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Brad Johnson it is June 22nd 2019 and
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the big topic is Iran because there is
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like a brutal fog of war already
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happening and there is no war but if
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there’s it’s it seems to be just about
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impossible to predict the next half hour
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based on anything that I’ve seen either
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out of the president or anywhere else
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how about laying the groundwork for us
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as to what’s actually going on and where
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you think this is gonna go sure yeah
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it’s been a very very interesting news
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cycle in the last 24 hours as to what’s
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happened in what’s come out and I I
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think there’s little doubt that this is
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Iran acting up this is what the type of
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thing that they have trained for I think
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it’s clear that Iran placed the limpet
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mines on these ships and had mixed
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success on the degree of explosion
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there’s certainly been the photographs
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of the one that was on fire so I believe
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that was the Norwegian one although
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don’t hold me to that and the the
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revealing aspect of it is the that one
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boat that those then subsequently filmed
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going back and removing a limpet mine
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and then and then leaving and of course
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there’s no doubt that at that point
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where that boat came from and of course
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it’s the type that the Iranians use and
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it would have left from some place to
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come and going back to that place so
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they would have been aware the Iranians
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I’m sure thought they were doing in in
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stealth mode but they did not they were
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filmed so we know where I went back to
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you know I think there’s little doubt as
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to who did it how it was done all of
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those things I think that’s pretty well
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nailed down there’s been some pretty
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solid reporting on that aspect of it too
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a couple of things that are very very
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interesting and again I I repeat you
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know at the beginning of when Trump Iran
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III wasn’t a big trump supporter but as
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it goes on my admiration for the
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intelligence of the man and his grasp of
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what’s going on continues to go up the
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guy is truly going to end up being one
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of the better presidents we’ve had and
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and I think it’s going to be a question
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of if he can beat out Reagan for the
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number one spot or it’s going to be
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stuck in number two behind Reagan as a
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modern day president
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but and let me kind of tell you why I’m
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actually saying that right now first I
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think the president actually understands
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exactly the problem and weighs and
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measures the whole thing actually going
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through it has been heavily reported
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today that it got right up to be within
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ten minutes of going into strike back at
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Iran and the president waved him off and
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changed changed his mind or changed the
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plan or did not give the go-ahead and
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said no you know a number of things out
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of all of that the the one thing that’s
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been mentioned most is that he looked at
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it and said well nobody was killed in
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their attack on our drone and you’re
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saying now there’d be roughly a hundred
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people killed in our counter strike now
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the Iranians don’t care about that but
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the American public does care about that
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sort of thing so something extremely
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important out of that is he looks very
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presidential to the American public
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because it isn’t just you know you can
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be the tough guide strike back – and
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sometimes that’s presidential but
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sometimes stopping the attack is very
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presidential so it’s actually the the
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21st day you mentioned the 22nd but I
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think within the next week it takes a
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while for polls to hit but I think we’re
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gonna see a very nice spike for the
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president and the polls and I think
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you’re gonna see records broken so far
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for a president Trump as to his
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popularity and I think that’s going to
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continue through the election I mean
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depending on there’s things unforeseen
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that might happen but I think he’s going
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to continue to build on that you’ll see
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two factors the negatives will continue
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to come out on what the Democrats have
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been up to with the skullduggery with
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him all are important all of these
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things and on the other hand the
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president president Trump he’s going to
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continue look really good on how he
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handles these things and so his being
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able to step back look at this and say
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well hundred people 150 people would die
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they didn’t kill any of our guys I mean
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that’s presidential there’s another
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aspect of it to do and there was some
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reporting on Fox News this morning
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that they said was confirmed that there
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was also a second factor and that factor
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was that there was some consternation
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coming out of the central government of
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Iran against the general that was
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with actually ordering the attack to
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take place and that that they were not
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pleased with the fact that he went
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through with this attack can shut down
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that drone so that was another thing
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that Trump had alluded to a couple of
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days earlier or day earlier where he had
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said something like I and I’m not so
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sure that this was something that was
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really order there might have been some
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confusion there so I think you have a
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the president is roundly criticized all
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the time for going off the deep end and
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being this crazy guy and everybody in
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Washington DC has to be around him to
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keep him in check and all that stuff but
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now Moulton is famously has wanted to
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pom in Iran and I’m not against that
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either I mean a tough stance on the ran
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is something that makes sense in my mind
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but you know Bouldin is famously kind of
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a hawk on Iran now he was the National
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Security Council according to a lot of
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the reporting has been pushing to have
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Iran bomb so the president took a look
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at the whole situation and said to the
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military and Bolton and everybody else
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involved you know I’m in charge I make
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this decision and my decision based on
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these two factors one you know we’re
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killing people they didn’t killing any
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of ours and two it doesn’t look like
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that was actually planned by the central
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government
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so they don’t necessarily deserve that
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kind of hit so instead what we’ll do is
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impose a few but see that you just hit
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on something really interesting because
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Trump made this
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I wouldn’t say cryptic but incomplete
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statement added tag to the confusion
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Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau sitting
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next to him at the time but he said that
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he didn’t feel that that he said that
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this he indicated that he felt it might
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have been a rogue general or some rogue
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elements of the Iranian military that
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that made this strike but although the
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government seems to be kind of taking
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responsibility for it they said well we
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could have attacked this manned aircraft
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and we chose to attack this drone
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instead which sounds like the Iranians
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are trying to own up to this but you
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know what do we how do what is there any
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evidence that that the public that’s
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publicly available that suggests that
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this was a rogue element of the military
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well a general Jack keen on fox news is
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Martin who was the individual who said
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this and he said I know for a fact that
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the Iranian simple government was and
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were not happy with that general for
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having conducted that shoot down of the
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drone so that guy’s connected he’s
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pretty smart guy I respect a lot of the
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things he said in the past and he’s
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consistently right so I would I would my
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personal opinion is that that that he
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called it he knows and and has reported
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accurately what’s out there so I that
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does not mean that the Iranians that
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don’t stand up to bluster once it shot
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down for domestic you know use for their
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own for the Iranian people they’ll have
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to say oh yeah we’re you know we’re
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we’re not afraid of Satan America and
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all of that so it’s kind of hard for
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them to completely disown it but I
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wouldn’t be surprised at that generals
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in some trouble out of the whole thing –
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based on what what our US general Keane
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said on on Fox News this morning so I I
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personally believe that that is in fact
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the case and that Trump weighed that by
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the way that information I’m you know
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that actually is giving something away
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an intelligence I wouldn’t have
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mentioned it probably myself because
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that means then that were intercepting
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communications of the Iranians now maybe
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it was on the open telephone line or
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something and it gives nothing away so
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that would be okay in that case but not
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knowing I would have been probably I
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would have wanted to know that before I
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spoke about it publicly but it’s already
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out in the public arena so it is what it
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is so presumably it wasn’t anything in
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great secret where we’ve intercepted
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something particularly secret
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methodology of communication that they
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were using and I so clearly he alluded
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to it and the reporting as I mentioned
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as tends to confirm it so I think those
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two factors that I mentioned are in case
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in this case exactly right then Trump
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like I said out of all of this look what
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he’s accomplished
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he’s look very presidential he’s weighed
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the situation he shows he’s a thinking
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man one of the areas for which he’s been
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most criticized by the left is this that
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he’s this reacting guy that has no
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thinking capability on his own but yet
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he said
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and he said no to the military and the
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military you know he shoot on other
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planes they like to respond naturally
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and and so you know he’s put a hold on
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everybody else it was kind of pushing to
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go forward there may have been some
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people that were advising restraint as
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well but he looks very presidential as I
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said I there’s no question in my mind
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that he’s gonna take a spike in his
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popularity I think his poll numbers are
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gonna go up over the next week or ten
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days as the numbers start to come out
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from after today OOP it was refreshing
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to not hear him make a red line and not
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do it that was refreshing well yes and
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and here now he has made a red line and
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a very clear one and what he said was
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okay that drone was an unmanned and so
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that’s different if it had been a manned
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aircraft and you’d had killed somebody
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my reaction would be a lot different now
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I’m telling you right now he means that
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and I don’t think there’s a lot of doubt
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with a lot of people the president the
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United States means it you kill our
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pilots or you shoot down our people or
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you blow up one of our ships and kill
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our people we’re coming for it you know
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we’re coming for you and I think you
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would have a fairly unrestrained
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reaction if I can say that I mean I I
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think if you know carry your Task Force
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down in that area and the support that
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they have around it I mean they would
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immediately establish air superiority
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and would start going in and basically
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they they wouldn’t have to stop until
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there were no more targets to bomb until
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they ran out of stuff to blow up I don’t
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know that he would go that far but let’s
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not forget to Iran is governed against
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the will of the people and you know
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given the opportunity the people would
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rise up what comes out of that you know
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I don’t know and I’m not sure we’d want
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to get into the situation where we we
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would then try to follow back in and
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create a new government out of the
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ground although Iran might do okay they
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do have a traditional that’s older now
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did you get it they had a pretty good
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tradition under the Shah of Iran for I
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mean women the majority of doctors in
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the country were women doctors in those
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days now you know they can’t be doctors
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so they but they do have the the Persian
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people have those traditions that are a
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little different and I’m more freaking
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women and
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those sorts of things well what I was
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told by Iranian expats is that people
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are given prestigious and important jobs
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based on their degree of PD and
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adherence to the tenets of Islam I think
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that’s accurate I mean that it’s it’s
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raids there they have a theocracy in
0:11:13.709,0:11:22.890
place of their religious she said I
0:11:19.310,0:11:24.209
think they’re still very important
0:11:22.890,0:11:26.520
points I want to make out of this and
0:11:24.209,0:11:30.060
one is as I said I think the president
0:11:26.520,0:11:30.810
truly understands all this and Iran is a
0:11:30.060,0:11:32.040
real problem
0:11:30.810,0:11:35.640
I mean they’ve done a lot of things to
0:11:32.040,0:11:37.110
make problems here but the core of the
0:11:35.640,0:11:39.510
issue and this is something we talked
0:11:37.110,0:11:40.770
about last time a little bit you know
0:11:39.510,0:11:43.170
and I made the comment or the
0:11:40.770,0:11:45.930
observation that you know this isn’t
0:11:43.170,0:11:48.209
just pure Iran being the problem kind of
0:11:45.930,0:11:50.490
striking at the United States there’s
0:11:48.209,0:11:52.620
other things going on here and what I
0:11:50.490,0:11:54.330
did not mention and what I want to add
0:11:52.620,0:11:56.670
in the context of what we’re saying here
0:11:54.330,0:12:00.209
today is you know the real underlying
0:11:56.670,0:12:03.029
problem with this is China and behind
0:12:00.209,0:12:05.250
all of this is China and the number one
0:12:03.029,0:12:07.980
strategic threat long-term strategic
0:12:05.250,0:12:11.000
threat to the United States of America
0:12:07.980,0:12:13.920
and the West and freedom is China and
0:12:11.000,0:12:16.200
Iran without that sort of backing would
0:12:13.920,0:12:19.290
be far less capable and do far less harm
0:12:16.200,0:12:21.810
than they’re doing now or capable of
0:12:19.290,0:12:26.850
doing because of the support of backing
0:12:21.810,0:12:29.010
they get out of China and right now I
0:12:26.850,0:12:31.529
think what the President does is he in
0:12:29.010,0:12:34.170
part recognizes he’s striking it at Iran
0:12:31.529,0:12:36.060
and taking out some a few sites I think
0:12:34.170,0:12:38.730
they were scheduled to take out some
0:12:36.060,0:12:42.120
missile base radar sites things like
0:12:38.730,0:12:44.399
that and and he recognizes that that’s
0:12:42.120,0:12:46.260
that’s not big picture and that’s not
0:12:44.399,0:12:48.180
going to do much yeah okay it would be
0:12:46.260,0:12:49.620
feel-good sort of thing you know they
0:12:48.180,0:12:52.740
take out our generally take out there
0:12:49.620,0:12:54.690
sites but again I go back and I start
0:12:52.740,0:12:57.990
looking at this overall situation I’m
0:12:54.690,0:12:59.550
going this president understands the
0:12:57.990,0:13:02.070
situation better than most of his
0:12:59.550,0:13:04.350
advisors around him you don’t have them
0:13:02.070,0:13:06.750
all taking the overall strategic look at
0:13:04.350,0:13:07.949
this situation going well you know yeah
0:13:06.750,0:13:09.629
Iran’s
0:13:07.949,0:13:13.170
and they are a danger and all of those
0:13:09.629,0:13:14.819
things are true but you know this
0:13:13.170,0:13:17.129
probably wasn’t planned on their part
0:13:14.819,0:13:17.609
per se a they didn’t kill any of our
0:13:17.129,0:13:20.309
people
0:13:17.609,0:13:21.869
we’re already hurting him financially a
0:13:20.309,0:13:23.399
great deal so we’ll double then what did
0:13:21.869,0:13:26.339
they do to us they she Jenna turned that
0:13:23.399,0:13:27.629
cost us money we put more sanctions on
0:13:26.339,0:13:30.119
them what does that do it costs them
0:13:27.629,0:13:32.399
money so I mean we’re striking back in a
0:13:30.119,0:13:34.679
balanced fashion very presidential
0:13:32.399,0:13:37.470
and again the overall understanding of
0:13:34.679,0:13:40.739
the strategic problem here and and you
0:13:37.470,0:13:44.069
you have to take into account China and
0:13:40.739,0:13:47.309
so I think he gets it and I I think
0:13:44.069,0:13:48.749
probably we’re going to see it looks
0:13:47.309,0:13:50.069
like you know we’d something we’ve
0:13:48.749,0:13:52.350
talked about before there’s a lot of
0:13:50.069,0:13:53.759
pressure on john bolton now and it looks
0:13:52.350,0:13:56.369
like over the next few months he’s
0:13:53.759,0:13:59.220
probably going to end up having served
0:13:56.369,0:14:00.269
out his time and and a move on both was
0:13:59.220,0:14:02.549
very bright man has a lot of
0:14:00.269,0:14:04.079
capabilities so he he’s a he’s gonna be
0:14:02.549,0:14:06.119
around for a long time and involved and
0:14:04.079,0:14:08.669
so on but he’ll be replace and i think
0:14:06.119,0:14:12.149
now this is again something we’ve talked
0:14:08.669,0:14:14.040
about before and i refer back to Jimmy
0:14:12.149,0:14:17.129
Carter and his two-year learning process
0:14:14.040,0:14:18.629
to understand that that you know the
0:14:17.129,0:14:20.189
president back in the days of the Soviet
0:14:18.629,0:14:22.049
Union was lying to him and after two
0:14:20.189,0:14:23.970
years of dealing with all this stuff it
0:14:22.049,0:14:25.769
finally he finally figured out that he
0:14:23.970,0:14:27.329
was being lied to by the Russians so a
0:14:25.769,0:14:28.589
two-year learning curve and I think
0:14:27.329,0:14:30.089
President Trump has now gone through
0:14:28.589,0:14:32.699
that two-year learning curve as
0:14:30.089,0:14:34.499
president and is now to the point where
0:14:32.699,0:14:36.059
he understands who he needs and starts
0:14:34.499,0:14:38.369
picking him and he’s starting to move
0:14:36.059,0:14:40.949
out people that don’t serve him and he’s
0:14:38.369,0:14:42.089
bringing in people that do serve the
0:14:40.949,0:14:43.379
interests of the United States because
0:14:42.089,0:14:45.629
that’s what the president is trying to
0:14:43.379,0:14:48.299
do he’s trying to actually serve the
0:14:45.629,0:14:51.480
interests of Americans and the United
0:14:48.299,0:14:52.860
States of America and so he’s I think
0:14:51.480,0:14:54.749
we’re gonna see him bring in more and
0:14:52.860,0:14:56.789
more people of that nature that actually
0:14:54.749,0:14:58.860
kind of agree and understand and have
0:14:56.789,0:15:00.389
that strategic concept and he’s going to
0:14:58.860,0:15:03.899
have more freedom to start to pick who
0:15:00.389,0:15:06.119
he wants that fits that criteria one of
0:15:03.899,0:15:07.829
the reasons I also mentioned Jimmy
0:15:06.119,0:15:10.470
Carter is this whole freakin mess with
0:15:07.829,0:15:12.629
Iran is we’re still cleaning up the mess
0:15:10.470,0:15:14.999
at Jimmy Carter we have this Iranian
0:15:12.629,0:15:16.649
problem because of Jimmy Carter and he
0:15:14.999,0:15:21.130
chased out the Shah of Iran
0:15:16.649,0:15:23.650
with no plan to to backfill against that
0:15:21.130,0:15:25.990
and and created a democracy or some sort
0:15:23.650,0:15:28.060
of stable Iran that would help the
0:15:25.990,0:15:30.760
Middle East be a stable place and he
0:15:28.060,0:15:33.640
just undercut the Shah chased him out
0:15:30.760,0:15:36.190
and created chaos and that chaos there
0:15:33.640,0:15:38.110
was the iran-iraq war as hundreds of
0:15:36.190,0:15:40.720
thousands of people killed a terrain
0:15:38.110,0:15:43.180
Iran Iran supporting attacks against our
0:15:40.720,0:15:45.310
soldiers and IEDs and all those things
0:15:43.180,0:15:47.530
and thousands of our soldiers killed as
0:15:45.310,0:15:49.990
a result and this is a this all goes
0:15:47.530,0:15:52.210
back to Jimmy Carter this is his doing
0:15:49.990,0:15:55.000
and are still cleaning up the mess from
0:15:52.210,0:15:57.640
him and you know let’s not forget and
0:15:55.000,0:15:59.770
you know wandering a bit on the subject
0:15:57.640,0:16:02.080
matter but you know we have similar
0:15:59.770,0:16:04.120
things out of the presidency of Clinton
0:16:02.080,0:16:05.710
you know the the Bosnian affair that he
0:16:04.120,0:16:07.600
did the war that was there and the peace
0:16:05.710,0:16:09.100
settlement that was forced upon the
0:16:07.600,0:16:10.750
people there is the same thing the
0:16:09.100,0:16:12.970
Fighting’s not over there the way this
0:16:10.750,0:16:15.310
this this peace that was imposed is not
0:16:12.970,0:16:17.320
a peace it’s it’s an armistice for now
0:16:15.310,0:16:19.630
and it’s in and there will be more
0:16:17.320,0:16:21.670
shooting and killing in that area once
0:16:19.630,0:16:23.320
the the pressure is taken off and the
0:16:21.670,0:16:24.730
international troops are removed which
0:16:23.320,0:16:27.580
are still there we still have troops
0:16:24.730,0:16:29.290
there and they they can’t stay forever
0:16:27.580,0:16:30.640
and it’s one of the things the president
0:16:29.290,0:16:32.290
is said as he wants to start pulling
0:16:30.640,0:16:33.850
back from all these things so we’re
0:16:32.290,0:16:34.570
gonna have we’re still thinking up the
0:16:33.850,0:16:36.100
Jimmy Carter
0:16:34.570,0:16:38.530
we still have cleaning up out of the
0:16:36.100,0:16:42.070
idiocy of the Clinton presidency as well
0:16:38.530,0:16:45.180
and these these every time they get in
0:16:42.070,0:16:47.440
charge they make a mess of things and
0:16:45.180,0:16:49.150
this is this is one of the things like I
0:16:47.440,0:16:52.510
said that this president is the
0:16:49.150,0:16:54.640
extremely bright man that has got this
0:16:52.510,0:16:56.650
stuff figured out and the more I watched
0:16:54.640,0:16:59.620
the more I observed the more I see him
0:16:56.650,0:17:00.160
do these things the guys you know I I
0:16:59.620,0:17:02.050
don’t
0:17:00.160,0:17:04.810
maybe genius is too strong a word but it
0:17:02.050,0:17:05.890
extraordinary bright man and has grasped
0:17:04.810,0:17:08.380
this situation
0:17:05.890,0:17:10.870
she’s China behind the scenes pulling
0:17:08.380,0:17:14.380
the strings Cesar in acting up and has
0:17:10.870,0:17:17.920
created a balanced approach to this that
0:17:14.380,0:17:20.290
that like I said I wasn’t get at least
0:17:17.920,0:17:23.740
say a three to five point bump in his in
0:17:20.290,0:17:25.960
his positives on this I would be deeply
0:17:23.740,0:17:28.270
surprised and I I think what he’s done
0:17:25.960,0:17:31.000
now is set the trend because he just
0:17:28.270,0:17:33.920
looks so presidential and shows that he
0:17:31.000,0:17:35.360
understands the situation so I’m greatly
0:17:33.920,0:17:40.010
I mean I really think we’re on the right
0:17:35.360,0:17:42.050
track here and these the tariffs that
0:17:40.010,0:17:44.870
he’s placed on the Chinese I mean that’s
0:17:42.050,0:17:47.720
addressing the problem and a lot of
0:17:44.870,0:17:49.850
people don’t recognize the value of what
0:17:47.720,0:17:52.130
he’s doing there and if you look back at
0:17:49.850,0:17:54.710
the way we defeated the Soviet Union
0:17:52.130,0:17:56.690
with Reagan this is these are the things
0:17:54.710,0:17:58.100
that Reagan did to the Soviet Union a
0:17:56.690,0:18:00.950
lot of what was going on under the
0:17:58.100,0:18:02.780
Soviet Union they were getting financial
0:18:00.950,0:18:04.910
help out of the United States of America
0:18:02.780,0:18:06.170
because of these liberal movements
0:18:04.910,0:18:08.480
trying to do these things where they
0:18:06.170,0:18:10.550
would they would provide financing and
0:18:08.480,0:18:12.170
support and all of that for Russian
0:18:10.550,0:18:14.720
efforts all that stuff got cut off and
0:18:12.170,0:18:17.330
so they went broke they just absolutely
0:18:14.720,0:18:19.130
went broke because the pipeline of
0:18:17.330,0:18:21.050
anything coming in was just went dead
0:18:19.130,0:18:23.150
that’s how we defeated the Soviet Union
0:18:21.050,0:18:24.410
that’s how Reagan did it so we need to
0:18:23.150,0:18:27.440
repeat that for the Chinese and
0:18:24.410,0:18:30.500
President Trump seems to grasp that let
0:18:27.440,0:18:34.010
me give you just a case in point the
0:18:30.500,0:18:36.050
Chinese now nobody was surprised by this
0:18:34.010,0:18:38.210
I hope that’s listening to this the
0:18:36.050,0:18:40.790
Chinese you know totalitarian communist
0:18:38.210,0:18:43.280
government they control the country
0:18:40.790,0:18:46.210
against the will of the Chinese people
0:18:43.280,0:18:49.190
we saw that back in Tiananmen Square and
0:18:46.210,0:18:51.470
sent it’s it’s it’s it’s never recovered
0:18:49.190,0:18:53.450
from that and now the Chinese have
0:18:51.470,0:18:55.370
continued to grab stronger and stronger
0:18:53.450,0:18:57.290
to control they allow a few things to go
0:18:55.370,0:19:00.050
on to have the economy be able to
0:18:57.290,0:19:01.460
sputter long and at all and these
0:19:00.050,0:19:03.710
tariffs are really hurting them they’re
0:19:01.460,0:19:05.330
in some financial trouble here that I
0:19:03.710,0:19:07.670
think is part of the motive as to why
0:19:05.330,0:19:08.930
you see Iran acting up remember I as I
0:19:07.670,0:19:11.690
mentioned there’s out there’s other
0:19:08.930,0:19:13.270
stuff going on here and part of that or
0:19:11.690,0:19:15.260
a big part of that of the Cheney’s
0:19:13.270,0:19:19.160
because that’s how they can fight back
0:19:15.260,0:19:21.430
through a surrogate so the Chinese in is
0:19:19.160,0:19:24.500
going back to my point the Chinese have
0:19:21.430,0:19:28.040
50 million surveillance cameras all over
0:19:24.500,0:19:30.260
China 50 million I mean even in a
0:19:28.040,0:19:32.120
country of a billion people plus that’s
0:19:30.260,0:19:34.580
still a lot of surveillance cameras
0:19:32.120,0:19:36.590
everywhere every street corner even out
0:19:34.580,0:19:39.230
in the rural areas in the villages they
0:19:36.590,0:19:41.510
have these surveillance cameras fifty
0:19:39.230,0:19:44.120
million that’s a lot of capital
0:19:41.510,0:19:45.770
investment that’s a lot of money to to
0:19:44.120,0:19:47.390
put out there where did that come from
0:19:45.770,0:19:49.460
US stock market
0:19:47.390,0:19:51.410
the company that builds those came is is
0:19:49.460,0:19:53.150
on the stock market here in the United
0:19:51.410,0:19:54.770
States and they get investors to put in
0:19:53.150,0:19:56.660
in their producing all these cameras
0:19:54.770,0:19:58.820
which gets brought up and used and put
0:19:56.660,0:20:01.010
all over but the capital to pump into
0:19:58.820,0:20:04.549
that system comes from the United States
0:20:01.010,0:20:06.830
out of the stock market and part of the
0:20:04.549,0:20:08.330
problem on all of this is the Chinese
0:20:06.830,0:20:11.080
companies and their usage of this
0:20:08.330,0:20:14.960
equipment doesn’t have to be declared
0:20:11.080,0:20:16.490
and made public information well I mean
0:20:14.960,0:20:18.799
theoretically we’d be supposed to I
0:20:16.490,0:20:20.240
suppose as a US company would if US
0:20:18.799,0:20:22.160
companies using equipment to do these
0:20:20.240,0:20:24.110
sorts of things that would need to be
0:20:22.160,0:20:26.419
that’s material information it would
0:20:24.110,0:20:28.160
need to be disclosed so that people
0:20:26.419,0:20:30.740
investing that company would be aware of
0:20:28.160,0:20:31.850
it well I guess technically the Chinese
0:20:30.740,0:20:34.040
are probably supposed to make those
0:20:31.850,0:20:36.049
disclosures but they don’t so people
0:20:34.040,0:20:37.549
investment company I’m no idea that
0:20:36.049,0:20:40.580
that’s what this is that this is part of
0:20:37.549,0:20:42.620
the control over the Chinese people that
0:20:40.580,0:20:43.820
continue to subjugate them under the
0:20:42.620,0:20:45.500
control of the central communist
0:20:43.820,0:20:47.240
government so I mean these are the types
0:20:45.500,0:20:49.100
of things that’s just an example as I
0:20:47.240,0:20:51.020
was saying of the type of things that
0:20:49.100,0:20:53.660
have to be cut off to the Chinese
0:20:51.020,0:20:57.230
Communist government so that that
0:20:53.660,0:21:00.020
economic noose continues to close so
0:20:57.230,0:21:02.000
that we can do to them what we did to
0:21:00.020,0:21:04.220
the Soviet Union and that’s forced them
0:21:02.000,0:21:05.690
into essentially capitulating from being
0:21:04.220,0:21:08.419
this centralized government stealing
0:21:05.690,0:21:10.429
from the world with imperialist design
0:21:08.419,0:21:11.840
and and we all know what that that’s
0:21:10.429,0:21:15.410
what the Chinese are up to they’re
0:21:11.840,0:21:17.419
trying to use Bitcoin and different
0:21:15.410,0:21:19.730
methodologies that they can to control
0:21:17.419,0:21:21.559
trade and different areas of the world
0:21:19.730,0:21:23.660
and building these islands out in the
0:21:21.559,0:21:25.760
South China Sea and militarizing them
0:21:23.660,0:21:28.070
putting airports on them and being able
0:21:25.760,0:21:29.809
to land aircraft on those to control
0:21:28.070,0:21:31.610
those those areas and those are trade
0:21:29.809,0:21:33.500
routes those are trade routes so they’re
0:21:31.610,0:21:35.360
trying to control the money they’re
0:21:33.500,0:21:37.910
trying to control Africa they have very
0:21:35.360,0:21:39.500
aggressive Loan policy in Africa where
0:21:37.910,0:21:41.240
they’ll come in to these governments
0:21:39.500,0:21:43.580
that nobody’s really doing much for and
0:21:41.240,0:21:46.250
they’ll say yeah sure you know you want
0:21:43.580,0:21:47.990
a new airport you want you know a new
0:21:46.250,0:21:49.460
roads although yeah sure we’ll do it and
0:21:47.990,0:21:51.260
what they do is they have very
0:21:49.460,0:21:53.299
aggressive loan policies and they come
0:21:51.260,0:21:56.090
in and these guys can’t possibly pay
0:21:53.299,0:21:58.640
back these loans and that are userís in
0:21:56.090,0:22:00.040
nature and so then they the changes come
0:21:58.640,0:22:01.120
you say okay well you have a paper
0:22:00.040,0:22:02.560
so we’re taking this and we’re taking
0:22:01.120,0:22:04.720
this and we’re taking this so they’re
0:22:02.560,0:22:07.420
slowly taking over Africa they have
0:22:04.720,0:22:10.210
tremendous influence in Europe now we’re
0:22:07.420,0:22:12.520
seeing of course their they’ve long had
0:22:10.210,0:22:14.170
ambition to control as much of Asia as
0:22:12.520,0:22:16.240
possible which is why you see the
0:22:14.170,0:22:17.980
conflict with you know certainly Japan
0:22:16.240,0:22:20.950
and other countries in the area that are
0:22:17.980,0:22:23.380
that are economic you know power out I
0:22:20.950,0:22:25.800
believe China’s also got major ports
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built it and connected to Pakistan and
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maybe encouraging some of the conflict
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between Pakistan and India and saying
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also in some areas that we don’t
0:22:32.890,0:22:37.690
typically hear about absolutely
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absolutely and at the same time you know
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for the leaders they’re building whole
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cities of concentration camps I mean you
0:22:41.830,0:22:45.160
there’s been photographs put out in
0:22:43.510,0:22:47.590
public where you can see you know it
0:22:45.160,0:22:49.780
looks like the overhead photography of
0:22:47.590,0:22:51.820
the concentration camps at the Germans
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built you know big long rows of houses
0:22:51.820,0:22:55.510
with walls around them and all that it
0:22:53.380,0:22:57.330
looks just the same now I’m not
0:22:55.510,0:22:59.500
suggesting they’ve got you know
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extermination camps with gas and all of
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that for the leaguers but certainly
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holding them prisoner and keeping them
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in these reeducation camps and of course
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they’re not political prisoners because
0:23:06.640,0:23:09.970
obviously they’re crazy if they don’t
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support the Chinese Communist government
0:23:09.970,0:23:13.150
because they’re the greatest thing since
0:23:11.320,0:23:14.950
sliced bread so to enter their
0:23:13.150,0:23:17.170
non-standard brosman is standard
0:23:14.950,0:23:20.290
communist modus operandi on that exactly
0:23:17.170,0:23:25.000
right exactly right so like I say this
0:23:20.290,0:23:28.420
is this very complex big bala
0:23:25.000,0:23:30.130
you know mass here and and yet we see
0:23:28.420,0:23:32.920
the the president united states weaving
0:23:30.130,0:23:35.140
his way through this nicely coming out
0:23:32.920,0:23:37.510
looking presidential so my prediction
0:23:35.140,0:23:39.190
here now is as i kind of referred to
0:23:37.510,0:23:43.750
earlier i think you’re going to see the
0:23:39.190,0:23:46.840
president be a lot more selective and
0:23:43.750,0:23:49.990
specific on who he starts bringing in to
0:23:46.840,0:23:51.550
all of these positions and he’s got a
0:23:49.990,0:23:55.360
problem i mean people talk about the
0:23:51.550,0:23:57.220
deep state but i really describe it
0:23:55.360,0:24:03.220
otherwise but it’s true it’s there it’s
0:23:57.220,0:24:05.020
at the CIA the FBI DOJ NSA but you’ve
0:24:03.220,0:24:06.580
what you’ve got is a cadre of people at
0:24:05.020,0:24:08.920
the top that are very liberal there are
0:24:06.580,0:24:12.100
democrats first and public servants
0:24:08.920,0:24:14.890
second and so they they serve that
0:24:12.100,0:24:17.350
democratic party those democratic party
0:24:14.890,0:24:20.200
goals and of course that’s get rid of
0:24:17.350,0:24:23.140
trump so you that whole pipeline of
0:24:20.200,0:24:25.420
leadership and leadership is is almost
0:24:23.140,0:24:28.060
universally of that ilk you know there
0:24:25.420,0:24:31.660
apparatchik democratic party apparatchik
0:24:28.060,0:24:33.220
you know staffer types that that now run
0:24:31.660,0:24:35.020
the show and all these organizations and
0:24:33.220,0:24:37.660
this is one of the things that president
0:24:35.020,0:24:38.800
has not really moved on yet and i don’t
0:24:37.660,0:24:39.850
know that that was what he meant by
0:24:38.800,0:24:41.980
draining the swamp that’s what i
0:24:39.850,0:24:43.990
understood him to mean but he’s not
0:24:41.980,0:24:44.230
working on that so i don’t know we’ll
0:24:43.990,0:24:46.420
see
0:24:44.230,0:24:49.300
as he selectively brings these people in
0:24:46.420,0:24:51.250
like attorney general bar perhaps
0:24:49.300,0:24:53.350
perhaps he’s going to move on some of
0:24:51.250,0:24:55.840
these other issues too but i think it’s
0:24:53.350,0:24:56.380
going to start at NSC when john bolton
0:24:55.840,0:25:01.840
leaves
0:24:56.380,0:25:03.190
perhaps in the next couple months brad
0:25:01.840,0:25:04.930
johnson thank you very much that was a
0:25:03.190,0:25:07.660
great update it makes a lot of sense and
0:25:04.930,0:25:09.100
it’s pretty encouraging we’ll speak to
0:25:07.660,0:25:10.960
you again as soon as i’m sure there’s
0:25:09.100,0:25:12.790
gonna be more events in the near future
0:25:10.960,0:25:14.890
and they’re gonna need some clarity so
0:25:12.790,0:25:18.360
we’ll I’ll call you back then thank you
0:25:14.890,0:25:18.360
all right thank you
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