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Iran updates, Tommy Vietor's lies, and Senator Kelly's statements on classified material · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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  Speaker 1: joined my rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, retired United States Navy Admiral. Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: He's senior Fellow for the Foundation for the Defensive Democracy.
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  Speaker 1: Before I go to my questions, admam, what do you
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  Speaker 1: make of the exchange between the Iranians and the United
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  Speaker 1: States over the weekend President Trump's gaggle in the White
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  Speaker 1: House today?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that the United States is putting
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  Speaker 2: real pressure on Iran. You know, we've got this blockade
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  Speaker 2: is real. It's stopping eighteen to twenty billion dollars a
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  Speaker 2: month worth of exports, you know, probably ninety nine exports
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  Speaker 2: at the Rodians know it. They're very scared about the
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  Speaker 2: idea that we would open up the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: Gulf to others to transit through through a secure access
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  Speaker 2: and as a result, they're striking out. And President Trump
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  Speaker 2: did this exactly right. He said, look, they didn't hit
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  Speaker 2: the first time, we let it go. The second time
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  Speaker 2: when they were firing at the we did a proportionate
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  Speaker 2: response against the weapons that fired at US.
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  Speaker 3: I think if it happens again, we might be disproportionate.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you only put up with this so many
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  Speaker 2: times before you go disproportionate and escalate. But he's trying
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  Speaker 2: to keep escalation management in his hands right now, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why he did only a proportional response.
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  Speaker 1: I have two questions. First of all, Operation Freedom escort
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  Speaker 1: duty for getting the ships trapped and wrap some ships
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  Speaker 1: in to fill and get them out. Do you see
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  Speaker 1: that returning.
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  Speaker 3: I do? I think you know we're three reasons.
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  Speaker 2: One, as part of negotiations, we have to say this
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  Speaker 2: is one hundred percent UH. International law says you cannot
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  Speaker 2: limit transit passage in international waterways, and we, as a
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  Speaker 2: country that has enforced this for either eighty or two
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  Speaker 2: undred and fifty years, depending how you look at, our
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  Speaker 2: navy have enforced this traditional maritime law. Second, Iran can't
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  Speaker 2: be perceived as controlling the state the Strait of Hormuz
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  Speaker 2: at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Of the negotiations.
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  Speaker 4: It needs to be you try to block people for
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  Speaker 4: I think we're breaking, you're unable to succeed. And then third,
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  Speaker 4: it's helping out partners.
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  Speaker 1: With economically all right, now, Admiral I did some research
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  Speaker 1: after Senator Kelly said we're running low on munitions, and
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  Speaker 1: I know we might be, and maybe we're not. But
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  Speaker 1: one thing we're not running low on is torpedoes because
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  Speaker 1: we've only used two since World War Two in hostile actions.
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  Speaker 1: I looked up World War Two. We sank five hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty nine oil tankers in World War Two. Now
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and five of them were empty, but four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five tankers full of oil went to
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the seam. We didn't worry about the
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  Speaker 1: environmental damage. Can we just sink their ghost fleet? If
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  Speaker 1: push comes to shove, I think we lost them.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'd rather take it.
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  Speaker 1: You're back. I heard you say we'd I heard you
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  Speaker 1: say we'd rather.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we'd rather take them hostage as I
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  Speaker 2: mean take them as seize them and then put prize
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  Speaker 2: crews on board and return them to ports and then
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  Speaker 2: make decisions about how we deal with the with the
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  Speaker 2: cargo on board and the value of the ship. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think seeking them is necessary. We are strong enough
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  Speaker 2: and big enough and powerful enough of military. We have
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  Speaker 2: the right types of ships ESBs, amphib ships, the right
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  Speaker 2: types of visit boarding, search and seizure teams to go
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  Speaker 2: around and grab these wherever we need to in the
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  Speaker 2: Indian Ocean around their North Arabian Sea, So no.
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  Speaker 3: Need to sink them.
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  Speaker 2: Look, on occasion, ones will sink when we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: disable them.
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  Speaker 3: But from my point of view, we're doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: If a ship gets past the blockade that is not
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  Speaker 1: capturable but is sinkable, would you let it go or
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  Speaker 1: would you think it I'd sink it, Okay, And I'll.
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  Speaker 3: Make that if you need a longer answer, it's the right.
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  Speaker 3: That's what a blockade is.
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  Speaker 2: A blockade says you're going to be held accountable for
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  Speaker 2: trying to penetrate my blockade and run it. And boy
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  Speaker 2: talk about you know, shooting one, you know, shooting one
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  Speaker 2: of the monkeys or the other.
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  Speaker 1: Get the message, Well, tell me about what you think
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  Speaker 1: the rules are engagement for the boarding crews sinking a
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  Speaker 1: ship and of course I'm assuming we would give notice
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  Speaker 1: to the crew to get off of the ship and
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  Speaker 1: then we would pick up survivors. But is our crew
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  Speaker 1: in any danger from whoever is running an Iranian tanker
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  Speaker 1: with the IRGC put suicide vests on a boat.
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  Speaker 2: Potentially, you know, you hit right on the thing that
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  Speaker 2: worries me the most, which is a.
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  Speaker 3: Not the whole crew.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the crew aren't even Iranian, and they certainly
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  Speaker 2: aren't committed, right They're trying to make money, trying to
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  Speaker 2: you know, keep their families safe.
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  Speaker 3: But you could easily get a you know, the I ergency.
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  Speaker 2: You could place a crewman on board with malicious intent
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  Speaker 2: to attempt to approach you know, American forces and either
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  Speaker 2: shoot at them.
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  Speaker 5: Or detonate something.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure about a detonating vest if that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be their technique. I think they're more trying to
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  Speaker 2: shoot and kill. But in any case, our teams have
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  Speaker 2: to go down assuming.
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  Speaker 3: The highest level of risk. And we've assessed the ship.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're watching the ship, We're looking at the
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  Speaker 2: images of everyone on board. We're being very careful. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you can see it right here in the video. You're
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  Speaker 2: running so we're doing this. So from my perspective, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you take you minimize the risk to force the risk
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  Speaker 2: of the people and ensure you get the mission accomplished.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not worried.
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  Speaker 2: We have real professionals, whether there Special Operating Forces, Marines
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  Speaker 2: or Coast guardsmen we have, or even naval personnel. We
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of people who are experienced at this
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  Speaker 2: done scores of them, if not hundreds, particularly the Coastguard,
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  Speaker 2: and are and can handle any kind of risk situation.
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  Speaker 1: So you've studied this regime for a long time. My
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  Speaker 1: friend Mark Levin posted on after the Iranians rejected whatever
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  Speaker 1: President Trump proposed, They're National Security Council spokesperson came out
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  Speaker 1: and said the only option for America is a surrender
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  Speaker 1: and market the revenue. Said, this is a death cult.
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  Speaker 1: People have to understand we're dealing with the death cult.
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  Speaker 1: These are not rational actors. I agree with that. Do
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  Speaker 1: you agree with our assessment that this is not This
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  Speaker 1: isn't even North Korea? Because North Three are antheists. They
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  Speaker 1: just want to stay alive. But the Iranian theocrats and
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  Speaker 1: the fanatics and the ir G see they are they're fanatics.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you split that between the leadership, the autocrats, theocrats,
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  Speaker 2: and the people. You know, the people I think of
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  Speaker 2: Iran are uniquely well educated. You know, it can be
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  Speaker 2: a very successful state. But the autocrats, I mean, they're
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  Speaker 2: locked in. They've made money, they've had power, They've committed
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  Speaker 2: many of them have committed crimes for which they will
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  Speaker 2: would be held accountable by a transition, by a change
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  Speaker 2: in regimes. So for them, this is existential. That's kind
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  Speaker 2: of how I treat it. It's existential and existential. People
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  Speaker 2: talk smack, like the smack that got Mark Levin pissed
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  Speaker 2: off being pissed off.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so should we say nothing and just do things?
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  Speaker 1: Or ought we to enget agent educating the American people
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  Speaker 1: about the regime, because I'm not sure we've done enough
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that these are not rational actors.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm glad you brought that up.
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  Speaker 1: We have not.
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  Speaker 2: The President has got to talk more frequently about what
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  Speaker 2: this regime has done over forty seven years. But what
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  Speaker 2: they've done over four months, you know, killing thirty two
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  Speaker 2: thousand people in thirty six hours just three months ago.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like ancient history. Now, our European partners
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  Speaker 2: can barely remember it happened. You know, there's some film
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  Speaker 2: of it right there. You know this has been This
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  Speaker 2: was a dramatic event. This was killing on the speed
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  Speaker 2: and density, you know, comparable to nineteen forties Germany.
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  Speaker 3: That's the last time it was like this. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: from my perspective, we've got to do.
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  Speaker 2: The President has got to, I think, explain who the
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  Speaker 2: adversary is.
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  Speaker 3: I know he knows it.
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  Speaker 2: I know the people around him know it, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think he gets that the American people don't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: know it.
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  Speaker 3: And also, as a reminder to our European partners.
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  Speaker 2: You know well that these when you say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: YouTube belligerents are equal kind of the way McCrone talks
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: We're not.
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  Speaker 3: There's a big difference between the two of us.
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  Speaker 2: And if you can't recognize it, you're not truly a
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  Speaker 2: democratic aspirant.
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  Speaker 1: So last question, admimal in terms of our European partners,
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  Speaker 1: if they don't show up now, is that a significant blowing,
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  Speaker 1: if not a permanent blow to the alliance. If they
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  Speaker 1: don't show up now, they're not showing up when we
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  Speaker 1: really need them. I don't know how we count on
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  Speaker 1: them with China. If they don't show up, Now, this
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  Speaker 1: was a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say first, this is the worst, Like
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  Speaker 2: you know, the perfect storm of events. One, President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: the stuff with Greenland was kind of unnecessary and.
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  Speaker 3: Did create friction.
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  Speaker 2: Two they weren't brief very well, we weren't pre briefed
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  Speaker 2: at all. But three they acted. They absolutely responded wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And you put those three things together to blender and
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  Speaker 2: you get the condition right now with the presence frustrated,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad he recognizes there between Poland and the Baltic
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  Speaker 2: States and the western Europeans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the frontline states are gay verg.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that he averts it. Potentially, maybe those troops from
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  Speaker 2: Germany don't leave Europe, they.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Poland.
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  Speaker 2: That would be fantastic, especially the long range strike battiing
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  Speaker 2: that was coming in, because that's very useful.
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  Speaker 3: But my point on this is that you had a
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  Speaker 3: perfect storm there of not.
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  Speaker 5: Great things happening.
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  Speaker 1: We'll come back to that in future weeks. Rear Admiral
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  Speaker 1: Mark Montgomery, Senior fell retired, United Say, maybe senior fellow
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  Speaker 1: at the Foundation for Defensive Democracies follow him on as
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  Speaker 1: at Mark C. Montgomery. Thank you, Admiral. I'll be right
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  Speaker 1: back in America with Alex Gray, American Global Security stay too.
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  Speaker 6: I think that well, I'll get tired of this, I'll
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  Speaker 6: get bored, or I'll have some pressure.
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  Speaker 7: But there's no pressure. There's no pressure at all. We're
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  Speaker 7: going to have a complete victory.
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  Speaker 1: And Gloria and iman grace America, welcome back. I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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  Speaker 1: That is, of course President Trump earlier today in the
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  Speaker 1: Oval Office discuss that and the Iran War generally. I'm
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  Speaker 1: joined by Alex Gray. Alex is the CEO of the
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  Speaker 1: American Global Strategies Group, represents some of the country's finest
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  Speaker 1: defense companies. He is the former chief of staff at
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  Speaker 1: the National Security Council. Alex, are you surprised by the
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  Speaker 1: President's confidence.
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  Speaker 5: No, not at all.
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  Speaker 8: And I think the reason is who the United States
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  Speaker 8: is in a very enviable strategic position, particularly visa via Iran.
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  Speaker 8: But I would argue that the conflict, that epic fury
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  Speaker 8: has actually strengthened America's jew political position globally. You can
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  Speaker 8: go region by region. I think we've come out of
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  Speaker 8: this in a much stronger gew political hand than we
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  Speaker 8: went in with it, and the President's looking at the
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  Speaker 8: blockade and the success it's having in destroying the war
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  Speaker 8: economy of Iran. He's looking at the confusion within the regime.
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  Speaker 8: He's looking at their inability to get on the same page.
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  Speaker 8: And I think the President's conclusion is we have a
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  Speaker 8: lot higher tolerance for pain at the moment than this
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  Speaker 8: decrepit autocratic regime that's falling apart at the seams than
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  Speaker 8: they do. So his confidence is not surprising to me.
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  Speaker 1: So yesterday the big story was Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat
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  Speaker 1: from Arizona, went on faced the nation and told Margaret
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  Speaker 1: Brennon that he'd been in a classified briefing. That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a red flag. You're not supposed to divulge what
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  Speaker 1: you learn in classified briefings. That's got that with Senator
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  Speaker 1: Cotton earlier today and said we're running low ammunition. A.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe them. B Do you believe them? And
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  Speaker 1: see if he's right? What do we do?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Well, look, let's start with the fact that Senator
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  Speaker 8: Kelly is the living embodiment of the reason why the
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  Speaker 8: legislative branch has consistently been sidelined in national security issues
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  Speaker 8: over the last forty plus years, because I can tell
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  Speaker 8: you firsthand, when you're making a decision about whether to
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  Speaker 8: inform the legislative branch of something at the White House
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  Speaker 8: or at the Pentagon, your first assumption is this is
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  Speaker 8: going to get leaked and it's going to put people's
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  Speaker 8: lives at risk. And it's because of people like Mark
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  Speaker 8: Kelly that that is the default position of both democratic
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  Speaker 8: administrations and Republican administrations. To the substance to your question, Hugh,
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  Speaker 8: I think that the issue here, Yes, we have plenty
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  Speaker 8: of munitions to do what the President needs us to
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  Speaker 8: do and to have the ability to go back to
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  Speaker 8: overmatch kinetically if that's what we have to do. There
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  Speaker 8: is a broader point that I think people like the
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  Speaker 8: under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby when he was a
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  Speaker 8: private citizen made and people like myself and others that
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  Speaker 8: consistently we do not have a sufficient defense industrial base
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  Speaker 8: to be able to maintain munition stockpiles against a near
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  Speaker 8: peace or peer competitor think China, for a long term conflict.
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  Speaker 8: That is true, do we have sufficient resources? Do we
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  Speaker 8: have sufficient munitions to do what needs to be done
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  Speaker 8: in the immediate situation in Iran? I think absolutely. But
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  Speaker 8: does the fact that we are stretching a bit, does
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  Speaker 8: that show and demonstrate further that we need to be
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  Speaker 8: thinking about in an even more high end conflict what
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  Speaker 8: our needs are. Absolutely and if that prompts us to
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  Speaker 8: be more strategic about our munitions needs, that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Alex Gray, I know you're not going to tell
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  Speaker 1: us any trade secrets or disclosed anything about your clients
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  Speaker 1: that you're not supposed to disclose. You represent the very
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  Speaker 1: best in America's defense industrial base. I can tell the
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  Speaker 1: audience that they can look up ags if they want
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  Speaker 1: to see that. Have they ramped up since Trump came back?
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  Speaker 1: Do they have a demand signal on which they can rely?
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  Speaker 8: They absolutely do. And I think that's both the traditional
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  Speaker 8: defense companies. It's also the non traditional defense companies that
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  Speaker 8: are coming into the Pentagon. And this administration particularly has
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  Speaker 8: been extremely welcoming of non traditional players into the defense space.
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  Speaker 8: But whether you're traditional non traditional, I think companies are
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  Speaker 8: looking for two things here. They're looking for surety. They're
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  Speaker 8: looking for a sense that budgets are going to match reality.
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  Speaker 8: And that's what this over one trillion dollar proposed budget
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  Speaker 8: helps do. It helps give a signal that you have
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  Speaker 8: an administration that wants to see an industrial base ramped
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  Speaker 8: up to its full capacity. And the second thing is
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  Speaker 8: I think that they're looking at the reforms that are
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  Speaker 8: going on in the Pentagon. People like the Deputy Secretary
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  Speaker 8: of War Steve Feinberg, are finally tackling some of the
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  Speaker 8: long standing procurement and acquisition issues that have the devil
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  Speaker 8: traditional non traditional everybody in the industrial base.
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  Speaker 3: And I think you're.
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  Speaker 8: Starting to see a change in culture and just be
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  Speaker 8: very honest, a lot of times, for many years, the
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  Speaker 8: defense industry, I think didn't feel that there was a
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  Speaker 8: necessity for change. And the President has put a lot
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  Speaker 8: of pressure on the industry and you're starting to see
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  Speaker 8: the industry respond in a patriotic and helpful way, and
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  Speaker 8: I think that's a very virtuous cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Alex I was downtown DC on Friday at the SCSP
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  Speaker 1: Expo and that had I don't know hundreds of AI
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  Speaker 1: companies and AI adjacent companies displaying their wares. That's the
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  Speaker 1: conference that was organized by ek Shmidt at they a
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  Speaker 1: suggestion of Henry Kissinger. It's overwhelming how much innovation America
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  Speaker 1: is doing in that space does that oudor well for
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  Speaker 1: our ability to respond. I don't think China can do
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  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. I don't think they can actually
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  Speaker 1: have a big convention expo with all their defense industries
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  Speaker 1: hawking their wares than actually selling them because they'd be
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  Speaker 1: afraid of leaking and getting arrested.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I look, our great strength you, as you know
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  Speaker 8: better than anyone, is the innovative nature of the American economy,
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  Speaker 8: and AI is the place where, at this moment in
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  Speaker 8: time that is most on display every day.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously the Chinese are working over time with industrial policy,
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  Speaker 8: with coercive efforts to try and keep up. We have
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  Speaker 8: just a dynamic, rule of law based economy that they
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  Speaker 8: can only dream of. My only concern you, just to
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  Speaker 8: be a little bit of a downer, is we are
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  Speaker 8: starting to see the Democratic Party particularly look at AI
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  Speaker 8: as something to be regulated and something to be constrained.
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  Speaker 8: We're seeing it with data centers, We're starting to see
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  Speaker 8: it with questions about should we impose a universal basic income.
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  Speaker 8: We're starting to see AI regulation at the state level
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  Speaker 8: that in some cases is incredibly punitive and counterproductive. So
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  Speaker 8: I think that there's beginning to be as there always
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  Speaker 8: is with new technology a bit of a domestic backlash
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  Speaker 8: that we need to be very careful of for both
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  Speaker 8: economic innovation reasons but also for national security reasons.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, you know you're the third guest I've asked
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  Speaker 1: this to today, asked adwal Montgomery, Senator Cotton. But one
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  Speaker 1: thing I know we're not running short of is torpedo
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  Speaker 1: tubes in Virginia class attack submarines. What about just sinking
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian tankers? We've been we've been capturing them and
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  Speaker 1: taking them into neutral harbors. But if we really run
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: short on munitions or we h they got too many
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: ghost fleet? Got any problem with just sinking them? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: give the crew notice and everything, get them off the boat,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: but then sink it. We that happened a thousand times
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  Speaker 1: in World War Two.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, no, here, you're I think you're one hundred percent right.
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  Speaker 8: It's why we defeated the Japanese. We choked them off
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  Speaker 8: with undersea dominance, and it's our it's our greatest strength.
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  Speaker 3: Look, we did it to.
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  Speaker 8: The Iranian Navy off the coast of India. I don't
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  Speaker 8: see whether there's any reason if you give the appropriate
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  Speaker 8: warning to you know, ostensibly civilian mariners, that we're going
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  Speaker 8: to do this if that's the best way, the most
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  Speaker 8: efficient tactical way to stop the evading of the blockade,
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  Speaker 8: I don't have any problem with it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good to hear it. That's an interesting question that
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: crossed my mind because Senator Kelly, I'm not sure I
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  Speaker 1: believe him, but if he's right, and we have to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: steward our munition, we've got lots of torpedoes that haven't
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: been used since World War Two except that one time
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Alex Grave American Global Security just referenced Alex Great. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Margaret, we have.
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  Speaker 9: We've been tracking it a number of times. We've been
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: briefed by the Pentagon on specific munitions. Actually it's been
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: pretty detailed on Tomahawk's attack, them's SM three's fat rounds,
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: Patriot rounds, so those interceptor rounds to defend ourselves, and
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: the numbers are I think it's fair to say it's
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Program Back America. I Hugh Hewett. That was Mark Kelly
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: on Face the Nation yesterday. I am joined now by
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Senator Tom Cotton, who the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: A lot of people immediately assumed that Mark Kelly was
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: giving away classified information. Was that from classified briefings, Hugh.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not going to pine on what Mark Kelly said
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: Yester on Sunday Shows. He's he has been in classified briefings,
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: so I've been there with him about the exact figures,
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  Speaker 10: and those are pretty sensitive numbers, Hugh. In fact, if
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: I recall, I think sometimes they even ask most staff
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: to leave the room as well. I can say a
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: few things though that are not classified. One, everyone knows
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: that we have challenges with our ammunitions. We simply don't
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: make enough of our weapons fast enough. Two that's in
• 20:51
  Speaker 10: the small part because of Democratic cuts to our defense
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: budget over the years. It's like Merge migrating south for
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: the win. Every time a Democrat takes office, whether it's
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden, they cut the
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: defense budget. And one easy thing to cut, easier than
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: aircraft or ships or troops and their pay and their
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: health care and their benefits, is our munition's budget. And
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: Democrats stuff they can get away with that. And then
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: along comes urs, the war in Ukraine, and then the
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: wars against Iran over the last two and a half
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: years and the threat of a conflict over now. The
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: Democrats are blaming Donald Trump somehow for this, when it's
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: really their reckless cuts to the defense budget. The final
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: thing I'll say, Hugh, is that obviously the President, Marco Rubio,
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: Pete Hegseth, Steve Feinberg, Dan Kine are all aware of
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: these challenges and they would not take any action, in
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: my opinion, that endangers our national security that leaves us
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: unable to defend ourselves, to defend our friends around the world, world,
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: and to church China.
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  Speaker 1: So let me take it away from Senator Kelly then
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and not ask you to comment on him. Can you
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: discuss the munition stockpiles with me?
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: I can tell you that we don't have enough, and
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: we don't produce them fast enough for you. We need more.
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: That's been proving clear over the last five years by
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: the stress that our defense industrial base has exposed by
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: you praying in Iran. Let me be clear, though, it's
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: the war you train and the wars in Iran have
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: not caused the fragility or brittleness of our defense industrial base.
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: It's exposed them because of them. Is the reckless defense
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: cuts that Democrats always imposed when they take office. Now,
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: the Trump administration is working with us in Congress to
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: produce more missiles and missile defense interceptors as quickly as
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: we can. They've made good strides in the last year plus,
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: but there's more work to be.
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  Speaker 1: Done here all right now, Senator I did some research today.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing I know we're not low on is
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: torpedoes because we've only used two of them since World
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: War Two, and I assume every Virginia class submarine has
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: got torpedoes in it. During World War Two, we sank
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty nine oil tankers. Look that up.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: At least one hundred of them were empty, So that
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: means we sunk four hundred and twenty nine oil tankers.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: They're not as big as supertankers, but we sunk them.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Should we cut out the middlemendin just give we're capturing
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: these oil tankers right now, we're boarding with special forces,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and we're taking them into neutral harbors. And I don't
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: know what's going to happen to the oil of the ship,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: but it's the ghost fleet. They're sanctioned vessels. Should we
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: just give the crew time to get off and then
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: sink them.
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: Huge, four at a time.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: On that.
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: I would want to hear the professional military judgment of
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: General Kine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Admiral
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: Cooper are combatant commander in.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: The Middle East.
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: But I think we should consider every option we have
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: to keep the economic advice on Iran and make it
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: even tighter because they're on the back foot right mail,
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: and every day gets worse for them.
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  Speaker 1: What was your reaction, Senator, when you read yesterday that
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the response of the National Security Council spokesperson in Iran
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: was that we should surrender, that we had lost the war,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and then President Trump dismissed quickly and comprehensively their long
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: winded non response to his proposal.
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: Hugh, I'm not the monded python expert that you are.
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: But every now and then you play that clip about
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: the guy who said it's just a flesh loan.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: That's what it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Brings to mind.
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: I do, and I just I mean, one simple observation
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: is that Donald Trump is still holding forth in press
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: conferences and going to golf tournaments every weekend. The Supreme
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: Leader of Iran has gone to his justice are killed
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  Speaker 10: in the first day of this war. Our navy is
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: still on the sea. Their navy is underneath the sea.
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: They have no air force left. Basically every leader in
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: Iran is either dead or afraid to turn their cell
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  Speaker 10: phone on. That doesn't exactly sound like a victory to me, Hugh,
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: no matter how much the Democrats and the liberal media
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: and America try to spin it as a victory for
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: Iran and defeat for America.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I do hear the left arguing that we're in
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: a forever war when you know, we've been there two months,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and if this takes six months to bring this regime
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to its knees, or eight months or a year, and
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: we don't have troops on the ground, is that a
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: forever war? Soender Cotton here.
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: The forever war is what Iran waged against us for
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: forty seven years, and we largely turned the other cheek.
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: We had presidents like mill Clinton and Barack Obama and
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: Joe Biden might talk a tough game against Iran, but
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: in the end they usually extended to helping him to
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: arrive and they were scared to strike back. Now we
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: have a president who is actually enforcing the words of
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: past presidents Republican and Democrat alike, to end the campaign
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: of terror that Iran is waged, not just against the U,
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: I'd say to you, but against the civilized world. For
• 26:16
  Speaker 10: forty seven years, that's the only forever work that's been
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: waged here. We just decided to finally join it and
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: win it in short order.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: So last question, Senator Cotton. Back when the JCPOA, that
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: disastrous deal that was entered into by President Obama was signed,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: you sent a letter today to the late I tolda
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: how many not how many two point zero, but how
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: many one point zero? Say, hey, that's not really binding
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and there are many flaws in it and it won't
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: find the next president. Did you point out at the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: time that there were no missile restraints, there was no
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: proxy restraints, that the JCPOA was a terrible deal from
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: day one.
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: Yeah, maybe not in that letter to you, but we
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: certainly pointed out repeatedly that on the nuclear terms of
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: the bill itself were terrible, but the fact that it
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: didn't cover at all their missile programs or their support
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: for terrorism made it even worse. Obviously, you know, we
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: don't know the endgame in a roun right now, but
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: we're light years better than we were not just three
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: months ago, but ten months ago, with their nuclear programs
• 27:20
  Speaker 10: blown to smither rains, and with their missile and drone
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: magazines reduced, with the ability to replace them severely degraded,
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: and with their air force and may be destroyed.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Sarah Cotton, thank you for joining me, and thank you
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: for your precision in answering questions about national security in
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: such a way as to not perhaps give false confidence
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to our enemies or betray classified information. Not that hard,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: but at least you pay attention to your job and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: not betraying American security in the course of doing it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Seda Cotton. I'll be right back in America's
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Kids Back America. Hew it inside the Beltway. Joined by
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: America's columnist Selena Zito. Follower on x at zto Selena
• 28:01
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• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I loved your column on Brett Bair's book, which I
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: greatly enjoyed, The Case for America. I loved it so
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: much I'm not going to tell anyone about it. I
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: want them to go read it. But in a short version,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: why did you love it?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
• 28:21
  Speaker 11: He really makes the case in a way that is
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: both aspirational but informative, and.
• 28:28
  Speaker 12: He retains he really.
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: Digs into the optimism that makes us despite all of
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  Speaker 11: the things, and all the struggles and all the setbacks
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: and all the bad choices that we have.
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  Speaker 12: Made throughout our two hundred and fifty.
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: Year anniversary, at two hundred and fifty years of existence,
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  Speaker 11: he really does a great way of prosecuting the case
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  Speaker 11: that this country is exceptional, that we have lived up
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  Speaker 11: to our ideals, and that the great experiment is working
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  Speaker 11: and it is I.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Want to involve you in a controversy in which I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: am tangentially involved. Here is what tom You know, Tommy
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Vider one of the pod boys. It was on tiam Obama.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: So Tommy, Yeah, Tommy was an intern in the White House.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Tommy writes, lames media tycoon turned political prisoner Jimmy Lai
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: for his imprisonment in Hong Kong. He says he blames
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: him and says he would keep Jim Comey in jail
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: if he was in prison in the US, just like
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Jijin Ping wants lot in jail. Wonder if Trump's fluffer,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Ugh Hewett will weigh in on that take. Did you
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: hear the president's comments on Jimmy Lye to day, No, I.
• 29:42
  Speaker 12: Did not, but I was out on the road.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: What did he say, Well, let me play them for you.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Cut number five.
• 29:48
  Speaker 12: Oh, yes, thereas morning. She's the daughter of Jimmy Lai.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: And she told me that she's been praying and hoping
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: that you'll be the.
• 29:54
  Speaker 12: One that brings her dad home.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: She says, of any administration, she thinks you're the one
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: that could do it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: Do you hear jimim Jimmy Lai's daughter.
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: And there's another gentleman, a minister pastor. As you know,
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: I'll bring them both up. I brought it up before
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: Jimmy Lay.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: I brought up the other.
• 30:11
  Speaker 13: One I just heard about this morning. Actually, and I
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: do bring that up. You know we've gotten I don't
• 30:17
  Speaker 13: know if you've been reading John Cole.
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: He's a great lawyer who was a tobacco lawyers.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Great, great guy.
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: I won't say he's an older guy because he may
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: be offended by.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: That, but he is.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: He's a little older. He's a little older, and he's
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: a wise man. Actually made a fortune with the tobacco.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: He did the first tobacco laws.
• 30:36
  Speaker 14: And he's a great man, and he he's brought.
• 30:39
  Speaker 15: Back hundreds of people out of various belarus.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: You know, you read about.
• 30:45
  Speaker 15: That we had and the leader has been fantastic, But.
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: Somebody has to ask him.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: I'd never asked.
• 30:52
  Speaker 15: We asked, and we were getting hundreds of people out
• 30:55
  Speaker 15: of confinement and prisons that shouldn't be there, and hundreds
• 31:00
  Speaker 15: and many of them aren't even citizens of the United States.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: And people that have been captured in some form, ministers and.
• 31:07
  Speaker 15: People that are really innocent people and they're being held captive.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: And I bring up Jimmy Light now, Jimmy Lai.
• 31:16
  Speaker 15: You know, he caused bedlam.
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 31:20
  Speaker 16: It's like saying to me, if call me ever went
• 31:24
  Speaker 16: to jail, would you let him out?
• 31:29
  Speaker 14: That might be a hard one for me, because that
• 31:32
  Speaker 14: makes sense. It might be a hard you know, because
• 31:34
  Speaker 14: he's a dirty cop. But Jimmy Laie is in that way.
• 31:37
  Speaker 14: But Jimmy Light, he caused lots of turmoil for China.
• 31:43
  Speaker 17: He tried to do the right thing, he wasn't successful,
• 31:46
  Speaker 17: went to jail, and people would like him out and
• 31:48
  Speaker 17: I'd like to see him get out to so I'll
• 31:51
  Speaker 17: bring him up again.
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: I have brought him up and there's another gentleman.
• 31:54
  Speaker 18: A pastor as you know, with a beautiful daughter and
• 31:59
  Speaker 18: son in law, would like to see him get out.
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: I'm going to bring his name up.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: So saying the three things he said, James Commy was
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: a dirty cop, Jimmy Lai is not like that. Jimmy
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Li tried to do the right thing, caused bedlam, caust
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: some problems for GI, but I'll try and get him out.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: To remind you what Tommy Beeter said, he said Trump
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: blames media tycoon turned political prisoner Jimmy Lai for his
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: imprisonment and says he would keep Chincomi in jail if
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: he was in prison in the US, just like GJMP
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: wants lie in jail. Wonder if Trump's fluffer you Hewitt
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: will weigh in on that take. What do you make
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: of Tommy Beeter's comment?
• 32:38
  Speaker 12: Well, first of all, that's the most twisted sentence.
• 32:40
  Speaker 11: I mean, you have to it's like an algebra problem,
• 32:43
  Speaker 11: a calculus problem. It doesn't even make sense to be honest,
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: It's a lie.
• 32:49
  Speaker 12: Well, yeah, it is a lie. I mean I feel
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: like that's that's obvious. Right. But here's the thing about Trump.
• 32:57
  Speaker 11: Remember when the Western Pennsylvania teacher was held and Trump
• 33:04
  Speaker 11: handled it kind of the same way you like, I'll
• 33:07
  Speaker 11: ask I'll see if I can get him out of Russia.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: And he sort of.
• 33:10
  Speaker 12: Danced around it but didn't assure anything. And the next
• 33:14
  Speaker 12: thing we know.
• 33:14
  Speaker 11: He comes he's dumb meeting with Putin, and then like
• 33:18
  Speaker 11: a week later he's back home.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I think I don't know, but I think he
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: was foreshadowing his tactic. I think he's going to do
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: something like gee, you know, gee, I know this day.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I understand if someone put if Comy went to jail,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I'd have a hard time if you came to me
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and asked me to let him out. But it's not
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: the same thing. Comy's a dirty cop and Jimmy Lyve
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: was just a political protester, so you should let that.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I think he was just foreshadowing his argument.
• 33:48
  Speaker 12: Yes, he was totally doing that.
• 33:51
  Speaker 11: This is the way he talks and way he deals
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: in the way he teases out a situation to get
• 33:57
  Speaker 11: the most out of it, right, and in the end
• 34:01
  Speaker 11: everyone's like, oh wow, I can't believe you got them out.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: So what is wrong with the Obama people that they
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: hate Trump? So have you seen how many TDS people
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: have been gone crazy because of the statue at the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Durreal golf course at Donald Trump.
• 34:20
  Speaker 11: Oh, yes I have, and it's been unfortunate the way
• 34:25
  Speaker 11: that they.
• 34:25
  Speaker 12: Have framed it.
• 34:27
  Speaker 11: But you know, I can't get my I have never
• 34:33
  Speaker 11: hated anyone that was our president ever. Ever, I might
• 34:38
  Speaker 11: not like their policies, I might have been exasperated by them,
• 34:42
  Speaker 11: but I never harbored.
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: Any deep hatred.
• 34:45
  Speaker 11: So I can't get my head inside of people making
• 34:49
  Speaker 11: their entire lives about hatred. And they write the same
• 34:54
  Speaker 11: stories every week, They write the same point of view
• 34:57
  Speaker 11: every week, they talk about the same point of view
• 34:59
  Speaker 11: on their podcast every week, and it's regurgitating this this hatred.
• 35:06
  Speaker 12: But it doesn't It leaves them stock. And I would
• 35:09
  Speaker 12: never want to.
• 35:10
  Speaker 11: Be professionally or emotionally stopped in the way today.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Off are I agree? It is corrosive on their soul,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: on their perspective, and on their reality. Having trouble dealing
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: with reality. It's a statue, it's on his golf course.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: He's not taking he's not trashing the United States Constitution.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Selena Zeta would follow her on access to Zito. Selena
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Vakimerica I'm Hugh Hewett. Betany Mandela is my guest. She
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: is one of the proprietors of the moom Wars dot
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  Speaker 1: substat dot com. Bethany, you know the President's going to
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: go so now I'm a General Secretary g this week.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: And I assume you know who Jimmy Layah is.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: I do, yes, okay?
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: And do you know who Tommy Veter is one of
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the Pod bros yep, one of the pod boys I
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: call them to play for. I talked to the President
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: about Jimmy Lai a week ago. Today he said I
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: will bring him up, and then he got asked in
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the Oval office by Mary Margaret today about Jimmy Lai.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: This exchange followed about which then Tommy Vider and I've
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: had in exchange. Here's the original exchange, the President and
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Mary Margaret in the Oval on China and Jimmy Lai
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: cut number five speaking there last morning.
• 36:25
  Speaker 11: She's the daughter of Jimmy Lai, and she told me
• 36:27
  Speaker 11: that she's been praying and hoping that you'll be the
• 36:29
  Speaker 11: one that brings her dad home.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: She says, of any administration, she thinks you're the one.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: That could do it.
• 36:34
  Speaker 12: Do you see jim Jimmy Lai's daughter.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: And there's another gentleman, a minister pastor.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: As you know.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: I'll bring them both up. I brought it up before
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: Jimmy Laie. I brought up the other one.
• 36:46
  Speaker 13: I just heard about this morning, actually, and I do
• 36:50
  Speaker 13: bring that up.
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: You know, we've gotten I don't know if you've been
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: reading John Cole, who's a great lawyer.
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: It was the tobacco lawyers. Great, great guy.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: I won't say he's an older guy because he may
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: be offended by that, but he is.
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: He's a little older.
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: He's a little older, and he's a wise man. Actually
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: made a fortune with the tobacco. He did the first
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: tobacco boss. And he's a great man.
• 37:13
  Speaker 14: And he he's brought.
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: Back hundreds of people out of various belaruts.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: You know, you read about.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: That we had and the leader has been fantastic.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: But somebody has to ask him.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: I'd never asked.
• 37:27
  Speaker 15: We asked, and we were getting hundreds of people out
• 37:30
  Speaker 15: of confinement and prisons that shouldn't be there, and hundreds
• 37:35
  Speaker 15: and many of them aren't even.
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: Citizens of the United States. And people that have been
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: captured in.
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: Some form, ministers and people that are really innocent people
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: and they're being held captive.
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: And I bring up Jimmy Light. Now, Jimmy Lae, you.
• 37:51
  Speaker 15: Know, caused let bedlam.
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 37:56
  Speaker 16: It's like saying to me, you've called me, but to jail,
• 38:01
  Speaker 16: would you let him out?
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: That might be a hard one for me.
• 38:07
  Speaker 14: Does that make sense? It might be hard because he's
• 38:09
  Speaker 14: a dirty cop. But Jimmy Laie isn't that way. But
• 38:12
  Speaker 14: Jimmy led.
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: He goes lots of turmoil for China.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: He tried to do the right thing.
• 38:20
  Speaker 17: He wasn't successful, went to jail, and people would like
• 38:23
  Speaker 17: him out, and I'd like to see him get out too,
• 38:26
  Speaker 17: So I'll bring.
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: Him up again. I have brought him up. And there's
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: another gentleman, a pastor as.
• 38:31
  Speaker 18: You know, with a beautiful daughter and son in law
• 38:35
  Speaker 18: that would like to see him get out.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: I'm going to bring his team up.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: So Bethany Tommy posts on as Trump blames media tycoon
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: turned political prisoner Jimmy Lai for his imprisonment in Hong
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Kong and says he would keep Jim Comey in jail
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: if he was in prison in the US, just like
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Ji Jinping wants lie in jail. I wonder if Trump's
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: sloper Hugh Hewitt will wein weigh in on this take,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: to which I responded, how shocking you discover Tommy doesn't
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: do research I much care about the truth. Is that
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: what Trump said as Tommy related.
• 39:10
  Speaker 19: It's it's no, it's it's pretty wild to see how
• 39:14
  Speaker 19: they can possibly twist everything that Trump says to fit
• 39:17
  Speaker 19: their narrative. And it's especially disturbing when you see this
• 39:21
  Speaker 19: kind of game gamesmanship happening over someone's freedom. It's it's
• 39:26
  Speaker 19: not just American politics, it's not it's not a game.
• 39:29
  Speaker 19: This is someone's life that he's toying with, and in
• 39:32
  Speaker 19: so doing, he's taking the side of the Chinese. He's
• 39:35
  Speaker 19: playing into their hands and shifting the blame and causing
• 39:40
  Speaker 19: divisiveness at a moment where the president's doing the right
• 39:42
  Speaker 19: thing here, and it seems like he'd rather get a
• 39:45
  Speaker 19: dunk than, you know, for a man to have his freedom.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: And that's it's also just simply not true what the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: president'said is. Yeah, the analogy is, if you asked me
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: to let Comy go, it would be a tough lift
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: for me, like it's a tough lift for she to
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: let Jimmy l go, not because Jimmy Laie. I honestly
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: don't know if Peter's dumb. Do you think he's dumb
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: or do you think he knows what he's doing.
• 40:11
  Speaker 19: I think he knows what he's doing. I think he
• 40:12
  Speaker 19: knows what he's doing. I think it would be more
• 40:14
  Speaker 19: convenient if he were dumb and we could sort of
• 40:17
  Speaker 19: brush it off and say, what an idiot. But he's
• 40:20
  Speaker 19: pretty calculating. It's a really disgusting move. He knows exactly
• 40:23
  Speaker 19: what he's.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Doing, and what he's doing is anything in the service
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: of the narrative. Trump can't have a win. Trump can't
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: be better on human rights than Obama, who was abysmal.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Now let me ask you about the response from Iran.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: They blew off whatever we sent them, the fourteen points,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: which had me un nerves. They blew it off completely,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I am. And then their national security spokesman said America
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: should surrender. How ought we to respond to that? In
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: your opinion, Bethany Mandel.
• 40:53
  Speaker 19: I mean, I think how President Trump responded was good.
• 40:56
  Speaker 19: He said, you know, this entire situation is on life support.
• 41:00
  Speaker 19: These people are suicidal, and that this is the problem
• 41:03
  Speaker 19: with dealing with actors like these because they'll never surrender.
• 41:07
  Speaker 19: They'll never they'll never give up. I read a great piece,
• 41:09
  Speaker 19: right Jonathan Schanzer from FDD in Commentary magazine this month,
• 41:13
  Speaker 19: and he basically said, like, we're never going to have
• 41:15
  Speaker 19: a situation like we had the end of World War
• 41:17
  Speaker 19: Two where they just unconditionally surrender, and so we just
• 41:20
  Speaker 19: kind of have to decide you're done now and it's
• 41:23
  Speaker 19: time to walk away, because these suicidal maniacs who are
• 41:26
  Speaker 19: in charge of the regime will never just put up
• 41:29
  Speaker 19: their hands and say, Okay, I cry uncle. You know,
• 41:33
  Speaker 19: I think the way that the President has been supporting
• 41:37
  Speaker 19: the fact that they that the Iranian people want to
• 41:38
  Speaker 19: pick up arms is good because that is our endpoint here.
• 41:42
  Speaker 19: That's that's our exit strategy.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: So do you think American generally, not the Tommy leaders
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: of the world or the Obama apologies, but American it's
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: a death cult. That's different from China, Russia and North Korea,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: which hasn't interest all of them in surviving and prosperous.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Iran has an interest in dying, or at least the
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: people running the regime, not the Iranian ninety two million people,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: but the two hundred and fifty thousand people in the IRGC.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: It's a death cult. You can't negotiate with Jim Jones
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: and the People's Temple in Guyana, can you.
• 42:16
  Speaker 19: Yes, that's true. I would argue that the North Korean
• 42:19
  Speaker 19: regime is also a death cult. But yes, no, I
• 42:21
  Speaker 19: think you're absolutely correct. There is no negotiating with people
• 42:24
  Speaker 19: who who think that the ultimate reward is you know,
• 42:28
  Speaker 19: paradise with however many virgins, Where do you go from there?
• 42:32
  Speaker 19: With these kinds of people.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I want to get you ready for what
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: I think we're going to do. I'll ask a few
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: experts today. They have lots of tankers. We have lots
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: of ways to stop tankers, but some get away from us.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: But we have forty plus Virginia Tech submarines. We can
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: put torpedoes into tankers that belong to Iran. And we
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: sank a thousand tankers in World War Two. We had
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: just sink their tanker. You know, give them notice, get
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: the crew off. Say we're about to sink your tanker.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: You might want to take to the lifeboats. Should we
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: do that?
• 43:04
  Speaker 19: I'm no, Pete Hegseth, I'm no, you know, military strategician.
• 43:08
  Speaker 19: But this can't go on, this bizarre holding pattern that
• 43:12
  Speaker 19: we're in with the with the ceasefire as it stands,
• 43:16
  Speaker 19: it can't continue.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 43:18
  Speaker 19: I don't think that we can say we can walk
• 43:20
  Speaker 19: away and put up our hands and you know, wipe
• 43:21
  Speaker 19: them and say we're done here. I don't think we're
• 43:23
  Speaker 19: done here. And so, you know, if it takes more
• 43:27
  Speaker 19: military action of that nature, I think that's important. We
• 43:32
  Speaker 19: need to get the gas prices down, we need to
• 43:33
  Speaker 19: get that straight opened up. And if that's how it
• 43:36
  Speaker 19: has to happen, then the rest of the world should
• 43:38
  Speaker 19: thank us. I know that they won't, but you know,
• 43:40
  Speaker 19: I think that that's the most likely next step that
• 43:43
  Speaker 19: will get us to an endpoint that is, you know,
• 43:46
  Speaker 19: sort of acceptable for everyone in America.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't want to blow up their infrastructure. You
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: want that for the Iranian people after the regime crumbles. Yeah,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: But thinking the tanker doesn't end the export of oil
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: because they are actually legit tankers out, they're not their
• 44:00
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• 44:04
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• 46:35
  Speaker 20: Welcome back America. I'm here, Hewett. You ever listen to that?
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: That is Southern grind. It is from part three of
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: the part album Resurrection and Revival by Max Sonise. His father,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Gary Sinise, joins us. Gary's been working on that project
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: since max' dath. He went and found all of his
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: music on this computer. Good friend of the program, Gary soon,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: it's good friend of veterans and first responders across the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: United States. And I love this project. Garry, how are you?
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: And how goes the project with your son? And we'll
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: come to the foundation of the next segment. But tell
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: me about Revival Part three, Resurrection and Revival.
• 47:17
  Speaker 21: Thanks yes, thanks so much for having me.
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: Hugh.
• 47:23
  Speaker 21: Well, you know, and we had you and I had
• 47:25
  Speaker 21: talked when we put out the Resurrection and Revival Part
• 47:30
  Speaker 21: two album, and that was a lot of music that
• 47:34
  Speaker 21: I found on my son's laptop that he'd written but
• 47:40
  Speaker 21: never played for me. Tucked it away and I found
• 47:42
  Speaker 21: it and we went to work on Resurrection and Revival
• 47:45
  Speaker 21: Part two, which came out in.
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: Twenty twenty four.
• 47:51
  Speaker 21: Last year twenty twenty five, I started looking through the
• 47:54
  Speaker 21: laptop again and I started finding all kinds of music,
• 47:57
  Speaker 21: and the piece that you just played little bit there,
• 48:01
  Speaker 21: it's called Southern Grind. That's really the piece that I
• 48:04
  Speaker 21: found that started the whole ball roating. I had never
• 48:07
  Speaker 21: seen the file when I put together Resurrection and Revival
• 48:12
  Speaker 21: Part two, and then I stumbled on this file and
• 48:16
  Speaker 21: it turns out that Mac was writing music for an
• 48:19
  Speaker 21: industrial film called Public Landshu and one of the pieces
• 48:25
  Speaker 21: he was writing was this Southern grind. I never found it,
• 48:28
  Speaker 21: and it's just this great rock and blues tune. And
• 48:32
  Speaker 21: that started me looking through the laptop again, and I
• 48:36
  Speaker 21: started finding all kinds of additional melodies, Max singing into
• 48:41
  Speaker 21: his phone, just thing ideas that he was having playing
• 48:45
  Speaker 21: the piano, all these different things, and we found so
• 48:48
  Speaker 21: many musical ideas and some pretty structured pieces and everything
• 48:53
  Speaker 21: that I thought, well, I've got to go to work
• 48:56
  Speaker 21: on a third album, and Resurrection and Revival Part three
• 49:00
  Speaker 21: now is being pressed. It's in pre sale at the
• 49:03
  Speaker 21: Gary Senese Foundation, and it comes out next month.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: I thought the fact that we're going to talk today.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Yesterday I was down with my daughter and her for
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: kids because my son in law is deployed, and the
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: pastor of her church brought up very poignant you know,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to talk to you, making my notes
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: for the next segment about the foundation and the new
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: warriors who've been wounded, and he made a point saying, people,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: you got to remember on Mother's Day there are lots
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: of mothers who have lost their children to premature death
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: in the way that Moira has, and for them it's
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: a very difficult day. Keep them in your prayers.
• 49:40
  Speaker 21: How is Moira, Oh, thanks so much for asking you.
• 49:45
  Speaker 21: She's doing okay. You know this is a you know,
• 49:51
  Speaker 21: the loss of a child is it's hard to explain.
• 49:55
  Speaker 21: I've met so many of the families of our fallen
• 49:58
  Speaker 21: heroes who have lost service members and whatnot over the years,
• 50:03
  Speaker 21: and I've tried to help them through and I've learned
• 50:07
  Speaker 21: quite a bit from them about resilience and perseverance in
• 50:11
  Speaker 21: the face of tremendous grief. And then we got hit
• 50:15
  Speaker 21: with a cancer diagnosis in twenty eighteen for our son
• 50:19
  Speaker 21: Mac and he battled that for six years, and then
• 50:23
  Speaker 21: when we lost him. I mean, even though I could
• 50:29
  Speaker 21: see what the cancer was doing to him and it
• 50:32
  Speaker 21: was getting worse and worse and worse, I still never
• 50:36
  Speaker 21: believed that we weren't going to get through it. And
• 50:40
  Speaker 21: then when all of a sudden things turned and it
• 50:45
  Speaker 21: was his final hours, and then he was gone, and
• 50:47
  Speaker 21: I couldn't talk to him anymore, and the family couldn't
• 50:50
  Speaker 21: talk to him anymore, and he was gone. I thought about,
• 50:55
  Speaker 21: you know, I couldn't help but think about all the
• 50:57
  Speaker 21: families who had lost loved ones quickly, you know, a
• 51:01
  Speaker 21: bombing or a shooting or.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: Something like that. People that I've met so often over
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: the years, and you know they have they have given
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: me a.
• 51:13
  Speaker 21: Lot of strength to try to persevere through this, and
• 51:16
  Speaker 21: certainly Mac leaving all this incredible music for me to find.
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, it really was like a beautiful gift.
• 51:24
  Speaker 21: There's a there's a book coming out you that I've
• 51:26
  Speaker 21: been working on for a couple of years. It comes
• 51:29
  Speaker 21: out in November. It's called Graceful Warrior. And that's how
• 51:34
  Speaker 21: I saw Mac as this graceful warrior, just plowing through
• 51:39
  Speaker 21: as this cancer was disabling him.
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: More and more, and then the final year of.
• 51:45
  Speaker 21: His life just gracefully pushing through it because music had
• 51:50
  Speaker 21: come back.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: Into his life and he ended up doing the first
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: record and now there are three.
• 51:56
  Speaker 21: Albums of his music and it's been a beautiful bless
• 52:00
  Speaker 21: for me to be hearing you.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Turning back in the next segment, this is the ether
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: from Resurrection Revival Part three. Welcome back in America. I'm
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: hw Hewett, friend of the show. Gary Sinise is still
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: with us. This is Triumphant from Maxinessee album Resurrection and
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Revival Part three, which are forthcoming. Find out about it
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: at the Gary Sense Foundation, available in a limited supply. Gary,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I want to turn to the Foundation and we'll get
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: a longer bit of the last cut before we go out.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Following into you. That's the last cut from Max Music
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: for today, and then we'll talk when your book comes out,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: because I think that sounds like a fabulous book in November.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: But I've been thinking about the foundation. I'm going to
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: do my annual Memorial Day show with the fund. This
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: is the first time in a long time that there
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: will be new families of the fallen and new wounded,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: and there are a lot of wounded. People don't know that.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: In the war with Iran, there have been hundreds of soldiers, sailors, airmen,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: and marines who have been wounded, and you've already assured
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: me you're on the case. Tell people about that because
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: the Gary Sinisee Foundation does fabulous work with our wounded warriors.
• 53:47
  Speaker 21: Well thanks you just one brief mention that piece Triumphant
• 53:51
  Speaker 21: that you were playing for the National Memorial Day Concert
• 53:56
  Speaker 21: on May twenty fourth on PBS, we will be features
• 54:00
  Speaker 21: that piece of music. The National Symphony Orchestra is going
• 54:03
  Speaker 21: to be playing that piece of music for a nine
• 54:05
  Speaker 21: to eleven anniversary segment.
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: So I'm very very proud of all that.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Are they doing that on them all?
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: It's right in front of the Capitol.
• 54:15
  Speaker 21: We have two hundred thousand people on the lawn, the
• 54:18
  Speaker 21: west lawn of the Capitol, and the National Symphony Orchestra
• 54:22
  Speaker 21: is going to be playing that piece and another piece
• 54:25
  Speaker 21: that Mac wrote from a Resurrection and Revival Part two.
• 54:28
  Speaker 21: So I guess you gotta believe that the music is
• 54:31
  Speaker 21: good if the National Symphony is going to.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Put oh yeah, they're not going to do that. As
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  Speaker 1: a favor to anybody. I insist on playing something that
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  Speaker 1: makes people stand up and feel proud on our nation's
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  Speaker 1: childred and fiftieth birthday. So let's talk about the.
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  Speaker 21: Foundation absolutely, Hugh, as you asked me about the current
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  Speaker 21: conflict and the wounded, and of course, you know, whenever
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  Speaker 21: our country is in conflict or bad things are happening,
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  Speaker 21: or whatever that we hear about in terms of our
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  Speaker 21: service members sacrificing, my foundation jumps into action and we
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  Speaker 21: reached out immediately to help the families of our fallen
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  Speaker 21: heroes that we've lost, you know, in this current conflict.
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  Speaker 5: But also there have been you know.
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  Speaker 21: Hundreds of wounded in these in these missile attacks and whatnot,
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  Speaker 21: and and.
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  Speaker 5: So we you know, jump into action. The American people
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  Speaker 5: support the Gary Sneeze.
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  Speaker 21: Foundation and help us do a lot of wonderful, wonderful
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  Speaker 21: things so that we can ensure that these families that
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  Speaker 21: are going through difficulties know that we're not going to
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  Speaker 21: forget about them, and we're going to help them help
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  Speaker 21: them through in whatever way that might be. We we
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  Speaker 21: supported some of the families that have fallen in various ways,
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  Speaker 21: you know, recently, and some of some of the wounded recently,
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  Speaker 21: there was remember that terrorist attack on our National Guard
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  Speaker 21: right on the.
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  Speaker 5: Streets of water.
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  Speaker 21: Oh yeah, we lost a soldier there and we supported
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  Speaker 21: her family through that as well as the family of
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  Speaker 21: the wounded soldier, just trying to help them through wherever
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  Speaker 21: we can. We want to be proactive in reaching out
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  Speaker 21: to these families, reaching out to these units that need support,
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  Speaker 21: because you know, a unit losing a soldier that can
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  Speaker 21: be devastating on the entire unit, and so we just
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  Speaker 21: reach out and try to help them through those moments in.
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  Speaker 5: Whatever way we can.
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  Speaker 21: We don't want to forget, and we want to always
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  Speaker 21: try to do a little more to help them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Gary, you've been talking about this on this program
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  Speaker 1: for twenty I don't know how long the foundation has
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  Speaker 1: been going, but it's a couple of decades. And you
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  Speaker 1: have enormous trust with the American piniers fifteen years. You
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  Speaker 1: have an enormous trust and so people trust you with
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  Speaker 1: the money and I think that's a wonderful brand to have.
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  Speaker 1: And you're not ever retiring, right, You're not going to
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  Speaker 1: retire on.
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  Speaker 21: Us, not anytime soon.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 21: I'm actually going to Dover Air Force Base on the
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  Speaker 21: twentieth to play a concert at Dover that's of course,
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  Speaker 21: where the families of our fall income come through with
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  Speaker 21: a dignified transfer. They have a great mission out there,
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  Speaker 21: an important mission, and they don't get a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Of attention in terms of support. So we're going to
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  Speaker 5: take my band out.
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  Speaker 21: There and play for them, and then I'm going to
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  Speaker 21: Fort Belvoir on the twenty first. I just got back
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  Speaker 21: from England where we played a couple of concerts. We
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  Speaker 21: actually were at one of the Air Force bases over
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  Speaker 21: there with a squadron that had the F fifteen that
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  Speaker 21: got shot down over Iran. Thankfully the two pilots were rescued,
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  Speaker 21: but we played at that base.
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  Speaker 5: And supported that mission there.
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  Speaker 21: We just we just want to make sure me and look,
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  Speaker 21: I started doing this years ago. I got a lot
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  Speaker 21: of veterans of my family. I have great respect for them.
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  Speaker 21: I want to do everything I can to help them through.
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  Speaker 21: You know, no matter if we're in current conflict or
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  Speaker 21: or not, somebody is serving out there.
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  Speaker 5: They're sacrificing.
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  Speaker 21: People get hurt in training accidents, we lose them unfortunately
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  Speaker 21: to you know, they take their own lives sometimes and
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  Speaker 21: those families go through a lot. We have one of
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  Speaker 21: our programs it's called Snowball Express just specifically focused on
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  Speaker 21: the families and the children, especially of our fallen heroes,
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  Speaker 21: and we want these families go through a lot, and
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  Speaker 21: people don't realize how difficult it can be to lose
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  Speaker 21: somebody in military service.
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  Speaker 1: So well that one of these foundation does and I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it as the father of grandkids with the military. Dad, Gary,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go out with following in X album
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  Speaker 1: Resurrection and Revival. Tell me a little bit about this.
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  Speaker 1: You can bring up the music now, Adam, and let
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  Speaker 1: Adam and let Gary talk us out.
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  Speaker 21: Falling into You is a song I found a voice
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  Speaker 21: memo from Max phone.
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  Speaker 22: Wearing too miss melody awesome, and I thought it was
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  Speaker 22: a great age, and so I brought it to one
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  Speaker 22: of my band members, Dan Meyer, who had worked on
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  Speaker 22: some other songs with Mark, and.
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  Speaker 1: We created a beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Song called Falling into You.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the melody right there that I heard Max
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  Speaker 5: singing into his phone.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll go out with that, and I'll remind everyone
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  Speaker 1: there's the Resurrectuer Revival available soon at the garys of
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  Speaker 1: East Foundation, where you can also direct contributions to help
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  Speaker 1: our military service family insured in so many different ways
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  Speaker 1: of serving hallways. Gary. Thanks, good to see you again, friend.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk in November. I can't wait to hear that
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  Speaker 1: Cuntrent on the mall, betraying, accusing in may be, well,
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  Speaker 1: don't go anywhere, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be right now.
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