April 14, 2018 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to tonight's live broadcast of the Political Cesspool Radio Program as we continue our annual celebration and coverage of Confederate History Month, 2018.
We've been doing it for 14 years, and that tradition continues this evening.
Thank you for joining us as our showcase to the South continues tonight with very special guests and good friends of ours, Michael Hill, Dr. Michael Hill, and Gene Andrews.
Gene Andrews, of course, was on the show last week as well because he is conducting a two-part series on the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest as part of our Confederate History Month extravaganza.
And Dr. Hill will be back with us this evening to cover a variety of southern-themed topics.
So that's coming up in the second and third hours, respectively.
And we're also going to address the developing situation in Syria.
Obviously, this is an issue that we would spend a lot more time covering in any other month but April.
But we will make a couple of mentions about what we feel about what Trump has done there as we continue to go through tonight's broadcast.
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And they have, by now, you have received your piece of Jefferson Davis's home, Arright in Time for Confederate History Month that we made available to you last month.
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And for everyone else out there, and for everyone out there who has received that piece of Jefferson Davis's home, President Davis, the only president of the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee said this about Jefferson Davis.
This is something you may want to keep in mind as you show your friends and family this piece of southern history at your gatherings.
Robert E. Lee said this.
If my opinion is worth anything, you can always say that few people could have done better than Mr. Davis.
I knew of none that could have done as well.
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And again, for our new listeners in Utah tonight, why do we cover Confederate History Month so extensively?
Well, we went into that in depth last week, during the first hour of last week's show.
So if you missed it, please go back and listen in our broadcast archives.
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Now, I'm not going to cover that ground again tonight, except to tell you that there are countless outlets that cover current events.
And, yes, we are going to mention Trump in Syria tonight, but even right of center, content is exactly like DPC.
Now, we may not be for everyone, but of course, that's because we don't try to be.
We're here for the people who value our message and our message and our principles guide us.
And they are unwavering.
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Our motives and our intentions are pure.
We're not here to be shocking or for vanity's sake.
We turn down so much press.
We are here to educate, to encourage, to uplift, and to inspire.
And I hope that over the course of the next three hours, we will do a little bit of all of that for you.
And there will be the usual horrors for us to talk about in three weeks when Confederate History Month is over.
But for this month, this is what we're doing.
It's timely.
It's appropriate.
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Welcome to the show, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, if you do want me to give you a quick preview of what my take on Trump's action in Syria is, I would say it's a disaster and an embarrassment for America.
Russia and Syria are the righteous parties in this conflict.
And if Americans are really so stupid to believe that the evil government in Washington lobbed 100 missiles at Syria because of Assad's supposed gassings, we're really too stupid to survive, even if Assad did it.
And I don't think he did, and Russia has produced evidence to prove it's a false flag.
I just don't care.
I don't care.
Not worth a war, not worth an illegal unconstitutional war, and it's not worth alienating who should be our greatest ally, Putin's Christian Russia.
We'll be back right after this.
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Okay, everybody.
So talking a little bit about Syria here as we kick things off.
And, well, really, what more can we say?
It's a song we've seen many times before.
We've seen this game before.
A legitimate government working on behalf of the American people would do everything in its power to make Putin's Russia our greatest allies rather than antagonizing them over pretend concerns about the happenings in Syria.
Now, why do I think it's a pretend concern?
You mean for me to believe, and it is absolutely preposterous for anyone to believe, that a government that has sanctioned the murder of millions of its own babies as they grow in their mother's womb would suddenly feel morally compelled to go to war over the supposed death of a few people on the other side of the world.
It just doesn't begin to make sense.
And I think that I think that the actions Trump has taken could be defined as a terrorist action.
They certainly weren't done under the approval of a Congress, and there's no vital interest that we would have to do this.
If anyone has butchered civilians in the Middle East, it's been America.
And with his terrorist actions in Syria, I think Trump proved himself to be nothing more than just another owned and operated head of state, just like every other president in my lifetime.
And you know our history with Donald Trump in 2016.
The establishment press said we were one of the 20, top 20 right-wing news outlets responsible for Donald Trump's presidency.
Hillary Clinton said we would govern the country or be part of a governing coalition.
And that was ludicrous as well, but she said it.
So, I mean, we got a lot of attention for our support of Trump.
And so we didn't come at this from an anti-Trump perspective.
But if he does well, we'll say that.
And if he does poorly and behaves in a manner that is absolutely opposed to what he campaigned for, the platform upon which he campaigned or on which he campaigned, then we're going to call him out.
I mean, he talked, he wrote very in-your-face indirect tweets about how ridiculous it was that Obama would take actions like this in Syria, no less.
And he's doing the exact same things now.
So anyway, we'll pause on that right now and get back to Confederate History Month.
Why did they fight?
Why did our southern heroes fight?
This is a southern show.
We're based in Memphis.
Why did they fight?
Were they traitors?
Well, the United States government at the time and immediately after the war didn't consider themselves to be so.
Now, how many Confederate soldiers and leaders do you remember being hanged after the war for treason?
None.
And unless you consider George Washington to be a traitor, then you can't consider the Confederates to be traitors.
They either both were or neither were.
The U.S. government didn't consider themselves to be traitors during the war or immediately after, nor did it consider them to be traitors 100 years after the war.
100 years after the war, in 1957, Confederate soldiers, sailors, and Marines who fought in the War of Northern Aggression were made U.S. veterans by an act of Congress, U.S. Public Law 85-425, Section 410, which was approved on May 23rd, 1958.
This made all Confederate veterans equal to U.S. military veterans.
Oh, they say, well, okay, then they weren't doing it because they were traitors, but they were doing it for slavery.
Well, it's very interesting if you believe that the sole reason they were fighting was to keep slavery on the table.
There were numerous compromises made by the government.
Now, whether you could buy into these compromises as if they were serious offerings or just a ruse, who's to say?
But the fact of the matter is the United States government made a number of compromises in an attempt to preserve the Union after Lincoln's election.
The Crittenden Compromise extended the line of the Missouri Compromise and promised, listen to me now, promised federal protection of slavery south of that line.
The House of Representatives Compromise offered an extension of the Missouri Compromise and a constitutional amendment to protect slavery.
And the Virginia Peace Convention produced an offer to extend the line of the Missouri Compromise and establish that slavery, listen to this, slavery could never be outlawed except by the permission of the slave owner.
And finally, Congress offered $300 each for each slave.
So if the South was only fighting to preserve slavery, it seems they would have taken a deal on the table from the United States government that would have protected the practice of slavery forever.
And that was the offer on the table.
So why did they fight?
Why did they fight?
Well, if you want to understand why Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson fought on behalf of the Confederate states, you might be surprised that a relatively recent movie explains it well.
Now, we bring up these clips every year in Confederate History Month.
Why do we do that?
Number one, we think they're very good.
And number two, we have a history with this particular film.
And number three, just because we played it last year or the year before, our audience grows every week.
There are inevitably people that have not heard this before.
And even if you have, you might enjoy hearing it again.
So with that, I would say anyone wishing to celebrate Confederate History Month should purchase the 2003 film Gods in Generals.
It is among one of my favorites and portrays the South in a very fair and an objective light.
In 2011, an executive at Warner Brothers contacted me to ask if they, Warner Brothers, movie studios, could partner with the political cesspool in order to promote the re-release of the film in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the war.
That was back in 2011.
Now, I would normally not choose to associate the good name or the name of my work with any Hollywood movie studios, but in this case, I was happy to help get the word out about this particular film.
Gods and Generals stands alone among major motion pictures as it favorably depicts the Confederates and the Confederacy and rightly casts Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as heroes.
It is simply the best movie ever made, in my opinion, about the war between the states.
It's exciting, briskly paced, and the characterizations of Lee and Jackson, played by Robert Duvall and Stephen Lang, respectively, are absolutely gripping.
So, Robert E. Lee, played by Robert Duvall, who is a descendant of Robert E. Lee, believe it or not, explains in this clip why he cannot lead the Union Army.
We're going to play it for you right now.
Allow me to get to the point, sir.
I have been authorized by President Lincoln himself, with the full blessing of the War Department, to offer you full command of the Army with the rank of Major General.
This army being raised to quell this rebellion and, of course, to preserve the Union.
I assume this arm is to be used to invade those areas to eliminate the rebellion by force.
Yes, sir.
The federal government has been challenged by these rebels who have been most effective in changing the sentiments of various state legislatures, challenging our Constitution and challenging our central government.
The attack on Fort Sumter cannot be ignored.
General, my home is right there across the Potomac.
Why, you can see Arlington House from your front door.
My family is spread all over this part of Virginia.
If you invade the South, your enemy territory will be there right across that river.
Well, sir, there is no great outcry for secession in Virginia.
It's not a foregone conclusion that Virginia or Tennessee, Arkansas, or Kentucky will join the rebellion.
My friend, may I humbly submit that you're mistaken about Virginia.
As you know, the legislature is convening in Richmond this very day to discuss the very issue of secession.
Now, perhaps you know their mind better than they themselves.
And I regret to say the president's hasty calling up of 75,000 volunteers to subdue the rebellion in the cotton states has done nothing to ameliorate the crisis.
It has only deepened it.
I trust you're not being too hasty yourself, Colonel.
This is a great opportunity for you to serve your country.
My country, Mr. Blair.
I never thought I lived to see the day that the President of the United States would raise an army to invade his own country.
No, Mr. Blair, I cannot lead it.
I will not lead it.
I'm sorry to hear you say that, sir.
I fear you're making a most dreadful mistake.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, right there you see a man of character, a man of honor.
Please convey my Robert E. Lee turned down the command of the Union Army because it was the right thing to do.
How many of today's business and political heavyweights would have made that same decision?
Not very many.
Precious few.
That is why these men were heroes.
They didn't do what was easy.
They did what they had to.
They did their duty.
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And we're going to go back and revisit the Syria question.
But first, right now, we put it up on the website this week, thepoliticalcessible.org.
Four clips from the film Gods and Generals, a Warner Brothers production, came out in 2001.
Warner Brothers called us up in 2011 and asked if we would work with them to help promote the re-release of that film, which they were re-releasing in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of our Second War of Independence.
And I think, you know, you've got to understand, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of books have been written about the war between the states.
Hundreds of books have been written about each of the heroes.
And it's impossible in four weeks of commercial talk radio.
We have four shows in April.
It's impossible for us to cover it.
So what we're trying to do tonight is to just give you enough to help you along your way and to give you some reasons to think and to perhaps move forward in your own investigation of these questions.
And we do the best we can with the time we've got.
And we like these clips from this particular movie because I think it packs a lot of truth.
Now, obviously, you're not hearing Robert E. Lee himself speak these words, nor are you hearing Stonewall Jackson himself speak these words, but you are hearing actors.
And that film stayed pretty close to the real history.
Perhaps not the history you hear anymore, but the actual history and the facts of why they fought and who these men were.
And I think they capture in just a matter of minutes exactly why my ancestors were both right and justified in fighting for their independence.
But real quick about Robert E. Lee, that last clip you heard, I want you to think about this.
In a week's time, from the time he turned down Lincoln's offer to command the Union Army, in one week, he became the only person in history to be offered the command of each of two opposing armies.
A remarkable fact for a remarkable man.
Now, Stonewall Jackson was played in that movie by Stephen Lang.
And in this clip you're about to hear, he prophetically explains what will happen if the South loses.
And as we stand now, it is exactly what did happen after the defeat of our heroes.
Stonewall Jackson, played by Stephen Lang.
Why did the South fight?
Let's hear it right now.
Lieutenant Colonel Stewart reporting for duty, sir.
Colonel Stewart.
That's an impeccable hat, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Tell me, Colonel Stewart.
Use tobacco?
No, sir.
Not any form.
Neither do I. Find I like it too much.
Sit down.
Understand from your record that you are West Point, class of 54.
Served since in the cavalry, Fort Clark, Texas, operations against Apache, Comanche.
Most impressive, you are Native Virginian.
Fought with Longstreet Mules, sir.
Nasty business.
Merciless climate.
Glad to be home, sir.
The Apache were defending their homes as we will be defending ours.
If we fight as well as the Apache, I pity the Yankee invader.
General Stewart, if I had my way, we would show no quarter to the enemy.
No more than the Redskins showed your troopers.
The black flag, sir.
If the North triumphs, it is not alone the destruction of our property.
It is the prelude to anarchy, infidelity, the ultimate loss of free and responsible government on this continent.
It is the triumph of commerce, the banks, factories.
We should meet the federal invader on the outer verge of just and right defense and raise at once the black flag.
No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides.
Our political leadership in Richmond is too timid to face the reality of this coming war.
We should look to the Bible.
It is full of such wars.
Only the black flag will bring the North quickly to its senses rapidly in the war.
Well, Colonel.
One way or the other, the South will give them a warm reception.
You'll be in charge of the cavalry in the Harpers Ferry District.
Your experience and your zeal will be invaluable.
Thank you, sir.
All right.
Well, I think you heard it as well as I can possibly explain it.
Here, there was one more bit to that clip where the character or the actor playing Jeb Stewart says, when we face the enemy, we will gallop towards them but trot away, which happened in quite a few battles, that's for sure.
So we have these clips for you at thepolitical sessible.org.
And again, I think in just a matter of a couple of minutes there, that film was able to paint a pretty accurate picture of why the South felt they had to fight, even fight against overwhelming forces and odds and all of that.
And of course, it's quite right.
Everything that he feared would happen did happen after the central government won that war.
There's one more clip I'd like to play.
It's a stirring speech that Stephen Lang, who is playing Stonewall Jackson, gives in this film as he's rallying his troops.
And if our producer has that ready, it's the clip Gods and Generals Jackson's speech, if we can cue that up here just as quick as we can.
Yeah, let's play it now.
Thank you.
Men of the Valley, citizens, soldiers, I'm here at the order of General Robert E. Lee, commanding all Virginia forces.
On April 15th of this year of our Lord 1861, Simon Cameron, the Secretary of War of the United States, sent a telegram to our Governor John Letter directing him to raise three regiments of infantry to be sent to assist in suppressing the Southern Confederacy.
Governor Letch's answer is well known to you, but perhaps not his words.
His wire to Washington stated: you have chosen to inaugurate civil war.
And having done so, we will meet you in a spirit as determined as the Lincoln administration has exhibited toward the South.
Two days later, the Virginia legislature voted for secession.
Just as we would not send any of our soldiers to march in other states and tyrannize other people, so will we never allow the armies of others to march into our state and tyrannize our people.
Like many of you, indeed, most of you, I've always been a union man.
It is not with joy or with a light heart that many of us have welcomed secession.
Had our neighbors to the north practiced a less better form of persuasion, perhaps this day might not have come.
But that day has been thrust upon us like it was thrust upon our ancestors.
The Lincoln administration required us to raise three regiments.
Tell them we have done so.
Well, again, ladies and gentlemen, I think in about six minutes of airtime, those three clips really paint an accurate and honest picture of why the South in general fought to defend itself and why men of honor and men of distinction like Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson specifically fought on behalf of the Confederate States.
And so you can buy that movie, you can rent it, and we've got a posting about that particular film at thepolitical cessible.org.
So I think those three clips helped us expedite a little snapshot of why our people did what they did in the years of 1861 to 1865.
Now, with that being said, and he said it in the clip even, in the clip, we would never raise troops to invade and tyrannize another person's land.
And, well, you see, what the American government did then, they have done ever since.
There has not been one war that the United States should have fought in since, well, even before the war between the states, I guess you could say.
The South was right in fighting that, but certainly after it, there's not been one.
And then now they're still doing it.
They did it yesterday.
They did it last night in Syria.
And that was something that was warned about by our Southern forebears, our Confederate forebears, and now they don't even declare it, of course.
Right now, they don't even declare it.
I think the last, what was the last declared war?
World War II was the last declared war, if you could believe it.
Hey, when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit more about Syria, and then we're going to get into the real fun stuff for the second and third hours with our featured guests for the night.
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And it's Jack Ryan's weekly segment now, and Jack's going to be talking about Syria.
I want to say very quickly, because of Confederate History Month and our programming schedule this evening, we're not going to have time to talk about Syria as much as we normally would have.
But I want to direct you to LibertyRoundtable.com, LibertyRoundtable.com.
Just because we're not going to be covering it extensively tonight doesn't mean that it hasn't been covered well by our network family and Sam Bushman this morning, the Saturday morning broadcast of Liberty Roundtable, LibertyRoundtable.com.
The entire show was dedicated to this.
Sam nailed it.
If we could have replayed that for two hours, we couldn't have done better ourselves.
And so if you are interested in learning more from an honest take on this, and the coverage will continue at LibertyRoundtable.com on Monday, but check it out there.
He did that earlier today.
Jack Ryan, tell us why we picked the song that we picked this evening and your recommendations and your thoughts on what happened last night in Syria.
Sure.
Well, I like the song just because I think it's a good song, but I also like the theme that there's clowns left of us, jokers to the right.
So that's sort of what I feel about our political situation, that the liberal left in this country is anti-flood Black Lives Matter, hostile to Southern Christians.
And then you think on the right, we've got conservatives, Zionists, Christian Zionists, neoconservatives, just idiots.
And they're doing these wars in Syria against the Russians.
So we're kind of stuck in the middle with regular people.
And we got clowns left of us and Jokers to the right.
That's for sure.
Now, before we dive into the meat of the matter and the heart of the topic, the heart of the subject, tell us your movie and book recommendations, sir.
Okay, I don't have a book recommendation this week.
I have a magazine article recommendation.
And so this is Unpatriotic Conservatives from the National Review by this terrible Canadian neoconservative, David Fromm.
He wrote the worst ever presidential speech in our history, The Axis of Evil Speech for George W. Bush, that supposedly there was an axis of evil of Iran, Saddam Hussein, Iraq, and North Korea.
And just totally ridiculous.
But this was in, this is the second Iraq war, and there were some conservatives that were speaking out against this war.
Pat Buchanan, Joe Sobram, Thomas Fleming, myself.
I'm kind of a second tier.
And this David Fromm wrote this smear campaign that anyone who was against this war was an patriotic conservative that he needed to be purged and never allowed to speak again and sort of like that.
So they should be, I want our audience to be familiar with these neoconservatives who took over our movement and destroyed our country and keep pushing these Zionist neocon wars and they are for open borders immigration to the U.S.
So that's my recommendation for the movie.
Now, the movie recommendation, it's a bad movie, worse than ever, but I think you should just follow it.
It's Rambo, I think it's three.
And it's this propaganda movie with this American patriot Johnny Rambo, Vietnam veteran, and he goes off to Afghanistan to join these Afghan jihadist freedom fighters to fight the evil Russians.
And this, you know, these mountain Afghan freedom fighters turned into the Taliban.
And like, why are European Christians our enemies and the throat cutters?
And it's just like, what the heck were they thinking?
Why did we waste the 80s with Reagan fighting the Russians in Afghanistan?
To me, it's stupid, but our people do stupid things.
And it's a stupid movie.
So people should see it and just kind of analyze the stupid things that our fathers' generation did.
Thank you, Jack, for the recommendations.
I would say this very quickly, going back to your magazine recommendation this week, with regard to the axis of evil, there is a new axis of evil, and it is the United States, Britain, and France.
And those were the three that came together to lob those 100 missiles into Syria.
And just like George W. Bush, Trump declared mission accomplished in Syria.
Well, I don't know exactly what was accomplished.
They hurled 100 missiles at Syria, and the Russian defense air defense system that Syria employs intercepted 71 of them.
I guess some damage was done.
And of course, Russia has presented evidence that the whole thing was a false flag anyway.
But at least Israel is happy with it.
Israel, and I'm reading from Sam Bushman's notes again, just to give that one more plug at LibertyRoundtable.com.
Russia says Britain staged the attack in Syria, but Israel is happy that our controlled government did, U.S. acted appropriately, Israel rights, or Israel states.
And so I guess that's probably why we did it when we get down to it.
It's just another war for Israel.
But Jack, give us your takes on Syria.
What do you think?
That is, there's a few others.
Wow, time really flies when you're not having fun.
It was 27 years ago that I was doing pro-American anti-neocon wars in Nashville, Tennessee.
The first time they did this war was in Iraq.
And I took out full-page advertisements in Nashville, Tennessee and Chattanooga Times.
I went on local talk radio and cable TV.
And I was treated actually very fair, included by the Jewish media.
And I listed all the people that were pushing this war.
It's not just the Israeli lobby or the American APAC and the like.
It was the Saudi Sunni monarchs, the Emir of Kuwait, that were lining up on this, the military-industrial complex.
I quoted Charles Lindbergh, Put America First.
I quoted George Washington's farewell address to the country.
And I listed all the problems that they were doing.
The problem was I did okay on the media.
People agreed with it, but regular Red State Tennesseans couldn't get it out of their minds.
The only people who would be anti-war would be leftists, James Fond, anti-American likes.
And our enemies, they're very good at doing propaganda.
They will find some country music populist guy like Hank Williams Jr., Ted Nugent, Toby Keith that bring out some propaganda war.
The first one was, don't give us a reason.
We'll kick your ass and we'll be like Hitler.
And our enemies always do that.
They always try to say that our enemy is Hitler.
It's an Axis.
And this propaganda was that they're gassing little children.
And it's a reference to the alleged atrocities in World War II, the 6 million gassing there.
I don't think, I hope none of our listeners believe this propaganda.
I'm 98% sure that it was a false flag.
Hope maybe someone in Syria did something.
But the Syrian regular secular government was beating ISIS.
They were taking it.
And so the few remaining places came this atrocity and then brought in Americans to bomb it.
So I hope actually that it is just a one-time only, like last year, the powers that be the deep state are after Trump to try to get him anyway.
I think he might have given them this stuff and said, okay, mission accomplished.
Let's get out of here.
So I hope it is mission accomplished and we'll get out of there.
I hope it doesn't lead to World War III.
So that's my take.
Exactly, because you've got a Christian and a nationalist and Vladimir Putin.
That is the country we should be trying to ally with most intensively and extensively.
Absolutely.
And I mean, you're a happily married man to a beautiful wife, woman.
I'm a bachelor.
I have some things, but who would you rather associate with her be in bed with beautiful Russian women like Anna Kornikova or these mountain jihadists, the al-Qaeda terrorist, you know, there.
I mean, how could we democratize ISIS and the Taliban or Saudi Arabia?
That's just crazy.
But they've got control of the media and including the conservative media.
And they not only can they slander Vladimir Putin and Syriz Assadis, Hitler and stuff, they can slander us and say we're unpatriotic conservatives that we don't support the troops and they'll hear gassing little children and all this stuff.
It's terrible.
But hey, we do.
It's like I said.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, we do what we can.
And what we can do is talk about it here on the AM Radio Airways.
And we're one voice, I think, of consistency and of decency.
And again, I said it before earlier in the show, but I'll say it again as a point of emphasis.
How could the American government, how could anybody believe that the American government is so concerned over these handful of people that were killed in Syria?
We have butchered in the womb millions of our own children via a state-sanctioned abortion.
It just doesn't, folks, please don't tell me you believe that we're doing this out of some sense of righteousness.
I mean, the American government is criminally corrupt.
It's an evil government.
I'm ashamed to be an American.
And not because of what happened in Syria.
I've never been able to stand the side of the American flag.
I know that's too much for some of you out there, but that's just me.
And that's just me.
And if you like the American flag, that's fine.
But I can't stand to see the side of it.
Anyway, that's a whole other topic.
But it is sad to see that Trump is determined to make himself a one-term president.
And that is only if the Democrats don't impeach him first.
But if there was ever any instincts of Trump that paralleled with that of our own, and if there was ever any chance that an American president might be serious about the wall, it would probably have to be Trump.
And he's turning into just completely neutralizing everything.
He's good, but the powers of the year are pretty rough.
I'm not going to give up on him.
I want to just say if you ever see anyone that has courage and honesty about this subject, you should support them.
And I want to call our leaders' attention that there is a congresswoman from Hawaii.
She's of Samoan descent, and she served in the Iraq war.
And she just came out on Tucker Collis Notice and said, this war is a disaster.
I spent the time in Iraq.
It was a disaster.
People I know it were maimed and killed.
It's unconstitutional.
So I called her.
And you can't call the White House and talk to the president tell them what to do, but you can call congressional offices and talk to their staff and tell them when they're doing something good.
And I've been just on the phone all week doing that.
And I encourage our people to do that.
Don't give up.
The top is pretty corrupt, but other people are a little lower.
You're a state representative.
Try to just work activists at lower levels.
And I think we might get through that.
Very interesting.
What a great way to end your segment, Jack.
That was an interesting update.
Well, it was hard for me to believe when the music started.
It seemed like we just got started with you, Jack.
But that's it for you for this week.
We'll talk to you again next week.
Thanks for your contribution.
The two guests we have for tonight are coming up next.