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happy to welcome back here on one
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America news Brad Johnson Americans for
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intelligence reform today I wanted to
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sit down and talk to you about this
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caravan of migrants now in your own
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background as a former CIA officer you
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spent some time a lot of time in Latin
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America is all right that’s correct yes
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very familiar with the area’s so based
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on your knowledge of the area your own
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background in the area stationed there
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who is behind this caravan and what is
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the goal with with these we’ve seen one
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in April and now one in October that’s
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on its way right now to the US border
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vice-president pence several days ago
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announced what he’d learned from the
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Honduran president which was that
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Venezuela is backing a lot of this a lot
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of the impetus of this taking place now
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the implications out of what that means
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are absolutely fantastic I mean they’re
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extraordinarily important and dangerous
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one Venezuela comes from a kind of
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family now that has been created within
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Latin America all the extreme left
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countries in certainly including
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Nicaragua and Cuba and Bolivia and
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Venezuela they’re all associated now
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very closely with the Iran and Iran has
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officers intelligence officers embedded
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in their military intelligence units and
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their military units and their
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intelligence units so they’re they’re
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funding for all of this now we know
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Venezuela’s got economic problems but
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their funding is being driven out of of
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Iran talking about essentially is an
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Iranian soft power psychological
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operation that they’re running through
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Venezuela this we see in similar Iranian
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operations with cuds force at least more
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in terms of their support for terrorists
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throughout the region in other parts of
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the world and it’s it’s always been a
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hallmark of Iran isn’t that right to use
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this soft power absolutely but I would
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take it a step further because the
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doctrine that’s being promoted and this
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was originally started oddly enough by
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Carlos the Jackal who knows an old
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historical figure most people won’t be
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familiar with but he started a movement
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that was talking about the linking up of
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radical Islam and the radical leftist
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movements within Latin America that they
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need to join because they have the
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common enemy of the United States now
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that has grown and been worked upon and
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has now become the doctrine of the day
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for all of those
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groups and countries and what they’re
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talking about in their main strategy is
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to use asymmetrical warfare against the
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United States
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– just keep pecking away at the United
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States and chip away and make it a
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smaller weaker country at all times and
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this column marching towards the United
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States is a very good example of
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precisely what that looks like one of
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the hallmarks I think of asymmetric
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warfare is the fact that they’ve been
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very clear that in every picture every
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photo op that you see of them they’re
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carrying what they’re carrying the
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Honduran flag well they’re funded from
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different sources and some of it you see
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out of the extreme left here in the
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United States and there’s an association
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I mean everyone they you often hear
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referenced it was the term used
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previously but fellow travelers and it
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was a term used among those and it’s
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it’s this socialist international
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movement and agreement of goals to
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damage the United States to reduce its
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effectiveness on the world stage
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and that agreement across the board it
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creates this fellow traveler syndrome if
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you will well they’re all helping and
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overlapping and while the extreme left
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here in the United States supporting
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these front groups that you’ve always
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already mentioned like Cara and so on
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they may not be in actual contact with
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Iranian intelligence all that’s all
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overlapped and it’s this big
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conglomeration of these cooperative
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groups that share goals and thankfully
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President Trump at least I think
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instinctually kind of understands the
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threat that it poses and is now pushing
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forward with policies to shut this down
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and to combat this instead of a lot just
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allowing it to happen Brad thank you so
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much for coming on with us today we’re
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gonna be keeping an eye on this and
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following it as develops as they get
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