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Swalwell Scandal Goes Nuclear — His Double Life Has Dems Scrambling | Episode 267 · V

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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. Good to
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  Speaker 1: Mighty show for you today. Eric Swalwell has resigned from
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  Speaker 1: Congress now. We'll talk about what exactly went down and
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  Speaker 1: why the fallout of his decision to sleep with the
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  Speaker 1: interns is, well, it's going to have... further reaching consequences
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  Speaker 1: for other Democrats. I've got the details on that coming
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  Speaker 1: up on the program. Also, the president's blockade of the
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  Speaker 1: We get an update from the vice president of the
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  Speaker 2: Vance.
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  Speaker 1: And today, joining us on the program, always happy to
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  Speaker 3: Boom.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we've got another announcement from Eric Swalwell. He's
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  Speaker 1: resigning from Congress. He's out entirely. The guy's calling it quits.
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  Speaker 1: He's crying uncle. He's trying to get out of this thing,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not certain that he's going to get out
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  Speaker 1: in a way that he can, first of all, salvage
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  Speaker 1: any kind of career. But beyond that, without doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of damage to other people, too. And I'll explain
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  Speaker 1: why in a moment. But here's Eric Swalwell's statement. Here's Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Fang Fang telling everybody that he's deeply sorry to his family,
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  Speaker 1: his staff, and his constituents for mistakes in judgment. It
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  Speaker 1: was mistakes in judgment that he's made in his past.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, this is all kind of like squirrely
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  Speaker 1: language to admit that he cheated on his wife on
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of occasions. Quote, I will fight the serious
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  Speaker 1: false allegations made against me. However, I must take responsibility
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  Speaker 1: and ownership for the mistakes I did make. Well, what
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  Speaker 1: are they? Swalwell? I'm aware of efforts to bring an
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  Speaker 1: immediate expulsion vote against me and other members, and other members.
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  Speaker 1: Expelling anyone in Congress without due process within days of
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  Speaker 1: an allegation being made is wrong, but it's also wrong
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  Speaker 1: for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: I plan to resign my seat in Congress. I will
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  Speaker 1: work with my staff in the coming days to ensure
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  Speaker 1: that they are able, in my absence, to serve the
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  Speaker 1: needs of the good people of the 14th Congressional District.
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  Speaker 1: End quote, Eric Swalwell. with the statement. Now, for good measure,
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  Speaker 1: they should probably kick him out of Congress anyway. None
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  Speaker 1: of this, you know, lingering period where he gets to
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  Speaker 1: set the terms of his own departure. Just give him
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  Speaker 1: the boot, fellas. Give him the boot. But Swalwell says
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  Speaker 1: that he's now resigning his seat in Congress as well,
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  Speaker 1: which makes a lot of sense because if he lacked
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  Speaker 1: the requisite judgment to run for governor, he also lacks
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  Speaker 1: the requisite judgment to be in Congress. So he's ducking out.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't give us a timeline for when he will
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  Speaker 1: actually leave. His seat will be filled by greasy Gavin Newsom.
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  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom gets to decide on whether to call a
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  Speaker 1: special election when a congressional office becomes vacant. So he'll
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  Speaker 1: set the terms of how that gets done. And then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the interesting thing is Swalwell's still on the
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  Speaker 1: ballot for June 2nd in California for the governor's race there.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's late in the process, his name's going to
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  Speaker 1: still appear on the ballot. And Boy, the Democrats did
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  Speaker 1: him dirty. Didn't they do him dirty? I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: he didn't do these things. In fact, I'm pretty certain
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  Speaker 1: he did. But the Democrats did him dirty. I went
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  Speaker 1: over the details yesterday. They had this blackmail file on
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  Speaker 1: this Swalwell character. And they saved it for this moment.
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  Speaker 1: They just kept it in a filing cabinet up until
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  Speaker 1: the moment they needed to destroy him for their own
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  Speaker 1: political expediency. And then boom, down in no time. Down
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  Speaker 1: goes Frazier.
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  Speaker 4: Down.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's gone. thanks to the Democrats and their ruthlessness.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there are Democrats right now who are claiming they
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  Speaker 1: didn't know anything about this. People who are very close
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  Speaker 1: to Eric Swalwell, who say they are completely stunned by
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  Speaker 1: these revelations. Now, of course, they're lying to you, but
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  Speaker 1: it is worth taking a look at all of this.
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  Speaker 1: Let me start with the man who Eric Swalwell has
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  Speaker 1: called his best friend ever. in the world. Here is
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  Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell. This was very recently, actually. Eric Swalwell calling
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  Speaker 1: Ruben Gallego, Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, his best friend
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  Speaker 1: in the whole world.
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  Speaker 2: Watch.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight you get to meet my best friend in the world,
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  Speaker 1: Ruben Gallego. There he is waving, his best friend in
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  Speaker 1: the whole world. They, yeah, they're thick as thieves, these guys.
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  Speaker 1: They're thick as thieves. In fact, do you remember the
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  Speaker 1: images of these guys riding camels together, shirtless in Qatar.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you're probably thinking to yourself, Vince, I
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  Speaker 1: really don't want to see that image. Well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really care. I have to show you this image. I
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  Speaker 1: have to show you what it looks like. It's so crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Look at this. This is, guys, this is them riding
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  Speaker 1: shirtless in Qatar on camels. Ladies and gentlemen, these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about, talk about friendship. Does friendship ever look any
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  Speaker 1: better than that? That's crazy. Look at that. Holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: Riding their camels together. And you get the glistening sea
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  Speaker 1: in the background. They're standing in the desert. They're there
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  Speaker 1: with their wives. Do you remember when they were there?
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  Speaker 1: They were there during COVID. It was the COVID lockdowns.
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  Speaker 1: This was early 2021. The rest of the country is
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  Speaker 1: like completely locked down under the Biden administration. And these
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  Speaker 1: jackasses are in Qatar. Qatar, Qatar, Qatar. They're overseas, riding camels, shirtless.
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  Speaker 1: They're best friends. They're best friends. best friends in the
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  Speaker 1: whole world. So you would think that maybe Ruben Gallego
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  Speaker 1: would know something about what Eric Swalwell was up to,
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that he was sleeping with the interns,
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  Speaker 1: that he was doing things with the interns, like getting
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  Speaker 1: them very drunk and then taking them back to hotel
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  Speaker 1: rooms and then having unwanted sex with them. Maybe he
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  Speaker 1: would know something about any of this or have some suspicions.
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  Speaker 1: So yesterday, a reporter caught up with Ruben Gallego and
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  Speaker 1: asked him, What did you know? And watch as he
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  Speaker 1: throws his best friend in the whole world directly under
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  Speaker 1: the bus wheels.
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  Speaker 4: Watch.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and the man with a double life and
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  Speaker 3: for many, I mean, more than.
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  Speaker 4: 20 congressmen, people have served with him for a long time.
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  Speaker 4: We had no clue.
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  Speaker 5: We had no clue.
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  Speaker 4: And look, unlike.
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  Speaker 3: whatever's happening with Jeffrey Epstein because.
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  Speaker 4: Like, we all ask for accountability. And we'll continue to
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  Speaker 4: ask for accountability. You know, victims deserve justice.
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  Speaker 1: But he let a double.
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  Speaker 6: Life in and tricked many of us into.
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  Speaker 4: Thinking he was something he was not.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So, look, Gallego goes, Gallego wants you to believe.
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  Speaker 1: That Eric Swalwell is like a criminal mastermind. He's just,
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  Speaker 1: he's unbelievable. This guy has a remarkable ability to pull
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  Speaker 1: off a con. He's a world-class con artist. He tricked
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  Speaker 1: everybody around him. I was his best friend in the
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  Speaker 1: whole world. I had no idea. I didn't know that
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  Speaker 1: this guy was a pervert. He led a double life.
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  Speaker 1: He really pulled the wool over my eyes. I just thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we were riding camels shirtless. I had no
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  Speaker 1: idea that this guy was a creep. You believe that
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  Speaker 1: for a second? You believe that for a second? Of
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  Speaker 1: course not. Eric Swalwell's not some sort of criminal mastermind.
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  Speaker 1: He was taking pictures of his own junk and sending
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  Speaker 1: it over Snapchat to interns. Oh, yeah, that's really good.
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  Speaker 1: That's brilliant stuff. What a cover-up. What a clown this
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  Speaker 1: dude is. So you know what's happening here. Gallego's trying
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  Speaker 1: to salvage his own political career. Now, there are plenty
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  Speaker 1: of people. I know I've seen the speculation online. It's rampant.
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  Speaker 1: Is it in the chat, guys? There's a. Oh, was
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  Speaker 1: that difficult to hear? Was that audio difficult to hear?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry if it was. I know there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of wind in the audio. Whoever captured it, captured
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  Speaker 1: on our phone. But Gallego says that he had no
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  Speaker 1: knowledge about any of this, that that Swalwell was living
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  Speaker 1: a double life and that he was he's completely stunned
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  Speaker 1: by it. Everybody he knows, every Democrat member of Congress,
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  Speaker 1: he knows everybody's stunned by Swalwell's behavior.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, bullshit.
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  Speaker 1: It's a complete lie. It's a complete lie from Gallego
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  Speaker 1: and everybody else around him. They're just trying to run
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  Speaker 1: for cover. They're trying to get out of the fallout
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  Speaker 1: of this thing. But let me tell you what I
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  Speaker 1: instantly thought when I saw that clip. Swalwell is now
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  Speaker 1: a guy who basically has nothing left to lose. He
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  Speaker 1: just lost his chance of becoming governor of California. He
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  Speaker 1: just got his ass thrown out of Congress. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: got his reputation to the extent that it existed outside.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we already thought he was a joke, but
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the country now thinks he's ridiculous. This
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  Speaker 1: will dog him for the rest of his life. And
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  Speaker 1: that's a product of his own decisions, no question. But
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  Speaker 1: how is he going to view this? How is he
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  Speaker 1: going to view this? Well, presumably, he's going to feel
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  Speaker 1: completely betrayed by the left that assembled this file on
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  Speaker 1: him and then destroyed whatever existed of his political career.
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  Speaker 1: So Gallego, the guy who spends all this time with
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  Speaker 1: him through the years, the second that he needs to
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  Speaker 1: trash Swalwell for political expediency, he comes out and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: that guy's a liar. I knew nothing about it. I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe what a scumbag he is.
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  Speaker 4: Whoa.
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  Speaker 1: What comes next? It really comes down to what's Swalwell
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  Speaker 1: going to do about this. Now, you may not see
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  Speaker 1: Swalwell do this in public, but if you start seeing
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  Speaker 1: stories pop up about Ruben Gallego, stuff that comes from
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  Speaker 1: unnamed sources, things that start appearing, rumors have it, there's allegations,
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  Speaker 1: any of that, I would not be shocked if it
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  Speaker 1: was Eric Swalwell or the people around him who were
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  Speaker 1: generating that. I would not be shocked at all. So
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  Speaker 1: in a way, it's kind of hilarious, actually, that Gallego
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  Speaker 1: would come out and do this because... I would kind
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  Speaker 1: of prepare yourself for what comes next here. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we're anywhere near done with this left-wing civil war
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  Speaker 1: that we see breaking out over this race in California.
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  Speaker 1: Holy crap. They're scared to death that these two Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, are going to
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  Speaker 1: dominate this thing and there aren't going to be any
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  Speaker 1: Democrats on the ballot. And so now their guns are
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  Speaker 1: blazing at each other. in order to figure this out.
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  Speaker 1: And there are Democrats who are being caught up in
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  Speaker 1: the fallout of all of this. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on the California race specifically, who are the next candidates up? Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's crazy Katie Porter, and then there's the billionaire left-wing funder,
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  Speaker 1: huge donor, one of the biggest donors on the left
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  Speaker 1: in the entire country, Tom Steyer. And you got to wonder,
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  Speaker 1: will there be another round of this kind of viciousness
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  Speaker 1: served up to say Katie Porter? It seems kind of likely, actually.
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  Speaker 1: The file on Katie Porter is pretty immense. She's she's disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: She jumped. She dropped boiling mashed potatoes on her husband's head.
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  Speaker 1: She treats her staff like utter crap. There's a massive
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  Speaker 1: file on her, much of which we already know in public.
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  Speaker 1: But my guess is there's a lot of stories we
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard. What are the chances we start hearing them imminently?
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  Speaker 1: What are the chances that they start appearing in vicious
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  Speaker 1: advertising direct at her by people of her own party?
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  Speaker 1: I'd say they're pretty high, actually, especially when you've got
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  Speaker 1: a huge billionaire left-wing donor running against her. If the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the Democrat Party wants to continue to have
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  Speaker 1: access to his money, they may join in in the
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  Speaker 1: stabbing session. So keep your eyes on all of this.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is about to get really crazy, even
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  Speaker 1: beyond what we've already seen. But the Gallego thing, man,
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  Speaker 1: that guy's a guy who's running scared. And to be clear,
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  Speaker 1: Gallego already has a history here. Gallego's got his own
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  Speaker 1: messed up past. That dude dumped his wife days before
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  Speaker 1: she gave birth to their child. He dumped her. He
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  Speaker 1: served her divorce papers within days of her giving birth
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  Speaker 1: to their child. That really happened. And then at the
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  Speaker 1: age of nearly 40, he marries a 25-year-old chick the
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  Speaker 1: next year. This is like, these guys are cut from
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  Speaker 1: the same cloth. Look at this. This is the Washington
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  Speaker 1: Free Beacon who reported on this. This was back in 2024.
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  Speaker 1: Eliana Johnson with the piece. Likely to give birth any
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  Speaker 1: day was the headline. Ruben Gallego served pregnant wife with
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  Speaker 1: divorce papers. She was blindsided. On December 15th of 2016, 2016,
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  Speaker 1: this is right after Trump won. I wonder if that
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  Speaker 1: animated any of this. Representative Ruben Gallego of Arizona filed
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  Speaker 1: for divorce from his wife, Kate Gallego, then a Phoenix
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  Speaker 1: City Councilwoman. He filed a motion to seal the case
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  Speaker 1: on the same day. That seal was lifted on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: after the free beacon prevailed in court to get it opened.
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  Speaker 1: And what they found is that it was Ruben Gallego
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  Speaker 1: who moved to seal the record back in 2016 in
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  Speaker 1: his memo making the case to the court. He noted
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  Speaker 1: that Kate Gallego had not yet been served with divorce papers, nor, quote,
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  Speaker 1: had her attorney entered an appearance in the case, but
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  Speaker 1: that she was, quote, likely to give birth any day.
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  Speaker 1: Any day. You couldn't wait for the baby to be born.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't, you know, let things settle out a little bit.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 1: Gallego's petition for divorce stipulated that the party's marriage is, quote,
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  Speaker 1: irretrievably broken and that there is, quote, no reasonable prospect
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  Speaker 1: of reconciliation. That came as a shock to his wife
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  Speaker 1: because Kate Gallego appears to have been blindsided by her
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  Speaker 1: husband's decision. When she responded to the filing in February
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  Speaker 1: of 2017, she said she was, quote, without knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: information sufficient to form a belief, end quote, about her
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  Speaker 1: husband's claim that the marriage was broken beyond repair, and
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  Speaker 1: she denied the allegation. The newly unsealed file also shows
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  Speaker 1: that Gallego wanted his wife to foot the bill for
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  Speaker 1: the divorce proceedings, stipulating he was entitled to an award
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  Speaker 1: of attorney's fees. Yeah. So that's Ruben Gallego. Ruben Gallego
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  Speaker 1: cuts his wife loose moments before she gives birth to
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  Speaker 1: the kid. That's really something else. And then he marries
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  Speaker 1: the 25-year-old Sidney Barron, who he met at a congressional
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  Speaker 1: baseball game. Just over a year later, he marries this girl.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. And, yeah, that's it. That's it. So that's Ruben Gallego.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens with that dude. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I started this thought and didn't
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  Speaker 1: finish it. Forgive me for that. But I know there's
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  Speaker 1: rampant speculation right now that Ruben Gallego is the second
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  Speaker 1: man pictured in the hooker video. You know, there's a...
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  Speaker 1: a video of Eric Swalwell getting handsy with a hooker
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  Speaker 1: in what looks like kind of like a hotel bedroom
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  Speaker 1: or something. And there's another man lying on the bed.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, if you're keeping track of the
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  Speaker 1: number of the people in the room, there's three people
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  Speaker 1: on the bed, there's another woman in the background, and
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  Speaker 1: then there's a cameraman. So that's five people in a
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  Speaker 1: room while Eric Swalwell is fondling the prostitute, which is insane.
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  Speaker 1: Everything about that is insane. And including the fact that
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  Speaker 1: I had to stare at Eric Swalwell's like drunken horndog
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  Speaker 1: face as I'm watching this video. I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to see this. It's the last thing I want
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  Speaker 1: to see. But in the bed is another dude with
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a like a thin beard and the
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  Speaker 1: same build as Ruben Gallego. And the guys were in
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  Speaker 1: black Nikes. And so the internet has been absolutely going
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  Speaker 1: wild with speculation that it's Gallego and looking for any
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  Speaker 1: evidence whatsoever that the black Nikes are a match for him.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: And I jumped in on the internet sleuthing on that too.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: And I couldn't find any pictures of Gallego in the
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: black Nikes. If you find them, you'll hit the jackpot.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: But I didn't find any pictures. I saw him with those,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: he was out hiking somewhere.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Oh boy.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Look at that. Creepy, creepy.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Josh, for showing that. You could see this
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: guy lean into the camera. You're like, is that Gallego?
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Is that the guy? And not clear, not clear, but
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: you do see the black Nikes as clear as anything.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: And so I started looking for it. I found like
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: pictures of Gallego hiking. He did some photo shoot for
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: some news outlet a couple of years back where he's
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: hiking and he was wearing those. I think they're called
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: on clouds. Is that right, Chad? You guys, any runners
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: or anybody have the on clouds? I think that's what
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: they're called. I don't own a pair, but those are
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: kind of fancy running shoes. And is it wrong to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: think that if you're in the on cloud purchase category,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: you're not in the Nike purchase category, that maybe that's an,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: maybe that's an exponent. Maybe it's not him.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: But I don't, at this point, we can't fully conclude
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: that it's him. That would not be responsible to conclude
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: that just yet. What I can conclude is these guys
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: are the, best friends in the whole world. And Ruben
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Gallego is very obviously lying right now about the extent
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: of his knowledge of Eric Swalwell's duplicitous activity. That's obvious
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: to me. And we'll keep an eye on it. The
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: chat loves on... Oh, they're called on clouds.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: The chat loves them.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, cool.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Cool.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Maybe he owns Nikes too. It's possible to own two
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: pairs of sneakers. That is possible. All right, more in
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: a moment. This guy, this guy resigned. And then suddenly
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: within an hour of Eric Swalwell resigning, we got a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Republican who resigned. Look at those Nikes. And then I
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: got to stare at Eric Swalwell. I don't want to
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: see Eric Swalwell anymore. I don't want, I was hoping
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: his resignation would resolve this problem. I don't want to
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: see him. I don't want to see him. All right,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: more ahead here on this edition of Vince. I want
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• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Swalwell resigns, minutes later, we find out that a Republican
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: is also resigning. Congressman Tony Gonzalez announced yesterday that he, too,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: plans to resign from the House. Now, just to be clear,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: what was going to happen this week, while Congress was
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: not passing the Save America Act for us, while Congress
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: is not yet funded DHS, while Congress is dragging ass
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: to do all sorts of other priorities for us, they
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: were ramping up to kick out a bunch of members
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of Congress. And these two might not be the only ones.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: But what we got yesterday is Eric Swalwell and then
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Republican Tony Gonzalez. is also bailing. Tony Gonzalez says he
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: will resign from the House. He's a Texas Republican. He
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: admitted a couple of weeks ago that he had an
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: affair with a staff member who went on to commit suicide. Oh, that's,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: oh my God, that's heavy. And he's been in the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: midst of facing an ethics committee investigation. And so, by
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the way, has Swalwell, there was this announcement that they
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: were going to start investigating him. When they resign from
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: The Ethics Committee investigation goes away because those are only
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: for current members of Congress. It's not for past members
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. So as they resign, they're also
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: collapsing the ethics investigations into them. But you're watching as
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: these guys are ducking out. But there's still more to go.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's like, you know, there's that woman, Cherfulis McCormick,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: you know her, Sheila Cherfulis McCormick up in New Jersey.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: She's the one who was like assaulting ICE officers up
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: in Jersey. And she's also accused of stealing COVID funds.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: And there's a criminal investigation into her. She deserves the boot.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: If you're going to start booting people, just let's just
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: start booting a bunch of Democrats. Let's just kick them out.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: You find that they've committed crimes. You find that they've
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: been abusing the interns. Just give them the boot. Let's
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: just let's just get this going. Like get some fighting here, Republicans.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a congressman for a congressman.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It's like, OK, we got rid of a Democrat, so
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: we'll get rid of a Republican. No, just boot Democrats.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: What would Democrats do here?
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: So Cherfellis McCormick could be next up. We'll see if
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: any expulsion votes happen this week. And then before we
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: get to our guests, I want to I want to
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: move to some Iran news with you because that'll set
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: us up very nicely. President Trump's blockade has begun of
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of the Strait of Hormuz. which is important. It's an
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: important thing. Again, he's blockading not the entire strait, but
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: instead the Iranian ports. So as you're reading news items
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: on this, it's important to remember he's blocking shipping traffic
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: going into and out of the Iranian ports. The rest
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: of the strait is open to ship traffic, and it's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: guarded now by the United States Navy. That's what's happening.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: And the president is doing this to establish more leverage
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: over Iran and And we just got an update from J.D.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Vance about how all of this is going. Here's J.D. Vance, again,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: who just came back from Islamabad describing President Trump's terms
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: with the Iranians.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Here he is.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Cut three. Watch this. Must have.
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: We must have the enriched material out of Iran. We
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: must have their conclusive commitment to not develop a nuclear weapon.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: And I think that if the Iranians are willing to
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: meet us there, then this can be a very, very
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: good deal for both countries. If they're not willing to
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: meet us there, that's up to them. That's their decision.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: And really, the ball is very much in their court.
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: So you ask what happens next? I think the Iranians
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: are going to determine what happens next. As the president
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: of the United States says, we have the cards. We
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: have the military advantage. We now have additional economic pressure
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: that we're applying on them through the blockade that we've
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: imposed on their oil coming out.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Of the Straits of Hormuz. Yeah, we've got a lot
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: of pressure on these guys. They have to come up
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: with a deal. Now, we found out from the vice
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: president in that interview on Fox that the delegation that
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: they met with wasn't actually fully authorized to even strike
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: a deal. So, yes, they negotiated for 21 hours. But
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: he said one of the problems was these guys weren't
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: even authorized to say yes, which created more problems in
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: terms of coming to a deal this past weekend. Here's J.D.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Vance cut for watch this.
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: Now, what's interesting, Brett, about this is that in the
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: process of doing this negotiation, I do think that we
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: acquired some knowledge about how the Iranians are negotiating. And
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: this is ultimately why we left Pakistan, because what we
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: figured out is that they were unable, I think, the
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: team that was there was unable to cut a deal.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: And they had to go back to Tehran, either from
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: the supreme leader or somebody else, and actually get approval
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: to the terms that we had set. So again, whether
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: we have further conversations, whether we ultimately get to a deal,
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: I really think the ball is in the Iranian court
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: because we put a lot on the table. We actually
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: made very clear what our red lines were. We also
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: made clear, Brett, that we actually would be very happy.
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: The president of the United States has said he would
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: be very happy if Iran was treated like a normal country.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: There are lots of reports right now indicating that Iran
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: is very actively attempting to keep these negotiations alive to
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: come up with a resolution. In other words, the leverage
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: is working. And it may be that part of the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: reason that the leverage is working is because Iran is
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: feeling pressure from its own allies, countries like China, which
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: takes 90% of Iran's oil exports to and very much
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: wants this blockade to end, wants this entire conflict to end.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: In a moment, we'll talk to Peter Schweitzer about China's
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: reaction to all of this and how the president has
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: just kicked out China's power cords all over the earth
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and what impact that's having on the Chinese Communist Party.
• 26:59
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  Speaker 2: Great to be with you, Vince. Thanks for having me.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: Good morning.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Good morning to you. And how is China reacting right now?
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I'm seeing some headlines that they seem to be reeling
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: over the fact that the president has locked down these
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Iranian ports for the moment.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look, there are not great choices for China right now.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: They have essentially lost Venezuela, which of course was a
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: close ally, their closest ally other than Cuba. And now
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: they are in the process of having a frayed relationship
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: with Iran. They get about 20% of their oil from Iran.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: They certainly want this trade of Hormuz open for that reason.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Iran wants it closed.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: So that's creating a lot of tension between them. I
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: would also say that Iran is quite upset with China
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: because China sold them a lot of military equipment, including
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: what were described as very advanced anti-air defense systems. which
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: were just decimated by the U.S. and Israeli air forces.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: So the bottom line is, is that China has not
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: stepped up to help Iran. Iran is upset and frustrated
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: and China is vulnerable to this energy shutoff.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Wait, so what have we learned about China's military industry
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: from all of this? Because it kind of seems like
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: this has exposed China's weakness. Because if what I'm hearing
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: from you is correct, They basically have like Teemu military
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: equipment versus the real stuff the United States is using.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look, they have some systems that are good, but
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: look at the two test cases. In Venezuela, the intelligence
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: system that was supposed to protect Maduro was Chinese designed
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: and in some cases Chinese operated. And you had US
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: Special Forces literally fly into the country, snatch the leader
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: of that country and leave. And Chinese intelligence didn't capture
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: any of it. In the case of Iran, you have
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: air defense systems, you have other infrastructure programs on the
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: military side. that they were responsible for not performing well.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: The added challenge that China has right now, Vince, is
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: that President Xi has been purging senior military officials that
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: he sees as a threat to his rule. So they're
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: not in great shape militarily right now.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, can I tap into your other knowledge about the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: cartels for a moment, which is, you know, I'm reminded
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: of something I learned from you. that the cartels were using,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: have been using Chinese encrypted messaging apps in order to
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: conduct their business. The Chinese, of course, were selling all
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: sorts of, not selling, basically giving the drug materials at
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: cost to the cartels in order to poison Americans. Are
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: you seeing similar patterns in places like Iran and Venezuela?
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Do the Chinese provide, say, encrypted communications technology to those
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: governments as well?
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: And they provide also through Chinese organized crime syndicates. They're
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: kind of the go-betweens between the CCP and the drug
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: cartels in Latin America. They're also the go-betweens in some
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: cases to these terrorist organizations because groups like Hezbollah, for example,
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: are also involved in narcotics trafficking.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: And what do they do?
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: They get assistance from Chinese organized crime. And on the
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: technology side, yes, China is providing these communication systems. The
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: problem that China has militarily, Vince, is it's kind of
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: like the Soviet Union. They don't encourage a lot of innovation.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: They don't encourage mid-level commanders to show initiative on the battlefield.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: It's all top-down and centralized. That's what they treat their
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: clients and their partners like Iran to operate militarily. That
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: doesn't work great in a world where it's AI and the.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Battlefield is shifting quickly.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: So this is a technological military revolution that is showing,
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: exposing the weaknesses in the Chinese military.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: The same thing happened in the 1980s to the Soviet Union.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: So what are the risks of an actual armed conflict
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: with the Chinese over all of this? If the United States,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: as we are right now, is blockading Iranian ports and
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: 20% of their oil comes from Iran, is there any
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: risk that China decides to escalate and engage us in
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: any sort of military conflict directly?
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: No, I don't think there'll be any direct conflict. First
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: of all, their ability to project power in the Middle
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: East is is fairly limited. Second of all, I think
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: they know militarily they can't match our capabilities.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: What's probably happening is two things.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: They're going to the Iranians and telling them stop this,
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: strike a deal with the Americans because we want that
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: oil open. At the same time, of course, the Chinese
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: are going to be looking for opportunities to make life
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: miserable for the United States. So it'll be interesting the
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: posture that Xi assumes when he meets with President Trump
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: in Beijing weeks from now.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, one of the things we saw in
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the reporting about why there was even a face-to-face meeting
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: in Islamabad to begin with was two pressure points. One
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: of them was apparently J.D. Vance was very successful in
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: convincing the Iranians to come to the table. But the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: other was that they felt a lot of pressure from
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the Chinese, that the Chinese Communist Party, which again, I
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: always refer to the CCP because they control the country,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: pressured Iran to go to the table with the United States. Clearly,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: China wants this to go away, and they think getting
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Iran to make a deal is the way to do that.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, 100%, Vince. Look, I mean, China is a military threat.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: There's no question about it. But they are confident that
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: through subversion, by buying people off in other countries, they
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: can achieve their objectives without actually fighting the United States.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: So they actually don't want military confrontation. They want things
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: to operate below the surface. And when you have armed
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: conflict like you have in the Middle East, that detracts
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: from their strategy.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: How devastating is it for them to have these power
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: cores being kicked out around the planet right now? So
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: as you point out, Venezuela, you know, which sent a
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: massive amount of its oil again on the black market
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: under false flags to China. And then you've got Iran,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: which was sending 90 percent of its oil to China.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, how devastating is this to the Chinese economy?
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: What impact does that have?
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: No, it's massive. I mean, think about it, and Cuba
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: is tottering.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran are the three closest allies that
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: China has in the developing world. There's not a lot
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: of other countries, I don't think there would be any
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: other than maybe North Korea that you would list as
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: closer in your relationship. And you've effectively seen two of
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: them neutralized or at least severely damaged, and Cuba is
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: in the third. So this affects their intelligence capabilities. It
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: affects their ability to project military and economic power. And
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: it exposes the brittleness of the Chinese system. It does
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: not work well to have this command and control economy
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: that mirrors certain elements of capitalism.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: That doesn't work well.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: In an age of AI. So it's exposing them in
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: lots of ways. This is not good for China. It's
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: been a terrible six months for China.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: So I think one of the things I've thought early
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: as this Iran conflict began in earnest was that people
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: were underappreciating the extent to which President Trump was actually
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: battling with the Chinese here. The president speaks pretty kindly
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: about Xi Jinping. This is his style. He's always talking
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: about his great relationship with Xi. But the impact here,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: it's almost like we're all talking about Iran as merely
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: a nuclear threat, which of course it is, but the
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: president trying to stop that from being a problem. But really,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, this is a proxy fight
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: for a much bigger concern, which is our biggest adversary, China.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: Well, I think you're right, Vince. Look, a lot of
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: people look at Trump's impulsiveness. You know, he gets on
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: True Social and says things. The bottom line is when
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: you look at his actions, there is a grand strategy there,
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: and a lot of it has to deal with China.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: And Trump's approach oftentimes is to praise somebody right before
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: he lowers the hammer. He said things about the Iranians.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: He said, look, they're very smart people. They'll strike a
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: deal right before the bombing began. So I'm obviously not
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: suggesting bombing with China. But the point is that clearly
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: there is a grand strategy here. It started with tariffs.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: It started with fentanyl. It started with the Panama Canal.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: All these things are part of a whole. And I
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: think that if people simply look at, what he is
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: saying on the moment they are missing what's really going
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: on below the surface of the water.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: So President Trump, as you mentioned, is scheduled to go
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: to Beijing a month from today. It's going to be
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: May 14th through the 15th. He'll be in Beijing. It's
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: a state visit. These are the kinds of visits that
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: have tremendous honors conferred upon the visiting leader, especially the
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: head of the United States. So China is going to,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: you know, give him the movie star treatment when he arrives.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: How.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I'm curious about how embarrassing that might be for China.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Like they're in a situation right now where the president
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: has basically really put a damper on their economy by
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: his actions and on their energy. And yet here they
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: are honoring him. Is this going to be an embarrassment
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: for Xi to have to do it this way?
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: I think probably not. I mean, look, Trump is gracious enough.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: So, you know, when he's met with Xi during the
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: first term, for example, they had their disagreements on a
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: variety of issues. Trump is always gracious, personal, face-to-face. He
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: might crack a few jokes. but generally he's not going
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: to do anything to embarrass them or to upstage them.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: And I think the Chinese need him. They need him
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: because when you look at the export dependent economy that
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: they have, they need to have exports, open markets in
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: the United States and with tariffs on the issues related
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: to fentanyl, a Belt and Road, some of the other
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: issues that we talked about earlier, they need to strike
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: some kind of bargain with Trump. And I'm not opposed
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: to a bargain if it's the right bargain. And I
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: think that this president has pretty good instincts on China.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: So I think that China will be looking for some
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: kind of a grand bargain with Trump. It'll be interesting
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: what they're willing to give up to get that.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: But the path out of this chaos is to be
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: way less dependent on China. I mean, because right now,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: as you well know, probably better than almost anybody, we're
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: very dependent on them for, say, generic drugs. Like all
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: of our pharmaceuticals come from China and India, too much
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: from China. We're very dependent on that region for chips. Obviously,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: we're dependent on Taiwan for computer chips. We need to
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: get as much of that here onshore in America as
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: possible so that we don't have to worry about conflicts
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: with China or Taiwan. I'm just being realistic about this.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: And of course, we need to stop them from killing
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: our people. I mean, you've written more about this than anybody.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: All this fentanyl that's pouring in, they keep paying lip
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: service to the idea that they're helping us with it,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: when in fact, they've been busy killing Americans. We have
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: to really disentangle with them.
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look, any quote unquote grand bargain with China actually
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: has to mean real results.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: And the evidence here is terrible.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: On the issue of fentanyl, in 2017, Xi said, we'll
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: stop providing precursor chemicals. We'll stop providing the other assistance
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: to the cartels.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Never did that.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Fentanyl deaths went up and they of course went up
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: even higher during the Biden administration. So the proof is
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: in the pudding in terms of China doing this.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: And you're exactly right.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: I mean, probably the biggest threat to China in terms
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: of limiting their leverage on us is Trump's efforts to
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: reshore manufacturing back into the United States.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: He's talked about pharmaceuticals. He's talked about rare earths.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: These are the limited pressure points that China has on
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: our economy. So when I talk about a grand strategy
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: for what Trump is doing relating to China, it's evident
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: in pretty much everything from trade policy to military policy
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: to our policy in the Middle East and Latin America.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: And Trump is always willing to strike a deal. China, though,
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: has to actually be willing to follow through. And the
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: evidence is pretty terrible for them to actually do that.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Now, is there a way that we can get China
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: to buy more American energy? Do you see this as
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: being a part of the deal? Like, in other words,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the president meets with Xi Jinping and says, start buying American.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: This will make your life a lot better.
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: Well, he has certainly proposed that and offered that to
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: the Chinese. China, though, has been very aggressive in threatening
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: to use or using our dependence on them. So I
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: think they would want to avoid dependence on us. And
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: let's remember, they've gotten a free ride essentially from Venezuela
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: and from Iran. Both of those countries, oil was sanctioned,
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: could not be sold on international open markets. So the
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: Chinese were was getting their oil for about 20% to
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: 25% discount off of international prices. That's no longer going
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: to apply. So this is going to be a jolt
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: to the Chinese economy. I don't think they are going
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: to want to be dependent upon us for anything. So
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: I think it's doubtful that they would want to strike
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: some kind of energy deal with the Trump administration.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Well, this leaves Russia, doesn't it? In terms of like
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: where they can get their energy from, because they don't
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: really have domestic oil. They don't have, they don't, that's
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: not available to them. So they get it all from
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: outside of the country. This leaves Russia, which means that
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: they're now paying a higher price, which is also making
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: it so that Russia's war machine can punish Ukraine even more.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, it's just a lot more chaos,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: isn't it?
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: You know, Russia is very interesting in this as well.
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, Vladimir Putin, in my mind, is a
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: threat and he should be punished for what he's doing
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: in Ukraine.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: But I do think.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Part of Trump's hopes in striking a bargain with Putin, which,
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: of course, hasn't happened thus far. Part of that is
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: to pull Russia away from China. Russia and China are
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: pretty cooperative right now. That has not been the historical
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: relationship between these countries. They generally don't like each other.
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: They have territorial disputes. They have other disputes that go
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: back a long time in terms of the rivalry between
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: these two powers. And there is a school of thought
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: that by isolating Russia, we essentially push them into the
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: hands of China. That benefits China because, of course, China
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: has a massive industry, has a lot of people, but
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: they lack natural resources.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: What does Russia have? They have a lot of natural resources.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Russia's role in this is interesting.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: They have lost a client in Iran as well, or
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: at least had that client severely bloodied. But I think
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: there may potentially be opportunities there to drive a further
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: wedge between Russia and China, which would further isolate Beijing.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: And finally, I'm just thinking about like all the countries,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: these adversarial countries we've had to deal with, many of
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: which I see headlines from time to time. They're doing
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: military trainings together, like things like Russia or China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: And as I mentioned these countries, I'm realizing one by one,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: President Trump has been trying to strike deals with each
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: of them. So whether it's Venezuela, which he took out
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: the illegitimate President Maduro, he's obviously got this relationship that
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the media in America hate with Kim Jong-un. He's been
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: trying to strike a deal with China, trying to strike
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: a deal with Putin, now working face to face with
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: the Iranians. He's clearly trying to break up this adversarial
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: group and create good relationships that benefit the United States.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's no question about it, Vince.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: And just think in terms of military cooperation, a lot
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: of times that is based on arms sales. You know,
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: you sell weapons systems that need to be serviced. Back
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: in 1982, Israel and Syria had an air war over Lebanon.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: The Israelis shot down 82 Russian MiGs that were flown
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: by Syrian pilots. The Israelis lost zero aircraft. What happened
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: after that? Everybody that was buying MiGs said, we don't
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: want MiGs, we want what the Israelis are flying, which
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: of course was American planes. I imagine you're going to
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: see a similar assessment by militaries in the developing world,
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: looking what has happened to Iranian technology and Iranian Chinese systems,
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: how poorly they have performed. And they're going to be
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: asking themselves, do we really want to be buying these
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: Chinese products that did not do well in Venezuela, are
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: not doing well in Iran. Why don't we try to
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: strike a deal with the Americans to make sure we
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: have the best military equipment? And by doing so, Vince,
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: that creates longer term military ties with some of these countries.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, our stuff is so good. This is why when
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: it's rendered inoperable, we blow it up on the battlefield
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: so they can't even get the tech. No, it's a
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: big deal. Peter Schweitzer, you're the best. Thank you so
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: much for joining me today. I really appreciate your wisdom
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: on all topics. Good to talk to you, sir.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Great show, Vince. Always good to be with you.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. The great Peter Schweitzer with a
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: crash course in global politics. What the hell is going
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: on everywhere? And especially with China. I've been fascinated by
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: this China component. What the heck is happening with China?
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: China's reeling today. And they've called the blockade of the
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz by the Trump administration a, quote, dangerous
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: and irresponsible act. But meanwhile, they're pressuring the Iranians to
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: actually get to the table quickly with the United States
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: of America and to strike a deal, which is wonderful,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: wonderful stuff. Let's see if we can't get one. I'd
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: like to actually get one and settle up there. Back
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: home in the United States, we just got some brand
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: new information from the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: yesterday about the first Trump impeachment in 2019. Remember that? Oh,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: so many years ago. The first Trump impeachment in 2019.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Released by Tulsi Gabbard. This is wild stuff. And not that,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: not shocking, but definitely appalling. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Gabbard exposes conspiracy used by Congress to impeach President Trump.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: And in this, what she exposes was what she refers
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: to as a coordinated effort by elements within the intelligence
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: community at the time, including a former inspector general, to
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: manufacture a conspiracy that was used as the basis to
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: impeach President Trump in 2019. So as we keep talking about,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: you know, grand conspiracies and abuses of power, and who
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: can we charge here, and can we bring them to justice?
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Here's Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, adding a
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: massive piece of information to the file. She says that
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: During a preliminary investigation into President Trump's July 2019 phone
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: call with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian president, of course, the former
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson didn't follow any of
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: the standard protocols and relied upon politicized, manufactured narratives and
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: only conducted interviews with four people, none of whom were
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: even firsthand witnesses to the phone call. who had no
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: firsthand knowledge of the phone call. Four people. The so-called whistleblower,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: the whistleblower's friend, who was actually a co-author of the
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: January 2017 Russia hoax intelligence community assessment, ordered by Obama
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: to try and freeze up the Trump administration. He was
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: a close colleague of disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: as well. And then two character references who both had
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: zero firsthand knowledge of the July 2019 phone call. So
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: nobody knew what the hell they were talking about. They
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: just made this up. They just made this up. Now,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I saw some people online already say that, you know,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: they had kind of operated under the assumption that this
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: was just you know, a phone call, which was taken
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the wrong way, and then it was blown up out
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: of proportion. It wasn't that. This was a hit job.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: This was a manufactured hit job, according to DNI Tulsi
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Gabbard's revelations. Despite a lack of any firsthand evidence, Atkinson,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: the IG, proceeded to take actions to weaponize the whistleblower
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: process and exceeded statutory jurisdiction by ignoring Department of Justice
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: guidance and relied on only secondhand testimony. And then he
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: released it to Congress and then it was referred to
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: the FBI and it was leaked to the propaganda media.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Then House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: that scumbag, and then Speaker Nancy Pelosi used the false
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: secondhand narrative to create media intrigue and ultimately sparked the
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: basis to impeach President Trump in December of 2019. So
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: we learn quite a bit here. They had no firsthand
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: evidence whatsoever. And this was all this was all rigged operation.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: These are the there were hoax authors, people who are
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: part of the intelligence community assessment, total hoax that relied
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: on the Steele dossier to lie about President Trump that
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: were involved in this. And then as far as Adam
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Schiff goes, let me go to the Schiff component to this.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Adam Schiff was involved and you and like I said,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: and use the false secondhand narrative to try and hype
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: this impeachment. Now Schiff, by now it's well established, is
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: one of the most truly sinister liars in all of Congress.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: And Schiff, even at the time, was lying about his
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: role in manufacturing all of this. Do you remember this
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: in 2019? Let me bring you back to this flashback.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Adam Schiff on television on a network now known as Ms.
• 51:27
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Being asked about whether or not he wants to speak
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: to the whistleblower. Has he talked to the whistleblower? Will
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: he talk to the whistleblower? And here's Adam Schiff lying
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: about this. He had already talked, his staff had already
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: talked to the whistleblower. So the answer is yes, we've
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: been coordinating with this guy. It's ridiculous to call this
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: person a whistleblower. This con artist, this hoaxer, we've already
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: been talking to him. Here's Adam Schiff lying about that
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: back in 2019.
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: Watch.
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: Questions here on this whistleblower front. First off, have you
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: heard from the whistleblower? Do you want to hear from
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: the whistleblower? What protections could you provide to the whistleblower?
• 52:07
  Speaker 6: And then you also said that the DNI is refusing
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: to turn over the stuff, citing.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: a.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: Request from a higher authority, the insinuation left, at least
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: for me and others, was that the president himself had intervened.
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: Is that the insinuation you sought to provide? And if so,
• 52:22
  Speaker 6: what basis do you have for making that insinuation?
• 52:25
  Speaker 7: We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. We would
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: like to, but I'm sure the whistleblower has concerns that
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: he has not been advised, as the law requires, by
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: the inspector general or the director of national intelligence just
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: as to how he is to communicate with Congress.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh-huh. So he just lies. He just completely lies
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: about that. Of course, he was talking with the whistleblower.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: It was all an inside job. It was all a
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: hatchet operation. The whistleblower, this person, was connected with President Biden.
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  Speaker 1: The whistleblower, in the DNI documents, let me pull this
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  Speaker 1: back up for you. They say the whistleblower revealed the
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  Speaker 1: following things. And none of this was disclosed to Congress
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  Speaker 1: at the time. Whistleblower interviews revealed that the political biases
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  Speaker 1: of the whistleblower, and his or her own words included,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: the whistleblower states he or she is a registered Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: The whistleblower claims to have worked closely with Vice President Biden,
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  Speaker 1: traveled with Biden to Ukraine, and was a part of
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: conversations where Lutsenko's corruption was discussed. That was the prosecutor
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: in Ukraine. The whistleblower also claims to have become the
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: target of right-wing bloggers and conspiracy theorists, meaning some people...
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: meaning conservatives had successfully identified who the whistleblower is. Yet
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: I see IG Atkinson ignored this and insisted during his
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I also want to make it clear I never considered
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: the whistleblower to be politically biased.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: And then despite public reports that the whistleblower worked with
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Biden on Ukraine matters, inquiries into the whistleblower's bias and
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: motive were blocked during the 2020 impeachment trial. This was
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: a rigged operation from the very beginning. Now, you might
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: be saying to yourself, well, can't we prosecute Adam Schiff?
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, Adam Schiff lies about this. They're abusing their power.
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  Speaker 1: It's all an inside job. He's in on it. Can
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: we prosecute that guy? Well, Joe Biden pardoned him. California's
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Adam Schiff gets a last minute pardon from President Joe Biden.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Remember that? Why did Biden pardon Adam Schiff? He gave
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: him a blanket pardon. He gave him a blanket pardon.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Senator Adam Schiff
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  Speaker 1: and other members of Congress and their staff who had
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: investigated the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots. Schiff was an
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: outspoken House member at the time, part of the committee
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  Speaker 1: that probed the insurrection. Among those also pardoned were former
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  Speaker 1: Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Joe Biden was President Autopenn. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's true. The Autopenn did that. Yeah, no, that's actually
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: a great point. Thank you for raising that, Chad. I
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: still think this idea that we can just accept the
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: auto pen as being the president of the United States
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  Speaker 1: is absurd. It's totally absurd. It's even more absurd than
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: accepting the fact that Joe Biden had his brain while
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: he was nominally the president of the United States. It's
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: crazy to me. Yeah, do the auto pen pardons really count?
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: If the pen signs the pardons, come on now. Let's
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: get some fights. Let's get rid of these stupid parts.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Let's prosecute these guys. At any rate, thank you to
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, for maximum transparency,
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  Speaker 1: releasing all of this. Why did it take so long?
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Why did it take so long for us to finally
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: get this? Tulsi Gabbard gets this information out to us.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: And if there's any justice in the world, it'll form
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: the basis of more evidence in the grand conspiracy case
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: that's happening down in South Florida right now. The president
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: of the United States did share a message about this
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: yesterday on Truth Social. He just took a screen grab
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: of Lee Zeldin's post. Lee Zeldin, who is over at
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: EPA these days, doing good work there. Lee Zeldin reacted.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: He said, just like the Russia, Russia, Russia collusion hoax,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: the clown show sham impeachment of President Trump in 2019
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: was a bullshit show trial of epic proportion to try
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: and take out the duly elected president of the United States.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: It sure was. which is why we so badly want
• 56:42
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