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March 6, 2023 - Sebastian Gorka

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Sebastian Gorka FULL SHOW: "I am your retribution" - President Trump at CPAC

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	The End
	And if you put me back in the White House, their reign is over.
	Their reign will be over.
	And they know it.
	And America will be a free nation once again.
	We're not a free nation right now.
	We don't have free press.
	We don't have free anything.
	In 2016, I declared, I am your voice.
	Today, I add, I am your warrior.
	I am your justice.
	And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.
	I am your retribution.
	Not gonna let this happen.
	It's the line that's still driving the left insane.
	I am your retribution.
	President Trump in the swamp again for the biggest conservative gathering of its kind in the world.
	Matt Schlapp and the American Conservative Union's CPAC meeting.
	We were there.
	We were there.
	We took the whole posse.
	It was quite a time.
	We're going to share with you what we witnessed And what it means for the future of America.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	This is America First.
	We have an amazing lineup of guests for you today.
	And also I want to hear from you, Jim Jordan will be with us in the second hour from Judicial Watch.
	The incredible Chris Farrell will have Sean Davis from The Federalist.
	Our buddy, Mr. Reagan!
	Do we have any photographs of Mr. Reagan having fun?
	He didn't want to come to CPAC, but we dragged him and his buddy, and his buddy is his younger brother, and they both got to shake the hand.
	of the 45th and, God willing, the 47th President of the United States.
	Mr. Reagan, Chris Coles, and his brother John joined us.
	We're going to be discussing the greatest movies.
	Making movies great again in the third hour with a classic from the Cold War.
	It's the original Red Dawn.
	Don't miss a second.
	We'll have Chris in studio.
	The number here is 833 3-3 Gorka, that's 8-3-3, 3-3-4, 6-7-5-2.
	I am your retribution.
	3-3-3-4-6-7-5-2.
	I am your retribution.
	Retribution for those who have been abused, who have been politically persecuted.
	Whether you're a January 6th detainee who's been held pre-trial, pre-trial for more than two years, separated from your children on a misdemeanor charge.
	Or whether you're a pro-life activist and preacher who protected his child from a pro-abortion lunatic outside a Planned Parenthood.
	That's the retribution that is required.
	demeaned, had it dropped in a local court, but then found 20 FBI agents at his door with loaded guns as his children were screaming, don't take our daddy away.
	That's, that's the retribution that is required.
	President Trump declared war on the deep state, but the most important line of the day, the one that had the greatest response from the crowd, and it was a capacity crowd, by the way, Chris Christie you pathetic tub of lard what did What did he say, Jeff?
	Chris Christie said that the room was half empty, right?
	Yeah, it was only half full, per Trump speech.
	Eric, you were there.
	How many people were in the room, Eric?
	Was it half full?
	It was definitely full.
	There had to be thousands of people in that one ballroom.
	Yeah, let's show this.
	Corpulent individual who, by the way, worked running the transition team for the president.
	So I guess you're a traitor as well, Chris Christie.
	Let's just play this pathetic person.
	You saw the scenes at CPAC.
	That room was half full.
	Yeah.
	OK?
	Let's not pretend that CPAC is CPAC anymore.
	It's TPAC.
	OK?
	It's TrumpPAC.
	It's not CPAC any longer.
	And only the most desperate people showed up at CPAC to even speak, other than Trump, or people within Trump's orbit.
	I know what's desperate, the chair you're sitting on.
	That's what's desperate right now.
	Oh, only the people worshiping President Trump.
	I spoke at CPAC, but so did Nikki Haley.
	That's weird.
	So somebody running against President Trump spoke on the main stage.
	So that means you're a liar, Chris Christie, you corpulent bag of wind.
	But he is.
	It's fascinating.
	What have I been saying on this show for years now?
	The one issue that will act as a catalyst to blow away the scales from the eyes of people who aren't even politically engaged.
	is the transgender extremists.
	Those who are mutilating our children in hospitals under the name of transitions, using chemicals, hormones, and removing fully functioning parts of those minors bodies in the name of what?
	You'll be happy if we cut off your breasts or remove your penis?
	And those who say, men!
	Yeah, men can choose to be women and compete against actual women and destroy their hopes of a sporting future.
	I've said this is the issue that will wake people up.
	And it was the line that garnered the strongest response when President Trump spoke.
	Cut 10.
	I will revoke every Biden policy promoting the chemical castration and sexual mutilization of our youth.
	And ask Congress to send me a bill prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states.
	That should be easy.
	And we will keep men out of women's sports.
	That was the money shot.
	That's what people wanted to hear.
	It's not about President Trump.
	It's not even about the conservative movement.
	It's about the truth.
	It's about protecting the most vulnerable.
	It's about standing up to those who have gone insane.
	And mark my words, if you're preying on children, You are evil.
	And we're going to stop you.
	And it's up to you to get engaged.
	He also had some things to say about what's going to happen day one, should he win, and what that means for those suffering in Europe.
	On the topic of World War Three, again, the 45th President of the United States, Katsyx, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled.
	It will be settled quickly.
	Quickly.
	I will get the problem solved and I will get it solved in rapid order and it will take me no longer than one day.
	I know exactly what to say to each of them.
	I got along with very well with them.
	I got along very well with Putin.
	I'm the only candidate who can make this promise.
	I will Prevent, and very easily, World War III.
	Very easily.
	Why?
	Because he's feared by those who should fear him.
	The evil leaders of the world.
	Be they Putin, Xi Jinping, the mullahs in Iran, little Kim in North Korea.
	They fear that man.
	Nobody fears Joe Biden.
	Nobody.
	Again, he fell up the steps of Air Force One.
	How many times is that now, Eric, that Biden has failed to actually walk down the stairs or up the stairs of Air Force One?
	Can we even keep count?
	I think this is either the third or fourth time, I want to say.
	Unless you count the first time where he tripped three different times on one set of stairs.
	Right.
	I think we'll have to count that as three times.
	People don't fear that man.
	People laugh in his face.
	All right, guys.
	We've only just begun.
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	I was disappointed by one thing.
	He did not hug one of the flags when he came out on stage.
	Oh, he didn't!
	He didn't.
	Because they showed that in the video montage.
	I'm like, he's gonna do that.
	He's gonna do that when he comes out.
	He didn't.
	That's okay.
	Next time.
	I got to change the clocks real quick.
	Changing the clocks?
	Our guest of schedule.
	All right.
	Shake it.
	Hey, when you play a clock-- Yeah.
	--does it automatically kill my mic?
	Um, Alex?
	That's a question for Alex, I think.
	I pull your mic down.
	You put it down.
	All right.
	All right.
	So we've got Chris now.
	Well, I'm gonna do food for the poor.
	And then I'm going to tee up cut 9 and then we'll go to Chris.
	All righty.
	And which audio do you want to use?
	The one you have to put into the pre-record.
	The little girl.
	What's her name?
	Oh, Sarah.
	You want to use that one?
	The one we used before.
	Is that Sarah?
	Yeah, Sarah.
	The 16-year-old girl donated her allowance.
	Okay.
	Oh, got titles of mine, by the way.
	No, let me have a quick look at this article.
	Okay, two minutes.
	Okay, two minutes. two minutes.
	Okay, two minutes. two minutes.
	Okay, two minutes.
	Is Chris up?
	So Yes, he is.
	45 seconds.
	Mr. Farrell! Mr. Farrell!
	Mr. Farrell!
	Hey, Jeff, you were busy while I ran off to CPAC.
	How did our buddy Bob France do?
	Very good.
	Yeah?
	Yeah, two days, he was very good.
	Had some interesting guests on.
	Good.
	All right.
	Mr. France, thank you for holding the fort while we had to go and have fun.
	Who did we have fun with?
	Let's have some photographs.
	Let's... Eric, do you have the little snaps, the selfies that we took while we were there?
	There she is, little Lauren Bobert, that little pistol.
	Who else do we have?
	Nigel Farage was there.
	He was very annoyed that he couldn't smoke his cigarettes or fags as they called them in the UK inside the building.
	Tom Fitton!
	There he is.
	We did a little interview with Judicial Watch and our buddy Horace Cooper was there.
	Keep on going with these great... Oh!
	Mike Lindell!
	Let's save the rest for later.
	That's enough to be going on with.
	That's why you need to come to CPAC next time.
	It's going to be an election year.
	It's going to be insane.
	Check out the American Conservative Union, conservative.org.
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	Okay, we mentioned the amazing Judicial Watch.
	They were there in force.
	They had a booth.
	I did a little interview.
	But I didn't see Chris.
	Maybe he was doing what he's meant to do as their director of research and investigations.
	We are delighted to have Chris Fowle with us.
	Chris, welcome back to America First.
	Great to be with you, Seb.
	Thank you so much.
	Alright, so let's talk about the breaking news and let's talk about one line from President Trump.
	This is, of course, the one that's probably most important to you and me.
	This is Cut 12.
	Play cut.
	Play cut.
	I will obliterate the deep state.
	Cut 9.
	Correction.
	Cut 9.
	I will totally obliterate the deep state.
	I will fire.
	That is required more than ever, Chris, given what we've witnessed in just the last few months, is it not?
	Yeah.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, if there's ever a time, if there's ever been this mounting evidence that really demands this out of control, unelected, professional political class that's been destroying this country in slow motion, you know, the evidence is there.
	And we've heard the words from President Trump, and if he says it, he means it.
	Let's talk about the news of today.
	For some reason, Politico managed to get hold of a tranche of documents from inside the Department of Homeland Security's Intelligence Division.
	And apparently, according to these documents, Chris, members of the Department of Homeland Security have been interviewing Americans across the nation, including those in federal prison, collecting intelligence, circumventing their lawyers.
	How should the average American interpret these revelations coming from a rabidly left-wing organ?
	Yeah, I was joking with my colleague Tom Fitton this morning, and he said, well, they must have found out that they were looking at one left-wing group, and that's why Politico got a hold of it.
	Suddenly it's a big deal.
	So this is standard, right?
	I mean, this is your U.S.
	government.
	We just talked about the deep state.
	I mean, this is what these people do.
	This is day in, day out.
	It's just, you know, the shock value is that Politico decided to step up and publish something and say, hey, look what the government's doing behind your back.
	They're doing something that, you know, their own internal, according to the report, their own internal people said, hey, we shouldn't be doing this.
	Yeah, so this is something that people inside DHS were ringing alarm bells on, saying, well, you're not supposed to do that without somebody's counsel being in the room.
	I mean, your theory is possible, that some left-wing organizations' former members were being illegally interviewed, and that's the only reason Politico knows.
	It's not out of, you know, that somebody from Antifa was interviewed, is it?
	It's not out of the realms of I say it jokingly, and Tom and I laughed about it, but the odds of that being the underlying issue with the predicate for the entire thing is actually quite high.
	It was some BLM or Antifa type who got a question thrown their way, and the lefty attorneys went out of their minds and pitched it over to Politico, and they ran with it.
	If I had to bet, I would say that was the background.
	All right, we're going to talk about the amazing successes Judicial Watch has brought in California in a moment in the next segment.
	But first things first, let's talk about DHS and ODNI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
	If you want to drain the swamp, if you want to dismantle the deep state, talk to us about your take as a former counterintelligence professional.
	Do we need the Office of the Director of National Intelligence?
	And what should happen to DHS?
	Well, no, I mean, DNI, the office itself, and even the notion, the mission, it's repetitive, duplicative, redundant, whatever word you want to use.
	Those are all the tasks that were done by the Director of Central Intelligence and his staff separately.
	So this is just another entire monstrous level of the Leviathan, layer upon layer.
	So you can just strike it all together and go back to the pre-9-11 structure and run it that way.
	And the same is true, frankly, with Homeland Security.
	We've created this monstrosity.
	It's the largest of all the government agencies.
	It has an enormous budget.
	And we could really configure ourselves back to the way in which we were and continue.
	Believe it or not, we would be just fine.
	We don't need... We could be even more efficient, is my fear.
	We're talking to Chris Fowle, Director of Research and Investigations at Judicial Watch.
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	We'll talk about what they have succeeded in accomplishing in California in a moment.
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	The funny thing is with Homeland Security, my guess is that somebody did some sort of excruciating legal analysis and said, well, you know, if we're not doing these activities, these interviews, if we're not doing it for law enforcement purposes and we're doing if we're not doing it for law enforcement purposes and we're doing it strictly for well, then we can go ahead and interview whoever we want.
	We're just gathering data.
	And it's not a rights warning thing, and we're not going to prosecute anybody, and it's just, you know, that's probably the rationale.
	The thing is, you know, so Katie worked at DHS on counter radicalization, then she became the press secretary for CBP, and as a result, you know, I'd go to some meetings, and I met the folks at the intelligence, you know, directorate, and they were like really Timorous, unimpressive kind of milquetoast people.
	So the idea that they'd go into federal penitentiaries with bad guys in the same room kind of blows my mind.
	I mean, you'd blow at these people and they'd fall over.
	Yeah, they'd run away screaming, yeah.
	Right.
	Yeah, well, I don't know.
	I mean, I go back to the joke time and hour.
	Yeah, I think you guys are probably right.
	I think you guys are probably right.
	And it's a long bloody article as well.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	This is like at least, I don't know, three, three, four thousand words.
	Which?
	The Politico one.
	Yeah, yeah, which I mean, and that's the edited version, so who knows what they cut out?
	It's probably even worse. - Minute 45.
	Yeah, the whole idea of ODNI is just absurd.
	Sorry, I missed that.
	On CPAC, what was your take?
	What was the vibe, Jeff?
	The vibe was great.
	I mean, it was smaller than an election year, but that's, you know, next year it'll be insane, but it was crazy enough.
	And just the weird thing is that DeSantis didn't show up, right?
	And instead he went to this, you know, high-end donor's dinner, and it just looked bad.
	I mean, if Nikki Haley can have the gumption, To talk on the main stage as a challenger to President Trump, but DeSantis doesn't come.
	It's just, it's just... Maybe he's changed his mind about running.
	It's very strange.
	Hey, Eric, do you think he's changed his mind about running?
	I said a while ago that I think DeSantis never was gonna run.
	You know he was running.
	When he did that ad... The moment Nikki Haley jumped in, and I said, there's no way Nikki Haley doesn't hang with the same people who would know for sure whether or not DeSantis was gonna run.
	And she would not run against DeSantis.
	Why?
	Why not?
	Just to make money.
	I mean, she's already famous enough.
	She already has books.
	She's already, like... I don't think she needs to run for president to make... I mean, that's just me personally, but... I... Yeah, no, anything that... I know.
	Yeah, I know.
	Right after Liz Cheney spoke there.
	Want to come in with anything?
	I can do my research here.
	Yeah, I know.
	Right after Liz Cheney spoke there.
	Want to come in with anything?
	Some research here.
	Yeah, come in with Jill Biden.
	Jill Biden.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	Nikki Haley, one of the Republican candidates, is calling for mental competency tests for those politicians over the age of 75.
	What do you think about that?
	It's ridiculous.
	Would your husband ever take one of those?
	I mean, we haven't even discussed, we would never even discuss something like that.
	Mr. G, Jill Biden doesn't like being asked that question.
	She was a little snippety there, wasn't she?
	She answered it terribly.
	She has to know at some point that question is going to come up too.
	She had no answer.
	The long pause and everything was horrible.
	My theory is, you know, she knows what's wrong with his brain and that's why she reacted the way she did.
	Of course.
	I mean, how could she not know what's wrong with it?
	All right, guys, we're talking to our buddy Chris Farrell, but don't go anywhere.
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	The call boards are full.
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	But please understand what is in the stakes of the situation right now.
	It's not just the deep state.
	It is the left wing ideology that has penetrated every sector of our nation.
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	We're back with Chris Farrell.
	The amazing organization is Judicial Watch.
	He is the chief.
	He's the head of investigations and research.
	Please support them right now, judicialwatch.org.
	Follow them at Judicial Watch.
	Chris, let's talk about some good news.
	What happened recently regarding the work of your organization and the state of California?
	Well, we removed, or we caused to have removed, 1.2 million ineligible phony voter registrations in the county of Los Angeles alone.
	1.2 million LA County bad, incorrect, invalid voter registrations gone.
	So people who had moved out were dead, incorrect information, stuff like that.
	People who shouldn't have been on the rolls.
	Felons.
	But yes, 1.2 million.
	I mean, just bad data.
	Bad, false, inaccurate, wrong data.
	And we forced, by legal action, we forced L.A.
	County, through a lawsuit, to go in and clean up their voting rolls.
	Because, as many of your listeners and viewers know very well, You got bad, dirty voting rolls.
	You open yourself up to unlimited mischief by the left.
	Yeah.
	And what did that take?
	How long were you battling the authorities in California and L.A.
	County to get that result?
	It started out all the way back in 2016, but a lawsuit filed in 2017 ended up with a 2019 settlement agreement.
	And now we're, what, almost four years down the road?
	Yeah, forcing them to go through line by line.
	The last update we had was about 600,000 moved off, and now we just got word they verified and reported to the court 1.2 million bad registrations taken off Los Angeles County.
	That's just the county.
	Think about how crazy California is, right?
	L.A.
	County alone, 1.2 million.
	But we've done this all over the place.
	We've done this in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky.
	Hawaii, we did work like this.
	You know, the people that are actually supposed to do it are in the Department of Justice, but they're absolutely flat dead on their rear ends.
	They do nothing.
	And so it's the voting section of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.
	They do nothing.
	So we go in and we do this, you know, state by state, and we've been cleaning up voting rolls now for years.
	And we will continue to do so.
	Well, look, I'm super glad that you do this, and I congratulate you on your massive success in just L.A.
	County, but guys, look, support Judicial Watch, judicialwatch.org, but it shouldn't really be one organization in D.C.
	that has to do this everywhere.
	We should be stepping up in those localities.
	We should be engaged.
	It's the people of those rotten states that have the greatest standing who should push back on what is happening with these voter rolls that, of course, are being exploited when there's bad data.
	Thank you, Chris Farrell.
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	All right, so...
	Okey dokes.
	We've done cut nine.
	Oh, would you play cut 12 and 13 again, please?
	12 and 13.
	Alexander Vindman was celebrated as this legendary whistleblower as long as he touted the leftist cause.
	But Dominic Isaac, yourself, Steve Friend, and Garrett do the right thing.
	You guys are somehow enemies of the state because other conservatives may have found your information useful.
	This is just bizarre.
	Yeah, pissed off is a good way of explaining it.
	I feel that way.
	You know, there's an emotional component to it.
	But then there, I just always try to remember, and we had a conference call the other night and we talked about it.
	And the answer is this, look, you're only going to take flack when you're over the target, right?
	That's where the defenses are.
	So we're over the target.
	They know it.
	They know that it looks bad.
	They understand how bad it can be.
	And when you're out there telling the truth, like you're going to take a couple of slings and arrows.
	Let's be clear what anti-woke means.
	It's anti-black.
	And I think people are very reluctant to say it, but I don't miss any words.
	And that's the truth.
	That's their way of, you know, sounding the dog whistle without being extremely explicit.
	And let's also not ignore the fact that CPAC has become a gathering of sexual predators.
	Let's be honest.
	That last one is just a total curve ball out of nowhere.
	I don't even know what she's talking about.
	She's a lunatic on Twitter, too.
	Who is she?
	I've never heard of her.
	I don't know what was her thing.
	I see her on Twitter all the time.
	I think she's something else.
	What do you mean?
	You think she's Fang Fang's sister?
	I could bet so much that by watching these.
	She was something with Harvard.
	The first Harvard something, I forget.
	And I don't understand the first cut.
	The seraphim?
	Yeah, when was he a darling of the left?
	No, they're talking about, they're comparing him to, which one do you call it?
	Oh, like Vindman?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	Vindman's been on a pedestal, yeah.
	Right.
	PhD here. PhD, 30 seconds. PhD, 30 seconds. 30 seconds.
	Thank you.
	I know Sebastian well.
	Listen to him.
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	Thank you, Mr. President.
	It's good to see you, sir, behind the stage before he got into his armored SUVs with the Secret Service.
	We had a little chat and caught up.
	And if you haven't seen the speech, you can watch the whole speech if you go to our social media.
	We are reposting his speech from CPAC on our YouTube channel.
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	Let's go to Rose in Florida.
	Rose, welcome.
	Hey, Doc.
	How you doing?
	Very well.
	What's your question?
	What's your comment?
	Well, I'm a local victim advocate.
	I've been a victim advocate for about 25 years, and my husband and I follow you all the time, by the way.
	What does that mean?
	Apologies.
	What is a victim advocate?
	I help children and adults that have been sexually abused.
	So, like a counselor or in what way?
	Yes, sir.
	I just help them heal through their trauma of sexual abuse and work with them on boundary establishment and accountability issues and self-esteem things and the like.
	God bless you.
	God bless you.
	Thank you.
	God bless you as well.
	Well, and I just got involved with, have you heard of Scott King Nugent?
	Trey Voices.org.
	Say that last organization again.
	Trey Voices, T-R-E-V-O-I-C-E-S.org.
	No, no, no.
	He is a woman who transitioned into a man and at 42 and now he's a massive advocate for children and silencing, or not silencing, but Making it so that he's trying to pass laws so that you don't transition minors anymore.
	Good.
	He could use a lot of support.
	Because it's a noble cause, and I was so happy to hear President Trump talk about it at CPAC, and we just got hooked up with him because I couldn't donate, but I'm also an artist, and so my team and I are trying to do a bunch of merch for him on his site, but the cause is to stop transing kids.
	All right, we'll stay on the line.
	Jeff will take the details.
	We'll check out that website.
	Thank you for the tip.
	Let's go to Anthony in California.
	Welcome, Anthony.
	Hi there, Doctor.
	This is about the California gun laws and Judge Philip Benitez.
	All right, tell me, what is the latest gun-grabbing policy in California?
	I'm going to need your help and Jennifer Horne's.
	Judge Benitez is rendering decisions pretty soon on four of the major California gun laws.
	These are the result of the Braun decision, which is the civics that I learned when I was in high school in 1962.
	They have attacked Judge Benitez, Gavin Newsom, and the Chief Justice on Ninth Circuit because he showed leadership in his courtroom with a drug defendant and his daughter.
	There is two videos on YouTube by the little chubby lawyer.
	You're probably quite familiar with him.
	Who gives reports on the Second Amendment here in California?
	He'll give you even more details.
	But let's just say that Judge Benitez was being a leader, trying to be a good father, and trying to let this girl be scared straight.
	You had her handcuffed for a couple of minutes.
	You're talking about something I know nothing about, a girl getting handcuffed.
	So I'll look into it.
	Judge Benitez in California, but I'm not familiar with this.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for your call.
	Let's go to Jerry, New Jersey, line three.
	I want to talk about a wonderful leader.
	First of all, we have no business going to Ukraine.
	We've got to help Ukraine, but not unlimitedly.
	Secondly, we should have taken that money, closed the wall, and give more money to our border and ICE people.
	And why did he go to Alabama?
	Because his party is the one that blocked all the people from going to school.
	Wallace, George Wallace, and everything else.
	And last but not least, his party is the party that basically brought on the Civil War, the party of the Klan.
	And last but not least, why the hell didn't he go to Ohio and do something instead of going and giving all that money away?
	Jerry, that's four points.
	You're usually three points, but every single one is correct.
	Everyone is correct.
	Thank you, Jerry.
	We appreciate it.
	Let's go to our buddy in Silver Spring, the one, the only, Victor.
	Sebastian, the one thing that got my attention during the Trump speech Saturday, he talked about Washington D.C.
	and their crime bill.
	Yes.
	And he said, and I loved what he said, maybe it's time we take away home rule from Washington D.C., federalize Washington D.C.
	as it was before, and then we'll have a nice capital city for the country.
	Not the people who are running it now.
	Yeah, did you hear what happened this morning in D.C.?
	Yes, yes, Chris Plant talked about it.
	Yes, yes he did.
	All right, so guys, this is so important.
	The pro-crime bill that would have diminished sentences for even armed offenses, the one that the good guys in the House, because they have certain control over D.C., said No, we're not going to let D.C.
	become even more crime-ridden and, you know, the lack of punishment of criminals being increased.
	Well, guess what?
	This morning, one of the councilmen withdrew the D.C.
	pro-crime bill because even the left, even the left is worried that their defund the police pro-criminal agenda is Costing them in the polls.
	Guys, it's another victory.
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	Alright.
	Yeah.
	They'll come in.
	Oh, um, Alex, can you do a breaking news?
	And then, and then, uh, Eric, come in with cut 11.
	Cut 11 after the breaking news.
	Yep.
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	I did give it serious consideration, and I talked to people everywhere, and I talked to my family, and it was a tough decision, but I've decided that I will not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for president.
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	He's not running for president!
	I would have loved to know what he was going to actually run on.
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	How are we going to survive?
	I wanted to see him on the debate stage.
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	Let's go to Paula, Los Angeles, line two.
	Yes, hello, sir.
	I just want to let you know that I'm never wrong, and I know with every fiber of my being, Donald Trump will be re-elected.
	That man is so quick on his feet, articulate, he has a strategy, and all these people that drank the Kool-Aid for this cadaver and chief, it is a deplorable, despicable disgrace what happened to our beautiful country that my father served in.
	Paula?
	This is a disgrace.
	Paula, Cadaver in Chief, that's superb.
	That's Cadaver in Chief Joe Biden.
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	Line five, Michael, Pennsylvania.
	Hi, Dr. Gorka.
	Hey!
	Biden gets a big fat red F as president.
	But when he's walking Air Force One and he's stumbling, where are the Secret Service?
	Because if he falls backwards, then Kamala is going to be president.
	And she gets a double red F.
	Yeah, I mean, it's a good question.
	But presidents shouldn't have to have their arm held walking up or down stairs.
	I mean, what would it look like?
	I mean, somebody, who was it, one of our callers said we should have one of those, you know, chairlifts, one of those senior citizen chairlifts on the side of the stairway up into Air Force One, but it's just embarrassing.
	But yeah, could you imagine Kamala, the cackler?
	That would be even worse.
	We've got a minute left.
	Let's go to Craig in Pennsylvania.
	Yeah, hey, with a minute I'm going to go as fast as I can here.
	But on the voter rolls there, you had mentioned that it's people being taken off the voter rolls.
	It's not actually people being taken off.
	For the most part, it's duplicates.
	And I ran for a local office here.
	It completely depends.
	In California, it was a lot of dead people being taken off.
	OK, well, I mean, it's not people that are eligible to vote.
	It's not like somebody is being just disenfranchised there.
	Of course not.
	Of course not.
	It's people who have moved out.
	It's people who are felons.
	It's people who are dead.
	That's the point of cleaning up the voter rolls.
	Sure.
	I ran locally here and I could not believe the amount of misinformation.
	I believe you, Craig.
	I believe you.
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	Dr. Gary's email says, I don't know how this happens in nature.
	It would be easy to do in a lab.
	That same day, February 1st, 2020.
	So again, right at the start, that same day, Dr. Fauci organizes a conference call.
	Him and Dr. Collins get on there with Dr. Gary, Dr. Anderson, all these other virologists.
	They get on there, and three days later, everybody changes their story.
	The same guy who said this would be easy to do in a lab says, oh, now you're crazy if you think it came from a lab.
	The same guy that says, I don't know how this looks engineered, he changes his story.
	And then the kicker is, three months later, those same two doctors, Dr. Anderson and Dr. Gary, get a several million dollar grant from Dr. Fauci to continue their research.
	So the fundamental question is, why was Dr. Fauci so consumed with making sure the narrative wasn't about the lab?
	I think it's because they were doing gain-of-function research there.
	He didn't want that out.
	It's really the question we need answered.
	What was going on in Wuhan?
	Why were they getting money from us?
	And why was Fauci, as we now know, orchestrating attack pieces against anyone who said, yeah, the level four biolab in Wuhan is connected to the outbreak that killed over six million people.
	I want to hear from you.
	We put a new poll up on our website, SebGorka.com.
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	Given the latest Wuhan lab leak revelations, should Fauci be charged and prosecuted for lying to America?
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	The man you heard there on our friend Maria Bartiromo's show was, of course, Ohio's congressman for the beautiful 4th District.
	And he's with us right now.
	Welcome back.
	It's been far too long, Jim Jordan.
	Good to be back with you, Sebastian.
	Thanks for how you're doing.
	All right.
	So tell us, give us a thumbnail sketch as if Rip Van Winkle has been asleep for the last six weeks.
	What has changed in Congress?
	Now that we have the lower house, we have the House of Representatives.
	What are you doing when it comes to getting to the bottom of COVID and the weaponization of the DOJ?
	Well, we can look into this stuff.
	We can actually have hearings on this.
	We can get the facts to the American people and then propose legislation.
	Maybe one of the things we need to propose is no more gain-of-function research.
	Because again, I think the key question is why.
	Why was Dr. Fauci so eager to cover his backside and make sure no one talked about the fact that this thing came from a lab?
	I think it's because United States tax money was going to a lab in China that wasn't up to code, and they were doing gain-of-function research.
	And I don't think he wanted that known.
	They didn't go through the proper procedures to approve this kind of research happening over there.
	There's a committee you're supposed to go through.
	They didn't do that.
	So I think it was all about him covering his backside.
	And after those two emails from Dr. Anderson and Dr. Gary, where they talk about this would be easy to do in a lab, the virus looks engineered, not consistent with evolutionary theory, I don't know how this happens in nature, where they say those things, and then three, after that conference call with Dr. Fauci, they change 180 degrees.
	And they basically say, you're a crackpot conspiracy theorist if you think this came from a lab.
	Well, in fact, all common sense tells you that.
	I think it was a simple cover on his backside for what he'd been doing, and he got these guys to change their tune and got everyone singing off the same page of the hymnal.
	Now, given what we've seen in the revelations in just the last couple of days, that he was even commissioning behind the scenes, as he's the highest paid government official in America, he's commissioning academics to write papers to trash the Wuhan lab leak theory.
	Which, if he's interested in the truth and science, why would you do that?
	It's just incredible.
	But here's, let's peel it back.
	You said he's funding gain of function in a lab That doesn't meet or have to meet the requirements we have in America, so he's kind of gaming the system.
	But let me ask the obvious question.
	Why the hell is an American government official wanting to do gain-of-function, you know, virus-amping-up research anywhere, let alone in a communist lab?
	In a communist lab that's not up to code to do that kind of sophisticated, dangerous research.
	No, it makes no sense.
	Now, they will tell you, oh, it's all so we can get ahead of the virus and we can be ready for the next killer virus that's coming.
	That's the explanation they'll give you.
	But this, in my mind, is so dangerous.
	And there was supposed to be what's called the P3 process that they're supposed to go through over there with Collins and Fauci and their team of people who are supposed to approve this stuff.
	But they were bypassing the, quote, safeguard process for approving research funding for this type of research.
	So they bypassed the procedures, sent it to our tax dollars to a lab in China that wasn't up to code that was, in fact, doing the kind of research that is so dangerous.
	And this is maybe one of the legislative things we should focus on is maybe we should outlaw this.
	I'm certainly for doing it.
	I'm willing to listen to people who are against it, but I think we should outlaw this and certainly not be sending it to a foreign country.
	If you have to do this kind of research, shouldn't you do it in the United States for goodness sake?
	Not someplace there.
	So I just think we should outlaw it.
	Yeah, not just a foreign country, a communist country, the biggest in the world that has labor camps and forced organ harvesting from political prisoners.
	We shouldn't be doing any business with this country.
	I want to hear from you, the dear listeners, what should be the ramifications, the consequences for Fauci.
	Answer our poll at sebgorka.com.
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	Congressman Jordan, what do you think should be the ramifications for this man and what he did?
	I think step one is we get all the facts on the table.
	I think we're starting to see that, confirming what I think you and I and your listeners suspected now for a long time.
	Um, and then I think we should look at legislative fixes and maybe even some things we have to do with the appropriations, like no money.
	Maybe this is legislative.
	No money can be used to, for this kind of research.
	I think we should do all that.
	And then, you know, uh, you know, I think at some point we're gonna have to have Dr. Fauci back in.
	That'll be a call for Congressman Winstrup, who now heads up as chairman of the Select Committee on the Coronavirus.
	All right, it's jordan.house.gov.
	You've got to follow him right now on Twitter at Jim underscore Jordan.
	Let's switch.
	You spoke from the main stage at CPAC, as did I, as did President Trump.
	One of the biggest themes of the whole meeting was the plight of the January 6th prisoners.
	I showed shocking footage on my show on Newsmax yesterday of than praying of those people who've been detained for two years now, praying every night the Lord's Prayer, singing the National Anthem.
	What can we do?
	If we don't have the power of the purse, at least till September, thanks to the betrayal of Mitch McConnell in that omnibus, what can we do to rein in the DOJ and the FBI from persecuting those who are simply conservatives, like that preacher, that pro-life preacher in Pennsylvania.
	Mark Howe, yeah, Mark Howe.
	We're working on We're working in the Judiciary Committee at, again, what we see is this double standard that exists at the Justice Department.
	One set of rules for, in the example you brought up, one set of rules for pro-life activists, another set for the people who were protesting in front of Supreme Court justices' homes in the aftermath of the Dobbs opinion, the leak of that draft opinion.
	So there's that double standard issue.
	There's the FBI and DOJ and other agencies influencing the social media platforms trying to shape and mold the narrative, take down accounts.
	We have emails from the FBI that have been now brought forward in the Twitter files, which say, hey, we think these – to Yoel Roth from Elvis Chan, the FBI agent, saying, hey, Mr. Roth at Twitter, we think these accounts violate your Twitters, your terms of service.
	Like, what the heck is that?
	So I think step one is, again, to get all the facts on the table, and then, like I said before, use the appropriation process and use the legislative process to propose and get through legislation that will help fix the problem.
	All right, the question I always ask the true fighters, the patriots, when they're on our show, members of your caucus, is the party now, can we say finally, after the four days that it took to choose Speaker McCarthy, the impact of the 20 and then these new committees, can we say that this is finally no longer a RINO party and this is in fact an America First Republican Party, Congressman?
	Well, I think so, and I really appreciate the way Speaker McCarthy, I think, is working to keep our team together, focused on stopping the radical left.
	I thought the best line at the State of the Union address didn't come from President Biden.
	It came from Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
	She gave the response, and she said, the divide in America today is between normal and crazy.
	And we're the party of people who believe in normal things.
	And fighting for those normal things, not the crazy stuff of the left.
	And we need to remember that.
	Stay united as we can in taking on the left who want to do all the ridiculous things that they're proposing in the Biden administration.
	You've got 16 FBI whistleblowers, Chairman Jordan.
	How shocked are the American people going to be when they hear from these whistleblowers?
	Well, we've heard from three of them have been willing to testify.
	Many of them have been retaliated against, which is which is terrible and not supposed to happen under our law.
	So we've talked to dozens.
	We have several who we think have really important information.
	Three of them have set for depositions or transcribed interviews, what we call them here in Congress.
	And I thought very compelling testimony from those individuals.
	One of them told us about how the threat tag put on people in the aftermath of the Dobbs opinion coming out, the pro-life decision, that there was this threat tag for people who were involved in violence.
	And that he was getting pressured as an FBI agent to go look at pro-life leaders and he's like, what are you talking about?
	Pro-life leaders?
	Appreciated the Dobbs opinion, giving this authority back to states.
	Why are we investigating those kind of people, or looking to investigate those type of people?
	The people who are doing all the violence, over a hundred churches and crisis pregnancy centers, are on the other side.
	But that again shows the political influence that's there at the Justice Department.
	And they're not being prosecuted.
	We've been talking to Chairman Jim Jordan.
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	I'm appalled the next guest we have on is gone completely woke.
	He has surrendered at the altar of political correctness.
	Well, at least according to the tweet at the top of his Twitter feed.
	It says, I emphatically and categorically condemn all the bad things and people all over time and space.
	Especially that one thing everything is super mad about.
	What a bunch of jerks, right?
	Additionally, I unequivocally support all the good things and people There might have to be a little indication of sarcasm at the end of that.
	Because he's the CEO and co-founder of that superb website, It's The Federalist.
	It's been a while.
	Sean Davis, welcome back.
	Good to be back.
	Thank you for having me.
	All right.
	Let's talk about, we'll talk about so many things, what happened with a certain law enforcement training facility and the people who were arrested after that carnage.
	But let's talk about the big conservative event that is CPAC and quite a fun line from my former boss, President Trump.
	This is Cut 5.
	Play Cut.
	We had a Republican party that was ruled by freaks, neocons, globalists, open border zealots, and fools.
	But we are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush.
	And as I look up five minutes ago, Karl Rove is on Fox News, of course.
	Sean, you're not supposed to say stuff like that, are you?
	No, I have to admit, the freaks and neocon line actually made me laugh out loud a little.
	But he's not wrong, and it's worth remembering is we come up on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq war.
	I think it was March 18th or 19th, 2003.
	Just over time, in hindsight, how catastrophic a decision it was to go in there.
	And I think it was Trump's unwillingness to do that kind of foreign policy adventurism That so many people in the party were in love with, that made them, that makes them detest him so much.
	No, absolutely.
	And when he gives his announcement in Mar-a-Lago and he says, I'm going to put forward a constitutional amendment for term limits and to ban politicians from becoming lobbyists.
	I mean, that is a declaration of war against the Uniparty, isn't it, Sean?
	It was, and it's funny you use that terminology.
	That was what I called his first inaugural address, January 20th, 2017.
	It was a declaration of war against the corrupt bipartisan political establishment that has ruined so much of America over the last 20 and 30 years.
	Well, I do think they do say that great minds think alike.
	Sean, the last part of that quote, he said, and we are no longer that party of, you know, the grifters, the rhinos, the crazy neocons like Karl Rove.
	Is he correct?
	Talk to us about the last seven, eight weeks, the performance of Kevin McCarthy, The New House.
	I just had Jim Jordan on.
	I asked him the same question.
	Is this party now Well, it's a really interesting question, and I think it depends on how you define the party.
	If you define the party as the people who vote for its representatives, the people who give money, you know, the 80 million or however many that voted for Trump in 2020, If you define the party as the people, it's absolutely true.
	They are done with the corporatism, with the globalism, with the neoconservatism.
	They're done with it.
	However, if you define the party as the people in Washington who act on, supposedly, behalf of the people, I think that's still very much up for debate.
	And I think that so much of the battling that's going on now, especially as we get closer to 2024, is who actually controls the party?
	Is it the people in Washington who've been driving over a cliff for a generation?
	Or is it the people in America?
	And that's the real battle that's going on is who gets to be in charge?
	Is it the people and their representatives or is it this permanent uniparty?
	Yeah, no, perfectly put.
	Have you seen a shift though?
	Has the needle moved in the right direction of late?
	If you look at, look, I look at the role of the 20, and I have to say, for me, you know, Kevin McCarthy's not a bad guy, but he's not MAGA.
	But I think the role of the 20 has really changed the identity, at least for the time being, of the GOP inside the building.
	Your take?
	Oh, I completely agree with that.
	And I think that's why so many in Washington were trying so hard to crush those 20 who said, no, no, no, we're not voting for McCarthy.
	We're not voting for a speaker until we get these reforms in place.
	There were people who knew that once those reforms got in place, Washington was going to be a different place and a different environment.
	And it wasn't going to be this thing where five people in a back room got to shove their agenda down everyone else's throat.
	Now the establishment actually has to share power with conservatives, and it's why they were so insistent on getting people on rules committee, being able to control what comes to the floor.
	So, I mean, if you're looking at that election, absolutely, that reflects kind of the new change, the new demands from the people.
	And McCarthy, to his credit, you know, I don't think he's an ideologue.
	I don't think he probably agrees with me on all the issues.
	But he actually seems to listen to conservatives and respond to them when they demand things, which is a whole heck of a lot better than we've had in that job in my adult lifetime.
	That's actually a very fair comment.
	He does actually listen to us and he does afterwards change his tack and actually do conservative things.
	We're talking to the co-founder of The Federalist.
	He's going to talk to us after the break again.
	In the meantime, go to Twitter, follow him at SeanMDav and follow, go to TheFederalist.com.
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	Okay.
	Can you show me the Southern Law Poverty mugshot?
	Here it is.
	Good, excellent.
	Does it have his name?
	Oh yeah, Tom Juergens.
	That's incredible.
	And we have the collage.
	Oh, look at those lovely people!
	They're so pretty!
	They're so pretty!
	I'm actually surprised.
	This one's slightly more multicultural than most of them.
	And there's not a lot of tattoos.
	Usually there's more tattoos.
	Hmm.
	So bad.
	Alright, I'm sending you imagery.
	Alright.
	I've got a title in mind for Jordan, by the way.
	Yeah, hang on a second.
	Okay, I'm sending you a tweet from Andy No that has the The imagery of the violins.
	I don't know if you can download the video.
	The video?
	As b-roll or audio?
	Yeah, b-roll.
	I might have time to do that.
	You need a title for Jordan?
	Yeah, just Jordan.
	Two and a half minutes.
	What was the most important thing?
	Either Fauci or J6.
	Yeah.
	Can we make Fauci pay?
	And I want that to be sent to the YouTube team and I want this interview with Sean to go to the YouTube team.
	Alright.
	And the monologue or no?
	Monologue wasn't anything special.
	I think we can just do those two.
	OK.
	How's business, Sean?
	It's going well.
	Going very well.
	Can't complain.
	Good.
	I haven't spoken to Ben in a while.
	How's Ben doing?
	I don't know.
	He's not been with us for nearly a year.
	Really?
	Oh my gosh.
	So are you like the big cheese now?
	Are you the grand fromage?
	I don't speak...
	Is that French or Italian?
	Are you the big boss?
	Yes.
	Congratulations!
	Yeah, Molly and I have kind of been doing a dual tag team for the past year, year and a half.
	Wow.
	So has he just got his Fox gig now?
	That's it?
	I think he may be writing for Spectator or something like that, but I'm not sure.
	Okay, cool.
	Well, congratulations.
	Thanks.
	I saw Molly.
	Molly was at CPAC, I think.
	I think I saw her.
	I think I saw her.
	Yeah, she was there, like, Wednesday morning, maybe?
	Thursday morning?
	OK.
	You weren't tempted to come to the Swamp?
	I had actually wanted to, but just the family scheduling had made it impossible for me to get up that week.
	Right.
	And it actually turns out well that I wasn't scheduled, because I was so sick the last two weeks that it wouldn't have happened.
	Got it.
	Got it.
	All right.
	Standby.
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	Sean Davis, there's one line from the president's speech at CPAC that had the left all tied up in knots.
	Cut eight.
	And if you put me back in the White House, their reign is over.
	Their reign will be over.
	And they know it.
	And America will be a free nation once again.
	We're not a free nation right now.
	We don't have free press.
	We don't have free anything.
	In 2016, I declared, I am your voice.
	Today, I add, I am your warrior.
	I am your justice.
	And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.
	I am your retribution.
	Not gonna let this happen.
	So when you've got pro-life activists having their doors bust down by 20 FBI agents, former assistants to the President putting leg irons at Reagan Airport, and people still being held in pre-trial detention for two years since January the 6th, is it incorrect?
	Is it also impolitic to talk about retribution, Sean?
	No, I don't think it is at all.
	Politics is about rewarding your allies and punishing your enemies.
	And I think Trump is right that the biggest danger in this country right now, it's not Russia, even though lots of people want you to worry about Russia.
	It's this unaccountable bureaucracy, this administrative state, the deep state, whatever you want to call it, this permanent bureaucracy that thinks they have a divine right to rule us without any of the accountability that generally comes with power in this country.
	And we saw what they did for years.
	We saw what they did with the Russia collusion hoax.
	We've seen what they're doing now at Merrick Garland's DOJ, targeting Catholic churches, saying that people who go to Latin Mass are more likely to be violent extremists, targeting school board parents.
	It is a direct threat to this republic, the power that this entrenched bureaucracy has.
	And yes, they need to be rooted out, they need to be destroyed, and an example needs to be made of them so that no one ever thinks about doing this nonsense ever again.
	I like what you just said.
	If you don't like the phrase deep state, then how about unaccountable bureaucracy?
	Because that's exactly who they are, whether it's DHS, FBI, DOJ, or even Fauci.
	Let's talk about actual violence being done by their collaborators outside of government.
	In Atlanta we have this
	facility that has been uh... attacked again and again and again a a future law enforcement training facility the people who are committing arson and you know has uh... the footage of what they've done recently more than twenty of them were arrested i think we have the mug shots of those who were arrested and indeed that one of those who was arrested turns out to be a certain tom jorgens uh... short tell us uh... where tom jorgens what his day job is when he's not
	Throwing Molotov cocktails at police establishments.
	Well, public reports seem to indicate that he is an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is the self-appointed keeper and declarer of all bad things and hate groups and extremism in the country.
	Recall that the FBI cited SPLC, this organization, in its memo going after Catholic churches and Latin masses.
	I don't think so.
	And it appears actually they are kind of experts in it, given how often they seem to be either involved in or adjacent to so much of this violent nonsense perpetrated by left-wing domestic terrorists.
	And how significant, let's have a little bit of good news, we've only got a few seconds left with you Sean, how significant is it that this morning the DC council rescinded their pro-crime bill and said okay we're not going to bring it to a vote because this is even embarrassing for us?
	Oh, so I disagree.
	That's not why they're doing it.
	They're trying to prevent Biden from signing this bill passed by the House and the Senate, cracking down on their refusal to crack down on crime.
	And by rescinding this law, they're trying to tell Biden, oh wait, no, no, no, you don't need to sign this bill.
	Please don't sign this bill.
	We just mooted it.
	We rescinded this thing.
	Which is the same thing that New York has tried with a bunch of its anti-gun laws.
	Right before they get to the Supreme Court and get ready to lose, they pull it back and moot it.
	So I don't think it's significant at all.
	I think they're scared and they're trying to manipulate Biden into not signing this House bill.
	All right, well if they're scared, that's a good thing.
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	Mic's on.
	Man, I hadn't texted him since December.
	That was a great interview, though.
	He's good.
	I like him.
	He should do more media.
	Has he ever done TV?
	Have you ever seen him on Fox, Jeff?
	He does Tucker.
	He does?
	He has to have been on Fox at some point, yeah.
	Alright, so many more cuts to go through.
	What have we not done?
	Oh, Bannon.
	Gotta do Bannon.
	Yes!
	Oh!
	Um... What have I got to do here?
	Um... Is this really... Is this the D block?
	This is D. We're almost done.
	What?!
	D as in done.
	Come... Come in with the carry.
	Come in with 17.
	Come in with carry like 17.
	Alright.
	Um... Oh, title for Davis.
	What should we call it, Eric?
	I know it's towards the end, but all the Atlanta, like, Antifa stuff is probably the most powerful.
	Okay.
	Something about the SPLC.
	We gotta go after them.
	Like, SPLC creates another terrorist or something.
	SPLC, the real threat.
	Or the real terrorists.
	Terrorists.
	Yep.
	So true.
	Really is that joke from Office Space.
	You gotta ask, like, what does the SPLC do?
	Like, what do they do here?
	When you get down to it, it's just calling everybody.
	I'm alone tonight, okay?
	Katie's skiing.
	So, what do I watch?
	I want recommendations.
	Well, you still gotta watch the next movie for MMGA.
	This is true.
	What is the next movie?
	Big Trouble.
	Oh, Big Trouble.
	Yeah, I might do that.
	That's a great idea.
	I need to re-watch that at some point, too.
	So bad.
	So good.
	Has anybody seen anything good lately?
	Oh, I've been watching that show Tulsa King on Paramount Plus.
	The one with Sylvester Stallone.
	Yeah, any good?
	It's pretty good.
	It's good so far, yeah.
	Not knocked my socks off, but it's pretty good.
	All right, actually, come in with seven.
	Seven.
	And then I'm going to mention Carrie Lake before I do the cut.
	Do you have the photograph of me and her?
	Did I send you that?
	Uh, I probably have it somewhere.
	My pillow.
	And did I do cut ten?
	Um, ten?
	Yes, you did.
	Okay, good.
	Who did I do that with?
	I think it was Mala.
	Thank you.
	We hide outbreaks.
	We Hide Outbreaks.
	I hadn't heard that before.
	Has anybody said that before, Eric?
	We, the WHO, we hide outbreaks.
	That's new to me and that's really good.
	I'm surprised that took so long.
	Oh, by the way, I took my team in with me, as many of you as I could.
	Jeff worked with me.
	We did some great interviews we'll be sharing with you during the week on Friday.
	And then on Saturday, I smuggled in Eric.
	I smuggled in Alex.
	Alex, I need to ask you, did you have fun in the green room?
	It was a dream come true.
	It was so surreal.
	I'm not joking.
	He sat there at one point in the armchair and looked like he was floating and I turned to him and he said, it's like I'm in a dream.
	Why?
	What kind of people did you meet, Alex?
	I met Kash Patel, John Solomon, Nigel Farage.
	I think Nigel Farage was the big hit, right?
	It was.
	And Carrie Lake.
	And Carrie Lake, who not only knocked it out of the park for the Reagan dinner, the day after she gave a speech on the main stage in like sprayed on leather pants.
	It was quite a sight to see.
	Have we got that photograph of me and Carrie in the green room as the other boys are having fun as well?
	Let's put it up.
	There she is.
	That's the wrong photograph.
	That's an old photograph.
	I sent you one earlier with Carrie.
	But let's listen to what she said.
	At the gala, I think it was the best line of the night.
	It's a great speech.
	You should watch it if you can find it.
	But let's play count 17.
	But time and time again with President Donald J. Trump, when it seemed like the world was falling apart, he came in and brought it back together.
	He had these guys back there attacking him, left and right.
	He had the swamp going after him, and he was still getting stuff done.
	And now we have stumbling, bumbling Joe Biden.
	81 million votes.
	My ass.
	Stumbling, bumbling Joe.
	We loved that line.
	81 million votes, my ass.
	But just as tough as that warrior princess was the other person who taught her how to be a good political candidate.
	We had a chat with Carrie after she came on my show and then she also went on Steve Bannon's show.
	What did you think, Eric, of Steve's speech at CPAC?
	Easily the second best speech there, only behind the President's.
	Excuse me.
	Somebody else spoke at CPAC.
	Not counting you, obviously I'd be biased at that point.
	Quick save, quick save.
	Let's listen to my former White House colleague, Steve Bannon, cut 16.
	Look at, look at, look at Fox News, look at Fox News.
	The president announces his, uh, this is historic, a guy gave you four years of peace and prosperity, announces he's going to run again after having it stolen in broad daylight, of which they participate in.
	They don't even, they cover it live for 20 minutes, and then they say, if there's anything newsworthy, we'll cut back, and they go to some panel and some discussion.
	Note to Fox Senior Management: When Donald J. Trump talks, it's newsworthy.
	What happened in the first week of January?
	You had Matt Gaetz and Boebert and the magnificent SIGs that stood there and put it all on the line.
	And what did Fox News do?
	They rolled out Karl Rove and the hacks from the Bush administration that got us in this mess to say, we need unity, we need unity.
	We're not looking for unity, we're looking for victory!
	We're not looking for unity, we're looking for victory.
	Mr. G, let's do a little bit of CPAC analysis.
	Eric went there early for us.
	He got all our badges, did a little bit of scouting around, and he said something about the crowd outside of Bannon's war room broadcasting booth.
	That was so big.
	It was, you know, bigger than some of the crowds inside the ballroom.
	And it stayed like that pretty much for the next three days.
	What does that mean about the power of the base?
	Is that about Bannon, the base?
	What's your take on all that?
	No, I think it's people are kind of moving towards the anti-establishment, the Bannon wing of the party.
	They're more attracted to that than listening to some of the politicians there.
	I think that's definitely Where the whole base is going.
	Yeah.
	All right, let me share with you something personal or has to do with my social media and the communications between some of the people out there who follow me.
	So somebody randomly, they may have heard me on that six-hour Twitter space as I did last night on the president's speech.
	Oh yeah, sorry, that's correct.
	That's the first thing he says.
	Great space, Seb.
	Let's pray for T, meaning Trump.
	Whenever I get responses like that, I say prayer is not enough.
	What are you doing to actually save the Republic?
	Here's the response from a man who will go unnamed.
	Pray and vote is what I can do.
	Pray and vote is what I can do.
	My response?
	It's me.
	I'm kind of curt.
	Not enough!
	That's the total of your commitment to the Republic?
	I tell everyone they need to run for local office.
	His response?
	My main commitments are to my family, Seb.
	After kids and work, most people don't have time for much else.
	My response?
	None of that matters, my friend, if you lose your freedom.
	Be a serious patriot, not half-committed.
	And his response?
	Family doesn't matter!
	LOL!
	OK!
	My response?
	Don't be an idiot.
	Your family won't be free.
	So here's the question you have to ask yourself.
	I mean seriously, this man who clearly sees himself as a conservative, clearly sees himself as a patriot, thinks that voting every two years and praying is enough.
	Really?
	Voting and praying is enough?
	That's the extent of your commitment?
	What's going to happen if it's your family next?
	Like Mark Hauk.
	What if you're the one locked up for being pro-life?
	What are you going to do then if your family loses their freedom?
	I guess voting every two years wasn't enough.
	And I'm deadly serious.
	If you're not politically engaged yourself, you're helping the other side win.
	So get engaged.
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	Uh, let's post that.
	That was better than the monologue, Eric.
	Alright.
	Stop grinning, hand me that.
	Alright.
	And what do you want to call that one?
	Um... Is it too on the nose to say... When my listeners don't do enough?
	Uh... I wouldn't use that title.
	Jeff!
	Title!
	It'll get people to watch it.
	What?
	It'll get people to watch it.
	Yeah.
	By the way, does the YouTube use our own titles or do they change it?
	I was wondering.
	They do change the titles.
	Yeah, I'm sure they do it all by themselves.
	They do everything.
	Jeff, what do you think?
	Is that good or not?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	When my listeners don't do enough.
	Alright.
	What have we got here?
	I didn't do MyPillow, I didn't do merch.
	Come in with 18, because we haven't played it.
	18.
	Oh, that's right, yeah.
	Last chance to play it today.
	How did you like that speech, Jeff? - Jeff? - Yeah.
	Which one?
	Mine.
	It was good.
	I liked it.
	It was short, though.
	I know, they gave me ten flippin' minutes.
	But you kept it to ten?
	Yeah, I did it like 11.
	Mm-hmm.
	The enemies are out there.
	I get it.
	I get it.
	Xi Jinping in China, the Mullahs in Iran, Putin in the Kremlin.
	I get it.
	But the biggest threat we face are our fellow Americans who do not believe in America.
	We are living in a time that no civilization has ever survived.
	It is utterly perverse.
	As a guy who likes history, think of this.
	Can you imagine any regime?
	I don't care if it's an ancient empire, a city-state, a kingdom.
	Any regime in history, any part of the world, that was run by people who hate the country they're running!
	It's perverse!
	Why would you run to be the president of a country you detest?
	Remember Obama said, haha, we're moments away from fundamentally changing America.
	Do you want to fundamentally change something that you love?
	Try that with your wife, gentlemen.
	I love you, but I want to fundamentally change you.
	Little nip and a tuck here, little, you know.
	Yeah, get back to me.
	How that works out.
	You don't want to fundamentally change something you love?
	That's just a few seconds from my CPAC stage at the main floor.
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	Tom, Illinois, line one.
	Yeah, can you hear me?
	Yes.
	Great.
	I called last week.
	You don't have to tell me you called last week.
	Get to your point.
	You've got 90 seconds.
	Okay.
	I say that the COVID-19 was selected.
	It was not accidentally leaked from the lab.
	I like all your listeners.
	As soon as I found out it was from the lab, they knew it came from the lab.
	So what's your proof that it was deliberately released?
	Okay, somebody you need to interview is Nicholas Wade.
	He was on LeBron's show last night.
	In 2021, May 5th, he wrote an article showing that it was most probably a lab leak.
	You're saying it's not a lab leak.
	You're saying it's deliberate.
	I asked you for the proof.
	What's the proof?
	Okay, he came up with, they have humanized mice that they use there in the lab.
	I know all that.
	I'm asking you, what's the proof that it's deliberate and not accidental?
	That's what you said.
	Yes, because they knew that it kills the elderly and the infirm, and that's perfect for a communist country.
	So what's the proof?
	I don't have proof.
	Okay, thanks, Tom.
	Got it.
	Thank you.
	All right.
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	He's in studio.
	I can't believe it.
	Yeah.
	Not the other side of the nation.
	He's Mr. Reagan.
	He's Chris Coles.
	And we're going to go Wolverines.
	We're going to go Wolverines.
	Impressive.
	Most impressive.
	See anything you people wouldn't believe in.
	I want to talk to God.
	Let's go see him together.
	Yeah.
	If you have a certain vintage, an excellent vintage, perhaps one of the best, that individual holding an AK aloft shouting, Wolverines, defined your generation, at least filmically.
	That's why there is a clip in the beginning of every single episode of Making Movies Great Again that has a portion of this movie we are about to review.
	It may have taken us a few months, but we're here.
	It's 1984's Red Dawn by the great John Milius.
	And it's even better.
	That for the first time in radio and televisual history, my co-host, the one, the only Mr. Reagan, is in studio, Chris Coles, with an S. Welcome in studio.
	He said Chris Cole the other day, and I was like, Coles, with an S. Yeah, we'll never do that again.
	Chris, how come you're in the swamp?
	What's going on, man?
	Well, there's a little thing called CPAC going on right now.
	And you didn't want to come, right, to CPAC?
	When we finished shooting the last episode of this, you go, you're going to CPAC, right?
	Mr. Reagan, you're coming to CPAC?
	I'm like, no!
	No, I'm not coming to CPAC.
	I'm sick of that stuff.
	I'm sick of those guys.
	I'm sick of those people.
	And you're like, no, you're coming.
	You're coming.
	You're gonna go.
	I'll get you a ticket.
	I'll bring you in.
	And you can stay at my place.
	I'm like, Well, I guess I have to now, so I'm here.
	And?
	And you have the perfect explanation of why people should come to CPAC and come to events in which there are conservatives and like-minded people, people who want to see the world better again.
	You say it recharges your batteries.
	Yeah.
	And that's exactly right.
	It's exactly right, because, and I've talked about this, you know, in another segment of your show, I said I feel like you see people that you don't know, that you don't know in real life, just regular folks in America who want to see the country improve.
	They want to see the quality of life of people improve.
	They want to bring morality back to America and things like that.
	It's a very touching thing.
	It's very nice.
	It's very nice to see these people and it does recharge your batteries.
	But don't go if you don't like taking selfies.
	This guy, man, if you walk through CPAC with Sebastian Gorka, it's like piranhas going after a lamb.
	No, piranhas eat things.
	It's like the little fish that nibble at your feet.
	Well, no, but people swarm you.
	You can go five feet, and then there's somebody else.
	Can I get a selfie?
	Five feet.
	Can I get a selfie?
	Five feet.
	Can I get a selfie?
	And the people are amazing, though.
	And you are very generous with your time and your energy, and you talk to everybody.
	It doesn't cost me a penny.
	That's what I say.
	And not only that, we've got another member of the team.
	Is he in the room?
	Can we show the newsroom?
	Let's show us our control room.
	Where's his brother?
	John Coles, give a wave in the back.
	And what's the shirt you're wearing?
	Show us the shirt.
	Did you pay him to wear your merchandise on my show?
	The Mr. Reagan t-shirt?
	He came into the room last night and he's like, hey, should I wear this?
	And I'm like, yeah, of course you should wear it!
	He's gonna be walking around CPAC wearing that as well, that's amazing.
	He's a good brother, he's a good brother.
	Clearly, clearly, he's a respectable one.
	Alright, should we do some work today?
	Yeah, let's talk about the movie.
	Alright, so I dread asking this, because I get the wrong answer so often with you.
	Had you seen this movie?
	I had seen Red Dawn, yes.
	We're doing Red Dawn, ladies and gentlemen.
	By?
	The great John Milius.
	Let's show the picture of me and Chris this morning in my home at the headquarters.
	headquarters.
	This is the original, original theater poster, like thick card of Red Dawn, signed by the director and writer John Milius, because we know, and you met her, Amanda Milius.
	Amanda Milius, John Milius' very impressive daughter.
	Who's also a director.
	Who's also a director.
	She's done some amazing films.
	If you've not seen her films, I highly recommend them.
	Friend of Sebastian Gorka.
	Yeah, a Trump appointee.
	She's in the State Department.
	And just a cool person.
	And we have that poster.
	So this is a personal one for me.
	I'm a huge fan of the General.
	They had to address him on set as General Milius.
	The actor.
	I saw that!
	In the behind of the scene documentary that you forced me to watch.
	I did hear that.
	That's cool though.
	I think that's cool.
	So give us initial thoughts on this movie.
	I didn't grow up with this film.
	It's a bit of a violent film.
	It's tough.
	Yeah, it's a tough film.
	It's a very, I will say, philosophical film.
	It was accused of being like this rah-rah pro-war.
	It is not a pro-war movie.
	No, no, no.
	It's a thinking man's film, and if you're not thinking, then I suppose you could perceive it that way.
	But no, it's a philosophical film, and so I didn't see it when I was a child, I didn't grow up with it, it wasn't a big part of my childhood, but I saw it as an adult.
	I had a buddy of mine, he presented me, my buddy Kurt, who I mention sometimes on my show, he's a big movie buff, we're talking one day about films, and he starts talking about the plot of Red Dawn.
	And I'm saying, wait, wait, the Russians invade America, like rural America in the 1980s?
	Yeah.
	I'm like, how have I never heard of this movie?
	I just love the premise.
	So I watched the film and I thought, wow, what an underrated film.
	How could I have never heard of this?
	1984.
	It looks even a little bit older than that in my mind because it was set in rural America.
	Yes.
	And so there's nothing about it that screams like trendy 1980s.
	No.
	Rural 1980s was more sort of like late 70s.
	Right.
	And that was true in my household as well because we, I didn't grow up rich or anything, and if you grew up, you know, sort of like lower middle class, middle class in America in the 1980s, everything you owned, every piece of furniture you owned was actually from the 70s.
	Right.
	And this film reflects that well, I think.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and also the town, there's nothing, here we have the opening scene, and I just, I looked at my watch, this scene of the Soviet paratroopers landing as the teacher's giving this lecture on Genghis Khan and the hunt, and they decimated, even the insects were decimated before Genghis Khan, and then he just walks out into the field, and the Soviet trooper Has an RPK, a light machine gun, and just hammers him from about, you know, 30 feet.
	The first five minutes, I looked at my... So much happens.
	Minis doesn't wait a second.
	He doesn't build up the characters.
	He doesn't have this bucolic, here is the town.
	Five minutes of high-intensity violence in a high school.
	But it was so brilliant, and this kid dying, that was... Oh, I'd be hanging out the window.
	That was tough.
	Heavy.
	At the very beginning, and the teacher dies, and you like the teacher.
	Yeah.
	Because you can tell immediately he cares about his students.
	Everybody's had that teacher, right?
	Everybody's had that teacher.
	The big guy who cares.
	The big guy who cares, yeah.
	A little bit like our host, Sebastian Gorka.
	I have the tree jacket.
	I will be wearing that tree jacket later, but I will not be shot by Soviet paratroopers.
	Alright, the film is Red Dawn 1984 by the great John Milius, the man who brought us Dirty Harry.
	Uncredited on numerous films, he fixed the garbage dialogue for The Hunt for Red October.
	He gave us Conan the Barbarian, just an absolute legend in the community.
	We salute you as we begin our review.
	We are talking Red Dawn with Mr. Chris Coles.
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	All right, Chris, let's start with the stars.
	Let's talk about the acting, the fact that these were kids.
	It was the first movie for Charlie Sheen.
	Swayze is the lead as Jed.
	Talk to us, as an actor, talk to us about the performances.
	Yeah, I mean, these guys were young.
	You know, they were all young in the behind-the-scenes documentary.
	They were all talking about how they didn't know what they were doing.
	You know, Swayze was the only one with any real experience, and so he kind of quasi-trained the other actors on set.
	And Milius said to Swayze, pulled him off and said, I'm the general, you're my lieutenant.
	So I'm not going to talk to these kids.
	You're in charge.
	You are in the wilderness, in the Mesa, and you have to be the father figure.
	And what was crazy was that I think Patrick Swayze says he got frostbite.
	And they all talked about that, like they were all just dying.
	I mean legitimately like freezing to death and but they were so passionate about making movies and being actors and stuff they were willing to suffer through that and it seemed to me like they'd never ever again after that experience such a difficult shoot you know.
	This is the first thing I wrote down when I watched because I love them I actually like the making I'm such a geek I love the making of more than I like the movies sometimes and they interviewed every character See Thomas Howell, Leia Thompson, Gray, Swayze.
	Every single one of these kids said it was horrific.
	Literally frostbite.
	And they say it was the greatest experience I've had working on a movie.
	How crazy is that?
	Patrick Swayze.
	Running around.
	I loved every second of it.
	Learning how to shoot machine guns.
	horses took them to actually shoot real machine guns see Thomas Hale turns out he's a country kid who knew how to ride he taught them all how to be cowboys and just because he doesn't look like no but if you see at the end their horse handling right the way Swayze is controlling that horse the way Leah these these people look by the end of the movie pros like you know rough riders
	And that's a really beautiful thing that they did with the film is because if you watch the very first confrontation in the movie, I mean they're scared kids at the beginning of the film.
	The way they open it, by the way, the way they open this movie where it's just a normal high school and then out the window behind the kids in the distance, and my brother noticed this because I was watching with my brother the other day.
	It's just silent.
	The paratroopers coming down is silent.
	And it's way in the distance.
	It's so subtle.
	It's so beautifully done.
	These paratroopers come in and you see the teacher get shot to death.
	And the students freak out, run.
	They're terrified.
	And then that first confrontation, they clearly don't know what they're doing.
	They don't know how to use a gun.
	She's holding it like this, falling out of her hand, the AK.
	There's a meme that's going around right now on Twitter, which is a chick holding a gun, looking through the scope, and the butt of the rifle's like up here.
	On her shoulder.
	Yeah, and there's like a red circle here, like, look at where her eye is, look at where the butt of the gun is.
	It's like, that's gonna hurt.
	That's kind of how you feel about Lea Thompson and the other actors in the film at the very beginning, but then over the course of the film they're getting better and better and better and you can kind of see the evolution of how people who don't know what they're doing in a situation in which they must survive become these elite warriors just because they have to.
	What a brilliant concept.
	There's that moment right at the beginning where they The two brothers, Jetten's brother, say, "We've hunted in these mountains forever." And they built that little campfire with the rest of the kids they rescued.
	And some of the kids say they want to go back.
	They want to go back to town.
	They want to go back to their parents.
	And there's really great delivery from Swayze who says, "I know one thing.
	My parents would want to be alive.
	Would want me to be alive?
	Me, and they'd want you, your parents would want you to be alive.
	So that moment of tension.
	None of this is, well there's one guy, C. Thomas Howell, who we see descend into this He starts to like killing.
	He says, the hate keeps me warm.
	The hate keeps me warm.
	And he becomes this kind of...
	But the rest of them are like, even Swayze, that moment when he starts crying.
	He just goes off and he starts crying because of what he has become.
	Endured, yeah.
	Endured.
	And that's the truth about soldiers, you know, and war.
	War is hell.
	You know, war is hell.
	It's not like, you know, I don't know.
	I mean, I've never been in a war, but I, you know, you can see the effects of it on people.
	And this kind of an exploration of this idea of watching people go through this.
	It just has everything.
	It has the intellectual conceptions and it also has the emotional part of it.
	Just a really great concept altogether.
	Alright, we are talking making movies great again with Chris Coles, the Mr. Reagan channel, also Alpha Critic.
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	All right, let's come in with... What's the third cut?
	Oh, Powers Booth.
	Yeah.
	Coming with Harry Dean.
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	The Wolverines at the training fence of the quote-unquote re-education camp in Red Dawns.
	Swayze talking to his father Harry Dean Stanton.
	One of the most emotional moments of the movie Red Dawn.
	Shouting to his sons as they leave, avenge me.
	Help me out here Chris.
	I've never understood, I mean that performance was remarkable, but I've never understood the Harry Dean Stanton cult.
	People love Harry Dean Stanton.
	I didn't know there was one.
	Oh, there is.
	I mean, amongst a certain group of movie buffs, he's like, whether it's in Alien, as one of the engineers, or whether it's here.
	Even Milius says, I mean, you know what I mean.
	Harry Dean Stanton.
	How can you do any better than Harry Dean Stanton?
	He's a compelling guy.
	Yeah?
	I mean, compelling people in film.
	I mean, it's a thing.
	It's important to have that.
	And underrated people.
	People like to support people who are underrated, I think.
	Okay.
	That makes sense.
	What's interesting about that scene in particular, this is not a dialogue-heavy film.
	No.
	And it's not like esoteric language.
	It's not sophisticated reams of dialogue.
	It's not this poetry of Shakespeare.
	It's these very simple lines, but very powerful.
	And everyone in this film is very sincere.
	And it's something that you don't even get in films anymore.
	People are always sarcastic.
	People are making jokes.
	And that's fine.
	Right.
	But there's something that's been lost in the culture.
	There's a depth.
	There's a depth to it and a sincerity, excuse me, there's a sincerity that you just don't get in films anymore because we've ridiculed it so much that you can't really get away with it anymore.
	Like you couldn't make this film like this with this level of sincerity.
	Because it's uncool to be this sincere, right?
	Exactly.
	But it's touching as well because you think these are Like, as genuine a people as you could portray in a film.
	And there's always moments in this movie where I think they're going to make a joke, and then they don't.
	And they're just genuinely sincere, and I think, wow, that's really powerful.
	The other thing that kind of struck me, because this has been a movie for me, I mean, iconic from my childhood, and I grew up in the Cold War, and this was like, yeah, the Russians could actually do this.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The bad guys here.
	Are not caricatures.
	In most, you know, war movies.
	They're not pure evil.
	Right.
	They're not pure evil.
	And they're not cardboard cutouts.
	They're not like Nazis being mowed down in the distance.
	I mean, you look at these characters.
	Let's look at Strelnikov, Bratchenko, Bella, the Cuban.
	Strelnikov, the Spetsnaz commander who has the duel at the end with Swayze.
	You know who this guy was in real life?
	You know who this actor was in real life?
	So this individual who played this very, very handsome, forthright, compelling individual, William Smith.
	William Smith spoke five languages, including fluent Russian, the guy on the screen with the submachine gun.
	He was a Russian linguist interrogator in Korea.
	That's why he does his Russian lines so well.
	This dude, this wasn't dubbed, it wasn't ADR.
	He was interrogating prisoners during the Cold War in Russian.
	I was wondering about that because he comes on screen and he just spits out that Russian.
	And he does that long speech, that lecture.
	He does that long lecture in Russian.
	This is a Wolverine.
	We will not kill civilians.
	We will become the hunters.
	I mean, he's doing it all in Russian.
	And then you see, for me, we have Bella, the Cuban.
	Near the end of the movie, he's writing this letter home.
	I'm about to resign.
	I've had enough.
	I've had enough of war.
	They humanize him.
	They humanize the guy who's invading somebody else's country, putting Harry Dean Stanton in a re-education camp.
	So Milius isn't saying, you know, kill all commies, commies bad.
	We're getting a glimpse into the other side of this Reality.
	I once wrote a screenplay in which it was about a POW in World War II.
	And he escapes, and he's gone through all this hell, and he runs into one of his former prison keepers.
	And this guy gives him a cigarette, and he says, you know, if I was escaping, this is how I would do it.
	And he just walks away.
	And I always thought that was a very powerful idea.
	The prison keeper who respects You've gone through, and just says, you know what, I know this is war, I know what I'm supposed to do, but I'm also a human being, and I can see what you're dealing with, and maybe I'll break the rules right now.
	I always thought that was a very powerful idea.
	And it's done so well here, with the Cuban, when he sees Swayze, and is holding his brother dying, and he just puts the gun down.
	Yeah, I was going to save this for later, but this surprises you.
	- Oh, it's very powerful. - In the Cold War, you're like, oh no, the only good commie is a dead commie. - You hate the Cubans, you hate the Russians. - And then Swayze's carrying his dying brother, and the Cubans, he's got his AK on him and he's 10 feet away.
	And the look on Swayze's face is minus 40 when they film this.
	I mean, these guys are freezing.
	They are genuinely freezing.
	And the Cuban just actually drops the AK on the ground.
	He could have killed this guy who's been blowing up his troops and killing his troops for over a year.
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	All right, so for me, I don't know why, I just was ribbing, I guess, this cult of Harry Dean Stanton worshipers, but I'm guilty of it myself because for some reason, I love powers, Boob.
	Whenever I see Powers Booth in a movie, I say, dude, that's a man.
	I mean, the depth of character, the drawl that he has, the Southern drawl, the clippedness of his delivery, he never overacts.
	Let's play the shot down pilot, He becomes a kind of father figure to the Wolverines.
	West Coast.
	East Coast.
	Down here's Mexico.
	First wave of the attack came in disguised as commercial charter flights, same way they did in Afghanistan in the 80s.
	Only they were crack airborne outfits.
	They took these passes into Rockies.
	So that's what hit Calumet?
	I guess so.
	They coordinated with selective nuke strikes, and the missiles were a hell of a lot more accurate than we thought.
	They took out the silos here in the Dakotas, key points of communication.
	Like what?
	Oh, like Omaha, Washington, Kansas City.
	Gone?
	Yeah.
	That's right.
	How do you like the performance from Pals Booth?
	Well, here's the thing.
	They needed a character like this.
	Yeah, totally.
	Because otherwise it's just a bunch of kids, and it's crazy, and it's not particularly believable.
	Out of control.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	You bring in this guy who says, you go, okay, this guy is a real soldier, and he respects these folks.
	He grows to respect them.
	And he trains them a little bit, and he helps them out.
	And it becomes a much more believable story this way.
	So you need this sort of like, not Obi-Wan Kenobi type figure, but you know, somebody who can come in and like train him up a little bit.
	And yeah, he's the perfect actor for it.
	He does a great job.
	There's a little bit of a weird relationship with him and Lea Thompson.
	There was a scene that was cut out.
	Where they go and make love.
	So she, who's been raped by the Soviets, totally damaged woman, and then she latches onto him and then they remove that.
	I think they should have left that in.
	It would have allowed her to sort of recover psychologically.
	Maybe it kind of shows that.
	And then tell the story.
	Did you catch the funny story of his death scene?
	What he said about the line Milius gave him?
	He said, I can't deliver that line.
	Did you catch that in the making of?
	Yes, I did.
	And everybody cheered for it.
	He's on the turret.
	He's thrown the hand grenade into the tank.
	And they get him.
	They gun him down.
	And he's like dying.
	His last words as the smoke grenade is, you know, Billowing around him, he says, shoot straight for once, you army pukes.
	And he said to me, I can't say that, that can't be my death line!
	And he delivered it, and he said in the movie theater, like, yay!
	The Air Force hates the Army!
	Oh, it's hilarious!
	Yeah, it's specific for certain audiences, but you know what?
	It's great.
	Yeah, it's great.
	The film's not perfect.
	Let me take a sober approach to the movie.
	What?
	This is my childhood you're talking about, Coles!
	Well, from a 21st century perspective, if you're gonna have a young person who's used to computer-generated effects and everything looking perfect, not everything's perfect in this movie.
	Some of the props are a little old-fashioned.
	It's dated a little bit in terms of its special effects.
	But this is not a movie about special effects.
	And there's some cool stuff, and we'll get to, like, Napalm and everything.
	Yeah.
	But the film is an exploration of an idea.
	And to me, these are the best stories.
	What is fiction if not an exploration into human psychology, into the human condition?
	What do we do under certain circumstances?
	And this is a wild idea.
	And I don't think we have enough big ideas like this anymore.
	We'll explore a little idea here or there in an independent film or something.
	But this concept of World War III, the Russians coming in, the Cubans coming in, the Nicaraguans coming in, and some high school students forming a rebellion, what would that be like?
	Let's explore that reality.
	Fantastic idea to do a film like that.
	Does anything take you out of it?
	Because for me, I think it's such a hard story to write and to perform, and I never go, well, nah, I don't buy it.
	Oh no, absolutely not.
	And because you have so many characters, like you have the character who starts to enjoy the killing.
	Yes.
	And you have the other characters that are enduring like shell shock and having to like suffer through it.
	And you have brothers who love each other, you know, throughout the film.
	Yeah.
	Dying in each other's arms at the end.
	And I watched it with my brother.
	And we're sitting there watching it and we're just sitting there thinking like, could we have done this?
	You know, we grew up in Oregon.
	We grew up riding dirt bikes and horses.
	You've been in the mountains.
	Yeah.
	We weren't hunters, but we were, you know, we were Boy Scouts and everything.
	So we're like, yeah, we could have survived.
	We could have probably done this.
	And we're thinking about young people today.
	And we're thinking, there are certain places, in Texas, and maybe, you know.
	But there's so many across the country, if you just watch TikTok, and you go, there's no way that this...
	There's no way they'd survive having bad Wi-Fi.
	Right?
	There's no way that a they-them is going to fight off the Russians, you know what I mean?
	He went there, he went there.
	Alright, I can't believe he actually criticized the special effects in this movie, the props.
	You know what they had to do for this movie?
	I mean, this is 1984.
	You can't roll around buying T-72 tanks and BTR armored personnel carriers.
	They built these suckers.
	Of course!
	They built, they went to a company that took M-48 Patton tank chassis, so that's, you know, the general Patton American tank chassis, and they built Soviet tanks with turrets, with guns.
	They built armored personnel carriers.
	They took the scariest thing of the Cold War, if you're on the ground and somebody's shooting at you, they took the Hind attack helicopter, which is literally a flying tank, the thing they used in Afghanistan to kill civilians.
	And they said, well, we can't actually ask the Soviets for a, you know...
	An Mi-24.
	So they took a French Puma helicopter, strapped false stubby wings on it, like the Hind, rocket pods, and there's that moment where these helicopters come, they've been suckered into this trap where the food comes off the back of the lorry, they locate them, they send in the choppers, the choppers mow down, you know, Thompson and everything else.
	These guys, the amount of effort that went into this, the tank battles, The AK-47, they used Finnish ones because you could buy Finnish versions of the Kalashnikov, but only a real gun geek like me would know that.
	But do you know what happened?
	You saw the making of.
	The CIA saw the tanks.
	And they investigated the film.
	They saw them being carried on railroad carriers to the set on the Mesa.
	And they went to the prop studio.
	They knocked on the door.
	They arrived.
	Where did you get that Soviet tank from?
	And it was such a good copy that they said, oh, can we borrow them for our training purposes?
	Oh, did they really?
	Oh, yeah, so we can do the radar recognition, the photographic recognition.
	Because in the Cold War, the thing was the silhouette of a vehicle, how do you recognize it at a distance, how do you train your photographic interpreters.
	They said, yeah, can we borrow some of your fake Russian tanks, Director Milius?
	I was under the impression that they had designed the tanks to look a little bit different, because this is an exploration of an idea.
	No, it wouldn't have been.
	As close as I could get them.
	As close as you could get them.
	I just assume that they would have made them slightly different.
	Because it is a sort of alternative universe.
	It's the universe in which we're invaded.
	Yeah, it's Milius' universe.
	Yeah, it makes sense.
	All right, we're talking making movies great again.
	It's 1984.
	We love the 80s.
	It is, of course, Red Dawn, John Milius's iconic movie.
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	Okay, what else do we need to say about this incredible movie?
	I love this one thing.
	If you're a gun nut like me, and Chris can attest to that.
	There's this moment, do you remember at the beginning, when they just landed, the troopers just landed, and the officer gives guidance to one of his lieutenants, go to the gun stores and get form 4473, which is the background check you have to do to buy a gun.
	Why?
	What's the message?
	Millis is a massive gun guy, I mean he's a second amendment.
	This is a political idea of like, well if you have this form, You've got the addresses of everyone who's bought a gun, right?
	This is the trouble.
	And actually, this makes sense.
	Like, this could have even been the idea behind the entire script.
	It's like, this is a problem.
	Like, what if this happened?
	They're like, oh, what if this happened?
	This is a good idea.
	Maybe let's not have lists of people who have guns in case somebody wants to take our liberties away from us!
	Actually, when I saw that part of the film, I thought, well that can't be real.
	Oh yeah, it is.
	But yeah, that makes sense.
	Because back then they wouldn't have had some kind of internet database, they would have had just files.
	Paper forms.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	He calls himself a, what does he say?
	He's a Zen anarchist.
	He's asked politically whether he's left or right.
	Milius.
	Zen anarchist.
	He's not exactly conservative or libertarian or left-wing, but he is a patriot and he loves his guns.
	Okay, let's do a little bit of more trivia.
	Let's talk about Bella.
	Bella is, of course, the Cuban officer.
	You know who Bella is?
	Do you know who Bella, the actor?
	You mean, what else is he in?
	Yes.
	What made him famous?
	Oh, gosh, okay.
	I don't know.
	We were actually thinking of this the whole time we were watching the film.
	We were like, what's he in?
	What's he in?
	What's he in?
	I recognize him from something, but I don't remember exactly what.
	He was the iconic pastor from Superfly, from the Blaxploitation movie.
	I never saw Superfly.
	He's Superfly.
	He's Ron O'Neal.
	That's funny.
	Wanted to go from Blaxploitation to being the Cuban Colonel in Red Door.
	You know what was impressive about all the quote-unquote villains of the film?
	They got men who didn't just look older than the high school students.
	They got men that looked intimidating.
	Every man looks like a real man.
	Yes.
	You know, like a little bit scary.
	Like they could give a speech and then they could punch a guy out.
	Right.
	And then they could shoot a gun.
	Right.
	You know, they looked like real men.
	Even the grandpa.
	Come, I've got some heirlooms to give you.
	You know, the grandchild, the daughter.
	The granddaughter.
	That's a rancher.
	- The granddaughters. - That's a dude, that's a rancher.
	That guy's a real American.
	- He was creating a real contrast between the characters.
	Milius, brilliant, brilliant casting, yeah. - One fascinating one for me is the evil, the one antagonist who has no redeeming qualities, he's not writing love letters home to his wife, He doesn't want to.
	And that is, of course, Wladek Szabal, the Polish actor, a character actor, who you might recognize from an earlier movie, one that has something to do with the poster behind me.
	This is Wladek from a certain movie with Sean Connery, where he played chess master Oh, yes.
	So it's from Russia With Love.
	For Russia With Love!
	It has to be, of course.
	The spectre operative.
	That's right.
	At the very beginning of the film.
	Because he's the one that designs the plot.
	He's the one that designs the plan of the movie.
	Nice bit of casting there.
	Oh, fantastic.
	Everything about this movie is actually quite good.
	As I said, from a modern perspective, I do think young people, it'll take, you know, you gotta get used to the fact that it's an older film.
	Yes.
	And it doesn't have all the CGI and everything like that.
	But there is something much more real about it, I would say, than a modern film.
	Because everything today is so fantastical.
	And there's something very real about this.
	There was a moment when there's an explosion, very early on, when they're collecting the guns from the gun store.
	And there's an explosion in the background.
	My brother noticed this.
	And it's just silent.
	And after a few seconds, you hear... Oh, the time delay for the sound.
	They don't do that anymore.
	The reason they don't do that anymore is because people always think it's a mistake.
	But we watch that and we're like, this is better.
	This is better.
	And there's that moment you asked me about with the massive napalm explosion.
	You were trying to work out whether it was CGI.
	No, no.
	Whether it was a model.
	A model!
	Because I thought, there's just no way they could do one that big.
	Because it was a massive explosion.
	Right, right.
	And you know how it's done.
	But I hadn't seen that documentary.
	And so I'm sitting there watching this going, that has to be a model.
	Because there's this napalm explosion.
	It's just like, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
	I mean, it looks like Vietnam.
	It's crazy.
	It's crazy.
	Feet long explosion.
	It looks like real footage of real war and I thought that's got to be a model so I rewound the stream or whatever and I played it back and I'm looking at the camera angle and I'm looking at the camera shake and you know the out-of-focus foliage in the foreground and I'm thinking that's a real explosion the smoke and the way it goes like that's not a slow motion.
	Nope.
	Model.
	That's a real, they really shot that.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And then you know, you've watched the documentary and saw how it was all done.
	They laid whatever it was, 800 feet of plastic drainage pipe, and they filmed it with gasoline mixed with, you know, soap detergent, which is, you know, OG Napalm.
	And they wrapped it in debt cord, you know, a thousand feet of debt cord, and they blew it up.
	It's crazy.
	They blew it up.
	All right, so let's talk about This isn't happening!
	This isn't happening!
	Jed, let him go!
	Shut up, Danny!
	He was one of us!
	Shut up!
	He told them where we were!
	He did.
	Now get your rifles.
	Come in with this clip, come in with this clip.
	- This isn't happening.
	This isn't happening, Jet, let him go! - Shut up, Danny.
	- He was one of us! - Shut up!
	He told them where we were! - He did.
	Now get your rifles.
	- No!
	What did you say?
	I said no!
	We're not doing it!
	Boy, say it to you, Alfred, so I may not die alone.
	What's the difference, Jed, huh?
	I'll do it.
	Shut up, Robert!
	Tell me, what's the difference between us and them?
	Because we live here.
	Oh, my God.
	Don't shoot!
	Don't shoot you.
	So this is not easy.
	No.
	This is not easy.
	So the Russian soldier is captured after a firefight who's been hunting them down.
	And how have they been hunting him down?
	One of them has betrayed them.
	One of the Wolverines has betrayed them.
	The mayor's son has swallowed a radioactive tracking device and they decide to kill him.
	And the acting there from Swayze is heavy.
	This is not a film that pulls punches, is it, Chris?
	No, no.
	And it's supposed to make you feel something, but it's supposed to also make you think.
	And you know, I keep talking about it's an exploration of an idea.
	This is the way you do that well.
	There's something called, what do they call it, like an ethical dilemma.
	This is an old idea where you work through a problem.
	You think, okay, if you have to You push somebody in front of a train in order to save 20 people, do you do it?
	Philosopher's dilemma, right?
	Yeah, yeah.
	And I like these.
	I like these questions.
	I like these ethical dilemmas.
	They make you really think hard.
	Because the point of this is, it's drama.
	You know, the classic, whatever, Shakespearean conflict drama.
	But as you say, you put yourself in that position.
	You say, okay, what if I've been running for my life for a year, and one of the guys I'm with...
	Helps the people who want to kill me.
	Do I keep him in my circle?
	Do I tie him to a tree?
	Do I punish him?
	Do I kill him?
	Immediately you trigger this analysis that you have to do.
	These are the questions that define you as a human being.
	What would you do?
	And you can't define yourself as a human being, as an adult, as a mature adult.
	Unless you occasionally push yourself into thinking about these difficult questions.
	And so great cinema, great storytelling, same as great novels, it presents these questions.
	To me, what is the point of fiction unless it forces you to think about things that you otherwise would not have?
	And so this film does that several times.
	There's also a moment, a little bit later on, Where one of the girls is dying.
	She's going to die.
	And she wants Patrick Swayze's character to shoot her.
	To end it.
	She doesn't want to be captured by the Russians.
	Yeah, and tortured or whatever.
	Do it.
	He can't shoot her.
	And it shows his humanity, it shows his love for her, and it also, you know, puts you in that position for a minute, and you do have to think, like, could I do it, you know?
	So many great moments like that throughout this film, and it is a difficult film for that reason.
	It is hard to watch, because there is so many... It's just tough, you know?
	It's a tough reality to live through, but it's a great intellectual exercise, and great cinemas like this, I think.
	We are talking making movies great again follow our co-host Chris Coles on Mr. Reagan the YouTube channel also the Alpha Critic he is on Twitter and Mr. Reagan USA.
	Chris what is the the big take-home politically?
	Well let's contrast it to this garbage remake Red Dawn from a few years ago that had all the right actors.
	Oh Eric tell us about you know the people in this movie and one of them who's trying to be super cool right?
	So I saw this movie when it came out in 2012.
	I was 18 years old.
	The fellow second from the right, for those who are watching, in the gray beanie, that's Josh Peck, who made his name as a teen actor on the Nickelodeon show Drake and Josh, which was kind of like the Seinfeld of my generation.
	It was a very good show.
	It holds up well to this day.
	But he was the fat, goofy nerd on that show.
	So then he goes on to Be in this movie, he's super serious, you can see in the poster he's kinda scowling, he's trying to- trying to show, hey, I'm not a kid actor anymore, and he was the primary reason I went to go see it, even though I had never even seen the original, and even back then, having not seen the original, I knew it was...
	Less than ideal of a movie.
	And not only was it less than ideal, it was a garbage movie, it was now the Chinese invade, not the Soviets, because it's after the Cold War.
	They filmed the whole movie, Chris, the whole movie with Chinese soldiers, Chinese planes, and then somebody in Hollywood says, uh, we want to show this in China.
	So, what they did is, in post, they went back with CGI, with computer-generated imagery, and they, you know, whited out the Chinese Red Star, put in the Korean flag, and dubbed Korean onto the Chinese dialogue.
	I mean, this is... What has happened to Hollywood, Chris?
	Is that no moral standard?
	Well, you know...
	They're businessmen.
	They want to make money.
	You know, it's Hollywood.
	Is it really that shocking that they would sell their soul for, you know, yeah, oh, we care about, you know, whatever, human rights and everything like that.
	Unless we're going to lose some money.
	And then, that's okay!
	You can kill some Uyghurs, we're good with that.
	You were telling me about the new Top Gun film.
	Yes!
	The newer Top Gun film, about a year ago.
	The sequel, yeah.
	The sequel to Top Gun.
	I didn't know about this, that there was some offensive imagery in China, and the producers wanted to CGI out.
	It's Tom's jacket.
	Tom's jacket.
	Tom's other jacket has a Taiwanese flag on it.
	From the original movie.
	Right.
	And so he puts it back on.
	Yeah.
	And they CG it out.
	Because Taiwan is an independent nation.
	It is not the property of the Chinese government.
	Right.
	But the Chinese government maintains that it is.
	So we have this conflict, right?
	And Tom Cruise, apparently, according to you, and I didn't know this, great respect to Tom Cruise, he said, no, we're going to leave that flag on there.
	Yeah.
	Screw China.
	Right.
	And he made, you know, 1.2 billion in six weeks.
	Tom Cruise Massive respect, man.
	Massive respect.
	Hats are doffed.
	Hats are doffed.
	Last thing we need to do is salute an actor that we just lost.
	A guy who I love.
	For me, he's a bit like a powers booth or even for those who are big fans of Harry Dean Stanton.
	Underrated actor.
	Underrated actor.
	And that's Tom Sizemore.
	Let's put some images up of Tom Sizemore.
	Died far too far too young.
	He was a really strong supporting actor in numerous movies.
	He was in Pearl Harbor.
	He was in Saving Private Ryan.
	Black Hawk Down.
	He was in Heat.
	What else?
	I'm going through the list of movies.
	You know, you can't make films without these, they call them supporting actors.
	But in reality, like if you work in Hollywood, here's the thing.
	If you're a star, everyone just thinks about you, really.
	If you're Tom Cruise, you're Brad Pitt, or you know, George Clooney, or these guys, people think about those guys.
	But when you're on set, and you're just having lunch, you're just hanging out and talking, The star might not be the funniest guy in the room.
	It might be this gentleman or any of the supporting actors.
	And you become kind of a family on set sometimes at these shoots.
	And everybody's kind of just people.
	It's like your family for a little while.
	It's like your business.
	And there's a hierarchy and whatever.
	And people... He had friends in Hollywood and you can't make the film without... No, you can't have just the star.
	You've got to have people like him.
	Unless it's the movie of the clones.
	You've just got one actor doing everything.
	You need this dynamic cast and so you need guys like this who maybe look a little dangerous or a little tough or a little interesting or a little smart or a little weak or whatever it is as a foil to the 62 years old.
	We salute you.
	We salute you, Tom Sizemore.
	Alright guys, if you haven't seen this movie, you have no excuses now, so go see it.
	But he was a well-respected guy.
	I think most people know him.
	62 years old.
	We salute you.
	We salute you, Tom Sizemore.
	All right, guys, if you haven't seen this movie, you have no excuses now.
	So go see it.
	We salute also the great John Milius, a man who gave us so many incredible movies.
	And Red Dawn was one of them.
	You've been listening to, and maybe watching, Making Movies Great Again.
	I'm Sebastian Walker, and we've had him in studio all day here in the swamp!
	Chris Coles.
	Mr. Reagan.
	And what?
	What's the next piece?
	Oh my gosh.
	I almost interrupted to say it, but I thought, well, it's over.
	No, my gosh!
	How did I leave that out?
	Who's choosing?
	I'm choosing.
	You're choosing.
	Oh my gosh.
	I think we decided when we were looking at your posters.
	We've got to show that next.
	You guys have got to get a video of the posters in the hallway.
	We're going to do that now.
	We're going to walk out of here and we're going to show everybody.
	You guys think this is interesting.
	This whole thing.
	The Tchotchkes.
	You haven't seen the green room.
	This whole studio is amazing.
	He's got so many great posters.
	We got to a poster today and I said, This is my friend's favorite movie.
	This is my friend Kurt's favorite movie.
	I'm like, we need to do that one of these days.
	Are we going there now?
	Oh yeah.
	Tell our millions of listeners what we're doing.
	I'll give you a hint.
	There's a lot of trouble in it.
	Oh yeah?
	But it's a small place.
	Little place.
	But it's all about the reflexes.
	It's Big Trouble in Little China.
	We gotta do it.
	What do you think, Eric?
	What do you think?
	Are we gonna do...
	Big trouble in old China.
	I know you and I have disagreed on this.
	I think it's the greatest bad movie ever made.
	No!
	It's not a bad movie!
	It's not a bad movie!
	How dare you!
	It's pretending to be a bad movie.
	And we'll explain why next week.
	Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, keep your head in the swivel, watch the six, hold the line, never give up, never give in.

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