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alex jones ▲ ● ▼		You are on the air, sir.
unidentified		Hi, Alex. Long-time listener.
		Started as a young buck on the shortwave.
		Just want to say thank you.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		I salute you, Peter.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		What's up? Thank you, sir.
unidentified		Well, a couple things I'd like to address real quick.
		I wonder if anybody notices that...
		I don't know if it's a civil war that's brewing or what.
		I mean, with the eight states and Vermont looking to secede...
		I don't think anybody's even noticed the similarities between Barack Obama and Abe Lincoln, the Civil War.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no, he knows.
		Listen, listen, they've got psych warfare war games.
		The Pentagon admits of how societal breakdown.
		The first place I read about the U.S. breaking up was 10 years ago in a Pentagon prospectus saying they believed it was going to happen, but they want to break us up so the globalists can take us over into the Union.
unidentified		That's exactly what I was thinking.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		That was my next step. Let me tell you, this is too important.
		Look, Kurt Nimmo did an article on this yesterday.
		They know after federalizing things and bankrupting the states by design that things are going to fall apart.
		We're talking insane times we're going into, folks.
		Almost no way to avert it because they're honchoing it and making sure it's happening.
		What you have to understand is that they understand the people are going to revolt at the state level and try to bring in liberty.
		They know the people are going to demand that Madoff and the rest of them actually be punished.
		And so that's what NORTHCOM does is actually block the states.
		And then they're comparing Lincoln and everything that happened with what Obama's going to do.
		So when he says, I'm going to be like Lincoln, he means that he's going to have the feds occupy everything.
		But absolutely, it's all scripted.
unidentified		Go ahead. Oh, I mean, on that topic, just quickly, I want to touch on that.
		I have a good buddy. I'm going to call him the Rebazor.
		He was in the military.
		He is so fed up that he's ready to hit Montana with his guns.
		But, I mean, what I'm saying as far as that goes is people look at Lincoln like Lincoln was a good president.
		Okay? Habeas corpus.
		Gone. Camp.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		Let's explain what happened.
		For those that don't know...
		And I've read the writings of Lincoln.
		I've studied it. Lincoln wasn't bad.
		The South wasn't bad.
		Now, let me explain what happened.
		This is mainline history, but it's not taught in school.
		But in real scholarly history books, it's admitted.
		Now, listen. The British had lost the war in the 1780s, started in 1776.
		They came in to their agent, Alexander Hamilton.
		Who Mr. Burr then killed.
		They said, step outside.
		Back then, they said, step outside, punk.
		They went out and killed him in a duel.
		And he wanted to make George Washington king.
		He wanted to set up a new banking elite, and they were making deals with the British on the side.
		They killed him.
		Then they tried with the British by the turn of the century 1800 to overthrow the U.S. There were rebellions.
		Armies marched on the Capitol.
		Okay. Then Andrew Jackson came up later.
		Love him or hate him. The point is, he routed the British banks out.
		The British banks, he gave speeches.
		The British banks went into South Carolina, Georgia, and they said, the North Scott taxes on you.
		Let's have a rebellion and split off, and Britain will let you have the entire South and then into the West.
		And so the South, in the 1830s, rebelled, and Andrew Jackson had to amass an army And only because he's from the South, they stood down.
		And he said, I'm going to march down there and kick your butt.
		This is a British conspiracy.
		It was in the newspapers.
		So that stopped.
		The Civil War wasn't about ending slavery.
		It was about controlling Western expansion and taxation and representation of the Southern states.
		And so the British were in the South funding the rebellion.
		They brought in the cannons, the weapons, everything.
		Then when the war started, they massed troops in Canada, in Ottawa, and in Toronto, 20,000 of them, and put a fleet off New York threatening to invade.
		So, then the British Tsar sent a fleet for the North to menace them.
		That's why later in 1917, the British overthrew their cousins, the Tsars.
		That was over that and other issues.
		But you're absolutely right that Lincoln wrote all these letters and all these things and said, I do not want to free one's slave.
		That's not what this is about.
		But he used, the only political support he had was the abolitionists who said, we're going to support you, but then you've got to free the slaves.
		And then late in the war to destabilize things in the South, he did do that.
		So that's just the historical fact.
		But then people say, well, then aren't you for the South?
		No, Andrew Jackson wasn't for the South.
		He knew that it was a setup.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		All right, folks, we are live on this Thursday morning.
		That video is called The True History of the American Civil War.
		It's an InfoWars flashback.
		You can find it at InfoWars or Banned.video.
		Stay tuned. We'll do the Daily Dispatch on the other side.
unidentified		Don't go anywhere. It's Thursday, December 14th, year of our Lord, 2023.
		And you're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith.
		Watch it live right now at band.video.
		I think it's time to blow this thing up.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
		Welcome to the American Journal.
		I'm your host, Harrison Smith.
		Infowars.com, band.video.
		Forget this. You can follow us on X. Let's say that again.
		You can follow at Infowars on X, at RealAlexJones, at HarrisonHSmith, at AllIDoIsOwen.com.
		We've got a big show for you today.
		Lots of stuff to talk about.
		A couple of longer but extremely interesting clips from Vivek Ramaswamy's CNN Town Hall that we'll play later today.
		They've been going a little bit viral and we'll break down exactly what he's saying and we'll try.
		We really will try very, very hard not to rage at the CNN host.
		The woman that's hosting this town hall...
		That is just, it's like nails on a chalkboard.
		So it's very annoying.
		But what Vivek is saying is good, and we'll play those clips in just a little bit.
		Of course, the Biden impeachment, the Hunter Biden subpoena that he violated, contempt of Congress charges now coming down, peace talks in Ukraine, as well as rumblings of peace in Israel.
		Lots of developments worldwide and especially here at home.
		So let's just get into it, shall we?
		Here it is, your Daily Dispatch.
		All right, here it is, folks, your Daily Dispatch for Thursday, the 14th of December 2023.
		First, a story that broke last night.
		Democrat Boston mayor holds secret no-whites-allowed holiday party and then accidentally sends the invites to white council members.
		An email accidentally sent to all Boston, Massachusetts city council members on behalf of the city's Asian Democratic mayor, Michelle Wu, revealed she's hosting a holiday party strictly for elected officials of color.
		Officials of color.
		It's... I mean, what is there even to say about this?
		Obviously, the only reasonable solution is for the white council members, white, the evil ones, to respect the wishes of their colored colleagues and have their own holiday party with just white people.
		After all, you don't want to impose your personage on people that don't want you, right?
		So I think that's perfectly fair.
		Competing, government-sponsored holiday parties.
		The all-whites and the all-not-whites.
		And after all, as Matt pointed out yesterday when he sent me this story, what do these people have in common?
		What does Michelle Wu, you know, Asian woman, have...
		In common at all with, you know, some black city councilwoman that grew up in completely different circumstances.
		What do they have in common?
		Well, ostensibly hating white people.
		But then there's a twist to this, and that is that Michelle Wu is married to a white man.
		Could this all be an elaborate scheme to get a break from her overbearing beta cuck husband?
		We don't know. We're not sure, but we're going to try to get to the bottom of it.
		Obviously, it's just blatant and open anti-white racism that should absolutely infuriate every single one of the white council members.
		I mean, my God. To accidentally get a secret email that's like, hey, elected people of color, we're having a party.
		No whites allowed.
		I'm not sending this to any white councilors.
		Oh, oops. Oh, whoops, I did.
		I mean, my God.
		My God. This woman.
		And she's been a regular fixture in our show since she became Boston's mayor.
		She is a despicable rat, basically.
		And does everything she can to divide the city and humiliate herself.
		But it's typical of the modern world where hate is deplored unless it's against white people.
		And it pretty much is as simple as that.
		Maybe we'll talk about that a little bit more later.
		But meanwhile, Congress passed its resolution to formally open impeachment inquiry against Biden.
		The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to formalize the party's ongoing impeachment probe into President Joe Biden's alleged corruption and influence peddling.
		The resolution was passed on a 221 to 212 vote along perfect party lines.
		Every president Republican voted in favor of the impeachment inquiry where every Democrat voted against.
		There was one Democrat absentee.
		The GOP began investigating Biden's alleged misdeeds after the party retook control of the House in 2020 midterms.
		And now three long years later, we're finally confirming the intention to suggest an inquiry into the possibility of impeachment.
		Oh, it's happening now, folks.
		It's certainly happening now.
		And we'll get into why this is happening as, of course, the singular...
		Refrain from Democrats all bleeding along like sheep is there's no evidence.
		There's no evidence for this inquiry, despite, of course, the overwhelming and undeniable evidence that has been spilling out of the corrupt Biden crime family for decades before he even became president, let alone when he was vice president in the time of Trump as well as now during his presidency.
		So we'll get into that a little bit later as well.
	Meanwhile, Jake Sullivan travels to Israel amid signs of Netanyahu rift.
	U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is heading to Washington to meet with top Israeli officials over the next two days as the White House pushes the Israelis to be more precise in their operations against Hamas in Gaza.
	The visit by Jake Sullivan comes as a public rift open between Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the mounting civilian casualties in Gaza and differences in opinion about what a future Palestine should look like after the combat operations end.
	Sullivan is also set to discuss efforts to release eight American hostages who remain under Hamas control.
	So, of course...
	there's a difference in opinion.
	There's a difference in strategy, a difference in tactics.
	The Israelis want to continue the indiscriminate and murderous bombing campaign over all of Gaza which To date, some numbers are saying we've killed upwards of 20, 22, 23,000 people, 10,000 plus of which are children and another large chunk are women and non-combatant innocent civilians.
	They want to keep doing that.
	They want to annex the entire territory into Israel and replace the population with Israelis.
	And the Biden administration wants them to not do that.
	They want them to Be reasonable and come to some sort of conclusion that's not genocidal.
	So obviously, Jake Sullivan is traveling to Israel right now as an emissary of the great United States, of the greatest superpower the world has ever known, history's foremost nation in terms of power and influence and sheer unrelenting might.
	So obviously, Jake Sullivan is going to go to Israel.
	He's going to get right in Netanyahu's face.
	He's going to say, listen, you...
	Scrub, you absolute corrupt worm.
	We are the United States and you exist entirely at our leisure.
	We can withdraw support anytime we want.
	You straighten up. You achieve your military goals.
	We've given you a lot of leeway.
	But you wrap this up and you wrap it up quick.
	It is hell to pay.
	And it will be more than just withdrawing our support and letting all of your neighbors do as they will with you.
	But we'll take the offensive, too, if you don't stop what you're doing right now.
	Correct it and come to some peaceable solution that can bring calm and avoid a third world war.
	Obviously, that's what he's doing, right?
	Obviously, he's going as the emissary of the superpower to lay down the law to Israel, right?
	That's what's happening, right?
	Of course not. Of course not.
	It's going to be like every other time where we're going to make demands.
	They're going to ignore them and we're going to reward them because, you know, otherwise Israel will probably activate all of its spy networks it has in America and bring us down from the inside with Open acts of sabotage.
	That's probably what's actually going to happen, which is pathetic.
	Meanwhile, Putin says Russia's goals in Ukraine are unchanged and there will be no peace until they're achieved.
	See, this is another interesting little twist in the Ukrainian story that we sort of forgot to mention yesterday.
	With talks of peace and people saying, well, you know, we have to win against Putin or maybe suggesting that there could be some sort of diplomatic solution to this.
	We forgot that that was possible a year ago when it was still sort of uncertain how the war would progress.
	But for the last year, Putin has dug in His army's been resolute in their defense and it turns out that lost all of the leverage for Ukraine and they are in no position to make demands at all.
	We forgot about that.
	We forgot about the part where Putin has all of the power and after a year of a failed counteroffensive, no impetus at all to do anything other than win.
unidentified		I'll have a blue Christmas All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		This is the American Journal.
unidentified		We've got a lot to talk about today.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yesterday, a movie trailer hit the internet called Civil War by somebody named Alex Garland.
		I think every single person I follow tweeted out the trailer.
		What you have to say, might not be the best move in an information war to spread the advertising of your opponents.
		But everybody wanted to comment on it.
		Some people saying it was predictive programming.
		Other people saying, hey guys, calm down, not everything is predictive programming.
		I think in terms of predictive programming, it's not just about movies out of Hollywood, which obviously do both, they both follow trends.
		Obviously a lot of talk about national divorce, a lot of strife.
		I mean, the topic of an American Civil War, it's not exactly a new one.
		Movies like this have been made forever.
		And in part it's responding to the general social atmosphere.
		In another part it's driving it and can contribute to it.
		But it's not just the movies that are programming us to expect and be prepared for violence.
		But importantly, violence and collapse and chaos started by a cyber attack of sorts.
		Obviously we talked about this a lot yesterday.
		Sovereign Braw points us out on Twitter.
		The media's predictive programming machinery is set to maximum overdrive right now.
		First, the Obama movie about cyberattacks.
		Now this film about civil war in America, where American right-wingers are depicted murdering civilians and journalists.
		The elites are dead set on conditioning as much fear and hysteria in the left as they possibly can in preparation for whatever lies ahead.
		Pray for peace. Prepare for hard times.
		And it's not just the Obama movie about a cyber attack and then this movie about the Civil War.
		It's also the cyber attack preparations that were made in January of this year from the World Economic Forum about the continuous drumbeat of warnings about a cyber attack taking down all of infrastructure, taking down the banking infrastructure.
		And of course, we know how tenuous our banking system is in the first place.
		And of course, A cyber attack would be a very good excuse to blame the collapse on when the collapse in reality is coming from their mismanagement and purposeful corruption in the banking industry.
		And then you have story after story after story coming out in the last week or so.
		About catastrophic cyber attacks.
		There's a story to Infowars documenting this.
		UK at risk of catastrophic cyber attack.
		Quote, at any moment, the United Kingdom is vulnerable to a catastrophic cyber attack that could cripple large sections of its most critical infrastructure.
		A parliamentary report has warned.
		So you've got the UK's Joint Committee on National Security Strategy coming out with the cyber attack narrative.
		You've got tons of American reports saying this.
		You have the world elite gathering using this as an excuse.
		You've got the movies coming out talking about a cyber attack.
		You have the reality...
		Well, you have the story of the Chinese cyber attack earlier this week that appears to have been nothing much more than a probing scouting mission.
		You know, testing defenses, testing reactions, that sort of thing.
		And you have the reality that...
		A cyberattack could very easily cripple our infrastructure, our energy production, our food chain, supply chain, transportation, banking, communication, and the internet in general.
		I mean... We're not protected against a massive cyber attack.
		We've even seen devastating cyber attacks like the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack.
		It took us a very long time to fix and it was a very minor attack against one node on one pipeline and yet it had massive implications for a lot of the United States.
		We're in a very vulnerable position so it's not an outrageous thing to think that a cyber attack could be coming and then you see the way that Hollywood and the media and the big think tanks and the government itself is preparing you for a cyber attack.
		Yeah, I think a cyber attack might be coming.
		I think we may be in danger of a cyber attack.
		But here's the thing. It doesn't mean that we are hopeless and, you know, just waiting for the hammer to drop.
		What it means is that you know the attack that's coming and so you can prepare to defend against it.
		And the only thing you need to know is that you have to be prepared for the cyber attack before the cyber attack.
		And just picture a worst case scenario cyber attack situation where your cell phone doesn't work, your internet doesn't work, your landline doesn't work, you can't access cash at the bank, and basically all of society grinds to a halt like COVID times 10.
		What do you need to have in place before that happens?
		You need to have storable food.
		You should have radio communications, battery powered.
		You should have your vital information, if it's digital, on hard drives that are protected by a Faraday cage in case the cyber attack takes the form of some sort of EMP or even a natural EMP, like a sunspot hitting Earth, which has been increasing in the recent past.
		You need to have a plan with your family.
		You need to have a plan in place so that if suddenly you wake up and there's no communications, and you have no way to reach your sister across town, you both need to know, all right, in that moment, If that ever happens, here's where we meet.
		Here's when you go there, you stay for a certain amount of days, you maybe have a secondary location that you try to get to, you have food and supplies there, ammo, obviously would be extremely important in that situation as well.
		So prepare now. And so when the cyber attack comes, if it comes, if it's as devastating as they say it is, you're not sitting...
		Like a stooge just waiting for the government to come around you up and put you in a FEMA camp for your own safety.
		Just be prepared. Just have a plan already.
		Have the communications already.
		Have just a little...
		A little plan with your family, like a fire drill, right?
		When your house is on fire, that's not the time to be teaching your kids about stop, drop, and roll and crawling under the smoke and going for a window or a door.
	That needs to be set in place before the fire happens.
	So before the cyber attack happens, have your fire drill in place.
	Have your storable food.
	Have your bug-out bag.
	Have a bag filled with necessities to survive 24 hours and then 72 hours.
	And hopefully you can have land or something that you can go to and have a, you know, form of self-sufficiency in the form of husbandry or gardening.
	So just be prepared.
	And of course you can go to Infowarsstore.com to get a lot of the preparedness information as well as books about how to prepare for this type of attack.
	Like I said... I think if we're under a cyber attack, it's almost equally likely that it's a legitimate Chinese or Russian attack on American infrastructure, just as likely as the powers that be here in America doing it to ourselves in order to cover up the collapse that they're already bringing about in a slower sort of fashion.
	So just be prepared.
	Go to Infowarsstore.com, get your storable food, get your plan in place.
	Call up your family and friends.
	It's as simple as, if anything ever happens and we can't communicate, let's go to Dad's Ranch.
	Just meet me at Dad's Ranch.
	It can be as simple as that. So just be prepared.
	Be warned. And...
	Guard yourself against the effects of a cyberattack.
	Then all these warnings, all this catastrophizing can just wash over you like rain off a duck's back.
	And you don't have to worry about it because you and your family are prepared for this and will not be parted off to a FEMA camp should this type of thing happen.
	Theboardstore.com can get you prepared today.
unidentified		You're watching the American Journal with your host Harrison Smith.
unidentified		Watch live right now at band.video.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yes folks, it's Christmas time again in America.
unidentified		You know what that means?
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		It means it's a time of year where the Biden White House grabs America by the hair and just rubs its face in the most degenerate and off-putting, bizarre and obnoxious display that we've ever seen.
		Long gone are the days.
		Melania Trump decking the White House in beautiful gold and white, the classy and warm and sophisticated celebration of a holy time.
		Yeah, this was a couple years ago.
		It's a little bit different now.
		It's not exactly the same for our television viewers.
		We're seeing the way it used to be.
		Just all very sophisticated, very respectable, very beautiful, very warm, but very worthy of being the display of a first world, advanced nation.
		That's not so much what we have anymore.
		It's a little bit different now.
		It's up for a different taste, I guess you could say.
		Let's go now.
		Clip number nine. This was released by the White House and Jill Biden yesterday.
		Their traditional...
		Christmas video showing off the decorations and the spirit of Christmas in a way that only the Bidens can.
		We'll play the video and I'll try to describe for our radio viewers what we're about to see, our radio listeners, what they're missing by not seeing this imagery.
		I'm not sure I have the vocabulary necessary to portray what it is we're about to see.
		But I'll do my best. Here is the video posted by Jill Biden yesterday celebrating a White House Christmas.
		Let's watch. Okay, we start with some sort of sparkly black ballerina.
		Is that shucking or jiving?
		Is she shucking or is she jiving?
		I'm honestly not sure of the difference.
		Okay, some sort of creepy oompa-loompa creature, some sort of demonic creatures hiding in the shadows, coming out and jumping out.
		I'm getting very racist vibes.
		There's some sort of adult woman acting like a child or a hungry mastiff.
		I'm not exactly sure.
		Okay, here we have very colorful gay guys prancing around Christmas tree.
		All right, more shucking and jiving.
		This is, again, guys, what is the difference between shucking and jiving?
		I'm not sure. Do they always go together?
		I've got a couple more tap dancing from The Glittery Woman and The Black Nutcracker.
		I don't know. It's flashbacks of movies from the 40s of people in blackface.
		Still tap dancing. Not particularly good, but there we go.
		All right, we have a spinning flower man.
		He looks like somebody you would jump on in Super Mario World.
		Looks like some sort of...
		Again, I don't even know how to describe this.
		Okay, there's a woman in a black business suit now with a candy cane.
		She's also shucking and jiving.
		Okay, all right. We're back.
		I'm sorry. I thought we blacked out there for a second, but no, we are back.
		More shucking, more jiving, more tap dancing.
		What is this? I'm not even sure anymore.
		Some sort of Asian nutcracker, I think.
		People have giant flowers on their heads.
		I might be tripping acid.
		There's some sort of man in a suit with a bunny head.
		It's off-putting.
		Okay, everybody is frozen, and now the female Nutcracker is doing some sort of sexy dance to the child Mastiff woman.
		Okay, the furry in the suit with the crown is doing some sort of air guitar thing.
		It's very cringy. It's very weird.
		Who are these people?
		What are they doing? What is this supposed to mean?
		None of us are sure.
		Oh, is he the Rat King?
		This is supposed to be the Nutcracker.
		Okay, see, I've seen the Nutcracker at the Houston Ballet.
		It's a beautiful display of a really talented ballet.
		That's not what this is.
		I don't... I don't know what that was.
		I don't know what that was.
		Did I just experience an acid flashback live on air?
		Is that what just happened? That's your tax dollars at work.
		Your tax dollars at work.
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		It was. Okay, when we're coming into the video and the people are coming out from the poll, I'm like, whoa.
		Like, what is it? Where did they come from?
		And are those Biden's handlers just coming out the woodwork?
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		They're always hiding behind the things?
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		Like, Biden can't go down a hallway without three people trying to intercept him, make sure he's on track.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		This is just what the world always looks like to Biden.
		That's why he always looks so baffled and confused.
		It's like... You know, it's like in...
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		I think we discovered it.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's like in... I think we figured it out.
		It's like in 30 Rock when you see the world through Kenneth's eyes and everybody is a Muppet.
		This is kind of what Joe Biden's reality is.
		He's just... It's like what everybody's doing is sort of...
		It's sort of baffling.
		Sort of just a baffling display of swirling colors and people that he doesn't recognize doing things he doesn't understand.
		It kind of makes sense now.
		Like, if I was the cameraman there, if I was in the place of the camera just, like, walking through the White House and this was happening, yeah, I would also look around with a dead look in my eyes wondering if everybody is seeing what I'm seeing or if this is something that I should tell a doctor about.
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		Like, this is all cute and well and good, but you know that, like, the White House Christmas party features, like, a blindfolded piano player.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Right. Everybody in masks.
		Ooh, very weird.
		Very strange.
		Odd. Just a sign, I guess.
		You see the world through Kenneth's signs.
		I'm telling you, I think that's just, that's what we're seeing out of the Biden White House.
		Biden saw that Christmas video and is like, why did you just film?
		You just filmed everyday business?
		Shouldn't there be something special about it?
		I can't do a Biden impression.
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		Come on, man.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Come on, man. This is beautiful.
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		You hick.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		This is amazing.
		I'm like, look at that rat man.
		That rat man's got a guitar.
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		He's got an invisible guitar.
		There was literally no guitar for the air guitar.
		And then this person got impaled by something and now they're whirling it around.
unidentified		Yeah, yeah. No, it's great.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		I'm just blown away.
		I'm so impressed. The dance moves aren't even good.
		I got into the Celtic festival and they have Irish dancers that are like 12 years old that are just tap dance like it's nobody's business.
		That was not good.
unidentified		It was just not good.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		It was not good.
		Can we just, can we cleanse the palate?
		Just cleanse the palate. Let's go to clip number 13 and just pretend for a minute.
		We'll just take a little trip in our Christmas time machine.
		We'll be visited from the ghost of Christmas past.
		Here's Christmas at the White House under an administration that is not completely filled with psychopaths.
unidentified		Let's watch. Oh my God.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh, it's so calm. I feel like my head's been filled with sort of multicolored static up till now.
		It's all washing away.
		The calm, loving embrace of Melania Trump.
		Understated, sophisticated.
		Clean, simple.
		Nobody shucking, not a single jive to be found.
		Nobody dressed up like a rat pretending to play the guitar.
unidentified		Just a nice, calm, gentle Christmas.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		You're not having your taste and vision assaulted.
		By the frenzied whirling of college drama kids.
		Wow. You should impeach him over that.
		Is that in the article of impeachment?
		We'll get into the article of impeachment here.
		I want to see crimes against good taste on that list.
		I want to see crimes against decency and the dignity and honor that Being the most powerful person in the world once held.
		Occupying our White House.
		It's contained. Bleh.
		Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
		There's so much heavy news to get into.
		There's a lot of intense things going on right now with Israel and Ukraine, and we'll get to some of that.
		The Hunter Biden subpoena that he has defied now faces contempt of Congress.
		And Joe Biden defending that while simultaneously having an impeachment inquiry opened against him.
		You've got more battles between Elon Musk and literally everyone, literally everybody in the establishment is doing everything they possibly can to stop Elon Musk, and it's not working, and it's very funny to see.
		And we're, of course, going to take your calls in the third hour of today's show.
		No guest today, so we've got plenty of time.
		So I want to... Go to a video here.
		There's two videos I want to show.
		Both of them are about five minutes long, so they're a little bit longer.
		But I think it's worth it to go to them and then comment on them.
		And they are two videos from Vivek Ramaswamy's CNN Town Hall yesterday.
		A couple of these videos went viral.
		Two of them I thought were important.
		The first, because...
		He's doing what Donald Trump did in 2016 and what all Republicans should do anytime they're in front of a camera somewhere like CNN which is just tell the unadulterated truth get your side out do not let them drive you off the point or Fuddle you with bizarre, non-sequitur accusations.
		Like, they have a strategy. And you'll see it on display here, and you'll see Vivek Ramaswamy sort of just keeps going, just sort of steamrolls this question.
		It's about January 6th, being an inside job.
		And I don't know if I've ever seen a television host be more annoying than this woman.
		Like, I have to apologize before I show you this clip, because I was like...
		It's one of these clips where you're watching it, and she asks a question.
		Vivek starts to answer it, and she starts interrupting, and just keeps interrupting, and just won't stop interrupting.
		Vivek's just trying to answer the question, and meanwhile, there's this undercurrent of just like, but actually, but actually, I think you should, but no, I think actually we, but you have to remember that.
		And it's just like, oh my god, oh my god.
		It's infuriating. It truly is.
		But you can tell why. This is what they have to do.
		This isn't a world where a liberal news reporter asks a question and sits quietly and respectfully while the other person answers, only to then argue back in some sort of dignified way.
		We're in a world now where they already know the answer he's going to give.
		They already have pre-prepared objections to the statements he's going to make.
		And so they try to interject the objections mid-sentence in an attempt to not let him get out what he's trying to say by muddying the water and poisoning the well before he's able to even say it.
		So let's just go to this video because it's Vivek Ramaswamy powering through, just chugging on through this obstruction by this CNN lackey.
		And he actually gets out the truth despite the incessant Whining of the person who asked him the question in the first place.
		Let's go now to clip number 10.
		Here's Vivek saying, too bad for CNN. We will take the truth on January 6th, the mainstream.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		Let's watch. Let me ask you about something that you said at the debate last week.
		You used the phrase inside job to describe what happened on January 6th.
		The next day, Capitol rioter Alan Hosteller highlighted your comments at his sentencing.
		He is going to prison for 11 years.
		Hosteter threatened members of Congress.
		He brought a hatchet, knives, pepper spray, sunbatons, tactical gear to the U.S. Capitol.
		Are you concerned that a convicted felon like that is now promoting your comments in court?
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		So, here's my concern, Abby.
		And I want to tell you guys where I'm at.
		If you had told me, it's close to three years ago that January 6th, 2021 happened.
		If you had told me three years ago, back when I was a biotech CEO, not steeped in this world, I was just consuming passive media but was focused on my world of developing medicines.
		If you had told me that January 6th was in any way an inside job, the subject of government entrapment, I would have told you that was crazy talk.
		Fringe conspiracy theory nonsense.
		I can tell you now, having gone somewhat deep in this, it's not.
		I mean, the reality is this.
		We do have a government, first of all, we have to acknowledge that has lied to us systematically over the last several years about the origin of COVID-19, about the Hunter Biden laptop that we were told was false by 51 CIA experts and otherwise before we now know that it was true.
		You can go straight down the list, the Trump-Russia disinformation collusion hoax, all of it.
		Now we come to January 6th.
		The reality is we know that there were federal law enforcement agents in that field.
		We don't know how many. I think it's shameful.
		If I may finish, this is really important.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to go ahead and interrupt you here because you're saying that there were federal agents in the pad.
unidentified		This is important to talk about.
unidentified		You are saying there were federal agents in the pad on January 6th.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		There is no evidence that there were federal agents in the crowd on January 6th.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		So why, before Congress, when pressed on what the number was, they didn't say there were none.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		They just couldn't say how many there were.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		So you're saying that you have not seen any evidence that there were, and so you assume that there were.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		We've seen multiple informants suggesting that there were.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		We know people were FBI informants, so we're asked to do that.
unidentified		Is there any evidence? May I just finish this, and then you can come back and question me.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		Well, let me clarify. Because I know this is very uncomfortable.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to clarify my question.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		This is the annoying part.
		Let's pause it real quick. Let's just pause it and then we'll go back to the yelling over each other.
		But you have to understand, I've tried to explain this, but this is a good example of this.
		To the mainstream media, if it isn't told to them by the spy agencies, then it's A conspiracy theory.
		It's nonsense. It's unproven, right?
		You have no proof. You have no proof.
		To them, proof comes from one source.
		It's from the deep state.
		If it's said by the deep state, it is unquestionable truth.
		Even when it's proven to be wrong, they still defer to the deep state establishment.
		The Hunter Biden laptop would be a good example.
		They still, if you ask, like, is the 100 Biden, they'll say, well, it had all of the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.
		Like, they'll still run with the official deep state statement.
		I'm not saying deep state in, like, some sort of conspiratorial way.
		Like, just the intelligence agencies, what they say is God's word to the mainstream media.
		And if they don't say it...
		Then it's not good. So because the deep state themselves, because the FBI and CIA haven't come out and said, you know, without reservation, yes, we had undercover people in the crowd on January 6th, even though, as Vivek will point out, they've We've made that admission tangentially.
		They've said, we don't know how many were in there, meaning that there were some, meaning that it was more than zero.
		So they've tacitly admitted that there were agents.
		But because they haven't come out and said, yes, we had government agents undercover inside the crowd January 6th, then to CNN and to the CNN reporters, it is unproven evidence.
		Debunked conspiracy theory.
		I just really want to drive that home, that to these people, if it comes from the mouths of CIA agents or the FBI leadership, then it is undeniably true and you're a crazy conspiracy theorist for doubting it.
		And if it doesn't come straight from then, then they won't even consider it.
		You understand what I'm saying? That it's not like they think something's true and then it gets confirmed by the deep state.
		It's like if it doesn't come from them, then they won't even entertain the idea.
		They won't even entertain the idea.
		So let's go back to Vivek Ramaswamy and this woman.
		Vivek's just making obviously good and relevant and...
		Important points, but she just has to interject that, well, they haven't admitted to this yet, so you're not allowed to say it.
		Even though it's true, even though we all know it's true, even though tacitly they have admitted it because it's not explicit, then CNN has to insist that it's not true.
		So let's go back. You understand what I'm asking.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I understand this deeply.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		And I told you, I was with you three years ago.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		I'm not there now. Where is the evidence?
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		Yes. Where is the evidence that the government had a plot, an inside job, conspired to foment violence on January 6th?
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		I'm not going to let you put words in my mouth.
		I'm going to put my words in my mouth.
		And I'm going to tell you what I mean by that.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		Where is the evidence that the government was involved in planning or executing January 6th?
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to give you hard facts.
		And if I may, Abby, I know this is going to be a little uncomfortable, but we're going to go through this and you can push back on it after that.
		And you can push back on that. And let's do this fairly.
		Why did they suppress footage of now what's been released, 200 hours of footage of shooting rubber bullets into that crowd, shooting tear gas into that crowd?
		You didn't see that before. You saw what the response was to that.
		Now you see footage coming out of actually rolling out the red carpet for Capitol Police allowing people in.
unidentified		Mr. Ramaswamy, again. Right through the front door.
		The vast majority of the footage shows that evidence should have been released before.
		And my deeper question is this.
		And I want to talk about one more case.
		This is really important. I'm going to give you some hard facts.
		So here's what entrapment is.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		You can't cherry pick. I'm not cherry picking.
unidentified		If I may finish, Abby. If I may finish, Abby, I'm not cherry picking.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		To the contrary. To the contrary.
unidentified		You can not cherry pick examples and say that that is what happened on January 6th.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		The government cherry picked 12 hours of footage.
		When there was 200 hours of...
		Cherry-picking was the government, not me.
		Release the whole thing. And let me just finish one thing, too, because this is super important as a topic.
		I think this is a civil libertarian issue of our time.
		Gretchen Whitmer's kidnapping. I want to be really clear on this, because it's the same issue in the same FBI, same even part of the FBI. Oh, she doesn't have the Whitmer talking points prepared on her little card there.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh, suddenly she has nothing to say because she doesn't have pre-prepared responses to him associating it to the Whitmer case.
		We'll show you more on the other side. Welcome back, folks.
		The American Journal is on.
		We're going to go back again to this clip of Vivek Ramaswamy explaining just how it's just absurdly obvious how January 6th was orchestrated.
		Calling it an inside job.
		He's laid out that, you know, the crowd at the Capitol on January 6th was peaceful until the police started firing rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd, actually firing them over the heads of the people in the front, driving the people in the front forward into the line of police that was knowingly and purposefully kept thin, way too thin for the crowd that they should have been expecting.
		And some were, in fact, Aware of just how big the crowd would be.
		And it's almost impossible to Enumerate the number of examples that we have from books written by the Chief of Capitol Police, talk about how information intelligence was purposely withheld from him, to videos of the actual police themselves, talking about, you know, you can hear them during January 6th, like speaking on the radio, being like, Undercover 1 says this, Undercover 2 is over here, like...
		To say that there were no federal agents in the crowd that day is absurd.
		And so she's almost like deploying point by point the typical leftist non-arguments to factual statements.
		First is to say there's no evidence, there's no proof based solely on the fact that the authorities themselves have not said or said this was true or provided the evidence.
		So therefore it doesn't exist, even though it does, even though it's on video, even though it's statements and medical reports and just infinite numbers of infinite amount of evidence.
		If it doesn't, it's not a blatant and explicit admission by the deep state, then it doesn't exist for the mainstream media.
		That's the first.
		Then she takes what he's saying, morphs it into something he doesn't say, and then claims that that's wrong.
		He's like, it's an inside job.
		They let people in. You can see on the video, they're opening the door for people and standing there, welcome in.
		Like, everybody knows this, and everybody's done it since January 6th, the day, right?
		Everybody knows this.
		So what she says is there's no evidence that the authorities planned and organized and whatever.
		Like, well, he didn't say that.
		So these are the tactics, right?
		Appeal to authority. Well, the authority didn't admit they did it, so it must not be true.
		Then take it out of context, build a straw man, defeat the straw man argument.
		And then what was the third?
		Then whatever third thing she did just then, I... Let's rewind it back like 30 seconds and I'll say what it is because she just did it.
		She just did the final strategy.
		So let's go back to Vivek and whoever this lady is.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		Why did they suppress footage of now what's been released?
		200 hours of footage of shooting rubber bullets into that crowd.
		Shooting tear gas into that crowd.
		You didn't see that before. You saw what the response was to that.
		Now you see footage coming out of actually rolling out the red carpet for Capitol Police allowing people in.
unidentified		Mr. Ramaswamy, again. Right through the front door.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		The vast majority of the footage.
unidentified		I mean, that video evidence should have been released before, Abbott.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Accusing you what they're guilty of.
unidentified		Police officers, the vast majority of footage, by violent rioters, that's what the vast majority of it shows.
unidentified		You can't cherry pick. Let me explain.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		You can pause now. They're getting into the argument about cherry picking.
		She's accusing him of cherry picking, and he's pointing out, obviously, we've had a 9-11 commission, we've had the hearings, remember the primetime show trial that they held on where they...
		I mean, you're talking about cherry picking.
		This is like picking the pit out of the cherry, right?
		This is so minute, the details that they were willing to show to the American people compared to the wider view.
		Now, essentially what she's saying is the vast majority of footage, it's sort of a new form of the fiery but peaceful protest where they're like, it was a very, very small number of of violent rioters.
		Less than 1% of the protesters for Black Lives Matter were violent.
		It's like, okay, but if there are 10 million protesters, 1% of that is still a hell of a lot of people committing a hell of a lot of violence.
		So if you show a video where So the point that Vivek Ramaswamy is making about January 6th is not...
		Really, in reality, objectionable at all.
		It's not far-fetched or even remotely unlikely.
		Like, it's obvious that the deep state spy apparatus, who for years has been telling us that evil, white, Trump-supporting rural Americans are the biggest danger and have set up the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping case, among other false flag attempts to discredit the conservative movement.
		You think they didn't have people under...
		Like, it would be a utter dereliction of duty, according to them, to not have agents embedded in the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers or any group of protesters that arrived on January 6th that day.
		Again, it's just...
		It's hard to even... It's hard to even imagine what type of person is so convinced to lie.
		I don't believe this woman believes what she's saying.
		I almost guarantee you, you shoot her full of truth serum, some sort of magic, you know, truth-telling potion, and you go, were there agents in the crowd?
		She'd be like, yeah, duh, obviously.
		Obviously there are agents in the crowd.
		Are you kidding me? They're everywhere.
		Just chock full of them. She knows.
		She knows perfectly well.
		But she also knows that she has a narrative to uphold.
		And she's a soulless corporate avatar.
		So, of course, she's going to lie despite knowing that she's lying.
		So I don't believe these people believe the lie.
		I think they know exactly what they're doing.
		And it boggles my mind to try to imagine the level of shame these people are willing to swallow to do their part to serve what they know to be A despicable cabal of liars that is the federal government.
		So let's go back now to Vivek and the professional liar.
		And he goes off script, he starts talking about Gretch Whitmer, and you can see her look down at her paper like, oh crap, I don't have anything about this.
		I have all of these other points prepared.
		Okay, call it cherry picking if he talks about the video.
		Okay, say there's no proof when he talks about agents being in the crowd.
		If he talks about it being an inside job, make the claim that what he's saying is that it was all orchestrated 100%, it was totally fake, and nobody died, and everybody there was an agent.
		And that's ridiculous, sir.
		Make claims he doesn't make, debunk those, and then act like you just won the argument.
		She's got all of these on a little notepad for her.
		When he brings up Gretchen Whitmer...
		There's no talking points, so she shuts up and he keeps going.
		So let's go back to Vivek and the woman.
unidentified		Mr. Ramaswamy, the vast majority of the footage shows police officers being overrun by violent rioters.
		I'm going to give you some hard facts.
		So here's what entrapment is.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		You can't cherry pick. I'm not cherry picking.
unidentified		If I may finish, Abby. If I may finish, Abby, I'm not cherry picking.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		To the contrary. To the contrary.
unidentified		You know who cherry picked? You know who cherry picked?
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		And say that that is what happened on January 6th.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		The government cherry picked 12 hours of footage.
		When there was 200 hours of...
		Cherry-picking was the government, not me.
		Release the whole thing. And let me just finish one thing, too, because this is super important as a topic.
		I think this is a civil libertarian issue of our time.
		Gretchen Whitmer's kidnapping. I want to be really clear on this, because it's the same issue in the same FBI, same even part of the FBI. Three people who were in an alleged plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer We're acquitted at the end of trial because it was entrapment.
		That is, government agents put them up to do something they otherwise wouldn't have done.
		They gave them credit cards with spending limits of up to $5,000, encouraged them to buy munitions, planned something they weren't otherwise willing to plan.
		So much so, and I want people at home to know this, especially CNN viewers to know this, is that one of the jurors went to those defendants and apologized afterwards, gave him a hug, Apologize.
		Seeing what the government had put a poor guy up to who had to go to some Mexican restaurant across the street to get hot water.
		These people were exploited with credit cards up to $5,000.
		FBI agents putting them up to a kidnapping plot that we were told was true but was entrapment.
		Same thing with the Capitol Police.
unidentified		People letting them in freely. Many of those people then being charged.
unidentified		Mr. Ramaswamy, look. The government cannot put you up to do something and then charge you for it.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		That's wrong. I don't want to have to do that.
unidentified		To the left or the right.
unidentified		I don't. I really don't.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		But I don't want you to mislead the audience here or at home.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		I think they've been misled by mainstream media.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		The whole crowd laughs at her.
		Humiliating. Absolutely humiliating.
		That is what selling your soul looks like, folks, and we can all see it.
		Yeah, it's just pathetic.
		These people are pathetic. Go, Vivek.
		He is shattering their Overton window.
		He's saying all of the things they don't want him to say.
		And anybody of any political party should be very concerned if the federal government has and will continue and is attempting to continue.
		What all of this is about is providing cover for the next operation, right?
		You can't have people knowing that the government does this.
		You can't have people being suspicious of the government.
		For the next time that this type of thing happens, they're trying to uphold an increasingly shaky facade of legitimacy.
		It's like the government is being made illegitimate in the eyes of the American people as we speak.
		And that's a death knell for a construct of deception and lies and manipulation.
		So they're really desperate to not have this idea permeate throughout the American people, but it shouldn't matter whether you're a Republican or a Democrat.
		The idea that the federal government, with its unlimited resources, with its incredible powers of surveillance and pulling the strings of power in courthouses across the nation, like you should be very, very worried That they're using that against the American people and they will entrap you.
		And then that their media hound dogs will go after you for exposing the fact that you were entrapped.
		And it's not speculation, just like the election being stolen wasn't speculation.
		It's a matter of inevitability.
		It's a matter of public record.
		We had a video story yesterday.
		We have a video today. I don't know if I put it in yet, but it talks about a national poll showing that something like one in five voters admit to some form of voting fraud.
		One in five, one out of every five of the people asked, admitted to like filling out somebody else's ballot, mailing in ballots that weren't theirs, mailing in ballots late, but backdating, like just some form of manipulation of the severely weakened Voter security system as a result of mail-in ballots.
		You don't have to argue about data being sent to Italy or China and being manipulated, about hacking voting machines, about you don't even have to get into like ballot dumps and this sorts of stuff.
		It's a simple, undeniable, and incontrovertible fact that the way that the mail-in balloting system was implemented was against the law.
		And that it was implemented in such a rushed and incomplete and haphazard way that it was impossible to stop cheating.
		So you don't even have to have the details.
		You don't even have to know. Just like on January 6th, there's videos of police standing there opening the door for people that are walking in.
		That's entrapment. If a police officer is staying there going, welcome, you're allowed to come in here.
		And then the moment you step over, they arrest you and say, ha, you were trespassing.
		Now you have to go to jail for 11 years.
		That's entrapment. It's not like a speculation.
		It's not a conspiracy theory.
		It's not anything.
		It's just entrapment.
		It's just the police telling you to do something and then arresting you for it.
		That's entrapment.
		Case closed.
		Argument over. That's it.
		Done. So these people know this.
		They know this is the case.
		They know that all of these things from The origin of COVID, all things that Vivek listed, the origin of COVID, the Russia collusion, the Hunter Biden laptop, the January 6th entrapment scheme, the Governor Whitmer entrapment scheme, the stolen election through mail-in ballot manipulation and untraceable and unconfirmable mail-in ballot process that makes it literally impossible to know whether or not anybody's cheated,
		which means you just have to, for the sake of Safety, assume it has, and there's a story, new poll finds one in five voters admit to mail-in voter fraud in 2020 election, which obviously, obviously, this is the case, right?
		In every single one of these situations, it's not speculation, you don't have to have a leap of logic, you don't have to be a right-winger.
		They are manipulating and lying and entrapping and destroying the American people.
		And if you're an American person, you should care about this.
		If you're a CNN agent, you should...
unidentified		All right, welcome back, folks.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		There's another video from Vivek Ramaswamy's Town Hall with CNN yesterday that I want to go to about religion.
		But before we move on from January 6th, there's been another development in a lot of January 6th cases.
		This report from AP.
		Supreme Court will hear case that could undo Capitol riot charges against hundreds, including Donald Trump.
		The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear an appeal that could upend hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot.
		The justices will review a charge of obstruction of an official proceeding that has been brought against more than 300 people.
		The change refers to the disruption.
		The charge refers to the disruption of Congress's certification of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election victory over Trump.
		The obstruction charge, which carries up to 20 years behind bars, is among the most widely used federal felony charges brought in the massive federal prosecution following the deadly insurrection of January 6th, 2021.
		At least deadly insurrection.
		Sorry, it's just so sorry, I'll keep going.
		At least 152 people have been convicted at trial or pled guilty to obstructing an official proceeding, and at least 108 of them have been sentenced, according to the Associated Press Review of Court documents.
		You see just the sheer number of people that have been wrapped up in this.
		A lower court judge had dismissed the charge against Joseph Fisher, a former Pennsylvania police officer, and two other defendants, ruling it didn't cover their conduct.
		The justices agreed to hear the appeal filed by lawyers for Fisher, who's facing a seven-count indictment for his actions on January 6th, including the obstruction charge.
		The other defendants are Edward Jacob Lang of New York's Hudson Valley and Garrett Miller, who's since pleaded guilty.
		U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols found that the prosecutors stretched the law beyond its scope to inappropriately apply it to these cases.
		Nichols ruled that a defendant must have taken some action with respect to a document record or other object to obstruct an official proceeding under the law.
		The Justice Department challenged that ruling and the appeals court in Washington agreed with prosecutors in April that Nichols' interpretation of the law was too limited.
		Other defendants, including Trump, are separately challenging the use of this charge.
		Defense attorney Kira Ann West, who's represented several January 6th defendants charged with obstruction of official proceedings.
		Said the court will have to, quote, undo a whole bunch of cases and adjust many sentences if the Supreme Court rules in their favor.
		Saying, quote, this is a watershed day in our world, defense lawyer world.
		This is huge. West represents a man scheduled to be tried in early January on charges including obstruction counts.
		She doesn't yet know if she'll seek a delay until the Supreme Court resolves the challenge.
		More than 1,200 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the riot.
		More than 700 defendants have pled guilty.
		And yet hundreds, over 100 already guilty convictions as well as hundreds more potential cases could be thrown out as obstructing official proceedings shouldn't really apply in the case where a protest gets out of hand and people that were There, randomly walk into the Capitol.
		I mean, none of their charges really make any sense, if you think about it.
		I know I've said it a million times.
		The Proud Boys were convicted of an unspoken conspiracy.
		Unspoken conspiracy. So, you know, that's crazy.
		They're being charged with sedition and insurrection.
		Insane. People that weren't even at the Capitol.
		Stuart Rhodes never even went into the Capitol.
		It's never even really on Capitol grounds that he's in prison for decades under seditious conspiracy charges.
		That's all insane.
		All of this should be going to the Supreme Court.
		All of this should be challenged at every step of the way because they are clearly going above and beyond the strict rule of law.
		They are clearly and have admitted.
		I mean the statements they made immediately following January 6th was that they wanted to do a shock and awe campaign explicitly and specifically targeting people with large social media followings in order to create a chilling effect for any other protest or pushback or dissident behavior in the future.
		That's not what the law is for.
		So if they're exceeding the mandates of the law, if they're applying to these prosecutions laws that do not apply to the actions of the person being prosecuted, then it should be absolutely thrown out.
		And honestly, the people who tried to bring these charges about should themselves be in charge with false imprisonment.
		There was no insurrection. There was no sedition.
		The only people that died that day were the people that the police murdered in cold blood.
		There was no plan. There was no violence even until the police from the balconies high above the crowd fired tear gas and flashbangs and rubber bullets into the peaceful crowd behind the front lines, driving them forward into the police and creating the catastrophe in the first place.
		In addition to God knows how many, but at least dozens, probably hundreds of undercover FBI agents and other deep state actors in the crowd.
		Often, in many cases, leading the charge and inspiring the violence that did occur.
		So this is good news for people that have been charged with obstruction of justice.
		But it's still a very, very long way to go to get any semblance of justice for the people that were affected by this.
		I mean, these videos alone should be played continuously.
		And look, you could cherry pick this in either direction.
		You could show exclusively images of protesters being violent or police falling down and being overwhelmed by crowds.
		Likewise, you could show nothing but a compilation of police I mean, You could show a compilation hours long of just the sheer unrelenting state violence that was inflicted on previously peaceful protesters.
		You could cherry pick either way.
		The question is, if you don't cherry pick, if you just show all the video in context, what does it show?
		And the reality of what it shows was that a peaceful protest was suddenly and without reason assaulted by the Capitol Police and other federal police agencies starting and igniting the conflict in the first place.
		And the brutality and the actual high level of violence came almost exclusively from the police and any violence not from the police was committed in self-defense, basically.
unidentified		Thank you.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		You could cherry-pick.
		You could cherry-pick either way. But again, I just want to point out that if this was an insurrection, if this was sedition, if this was the American government teetering on the brink of collapse, and that if things had gone differently that day, we'd be in some sort of different country now with Donald Trump as supreme overlord.
		I know this is a cartoonishly stupid vision to actually take seriously, but this is the story they're trying to sell.
		And if that was the case, if they really felt that way, and if they were legitimately scared for their lives and scared that America was about to be taken over by a bunch of unarmed protesters with no plan and no organization who literally just went home when you asked them to.
		But if they were about to overthrow the United States government, then they should be awarding medals of honor to Alex Jones and Owen Schroyer, who did more than anybody else that day to lessen the violence, to stop the invasion, using their overwhelming and unparalleled influence with using their overwhelming and unparalleled influence with the crowd to instead of inflame the crowd, instead of inspire the crowd to do the things that the Democrats are saying they did, instead drove them away from the Capitol,
		Stopped them from falling for this trap.
		And if they were really so scared about January 6th, they would be honoring Alex Jones and thanking him for saving their lives.
		The fact that they're not shows you how fraudulent this whole thing is.
unidentified		Welcome back, folks. We still have a lot of news to cover.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		We'll get to as much of it as possible.
		We'll be joined by Simon from Florida a little bit later to break down the global wars going on, especially some of the developments from Putin.
		As he is announcing to everybody that he's in no position to be forced into an unfriendly peace resolution.
		Maybe last year, maybe the year before.
		Maybe before the inefficacy of the Ukrainian counteroffensive was put on display for the world to see and you could have Had some sort of leverage to get good terms out of Putin, but Putin is in complete control of the Ukrainian war at this point and has no reason to agree to peace terms that are unfavorable to him at all,
		representing the total and complete failure of the American foreign policy masters to achieve anything out of Ukraine whatsoever.
		So we have a lot more stories to get to.
		I do want to go to one more video here.
		It's Vivek Ramaswamy being asked about his Hindu faith.
		And long-time viewers of the show will know this is sort of my biggest issue with Vivek Ramaswamy, as well as with people like Tulsi Gabbard.
		It didn't really bother me that much until I saw Tulsi Gabbard at one point wish happy birthday to some Hindu guru That she was basically like, he is a god.
		It's like, well, I don't want my president thinking that some naked dude in India is a literal god.
		Because what does that mean? I mean, if you really believe that, if you really think that that human being is in fact a god, don't you have to do whatever he says?
		Don't you have to subordinate your will to whatever?
		He's a god.
		I mean, come on. So, I don't like religions...
		Or cults that look to living human beings as if they're God.
		I don't like that.
		I'm not down with that. I would prefer a Christian.
		But I was very impressed by Vivek's response and will comment about it on the other side.
		Here is clip 11 from the CNN town hall yesterday.
		Vivek answering about his Hindu faith.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		Let's turn to Ginny Mitchell.
		She is an entomologist at Iowa State University from Boone, Iowa.
		She is a Republican who is currently undecided.
unidentified		Ginny? Thank you.
		Thanks for being here and thanks for coming to Iowa so much.
		We appreciate your visits.
		So freedom of religion is a part of our constitution and obviously a huge part of our country.
		What do you say to those who say that you cannot be our president because your religion is not what our founding fathers based our country on?
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		I would say that I respectfully disagree.
		And, you know, I want people to understand this about me.
		I would rather speak the truth and lose an election than to win by playing some political snakes and ladders.
		I mean, if I wanted to map out my political career and really solve for that, I could fake convert.
		I'm going to tell you about my faith.
		I'm Hindu. Now, I went to Christian schools.
		I went to St. Xavier in Cincinnati.
		And I actually have been on the board of St.
		X, except for a hiatus to run for president.
		And I can tell you with confidence that we share the same value set in common.
		I'll tell you about my faith. My faith teaches me that God puts each of us here for a purpose.
		That we have a moral duty to realize that purpose.
		That God works through us in different ways.
		But we're still equal because God resides in each of us.
		Now, I had what you would call not a traditional upbringing, but probably a very traditional upbringing.
		My parents taught me family is the foundation.
		Marriage is sacred. Divorce isn't some option.
		You just prefer off a menu when things don't go your way.
		Abstinence before marriage is the way to go.
		Adultery is wrong. The good things in life involve a sacrifice.
		Are those foreign values in this country?
		I know it could look that way at times.
		You turn on the television, go to the movie theater, your local DEI training at a company or what they're teaching your kids in schools.
		That could seem a little unfamiliar.
		I don't think it's unfamiliar to most of us.
		I think those are the same Judeo-Christian values that I learned at St.
		X. When we get to the Ten Commandments, what do they say?
		There's one true God. Don't take his name in vain.
		Observe the Sabbath. Respect your parents.
		Don't kill. Don't lie.
		Don't cheat. Don't steal. Don't commit adultery.
		Don't covet. That's when it hit me.
		We share the same value set in common.
		There's another core teaching in my faith, which is that we don't get to choose who God works through.
		God chooses who God works through.
		So we get to the Old Testament a little bit further along.
		We get to the book of Isaiah.
unidentified		I don't know if... Many of you are familiar with that one.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		God chose Cyrus, a Gentile all the way in Persia, to lead the Jewish people back to the Promised Land.
		And so, yes, I believe God put us here for a purpose.
		My faith is what leads me on this journey to run for president.
		My gratitude to this country is what leads me.
		And even when we think about the Founding Fathers, I'm a fan of history, okay?
		I talked about Thomas Jefferson earlier.
		We'll stick to Thomas Jefferson. He was a deist, actually.
		Let's be honest about it. The left wants to rewrite our history and tell you he was a slave owner and an evil man.
		No, I reject that. But we're not going to have anybody rewriting our history.
		Thomas Jefferson was a deist.
		He made the Jefferson Bible.
		You know how he did it?
		He didn't believe in all the parts of the New Testament, but he took a blade, razor blade by hand, glued it together, and that made the Jefferson Bible, which we have today.
		John Adams wrote letters to Thomas Jefferson, actually became something of a Hindu scholar after he left.
		And so I think it's important to see our founding fathers three-dimensionally, not the way that they've been rewritten post-1990 either.
		And so, yes, would I be the best president to spread Christianity through this country?
		I would not. I'd be not the best choice for that.
		But I also don't think that that's the job of the U.S. president.
		But will I stand for the Judeo-Christian values that this nation was founded on, that I was raised in, even in the Hindu faith?
		Yes, I will. You're darn right I will.
		And as a young person, picking up on that strand from earlier, I think it's my responsibility to make faith And patriotism and family and hard work.
		Cool. Again, in this country.
		I think they're pretty cool. And I think that's my job as your next president.
		And back to the First Amendment, we will stand for religious liberty in a way that neither Republicans nor Democrats actually have.
		That's what the First Amendment says.
		You get to practice your faith.
		Every pastor in this country gets to do his job without the government getting in their way.
		That's what I'm going to keep as a president.
unidentified		Thank you very much.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		So listen, I'll take a...
		I believe him. I just have to say, I believe what he's saying.
		He obviously is an extremely skilled in rhetorical arts, obviously.
		But I tend to believe what he's saying, and I would take a legitimately faithful, God-fearing Hindu over a fake Catholic any day, right?
		I'll take somebody that is sincere in their Belief in a religion that's not mine over somebody that pretends to be my religion but clearly is doing everything they can to undermine and destroy it.
		So I'd prefer a Christian, honestly.
		I'd prefer a Protestant above a Catholic.
unidentified		To be honest about that.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		But I think what he's pointing out is like...
		Of the utmost importance.
		And strangely enough, I was having this conversation with my friend Brett yesterday.
		He, I guess, listened to a Tucker Carlson Twitter spaces that I didn't hear.
		And Tucker Carlson, I guess, brought this up.
		Going through the Ten Commandments and realizing that it's almost a list of the things that the left wing is trying to undo and abolish.
		No stealing? Well, look at California.
		Look at the shoplifting measures.
		Oh, it's just poor guys stealing bread justifying sin.
		Adultery, you know, coveting what you can't have or don't have.
		What we're losing in this country is just basic morality.
		Just the most basic, universal truths about how to treat one another and what the right way to conduct yourself is, is being systematically, like as if they're going down the list.
		Stealing, that's fine now.
		Killing, well, if it's an unborn baby or if you're a murderer that doesn't have bail money, we'll let you out anyway.
		I mean, they are facilitating...
		Sin in a way that I think just has to be on purpose, has to be by design.
		So if we just enforce the Ten Commandments, that would kind of be enough to get back on track.
unidentified		Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		There's lots of international topics to get into with Simon from Florida in the next hour.
		There's a lot of other stories to get to in the meantime.
		Let's talk about the crusade against Elon Musk, shall we?
		From Zero Hedge, Biden gave federal agencies green light to come after me, to come after Musk, FCC Commissioner warns.
		For further proof that the Biden administration is weaponizing government agencies to target Elon Musk, Commissioner Brendan Carr stated in an ex-post, quote, President Biden gave federal agencies the green light to go after him.
		That is Musk.
		Last year, after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, President Biden gave federal agencies the green light to go after him, and they have.
		Today, the FCC adds itself to the growing list of federal agencies engaging in the regulatory harassment of Elon Musk.
		He says, I dissent.
		And this is Brendan Carr, a commissioner at the FCC, saying this.
		I believe this is the same guy that was warning about the FCC issue.
		Takeover of the physical internet infrastructure.
		He seems to be the only decent person in the FCC sounding the alarm about the way that our regulatory agencies are being abused by the Biden administration to go after their political domestic enemies in total abject corruption and tyranny.
		Musk recently described the apparent beef with the Biden administration has with him.
		In September, he told all in podcast host entrepreneur David Sachs, quote, there does seem to be some significant increase in the weaponization of government and really sort of misuse of prosecutorial discretion in many areas.
		I think this is a really dangerous thing for there to be partisan politics with government agencies.
		He continued, I don't think the whole administration has it out for me, but I think there's probably aspects of the administration or aspects of the interests aligned with President Biden who probably do not wish good things for me.
		Such a diplomatic way to put it.
		The article continues, the weaponization of government agencies against Musk suggests leftist radicals in the White House are terrified of the billionaire's power and must stop him at all costs, even if that means jeopardizing the nation's space race.
		At the very least. And I guess the question is, Well, there's tons of hypocrisy here, too.
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		Right? Like, this whole thing is over the fact that the FCC denied Musk $886 million in subsidies just to create internet in rural areas, part of the FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.
		Right. And, you know, the reason they said that they were denying him was because that he didn't demonstrate that he could fulfill the program requirements, like creating high-speed internet for users in 35 states in 2025 today.
		Due to strained satellite infrastructure.
		And that was back last year.
		Now, this year alone, Musk has had the most space launches of any country.
		Him as a private person.
		He's been putting Bezos' satellites for a competitor into space.
		Right. He's had so many launches and he's got a vast network now of satellites in space.
		Yep. We're good to go.
		Is that the companies that lobbied for this massive earmark, which was not SpaceX, thought that they would win, but instead they were outperformed by Starlink, and now they're changing the rules to prevent SpaceX from competing.
		Right. Right? This is, you know, the government actually harassing him.
		So, despite all this, you know, the Department of Defense recently called a nine-month test pilot of Starlink, you know, in the Arctic, a success.
		So, Elon could make, yes, Elon could make, you know, internet happen in the Arctic, but the government's saying, oh, no, it's not reasonable for him to, you know, make the internet...
		Right. High-speed internet in rural areas.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Sabotaging their own program because they don't want Elon Musk to take the credit or benefit from the success, if it were to succeed.
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		Right. And of course, he launched, again, sorry, just to chime in one more time.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		I'm sorry I'm cutting you off. No, this is good.
		And all this information is in the Zero Hedge article if people want to look more into it.
		But yeah, go ahead. Right, yeah.
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		The SpaceX launched 80% of the world's payload, you know, in orbit last year.
		So, you know, you talk about like a strained satellite infrastructure.
		It's like the guy's just creating more satellites in space.
		He's putting them up there.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Of course, and it just goes in line with all of the other ways that they're attacking.
		I mean, we've covered this on the show many times, but whether it's suing SpaceX for not hiring Americans, despite the fact that he's legally prevented from doing so, from hiring non-Americans.
		Or suing Twitter over its purchase or suing over whatever other thing that he's doing.
		I mean, they're coming after him with every lever of power that they have.
		And this, again, is why on the spaces with Alex Jones, he was like, do you have any idea how many laws I'm subjected to that I'm subject to?
		And that's like his foremost concern is being in compliance with all of these laws.
		And yet they're still finding or inventing ways to prosecute him or persecute him in one way or another.
		And I guess my question is, you know, as Elon Musk says, he's like, I don't think this is, you know, something, he says, a dangerous thing for there to be partisan politics with government agencies.
		Which is true, but what's the solution?
		Is the solution to just not do this in kind?
		Or is it to get power back and then start subjecting All of the other companies to this level of scrutiny, this level of regulatory invasion or interference.
		So I wonder if you dedicated the resources that have been dedicated to finding something.
		It's the same thing that's happening with Trump or Elon, right?
		Whether it's Jack Smith or whoever's going after Elon in the federal government.
		It's just like, here's the guy.
		Go dig into everything he's ever done and find something we can come up with.
		I wonder if you put that same level of scrutiny to other big tech companies, Facebook and Instagram.
		Like if you held them to account for being the primary and most prevalent distributor of child abuse material.
		I wonder how they would survive.
		I wonder if Google and Facebook and YouTube and all of these other companies, if they were to be treated with the same regulatory magnification that Elon is, if they would survive intact.
		And then expanding out from that, I wonder if companies like BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, I wonder if companies like Raytheon, like I wonder if all of these companies, if they were to be targeted in the same way, if they were to be Sought out by the regulatory agencies with the same fervor that they're going after Elon Musk.
		Would they survive this level of scrutiny?
		Would they survive this amount of legal assault against them?
		I seriously doubt it.
		So I don't like that this is being done to Elon Musk, obviously, and it's obviously in response to the fact that he is opposing their Agenda at the fundamental level by opening up X for free speech.
		And of course, it's not just Elon Musk that's coming under attack.
		And it's not just from the government that he is coming under attack.
		It's Media Matters. It's the ADL. It's these private organizations that are contributing to this as well.
		While we're on the topic, the Media Matters employee being sued by Elon Musk and X refreshed a fringe video on Rumble Video more than 70 times until he found a Netflix ad.
		Remember, they... Created an advertiser boycott the corporate blackmail by doing things like going to Netflix or Disney and saying, your ad showed up on this horrible video.
		Well, it turns out that they had to sit there and refresh the video 70 times before they got the ad that they then screenshot and said, look, Netflix, your ad is playing on this.
		Despite being the only person to view that Netflix ad next to that video, he wrote an article falsely suggesting that Netflix ads regularly appeared next to French content on Rumble, pressuring advertisers to drop the platform.
		On X, IBM, Comcast and Oracle had their ads appear alongside French content for only one person, that same Media Matters employee, out of more than 500 million active users on the platform.
		The same Media Matters employee has written nearly a dozen articles pressuring advertisers to pull their support from X since Elon Musk bought the company, intentionally fabricating defamatory material to pressure advertisers to pull their support from free speech platforms is evil.
		So, you know, I'm just thinking that we're entering into an age where saying, you know, The government shouldn't be meddling.
		We're sort of over that at this point.
		The government should be ruthlessly targeting media matter, should be ruthlessly targeting Google and Facebook and Instagram and holding them to the highest level, the highest standard of behavior.
		And... You can do the same to Elon Musk, I guess, but we know that if it was all treated evenly and if it was a level playing field, Elon Musk would continue operating and corrupt organizations like BlackRock would be gutted from the inside out and destroyed utterly, which is what needs to happen. An even playing field is all we want.
		It's all we need.
unidentified		That's all that's required. That's all that's necessary.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		It's an even playing field.
		Applying the law the same regardless of who it is committing the crime.
		Awarding positions to whoever best qualifies for them regardless of their immutable characteristics.
		All that is required is an even playing field.
		And that's why the playing field is so horrifically uneven.
		For example, and the fact that Senator Vance is doing this is newsworthy and noteworthy because it's so rare that the chosen criminals of the elite, the useful criminals, are let off constantly.
		It's like, it's strange that this even has to be a headline.
		Senator J.D. Vance wants real prison time for climate change activists who vandalize historical artworks.
		This has to be a headline.
		Like, yes, he's making a drive for it.
		It's like something has to change.
		If somebody vandalizes historic artwork, they should be given real prison time.
		I mean, that's not complicated. On top of that, when it's a protest movement that is routinely doing this, then the necessity for real punishment is increased because it's needed for an especially potent...
		It's needed to dissuade others who would want to follow in their footsteps.
		You could say you could treat it a little bit differently if it's just a crazy dude attacking historical artwork.
		Sure, send him to prison for destroying the artwork.
		But you don't have that added impetus of needing to dissuade others who will do exactly what he does as these types of protests destroying historical artworks.
		It's like a pattern. It's like something they do regularly.
		So you have to set an example.
		You have to take one of them and go, oh, you and all your friends think this is a good idea?
		Well, you're about to go to jail for the rest of your life.
		So tell your friends.
		Tell your friends. It's the only solution.
		It's the only answer. And again, we can complain about the way January Sixers are thrown in prison for decades while people that actually burnt down cities are being rewarded with $20,000 checks from the government each.
		It's completely insane.
		It's more than unequal or unfair.
		Maybe the word for it is something like disequal.
		Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance wants to raise the maximum amount of prison time that a climate change activist can get for defacing famous works of art.
		Over the last year, we've seen numerous instances of these lunatics gluing themselves to walls or artwork in addition to throwing fluids like soup on the art.
		The public is disgusted, but these people keep doing it anyway.
		Vance wants them to face a possible 10 years of prison instead of 5.
		Why not 15 or 20?
		GOP lawmaker wants to crack down on climate change activists who deface historical artwork.
		Yeah, it's a trend that you have to stop.
		It's a feedback loop you have to interrupt.
		You have to make an example of a couple of these people.
		Fair warning, you know, give them fair warning.
		They should know. You do this again.
		You're not getting away with it because they've gotten away with it so far.
		So why not throw them in prison for 15 or 20 years?
		Not necessarily because the art...
		I mean, first of all, it's worth it anyway because it's historical artwork.
		And if they're destroying something that is irreplaceable, destroying something that is historical and of...
		historical value in particular...
		Yeah, I'd even do it to the people that tore down and destroyed the Robert E. Lee statue.
		This is a crime. It's a crime against humanity.
		It's a crime against our history. It's a crime against every one of us as people.
		And on top of that...
		You have to set an example to prevent people from doing it into the future.
		The only way forward, it's just an even playing field.
		Just crime is crime and it needs to be treated like crime, even if you justify it by saying you believe in some climate death cult.
		Too bad. You still committed a crime.
		So you go to jail now for a long time.
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		You can follow him on Twitter at SimonFromFlori2, F-L-O-R-I, and then the number two.
		And of course... Do that if you want to stay up to date on international goings on, especially from perspectives that you don't typically get here in America.
		Yesterday, Simon, I referenced your tweet.
		I hadn't seen anywhere else about the Iranian foreign minister Warning about the war in Israel and Gaza spiraling out of control and on the brink of erupting into a wider conflict to include Iran and probably America.
		So thank you for that. And obviously you are just an expert at keeping up to date on all of these various goings on.
		So what is on the top of your list today, Simon?
		What are you paying attention to today?
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		The big news that's occurred today is President Putin of Russia has just done his end-of-year press conference, which is three hours with dozens of questions.
		He tends to alternate one from a Russian journalist and one from a foreign journalist.
		It's completely unlike anything that President Biden even attempts to do.
		And what was interesting today was he was enormously, enormously confident.
		It seems that he's He just had a state of good news.
		Obviously, the Ukrainian offensive has failed, and he appears to be in no mood whatsoever to negotiate.
		And it was interesting that he even made reference to Odessa being a Russian city.
		So that, I think, showed a very different frame of mind.
		Some people may recall that last year he actually cancelled his appearance altogether because things were not going well in Ukraine for the Russians.
		So now, just as we're starting to get the Western media saying that it might be time to negotiate and they should try and get the best deal they can and so forth, and all the funding problems that we're seeing go through the U.S. Congress, it looks like not and all the funding problems that we're seeing go through the U.S. Congress, it looks like not only maybe money is thrown down a hole, but that there's actually little prospect of a negotiated solution because while he's continued to express
		but that there's actually little prospect of a negotiated solution because while he's continued to express his willingness to talk, he's Right.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		So...
		Tell me if I'm right in my interpretation.
		I mean, essentially, there was a possibility of peace talks very early on in the conflict.
		Later, you know, about a year ago, there were other attempts to create peace talks between Ukraine and Russia each time either the UK or the US or the combination of the two or the NATO allies intervened and prevented those peace talks from going forward.
		If it had happened back then, they still sort of had the leverage over Putin to say, hey, we still got a lot of, you know, powder, you know, a lot of dry powder that we could unleash on you.
		So, you know, let's negotiate something that's beneficial for both of us.
		But since this year long counteroffensive has utterly failed, we really have no leverage over Putin.
		And Putin, as you say, is feeling very confident because he knows that he basically has no reason to capitulate to any demands.
		We have no leverage over him.
		He is the one holding the ball.
		He's the one that determines whether peace talks go forward now.
		I mean, to me, that shows the complete inadvisability of what we've done for the last year, which is to essentially put him in this position.
		The failure of the counteroffensive has put Putin in a position where he gets to make demands and we either have to keep spending money and wasting time trying to fight him or capitulate to those demands.
		I mean, there's a reason he's this confident, right?
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		I think you're exactly right.
		But from a personal and humanitarian perspective, the real cost is taking hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides for a worse outcome for Ukraine.
		So it's not just a foreign policy disaster and a waste of money, but we've generated an enormous number of refugees And the loss of life and severe wounds for an astronomical number of people.
		And obviously, if America and NATO essentially loses this, it's going to...
		Decrease the value.
		As you pointed out yesterday, we've already seen the transition of Biden, however long it takes, or however long we can.
		Now, you know, that may have been a slip of the tongue.
		We know he's not good without a teleprompter and a Severe dose of adrenochrome.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Even with the teleprompter, it's never certain.
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		Yeah. But that's in stark contrast to the comments that I've obviously previously related to you and your worldwide audience regarding the Secretary of Defense both at the Reagan National Defense Forum and on Monday at the National Defense University where he spoke.
		So, there's a quite severe dichotomy within the administration, and I'm wondering personally how much this extends to the Israel policy as well, because we've now got Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, is meeting with the Israelis in Israel today.
		He previously went unannounced to Saudi Arabia.
		To see what good officers they may be able to extend to the situation.
		But after that vote in the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, which once again went through some fairly unusual procedures following America's veto of the ceasefire resolution that was presented to the United Nations Security Council.
		Once again, America's standing has dropped there even further.
		Because of the special measures that were being taken, that vote had to go through with a two-thirds majority.
		It's just the same as the bill that Chuck Schumer was trying to get through for aid to Israel using the express room.
		When it required a two-thirds majority rather than just 60 out of 100 senators to agree.
		And amazingly, the vote was 82% yes, and there was a big round of applause.
		The amendment proposed by Austria was defeated and the amendment proposed by the United States.
		And indeed, the United States ambassador, Mrs.
		Greenfield, Didn't even walk up to the rostrum to deliver her speech proposing the amendment.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, a lot of odd things about this, and this is why I wanted to bring you on this exact topic, how the war in Ukraine and the war in Israel are connected, how they're related, how developments in one can affect developments in the other, and what the future of the world looks like and whether peace is even on the horizon.
		So we'll be back with more from Simon on the other side, folks.
		Do not go anywhere. World War III or not, the choice is yours.
unidentified		We'll be right back. Welcome back, folks.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		We're talking about the international system, the international, well, if it even is a system at this point, with Simon from Florida.
		I'll just give you some of the headlines from today because I really do want to talk about how these things interact with one another.
		Zelensky's appeal for Ukraine aid fails to break GOP demand for border deal.
		Zelensky was in Congress on Tuesday to appeal for more aid, but it was prevented as Republican leaders told him to wait for an elusive US deal on immigration.
		He also told senators the Ukraine is considering conscripting men over 40 years old to bolster its frontline troop levels in a sign that his government is struggling to replace killed and wounded soldiers.
		It's just frankly not going well for them.
		Meanwhile, Putin gave his very confident yearly address, which he says in terms of Ukraine, as for demilitarization, they don't want to negotiate, so we are then forced to take other measures, including military measures.
		Either we agree we need to resolve Either we agree or we need to resolve this issue by force.
		So again, sounding very confident and not willing to give any capitulations to the demands of NATO, Ukraine, or the West as he's in no position to be forced into that.
		On the ongoing war in relations with the West, Putin said the unbridled desire to creep towards our borders, taking Ukraine into NATO, all this led to this tragedy.
		They forced us into these actions.
		Putin also said it's important that the United Nations mechanisms, such as the veto power of permanent member states on the UN Council, remain in place.
		Meanwhile, the war in Israel is not slowed down.
		In fact, it seems to only be heating up from RT. Quote, no one will stop us from destroying Israel and the U.S. How Lebanon is preparing for war over Gaza that it doesn't want.
		And we know that Israeli forces are turning their eye towards the north of Israel and the south of Lebanon, seeking to expand the conflict into Lebanon.
		Meanwhile, the Hamas leader has named conditions for peace talks.
		The head of Hamas's political bureau has said the militant group has opened in negotiations to end the war with Israel but stressed any final deal would have to lead to an independent Palestinian state.
		And this is part of what will be discussed, we hope, by Jake Sullivan who's headed to Israel amid signs of Netanyahu rift as Netanyahu and the American regime are at odds about how this war could or should end.
		But it seems like Hamas is talking peace deals.
		Putin is at least floating the idea of peace deals, even if it's not going to be an easy negotiation for the West.
		How are these two things interrelated in your mind, Simon, other than the fact that America is funding both of them and doesn't have the supplies or the funds, especially in an increasingly shaky economic system, to fund two wars at the same time, neither one of which seems to benefit us very much.
		How are these two things intertwined?
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		Well, I think we'll be lucky if there's only two wars.
		We might end up with four or five, if you include North Korea, Taiwan, and now the possibility of conflict between Venezuela and Guyana, where, ironically, America is supporting Guyana, even though we're still bound by an 80-year-old treaty to defend Venezuela.
		LAUGHTER So there is definitely some strange situations afloat.
		In terms of the two conflicts being interrelated, I mean, what we've gone from is a situation where the failure of the mints Two accords and the failure not only of the guarantors to have them enforced, but also the revelation that the entire thing was a fraud that was perpetrated upon Russia.
		That was the previous agreement from 2014 and 2015, which was designed to give autonomy and respect for Russian language education and use in the Donbass.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Right. That Western leaders at this point have admitted they only signed that agreement, never intending to fulfill it, but simply to buy time so that they could arm Ukraine for eventual attacks against Putin.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		That's been admitted by leaders of Western countries.
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		You're exactly right.
		That was President Hollande de France and Chancellor Merkel of Germany.
		They both, on the record, admitted that that was just a delaying tactic.
		And even though America and Russia had agreed to it and it went to the Security Council, the whole thing was just a charade, which Putin didn't realize at the time.
		Now, those revelations...
		You're now in a position where the West comes to you saying, we want to stop the killing, we want to do a deal.
		Would you think that they are a trusted partner to negotiate with, given what happened nine years ago?
		So that's going to make the situation very, very difficult to resolve.
		And Professor Mearsheimer has made the point that it's made it almost impossible because For any negotiations, even, for example, between India and Pakistan, there has to be some degree of trust that the other side will keep to their work, particularly if you're putting yourself in a vulnerable position.
		Now, we've gone even beyond a lack of trust and double standards now because the situation in Gaza is so blatantly obvious.
		That according to the definitions provided in the Genocide Convention, that that is occurring in Gaza.
		And you're seeing multiple countries now use the word genocide, which they've previously been very, very cautious about doing.
		And I don't just mean Iran, but Pakistan and Egypt and some of the other countries that might be involved in any long-term resolution of that situation.
		But the issue that everyone is on tenterhooks for and was interestingly explained by British former Ambassador Mr Craig Murray in an article today having attended the International Forum on Refugees in Geneva where he had asked the high representatives of many countries why aren't you triggering refugees?
		Genocide Convention by going to the International Court of Justice and asking them to open a case against Israel.
		And the answer that he got that was, I think, very informative and more focused on how you look at this matter going forward is they said that that was such a slam dunk.
		The next question was involved, who are the accessories?
		Who else is complicit?
		And the obvious answer to that is the United States.
		And if the International Criminal Court has matter referred to it for individual prosecution, because the International Court of Justice deals with national level judgment and the International Criminal Court deals with individual people being held responsible, because the International Court of Justice deals with national level judgment and the International Criminal Court deals with individual people being held responsible, as
		What is it going to do to international diplomacy if Biden, Lincoln, Sullivan, Nuland, etc., are all under Interpol red notices.
		And these friendly countries that are part of the Rome Treaty, in theory, would have to be arresting them if they were to do state visits.
		You'll recall that when BRICS was expanded, President Putin couldn't go.
unidentified		the big issue about South Africans.
unidentified		Yeah, of course.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Can you stay for one more segment, Simon?
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		Certainly, if you wish. Okay. All right.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I'd love to get more into this because I think you're hitting the nail on the head here.
		I'll tell you, in my opinion, what would happen if they did this and actually charged these people.
		We might avoid World War III. That would be what would happen.
		We'll be right back. I like to consider Simon from Florida, our international expert.
		Our reporter in the field in a lot of ways, but of course, it's not just here on American Journal that Simon shares the wisdom he's gleaned from endless research.
		He also goes on with George Galloway fairly regularly, another really great man in the resistance to globalism.
		How else can people watch and follow your content, Simon?
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		Another place, other than obviously here on Infowars, I must thank you for this extended show on my, what is actually, 60th visit Infowars today.
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		60th visit. I'm still waiting for my cake for the 50th visit, to be honest, but I know it's 112.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Wait till we get to 100.
		100 will be a big celebration.
		We'll get there. 100x.
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		I hope I have the opportunity to reach that, and that World War III hasn't occurred to both of us before then.
		But to answer your question, at Weaponized News on Rumble, Twitter, and...
		Facebook hosts The Daily Show, and I must also send you Christmas greetings, not, I should point out, season's greetings, from my co-host Sam Chaney, but also Candice Morris, who you otherwise know as Queen of the Juicy, and Dustin Hobbs of Road to Liberty, another one of your very frequent callers, who's also invited me on his show on Rumble at Road to Liberty tonight.
		And mentioning George Galloway, I was actually on his show just yesterday, but I do always try and get some of the most important information out to you and American Journal, international audience.
		I must say, I deeply appreciate How serious you've been in recent months in particular with the Israel situation.
		I know I've complimented you on the past, but obviously, Alex, there's a lot of personal distractions we all know.
		And you've been very, very good in keeping an eye on international affairs because they do affect Americans.
		They affect the price of our mortgages and the price of food and the price of the gas that we put in our cars.
		So these aren't arcane, trivial, irrelevant subjects.
		They really do have second- and third-degree knock-on consequences for us all.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Of course, and World War III might be one of those.
		I want to thank you for dedicating your time.
		Obviously, you do this on a volunteer basis, so we really do appreciate it.
		At Weaponized News on Rumble, and you'll be on Roads of Liberty later tonight.
		And of course, you can follow Simon on Twitter at SimonFromFlory, and then the number two.
		So start spelling Florida, stop, and put the number two.
		And you've got Simon from Florida, where he posts really incredible information on really a continual basis.
		Answer me this. I want to put this question to you.
		We keep hearing, and I talked a little bit about this yesterday, we keep hearing people in the U.S. talk about Ukraine needs to win this war.
		What does winning this war even look like in Ukraine?
		Is that even a possibility?
		It seems to me like we should be talking about how to lose in the least destructive way possible, but they keep saying win.
		Is winning even an option at this point in Ukraine, do you think?
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		That is whether you appreciated the full Magnitude of that question or not, it is absolutely critical, and it's the crux of the issue now, because winning does actually have a definition according to America and Ukraine,
		and that is the Zelensky 10-point peace plan, which basically involves not only recovering all of the occupied territories, some of which have now obviously been annexed to the Russian Federation, But also the recapture of Crimea, all reparations and the resignation and prosecution of Vladimir Putin.
		So that's the American and Ukraine, though the American definition may be changing subtly by some people in the administration.
		And so that shows the utter disconnect from not only theories of international relations, But the fact on the ground.
		And so America's being asked to fund indefinitely, in terms of money and time, a completely and utterly unrealistic panacea that really harks back to all of the unrealistic expectations of the Vietnam War,
		where we just had General Westmoreland And yet, where we were made false promises without even any clear vision there of a realizable end goal.
		And yet here we are doing exactly the same thing and somehow expecting a radically different outcome, despite facing a much worse adversary at the same time as America is absolutely trashing despite facing a much worse adversary at the same time as America is absolutely trashing its public image to the world because of the genocidal actions
		Because we're not only trying to jam them additional money, which will go through eventually.
		These are just essentially delaying tactics that the Republicans are engaging in.
		And unfortunately, it looks highly likely that we're going to give another $60 billion to Ukraine.
		And the audience should bear in mind that $60 billion that's intended to last from January to June, then just before the July 4th recess, the administration is planning on coming back again For another $6 billion or so.
		So the run rate that is planned is $10 billion per month for the whole of 2024 to prevent that situation from collapsing somehow before the 2024 November election.
		Now, just to show what's being said to the American audience, Zelensky's saying he might raise the conscription age up to 40, which is intended to convince the American public that the whole Ukrainian nation is behind him.
		And as he said in his speech with Austin on Monday, he said, we know what to do.
		You can count on us.
		We hope that Ukraine can count on you.
		Okay? Okay. But the conscription age now, do you know what the real maximum is?
		It's 65 for combat and 70 for military administrative duties.
		70 years of age.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		And this is what always happens, right?
		You can look at Germany in World War II right before it collapsed, and it went both ways.
		You have pictures of, like, 13-year-olds in Nazi uniforms and 75-year-olds in Nazi uniforms because all the young men had been killed already.
		So it's the same thing that's happening in Ukraine.
		This is the inevitable end of a hopeless war front.
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		And that was called the Volksterm moment.
		When they literally were pressing in the wounded people over the age of 60, and in some cases in the battle for Berlin down to the age of 12, and that happened at the end of 1944, it just goes to show that when you go to those lengths, they still didn't surrender until many, many months later.
		Even while you're sacrificing your feed corn with all the teenagers, Then it went on for another eight or nine months from the start of that.
		The situation remains very serious, but we see growing influence of Russia in the Middle East.
		We see growing influence of China in the entire world.
		But the flip side that people are You know, claiming as successors, you know, you've got, you know, Paraguay, Argentina, Holland, but people should note that Gert Wilders hasn't yet managed to form a government despite winning the election because he's got to form a coalition and people are reluctant to cooperate with his party.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Tell you what, Simon, we've got to go to another commercial break.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Can you do one more segment? Can we just finish out the hour with you?
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		If you wish, I'm perfectly happy to do that.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		All right, excellent, because there's still more I want to cover.
		And, of course, you really, more than anybody else, have a really good grip of what's going on worldwide.
		So I've got more articles about Ukraine and Israel that I want to get your take on on the other side.
		Folks, we're only supposed to do two segments with Simon originally.
		And then I was gonna move on and talk about some other stuff, maybe like the Hunter Biden thing and the Biden impeachment.
		I really think when you think about what's going on right now, the major changes that are happening in the geopolitical sphere, this has to be our focus.
		What's happening in Ukraine and the failure of Zelensky to drum up money to continue the war machine any longer, as well as Jake Sullivan heading to Israel.
		Rumblings of the war expanding to Lebanon, even the Iranian foreign minister warning that things were bubbling over and not slowing down, but to the contrary, actually heating up in the Middle East and threatening wider conflict there.
		This is the thing we should be focusing on, and so I'm happy and thankful for Simon to lend us his time.
		And expertise in this matter.
		There's a really good article, Simon, I'm not sure if you've read it yet, on the Gateway Pundit.
		Why is the U.S. intelligence lying about the war in Ukraine?
		And he talks about This author talks about a Politico piece that's basically repeating U.S. declassified intelligence that is chock full of lies.
		It's basically presenting everything as a stalemate.
		Long story short, what he says is that this should have been a proper intel assessment.
		It should have said this. The uptick in Russian casualties since October is a consequence of Russian going on the offensive all along the line of contact that Russia is making significant progress in pushing Ukraine forces out of long-held positions.
		Number two, there is no stalemate.
		Ukraine's losses as compared to Russia's are greater by a factor of at least 5 to 1.
		And Russia, unlike Ukraine, has ample reserves of troops, tanks, artillery pieces, and ammunition.
		And finally, number three, Russia's defense industry is operating on a war footing and is churning out massive numbers of tanks, armored personnel carriers, drones, planes, artillery, and ammunition.
		The United States and NATO combined are producing only a fraction of what Russia is doing.
		So again, a clear-eyed, reality-based view of this situation.
		Russia is holding all of the cards.
		And of course, what's going on in Israel contributes to this by, as you pointed out, Simon, ruining America's reputation and really making a lot of other countries reticent to cooperate with us on any level and is only serving to drive countries like Russia and China together more than ever.
		So again, just pick up where we last left off on this, the overview of the global conflicts.
		Simon from Florida.
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		Well, if we look forward just a few weeks to the beginning of January, what we're going to see is Brazil taking over the running of the G20, which has become a very significant institution, particularly now that the African which has become a very significant institution, particularly now that the African Union has been added We have Russia taking over the annual chairmanship of BRICS.
		We have Kazakhstan taking over the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and just this week publishing a list of points they intend to try and implement to really increase the significance of that organization, which includes Russia and China, same as BRICS.
		And then we also have Iran taking over the 15-nation economic cooperation organization.
		So if you just think about how all of those countries are not members of the West, and yet by having the chairmanship of those organizations, they will be able to set the agenda for all of those international bodies they will be able to set the agenda for all of those international bodies for the next 12 So that's a very, very significant shift.
		And we could really see the American and European Union agendas that they constantly perpetuate for the G7 facing escalation Thank you.
		Thank you.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Right. This really is a sea change.
		I mean, it's like a tidal shift that's going on here as power and reputation and prestige is drained away from America and the West and towards our supposed opponents in Russia and Iran and China.
		And I think you're right to identify that.
		Let's focus on Israel here for the last...
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		The other fear that you and many callers of the show have expressed is the pandemic treaty.
		And the International Health Regulations Amendment.
		And that's going to be put to the Executive Committee of the World Health Organization, which is a subgroup of the overall membership, for their approval in only four weeks.
		And that basically will be the point where the negotiations have ended.
		So time is very, very short on that.
		And once again...
		As we saw two years ago, it may be Russia and the African Union that saved the likes of you and I from suffering injectable mandates.
		So, I mean, as well as the protection of Christian values for the Russian Orthodox Church and Vladimir Putin, who's clearly, along with Viktor Orban, trying to uphold what you and I would probably assess as traditional family American values, That have served America very, very well, as old Ramoswampy was explaining on his town hall there.
		But, you know, isn't it ironic that the very people who were being told by the likes of Lloyd Austin, the American Defence Secretary, actually seem to be serving traditional Americans' best interests the most?
		And that's a character that we've definitely got to keep our eye on.
		The kind of features that he's been making in recent weeks aren't simply motions of support and kind of throwaway comments.
		He is fast becoming the head of the military-industrial complex, and I think it's perfectly valid for American citizens to ask themselves whether or not the U.S. military Is willing to take a third major loss to either goat herders or communists after Vietnam, Afghanistan, and now potentially Ukraine?
		Or would they be willing to do something extreme in America in order to retain the levers of power and fight the ultimate battle against the communists in their eyes?
		I know it sounds extreme, But, you know, we've got to be careful guardians of liberty.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Of course. And we know from the things they've already done that they don't shy away from extreme activities.
		Just look at the Nord Stream pipeline explosion.
		I mean, these people are willing to risk complete global catastrophe to retain their power.
		So I don't think what you're saying is ridiculous at all.
		We're only about three minutes left.
		What's your prediction for what's going on in Israel?
		It seems to me like they are making a big push towards Lebanon, which means Hezbollah would get involved, which means Iran and America would get involved.
		I mean, that to me seems like the kindling waiting for the spark to start World War III. What's your prognosis on Israel?
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's clear that Sullivan is there to try and rein in their murderous conduct.
		Right. Followed next week by Lloyd Austin, who's going to be also going to Bahrain and Qatar, where the major US naval bases are, because they're looking to form a new task force, Task Force 53, in order to patrol the Red Sea and try and protect shipping that's going through that against the drones and missiles that are being fired by the Houthis in that area.
		Because at the moment, that's really shut down shipping to Israel.
		At some point, we've got to watch whether or not there could be an energy embargo from the Arab nations onto the European Union, but already we've seen some countries like Norway, Ireland, Belgium, France, Spain, all breaking away from the American League.
		As we saw in that vote, only two countries, Austria and And the Czech Republic, out of all of the nations in Europe, supported America on the issue of the ceasefire increased aid and exchange of all the hostages,
		remembering that since October the 7th, the Israeli defense forces have taken 3,800 Palestinians in the West Bank hostage groups.
		I think October the 7th.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		I didn't realize it was that high.
simon-2 in florida ▲ ● ▼		Yes. And those are the numbers that they are building up in order that they can swap the military captives.
		Right. Because the people that are left, a lot of them are either reserve military or active duty military.
		And the women who are left, many of those were doing their national service with the IDF. So they were actually serving in uniform.
		People are saying the women, the women, it's the same as women, American soldiers, if they were captains, they'd be treated as prisoners of war, not civilian hostages.
		Right, absolutely. But I guess in our closing minutes, I should wish you and all of the crew who have been so kind to me over the years at Infowars, a very happy festival as well, before Mala Harris.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Right. Well, a very Merry Christmas to you, Simon, as well.
		Hopefully we talk before Christmas again, because this is obviously a very intense point of inflection for geopolitics.
		We're lucky to have you.
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