Allen West on Xi Jinping Unifying U.S.'s Biggest Enemies | PBD Podcast | Ep. 252
PBD Podcast Episode 252. In this episode, Patrick Bet-David is joined by Allen West, Adam Sosnick, Tom Ellsworth.
0:00 - Start
6:56 - College Student Gets Mad at Allen West
14:36 - Why GEN-Zers Aren't Proud To Be American
17:30 - The Biggest Mistake Trump Made as President
24:35 - Reaction To Xi Jinping Unifying U.S.'s Biggest Enemies
50:04 - Reaction To Shocking 2024 Nomination Poll
55:33 - How To Get Elected in America
1:09:25 - Reaction To Megyn Kelly Calling Out Ron DeSantis
1:34:33 - Police Bodycam Footage Revealed In The Nashville School Shooting
1:47:26 - Feds Raid Matt Taibbi's House Same Day He Testified Against Government
1:50:47 - Fauci EXPOSED For DisInformation
1:57:37 - U.S. Charges Sam Bankman-Fried With Bribing Chinese Officials
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Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Your Next Five Moves (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Episode 252, our guest today, Lieutenant Colonel West, over 21 years of service in the U.S. Army.
Still, I think you're doing some active reserve right now.
No, no, I'm completely clear.
I'm done.
Yeah, I'm done.
I'm done.
And also, you lived here.
I mean, we're talking about I met you.
We're in Dallas.
We're at the Providence Towers in Dallas.
If you know the one on at Jersey Mics, I would meet you.
You would go to that Jersey Mike's.
I'm like, wait a minute, it's Simridi.
I think you met him one time at a bank.
We had a conversation with Spring Valley and North Dallas.
But it's great to have you.
We got a lot of topics to go through, folks.
So obviously, there's footage that came out from the Nashville shooting.
We'll look at that and comment on what these guys did, the police officers, how quickly they moved on that, and how other states can learn from this, the experience of different places.
We'll get your thoughts on that.
There's some commentary of what Randy Weingarten calls for gun confiscation.
We must have the courage to do what Australia and New Zealand and other places did.
And I'd be curious to know if you're open to the idea of allowing your guns to be confiscated.
No.
Nikki Haley said treating shootings as only a gun issue is the lazy way out after Nashville school tragedy.
There's some things going on right now with a poll that came out showing Biden tops Trump by two points.
Ron DeSantis was asked in an interview if he'd be willing to be Trump's vice president.
His answer is telling.
We'll talk about that.
Christie said GOP needs someone who can quickly take down Trump.
And I think he had a chance to do that last time, but his strategy wasn't effective.
Maybe it's changing this time.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried charged with bribing Chinese officials.
There's a clash.
Very surprising.
Bernie Sanders clashing with a man who produced 402,000 jobs worldwide, the CEO of Howard of Starbucks.
There's a back and forth.
You have to see this clip.
We'll have it.
We'll show it to you.
U.S. surpasses Russia as Europe's top supplier of crude oil.
There's some things going on right now between China, France.
Last night, all night, I'm not even kidding with you.
I'm getting text messages from different people I'm communicating with.
Is this deal with oil of China, Russia, Saudi, Iran, a real thing?
Is this really going to be happening for them to go away from the U.S. dollar?
And if that's the case, why is it?
That was a topic of discussion literally all night through this morning.
Dumb phones are back at it again.
A lot of people have smartphones.
Parents are now turned on by dumb phones.
You'll see what dumb phones are.
Tom's got some stuff to say about that.
A CEO shares five toxic personality types he sees over and over again.
You've dealt with a lot of people in your life as a leader.
Maybe you have some things you can teach us about leadership from different personalities you work with.
And then Obama's got some credit he gives to Trump for a fantastic job he did leading China.
Obviously, I'm being sarcastic.
Obama blames Trump for emboldened China.
And there's a couple stories of New York Times.
One thing's for sure, if New York Times writes good things about you, don't get too excited.
It's just a matter of time before they turn on you like they just did on Fauci.
So we'll cover that as well.
But having said that, Lieutenant Colonel Allen was for the audience that doesn't annoy you.
If you don't mind taking a couple minutes and just give them your background because you were just military.
Congress here in Florida, in Dallas, you've been all over.
Share a little bit of your background with your audience.
Well, sure.
I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.
I'm 62 years of age.
In 1961, I was born in Blacks-only Hospital.
And think about how great this country is.
A guy can be born in a Blacks-only hospital to be sitting here with you all today.
Grew up and become a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army, command a battalion in combat when his dad was just a corporal in World War II.
And his older brother was a Lance Corporal, Marine in Vietnam.
Served 22 years, active duty service, United States Army, retired in 2004.
When you retire, you do what your wife asks, and she was a brilliant woman, MBA and Ph.D.
So she got a great offer with Raymond James.
And so we came to South Florida in 2004, lived in Plantation, Fountain Springs, Sunrise, and Knob Hill.
I taught high school at Deerfield Beach for one year down here and coached track.
That was so exciting and enjoyable that I volunteered to go back to Afghanistan because I figured if you're going to be in a combat zone, you need to be armed.
So while I was doing that tour over there, someone talked to me about running for Congress when my assignment finished in Afghanistan, mentoring the Afghan Army.
And I ran for Congress down here and was elected in 2010 and served this district from Fort Lauderdale Airport all the way up to Jupiter Inlet.
Came out of Congress and then got an offer to go back to Texas where my last duty assignment at Fort Hood was.
And so we went back to Texas in 2014, lived right outside of Dallas.
I've been honored to be the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas and just ran for governor of Texas last year.
And now I'm here with you, Patrick, and enjoying being back down here in South Florida.
Well, first of all, thank you for your service.
My pleasure.
To do what you do.
It's not something that's easy to do, especially those men that many years, and make it to the ranks that you've made.
But so while you were in, your wife became a doctor.
So was she getting all her education while you guys served together?
How was that?
Well, it's pretty interesting.
We kind of met while she was finishing up her MBA at Long Island University.
She had originally graduated from Kansas State University, and I was stationed out of Fort Riley, Kansas, and so we were introduced.
And that was my best marketing routine ever to get a woman that was a consultant on Wall Street to marry a dumb little paratrooper captain at the time and move back down to Kansas.
And she went from Manhattan, New York, to Manhattan, Kansas.
The little apple.
That's tough.
But she enjoyed it.
And so she got her PhD there.
She was the first black professor in the College of Business in Kansas State University, Marketing and Finance.
And we had both of our daughters out there who are now 29 and 26.
Our oldest daughter graduated from Nova South Eastern University in the year.
Right here.
Yeah, right here, NCAA Division II Champions.
The youngest graduated from FIU.
So, yeah.
Respect.
Yeah, absolutely.
A couple things.
One, do you still identify as a black man?
Wasn't that hilarious?
Do you still identify yourself as I don't know if it's changed?
You know, that video, you know, more people see me in airports or whatever, say, you're that guy.
And I'm like, what are you talking about?
You identify as black.
I said, yeah, I kind of have to.
Let me finish the question.
Yeah.
Wait, wait, wait, young lady.
You can tell immediately to father mode.
It was great seeing you.
It's amazing.
This is Northwestern University, a pretty highly intellectual.
Have you seen this?
No, I have not.
Oh, my God.
Can you find one?
Here's explaining it.
He'll look for it.
Go ahead.
I'm a speaker with Young America's Foundation.
So I go on college campuses.
And the subject was the Iranian nuclear agreement.
I love foreign policy, national security policy.
And so I think I did pretty good.
I nailed this thing.
And so they opened up for question and answer.
Young lady comes up to me.
First question she asks, do you identify as black?
I was just dumbfounded.
I'm like, where does, I mean, we're talking about nuclear agreements with Iran.
And I said, yeah, but the sad thing is that we have people in America and even in the black community, they think that your skin color dictates how you think.
And that's one of the big problems that I believe we have.
We have gone backwards in race relations here in the United States of America and this cultural Marxism that we have being permeated in our college and university campuses.
Now they're trying to push it down to the K level.
We've got to combat this.
I think that's the number one issue that we have in the United States.
You know, a lot of people will say, oh, what's going, what's trending right now is, did you find it?
That's the one, the 27-second one.
If you just want to click on that.
And yeah, I think, but you don't have TikTok.
Okay, got it.
If you do the following, just play this one.
It's fine, even though it's expanded a little bit, Rob.
Do you identify as black?
No, it's a serious question because you might not identify.
Can you please put the mic?
Thank you.
Okay.
I am not done with my question.
Oh, wow.
Oh, young lady.
I'm just asking you to listen to me.
And I'm about to answer my first question.
But I didn't finish my question.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm black.
What do you think she was so angry about that she wouldn't even let you answer the question?
I mean, for those of us that are not watching on YouTube and just watching Spotify, you are a black man.
I can say that, you know, permanent tan.
Yeah, exactly.
Grade 10.
Well, yeah, it is.
I've been working on it for 62 years.
I think the problem is that, you know, you've got professors telling these young kids that skin color is supposed to identify people.
This is the identity policy.
Identity value.
This is the cultural Marxism that is out there.
And the fear that these young people have is that they don't want you to respond because they are really afraid of you totally embarrassing them with facts and with knowledge.
And the other thing that it shows is a lack of respect for elders.
You know, I spoke at the University of Buffalo.
I had to be escorted off the campus of the University of Buffalo because black students threatened to hurt me.
Now, you know, they probably would have gotten a can of whoop-ass opened up on them because I still have some skills, you know, like Liam Neeson.
But the thing is that here you had black students that did not want to listen to what I think is a decently accomplished, you know, member of the black community because I did not agree with their line that America is a racist country.
And by the way, I think it's important to point out for those of us that are watching, not just on Spotify, what have you, she was a black female.
She wasn't like she was some white girl that was all getting nuts over there.
How would you define woke?
If you were to define what woke means, what does woke mean to you?
Woke means living in a delusion and in a reverse reality of there's no objective truth, that it's all moral relativism, is whatever situational ethics, what have you, that works towards a certain end.
And I think that that's what we see happening because none of this makes any sense.
To stand up there and ask a person, do you identify as black?
First of all, what the Sam Hill does that mean?
And to take the type of stance that she took, you know, I remember when I was a kid and I was sitting in the back seat of the car and I had two aunts on either side and they were talking to each other and I interrupted them.
I got jab slapped really quick.
I mean, you know, it was just how it happened with a backhand.
And because I understood respect of our elders, we don't have respect of our elders anymore.
And that's one of the things that I saw when I was teaching high school at Deerfield Beach.
Every single day you're breaking up fights.
You know, why?
No one respects, you know, that authority figure anymore.
And so that's what I think this whole wokeness does.
It breaks down the fabric of our culture and most importantly, the traditional nuclear family structure.
You said race relations have gotten worse in this country.
And you said you were born in a blacks-only hospital in 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Atlanta, Georgia.
When was it at its peak worst?
When was at its best?
You know, where have you seen it kind of navigate over the last decade or two?
Well, I will be very honest.
I think that the administration of Barack Obama took race relations going in a different direction.
When you have him, you know, saying that the Cambridge police acted stupidly, when you have Eric Holder saying some of the things that he said, and here's the quote-unquote first black president, here's the black attorney general and all of these great accomplishments, but yet they continue to say, you know, this is not good enough.
You know, and, you know, to now come up with this, you know, cultural, I mean, this CRT and everything that says that I'm sitting here next to Tom and I'm looking over here at Adam.
You guys are oppressors.
How can that be?
And I'm supposed to be oppressed.
You know, so we are going backwards and we have taken Marxism, which was a socioeconomic divisive platform, and we've taken it over to race.
And I will tell you that when I grew up in my neighborhood, the old Fourth Ward neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, that's where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born and raised, Ebenezer Baptist Church is there.
I saw businesses.
I saw doctor's offices, lawyers' offices, Auburn Avenue.
First, the black-owned bank, Citizens Trust Bank.
But now when you go into our inner cities, what do you see?
You see something completely different.
You see the lack of small business entrepreneurship and growth.
You see the breakdown of the traditional nuclear family.
When I was born, the traditional nuclear family in the black community was 75 to 77%.
Today it's 24%.
And how did that happen?
When did this dissent start?
Lyndon Johnson, great society programs, war on poverty, which created poverty.
It created dependency, which is a tenet of socialism, creating the welfare nanny state, economic dependency and all this type of stuff by way of wealth redistribution.
And so that's where I think it really started to go in a different direction with these great society programs.
And look at what we have happening.
Look at the gang violence and everything in these inner city communities.
And that's all across the United States of America.
So that's when I think we had this dissent and we really kicked in the overdrive coming out of the Obama administration because the progressive socialist left can only advance itself by means of dividing us.
And they have gone back to racial division.
Where do we go from here that we can actually improve this?
Because if you look at all the polling of Gen Z, you know, baby boomers, when you talk about patriotism in this country and being proud to be American, baby boomers are at 70 something percent.
Then you have Gen X, right, at, I think, 50%, millennials, 40%, and then Gen Z, 16% proud to be American.
And you see the stats that we discussed yesterday from the Wall Street Journal about having children and work ethic and patriotism.
And the numbers are plummeting.
And, you know, a large contingency of our audience are 20 and 30-year-olds in this millennial Gen Z generation.
How do we improve upon this and get this back of, get patriotism back to being exactly right there, a mainstay in America right there?
16% of Gen Z are proud to be Americans.
Where do we go from here?
Well, it's very simple.
Adults have to be adults again.
My mom and daddy were the adults in the house.
And when my dad sat me down at the age of 15 on the steps of his home, 661 Kennesaw Avenue, Northeast Atlanta, Georgia, 30308-404-874-2836, he told me at the age of 15 that there's no greater honor than to wear the uniform of the United States of America.
Now, this is a man that was born in the South in 1920, and that's what he felt.
This is a man that went and fought for his country in World War II when this country did not recognize him as being equal to others.
But that's what he told me.
And he challenged me to be the first officer in the family because he said, I want you to be better and more than what I was.
How old were you at the time?
15.
And so what did I start off with?
I started out in high school, junior ROTC, Grady High School, Atlanta, Georgia.
And then I went on to University of Tennessee on 31 July, 1982, the only time I ever saw my dad with tears in his eyes.
The day that he pinned on Second Lieutenant Barrs.
It's amazing.
But see, that's what is not happening.
What's not happening is that parents are not taking charge in their homes.
Parents are outsourcing their kids to these teachers and everyone else and to the culture as well.
My parents were it.
They were the end state.
I did not come home from the University of Tennessee for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any type of break and say, my professor is smarter than you.
If that had been the case, I wouldn't be sitting here.
So what happened when all of a sudden, you know, Proverbs 22, 6 says, train up a child in the way they should go.
So when they grow old, they shut up, depart from it.
When did we all of a sudden in our homes say, we're not going to raise our kids?
Because that's what the left believes.
Your kids are not yours.
When Terry McAuliffe stood there on that debate stage in Virginia during the gubernatorial election and said, parents do not have a right in what their children are being taught.
That's what they believe.
That's what they have been saying in their own little private meetings.
Now, what is it?
Well, we're going to tell your kid that if it's a little boy, maybe he's a little girl.
And we're not going to let you know, parents.
You were talking about earlier how in the military, I said, sir, to you, and you said, yeah, well, things are changing right now.
Totally.
So what is it like today to be in a military?
If you were in the Army today, can I call you, sir?
Today, if you're in today.
No, they're pushing against that.
When you have the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, who was a retired four-star general.
Black man, by the way.
And I served with him at Fort Bragg when he was a colonel and he had a brigade and the 82nd Airborne Division.
Everyone looked up to him.
But I don't know who this guy is now.
When you are the Secretary of Defense and you're writing a letter to the force that says female troops have to be prepared to be in shower and bathroom facilities with biological males.
He wrote a letter?
He wrote a memo.
You can find it.
He wrote a memo on that.
Rob, can you find this memo?
He wrote Austin, Secretary of Defense, the memo that he sent out.
And, you know, the United States Marines, there was a study that was done, I think, at University of Pennsylvania saying that, you know, you should move away from calling people sir and ma'am because that's affirming their gender and maybe they want to have their gender affirmed.
So just call them by their rank and their last name.
Don't call them by their first name.
You know, this, this is the type of stuff that's happening in our military.
Now, when you knew this guy, was he a heavyweight, tough guy, strong leader?
Was he?
His call sign was Panther 6.
I mean, he is the original Black Panther.
That's how we saw him.
So what happened to him?
So what happened to him?
What happens is that.
Show an image of him, by the way, so people can get a good look at him.
What happens is that your last promotion in the military as an officer.
Congress, you need to.
Well, no, the last promotion is Brigadier General, a one-star.
He's my literal general.
That's a one-star general.
Yeah, that's when you're, you know, your peers.
Two-star, three-star, four-star is all political appointments.
And so what you end up finding out is guys that want to continue on at that level end up surrendering to the political whims and the administration of the time.
And that's what the problem is.
And so Barack Obama comes along and all of these generals that were there, he says, you either get on with my agenda or you're gone.
And that was a big thing that people were writing about, the purging of senior level leadership in the military during the Barack Obama administration.
And so all of a sudden you get these type of generals.
And if there's one thing that Donald Trump did not understand, he had to clean house.
He had to clean house in every single government agency, you know, not just cabinet position, but five, six, maybe seven tiers down.
And he did not get that.
And so that's why you have these people like a General Milley still hanging around and some of the things he's doing.
A United States journal saying, you know, before a hearing in Congress that, you know, I want to study and understand what white rage is.
You know, what you're supposed to be doing is making sure that we can deploy, we can fight, we can win.
That's it.
None of this, you know, cultural Marxism.
And meanwhile, if you're the enemy with seeing today, Xi and Putin coming together saying the next hundred years is going to be epic.
I'm paraphrasing, but they used a certain word saying what the next hundred years are going to be.
How do you think the enemy, if we look at some of our enemy, let's say Iran, let's say China, let's say Russia, how do they view America when they see the military getting this off?
We're weak.
And this is the window of opportunity that they have sat around and waited for.
That's why the world is more Machiavellian than ever before.
Everyone sees this is the opportunity where I can rise up.
So when you see what happened in Afghanistan, that's a green light.
And think about this.
There would not be this conflagration in Ukraine if there had not been in Afghanistan.
China would not be threatening Taiwan if they had not seen what's happening in Afghanistan.
When you leave 80-something billion dollars of military equipment over there, and I spent two and a half years in Afghanistan, this is U.S. military equipment that you left.
Yes, they're going to figure out a way to back engineer that and they're going to make it operational.
And that's exactly what they see happening.
So they see weakness.
And China has the one belt, one road strategy, which talks about their hegemonic dominance.
And you guys are sitting here in South Florida, okay?
Guess what?
Not too far away here in the Bahamas, China's building port facilities.
In the Bahamas?
Yes.
My wife is Jamaican.
Okay, you go down to the new cruise port facility in Jamaica, it was built by the Chinese.
They're all over the place.
They're in our hemisphere because they see this as a time.
And China understands that we did not defeat the Soviet Union militarily.
We defeated the Soviet Union economically.
And so when we all of a sudden believe that we're going to allow China to come into most favored trade nation status, bring them into the world economic community, they saw that as a window of opportunity to let's become the tick that implants ourselves into Western civilization.
Let's send them all the cheap goods and everything like that.
Once upon a time, we had a problem with Chinese drywall right here in South Florida, killing people.
They are killing us.
The fentanyl, this is a chemical war that we're in, being aided and abetted by the drug cartels, who are a terrorist organization.
So yes, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Islamic jihadism, they all see this as an opportunity.
I know that you want to talk about the oil and gas issue.
That's another issue that they see that they can rise above us.
Why would we destroy our own energy independence?
Why would we want to make ourselves subservient once again to the OPEC-plus nations?
And so instead of using our oil and gas that we have here in abundance to export that, not only for our own independence, but to export that and to undermine the revenues and resources that these guys have, now we have cut ourselves off at the kneecap.
And they see, okay, well, let's jump in here as well.
And now we are going and begging the Saudis.
And so, and oh, by the way, who was down, you know, broken an agreement between the Saudi Arabia and Iran?
Xi Jinping.
Yeah, exactly.
I want to read that to you, though.
I want to read a couple of these stories to you because you've said a lot of things here.
So here's the first one.
China completes first one settled LNG trade, March 28th.
This is a Reuters story.
And this is with France.
This is what a lot of people were writing about and talking about yesterday.
So Chinese National Oil Company Corporation and France's Total Energies have completed China's first one-settled LNG trade through the Shanghai Petroleum and National Gas Exchange.
The exchange said on Tuesday, approximately 65,000 tons of LNG imported from the UAE changed hands in the trade.
China has placed an emphasis on settling oil and gas trades in won in recent years in a bid to establish the currency internationally and to weaken the dollar's grip on world trade.
Russia has increasingly embraced the won amid Western sanctions.
During a visit to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in December, President Xi Jinping announced that China would make full use of the Shanghai Exchange as a platform to carry out won settlements of oil and gas trades.
How bad can this be if they're able to accomplish this and this becomes a reality?
I mean, obviously, you're seeing, again, China, Russia, Saudi, Iran, Saudi and Iran is like saying Red Sox and Yankees having dinner together and doing business together.
That's like saying, hey, you know, Lakers and Celtics at the prime on how PK.
It's like you guys are willing to get together and do business together yet at what cost?
Anything to go up to see what America is doing right now?
China's winning these guys over.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Well, no question about it.
But why is it that something like this isn't unifying America?
The reason why I'm going to ask this from you is 9-11 unified us in a way.
We kind of like, listen, I don't care who you voted for, man.
That's the enemy.
Okay.
And you're red, white, and blue.
You're red, white, and blue.
I don't care who you voted for.
We're on the same team.
Let's roll.
Okay.
COVID was more political because Trump was hated so much where it's like, no, no, China cannot be the enemy.
Trump has to be the enemy because we've got to get rid of this guy.
We had a shot at unifying during COVID to have them, Republicans, conservative libertarians, forget about it.
Americans against China.
That's the enemy.
There was a hesitation to make an outside influence the enemy.
It was easier to have somebody like Trump because they didn't want him to do whatever he was working on.
Do you think this could be something that unifies us or no, this is still going to be something that's going to stay divided?
It could be something that unifies us, but it's not going to happen out of the White House because they're not going to talk about this.
I mean, the White House, the enemy of the progressive socialist left is anyone that opposes their ideological agenda.
You know, think about this.
How interesting it was that during the uprising and the protests in Hong Kong, you had those students there in Hong Kong carrying American flags and singing the national anthem.
You can't get kids on our college camps to carry American flags and sing the national anthem because we don't talk about liberty.
We don't talk about freedom.
We don't talk about totalitarianism and the purveyors thereof.
And we don't have even a president that talks about China is killing and murdering Americans.
18 to 14.
What's the number one killer of Americans 18 to 14 right now?
I mean, 18 to 45, I'm sorry.
18 to 15.
It's Fentinol.
But we don't have a president that talks about it.
We don't have a president that goes down and says that the drug cartels are, you know, they're a terrorist organization that's pushing human and sex trafficking.
That should unite us, human and sex trafficking, the drug trafficking.
But that's not the enemy.
That's not the issue because what they want is complete, total control of America.
So this is what becomes a concern.
I sat down with General McChrystal, I think, five years ago, six years ago, and he's a four-star, and he's good friends with Obama.
And he is a Democrat.
He's on the left.
And I think his father was a two-star uncles, all this stuff were like one-stars or colonels and all these things.
And then you learn, you're like, okay, how do you become a two-star?
There's a difference between a two-star and a one-star, two-star.
You need to, you know, one star, you can kind of do your own, whatever you need to do to get there.
But two, three, four-star, I need these guys to like me to kind of say, yes, you're approved to get this.
So to me, the compensation structure is almost structured in a way where you have to compromise your values to get the next level promotion, if that makes any sense.
It does.
So it's set up in a way where I have to be willing to compromise what I love most about this country and what I protected all these years for my own individual legacy.
And I go from being a statesman to a politician to, hey, there's no way in the world you can get me to do XYZ.
No, listen, if you do that, we'll do this, no problem.
And so how much of this stuff is where, you know, a person is sitting there saying, listen, China, if you do this, I want to be a president, just let me do this.
How much, how dirty behind closed door does it get where it's holding people hostage over a promotion, holding people hostage over what they know of what you did 17 years ago, holding people hostage of saying, let me tell you what I got about you, what happened 18 years ago.
If you don't keep your mouth shut, that's going to come out.
How much of that holding hostage happens where somebody, Powell, you're like, what just happened to you?
How did you go from this to come?
This doesn't sound like the same person here.
How much of that happens behind closed doors?
A lot.
But it's not just behind closed doors.
It happens in open doors.
And I think the American people are starting to see that.
I mean, it's becoming more and more transparent.
Why do you have a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff making unsolicited phone calls to the general over in China?
I mean, back in the day, I mean, you get hold up for treason.
You don't do that.
Look, there's too much self-interest and special interest that's hurting the United States of America.
And you just brought up something great.
We don't have statesmen and stateswomen.
We have politicians.
And the difference between a statesman and a politician is that a politician is going to tell you what they think you want to hear because they want you to vote.
But a statesman is going to tell you what you need to hear, regardless of the circumstances and the consequences.
Can statesmen get elected today?
That's the problem.
It comes back to us.
The compensation plan is not set up to reward statesmen.
But it's also, you know, our societal model is that we want to be told what we want to hear, what makes us happy, what makes us comfortable.
But you've got to be able to look at yourself in the mirror.
Look, I was redistricted out of this district that I represented, and I was honored to do it by Republicans.
And I was the first black Republican member of Congress since Reconstruction.
Now, you have to ask yourself, why would the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, the party that freed the slaves and everything, why would they take the first black Republican member from Florida since Reconstruction and redistrict him out?
And then I was the number one target for the Democrats in 2012 because people don't want to have folks that have the courage and the conviction to stand up and say what needs to be said.
That shines a light on them that they're not comfortable with.
And we have got to get a mature level.
Again, it comes back to being adults.
Patrick, we got to be mature in America.
We got to start looking and saying, AOC, that's the best that we can have.
You know, what's her name from Minnesota?
Omar.
Omar.
Elon Omar.
Rashida Talib.
Rashida Talib, Presley.
I mean, I can go down the list and I can go on the other side, but we've got to have people that are concerned.
I mean, once upon a time, you could not be president of the United States of America if you had not worn a uniform.
If you had not fought in combat, people would laugh at you.
Once upon a time, 50 years ago, over 70% of the members of Congress had served in uniform.
Today, that number's like 18%.
Get out of here.
I'm not coming on you.
I'm not 18 to 18%.
No, I'm saying from 70, 50 years ago to 18%.
Absolutely.
Go back and look at that.
And so, you know, what is happening is that the people that this country trusted, the people that said, you know, I'm going to raise my right hand.
I'm going to take an oath to support and defend what?
The rule of law, the Constitution of the United States of America.
I'm not taking an oath that says I'm going to support me, my pocket, these special interests that come up here.
You're right, 18.4%.
The incoming U.S. House of Representatives will have 80 members who've served in a military at some level or 18.4% of total membership according to Pew Research.
That's embarrassing.
That's embarrassing.
But again, that's a reflection of who?
Us as the American people.
You know, we've forgotten what leadership is.
We have forgotten what service and sacrifice and commitment is.
That was, you know, yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
My older brother came back from Vietnam and took his dress Marine uniform and threw it into the closet.
And the most important thing you can say to a Vietnam veteran is welcome home, because they didn't get to hear it.
But we have forgotten about those men and women and what they're willing to do, the sacrifices, to the point where now someone can say, who cares that you lost a friend in Afghanistan?
Who cares if you lost limbs in Afghanistan?
I'm going to give Afghanistan back to the people that you fought to get out of power.
Can you imagine what that means to a young man or woman that spent years of their lives over in a place, they saw their buddies die or like I said, lose limbs.
And now we put the exact same people back in charge.
And left them your equipment.
First of all, this is staggering to be thinking about how a few people, one of the best things that happened to me, the two and a half years I spent in the Army as a 63 Bravo Hummer mechanic at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, AIT and boot camp was at Fort Jackson.
101st.
Air assault, life-changing.
I went from a boy into a man, and I'll remember Drill Sergeant Purdle.
I befriended him on Facebook 15 years later.
I'm like, do you remember me at Drill Sergeant Green, Drill Sergeant, all these guys that remember what they did?
An 18-year-old kid that's undecided on what to do with their lives, with their career, there's a lot military can do for you.
I don't know about today's military.
It's slightly different today with what they're doing.
Totally different.
Very different than when I went, and I like the fact that they were screaming, hollering, challenging you, trying to mentally break you down to see all that you can be in the army.
But here's a question.
So it's easy to sit there and say Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, socialist, socialist, socialists, all these guys.
Okay, I'm a business guy.
When I lost market share in an area, I would say, what did we do wrong to lose that market share?
You know, like, what did we do?
Like, you're saying this as well.
The first thing you talked about is it's on us, Pat.
It's on you and I. What do we do?
Why are we allowing this thing to happen, right?
But some people may say, dude, I'm not Carl Rove, who was the strategist.
I'm not, you know, David Dave, who was George Bush, the guy that was a heavyweight guy for many years.
I'm forgetting his name.
The book was written about a phenomenal book, who was his chief of staff.
I think the chief of staff of President Bush, what was his name?
Anyways, I'll think about the name.
I'll tell you the name.
You know exactly who I'm talking about.
Anyways, I'll put it up.
I'll give you the name.
These guys were strategists behind closed doors.
These guys could take somebody and bring them up and they're saying, hey, we should do this or we should do that.
You saw this week we were talking about Silicon Valley companies, how Larry Ellison and five of these other companies all used the same word to say, moving forward, you're working from office or you're not because we need a collaborative environment for you to work out of the office.
You can't do it through Zoom.
Those guys had a conversation together and said, guys, we got to use a similar word, collaborative.
See these channels that say the same phrase, and you see one video, one reporter says it, then nine, then this.
They're all saying the same thing.
Where did Republicans lose it?
What strategy?
Because Democrats outflanked, they had a better strategy than Republicans where their offer was more attractive to people the last 10, 20, 30, 40 years.
Did Republicans sit on the sidelines?
Were they getting casual?
Did they get soft?
Did they not really value the enemy?
Did they think the enemy is not that important?
Did they have a blind spot?
If they did, where was that?
You know, I just finished a book that was written by a Republican California state senator H.L. Richardson.
It's called Confrontational Politics.
You know, right now, it is less, Patrick, about Republican and Democrat.
It's less about political parties.
It is more about philosophies of governance.
The United States of America was founded on a very incredible revolutionary premise that the individual is supreme and sovereign over the institution of government.
Now, we have people that believe that the institution of government, being at the federal, state, local levels, are supreme and sovereign over the individual.
They make decisions based upon that.
They're more so concerned about how do we make the individual wedded to us?
How do we make the individual dependent upon us?
And you can look at the policies that come forward.
We have got to get to the point where we go back and talk about individual rights, freedoms, liberties.
And we have been lacking in that.
We are always chasing the other side, the left.
And, you know, one of the things the Army taught me, you can carry your three by five cars around because, you know, Army guys ain't really smart.
Air Force guys are real smart.
They don't need 3x5 cars.
But Army guys got to carry around 3x5 cars.
And let me just share this quote with you.
This quote is from the 1950s.
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
They come to be accepted by degrees by dent of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.
Wow.
1950s, Iran.
And that's what is happening.
That's what you're talking about.
You're talking about the last 50, 60, 70 years slowly, but surely, this little incrementalism.
We keep creeping along.
We destroy the family.
We take over Hollywood.
We take over the media.
We take over every aspect of our operating culture.
Now we take over the military.
And this is where we find ourselves.
And so we don't, you know, we may be successful in a political cycle, but we're up against people, being in China, Russia, whomever, and also people here in the state.
They don't think in political cycles.
They think the 300-meter target.
You remember when we used to go to the rifle range, you had a 25-meter target out to the 300?
They think about the 300-meter target.
If not longer, by the way.
If not longer.
But they will, you know, make sure the 25-meter target, they're proficient at it and able to go out to the.
G and Putin say 100 years.
Absolutely.
They're not going to be alive in 100 years.
Look how proud.
They're going to be alive in 25.
But the point is, look how Tom, look how proud they are of their country.
That it is their country.
They're not going to let somebody else come and be above it over their own lives.
100 years is what they're talking about.
And we are, what, 246 years old as a nation?
43 now.
2047, I think, right?
2023.
Yeah, 2023.
You said something very important.
You used the phrase cultural Marxism.
A cultural Marxism really has two tenets.
And the first tenant is there is no absolute truth.
And the second tenet is that the state is supreme.
So when you take those two, Pat, they're so simple to say, and you can put everything follows underneath it.
And it says, how do you break, you break religions?
Okay.
No absolute truth.
The state is supreme.
That's how you break family.
That's how you break the authority of parents.
That's how you have the authority over kids.
Those are the two truths.
And I look at it, and I was reading this week because we were looking at all this stuff, and I'm like, Who is telling the person that is coming to the United States today to immigrate?
You know, the political refugee or whoever they are, they're coming to this American ideal.
So, somewhere in the world, there is still this concept of freedom and liberty and enablement.
And I want to go to America because they're still coming here.
And I don't mean the ones that are being trafficked here, southern border.
I'm talking about ones that still legitimately want to come here for what it is.
Out there in the world, there is a greater reputation of America than we have among ourselves.
You know, I had Gordon Chen on during COVID, two and a half years.
He used to live in, he was a lawyer in China, I think, for like 20 years or something like that.
He said the one number that's changed time a little bit to pay attention to is before kids would come from other countries here and they would go to school here and then they would say, damn, this place is great.
And then they would stay here.
Versus now, kids are coming here to our schools, learning what we're teaching them, and now they're taking what we taught them back to their countries.
So, meaning the brightest are no longer staying, they're going back.
This is the argument that he was making that they're now able to bring him back to their country versus before.
Now, you can look at the statistics of China.
Their net migration right now is negative.
They're losing people.
I don't know if you saw the stats for 2022.
It wasn't a good look.
They're losing people.
So is Russia.
Russia lost a lot of people that left them as well.
So some can say statistically, you know, Russia, there it is.
So current net migration rate for China 2023, minus 0.256 per thousand population, a 0.79 increase from 2029.
Net migration for China.
Do you have the one for Russia as well?
Because I think both of them are down.
They're not looking good.
Oh, wait, while you're looking this up, remember, this comes out of readily available country information.
The actual truth of these numbers is probably higher because China and Russia are skewing down the numbers they report.
Well, you have 2022.
What you don't have is 2020.
2022 was 0.78 per thousand, a decline of 14.42%.
And, you know, it's going to be higher this year as well, obviously, with what's going on there.
But America is still that country.
But you know, sometimes when you're Mike Tyson and you go into a ring, people are shivering.
They're shaking.
They're like, oh my God, it's Mike.
And you're debating, do I buy this pay-per-view or not?
Because it's going to be less than 30 seconds.
Is it worth it?
And guess what, guys?
If you're going to come over to watch the fight, bring dominoes, bring Scrabble, bring spades, because we're probably going to be playing cards.
We're only going to be watching a fight for less than a minute.
Okay.
And then this guy shows up that he proved that Tyson is human.
Buster Douglas.
And he comes here like, this guy can be beat?
What are you talking about?
Right.
And then next thing you know, Holyfield, a couple other guys, they're like, oh, you know, I can get him.
John Jones has proven he's the scariest man in the world.
He looked out of shape this time.
Some people said, there's no way this guy's going to beat, you know, Gagne or whatever.
Yeah.
And I was kind of like concerned because I'm like, I've not seen this guy beat this heavy for a long time.
Boom.
What does he do?
Wasn't even close, right?
They still fear this man.
The problem with America is if America was a fighter, the last few years, America's had losses in the ring and people don't fear America anymore.
And we've allowed that to become a reality.
That's my only concern.
When you walk into a bar and everybody knows you are America and everybody kind of like, hey, guys, listen, U.S. is here.
Now it's kind of like, hey, what's up?
How you doing?
You want a drink?
Get him a drink on us.
You don't talk to America like that.
Now they are.
How do we get here?
Who's sitting at this bar stool?
Yours, sir.
Yeah, it's very simple how we got here.
Ronald Reagan once coined the phrase peace through strength, and we don't believe that strength is something we should embrace.
We should embrace, you know, kumbaya, and we have allowed people to become near peers.
You know, in the Middle East, I remember when I was in Iraq in 2003, and I was just north of Baghdad.
And as a matter of fact, I was at the intersection where the road came from Ramadi and Fallujah, hit Highway 1 and went into the Sunni triangle.
We called it the hot corner.
So I sat down and said, well, I got to meet the sheikhs out here because I got to let these guys know that I'm here and who I am.
And it was about 45 to 50 sheikhs that we've got together.
And the senior sheikh or whatever you want to call it, the most respected guy pulled me off to the side for a meeting.
And through the interpreter, he said that everyone here is looking for one thing out of you, whether or not you're strong.
If you're strong, you'll be able to control this area.
If you're not strong, they're going to run all over you.
And that's what people understand.
There are people that only understand in the world strength and might.
You know, compromise, appeasement, negotiation, sending them billions of dollars in an unmarked, darked-out plane in the middle of the night, that is weakness.
And what they see coming out of the White House, what they see coming out of our foreign policy, and again, I come back to the debacle in Afghanistan, that's weakness.
And weakness is enticing.
And that's where we are.
And when they can read and pull down what you have up here, they can see what's happening in our military.
Ronald Reagan had our surface warship fleet of the United States Navy at about 575 warships.
The low point, we were down to 235 just recently.
Now we're trying to get back over 300.
Now, I'm going to say something that hurts me as a soldier, but it's true.
How do you extend the hegemonic dominance of a nation?
It ain't through an army.
It's through a Navy.
The Athenians were more powerful than the Spartans.
The Spartans were great warriors on land, but the Athenians could extend their power.
And so you think about anytime you see a country that is heavily involved in growing their maritime fleet.
Last time it happened in Asia, who was it?
And it's happening again.
China is outpacing our Navy because they see that it is weakness, and that's how they can go all over the world and start pushing their policies and agendas because they see weakness.
We got a window.
And if we don't correct this window, 2024 is a pivotal election cycle.
I hate to put it that way.
It's a pivotal election in the future.
Why?
Because if we continue down this path, we're done.
It may not be recoverable.
It really may not be.
Every four years I hear that.
Okay.
And I want to push back.
But the numbers speak to it.
In two and a half years, you've gone from 1.4% inflation to over 6% inflation.
Hard watermark was 9.1% inflation.
And even people say, well, that's because of Russia.
It was 7.
Before even Russia.
You've gone from 6% GDP down to, what, less than 2% GDP?
You're decimating your military.
You've gone from energy independence to energy dependence.
I mean, I can just tick it off all the way down.
Our economic security or oil and energy security, you've got a border.
I mean, can we take another four years on top of this with what?
Another, what, 10 million people coming across the border illegally?
Not just the southern border, but now the northern border.
That's why I'm saying that this is a critical election cycle because the numbers and the facts point to this is unsustainable.
Okay, so if you're right, you know the whole thing where you got Bush, you got Clinton, you got Clinton.
Clinton didn't hate America, though.
No, I agree.
But what I'm saying is you got senior, which is Bush.
Okay, then you got Clinton.
Okay, after Clinton, you got Bush.
After Bush, you got Obama.
After Obama, you got Trump.
After Trump, you got Biden, right?
For the last six presidents, the only one is Reagan.
Reagan did such a great job that people said, we just want another.
Reagan will take his replacement, which is what?
His VP, bring him in.
So typically, if the VP becomes it, maybe they kind of trusted what that situation was.
But how much of a good job are Republicans doing at presenting the argument to say they're not.
Okay, so that's why.
Their messaging sucks.
So if their messaging sucks, did you watch?
So let me just ask the question about Trump and DeSantis.
How do you feel about their chances right now of winning 2024, Trump and DeSantis?
I will tell you what I hear all over the country is that people are looking for something to get away from this Biden administration, but they don't want the drama.
They just want people that are going to go in and fix these things that we're talking about.
But let me give you a great case in point, what you're talking about.
The debt of United States of America, when I came into Congress from right out here in South Florida in 2011, was $14 trillion.
2011.
Was it today?
Today.
32.
And that's Republicans and Democrats.
Remember what I said?
This is not about party.
It's about philosophy of governance.
It's about understanding that the individual, your rights, freedoms, and liberty, our small business free market entrepreneurship program, that is supreme over the government.
And the government is supposed to set the conditions for that success.
It doesn't matter R ⁇ D. There are some very simple, and you said it perfectly.
There are objective truths out there that work.
And when you don't do objective truths, then you get bad stuff.
I love college football.
In college football, I don't care what kind of play you draw up.
If you don't block and tackle, you lose.
We're not blocking and tackling.
And that's a bipartisan issue.
And so we have got to, again, it comes back to us.
We have got to elect the people that are going to go up there and do what is right by America and be focused on these issues that are confronting us and get the policies back in place without all the extraneous white noise that's going on.
But this is a critical time for this country because there's no aspect of our operating systems right now that are functional.
Now, okay, so you're saying that.
Let me keep going with this story here until we go to the next one.
So here's a story by The Hill.
Biden tops Trump by two points in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, trails DeSantis.
A new Quinnipeg University poll finds that President Biden is in close hypothetical races with two leading candidates, Republican Party's 2024 nomination.
Biden leads former President Trump in a hypothetical 2024 rematch with 48% support to Trump's 46.
In a hypothetical election between Biden and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the other front run for GOP, Biden, trails 46 to DeSantis' 48.
The poll found Trump leading DeSantis in a head-to-head, but behind with the former president earning 52% to DeSantis' 42%.
Biden, Trump, and DeSantis all had similar favorable ratings amongst registered voters, with 37% having a favorable view of Biden, 36% of Trump, and 36% of DeSantis.
So in this case, they're saying Trump beats DeSantis, but Trump doesn't beat Biden.
And if DeSantis wins, DeSantis could beat Biden.
How aligned are you with what this poll is showing?
No, I think that that poll is very accurate, what is out there.
And it's interesting that Ron DeSantis has those numbers.
He hadn't even declared.
And so I think that you will see an improvement in his numbers if he declares.
Look, Ron DeSantis won the state of Florida in his first election by less than 1%.
Over Andrew Gillum, right?
Or Andrew Gillum, Mayor of Tallahassee.
What was the thing that took Ron DeSantis over the top and brought single black mothers to vote for him?
Educational freedom, school choice.
That is the forefront issue right now.
Donald Trump would have said it was him, though.
Yeah, well, that's the thing.
Leadership is not about first person singular.
And if I could, if he was sitting right there, I'd tell him that.
You got to stop using first person singular because that's not how you lead people.
That's how you get the attention on you.
But now that's been signed in the law here in Florida.
And when he came back for his reelection, I mean, he won Palm Beach County.
He won Miami-Dade County.
He won by almost 20% of the country.
Never happens where a Republican carries Miami-Dade County.
Never.
One and a half million, by one and a half million votes.
Now, Dems will say Charlie Chris is hands down the worst candidate in the history of mankind who is every single day.
So is Joe Biden.
And again, you know, Charlie Chris was out there touting the policies, woke stuff, and all this other stuff of Joe Biden.
The American people were rejected if they had something clear to say.
It's just the same as Jimmy Carter coming out and Ronald Reagan.
Remember that Ronald Reagan commercial this morning in America?
Who could not vote for that?
There was only one state in the United States of America that never voted for Ronald Reagan.
That was Minnesota.
Did you see, yeah, that's right, 49 out of 50 votes.
And by the way, Carter is the, Biden is the closest thing to Carter, if not, well, he's not yet worse data-wise, but he's worse in other ways.
At least Carter was liked.
And, you know, he's a man.
A Navy submariner, academy graduate.
No one could sit and say Carter hated America.
Just the same as Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton pivoted after his midterm debacle.
People will say Bill Clinton loved women more than America.
That's an argument.
That is an argument.
I defer to that.
Well, they were all American women.
Yeah, they were American women.
But Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton is the guy who stood.
That's good.
Tom, that may be one of your best talks.
He didn't like no firmness.
Don't.
Tom is.
But you were saying Clinton loved America.
I agree.
But Bill Clinton is the guy who stood up in a state of union address and said the era of big government is over.
Do you think a Democrat could stand up in a state of union address and say that?
No.
And so that's why, you know, the blue dog demo, the conservative demo, whatever you want to call it, they don't exist anymore.
But the thing is that we have to run on these issues.
We have to get out there and find out what are the things that you just talked about earlier.
What brings us together?
How can we galvanize ourselves?
And I will tell you, the issue of education galvanizes this country.
It really does, because I think that parents are concerned about the future for their children.
Look at these inner cities.
I mean, Chicago, Baltimore.
These kids cannot function math and English at grade level.
I fully agree with you.
I think the education in kids is not a Republican or Democratic argument.
It's all across the board.
Just like Roe v. Wade, if you notice the stats on a midterm store, it's like, hey, you know, this is something that if you pushed it the way you did, you know, they said McConnell did this to kind of hurt Trump's look to say he lost.
You read all those stories.
You know what I'm talking about.
But there's certain things that the American people are saying.
Leave this alone.
We're kind of at this point here.
I think education is being one of them.
But I want to continue.
Did you see DeSantis on Pierce Morgan?
Yeah.
You watched the whole interview?
Well, not the whole interview.
Zero to 10.
What do you give it?
I give him 7.5.
Okay.
Do you think he to win at the next level, like, you know, you read the story about Roger Ailes, how Roger Ailes went to Nixon in 1960 and said, you know why you lost?
You lost because you need a guy like me.
I'm going to be your what?
Your whatever.
And you need me to come in here and help you.
Media coach.
And then he came in and helped him out, and the Nixon won.
And he did the same thing with McConnell saying, real the fish in, dummy.
You know, it's like, so McConnell wins.
Great documentary.
Does it with Sean Hannity and all these guys?
The Divide and Conquer documentary explains the whole story, right?
Do you think charm and charisma selling yourself today is important for DeSantis to be able to win it?
Or do you think America's going to be okay to say no?
We just want a guy that's going to get the job done.
We don't care if a guy wants to go out there and shake hands, biz dev, do any of that stuff.
Do you think that's necessary or no?
Americans are visual.
Americans want folks to show that they like.
Look, go back in the televised debate between Nixon and Kennedy.
If you listen to it, don't look at it.
You listen to it.
It was Nixon.
But the fact that Nixon looked like he had the five o'clock shadow, you know, Kennedy looked young.
You know, Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln probably couldn't make it today.
And even back then, they said, Abe, you got to kind of like grow a beard because of your face.
It looks too scrawny and everything.
All his pictures, he had the high collar to reduce the length of his neck.
I mean, America's visual.
Go back to 2012 in the election between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
The exit polls, everyone said who would have been better to handle the economy?
Mitt Romney.
But who did you like?
Barack Obama.
So there is an aspect of it.
And what I tell people, all the candidates that say, hey, you know, I'd like to get your endorsement.
Can you tell me what?
Image and message.
Those are the two aspects of a person running for office or campaign, whatever, image and message.
The other side always wins on image because their message sucks.
But people are so focused on their image.
I mean, Barack Obama.
I mean, you looked at him on television and you're just like, wow.
But it's the same thing you see every single Sunday in the black church, you know, the very charismatic pastor and everything like that.
But if you just read a speech of Barack Obama, you would say, what is he talking about?
And the same thing with Biden in a way.
So his image was horrible, so they put him in a basement and nobody talked about anything.
What did they do?
They attacked the image of Donald Trump.
So yes, you've got to go and look at the charismatic aspect of leadership.
But I wrote this down because I knew you were going to come to that.
Leadership is about what the Army taught me five Cs.
The first C is courage.
People want to see a courageous person.
They want to see a courageous leader.
The second C is competence.
Because as you know, no one follows a dummy into a firefight.
So they want to know they have a competent leader.
The next C is commitment, a commitment to a core set of principles and values.
I mean, you can say what you want about Ron Reagan, but you know he was committed to America.
He was committed to the Constitution.
He was committed to our fundamental principles and values.
Then you got to be convicted.
That's the fourth C. Because even when the winds blow, the polls say this, whatever, you got to stay true North.
Leaders stay true North.
They're committed to something and they're convicted to it.
And then the last thing is character.
Doing what is right when no one's watching.
That's what I taught soldiers.
That's what I taught my daughters.
Five C's.
Courage, competence, commitment, conviction, and character.
And when you understand that and you realize, okay, the two phases, image and message, and you bring all that together, you're powerful.
You're going to win 49 out of 50.
So what are you saying about?
DeSantis, to me, has all five of those.
I think he's got courage.
I think he's got competence.
I think he's got commitment.
I think he is conviction.
He's got conviction.
I think he's a man of character.
I think he's got those things.
But this is a difference.
I want to show you this.
This is Dr. Albert Mehrabian's 738-55 rule.
And I don't know if it's his or somebody else's, but I've seen this and I've read this in books.
You've seen it as well.
7% is a spoken word today, elements of communication.
38% is voice and tone.
55% is body language.
Does this favor DeSantis?
This is what I, and you're going to identify with this.
Remember when you first reported into a unit?
Yes.
I remember when officers reported in the meeting.
Clearly.
Knock on the door.
They come in.
You're sizing them up.
They're not saying anything.
You're looking at their uniform.
You're looking at their boots.
They're especially looking at their haircut, comportment, and everything.
And then when they stand before you and they open up their mouth, either confirms or denies that 55%.
So what are you saying?
What I'm saying is that you've got to have that visual appearance first and foremost.
He has the appearance.
And I think that everything falls from that.
It's just the same as if I came in here and I'm Lieutenant Carl retired Alan Westman.
I'm sitting over here with a beard.
I'm 200 pounds overweight.
You're going to say, what kind of colonel is that guy?
So you have to present that R, that atmosphere.
I mean, again, Ronald Reagan, his body language, his physical presence.
He was an actor.
He knew how to sell.
It comes back, what I say, image and message.
And you've got to win the image battle really before you get to the message battle, which is what you say.
So again, I want to go back to it.
Does he have the complete package to win on the big stage with the camera on him 24-7, having to show some charm, some charisma, some vulnerability, likability instead of just what he does?
Yes, I absolutely believe he does.
And what's even better, you know what his greatest asset is?
Results.
His wife, who was in the media.
And so she will make sure he knows how to do, you know, bring that all together.
Santa's his wife, you're saying.
Yeah.
That's his great.
Some people said it wasn't a good look, the way he did media.
And look, I'll go to many details.
But I know, I saw the match.
But he's got to learn that.
I mean, is that enough to learn in a year?
He ain't got that much time because before he announces it, you know, there's a difference between going against the Chris.
I think the last time he had a real battle was Gillam more than it was Chris, right?
So, you know, you remember when Rick Perry came out?
I remember that guy's going to be the president.
He's going to be president.
The three different oops.
And you're like, oh, man, this guy's done.
And he was on fire going to California.
If you're sick and tired of regulation, come to Texas.
We'll know how to take care of him.
Like, I'm going to Texas.
I went and met with him.
We're at a Texas Rangers game.
I'm like, this guy's freaking amazing.
The charm, the charisma.
This guy could be a president one day.
Boom.
Doesn't happen because of that.
So there's a difference between big stage.
Well, I agree.
So this is the part where there are a lot of people that want this guy to do it.
There are a lot of people that want this guy to pull it off.
There's a lot that want.
But in business and in leadership, there's a difference between wanting a guy because you like him so much and it actually happening.
And it ends up being another guy that maybe you don't like that much.
Sometimes it's confusing this thing of leadership.
Well, yes, but I will tell you that if you make a mistake, but people feel it was an honest mistake and you own it, the American people are forgiving.
But if you make a mistake and you're arrogant about it, they're not going to be so forgiving.
And that's part of this.
I don't think people are looking for that perfect person.
I don't think that that perfect candidate is going to be a lot of fun.
See what I'm saying, though, because I think because I actually think if we are looking for more the perfect person, he is more perfect than Trump is perfect.
Trump has a hundred times more imperfections than this guy does.
We can name different girls and we can go through the imperfection list, right?
So a lot of people could say Trump is more imperfect and he's perfect the other way around.
But to me, I'm not coming from policy.
I'm not coming from, there's a whole different criticism to say this guy's more the establishment than Trump is.
And while we're going through a season like this, where you're talking about China, Iran, Russia, Saudi, Juan, you know, Ukraine, Russia, when, you know, what's going on there, Afghanistan, you know, Taliban, everybody's attacking us internally, the swamp.
Dude, there needs to be somebody that's gone through God knows how many different ways of negotiation in the streets of New York, real estate.
Some people are saying, if you are saying, Alan, the problem in the world is so bad, you need a scary type of guy where they fear, where the other side is going to say, holy shit, this is not the one guy I want to face off.
I would much rather take a guy that knows how to follow the guidelines to move up in his career than another guy that's broken the rules every once in a while, where he may be willing to go places that others are not willing to go.
This guy doesn't seem like he's going to be able to do it.
What you just did, you made the argument for a George Patton.
George Patton had all kind of flaws.
Eisenhower, I mean, he drove, Patton drove Eisenhower crazy.
But Patton understood one thing.
George Patton won.
And he knew that he needed him.
Maybe sometimes he had to put him in timeout, like what you saw after the little soldier slapping incident, but he knew that he had to bring him off the sidelines and get him back into the fight.
You've read the book Lincoln on Leadership by Donald D. Phillips.
I think it's Donald Phillips, and he, chapter 11, where he says, search until you find your grant.
And he has this guy named McClellan.
You know who McClellan?
Oh, McClellan.
Yeah, absolutely.
Phenomenal, right?
But he was a trainer.
He was a thinker, but he was a trainer.
He wasn't a doer.
He wasn't a field general.
And then he gets this guy, never reports anything back, never tells him what's going on.
He can't find where Grant is.
He's hearing about Grant's drinking.
He's doing this.
He's doing that.
But at the end of the day, he wins.
He freaking wins.
Becomes one of the worst presidents we've had.
He was not necessarily the best president, two-term president, but he was a great exchange leg for, you know, Lincoln.
Hey, you do your part.
You win the war.
You make us look good.
You be the president.
It kind of worked out for him.
But to me, I'm wondering if we have a situation here like that.
I may be wrong.
At the end of the day, anything is better than what we have today.
Correct.
Anything is better than what we have today.
You know, Bill Maher the other day called Trump.
He says, I think Trump is the greatest politician of all time.
He says, and I don't even think he knows that he's the greatest politician of all time.
I don't even think he knows that he knows what he's doing, but he's the greatest politician of all time.
He said this on the show last week.
He said, there is gamesmanship here, Alan.
This is a dark world.
So for me, if you're going to call a guy to be your captain, you have to make sure that captain knows the dirty side.
When I ran a small office and I was an agent selling insurance, nobody cared about me.
Patrick's a nice guy.
Then when I ran a top office insurance in San Fernando Valley, people outside of San Fernando Valley love me.
But people in San Fernando Valley didn't like me.
So if I went in the mall and I saw a competitor, you mother of Vietnam.
Because I'm a direct competitor, but in San Fernando Valley.
We all went to the same church.
We all went to the same gyms, the same LA Fitness, the same this, the same that.
So then all of a sudden, I'm competing in the state.
Then it's regional.
Then it's national.
The moment we became national and then we started writing 2,000, 3,000 policies a month, then I all of a sudden realize, shit, this thing is real.
A lot of these guys were all sympathetic and understanding why you're so great.
And now it's like they're calling other insurance companies for me to lose my contract.
Got it.
So this is the game.
I got to go read a bunch of war books.
I got to go read a bunch of 33 strategies who are the war power books.
Then I understood the game.
So the next level he's going to go into is going to be a thousand times darker than what it was in COVID.
And if the American people are going to say he's the guy, great.
I think he is a man of character.
I think he is fully a man who loves America.
I think he is a tough guy.
But it'll be interesting how the American voter, whether they pick him.
By the way, it's still too early to tell anyways.
Everybody right now is saying, oh, it's done.
Trump's going to win the whole thing.
He's going to be the president.
I don't think it's going to be that way because I think there's more dark strategies that they have up their sleeves that we don't know about.
But that is the concern of a lot of people when I talk to them.
Well, it's a two-person race on the Republican side.
I don't care what, you know, all these other folks that are jumping in there, what, 3% here, 2% there.
It's a two-person race.
They're all racing for a VP position.
They won't say that, but without a doubt they are.
And you just brought up a great point.
It really is about who you surround yourself with.
You know, in the military, a general is only as good as the staff.
And so if you want to give counsel to a guy like Aron DeSantis, you better pick the right staff to go around you to get you ready to go out there to be on this big stage.
And I would make the same offer to President Trump.
President Trump made some bad choices and selections and the people that he surrounded himself with in his term in office.
So learn from that and get the right type of people around you because I think that it's so important that you have someone.
I never wanted an XO, an S3, definitely a sergeant major.
I don't want a sergeant major that told me everything I want to hear.
I want the sergeant major to pull me out to the side and say, Colonel, you're about to screw this up.
Let me tell you something.
And he would never do it in public.
Of course.
But the Sergeant Major is my right-hand man.
That's why he was the Sergeant Major.
So Trump needs a sergeant major.
DeSantis needs a sergeant major.
And hopefully they will go out and find that person that's going to tell them, you know, unequivocally, you're screwing this up, but here's how you can fix it.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it sounds like you're more on a DeSantis camp than a Trump camp at this point.
Would I be fair in saying that?
I'm on a camp that's focused on fixing, correcting policy and solutions.
I don't want the camp that's out there going, you know, with the Mickey Mouse stuff.
I don't have time for the Mickey Mouse stuff.
I see where this country is headed.
I see what we are confronting against.
And you're right.
There's some dark enemies out there.
And we have to ask someone day one, they can start going right at this thing and getting it right.
And just push the media to the side.
Don't get involved with all of that backbiting stuff right there.
You've got to be focused on the things that the American people are going to ask you to do, which is to protect their life, their liberty, their property, pursuit of happiness.
Let me ask this question, Tom, and then I'm going to go to you first, okay?
Megan Kelly said the following.
She said, Megan Kelly slams DeSantis for rejecting an interview.
He is afraid.
Now, Megan Kelly, we know, is not for Trump, and everybody knows that.
If there's a person she's not for, so she's not lobbying because she's trying to get closer to Trump.
That's got to be.
Ever since that first debate stage.
Yeah, exactly.
Blood coming from everywhere.
Yeah, Megan Kelly revealed a Monday episode that Megan Kelly showed that Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor and likely 2024 presidential candidate, has been turning down her request to interview him on her Sirius XM show, suggesting that he's afraid of her interview style.
Kelly refused to soften questions to presidential candidates and explained that reporters are there for the viewers, not the candidates.
And journalists need to be adversarial with interviewees.
Kelly concluded by saying it disgusts her watching the press running cover for Biden and hardcore MAGA group running cover for Trump and that reports, reporters should stop falling in love with politicians and grow pair because their business is not to be loved.
It's to tell the truth.
Respect will get reporters an audience.
Love is for pundits who just want to say nice, sweet nothing.
So what do you think about what she says here?
I think she's right.
Oh, go to Tom.
Tom, what are your thoughts on this?
I think she's absolutely right.
And she makes an important point.
And what you've both been talking about in this whole line of leadership here, when you look around the world stage, the greatest compliment our adversaries have given U.S. presidents is when they say he's crazy.
When Reagan was about to be elected, you saw the Arab world, particularly Iraq, saying, that guy's crazy.
And that's because they didn't want to articulate their fear in public.
They said he's crazy.
When you look at the people that surrounded the Emperor of Japan, we now see through memoirs and things that come out when Truman dropped those bombs.
Now, those were dropped on military and civilian targets.
And it's horrible.
It's a horrible moment in history that it had to happen that way.
But they all told the emperor, FDR is dead.
Truman's crazy.
And that is where, you know, it's sort of the doctrine of Kaiser Sosai.
If you ever remember The Untouchables, they said the will to do one more thing that the other guy won't.
Unusual suspects.
Yes, yes, yes, right, right.
Unusual suspects.
And I think that's it.
Unusual suspects.
You know where I went with that right there.
Sorry about that.
But I think what Megan Kelly is asking for is like, hey, I'm not here for your talking points.
I'm trying to identify a leader.
That's kind of what I see because I see a certain purity in Megan Kelly's approach is that if you get through that gauntlet, you come out with a lot of respect.
And she's not there, I think, to play a game.
I don't disagree with her, though.
You know, I don't disagree with her.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah, I don't disagree with her.
I think there's a part.
And by the way, by the way, I don't think it's going to work for him.
I don't think it's going to work for him to do the following.
Okay.
For example, you know the strategy of, because Ron is using Biden's strategy.
There's no strategy different than he's not using Trump's strategy.
He's using Biden's strategy.
Keep a low profile.
What's Biden's strategy?
I'm telling you, if you watch Pierce Morgan's interview, you can tell a guy is interviewing him who would rather have him than Trump.
You can tell in the interview that it's a soft interview.
Yeah, he brings some stuff up, but it's very obvious for somebody that's an interviewer, you know how an interview is done, where it's like, if you're here, let's just say you're trying to be as neutral and moderate as possible with anybody you're interviewing.
Okay, if we know 5% you're for the guy, we're okay with it.
That's fine.
I can respect that.
But if you do an interview and you go 25% decided, you're not doing an interview.
You're hanging out with a friend is what you're doing.
That was a 25% interview of what he did.
Pierce Morgan did an interview with Andrew Tate.
It was sick because he pushed him.
And then Andrew had to kind of defend himself.
So Pierce is one of the best interviewers in the world.
But for me, DeSantis is using Biden's strategy because he's avoiding the hot seat.
And Trump is going to come out and say, if you just want to go interview with people that you like, that's Biden 2.0, what DeSantis is doing.
DeSantis needs to go do some real interviews that's going to be uncomfortable.
A part of the thing to me, you know who I put to blame on that?
I'm going to go where you went, but you gave credit.
But I'm not giving credit.
You know where I'm going with this?
Exactly.
I'm going to, who's his press secretary?
It ain't no Christina Pusha or the new guy that he has, you know, whoever it is.
Brian Something.
His press secretary is Casey.
But see, I would think that she would, you know, train him and get him to understand that, you know, let me do some mock interviews with you.
Let me throw.
You don't think they've done it?
Well, I don't know.
For sure they've done it.
Well, I would hope so.
I mean, I've seen some, you know, you've seen some bright lights when he has had some of these press conferences and leftist media has attacked him.
It's great, though, but that's when he wins.
I know, but that's what I'm saying.
I think that that's the asset that can help him.
It's just like when I became selected for a battalion command, I had to go through battalion command charm school.
And part of battalion command charm school was media relations.
And you had to sit in there.
You got a scenario and an incident had happened.
And you had a mock media and they came at you, man.
And I was like, dang, this is this is, they don't want it.
They redirect you.
And so you have to be able to be on.
And that's why I think she could be that asset for him.
But if she's not the sergeant major, she's not the sergeant major, if she's just playing, you know, cheerleader.
But you know what it is, though?
Here's what it is.
So you're a colonel, so I salute you.
I'm a 44-year-old specialist is the most I made it.
So I have no words.
The specialist gave me more headaches than anybody else.
But you know what?
Lieutenant Colonel P. Cox is who changed my life.
Till today, I wish I could find this man.
Lieutenant Colonel Peacock is a man that changed my life.
He was one of the men that changed my life.
I really respected the way he let me, a 20-year-old kid.
He was a good man, changed my life in a big way.
But here's the thing.
So let's just say you report to me hypothetically, and you're 25, I'm 35.
You're a fighter, okay?
It's very obvious you're a fighter.
I'm going to read that very quickly.
Okay.
So, and I know potentially you have what it takes to be a major lieutenant colonel.
You got a big upside, right?
And you're not even a second lieutenant right now.
Maybe you're an E6, E5.
You're about to become a second lieutenant.
Your father's going to come and put that on you at the special moment that you're going to have.
You're the E5 E6.
I'm going to put you in positions to fight because you are a fighter.
I think we just watched Creed the other day.
We're in the Rocky series with the kids.
I have to go through all of them.
I've watched this thing so many times, but I have to go through because I got two sons, 11 and 9, and they want to go through all of them.
Once we watch one Mission Impossible, we're going through 73 of them, right?
So however many they got.
And in Creed, there's a couple parts where it's like, you know, where Rocky takes responsibility for allowing Creed to fight Drago.
And he says, as a corner man, it was my fault.
And he was kind of afraid of it, right?
I think the corner man here is her.
And she has to let him go fight more of these fights.
And the longer you go, here's the problem.
The longer you delay this announcement and you go, it's going to take three months of 20 hardcore interviews to make you ready for the stage.
I don't understand this concept.
Like, this is the part about, dude, you don't know the, like, as smart as you and I may be, and we can come up with 93% of all the questions people are going to ask you.
You don't know the 7%.
We need the 7%.
And the 7% you're going to get is to go to a Megan Kelly, is to come over here and sit down with us and have a conversation.
It's not to go to people that are loving you.
They're going to vote for you.
That's not how you win.
Trump, the reason why Trump got the credit that he got from everybody, ask me any interview, anytime, any place.
Let's roll.
You don't have to like that guy.
You just have to say, this motherfucker, you know, he's willing to go anywhere.
But at least there's the respect and the fear because he's saying, I don't fear you.
He says, go ahead.
What do you want to say?
Hey, Trump, do you have any, are you a second amendment guy?
Yes, I am.
Do you want any guns?
I do.
Do you go out shooting?
It's none of your business.
Yeah, but how do you feel about the second amendment?
What's your question?
Get it out there.
Do you even know what you want to ask?
So now the interviewers are scared of the guest.
Versus in a situation like this, you can't ever pose yourself as you're afraid of the interviewer.
The interviewer has to walk in and be like, oh, shit, I'm interviewing a heavyweight.
Am I going to be ready?
Or is this guy going to school me?
DeSantis is not giving that energy out.
I don't know if you understand what I'm saying.
I did.
Carrie Lake.
You ever seen Carrie Lake?
She's a beast.
Try to get cornered in the hallway and she talks and turns and says, Excuse me.
Your publication said this two weeks ago and you said this.
I don't appreciate the paper.
Well, what you're talking about is that you never win on defense.
You only win by seizing the initiative, Carpe Diem, and going on offense.
And that's basically what the military teaches you.
There's no battle that's ever been won on defense.
I mean, even if you have a successful defense, you got to counterattack.
If you want to drive the enemy off the battlefield, Carl Von Collis was said that war is about the imposition of your will on your enemy.
And so that's how you have to start looking at this.
And you're bringing up a great point.
You know, how do you impose your will out there?
How do you make sure that you're imposing your message?
How do you come across as that really figure of strength and might that people can rally behind?
And that's what America's going to be like.
How did America learn about you?
America learned about you 13, 14, 15 years ago when you gave that revolution message.
I don't know if you know what Pasha I'm talking about.
That went viral.
It's all tens of hundreds of millions of views.
Who is this guy?
Military know who you were.
Army know who you were, but the rest of us didn't know who you were.
We're like, damn, I like this guy.
He's a freaking fighter.
This guy sounds like he could be a governor or president one day.
That's what we want to see.
The guys that are going to be voting and are going to be talking about you.
I think we have a fighter here.
His name is Ron DeSantis.
I think his corner is holding him back.
And I think his corner needs to realize this man knows how to fight.
Have you asked him to come on?
I have asked him to come on the show, and I've even asked him to hold a fundraiser at the house.
I have no problem holding a fundraiser at their house.
Give me the number.
We'll go raise it for you.
And he's actually done fundraisers in our community.
He's got the open invitation.
We've had the conversation.
Come down.
I'll bring 20 influencers that are people that have a lot of views and they're in the independent side.
These would be good guys to get on your side.
He's got the full invitation.
Christina Pusha was here.
I've spoken to his people.
We've sent the invite.
We've sent the email, all of it.
But I feel there's somebody behind closed doors.
I've already hinted who I think it is that is holding him back, not in a negative way, in a way of trying to be too perfect with your strategy.
But I think it's going to backfire because DeSantis is a brawler.
This guy's not a pansy.
He is a fighter.
He's a brawler.
But let him show his brawling abilities.
That's how America fell in love with him in two and a half years when there was a fight during COVID.
We learned about this guy.
I think we need to let him lose a little bit.
You know, you bring up a great point that you cannot sit around.
When we would go out to training rotations, National Training Center, Joint Readiness Training Center, the people that will always lose, the commanders that would always lose, were the ones that sat back and tried to come up with a 100% plan.
And what they taught you at these places that if you quickly come up with a 70% plan, but you execute it to 100% perfection, meaning that you are the one on the battlefield that can quickly adjust, that you're taking in all of the branches and sequels, then you're going to be successful.
So I see what you're saying is that Governor DeSantis, don't sit around and try to be perfect.
Don't try to be cute.
Come up and be yourself.
And on top of that, have the plan to be able to go out and be successful.
Understand that you're going to have to be able to adjust, improvise, adapt, and overcome.
But that's the essence of a true leader.
Because in combat, you can come up with the greatest plan ever, Tom.
But you know who has a vote?
The enemy.
And as we say, no plan survives first contact.
But at least you got to have a base structure of what you want to go into it.
And look, I sat back and watched your interviews before I came here.
And that's because I got to study.
I got to understand where I'm coming into.
And, you know, I just sat out and, you know, here are my little notes and whatever, because I've got to be able to quickly adjust off of what you're saying.
You're a fighter, though.
That's what, yeah.
No, you're a fighter then.
And so is DeSantis.
That's just who I am.
But I think DeSantis is a fighter.
I think Trump is a fighter.
And FYI, for me, this is going to sound weird to a lot of people.
I will do a fundraiser for Trump.
I will do a fundraiser for DeSantis.
I will do a fundraiser for Biden.
Confusing, ain't it?
And I would bring the same exact 20 people, and I would say, see if you can win these guys over.
Because if Biden comes to our house and we raise the money for you, you tell us what the number is.
They're going to say, dude, this guy doesn't seem presidential.
Hey, that's what happens.
Well, we got you the money.
What's the number?
Half a million?
Here's a half a million.
The 20 people are going to go and say, dude, I thought he was impressive.
He's not, I liked him, but this guy can't be the president.
It's not the case.
Or he's going to say, this guy's pretty impressive.
This isn't about me picking favorites right now.
We need a fighter today because the war is real.
The enemy is massive and they're unifying during a time like this, which I do believe when I was pushing back on the four years, I do believe this is the most important time, at least in my lifetime.
I don't think this is the time to be fooling around.
Think we need to be doing a better job selling the urgency, and I don't see urgency from DeSantis.
That's all I'm saying.
If you really are going to do it, what month are we right now?
What is it?
Is it going in April?
April, you got what?
April, you got 15 months.
When is your legislative session in?
Because that's what everyone's saying: he doesn't want to announce to legislation.
I think that's in May, I want to say.
Pat, can I ask you a question?
In regards to essentially, we started this conversation with Megan Kelly and going into enemy territory versus playing it safe, DeSantis.
I'm trying to rack my brain.
I can only think of two politicians in the last five, ten years who will go into enemy territory, but it hasn't necessarily worked out well with them in the last two election cycles.
The only two politicians that come to mind are Trump and Bernie Sanders, right?
Biden's not going to enemy territory.
Obama would barely even go on Bill Maher.
And that's the guy who would agree with him.
So we're questioning Ron DeSantis whether he should go into quote-unquote enemy territory and not like he'd be coming on Value Tame and PB podcast, enemy territory.
Full support over here for DeSantis.
The question is: playing it safe is that Biden played it safe.
It's Defeat Trump.
He's not full support for DeSantis.
No, I'm just saying it.
Meaning.
For you, you're a DeSantis.
I'll go with DeSantis Hunter.
But to me, you know what I am?
I'm not a DeSantis.
I'm not a Trump guy.
I'm a guy that is showing strength to face four real enemies today that is not afraid to back down.
And if you're going to play this card now, then that means that's how you're going to lead as a politician when you become a president.
You're going to be too overly strategic.
Being too overly strategic means you may win, but America doesn't win.
Dude, you got to get a black guy.
Go get a couple black guys.
I'm sorry.
The way you brawl is this is not a, dude, you're not going into a fight where it's like, okay, throw jabs and boom, boom, go, go, great.
I won by points.
This is not a winning by points situation today.
This is a brawl today.
This is a Mickey ward against Gotti fight today.
This is a trilogy of these guys that went to freaking Roberto Duran going up against.
This is a war.
You can't be effing around right now, playing too much strategy.
I don't think this is the season to do it.
The American people are sitting there, everybody, left, center, right, sitting there saying, what the hell is going on with China?
What the hell is going on with Russia?
What the hell is going on with the U.S.?
I'm afraid.
We can't be like.
So, yeah, so here's what I would.
No, no, that's not.
I think America is looking for a guy to come out and say, here's what we got to be doing.
Showing toughness, showing I'm not afraid.
Showing, you think if you're afraid of interviewers, what do you think these other guys are you going to face?
Those are not interviewers.
Those are flatterers that are going to come and play games.
You think Putin is an interviewer?
You think Xi's an interviewer?
What do you think those guys are going to be doing?
And interviewers, one one millionth of a strength of a freaking enemy you're going to be facing.
Xi's not an interviewer.
He will dismantle America if he wants to.
So I think we need strength.
Whoever's going to be able to present that, salute more power to you.
You're so correct.
I mean, and I go back to Reagan.
A lot of people weren't born, but go back and look at history.
You know, Reagan, you know, all of Europe, all of Europe doesn't want those Pershing missiles there.
And he got, what was it, Helmut Cole?
Helmut Cole, German chancellor.
And he says, listen, I'm putting them in, and we can put them in cooperatively, or I can just put them on my own basis.
Because we had bases in Germany.
We had Spangal Air Force Base and True Germany.
And he put them there.
And Reagan goes to Iceland to Reykjavik.
Why did Gorbachev go to Reykjavik?
Because he was scared to death of the Pershing missiles.
And he believed Reagan had the will.
And when they left Reykjavik, remember the cocky Gorbachev says, what did you want me to say?
And an annoyed Reagan turned to him and simply said, You should have said yes.
And we all know what happened with history.
This is not a time for games.
This is not a time to win elections through media perfection.
You know, there was a whole Robert Redford had a pretty cute little movie back in the 70s.
The candidate.
The candidate.
And what does he say after he wins?
And he played TV perfectly.
What do we do now?
What do we do now?
You know, exactly.
America, is that who you want?
You want someone who's going to be perfect and give them all the way up to it.
Seriously.
And then Sadie, what do we do now?
I'll tell you what you do now.
You have to, if you take it, and by the way, no one seems to understand.
I'll go back to it real quick.
We'll talk about this.
On China, you know why it's so significant on the wand?
You know why?
Because it's not a floating currency on international currency markets.
It gives China the control of the value at any given day.
And as soon as you put that in there, you're giving them economic power.
And when you go back, they've said for a long time, well, you know, Russia would be more stable economically if they had a currency that was traded and respected on the world market.
You know what people used to say?
They do.
It just has a picture of George Washington on it because it was the underground currency.
Powerful time.
The underground currency of Russia was a U.S. dollar.
So we're going to put somebody there that won't even allow their currency to float with the monetary markets.
And they're going to determine the price of a gallon of gas and a cubic, what is it, cubic feet of LNG, liquid natural gas?
Really?
That's what you want?
You want a perfect guy who's going to now win the election and say, now what do we do?
Sorry, I'm not on that page.
You know, I remember I was stationed over in Italy with an airborne unit at the time.
Mercenza.
Was it?
Vicenza, yeah, I was in Vicenza.
Remember the bombing of the disco in Germany that they tied back to a Libyan terrorist?
And what did Reagan do?
I mean, it was not any debate.
Bam, they bombed Libya.
And we were like, yeah, that's cool.
Is that Operation Rustic Canyon?
Yeah.
Alan, it took us five days to shoot a balloon down.
That's what I'm saying.
But that's what.
And so when you're talking about the battle, after it finished its job and was floating over the middle of the day, floating over the Atlantic.
And that's what people are looking for.
And so, you know, I just jot down here two quotes from Alexander the Great.
Number one, he says, Fortune favors the bold.
So if there's a message that I hear that you want to get to Ron DeSantis, fortune favors the bold.
And the second thing that Alexander said, that I would not fear an army of lions if they were led by sheep, but I would fear an army of sheep if they were led.
It's powerful.
It's so powerful.
And America is an army.
I mean, it is an army of lions.
I mean, we want to get out there and solve it.
But why hesitate?
Let it rip.
Stop solving for perfection.
Go get a couple black guys.
Let's go.
Let's brawl.
This is a real fight.
This is not a political diplomatic strategy bullshit bullshit fight.
I'm on a flight from LA, from Burbank Airport to Vegas, and I'm going to Vegas because I got a business meeting.
All of a sudden, I look to my right.
A guy named Bill O'Reilly is sitting there.
I'm like, shit, what are you doing here?
So, well, I'm taking a Burbank flight.
Why are you going there?
I'm doing the Dennis Miller thing.
I don't know if you guys remember him and Dennis, what we were doing.
They had their tour.
So since I got time with you, I said, so tell me what happened here with Romney and Obama.
He says, look, we called Romney to come on the show because we felt, you know, he needed to come and present himself.
And then we also called Obama because we thought Obama was going to lose.
And he says, when I called Obama's camp about getting on the show, Obama's camp said the following: He says, Bill, you're wrong.
It's done.
It's done.
Obama's winning.
He says, why?
He says, because Romney's camp made a massive mistake.
What was the mistake?
Romney's camp convinced Romney that he had to go win the single woman salad eating vote.
And he screwed up instead of pushing against Benghazi after the second debate.
He was crushing him.
Yes.
The moment he flipped, he lost.
Who the hell is in the ear of this man that could be a president?
Go brawl.
You're a fighter, Ron.
You're not a guy that sits on the sidelines.
Let's roll.
By the way, this message here will probably eliminate the chance of sitting here because they're definitely not going to have him come over here to this podcast.
It's going to be like dude, go to Megan Kelly.
Nova, go to PBD podcast show.
I'm okay with that.
If you're going to go out there, go roll.
This guy's a fighter.
He's a tough guy.
You see him?
The way he handles the media.
Every time, like, when somebody says, no, we're not going to do that.
Like, that's exactly what we need today.
I'm not trying to be winning best friends here.
I'm not trying to go and say, hey, can we be best friends?
I don't need to be best friends with you.
You don't need to be best friends with me.
But damn it, let's go see your fight because you got it.
You know, you bring up a great point because you remember those series of debates between Romney and Obama.
The first one was out in Colorado.
Absolutely just smoked Obama.
But Obama was a blah, And then you're right.
Someone got in his ear.
And, you know, you can't do that.
You can't.
You got to be presidential.
You don't want to.
Yeah, he did.
And so by the time the last debate was right here in South Florida, it was at Lynn University.
Remember.
It was foreign policy and national security.
And that's when Obama came out and said, you know, Russia is looking for the Cold War strategy.
You know, Obama.
He just obliterated Romney.
Romney did not continue to go on the offense.
And you had one of the worst foreign policy, national security administration.
I mean, Russia initially went into Ukraine during the Obama administration.
They came in the Crimea and they took the issue.
And what did Obama say?
He sent blankets and MREs.
If he had just stood up and said, you know, when I'm president, I'm not sending blankets and MREs.
I'm sending bullets because I will not see the incursion of a dictator into a sovereign country.
Do you remember Obama sitting with Putin on an open mic and he leans forward?
No, Medvedev.
He was sitting with Medvedev.
Medvedev.
In Japan.
And he leans forward and it's an open mic saying, you know, he's apologizing.
He says, I'll have more flexibility after the election.
Absolutely.
Tell Vladimir.
And it's like, what?
What?
I thought that was just a.
So I want to go to a couple other stories.
We can talk about this for hours, but I got two other stories I want to go to.
The police shooting that took place, the tragic event, videos were released.
I want to get your thoughts.
As somebody who's a vet, you've been on all sides.
What are your thoughts on this?
You've also been a school teacher, so you know what it is to be a teacher here in Plantation.
So if you can play this clip, and by the way, just so everybody knows, YouTube came out and says the graphic Nashville body camera video can stay online despite rules against violent content.
So they want people to see this.
They're okay with it.
So YouTube, just so you know, we're following your guidelines.
Rob, play this clip for everybody.
But again, Brace for Impact.
If you're not good at watching things like this, I suggest you take a break from the clip.
But we are going through it right now.
If we can get our internet to work, maybe refresh it one more time, Rob.
Typically, when we do that, this works.
And it's decisive.
It's not gory.
It's decisive.
Yeah, it actually makes our...
There you go. Go ahead. Go. Put that stair.
Hit the stairs.
Go.
Go stairs.
Go stairs.
Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
Keep pushing!
Go! Go! Go!
Shots fired!
Shots fired! Shots fired!
Move!
Right! Right! Right!
Push an LPBO!
Push an LPBO!
Go right! Move! Move!
Watch out! Watch out!
Watch left!
Watch left!
Suspect down! Suspect down!
Disturbing and uncomfortable to see a better.
First of all, disturbing video to watch when you see this, but this is this becomes realistically a playbook for all the other units nationwide to look at and see, are we training to be able to do something like this?
So what's your reaction when you see this?
Well, I will tell you right now, I've got some dear friends in law enforcement down here and I was talking with them last night.
This is, like you say, it's going all over the nation because this was textbook takedown.
12 minutes from them getting an emergency to the neutralizing of the threat.
And I live in Texas.
This is embarrassing for the folks that were in Uvalde because that's what should have happened instead of allowing someone to have free reign.
So hats off to those two officers that took control of the situation, did not sit around and wait for anyone to come in and say, I'm the commander, and I'm going to tell you what to do.
No, you move to the sound of the guns.
That's what you're taught in the military, and that's what they should be doing.
And that's the training.
But here's the real thing that we need to come to understand.
We're looking at a question that we better answer real quick.
First and foremost, I would say that there's going to be more security and protection at the Final Four this weekend than there are in our schools.
So why don't we do what is necessary in protecting our schools?
We got, you know, Army, ROTC, Naval ROTC people that are out there.
We've got, you know, veterans that would be happy to go out and provide security.
The fact that that person was able to shoot out the entry point, the windows, and nobody was there to confront them at that point right there.
Someone should have been there on that campus to do that.
So that's the first thing.
But gender dysphoria is a mental condition.
And this individual suffered from gender dysphoria.
And I'm not saying this myself.
This is the American Psychiatric Association saying this.
We know that this person went to five different gun stores and got seven weapons.
Now, each time they went to the gun store, they had to fill out a form 4473, which is your background check form.
One of the questions on 4473 asks you about mental illness and depression.
And we know that gender dysphoria has two symptoms, depression and anxiety.
So a person that is suffering from a mental condition should not be able to go out and get weapons.
Now, that's the thing that no one wants to talk about.
I know Randy Weingarten is talking about taking away my gun as a legal law, but that's not the end.
Number one, better security for our schools because that shows where our priorities are.
We'll secure a sports venue, but obviously we're not securing our schools.
The second thing is we got to get serious about these background check forms.
In Texas and Sutherland Springs, the reason why that shooting happened, the Air Force forgot to upload that shooter's dishonorable discharge and the fact that he was guilty of a domestic abuse, both questions on the 4473, that would have kept him from being able to get guns.
In Uvalde, Texas, the shooter there lived with his grandparents.
His grandfather was a felon.
Felons are not supposed to, number one, ever be able to possess firearms or be in a residence with firearms.
When he put down the address of his grandfather on that 4473 form, the red flag should have popped up.
That's where we got issues.
Not coming in and taking away your weapons, taking away my weapons and disarming me, which is what all totalitarian leftist regimes want to do because then you can impart your will upon people.
But we got to do better protecting our kids, and we got to put some teeth behind these background check forms.
None of this universal background check stuff, but just let's make sure that the NICS system is able to do what it's supposed to do.
But people that are suffering from a mental condition should not be there.
And I'll close on this thing.
Last week, Friday or Saturday, whatever, the transgender community there in Nashville put out a national, they wanted a day of vengeance.
You can Google it, find it.
They wanted a day of vengeance.
One of the places that they named was Nashville, Tennessee.
Now, the fact that someone asked Merrick Garland, are you going to classify this as a hate crime?
He didn't ask what?
This is a hate crime.
Wow.
Trans Day of Vengeance.
Right, because less than a month ago, Tennessee, the government came out and they were the first legislator.
Absolutely.
Protecting children, saying that we're not going to have these gender mutilation, you know, surgery.
Drag queen events in public.
And puberty blockers and hormonalies, you know, for our children.
And this is what happens in response.
You call out a day of vengeance?
No.
So you're trying to classify this as a potential hate crime?
It's not a potential hate crime.
There's only one reason why this person was at that school.
I mean, they're 28.
Why are you going to go in and shoot nine-year-olds?
So that, and that's not what the media wants to talk about.
Yeah.
Well, why is there not more security, police officers, military in front of schools?
I mean, to me, this is insane.
Like, we're watching this video, right?
And the whole time I'm watching it, he's popping.
And I'm thinking, this is at an elementary school.
This is what's happening at a school.
And my whole thing is, how can we stop this from happening?
In Denver, Colorado, you just had a 17 and 18-year-old just shot two school administrators in Denver, Colorado.
This kid was known to be violent.
But guess what the school board there in Denver, Colorado had just voted for?
Eliminating removing all school resource officers.
And so two school administrators got shot.
Right here at Marjorie Stallman, Douglas.
Everybody knew about Nicholas Cruz.
Nicholas Cruz had 20 to 22 call outs to his residents.
Okay?
It was the Obama administration, Arne Duncan, who is the Secretary of Education, Robert Runcy down here.
They didn't want to bring up any charges or whatever against black and brown students because they felt that that was racist.
And the presence of security is hurtful to certain groups because you're presupposing guilt.
So we're going to pull back.
Yeah.
You know, we have systems out there, and we just need to use it.
You brought up a couple of good points.
And we can debate these last couple points at length.
But one of them, it's not debate.
The systems exist.
If I have a drunk driving condition, a drunk driving conviction in Maine, and four months later, I go to Texas, relocate, and go to get a Texas driver's license, they're going to tell me you're under suspension.
You haven't finished out a suspension.
We have a suspension here in Maine.
You got two months to go.
Here's your government ID card with the red stripe on it.
You can get your driver's license when you're done.
It says, and if I try to bypass that and I go and present my main driver's license and I try to get a job driving a school bus or a city bus, the systems are all in there to flag it.
Same thing for pilots.
So we have systems out there that work very well state to state that protect us and hold back.
So why don't we have it?
Why isn't it working well?
Exactly what you're talking about.
Excuse me, you're buying this firearm, but this address just came back.
This is an ineligible address.
And it says, why?
Well, maybe they won't know that, okay, your uncle's a felon, but you're at an ineligible address, dude.
And that's all they're supposed to tell you.
Yeah, why?
You're denied.
Yeah, you're denied.
That's it.
They don't tell you what.
You're denied.
So all of these things are happening because there's a failure in the system.
There's not a failure in any of us here who go out and do the right things.
We follow the laws.
Bad people don't follow the laws.
Did you see the congressman getting emotional yesterday saying, ask them what Republicans will do?
Did you see that yesterday or no?
Okay, I want to show you this clip if I can find it.
Rob, if you can look for it, this went viral yesterday.
Is this the big guy in the ten suit?
He is coming out and said, ask him, what are they going to do about it?
What are they going to do about it?
Ask Republicans about what they're going to do about guns.
That's what you need to ask them.
Man, it was a very emotional rally cry about guns.
I wish I had the clip to show it to you.
But this is an opportunity people are using to blame Republicans to not wanting to do anything about this and not wanting to have a conversation.
Obviously, you saw here, you briefly commented about what Randy Weingarten said about the fact that we need to confiscate guns similar to what Australia and New Zealand did.
Have the courage to do what they did.
Nikki Haley, on the other hand, says, you know, treating shooting as only a gun issue is the lazy way out after the Nashville.
She's right.
And then, you know, Tim Burchett says revival, not Congress, is needed after Nashville school shooting.
So there's three different perspectives here, but Democrats are saying this is Republicans' fault.
How come you're not doing anything about it?
What are the likelihood?
I asked this question on Tuesday.
I'm curious to know what your concern is with this.
What's the likelihood of they're going to be able to succeed to confiscate guns?
Not change, maybe getting stricter background checks and all that kind of stuff.
How successful do you think they can be to be able to take guns away from you?
Well, the thing is that it's not about actually confiscating the gun.
It's trying to undermine the means by which you can have the weapon.
So we're going to go out and tax you for every bullet that's in a case of bullets.
And we're going to make it so expensive that you have ammunition that you just turn a handgun into a hammer.
Or we're going to come out all of a sudden, the ATF just recently did this.
And we're going to say that if you put an accessory on a quote-unquote semi-automatic pistol, now you have turned into a short-barrel rifle, although the accessory doesn't change anything about the caliber or the capability or muzzle velocity.
But now all of a sudden it has to be regulated.
And oh, by the way, if you don't turn it in and tell us about it, you are now a felon.
So that's what they're trying to do is they're trying to criminalize the ownership of weapons or they're trying to undermine your ability to effectively use a weapon.
And it's the same with these red flag laws.
Sounds good.
But there were a bunch of red flags on Nicholas Cruz and no one did anything about it.
So now red flags can become a political hammer whereby you go after someone and you don't know who accused you.
And I believe it was in October 2016, 2017, gentlemen in Ferndale, Gary J. Woods, I believe his name, Ferndale, Maryland.
He comes to the door early in the morning, like 4 or 5 in the morning.
Police are banging on the door.
If you banging on my door 4 or 5 in the morning, I'm bringing my gun because I don't know who you are.
He was shot and killed.
The police were there to serve a red flag notice on him.
But why are you going to do that at 4 or 5 in the morning?
And to this day, we don't know who the police officers were that shot Gary.
And we, furthermore, we don't know who initiated the red flag.
But the guy's dead.
Ferndale, Maryland.
I forget the county up there.
But they will never be able to flat out say, we're taking away your guns.
First off, it's a constitutional right that you have.
That's not at all something you're concerned about.
I am concerned about them using the weaponization of the ATF and certain other agencies to try to undermine your ability and criminalize your ability to have certain firearms.
So talking about weaponization, Jim Jordan just came out and demands IRS explained unannounced visit to Matt Taibbi's home.
This is a national review story.
Jim Jordan sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Allen, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel asking for an explanation as to why federal agents were sent to Matt Taibbi's house on the same day he appeared before the select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government, which was chaired by Jordan.
Taibbi informed Jordan that the IRS instructed him to contact the agency four days later and he was told about his 2018 and 2021 tax filings were requested due to concerns over identity theft.
Taibbee shared his 2018 tax submissions with the select committee, which showed no problems, was registered with the tax return for more than four and a half years.
Taibbi shared a new information revealing Twitter censorship's industrial complex, which showed the social media's platform worked with federal agencies and NGOs to censor or downplay posts they found objectionable.
Now, objectionable.
How much of this is just ironic, coincidental?
How much of this we think was intentional?
It's totally intentional.
Everything that we have happening in this government right now is purposeful and intentional.
That's my big concern, is the censorship issue.
That's my big concern about going after people and trying to instill that fear and weaponizing federal government agencies.
They can do it better if you're disarmed, but why don't you just send an email?
I mean, ask a guy about, you know, whatever this identity issue is.
Why are you showing up at his house the day that he's in Washington, D.C.?
You're sending a message.
I mean, that's what the mafia does.
Okay.
That's what gangs do to send a message.
That's what the Klan used to do, burning crosses, you know, in the front yard.
So this government that we have right now, Patrick, this is the thing that scares me the most.
It reminds me of the East German Stasi police, where all of a sudden, if you're a pro-life activist and advocate, you end up in jail.
If you're Jane's Revenge that is going out and firebombing pro-life pregnancy centers and attacking churches and vandalizing churches, nothing happens to you.
If you're just a person that's walking through the Capitol on January 6th, you're a felon.
You're in jail.
If you're Antifa that shows up and you shoot at police officers and burn down government buildings and everything, nothing happens to you.
As a matter of fact, we're going to raise money to help you to make the bail.
So there's a two-tier system of justice that is going on here.
And again, it comes back.
That's what the left does to its opposition.
The left does not want opposition.
They want to instill, you talk about fear, they want to instill fear in you that says, if you stand up to us, we're going to get you.
87,000 new IRS agents?
What do you think that means?
There'll be a lot more people coming around and paying visits to folks.
And Matt Taibbi is no conservative.
He's no MAGA guy whatsoever.
But he's actually more libertarian, actually left-leaning liberal.
They made him one now.
Yeah, of course.
That's what's going to happen.
And by the way, we need more investigative journalists.
So shout out to Matt Taibbi for doing the hard work that he does.
Let's talk about a place that maybe would need to bring Matt Taibbi in to train them.
New York Times turns on Fauci SA Slam's reaction during COVID.
This story just came out.
Let me go to a Daily Mail story, page 14.
Here we go.
So the New York Times published an opinion piece criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci's approach to information sharing the COVID-19 pandemic.
The article primarily focused on Fauci's initial reaction, refrutation of the COVID lab leak theory and his association with the British zoologist Peter Dayzak.
The author Megan Stack wrote that Fauci and Dayzak could have qualified their statement to expose Americans to more of the full picture regarding the Wuhan Institute of Virology bat virus research, but they did not.
Stack also condemned Fauci for initially lying about the effectiveness of masks and frequently moving the goalposts on when it would be safe to lift lockdown measures.
This is like a this is more of a Babylon Beast story than the New York Times.
Stack argued that Fauci's dishonesty and promotion of disinformation contributed to the problem of censorship and are you and suppression of certain ideas.
She concluded that attempting to clean up disinformation by suppressing discourse creates its own dangers and can lead to a society where nobody really believes anything.
No shit, Sherlock.
So Alan, thoughts on the story?
You know, we had this thing in Aerosault Units called Cut Sling Load.
You know what I'm talking about?
They just cut sling load on Fauci.
Fauci's done.
And they are going to distance themselves.
And what is cut sling load for?
That means what they did to Cuomo, they're about to do to Fauci.
Yeah, you know, you come in with a helicopter and you pick up like a Humvee or anything with the sling attached to it.
Well, when you're ready to drop it, you cut sling load.
And that's what they've done.
Meaning the helicopter cannot carry the helicopter.
Just cut it.
Just cut and bait.
They're moving on, Professor.
Cut and bait.
But isn't it a little ironic?
This is after the fact.
He's already retired.
He's done.
He was the highest paid employee in the government.
They are getting ready for 2024.
Why do you think Governor Gretchen Whitmer all of a sudden comes out and says, you know, Michigan?
Yeah, I probably went too far.
Whoops.
Oops.
I'm sorry if I ruin your business or I'll ruin your life.
Why?
They're getting ready to set themselves up for 2024.
They don't want this to be a conversation because they know that the American people have STM, short-term memory.
And so Fauci's going to get hit with a lot of class action lawsuits.
It's coming.
And so New York Times and everybody, they're separating themselves.
They don't want anybody to come back and say that the New York Times were part of this.
They don't want to be part of a lawsuit saying that they promote.
So you're basically saying they're putting hit pieces out there saying, hey, we did our part.
It might have been three years too late.
However, we did write some hit pieces.
We call that the Pontius Pilot.
I'm washing my hands.
So if I'm Fauci, I should be worried because now I'm being told I'm on my own.
They've cut bait on me.
Well, I'm sure a lot of people are sympathizing for this happening to Fauci, as well as the sympathy they have for a World Health Organization, which recently came out and said WHO, World Health Organization, says healthy kids and teens don't need COVID vaccinations.
I'm telling you.
The World Health Organization has updated its guidance on COVID-19 vaccines, recommending that healthy children and adolescents may not need to receive the SHA Dah considers vaccinating healthy young people to be a low priority as a public health impact.
You are so dark, World Health.
It's much lower than that of traditional essential vaccines for children like measles, measles, and polio.
WH also called for urgent efforts to catch up on routine vaccinations missing during the pandemic and warrant of a rising vaccine preventable diseases like measles.
The CDC reported a record high of almost 40 million children missing their measles vaccines in 2021.
Misinformation.
Why do you think?
I wonder why you're missing 40 million.
Misinformation linked to COVID vaccines has also led to parents rejecting normal childhood shots despite immunizations being the most effective way to protect children from measles.
This is a daily mail story.
You know what's funny?
It's almost like we played a record and then we stopped and then we started playing a record backwards.
All change.
Because WHO was like, we think it's now acceptable for 16-year-olds.
Oh, we think it's now acceptable for 12-year-olds.
Actually, we think that to the states that will mandate it, if their governors are smart, we can go to 10-year-olds.
Remember that?
We kept going down.
We think eight-year-olds would be fine.
We kept going down.
Now the WHO said, no, I don't think you need the 8, 10, 12, 16s, or 18s.
It's like we're going backwards.
They don't need it.
Remember that?
We went down the ages.
Now we go back up the ages.
There's no legitimacy here.
Truth is powerful, and they are now understanding that how they hoodwinked not just the United States of America, entire world, is coming to fruition.
It's coming back against them.
And of course, why would you trust the WHO?
I mean, China owns the WHO.
You know who this favors?
One guy.
This only favors one guy.
Yeah.
It favors the guy that is campaigning for 2024.
Should be, I told you so.
That's one guy.
And he's going to come out one by one.
He just needs to have one by one stories.
Russian collusion, number one.
COVID vaccine for kids, number two.
Shutting down, number three.
School, number four.
You know, all of these things, he just needs to go one by one by one story.
And both him and the Santis can use the I Told You So campaign because the Santists can't say, I told you what I did in the state of Florida.
Trump can do the other side.
The left has to apologize.
Did you see how Biden two days ago said Republicans are the reason behind the fentanyl issue because they're not taking a border seriously?
Did you see that?
Did you see that a couple days ago?
Who's going to fall for that?
To say something like that?
I mean, this is the part where you have to be so you're willing to go to such levels to gaslight people.
You're officially thinking the voters are dumb.
That's what you think.
Well, they believe in the, and hopefully this won't get you in trouble down here, but the minister of propaganda for the Germans, Goebbels, who said if you repeat a lie often enough, eventually people will take it for truth.
And that's what they're going to continue to do.
Look, you just got to go down to the border.
You just got to understand this and look at the numbers.
This is all because of one single person, one single administration, purposeful and intentional.
The fact that we have close to 2 million people in the United States of America come across that border, we have no idea where they are.
That's scary.
And again, coming back to having someone that is strong, all of those folks that got released out of prison in Afghanistan, they want some payback.
And the cartels will help anybody get into the United States of America as long as they pay them the money.
And something eventually is going to go kaboom in the United States of America because there are people that have come across, they don't mean us good.
Last story before we wrap up, Tom, I'm going to go to you with this one.
This is an FTX story.
FTX founder Sam Bankman Freed charged with bribing Chinese officials.
This is a Wall Street Journal story.
He has been accused of prosecutors of conspiring to bribe Chinese government officials to rein access to over a billion dollars in frozen cryptocurrency, which violated the U.S. anti-corruption law.
Bankman Freed authorized the payment of at least $40 In cryptocurrency to one or more of Chinese government officials after months of failed attempts to regain control of the accounts according to the indictment, Bankman Freed directed Alameda employees to pay the bribe and he authorized an additional payment of tens of millions of dollars to complete the bribe.
Alameda used the unfrozen crypto to fund additional trades as Bankman Freed's direction.
Tom.
Is anybody now surprised how all of those Democrat congressmen and senators were dead silent when this guy got arrested and when this thing went down?
Do you remember the pictures of him walking across the floor of Congress and Maxine Waters standing up on a chair or a little dais there and blowing him kisses?
Literally blowing him kisses?
If that's not scary enough, if you're not going to be able to do that, pull that up.
I love to see that.
And you look at what's going on and then they were all silent.
And this guy was a bribery machine.
This was a Ponzi scheme and that he had already, he knew what was going on and he was covering himself with donations and bribes.
I don't know why anybody is surprised.
And so why is everybody surprised that the only guy that was interrupted at the microphone was the prosecutor on this?
None of the politicians.
If you notice how quiet they were, it's because I need to be on vacation.
All of them.
And that's Maxine Waters when she was the chairperson, chairman of the House Financial Services.
This is the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
That tells you everything.
Who was the number one contributor to the Democrat Party after George Soros?
It was FTX, right?
Tells you a lot.
Sam Bankman Freed.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Anyways, great show today.
We cover a lot of stories.
Alan, thank you so much for coming out.
Appreciate your service.
Allow me to come back down here to home.
And I want everyone to know how special it was to have been a member of Congress representing this district right where you are sitting.
That means a lot.
And that's a testimony to the exceptionalism of this country, that a kid can come from where I came from and rise up to be a member of the United States.
Born in a blacks-only hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, 1961.
Crazy where we've come in this country.
And think about this.
The year that I was born, blacks could not go on Fort Lauderdale Beach.
But 50 years later, I'm sworn in as the member of Congress that represents Fort Lauderdale Beach.
Great country.
Wow.
You got to love that.
That's a great story.
So what projects are you working on?
Anything you're working on for the audience?
Yeah, I'm the executive director of the American Constitutional Rights Union, DACRU.org.
It's a 27-year-old organization.
It's kind of meant to be the counterbalance to the ACLU.
A lot of things we work on on First Amendment, Second Amendment issues, as well as election integrity issues.
I have my own podcast, so tune in, guys.
The Steadfast and Loyal, if you'd like.
And one of the things I just did was a monologue on the shooting there in Nashville.
And we just interviewed Sebastian Gorka and also Dinesh D'Souza on Tuesday before I flew down here.
So that's it.
I love it.
We're going to put the link to your podcast as well as the website here, Rob, so the audience can go find it.
