02:34:23.180 --> 02:34:29.180] that we are going to be going to, the live show will be two hours now a day.
[02:34:29.180 --> 02:34:34.180] And we're going to start an hour later at 10 a.m. Eastern.
[02:34:34.180 --> 02:34:37.180] There are a lot of people on the West Coast that, you know,
[02:34:37.180 --> 02:34:40.180] the nine o'clock in the morning thing is kind of early for them anyway.
[02:34:40.180 --> 02:34:43.180] So we're going to move it an hour back,
[02:34:43.180 --> 02:34:47.180] but it will be repeated throughout the day as well.
[02:34:47.180 --> 02:34:49.180] But if you want to interact with us,
[02:34:49.180 --> 02:34:53.180] that'll be the opportunity for you to interact with us at those times.
[02:34:53.180 --> 02:34:57.180] And as I said before, even I started on this three-hour show,
[02:34:57.180 --> 02:34:59.180] we were doing radio broadcasts.
[02:34:59.180 --> 02:35:02.180] And when you do radio broadcasts, you have frequent breaks
[02:35:02.180 --> 02:35:04.180] and you have long commercial broadcasts.
[02:35:04.180 --> 02:35:07.180] As a matter of fact, the clock we had, typically you come on, you know,
[02:35:07.180 --> 02:35:11.180] for like 10 minutes and you have a five-minute break of commercials
[02:35:11.180 --> 02:35:12.180] and then come back.
[02:35:12.180 --> 02:35:17.180] And it was so long that I would spend time trying to recap where I left off.
[02:35:17.180 --> 02:35:19.180] And I spent a good bit of my time trying to recap that.
[02:35:19.180 --> 02:35:24.180] So I really didn't like that. I didn't like doing the clock.
[02:35:24.180 --> 02:35:29.180] And so I kind of cut myself off from doing any radio broadcasting because of that.
[02:35:29.180 --> 02:35:32.180] I like the format of a podcast where I can just talk to people
[02:35:32.180 --> 02:35:35.180] and stay on a topic until we get finished with it
[02:35:35.180 --> 02:35:37.180] and then move on to something else.
[02:35:37.180 --> 02:35:40.180] And so as a result, since we're not going to have,
[02:35:40.180 --> 02:35:43.180] you know, when I was doing it on the radio,
[02:35:43.180 --> 02:35:48.180] I had three-hour clock time, but actually it was two hours of content.
[02:35:48.180 --> 02:35:51.180] And so we're still going to have two hours of content,
[02:35:51.180 --> 02:35:55.180] but it won't be three-clock hours.
[02:35:55.180 --> 02:35:59.180] But we'll still leave the comment area open so you guys can talk to each other
[02:35:59.180 --> 02:36:04.180] because I know that we've got a great community of people who talk to each other.
[02:36:04.180 --> 02:36:07.180] So all the rest of the stuff will remain the same.
[02:36:07.180 --> 02:36:11.180] And hopefully it's going to free us up a little bit to get a little bit healthier
[02:36:11.180 --> 02:36:15.180] and to also be able to do some good reports like that one I just played.
[02:36:15.180 --> 02:36:17.180] I thought that was a very good report,
[02:36:17.180 --> 02:36:22.180] recapping how things have changed because of dishonest money.
[02:36:22.180 --> 02:36:25.180] Very important for us to all understand that.
[02:36:25.180 --> 02:36:29.180] Well, let's take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back.
[02:36:29.180 --> 02:36:32.180] Let me get over to the tab here.
[02:36:47.180 --> 02:36:49.180] Thank you.
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[02:39:29.180 --> 02:39:32.180] Well, as Marjorie Taylor Greene said,
[02:39:32.180 --> 02:39:36.180] so we've got Zelinsky one day and tomorrow we've got
[02:39:36.180 --> 02:39:38.180] David Knight.
[02:39:38.180 --> 02:39:40.180] David Knight.
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[02:39:48.180 --> 02:39:50.180] And tomorrow we've got Netanyahu.
[02:39:50.180 --> 02:39:52.180] Can we just do America?
[02:39:52.180 --> 02:39:54.180] Well, the answer, of course, is no.
[02:39:54.180 --> 02:39:58.180] Trump says that he will support an Israeli attack on Iran
[02:39:58.180 --> 02:40:02.180] if Tehran continues its missile program.
[02:40:02.180 --> 02:40:05.180] He said on Monday he would support an Israeli attack on Iran.
[02:40:05.180 --> 02:40:09.180] In other words, we will actually do it for them.
[02:40:09.180 --> 02:40:12.180] If Tehran continues its conventional missile program
[02:40:12.180 --> 02:40:16.180] or if it works to rebuild the civilian nuclear program
[02:40:16.180 --> 02:40:20.180] that was engaged by U.S. airstrikes during the U.S.-Israeli war
[02:40:20.180 --> 02:40:22.180] in June that lasted for 12 days.
[02:40:22.180 --> 02:40:26.180] And that stopped because Israel was taking a beating.
[02:40:26.180 --> 02:40:30.180] They needed to have not only their iron dome thing,
[02:40:30.180 --> 02:40:32.180] but they also needed to have the U.S. help them
[02:40:32.180 --> 02:40:34.180] in terms of intercepting missiles.
[02:40:34.180 --> 02:40:39.180] But the combined defense of U.S. and Israeli anti-missile systems
[02:40:39.180 --> 02:40:44.180] wasn't sufficient to prevent massive damage being done to Israel.
[02:40:44.180 --> 02:40:47.180] They had a ceasefire, and they stuck to that one.
[02:40:47.180 --> 02:40:52.180] One will be yes, he said, and the other one we will do immediately
[02:40:52.180 --> 02:40:57.180] talking about Iran's missiles versus the nuclear stuff.
[02:40:57.180 --> 02:41:05.180] And, of course, this is Netanyahu's wish list now for over 30 years.
[02:41:05.180 --> 02:41:08.180] As a matter of fact, somebody put this clip together.
[02:41:08.180 --> 02:41:11.180] All the many times that he has told us that Iran is going to have
[02:41:11.180 --> 02:41:15.180] a nuclear weapon in just a couple of weeks or maybe a couple of months.
[02:41:15.180 --> 02:41:20.180] If not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time.
[02:41:20.180 --> 02:41:23.180] It could be a year. It could be within a few months.
[02:41:23.180 --> 02:41:25.180] This is this year, 2025.
[02:41:25.180 --> 02:41:26.180] Wherewithal.
[02:41:26.180 --> 02:41:27.180] 2018.
[02:41:27.180 --> 02:41:31.180] Preserve knowledge to make a bomb very quickly if they wanted to do it.
[02:41:31.180 --> 02:41:33.180] 2015.
[02:41:33.180 --> 02:41:40.180] Weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.
[02:41:40.180 --> 02:41:41.180] 2012.
[02:41:41.180 --> 02:41:45.180] From being about 90% of having the rich uranium for an atom bomb.
[02:41:45.180 --> 02:41:46.180] Iran is gearing up to have.
[02:41:46.180 --> 02:41:47.180] 2006.
[02:41:47.180 --> 02:41:52.180] To produce 25 bombs, atomic bombs a year, 250 bombs in a decade.
[02:41:52.180 --> 02:41:53.180] Ladies and gentlemen.
[02:41:53.180 --> 02:41:54.180] 1996.
[02:41:54.180 --> 02:41:55.180] Time is running out.
[02:41:55.180 --> 02:41:57.180] Iran will be capable of.
[02:41:57.180 --> 02:41:58.180] 1995.
[02:41:58.180 --> 02:42:02.180] No, without importing anything, nuclear bombs within three to five years.
[02:42:02.180 --> 02:42:03.180] Oh, okay.
[02:42:03.180 --> 02:42:07.180] Well, that would have been 1998, 2000, something like that.
[02:42:07.180 --> 02:42:09.180] What do we do with a false profit?
[02:42:09.180 --> 02:42:15.180] We should drag them outside the camp and stone them, especially when they're trying to get us into a war.
[02:42:15.180 --> 02:42:23.180] Netanyahu was expected to ask Trump to support a new war against Iran over the concerns related to ballistic missiles.
[02:42:23.180 --> 02:42:33.180] Iranian officials have been clear that they will not agree to a deal to scuttle their missile program because that leaves them vulnerable to the US and Israel.
[02:42:33.180 --> 02:42:37.180] They made no bones about the fact that they seek to destroy Iran.
[02:42:37.180 --> 02:42:40.180] Trump and Netanyahu held a press conference.
[02:42:40.180 --> 02:42:44.180] Trump again expressed support for the idea of another attack on Iran.
[02:42:44.180 --> 02:42:59.180] Any Israeli attacks in Iran would require US support since US military played a major role in intercepting Iranian missiles fired at Israel, even though the missiles made it through US and Israeli air defenses.
[02:42:59.180 --> 02:43:04.180] Ultimately, what led Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire after just 12 days.
[02:43:04.180 --> 02:43:14.180] The US also supported Israel's strikes by refueling Israeli aircraft and then launched its own air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities.
[02:43:14.180 --> 02:43:17.180] Whatever they want, they get.
[02:43:17.180 --> 02:43:27.180] So Israel has almost no support whatsoever from the people of the USA, writes one person on social media.
[02:43:28.180 --> 02:43:42.180] This is Furkan Gozukura, who says, yet Trump and the Republicans tripled down every week on complete subservience to a foreign state the size of New Jersey.
[02:43:42.180 --> 02:43:45.180] It's almost as if they don't need the votes.
[02:43:45.180 --> 02:43:47.180] No, they don't.
[02:43:47.180 --> 02:43:49.180] It's almost as if there's not really an election.
[02:43:49.180 --> 02:43:51.180] There is a selection.
[02:43:51.180 --> 02:43:55.180] And I believe that is definitely where we are at this point in time.
[02:43:55.180 --> 02:44:01.180] You know, it's just like just like Emmer prostituted himself to the Somalis.
[02:44:01.180 --> 02:44:03.180] You have Trump doing that.
[02:44:03.180 --> 02:44:11.180] Many politicians are being bribed and prostituted and being bribed with stolen money from taxpayers.
[02:44:11.180 --> 02:44:15.180] And so another person put a picture of Trump with a quote.
[02:44:15.180 --> 02:44:21.180] I'm sorry your tax dollars are funding Somali child care fraud, but we've got to go attack Israel.
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[02:45:24.180 --> 02:45:31.180] So Israel's president directly refutes Trump's idea of a pardon for Netanyahu.
[02:45:31.180 --> 02:45:34.180] He said there has been no conversation.
[02:45:34.180 --> 02:45:46.180] And what people in America don't really understand is, as I've pointed out many times, and Gerald Salinti has pointed out, Netanyahu is not all that popular in Israel.
[02:45:46.180 --> 02:45:49.180] He really struggled to put together a coalition government.
[02:45:49.180 --> 02:45:54.180] And he is also facing a lot of corruption charges there as well.
[02:45:54.180 --> 02:45:57.180] And so Trump goes to Israel and he addresses the Knesset.
[02:45:57.180 --> 02:46:01.180] And he says, you need to pardon Netanyahu.
[02:46:01.180 --> 02:46:05.180] I mean, who cares about what was it that he said here?
[02:46:05.180 --> 02:46:07.180] Cigars and champagne, because that was part of it.
[02:46:07.180 --> 02:46:15.180] You know, there was there were personal bribes that he had taken and things like that, personal gifts that he had taken as his own.
[02:46:15.180 --> 02:46:18.180] That's against the law there as it is here.
[02:46:18.180 --> 02:46:22.180] But it wasn't simply cigars and champagne.
[02:46:22.180 --> 02:46:24.180] He said, who cares about that, said Trump.
[02:46:24.180 --> 02:46:37.180] Netanyahu has also been accused of engaging in quid pro quos and of granting regulatory favors in exchange for favorable coverage from media.
[02:46:37.180 --> 02:46:41.180] Does this sound like somebody that we know here in America?
[02:46:41.180 --> 02:46:47.180] I tell you, both of these guys, Netanyahu and Trump are birds of a feather.
[02:46:47.180 --> 02:46:50.180] And they should be jailbirds together, frankly.
[02:46:50.180 --> 02:46:53.180] They are thieves. They are murderers.
[02:46:53.180 --> 02:46:56.180] And so and of course, Trump is also a liar.
[02:46:56.180 --> 02:46:59.180] He says, so how do you not how do you not pardon this guy?
[02:46:59.180 --> 02:47:02.180] He said to the Knesset, he said he's a wartime prime minister.
[02:47:02.180 --> 02:47:05.180] He's a hero. How do you not give him a pardon?
[02:47:05.180 --> 02:47:10.180] He said, I spoke to the president. He tells me that it's on its way, Trump said.
[02:47:10.180 --> 02:47:12.180] And you can't do better than that, right?
[02:47:12.180 --> 02:47:16.180] And then the Israeli president spoke up, Isaac Herzog.
[02:47:16.180 --> 02:47:19.180] His office released a statement shortly after that.
[02:47:19.180 --> 02:47:23.180] This is actually Trump not talking before the Knesset, but at Mar-a-Lago.
[02:47:23.180 --> 02:47:31.180] So the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, Herzog said he denied any conversation like this ever took place.
[02:47:31.180 --> 02:47:39.180] They said there has been no conversation between President Herzog and President Trump since the pardon request was submitted, said the statement.
[02:47:39.180 --> 02:47:42.180] So in other words, Trump is just lying.
[02:47:42.180 --> 02:47:47.180] And they can call him out on that because what's Trump going to do?
[02:47:47.180 --> 02:47:50.180] Is he going to criticize his masters?
[02:47:50.180 --> 02:47:53.180] He's not allowed to criticize Israel. They pay him.
[02:47:53.180 --> 02:48:00.180] Trump needs to carry out regime change in Iran if he wants to be known as the peace president, says Alan Dershowitz.
[02:48:00.180 --> 02:48:05.180] Alan Dershowitz, who's always a hardcore Democrat until it came to Trump.
[02:48:06.180 --> 02:48:11.180] And then Trump is such a Zionist puppet that Alan Dershowitz changed sides.
[02:48:11.180 --> 02:48:17.180] The rest of the world is moving away from Israel, but Trump is moving closer and closer to Israel, said Dershowitz.
[02:48:17.180 --> 02:48:19.180] We could say the same thing about Epstein as well.
[02:48:19.180 --> 02:48:25.180] The rest of the world is moving away from him, but Trump is trying to keep all this stuff covered up.
[02:48:25.180 --> 02:48:29.180] Dershowitz went on. He said Israel doesn't even need American support.
[02:48:29.180 --> 02:48:36.180] All Israel needs is a green light from Trump to go in on its own and to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities.
[02:48:36.180 --> 02:48:38.180] So Israel doesn't need America's support, then fine.
[02:48:38.180 --> 02:48:42.180] I guess we can stop sending them so much money and material, right?
[02:48:42.180 --> 02:48:48.180] Except if you even talk about that, they shout racist, racist, racist at you, right?
[02:48:48.180 --> 02:48:55.180] There will never be peace in the Middle East unless there is regime change in Iran, said Dershowitz.
[02:48:55.180 --> 02:49:00.180] Because that's what they want, and if they don't get it, they're going to keep killing people.
[02:49:00.180 --> 02:49:07.180] If Trump wants to be known as the peace president, he has to go to war with Iran, says Dershowitz.
[02:49:07.180 --> 02:49:09.180] Yeah, double-think here, isn't it?
[02:49:09.180 --> 02:49:12.180] Dershowitz also ruled out a two-state solution.
[02:49:12.180 --> 02:49:18.180] He argued that the Palestinians have not yet earned themselves a state.
[02:49:18.180 --> 02:49:21.180] How did Israel earn statehood?
[02:49:21.180 --> 02:49:24.180] Wasn't it given to them?
[02:49:24.180 --> 02:49:27.180] They earned it, I guess, by kicking people out of their homes.
[02:49:27.180 --> 02:49:30.180] He said, look, Palestinians haven't earned themselves a state.
[02:49:30.180 --> 02:49:37.180] They have to earn a state the way the Jewish people earned a state over hundreds of years of state-building.
[02:49:37.180 --> 02:49:39.180] You mean by buying American politicians.
[02:49:39.180 --> 02:49:40.180] Yeah.
[02:49:40.180 --> 02:49:50.180] As a matter of fact, I mean, when you look at this, it was the earning the state, it has to get a timeline of hundreds of years.
[02:49:50.180 --> 02:49:58.180] I mean, it was a UN declaration after World War II, but maybe he's talking about the involvement with the Rothschild family,
[02:49:58.180 --> 02:50:03.180] because, again, Dershowitz is proud of his involvement with Rothschild.
[02:50:03.180 --> 02:50:07.180] That's what got him involved with Jeffrey Epstein and vice versa, right?
[02:50:07.180 --> 02:50:15.180] I did absolutely categorically nothing wrong, and that's what lawyers do, and that's what people do.
[02:50:15.180 --> 02:50:19.180] I was introduced to him by the lady-in-law of Rothschild.
[02:50:19.180 --> 02:50:22.180] Whoa, he even adopts that air when he says it.
[02:50:22.180 --> 02:50:26.180] And, you know, he knew all the most prominent people.
[02:50:26.180 --> 02:50:29.180] Yeah, right there with the Zionist stuff.
[02:50:29.180 --> 02:50:34.180] Lord and Lady Rothschild even develops this air as he's talking about it.
[02:50:34.180 --> 02:50:40.180] Well, you know, I talked about this AI thing, and this guy has now become something of a fad.
[02:50:40.180 --> 02:50:41.180] Everybody's doing it.
[02:50:41.180 --> 02:50:48.180] I think it was one of the recent AI upgrades that somebody put together, a prompt, I guess, that did this.
[02:50:48.180 --> 02:50:55.180] And so everybody's doing it, typically doing it with movie stars and typically going from one classic movie to the other
[02:50:55.180 --> 02:51:00.180] and, you know, getting there with the main character from the movie, the Godfather, whatever, Marlon Brando,
[02:51:00.180 --> 02:51:02.180] and in the background is the Godfather set.
[02:51:02.180 --> 02:51:07.180] He holds up there and takes a selfie, and then he runs to another classic movie or something like that and does it.
[02:51:07.180 --> 02:51:10.180] Well, somebody did that with Epstein.
[02:51:10.180 --> 02:51:16.180] Epstein taking selfies with all these important people, you know, like Dershowitz is talking about, the Rothschilds.
[02:51:16.180 --> 02:51:19.180] I thought you'd enjoy seeing this.
[02:51:19.180 --> 02:51:20.180] There he is.
[02:51:20.180 --> 02:51:25.180] He's taking a selfie with some guys in jumpsuits, prison jumpsuits.
[02:51:25.180 --> 02:51:28.180] And there's Jeffrey Epstein taking selfies.
[02:51:28.180 --> 02:51:33.180] There he is with Hugh Hefner.
[02:51:33.180 --> 02:51:36.180] And there are Macaulay Culkin and Donald Trump.
[02:51:36.180 --> 02:51:39.180] I'm alone.
[02:51:39.180 --> 02:51:45.180] And Oprah Winfrey and others.
[02:51:45.180 --> 02:51:52.180] And that's Woody Allen and his stepdaughter that he married.
[02:51:52.180 --> 02:51:53.180] Bill Gates, I think.
[02:51:53.180 --> 02:51:54.180] Is that Bill Gates?
[02:51:54.180 --> 02:51:55.180] I was looking away.
[02:51:55.180 --> 02:51:56.180] Roman Polanski.
[02:51:56.180 --> 02:52:00.180] There we go.
[02:52:00.180 --> 02:52:01.180] Kevin Spacey.
[02:52:01.180 --> 02:52:09.180] Only the best and finest character that he hangs around with, right?
[02:52:09.180 --> 02:52:15.180] He's going downstairs in the basement area.
[02:52:15.180 --> 02:52:16.180] Oh, there we are.
[02:52:16.180 --> 02:52:17.180] I guess that's Pam Bondi.
[02:52:17.180 --> 02:52:20.180] And you got all the people there that are working on redacting the documents.
[02:52:20.180 --> 02:52:26.180] And here's his pal in prison that he's taking a picture with.
[02:52:26.180 --> 02:52:27.180] Who is that?
[02:52:27.180 --> 02:52:28.180] I don't know who that is.
[02:52:28.180 --> 02:52:33.180] Do you know who that is, Travis?
[02:52:33.180 --> 02:52:40.180] Now he's going on set with Ellen Degenerate.
[02:52:40.180 --> 02:52:41.180] Here we go.
[02:52:41.180 --> 02:52:43.180] Stephen Hawkins.
[02:52:43.180 --> 02:52:46.180] Of course, he was involved with Epstein.
[02:52:46.180 --> 02:52:47.180] And here's the big one.
[02:52:47.180 --> 02:52:50.180] The U.S. Congress is coming up here.
[02:52:50.180 --> 02:52:56.180] I don't know who this guy is, but they got one coming up with the Congress.
[02:52:56.180 --> 02:52:57.180] But he's not there yet.
[02:52:57.180 --> 02:53:07.180] He's got a lot more people to see.
[02:53:07.180 --> 02:53:23.180] There's Woody Allen again.
[02:53:23.180 --> 02:53:35.180] There's the guys that are recording what's happening in his place there.
[02:53:35.180 --> 02:53:37.180] Back to Trump.
[02:53:37.180 --> 02:53:41.180] He doesn't want his picture taken.
[02:53:41.180 --> 02:53:42.180] And here's the big one.
[02:53:42.180 --> 02:53:47.180] All the people in Congress giving him a standing ovation and applauding for him.
[02:53:47.180 --> 02:53:50.180] They're happy to have their picture taken with Jeffrey Epstein.
[02:53:50.180 --> 02:53:56.180] And there's Ghislaine Maxwell in her orange jumpsuit behind bars.
[02:53:56.180 --> 02:53:59.180] And Harvey Weinstein is one of the last ones there.
[02:53:59.180 --> 02:54:00.180] Yeah.
[02:54:00.180 --> 02:54:01.180] Isn't it great?
[02:54:01.180 --> 02:54:07.180] I guess Alan Dershowitz and Jeffrey Epstein, they're the real-life zealots that are hanging
[02:54:07.180 --> 02:54:12.180] around with all these celebrities and actually the scum of the earth, quite frankly.
[02:54:12.180 --> 02:54:14.180] We'll be right back, folks.
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[02:54:16.180 --> 02:54:17.180] Got the wrong one here.
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[02:57:31.180 --> 02:57:37.180] Well, as we listen to the Russian dance from the Russian composer Tchaikovsky, we have
[02:57:37.180 --> 02:57:43.180] Zelensky claiming that Trump is trying to sweeten the deal by giving him some boots.
[02:57:43.180 --> 02:57:45.180] Boots for Christmas is what he wants.
[02:57:45.180 --> 02:57:48.180] I'd love to give him a boot.
[02:57:48.180 --> 02:57:52.180] Anyway, he wants, he says that Trump is offering boots on the ground.
[02:57:52.180 --> 02:57:56.180] I mean, just a couple of days ago, he was saying, well, Trump has floated the idea that
[02:57:56.180 --> 02:57:59.180] he's going to give us security guarantees for 15 years.
[02:57:59.180 --> 02:58:02.180] Well, that would involve exactly this.
[02:58:02.180 --> 02:58:06.180] But of course he wanted it for 30, 40, 50 years.
[02:58:06.180 --> 02:58:08.180] We don't have American troops on the ground.
[02:58:08.180 --> 02:58:13.180] Well, Zelensky has now claimed that Trump is considering the possibility of deploying
[02:58:13.180 --> 02:58:18.180] American troops to Ukraine as negotiations towards peace with Moscow stall.
[02:58:18.180 --> 02:58:23.180] This is presumably connected with the promise of future security guarantees.
[02:58:23.180 --> 02:58:29.180] And I find it ominous that Trump, neither Trump nor anybody in the Trump administration
[02:58:29.180 --> 02:58:34.180] has said anything about the fact, well, no, we didn't offer him 15 years of security
[02:58:34.180 --> 02:58:36.180] guarantees, let alone 50.
[02:58:36.180 --> 02:58:38.180] And no, we didn't offer boots on the ground.
[02:58:38.180 --> 02:58:43.180] No, there's crickets from Trump when Zelensky is saying this.
[02:58:43.180 --> 02:58:47.180] This is something of a surprise as the White House made no indication of this in any
[02:58:47.180 --> 02:58:51.180] statement, public or based on anonymous officials.
[02:58:51.180 --> 02:58:54.180] But they haven't denied it, you see.
[02:58:54.180 --> 02:58:58.180] Throughout the nearly four year long war, the question of Western boots on the ground
[02:58:58.180 --> 02:59:01.180] has been raised at various times.
[02:59:01.180 --> 02:59:04.180] And Trump was firmly against it.
[02:59:04.180 --> 02:59:07.180] Of course, that was when he was running for office.
[02:59:07.180 --> 02:59:11.180] Once he becomes president, he's a completely different guy.
[02:59:11.180 --> 02:59:14.180] But the US, whether under Biden or Trump, has always denied sending American troops
[02:59:14.180 --> 02:59:17.180] into Ukraine as a solution.
[02:59:17.180 --> 02:59:23.180] Instead, it is well understood that this could escalate things between Washington and Russia,
[02:59:23.180 --> 02:59:28.180] escalate toward a full scale war, perhaps even a nuclear war.
[02:59:28.180 --> 02:59:32.180] Zelensky made the remarks during a WhatsApp conversation with journalists.
[02:59:32.180 --> 02:59:38.180] He said boots on the ground is a talking point that is being echoed now with EU leaders.
[02:59:38.180 --> 02:59:45.180] Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the US has declared its readiness to participate
[02:59:45.180 --> 02:59:49.180] in security guarantees for Ukraine after concluding peace.
[02:59:49.180 --> 02:59:54.180] This includes, for example, the presence of American troops on the border, on the line
[02:59:54.180 --> 02:59:58.180] of contact between Ukraine and Russia.
[02:59:58.180 --> 03:00:04.180] They want to put us right there on the front lines as a tripwire end of war.
[03:00:04.180 --> 03:00:10.180] You know, that's the interesting, you know, Pat Buchanan got canceled because he was
[03:00:10.180 --> 03:00:11.180] America first.
[03:00:11.180 --> 03:00:17.180] And one of the things he said was that if you look at NATO, this is set up and we've
[03:00:17.180 --> 03:00:23.180] got all these different agreements, we've got tripwires all over the world to drag us
[03:00:23.180 --> 03:00:25.180] into every potential conflict.
[03:00:25.180 --> 03:00:28.180] But, of course, Trump doesn't wait for that anymore.
[03:00:28.180 --> 03:00:30.180] He starts his own now.
[03:00:30.180 --> 03:00:32.180] But that's exactly what NATO is.
[03:00:32.180 --> 03:00:40.180] NATO is nothing other than, folks, a booby trap, a nuclear booby trap.
[03:00:40.180 --> 03:00:46.180] Zelensky says US boots on the ground in Ukraine is being discussed, but troop deployment is
[03:00:46.180 --> 03:00:49.180] really up to the United States, he says.
[03:00:49.180 --> 03:00:54.180] Trump has regularly emphasized that he would not contemplate boots on the ground in Ukraine.
[03:00:54.180 --> 03:01:02.180] For example, just last August Trump pledged that American troops would not be on the ground
[03:01:02.180 --> 03:01:07.180] in Ukraine, but he provided a little other insight in the scale of US security guarantees
[03:01:07.180 --> 03:01:10.180] as he pushes to end Russia's war on its neighbors.
[03:01:10.180 --> 03:01:15.180] You have my assurance and I am the president, said Trump.
[03:01:15.180 --> 03:01:17.180] It's kind of like Richard Nixon, you know.
[03:01:17.180 --> 03:01:21.180] Well, when the president assures you, you can count on it, right?
[03:01:21.180 --> 03:01:23.180] These lying thieves.
[03:01:23.180 --> 03:01:28.180] When asked what assurances he has that there won't be an American boots on the ground to
[03:01:28.180 --> 03:01:34.180] defend against another Russian incursion, he tells us that we have his word.
[03:01:34.180 --> 03:01:37.180] What do you think Trump's word is worth?
[03:01:37.180 --> 03:01:41.180] It's not worth a plug quarter, actually.
[03:01:41.180 --> 03:01:43.180] It's not worth the pennies that he banned.
[03:01:43.180 --> 03:01:49.180] And if he were to reverse his own policy, it would be hugely unpopular amongst his base.
[03:01:49.180 --> 03:01:50.180] He doesn't care.
[03:01:50.180 --> 03:01:54.180] He knows that they, whatever he does, they're going to follow him.
[03:01:54.180 --> 03:01:59.180] Broadly, the American public would likely see such a risky move as a recipe for another
[03:01:59.180 --> 03:02:05.180] US troop quagmire abroad in a very complex battle space.
[03:02:05.180 --> 03:02:09.180] Well, there doesn't seem to be a lot of criticism about the quagmire he's trying to set up
[03:02:09.180 --> 03:02:11.180] for us in Venezuela.
[03:02:11.180 --> 03:02:16.180] Trump has not contradicted any of this stuff, even though it's being widely discussed.
[03:02:16.180 --> 03:02:19.180] You've got European leaders talking about it.
[03:02:19.180 --> 03:02:22.180] You've got Zelensky talking about it.
[03:02:22.180 --> 03:02:23.180] The Russians are talking about it.
[03:02:23.180 --> 03:02:26.180] Trump's not saying anything.
[03:02:26.180 --> 03:02:29.180] Security guarantees, US boots on the ground.
[03:02:29.180 --> 03:02:32.180] Yeah, don't send troops.
[03:02:32.180 --> 03:02:34.180] Don't send boots.
[03:02:34.180 --> 03:02:38.180] Instead, what you need to do is you need to send him some David Knight t-shirts, maybe.
[03:02:38.180 --> 03:02:41.180] Hello, it's me, Vladimir Zelensky.
[03:02:41.180 --> 03:02:44.180] I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.
[03:02:44.180 --> 03:02:50.180] You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
[03:02:50.180 --> 03:02:56.180] And I could if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful gray MacGuffin hoodies
[03:02:56.180 --> 03:03:00.180] or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
[03:03:00.180 --> 03:03:03.180] But he told me to get lost.
[03:03:03.180 --> 03:03:08.180] Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at TheDavidKnightShow.com.
[03:03:08.180 --> 03:03:10.180] You should be able to buy me several hundred.
[03:03:10.180 --> 03:03:15.180] Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
[03:03:15.180 --> 03:03:21.180] I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
[03:03:21.180 --> 03:03:28.180] If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA.
[03:03:33.180 --> 03:03:38.180] That's right.
[03:03:38.180 --> 03:03:39.180] Don't give him boots on the ground.
[03:03:39.180 --> 03:03:40.180] Give him the boot.
[03:03:40.180 --> 03:03:46.180] At the very least, you could give him a t-shirt from TheDavidKnight.News show.
[03:03:46.180 --> 03:03:50.180] But there was a satire video that was put out by the Russians using AI.
[03:03:50.180 --> 03:03:57.180] They've got Putin as Santa Claus, and he's handing out gifts to various world leaders.
[03:03:57.180 --> 03:03:58.180] I want to show that to you.
[03:03:58.180 --> 03:04:04.180] Wait till you see the gift that they imagined Putin giving Zelensky.
[03:04:04.180 --> 03:04:05.180] Here it is.
[03:04:05.180 --> 03:04:07.180] There's Putin as Santa Claus.
[03:04:07.180 --> 03:04:15.180] He's got his sack of gifts there.
[03:04:15.180 --> 03:04:18.180] Oh, there's the currencies, and on the tree we have...
[03:04:18.180 --> 03:04:19.180] Oh, there's the American dollar.
[03:04:19.180 --> 03:04:23.180] Look, it's falling. It crashed.
[03:04:23.180 --> 03:04:25.180] There's the Indian leader, Modi.
[03:04:25.180 --> 03:04:27.180] He gets a jet.
[03:04:27.180 --> 03:04:28.180] He gets a jet from Russia.
[03:04:28.180 --> 03:04:29.180] He gets some Russian arms.
[03:04:29.180 --> 03:04:30.180] And here's Trump.
[03:04:30.180 --> 03:04:32.180] What does he give to Trump?
[03:04:32.180 --> 03:04:38.180] He gives a picture of himself and Trump.
[03:04:38.180 --> 03:04:43.180] And here is Maduro.
[03:04:43.180 --> 03:04:46.180] He's going to dance.
[03:04:46.180 --> 03:04:49.180] Here's Erdogan of Turkey.
[03:04:49.180 --> 03:04:54.180] He gets a little snow globe there.
[03:04:54.180 --> 03:04:57.180] Ah, Kim Jong-un.
[03:04:57.180 --> 03:04:58.180] What's he get?
[03:04:58.180 --> 03:05:00.180] From Russia with gratitude.
[03:05:00.180 --> 03:05:02.180] Yeah, a sword.
[03:05:02.180 --> 03:05:03.180] There you go.
[03:05:03.180 --> 03:05:04.180] Here's Zelensky.
[03:05:04.180 --> 03:05:06.180] What did he get from Putin?
[03:05:06.180 --> 03:05:13.180] That's a pair of handcuffs.
[03:05:13.180 --> 03:05:17.180] There's Viktor Orban of Hungary.
[03:05:17.180 --> 03:05:20.180] He gets gas from Russia.
[03:05:20.180 --> 03:05:25.180] And the lights come on in Hungary because that is over.
[03:05:25.180 --> 03:05:30.180] And there's Putin taking his bow as Santa Claus.
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[03:06:37.180 --> 03:06:43.180] There's reports that claim that the CIA has now done a land strike in Venezuela
[03:06:43.180 --> 03:06:49.180] because, you know, the clown ship just ain't cutting it anymore.
[03:06:49.180 --> 03:06:51.180] We got to get on land somehow.
[03:06:51.180 --> 03:06:57.180] So we got to get this clown show on the road, on the road in Venezuela.
[03:06:57.180 --> 03:07:01.180] And who are you going to call if you want to have an illegal war?
[03:07:01.180 --> 03:07:03.180] Well, it's the CIA, of course.
[03:07:03.180 --> 03:07:06.180] So Trump has claimed that the U.S. has, quote,
[03:07:06.180 --> 03:07:10.180] knocked out, unquote, a, quote, big facility.
[03:07:10.180 --> 03:07:11.180] There we go.
[03:07:11.180 --> 03:07:15.180] As part of the U.S. campaign targeting alleged drug boats
[03:07:15.180 --> 03:07:17.180] in Latin America and against Venezuela.
[03:07:17.180 --> 03:07:19.180] All that is nonsense.
[03:07:19.180 --> 03:07:23.180] CNN reported on Monday that the CIA conducted a drone strike
[03:07:23.180 --> 03:07:26.180] on the port facility, a port facility in Venezuela,
[03:07:26.180 --> 03:07:28.180] although nobody is really sure.
[03:07:28.180 --> 03:07:33.180] This is such a big facility, and it is so totally destroyed,
[03:07:33.180 --> 03:07:37.180] and yet nobody can find it.
[03:07:37.180 --> 03:07:40.180] Nobody can find any evidence of some port that's been destroyed.
[03:07:40.180 --> 03:07:44.180] I mean, this is such a clown show, this war.
[03:07:44.180 --> 03:07:46.180] But people are going to die.
[03:07:46.180 --> 03:07:48.180] People have already died.
[03:07:48.180 --> 03:07:51.180] The president was asked by a reporter on Monday about the comments
[03:07:51.180 --> 03:07:54.180] and whether the alleged attack was conducted by the U.S. military.
[03:07:54.180 --> 03:07:57.180] He says, well, it doesn't matter, right?
[03:07:57.180 --> 03:08:00.180] Military can kill people, the CIA can kill people,
[03:08:00.180 --> 03:08:02.180] I can kill people, whatever, you know.
[03:08:02.180 --> 03:08:05.180] But there was a major explosion at a dock area, he said,
[03:08:05.180 --> 03:08:08.180] where they load the boats up with drugs.
[03:08:08.180 --> 03:08:12.180] It was an implementation area that is no longer around.
[03:08:12.180 --> 03:08:19.180] This is a dirty, lying war from a dirty, lying president.
[03:08:19.180 --> 03:08:21.180] It's not about the drugs.
[03:08:21.180 --> 03:08:22.180] It's not about fentanyl.
[03:08:22.180 --> 03:08:24.180] He's not using that anymore, right?
[03:08:24.180 --> 03:08:26.180] It's not about drugs at all.
[03:08:26.180 --> 03:08:29.180] This is not even about the Maduro regime change.
[03:08:29.180 --> 03:08:31.180] This is about oil.
[03:08:31.180 --> 03:08:37.180] Trump is nothing other than a thief, a pirate, a murderer, a liar.
[03:08:37.180 --> 03:08:42.180] Any U.S. attack on Venezuela would be illegal under the Constitution,
[03:08:42.180 --> 03:08:46.180] which requires congressional authorization to launch a war.
[03:08:46.180 --> 03:08:50.180] The Trump administration has been clear that its goal in this campaign
[03:08:50.180 --> 03:08:55.180] against Venezuela is the ouster of Maduro while using the false claims
[03:08:55.180 --> 03:08:58.180] that his government is a cartel as a pretext.
[03:08:58.180 --> 03:09:00.180] This is zero-hedge writing.
[03:09:00.180 --> 03:09:03.180] The seizure of two tankers, a step that is traditionally considered
[03:09:03.180 --> 03:09:08.180] to be an act of war, has been strongly denounced by U.N.
[03:09:08.180 --> 03:09:10.180] and many nations.
[03:09:10.180 --> 03:09:15.180] It's been strongly denounced by anybody that has a shred of conscience,
[03:09:15.180 --> 03:09:18.180] morality, or legal concerns.
[03:09:18.180 --> 03:09:21.180] So it was CNN who first reported it.
[03:09:21.180 --> 03:09:24.180] Exclusive CIA carried out a drone strike on a port facility
[03:09:24.180 --> 03:09:26.180] on the Venezuelan coast.
[03:09:26.180 --> 03:09:30.180] They said the details had not been previously reported.
[03:09:31.180 --> 03:09:33.180] They had anonymous sources.
[03:09:33.180 --> 03:09:36.180] The U.S. government believed it was being used by drug gangs
[03:09:36.180 --> 03:09:39.180] to store drugs and move them onto boats for shipping.
[03:09:39.180 --> 03:09:41.180] No one was present at the facility at the time.
[03:09:41.180 --> 03:09:43.180] It was struck.
[03:09:43.180 --> 03:09:46.180] So there were no casualties, according to the sources.
[03:09:46.180 --> 03:09:50.180] It was such a busy drug port that nobody was there.
[03:09:50.180 --> 03:09:52.180] And they don't mention fentanyl.
[03:09:52.180 --> 03:09:55.180] It's just vague drugs in general.
[03:09:55.180 --> 03:10:00.180] Two sources said that U.S. special forces were providing intelligence,
[03:10:00.180 --> 03:10:05.180] but that was denied by a spokesperson for U.S. Special Ops Command.
[03:10:05.180 --> 03:10:09.180] Said, we didn't support this in any way, including intel support.
[03:10:09.180 --> 03:10:12.180] So until the CIA attack earlier this month,
[03:10:12.180 --> 03:10:15.180] the only known U.S. strikes on Venezuelan targets
[03:10:15.180 --> 03:10:19.180] were against the boats in international waters,
[03:10:19.180 --> 03:10:24.180] where we had not declared war, where we were not attacked.
[03:10:24.180 --> 03:10:26.180] The CIA declined to comment.
[03:10:26.180 --> 03:10:28.180] Of course they would.
[03:10:28.180 --> 03:10:30.180] Now, if you want to talk about drugs,
[03:10:30.180 --> 03:10:33.180] you'd have to put this in the context of the CIA
[03:10:33.180 --> 03:10:39.180] as a drug-pushing criminal cartel coming after a rival gang.
[03:10:39.180 --> 03:10:41.180] That would be the context, if it really were about drugs.
[03:10:41.180 --> 03:10:43.180] But it's not about drugs.
[03:10:43.180 --> 03:10:45.180] It's about oil.
[03:10:45.180 --> 03:10:47.180] Trump acknowledged in an interview on Friday
[03:10:47.180 --> 03:10:49.180] that the U.S. had knocked out some type of, quote,
[03:10:49.180 --> 03:10:52.180] big facility where the ships come from.
[03:10:52.180 --> 03:10:54.180] This guy's got like an eight-year-old understanding
[03:10:54.180 --> 03:10:57.180] of what's going on, if that.
[03:10:57.180 --> 03:10:59.180] He declined to comment when asked whether the attack
[03:10:59.180 --> 03:11:01.180] was conducted by the military or the CIA.
[03:11:01.180 --> 03:11:05.180] He said, we hit all the boats, and now we hit the area.
[03:11:05.180 --> 03:11:08.180] It's the implementation area.
[03:11:08.180 --> 03:11:10.180] That's where they implement.
[03:11:10.180 --> 03:11:13.180] He actually said that.
[03:11:13.180 --> 03:11:15.180] Did you know that, Travis?
[03:11:15.180 --> 03:11:17.180] The implementation area is where they implement.
[03:11:17.180 --> 03:11:19.180] What? We don't know.
[03:11:19.180 --> 03:11:22.180] Was that issued by the Department of Redundancy Department?
[03:11:22.180 --> 03:11:24.180] Yeah, that's right.
[03:11:24.180 --> 03:11:26.180] Trump is the useful idiot
[03:11:26.180 --> 03:11:29.180] that these people have installed as president.
[03:11:29.180 --> 03:11:32.180] Trump, earlier this year, expanded the CIA's authorities
[03:11:32.180 --> 03:11:34.180] to conduct operations in Latin America,
[03:11:34.180 --> 03:11:37.180] including inside Venezuela.
[03:11:37.180 --> 03:11:39.180] But even then, the U.S. military had the legal authority
[03:11:39.180 --> 03:11:44.180] only to conduct strikes against suspected traffickers at sea
[03:11:44.180 --> 03:11:45.180] and not on land.
[03:11:45.180 --> 03:11:47.180] But, you know, hey, we'll just change all this stuff.
[03:11:47.180 --> 03:11:51.180] Look, it's not that far off the truth
[03:11:51.180 --> 03:11:57.180] when Trump put in a portrait of Joe Biden as an auto pen.
[03:11:57.180 --> 03:11:59.180] That was closer to the truth than anybody realized,
[03:11:59.180 --> 03:12:01.180] and it wasn't something that was specific
[03:12:01.180 --> 03:12:03.180] to Joe Biden and his dementia.
[03:12:03.180 --> 03:12:07.180] All the presidents have been auto pens
[03:12:07.180 --> 03:12:10.180] for the people who have installed them.
[03:12:10.180 --> 03:12:12.180] Trump is an auto pen for Netanyahu.
[03:12:12.180 --> 03:12:15.180] He's an auto pen for the CIA.
[03:12:15.180 --> 03:12:16.180] He's an auto pen for Assad.
[03:12:16.180 --> 03:12:19.180] He's an auto pen for a lot of people,
[03:12:19.180 --> 03:12:22.180] the billionaire Silicon Valley people.
[03:12:22.180 --> 03:12:25.180] Trump himself is an auto pen.
[03:12:25.180 --> 03:12:27.180] They use him as a figurehead,
[03:12:27.180 --> 03:12:29.180] and he signs this stuff into law
[03:12:29.180 --> 03:12:31.180] for the special interests that are out there
[03:12:31.180 --> 03:12:33.180] that are really running the country.
[03:12:33.180 --> 03:12:35.180] You know, you could take all of our recent presidents
[03:12:35.180 --> 03:12:38.180] and replace them all with a portrait of an auto pen.
[03:12:38.180 --> 03:12:41.180] That'd be the most accurate thing you could do.
[03:12:41.180 --> 03:12:45.180] So, again, the CIA conducted a drone strike
[03:12:45.180 --> 03:12:49.180] and a remote dock along Venezuela's coastline,
[03:12:49.180 --> 03:12:51.180] a so-called big facility.
[03:12:51.180 --> 03:12:54.180] And this whole article is about speculation
[03:12:54.180 --> 03:12:55.180] as to where that could be.
[03:12:55.180 --> 03:12:59.180] It was such a big facility, such a big deal,
[03:12:59.180 --> 03:13:01.180] that nobody has any idea where it could be.
[03:13:01.180 --> 03:13:03.180] They said even after this,
[03:13:03.180 --> 03:13:05.180] neither the CIA nor the White House
[03:13:05.180 --> 03:13:07.180] nor the Pentagon would comment on it.
[03:13:07.180 --> 03:13:11.180] Because, again, we have secret wars.
[03:13:11.180 --> 03:13:13.180] We don't debate war.
[03:13:13.180 --> 03:13:14.180] We just do it.
[03:13:14.180 --> 03:13:16.180] We're not going to tell you what we're doing about it
[03:13:16.180 --> 03:13:18.180] or why we're doing it.
[03:13:18.180 --> 03:13:21.180] It's going to be unofficially declared,
[03:13:21.180 --> 03:13:27.180] and they declare that it is always justified.
[03:13:27.180 --> 03:13:29.180] Every bit of this is a lie.
[03:13:29.180 --> 03:13:32.180] Speculation has persisted as an effort
[03:13:32.180 --> 03:13:35.180] to identify which facility was hit
[03:13:35.180 --> 03:13:37.180] and what damage was done.
[03:13:37.180 --> 03:13:42.180] Some analysts have highlighted a mystery explosion
[03:13:42.180 --> 03:13:45.180] at an industrial zone in San Francisco municipality.
[03:13:45.180 --> 03:13:48.180] They have a San Francisco and Venezuela as well.
[03:13:48.180 --> 03:13:51.180] However, local reports also suggest the likelihood
[03:13:51.180 --> 03:13:56.180] that that fire was sparked by an electrical accident.
[03:13:56.180 --> 03:13:58.180] So it wasn't that big a deal.
[03:13:58.180 --> 03:14:00.180] It wasn't totally obliterated.
[03:14:00.180 --> 03:14:03.180] We're not even sure if that was the facility
[03:14:03.180 --> 03:14:04.180] that he's talking about.
[03:14:04.180 --> 03:14:06.180] Nobody knows what he's talking about.
[03:14:06.180 --> 03:14:09.180] This is a fantasy war.
[03:14:09.180 --> 03:14:10.180] It's like fentanyl.
[03:14:10.180 --> 03:14:11.180] They can't find it.
[03:14:11.180 --> 03:14:13.180] It's amazing.
[03:14:13.180 --> 03:14:17.180] So the CIA operatives,
[03:14:17.180 --> 03:14:21.180] this is the way it's reported by the Sun out of the UK.
[03:14:21.180 --> 03:14:23.180] These are the people who...
[03:14:23.180 --> 03:14:25.180] Be careful about this site.
[03:14:25.180 --> 03:14:28.180] The people who are pushing war use them a lot.
[03:14:28.180 --> 03:14:32.180] These are the people who said a couple of days ago
[03:14:32.180 --> 03:14:35.180] that the Iranian president has declared total war on us.
[03:14:35.180 --> 03:14:37.180] No, it's exactly the opposite.
[03:14:37.180 --> 03:14:39.180] The Iranian president was saying,
[03:14:39.180 --> 03:14:42.180] the US and Israel and Europe have declared total war on us.
[03:14:42.180 --> 03:14:44.180] They're not just shooting missiles at us,
[03:14:44.180 --> 03:14:46.180] but they want to destroy our economy
[03:14:46.180 --> 03:14:48.180] and all the rest of this.
[03:14:48.180 --> 03:14:52.180] So the Sun is saying CIA operatives
[03:14:52.180 --> 03:14:56.180] launched a massive drone attack.
[03:14:56.180 --> 03:15:01.180] So massive that nobody is actually certain where it was.
[03:15:01.180 --> 03:15:06.180] So again, just be careful of outlets like the Sun.
[03:15:06.180 --> 03:15:07.180] It is despicable.
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[03:16:08.180 --> 03:16:10.180] ...to be cheering war
[03:16:10.180 --> 03:16:14.180] and to be boasting about what you've accomplished
[03:16:14.180 --> 03:16:16.180] when you've accomplished absolutely nothing,
[03:16:16.180 --> 03:16:20.180] and nothing is going to be accomplished with this war.
[03:16:20.180 --> 03:16:22.180] So we've got just a couple of minutes left here.
[03:16:22.180 --> 03:16:23.180] Do we have any comments?
[03:16:23.180 --> 03:16:25.180] Yes, we do. We've got one from Jason Barker.
[03:16:25.180 --> 03:16:27.180] And, of course, Jason Barker is part of Knights of the Storm.
[03:16:27.180 --> 03:16:31.180] You can find them at their website, Knightsofthestorm.com.
[03:16:31.180 --> 03:16:33.180] And they have a schedule of our program,
[03:16:33.180 --> 03:16:35.180] Antoni's and Guards and theirs as well.
[03:16:35.180 --> 03:16:37.180] So go check out Knightsofthestorm.com.
[03:16:37.180 --> 03:16:41.180] He says, anytime we send certain systems to allies, we send advisors.
[03:16:41.180 --> 03:16:43.180] The thing about the term boots on the ground
[03:16:43.180 --> 03:16:45.180] is that refers to getting over 50% of a unit there.
[03:16:45.180 --> 03:16:48.180] So you can have people there and not be boots on the ground.
[03:16:48.180 --> 03:16:49.180] It's a wordplay game.
[03:16:49.180 --> 03:16:51.180] Yeah. All of it. All of it.
[03:16:51.180 --> 03:16:52.180] All of it. All of it.
[03:16:52.180 --> 03:16:55.180] It's all allies, as Audi said.
[03:16:55.180 --> 03:16:57.180] At least, you know, they're not doing something like,
[03:16:57.180 --> 03:17:01.180] well, we issued them moccasins, so they're not wearing boots.
[03:17:01.180 --> 03:17:04.180] Yeah, you would think if it's the CIA, they're going to be using slippers,
[03:17:04.180 --> 03:17:06.180] because, like, the slippers are not making any noise there.
[03:17:06.180 --> 03:17:09.180] But, yeah, I just wish we could give all these people the boot,
[03:17:09.180 --> 03:17:12.180] but we can't, unfortunately.
[03:17:12.180 --> 03:17:16.180] And so, you know, when we look at what is coming up,
[03:17:16.180 --> 03:17:20.180] again, I think one of the hopes for this year
[03:17:20.180 --> 03:17:22.180] is that maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene,
[03:17:22.180 --> 03:17:24.180] since she was so dearly loved by the MAGA people,
[03:17:24.180 --> 03:17:29.180] maybe she can lead them out of this double-think cult
[03:17:29.180 --> 03:17:32.180] that they've got themselves into, this delusion that they got there.
[03:17:32.180 --> 03:17:36.180] And you had Scott Jennings, who actually is a conservative on CNN.
[03:17:36.180 --> 03:17:38.180] He's very articulate. He's a good debater.
[03:17:38.180 --> 03:17:41.180] But he has lost all credibility
[03:17:41.180 --> 03:17:44.180] by becoming just a ridiculous cheerleader.
[03:17:44.180 --> 03:17:47.180] And as they were talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene,
[03:17:47.180 --> 03:17:50.180] he comes out and says, Marjorie Taylor Greene has become a lib.
[03:17:50.180 --> 03:17:53.180] Well, you've become a sycophant.
[03:17:53.180 --> 03:17:56.180] You've got absolutely no integrity left whatsoever.
[03:17:56.180 --> 03:18:01.180] She was talking about the fact that people need to start paying attention
[03:18:01.180 --> 03:18:04.180] to what Trump is doing and not what he's saying.
[03:18:04.180 --> 03:18:06.180] Well, have a happy New Year.
[03:18:06.180 --> 03:18:08.180] Thank you for all of your support.
[03:18:08.180 --> 03:18:12.180] And remember, next week we're going to be starting the show an hour later,
[03:18:12.180 --> 03:18:15.180] but it'll be a two-hour show, live.
[03:18:15.180 --> 03:18:19.180] And you can join us, and we'll have the show looping around as well.
[03:18:19.180 --> 03:18:21.180] So have a happy New Year. Thank you.
[03:18:45.180 --> 03:19:01.180] In the beginning was the world
[03:19:01.180 --> 03:19:06.180] The world with God
[03:19:06.180 --> 03:19:13.180] The world was God
[03:19:13.180 --> 03:19:19.180] All things were made
[03:19:19.180 --> 03:19:27.180] May violence through him
[03:19:27.180 --> 03:19:32.180] In him was life
[03:19:32.180 --> 03:19:41.180] The light of life
[03:19:57.180 --> 03:20:20.180] In the beginning was the world
[03:20:20.180 --> 03:20:25.180] The world with God
[03:20:25.180 --> 03:20:30.180] The world was God
[03:20:30.180 --> 03:20:34.180] All things were made
[03:20:34.180 --> 03:20:38.180] May violence through him
[03:20:38.180 --> 03:20:42.180] In him was life
[03:20:42.180 --> 03:20:47.180] The light of man
[03:20:47.180 --> 03:20:51.180] The true light came
[03:20:51.180 --> 03:20:55.180] Into the world
[03:20:55.180 --> 03:20:59.180] Though made by him
[03:20:59.180 --> 03:21:03.180] Is new, not here
[03:21:03.180 --> 03:21:09.180] The Father's only Son
[03:21:09.180 --> 03:21:13.180] We've seen
[03:21:13.180 --> 03:21:16.180] His glory
[03:21:16.180 --> 03:21:20.180] Seeing His grace
[03:21:43.180 --> 03:21:55.180] The Father's only Son
[03:21:55.180 --> 03:21:58.180] Though he was in
[03:21:58.180 --> 03:22:01.180] The world before us
[03:22:01.180 --> 03:22:04.180] The world was God
[03:22:04.180 --> 03:22:08.180] He kept the light
[03:22:08.180 --> 03:22:11.180] Equality
[03:22:11.180 --> 03:22:15.180] But took the fall
[03:22:15.180 --> 03:22:19.180] All things were made
[03:22:19.180 --> 03:22:24.180] Made with us
[03:22:24.180 --> 03:22:31.180] To die for us
[03:22:39.180 --> 03:22:46.180] The Father's only Son
[03:22:46.180 --> 03:22:50.180] We've seen
[03:22:50.180 --> 03:22:53.180] His glory
[03:22:53.180 --> 03:22:58.180] Though made by him
[03:22:58.180 --> 03:23:02.180] Is new, not here
[03:23:02.180 --> 03:23:06.180] The Father's only Son
[03:23:06.180 --> 03:23:11.180] In human form
[03:23:11.180 --> 03:23:15.180] A humble kid
[03:23:15.180 --> 03:23:19.180] Who paid to death
[03:23:19.180 --> 03:23:23.180] Death on the cross
[03:23:23.180 --> 03:23:27.180] Now God has raised
[03:23:27.180 --> 03:23:32.180] His name on high
[03:23:32.180 --> 03:23:37.180] The name above
[03:23:37.180 --> 03:23:46.180] All other names
[03:23:46.180 --> 03:23:51.180] The name above
[03:23:51.180 --> 03:23:56.180] All other names
[03:23:56.180 --> 03:24:01.180] That at the name
[03:24:01.180 --> 03:24:05.180] He shall bow
[03:24:05.180 --> 03:24:09.180] In heaven and earth
[03:24:09.180 --> 03:24:14.180] He shall confess
[03:24:14.180 --> 03:24:19.180] That Jesus Christ
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