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	All right, news roundup and information overload hour 800-941-Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
	Not to get off topic A today, which obviously is the expected arraignment of President Trump tomorrow.
	We've got to face a few facts here that because of Joe Biden's weakness, we are creating a vulnerability in terms of national security that I can't remember having in our lifetime.
	Now, when Ronald Reagan ran for president, he talked about a gap of vulnerability because under Jimmy Carter, they let our defenses deteriorate.
	He built up a 600-ship army and he ended the Cold War by peace through strength and America having the biggest, baddest, toughest, you know, kick-ass military on the face of the earth.
	You know, the first thing we've got to look at is America now has multiple hostage crisis going on.
	It was only, what, two weeks ago that Wink and Tony Blinken, your Secretary of State, admitted that there were at least 175 Americans that Joe abandoned behind enemy lines in Afghanistan and admitted that many of those Americans are being held hostage inside of Afghanistan.
	And there's next to zero press coverage about this.
	There's a little more press coverage as it relates to Vladimir Putin and Wink and Blinken demanding the immediate release of the Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained in Russia on really dubious spying charges or there was no consequences for the Chinese spy balloon,
	of course, that went over Alaska airspace down the west coast of Canada into Idaho, all the way over to Montana over where our missile silos are, our ICBM missile sites are, you know, down to Missouri and Kansas, up to Kentucky, you know, into the Carolinas off coast before they decided it might be a good idea to take down, to take down this spy balloon.
	You know, there's a really, really interesting article in the New York Post that has gone into great specificity and detail.
	Now, we've been talking about, I've labeled it this new axis of evil.
	Who's part of this new axis of evil?
	It would be President Xi, his alliance with Vladimir Putin, their alliance with the Mullahs and Iran.
	And then you've got China now brokering deals with the Saudis and Iran, something I didn't think would ever happen.
	The Saudis were with us and Israel and the Jordanians and the Egyptians and the Emirates, not anymore, because they see a weak Joe Biden.
	And by the way, they're now cutting back on oil production, which means they want to raise the price of a barrel of oil.
	And because we have abandoned energy production in this country, it's going to hurt every American.
	But it even goes further than that.
	You know, if you look at, for example, the sphere of influence now that China is now exerting over, for example, the island of Cuba, varying issues in Africa, Angola, for example, and other places, their new relationship with Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and now even Latin American countries.
	You know, from South America to the South Pacific, China is spending billions making one struggling but sovereign nations completely dependent on their money and might.
	And so I bring all this to your attention.
	There's a great article that was on FoxNews.com, and it laid out the five specific dangers we are now facing as a country in terms of national security, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea.
	I mean, it's all legitimate.
	All of these bad actors on the world stage feel emboldened right now to do whatever it is the hell they please because they know there's not going to be any consequences.
	And they view this as, well, as President Xi said when he was with Putin, as an opportunity they haven't seen in 100 years, a weakened America.
	But here's your brilliant, giggling vice president talking about how deeply concerned they are about the one hostage crisis, not the two hostage crises, but this one about this Wall Street Journal reporter.
	But I will say, as it relates to the American citizen that has been detained by the government of Russia, we are deeply concerned.
	And I will state in unequivocal terms that we will not tolerate and condemn, in fact, repression of journalists and that we are absolutely concerned about any attempt to in any way stifle freedom of the press.
	Okay, joining us now, Rebecca Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst, freelance writer.
	She wrote Putin's playbook, also served as a senior official in the Defense Intelligence Agency and worked with the CIA's National Clandestine Service.
	George B. is the former director of the CIA's Russian analysis and former Russia advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney.
	And welcome both of you to the program.
	Rebecca, it's been a long time.
	Good to have you back.
	I'm watching all of this unfold, but our nation's attention is almost fixated entirely on these bogus charges, this ridiculous case by the Manhattan District Attorney about an incident that happened, what,
	17 years ago with monies involving somebody who was a convicted, who was a convict and admitted liar, Michael Cohn, who exonerated Donald Trump through his attorney's letter in 2018, as far as I'm concerned.
	What are we missing here?
	What is the world seeing?
	Why are they acting this way now when they didn't act this way when Trump was president?
	Oh, it's very simple, Sean.
	The Biden administration has exhibited such weakness and such incompetence that it has emboldened every adversary of the United States, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea.
	Effectively, Team Biden has created a multi-headed monster.
	Russia and China are joining forces to challenge the United States and effectively change the world order, right?
	In which China is the one that will be calling the shots geopolitically.
	They want to displace the U.S. dollar as the predominant currency of international reserves with Chinese yuan.
	And now, instead of taking on these threats and paying attention and actually developing strategy to target external threats, Team Biden is targeting their political opponent, Donald Trump.
	This is classic KGB tactic and Putin's playbook.
	And it is terrifying to see how these American Bolsheviks are destabilizing our country.
	Well, let me get your thoughts on this, if I can, George, and your take.
	To me, this is brought out of nothing but absolute weakness.
	I can't imagine, and Trump said this when I interviewed him a little over a week ago.
	He said these things wouldn't happen.
	Putin would not have invaded Ukraine.
	They wouldn't have gone after a U.S. drone.
	They wouldn't have been a spy balloon.
	And liberals like to say, well, there was a spy balloon incident, but it was very short-lived.
	And it was, you know, only for a few moments, but it happened.
	We were able to put the pieces back together.
	Nobody had heard of this during the Trump years.
	Not a single person, not a single source I talked to that worked in defense or intelligence ever heard of the incident.
	Well, Sean, I think the Biden administration is violating two of the cardinal rules of GS strategy.
	The first one is you don't unite your enemies into an alliance against you.
	This is something that Nixon and Kissinger recognized back in the early 1970s.
	They didn't want the Soviet Union and Communist China united together against the United States and the world, so they attempted to split them apart.
	They took advantage of frictions between China and the Soviet Union.
	They opened relations with China, and they put the United States in a situation where we didn't have to contend with the combined capabilities of those two countries.
	What we've been doing recently is the opposite of that.
	We've actually incentivized Russia and China to work together against us much more closely than they would be doing otherwise.
	That makes no sense geopolitically.
	You divide your enemies.
	You don't unite them.
	That's number one.
	The second cardinal rule that the Biden administration is violating is that you need to have a balance between the objectives that you're trying to pursue in the world and your capabilities to achieve them.
	You don't try to do things that you're not actually capable of doing.
	You have to resource those objectives that are important to you so that you're actually capable of achieving the things that are important to you.
	And we're not doing that right now.
	We're trying to fight a war with Russia on the cheap.
	We're essentially saying we're not actually willing to go to war to defend Ukraine, but we think Ukraine ought to be in the NATO alliance.
	We ought to undertake a treaty commitment to defend a country that we're not actually willing.
	Well, Western Europe isn't doing anything.
	So the fact that they're not even ponying up a tenth of their fair share is obnoxious to me.
	And unless and until they do, I think we should withhold our money.
	Right.
	Well, those are two things that Trump got right.
	He understood that you don't simultaneously try to conduct essentially a warfighting strategy against both Russia and China at the same time.
	He thought China was the priority.
	We ought to focus on that.
	And that meant that we needed to seek some sort of detente with Russia.
	The other thing he recognized was that the Europeans have to pull a much bigger share of the burden in counterbalancing Russia.
	It can't just be up to the United States.
	And this is something that the Biden administration is not grasping.
	How has the left's agenda worked out for you?
	is on right now.
	I will get to you calls here in a minute.
	800-941-SHAWN.
	Our number, if you want to be a part of the program, final moments with Rebecca Koffler and George Beebe as we continue our discussion about this new axis of evil I've been warning you about.
	So the way I see it, Rebecca, is this.
	We're currently in real time witnessing a realignment.
	I hate the word new world order, but that's what's happening, a new axis of evil, as I call it.
	And it's as simple as China now filling the void because America's leadership on the world stage is pretty much non-existent.
	And this is their opportunity to pounce.
	Now, if we go back the last 10 years, they've been building up a massive military capability.
	Last week, President Xi said that his nation is preparing for war.
	He didn't say against who, but I can imagine who, and increased their defense budget up by a whopping 10% in China.
	So that tells me how serious they are and how clueless our country is right now.
	Oh, absolutely, Sean.
	And it's not the only thing that she is doing.
	She's effectively transitioning China onto a wartime footing.
	Back in October, he has established a wartime cabinet, which he staffed with all of his loyalists and kicked out all of the advisors who were not exactly loyal to him.
	He also directed his military to put all of the energy into getting ready for war with the goal of being prepared by 2027.
	It is my assessment that she is actually planning to attempt to make a move on Taiwan during the Biden administration's first term.
	And so what right now I like the George's analysis, I would like to add to that, is that we are not prepared to fight a two-fraught war with Russia and China simultaneously.
	It's because the Biden administration, lacking a viable strategy in Ukraine, were just schizophrenically throwing weaponry one after another, you know, multi-billion dollars worth.
	have already provided like an equivalent of ukraine's entire gdp 196 billion either provided in weaponry or uh committed to provide and so we are but but if we're not going to fight to win and for example poland offered 30 megs and joe vetoed that So if they're not going to allow Zelensky to even fight to win, what's the point of spending one American dollar on this?
	Exactly.
	It's just basically writing this blank check, starting drawing the American taxpayer.
	And it's the typical Joe Biden approach.
	He did that in Afghanistan.
	After 20 years, he dropped.
	He and his team basically abandoned Americans there, abandoned billions of dollars worth of tax equipment that, by the way, the Russians were negotiating with the Taliban to purchase.
	And so this incompetence cannot continue.
	If we really want to keep America safe from these threats that the United States intelligence community has warned us about, and the piece that I wrote on Fox News that you mentioned in the beginning, we need to bring competent people into the market.
	I don't want to cut you off, Rebecca.
	I want to get George back in here one last time.
	We have about 40 seconds, George.
	I don't see America catching up in the next, you know, throughout Biden's term.
	And by that time, the new world order, the new axis of evil may be solidified.
	Am I wrong?
	Well, I do think that time is wasting.
	You're absolutely right.
	And what the Biden administration is doing with China right now is almost the opposite of Teddy Roosevelt's advice.
	He said, speak softly, carry a big stick.
	We're speaking very loudly using a lot of hostile rhetoric, and we're not backing it up with any kind of a big stick.
	In fact, we're not at all prepared to deal with military contingencies either in Ukraine or with China right now.
	So I think we need a fundamental readjustment of how we're approaching this.
	All right, George B. Rebecca Koffler, thank you both for being with us.
	Appreciate it.
	800-941-Sean, our number.
	If you want to be a part of the program, we'll hit the phones on this Monday when we get back.
	We got an amazing Hannity, 9 Eastern tonight on the Fox News channel.
	We'll give you the behind-the-scenes details of all that President Trump went through today with his attorney.
	And one of the Trump kids will be on with us, probably Eric.
	Aaron is in the great free state of Texas.
	What's up, Aaron?
	How are you?
	Happy Monday.
	Hey, happy Monday to you, Mr. Sean.
	How are you doing today?
	I'm good, sir.
	What's going on?
	Good.
	Listen, I'm tired of getting ganged up at the dinner table, so I figured I'd try to get somebody on my side.
	At what point do the Republicans, at what point do we start fighting back?
	Instead of just, I mean, not violently, you know, legally in the Senate, in the House.
	You know, we let all these things happen to the Republican people.
	They get silenced.
	They get outcasted.
	You know, I keep hearing people talking about we need to impeach Majorca because of their election of duty.
	But that's all I ever hear is, you know, Republican senators and House members tweeting about it, but we never do anything about it.
	Look, unfortunately, and this goes to the heart of where Jim Jordan's investigation is going, has been going, and how bad it really is.
	And I'm just telling you, if we are now living in an era, an age, a time, a place when we have the weaponization of our justice system.
	And I've given example after example after example.
	I don't know how many more examples I could possibly give you.
	I mean, the Hunter Biden, you know, Exhibit A, Joe Biden and Jim Biden, we're not getting answers.
	They've had this laptop where Hunter Biden, low-hanging fruit, not lying on a gun application, hookers, crack cocaine, but also implicating his father in what looks like a pay-to-play or influence peddling scandal that certainly should be investigated.
	I went over all the things that I thought should be investigated all last week, and this never happens.
	And it even went further.
	They had the laptop in December of 2019, but they had FBI agents in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election telling all these big tech companies that you might be a victim of misinformation and it might be about Joe and Hunter Biden.
	In one case, with Twitter, giving them $3.5 million.
	That is insanity to me.
	And that led to, frankly, government-sponsored censorship in the lead up to an important presidential election.
	That makes two presidential elections in a row.
	They had their thumbs on the scale.
	How long are we going to allow that to happen before we say we have to either literally start from scratch or certainly go in and fix what is wrong?
	Jim Jordan says Congress now has to look at funding agencies who've turned against the people like the FBI and DOJ.
	That's a sad statement, but unfortunately, all that we now know being true, I think it's a fair statement and the right thing to do.
	Absolutely.
	And the one thing that bothers me the most about the whole situation is that they went after Trump about the whole quid pro quo with Zelensky, the Ukrainian president.
	But we literally have President Biden, which was vice president at the time, on tape with Quid Pro quo.
	And nothing is said about that.
	It's just swept under the rug.
	That's just another example that we need to, like my dad says, quit throwing them hanging curveballs while they're throwing us inside fastballs.
	Listen, Democrats are a lot better at this game.
	They're more organized.
	This effort to elect these prosecutors that are so weak on crime.
	I mean, you're dealing with a guy that 52% of the time takes a felony charge and lowers it to a misdemeanor.
	And then he's got this cockamaney, you know, legal theory never tried before.
	It's the novel legal theory that to sort of avoid the statute of limitations, which have long since passed as it relates to payments and Stormy Daniel, et cetera.
	You know, he tries to tie it into a federal election law.
	And meanwhile, the FEC passed on it.
	The DOJ passed on it.
	Mueller passed on it.
	His predecessor passed on it.
	And initially, he passed on it until some guy wrote a book and it tried to embarrass him.
	And the pressure began to get to him.
	That's where I think all of this is coming from.
	Yeah, he ran on that on his Trump.
	That's a problem.
	When we have prosecutors running to get one person, one group of people and targeting this way.
	No, that's not how justice works in this country.
	Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime.
	As Nancy Pelosi says, you'll have a chance to prove your innocence in court.
	Okay.
	I thought you were innocent until proven guilty.
	Absolutely.
	All right.
	Thank you, Aaron.
	Appreciate it, buddy.
	All right.
	Let's say hi to James in Kansas.
	James, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Real good, Sean.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	First time caller, year-long, years-long listener.
	Thank you, my friend.
	My comment is about Trump and the ability to file a malicious prosecution action against Bragg as soon as possible, hopefully before he gets actually tomorrow.
	Obviously, it's not going to happen, but I think if he were to take the initiative or to, you know, say get after them at the same time, he's being prosecuted, then maybe the ridiculousness of his situation would come to light.
	The other thing I wanted to make reference to is that so many people are, so many talk show hosts and guests say everyone knows.
	In reality, most Democrats don't know.
	And for that reason, I think that there's a way that we, or what we have to do rather, is a way to change the thought process of the liberal thinking.
	I, for example, have a personal goal to change just one liberal's mind before the 2024 election.
	If everyone were to do that.
	Well, if you pull that off, tell me what the secret sauce is because I'd like to know.
	No, I think you're right.
	I think they're going to go after prosecutorial misconduct, selective prosecution, the statute of limitations being long gone, and the legal theory itself, which has never been tried before.
	So I think, you know, on the law, I don't think Bragg has a chance, but you're dealing with New York and, you know, a state that is radically left and hates Donald Trump in a city that is, you know, you have nine-to-one registration, Democrat to Republican.
	No, I agree totally.
	But if everybody, like I said, would just try to change one liberal's mind between now and the election, we'll definitely have the majority and win that election.
	I'm really fearful that we will lose the next election if something radical doesn't happen.
	And we just got to change each one of us.
	You have millions of listeners.
	The other talk show hosts have the same.
	Not as many as you, of course, but if we could just get everyone to try to get one, that would be really great.
	I'd like to be able to wake people up, but I'll be honest.
	There are people going to be popping champagne corks, and they're going to be giddy and they're going to be happy, and they don't care how frivolous the charge is.
	They don't care about the double standard that exists in our justice system or dual justice system or unequal justice under the law, a lack of equal application of our laws.
	They don't care.
	They don't care about the constitutional aspects of this, which are deep and long-lasting.
	And I'm telling you, if this is allowed to stand and continue, then, you know, watch out because there's going to be a time and a place where Republicans, they'll get their revenge too.
	And there'll be some Democrat and they'll be going after them for spitting on the sidewalk and jaywalking because that's basically what this is.
	Anyway, appreciate the call.
	Let's say hi to Mike is in Michigan.
	Mike, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hi, Sean.
	How you doing?
	I'm good, man.
	What's going on?
	Yeah, Sean.
	I just got a couple of messages I want to get out.
	First of all, I don't know what makes the Dems think that they're going to have this two-bit Manhattan lawyer get Trump and push him out of the election when the Fed's been trying it for what, six plus years.
	I don't think it's going to happen.
	Number two, the Trumpers, like me, have to be careful.
	They're trying again to provoke.
	You know, they're putting the security around the White House.
	We have to keep cool.
	I know we're sick of it.
	I'm sick of it.
	We're tired of it.
	We got to keep tight, be cool.
	My message to the Dem, Sean, careful what you wish for, because what goes around comes around.
	You know what?
	I said this on the air the other night.
	I do believe there's a trap being set that they do so many outrageous things that there might be people that want to go out and protest, and you have the right to do so.
	But if you do it, don't fall into their trap.
	Remember, it's not going to be, you know, when liberals are out there rioting, 574 of them in the summer of 2020, and billions in property damage and a couple of dozen dead Americans and thousands of injured cops, there was no accountability for most of those people.
	There was no accountability for the rhetoric of Chuck Schumer on the steps of the Supreme Court.
	You know, you'll pay the price, Kavanaugh, blah, blah, blah.
	There were no consequences for Kamala Harris.
	They're not going to stop.
	They shouldn't stop.
	We're not going to stop.
	And then tweeting out a bail fund for the people involved in the rioting, arrested for the rioting.
	So, no, I would tend to agree with you.
	Look, conservatives believe in the rule of law.
	We respect law enforcement.
	Does that mean you don't have a few nuts on our sides?
	Yeah, there might be people that have a tendency to go there.
	I share your admonition and your advice.
	Peaceful.
	Yes.
	Hopefully the system in the end will work.
	I can't guarantee it, but I know that doing what the liberal Democrats did in the summer of 2020, if you think it's going to be ignored if you're a conservative, you better think again because it won't be ignored.
	And I urge everybody, that's not who we are.
	We believe in law enforcement.
	We believe in supporting law enforcement.
	We believe in peaceful protests.
	If you're going to protest, I don't go to protests.
	Every American has got to understand that there's going to be a process to this.
	So, yes, I share your concern that some people might take this the wrong way and act in ways that we don't support because I won't support that.
	That's what they want.
	And then we're going to call the MAGA bunch.
	Look at Trump and his bunch.
	Yeah, we can't do that.
	Anyway, appreciate the call.
	Thanks, Mike, in Michigan.
	800-941-Sean, our number.
	Dan is in Illinois.
	Hey, Dan, the man, how are you?
	Hey, Mr. Sanity, how you doing today?
	I'm good.
	How are you today?
	Good.
	You know, I'm just calling.
	I'm a millennial and a big Trump supporter and liked everything he did, great policies, all that.
	And I just think that it might be time to look in a different direction just because he's such a big showman.
	You know what I mean?
	Like he wanted to get put in the handcuffs.
	He wanted the mug shot and stuff like that.
	And I just think like, let's do this thing.
	You know, you're going to get indicted.
	Wait a minute.
	Where did you see that Donald Trump said he wanted the handcuffs and wanted the mug shot?
	Because I didn't see him say that anywhere.
	I saw a lot of people speculating that he wanted that.
	I don't think anybody wants that.
	Correct.
	And I agree with that 100%.
	And I mean, like you said, that's what a lot of people are speculating.
	So yeah, sorry.
	That's my bad on that.
	I just feel like we need someone who's going to stick to his policies and be a little more political at the end of the day.
	I mean, I'm all about bullying the left, but when you start throwing the punches so early against DeSantis and all these other people that are on the, you know, on the good side, like maybe we should look, you know, deeper into why are we doing that so early?
	You know, listen, I agree with you.
	I mean, eventually, inevitably, I can tell you right now that every primary is going to turn into an Adam Schiff show and they're going to want to kill each other.
	That is the nature of primaries.
	I've seen it my entire adult life.
	And at some point, it comes to that.
	Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend.
	God bless you.
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	All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
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