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Thank you.
I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't, and that was wrong.
And I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me and made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.
I'm supposed to do news here, and I do national security, politics, culture.
Sometimes there are things we have to talk about simply because everybody else is.
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But Jeff, that was, of course, the voice that was the footage of Crystal Mangum, who accused three members of the Duke lacrosse team back in 2006 of raping her, which, of course, was a lie.
Afterwards, she was convicted of murdering her boyfriend in 2013. Now she admitted to lying about being raped.
What more do we need to say about this story?
Why is it important?
I think it's important if you live through it and you remember it.
Because it was the biggest media thing for like a year.
And there's a great documentary about it that of all people did.
ESPN did one about 10 years ago about how unfairly Duke was treated.
So it's on there 30 for 30. You like these crime documentaries, don't you?
Well, this is interesting because it kind of put everything into it.
Especially when they're innocent.
Why?
Because of the racial thing, that it was three white guys and a black stripper, and then she lied about it.
The prosecutor had to resign in disgrace the following year.
And when you look back, it was so clear to realize that they were making it up.
It was obvious.
All right, good.
That's enough of that.
Okay, let's go back, Jeff.
Who is the dumbest person in Washington D.C.? Because I've got three clips here you prepared for me and I can't choose between them.
Is it Dan Goldman?
Is it Bernie Thompson?
Or is it AOC? Well, the dumbest is leaving in 35 days.
That's Kamala Harris, my favorite little moron.
But today, I think I'm going to go with Bernie.
Can we make some new bumper stickers, my favorite little moron, and have Kamala just, you know, cackling in the corner.
That's very good, Jeff.
Did you come up, like, did you just make that up, my favorite little moron?
I said it on here, I think, one time before.
All right, so let's leave the cackler out of it.
But these are three doozies, right?
Bernie, Thompson, AOC. This clip from Dan Goldman, he doesn't really realize what he's saying, does he?
He has no idea.
And he thinks he's very smart, too.
That's the best part.
That is true.
He's the sign of the Levi Strauss family, right?
Exactly.
Just, you know, the blue jean billionaires.
Okay, um...
Let's do it in this order.
Let's build up to a crescendo moment.
Let's start with Bernie Thompson, J6 fabricator extraordinaire.
Asked about a Biden pardon.
Oh, by the way, we have to put it in the context.
How many pardons and commutations did he just issue?
Just like thousands, right?
I mean, people convicted of child porn.
People who convicted of spying for the Chinese.
Biden just dropped these pardons yesterday.
And then Bernie Thompson, member of Congress, is asked about, what about a pardon for you, Bernie?
Cut nine.
Congressman, apparently the White House is discussing preemptive pardons for people who may be targeted by Trump when he gets back in office.
Do you want the president to offer some kind of pardon to you?
As strange as it is to ask that question, I'm just wondering what you think.
Well, you know, the president is his prerogative.
If he offers it to me or other members of the committee, I think I would accept it.
Jeff, when you look at that footage, just played as B-roll in the background, the thing I love about it is you look at Thompson's eyes, and he just looks stupid, and you just listen to Acosta's voice, and he's trying to sound really clever.
As strange as it may sound to ask you, would you accept?
I mean, what a couple!
What a couple!
He also, the way that he says, well, I would accept it, the way his eyes light up, that it's like, oh, that's the obvious answer.
Of course I would accept it.
Because he's guilty of something.
Right.
Okay, so what's your prediction?
Are these going to drop?
Is Biden really going to give out pardons to serving Democrat politicians and to rhinos like Liz Cheney?
I'm curious.
I'm 50-50 on it.
It could happen, couldn't it?
Yeah, I think they like it as a talking point that the Trump administration is going to be such about retribution.
They've got to give pardons to everyone.
But what does it look like to the average American?
Aren't they going to say, Hang on a second.
That means you're guilty and you committed a crime.
It looked bad when he did it to just Hunter.
But what about when he does it to all the major players?
It's going to look terrible for him if he does that.
Alright, let's move to the next one.
You're so right, Jeff.
This is the dumbest person who actually thinks they're clever.
This is the Janu6...
Counsel, whatever, who was gifted a congressional seat in New York because I'm sure somebody in the Levi Strauss family made a certain donation.
Listen to what he says about President Trump and actually follow the logic train because he doesn't realize what he just said.
Cut one.
We are now seeing the beginning of the implementation of Project 2025, of Donald Trump's political weaponization of the entire federal government.
And it really started after January 6th, right?
I mean, yes, he undermined the Russia investigation as he wanted, but it is now so personal for him that he's so upset that Mar-a-Lago was searched.
Eric, it's so personal for him.
Hmm, I wonder why it's personal for the president.
And then he says at the end, he's so upset because Mar-a-Lago was raided.
Does he just realize that he's actually justified President Trump getting justice?
He makes it sound like a man shouldn't be outraged when his home gets raided.
His wife's wardrobe gets combed through by the agents.
They, like, search the bathrooms.
Like, oh, why are you upset about that?
Like, that happens all the time, don't you know?
Like, it's absolutely elitist and insanely out of touch.
But he's also making the point that injustices have occurred, and I've just admitted that Democrats have done injustices to President Trump.
Exactly.
It's like you keep pointing out.
They keep referring to it as revenge.
And why would you take revenge if you've been wronged?
Bingo.
All right, the last one is another combination.
We've gone from stupid stupid to stupid who thinks they're clever.
And now we're going to go to stupid who's dangerous.
And this is AOC talking about health care and how health care is a justification for murder or something.
The former bartender, AOC, cut 13. It's really important that we take a step back.
This is not to comment and this is not to say that an act of violence is justified.
But I think for anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them.
People go homeless.
Over the financial devastation of a diagnosis that doesn't get addressed or, you know, the amount that they're going to have to cover with a surprise bill and things like that.
And when we kind of talk about how systems are violent in this country in this passive way, our privatized health care system is like that for a huge amount of Americans.
I mean, I did not have health insurance I did not have health insurance until I got elected to Congress.
Alex, what point did you make when you first heard that cut?
Yeah, no, I heard you.
She was a bartender, and she says...
I'm not going to justify it, but then she goes on to justify it.
I mean...
It's like Ms. Warren like three days ago.
It's bad, but, you know, people get frustrated.
And if you're frustrated, you know, murder, right?
These people are frightening.
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Yeah, there we go.
And I asked Rumble to chime in.
Press 1 for Benny Thompson.
Press 2 for Dan Goldman.
Press 3 for AOC. Landslide for AOC. Everyone said she's the dumbest.
Of course.
That's just better name recognition.
I was thinking the same thing.
If I had to choose, I'd probably say Benny Thompson.
Yeah, I think he's as dumb as a stump.
But he's not the one who said that Guam's going to tip over.
That was Hank Johnson.
Hank Johnson.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ugh.
Alright, just need titles.
Um...
I know Pete Hegseth.
Who is the dumbest person in DC? Yeah, one, seven...
And eleven.
What else am I missing?
What else?
Should we put those three together and just say who's the dumbest person?
Yeah!
Do that.
Yeah.
Do one with nine and thirteen.
Just cut down thirteen.
Yeah.
Who's the dumbest person in D.C.? Here are the top three candidates.
Then seven.
And what's another one?
Uh...
Oh, three.
Let's do seven and three.
All right, so three.
Tom Homan, border czar at Tom Homan isn't taking any prisoners.
Seven.
Kabul Kirby says, you don't have to worry about the drones.
Do you feel safe?
Question mark.
Oh, what do we have on the J6 revelations?
Is there a cut we can use with Julie?
Is there anything yesterday?
Cut.
She's connected, by the way.
I know.
Mics are up.
There was nothing yesterday when the report came out?
It was Chris Way quitting.
You could play that.
Oh, yes.
Totally.
Yeah.
So, come in with that.
Then I'll do Angel Tree.
I don't need any audio.
Just run B-roll in the back.
Yep.
Okay.
Julie, how are you doing?
I'm good.
How are you?
Good.
Good.
I'm just tweeting here.
My appearance on your show.
Love it.
Pluto TV. Is that what it's on?
Huh?
Pluto TV? Pluto, Rumble, everywhere.
Everywhere.
Yeah, I'm trying to get a good link here.
How are you?
Good, good, good, good.
Just trick you from the fire hose, you?
Ditto.
For sure.
Been a busy week.
My goal is to keep the focus on our mission, on the indispensable work each of you is doing every single day.
And in my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the Bureau deeper into the fray while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important in how we do our work.
Getting the Bureau deeper into the fray?
What, like more covert assets at political events?
Is that your idea?
The sooner you vacate the Hoover Building, the better.
Oh, by the way, do you not remember what the current director, Chris Christie's buddy, Chris Ray, said about Butler?
We don't know if President Trump was shot.
It could have been shards of glass.
Shards?
You're the charlatan.
And we need Kash Patel in there as soon as possible.
Let's analyze all of that and so much more, including the Inspector General's report released yesterday.
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I'm sure she hasn't slept since yesterday's release.
We are honored to have her on the show.
She's the author of the seminal work on January the 6th.
Weird how there's so few books about January the 6th.
How Democrats use the capital protest to launch a war on terror against the political right.
Julie Kelly, Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
So good to be with you.
So now you have to completely shred your book.
It's completely inaccurate because yesterday IG report said the feds had nothing, nothing to do with January the 6th, right, Julie?
Well, not exactly, right?
So first of all, let's talk about the Horowitz report.
88 pages, a lot of filler.
Yep.
Claiming that evidence he reviewed demonstrated that there were 28 FBI informants, confidential human sources, in Washington on January 6th.
I don't believe that number.
No one I talked to, with the exception of a few outliers, no one I talked to who has been involved in the court proceedings or these cases, lawyers, defendants, researchers.
No one believes that number, really.
And anyone who does believe that number and is promoting it As accurate, you should not trust that person.
But beyond the number, beyond the fluff and the number and this really pathetic IG report, which does tell us dozens of assets paid by the FBI were there, three had been instructed to be there, and oh, magically, another 23 just appeared on January 6th.
There's this absolute outrageous...
I mean, the depths to which they sink in the mainstream lying legacy media.
They say, oh...
Well, there weren't any agents because the report says there weren't agents.
These people are paid agents, not badge carrying, but they work for the FBI as covert sources and they get big money.
The asset, the covert informant budget is more than $50 million a year.
So the idea that Well, it wasn't people with badges.
We don't even know if that's true, because there is more than one law enforcement agency in D.C., correct, Julie?
Yes.
And I also don't believe Michael Horowitz when he says there were no FBI undercover agents, what you're talking about.
So he added that little caveat.
That was chum for the regime media.
They ran with it by saying...
There were no FBI undercover agents, but, of course, there's a distinction between an employee of the FBI who was acting in an undercover capacity and a source who is an individual, to your point, paid cash by the FBI for providing intelligence information or, say, like, setting up a fake kidnapping hoax in Michigan.
That's what informants do.
So this is not a, by any stretch, a full accounting.
Of not just FBI sources or employees, but Seb, as you know, there are other law enforcement agencies under the rubric of the Department of Justice, ATF, DEA, the US Marshals.
Are you telling me that there weren't agents or undercovers or sources from those entities in January 6th?
We know that's not true.
There's footage from a body cam of a uniformed officer chatting to somebody Who is dressed as a civilian who has a badge dangling around their neck.
It's not an FBI badge, but it is clearly some kind of law enforcement identification.
And he says, this sounds a little garbled, but he says, yeah, we dress up as Antifa.
And you go, hang on a second.
What is somebody dressed as a civilian with some kind of badge under their clothing saying, we dress like Antifa outside Congress on January the 6th, Julie?
Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Well, it does.
And we have a lot of video, open source video, showing undercover agents from DC Metropolitan Police Department who also were working, walking with the crowd, chanting with the crowd.
Inciting some of them to climb on scaffolding, which these officers did.
So it's not just the FBI or the other agents, but the departments I just named, but the other law enforcement agencies who are there as well.
Capitol Police, we know there were plainclothes officers there.
Were there under any undercovers for Capitol Police or any sources for Capitol Police?
U.S. Secret Service, Park Police.
I mean, you know, D.C. has the highest number of police departments and law enforcement and security agencies of any other city in America.
So this only scratches the surface.
It gives some little crumbs for our friend Kash Patel to follow up on.
And I trust that this will be towards the top of his priority list and blowing open the fedsurrection And not just the feds that Michael Horowitz talked about, but a much bigger picture in accounting for all of the federal agencies and all of their assets who were involved.
We shall continue with that question.
What happens when cash takes over the reins with Julie Kelly, author of January 6th?
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Ready.
Okay.
Mics are live.
Three and a half minutes.
The only media is for Rob Schmidt, right?
And Talk TV at 6. Yep.
Yep, those two just relatively back.
Again, it's David Harris Jr. guest hosting tonight for Schmidt.
Right, right, right, right, right.
I want to talk about what happens after January the 20th.
Is there something important for you?
For me?
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, I think, you know, investigations into the investigators.
Okay, yeah, but I was thinking about any other issue you want to talk about.
No.
Okay, good.
I don't think so.
Two and a half.
Uh, pillow at the top here.
Yes.
Uh, yeah.
Pillow at the top.
Yup.
Okay.
No, no.
No PhD.
No PhD!
Oh, okay.
Yes!
Has anyone seen the new Gladiator?
Yes.
I heard it was not good.
How was it?
Mediocre.
Tsk, tsk.
Oh, but the one thing in it is Denzel Washington, frightening.
Dude, I love that guy, but when he plays somebody evil, wah, man, it was superb.
His performance was superb, but it had no heart.
Unlike the original, it had no heart.
You agree, Kelly, don't you?
Kelly...
Julie Kelly?
Yes.
Are you talking to me?
I am.
Of all the Kellys I'm talking to right now, I talk to the Julie Kelly.
What am I supposed to agree with?
That the Gladiator sequel was pretty caca.
Never seen it.
Never heard of it.
You never heard of Gladiator?
I'm not a guy.
Gladiator with, what's his name?
Russell Crowe.
You're a woman.
I think I saw 10 minutes of that one.
Wow.
So no goosebumps or chills?
Are you not entertained?
I'm sorry.
Now I feel bad.
Now you've got something to do at the weekend.
Yeah, that's what I need.
I need something to do.
I have nothing to do.
Well, I'm trying to help you out.
I'm trying to help you out.
You know, you sit there at home eating bonbons, getting your toenails painted.
You know, just chilling.
I know what you do.
Watching Netflix.
Watching Netflix, right.
Nothing to do.
30 seconds.
It's all so boring.
That's really disappointing that New Gladiator's not good.
I really wanted to see that.
You cynical.
For a moment I thought he was serious.
Cynical.
Cynical.
Of course he's not.
Come in with cut 12. Come in with 12. We're
meeting with Republicans, and in this case, Democrats, because there's nothing political about national security.
So we are working office by office throughout this process, advise and consent with senators, and we look forward to meeting with Senator Fetterman right now.
What do you plan on telling him?
Because he's open.
We're going to have a great conversation.
Nothing political about national security.
Pete Hegseth on his way to talk with Federman, the Democrat, who seems to be on board.
I wonder why.
Hey Jeff, did you see Pete just brush off CNN yesterday?
I know, I like that.
Do you think he's been watching my handling of CNN? Maybe he's learning.
Maybe he's learning.
Pete, that's how you do.
Don't give those oxygen thieves the time of day.
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We're back with the author of the seminal work, January 6th, How Democrats Use the Cattle Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right.
All right, Julie Kelly, full disclosure, Cash is a friend of mine.
I lobbied hard.
He has been nominated for the directorship of the FBI. Chris Wray is out the door.
He's said a lot of cool things like shut down the FBI, turn it into a museum of the deep state.
There is nobody better qualified to take over that entity or to shut it down or to parcel out its missions.
If you were sitting right next to him whispering in his ear, not a bad idea.
What are the priorities after the last eight years of if you can clean it up, where do you start?
Where do you start?
Well, I would basically shut down the Washington FBI field office.
We don't need the FBI headquarters and a Washington field office that has done nothing for the past several years but use its awesome, unaccountable powers to investigate Donald Trump, his associates, his advisors, and now more than nearly 1,600 of his supporters who participated in the events of January 6th.
I would shut that down.
I would definitely open investigations into the raid of Mar-a-Lago.
I know from covering that case in Southern Florida that there were prosecutorial misconduct and possible crimes committed during and after that raid in terms of the handling of the evidence that they collected.
And then I'm going to go out here and say full exhumation.
Is that how you say it?
Yes.
Exhumation?
Yeah.
We've got a couple of minutes.
I think even some conservatives haven't followed this closely.
I love this phrase, the fed-napping.
Explain why the whole Whitmer case is rightly termed fed-napping and not kidnapping.
Well, because it involved at least a dozen FBI informants.
Several FBI handling agents working out of multiple field offices and at least three FBI undercover agents.
So think this is happening all throughout 2020, right?
The same time that they're infiltrating groups for January 6th, the same FBI, Christopher Wray.
What they did there, they set up an entrapment operation to get these men who were two-way, Second Amendment, You know, gun rights advocates.
Some of them were kind of outliers.
They targeted these men, picked them up on social media, then targeted them personally, and concocted this plan to kidnap and kill Gretchen Whitmer, who, as you recall, in 2020, was one of Donald Trump's most public political foes.
People who would never have planned anything of that ilk if they hadn't been riled up by the feds, Julie.
Yes, unless you believe that a homeless man who lives in the basement of a vacuum repair shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that doesn't have running water and literally doesn't even have a car, that he is the mastermind behind a plan to go to her vacation cottage, blow up a bridge, then kill her security detail, kidnap her out of her house, put her in a boat, and then take that to the middle of Lake Michigan where she dies.
No.
Yeah, these are the skills you learn.
These are the skills you learn when you live in the basement of a vacuum repair shop.
I've read this many times before.
Lots of reports on how you become a deadly, deadly terrorist and kidnapper when you're living in the basement of a vacuum repair shop.
We're out of time.
We've got to laugh.
Just got to ask you one thing.
Are you excited about January the 20th, Julie Kelly?
Very excited.
Very excited for the country and especially for the J6ers.
I think they're the most excited people in the country.
Bingo.
Bingo.
Can't wait.
God bless you.
Merry Christmas.
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All right, so we did 12.
We did Mangum.
What have we got here?
We've got Gordon and Brain.
Yeah, conservative health care.
Pelosi broke her hip when she fell.
Really?
That's a lot of rehab at that age.
Yeah, and then what did they say?
McConnell's got a stiff leg.
What does that mean?
Who knows?
He fell last year for a while.
Then he froze twice on TV. It's like the two of them give it up.
They're both older than Biden, yeah.
Yep.
I'll see you in total for Julie.
Mm-hmm.
Come in with four.
Then I'll do...
Come with four.
Conservative healthcare.
Yep.
Julie.
The inauguration can't come fast enough.
No, January 20th can't come fast enough for the J6s.
Mm-hmm.
Isn't Sam Altman the guy who went to prison?
No, that's the OpenAI guy.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Sam Bankman-Fried.
Bankman-Fried, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What a part.
Zuckerberg gives a million dollars.
That's like in his cup holder from his Ferrari.
A million bucks.
Isn't that the max, though, you can give to the...
Really?
I don't know.
To the inauguration ball?
Let me see.
Maybe.
The approach is going to be everybody toe the line.
Everybody line up.
We got you here, and if you want to survive, you better be good.
Don't get on Santa's naughty list here, because we will primary you.
I mean, we are seeing that play out in real time right now with the nominees.
My friend Joni Ernst, who is probably one of the more conservative, principled Republican leaders in the Senate, Who's that, Jeff?
Who's that amazing, rock-ribbed MAGA conservative?
Lisa Murkowski.
Oh, and she's worried that Joni Ernst isn't being respected for being a real Reaganite, Trumpian, MAGA Republican?
No, she's wary now because Jody is probably going to vote for the people.
Now she'll be the lone holdout.
I didn't realize, I've got to look into the backgrounds of these people more, that she was basically given her seat by her dad when he became the governor.
That's pathetic.
That makes perfect sense, though.
Eric, I mean, isn't that like, isn't that what we'd call corruption in another country?
It really is.
It's insane.
And then she's been living on borrowed time ever since 2010 when she lost the primary to a guy named Joe Miller.
But then she ran a write-in campaign and somehow barely beat him in the general.
So she should have lost that year for all intents and purposes.
But yeah, we've got to get rid of her sooner or later.
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Nancy in Philadelphia.
Dr. G, happy Friday.
Happy Friday!
First, Dr. G, all approximately 70 million adults on Medicare And not to mention the 82 million Americans or others on Medicaid and CHIP, this equals more than half the population, are already on government-run socialized medicine.
The second, Dr. G, newsflash, Medicare is not free, and not everything is covered.
And by the way, if people don't like the cost of their medical care now and their insurance, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All plan, as well as Bernie Sanders and Kamala proposing that plan, Elizabeth Warren was asked by ABC News when she was running for president, wouldn't we have to raise taxes for Medicare for All?
And she said, oh, yes, yes, somewhere between 50 percent to 75 percent tax rate.
I guess people might not like that either.
Yeah, no, these are the verities concerning healthcare in America, the cost of it and who pays for it.
Yeah, thank you for sharing.
Did you not want to talk about the CEO, the assassination of Brian Thompson?
No, not in particular.
What I would like to just mention, so, you know, you heard Biden and Kamala bragging about $35 for insulin for people with Medicare, okay?
Well, my new Medicare Part D plan for prescription drugs, the premium for next year increased by over 400%, and the deductible for my plan, which is one of the cheapest plans by the way, went up over 200%.
Unbelievable.
And right, so of course the medical system, I was married to a doctor, It's extremely complicated.
You know, there's a push and pull between insurance companies, the government programs.
No, no, the bottom line is there needs to be free market reform.
It's the only commodity in America that the customer doesn't know the price of.
It's sheer, sheer lunacy.
Maybe Bobby can do something about it.
Thank you, Nancy.
Let's go to Tom in Atlanta, line two.
Hi, Sebastian Gorka.
First of all, congratulations on your new gig.
Secondly, thank you very much for all that you've done on the radio for America.
And most importantly, sir, and then I want to ask about the drones.
Most importantly, sir, as they say across the pond, happy Christmas.
It's the reason for the season.
Yes, go ahead.
About the drones.
Don't we have satellites?
that can read the license plates on cars and if that's true or anything close to true why don't we have eyes on these drones from on high uh well satellites it's not that simple satellites have a trajectory unless they're in geostation you know if they're just uh hovering in in one place above a certain land We're good to
You'd have to want to engage.
The balloon moved very, very slowly.
Do you remember the balloon, the Chinese balloon?
If you don't have leadership, if you don't want to do something about it, then you don't engage.
Does this White House, does this Secretary of Defense, does this National Security Advisor who we currently have, do they strike you as people who are forthright and with backbones, Tom?
No, not at all.
And that's why I'm so glad that our merciful Father in Heaven gave us the, with five toppings, the ice cream sundae on election night.
Topping number one was the sprinkles, which we knew in hours who won.
The second topping was the nuts, which drove the left nuts, which means Donald Trump got more popular votes than they did.
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Number four, we got the House.
That was the whipped cream.
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Yeah, this is such a big deal.
I didn't want to tend fate, but the fact that it will be President Trump who is presiding over the 250th birthday of America.
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That's how I got my copy of the Butler edition.
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Let's go to line three, Kevin in Boston.
A very Merry Christmas to you, Dr. G, your listening audience, as with Hanukkah, for our faithful friends of the Jewish community.
Merry, Merry Christmas.
What would you like to discuss, my friend?
Well, I want to discuss, well, one thing with going to Nancy real quick was Ann Coulter.
We need to end Obamacare.
I think the label of her article title is Kill Obamacare.
Oh, please don't come on my show quoting Ann Coulter.
She's a lunatic.
What she said about President Trump in the last three years is, yeah, Obamacare is a problem, but I don't want to hear from Ann Coulter.
Next point, please, Kevin.
Okay.
This administration, just undercutting in every which way, I believe 100 days began in that ballroom on West Palm Beach on November the 6th, where You as an audience at 2.45 a.m., number 47, coming back.
And while the fire is hot, while the iron, that what we've got to do is hold these people accountable.
What about this news?
Instead of the drones over in New Jersey, where Phil Murphy's in a drunken stupor, the governor, could you please tell me what the hell is this story about our components and hardware hardware?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's an absolute outrage.
The steel that's been lying there rusting for the last four years because they refused to finish the president's border wall is now being sold off for scrap.
So I guess they can hide it so it's not seen before January the 20th.
It tells you everything you need to know about the Democrat Party, Kevin.
They don't want you to be safe.
They don't want you to be secure.
It's all about power, power, power.
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What's going on?
Could the connection be to Beijing?
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What is going on with the drones?
And the decision by President Trump to have a special guest at the inauguration.
And no one better to ask than our sinologist extraordinaire, Gordon Chang.
Welcome back to America First.
Thank you so much, Seb.
All right, so the drones.
Let's start with the drones.
I was asked at a public event yesterday, what is going on here?
And I said, look, I don't have access at the moment to any of the classified information.
Even if I did, I wouldn't be talking about it publicly.
But let's look at the facts.
Number one, if it is really a case of SUV-sized vehicles, Vehicles.
That's not something you buy at the hobby shop, and it's probably indicative of a nation-state asset, because that ain't cheap.
Secondly, if you want to think of nation-state actors that have a proclivity to invade US airspace, Gordon, I can think of, what was it recently?
Oh, a balloon!
Where did that balloon come from, Gordon?
So what's your theory?
My theory is that we could very well be hit soon.
And the reason is, first of all, this can't be hobbyists.
These are too large, they're too well organized, they're too pervasive in scope.
A lot of people say, well, this is the U.S. government.
Well, the problem with that theory is that the U.S. government can't hold a secret.
So if it were us, a whistleblower would have come out and said something.
So that really just eliminates almost everything but nation-state actors, which is basically Iran.
And if it's Iran, then it's China, because Iran couldn't do this without Chinese backing.
So I think this is, my guess, is a Beijing-Tehran thing.
One other thing, Seb.
These incursions, they have large objects, they're flashing lights, they're trying to get our attention.
And if they're doing that, it means they're probably trying to divert us from something else.
So I'm worried about the something else, about where we're going to get hit.
And it's probably not the skies over my state.
By the way, one of those things actually flew over my development in Bedminster.
But the point is, we're probably going to get hit someplace else.
And additionally to the distraction theory, isn't it also a kind of thumbing the nose at the Biden administration that we're upping the game?
It's not just a large, slow-moving balloon.
Now we've upped the game to actually high-tech invasion of American airspace.
That's a real possibility, because Xi Jinping's tactic is his intimidation.
His narrative is to say that the United States is done.
Well, what better way to say that than flying that large objects over our country in January and February of last year, or this year, these SUV-sized drones just continually harassing Americans?
So I think that that's part of it as well, or could very well be part of it, that this is just saying to the rest of the world, the U.S. is done.
They can't even protect New Jersey.
And that embarrassment to the uniform he once wore.
We just call him Kabul Kirby here.
He tried to just poo-poo the whole thing away as if it's not really happening.
Or Americans are just confused.
John Kirby cut seven.
We have not been able to, and neither have state or local law enforcement authorities, corroborate any of the reported visual sightings.
To the contrary, upon review of available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully.
The United States Coast Guard is providing support to the state of New Jersey and has confirmed that there is no evidence of any foreign-based involvement from coastal vessels.
And importantly, there are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted airspace.
They are trying to convince...
This is the definition of gaslighting.
You are not seeing what you're seeing, and these are manned aircraft.
Manned aircraft, unless they're helicopters, cannot hover like these vehicles hover.
So at the end of the day, somebody's lying or incompetent or both.
Let's stay on the topic of China.
We've got the headline.
President Trump is going to invite the Premier of Communist China, Xi Jinping, with other world leaders to the inauguration.
Talk to us about how this is being responded to in the Communist capital, because if he doesn't come, it doesn't look good.
If he does come he's going to witness a peaceful transition of power in a republic where the people choose the head of state.
Is it a lose-lose for Xi Jinping, Gordon?
It is.
And that's the reason why he has declined the invitation from all the reporting, because he can't be there as we've, you know, some people say, well, you have a peaceful power, a peaceful transition of power in a democratic state.
This is, you know, Xi Jinping right now is vulnerable, especially back home where he's got simultaneous crises.
He doesn't know what to do.
I'm afraid that he's going to lash out and, you know, going back to the drones.
Who knows what's going on right there?
Talk to us about the crises.
Why is he in such a precarious situation at home?
First of all, it's the economy.
The economy is not growing at the 4.6% pace that they claimed for the third quarter of this year.
It's hovering someplace around zero.
They just held their Central Economic Work Conference, which was a public relations disaster.
The markets didn't like it, started selling Chinese stocks.
We know that property prices are continuing to fall.
That's important because 70% of the wealth of the Chinese middle class is in property.
They've got worsening food shortages, failing local governments, deteriorating environment.
Accelerating capital flight, all of these are now hitting China at the same time, and many people blame Xi Jinping for them.
So I think that he sees a closing window of opportunity, which is the reason why at the end of last month and continuing through now, there's been just a series, one right after another, provocations in China's peripheral waters and seas.
This is a very dangerous and worrying trend we've seen over the last 10 days.
But is he not secure insofar as he has removed any challenges to his power, people who've been disappeared or arrested, or are there nascent challenges waiting in the wings?
That's a great question to which nobody outside the Communist Party's inner circle knows the answer.
There have been these purges in the military, reports of suicides, Some people, and the majority view is that this is Xi Jinping removing people he doesn't like.
By the way, people that Xi Jinping himself appointed not long ago.
Other people think that there are independent centers of power in the Chinese military, and that they're removing Xi Jinping's picks.
So, you know, you can build a case for either one.
The majority view is that Xi Jinping is still in control.
But one thing we know for sure, Seb, and that is the Chinese military at the top is undergoing purge after purge.
People are disappearing.
People are getting under investigation.
And maybe people are even committing suicide or some cases dying from gunfire from other parties.
This is really, really serious.
Yeah, if people are being removed violently, who he recently put into position, that is not a good sign for the Premier of Communist China.
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I was thinking of asking you how the changing map in the Middle East, October 7, the attacks against Hamas, how that affects China.
Is that a good question?
That's a great question.
And by the way, when I was listening to Kirby, he was saying that these are not foreign drones controlled by motherships off our coast.
Yes, right.
That leaves open the possibility that these are drones controlled by foreign nationals or foreign agents on our soil.
On our soil, right.
Absolutely.
Let's start with that.
Don't you think if it was the government, they would have stopped the last couple days when it became a big story?
You mean if it was us?
Yeah.
Totally.
That's right, I think.
Yeah, I mean, the government has, the Biden administration has an obligation now to talk to the American people in a candid and frank manner.
And even if to say, look, we don't know, we should know that.
But this is a national emergency, I think.
Yep.
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Gordon, you wanted to add a little something to that statement from Kirby that these are not being launched from some naval vessel or some mothership.
What did you want to add to that?
Yeah, Kirby was very precise.
He was saying that these drones were not launched from a mothership off our coast.
But what he didn't say was that they were not launched on our own soil by foreign agents, which I think is really the most likely scenario at all.
And I think Kirby needs to clean that up and just tell us, because I think that's a real possibility.
Well, I'm not going to hold my breath.
Let's shift the azimuth to the disaster in the Middle East after the withdrawal of Afghanistan, the surrender of Kabul, and the slaughter of the innocents in Israel.
How does that and the very robust response from the IDF against Hamas, against Hezbollah, what does that mean for Russia in the region, which has been meddling for quite some time?
What are the consequences for Beijing?
Well, for Russia itself, it's obviously lost a major foothold in the Middle East.
They still may keep their army bases, but they have lost a lot because of the fall of Assad and its prestige.
And that means if Russia loses, China loses because China has been a partner with Russia around the world.
And in the Middle East, they cooperate.
China's been losing because it's been backing Iran.
Iran's been losing in the region because they also were hurt by Assad's fall, but also because of the failure of Hezbollah and Hamas.
So you have both Russia and China in retreat in that portion of the world.
And I can tell you that senior leaders in the Persian Gulf, they are looking forward to January 20 because they want Trump back and they can see a much better relationship with the United States, especially as the bad actors are being hurt around the region.
What is the right response to that nation after the January 20th inauguration of President Trump?
Do we just re-up the US-China policies we had the first time, whether it's the economic warfare, the tariffs, the sanctions, Do we have to strengthen them?
Is there something that has to be added?
How much has changed in the last four years that needs to be added to the Trump 2.0 China policies?
Yeah, I like the idea of the 10% across-the-board tariff plus the at least 60%, so that's 70%.
And we need to actually do a number of other things, like withdraw from the World Health Organization, because that's China-dominated.
We need to rescind the extension of the science and technology agreement with the Biden administration just signed about 24 hours ago.
There are a lot of these little things that are important, especially when they're all put together.
You know, because remember, you know, when you look back at 2020, it was China that worked very hard behind the scenes to elect Joe Biden.
And I hope that President Trump remembers that, because that was, I think, a major factor in the loss in 2020. Remember, in the beginning of that year, Trump was a shoo-in for reelection.
And then the Chinese got to work.
And we've got to show to Beijing that they can't do that again.
And then what happens with regards to COVID? What is the right approach to what that manufactured, that leaked disease did to not just the world, but to America specifically?
What do we need to see in terms of China-US relations and COVID in particular, Gordon?
Well, the background is that wherever this disease came from, Xi Jinping deliberately spread it beyond China's borders.
That's 7 million people outside of China who were killed by this disease, including 1.2 million Americans.
We have to impose a deterrent because Xi Jinping is now working on diseases that are called specific ethnic genetic attacks that will leave the Chinese immune and kill Americans.
So we've got to impose that deterrent, which means severe costs.
Trump talked about reparations.
I'm fine with that.
I'm fine with all sorts of other things we can do, because China right now needs access to our markets more than ever before.
We need to deny that.
We need to show China they must never spread another disease again.
And if you had to predict what state of mind Xi Jinping is going to be in come January the 20th, how would you describe that, Gordon?
Fear.
Fear of the unknown.
He doesn't know what Trump's going to do.
And I think that is really at the point where it's very, very important for Trump to impose those costs, to make Xi Jinping fear the United States again.
Yeah.
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China and the Mystery Drones.
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The healthcare CEO story just won't die.
Why?
Because they probably want more of them to die.
Joy Reid, again, like the other cuts we played for you earlier today, it's a kind of, it's bad, but no, it's not really that bad.
And reasons.
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Cut six.
Now, murder is always wrong, full stop.
We cannot emphasize that enough.
But that truth can also exist with another truth, that plenty of injustices exist within the American healthcare system.
Thompson's life should not have been taken because of those injustices.
But it is important to understand why people are reacting the way they are.
Eric, when you say murder is bad, but there's a problem, isn't there?
Yeah, the use of the word but in that particular context, as we saw with AOC before, always means you're going to say something that basically contradicts the previous part of the sentence.
Murder is bad, but, translation, eh, murder's okay in some cases because I say so politically.
That's what Joy Reid just said there.
Jeff, do the left, when, you know, they're making late night skits about how production staff for Jimmy Kimmel think Mangio and the Assassin is sexy, when you have Liz Warren and Joy Reid say, you know, it's bad, but do these people ever, do they think how that looks from the outside?
I'm actually shocked that they've been doing this for a week now.
I really am.
Even them, and we know what we think of these people.
I didn't think they would do this.
It's incredible to me.
What do you think is going on in their head?
That it's like edgy or something?
That a man with children and a wife was murdered?
No, it's because everything to them is probably politically why they're doing it.
And this used to be a political talking point they used to have all the time.
But does this win them anything?
No, nothing.
Any normal person thinks this is ridiculous.
Yeah.
Well, it's been announced J.D. Vance is going to the Army-Navy game.
What do you think of that, Jeff?
What about his guest?
Well, yeah.
The announcement is who?
Daniel Penny.
What do you think of that?
Well, that's good.
That means AOC and Whoopi won't be there because they won't feel safe with him.
Do you think AOC and Whoopi were going?
I don't think so.
Either way.
What is the reception for President Trump going to be like?
Big time.
Bigly.
It's going to be huge.
Let's play one of the most powerful clips of the day.
Corey Mills, who I think we should get on the show next week, he had in front of me, Blinken was testifying on Capitol Hill yesterday.
I didn't know this about Corey because I've had friends involved with this who were rescuing people from the Middle East, from Afghanistan and from Israel after the attacks.
And so was Congressman Mills.
And he didn't...
Well, let's just say it.
It wasn't very diplomatic, but it was necessary.
Corey Mills with Biden's chief diplomat yesterday on Capitol Hill.
The other thing is, is that in Israel, a horrible incident occurred where over 1,200 people lost their lives.
And yet the State Department had done nothing.
To come in and actually rescue Americans who had been left behind.
How do I know that?
Because the very first rescues conducted was on October 11th from Nazareth, Tiberias, and Haifa.
How do I know it?
Because I was the one who conducted them.
32 Americans that day, then into the West Bank, then into Jerusalem, then out towards Gaza.
I got 255 Americans out by myself.
Before the State Department lifted a finger and did anything to bring a plane in.
Meanwhile, other nations were already flying aircraft in and out, rescuing their citizens.
Again, another failure of 22 U.S.C. 4802. That's not correct.
It is correct, and the reason I know it's because I was there.
Were you there, sir?
I had an entire embassy there.
You were not.
Let's go ahead and start with that.
I had an entire embassy there, and I've been there 12 times.
How many Americans did you rescue, sir?
We've gotten many Americans out.
How many did you personally rescue, sir?
None, correct?
So don't try and talk to me about ground truth.
You couldn't even control what was happening in Afghanistan.
Let's start there.
Just the sheer dishonesty.
Corey Mills apparently rescued hundreds of people from the region.
And then Blinken, who dares to challenge him, he says, so were you there on the ground as I was?
And he says, we have an embassy there.
That's not what he asked.
He said, were you on the ground after that slaughter, after people needed rescuing?
Oh, we have an embassy there.
So what?
That's a building.
Were you in that war zone?
Typical response from a non-man, from the anti-man, who is Antony Blinken.
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There we go.
Brayden Langley, Langley Outdoors.
Okay, Langley Outdoors.
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No way.
What?
Trump just tweeted even a minute ago, quote, the Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate daylight savings time.
I saw that.
It is a waste of money.
Which has a small but strong constituency but shouldn't.
Oh, please, yes.
Why?
I hate daylight savings.
It's the worst.
Why?
Why is it the worst?
It throws off our sleep schedule for no reason.
Wasn't it literally implemented because of World War II? It takes about two days to get used to it.
Come on.
Daylight, I'm with Eric, is the dumbest thing on earth.
I hate it with a passion.
I like when it's light out later.
It's much better when it's light out later.
I mean, it's dark at 4.30 now.
It's insane.
It really is.
Yeah, boggles the mind.
You don't like farmers.
You are anti-farmer.
They can get up earlier.
Ha ha!
He's right.
They don't have to commute to work.
I love that line from, what was it, I think Jefferson told the story that a red Indian said to him, only a white man would believe that cutting off a foot from the bottom of a blanket and sewing it to the top would make the blanket longer.
What is that from?
An Indian told that to Jefferson when they had the first daylight savings change.
Your favorite president, Jeff?
Yeah, is that Jefferson's favorite?
He's the descendant of Mitch McConnell.
His first name was Harbaugh, right?
His real name.
What did I jump into?
Just the usual insanity, my friend.
Just the usual insanity.
Coming with...
Actually, I've got to tee up three after we do the intro.
Yep, okay, tee up three after the intro.
Yep.
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Let's ask the man who is rather the quintessential mixture of the Second Amendment advocate, content provider, but also, deep down, he's a frustrated philosopher.
Hopefully now he's a happy one.
Brayden Langley, welcome back to America First.
It's always a pleasure, Seb.
Is that fair?
Are you like this kind of concatenation of two-way guy, content provider, and philosopher?
Because you're in this kind of unique space, Brayden.
You know, I try to be unique.
You know, they've always told me I was special.
I think that's a good assessment.
I love me some Second Amendment.
I love the politics around it.
I love our freedoms that are provided.
But I also like the philosophical kind of longer game.
We are winning really well, by the way, I'm just saying.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, let's talk about the longer game, but in a very concrete way first.
Then we can get a little bit more philosophical.
The ATF. The president has been saying some really cool stuff.
There was a leak from inside the NRA, just like yesterday, that the president doesn't trust the NRA. No, nobody who likes guns trusts the NRA. So how about something a little revolutionary?
Can we turn, you know, alcohol, tobacco and firearms into a department store?
What could we do in the next four years, Braden?
So...
While that department store would be a whole lot of fun, I think you're onto something there.
I think that is a longer-term philosophical argument that's going to be a longer, harder fight.
I think in the immediate short-term, day one, Steve Dettelbach, the director, he bounces out.
We get somebody in there who actually knows what a firearm is, how it actually functions.
You mean a guy who doesn't get stymied when he's trying to fieldstrip a Glock live on camera?
Exactly.
We've all seen it.
We covered it, you covered it, all of us covered it.
It's embarrassing when you get these bureaucrats in place to infringe upon our Second Amendment rights and they don't even know how to do it right.
I think you get someone in there who can replace them, who actually knows what firearms are and the importance to our freedoms that those represent.
But then you also have to immediately rip out from the root all the executive bureaucratic overreach that Steve Dettelbach, Merrick Garland, that all of them put in through the rulemaking process, circumventing Congress and the separation of powers.
That's step one.
Step two, we can have some fun with it, but step one, take the boot off our neck that they put there for the last four years.
That's my thought.
Let's get concrete here, because the first thing I think you're talking about is the kind of basket of chevron deference, that you can't have a government agency just basically write things that are equivalent to laws without it going through Congress.
So yeah, totally, get rid of that.
But the rest of it, the mission, why does America...
With whatever it is, 300 million guns, why do we have a federal role regarding the length of barrels on a rifle?
I mean, it sounds like a bad joke, right?
No, 100%.
And you only need to look no further than look at the main gun controlling groups in the United States.
Evertown for Gun Safety, Giffords.org.
They'll sit there and tell you all day long that if a barrel's shorter, it's a more dangerous weapon.
It's got more firepower.
I mean, they just genuinely do not know what they're talking about.
No, no, no, no, no.
You're missing the big one.
If the rifle has a pistol grip, then it's like extra, extra deadliness.
Well, then it starts to shoot actual, like, tanks out of it, which then shoot themselves as well all the way out.
Nuclear missiles, right?
Yes.
I mean, they're insane.
They actually vaporize everything.
It's truly a marvel of technology.
So what's realistic then?
So we look at, sadly, what Reagan brought us with the closing of the market for fully automatic weapons.
What is realistic?
Is it, okay, the Chevron stuff, stop making fake laws.
What else should be a goal for the next four years?
I think the goals that you need to have are just like anything else that we do in every day of our lives in the private sector.
We set goals that are specific, measurable, and attainable, and realistic and timely.
So let's go with suppressors.
There is no reason that's under NFA. Zero reason.
It's not more deadly.
And just for the record, suppressors, silencers in Europe, they are often sold over-the-counter because it's a more civilized way to fire a firearm.
It's a gentlemanly way to experience hunting.
It's like French cuffs on your shirt.
You want to have a silencer on your rifle.
You got to.
That's exactly right.
You could get suppressors taken out of the NFA, and it wouldn't be that hard.
You could do national reciprocity, which Trump promised in his early days after his victory.
Those types of things would have dramatic impacts for our Second Amendment rights and our freedoms, and then also a little bit extra.
So we start whittling these things away.
But, Sebastian, this is the most important thing.
And if I could say anything to anybody on this topic...
You cannot go to sleep right now.
We spent the last four years holding the line.
We have been fighting for four years.
Everyone listening has been fighting and paying attention.
Seb, I know you've been furiously fighting.
We've all been in it.
The time right now is to push the ball back into their territory.
Take some of the regulations.
So we're not going to celebrate.
We're not going to relax.
We're going to lean in, right?
Drive in, baby, because we have been on defense for four years, and we held the line strong.
We actually got a lot of wins on the way, too, from constitutional carries.
We got a lot of Supreme Court decisions that were great, all in the Biden administration.
That's fantastic.
Now let's push forward.
Let's get these rhinos in gear.
What is the quickest, easiest thing that kind of signals a new sheriff?
Is it universal reciprocity for concealed carry?
I would say that is the most common and easiest path to victory in the short term, yes, because it's nothing that's extremely insane.
So you have all these states with differing laws that allow certain degrees of carrying a firearm in certain situations, and if you do a national reciprocity, all that means is one state has to respect the other states.
Like driver's licenses.
Yes.
It's the same thing.
And then you can open up the door of whether licenses should even be required.
But for where we sit as of right this moment, national reciprocity is a low-hanging fruit that even rhinos can get behind because the system already exists in all 50 states.
Let's go, baby.
Even rhinos can get behind it.
Well, there we go.
I think we've got the first item on the menu.
Sounds delicious to me.
In the meantime, check out his superb concatenation of philosophy, gun stuff, strategy, comms, at Langley Outdoors on YouTube and on Twitter at Langley Firearms.
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Hey, man.
How you doing, dude?
That was great.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
A little something I cooked up.
It's good.
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Are you ready for the White House, man?
This is incredibly exciting.
It's big.
It hit me.
I had a meeting with the families of the hostages from October the 7th, two days ago.
And I'm sitting there, I'm like, yeah.
Suddenly it hit me like a freight train.
This is going to be real, very fast, very fast.
It is.
And what's the actual, the title is?
Senior Director for Counterterrorism.
That's, dude.
That's incredible.
Congratulations.
Come visit sometime.
We'll take you around the White House.
You tell me what day.
That is one of my bucket list items.
You tell me what day and I will be there.
Done.
Done.
All right.
Merry Christmas, my friend.
Merry Christmas, buddy.
Did you make it a shot or no?
Did I? Are you gonna?
I can't.
It's inauguration day.
They're so stupid.
So you definitely can't go?
No.
I mean, it's like, why they do SHOT Show on January the 20th is like the dumbest thing.
I mean, like, really, guys?
You can't, like, move it forward a week or back a week?
It's like, seriously.
I think we can afford you to miss this one just for the occasion.
Take a lot of photographs.
Have a cold one for me.
See you, buddy.
I will, buddy.
Later.
Bye.
Mayor Johnson thinks he's another country like Venezuela, like with a non-extradition treaty.
Where like you can't move people out.
No, you're in the same country.
And it's also pretty stupid because he was complaining, Texas, don't send any migrants here.
And now he's like, well, don't take them away.
Which one?
Do you want them here or do you not want them here?
I'm not really sure.
Imagine if Rudy Giuliani, when he was mayor, was harboring Russian hackers on the Lower East Side, and the feds wanted to pick up the Russian hackers, and he was allowing Russian hackers to work and commit crimes.
What nation do you live in, Mayor Johnson?
You're actually in America.
You may be the mayor of Chicago, but you're living in America.
Jeff, who is that person?
That was, of course, Jesse Waters.
We love Jesse.
Who's the person on Cavuto's show right now?
Oh, my favorite governor.
I thought Chris Christie was your favorite governor.
No, I got a lot.
I don't like Larry Hogan.
I also don't like Sununu.
There's a lot of them I don't like.
Why is Sununu on Fox?
I don't know.
And why does he never wear a tie?
Did you notice that?
But what happened to the fact that he said President Trump can't win?
Well, he also said that Nikki Haley was going to win in a landslide, the primary.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What happened to that?
I don't know.
Should we get him on the show and then ask him what happened?
No, I'm not going to say what I'm saying.
Yeah, that'd be a good idea.
He almost did it.
He almost slipped up live.
Hey, just do it for me.
As an early Christmas present, will you just reach out to his booking team and just ask them if he'd come on?
Sure.
What's the topic?
The topic is Nikki Haley's victory.
Where it all went wrong for Nikki Haley.
Yeah, just for fun, just for giggles.
Will you do that?
Okay, thank you.
Let's continue on the topic of what's going to happen on January the 20th with the, what, at least 16 million illegals in America.
This is a message for the likes of Johnson and any other sanctuary city mayor or sanctuary state governor.
I love Tom Homan.
This is just every day.
It gets better and better.
Cut three.
There are laws on the books that we will prosecute.
It's 18 U.S.C. 111, impeding a federal law enforcement officer is a felony.
Title 8, United States Code 1324, triple I. If you knowingly conceal or harbor a little alien from ICE, that is a felony.
When I was an agent a long time ago, I've arrested U.S. citizens for harboring an alien in their home or a place of employment.
If I can do it to a citizen, why can't I do it to a politician who's going to...
Actively get in our way, prevent us from doing our job.
Wow, he's lost weight.
He's working so hard.
He's just doing the media 24-7.
God bless you, Tom.
It's a very simple message.
He just said, when I was an agent, I arrested Americans for harboring illegals.
Just because you're a mayor doesn't mean you can break the law and commit felonies.
If you're harboring illegals, Tom Homan is coming after you.
So buckle up or knuckle down.
Alright, it's Friday.
Let's have some fun.
It's perhaps the greatest action movie ever made.
And we're going to celebrate it.
We're going to review it.
We're going to give it a grade with our good friend Chris Coles, making movies great again, next here on America First.
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Impressive.
The most impressive.
See the new people wouldn't believe.
You want to talk to God.
You want to talk to God.
Let's go see him together.
John, come in. come in.
Come in.
Murdoch.
He's here Rambo this is Murdoch We're glad you're alive.
Where are you?
Give us your position and we'll come to pick you up Murdoch I'm I'm coming to get you.
The message to the deep state in America as he takes out the enemy Ruskies interrogating him.
Is there any movie we have reviewed in the last, what is it, almost hundred, that hasn't got some reference to today's America?
I don't think so.
And when it's John J. Rambo, First Blood, Rambo, part two, the parallels are legion.
The message to Murdoch who put John on a suicide mission is quite akin to the message President Trump has for the deep state and social media who are cancelling conservatives.
And with that proviso...
I want to play a clip from another wonderful movie.
It's a little bit shorter, but it's most apposite.
Play a clip.
So Donald Trump has promised a lot of things, and his cabinet choices and other actions already taken since winning the election have already indicated that he will, in fact, make good on these promises.
But there's one subject that is particularly important to me, and that is the dismantling of the social media censorship machine.
Why is it so important to me?
Well, because I have been deeply affected by it.
Over the past six years that I've had this channel, my content has been throttled.
My subscriber growth has been essentially capped and I have almost zero reach beyond those who have already subscribed to my channel.
It is frustrating.
It is infuriating.
And it is horribly unjust.
Those who run the social media networks, except for Elon Musk of course, they have zero ethical principles.
They don't care if they ruin somebody's livelihood just because they don't like their messaging.
Sebastian Gorka's show was taken off YouTube not for violating any of YouTube's terms or conditions, but just because they don't like him.
Why am I playing a clip from that instead of Rambo?
Because we've got time to talk about Rambo, because I was on the way to work, my wife was driving me in, and we were playing that clip, and I thought, oh my gosh, she just mentioned me.
Let's talk about a real-life Rambo who may be coming to us from Southeast Asia, Chris Coles.
Welcome.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
Great to be on the show this week.
Yeah, maybe...
In Vietnam itself, actually.
Weird, right?
Weird coincidence.
Perfect timing that you are in Nam.
You may or may not be rescuing Americans.
If you are, then you might be working for me in the not-too-distant future.
But I just want to do a little bit of a divergence before we get into the movie.
That's your latest video.
You're not on YouTube right now because, as you mentioned, I have been cancelled, so speak freely.
Let's flip it and not talk about politics at the end.
Let's talk about politics at the front.
The largest chunk of that thing you posted on YouTube is the president's speech about big tech.
Why did you make that video and why are you so excited?
Let me just say, it's rare that I get emotional thinking about politics, right?
We do this for a job.
It becomes a little bit—not boring, but at times, it's just kind of like the same old stuff.
You're kind of going through the motions.
But Donald Trump produced this video just talking to camera, just explaining his plan for what he's going to do to dismantle the censorship machine.
You know, these social media companies, they are essentially trying to stop conservatives from speaking, getting their ideas across.
And it's been happening for so long that we kind of don't think about it anymore.
It's just like one of those horrible things that happen.
But really, these social media companies, they ruin people's livelihoods.
They ruin people's lives.
They're destroying small businesses.
And it's very sad.
I've seen it happen so many times to so many friends.
And, you know, it's happened to us to some degree, maybe not as badly as to some other people.
But it's horribly unjust.
And for Donald Trump to have figured that out and to have said, okay, this is our plan to destroy that, and to say, you know what, free speech is back in America, man, I got emotional listening to that.
I just thought, this really is a turning point in American history.
We really did save America.
And it's fascinating because this is just one, not tiny, but just one slice of all the things President Trump has promised.
And in this video, which truly I'm only mentioning because I literally watched it 20 minutes ago with my wife, Katie, you play the President's video, which is the largest chunk of your posting, and it's one of the longest policy-specific posts Posts the president has made because the president will go online and he'll give speeches and there'll be lots of topics.
But this is like a whole video on the censorship of Americans.
And you start your video, which we've got the title for here.
Everybody needs to go to your YouTube channel and watch it after this review.
Trump's plan to nuke social media censorship of conservatives.
Before you play the president's clip, You play this very emotional posting from a friend of yours, a guy called Franchi, and it's important to him because this is the livelihood for lots of people like you, Chris.
Yeah, absolutely.
And this man calls his wife because he realizes on the air, while he's doing a live stream, that YouTube has remonetized his channel.
He was demonetized...
Quite some time ago, and he was worried he was going to lose his house.
He had to sell his cars.
He had made a lot of money on YouTube.
He was very successful.
He has children.
He has a wife.
I've been to his house.
He's a good man.
And YouTube just arbitrarily decided, we don't like what you're saying on your YouTube channel, so we're going to destroy your income source.
We're going to destroy your business.
He finds out on the air that he's been re-monetized.
And he's crying on the air.
There's a grown man crying because he realizes that he can now feed his family again.
And he calls his wife, and she too, she's just thanking God on the air for this.
For them, it was a miracle.
And it's really a moving scene, and it really shows people exactly...
I had to ask him, can I post this?
And he said, let me ask my wife.
And graciously, they allowed me to post that, repost that.
But I think everybody should see that because...
I don't think people really realize how important social media is to some people.
This becomes their career.
This becomes their livelihood.
Do you think President Trump would be sworn in on January the 20th if a certain billionaire hadn't bought Twitter, Chris?
Oh man, that is a very tough question.
But it is very hard to overstate the value of what Elon Musk brought to this election.
It's funny because he's kind of intertwined with the effect that I've had on the selection Myself personally, because you sometimes wonder with this job.
I know you reach a very big audience, and we always were trying to shift the culture a little bit.
We're always trying to have some kind of an impact, like a positive impact with our shows, but we never really know what that impact is.
But there was one moment, Elon Musk shared a video of mine.
It went super viral.
I got in a little bit of a back and forth with Gavin Newsom because of it and stuff like that.
And in those moments, you realize, wow, you know, It is amazing how powerful some people are in this world, and we're just very, very lucky that Elon Musk, really one of the most powerful men I think we have to get that clip for the end of the show.
I use it on my Newsmax show of Musk leaving Congress this week, asking his little boy who'd walked around the halls of Senate with him, what should I do?
And his little son says, save America!
And what else?
And the little kid says to Elon, help Trump!
It was just a Absolutely the best.
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Prison camp you escaped from at 71 is a target area.
Nobody knows that terrain better than you do.
The risk factor is very high.
You'd be temporarily reinstated in the forces.
And if the mission is successful, there may be a presidential pardon.
You interested?
Yeah Good.
Good.
I'll get the necessary clearance.
The next time we meet, it'll be in Thailand with the special ops designate who haunts the operation.
Yes, sir.
All clear?
Yes.
John, I want you to know that I did what I could to keep you out of here.
Sir, do we get the win this time?
This time it's up to you.
Wow.
Perhaps the most iconic line.
We can debate that.
From Rambo, First Blood Part 2, do we get to win this time?
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That number, 888. According to Eric, this is the 75th movie we are reviewing, which is quite amazing.
I think half of them are sequels.
Do you do that on purpose, or do you just like these movies, Chris?
Well, you know, I said this toward the beginning when we kind of started doing these reviews.
I said, you know, one of the metrics that I use to review these films and talk about whether or not I like them or if they're classics or they're great films is whether or not I want to live in the world of that film.
You know, and a lot of times, you know, if a film has a sequel, you get to live in that world a little longer.
And I talk about this with some films like Ghostbusters 2 that some people might think are, you know, don't live up to the original.
But you do still kind of feel like you're in that world.
Same thing I felt like with Beverly Hills Cop 2.
Sure, it wasn't as funny.
The story wasn't as good.
But you know what?
It was still fun to live in that world a little longer.
And especially because these films are set in the 80s, which is a time period that a lot of us look back on really fondly.
And I've been talking about this lately a little bit.
I feel like, especially with Christmas time coming up, I feel like a lot of the magic in the world is kind of gone.
And I feel like it's partly because of the internet.
We spend so much of our lives on the phone, disconnected from people in real life, in this internet world.
And we're just not as connected as we used to be to the real world.
And that human connection is gone.
That connection to nature is gone.
And I think a lot of that has to do with Yeah.
you know, to the girl I'm dating.
And I said, look at these pictures from the 1950s.
Look at how people dressed back then.
Now people are wearing Crocs.
Now people are, you know, it's just people just don't dress well anymore at all.
And it's kind of a strange cultural shift.
And it's really sad.
And it just Christmas time just seemed so magical in previous decades.
And today it seems so empty a lot of times, at least from, you know, like when I go home and see my family, it's still obviously it's Christmas.
But if I look at TV or if I go to the shops or something, and if I see people in public, it just doesn't seem to have that magic.
And so we look at the 80s and we think, wow, that's a great time to have lived in.
And we remember it very fondly.
And so, yeah, I like going back and living in these movies a little while longer sometimes.
But with Rocky – sorry, with Rainbow 2, I don't feel like it is inferior to the original.
I feel like it's equivalent, but in just obviously a very different way.
But it's very different.
You say you like sequels because often it means you get a little bit longer to live in that world that you enjoy.
Rambo 2 is quite different from First Blood.
And I don't mean just in terms of, you know, the budget and traveling and what have you.
The first one, especially the original version, I mean, they actually filmed the version, it was in the can, and Rambo dies, right?
He's either killed by Troutman or he takes Troutman's gun and he commits suicide, which is the original...
And the test audiences so were horrified at that ending, they wanted the Vietnam vets to get some kind of justice and not to die at the end.
It was a dark movie.
This isn't a light movie, but my gosh, you know who the winner is here, right, Chris?
Absolutely.
And there is some tragedy in this film again.
I think probably one of the most consequential deaths in movie history in terms of pushing the plot forward.
But yeah, I mean, that was probably an inappropriate answer for this particular film, just because this is one of those unusual situations where Yeah, the sequel is so different from the original film, and yet still awesome.
In fact, I would actually go so far as to say this is the ultimate action film.
This is an action film perfected.
You know, we are having a Vulcan mind meld because you're kind of stealing my thunder, what I want to talk about later when we get to the deeper analysis.
I agree.
There's something about this movie in the genre of action, but also...
Just as a filmic experience, and I'll just use one word for it right now and we'll dissect it later.
It's just satisfying.
There's something about this movie that presses all the buttons a cinema experience should.
Whether it's exhilaration, emotion, the arc of the character, the arc of a sense of justice, this film has it all.
We're talking Rambo First Blood Part 2, written by Sylvester Stallone and...
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Let's look at one of the other characters, one of the returning actors.
That is Colonel Sam Troutman, Richard Crenner.
Here's a little clip, a little warning for Mr. Murdoch.
Colonel, are you sure he's still not unbalanced from the war?
We can't afford to have anybody involved in this mission.
We might crack under pressure in that hell.
Pressure?
Let me just say that Rambo is the best combat vet I've ever seen.
A pure fighting machine with only a desire to win a war that someone else lost.
And if winning means he has to die, he'll die.
No fear, no regrets.
And one more thing.
What you choose to call hell equals home.
We discussed this a little bit when we reviewed First Blood, the original one.
Troutman was actually cast, Kirk Douglas, and they started filming with Kirk Douglas.
He was such a prima donna, changing the script, changing the ending.
They fired him about three weeks in, and they called Krenner on a Friday and said, we've got a job for you.
Can you get to British Columbia by Monday?
And he was flown to the set, took over the role.
I don't know about you, Chris.
There's something about Krenner that is just so super sympathetic for me.
An actor I don't think who was readily appreciated, but in this role, just casting perfection.
Oh, absolutely.
And it's very satisfying, actually, to watch Mike Flynn talk to Mark Milley like that.
It's absolutely beautiful.
Beautiful scene.
A little foreshadowing there for real life, but...
No, yeah, yeah.
Honestly, all of the casting in this film was basically epic from beginning to end.
This is before they were hiring people for DEI reasons or because they're gay or because they wanted to cast a woman because of feminism or whatever it is they're thinking.
You know, they just thought, let's make a great movie.
This guy looks like a hero.
This guy looks like a villain.
You know, that's how they were casting, essentially.
It was very simple.
Even the POWs were so believable, these cadaverous POWs.
Well, exactly, yeah.
They clearly got guys that looked pretty gaunt, pretty skinny.
And, you know, they probably said, look, you know, come on guys, you're gonna have to starve yourself for a couple weeks here.
You know, probably got them a little bit skinnier, got a little more gaunt, put on some makeup, made them look even worse than they did.
And, you know, and yeah, and it all worked and it was perfect, you know, and they weren't afraid to say like, okay, now the bad guys in this aren't necessarily going to be White people, you know, they're going to be these Vietnamese guys because we had a war.
And look, a lot of this film is fantasy fulfillment because we, you know, we left Vietnam and people felt bad about it.
You know, people felt like, you know, is America really as great as it once was?
And so then, you know, Sylvester Stallone makes this movie where he's like, you know, I could go back and I could win the war for us.
You know, he says that.
Can we win this time?
And America doesn't let him.
You know, like you said, the deep state stops him and says, you know what?
No, we're not going to win the war this time.
We're going to leave you behind again.
And John Rambo says, like hell you are, grabs the POWs himself, kills every single person he, you know, in sight, every single villain.
With his bow and arrow.
With his bow and arrow primarily.
and then takes the prisoners of war back to safety and single-handedly saves them.
And I think that's part of the reason why it's so satisfying.
You could watch it today.
You could not even know about the war in Vietnam, and you can still find this movie incredibly satisfying, as you said.
But with that context, I mean, audiences must have just lost their minds with this film.
Yeah, very, very satisfying as a piece of artifice, but also, I think, very, very cathartic for a whole generation of young men who went to serve in Southeast Asia, most of them draftees.
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All right, I think you've said this is one of the most consequential deaths in a movie when it comes to the shift of plot.
How did Julia, the actress playing the squeeze to Rambo, do, Chris?
Oh, absolutely brilliantly.
I mean, look, she looks a little too white.
I think she doesn't...
I think she's actually from Singapore.
She's not Vietnamese.
She's Singaporean.
Yeah, and you can kind of tell she's a bit Western, you know, from a modern perspective.
I think probably at the time she sold it.
But now you kind of look back, especially like for me, you know, after having lived out here in Asia for a little while.
Yeah, you could tell that she probably grew up in like San Diego or something like that, or at least has lived there for quite some time.
Her broken English isn't quite broken enough.
But you know what?
I buy it.
And by the end of the movie, you kind of fall in love with this girl because she saves Rambo's life.
And it's actually really one of the most shocking deaths I've ever seen in a film.
I only first saw this film a couple of years ago.
I thought, you know, my buddy was bothering me.
You've got to see this movie for years.
You've got to see Rambo 2. It's so great.
It's different than the first movie.
I finally watched it and I thought, oh wow, you know, Rambo finds a wife.
Who would have guessed this guy who's suffering from, you know, the trauma of having gone to war, you know, but he's this great hero and you think he's going to be a loner for the rest of his life.
He's finally found this woman he can fall in love with.
And just at the moment, they essentially, you can kind of get this sense like, okay, this couple's going to be together.
They're going to have some kids and they're going to be like, yeah, we fought off The North Vietnamese together.
We fought off the Russians together.
We headed out.
We got married.
We had kids.
You can see their future all laid out in front of them.
She steps out and boom, boom, boom, gets shot to death and killed.
That was absolutely horrific.
I mean, it was gut-wrenching.
I just felt so bad for Rambo.
I felt bad for her.
And then the rest of the movie happens and you realize...
Wow, they just unleashed Rambo.
You thought you had seen Rambo being a badass before.
Holy smokes.
This is the moment in the movie where Katie looked at me last night and said, is he going to go full Rambo now?
And I said, yeah, he's going full Rambo.
But you can't have a good movie with a superhero protagonist unless you've got a good villain.
And the character actor, a bit of a crazy man, given his reputation in the British theatre, Stephen Berkhoff plays the evil Soviet colonel.
Let's have a little bit of Stephen.
I see you are no stranger to pain.
Perhaps you have been among my Vietnamese comrades before.
No answer.
Do you wish to give your name?
Now, what possible harm can that cause?
Pride is a poor substitute for intelligence.
What you must understand is that we have to interrogate you.
To Sergeant Yushin here, you are a piece of meat, a laboratory experiment.
But to me, you are a comrade, similar to myself, just opposed by an act of fate.
He has been accused of chewing up the scenery in all his Hollywood forays.
Not a bad job, I don't think, Chris.
Oh, no.
This guy is perfect.
The fact that he's British, I didn't even really realize when I was watching the film.
Because his Russian's actually quite good.
It's not bad.
His accent is actually pretty good.
Yeah, but he also speaks Russian a little bit in the film, and the girl I'm dating fell asleep before she started watching the film, or I would have asked her how it was.
But yeah, it seemed pretty on point to me.
But also, he just seems like he's that guy.
You know, he does seem intimidating.
He does seem like he doesn't—you know, he's not particularly empathetic to the people that he's torturing or he's trying to get information from.
You know, sort of like Klebb in From Russia with Love, it's basically perfect.
I mean, you really believe that this is the guy that he's supposed to be playing.
He does an absolutely perfect job playing this character.
No, absolutely convincing.
You've got to have a good villain if you're going to believe in the travails of the hero.
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All right, there's always got to be a speech about the American warfighter.
let's listen to Rambo from the end of Rambo 2.
The war, everything that happened here may be wrong, but damn it, don't hate your country for it.
Hey, I'd die for it.
And what is it you want?
I want what they want.
And every other guy who came over here and spilt his guts and gave everything he had once for our country to love us as much as we love it.
That's what I want.
Chris, we talked about this as a filmic experience.
It's just incredibly satisfying as a movie from beginning to end.
Beyond that, there's also the important part, the cathartic part, the historic part.
And I want to share, I don't know if I told you this, I went to a museum out west.
It's a privately created museum.
The owner was a medical devices billionaire who put 200 million of his own money into this museum.
It's called the National Museum of Military Vehicles.
Everybody needs to check it out and support it.
It's an incredible venture.
And it's hundreds of military vehicles from World War I up to the GWAT. And there's a whole segment on Vietnam.
And Mr. Starks said something at the end that I've done since he told me.
If you hear about somebody and you meet somebody...
I've done that on multiple occasions since I went there this summer.
And in each case, the Vietnam vet said, thank you, because they weren't welcomed home.
This isn't just fun popcorn.
This is important, isn't it, for the nation?
Oh, absolutely.
You know, I think that when you're talking about films, A lot of people do think of this as a popcorn movie.
And it does have that aspect, it seems like it.
But there are these deeper themes.
I think it was something that Stallone made sure that they put into this film.
And I think that was absolutely critical to make it into the classic that I believe that this truly is.
It's important to have some heart.
It's important to talk about something that's deeply impactful to people.
And it's hard to get more impactful than...
You know, the vets are veterans that sacrifice everything.
I mean, really everything.
They sacrifice their mental health sometimes.
They sacrifice their physical health, their limbs, and sometimes their lives, the ultimate sacrifice.
This is an amazing thing in America that only one sort of side of the political spectrum Really shows respect to vets.
To me, this used to be something I think that everybody did.
It was not something they did for political reasons.
This is just something everybody did for humanity.
You said thank you to veterans who would make this sacrifice and go out and fight for our country, for our freedoms.
Now it's like one side of the political spectrum.
I hope we get back to an America where the Democrat Party kind of wakes up And starts looking at the heroes in America as heroes and the villains as villains, as opposed to the opposite, you know, the reverse of that, which they now seem to do, which is completely insane.
But yeah, yeah, I mean, look at our heroes and thank them because they really are heroes.
Yeah, I've been using a phrase since the election that some of my viewers may be shocked at, but I truly mean it.
And I'm sending Eric one more photograph before we finish.
Call me crazy, but I would like both parties in America to love America.
I can disagree with you on policies, but I'd like you to actually love America as much as a conservative loves America.
Alright, let us do what has to be done, which is to rate this movie and to pick the next one.
We score out of 10. What is the unit of measure?
Is it going to be an M60 light machine gun?
Is it going to be a Jimmy Lyle survival knife?
Is it going to be a bandana?
You get to choose the unit out of 10. I mean, is it going to be abs?
Abs!
Oh yes, totally abs.
700 abs in this movie.
I don't know how he got quite that shredded.
Well, because he dehydrated himself.
He fainted a couple of times because you can't get that shredded by just exercising.
You have to dehydrate yourself every single day to just look like that.
We should have thought about this, Eric.
We should have got the clip of Stallone at Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago.
That would have been fun.
Instead of that, all I've got is my photograph.
With Sly at a restaurant in D.C. a few years ago, he has come over to the light side.
So welcome over Sly Stallone.
All right.
How many abs out of 10 for a modern audience do you give Rambo to First Blood?
You know what?
I don't know how anybody couldn't love this film.
Men, women, children, dogs, kittens.
Everybody's got to love this movie.
Yeah, I mean, it's a bit bloody.
It's a bit brutal, but it's a heck of a lot of fun.
It's got some heart, and it's really a perfect film.
I mean, it's a perfect script, and...
From beginning to end, it is epic.
This is a 10 out of 10 in my book.
And I just want to be explicit here because he actually sent me the footage of where he is.
He was going down the street with the red flags waving.
Of course, Chris Coles, because he is a special operator, is in Vietnam as we speak, in a country that still has the hammer and sickle waving on the boulevards.
God bless you.
Keep safe, my friend.
I too am going to give 10 abs out of 10 for this movie because it's fun, it's cathartic, it is satisfying, and it's also important.
After this, people look differently at our vets.
I'm sorry, it's just a fact.
People looked differently at our vets.
Alright, from the sublime to the ridiculous, if you permit me, it is my choice.
It is our last movie before Christmas, and it's one of my favorites.
And it's with a great actor.
Actually, one of his best performances, even though he's surrounded by puppets.
Are you ready, Chris, for a Muppet Christmas Carol with Michael Caine?
You know what?
One of the greatest stories ever told.
Portrayed by Muppets.
You can't get better at that.
This is going to be fantastic.
All right, guys.
Have fun.
Watch it.
It really is actually a very good movie and one of Michael's best performances.
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