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	If you want to be a part of the program, we have spent a lot of time not only vetting Kamala Harris, as we've been talking about in the last hour, but she's picked the most radical Democratic governor, the Bernie Sanders of governors, to be her running mate.
	We told you about this radical Muslim cleric who celebrated what happened on October the 7th and shared that pro-Hitler website link.
	We talked about that and his radical background and associations.
	And now we know that Tim Walz has lied.
	The allegations of stolen valor are true.
	We know that he claimed that he had been to war and that these are the weapons of war.
	Late Friday night in a Friday night news dump, they had to retract that, just like they had to change his bio because he had given himself a rank that he never achieved.
	And it gets worse.
	I'll play that in a second.
	But here's him saying, well, this is the weapon that I took into a war zone.
	He never went to a war zone.
	Listen.
	But we can do background checks.
	We can do CDC research.
	We can make sure we don't have reciprocal carry among states.
	And we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are.
	He didn't carry them in war because he never went to war.
	And the pushback is now getting fierce.
	Now you have Gold Star mom, actually Sergeant Kyle Miller, 19 part of Wall's 1st Battalion, 225th Field Unit, Artillery Unit.
	He died in Iraq.
	My son wasn't even 21 years old.
	He couldn't even buy alcohol, yet he took the step to serve our country while Walls found the best way to do an end run around.
	His National Guard command sergeant says Walls went over his head to dodge fighting in Iraq, even though he had two years left to serve.
	And, you know, the rest of his people have been saying the same thing.
	We have now uncovered another clip of Governor Walls saying that he actually deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
	He did not.
	Listen.
	And both of you, with your keen understanding of how this works, especially from National Guard families, I can tell you this.
	Having been one of those that came back, we were in support of OEF, but being sitting in there with OEF, OIF veterans, when we came back, they showed us the horse whisper and told us to be nice when we went home.
	And that was the extent of it.
	And that was in 2004.
	And then we have this other issue we have not really examined in detail.
	And that is his entire career of cozying up to China and how he taught a Chinese Communist Party approved course in China in a program that went on.
	And he loves, he said he was never been treated better in his life than he was in China.
	Going there, one of the best things I've ever done.
	He said if the Chinese had their proper relationship, there are no limits on what they could accomplish.
	He said he developed such a great admiration for it, a close connection with the Chinese people.
	He honeymooned in China for crying out loud.
	And he took all these annual trips for hundreds of Minnesota high school students, calling one of the trips a 15-day adventure of a lifetime.
	And he and the Chinese government jointly sponsored scholarships for students to study abroad in China.
	And, you know, it gets worse than that.
	Anyway, joining us to investigate this particular issue, which has been ignored mostly by the media, Peter Schweitzer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute, host of the Drill Down podcast, and Seamus Bruner, also with the Government Accountability Institute.
	And they have a new story out on Walls and his connection to China.
	And it's called What is Behind the Great Walls of China.
	Anyway, welcome both of you.
	What is the Great Walls of China?
	Peter Schweitzer.
	Well, I think it's a long history that he has with China, Sean, and I think it's a history of him really running interference for the Chinese regime.
	Just look at as he's been governor.
	I mean, we can talk about the exchange program.
	Seamus has done a lot of great research on that.
	But just look at his tenure as governor.
	Minnesota, like so many other states, is plagued by fentanyl overdoses, and yet he has never called out China for their central role in the fentanyl crisis.
	And let's remember, the bipartisan Select Committee on China in Congress has gone on record and said China is behind all of this, but Walls will not criticize them.
	We also know that, you know, you've reported on this, Sean, about the secret police stations that are around the country that China set up.
	They're designed to harass Chinese nationals living in the United States, and there have actually been some abductions where they abduct people and return them to China.
	One of the seven of those is in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis.
	And in fact, the organization behind it works jointly with something called Minnesota Global, which is a Walls organization.
	Now, Governor Walls has certainly criticized the police conduct of the Minneapolis Police Department and St. Paul, Minnesota Police Department.
	What he's never done is denounce or done anything about eliminating this unofficial secret police department that the Chinese are actually running in his state.
	And that just fits this longer pattern, Sean, of running interference and offering what the Chinese ask for with people in the West, which is big help with a little bad mouth.
	He might criticize the Chinese here or there, but he is doing their bidding in the things that really matter to them.
	Well, let's get your take.
	And what else are we learning?
	Did the communist Chinese pay him in any way?
	Seamus Bruner.
	Yeah, Sean, it's great to be with you.
	I mean, the stolen valor, as you mentioned, is a total disgrace, but it's all the more egregious given the fact he's been cozying up with China.
	And so going back to the beginning with these trips, the Chinese Communist Party subsidized these trips to China.
	Now, Walls and his wife set up a company, Educational Travel Adventures.
	This is in the 90s.
	We don't have records going back that far, but we need to know how much money did that Walls company make for these trips.
	And the fact that the Chinese Communist Party subsidized the trips, gave scholarships to these students who teacher Walls said to downplay your American-ness when you're over in China.
	I mean, we talked to multiple U.S. intelligence experts.
	They say they're...
	Yeah, he actually said that?
	He said you need to downplay your Americanness.
	He told his students, when we visit China, downplay your American-ness.
	was reported back in the day in the local press.
	And so U.S. intelligence experts agree there is a 0% chance that the Chinese Communist Party's Ministry of State Security, basically their CIA, wasn't aware of and even supporting these trips.
	I mean, it's no chance that China's intelligence apparatus wasn't aware of and helping facilitate these trips.
	And then, you know, there's so many connections if you fast forward to when he became governor.
	Peter talked about a couple of them.
	We've got more.
	Peter, I mean, why do I think after all I've said about President Xi and all we've exposed on this program and you've exposed and putting you on the program, if either you or myself or Shajamas ever went to China, we'd probably be arrested, never to be seen or heard from again.
	Oh, no question about it.
	And look, Walls always tries to explain away Chinese misconduct.
	So, you know, he went on the, when he was in Congress, he went on the floor of the House on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
	And let's remember the most authoritative accounts in the West say that the Chinese military and police killed about 10,000 Chinese nationals at Tiananmen Square.
	On the anniversary, Walls said, yes, you know, Tiananmen Square is terrible, but we have those situations in the United States too.
	And then compared it to the killing at Wounded Knee, you know, in the 19th century.
	And again, that was tragic.
	38 Native Americans were killed.
	But there's no comparison between the two in terms of scale.
	And also, you know, Wounded Knee was immediately a scandal in the United States.
	President Xi of China, his wife, who's a famous singer in China, after the Tiananmen Square massacre, actually sang and serenaded the troops who had participated in that brutal killing.
	And for Walls to sort of try to muddy the waters by comparing the two is just absurd.
	He knows better.
	He knows they're not similar.
	But it's this role that he plays in sort of always, you know, giving China the benefit of the doubt, not challenging them, not calling them out.
	He's been much tougher verbally on the Trump administration than he's ever been on the Xi administration.
	And that's what I think is so worrying because, of course, were he to become vice president, an important part of his billet would actually be international affairs.
	And this is about the only thing we can see that he's had to do on the international stage.
	And it's extremely troubling.
	It's very troubling.
	When you look at all of these issues, I think unfortunately, and we saw this a little bit with the Bidens and their work with the CEFC, the Chinese oil conglomerate, and the sheer amount of money that the family enterprise was making in doing business with China.
	I mean, Hunter admits he has no experience in energy, oil, gas, coal, or China, but yet he's getting, you know, a fortune.
	There was that infamous phone call, Seamus, where I'm sitting next to my father, the WhatsApp message, actually not a phone call.
	And between, you know, why didn't you keep your commitment?
	And between everybody that this man next to me knows and my ability to hold the grudge, you're going to regret not fulfilling your responsibility.
	Did they or did they not get around $5 million in one of their bank accounts, or as James Comer calls them, shell corporations in the days that followed?
	Oh, they absolutely did.
	The Bidens cashed in big time.
	But remember, Joe Biden would always say he never met with his son's business partners, Chinese business partners.
	Now, we know that that was a lie, but there was a point.
	He was saying that he, the public official, never met with the Chinese.
	That's not true for Walls.
	At his inauguration, he invited diplomats, CCP diplomats and officials to his inauguration.
	They congratulated him on his election and they said that they wanted to jointly promote, quote, the friendly cooperative relations between Minnesota and China.
	That's just weird.
	I mean, maybe in California, which is much closer to China, you'd have CCP diplomats attending your inauguration, but why in Minnesota?
	Now, that diplomat left the WALS inauguration to go meet with various WALLS cronies at this NGO that Peter mentioned, Minnesota Global.
	And they were going to promote their friendly cooperation with this.
	It's a WALLS organization that hires him for multiple speaking engagements, this Minnesota Global.
	And then that organization is partnered with the Chinese American Association of Minnesota, another CCP cutout.
	And this is the secret police station that Schweitzer mentions.
	And so the connections are so close.
	And then they all have WALS come speak at their events, these Chinese Communist Party-backed events.
	And he's done this multiple times.
	I've not seen a governor.
	We've looked at a lot of governors.
	We've not seen governors who are meeting and cozying up with Chinese spy organizations.
	I mean, I just never saw anything like it in my life.
	Quick Frank, right back.
	We'll have more from the Government Accountability Institute with Peter Schweitzer and Seamus Bruner.
	And then your calls coming up.
	Also, the latest out of Israel and the latest poll numbers as we continue.
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	All right, we continue from the Government Accountability Institute.
	We have Seamus Bruner and we have Peter Schweitzer.
	In case you haven't gotten Peter's new book, you want to know about China.
	He knows everything.
	Red-handed, how American elites get rich helping China.
	Blood money, why the powerful turn a blind eye while China is killing Americans.
	When you look at everything in combination, there's never been a more radical ticket to ever run for high office this way.
	But if you've been paying attention this weekend, I mean, Kamala Harris is now trying to back away from every position that she's ever had.
	You know, what a joke her saying that, oh, yeah, we're going to stop taxing tips on service employees when she signed the Inflation Reduction Act that did just that and literally helped hire what would be the equivalent eventually of 87,000 IRS agents to go after people's tips.
	I mean, the exact opposite.
	And she would have you believe she's the toughest person on the border that ever existed.
	Is this strategy going to work?
	Because the media is pretty complicit and compliant.
	They're just an extension of a press office.
	They're not vetting her.
	We're vetting her, but not many other people are.
	No, I mean, that's that you nailed it, Sean.
	I mean, the absence of the media, which sadly we've gotten used to here is very, very chilling.
	And look, Harrison Walls recognizes Joe Biden did in 2020, that the country is still a center-center-right country.
	So what did Joe Biden do in 2020?
	All the stuff with COVID and all the craziness going on.
	He said, no, no, no, no, I'm a centrist.
	And I ran as a centrist, and the media never called him out on it.
	We're seeing a replay of that strategy now.
	I'm not sure it's going to work this time, Sean, because Biden had been there for 40 years.
	He had taken left positions on some things, other positions, he was more in the middle.
	You certainly cannot say that about Kamala Harris or Walls.
	Both of them come out of liberal hot houses, San Francisco and Minneapolis, and they've been able to function in essentially political areas where they're one-party states.
	So it's going to be very hard for them to back and back, but they're going to try.
	We're going to put a link to you, too.
	But you've written great books about this.
	And you're more recent, Red-Handed, How American Elites Get Rich Helping China.
	Blood Money, Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.
	Hannity.com, Amazon.com, and bookstores around the country.
	Peter Schweitzer and Seamus Bruner, thank you so much for being with us.
	Appreciate it.
	Thanks, Sean.
	All right, when we come back, well, it looks like the battle with Iran is imminent as of any moment by all signs and every bit of intel that I'm hearing.
	And all my sources are telling me.
	We'll tell you more about that on the other side of this.
	We'll look at the polls going into this.
	Just, what, 85 days out of Election Day, 36 days till early voting?
	Joining us now is a really good friend of the program, Yael Ekstein, is with us, and she oversees the ministry program, president and CEO of the IFCJ.
	And I can only imagine, I know you're in northern Israel now as we speak.
	You've been on the ground as the IFCJ has been from day one.
	The needs are urgent.
	I know people are trying to go about their daily lives, but they also know that the Iranians have pledged to attack any minute, any day now.
	How's life there?
	Thank you so much, Sean, for being such an advocate for Israel.
	And we know a strong Israel is a strong America, and a strong America is a strong Israel.
	So we're really in this together.
	The feeling right now in Israel is that an attack from Iran from Hezbollah, like you said, seven different fronts is imminent.
	We just got word around an hour ago that Iran has already gotten their drones and missiles out, just like they did right before the previous attack on Israel just a few months ago.
	We know that Hezbollah has left their headquarters in Beirut, all the Hezbollah terrorists preparing for an attack where they know Israel will probably destroy their headquarters because that's where they're all based.
	And it feels like we are on the brink of something that's going to go down in history.
	Now, I believe that anything can change for the better in a second.
	I believe that God has his plans and God is merciful and will ultimately protect Israel.
	But right now, we have to prepare for any worst case scenario as Israel has never seen before.
	We've been told to get our bomb shelters ready for at least three days without water, food, or electricity.
	And so at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, since October 7th, we've distributed over 550,000 meals to the people of Israel.
	And in the past week alone, we've been getting the bomb shelters ready, distributed over 10,000 food boxes to bomb shelters.
	But we're getting calls every single day from elderly, from young children saying, we don't have formula, we don't have water, we don't have food.
	So we're just working around the clock and against the clock in order to get as many people this life-saving aid before the rockets start to go off.
	When we last spoke, and I actually saw you, and you had flown in for a couple of days from Israel, and I had an opportunity to meet with you.
	You know, you pointed out to me that the donations that people make to the IFCJ are even providing flak jackets.
	And you told the story about how one IFCJ flak jacket that was donated literally saved a life.
	Tell us that story.
	Wow.
	Well, I see that every single day.
	That was on October 8th when we were at the border distributing flak jackets to first responders.
	And just a few hours later, I was watching television, live television, where I saw one of our flak jackets being worn by a first responder who was reporting on live television from southern Israel.
	And all of a sudden, he came under live attack by a terrorist.
	Bullets were being launched into his car and breaking the windows and got out of his car and went down on the ground.
	He was still reporting.
	And I see all of a sudden he's wearing the IFCJ, the fellowship flak jacket, and it's saving his life.
	But I have stories like that every single day.
	Just two days ago, we distributed a protected vehicle to first responders on the northern border.
	They're responding to rocket attacks.
	There's been some days over 100 rocket attacks and drone attacks from Hezbollah into Israeli cities, and the first responders don't even have a protected car.
	So the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews two days ago brought a protected car to one of these cities.
	And just five hours later, he sent me a picture that he was at the scene of a direct rocket attack on a home.
	There were rockets flying all around, and he was able to respond in real time because he had that vehicle.
	So it's every day.
	Just a week ago, we're placing a bomb shelter at a school bus stop.
	And we placed the bomb shelter, and we have cameras there watching what's going on.
	And the next day, as the kids were getting off the school bus, there were rockets falling and code red sirens, and they were able to use that shelter to stay safe.
	And so what we're doing, I really believe now is the time where for people of faith, you look at the scriptures and it says, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the poor.
	And I look at the needs right now in Israel.
	And the call could be the watchman on the wall.
	And I think there's never been a time as urgent as now that Israel needs this help and support.
	And there's never been a time before also where Israel has felt so alone, that the friendship of people who stand with Israel, their voice is magnified and appreciated more than ever before.
	Because right now we feel like, just as it says in the Book of Lamentations, a nation that dwells alone.
	It really is.
	I'll tell you one of the saddest things as an American citizen that really disturbs me when this tape emerged of Kamala Harris actually saying that we need the courage never to say the words radical Islamic terrorism.
	I'm like, well, you know, let me play it for you.
	You must have the courage to object when they use that term, radical Islamic terrorism, which is more of how Muslims have over-dominated than the greatest victims of terror.
	I mean, what really saddens me is that is, to me, a surrender in the war against radical Islamic terrorism.
	Who attacked Israel on October 7th?
	Who attacked America on 9-11-01?
	I mean, if it's not radical Islamic terrorists, who were they?
	Because that's who they were.
	That's who they are.
	These are people that are dedicated to, you know, death to Israel, death to America.
	Not having that basic fundamental level of moral clarity to me is unforgivable.
	Sean, I think we're living in times now that for people who are opening their eyes, they realize we're in this together.
	Those protesters in America are burning Israeli flags and they're burning American flags.
	When I saw the American flag being burned in Washington, D.C., my heart sunk.
	How could this be?
	And so I look at the words of the scriptures for me personally to find inspiration and hope and faith and direction.
	And I see what's happening today.
	I believe that the scriptures say the prophet said at the end of days, good will be called bad, good will be called bad, bad will be called good, light will be called darkness, darkness will be called light.
	The fact that we're scared to say radical Islam, when that's the threat that's potentially going to take, God forbid, both America, Israel, Europe, and the entire free world down, because that's their stated goal.
	It's not what we're saying.
	That's their words.
	First, they go for the Saturday people and then the Sunday people.
	First, they go for the little Satan in Israel, then they go for the big Satan in America.
	If we can't even say that name and we're confusing that evil with something good, then it's a war that we've lost.
	But I believe that there is a power in not the silent majority, in the silenced majority.
	And Sean, you speak for so many of them.
	And there are so many now leaders bravely standing up to call light light and dark dark.
	And that's exactly what the fellowship represents in Israel.
	And we're in this together.
	There was an American base that was attacked just a few days ago.
	The enemy of America is enemy of Israel.
	We're in this together.
	And that's why I think now our voices are needed more than ever, our grassroots voices that the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews represents in Israel.
	When we bring the food box, when we place a bomb shelter, when we provide the bulletproof vests, they're saving lives every day.
	It's not just saving their lives and giving them protection, but it's also saying you're not alone.
	There are millions of people in America who stand with you, even if it doesn't feel that way.
	All right, quick break, right back more with Ayol Eckstein, president and CEO of the IFCJ.
	Israel now on the brink of likely being attacked by Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah, a three-front, maybe four-front war if the Houthi rebels join in.
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	All right, we continue now with Dahil Eckstein.
	She is in Israel.
	She is in northern Israel today, president, CEO of our partners, our friends at the IFCJ.
	Support IFCJ is their website as we sit here on the brink of a likely attack against Israel by Iran.
	So tell me, how are people, I mean, I know that the Israelis are tough.
	I know that they've lived with these conditions for the longest period of time.
	How are they dealing with, you know, the daily threat?
	And if they have to go it alone because America won't allow them to retaliate, let me play a cut of, and I think this is important for people to hear.
	You hear Wink and Tony Blinken, and you hear Corine Jean-Pierre speaking for the administration.
	All they've been saying to Israel is de-escalate, de-escalate, de-escalate.
	Listen.
	It's urgent that everyone in the region take stock of the situation, understand the risk of miscalculation, and make decisions that will calm tensions, not exacerbate them.
	Look, it is certainly the president's priority to make sure that we do everything that we can to protect our national security, right?
	To make sure they do everything that we can to work with our partners.
	And de-escalating the tensions in the Middle East is certainly something that we want to make sure that we continue to do.
	I mean, I'm sorry.
	I have a very different message to Israel.
	Go out and win.
	You know, but for the Iron Dome, I've always suggested, Yael, that the Iron Dome was a temporary band-aid.
	At some point, you got to root out the cancer that is firing these missiles, like the missile that landed in the soccer field that killed those young Israeli children.
	It's something that we're seeing every day.
	Our soup kitchen had a direct hit that's providing food to elderly in Kiryat Shmonin, the border town with Lebanon inside of Israel, had a direct hit from a missile.
	And that's exactly it, Sean, that most people don't get.
	You're such a sobering voice of understanding that we have terrorists on our border.
	We can't live like that.
	We don't have any choice but to destroy them, but to defeat them.
	We can't put our children in schools that are a mile away from where there are terrorist headquarters.
	We can't do that.
	Right now, we have 100,000 citizens living as refugees inside this tiny country the size of New Jersey.
	And they can't go home until that terror organization, Chesbana, is off of Israel's border.
	And so what we're going to see in the coming days, perhaps, is them revealing their true colors, potentially launching hundreds of thousands of rockets into Israel.
	Israel having no choice but to destroy them, hopefully, once and for all.
	And then we can reach out our hand, just like the Abraham Accords.
	We believe in peace in Israel.
	We want peace in Israel.
	And what we need in order to have peace is to get our hostages, our 120 hostages from one-year-old to 85-year-old citizens of Israel who were taken from their beds over 300 days ago, kept in the dungeons of hell in Gaza.
	We need them to come home.
	We need the terror organizations dismantled.
	And then the Middle East can be the most beautiful place, just as we've seen from those countries who have partnered in the Abraham Accords under President Trump and, of course, Ambassador David Friedman.
	Well, I think that people need to understand how dire the need is.
	Our thoughts and prayers are with you as you sit here on the eve of this attack.
	We pray for our friends in Israel.
	I wish that America had not abdicated its role on the world stage the way it has and that we understand that we ought to be the force for liberty and freedom in the world.
	I wish we would do that, but apparently we haven't.
	But I do appreciate all the work that you are doing.
	And I want to remind people, Support IFCJ is your website.
	And obviously, the need is great, especially as you sit here on the precipice of what might be the biggest war in the Middle East we've seen in our lifetime.
	Yayel, thank you so much for being with us.
	Thank you so much, Sean.
	And right now, I would say the most urgent need are food boxes.
	$45 is one food box, and it goes directly to the people.
	So SupportICJ can both help feed someone who needs it right now in the bomb shelter, prepare Israel, and get your voice heard that Israel is not alone.
	Thank you for everything you do, Sean.
	Yayel Eckstein, thank you for what you're doing on the ground.
	Our prayers are with you.
	Not a great time.
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