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Hormuz chessboard fuels global propaganda · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

• 0:03
  Well, the public propaganda machine in the Middle East is in full bloom as the Strait of Hormuz is all over the chessboard.
• 0:10
  The U.S.
• 0:11
  blockade of Iranian ports is having a tremendous impact on the Iranian economy.
• 0:16
  Senator Ron Johnson is here to discuss the 47-year conflict with the Mullers, the fight on the War Powers Act, the war's impact on the midterm elections, and the latest on funding DHS.
• 0:29
  And regime change in Iran.
• 0:31
  We see the radical components of the IRGC attempting to hold on to power.
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  Do they succeed in holding power?
• 0:39
  Or do the people take to the streets?
• 0:41
  Lieutenant Colonel Sergeus Sungary and Dr.
• 0:44
  Lin Mengyang reflect on China's involvement and Trump's upcoming trip to meet with Xi Jinping in May.
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  It's all next on Viewpoint this Sunday.
• 1:09
  It is time to put away the bias, the lies and deceit, and bring forth real talk from real people about real news, providing the out loud truth and capturing the essence of a new generation, all in a fast-paced hour.
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  This is Viewpoint This Sunday.
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  Welcome to the weekend news magazine.
• 1:36
  This Sunday, it is Malcolm Out Loud here, and welcome to the broadcast, my fellow Americans.
• 1:42
  And boy, I was just saying to our guests just a moment ago, we were admiring that uh not a boring time at all, is it now?
• 1:49
  It is uh not not at all.
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  A lot going on in the world, and uh lot to talk about here today.
• 1:55
  We'll start the broadcast off with Senator Ron Johnson is here.
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  He uh serves as chairman of the permanent subcommittee on investigations and also as a member of the budget finance and aging committees.
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  And uh Senator Johnson, it is a privilege to have you as always.
• 2:10
  Thank you, sir.
• 2:11
  Morning.
• 2:12
  Welcome.
• 2:12
  Uh thanks for having me on.
• 2:14
  When we talked in December 25, if I had said to you then that the Ayatollah and more than 50 of the top leaders were killed, and that we'd be engaged in the Middle East War, would anyone have believed it?
• 2:27
  Probably not.
• 2:28
  And primarily because the risk of doing so was so very high, and which is why President Obama didn't do it, President Biden didn't do it.
• 2:38
  You know, as often as they said, we can never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
• 2:43
  I mean, Clinton said that.
• 2:44
  Bush said that.
• 2:44
  I mean, they all said it, but no, nobody's able to take action.
• 2:48
  I, for one, appreciate the fact that President Trump made the very, and it had to be a very difficult decision to act before we could no longer act, before they became a nuclear power like North Korea, before they had such an enormous and dispersed uh arsenal of missiles and drones that uh taking this action would have completely devastated the regions, done enough damage.
• 3:10
  I mean, it's done tremendous damage.
• 3:12
  But uh we we we need to we need to finish the job now.
• 3:15
  I I appreciated President Trump in his address to the nation, where he talked about meeting the the families of the fallen at Dover for the dignified return.
• 3:24
  And sounds like to a person that the family said, you know, okay, we we made the sacrifice now, now finish the job.
• 3:31
  And you know, the definition of finishing the job, I think is pretty straightforward.
• 3:35
  We need to take away any enriched uranium they have.
• 3:39
  They need to end for all time the enrichment of nuclear material.
• 3:44
  Uh, stop building missiles, stop building drones, stop funding their proxies and Hezbollah and Hamas and the Houthis.
• 3:52
  Um that's pretty close to unconditional surrender in my book.
• 3:56
  And it sounds like that's exactly what Trump is demanding here.
• 3:59
  And I think the master stroke in this process now is the is the blockading of Iranian ports.
• 4:05
  I I personally was concerned when I heard President Trump talk about uh bombing him back to the Stone Age and the civilization.
• 4:11
  We're not we're not at war with Iranian people.
• 4:13
  Now, President Trump has a different way of negotiating.
• 4:16
  Uh, but I I'm absolutely support, and I think it really is the hopefully the checkmate move is the blockading of Iranian oil.
• 4:24
  Yeah.
• 4:25
  Uh I mean that that that that will devastate their economy.
• 4:28
  Um, their oil storage facilities will fill up, they'll start turning off oils.
• 4:33
  I mean, they they simply can't survive as a regime under that scenario, which is why they're coming back to the bargaining table.
• 4:40
  But again, they they say they open up the Strait of the Hormuz and then overnight, oh, they closed it again.
• 4:44
  I mean, you you cannot try you cannot trust these people.
• 4:46
  So every any any agreement has to be, you know, verifiable, uh unbelievable inspection regime.
• 4:53
  We got to keep an eye on these people.
• 4:55
  Yeah, yeah.
• 4:56
  You know, the uh civilization comment did get a lot of airplay, no doubt about it at all.
• 5:01
  But again, as you suggest a moment ago here, that is way that is Trump's way of negotiating and putting it out.
• 5:08
  But here's the thing I'm gonna ask you here.
• 5:11
  He puts an awful lot out on the public space, and people tend to get very uh uh very uncomfortable, sort of queasy uh on both sides of the political aisle sometimes for some of the comments put out, but he has his own unique way.
• 5:26
  Again, he's he's a president, as you just pointed out, going back to Bush and Clinton and Obama and Biden, and he is very brazen.
• 5:33
  He is uh very brazen uh leader.
• 5:36
  Historically, you can think of a few, but it's it's a rare uh quality that many of them have in that position because it was a brazen move to do what he did.
• 5:45
  You're exactly right.
• 5:46
  Is it I want to ask you sincerely, is we know transparency is unique to a lot of these cats in office here.
• 5:54
  Is the transparency on the level of what he's delivering?
• 5:57
  Do you think it's uh okay to get the job done, or is it too much information at times?
• 6:03
  So I wonder.
• 6:04
  Yeah, I mean, America is very divided in terms of how they view Trump.
• 6:07
  I mean, roughly half America absolutely loves him and thinks this is exactly what we need.
• 6:12
  Yeah, the other half absolutely loaths him.
• 6:15
  Uh it'd be kind of nice to strike a balance and and have everybody appreciate what you're doing.
• 6:19
  I think in the end, that's how history is going to judge President Trump.
• 6:24
  And if you look at his results, it's been pretty astonishing, quite honestly.
• 6:28
  In his first term, a wrecking economy.
• 6:30
  Unfortunately, we had the pandemic, and you know, we that's a whole nother subject right there.
• 6:34
  Really destroyed the last year of his his presidency and prevented from getting re-elected.
• 6:39
  But I think that four-year pause now brings him into office.
• 6:42
  Unfortunately, during that four years, Democrats spent like drunken sailors, you know, sparked 40 high inflation, open up the border, allowed millions of people to flood this country unvetted.
• 6:53
  Uh now President Trump is forces having to clean up that mess, but he's having spectacular success cleaning it up.
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  It up.
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  I mean, we've we've secured the border.
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  I mean, we've we've secured the border.
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  We are deporting the the hardened criminals.
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  We are deporting the hardened criminals.
• 7:05
  Uh if if, and it's still a big F, if he succeeds with Venezuela, with Iran, tossing Cuba.
• 7:06
  If if, and it's still a big if, if he succeeds with Venezuela, with Iran, toss in Cuba.
• 7:15
  I mean, he will have improved the geopolitics of this world in a positive way, probably unlike any historical figure.
• 7:15
  I mean, he will have improved the geopolitics of this world in a positive way, probably unlike any historical figure.
• 7:25
  Uh, you know, I mean, you can go back to World War II.
• 7:27
  I mean, that was just devastating, but I mean.
• 7:30
  Absolutely, you know, massive world war where tens of millions of people are dying.
• 7:35
  Uh the threats would just continue to grow.
• 7:38
  And can you imagine a world where you no longer have the Ayatollahs threatening world peace where you don't have Venezuelans, uh the narco-terrorist organization there?
• 7:50
  Uh and again, this is this is all a connected network.
• 7:53
  Yeah, uh fueled by primarily China.
• 7:56
  And you know, we just kind of clipped the wings of China as well.
• 7:59
  Hopefully, put them back in the box where they're they're no worse than a friendly rival as opposed to an unfriendly adversary, which is they are right now.
• 8:07
  So uh the choke point truthfully is that Middle East oil, because of what President Trump has done to make America energy independent to make America the largest supplier of oil in the world.
• 8:22
  Not dependent on these other things.
• 8:24
  It's it's all these other countries that are dependent on Middle East oil.
• 8:27
  But you know, we have the power to you know, literally open up the Strait of Hormuz or keep it closed.
• 8:34
  And China now recognized that as well.
• 8:36
  So, yeah, we we're we've really hemmed them in.
• 8:39
  Yeah.
• 8:39
  That uh, you know, again, uh you know, I think a lot of people are asking why didn't he just blockade the the straight right off the bat?
• 8:46
  Because we didn't want to see the strait blockaded.
• 8:48
  We we are for you know freedom of navigation, but once Iran did it, that really gave us the ability to do it to them and just show it.
• 8:59
  No, listen, you you have you have no hand in this, you have no power.
• 9:03
  Uh you used to have the power to destroy, but we you know dramatically degraded your power to destroy.
• 9:09
  And again, I I want as close to unconditional surrender as possible.
• 9:13
  Yeah.
• 9:14
  You know, uh that was uh your words a brilliant move.
• 9:18
  And it and we really did uh qualify that.
• 9:20
  We talked about that on air this week, uh, Senator.
• 9:23
  The uh the fact that he uh totally rewrote the script and and changed the cards there with that move was absolutely amazing.
• 9:33
  And because of the way things were headed.
• 9:35
  Now, uh I want to talk about that a moment here, because that's really, as you say, over the weekend here, it's all over the place.
• 9:42
  And the fact that the president had come out uh the last day or two and talked about, oh, things are almost there, we're there, and of course, these common markets down.
• 9:51
  We see the oil prices plunge, we see the stock market rise, we see everything else happen just on the words of the president, of course.
• 9:58
  And then everything was quiet.
• 10:00
  Iran came out initially and said, No, uh, you know, like it was headed in the right direction, and that the the uh strait was open and all of that, and then they've changed cards again.
• 10:11
  As you say, you can't trust anything.
• 10:13
  And because things are so disconnected there with the regime, and nobody really knows who is really leading the show, and then of course the president they're talking to some people there, the White House is that they believe is in Standon.
• 10:25
  Uh but uh that's part of the problem here.
• 10:28
  So what happens with this now?
• 10:30
  You've got these radical components of the IRGC, which are still heavily heavily bonded in there.
• 10:38
  They're sort of taking control of some of this.
• 10:40
  They've come out and flipped a script, try to do it back.
• 10:43
  How are they going to succeed?
• 10:44
  They won't, because the president will one up them again.
• 10:47
  You know damn well he's going to do that.
• 10:48
  So when does this end, do you think in the next couple three days?
• 10:52
  Well, again, my biggest fear at this point in time is that we don't finish the job, that uh, we accept a false victory here.
• 10:59
  Uh, you know, victory literally does mean no nuclear enrichment, no nuclear materials left any there, you know, no missile manufacturing capability, drone manufacturing, no exporter terror.
• 11:09
  I mean, that's as I said, pretty close to unconditional surrender.
• 11:12
  The problem is, you know, we really don't know who's in charge.
• 11:16
  I mean, Iran's been playing this for 47 years.
• 11:19
  They had layer after layer after layer of command and control, very uh decentralized kind of command structure.
• 11:28
  So I I don't think there's anybody really in charge right now.
• 11:30
  The I think we have going for us, and you know, there are a couple little new, you don't see a whole lot of this, but you see a little couple of news snippets of uh, for example, Iranian uh citizens calling in air strikes and on some of the leadership.
• 11:43
  Um phone calls from the Israeli Mossad into some of these leaders saying, you know, we know exactly where you are.
• 11:48
  I mean, lay down your arms, do not suppress your people.
• 11:52
  So I think I think you know, on a micro scale inside Iran, uh, you know, obviously the the intelligence that the Mossad had was exquisite to be able to take out the Ayatollah and I guess for their top leadership.
• 12:07
  Uh my my guess is that intelligence is just going to continue to grow as as regime weakens, it's easier and easier to have agents in there.
• 12:17
  Uh and but it's going to take time.
• 12:20
  That's you have to have a long-term time frame here because we have to finish the job.
• 12:27
  But I'm I'm I'm I'm more optimistic today than I've been in in really many years when it comes to Iran.
• 12:33
  I think we're I think we're getting close to ending this regime.
• 12:35
  Now I want to talk to you about this next.
• 12:37
  The uh opposing the measure to block arms sales to Israel was just uh in the um the Senate, right?
• 12:43
  There were seven Democrat senators who um voted uh against the measure voted with the Republicans, actually.
• 12:50
  And some of these are the and you can see some of the names, Blumenthal, Fetterman, of course, uh Kuhn's, even uh Schumer, because uh this is their constitutional base, Gillibrand, you know, Rosen, um, and with the uh uh with the um uh Jewish people.
• 13:06
  This is really a divide mechanism in the left and the Democrat Party, and they're being swallowed whole by the extreme radical progressive communist left.
• 13:16
  And this really is what's happening.
• 13:19
  This kind of fight right here showcases what I'm talking about right now.
• 13:23
  They tried to oppose the block arms and sales to Israel, and they didn't get it through, but it shows the divide on the Democrat Party in ways that uh a lot of people might be shocked by and put some out.
• 13:34
  I'm sure Schumer didn't want to have that vote, but they had no choice, did they?
• 13:38
  Right?
• 13:39
  Well, you know, as long as I've been there, Democrats uh I've been to events where Democrats as bipartisan events, they stand up and proclaim their you know strong support for this for the nation of Israel.
• 13:51
  Exactly.
• 13:52
  Then they do this.
• 13:53
  I mean, they're this is just one more instance of Democrats being complete hypocrites, lying through their teeth in terms of what they support versus what they truly support.
• 14:00
  In terms of what they support versus what they truly support.
• 14:03
  And you know, this vote shows really what you know the lack of support for the state of Israel.
• 14:03
  And you know, this vote shows really what you know their lack of support for the state of Israel.
• 14:08
  Right.
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  Right.
• 14:09
  Yeah, no, I mean it showcases everything.
• 14:09
  Yeah, no, I mean, it showcases everything.
• 14:11
  And I I hope that the uh Jewish Americans have their eyes wide open.
• 14:11
  And I I hope that the the uh Jewish Americans have their eyes wide open.
• 14:16
  Uh they don't always do that if you look at previous elections, uh, which is shocking to many, but uh hopefully they do right now.
• 14:16
  Uh they don't always do that if you look at previous elections, uh, which is shocking to many, but uh hopefully they do right now.
• 14:24
  Uh now uh also the war powers act, that has been a real big problem.
• 14:24
  Uh now um also the war powers act, that has been a real big problem.
• 14:28
  They keep going back.
• 14:29
  They keep going back to waste time and trying to uh engage that, and uh they're obviously not going to win that fight unless uh or well let me ask you are you detecting any weakness in any of the Republicans that that could become a problem?
• 14:43
  No, and let's face it, uh, there's never been a president since the War Powers Act was passed that has ever agreed that it was constitutional.
• 14:54
  We we've never taken the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of it, and a lot a lot of people, I think, including myself would say it's unconstitutional.
• 15:02
  Uh it's you know, just so presidents just don't have to put up with uh all the guff they have to take.
• 15:07
  They they largely follow the process of the War Powers Act, but but not really.
• 15:13
  I mean, it's got a 60 day time, then they'll they'll take some action to extend the 60 days.
• 15:18
  Uh we had a we had a hearing with uh a liberal law professor, and I just asked him, you know, he's he was cranking about uh you know all the unconstitutional unconstitutional unconstitutional acts of Donald Trump, you know, really talking about how his unconstitutional war against Iran.
• 15:33
  I just asked him, so didn't Clinton ever get congressional authorization for the war in Kosovo and Bosnia.
• 15:41
  Uh did Obama ever get authorization for the his military action in in Libya.
• 15:48
  And the answer is no and no.
• 15:50
  And there's been well over a hundred military actions uh that have never been declared.
• 15:56
  There's never been congressional with authorization.
• 15:59
  It's it's they've all been constitutional because our constitution vests the commander of chief status with the president of the United States.
• 16:06
  You cannot have it's completely impossible to have 535 commanders in chief.
• 16:11
  There's no way we could have taken out the Ayatollahs had Trump gone to Congress and let him know.
• 16:19
  I mean, the the word would have been out.
• 16:22
  Those people never would have gathered, you know.
• 16:24
  So it's again, it's it's it's unworkable.
• 16:27
  And you know, Republicans don't really press.
• 16:31
  I don't I don't think I haven't really checked history.
• 16:33
  I I doubt Republicans press this war powers issue when a Democrat is engaged in military action versus the way Democrats do when Republican.
• 16:42
  Yeah.
• 16:43
  Again, again, it ends up being a totally partisan thing.
• 16:45
  Republicans actually do believe that we mil we have a military for a reason, and that we have a commander in chief for a reason.
• 16:53
  And we you know, elections matter.
• 16:55
  Uh when you elect a president, you're electing a commander in chief that's gonna make these tough decisions.
• 17:00
  Right.
• 17:00
  And I I would rather have America support our commander in chief as much as possible, and he makes these tough decisions.
• 17:08
  They don't, they no president goes to war flip frivolously, right?
• 17:13
  I mean, the the biggest check on presidential war power is the American people, the public opinion.
• 17:18
  When it turns, those wars end.
• 17:21
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:22
  That's right.
• 17:22
  That's right.
• 17:23
  Um now you talk about the election there.
• 17:26
  I want to talk to you about that a moment right now.
• 17:27
  There's a very sensitive timetable here that is playing out right now, as uh we're in uh uh mid and soon the latter part of April here.
• 17:38
  November is is there, the midterms, the impact of all of this in the midterm in the economy.
• 17:44
  What has really there's been a lot of division within within the uh MAGA community on with America First, uh Republicans, there's a division there, no doubt about it in that space.
• 17:56
  And many believe that uh they did not think president was going to engage in in any of these foreign um issues, but you know, many would argue again it is part of America first.
• 18:05
  You can't omit that.
• 18:07
  That's not really the fight or the question to me.
• 18:11
  It's this window of time that is present right now, and how long do you go?
• 18:16
  The president has got to start to land some of these planes here of things that are going on around the world and totally 100% focus on domestic politics, and he's gonna have to focus on those rallies and really if there's any hope of that midterm happening.
• 18:31
  What is your sense of that?
• 18:32
  And how do you feel that timetable plays in?
• 18:35
  And and what is your overall belief coming into the midterm?
• 18:38
  Do they have a chance to uh to um keep those uh keep Congress, or is it a foregone conclusion, do you think I think the entity that has the greatest say in what happens in November is literally the the corporate and legacy media.
• 18:57
  Um they they have been diminished in power, but they are still unbelievably powerful.
• 19:03
  So that uh the fact that they don't cover the victim after victim after victim of horrendous illegal immigrant crimes, murders, rapes, i mean, just some the most horrendous things.
• 19:16
  They don't cover that, but they cover the two martyr deaths of uh you know the people who've been trained to obstruct justice, put themselves in their harm's way, uh two of them get killed, and they cover that and you know, poison the the nation's uh attitude toward doing why America elected Trump, which was to secure the border and you know, deport a lot of these illegal immigrants.
• 19:43
  I mean, I I was always amazed at the the large majorities that wanted mass deportation.
• 19:49
  I mean, send them all back.
• 19:50
  I mean, I I knew that really wasn't possible.
• 19:52
  I knew that the the optics of what it act what that actually looks like would not even allow that.
• 19:58
  But again, the then the mainstream media, the way they have talked about this Iran conflict.
• 20:03
  I mean, rather than talking about the unbelievable positive results, if this succeeds, you know, it's just all doom and gloom, and it's just you know, talking about oh, energy prices, you know, remind your listeners that in June of 2022, gas gasoline averaged nationwide, five dollars a gallon.
• 20:25
  And that wasn't because we were we were trying to end the 47-year existential threat to America.
• 20:31
  That was because of Democrat policies, their war on fossil fuels, the the massive spending they they uh under took when they didn't have to, okay, when we should have returned to reasonable prepandem pre-pandemic love spending.
• 20:45
  So the media will never cover the destruction caused by Democrat policy.
• 20:50
  No, they avoided that conversation, is what they did.
• 20:53
  You're exactly right to point it out, but they avoided that at all costs.
• 20:56
  And that was a war they and that they chose to take.
• 20:59
  Uh you're exactly right.
• 21:00
  You're exactly right.
• 21:01
  So unless Americans wake up and educate themselves, uh really, I'm not sure there's much uh President Trump or Republicans can do to to really impact the the midterm elections that much.
• 21:01
  So unless Americans wake up and educate themselves, really, I'm not sure there's much uh President Trump or Republicans can do to really impact the the midterm elections that much.
• 21:13
  I mean, yeah, well, we'll try we'll try and point these things out.
• 21:13
  I mean, yeah, well, we'll try we'll try and point these things out.
• 21:15
  I mean, I I I do a lot of media.
• 21:15
  I mean, I I do a lot of media.
• 21:17
  I do a lot of shows like this to try and communicate.
• 21:17
  I do a lot of shows like this to try and communicate this is you know, open up your eyes.
• 21:20
  This is you know, open up your eyes.
• 21:21
  This is what is happening.
• 21:21
  This is what is happening, but I'm a pretty small voice compared to uh well the the the legacy media.
• 21:23
  But I'm a pretty small voice compared to uh well the the legacy media.
• 21:28
  It's gonna be an uphill battle.
• 21:28
  It's gonna be an uphill battle.
• 21:29
  You I'm I'm
• 21:29
  You're I'm I'm sensing from your your position there.
• 21:32
  It's gonna be it's gonna be a challenge, isn't it?
• 21:34
  Right.
• 21:34
  Yeah, again, the the legacy media is powerful, and they uh they are a bunch of radical leftists themselves.
• 21:40
  There's there's nothing unbiased about most people in the media.
• 21:43
  They're primarily you know, fellow travelers, the leftists, and and we know the destruction that uh leftist policies causes.
• 21:50
  We just don't learn the lessons of history.
• 21:52
  Well, if the left do take the uh any part of the Congress back in November, you know full well uh the administration's legs will be cut off and it will be his administration will be halved again.
• 22:04
  Uh they about took the first four years off when they impeached him all those times and tried the 25th amendment in the first term and then the COVID stuff, and it was a it was a nightmare in those four years.
• 22:15
  This one, because you had the Congress, he came out blazing and was able to do incredible amounts of things in a very short period of time.
• 22:23
  As you said earlier, we are dealing with a historical figure here.
• 22:27
  There's there's somebody on the stage right now that will go down in the books.
• 22:31
  What and the left has helped, I told you last time we talked, in fact, the left helped make that.
• 22:35
  They helped make him bigger than he was ever going to be with all these fights.
• 22:40
  But that midterm is going to be really, really key uh with what happens there.
• 22:44
  And which brings me to this other big point.
• 22:47
  I'd like to talk to you about Senator, this last big point, and that's the Homeland Security, uh, the shutdown here.
• 22:53
  And the Office of Management and Budget, Ross Vodkam out told lawmakers uh that the uh his words are quite striking here.
• 23:00
  Uh, the Department of Homeland Security is disintegrating as it remains unfunded by Congress.
• 23:07
  The secretary and I are having to figure out ways to temporarily fund people's paychecks so that we don't have people quit and embark on new careers, he told the Senate budget committee, as you know.
• 23:18
  And uh, this is still an ongoing battle.
• 23:21
  This itself should be pointed out, and I know it is being pointed out, but uh, this has got to be more dramatic than what it is.
• 23:28
  The Republicans have got to fight on this issue.
• 23:30
  The American people, that alone should swing the election back.
• 23:33
  Uh, the fact that they're that careless.
• 23:36
  Uh well, what's the status of all this?
• 23:38
  And uh there is there any daylight at all on this uh topic or no?
• 23:42
  Well, this should not be that difficult.
• 23:45
  Uh it it really shouldn't.
• 23:47
  You know, the the Thursday before the two week recess, uh in Senate lunch, uh Republican Sanders uh acknowledged reality and said, Okay, we're we're just not gonna get Democrats to budge.
• 23:56
  They're not gonna fund ICE and DHS.
• 23:59
  But you know, Leader Tune, if you if you can do a deal where we fund all the other components of DHS, go ahead and do that.
• 24:05
  We'll support you on that.
• 24:07
  Let's get that passed, and then we'll come back immediately and we'll work on a reconciliation package to fund D uh ICE and CBP, knowing that ICE and CBP were all being already being funded by the flexibility we gave the president in the one big beautiful bill.
• 24:24
  Okay, so we didn't defund ICE and CBP.
• 24:27
  Now, yeah, it happened two o'clock in the morning, but that's how long it takes to do these deals.
• 24:31
  But you know, Thune didn't do anything that the Republican conference of the Senate didn't support.
• 24:35
  Okay, he he carried out what we talked about.
• 24:38
  Unfortunately, miscommunication between the House and the Senate or whatever, the House saw the bill, and rather than look at the bill as okay, we're funding 20 of the components.
• 24:49
  They read the bill.
• 24:50
  Oh, you're defunding ICE and CBP.
• 24:52
  No, we weren't.
• 24:53
  ICE and CBP were already funded in the one big beautiful bill.
• 24:59
  This was the only way, you know, again, we had to recognize reality.
• 25:02
  So anyway, they railed against that.
• 25:05
  Uh why is that point lost on them though?
• 25:07
  What you just said is a fact of matter.
• 25:09
  Why is that lost on them?
• 25:11
  Well, again, uh I think quite honestly, lack of communication between leadership.
• 25:15
  Now it's two o'clock in the morning, so okay, okay, I got I got that.
• 25:18
  But I I immediately started texting you know the speaker and House Freedom Caucus guys and trying to point out what it was, but anyway, that that's where it sits right now.
• 25:29
  Uh the I think the solution here is if uh the House wants to say face and just not pass this the awful Senate bill, according to the you know, they're there by the way.
• 25:38
  I don't like it.
• 25:38
  I don't like the fact that we couldn't fund CBP and ICE, but that's all we could do.
• 25:42
  Yeah, at some point you have to recognize reality.
• 25:44
  To me, the solution right now is take up the Senate bill, and the House ought to add shut down fairness act to it.
• 25:52
  That that's my bill that just pays people on time.
• 25:54
  They get paid anyway.
• 25:55
  So pay them on time.
• 25:57
  That's a permanent bill.
• 25:58
  It's now backed by some like 33 unions and organizations, including the Teamsters, the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest public.
• 26:06
  I mean, so I think Democrats have a very difficult time in the Senate of voting against the partial DHS funding bill that you was passed unanimously.
• 26:16
  If the only thing we add to it is a shutdown fairness act.
• 26:19
  So that's what I've been lobbying for over the weekend here, uh, trying to get that done.
• 26:25
  But the the problem is if the House continues to dig their heels in and doesn't pass the partial funding, President Trump is is being forced to utilize that that flexible funding to pay salaries.
• 26:38
  And so we will we won't have a full fiscal year funding for ICE and CBP.
• 26:44
  They're gonna run out of findings sooner.
• 26:46
  So the sooner the House acts to pass the partial DHS funding bill that we passed at two o'clock in the morning, fine, okay.
• 26:54
  Add to it the shutdown fairness act.
• 26:56
  Then not now we don't have to worry about not paying people moving forward.
• 27:01
  So to me, that that would be a good middle ground there.
• 27:04
  I mean, the House can still reject the Senate bill by adding something good to it, sending it back in a form that would be really difficult for Democrats to vote against.
• 27:12
  Yeah, yeah.
• 27:13
  So hopefully if we do that, and then we we you know, next there's no reason next week that the Senate can't take up and pass the reconciliation that funds C BP and ICE through fiscal year 2029.
• 27:25
  So we take that off the table, okay?
• 27:27
  And then the House can pass that, and then we can now there's a lot of people spoiling for well, this is our last chance.
• 27:32
  Let's go big.
• 27:33
  We can go we can go big with the second reconciliation bill, but to do that fast is not gonna be easy.
• 27:39
  Okay, the bigger you go, the harder it takes, the longer it's gonna take.
• 27:43
  And again, then we're chewing up those funds and putting at risk the the flex the flexible funding we gave C BP and ICE.
• 27:50
  So again, let's let's acknowledge reality.
• 27:52
  Again, I don't like the reality of what Democrats have done to us.
• 27:55
  What is awful in this process is it's it's a circular fighting squad.
• 28:00
  Squad.
• 28:00
  It's it's Republicans fighting against Republicans when it is the Democrats.
• 28:00
  It's it's Republicans fighting against Republicans when it is the Democrats.
• 28:04
  I mean, they just got to be snickering, right?
• 28:04
  I mean, they just got to be snickering, right?
• 28:06
  I mean, they they they can't be more gleeful that the government, the DHS is shut down and Republicans are blaming Republicans.
• 28:06
  I mean, they they they can't be more gleeful that the government, the DHS is shut down, and Republicans are blaming Republicans.
• 28:14
  Yeah.
• 28:14
  Yeah, yeah.
• 28:14
  When it's totally their fault.
• 28:14
  When it's totally their fault.
• 28:16
  That's a good point.
• 28:16
  That's a good point.
• 28:17
  Uh the left is very good at being united.
• 28:17
  Uh the left is very good at being united.
• 28:19
  They always have been.
• 28:19
  They always have been.
• 28:20
  And the right, not so much.
• 28:20
  And the right, not so much, and that's always been the case, and it is right now.
• 28:22
  And that's always been the case, and it is right now.
• 28:24
  And the snickering is a good word.
• 28:24
  And the snickering is a good word.
• 28:26
  Uh that's accurate.
• 28:26
  Uh that's accurate.
• 28:27
  This uh shutdown fairness act.
• 28:27
  This uh shutdown fairness act.
• 28:29
  I I really.
• 28:29
  I I really love this, uh, because uh the the American people and these uh vital like TSA and these people that are working so hard, they should not be pawns in this game between left and right.
• 28:40
  This is insanity.
• 28:42
  And the one thing I like about what you're doing with a lot of these things, uh Senator, is to stop the insanity.
• 28:48
  You're that's the word really, and say, no, no, you you can't do this, you gotta stop it.
• 28:52
  And of course, it puts people in jeopardy and danger.
• 28:55
  Uh, and it's it's it's really uh it's very un-American, frankly.
• 28:59
  What about this other uh I'm sure what what's not part of that bill, the Shutdown Fairness Act.
• 29:04
  There's a been a lot of uh disputes, and people are trying to get not paid Congress while all that is going on.
• 29:09
  That's not part of that act.
• 29:10
  That's something else, right?
• 29:12
  No, actually you have to pay Congress based on the Constitution, so you need a constitutional amendment to not do that.
• 29:18
  Okay.
• 29:19
  And just so you know, what I've done, I've donated my entire salary to two organizations, the Joshua Project here in Milwaukee.
• 29:26
  Uh, and also act uh React 19 that that helps uh fund the the injection injuries.
• 29:33
  So I'm I'm I'm not you know, I'm not accepting pay this year.
• 29:36
  I donate all that away.
• 29:37
  Wow.
• 29:38
  But you know, uh even better solution is the eliminate shutdown act, which would do away shutdowns forever.
• 29:44
  So, but let me, in order of who to blame.
• 29:48
  The first blame falls on Democrats.
• 29:50
  Okay, that they are is is is as much as you may dislike Republicans, Democrats are orders of magnitude worse.
• 29:57
  So it's it's the Democrats' fault.
• 30:00
  Next in line, though, are the uniparty appropriators.
• 30:04
  So the reason we haven't we didn't pass the shutdown fairness act during this last appropriation is because house appropriators didn't like it.
• 30:13
  Okay, and the Uniparty appropriators, let's let me be totally honest here.
• 30:19
  They don't want to do away with shutdowns or the threat of shutdowns.
• 30:23
  It's the threat of shutdowns that allows them to pass appropriation bills, earmarks that they couldn't pass otherwise.
• 30:31
  So that they the appropriators, both Republican and Democrat.
• 30:35
  Yeah, they like the threat of shutdowns because it keeps them in the game, gives them all the power.
• 30:40
  You know, the Cardinals they call themselves.
• 30:43
  Okay, that's that's the dirty little secret.
• 30:46
  And I I'm just kind of calling them all out.
• 30:48
  Um Republican appropriators better get behind a strategy to pass Shutdown Fairness Act and eliminate shut.
• 30:55
  There's no reason for Republicans.
• 30:57
  Yeah, well, every Republican to be voting for eliminate shutdown acts so that we can do away the shutdowns for all messy as hell is what it is.
• 31:05
  And what about this real quick?
• 31:06
  This 50% increase to one and a half trillion uh for the military.
• 31:11
  That uh what is it?
• 31:12
  Oh, they're calling uh the dream military.
• 31:15
  Uh is that dead on arrival, or is that have any chance of anything?
• 31:18
  Well, can we afford it?
• 31:20
  Um if we could eliminate the at a minimum 250 billion to as much as a trillion dollars a year in fraud.
• 31:29
  We we had a summing uh from Lexus and Nexus to do the think they did this research.
• 31:33
  They think it's about a trillion dollars a year in fraud.
• 31:35
  So we can afford it then, Senator.
• 31:36
  We can't be able to, you know.
• 31:38
  So that's so first of all, eliminate that so you can't afford it.
• 31:41
  You can afford it, but also we need to spend our dollars far better.
• 31:46
  Now, again, the fact that right now we are using million-dollar plus missiles to shut shoot down drones that cost thousands of dollars is obscene.
• 31:58
  Okay.
• 31:59
  Uh, particularly in light of the fact that we've been witnessing drone warfare.
• 32:04
  The Ukrainians, when they're at war, have developed anti-drone drone technology, pretty effective.
• 32:12
  And and we haven't done the same thing when we when we have trillion dollar year budgets, yeah.
• 32:17
  We haven't taken a hundred billion of that and ramped up anti-drone drone technology.
• 32:23
  So the word countering thousand dollar drones with thousand dollar drones, okay.
• 32:28
  So uh Eisenhower was right.
• 32:31
  I mean, beware of the military industrial complex.
• 32:33
  They are ripping us off.
• 32:35
  Okay.
• 32:36
  I I've got, for example, the 155 millimeter shell.
• 32:39
  It's kind of the shell that's being used in Ukraine, right?
• 32:42
  Russia produces those things 600 bucks a pop.
• 32:46
  We we spend 6,000 to $8,000.
• 32:49
  Wow.
• 32:50
  I know of a somebody who had a manufacturing facility.
• 32:55
  They're selling a product to the Department of Defense for $3.5 million, sold out to one of these big contractors.
• 33:01
  Same product is now being sold to military industrial content or to the department of war for 42 million.
• 33:08
  So it goes 3.5 to more than 10 times the cost of 40.
• 33:12
  We are being ripped off.
• 33:13
  Wow.
• 33:14
  Because Congress is feckless.
• 33:16
  Yeah, yeah, when it comes to this.
• 33:17
  And of course, you've got you've got the the revolving door between you know generals and you know, admirals and people of Pentagon into these contractors, and it's a buddy buddy system.
• 33:27
  I mean, that corruption has to again.
• 33:30
  I'm a defense spending top priority government, but we are getting ripped off in how we you know, and we we had Lucky Palmer in, you know, genius in terms of VR, just talking about the innovations.
• 33:43
  I mean, with technology, we ought to be doing so many more things, so much cheaper.
• 33:48
  You know, to take a look at our, you know, take a look at a big screen TV, how cheap that is nowadays, as opposed to what we use in war, is just getting more and more and more expensive.
• 33:57
  And again, we're we're we're literally shooting down drones that cost maybe 10,000, 20,000 with a missile that costs you know two to three million.
• 34:05
  That that is that's gotta end.
• 34:07
  That is uh that is a great, great point, a great point to end on as well, right there.
• 34:12
  I hope everybody's eyes are wide open with what uh Senator Johnson just shared.
• 34:17
  And again, so the question is can we afford, you know, uh the military and defense spending is is is the critical component of why we need a federal government, by the way.
• 34:27
  That is the reason we need them.
• 34:28
  If they can't do that, we don't need a federal government.
• 34:31
  Let's be clear.
• 34:32
  That's why the states put the federal government in play, it's what's for national security.
• 34:36
  And so with that said, uh, the answer is sure we can afford that, Malcolm.
• 34:41
  All you have to do is eliminate the fraud, and that's a piece of cake.
• 34:44
  It probably is.
• 34:45
  Uh, but anyways, I'll speak for both sides there as we uh end the conversation.
• 34:49
  Uh Senator, what a great conversation, Senator Johnson.
• 34:52
  I opening some of the things we've shared with the American people.
• 34:55
  Um always privileged.
• 34:57
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• 35:00
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• 35:00
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• 35:01
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• 35:01
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• 35:02
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• 35:02
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• 35:04
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• 35:06
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• 35:06
  Um, I hope you got something out of that.
• 35:09
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• 35:09
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• 41:15
  And uh, we see over the weekend here.
• 41:17
  I was just talking to the senator up front about it.
• 41:20
  The back and forth with the public uh space uh with the president who attends to be uh uh transparent.
• 41:28
  Sometimes somebody, some folks would argue a little too transparent, and Iran pushes back, and what they evidently agree in private never seems to make the public ear waves.
• 41:39
  The markets are all over the place.
• 41:40
  We've seen them drop on Friday.
• 41:41
  We'll see what happens Monday.
• 41:43
  Oil prices, now they're back on, off again in the last couple of days.
• 41:48
  Uh let's get assessment from you where you think this is at right now, and uh where you think we're headed right now, uh Colonel.
• 41:58
  Yeah.
• 41:59
  Yeah, I mean, I was asked this question uh a couple of weeks ago.
• 42:00
  I mean, I was asked this question uh a couple of weeks ago.
• 42:03
  It was even I think three weeks ago when hostilities were still ongoing.
• 42:03
  It was even 193 weeks ago when hostilities are still ongoing.
• 42:06
  I said somewhere around end of April plus our mines so weak, and it seems like the same is still holding true as of um just yesterday, uh Iran time, they open up the airspace between Turkey and Iran, and as of Sunday, tomorrow, Iran's opening up all their air spaces for all international traffic to come in.
• 42:06
  I said somewhere around end of April, plus our minds are so weak, and it seems like the same is still holding true as of um just yesterday, uh, Iran time.
• 42:16
  They open up the airspace between Turkey and Iran, and as of Sunday, tomorrow, Iran's opening up all their air spaces for all international traffic to come in.
• 42:26
  That means there's a deal that has already been made.
• 42:26
  That means there's a deal that has already been made.
• 42:28
  Um I think.
• 42:29
  Um I think the key to it was of course, uh, you destroy the entire military infrastructure that they have.
• 42:36
  You put pressure on them with new leadership, and uh people say, well, you know, there's been no regime change.
• 42:43
  I mean, the top tiers, second, first has been completely killed.
• 42:48
  So of course there's new leaders, and these leaders have emerged and uh have sat down at the table for negotiations, and part of it, I think the best part was when the initially Iran was pushing back or saying that we'll never have a ceasefire an hour and a half later, after the uh spokesman for the Iranian government said we won't have a ceasefire in America at all.
• 43:10
  Uh uh after a uh uh news reporter uh had asked them uh from the Iran uh state agency, uh they ended up having uh ceasefire or negotiate with the US.
• 43:21
  Um, you know, when you bend a knee to the great Satan, uh that was a political uh grenade that Trump tossed in the lap of the Iranian uh hardliners are still in fighting today against each other.
• 43:34
  And uh uh the only uh protest that you saw in the streets right after that when the Iranian delegation met with the uh United States uh uh vice president was uh basically in fighting uh as to why did you go ahead and uh agree to a ceasefire?
• 43:52
  And uh that's been completely the issue there, saying why did you agree to a ceasefire, not that uh you shouldn't have agreed to a ceasefire.
• 44:00
  So I think that uh we're heading in that right direction.
• 44:03
  I think everything that uh Trump has asked for will come to fruition, it seems well they don't have a lot of cards to play, Iran right now, obviously.
• 44:10
  And when and when the president flipped the script on the Strait of Hormuz, as the senator pointed out, was a pretty brilliant strategy.
• 44:17
  When they said, Well, you ain't gonna have those cards, or we're gonna close your damn ports down.
• 44:21
  Uh, that really got eyeballs to open up, and uh very few could do that.
• 44:25
  Only Trump is brazen as he is as a as a commander in chief uh leader was able to pull that off in that way.
• 44:32
  I want to ask you about you talk about the regime change uh uh Sencary and the um uh the top layers going away and then but beyond that, it it's more than just a regime change.
• 44:44
  Uh we talked about the radical components of the IRGC.
• 44:49
  What is the real world um view of uh the will the power ever get to the in your opinion?
• 44:57
  Will the power ever get to the Iranian people?
• 45:00
  And is it possible at all, or is it just uh uh not possible to get the uh IRGC out of power?
• 45:08
  That's the real question, not the regime change, but can we get the the IRGC out of power?
• 45:13
  What what do you say to that?
• 45:14
  No, I mean uh IRGC controlled the uh entire bazaar of uh Iran.
• 45:18
  The initial uh protests that took place in uh January were protests in internal between the IRGC aluminus fighting each other.
• 45:25
  Right.
• 45:25
  Uh IRGC, you're talking about a 20 million uh persons network that is uh tied through businesses uh all the way through the Shanghai Corporation organization led by China, uh into China, into Asia, into Russia.
• 45:39
  Uh but aren't there some components more radical than not in the IRGC?
• 45:44
  Some is that a fair state?
• 45:45
  Yeah, of course.
• 45:46
  That's they're fighting right now.
• 45:47
  They're fighting internally right now against each other.
• 45:50
  The ones that are saying we have to go back, we should have not uh agreed to a ceasefire, and the ones who are saying shut up, you we've agreed to it, and if you continue to take on this mantle that we should go back the way it was, then we're gonna start targeting you.
• 46:03
  So the current leadership that we have negotiated a ceasefire with have actually put out a statement to the people uh of Iran, that means to the IRGC network that is against them, that if you do not stand down, we're gonna go ahead and uh start uh targeting you and removing you and putting you in prison.
• 46:21
  So um you're not gonna get rid of it.
• 46:24
  It's like saying, you know, we could always collapse the Chinese Communist Party.
• 46:28
  You could pull the teeth out of the dragon, you may not be able to destroy it all.
• 46:31
  But in the long term, the people are right now, the women are walking around in Iran without a head scarf on.
• 46:37
  That's not gonna go back again.
• 46:38
  The little things that were the people wanted were a little bit of a freedom.
• 46:42
  Uh you're not gonna you're not gonna take that away.
• 46:44
  So the IRGC network understands if it wants to survive and control Iran and needs to continue giving rights to the people uh that the hardliners had taken away from them.
• 46:54
  And the other piece was for us too.
• 46:57
  We couldn't allow the discomplete destruction of Iran.
• 47:00
  If that entire network had fallen, then guess what would have happened?
• 47:04
  You would have had chaos within the region because you have had Iran split to many different pieces.
• 47:08
  You've had a weak central government, and uh and I think Trump from day one kept on saying take a look at Venezuela, the same model will apply here, and has applied eventually it will become less of an issue burden.
• 47:21
  And people were concerned with the point you're making when he put the public statement out there about civilization.
• 47:26
  People went and the senator talked about that too up front, but people went bananas with that.
• 47:30
  But again, that's that's how um Trump is a negotiator.
• 47:34
  He throws everything out there and then sweeps up uh afterward, yeah, whatever the carnage or damage is kind of thing.
• 47:41
  But I don't think it was ever talking about um you know obliterating the whole state.
• 47:45
  No, but he was he was being honest with him saying, look, if I go and target all your your bridges and your entire network and and your because because the weapons that we use in Iraq when we destroyed their infrastructure, right?
• 47:59
  They were able to rebuild what we have today.
• 48:01
  If you destroyed their infrastructure, they could never rebuild it.
• 48:04
  And that's what he was telling them.
• 48:05
  And I think they got the point.
• 48:07
  Right.
• 48:07
  Right.
• 48:07
  No, you're exactly right.
• 48:08
  You're exactly right.
• 48:09
  Yeah.
• 48:10
  Uh l let me bring in Dr.
• 48:11
  Li Man Yan into the conversation here about China.
• 48:14
  And uh what are you hearing uh Dr.
• 48:16
  Lee Men Yang in regards to um we see how China has played this uh they've been kind of quiet on on the uh surface, but there's a lot going on under the uh radar with China and the Middle East.
• 48:28
  Uh what's the latest on that?
• 48:30
  What are you seeing?
• 48:31
  Hi, Malcolm.
• 48:32
  Yes, China, CCP, I mean, it's very nervous and very scared because they know uh actually President Trump, no matter how he catch uh Maduro or hey uh Kiel coming the destroy Iranian regime is to uh pave the way to destroy the Chinese communist party.
• 48:51
  And we all can say because Iran is one of the most uh important proxy and allies for Chinese Communist Party.
• 48:59
  Uh once we move this uh problem, CCP has no proof bullet code.
• 49:00
  Once remove this uh problem, CCP has no proof bullet code.
• 49:05
  So basically C D P is very scared, and of course they try to do all the things on their knees to help Iran uh and including the uh past their kind of native warfare, their propaganda.
• 49:05
  So basically, Xi Jinping is very scared, and of course they try to do all the things underneath to help Iran uh and including the uh past their kind of native warfare, their propaganda.
• 49:18
  Yeah, that's interesting what you say there about uh China and uh the proxies, and it's appropriate to point that out as well.
• 49:18
  Yeah, that's interesting what you say there about uh China and uh the proxies, and it's appropriate to point that out as well.
• 49:26
  But you see that this um
• 49:26
  But you see that this um this war has uh well it's brought a lot to their attention, Dr.
• 49:35
  Yan, but also, and I know Sergeants will say something about this later, they've also been really watching the uh strategy, the same as Russia has as well, obviously, the military strategy, how we're operating, what's going on, so on and so forth.
• 49:50
  China's been paying very close attention to that.
• 49:53
  Um, but do you think overall uh I I guess the bigger thing I want to ask you about as well, how does this impact the upcoming trip?
• 50:00
  And by the way, that trip is gonna be May 14th and 15th, is what it's scheduled for.
• 50:05
  Of course, the president had delayed it uh from uh earlier.
• 50:09
  Uh this is uh because of the war and all that's happening there.
• 50:12
  There'll be a lot to talk about there with uh Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, I'm sure, in May.
• 50:17
  How do you think this positions the trip uh for the two of them to meet in May?
• 50:22
  First off, I I need to tell you that I hold my total confidence about Trump president uh Trump uh administration, especially in this term.
• 50:32
  We can say President Trump has changed his strategy in the past, I believe they use very advanced AI system to help them.
• 50:40
  So they can't counter everything very well.
• 50:43
  So people, I mean, like mainstream media and the CCPs and anti-Trump campaign, they try to uh smear Trump and discredit him.
• 50:51
  But we do see that all the achievements goes in a um manner of very uh regular uh very well countered and very well designated.
• 51:02
  And so uh the thing is about his trip to China.
• 51:06
  Uh I hope President Trump could I mean I uh could cancel it or could be more careful, but yes, I believe if he made this decision to go to China to meet Xi Jinping, he should have already prepared well because you only need to be worried about uh think uh be worried about CCP's unrestricted war, and including all the most uh aggressive waste they could do in China because currently um with uh laps of Iranian regime and other of C CP's allies, CCP is pushed to the corner.
• 51:43
  And they shouldn't never underestimate Xi Jinping's aggression and his evilness, because they have according to their own idea, they have successfully launched the the uh weapon, uh COVID-19, uh back to six years ago.
• 52:00
  And at that time, remember President Trump was infected for twice.
• 52:04
  And also in CCP's propaganda, the lot of uh propaganda calling to uh remove President Trump, including K uh killing him.
• 52:14
  This all exists, and CCP is good at perfect crime.
• 52:18
  But the thing is, I also believe that if Trump made this decision to go to China, he had his way to control the situation.
• 52:26
  And we also can say that though Xi Jinping is very desperate, he's a gambler.
• 52:32
  So he won't hold the gambling table.
• 52:35
  He doesn't want to be kicked uh kick out, being kicked be kicked out.
• 52:40
  So the thing is now CCP lost their most of the oil from uh Mid East and also uh Venezuela, right?
• 52:49
  And they definitely don't want to buy it from US.
• 52:51
  Right.
• 52:52
  And also they have their so many good helpers like Maduro, like their um uh narco-terrorism based in uh America, um, I mean Latina, especially Latino America, and also they have lost their um uh supply chain because uh FBI has been to China to push them co-operate, and last year Xi Jinping was dragged by President Trump to North to South Korea, basically it's like Nidang in front of Trump to uh make the premise.
• 53:26
  So altogether, Xi Jinping definitely doesn't want to meet uh meet Trump.
• 53:30
  That's why in China they always say, oh, we uh we don't want to tell you more, it's still in discussion.
• 53:36
  Yeah, yeah.
• 53:37
  All right.
• 53:37
  Um Colonel Sankari, the timing of this trip is quite unique, quite something here in May, when they're meeting uh Dr.
• 53:45
  Yana saying that he probably doesn't want to meet Trump, but uh don't have much of a choice now.
• 53:50
  Um this war, and not a lot has been talked about it, but has really done as Dr.
• 53:57
  Yan was just pointing out, a fair amount of damage to China uh in many different ways.
• 54:02
  Uh not only this, but then back to Venezuela or Shishen and even Cuba and all of this.
• 54:07
  Uh this kind of goes to the big uh big picture here of what Trump is pulling off right now.
• 54:12
  Speak about that point.
• 54:13
  Yeah, the damage has been done to the Chinese Communist Party.
• 54:17
  Uh our focus is not to damage China but to get rid of the party that is currently in power that has uh oppressed the people of China for all these uh years.
• 54:27
  Um Venezuela, Iran were giving uh oil to uh China, 80 percent of the global oil is now currently under U.S.
• 54:37
  control.
• 54:37
  Wow.
• 54:38
  Okay, so incredible.
• 54:40
  Uh if I take your your uh energy away from you, and then uh also uh you know, it's really hard feeding uh billions of people three meals a day.
• 54:50
  Um I take the uh food supply uh capabilities away from you, then uh pretty much uh you're gonna have to come to the table realizing that your life is my hands.
• 54:59
  Well, now when it comes to uh technology and what the tech capabilities we use on Iran and how we were able to shut down Iran and how we were able to, in a short period of time win the war against them uh uh when it comes to the multi-perspective, we need to use some of our weapons systems that we have uh in our capacity.
• 55:18
  Now I imagine uh tomorrow if there's a shooting war against uh China, if it ever happens, uh guess what, uh we can shut down that country from one end of it to the other.
• 55:28
  Uh so um and uh internally the divisions that have been called the the first thing we start monitoring was when we did the operation Venezuela, you saw that the general officers and the uh um and the uh uh CCP uh ranks started purchasing gold and silver and others, uh, because they were planning for their future in case they have to be DD Mount out of the country for their own protection and life.
• 55:54
  So reality is this, uh you know, on the day before the ceasefire was introduced, and we had the uh uh Taiwanese leadership meeting with uh X.
• 56:00
  Had the uh Taiwanese leadership meeting with uh Z.
• 56:03
  The point was very well made that uh you want to get any part of the Iranian bazaar back into your hands.
• 56:03
  The point was very well made that uh you want to get any part of the Iranian bazaar back into your hands uh and uh the investment they had sunk into Iran, then you're gonna have to play along.
• 56:11
  Um and uh the investment they had sunk into Iran, then you're gonna have to play along.
• 56:15
  And if you continue to decide that you're gonna make uh any type of a play against Taiwan, uh you're you're gonna lose in the long term.
• 56:15
  And if you continue to decide that you're gonna make uh any type of a play against Taiwan, uh you're you're gonna lose in the long term.
• 56:22
  So I think they got to the point, and uh I think that uh he has no choice but to just try to make a deal to protect.
• 56:22
  So I think they got in the point, and uh I think that uh he has no choice but to uh just try to make a deal to protect himself in this case when it comes to the future of where we're gonna be with this concept of what the issues are between US and uh China's gonna be that when you had laid out in 2012.
• 56:41
  And the timeline is very sensitive right now with that trip coming that fast, uh just May 1415.
• 56:46
  The president has got to land this plane of Iran and get it down and get this resolved.
• 56:51
  Uh so you see that happening in the next uh week or two.
• 56:54
  Yeah, it's already been done.
• 56:56
  I mean, Iran's opening up their air spaces, and they're telling their people but you expect it to be totally backed up.
• 57:01
  Yeah, and all open media, they're telling to pe their people that uh you know if you continue to protest against us making a deal with the United States, we're gonna arrest you.
• 57:11
  When the Iranian government, the current one we're negotiating an open interest dialogue on their TV is telling protesters who are protesting against it for because it made a deal to go back to your houses, otherwise you're gonna get arrested.
• 57:24
  That means that deal has already been made.
• 57:27
  That is a fantastic point you make, and it's a fantastic point to end on right now as well.
• 57:33
  We're right out of time here, but that is a great thing to get out there, Sajis.
• 57:36
  Uh and that so it's pretty well a foregone conclusion, is what uh what we're saying here, I guess.
• 57:43
  Well, that's that's uh obviously the markets are responding that way here in the States here and um all the way.
• 57:49
  So let's hope that continues on here prior to that trip here.
• 57:52
  Big thank you here to Lieutenant Colonel Sajis and Gary, uh Dr.
• 57:56
  Lee Meg Yang, and uh got a lot of information out of today's broadcast, my fellow Americans, and uh a lot of hope, a lot of wishes for the uh uh for change and things that are happening.
• 58:07
  Um and let's hope that uh this is all for the better.
• 58:10
  Let's pray 250 years.
• 58:12
  We're at that mark in our country.
• 58:14
  So uh it's time to get it right, friends.
• 58:16
  Uh uh, thank you for joining me on the mission here.
• 58:19
  It's time to get involved and get loud, America.