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Feb. 15, 2023 - Sebastian Gorka

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Sebastian Gorka FULL SHOW: Nikki Haley: RINO in heels

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	We have an incredible show for you today.
	Breaking news out of Northern Virginia.
	We have an incredible show for you today, breaking news out of Northern Virginia, a cover-up of the transgender multiple rapes in the public schools.
	We have the latest on the balloon fiasco and we have Kurt Schlichter, that troublemaker, Colonel K with us for America First one-on-one.
	First, let me share with you something I did earlier today.
	I was just walking the dogs and I felt inspired to just Try and connect some dots.
	Connect the dots of the balloon farrago, the Biden-Beijing balloon fiasco, and then also connect it to the strange recent telling of a conspiratorial story surrounding the Nord Stream pipeline by Seymour Hersh.
	We are supposed to believe The following.
	Well, let's start with Seymour Hersh.
	The Biden administration, months in advance, deployed a naval diving unit to the Baltic Sea.
	Where they planted C4 explosive, remotely controlled explosives, that were three months later used to detonate the Nord Stream pipeline, which wasn't in fact being used, or at least was under 20% of its designed capacity, and so strikes some kind of blow against the Putin regime in Moscow.
	Right, so just file that.
	Biden, super secret James Bond kind of mission, three months in advance, under the sea, up against a Russian pipeline, which, of course, should it be connected back to the nation that did it, would be considered an act of war.
	Absolutely an act of war.
	Now, What we have just learned from CBS today, and I'm going to try and connect the dots here, is that the Biden intelligence agencies, DOD included, I presume our satellite elements as well, tracked the first 200-foot wide Chinese surveillance balloon from its launch point in China.
	Tracked it since it took off, and all the way across the Pacific, into Canada, across the Aleutian Islands chain, into Alaska, across America.
	Tracked it from its genesis.
	But only who was prepared to shoot it down after it had left our land territory.
	Shoot it down over the ocean in a place that would make it almost impossible to recover its payload intact.
	Yeah, you could pick up the, you know, the Mylar balloon elements, but that's hardly very relevant in terms of finding out what the machine underneath the balloon was doing.
	What kind of arrays it had.
	Then we find out from the same report this morning from CBS.
	That none of the three aerial vehicles shot down last weekend by NORAD in the first military activity in US airspace since NORAD was created in 1958, none of them were spy vessels!
	Now let's just connect all of those together for a moment.
	This administration actually New China was sending a massive surveillance vessel to America that traversed the diagonal swath of our nation, loitered, it has certain maneuverability capabilities, loitered above some of our most sensitive sites, including what?
	Including some of our missile batteries.
	Yeah.
	And that object was allowed to do so.
	It was picked up by somebody, by a civilian, and as a result, the administration was embarrassed into doing something eventually, but only after The surveillance platform had successfully executed its mission.
	It scooped up whatever it wanted to scoop up in terms of signals intelligence, photographic intelligence, Mazint, machinery and other radiation intelligence.
	And so what?
	The Biden administration has a shoot-on-sight order of weather balloons.
	Allegedly, according to one report, The balloons that were shot down at the weekend were scientific research balloons.
	If you add that to Seymour Hersh's story that strangely is getting a lot of people on the right very agitated, very excited, who believe a man who has basically lied since the My Lai Massacre about the American National Security Establishment about what our troops have done, always blaming our troops from Vietnam to Abu Ghraib.
	Seymour Hersh has chosen to lambast our serving military.
	We're supposed to believe at one at the same time that this administration is so gung-ho, so James Bond, so leaning forward into the threat environment
	That they're prepared months in advance to send in a special mission to surreptitiously place an explosive device on a pipeline, the rupture of which will cause a massive environmental catastrophe in the Baltic Sea.
	People are still measuring the impact.
	of that explosion and what was leaked into the ocean subsequently.
	That is ideologically pro-global warming, save the seals, the environment is collapsing.
	That administration is going to do a super secret mission.
	But it can't stop a 200 foot wide balloon.
	I don't buy it.
	Occam's razor is very useful.
	Given all the options, the most simple answer is probably the right one.
	I don't buy it that an administration afraid of the Taliban that left $83 billion worth of equipment in Afghanistan was planning an active war surreptitiously in advance three months before they detonated a pipeline sent in special navy divers and then they can't stop a 200 foot wide balloon.
	Take your choice.
	Incompetence Yeah, they're ideological.
	Yeah, they're evil.
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	But they are rank incompetence.
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	That was loud in school board last night, right, Jeff?
	Yes.
	Okay, can you do me cut two, three, and eight. - Okay.
	Is it the view of the President's communications team that he is equally adept in all settings in terms of communications, or are there some that play to greater strengths, some where he probably isn't as strong, etc.?
	I will tell you this, the President is the best communicator that we have in the White House.
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	Trump has declared candidate for the presidency of the United States.
	The fact that there's a lot of money moving around in many different ways I think raises some very serious legitimate questions about whether or not this amounts to some type of foreign interference in the political processes here in the United States.
	So I do think it's up to Congress, hopefully committees, ones that are not politicized, ones that are truly interested in trying to ensure that ethics pervade government service and continue after one leaves the government office to make sure that they're not going to use that time in office just to advantage themselves in an unethical, unprinciful way.
	That's incredible.
	Is Mr. Smith on the line?
	Jeff says he's not answering.
	Here's cut eight real quick.
	One thing I should say, and I know this is called the World Government Summit, but I think we should be maybe a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government.
	If I may say that we want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having, frankly this may sound a little odd, too much cooperation between governments.
	You know, if you look at, say, history and the rise and fall of civilizations, really, all throughout history, civilizations have risen and fallen.
	But it hasn't meant the doom of humanity as a whole, because there have been all these separate civilizations that were separated by great distances.
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	We're about to get him on.
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	There was a meeting last night of the Loudoun County School Board where parents, taxpayers, were hoping to hear that the report on the multiple sexual assaults of female students in two different schools would be released at the Stonebridge High School and the Broad Run High School.
	Both committed by the same student.
	The board, unbelievably, took a vote not to release the report, and the brave father of one of the victims wasn't having it.
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	You should, you f***ing son of a bitch!
	F***ing liar!
	What are you covering up?
	What?
	What are you covering up?
	That is the question and we are very happy to have with us that parent, Mr. Scott Smith.
	Welcome back to America First.
	Hey, thanks for having me.
	How you doing?
	Now, I presume that was not the result you were expecting or were you suspicious that they would not release the report?
	You know, it's kind of a mixed bag because We had, you know, a few board members that we thought would vote, and we only needed five.
	But, you know, a couple of them went back on what they said.
	You know, we had five of them on, you know, at different meetings say they supported it.
	So, I mean, basically, You know, they all lied.
	I mean, it's just more lies.
	Lies, lies, lies.
	Tell me if I'm wrong, but according to the press reports, the Loudoun County School Board said to protect client attorney privilege, they're not going to tell the taxpayers and the parents what really happened.
	Is that their pathetic excuse?
	Yeah, that's their excuse.
	And that's what's been winning in court.
	You know, we've already went to court, not us personally, but Some other lawsuits have tried to sue to get this report out.
	I know the special grand jury, if they would have been able to get it, they certainly would have.
	It's client-attorney privilege, and Loudoun County set this investigation up for them in defense to fight us.
	We even have a deposition in court where their attorney said that.
	That it never was meant to see the light of day.
	Got it set up and did it in anticipation of our Title IX lawsuit.
	They said it in court months ago.
	Now, last year, the Superintendent Scott Ziegler was fired after the grand jury released its report on the incompetence and the various things being covered up.
	But that's not enough for you and the fellow parents, is it?
	No, not at all.
	You know, there should be several people fired.
	You know, all the administrators are there.
	Falcone, the attorney, in the grand jury report, it basically said that if they could have brought charges upon him for witness tampering and such, they would have.
	Loudoun County's done nothing but try to hide this, try to cover this up, not take accountability for it.
	I can tell you that we just actually heard from Loudoun County's attorneys Within the last day or so, first time ever.
	And what are they saying?
	We can't talk about that yet, but you know, it's 20 months into it and we're not going to lay down and let the county get away with what they did.
	We'll get them in court.
	The truth will come out, one way or the other.
	So what is the plan now?
	Are you taking civil action against the county?
	Yeah, we've got a Title IX lawsuit ready to go.
	I think Loudoun County reached out to us.
	Maybe they want to talk to us before the trial, I'm not sure.
	I want to file it regardless because that will let a lot of the truth out to the public as well.
	The fact of the matter is that your daughter was sexually assaulted by a male student who dressed up as a girl.
	It was hushed up and he was transferred to another school where he sexually assaulted another student.
	Those are the facts of the matter.
	Oh, there's so much more.
	She was viciously beat up the following school year where she had to go to the hospital after we warned them ahead of time that there was basically a bounty out on her head.
	There's been several failures from the SRO, you know, under the Sheriff's Department.
	I could go on and on and on.
	And there's several, there's several things that Loudoun County has done wrong.
	That's just the one that, you know, everybody wants to talk about.
	That's the one that hit the big news.
	We've been taking blow after blow up until this day from them.
	It's a very dangerous environment that Loudoun County Public Schools has our children attending.
	Mr. Scott, we played the video of you last night.
	The hall looked really empty.
	Is this issue losing steam?
	Are the parents not sticking together?
	What is your message?
	You're talking to three million listeners right now.
	What would you say to them?
	My message is, is if you guys want change, you need to gather in numbers, big numbers.
	When I was arrested on June 22nd, what, a year and a half ago, there was like 600 people at that school board meeting.
	Now there's, you know, about 30 woke and about 12, you know, conservative thinkers.
	And they're the same parents every week.
	You know, it's, where are the million plus parents or however many there are at Loudoun County?
	Where are they?
	I haven't seen them.
	I haven't been here.
	So, you know, games come from voters.
	Yeah.
	And I'm not seeing it.
	So, you know, my message to the parents is if you don't stand up and fight back and unite, you get what you get.
	Yeah, it's up to us.
	Will you do me a favor, Mr. Smith?
	Will you stay in touch with me and my team?
	I'd like to go to one of those school board meetings.
	Yeah, yeah, I've actually hung out with you a couple times over at the Patriot Pub, but, you know, from here on out, I will not support any parent sending their child to a public school.
	God bless.
	Stay in touch. Stay in touch.
	Stay in touch.
	Yep.
	It is C. That's right, a firmament theory.
	Okay, titles for Mr. Moore, monologue, and that segment.
	Coming with four.
	Four.
	Yeah.
	Local government, no, the cover-up of protecting the rapists in Virginia schools.
	And put in there... Hang on a second... Hang on a second... Loudoun County Parent or something like that?
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Start it with LCSB.
	LCSB?
	Colon.
	Protecting the rapists in Virginia schools.
	Okay.
	Monologue?
	Little Seymour Hersh.
	Yeah.
	Nord Stream pipeline sabotage and Biden's China balloon.
	Nord Stream pipeline.
	Thank you.
	I think Nikki's really running for vice president, that's my sense.
	I think she has a problem because she first said she wouldn't run if President Trump ran, and her justification for changing was that a lot of things have changed, which I don't think is very convincing.
	So you think she has a credibility problem going into this race?
	I think Trump will have a lot of fun with her.
	I quoted Mike Pompeo in my book, something he said about Nikki Haley.
	He said, she's light as a feather.
	Why do you have to quote somebody else?
	What kind of ball-less wonder?
	I mean, he was in the cabinet.
	He can't... He's the National Security... He has to quote somebody else's insult of Nikki Haley?
	John Bolton, you are a ball-less wonder.
	Play that B-roll, Jeff.
	Bolton looks really unwell, doesn't he?
	Well, how many friends do you think he has left with everything that he's done?
	The only people that talk to him are all the liberals.
	Well, hang on, hang on, hang on.
	He used to have the friends.
	Roll the b-roll, roll the b-roll, Eric.
	He used to have, you know, the neocons used to be his friends, right?
	All the people that wanted to invade other countries and make them democracies at the end of a tank barrel.
	Look at him!
	He does not look good, does he?
	He is a little off.
	I don't know what it is.
	But he thinks he can be president, right?
	Yeah.
	The funny thing is Nikki Haley has no shot, but she has a much better chance of being president than him.
	Oh, I think this guy wouldn't get 1%.
	What do you think?
	It'd be the Kamala Harris style, where he's got to drop out early after he gets 1.6%.
	I think Bolton wouldn't get 1%.
	I'm putting my money where my mouth is.
	He wouldn't get 1% in a primary.
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	Brent in LA has some advice for my former boss.
	Greetings, Brent.
	Great reality television show creator, Gorka!
	All right!
	Don't give the game away.
	We have filmed a new show.
	It'll be out hopefully later this year.
	What advice do you have for 45, Brent?
	Well, there was a bunch of things.
	I wanted to respond to the requests and fears of Lady Antoinette, Judy from Brooklyn, and all of America's women of valor by pitching a new blockbuster reality television show tailor-made to President Trump and the MAGA movement.
	Do it.
	It will be titled The Real Woke Women of Mar-a-Lago, and it will reach out to our single largest, most abused voting bloc, our precious and wondrous women, and it will invite the greatest, most righteous and courageous women of our nation to Mar-a-Lago for coffee, tea, or champagne to discuss the most righteous and courageous women of our nation to Mar-a-Lago for coffee, tea, or champagne to discuss the most urgent issues of our
	And Melania Trump will be speaking with Katie Gorka, Jennifer Horn, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Candace Owens, Dr. Avita King, Rebecca Friedrichs, Dr. Naomi Wolf, Dr. Simone Gold, Sam Sorbo, Dr. Carol Swain, Governor Sarah Huckabee, Gina Carino, just for starters.
	But what are you calling the show?
	The Real Woke Women of Mar-a-Lago.
	But woke is pejorative!
	No, we have to reclaim it because it's a religious term, which the Luciferian left has seized.
	And this is the real woke or the righteous woke women of Mar-a-Lago.
	I love the idea of the show.
	Let me think about the title, though.
	But I think the idea, the concept is genius.
	Thank you, Brent.
	You've given me much to ruminate over.
	Let's go to Phil in Philly, line two.
	I knew it.
	Going after Brent is like going after the best guy on karaoke night.
	I mean, what the heck?
	Phil, have you sung karaoke?
	I need to know.
	Yes, I have.
	I'm guilty.
	I have yet to do that.
	I've yet to muster up the courage.
	I think you have an idea.
	What's your comment?
	What's your question?
	I had a suggestion for a short segment on Second Amendment Friday.
	Yeah.
	If you would take it under advisement to read, as only you can, a Congressional Medal of Honor citation, because they only take about 90 seconds.
	I think it would help our young men and women who are leaning towards communism see what it takes to keep America free.
	And finally, Dr. Jeeb, I could suggest, if you need to take this under advisement, the first one, my uncle John W. Dutto, D-U-T-T-O.
	He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor May 23, 1944 near Ponte Rato, Italy, and it was awarded posthumously.
	He gave it all.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	I'm out of time, but I'm writing this down.
	I'm going to look it up.
	I like your idea, John Dutko.
	But one request to you, Phil.
	Stop calling it the Congressional Medal of Honor.
	It is not issued by Congress.
	Okay?
	It is just the Medal of Honor.
	That's all you need to know.
	But I love the idea to instill some courage into the next generation.
	All right, I'm going to look up John Dutko.
	Superb idea.
	Phil always brings it.
	You know, he may be coming after Brent, but he always brings his A-game.
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	I tuned out for a moment when I was doing editing, so I tuned back in and he was like listening to just a whole bunch of names.
	I thought I was like, oh, is this somebody like convention or something?
	Like, that was quite a list.
	That was quite a list.
	Is this a five-minute interview, Jeff?
	Yes.
	Oh, he says yes.
	Want the mics on for him or off?
	Can you block the phones?
	Mics off.
	Block the phones. Block the phones.
	Block the phones.
	Artificial intelligence, but not only artificial intelligence, but also the metaverse, new space technologies, and I could go on and on, synthetic biology.
	Our life in 10 years from now will be completely different, very much affected.
	And who masters those technologies in some way will be the master of the world.
	There's a point at which you just say, can they make it any worse?
	It's Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum.
	He's in Dubai for the World Government Summit.
	Does nobody tell them, hey, hey Klaus, you may not want to call it the World Government Summit and give speeches while you're talking about being the master of the universe.
	Absolutely shocking.
	What is the connection to ESG and other skullduggerous plots against democracy in our republic?
	We'll tell you in a moment, but quickly I have to squeeze in Ray from Livermore.
	What's, what's going with, what's going up with you, Ray?
	Dr. G, good to talk to you, as usual.
	You were playing some Bolton clips there, laughing about how we'd like to be president, and Nikki Haley also, and I'd like to tie that back to earlier in the week when Judy called, and she kind of took it on the nose there, from you and some of the listeners, and I thought I would take a second to kind of back her up and say that I agree with her to a certain extent, but I agree with you, Dr. G,
	And what it is, as conservatives, we don't like being told who to like and who to hate.
	And the media does that, and the swampers do that.
	And I like DeSantis, and I like Trump.
	I like them both, and I don't want to see either one get bloodied up.
	I think they're both very useful for our conservative cause.
	So I don't like to be told that I need to pick one or the other.
	But that's what I've been saying.
	I say, roll on the primary.
	My issue is with Judy saying, oh, President Trump has to change.
	Well, no, that's a left-wing talking point.
	Correct.
	Correct.
	Right?
	So Trump needs to be Trump.
	That's why we love... Yes!
	The rhinos, the swamp rats.
	And the Democrats, oh but I repeat myself, want us, they want Trump and DeSantis to bloody each other up so bad that each one cannot be effective in a general election.
	That's not happening.
	That's not happening.
	Remember what happened in the primaries?
	And if Ron, if you're listening, if you're smart, you should be Veep or a member of the Trump cabinet.
	I think we have come to some agreement.
	Thank you, Ray.
	George, Daryl, James, don't go anywhere.
	But now we have a special guest who's going to explain to us what is going on at the World Government Summit.
	And what is this?
	Dark, dark plot called ESG.
	Will Hilde, Executive Director of our Consumers Research Partners.
	Will, I've been talking about ESG.
	I've been talking about your amazing campaign at Consumers Research.
	For those listening across the nation, why is this important?
	Why should they care?
	Absolutely.
	Well, if they care about democracy, if they care about actually having a say over the way they get to live their lives, then they need to care about ESG.
	Because environmental social governance, that's what ESG stands for, that type of investing is an attempt to bypass the ballot box and put far-left progressive politics in place all across corporate America without ever having to face an election.
	And talk to us about what you guys are doing with regards to some incredibly powerful institutions like BlackRock and Vanguard.
	Have we lost them already?
	We've certainly lost those companies, but we haven't lost the fight.
	BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, those three names are the big three asset managers in Wall Street.
	And the reason that they have the power that they do, it isn't because they're so wealthy, it's because we're so wealthy.
	They manage the state's pension funds across the country.
	And unfortunately, they have decided, people like Larry Fink, who's a member of the World Economic Forum and goes and speaks there routinely about how he wants to see the world run, He uses your state's pension funds to push those policies in the corporate boardroom.
	So talk to us about what that means for an individual person who has entrusted their future, their pension, their retirement to one of these mega companies.
	Can one person make a difference?
	How can you stop the woke drift of these massive institutions?
	Absolutely.
	Well, certainly if you have a 401k or a private retirement fund, you need to move it out of those three companies because they are undermining your interest with your own money.
	But there's also a problem of, let's say you're a cop or a firefighter or a teacher in one of the states, and your retirement isn't under your control.
	It's under your state's control, and much of that money is being managed.
	You need to let your pension fund trustee board know.
	You need to let your governor know.
	You guys were talking about Governor DeSantis a moment ago.
	He is leading the way in a lot of ways on getting his pension fund, state pension fund, out of the ESG movement, out of the control of BlackRock.
	We need more states to follow on.
	There are about two dozen states right now that are considering legislation this session that would hamstring this world government takeover through ESG.
	So contact your state reps.
	Contact your governor.
	Say, you really care about this issue?
	You want them to do something about it because I can guarantee you Larry Fink and his lobbyists, the big banks, they are there.
	They are there talking to your representatives.
	So if you're not, that's who they're going to listen to.
	Now, you guys have been fighting on behalf of consumers against fraud and abuse for decades.
	When it comes to this incredible threat, what's the plan?
	Can you turn around these massive institutions like BlackRock, or do you want to have people just leave them alone?
	Well, we can turn them around.
	I'll tell you why.
	Part of the reason they've been doing this is because conservatives have been asleep at the wheel.
	States like California and New York have told big asset managers like BlackRock, listen, if you want to manage our money for CalPERS or CalSTRS, you have to agree to use all your money under your control, meaning the pensions of North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, all the red states.
	You have to agree to use that to push far-left progressive platforms.
	And we haven't pushed back.
	We haven't said, no, absolutely not.
	You're not going to use our money to push California's policies.
	And that's what we have to wake up to do.
	We do that, there will be a very different mood on Wall Street.
	Right.
	We have to get ideological woke politics out of the private sector.
	The first thing you need to do.
	They're not asking for money.
	They're just educating you.
	You've got to go to consumersresearch.org.
	Will and his colleagues have done the lion's share of the work.
	We have got to stop these people endangering your future and the pensions, the retirements that you have worked for.
	Go today.
	Consumersresearch.org.
	Consumersresearch.org.
	Thank you, Will.
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	George, California, line three.
	Hey, Dr. Gorka.
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	Light heavyweight champion for America.
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	You got an idea for a t-shirt?
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	Yep.
	You know how the Top Gun poster shows Maverick there with his, yeah, looking very heroic.
	Yeah, I was thinking of one for Chou Baidong.
	He's in his you know, he likes his aviator glasses.
	Yes.
	And his flight jacket.
	Yes, there he is.
	Behind him.
	It floating in the balloon is a dictator of China.
	And the title is pop gun.
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	Let's go to Daryl, line 4, California.
	Semper Fi, Dr. G. Good to continue this chatting again, sir.
	Semper Fi.
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	What's your question?
	Full disclosure, sir, I will not call you.
	You utilize another non-Patriot mobile platform.
	I apologize, but I had to call in regards to the late, late, great, luminous, luscious Miss Raquel Welch.
	She was luminous.
	I love that.
	Yes.
	Yes, carry on.
	Yes, sir.
	In honor of her, sir, if I may make a suggestion for your Making Movies Great Again segment, A critique of her film Fantastic Voyage.
	Oh my gosh!
	Yes!
	I love it with Donald Pleasance.
	You're a genius.
	I love it.
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	James, New Mexico.
	Hello, Dr. G. Hey!
	You got a minute.
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	What's your comment?
	Hey, real quick.
	First of all, John Bolton's an idiot.
	But the 60 plus million people that voted for Trump in 2020 are going to vote for him again.
	And I wanted to make a comment on what people should do across this country, especially with uh republican governors yeah our property taxes come out money comes out of our property taxes to fund public schools these republican governors need to stop that stop taking that money from their property taxes and give it back to the parents to to get control of their kids again
	it's unbelievable that's what needs to happen to change and defund these unions defund the public SCHOOLS.
	School choice.
	I mean, if the likes of Thomas Sowell, one of America's few living geniuses, is committed to school choice, then we should be too.
	I completely agree.
	Thank you, James.
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	- Hello, Jen, how's it going? how's it going?
	Oh, you still there?
	Hello, hello.
	Hello, Jen, how's it going?
	Hi!
	Alright, so, Seb and I had a bit of a debate then earlier today about this.
	So, the whole Feinstein thing.
	Yes.
	Do you think the office really released it without her knowledge, or do you think she released it herself and just forgot a day later?
	No, I think they did it without her.
	I agree.
	I think that she is forgetful.
	Yeah.
	I think she's in decline, and I think they treated her like garbage.
	Yeah.
	But they know she's done.
	They know she can't run again.
	She's like, what, 90?
	Yeah.
	She'll be 96 when she finishes her term.
	She's literally, like, this term or the hypothetical next term?
	Or the next term.
	Yeah, she'll be 90 next term.
	She's worse than Biden.
	Like, she doesn't get as much coverage, but she's worse than Biden.
	Well, the reason she doesn't get any coverage is because they've hidden her away.
	Yeah.
	Want me to call you?
	Yes, please.
	Let's see.
	SNA, right?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Ta-da!
	There it is.
	The pink swirl.
	Yeah, it's going to be really interesting, because guess who?
	Your buddy is, I've heard, running.
	Oh, wait, for the Senate?
	Mm-hmm.
	Faulkner.
	Really?
	Oh, he just...
	I don't know for sure if he's going to get in, but I've heard a lot of rumblings with his name.
	There's literally no one else lined up.
	I know you said Eric Earley wanted to do it, but... He's going to do it, I think.
	And I'm sure Mark Moyer will probably jump in again.
	I don't know.
	They were speculating about who might jump in.
	Democrats in the runoff if that makes a move.
	Exactly.
	So but you know what the LA Times – so the LA Times did this article.
	This will be fun to talk to Seb about.
	They were speculating about who might jump in.
	They say Schwarzenegger might run for Senate, which is such a terrible idea because every Republican was disappointed by him.
	He killed the party.
	Yes.
	And no Democrat's going to vote for him.
	So he'd have nobody voting for him.
	No.
	I mean, I don't think any Republican can win anyway, but I mean, it's... Unless it's The Rock.
	Dwayne Johnson?
	Really?
	Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?
	Sorry, hang on one second.
	Did I lose you guys?
	Yeah.
	I mean, at this point, Republicans running for statewide office in California is just sailing into China.
	It's a suicide mission.
	Yeah, no.
	But the one holdout that you might be – I mean, I can't believe I'm going to say this.
	I can't believe I'm going to say this.
	But if it is another Democrat that gets in, Ro Khanna is supposedly getting in.
	Right.
	Well, and Barbara Lee too, right?
	Barbara Lee is already in.
	But Ro Khanna, even though he's a Democrat, is a free speech Democrat.
	Right.
	I had a... Sorry, Jen, we gotta play a cut here real quick.
	That's okay.
	I had a really interesting press conference when I first came into town to promote the film with all the sportswriters.
	And they said, gee, you know...
	You're a nice-sized lady and all that, but you're not exactly what I expected.
	And I said, I know I always seem to disappoint people if I walk in the door and the door hinges don't splinter off, that type of thing.
	That's right.
	They really expect me to come in with a machete or something.
	I guess I must be pretty intimidating.
	I always...
	I had a really interesting...
	I had a...
	I just came into town to promote the film with all the sports writers.
	And they said, gee, you know...
	You're a nice-sized lady and all that, but you're not exactly what I expected.
	And I said, I know I always seem to disappoint people if I walk in the door and the door hinges don't splinter off, that type of thing.
	That's right.
	They really expect me to come in with a machete or something.
	I guess I must be pretty intimidating.
	I always say it's because my shoulders are very broad that I photograph that.
	You're right, they are.
	Oh, Dick Cavett.
	He's so boring.
	But Raquel Welsh makes up for it.
	Yes, your shoulders are so broad.
	Some people you just expect are going to be with us forever.
	How dare she leave us?
	Just 82 years old, Raquel Welsh.
	We're going to salute her today on America First.
	Here are some pictures just to remind you of why millions of hearts are going to be broken across the world today because of this lady.
	We're going to have to, I think, I think, who was that caller just moments ago said, Fantastic Voyage may have to be added to our list of making movies great again.
	It's a little bit prior to the the usual years we're concentrating on so far with our buddy Mr. Reagan which is of course the 80s.
	Next up it's going to be First Blood with Sylvester Stallone.
	If you missed Rocky last week it was superb getting lots of positive feedback but maybe maybe we can Scooch.
	Scooch a little bit into the 60s and 70s, especially for Madame Welsh.
	Let's reminisce a little bit.
	I think we're of a similar vintage.
	Let's welcome our West Coast warrior princess, Jennifer Horne.
	Is your heart a little bit sad today?
	Absolutely!
	Raquel Welch was not only an icon, but for us, Seb, she was an out-of-the-closet conservative.
	Really?
	Yes!
	She went on Bill O'Reilly's show and said she always leaned conservative, which I appreciated.
	She was out of the closet, she wasn't afraid to say it, and it was a while ago.
	I don't know how she feels about today's Republican Party.
	At least she was on the right path.
	And she was gorgeous and funny and charming.
	And she never did full nudity, which she was sexy without having to show it all.
	She was great.
	I think she's going to be missed and gorgeous up until we lost her.
	She was so beautiful.
	Yeah, well, you know, when I don't think I don't know, I'm not into that.
	I'm not one of these people.
	Like, my daughter and my wife, you can, like, detect it at 100 miles.
	I don't think she had any work done.
	And, like, Sophia Loren, even into, you know, her later years, she looked absolutely bloody stunning.
	Stunning.
	You know, it's so funny.
	Some women just have it.
	Look at this.
	Look at this.
	Look at her.
	This isn't long ago.
	No.
	She looks like a bombshell.
	Bombshell.
	Gorgeous.
	And smooth skin, the beautiful glow.
	She looked happy always.
	And I really think that has so much to do with it.
	I think we age gracefully when we maintain optimism and love and that great nature in our heart.
	But gosh, I was speaking... It's because she was a conservative.
	Yes, absolutely.
	She's a conservative, and conservative girls are always cuter.
	But I was at a group yesterday, I was speaking to a Republican Women's Federated group up in Camarillo, California yesterday, and I was sitting at the table and I was like, oh my gosh, your hair is so cute, said the lady who had booked me, and she had this great hair.
	And she goes, oh, thanks.
	She's like, you know, I have this adult, my daughter does it, she's 50.
	And I went, wait a second, how old are you?
	She was 79 years old and she looked like not a day over like 55.
	I swear, I think there is something about the conservative heart or something that just keeps us all younger.
	I said, did you do Botox?
	She said, nope, never had Botox.
	That's why I have bangs, honey.
	It hides my forehead.
	There is a woman who goes to our church.
	It's an amazing story.
	My buddy Chris Plant, who has the morning show on WMAL, was playing.
	His father died when he was three, but there's a recording of him landing on an aircraft carrier during World War II when they recorded him for some kind of then you know war war um interview and the woman he plays it every veterans day and it's and the guy is so ice cold he gets he's just landed the plane after killing some nazis and he goes to the reporter yeah do you have a cigarette he just wants to smoke
	after landing the plane and a woman calls in to the radio show the first time he played it and he said she says to him offline what was your Because he has a different name, he's Jules Orteg.
	And then she says, I dated him back in the 1940s or 1930s.
	Wow.
	I mean, just stunning.
	Turns out she goes to our local church.
	She's in her 80s.
	We go out for brunch now and again.
	And wherever she appears, it's like a movie star.
	You know, certain generations They just, they're just different.
	They have a quality.
	It's different.
	They have a quality.
	Well, there's also, I don't know if you've noticed this, and maybe this is going to start to make me sound old, but have you noticed that younger people just sort of look like more unkept and like, there's, you don't really see people dress for the occasion anymore.
	People are going through airports in their pajamas.
	And I mean, it's just there.
	When I see somebody under 30, In the airport, in their flip-flops and pyjamas, I'm like, I am ready to bust.
	I'm sorry.
	It's true.
	My grandmother would have never thought of that.
	You dressed up, you dressed for the part.
	You didn't always have to be, you know, fancy or in sequence, but you always dressed nicely and looked like you actually brushed your hair.
	And now it's like, and so I think we look at these women now, they actually like took some pride and had the pretty hair and the makeup and did all of that.
	We go, wow, they're gorgeous.
	It's because we're kind of surrounded with the generation that doesn't care as much.
	I don't know.
	When I, I think I was at Chicago at O'Hare with my wife.
	This was almost 10 years ago.
	And I always try to make a bit of an effort.
	And I was checking in.
	Do you remember the days when you used to check in at the check-in desk?
	Yes.
	With a paper ticket.
	Oh my gosh, we're old.
	That had the red ink.
	Remember the red ink?
	And it looked like it had been typed.
	And it was like, there was a flimsy.
	There was a flimsy inside the envelope.
	Anyway, okay, yeah, I am 100 years old.
	I know, that's how I feel too.
	I was at the check-in desk, and I wasn't really making an effort.
	I had on a double-breasted blazer.
	I don't even know if I had a tie on.
	A dress shirt, double-breasted blazer, and some khaki pants.
	And the woman behind the thing, she said, Thank you, sir.
	I so remember when everybody used to make an effort.
	She actually said that.
	Well, you are wearing a double-breasted jacket.
	That's an effort.
	I've never seen you, any time that I've seen you, and we've seen each other a lot now in person, I've never seen you not dressed to the nines.
	I was given crap by one of our Salem colleagues at a recent event because I didn't have a tie on.
	What?
	Yes!
	Who did that?
	Was it Dennis?
	No, it's classified.
	Come on, you can't do that!
	Somebody who has not aged gracefully is, let's talk about California, Dianne Feinstein.
	I thought that was a clue for our Salem colleague.
	I was like, who didn't age gracefully?
	No, no, no.
	That doesn't apply to any of us.
	I need some intel from California.
	There are reports that her retirement was announced today without her knowing.
	And my immediate reaction, and Mr. G backed me up here, he said, no, no, no, she forgot that she's announcing that she's retired today because she's senile.
	What have you heard?
	Well, she is senile, but I believe her office put out the statement.
	I mean, I think the plan has always been that she's not going to run again, but I don't know if she was in on the timing.
	I mean, clearly Dianne Feinstein's probably not tweeting.
	I'm pretty sure that wasn't her Twitter, you know, her little thumbs putting out that Twitter statement.
	And if you missed it, they did, her office put out a Twitter statement yesterday saying, She wouldn't be running for re-election.
	Look, I want to say that I have nothing politically in common with Dianne Feinstein, but she's an institution in California.
	I remember as a kid.
	So are many other things like Alcatraz.
	Alcatraz actually has some redeeming qualities, I think.
	I wouldn't mind reopening that puppy up, but that's probably not in style to say.
	But I remember as a kid, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, we had to pick one and do a report.
	That's how long she's been in office, right?
	She's collected dust.
	She is clearly not the person that she was before.
	She's in decline, no doubt about it.
	The way that Adam Schiff, these Democrats, they're such snakes, like blood in the water.
	Adam Schiff, Katie Porter, Barbaralee, before she even says whether or not she's going to run, they essentially launch a primary against this person who they love so much, who's an institution in California, right?
	And they launch this primary so disrespectful before she even gets the message out.
	So in that respect, I feel bad.
	I also think she's in really bad decline.
	And I think it's like weekend at Bernie's Washington edition because you've got Feinstein propped up, you've got Biden propped up, and all these people are just making decisions for them and using them sort of as a warm body.
	But I am excited because I do think watching the Democrats try to volley for her seat is going to be really entertaining.
	We've only got a few seconds left in this segment, but can a weaselly white guy be the nominee in California?
	How can they make a white guy the nominee?
	That's what's going to make it so entertaining, because he has dirt on everybody and he's not afraid to use it.
	But you're going to have Barbara Lee, who's a black woman.
	You're going to have Katie Porter, the single mom.
	They're all going to be playing identity politics.
	And what will that do to Adam Schiff?
	I don't know.
	He might find himself odd man out.
	He may have to deploy that dirt and then it'll get really, really fun.
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	It's going to be interesting.
	They say Ro Khan is going to jump in.
	He will?
	Oh yeah.
	And what's interesting about him is he is a Bernie supporter and will enter the race as the most moderate candidate of those four.
	Yeah, but Schiff can beat him easily.
	Oh yeah, Ro Khan will be the underdog.
	And Barbara Lee, not as many people know her.
	I think it's going to ultimately get down to Schiff and Porter.
	But does Porter have a chance?
	I think he out-fundraises her.
	Right.
	And she's as dumb as a stump.
	Oh, my God.
	Awful.
	Now, I was telling Eric that the LA Times was launching speculation into who else might jump in, and they were saying Schwarzenegger.
	Oh, come on.
	The guy's a Methuselah.
	I mean, you're not going to get any Republican.
	He broke the Republican Party in California, and no Democrat's going to vote for him.
	So that's a dumb one.
	I've heard The Rock.
	They always flow him in.
	If he ran as a Republican, maybe because he's a brand name.
	But he's woke.
	He won't run as a Republican.
	He's woke.
	He's woke.
	And he came.
	Remember, he was a Republican and then endorsed Biden in 2020 and no turning back.
	Right.
	And then he betrayed his buddy because of CRT or something about six months ago on Instagram.
	I mean, he's a complete, complete fraud.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	The California GOP's reserves are just dry at this point.
	There's nobody left like prominent.
	I think it should be Jennifer Horne.
	I know.
	Somebody called in and was like, how about Jen?
	And I'm like, no, I only go into things I think I can win.
	But it's interesting.
	You know, there's some rising stars.
	I don't know.
	I've got to introduce you to Bill Asale.
	He is so good.
	He's in the assembly.
	He was a Don Dick's friend.
	Oh, uh-huh.
	Young guy, though.
	30, probably 35, I would say.
	And he's doing so many cool things.
	So get this angle.
	So you know, everybody hates the guns in California, 100 gun laws on the books.
	So he says, then why is the left working to make it?
	Wow.
	Harder, removing laws from the books for guns.
	So what he's saying is that the fact that DAs, liberal DAs, are taking away the enhancements.
	So any crime committed with the gun, they don't charge enhancements because they want to prop up the criminals, right?
	He says that we need to put those back in.
	If we really care about gun laws in California, we need to start adding enhancements back in.
	Wow.
	Pretty brilliant.
	Well, look, if they're clearing out the tent city in McPherson Square in D.C., then anything is possible.
	Do you see the homeless people living in O'Hare Airport?
	No.
	Chicago?
	Big story today.
	Yeah, they had a bunch of homeless people living in Chicago.
	Living inside the airport?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Our engineer here just told me that he was robbed at gunpoint over the weekend in North Hollywood.
	Took $500, stuck a gun to his head.
	Was he on the street or in a car or what?
	In a neighborhood.
	He was out for a walk.
	Crazy.
	All right.
	Uh, what have we got?
	40 seconds.
	Yeah.
	More, more recording for Midas Gold?
	I had to do a lot for them too.
	There was an error in the audio.
	You just have to read that sentence.
	I never make errors.
	What are you talking about, Stark?
	It must've been the script.
	Must've been the machine.
	It was the PC.
	It was actually.
	All right.
	20 seconds.
	All right.
	Standby.
	Stark, I don't feel so good.
	I don't feel so good.
	Can't handle the truth?
	Is reality just too much?
	There's always NPR.
	I hear they have tote bags.
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	Let's have a little bit of fun with our buddy Jennifer Horne.
	Follow her right now on Twitter, at Jennifer Horne.
	In case you're wondering who the best communicator on the left is today, here we have that amazing communicator, Corinne Jean-Pierre, telling you who's even better than she is.
	Cut to!
	Is it the view of the President's communications team that he is equally adept in all settings in terms of communications, or are there some that play to greater strengths, some where he probably isn't as strong, etc.?
	I will tell you this, the President is the best communicator that we have in the White House.
	What if he is?
	You got a problem, lady, right?
	She's good, man.
	I want what she's having.
	She didn't even blink when she said it.
	No!
	She didn't stumble.
	She didn't say Canadia.
	She didn't do anything like that.
	Was that great?
	I love the Canadia.
	That's so perfect.
	And by the way, the host didn't correct her.
	No.
	No, why would you do that?
	What when the Biden administration says something, you just go along with it.
	You're in the media for crying out loud.
	So we talked about this in the morning answer today.
	And I said, I made the comment.
	And you know, typically, I'm not wrong in the it's always Grant that's wrong.
	But I said, Oh, my gosh, no way.
	You think Biden's the best communicator in that White House?
	Like, give me a break.
	And so Grant says, Well, who's better than Biden?
	I thought to myself, Uh, it's not Kamala.
	Not Kamala.
	Maybe she's right because Karine Jean-Pierre is terrible at her job as someone who went to school for public relations.
	I sit there.
	Hang on.
	She did?
	No, me!
	I said, as someone who went through school and got my degree in journalism and public relations, I watch her and it makes me want to like, I just want, I don't even like her, but I just want to help her.
	I want to see words for her because it's just so bad.
	So bad.
	And then you've got Kamala who like, you know, tells us all of these wonderful things like community banks are banks that are in the community.
	I mean, she's a real genius.
	You can see the moon with your own eyes.
	Russia is big.
	Ukraine is not so big.
	It's not so big.
	It's a moon pie because it looks like the moon and it's a pie.
	No, no, no, no, the best one.
	I love Venn diagrams.
	You know the circles?
	I love them.
	My favorite, now we're off on the commilitude, but when she explained the power grid, did you happen to see that one?
	Remind me.
	She says, the power grid is an amazing thing.
	It's connections of wires that plug from your house to your office so that you can turn on your heater and your computers.
	I mean, she went through my... Can we just stop here and have a sanity check?
	We are saying real things that are hilarious about the vice president.
	This is the vice president, Jen!
	It is such a—I mean, literally, I would think we're living in Crazy World if we weren't all here and in on it together.
	So you've got Kamala Harris and then you've got Joe Biden, so maybe he is the best communicator.
	I don't know.
	We're toast, is what we are.
	All right, let's talk about the other side.
	It's a very low bar right now.
	Let's talk about the other side right now.
	The former governor of Alaska has stepped into the media circus and she's come out with an opinion about another governor.
	This is Sarah Palin, Cut7.
	DeSantis doesn't need to.
	I envision him as our president someday, but not right now.
	Everybody I speak with in Florida, they all love him.
	And he does set the tone for, I'd say, every other governor in the nation.
	I think he's our best governor.
	And he should stay governor for a bit longer.
	He's young.
	He has decades ahead of him where he can be our president.
	Alaska's very own Raquel Welsh there with some amazing earrings.
	My gosh, that looked like that big round thing in London next to the Millennium Dome.
	The eye, it looked like the London Eye.
	He's toying with us.
	She's wrong.
	You heard DeSantis today saying, somebody asked him whether he's running and he said, wouldn't you like to know?
	Which means he's running, right?
	I don't know.
	I think it was the worst.
	I think it would be the worst decision that he could possibly make to jump into this race.
	Tell me.
	Ron DeSantis, if he jumps in, and we've talked about this before, Seb, he will rip apart the Republican Party and a Democrat is going to be a shoo-in.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	We have primaries.
	Primaries are normal.
	We compete.
	President Trump defeating 16 people on the right didn't rip apart the GOP then.
	I've got to push back.
	Why would it rip it apart if Ron were one of the 16?
	Because here.
	Okay, so here's the deal.
	You know, I am.
	I am Trump for life.
	I believe that Trump needs to go in and get the job done.
	And the reason that we need him is because he knows where the bodies are buried.
	He knows how to disrupt what's going on in the FBI.
	He knows how to get us back on track with the economy, and he's very acutely aware of China.
	I think he will beat Ron DeSantis in the primary, but I also believe that you're going to have a lot of these Republicans, and there are many of them, I see them, I talk to them, who are still concerned about the stupid, like the tweets and the stuff.
	Who cares?
	This is not a popularity contest.
	We're not voting for Mr. Nice Guy.
	We are voting for someone who is ready to go in Fix the problems that we have and truly save the country because I don't think we have another two or four years to wait.
	So I'm hopeful that DeSantis doesn't get in.
	But if he does, I do believe Donald Trump is going to beat him.
	I think he's in for a real surprise because Trump has got not only domestic experience, but he also has foreign policy experience.
	And Ron DeSantis is very good in his state of Florida.
	But I think it would be it's going to be a learning curve for him to figure everything else out on the outside.
	We will debate it further in the break.
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	he is after this leave what did he say he's just been you know he's coming out say he corrected jd vance saying that the biden administration has been coordinating with them and all this he's They're awful.
	And that's why, I mean, DeSantis is a decent governor and can stay there.
	But why would it rip apart the GOP to have him run?
	I feel like there's so many people who are passionate Trump supporters or passionate DeSantis supporters.
	But if he beats him in the primary, then so what?
	Can he run again in four years if Trump destroys him, do you think?
	Yeah.
	Because we need – I mean, Ron DeSantis after four years of Trump would be a good thing.
	I think – who said this?
	I was listening to somebody who says it actually strengthens him.
	It gives him, you know – Maybe the experience to fight, yeah.
	And more exposure, right?
	Being in a primary, that's real exposure.
	Okay, maybe so.
	I mean, I can see that.
	I just worry that you're going to have so many people who are, that Trump will literally have to tear them apart and then there's not going to be anything left.
	Because Trump, once he brands somebody, it really works.
	You know what I mean?
	It does.
	I mean, look at Jeb.
	There's no way DeSantis is not running.
	Of course he's running.
	I know.
	I'll tell you why.
	His ego's too big.
	No, it's because the donors are telling him, we're backing you.
	Jeff, what do you think of Jen's argument that if he runs, he tears up the... This is what I've thought the whole thing with DeSantis, though.
	You've got to dial up Nicholas, right?
	He's the next one.
	He's D.
	Oh, he's D?
	Let's keep debating it.
	Jeff, what do you think of Jen's argument that if he runs, he tears up the...
	This is what I've thought the whole thing with DeSantis, though.
	There's too many people that like him.
	He's got to attack him differently out to be a politician.
	You mean Trump's got to have a different angle?
	Yes.
	He's got to just make him out to be a politician.
	It can't be like the personal attacks.
	No, it's got to be establishment.
	Yeah, because people like him.
	That's what I'm getting at.
	It didn't matter, you know what I mean?
	But that's kind of what I'm getting at is that there are a lot of people who like him and like Trump.
	And so I don't know.
	But I don't think it's like before where Trump had to go beat all of them.
	He just has to beat DeSantis.
	Yeah.
	He's got to focus on him.
	Did you see Nikki Haley's launch event today?
	Yeah, I saw part of it.
	I feel like she rented a Trump rally in one day.
	The campaign sign even kind of looked like the same color scheme as Trump's campaign sign.
	I know!
	I was like, are you kidding me?
	Did she set up a Trump rally, promise people him, and then she walked in?
	It was very bizarre.
	We'll see.
	What do you like?
	Do you like the idea of a Pompeo vice president?
	No.
	Pompeo's a weak, weak, feckless gist.
	Really?
	So who do you want to see?
	As vice president?
	Yeah.
	Give me some names.
	Because I'm having a hard time.
	Give me some names.
	Well, everybody's saying Carrie Lake.
	Yes.
	Not enough experience.
	Not enough experience.
	She should be running the election integrity organization for President Trump for the next two years.
	I like that.
	I think Ron DeSantis... Well, I would love that, but see, then they wouldn't be able to take the votes from Florida unless one of them moves.
	One of them has to move.
	One of them has to move.
	The other problem is you don't think DeSantis has been doing all this stuff because he wants to run for president.
	Of course he does.
	Of course he wants to run.
	That's what I'm saying.
	What makes you think he's going to do that as president?
	Vice president.
	Vice president, you mean?
	No, I'm saying because everyone wants him to be able to set him up to run for four years after that.
	Oh, yeah, but if he's smart, he slides into it.
	All right, 30 seconds.
	Gotta go.
	All right.
	Well, that was fun.
	I'll talk to you guys later.
	Bye.
	Bye.
	Want to use any cuts here?
	Yeah, I want to do the... I want to do the...
	Making sense out of today's nonsense.
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	We've been debating who the Veep should be.
	Should it be maybe Carrie Lake?
	Should it be DeSantis?
	I love Carrie Lake.
	She was on that Loser, Piers, Morgans show.
	And man, did she bring it.
	Cut one!
	Play cut.
	In Arizona, I can't walk 10 feet without an Arizonan saying, I voted for you.
	Everybody I know voted.
	That's not the beginning.
	Can you go to the beginning of the cut?
	Go to the beginning.
	Play it again.
	In Arizona...
	In Arizona, I can't walk 10 feet without an Arizonan saying, I voted for you.
	Everybody I know voted for you.
	Our ballot was rejected on election day.
	Please keep fighting for us.
	I'm fighting for the people of Arizona.
	And I don't mean any offense to you, but I frankly don't give a damn.
	What you think about it.
	I'm fighting for the people of Arizona.
	That's different.
	I truly am.
	No offense taken whatsoever.
	And let me ask you this, Pierce.
	Let me ask you a question.
	Do you think it's right that you show up on election day?
	That's the big day.
	On election day and 60% of voting locations in the primarily Republican locations have ballots that are printed out wrong?
	All I know from my lofty place here in London, and I admit I wasn't in Arizona, all I know is that all the official fact-checking entities that have looked into all the claims do not conclude that you did anything other than lose that election.
	Pierce, Pierce, did you just fall off the turnip truck?
	We know about the fact checkers and we've seen them.
	This has all been revealed.
	Half of them are leftists working for Facebook.
	Let's, let's be real.
	Okay.
	Let me ask you one final point on that.
	What do they know about our election?
	As Eric pointed out, if you play it back without the sound or you just freeze the frame, it's important to read the Chiron Of that interview by Piers Morgan.
	This is on Fox Nation.
	Fox Nation.
	Just read what the chyron says.
	The chyron is the lower third, the subscript of the, you know, where they put your guest's name and their title.
	And it says, Carrie Lake uncensored.
	This is Piers Morgan's show.
	It's called Uncensored.
	So imaginative.
	It says underneath.
	Read it out, Eric.
	What does the chyron say on Fox Nation?
	Carrie Lake uncensored.
	She lost to Democrat candidate by 17,000 votes.
	That sounds very impartial to me.
	Doesn't it?
	No agenda here whatsoever.
	No, no.
	Paul Ryan did not write that chyron.
	Not at all.
	I think Carrie Lake would be a superb, superb person to run.
	President Trump's election fraud fighting organization.
	That's what needs to happen with Carrie Lake because she's not giving up in Arizona.
	Let's continue the discussion of the dream ticket.
	Let's go to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania.
	Kate, line two.
	Oh, hi.
	It's so special to talk to you.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	You're very welcome.
	My dream team is President Trump and DeSantis because we've got a lock on his term and then two more after that.
	I don't know if you think, you know, that egos could allow that or whatever, but I think for the good of the country and people are saying, you know, stay as governor.
	What better way for DeSantis to learn?
	Yeah, yeah.
	The only problem is, because of the constitutional restrictions, you can't have a president and a vice president from the same state, so one of them would have to move their address to out of Florida.
	I could help Eric Adams in New York, but I have a thought for you.
	It came last night, and this is probably crazy, but I think it's agony to watch these people in Ohio.
	No one's listening to them.
	They're poor.
	They were told to go back.
	They're drinking water.
	Clearly, they're being lied to, and I had this thought.
	I wish President Trump would make an announcement.
	I will get anybody out who wants.
	Provide immediate buses.
	Put them up.
	spend the money that they don't have to do the real testing, to take the leadership and just say, this is wrong, this will not stand.
	It would be so humanitarian.
	And obviously, it would show people he can get things done.
	I love that.
	I'm literally texting Mar-a-Lago right now to suggest that idea.
	I might help them with that as well.
	That's superb.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	Thank you.
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	This.
	That's what he has on his website and Twitter.
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	I have a new addiction.
	It's a problem.
	It is listening to Twitter spaces.
	When there's a topic that is of interest to me, one of the ones I was on recently at the weekend, had a person on the line who I hadn't heard of before, but has a very, very impressive bio on Twitter.
	First Air Force and Space Force Chief Software Officer.
	And he had some things to say about recent events under NORAD's purview.
	Nicholas Chylan, welcome to America First.
	Thanks for having me.
	Very excited.
	So, Nicholas, talk to us about how significant it is that I think NORAD was established in 1958, and since 1958 till 2023, we haven't had U.S.
	fighters use kinetic weapons in U.S.
	airspace, and then we shoot down four balloons.
	How big a deal is that historically, Nicholas?
	It's a pretty big deal.
	And please note, we also missed when we shot with the F-16 and they had to shoot a second time.
	So that's bringing a lot of insight for China, of course, to not only be able to take high definition pictures and be able to see better with better sensors.
	Keep in mind, the balloons are flying much lower, but also slower.
	So They have the ability to have sensors on the balloon that you would not be able to have on the low orbit satellite.
	Let's stop here for a second because I'm hearing a lot of people who weren't in the kinds of positions that you were in make these seemingly sweeping statements like, Well, this is just a ruse.
	China didn't get anything of value from a balloon because they have 260 military satellites.
	Therefore, there's no SIGINT, there's no intelligence value, there's no OSINT or IMAGINT value to these platforms.
	That's not exactly correct, is it, Nicholas?
	I don't think that's correct, right?
	I think we're underestimating again China.
	They have sensors on the balloon, from what we understand, that are able to do things you would not be able to do with low-orbit satellite.
	Not only they can go slower and get high-definition pictures, but they have also ability potentially to see through metal and different kind of objects, you know, to prevent us from being able to see what's going on.
	So effectively what you're going to see is giving China the ability to fly over some of the most important bases of the Air Force and the DoD as a whole.
	And obviously, waiting to shoot it down so late after it crossed pretty much the entire U.S. was a mistake.
	And we're hearing from the Secretary of Defense, we're hearing from the Pentagon, that they did not know the purpose or the identity of the other three vessels that were shot down at the weekend.
	That was the initial reports on Tuesday from Brussels, from Lloyd Austin.
	Yesterday and this morning we heard the phrase being used, the talking point from the White House and from the Defense Department.
	Those were benign aircraft, they weren't spying aircraft.
	How disturbing is it, not just to the US taxpayer, but to our allies and our partners, that seemingly US forces engaged with vehicles, destroyed them, without knowing exactly why they were in our airspace?
	Well, it's for sure they were posing a threat to aircraft flying 20,000, 40,000 feet.
	As a pilot myself, obviously you don't want to have any kind of unknown objects that are not maneuverable, from what we understand.
	So that's adding to the complexity.
	The first balloon was at 60,000 feet, so it would not pose any threat.
	To commercial airliners, but obviously that's a different use case.
	So you would have to do something.
	I wish they did the same with the first balloon, sooner and the better.
	It also demonstrates we don't have capabilities to take down these balloons efficiently.
	We don't really have a catch aspect to recover and not destroy the capability.
	And also a little bit concerning to me, it takes us so long to recover the objects after they are destroyed.
	You would think we'd have teams on the ground Right away to be able to effectively get the intel we need to understand what this was.
	And it seems it's taking way too long for us to get any kind of valuable intelligence back to be able to even explain to Americans what's going on.
	Now, a lot of, much of what we hear from China regarding their capabilities is propaganda.
	They exaggerate their capabilities.
	How concerned are you about Chinese capabilities in the lower atmosphere and outer atmosphere.
	How advanced are their capabilities?
	Well, obviously what you see China leading on is hypersonics, quantum compute and artificial intelligence.
	But I can tell you that the nation that is going to be controlling artificial intelligence is going to control the world.
	When we put AI on jets and have the jets do a dogfight against the best U.S.
	pilots every single time, the AI capabilities won over the U.S.
	pilots.
	So you can imagine if China takes the lead in AI that's gonna be a catastrophe.
	You've seen, of course, the launch of GPT with OpenAI, but what you see also is Beidou, the Chinese equivalent launching their own GPT capabilities.
	And what you find is the Chinese government obviously having total access to the Chinese data and the Chinese AI capabilities versus the DoD being very siloed, and most AI US companies refusing to engage with the department to build any kind of weapon capabilities.
	So we're in a state where I'm very concerned about our ability to compete.
	You know, it's very much like nuclear capabilities.
	You don't want to have to use it, but you want to have it.
	We'll have to have a discussion again on the AI influence on modern warfare.
	We've been talking to Nicholas Chylan at Nicholas Chylan on Twitter.
	I have to ask you in the background, is that Captain Haddock in a space suit from Tintin on the show?
	It's Tintin, absolutely, yep.
	All right, Tintin!
	He went to space as well, but that was a long time ago.
	Thank you, Nicholas.
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	We played you, Klaus Schwab.
	That evil, evil man talking at the global government summit.
	Yeah, they're that creepy.
	Well, guess what?
	Elon Musk addressed them as well.
	But he had a very different take.
	Cut eight!
	One thing I should say, and I know this is called the World Government Summit, but I think we should be maybe a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government.
	If I may say that we want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having, frankly, this may sound a little odd, too much cooperation between governments.
	Elon Musk saying no to global government.
	Good for you.
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	Let's go to Joe in Illinois, line 3.
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	I just gush at the thought of Raquel Welch.
	And she's only second to Marilyn Monroe, who went and entertained the troops over in Korea.
	My dad was in Korea.
	His brother was... Did she get to see him?
	Did your dad get to see him?
	No.
	No, he was on...
	Oh, geez.
	He was on a carrier group doing short patrol.
	His brother was over there in World War II, made the invasions of New Guinea and the Philippines.
	But just two very conservative women that went, you know, I mean, Raquel was conservative.
	Marilyn went over there through life and limb.
	Basically, entertain the troops, you know, I mean, I think, you know, I think I'm gonna have to give you credit, Joe, I think you're absolutely right.
	I think of the constellation of bombshell movie stars, American actresses, I think it's got to be number one, Raquel Welch, and and The second place has got is number one is Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Walsh is number two.
	I think you nailed it.
	Maybe the discussion can continue.
	I might have to put a poll up.
	But yeah, she is right up there with Marilyn.
	Thank you for that.
	That's a great tribute.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	Welcome, dear friends, dear friends, and America First, one-on-one with the individuals who are the true experts, the real newsmakers.
	We get to do the deep dive.
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	Today, it's somebody who...
	Well, you know, he's a multifaceted character.
	He has my back when I sometimes get close to fisticuffs.
	And he also is a guest host for the show.
	He's just a troublemaker extraordinaire.
	Senior contributor at mybuddystownhall.com.
	Colonel K is his sobriquet, his nom de guerre here on America First.
	Colonel Kurt Schlichter, welcome back to America First.
	Thanks for having me, Dr. Gorka.
	I'm glad we could do a long form and cover all sorts of stuff.
	We are going to go across the waterfront from domestic politics to the woke military, Chinese balloons, and so much more.
	But first things first, let's talk about primaries.
	I like primaries.
	I think you're a conservative.
	I know you're an American.
	I like the idea of, you know, 16, 17 people getting into a ring, duking it out.
	Toughest guy at the end is left standing.
	Why are some people, irrespective of what camp you fall into, the neoliberal, neocon, MAGA, brino, whatever, why do they think they have to decide who the candidate is two years before the election?
	I know I'm an immigrant, Kurt, but I'm a little confused.
	No, no, no.
	You are absolutely right on this.
	And that's why I refuse to tell anybody, you should vote for X. Because I don't, first of all, I don't think anybody needs to be told who to vote for.
	I think they need to figure it out themselves.
	I think a primary is the way to do it.
	We've got some incredible candidates as well as Nikki Haley.
	Sorry, sorry.
	Can you say that sentence again?
	We've got some incredible candidates as well as Nikki Haley.
	And, you know, they've got a stand or fall.
	And that goes for the president.
	That goes for Ron DeSantis.
	That goes for Mike Pompeo, who I think his foreign policy, America First foreign policy stuff is really good.
	I want to see what he has to say domestically.
	But that's the purpose of a primary.
	Let's get out there and see.
	Now, you've got some people muddying up the waters.
	Asa Hutchinson.
	Yeah, my gosh.
	I expect him to utter, land a goshen!
	And then get back in the chuck wagon and cook up some beans for the rest of the cavalry.
	Larry Hogan!
	Larry Hogan!
	What?
	Hogan mania?
	Who's the guy who isn't Larry Hogan who wants Larry Hogan?
	Where are these guys?
	Chris Sununu?
	This guy's on the cutting edge of 1998.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	Come on, come on, come on.
	Let's be honest.
	We don't need a primary because on British television, so weird, John Bolton declared that he's running.
	So, I mean, it's over, right?
	It's over.
	I saw that too.
	I'm trying to figure out, is the mustache going to be the president or the V?
	Alright, so let's talk about this for a second.
	Let's do a War College strategic analysis.
	Climate change.
	Climate change.
	That's the threat to America.
	Trans awareness.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	The oceans are rising.
	You meant old school war college.
	We don't need NORAD.
	Let's just call Greta Thunberg.
	How dare you?
	She can flower at it.
	How dare you?
	How dare you?
	So here's the thing that I don't understand, because it's kind of like These people have double digit IQs.
	I know who I'm supporting because I've worked for him and my logic is he can't get re-elected so he can only serve four more years so he can burn down the swamp.
	Every other candidate is going to want to get re-elected so they'll behave because they want to get re-elected.
	My old boss will not behave.
	So that's my logic.
	But I want a primary.
	And also the thing I don't understand, help me out Kurt, as a sharpened political commentator, So many voices I hear now, you know, pro-Trump, anti-Trump, Protestants, whatever, saying you can't divide the vote by having another candidate.
	But then why do we have primaries?
	Well, yeah, I mean, if you could talk people into just doing what you want, I'm all for it.
	I mean, I'm a lawyer.
	Yeah, that's the purpose of a primary is to divide the vote.
	And then you come together at the end and, you know, look, I'm committed to supporting whoever the candidate is, including if, you know, lightning strikes and if it's Nikki Haley.
	And that would be agonizingly painful to me.
	But I would do it because I'm a Republican and I'm playing in the primary.
	And that's that's the rule.
	We're going to get out there and the people are going to vote and they're going to decide.
	And they may be right.
	They may be wrong, but they get to decide.
	I'm not worried about dividing up the vote.
	I think some of these people are pointless.
	You know, Chris Sununu.
	So let's drill down on that, because people ask me, I was on Breitbart Sirius yesterday, and Alex Marlow, the editor-in-chief, asked me, so why on earth is Nikki Haley announcing?
	And look, there's three possible reasons.
	Tell me if I've missed any.
	Number one, their egos are bigger than their IQs.
	I think for most people that is the case.
	I mean, John Kasich, I mean, what, really?
	Really?
	Really?
	Secondly, money, because they can raise literally millions of dollars and then siphon it off into other political activities.
	And then lastly, and maybe this is the case for Haley, but I don't buy it given what she said two years ago and what she did after she left the cabinet.
	We'll share that with you in a second.
	They're angling for a job in a Trump cabinet.
	Am I missing anything else?
	No, I definitely think Nikki Haley wants to be the Veep for whoever wins this.
	Look, I make no secret, I think it's a two-man race.
	It's King Kong versus Godzilla, it's Trump versus DeSantis, and everybody else is just Mothra.
	And doesn't DeSantis, because here's the analogy I've been using, that it's been a debate on the right amongst the talking heads in the media, you know, the DeSantis versus Trump thing, for about four months now, if not five months.
	And the weird thing is, the governor of Florida hasn't said anything.
	Now, yes, he's focusing on Florida, that is great, but I give the analogy that imagine if You know, the press was full of reports, you know, Seb Gawker's going to replace Mark Levin or Dan Bongino or, you know, these are all my buddies.
	The idea that I wouldn't say something like, no, that's crap, or yeah, I've heard Dan wants to retire is weird.
	I would feel incumbent upon me as an honorable person to say something.
	Why isn't Ron saying anything?
	Well, I don't think it's a matter of honor.
	I think it's a matter of strategy.
	If he's there doing, look, the strategy for DeSantis has gotta be, I'm gonna be a governor, I'm gonna do great things, and I'm not going to get in any political fight.
	People may fire at me, but I'm going to, my answer is going to be my actions.
	And I think that's a solid strategy.
	That would be the one I recommended if I was one of his advisors.
	But at some point, he's gotta go over it.
	Yes!
	Oh, yeah, at some point, and I, look, I'm a colonel.
	I'd attack when it was my advantage, when I had the maximum force at the decisive point.
	And that's what I think he ought to do.
	At some point, I think he's hoping that folks like Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, Larry Hogan engage Trump and that they all beat each other up and that he comes in and he can be strong.
	And relatively undamaged.
	So let's, you know, let's see how it works out for him.
	Maybe it'll work.
	Maybe it won't work.
	I just want to remind people what 2015 was like.
	It was fun.
	I mean, thanks to Donald Trump.
	And you know, we had the big duke out.
	Politics was entertaining again.
	I'm looking forward to that, Kurt.
	It was.
	Look, that's seven years ago.
	A potential hit on Trump is that some people are probably tired of the whole vibe about Donald Trump.
	And that's a factor he's got to deal with.
	He's also not on Twitter.
	Which is, you know, he's on True Social.
	He's back on Facebook and Instagram as of Monday.
	They let him back on.
	Really?
	Of course!
	Yes!
	Yes!
	You know, it's just an embarrassment on this country that the guy half of America chose to be their representative was banned from these media outlets.
	That is so, that is just despicable and disgusting.
	Yeah.
	You know, I don't want to ban anybody from anything.
	But this is just an insult to the half of America who loves Donald Trump.
	Now, of course, the problem for Trump is half of America hates Trump, and he's got to deal with that, too.
	Yes, indeed.
	But what did I point out to people who keep calling up?
	I don't know if they're paid, if the calls are coming all from Florida from some phone bank saying, oh, oh, he's in trouble.
	He's lost the middle.
	I say, really?
	That's weird, because he got 10 million more votes The last time than he did the first time.
	That doesn't look like losing to me unless you're doing Biden math.
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	Here it is, the internet's forever.
	Let's play Nikki Haley.
	He still has a lot of popularity.
	If he runs again in 2024, will you support him?
	Yes.
	If he decides that he's going to run, would that preclude any sort of run that you would possibly make yourself?
	I would not run if President Trump ran.
	What?
	What?
	I would not run if President Trump were running in 2024?
	Oh my gosh, Ambassador Haley doesn't know the internet is forever!
	If President Trump can't trust her, who can trust her?
	Allegedly tomorrow you have a piece coming out at townhall.com.
	Can you give our three million listeners a little sneak, a little peek about your take on Nikki Haley's strange, surprising announcement, Colonel K?
	Well, it's going to be called No to Nikki Harris.
	the Kamala Harris of the Republican Party.
	And the nicest thing I say about her is that she's a mediocrity.
	Look, you know, the problem with Nikki Haley is no one trusts her to be conservative.
	And when you catch her on TV making a commitment.
	Now, look, I don't expect politicians to, you know, be rigorously honest.
	I'm a realistic cat.
	But, you know, if you lie to my face about one thing, I got a jury instruction around here somewhere that says if someone's, you know, intentionally deceptive about one thing, you may consider that they may be intentionally deceptive about many things or all things.
	Isn't that called a fact pattern counsel?
	Yes.
	Look, the hit on Nikki Hale is no one trusts her to get out there and promote an America First agenda.
	In fact, I think she's on the cutting edge of 2005.
	Have you seen her hacky political action committee?
	I swear, it's something like the Eagle Forum for Families and Eagles and Freedom and the flag and also eagles.
	It's just like the most basic hack.
	You know, consultant.
	This is what those conservatives will eat up.
	Put the flag in the name.
	But also the ad, the ad that she launched on Tuesday was like, it was like, you know, NPR, everybody, you can't be on NPR unless you actually have Valium flowing in your blood.
	I mean, that's the way.
	It was like somebody from NPR was given more Valium and it was like the most uninspiring... This is a PSA.
	Yes, I'm America.
	Vote for... It was like... I'm not trying to be, you know, snide here.
	It was like, this is supposed to excite people?
	No, she deserves mockery.
	And we need to mock people who are not cutting it so that they will do better.
	Look, she's the kind of person who goes, I love America and the flag and I don't care who that offends.
	You know, it's like, Stop trying to treat me like I'm an idiot.
	Because I'm not the idiot.
	I'm not the guy who's going to waste tens of millions of dollars on a presidential campaign that she will never win.
	Yeah, but those consultants, they'll make a lot of money as they always do.
	Just one last thing and then we'll move on.
	Here's a photograph of Nikki Haley taken just after she left the Trump administration as a member of the cabinet.
	Because yes, the UN ambassadorship is a member of the cabinet.
	There's Nikki Haley!
	With a massive grin, standing next to her buddy!
	Oh, who's that?
	Oh, John Brennan, Obama's CIA director who voted for Gus Hull, the communist candidate for president, and who called Nikki Haley's boss treasonous, so that's all you need to know.
	If you're prepared to yuck it up with the likes of John Brennan, we got your number, Nikki Haley.
	All right, you used the phrase America first, Colonel K. We haven't spoken on this topic since it occurred, So give me your take on the speakership debate and the performance of Kevin in the last three weeks.
	I would say, look, I don't trust a politician as far as I can spit them, but so far, so good.
	Yes.
	And look, I'm no fan of Kevin McCarthy.
	I don't think he's hard like we are.
	But, you know, when somebody look, I say yes to success when someone is performing and he's performing.
	He got the house back.
	He managed to make a deal that brought him the speakership.
	And now he's not taking guff from these damn communists and their regime media minions.
	He's doing everything I ask him.
	I'm saying yes.
	He earned it.
	He's got it.
	I support him.
	You know, I don't have to like him.
	He's done it.
	And I think we need to encourage people who are doing a good job.
	So far, he's done a good job.
	So let's go back to the War College.
	Let's get our PowerPoints ready or we're of a certain generation where it would be... Harvard graphics.
	It would be graphics.
	It would be the felt-tip pen on the celluloid, on the acetate.
	Balance of power.
	Balance of forces, center of gravity.
	Is the Republican Party now, given the influence of the 20, given the rise of new faces like J.D.
	Vance, Lauren Bobert Gates and the rest, is the rhino an endangered species?
	Let me put it like that.
	Is America first descendant, Kurt, or do we still have a long way to go?
	The answer to both of those is yes.
	Look, it takes a long time to evolve.
	You know, Neanderthal man was walking around next to Homo sapiens for a long time before the Neanderthal went away.
	And the rhinos, look, we're always going to have, both parties are going to approach 50-50.
	That's the natural state for two parties.
	So each is going to have to have a broad coalition.
	And I am resigned to the fact that most of my coalition is going to be to my left.
	Because I'm a very right-wing guy.
	Some people— Are you one of those ultra-MAGA types?
	MAGA extremists.
	I like to think of myself as a patriot, but that's just me.
	Look, you know, a lot of people get frustrated at Susan Collins.
	I don't.
	Because Susan Collins is exactly what Susan Collins says she's going to be.
	She's as conservative as you'll get in Maine.
	She does her own thing.
	Yeah, she's in my party, but my party's going to have a range that she doesn't offend me.
	But that's different, for example, to a Sununu who, you know, beats his chest about, you know, New Hampshire this and America that.
	And he's just milquetoast.
	Yeah, he's soft.
	Look, we're gonna have soft folks, you know, Sununu doesn't understand what's happened in the last eight years.
	Yeah.
	He still thinks this is 2005.
	And we've got to obey the corporations.
	Right, you know, How dare you stand up to the corporations?
	What?
	How dare you use your power to protect your family and your culture from these bizarre groomer perverts?
	But you think the balance is slightly shifted in the favor of the patriots?
	Let's just use the... Oh yeah, it's inevitable.
	And it'll continue to go that way.
	There will always be some people who frustrate us because they're not as conservative as we are.
	But that's what you get when you're awesome.
	People who are less awesome.
	Not everybody can be awesome.
	This is Kurt's motto.
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	All right, so he landed Monday afternoon, our time in Brussels for a NATO summit.
	The former board member of Raytheon, who just happens to be Secretary of Defense today, had this to say about the shootdown of the quote-unquote UFOs Play cut.
	I want to be clear. - Thank you.
	The three objects taken down this weekend are very different from what we were talking about last week.
	We knew exactly what that was.
	A PRC surveillance balloon.
	And as we have said, we do not assess that the recent objects pose any direct threat to the people on the ground, and we will continue to focus on confirming their nature and purpose.
	We'll continue to focus on working out their nature after we blew them out of the sky.
	So, Kurt, that's the Secretary of Defense, Kurt, who said, we shot these three things out of the sky, but we don't know what they are.
	And we'll get back to you when we know what they are.
	This guy used to wear a uniform, Kurt.
	I've never been pretty.
	I've never been very impressed by a General Austin.
	And I continue to be unimpressed.
	I think we're going to find out that this has been going on for a while and the military just hasn't mentioned it because they didn't think it was a big deal and because it interfered with their, you know, Trans Awareness Day celebrations.
	You know, I mean, my gosh.
	You know, look at the state of our military.
	Did you recently see that they're blaming... This is outrageous.
	They are blaming America's young people for being too afraid to be in the military because they don't feel safe.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	I missed this.
	Tell me about this, Kurt.
	They are explaining their failure to recruit, not because of wokeness.
	Lowest recruiting figures since the volunteer force began.
	Sorry, carry on.
	And a lot of it's because guys like me, vets, are refusing to tell people to join up right now.
	Right.
	Because they don't trust this administration.
	And they are blaming it.
	It's so, it just infuriates me on young people are too afraid.
	They don't feel safe being, they're afraid they'll get hurt.
	And of course, Tucker last, you know, a couple nights ago had a kid on who swam out into an icy river to pull an old man and a dog out of a car that was sinking under the ice.
	You know, like a 16 year old kid did this.
	Right.
	Our kid, you know, I will put our young people up today against any group.
	There are no bad soldiers, Dr. Gorka.
	There's only bad leaders.
	So, I mean, I'm just disgusted by this.
	And the question is, how much does this pervade the rest of the officer corps, which...
	When I was in the defense department after a few years, I just wanted to hang out with anybody under the rank of 05 or 06.
	If you're a major or below, the likelihood of you being woke was minimal.
	The higher, the closer you got to a one star and above, the odds are that you're going to get super political.
	How pervasive do you think it is, Kurt?
	I think it's very pervasive.
	The thing is, soldiers do what the commander checks.
	If the commander's checking wokeness, you're going to get woke force.
	If they're checking combat readiness, you'll get combat ready force.
	And it's, you know, as a military hierarchy, it's very, very responsive to the chain of command.
	So if you have a new leader, perhaps President Trump 2.0, or some other president who says, no, my focus is combat readiness.
	And here's a list of generals who are fired.
	You will see a rapid, rapid change back to normal.
	Frankly, most soldiers, airmen, marines, whatever the hell space force people are, have no desire to be part of some woke nonsense.
	Look, they know what's nonsense and what isn't.
	Even if they're spouting this dogma, they know it's crap.
	They want to be in the greatest fighting force in human history.
	I had the pleasure and the honor of being there at the height of America Power in 7th Corps main headquarters during Desert Storm, when 7th Corps just gutted multiple divisions as if they weren't even there.
	Almost like a Hannibal level stuff.
	And to be part of that is an incredible feeling, and that's what our young people want, to be part of the greatest instrument of human justice and freedom in human history.
	It can be done, we've done it before, but it requires leadership from the top.
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	All right, so let's just stay on this topic for a moment, if we may, of saving the military or un-woke-ifying it under the next commander-in-chief.
	I don't know, maybe you're the wrong person to ask because you live in a den of perverts and sex fiends that is California, or rather Los Angeles.
	So, but you may get out of there now and again.
	I think you probably... Once in a while.
	Once in a while.
	And my contention, maybe I'm just overly optimistic, is that The patriotic America that wants to serve, that believes in America, that doesn't want to divide us based upon race, that understands we are the greatest nation on God's earth, it exists outside of the metropolises, that it's there, it's in what is derisively called by the quote-unquote self-anointed elite, the flyover states.
	Am I, am I, you know, in a pipe dream or is it still there?
	What's your take, Kurt?
	Well, it actually exists.
	It does exist out there.
	It exists here, too.
	I'm going to drive by South Torrance High School in a little while to go see my mom on Valentine's Day.
	You know, they lost several students in the War on Terror in a nice suburb right by the beach.
	These are people who didn't have to join the military.
	They chose to.
	The desire to serve is Everywhere, Dr. Gorka, in our country, even in dens of iniquity like my beloved California.
	So you have hoes?
	Oh, yeah.
	Look, if I'm going to bet on anything, my sure bet, OK?
	Dealers showing a six and I've got two kings at blackjack.
	I'm going to bet on America's young people because I led them.
	I saw them.
	I experienced their courage.
	I was honored to lead them.
	I was stunned that I was allowed to.
	So I will always bet on America's young people.
	Always.
	Every time.
	All in.
	Good.
	That makes me feel better.
	The non-fiction book is We'll Be Back, The Fall and Rise of America by our buddy Colonel K. Kirchlichter.
	Let's return to the strategic level of the last ten days in America.
	For me, the argument is, and I wrote this on my Substack, less about why a balloon, why 60,000 feet, what was the array under it, why did it stop and hover over this military base and not that one.
	My issue is how this is psychologically and politically exploited by our enemies.
	I look at Beijing and I say, you know, Xi Jinping is saying, look, they didn't touch us until this vehicle had finished its intelligence mission.
	They shot it down over the ocean.
	And then, once they were embarrassed, they shot down, you know, three weather balloons in the middle of nowhere that were of nugatory intelligence value.
	And they can demonstrate, they can point at this to Taiwan, to Vietnam, to Singapore.
	So, even if it's just a balloon, the lack of our response, and then the trigger happiness, this is Perhaps exactly what Beijing wanted, Kurt.
	Look, you are correct that the main effort in this was information operation, not ISR information, intelligence surveillance reconnaissance.
	I'm sure they got interesting information, but the real message was, we're the boss.
	Yeah.
	You're submissive.
	Yeah.
	And that message has come through loud and clear.
	And if you think the Vietnamese don't know it, you know, the Cambodians are building a giant PLA Navy base. - Yeah. - Huge one.
	And, you know, the Cambodians and the Chinese are not necessarily pals, but the Cambodians are like, finger to the wind, I know which way the wind's blowing and it ain't blowing towards America right now.
	Now if you look at their own side, if you look at the fact that Obama in his memoir, and I'll edit it here, said, Never underestimate Joe Biden's capacity to F things up.
	If you look at their former defense secretary and CIA director, Robert Gates, who said for 40 years Joe Biden has been on the wrong side of every international issue.
	Here's my question to you.
	We've got just under two years left under this chief executive.
	What's going to be the reaction if China does roll up Taiwan after what we've seen in Afghanistan, the response to Russia, the response to the surveillance vehicle?
	How is this administration going to respond to some truly monumental tectonic shift in the geopolitical order?
	I expect whatever it is to be the worst of all possible worlds.
	You can do nothing, you can do everything, or you can do half measures and achieve no objectives.
	I would think that they will do half measures.
	And look, I think a lot of people are going to get killed if the Chinese go into Taiwan.
	And then I think Taiwan will be taken.
	And there are a lot of things we could do about it very quickly.
	I have no confidence that we will do them.
	I'm not privy to any kind of special secret information or anything.
	Everything I know now is public source.
	But I don't believe that we have either the force structure, the equipment, or the will to defend Taiwan the way Taiwan would need to be defended.
	And it doesn't make me happy to say that.
	I'm not thrilled about this.
	I just got to call it as I see it.
	I think we're in a very dangerous time.
	And I think Xi, looking at the correlation of forces, has a two-year opening.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	He has a two-year opening.
	If you look at the last two years, it's not an accident that, for example, Putin's invasion of Russia the first time came.
	Well, Georgia under George W. Bush, the first time the Crimea was under Obama.
	The second time now was under Biden, not long after the disastrous, catastrophic surrender of Afghanistan, with the only strategic airfield in Central Asia that was in our control and with the loss of life of 13 of our warfighters.
	There is a window of opportunity, as my old boss at the National Defense University used to say, the enemy, the best rule in irregular warfare, which is what the Chinese understand so well, is the enemy plays for the breaks.
	A grand strategy is great, but no plan survives, you know, first contact with the enemy.
	And the acute exploitation of circumstance to your benefit, playing for the breaks, is what good adversaries do and good enemies do.
	And that's exactly the position that Xi Jinping, Putin, the Mullers, and little Kim find themselves in right now.
	We're talking to the author of Inferno.
	Get yours today because you've got to read it before number eight comes out.
	It's the Kelly Turnbull series from Kurt Schlichter.
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	The Fall and Rise of America.
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	Can't wait for the one on Ambassador Nikki Haley.
	Yes, she's such a soaring eagle.
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	Last question is taking our War College analysis and applying it to the realm of politics.
	And we can take Trump or DeSantis out of the equation.
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	Last question is taking our War College analysis and applying it to the realm of politics.
	And we can take Trump or DeSantis out of the equation.
	This is irrespective of who wins the primaries.
	It's the question of Marquis of Queensbury rules.
	When is our side going to understand?
	That we're not dealing with a normal adversary.
	This isn't a political party.
	When the Democrats want open borders, termination of pregnancies in the ninth month, 16-year-old voters, the Supreme Court pact, this isn't politics in the sense of politics that our parents and our grandparents understood.
	When is the conservative establishment, Kurt, ever going to wake up, or are they?
	Well, they'll wake up when we take over.
	Look, norms and rules are comforting.
	That's their purpose.
	So you kind of know how things will go, and you'll be protected.
	And when they go out the window, you have one of two responses.
	You can either accept that and understand there are new rules, or you can bury your head in the sand like one of those guys that, you know, one of the Romans surrounded at Cannae just waiting for the the Carthaginians to come and finish them off and bury your head.
	It's not a wise idea to pretend that everybody's playing by the same rules, but it is human nature for some weak people.
	We just gotta get strong people who understand, hey, when you change the rules, you change the rules.
	So it's a numbers game.
	We, those who are prepared to fight, simply have to outnumber those who are comforted by norms.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	The Chris and Nunu's need to go away.
	And the guys who are going to, you know, draw the horrible gasps of fear from the left, they need to be ascended.
	And I think they are.
	And I think Donald Trump will, You know, I think that's his greatest gift to us.
	I mean, he's got all these great achievements, but his greatest gift was teaching us, hey, you don't have to surrender.
	You can fight and you can win because these guys have a glass jaw.
	Bingo, bingo, bingo.
	We owe him for making politics fun again, for throwing the Marquis of Queensbury rules out the window, and for calling out the fake news media.
	I think that's at least three things we have to chalk up to him.
	In the meantime, cugs and kisses to your mum.
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