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8/26/26 -- Dan Ball W/ Todd Rokita, Jaco Booyens, Bradley Geary & Mark Schmitz, Joshua Philipp, Larry Sand. · Real America with Dan Ball

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Straight ahead on Real America tonight, it has been five
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: years since the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, which got 13
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  Speaker 1: of our brave service members killed in a terror attack.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: We're going to take you back through the disaster and
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: talk to one of the gold star fathers tonight, folks. Plus,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, has agreed
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: to massive changes on its platform. This is a historic settlement.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: We're talking billions. Every state in the land now are
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: going to have to change the way they do business
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  Speaker 1: to help protect your kids. One of the attorneys general
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  Speaker 1: who sued Mehta, Todd Rakita from Indiana, will join us
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  Speaker 1: tonight to talk about that settlement. Also tonight, Florida officials
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  Speaker 1: rescue over 150 kids and arrest three scumbags for preying
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  Speaker 1: on our children in a historic rescue operation. We've got
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  Speaker 1: the details. I'm Dan Bone, and Real America starts right now.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: Good Wednesday evening to you folks. Tonight we begin our
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  Speaker 1: program on a very somber note. It has been five
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: years since the chaotic U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and
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  Speaker 1: the American people are still looking for answers and, bigger picture, accountability.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, folks, not just as an American, as a broadcaster, no,
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  Speaker 1: as a veteran, this is one of the worst blunders
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  Speaker 1: in American history. And we know whose fault it is.
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  Speaker 1: He told us, the buck stops with me. Following two
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  Speaker 1: decades of military intervention, the Biden regime handed Afghanistan back
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  Speaker 1: to the Taliban on a silver platter. And in the process,
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  Speaker 1: they got 13 US service members killed. Also known as
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  Speaker 1: the Abbey Gate bombing, their hubris emboldened an ISIS-K suicide
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  Speaker 1: bomber to kill our troops and at least 170 Afghan
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  Speaker 1: civilians at the Kabul airport five years ago. We covered
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  Speaker 1: the disaster right here on OAN as it was happening.
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  Speaker 1: We remember it vividly. The formal withdrawal began in May
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  Speaker 1: of 2021. The Taliban terrorists immediately started reclaiming control of
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  Speaker 1: the country, seizing, rather, province after province. By late July,
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  Speaker 1: they controlled huge portions of Afghanistan. They sacked Kabul on
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  Speaker 1: August 15th, forcing the Afghan president there to flee. Then,
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  Speaker 1: roughly two weeks later, Army Major General Chris Donahue became
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  Speaker 1: the final American service member, we were told, to step
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  Speaker 1: foot off the country and leave. We remember the news
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  Speaker 1: of his departure all too well because all that departure
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  Speaker 1: haunts us to this day. You remember the images, those
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  Speaker 1: horrific scenes, Taliban terrorists holding our rifles, walking all through
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  Speaker 1: those hangars, taking pictures and video of themselves with our equipment.
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  Speaker 1: You remember seeing them parade our weapons down the street,
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  Speaker 1: as our alleged Commander-in-Chief Biden failed to explain what the
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  Speaker 1: hell went wrong. More than $ 7 billion of gear abandoned,
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  Speaker 1: including 40,000 military vehicles, 300,000 weapons. The Taliban showed it
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  Speaker 1: off to the world. They literally put on parades to
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  Speaker 1: show off the equipment to our adversaries so they could
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  Speaker 1: sell it off to Russia, China, Iran. Now, a half
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  Speaker 1: a decade later, the Trump administration wants answers. Pentagon officials
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  Speaker 1: are claiming they had just found classified documents about the
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  Speaker 1: scandal that were hidden, and they're trying to get more
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  Speaker 1: info and bring it to us. This news of the
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  Speaker 1: discovery broke right before the Pentagon Valor Awards ceremony this afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: and Trump officials are sounding the alarm bells. That includes
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  Speaker 1: Sean Parnell, chairman of the panel investigating what the hell
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  Speaker 1: went down.
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  Speaker 2: We are following the evidence to wherever it leads and
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  Speaker 2: to whoever it touches. We're not accepting incomplete or comfortable answers.
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  Speaker 2: The American people and the families who sacrificed everything are
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  Speaker 2: owed the full picture of how and why those decisions
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  Speaker 2: were made, and we're going to give it to them.
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  Speaker 2: That's a promise.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Sean. Yes, we will, at least on this network.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of those who served that we should never forget about,
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  Speaker 1: the 13 service members killed by that suicide bomber on
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  Speaker 1: this day. An ISIS-K terror attack at the Abbey Gate
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  Speaker 1: Kabul Airport. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Darren Hoover. Marine Corps
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Johnny Rosario Picardia, also known as Johnny Rosario. Marine
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  Speaker 1: Corps Sergeant Nicole Gee. Marine Corps Corporal Hunter Lopez. Marine
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  Speaker 1: Corps Corporal Dagan Page. Marine Corps Corporal Humberto Sanchez. Marine
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  Speaker 1: Corps Lance Corporal David Espinosa. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jared M. Schmitz,
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  Speaker 1: Marine Corps Lance Corporal Riley McCollum, Marine Corps Lance Corporal
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Marola, and Marine Corps Lance Corporal Kareem Nakoui. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss, and Navy Petty Officer Third
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  Speaker 1: Class Hospitalman, his name was Maxton Soviak. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: 13 names that we should never forget. And our guest tonight,
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  Speaker 1: one of those Gold Star parents. His son lost five
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  Speaker 1: years ago today. His name was Jared. He was just
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  Speaker 1: 20 years old. He was first deployed to Jordan before
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  Speaker 1: arriving in Afghanistan. We want to honor his service and
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  Speaker 1: the other 12 lost. Hopefully, we will get those damn answers,
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  Speaker 1: and we will get some accountability. Joining me now to
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  Speaker 1: honor and remember what happened on that day five years ago,
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  Speaker 1: he's the father of Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, Gold
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  Speaker 1: Star father Mark Schmitz. Joining him He's a retired Navy
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  Speaker 1: SEAL and from SEAL Team 6, Bradley Geary. Gentlemen, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for coming back on the program. Tough day for
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  Speaker 1: everyone involved, anybody that served or a family member when
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  Speaker 1: they are lost. Bradley, if you don't mind, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to begin with Mark, obviously, on this day. And instead
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  Speaker 1: of starting with negativity, kind of like I sounded the
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  Speaker 1: last few minutes because I am still pissed, as I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you are, Mark, how about we start with something positive?
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  Speaker 1: Give us a memory. of Jared personality, memory, something fun
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  Speaker 1: y'all did together. I don't know how proud he was
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  Speaker 1: to put that really good looking Marine Corps uniform on.
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  Speaker 1: Just tell us something about your son.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this will sum my son up, but it's actually
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  Speaker 3: after he passed. We, at his funeral, Armand Sr. was
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  Speaker 3: there and he came up to my daughters and he said,
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  Speaker 3: I just need one word to describe your brother so
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  Speaker 3: I can work that into my homily. My youngest daughter,
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  Speaker 3: replies with one word and says, playa. So he, Monsignor
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  Speaker 3: started cracking up. You know, I mean, obviously it was
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  Speaker 3: a very emotional day, but we all needed that good laugh.
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  Speaker 4: Jared, Jared loved the girls.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he was a young man.
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  Speaker 1: He was a good looking young man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He loved the ladies, but he was just, he was
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  Speaker 3: a great, great kid. I mean, I've said it before,
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  Speaker 3: but I've been racking my brain. I can't think of
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  Speaker 3: a single enemy my son ever had. Everybody who was
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  Speaker 3: around him loved him. He was friends with anyone and everyone.
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  Speaker 3: So just a great human being. You're blessed to have
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  Speaker 3: known him.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. We need a little levity on a
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  Speaker 1: day like this. Bradley, looking back five years at that blunder,
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: you were still active duty then or no? I thought so. Okay,
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: so you were still active in 21. I thought so.
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  Speaker 1: When you got the news... Um, just tell us where
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  Speaker 1: were you at your reaction and what were you hearing
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  Speaker 1: on the ground where you were at on what went down? Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I, I asked president Trump about this several
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: years ago in an interview and he said, that was
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  Speaker 1: not my plan. Joe and the generals deviated from my plan.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the way we were supposed to exit. Bradley.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Dan, it was frustrating. It was using for, for
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  Speaker 5: all of us. And so many people felt like we
• 8:15
  Speaker 5: had just wasted decades. of service time, of sacrifice of
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  Speaker 5: blood and American culture in this foreign country to just
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  Speaker 5: rush to failure.
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  Speaker 6: And that was what was so confusing. There was no rush.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure what drove the timeline that ended up
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  Speaker 5: so tragically with the loss of American lives.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for saying each of their names, by the way.
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  Speaker 5: And Mark, thanks for sharing a memory. That was fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: It's frustrating, man. And a lot of us dealt with
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  Speaker 5: a lot of anger, having lost a lot of friends
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  Speaker 5: over there.
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  Speaker 6: I offer that their sacrifice was not in vain.
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  Speaker 5: When you're fighting for principles, it's never a wasted effort,
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  Speaker 5: even though politicians seem to have certainly tried hard to
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  Speaker 5: make it feel like.
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  Speaker 6: A wasted effort.
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  Speaker 5: It's frustrating, too, because for so long in the Afghan campaign,
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  Speaker 5: we resisted this urge to compare it to Vietnam. We
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  Speaker 5: tried to do something differently, and yet the fall of
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  Speaker 5: Bagram Air Base just was like a cut and paste
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  Speaker 5: of Saigon, and frankly, so much worse, I think. And
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  Speaker 5: I wish When Abbey Gate happened, our senior leaders had decided, hey,
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  Speaker 5: enough's enough. We're actually changing the plan here because, again,
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  Speaker 5: we should deter any enemy out there who risks taking
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  Speaker 5: shots at American soldiers and American citizens and tell them, hey,
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  Speaker 5: plan's just changed.
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  Speaker 6: We're coming back at you twice as hard. We gave
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  Speaker 6: up strategic terrain.
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  Speaker 5: We gave up a staging location for the greater Middle
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  Speaker 5: East that we had owned.
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  Speaker 7: For, what, nearly 25 years. It just didn't make sense.
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  Speaker 7: None of it still makes sense. I was very encouraged
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  Speaker 7: to hear Assistant Secretary of Defense Sean Parnell this morning
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  Speaker 7: talk about searching for this truth, finding.
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  Speaker 6: Classified files and safes.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if we can be so brash to
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  Speaker 5: hope for actual accountability down.
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  Speaker 6: The road, but the sunshine.
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  Speaker 5: Would be an antiseptic to us all to at least
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  Speaker 5: expose what happened, what the decisions were, and how we
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  Speaker 5: got to where we are.
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  Speaker 6: We are owed the truth, certainly.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we are. Mark, to that word, accountability. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that's what you want for your son.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been fighting for that since day one. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what's in this report. I don't know what's
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  Speaker 3: in these classified files. It'll be interesting to find that
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  Speaker 3: information out, but, uh, you know, we're not looking for
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  Speaker 3: a political witch hunt here. We just want the absolute
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  Speaker 3: truth and, and in hopes that we can hopefully prevent
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  Speaker 3: something like this ever happening again. This is not a club.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody wants to be a part of being a gold
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  Speaker 3: star family.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, it's not. Um, Mark, I know you and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the other parents, we've had three or
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  Speaker 1: four of you on over the last five years. You
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  Speaker 1: guys have formed groups together. You do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: events together to remind all Americans of your loss. What's
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  Speaker 1: something that you hope in the future will come of
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  Speaker 1: all of this? I mean, I know we want accountability
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  Speaker 1: for the generals that made the call. Joe went on
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  Speaker 1: camera weeks after and said, aye, the buck stops with me.
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  Speaker 1: It was all my call. But let's be real. He
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  Speaker 1: was out to lunch. There were generals that made these calls.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: that either took his orders or made up their own orders,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, to exit this way. So what is
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  Speaker 1: your hope here? You know, they got the investigation. You
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: guys are doing tons of events out there trying to
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: keep your son and the other 12 being remembered by
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: this nation. But what is just your hope looking forward here?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, with all the media attention that our 13 got,
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  Speaker 3: you know, part of me felt guilty because of the
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: media attention and our kids are front and center on
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  Speaker 3: so many stories. And obviously there have been tens, hundreds
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: of thousands of others that have made the ultimate sacrifice
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  Speaker 3: before them, and obviously some since them. Not taking anything
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: away from any of them, but by bringing the media
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  Speaker 3: spotlight on all this, I hope it just reminds Americans
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  Speaker 3: that there's 1% of this country that had the kahunas
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  Speaker 3: to stand up and sign on the dotted line and
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: defend this nation and protect our freedoms. And when they
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: make an ultimate sacrifice like that, the respect ought to
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  Speaker 3: be given to them as well as their families. And,
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: you know, I shared a story with Jared about 9-11.
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  Speaker 3: The day that sticks out more to me is 9-12.
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  Speaker 3: Because if you remember, you couldn't go to a store
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: and find a flag anywhere. We were all united. Our
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: country had been attacked and everybody was pissed. And so
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: it didn't matter what side of the fence you played
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: on politically. Everybody was mad. And when Jared came home, um,
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: finally received him home from Dover, it was like 9-12
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  Speaker 3: all over again. I mean, the highways were lined, and
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: I would hope that anybody who's made the ultimate sacrifice
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  Speaker 3: would get that kind of a home reception because they
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: deserve it, not just our kids because they got all
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: this media attention, but all of them. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 3: so many.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: And you're right, man, was that 25 years ago. Look
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: how far we have not come. As far as unifying
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: this nation, if anything, we've been divided even worse, but
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: you're right. On the 12th, 9-12-01, man, were we an amazing,
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  Speaker 1: amazing united country. Bradley, I'll go back over to you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've looked at the details about the exit.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I'll just go over what the president told
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  Speaker 1: me personally and a general that was in the room
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  Speaker 1: when the president was in his first term, right? It
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be get out the civilians, any of
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: the interpreters, stuff like that. Then start taking out the equipment,
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  Speaker 1: only leave some behind. If you couldn't get it back
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  Speaker 1: to the States, ship it to other bases in Europe.
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  Speaker 1: Then pull the troops out and keep, I believe he
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  Speaker 1: told me, 1,200 and hold on to Bagram Air Base
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  Speaker 1: in the north. That was his plan. That's not what
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: the hell we did, Bradley.
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  Speaker 6: It makes too much sense, Dan.
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  Speaker 5: It just defies logic that we did anything other than
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  Speaker 5: that plan.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know why they changed the plans.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if it was political ego, but that.
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  Speaker 6: Would have been a fantastic plan. It would have been
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  Speaker 6: a fantastic plan.
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  Speaker 5: It would have guaranteed accountability of our equipment. It would
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: have guaranteed the safety of our American citizens and our
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: allies who, by the way, risked their lives and their
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: families' lives for the cause of liberty. And it would
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: have kept us like we talked about earlier, having a
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  Speaker 5: strategic staging point in the Middle East. All of that, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: as we know, did not work out the way we
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  Speaker 5: had hoped. So it's just a tragedy on an epic
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  Speaker 5: scale that the Biden administration decided to do what they
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  Speaker 5: did and then how that was executed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Tragic day. One of the worst military operations in history,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: thanks to the Biden-Harris regime. I'll end where we started, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: because you are the gold star father. I think you've
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: earned a little bit more airtime than all of us.
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  Speaker 1: Just any final thoughts or words about Jared, the other
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  Speaker 1: 12 men, and Abby Gate.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Jared may have died on August 26, 2021. His
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: legacy is going to go on forever. As long as
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: I've got breath in my lungs, I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about my son. We started our nonprofit to help veterans,
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: law enforcement, Gold Star families to heal from.
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: Those invisible wounds.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: You know, it's all about healing, and that's the entire
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: focus of our organization, the Freedom 13.
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  Speaker 6: But, you know, these kids are.
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  Speaker 3: They're superstars. They're absolute heroes. And so much good is
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: going to come out of all this in the end
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: because all you can do is take a tragedy and
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: turn it into a triumph. I mean, that's the only
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: way to live. And that's what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: You are strong, brother. Their nonprofit is called thefreedom13. org is
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: the website if you'd like to go to it and
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: donate and learn more about what Mark and the other
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Gold Star families are doing. Retired Navy SEAL from SEAL
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  Speaker 1: Team Six, Bradley Geary. Thank you, Mark Schmitz. God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Dan.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: It's more addictive than like smoking and drinking. A coalition
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  Speaker 1: of 33 states initially filed the complaint in a California
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: federal court back in October of 2023, claiming the company
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: harmed young users by intentionally implementing addictive features such as
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: endless scrolling. 13 more states then joined over the last
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: few years. Additionally, Meta was accused of illegally collecting data
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: from children under the age of 13 and misleading parents,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: pretty much all of us, about the safety of their apps.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: So now, the company, which is admitting doing no wrong,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: of course, must introduce new features to protect our kids.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: The list includes, you ready for this? And other countries
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: have had this, by the way, for several years. They're
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: going to have default daily time limits. That's a good one.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Get the kids off the devices. Get them outside. Remember
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: what we did? Go out and dig a hole with
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: a stick. I mean, that's how simple it was back
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: in the day. And I'm not joking. Stronger parental controls.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: That's a good one. How about some age verification measures?
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: And then more safeguards to protect minors from harmful content. Yeah,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: no sick pervert should be able to send your 10-year-old
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: daughter a you-know-what pic. They'll even have to impose an
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: overnight restriction to keep kids off of their platforms between
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: midnight and six in the morning. Wow, there's gonna be
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: some upset teens. Sorry, kids. Again, go outside. Get off
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: the device. So, this is a new era, and the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: only two states that aren't involved are Florida and New Mexico,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and that's because they both filed their own lawsuits. New
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Mexico sued Meta in December of 23, and the company
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: was ordered to pay $ 567 million in a ruling earlier
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: this month. Now the question is, will the changes make
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: a difference in your kids' lives? Joining me now with
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: reaction to today's settlement, He's the Attorney General for the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: great state of Indiana. Todd Rokita, back on Real America. Todd,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I know you guys were involved in this one too.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: You and I have had discussions off the show about
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: going after Meta and these social media platforms. Look, we
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: all thought when they came out back in, what, 06, 07, 08,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: we were all using them as adults, not letting our
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: kids use them yet. I tried to keep my kids
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: off as long as I could with her. Eventually... She
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: got a phone, she got online. I tried to pay
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: attention the best I could, but you and I knew,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and millions of Americans knew, this stuff is worse than cocaine.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: And so thank you for fighting to make them pay
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: up some money, number one, but let's talk about these restrictions. Todd, welcome.
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, hey, thanks, Dan. And you're right.
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: You're a good parent. You and Peyton are great parents.
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: Kathy and I, we try our best. We have two
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: teenage boys. There's millions of parents across the country that
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: do a great job with their kids. And it truly
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: is the parent's job to raise their kids. But that
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: doesn't mean we have to be attacked and our kids
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: have to be attacked by predatory social media platforms.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: I like the way you said it earlier.
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: This is like the tobacco settlements of the 1990s where
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: we got them for targeting kids.
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: Children to start smoking. They were targeting their children right now.
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: So it's the same kind of mechanism. And like the
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: tobacco settlements of the 1990s, this is a huge one.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: It's the biggest tech settlement in our nation's history, certainly Indiana's.
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: And it comes, aside from the money, it comes with
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: some great injunctive relief. You described a lot of it
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: that puts parents back in control.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. I mean, look, here's the deal.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: It is up to the parents, because we're always complaining
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: we want government out of the way. But here's how
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I look at it, Todd. There's consumer protection laws on
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the books for decades, right? You guys already states, the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: federal government, you regulate companies so they don't screw me, you,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the consumer, over. Well, a social media website is a product, right?
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: You have to download it onto your phone. You have
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to accept the terms. And so we expect, I don't
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: want to call it regulation, because us conservatives hate regulation,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: But there is a degree where you need some sort
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: of regulation, and this is a case in point. You know,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you guys regulate if a car is going to fall
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: apart after I buy it. You regulate a product I'm
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: going to buy so it actually does what it says
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: it's going to do. Same thing applies to social media,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't it? A consumer protection.
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: And in terms of regulation, the way we're going to
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: enforce this is, the states and Meta are going to.
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: Agree on a monitor. We're going to agree on an.
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: Auditor and there's going to be continuous auditing to make
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: sure that 12 to midnight prohibition stays in place to
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: make sure there are pauses in their use. Yes, it's
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: just two hours a day, but even inside that two hours,
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: it's going to pause at the first 15 minutes and
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: then 60 and 90 minutes. So we stopped this endless
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: scrolling and we're going to be able to technologically monitor
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: all this. And then in addition, If Todd Rokita, Indiana
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: Attorney General, doesn't like what he's seeing, we can go
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: back to the table and call him on the carpet.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: So a lot of good stuff in here.
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: And I think Meadow was smart to get this settled
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: rather than go to trial because we were going to
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: destroy him.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and how much was the suit for? It was
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: more than $ 17 billion, wasn't it? You guys were going
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to get, I mean, $ 17 billion is huge. Don't get
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: me wrong.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, no.
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: It was probably in the hundreds of billions.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought. It was hundreds of billions. And,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: of course, though, they didn't have to admit any wrongdoing, though, right?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: They didn't have to say they were guilty.
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: Well, I mean, whether they had to say they were
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: guilty or not, I mean, look.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: Look what they have to do.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I know. I'm just saying.
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: It tells a story. So, you know, from a legal standpoint, yeah.
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: But what I care about is the money, but even
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: more so.
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: The kids.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: There you go. The kids, the kids, the kids. I'm
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: going to throw up a bunch of headlines and just
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: get your reaction because I want parents and folks and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: grandparents and aunts and uncles to understand how dangerous social
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: media has become for these, especially little kids out there.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: So I'll just go through a few and then we'll
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: get your closing here, Todd. So chat GPT. Murder fantasy.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: That's actually happening, folks. And now it actually happened in
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: real life. There was a teen double homicide case and inspired,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: talked to chat GPT about it, created through it, whatever,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: but using AI. One in eight adolescents, so you're talking
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: about young kids here, preteen and teens, are now using
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: AI for mental health advice? What the hell? One in
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: 10 Americans have had a flirty conversation with AI. Again,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: may I say, what the hell? Men are twice likely
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: as women to fall in love with an AI robot.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: What the? Now here's the good news. Six, so at
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: least over half, six in 10 Americans support banning social
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: media for all kids under 16. I'd make that, well, Whatever.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I guess 16. I mean, you can drive a car.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: You go in the military at 18. I guess it's
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: a good age. Just wanted you to weigh in on
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: all that. I know a lot of negative stuff.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: It's scary.
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: Well, starting with the last one, you know, I'd be
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: for that. These are, you know, the kids are our best,
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: greatest gift from God. And we need to protect them
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: and preserve them. Not insulate them from reality, but to
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: let them be nurtured and grow. You know, our society,
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: and generally speaking to the rest of it, Dan, our
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: society's in trouble.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: We are deteriorating.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Agreed.
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: There is no.
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: Substitute for a nuclear family, a mother and father raising
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: their children.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: That's embedded in our DNA. It's needed.
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: And we are ripping that apart, mostly intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: And it's been going on for three generations now. And
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: this social media is just the latest chapter. So we
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: really need to get our act together to the extent...
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: that parents listen.
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: To their kids. Kids need love, right? Kids need love.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: Kids need to be loved.
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: If you're going to social media for your, uh, for
• 26:15
  Speaker 9: psychological advice, you're.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Not getting it at home.
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: I would suggest not to be judgmental, but love is
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: absent in your life.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: No, I would agree.
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: And you can be, and that includes tough love. Yes.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Both kinds. Exactly. You need both with kids these days.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: And we are, our society is in a decline. It's
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: been happening for decades. Ever since technology took over in
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the 90s, early 2000s, I agree with you, Todd. And
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I'll say this at the end here. I think AI,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: my opinion as a Christian, I look at AI as
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the antichrist. If people are trying to date AI, if
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: people are going for mental health advice instead of their
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: pastor or a doctor or their parents or their siblings
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: or somebody, they're talking to AI for that crap, our
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: society is in deep whatever. This is at least a
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: great step. Again, Todd, thank you for fighting for the kids.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I'll give you the final word on this settlement with Metta.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: No, you said it there. It's a positive day. This
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: is a good day. So, you know, parents won today.
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: And let's just keep the momentum going and take this
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: country and our lives back.
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: And other than that, Dan Ball for president. That's all
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: I got.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll move back to Indiana. I'm from Ohio because
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the wife's from Indiana, and you can support my run
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: for governor there or something. Just kidding.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Todd. I know you have to go be
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: a good parent because you told me you had a
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: hard out to go pick the kids up. So get
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: out of here. Thank you, Todd.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: See you.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you. All right. Straight ahead, our good friend Yakko
• 27:35
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  Speaker 1: Some good news to report there. Heartbreaking to think about
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: trafficked kids just a few months old. But good news
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: there from Florida's Attorney General, James Uthmeyer, at a press
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: conference yesterday announcing that huge rescue and recovery of 163
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: missing kids. As you heard from the, I mean, I just,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: two months old? Who the hell is trafficking a two-month-old?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Two months to 17 years. This is, by the way,
• 30:36
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• 30:41
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• 30:44
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• 30:48
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• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Children in need of immediate assistance were taken to recovery
• 30:55
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• 30:59
  Speaker 1: reunited with their families. Meanwhile, other children who don't have
• 31:02
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• 31:06
  Speaker 1: this operation led to, oh, I'd like a few minutes
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: with these families. felons. Jaden Harwood, Michael Prescott, Robert Allison,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: docks the hell out of these people, anybody associates with them.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: These are the scumbags that have been arrested and charged
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: with preying on minors. Now, ongoing investigations, additional arrests are possible,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and I say Godspeed to those investigators. Now, our next
• 31:36
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• 31:42
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• 31:47
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  Speaker 1: our good friend, Yaco Boyens, back on Real America. Yaco, Yaco, congrats,
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• 32:05
  Speaker 1: God bless you. How you been?
• 32:07
  Speaker 12: Yeah, praise, glory to God. Thank you, Dan. God bless you.
• 32:11
  Speaker 12: And praise God for law enforcement. Praise God for elected
• 32:16
  Speaker 12: men and women who actually fight for the will of
• 32:20
  Speaker 12: the people and for the children of the people. We
• 32:22
  Speaker 12: will prosecute, you know, it's quite a novel, novel idea
• 32:27
  Speaker 12: as of late, but here it is.
• 32:29
  Speaker 10: And it's very refreshing.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: This operation down in Florida, when did you get involved?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Did you bring it to them? Are they already investigating
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: these scumbags? Give me some background how this all came
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: together and how long did it take to nail them
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and get these kids?
• 32:42
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I know this is across multiple states. There's so many.
• 32:46
  Speaker 12: Law enforcement's always working. I want to say this. Under
• 32:49
  Speaker 12: the Trump administration, law enforcement is always working on these cases.
• 32:54
  Speaker 12: They have an initiative from the White House whether it's
• 32:58
  Speaker 12: a sheriff's department, local PD, FBI, you know, counterintelligence, international
• 33:05
  Speaker 12: work in foreign countries.
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: So these are not events that just start at one point.
• 33:10
  Speaker 12: They grow over time, and there's so many agencies and
• 33:13
  Speaker 12: NGOs involved, and it's not done.
• 33:16
  Speaker 10: It's not done. This is extending into other states, Dan.
• 33:18
  Speaker 12: There will be numerous rescues and arrests in other states.
• 33:24
  Speaker 12: You know, when you find that golden thread and you
• 33:26
  Speaker 12: start pulling at it, which is what this is, it's
• 33:29
  Speaker 12: tethered and it's international.
• 33:31
  Speaker 10: So this touches.
• 33:32
  Speaker 12: The Biden administration, well, the inefficiencies or the complicit nature
• 33:37
  Speaker 12: of the Biden administration.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: That's going to be my next question. You said the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Trump administration has pretty much put out that mantra. Hey,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: law enforcement, you hear about any child trafficking, you go
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: after them, you go after them hard, you get it done.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: You've been dedicating your entire life to this because what
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: happened to your sister Compare them. How was it during
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the four years of the Biden regime and the eight
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: years of the Obama regime? Did they empower and tell
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: every law enforcement agency in this country, if you get
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: wind of a child trafficking ring, we don't care if
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: it's two kids or 2,000 kids, you go after it.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: You've been in this for decades. Did they do it
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: as hard as Trump's doing it?
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: No president. And all caps, no president. Not George W. Bush,
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: because I was there.
• 34:20
  Speaker 12: Not President Clinton, not President Obama, surely not President Obama,
• 34:25
  Speaker 12: and definitely not sleepy Joe Biden, absolutely not. None has
• 34:30
  Speaker 12: issued the initiative in every agency, every department, They're combating
• 34:35
  Speaker 12: trafficking in the Labor Department, as they should.
• 34:38
  Speaker 10: Department of Education, Secretary McMahon is talking about fighting trafficking.
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: Whether it is.
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: Senator Blackburn on the Hill, soon to be, hopefully, Governor Blackburn,
• 34:48
  Speaker 12: the House, every agency under this administration, Dan, has an
• 34:53
  Speaker 12: initiative that this atrocity does not belong in the United
• 34:56
  Speaker 12: States of America.
• 34:58
  Speaker 10: It has never been like this.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Never. Let me throw up a couple of good headlines
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: because this is a good segment. I don't want to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: get negative on good news, right, today, because we had
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: some good news. We had good news with the meta verdict,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: protecting our kids on social media. You know about that big,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: huge settlement. And now we got good news on rescuing kids.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Authorities arrest 10 people. Put them away forever, scumbags. 10
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: people accused of facilitating a big sex trafficking ring in
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Go figure. Not like L.A. politicians want to
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: do anything about it. And then 50-plus people arrested in
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: North Texas. Is that right? During the World Cup, they
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: were involved in a human trafficking sting. I just like
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to show, and look how many. Look how many were
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: busted there. Hope you all burn in anyway. Jaco, I'll
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: give you the final word. Talk about the great work
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: your ministry does, how you are fighting every day. I
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: know you're in D.C. pushing policy and legislation, and you're
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: out there on the ground with your organization actually bringing
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: these kids home. So God bless you. Final word to you,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: my friend.
• 35:56
  Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a new time in America. I encourage every
• 36:00
  Speaker 12: single parent, get educated. You can't wait for law enforcement.
• 36:03
  Speaker 12: We can't wait for a child to be trafficked. Prevention
• 36:05
  Speaker 12: is cure. We have to prevent this from happening. Go
• 36:08
  Speaker 12: to helpjbm.org. We've got a brand new parent toolkit that
• 36:11
  Speaker 12: is phenomenal. It arms the family to fortify the family.
• 36:16
  Speaker 12: Keep your children safe. And pray for this administration, pray
• 36:21
  Speaker 12: for law enforcement, and pray for the NGOs in the
• 36:23
  Speaker 12: fight because they are swinging for the fences.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, there are some good NGOs, folks. I know we
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: trashed them during the Biden regime because they were helping
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: with the invasion, but this NGO is a great one.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: And one more time, Jaco, what was that website if
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: they want to download that new guideline for parents?
• 36:37
  Speaker 12: HelpJBM, Juliet Bravo Mike, helpjbm.org, and it's called the Parent Toolkit.
• 36:43
  Speaker 10: It's phenomenal.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jaco, for everything you do for our children.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: God bless you, brother. Thanks, Ben.
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 36:50
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, a new report shows that our biggest adversary, China,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: is hard at work hacking into our infrastructure. Joshua Phillip
• 36:58
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• 36:59
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• 37:42
  Speaker 1: So new reports are revealing major security vulnerabilities within our
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: own government. Go figure. US authorities just disrupted a Chinese
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: state-sponsored hacking operation that was targeting sensitive agencies and our
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: infrastructure here in the US and even abroad, leaving me,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure you, with a lot of damn questions.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Thousands of devices were infiltrated across the Energy Department, the
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Justice Department, and other institutions. And the group behind it
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: reportedly sold its services to China's Ministry of State Security
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: and the People's Liberation Army. Whoa. We don't know if
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: any real damage will be done, but now we know
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: our country is vulnerable and has been under attack. Another example,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: look at the Kansas-based company Microcom. They make programmable controllers
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: for wastewater facilities. Hackers stole nearly one million files from
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: them in July. The FBI's been investigating that one. The
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: attackers say they weren't motivated by money or sponsored by
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: any government, but some people believe they might be tied
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to Iran. It is possible and would make a lot
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: of sense since we're in a war with Iran right now.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: To that point, new reports say a power plant in
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: the UK was taken offline for four days back in July,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: and British intelligence suggests, dun-da-da-da, Iranian hackers. The system, back
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: online now, But we're told this is the first successful
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: attack of its kind, and it follows a very suspicious
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: string of attacks on wastewater treatment facilities that we told
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: you about right here in the U.S. There's been a
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: bunch of them in the Midwest, East Coast, out West
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: for the past three or four months over the summer.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: So the question is, what the hell's going on? Why
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: aren't we doing better cyber security at our water treatment plants,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: our waste treatment plants, at our government agencies? Joining me
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: now to weigh in, and hopefully with some more insight
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: on all this, he's a senior investigator and reporter over
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: at the Epoch Times and the host of the Joshua
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Phillips Show and Crossroads podcast. Joshua Phillips, back on Real America.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: All right, Joshua, how bad is it? I think we
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: had you on a couple weeks ago to talk about
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the water treatment plants and nobody was confirming if it
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: was Iran or not. But now we got this new
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: report I let off with that China has been hacking
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: some of our government agencies and stuff overseas and our bases.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: We know they're buying land next to our bases. We
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: know they were flying balloons over the country when Joe
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: was in charge. I'm sitting here going, what's gonna be next, Josh?
• 40:09
  Speaker 13: Okay, so I can give you the inside scoop on this.
• 40:12
  Speaker 13: The Chinese Communist Party's war plan against the United States
• 40:16
  Speaker 13: is what they call the Assassin's Maze program. It's also
• 40:19
  Speaker 13: been translated as the Trump card program. Nothing to do
• 40:23
  Speaker 13: with Donald Trump. It comes long before that. But basically,
• 40:26
  Speaker 13: here's how it would work. It would involve surprise attack,
• 40:29
  Speaker 13: large-scale destruction of all the enabling factors of our military
• 40:34
  Speaker 13: and our society. So the way they describe it would
• 40:36
  Speaker 13: be maybe large-scale cyber attacks, maybe a low Earth orbit
• 40:41
  Speaker 13: nuclear detonation for the use of EMP to create a blackout.
• 40:46
  Speaker 13: In their own documents, and there's very limited reporting on it,
• 40:49
  Speaker 13: but in some of their own documents, they talked about
• 40:52
  Speaker 13: using microwave weapons, which do exist and they've actually been tested.
• 40:59
  Speaker 13: They've been talking about doing targeted assassinations of key figures,
• 41:03
  Speaker 13: maybe tied with our military, bombing, for example, airfields. And
• 41:08
  Speaker 13: the intent would be to basically bring our entire country
• 41:11
  Speaker 13: to its knees and within about two weeks is the
• 41:16
  Speaker 13: way they actually plan it. And so things like this,
• 41:19
  Speaker 13: them doing what you would call maybe testing the waters,
• 41:23
  Speaker 13: you know, they're trying to see what our responses are,
• 41:26
  Speaker 13: where the loopholes are, fits in with that exact war plan.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: So let me throw a headline up about China also,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: because now the U.S., in this same report, says that
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the cyber spies are that were connected to China, whether
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: they were independent in selling the stuff or they sent
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: them over here, whatever it may be. We're not only
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: targeting the places we already discussed, but hospitals, military bases,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: and as I already said, government agencies. What are they
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: looking for when they're doing hospitals? I understand water treatment facilities,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: because obviously you want to crush a nation. If we
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: don't have water, we're all dead. I get government agencies
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: and our bases. Hospitals, what do you look for when
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: you're targeting hospitals?
• 42:07
  Speaker 13: Typically, if they're breaching a hospital, they're looking for personal
• 42:11
  Speaker 13: information on individuals. So they're building, of course, databases of Americans.
• 42:16
  Speaker 13: They've been doing this for many years already. In fact,
• 42:19
  Speaker 13: they were, even several years back, they stole all of
• 42:23
  Speaker 13: these security clearance documents on all of our major figures,
• 42:28
  Speaker 13: anybody who has security clearance. They breached that system, stole it,
• 42:31
  Speaker 13: which means they have basically a road map Of everybody's shortcomings,
• 42:35
  Speaker 13: all their dirty laundry, everything. They've stole medical records prior
• 42:40
  Speaker 13: to this. Part of that is just because they want
• 42:43
  Speaker 13: everything they can possibly get on every single person. They
• 42:46
  Speaker 13: want to know who you're friends with, what your issues are.
• 42:48
  Speaker 13: Part of it could also be they want to see
• 42:50
  Speaker 13: if you have health problems they could manipulate. If you
• 42:52
  Speaker 13: remember the late John McCain, right? John McCain, he had
• 42:56
  Speaker 13: the Wi-Fi connection or the external connection on his pacemaker
• 43:00
  Speaker 13: shut off. because he was worried it could be breached
• 43:02
  Speaker 13: by a hacker to kill him. And that has been
• 43:05
  Speaker 13: demonstrated as a way to kill people. They can do that.
• 43:09
  Speaker 12: Holy shit.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Remember, you never get a pacemaker. Okay, final question. Real
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: easy one, Joshua. We're trusting the government to try and
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: stop this. Whatever. What do I do to protect myself
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: and my information?
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: Go in a cave at this point.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: That's the only freaking answer, right? Move to some island
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: and sit on the beach and hide and change your name.
• 43:35
  Speaker 13: The hard reality is most of our devices have components
• 43:38
  Speaker 13: made in China. Even at the chip level, there have
• 43:42
  Speaker 13: been discovered problems where your device itself could not be
• 43:45
  Speaker 13: made in China, but a component could be, and that
• 43:47
  Speaker 13: component could be phoning home to China. I think until
• 43:51
  Speaker 13: people start demanding no made in China, no devices with
• 43:54
  Speaker 13: any parts whatsoever made in China, until we demand stronger
• 43:59
  Speaker 13: cybersecurity on the internet where we're not getting spied on,
• 44:01
  Speaker 13: you know, you click on the wrong website, you're always
• 44:04
  Speaker 13: going to have a risk of this. There are some
• 44:07
  Speaker 13: more extreme risks like breaches of our military or, you know,
• 44:10
  Speaker 13: critical infrastructure like you were discussing earlier. And there are
• 44:13
  Speaker 13: some minor ones like individuals like you and I, you know,
• 44:16
  Speaker 13: having our privacy violated or whatever. But absolutely, this needs
• 44:20
  Speaker 13: to be resolved in the long term because it is
• 44:22
  Speaker 13: just a wide open gate for espionage, military attacks in
• 44:26
  Speaker 13: the whole nine yards.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, I'll just give my two cents, folks.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Watch your info. Change your passwords as much as you can.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Don't log on to too many apps. Just try to
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: lock down your stuff because they're all Iran, China. All
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: of our adversaries are coming after our stuff. They're trying
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: to take us down every damn day. Joshua Phillip, great reporting.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: At Epoch Times, check out his shows, The Joshua Phillips
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Show and Crossroads. As always, appreciate you, Joshua. Take care.
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: Pleasure.
• 44:52
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 44:52
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: All right. Stick around, folks. Coming up, giving parents more
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: choices on how to educate their kids. That's the goal
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: of the Trump administration. We'll have details on that after
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: the break.
• 45:07
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• 46:43
  Speaker 15: What a travesty it is that Americans have invested $ 3
• 46:46
  Speaker 15: trillion in a federal department of education meant to improve
• 46:51
  Speaker 15: student outcomes, and yet only 30% of our students can
• 46:55
  Speaker 15: read or do math proficiently. This is why President Trump
• 46:59
  Speaker 15: demanded a hard reset to our education system.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we need it, a hard reset. Did you know,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: this really peeved me off when I heard this number,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: we've invested $ 3 trillion with a T, into the Department
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: of Education since it was created. And what was it,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: the 70s or something, or late 60s, whatever. So in
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: the last three or four decades. Three trillion. And yet
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: only three in 10 students today, as you heard Ms.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: McMahon say, are proficient in reading and math. What the?
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: And if you go to blue states where they care
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: more about woke crap and think math is racist, the
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: numbers are even worse. This is an epidemic, folks. On Monday,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: President Trump and the Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, hosted a
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: back-to-school event at the White House, and they emphasized the
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: need for major reform. They also talked about what they've
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: already done to improve our education system, highlighting several concrete
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: actions already taken. First, expanding school choice. Thank you, Mr. President.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: In case you didn't know, the Working Families Tax Cut
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Act included in the Big Beautiful Bill did wonders for
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: school choice. For example... They contain the first ever nationwide
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: school choice program in U.S. history, delivering a federal tax
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: credit of up to $ 1, 700 for scholarships at public and
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: private schools. Plus, there's an investment of $ 500 million into
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: charter schools, giving students and parents a viable alternative to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: public schools. We did it with my kiddo, elementary and
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: middle school. She went to a charter school in California,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: way better than the local public. Now, there's more to add.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Trump administration also returning education to the states instead of
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: the feds running it. Remember, he wants to just totally
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: get rid of the federal Department of Education. The president's
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: already approved a new waiver allowing millions of dollars that
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: would have gone to bureaucrats to go to classrooms instead.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: He also awarded a record number of grants to advance
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: literacy rates. How about that? In addition, the administration's restoring
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: the purpose of education again by removing that radical woke
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: ideology from the classroom, or at least they're trying. We
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: know it's not going away in some states. Biological boys
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: are now being prohibited from playing in girls' sports or
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: using girls' restrooms in most states, not all. Secret student transitions,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the whole trans agenda, he's trying to stop that one
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: and give the parents... their rights back. What's more, Trump
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: is going after waste and fraud and the indoctrination in
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: our schools. His administration has terminated $ 67 million in grants
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: funding sexually explicit content, and we're told they've cut $ 2
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: billion in grants for DEI initiatives. And by the way,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: that's just in the last year and seven months. I'd
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: call that maybe a new golden age of education, but
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: let's ask our next guest to weigh in. He's a
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: retired teacher and the former president of the California Teachers
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Empowerment Network. Larry Sand on the program for the first time. Larry,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: nice to meet you officially, sir.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: Nice to be here, thank you.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: You may or may not agree with President Trump on
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: everything or even like him personally, but let's just talk
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: about education since you were an educator for your entire
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: adult life, it seems like. Would you say that the
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: previous administration versus his did more for education and giving
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: parents the rights to choose where their kid and how
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: their kid is educated? Or is Trump doing better at that?
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: Let's just say I don't agree with all things Trump,
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: as you.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Said at the beginning.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: Totally fine.
• 50:22
  Speaker 16: But he's certainly on the right track with education. Just
• 50:28
  Speaker 16: to make a point, I'm what's called an abolitionist. I
• 50:32
  Speaker 16: don't think the government should be involved in education, period.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 50:36
  Speaker 16: Literacy rates were higher in the 19th century before the
• 50:40
  Speaker 16: government got involved.
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: Anyway, we're not going to get him out.
• 50:44
  Speaker 16: So the second best thing is to have school choice.
• 50:48
  Speaker 16: And as President Trump keeps saying, let's get rid of
• 50:52
  Speaker 16: the Department of Education. It was created in the late
• 50:55
  Speaker 16: 70s by Jimmy Carter as a SOP to the National
• 50:58
  Speaker 16: Education Association for supporting his presidency. And it's just been
• 51:02
  Speaker 16: a huge boondoggle.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: So wait, Larry, did you just say it was payback?
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: Hold on.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Did you say it was payback for... The teachers union
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: electing Jimmy, that's why he created it? He was hooking
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: up with the unions?
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a payback to the NEA. That's why
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: it was created in the late 70s.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Of course. $ 3 trillion. What a waste. We have, by
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: the way, you're from California. When I look at some
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: of these blue states who have put more woke DEI
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: garbage in than actual math, science, reading, writing, their numbers
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: are worse than a lot of other states who haven't
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: put that stuff in. I mean- It's not looking good
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: for blue states who worry more about woke education.
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: At least in the 1950s, when I went off to
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: my local public school, my parents knew I was going
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: to get a pretty good education.
• 51:47
  Speaker 16: I was going to learn my ABCs, my one, two, threes.
• 51:49
  Speaker 16: Now you go to school, God knows what you're going
• 51:52
  Speaker 16: to learn. I mean, you're going to learn that, hey,
• 51:54
  Speaker 16: little Johnny, you can become little Janie. You know, you
• 51:58
  Speaker 16: learn that white people are, you know, mean and racist.
• 52:01
  Speaker 16: I mean, it's just appalling what's happened to schools.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: Let me, you know, these are government run schools. These
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: aren't little idiosyncratic private schools that are doing all this nonsense.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: It's government run schools.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Let me run through some headlines real quick, Larry, so
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: folks know how bad it is out there. And so
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: they can understand that President Trump is fighting to give
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: those rights back to them the best he can, the
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: way the system's already been set up. So here you go.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Students' test scores have seen a decades-long decline. SAT scores declining.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: 67 to 2023, look at the dip. They went way down.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Students literally can't do math anymore, probably because liberals told
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: them math was racist. And then reading scores declined. hit
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: decades low level. And here's one for you. I thought
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: these higher education places of learning, like Berkeley, Yale, Harvard,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: the real fancy, fancy ones, you had to be really
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: smart to get in.
• 52:57
  Speaker 8: Really?
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Because a new report shows highest Berkeley acceptance rate is
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: from high schools where 94% of the kids getting in
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: flunk math. I mean, so we got no standards in
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: the schools, public schools, and not even standards at these
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: higher education places. I mean, this is just, why even
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: send them?
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  Speaker 4: Just homeschool them.
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  Speaker 16: Now they have grade inflation, so even if you don't
• 53:18
  Speaker 16: know how to add three and four, you still get
• 53:21
  Speaker 16: an A.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, no, it's atrocious. And, yeah, the country is.
• 53:29
  Speaker 16: Unless we do something, the country is doomed. Not to
• 53:31
  Speaker 16: be melodramatic about it, but we're raising a nation of
• 53:36
  Speaker 16: stupid people.
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: Stupid kids who are going to be stupid adults.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's okay to say, Larry. I agree with you.
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  Speaker 16: Not to put too fine a point on it, but
• 53:44
  Speaker 16: that's what's happening, and we need to change this for
• 53:46
  Speaker 16: the sake of the children and the country now.
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  Speaker 7: Amen.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Larry, final question's an easy one then. What do parents
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: do when you're faced with a system that's been in
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: control for 40-some years?
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: Well, the best thing you can do is homeschool.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 16: I mean, and if you can't homeschool, there are microschools
• 54:05
  Speaker 16: available where, you know, different parents get together and teach.
• 54:08
  Speaker 16: And if not, then avail yourself of school choice. And
• 54:12
  Speaker 16: Donald Trump has given parents that option. They can, you know,
• 54:16
  Speaker 16: get some money to send their kids to a private school.
• 54:19
  Speaker 16: or use it for homeschooling.
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: And there are a lot of different uses. We won't
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: get into that here, but yeah.
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  Speaker 16: But parents need to take over. Parents need to be
• 54:27
  Speaker 16: back in charge. Don't just send your kid off to
• 54:29
  Speaker 16: the local public school.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Larry Sand, see? You can always find common ground
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: with folks, even if you don't agree on everything politically.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: And when it comes to our kids' education, it's pretty simple.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Keep the damn government out. of our child's education. Larry Sand,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: thank you for coming on and weighing in. Appreciate you.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. Appreciate it.
• 54:49
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