May 24, 2025 • 48 mins
Breaking Point with David Zere - May 24, 2025
A - David has stats and talks with Uri Kaufman about the state of the middle east
B - David speaks with Mike Kucharski on Trumps English-Only EO for truckers, supply chain
C - David discusses Trumps Space program and Golden Dome with Dr. Lorna Finman
D - David and Dr. Lorna Finman talk more of American Space Dominance
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome to another super fabulous edition of Breaking Point on
Real America's Voice News.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Another informative show for you so you can argue with
your crazy uncle at the Memorial Day barbecue tomorrow and Monday.
I want to wish everybody you know a great time
with their family this weekend and honor all those who
gave their lives for this country. I spend all morning
looking at the debt clock, and every twenty one seconds
we go another million dollars further in debt, and every
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minute it's three million dollars, and every hour it's like
one hundred and eighty million, and every day it's four
billion dollars, four billion dollars a day in debt. And
by the way, New York City leaders are bragging about
a reduction in shootings and murders down about twenty percent
across New York City, but they leave out that rape
is up almost thirty percent, felony assaults and missed themeanor
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assaults still at like twenty year highs. And in AOC's district,
crime is up since twenty nineteen since she took office.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You know, she cares about somebody. She's so compassionate.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Right, crime is up seventy percent, more than double the
citywide increase of thirty percent during that ten year. Since
twenty nineteen, and the one hundred and tenth precinct in
queens encompasses the market of Sweethearts, a human trafficking den,
a prostitution mecca on Roosevelt Avenue. It's saw one hundred
and five percent surgeon crime, the highest increase of any
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New York City precinct in the same five years. Good job, AOC,
Good job Democrats, You're so compassionate about the border.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I want to welcome our first guest with us, though,
because there's so much going on in the world and
it's hard to keep up, and we need an expert
opinion here on what's cooking over in the Middle East.
We have Yuri Kaufman, historian and legal expert and author
of American Intafada, Israel, The Gaza War, and the New
Anti Semitism.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's great to be here, great to be with you, Yuri.
You know again, it's so hard to keep up what's
going on. You know, we did so many airstrikes against Yemen.
In the past few months, the Harry S. Truman Strike
Group engaged one hundred and sixty Bothy drones and missiles,
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and we carried out six hundred and seventy strikes in Yemen.
It looks like Israel recalled their hostage negotiation team from Cotter.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Can you shed some light about what's the latest.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, the reason that Israel brought the negotiating team back
is there was no progress being made. The reason there
was no progress being made is that the Europeans recently
decided to back Hamas.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
So Hamas is saying why should we settle? The Europeans
are going to rescue us.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And if you go back to the year twenty twenty
five or the same thing happened with Kamala Harris in July.
It was actually July seventeen, twenty twenty four, Israel killed
one of the leading I could say arch terrorists of Kamas,
I mean by the name of Muhammad death. He was
a legendary figure among Palestinians because he had survived seven
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previous assassination attempts. They got him on the eighth try
and that really staggered Clamas.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
And according to reports coming out of the region.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It was then that Kamas was finally starting to get
flexible on a hostage deal.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
But then on July the twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Kamala Harris came out with her speech saying there's too
much suffering in Gaza and I won't remain silent, and
these were her last to stop and the next day
Kamas said, we're not coming to the talks.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And it was obvious what happened.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
They listened to Kamalis speech and realized that if she
won the election, they would win the war. So why
free hostages, why negotiate? And that's what happened then, and
it looks like something similar that happened now.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Now we just had a release of Eden Alexander to
eighteen months in captivity. Tell us about that situation is
at a watershed moment? And what about the remaining fifty
eight hostages?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So it was a watershed moment in the sense that
even Alexander was freed without Israel freeing any murderers. They
didn't have to free any terrorists to get him out.
And it's obvious what happened. The Trump administration fights for Americans.
They said, Hamas, if you want to have dialogue with us.
If you want anything from us, you gotta free the
live American hostages. Now, the Biden administration knew that there
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were eight such hostages at the beginning of the war,
and if they had taken similar action and just said,
Hamas you want something from us, you want us to
pressure Israel, the price for dialogue just talking to us
is you gotta free the eight Americans. We will never
know what would have happened, but I have to believe
the Kamas would have knuckled under it if they.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Had done so. It stands to reason that some of
the American.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Hostages who are now dead would be alive, like, for example,
Hirsch Goldberg, Poland, who was murdered in a tunnel right
next to Yajia Sinoar, the leader of Kamas who masterminded
the attack. He was one of the principal hostages, protecting
Sinnoar himself, because of course, Thomas knows Americans are more valuable,
and it seems to me that Biden could have gotten
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him out the way Trump got Eeden Alexander out.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Unfortunately it didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Sure well, tell us about the latest incursion into Gaza.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What's the endgame here?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
So it's a very good question. No one really knows
for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The endgame is when this law of dust settles, Camas
is not going to be ruling Gaza, the hostages hopefully
will be free. I would just point out parenthetically that
Israel has put forth what has to rank as among
the most generous peace terms in the history of warfare.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
And that's not an exaggeration. You had this.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Hideous attack on October the seventh. If you take it
as a percentage of the population, it would have been
the equivalent of forty five thousand Americans being murdered ten
thousand taken hostage.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Now the war is coming to an end.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The Israelis are not asking for any sort of compensation.
They're not asking for territory. They're not even asking for
a peace treaty. Stop and think about that one for
just a minute. The minimum of any war is that
the attacker must promise to not attack again. The Israelis
are not even asking for that. All they're asking is
that the hostages be free, that Kamas go into exile,
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and that the Calmas terrorists give up their weapons. And
here we're seeing, you know, European countries and many, many
Democrats saying no, that's unreasonable.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
We want to give Lamas a do over. You know
it would because if the equivalent of I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Sorry, no, go on finish, that'll be.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Equivalent of imagine if we're closing in on Berlin. We've
had this horrible, hideous war and now someone.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Says no, no, we got to stop. We got to stop.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The innocent German civilians are suffering. We got to leave
the Nazis in power, give them a doe over. They
say they're going to attack us again, but well, we're
going to stop because of those innocent civilians.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I mean, since nothing like this has ever happened in
the history of warfare.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
If there's even one example anywhere, I would challenge anyone
to let me know what it is.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Certainly we never let our enemies off the hook.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I don't know why Israel has to be literally the
only country in the history of the world expected to
do this. And it's no secret who expects Israel to
do this is the left.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Donald Trump gets it.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Countries with right wing or even center right governments get it,
like Germany gets it, Hungary gets it. I could say Serbia, Italy,
many many others.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It's the left wing governments.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It's Mark Carney up in Canada, it's the government of Spain,
it's the government of South Africa. I mean they're taking
literally crazy positions that have no precedent in the history
of modern warfare.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Tell us about the impact, you know, it seems the
Abraham Accords and the other Middle East agreements signed into
play by Trump. Tell us about the effects of Abraham
Accords right.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Now, it's really pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
We have this horrible war, but the Abraham Accords have
survived the ultimate test, the test of a horrible war.
United Arab Emirates has a tremendous amount of trade with Israel.
At the present time. It's measured in the buildings. It's
going up by double digits each and every year. This
is how you build peace. Unfortunately, shockingly, many people on
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the left.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I've almost come out and condemned the peace treaty.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I mean, I remember Jay Street just called it nothing
but a business deal, which I think is ridiculous. John
Kerry said that it would be impossible to ever have
a peace deal without the Palestinians.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Remember the speech no, no, no, and no.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Well, it turns out for each no, there was a
peace deal four country signed peace agreements with Israel. One
final point and a very important one. The Nobel Peace
Prize has been given out to so many others. It
was given to Barack Obama for doing frankly nothing. We
have a truly historic peace deal between Israel four Arab countries.
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That's double all the Arab countries that were with Israel
up to that point.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
There were only two Egypt and Jordan.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
With those four, you doubled that number. But somehow Donald Trump,
Benjamin and Yo and an Arab leader have not been
recognized with the Nobel Prize Committee. And it tells you
something about the Nobel Peace Prize that it's not just
about bringing peace to the world. It's also a branding issue.
If you're sent to right, they're not that interested in
honoring you.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, well, I have in about a minute just summarize
what happens if there's another hoothy attack like on the
Bengorian airport a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
The gloves off with Iran.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I don't think the gloves are off up with Iran
as far as America is concerned. I mean, America has
resolved its issue with who these From Donald Trump's standpoint,
it's mission accomplished.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Trade has been resumed. That who They's have agreed.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Not to bomb shipping Israel is basically imposing the blockade
on the who these but Israel Mike Bomberron's nuclear capability.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
We'll have to just wait and see what happens.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
All right, great, really quick, tell our viewers about your book.
Where can they follow you on social media?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So I'm more you know, I'm kind of a twentieth
century kind of guy. I'm not that big on social media.
But the book is called American in Defata. It can
be got on Amazon, it is in certain bookstores. Books
doing quite well so far. We're really really proud of
that it Basically they'll find facts and that they won't
find elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I can tell you that much. It's being distributed by
Simon and Schuster.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's been fact checked everything in there is so far,
no one has found in inaccuracy in the book so
far alive, I can say Tom Friedman's books, which are
full of them.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well, I want to thank you so much for joining us.
Very insightful and I'd love to have you back on
the show.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Thank you so much. It was really great to be here.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Thank you so much, Yuri, everybody, Uri Kaufman.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And it's pretty incredible the turn of events here, and
it looks like there's some stability in the Middle East.
Trump's successful trip with the Saudis and Qatar. You know,
Qatar has sponsored terrorism around the world and the International
Brotherhood of Muslims and you know ices types, and but
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we took the gloves off in Somalia.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I'm going to get into that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The largest bombardment of any single aircraft carrier operation in
the history I think of the world happened in February
and it didn't get much coverage. And then when I
come back, we're going to talk about other stuff going
around the world. China expanding their nuclear program, North Korean
warship crashes on its launch, its maiden voyage, and more so,
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don't go anywhere. Thank you for watching Breaking Point on
Real America's Voice News. I got some great guests ahead.
We're going to talk about SpaceX and all kinds of
other stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Thinks we'll be back. Welcome back, everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You are watching Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News.
Thank you so much for joining the family. So much
going on, if you blink, you're going to miss it.
I have some interesting news from around the world though.
You know, China is planning a major nuclear expansion, not
only being more reliant on coal China and India are,
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but they are going to build ten new nuclear reactors
in China. So they are moving full guns and building
their infrastructure. I hope the United States follow suit. I
covered that last week with our audience, and we do
have plans to go mo nuclear. And I'm very excited
about these small module of reactors which will be online
by twenty thirty your power factory with them. They're very
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small as opposed to like a nine hundred megawatt plant,
these things are like one to thirty five megawatch, so
it's really exciting technology. A North Korean warship crashed on
its launching. I think it was a freighter. In Somalia,
Navy planes carried out the largest airstrike in the history
of carrier strikes from the Harry S.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Truman.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It didn't get a lot of coverage, but they bombed
Al Shabab and ISIS targets in Africa in Somalia.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Sixteen US Navy FA eighteen Super Hornets launched the largest
ever air strike from an aircraft carrier, dropping one hundred
and twenty five thousand pounds of ordnance on al Shabab
groups and ISIS groups hiding in caves in a cave network.
Pretty extraordinary stuff. In this South African farmer issue, you
know around a posa in the Oval office or in
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the White House. You know, listen what's going on in
South Africa. These people are afraid down there, the white farmers.
Because we have to go back to Robert mcgabbi and Zimbabwe.
They did a similar thing a few decades ago, killing
and taking killing white farmers and taking away their land.
And Julius Malima of the National Assembly in South Africa
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has called for the murder of white people who own
seventy four percent of the farms and only represent about.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Seven percent of the population.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
There's a real threat there and it's something that we
have to watch and very important. But I want to
get two domestic issues right now. I'm so grateful to
have back with us. Mike Kucharski. He's the owner of
JKC Trucking, one of the largest refrigerated truck companies in
the US.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Mike Kuchowski, what's going on? Hey, thank you for having
me back on your show. Love to have you.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
We've been talking for many years, you know, and it's
pretty incredible, you know, the cycles that we've been through
and the struggles after Trump left and Biden came in
and COVID and supply chain. But now we got a
new set of challenges. Some good news out there. Trump
puts an executive order in for truckers right to speak
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English only.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Correct?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
There's been an executive order that the truckers have to
be proficient in English, and they're going to test the
drivers out there and to make sure that they can communicate,
and you know, so to be honest, this is the
biggest news in a long time for truckers because this
executive order, in my opinion, has two parts. One I
believe that it will only make the roads safer for
all Americans.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And two it.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Will hate will help stabilize trucking market rates that carriers
desperately need, that are being undercut by rogue carriers. And
let me break that down to you. You know, no
matter first, no matter what country, you deliver goods, and
it's important to speak English.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Read the local.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Language for safety and compliance in the United States, road signs,
safety warnings, permits, The federal regulations all read in English.
When I took my commercial driver's license test, it was
an English not a new concept. So they're bringing old
law from twenty sixteen back or they're enforcing it now.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
True.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
But the second thing of this executive order, I think,
in my opinion, we have a lot of these drivers
that have these B one visa drivers, and these B
one visas drivers are also part of these I like
to call them road road companies that were set up
as fake trucking companies or shell companies, which the Federal
Motor Carrier with the Federal Motor Safety Carrier Association, is
currently investigating. You know, there's an estimate that could be
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up to about seven hundred thousand drivers out there with
these visas.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Example, give an example, they found a building and signal Hill, California,
I listed as an address for almost seven hundred trucking companies.
Five hundred those trucking companies listed the same phone number
and also with the same email. The email was wtf
fms CSA at AOL. These companies are literally mocking the
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federal Motor Care Safety Administration, which I pray that the
FBI somebody you know sends it email to these guys saying, hey,
party is over. You know we're coming for you. But uh,
yeah this this So we have two huge problems currently,
and the new administration has figured out an executive order
you know, almost like a silver bullet that hopefully could
kill two birds and one stone and and help everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah. So two issues.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
One is are there any numbers to support that it's
more dangerous on the roads because of this. And also
the second part of it is to these rogue companies,
are they able to skirt uh spending the money and
and the correct way to run a business in the
trucking industry?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
No?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Yeah, So so what I mean to these real companies, houses,
companies like myself, we're paying drivers, you know, we we
we worksman comp, we held for health insurance for one
k uh, we pay corporate tax. Our drivers pay income
tax because drivers are w W two's Uh they're and
these other druggy companies are not paying these things. You
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mean they're not paying corporate taxes. They're not well if
they are paying work than the comps, they're not paying
full amounts they're definitely not paying health insurance. And what
happens is you mean, this adds up to millions and
millions of dollars a year of overhead that they don't have.
So if you don't have this overhead and you're not
planning to be in business for the long term, I mean,
you don't even have to pay these things. You could
save money and then you can undercut the rates. And
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the bigger issues right now, we're dealing with volume volatility,
which due to COVID and inflation. Everybody's fighting for the
same volumes because the volumes are low, and these guys
are coming in and even cutting it even more, which
is you know, killing killing all these uh you know
truckers that are complying fifty year old companies.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Sure, how about the safety of our roads?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Definitely, the safety are own Listen, I've been I've been
in this business for mean over over over twenty years
in houses. Truckers have a tremendous amount of responsibility out
there because we're not only on the roads with we're
on the roads with with our parents or children, our grandparents, everybody,
our families going to be and these drivers have to
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know to understand certain things. Let me give you example,
when the drivers are screaming black ice. These drivers should
be able to understand these things so they don't make
cause an accident or cause a bigger accident. You know,
I mean to for the people's safety, simple things like
this low bridges we have in Chicago here. If a
guy can't read or low bridge, he's gonna get stuck
underneath a low bridge. About a couple of years ago,
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we had that big lawsuit in Colorado where that one
driver got one hundred and ten years that he crashed
into a bunch of people. That driver was uneducated and
what he did was his brakes burnt up going down
a mountain, passed up several runaway truck ramps which are
there for trucks. Your brakes failed, that you go into
there and it stops the truck. He didn't know what
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those things were, couldn't read those signs, passed multiple ramps.
That's why they give him one hundred and ten years,
and killed people on accident. He could have not killed
anybody at all. Obviously, then there was a big deal
about that. The governor had to get involved and lowered
his But those are perfect examples of these things happening,
and nobody wants to talk about these things.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
How about the volume to shift gears? No pun intended.
How about the volume of trucking going on as the
tariff deals are hammered out?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Have you seen small businesses been held up?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I know a lot of them are saying that, you know,
they can't get parts.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
They built their businesses around imports.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Ninety seven percent of businesses get you know, small businesses
import product.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What's going on and what do we have to look
forward to?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
So it's too early to tell to feel the full
impact of these trade.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Wars, you know.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
I mean we're only feeling bits and pieces now, but
we haven't gotten to that lag where China and the
whole everybody else shut off shipments to to the US,
which is coming up soon as it was to come up.
I want to believe the end of May or beginning
of the June. So we're gonna feel the full impact
or I mean, right now we're not feeling it, but
we're we're we're preparing for that, and then this is
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gonna be It's gonna be horrible for rucking industry because
not only we down volume wise because of inflation. We're
going to be down more because of the executive order.
You mean, That's why I support that we move more
production to the US and we become more independent in
manufacturing and energy so we don't have to cross this
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bridge in the future. I hope we learn a lesson
from from COVID.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Well, what about if the tariffs, you know, go down
and it's say only ten or twenty percent. A lot
of businesses say they can't absorb thirty percent, you know,
So do you think it's just a temporary glitch and
we back, we will be back on track.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I mean, it's a good question.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I'm not economist. I can only guess as a business person,
you know. I mean houses, if maybe ten percent, if
I had a guess, I think that could be some kind.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Of absorbed or worked out.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Like I said, I'm just saying my opinion. But anything
more than that may might be hazard is even more
to the trucking industry, but houses, you know, I mean,
we're still making deals. The dust has not settled from
these trade wars. But I feel we're getting a traction.
And I like the pace we're moving at because we're
moving at pretty fast paced in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
All right, well that's good to know.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
And you know Trump's bringing back what fifteen trillion back
to the US. It's going to take some time here.
Mike Ucharski from JKC Trucking. Always appreciate your valuable insight,
and I hope you have a great holiday weekend with
your family.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
You too, and thank you for your support.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
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You're watching Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News. My
parents watched the Space Race after John F. Kennedy said,
by the end of the decade, we're going to go
to the Moon. So exciting. When I was a kid,
I was the Space Shuttle, and when I was fifteen,
I was in the Air Force Auxiliary. I flew down
to Cape Canaveral in the back of a one thirty
Hercules and woke up. We slept in the webbing in
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the back of the sea one thirty and when we
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Chase planes for the Space Shuttle in front of US
at Cocoa Beach Naval Air Station, and then we got
a private tour of Cape Canaveral and the Space Shuttle
launch pad. It was really fascinating. But there's excitement again
about the space race, but not only because of space exploration,
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but because of the ns issues SDI type operations, and
here to discuss that once again. She is a wealth
of knowledge, a PhD in astrophysics at Stanford University and
the author of Stars and Stripes, The Quest for American
Space Dominance.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Doctor Laura Finman. Welcome back.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to be on your show, David.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I love talking about this stuff and it's an exciting
time for a number of reasons. I mean, your background,
just to share with the audience again, you are a
NASA astronaut candidate in eighty nine, you oversaw a million
multimillion dollar contracts for commercial satellites and strategic Defense initiative.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
We'll get into that.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And you're a STEM advocate, right and you are on
this Trump transition team for NASA.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Correct, that's correct, Yes, with three other people. It was
a real pleasure to be on that team to be
able to help.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
So you made recommendations to the Trump administration on what
to cut, what to not cut, and tell us about
that experience and did they listen to you?
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Well, it was It was a real honor to be
on that team. I was with three other very talented people,
and we each had our own area of expertise. So
we spent thirty long days kind of a crash course,
getting up to speed talking to all the people at NASA,
all the you know, managers, the head of directorates, and
from that and understanding, you know, the vision that Trump
(26:36):
has for the next four years. We made recommendations for
the Trump administration and the next administrator to consider in
all the areas of science, technology, aeronautics, human spaceflights, you know,
just mission procurement, all of those things. And a lot
(26:57):
of the recommendations that we made are reflected in the
twenty twenty six budget.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
So we're going to get into a NASA, you know,
struggling as a standalone organization. You know, they used to
be the gold standard, right, but now you've got private
sector coming in. Maybe it looks more like a partnership
going forward. But I want before we get into that
I wanted to talk about Golden Dome. Now, you're an expert,
(27:25):
and you were a contributor to our efforts with the
Strategic Defense Initiative holding patents correct back from the eighties.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Yeah, I was with they called it Star Wars then
and I led a lot of the technology developments for
that and actually received quite a few awards for the
technology who developed in a patent for lasers in space
for space defense. So that was a very exciting time
under President Reagan. And the Golden Dome, I think Trump
(27:54):
just introduced that, I think a few days ago, and
that is an upgrade given all the new technology advances
to the SDI Strategic Defense Initiative, and it'll be you know,
it's designed to be protective of any missiles or coming
into the US from other countries, but also from space,
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and that is something a Space Force will get involved
in in the infrastructure and the defense part of that
Golden Dome. I think there's an analogy with the Iron
Dome that Israel has. This is the Golden Dome for
the Golden Age.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Well it's not that.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, it's not the first time we've explored stuff like this.
And I was in the Soviet Union in eighty six.
I saw the military in the streets. They spent like
nine ten eleven percent of their GDP on a military
and we were spending three. But our advancements with star
Wars technology, the particle eye on laser beam and other things, right,
we really got the leg up, and we kind of
(28:54):
bankrupted the Soviets right exactly.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
That It was a very significant geopluts to uh to
have made that development. It made them kind of back
off and changed changed everything. And I think the Golden
Dome has the same potential.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So Okay, So in the fifties and sixties, you know,
they have spot Nick, the Soviets and Yury Gagarin. The
Americans were scared. We were hiding under our desks in school,
you know. They were they were going to put a
nuclear blast in the atmosphere, right and take out all
our electronics.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
That was the fear.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And we had Niger Nike Ajax hercules missiles up and
down the east and west coast right here on Long Island.
There's still silos, isn't this Haven't we always been wanting
a defense system for our or an umbrella for our country.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Absolutely, And I think with the development of hypersonics where
China and Russia are actually leading the US.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
You know, you need to adapt to being in that
dome to protect against these very high speed UH missiles
that are hard, that are very there's fast, they're hard
to track and to target. So that dome is critical.
And you can see Russia is using these hypersonic in
the in the war with Ukraine. China is leading in
(30:12):
the technology. We actually took a pause on the technology.
I think it was in the Obama years, maybe Biden,
but you know now we realize that was probably a
mistake and we're getting catching up really fast and advancing
that technology. Absolutely critical for us to be able to
be at the leading edge of hypersonics. But also in
(30:33):
the dome, you want the Golden Dome to protect you
from something that it's very very lethal, very dangerous hypersonics
missiles coming at you. They've also I think you know,
they've got missiles with multiple warheads that can also go
to different targets. That's another advancement of need to protect them. Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Those yeah, yeah, the mervs.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
The multiple re entry vehicles you can have one up
to like twelve warheads and an ICBM. We can target
twelve separate cities coming back into our atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Right, it's very scary stuff. Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
And uh, you know we're going to get into China
and where they are going, uh and their investment. I
want to talk about that and the space program. I
just wanted to ask you though, how long before we
can have a Golden Dome type operations and what will
it include Canada?
Speaker 7 (31:30):
I believe Trump mentioned about he wants it by the
end of his term, and I think he did want
to put an umbrella over Canada as well. Yes, and
but that's that's going to be quite Uh, it'll it'll
be a fast paced development to achieve that. But you
know when Trump wants, you know, he's very focused on it,
(31:50):
and I think it'll it'll happen.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I wanted to talk about quickly NASA, right. NASA had
a lot of setbacks the Space Shuttle to to you know,
the Columbia and the Challenger blowing up. It kind of
lost their edge, it seems like. And where does the
public private partnership, Where does the private partnership take over
(32:15):
from and will NASA start to take more of a backseat.
I know there's a lot of like maybe egos in
history there.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
How is that going to How is that going to
play out?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
I think.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
The National Space Council and I think Trump administration is
really pushing expanding that commercial partnerships with NASA and by
doing things like you know, pulling back on the you know,
reducing the regulations that required by commercial partners, maybe less
control over the partners so they can move faster, you know,
do it cheaper, faster, and more innovatively. I think you'll
(32:49):
see definitely a direction in that. For example, in the
new in the budget that's been proposed, you can see
they're not funding past Artemis three. The Artemis was five
phases of going to the Moon and building a base
on the Moon, and it's become so expensive and so
(33:11):
behind schedule that the budget is kind of reflecting that.
After Artemis three, they're going to probably phase out their
big rocket, the Space Launch System by Boeing SLS, the
Lunar Gate Gateway Lunar Station, and also the Orion spacecraft
with Boeing, and that means you need a replacement, and
(33:32):
they're looking at my guess is they're looking more at
having commercial partners to do the transport of the crew.
The cargo, transport of the crew to the moon back
and get everything set up.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Well, it's really important stuff here, and we're going to
see where that goes. We put off our mission to
the moon again. Maybe the Chinese beat us there. We're
going to get into that when we come back from
the break. Everybody talked to Laura Finman, PhD, astrophysicist University,
part of the Trump transition team for the Space Program.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Thank you for watching us. We'll be right back.
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We're gonna have Laura back for the next segment.
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She's great. Thanks for joining us.
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Welcome back to Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News.
I hope you have great barbecues this weekend with your
family and remember all of those that gave their lives
and their service to their country, so you can do that.
And I want to thank you again for watching us
today and joining the rav family. The new budget reconciliation,
the no tax on tips or overtime are in there,
(36:35):
one hundred and seventy five billion dollars for deportations in
the wall, tax relief for seniors, and making twenty seventeen
tax cuts permanent. A couple of things I'm not thrilled
about in there. But those things are great and we
have to keep going. But what happened to no tax
on Social Security? I have to follow up on that one.
(36:56):
And Mike Davis from the Article three project always on
the War Room.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
I got to work work.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
With him when I covered the Trump trial last year
in New York City, the hush money trial, and he
gave all these reasons why you.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Know it's so important to deport the way we are.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
You know, ten million illegal alliens in America at least
have come in in a last administration. A court hearing
would take thirty minutes a pop. A judge would take
thirty minutes to draft an issue in order. That's ten
million hours of judicial work. There's six hundred and seventy
seven authorized federal district judges. That equates to fourteen thousand
hours for each judge of work. So he points out
(37:32):
all this and we've never had to do with anything
like this, you know, since our founding. This is a
very unique circumstance here, and you know we have to
stay on track here. And how many lives did Trump
savority at the border from drug overdoses and crime from
illegals in America.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
It's just a fact. It's huge.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
And I know there's been big reductions in New Hampshire.
I don't know if it's directly related to Trump's actions.
I know last year there was a reduction, but you know,
places like New Hampshi led the country per capita and
over those deaths. So I'm going to cover that and
bring you more information, and just remember the top ten
lobbyist for twenty twenty five, or for twenty twenty four,
(38:14):
the top ten lobbyists the recipients of their money were
all Democrats.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
The top ten, by.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
The way, and the top lobbyists of twenty twenty five
include the US Chamber of Commerce, Pharmaceutical Companies, National Association
of Realtors, General Motors, Blue Cross, American Hospital Association, the
American Medical Associations Meta, AARP, and others. So I got
to watch that and we're going to bring you more on.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
That as well. But I want to welcome back.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Astrophysicist Laura Finman, PhD. Laura, welcome back.
Speaker 7 (38:47):
Well, thank you, glad to be back.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yes, we have a lot to cover, so I'm going
to rifle through these China, their advancements, hunter killer satellites,
their mission to the moon. Are they going to beat
us back to the moon even though they've never landed
on it before? We have six times? Tell us about
what's going on with China and are we are we
in jeopardy?
Speaker 7 (39:09):
I would say if we don't change direction, we are
at risk of them beating us to the moon. They
are looking at a twenty thirty landing on the Moon
with astronauts, and one thing about China is they do
meet their schedules, whereas we always delay. So one of
the I think very exciting directions that Trump is proposing
for NASA is to really refocus NASA to you know,
(39:31):
to make sure that we hold that strategic high ground
and beat China to the moon as well as you know,
being competitive and lower th orbits. So you'll see in
the new budget that that priority is to beat China
and to get there first. And if we don't that,
we don't do that. If we keep things the way
they already are, we just won't make it. And so
(39:52):
it's absolutely critical. And I think, you know the goal
is to get an outposter based on the Moon and
then also to get humans on Mars and eventually a
sustainable city on Mars. I know Elon Musks is looking
at a SpaceX starship to Mars in probably twenty twenty
(40:14):
six when the Moon and the Earth Mars and excuse me,
the Earth are closer together, and he's looking at putting
an Optimus robot on that mission, which is kind of cool.
And then after that, you know, maybe twenty eight early
twenty nine, when the planets are close again, you'll look
at the human element. So a lot, a lot needs
to be done to make that happen. A very strategic
(40:36):
focus on human spaceflight. And there's also the reasons for
that is you want, you know, if we don't hold
a strategic high ground, you know, there's an impact on
national security, there's an impact on economic competitiveness and global influence.
So absolutely key to be the leader. And Trump has
(40:56):
realized that and you're seeing that reflected in the budget.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
It well, I can't wait for that video transmission of
the robot doing the Trump dance.
Speaker 7 (41:08):
That's perfect. I love it. That's great.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Yeah, I wanted to get into we have a little
bit more ground to cover here. The talent pool in
the space field in the United States. Is NASA suffering
and because the talent pool wants to go towards exciting
things like Blue Origin and SpaceX.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
Absolutely are I think you you know, young people graduating
or even people midsay are seeing SpaceX and the Blue
Origins and rocket labs as kind of things that are
moving faster on the cutting edge and more exciting. And
so you're seeing a lot of the real the new
talent going in that direction. And even companies like Boeing
(41:53):
and Lockheed also struggle with this try to keep the talent.
And so NASA has a chance challenge in how because
of their culture is more of a government. It's grown
into a government bureaucracy. I think in the sixties it
had more of that SpaceX culture and now you know,
over time being a bureaucracy. It's not even my own son,
(42:14):
you know, went into did a summer job there and
he just got so frustrated with the bureaucracy didn't want
to go back to work at NASSA. So I think
that is that has a change, that culture needs to change,
and I think the UH, I think everybody's aware of
it and wants to make the changes to make to
fix that.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yeah, and we didn't have you know, we didn't have
the computers back in the sixties and slide roles, engineers,
talent that people got us to the moon.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
It's pretty extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
But I wanted to talk to you about the STEM
programs in the United States. Do we have enough STEM
students to man all of these ambitions that the US
has and how do we get there if we don't?
Speaker 7 (42:56):
Well, we don't. And you know, there's been a large
effort to get STEM integrated in the schools, but it's
really the needle's not really moving very well. I've done
a lot in trying to integrate into schools to get
more kids interested and excited about space, you know, collaborating
with you know, MIT and NASA to do space programs
in the schools. But I think it's a big issue
(43:18):
in you know, the schools have got a traditional mindset
and when you look at what employer. You know, all
the data of what employers are looking for. The top
six skills from all different directions are the STEM skills,
and it is not The education system is not designed
to produce students to do that. And that's something I've
(43:39):
also been passionate about trying to see how we can
change that, whether it's in school or out of school.
But we definitely But I do think that you know
what Elon Musk is doing, what Jeff Bezos at Blue Origin,
you know, the young people are seeing that, and that's
what excites them, engages them into wanting to go into space.
Just like in this when we were younger, and I'm
(44:03):
you know, you're younger than me, David, But when I
was younger, it was Star Trek, it was you know
what happened, you know, nineteen sixty nine when they landed
on the mood. That's what excited me to want to
be an astronaut. I think that just making you know,
what's happening now is I think also exciting kids as
well to get in that direction.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Well, you know, NASA was half to me when I
was in school. They said I took up space. So
I'm just kidding, but listen, I really really appreciate you know,
all that you've accomplished. And without people like you, you know,
we wouldn't be doing what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
And it's really commendable.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
And the level of you know, of thought and science
that goes into this. You know, people can't even tie
their shoes out there, so we need And they say,
students one hundred years ago were more well read and
we're better in math than they are now. So I
hope we're not just the TikTok generation and we get
(45:03):
we get on track. Can you tell our viewers where
they can get your book? And and why did you
write it?
Speaker 9 (45:14):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (45:15):
Well, it's on Amazon. And the reason I wrote it
is I wanted more of a layman's version so that
the general a general person could understand what's happening in space.
Like a lot of times people go, well, why are
we spending money on space? You know, what is the urgency?
And I think it's just really critical to understand how
important it is. You know, Russia and China are demonstrated
(45:36):
in space they can take out satellites. That means, but
our whole economy, our whole life is around you know,
GPS and phones and financial networks. If they take those out,
you know, we're going back into the dark ages for
a while. So it's absolutely critical to be advancing in space.
Not to mention the enormous amount of resources out there,
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there's like a quadrillion kind of dollar economy in space
if you get it developed. And I think I did
want to mention one thing that a key technology that
really will create a big golden age of space or
a boom is that fully reusable rocket. You know right now,
you know SpaceX you've seen is that can bring back
(46:18):
the booster stage and you saw that amazing video where
they brought it back and grabbed it with arms. But
he's designed starship now to the upper stage. Is they
want to get that reusable.
Speaker 4 (46:29):
And if they can get.
Speaker 7 (46:30):
That fully reusable, the cost to launch is so much less.
The frequency of launching comes up, and then you're going
to it opens up the market, especially in the United States,
for a lot of companies to participate and really energize
that commercial market.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Yeah, and SpaceX just launched twenty three Starlink satellites from
Florida in the first launch with its new Falcon nine booster.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Very exciting. I got to say, I know a lot
of young people that have.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
A renewed peaked interest in science and space exploration, but
especially defense because whoever controls space will have dominance. And
I want to thank you, Doctor Laura Lorna Finman. Where
can people follow you on social media?
Speaker 7 (47:16):
I think my Twitter Doctor Laura Finman at doctor Laura Finman,
and I have an Instagram with the same name and Facebook,
but I'm mostly on the on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, all right, I want to have you back. I
love talking about this stuff and your wealth and knowledge.
Thank you so much, and enjoy your weekend with your family.
Speaker 7 (47:37):
Thank you my pleasure to be on your show, David,
Thank you all right.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Yes, we'll be back with more next week. Don't go anywhere,
stay tuned to all the Real America's Voice news coverage,
and we'll see you soon.
Welcome to another super fabulous edition of Breaking Point on
Real America's Voice News.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Another informative show for you so you can argue with
your crazy uncle at the Memorial Day barbecue tomorrow and Monday.
I want to wish everybody you know a great time
with their family this weekend and honor all those who
gave their lives for this country. I spend all morning
looking at the debt clock, and every twenty one seconds
we go another million dollars further in debt, and every
(00:39):
minute it's three million dollars, and every hour it's like
one hundred and eighty million, and every day it's four
billion dollars, four billion dollars a day in debt. And
by the way, New York City leaders are bragging about
a reduction in shootings and murders down about twenty percent
across New York City, but they leave out that rape
is up almost thirty percent, felony assaults and missed themeanor
(01:02):
assaults still at like twenty year highs. And in AOC's district,
crime is up since twenty nineteen since she took office.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You know, she cares about somebody. She's so compassionate.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Right, crime is up seventy percent, more than double the
citywide increase of thirty percent during that ten year. Since
twenty nineteen, and the one hundred and tenth precinct in
queens encompasses the market of Sweethearts, a human trafficking den,
a prostitution mecca on Roosevelt Avenue. It's saw one hundred
and five percent surgeon crime, the highest increase of any
(01:35):
New York City precinct in the same five years. Good job, AOC,
Good job Democrats, You're so compassionate about the border.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I want to welcome our first guest with us, though,
because there's so much going on in the world and
it's hard to keep up, and we need an expert
opinion here on what's cooking over in the Middle East.
We have Yuri Kaufman, historian and legal expert and author
of American Intafada, Israel, The Gaza War, and the New
Anti Semitism.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's great to be here, great to be with you, Yuri.
You know again, it's so hard to keep up what's
going on. You know, we did so many airstrikes against Yemen.
In the past few months, the Harry S. Truman Strike
Group engaged one hundred and sixty Bothy drones and missiles,
(02:25):
and we carried out six hundred and seventy strikes in Yemen.
It looks like Israel recalled their hostage negotiation team from Cotter.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Can you shed some light about what's the latest.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, the reason that Israel brought the negotiating team back
is there was no progress being made. The reason there
was no progress being made is that the Europeans recently
decided to back Hamas.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
So Hamas is saying why should we settle? The Europeans
are going to rescue us.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And if you go back to the year twenty twenty
five or the same thing happened with Kamala Harris in July.
It was actually July seventeen, twenty twenty four, Israel killed
one of the leading I could say arch terrorists of Kamas,
I mean by the name of Muhammad death. He was
a legendary figure among Palestinians because he had survived seven
(03:18):
previous assassination attempts. They got him on the eighth try
and that really staggered Clamas.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
And according to reports coming out of the region.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It was then that Kamas was finally starting to get
flexible on a hostage deal.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
But then on July the twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Kamala Harris came out with her speech saying there's too
much suffering in Gaza and I won't remain silent, and
these were her last to stop and the next day
Kamas said, we're not coming to the talks.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And it was obvious what happened.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
They listened to Kamalis speech and realized that if she
won the election, they would win the war. So why
free hostages, why negotiate? And that's what happened then, and
it looks like something similar that happened now.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Now we just had a release of Eden Alexander to
eighteen months in captivity. Tell us about that situation is
at a watershed moment? And what about the remaining fifty
eight hostages?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So it was a watershed moment in the sense that
even Alexander was freed without Israel freeing any murderers. They
didn't have to free any terrorists to get him out.
And it's obvious what happened. The Trump administration fights for Americans.
They said, Hamas, if you want to have dialogue with us.
If you want anything from us, you gotta free the
live American hostages. Now, the Biden administration knew that there
(04:33):
were eight such hostages at the beginning of the war,
and if they had taken similar action and just said,
Hamas you want something from us, you want us to
pressure Israel, the price for dialogue just talking to us
is you gotta free the eight Americans. We will never
know what would have happened, but I have to believe
the Kamas would have knuckled under it if they.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Had done so. It stands to reason that some of
the American.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Hostages who are now dead would be alive, like, for example,
Hirsch Goldberg, Poland, who was murdered in a tunnel right
next to Yajia Sinoar, the leader of Kamas who masterminded
the attack. He was one of the principal hostages, protecting
Sinnoar himself, because of course, Thomas knows Americans are more valuable,
and it seems to me that Biden could have gotten
(05:16):
him out the way Trump got Eeden Alexander out.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Unfortunately it didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Sure well, tell us about the latest incursion into Gaza.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What's the endgame here?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
So it's a very good question. No one really knows
for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The endgame is when this law of dust settles, Camas
is not going to be ruling Gaza, the hostages hopefully
will be free. I would just point out parenthetically that
Israel has put forth what has to rank as among
the most generous peace terms in the history of warfare.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
And that's not an exaggeration. You had this.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Hideous attack on October the seventh. If you take it
as a percentage of the population, it would have been
the equivalent of forty five thousand Americans being murdered ten
thousand taken hostage.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Now the war is coming to an end.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The Israelis are not asking for any sort of compensation.
They're not asking for territory. They're not even asking for
a peace treaty. Stop and think about that one for
just a minute. The minimum of any war is that
the attacker must promise to not attack again. The Israelis
are not even asking for that. All they're asking is
that the hostages be free, that Kamas go into exile,
(06:25):
and that the Calmas terrorists give up their weapons. And
here we're seeing, you know, European countries and many, many
Democrats saying no, that's unreasonable.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
We want to give Lamas a do over. You know
it would because if the equivalent of I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Sorry, no, go on finish, that'll be.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Equivalent of imagine if we're closing in on Berlin. We've
had this horrible, hideous war and now someone.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Says no, no, we got to stop. We got to stop.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The innocent German civilians are suffering. We got to leave
the Nazis in power, give them a doe over. They
say they're going to attack us again, but well, we're
going to stop because of those innocent civilians.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I mean, since nothing like this has ever happened in
the history of warfare.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
If there's even one example anywhere, I would challenge anyone
to let me know what it is.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Certainly we never let our enemies off the hook.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I don't know why Israel has to be literally the
only country in the history of the world expected to
do this. And it's no secret who expects Israel to
do this is the left.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Donald Trump gets it.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Countries with right wing or even center right governments get it,
like Germany gets it, Hungary gets it. I could say Serbia, Italy,
many many others.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It's the left wing governments.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It's Mark Carney up in Canada, it's the government of Spain,
it's the government of South Africa. I mean they're taking
literally crazy positions that have no precedent in the history
of modern warfare.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Tell us about the impact, you know, it seems the
Abraham Accords and the other Middle East agreements signed into
play by Trump. Tell us about the effects of Abraham
Accords right.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Now, it's really pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
We have this horrible war, but the Abraham Accords have
survived the ultimate test, the test of a horrible war.
United Arab Emirates has a tremendous amount of trade with Israel.
At the present time. It's measured in the buildings. It's
going up by double digits each and every year. This
is how you build peace. Unfortunately, shockingly, many people on
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the left.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I've almost come out and condemned the peace treaty.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I mean, I remember Jay Street just called it nothing
but a business deal, which I think is ridiculous. John
Kerry said that it would be impossible to ever have
a peace deal without the Palestinians.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Remember the speech no, no, no, and no.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Well, it turns out for each no, there was a
peace deal four country signed peace agreements with Israel. One
final point and a very important one. The Nobel Peace
Prize has been given out to so many others. It
was given to Barack Obama for doing frankly nothing. We
have a truly historic peace deal between Israel four Arab countries.
(08:55):
That's double all the Arab countries that were with Israel
up to that point.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
There were only two Egypt and Jordan.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
With those four, you doubled that number. But somehow Donald Trump,
Benjamin and Yo and an Arab leader have not been
recognized with the Nobel Prize Committee. And it tells you
something about the Nobel Peace Prize that it's not just
about bringing peace to the world. It's also a branding issue.
If you're sent to right, they're not that interested in
honoring you.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, well, I have in about a minute just summarize
what happens if there's another hoothy attack like on the
Bengorian airport a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
The gloves off with Iran.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I don't think the gloves are off up with Iran
as far as America is concerned. I mean, America has
resolved its issue with who these From Donald Trump's standpoint,
it's mission accomplished.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Trade has been resumed. That who They's have agreed.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Not to bomb shipping Israel is basically imposing the blockade
on the who these but Israel Mike Bomberron's nuclear capability.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
We'll have to just wait and see what happens.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
All right, great, really quick, tell our viewers about your book.
Where can they follow you on social media?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So I'm more you know, I'm kind of a twentieth
century kind of guy. I'm not that big on social media.
But the book is called American in Defata. It can
be got on Amazon, it is in certain bookstores. Books
doing quite well so far. We're really really proud of
that it Basically they'll find facts and that they won't
find elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I can tell you that much. It's being distributed by
Simon and Schuster.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's been fact checked everything in there is so far,
no one has found in inaccuracy in the book so
far alive, I can say Tom Friedman's books, which are
full of them.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well, I want to thank you so much for joining us.
Very insightful and I'd love to have you back on
the show.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Thank you so much. It was really great to be here.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Thank you so much, Yuri, everybody, Uri Kaufman.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And it's pretty incredible the turn of events here, and
it looks like there's some stability in the Middle East.
Trump's successful trip with the Saudis and Qatar. You know,
Qatar has sponsored terrorism around the world and the International
Brotherhood of Muslims and you know ices types, and but
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we took the gloves off in Somalia.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I'm going to get into that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The largest bombardment of any single aircraft carrier operation in
the history I think of the world happened in February
and it didn't get much coverage. And then when I
come back, we're going to talk about other stuff going
around the world. China expanding their nuclear program, North Korean
warship crashes on its launch, its maiden voyage, and more so,
(11:38):
don't go anywhere. Thank you for watching Breaking Point on
Real America's Voice News. I got some great guests ahead.
We're going to talk about SpaceX and all kinds of
other stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Thinks we'll be back. Welcome back, everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You are watching Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News.
Thank you so much for joining the family. So much
going on, if you blink, you're going to miss it.
I have some interesting news from around the world though.
You know, China is planning a major nuclear expansion, not
only being more reliant on coal China and India are,
(12:35):
but they are going to build ten new nuclear reactors
in China. So they are moving full guns and building
their infrastructure. I hope the United States follow suit. I
covered that last week with our audience, and we do
have plans to go mo nuclear. And I'm very excited
about these small module of reactors which will be online
by twenty thirty your power factory with them. They're very
(12:58):
small as opposed to like a nine hundred megawatt plant,
these things are like one to thirty five megawatch, so
it's really exciting technology. A North Korean warship crashed on
its launching. I think it was a freighter. In Somalia,
Navy planes carried out the largest airstrike in the history
of carrier strikes from the Harry S.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Truman.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It didn't get a lot of coverage, but they bombed
Al Shabab and ISIS targets in Africa in Somalia.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Sixteen US Navy FA eighteen Super Hornets launched the largest
ever air strike from an aircraft carrier, dropping one hundred
and twenty five thousand pounds of ordnance on al Shabab
groups and ISIS groups hiding in caves in a cave network.
Pretty extraordinary stuff. In this South African farmer issue, you
know around a posa in the Oval office or in
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the White House. You know, listen what's going on in
South Africa. These people are afraid down there, the white farmers.
Because we have to go back to Robert mcgabbi and Zimbabwe.
They did a similar thing a few decades ago, killing
and taking killing white farmers and taking away their land.
And Julius Malima of the National Assembly in South Africa
(14:14):
has called for the murder of white people who own
seventy four percent of the farms and only represent about.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Seven percent of the population.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
There's a real threat there and it's something that we
have to watch and very important. But I want to
get two domestic issues right now. I'm so grateful to
have back with us. Mike Kucharski. He's the owner of
JKC Trucking, one of the largest refrigerated truck companies in
the US.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Mike Kuchowski, what's going on? Hey, thank you for having
me back on your show. Love to have you.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
We've been talking for many years, you know, and it's
pretty incredible, you know, the cycles that we've been through
and the struggles after Trump left and Biden came in
and COVID and supply chain. But now we got a
new set of challenges. Some good news out there. Trump
puts an executive order in for truckers right to speak
(15:06):
English only.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Correct?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
There's been an executive order that the truckers have to
be proficient in English, and they're going to test the
drivers out there and to make sure that they can communicate,
and you know, so to be honest, this is the
biggest news in a long time for truckers because this
executive order, in my opinion, has two parts. One I
believe that it will only make the roads safer for
all Americans.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And two it.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Will hate will help stabilize trucking market rates that carriers
desperately need, that are being undercut by rogue carriers. And
let me break that down to you. You know, no
matter first, no matter what country, you deliver goods, and
it's important to speak English.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Read the local.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Language for safety and compliance in the United States, road signs,
safety warnings, permits, The federal regulations all read in English.
When I took my commercial driver's license test, it was
an English not a new concept. So they're bringing old
law from twenty sixteen back or they're enforcing it now.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
True.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
But the second thing of this executive order, I think,
in my opinion, we have a lot of these drivers
that have these B one visa drivers, and these B
one visas drivers are also part of these I like
to call them road road companies that were set up
as fake trucking companies or shell companies, which the Federal
Motor Carrier with the Federal Motor Safety Carrier Association, is
currently investigating. You know, there's an estimate that could be
(16:24):
up to about seven hundred thousand drivers out there with
these visas.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Example, give an example, they found a building and signal Hill, California,
I listed as an address for almost seven hundred trucking companies.
Five hundred those trucking companies listed the same phone number
and also with the same email. The email was wtf
fms CSA at AOL. These companies are literally mocking the
(16:52):
federal Motor Care Safety Administration, which I pray that the
FBI somebody you know sends it email to these guys saying, hey,
party is over. You know we're coming for you. But uh,
yeah this this So we have two huge problems currently,
and the new administration has figured out an executive order
you know, almost like a silver bullet that hopefully could
kill two birds and one stone and and help everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah. So two issues.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
One is are there any numbers to support that it's
more dangerous on the roads because of this. And also
the second part of it is to these rogue companies,
are they able to skirt uh spending the money and
and the correct way to run a business in the
trucking industry?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
No?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Yeah, So so what I mean to these real companies, houses,
companies like myself, we're paying drivers, you know, we we
we worksman comp, we held for health insurance for one
k uh, we pay corporate tax. Our drivers pay income
tax because drivers are w W two's Uh they're and
these other druggy companies are not paying these things. You
(17:56):
mean they're not paying corporate taxes. They're not well if
they are paying work than the comps, they're not paying
full amounts they're definitely not paying health insurance. And what
happens is you mean, this adds up to millions and
millions of dollars a year of overhead that they don't have.
So if you don't have this overhead and you're not
planning to be in business for the long term, I mean,
you don't even have to pay these things. You could
save money and then you can undercut the rates. And
(18:18):
the bigger issues right now, we're dealing with volume volatility,
which due to COVID and inflation. Everybody's fighting for the
same volumes because the volumes are low, and these guys
are coming in and even cutting it even more, which
is you know, killing killing all these uh you know
truckers that are complying fifty year old companies.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Sure, how about the safety of our roads?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Definitely, the safety are own Listen, I've been I've been
in this business for mean over over over twenty years
in houses. Truckers have a tremendous amount of responsibility out
there because we're not only on the roads with we're
on the roads with with our parents or children, our grandparents, everybody,
our families going to be and these drivers have to
(19:02):
know to understand certain things. Let me give you example,
when the drivers are screaming black ice. These drivers should
be able to understand these things so they don't make
cause an accident or cause a bigger accident. You know,
I mean to for the people's safety, simple things like
this low bridges we have in Chicago here. If a
guy can't read or low bridge, he's gonna get stuck
underneath a low bridge. About a couple of years ago,
(19:25):
we had that big lawsuit in Colorado where that one
driver got one hundred and ten years that he crashed
into a bunch of people. That driver was uneducated and
what he did was his brakes burnt up going down
a mountain, passed up several runaway truck ramps which are
there for trucks. Your brakes failed, that you go into
there and it stops the truck. He didn't know what
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those things were, couldn't read those signs, passed multiple ramps.
That's why they give him one hundred and ten years,
and killed people on accident. He could have not killed
anybody at all. Obviously, then there was a big deal
about that. The governor had to get involved and lowered
his But those are perfect examples of these things happening,
and nobody wants to talk about these things.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
How about the volume to shift gears? No pun intended.
How about the volume of trucking going on as the
tariff deals are hammered out?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Have you seen small businesses been held up?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I know a lot of them are saying that, you know,
they can't get parts.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
They built their businesses around imports.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Ninety seven percent of businesses get you know, small businesses
import product.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What's going on and what do we have to look
forward to?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
So it's too early to tell to feel the full
impact of these trade.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Wars, you know.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
I mean we're only feeling bits and pieces now, but
we haven't gotten to that lag where China and the
whole everybody else shut off shipments to to the US,
which is coming up soon as it was to come up.
I want to believe the end of May or beginning
of the June. So we're gonna feel the full impact
or I mean, right now we're not feeling it, but
we're we're we're preparing for that, and then this is
(20:58):
gonna be It's gonna be horrible for rucking industry because
not only we down volume wise because of inflation. We're
going to be down more because of the executive order.
You mean, That's why I support that we move more
production to the US and we become more independent in
manufacturing and energy so we don't have to cross this
(21:21):
bridge in the future. I hope we learn a lesson
from from COVID.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Well, what about if the tariffs, you know, go down
and it's say only ten or twenty percent. A lot
of businesses say they can't absorb thirty percent, you know,
So do you think it's just a temporary glitch and
we back, we will be back on track.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I mean, it's a good question.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I'm not economist. I can only guess as a business person,
you know. I mean houses, if maybe ten percent, if
I had a guess, I think that could be some kind.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Of absorbed or worked out.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Like I said, I'm just saying my opinion. But anything
more than that may might be hazard is even more
to the trucking industry, but houses, you know, I mean,
we're still making deals. The dust has not settled from
these trade wars. But I feel we're getting a traction.
And I like the pace we're moving at because we're
moving at pretty fast paced in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
All right, well that's good to know.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
And you know Trump's bringing back what fifteen trillion back
to the US. It's going to take some time here.
Mike Ucharski from JKC Trucking. Always appreciate your valuable insight,
and I hope you have a great holiday weekend with
your family.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
You too, and thank you for your support.
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You're watching Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News. My
parents watched the Space Race after John F. Kennedy said,
by the end of the decade, we're going to go
to the Moon. So exciting. When I was a kid,
I was the Space Shuttle, and when I was fifteen,
I was in the Air Force Auxiliary. I flew down
to Cape Canaveral in the back of a one thirty
Hercules and woke up. We slept in the webbing in
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the back of the sea one thirty and when we
got off the plane, I had the T thirty eight
Chase planes for the Space Shuttle in front of US
at Cocoa Beach Naval Air Station, and then we got
a private tour of Cape Canaveral and the Space Shuttle
launch pad. It was really fascinating. But there's excitement again
about the space race, but not only because of space exploration,
(24:59):
but because of the ns issues SDI type operations, and
here to discuss that once again. She is a wealth
of knowledge, a PhD in astrophysics at Stanford University and
the author of Stars and Stripes, The Quest for American
Space Dominance.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Doctor Laura Finman. Welcome back.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to be on your show, David.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I love talking about this stuff and it's an exciting
time for a number of reasons. I mean, your background,
just to share with the audience again, you are a
NASA astronaut candidate in eighty nine, you oversaw a million
multimillion dollar contracts for commercial satellites and strategic Defense initiative.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
We'll get into that.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And you're a STEM advocate, right and you are on
this Trump transition team for NASA.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Correct, that's correct, Yes, with three other people. It was
a real pleasure to be on that team to be
able to help.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
So you made recommendations to the Trump administration on what
to cut, what to not cut, and tell us about
that experience and did they listen to you?
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Well, it was It was a real honor to be
on that team. I was with three other very talented people,
and we each had our own area of expertise. So
we spent thirty long days kind of a crash course,
getting up to speed talking to all the people at NASA,
all the you know, managers, the head of directorates, and
from that and understanding, you know, the vision that Trump
(26:36):
has for the next four years. We made recommendations for
the Trump administration and the next administrator to consider in
all the areas of science, technology, aeronautics, human spaceflights, you know,
just mission procurement, all of those things. And a lot
(26:57):
of the recommendations that we made are reflected in the
twenty twenty six budget.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
So we're going to get into a NASA, you know,
struggling as a standalone organization. You know, they used to
be the gold standard, right, but now you've got private
sector coming in. Maybe it looks more like a partnership
going forward. But I want before we get into that
I wanted to talk about Golden Dome. Now, you're an expert,
(27:25):
and you were a contributor to our efforts with the
Strategic Defense Initiative holding patents correct back from the eighties.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Yeah, I was with they called it Star Wars then
and I led a lot of the technology developments for
that and actually received quite a few awards for the
technology who developed in a patent for lasers in space
for space defense. So that was a very exciting time
under President Reagan. And the Golden Dome, I think Trump
(27:54):
just introduced that, I think a few days ago, and
that is an upgrade given all the new technology advances
to the SDI Strategic Defense Initiative, and it'll be you know,
it's designed to be protective of any missiles or coming
into the US from other countries, but also from space,
(28:15):
and that is something a Space Force will get involved
in in the infrastructure and the defense part of that
Golden Dome. I think there's an analogy with the Iron
Dome that Israel has. This is the Golden Dome for
the Golden Age.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Well it's not that.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, it's not the first time we've explored stuff like this.
And I was in the Soviet Union in eighty six.
I saw the military in the streets. They spent like
nine ten eleven percent of their GDP on a military
and we were spending three. But our advancements with star
Wars technology, the particle eye on laser beam and other things, right,
we really got the leg up, and we kind of
(28:54):
bankrupted the Soviets right exactly.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
That It was a very significant geopluts to uh to
have made that development. It made them kind of back
off and changed changed everything. And I think the Golden
Dome has the same potential.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So Okay, So in the fifties and sixties, you know,
they have spot Nick, the Soviets and Yury Gagarin. The
Americans were scared. We were hiding under our desks in school,
you know. They were they were going to put a
nuclear blast in the atmosphere, right and take out all
our electronics.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
That was the fear.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And we had Niger Nike Ajax hercules missiles up and
down the east and west coast right here on Long Island.
There's still silos, isn't this Haven't we always been wanting
a defense system for our or an umbrella for our country.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Absolutely, And I think with the development of hypersonics where
China and Russia are actually leading the US.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
You know, you need to adapt to being in that
dome to protect against these very high speed UH missiles
that are hard, that are very there's fast, they're hard
to track and to target. So that dome is critical.
And you can see Russia is using these hypersonic in
the in the war with Ukraine. China is leading in
(30:12):
the technology. We actually took a pause on the technology.
I think it was in the Obama years, maybe Biden,
but you know now we realize that was probably a
mistake and we're getting catching up really fast and advancing
that technology. Absolutely critical for us to be able to
be at the leading edge of hypersonics. But also in
(30:33):
the dome, you want the Golden Dome to protect you
from something that it's very very lethal, very dangerous hypersonics
missiles coming at you. They've also I think you know,
they've got missiles with multiple warheads that can also go
to different targets. That's another advancement of need to protect them. Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Those yeah, yeah, the mervs.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
The multiple re entry vehicles you can have one up
to like twelve warheads and an ICBM. We can target
twelve separate cities coming back into our atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Right, it's very scary stuff. Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
And uh, you know we're going to get into China
and where they are going, uh and their investment. I
want to talk about that and the space program. I
just wanted to ask you though, how long before we
can have a Golden Dome type operations and what will
it include Canada?
Speaker 7 (31:30):
I believe Trump mentioned about he wants it by the
end of his term, and I think he did want
to put an umbrella over Canada as well. Yes, and
but that's that's going to be quite Uh, it'll it'll
be a fast paced development to achieve that. But you
know when Trump wants, you know, he's very focused on it,
(31:50):
and I think it'll it'll happen.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I wanted to talk about quickly NASA, right. NASA had
a lot of setbacks the Space Shuttle to to you know,
the Columbia and the Challenger blowing up. It kind of
lost their edge, it seems like. And where does the
public private partnership, Where does the private partnership take over
(32:15):
from and will NASA start to take more of a backseat.
I know there's a lot of like maybe egos in
history there.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
How is that going to How is that going to
play out?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
I think.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
The National Space Council and I think Trump administration is
really pushing expanding that commercial partnerships with NASA and by
doing things like you know, pulling back on the you know,
reducing the regulations that required by commercial partners, maybe less
control over the partners so they can move faster, you know,
do it cheaper, faster, and more innovatively. I think you'll
(32:49):
see definitely a direction in that. For example, in the
new in the budget that's been proposed, you can see
they're not funding past Artemis three. The Artemis was five
phases of going to the Moon and building a base
on the Moon, and it's become so expensive and so
(33:11):
behind schedule that the budget is kind of reflecting that.
After Artemis three, they're going to probably phase out their
big rocket, the Space Launch System by Boeing SLS, the
Lunar Gate Gateway Lunar Station, and also the Orion spacecraft
with Boeing, and that means you need a replacement, and
(33:32):
they're looking at my guess is they're looking more at
having commercial partners to do the transport of the crew.
The cargo, transport of the crew to the moon back
and get everything set up.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Well, it's really important stuff here, and we're going to
see where that goes. We put off our mission to
the moon again. Maybe the Chinese beat us there. We're
going to get into that when we come back from
the break. Everybody talked to Laura Finman, PhD, astrophysicist University,
part of the Trump transition team for the Space Program.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Thank you for watching us. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
We're gonna have Laura back for the next segment.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
She's great. Thanks for joining us.
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Speaker 1 (36:14):
Welcome back to Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News.
I hope you have great barbecues this weekend with your
family and remember all of those that gave their lives
and their service to their country, so you can do that.
And I want to thank you again for watching us
today and joining the rav family. The new budget reconciliation,
the no tax on tips or overtime are in there,
(36:35):
one hundred and seventy five billion dollars for deportations in
the wall, tax relief for seniors, and making twenty seventeen
tax cuts permanent. A couple of things I'm not thrilled
about in there. But those things are great and we
have to keep going. But what happened to no tax
on Social Security? I have to follow up on that one.
(36:56):
And Mike Davis from the Article three project always on
the War Room.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
I got to work work.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
With him when I covered the Trump trial last year
in New York City, the hush money trial, and he
gave all these reasons why you.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Know it's so important to deport the way we are.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
You know, ten million illegal alliens in America at least
have come in in a last administration. A court hearing
would take thirty minutes a pop. A judge would take
thirty minutes to draft an issue in order. That's ten
million hours of judicial work. There's six hundred and seventy
seven authorized federal district judges. That equates to fourteen thousand
hours for each judge of work. So he points out
(37:32):
all this and we've never had to do with anything
like this, you know, since our founding. This is a
very unique circumstance here, and you know we have to
stay on track here. And how many lives did Trump
savority at the border from drug overdoses and crime from
illegals in America.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
It's just a fact. It's huge.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
And I know there's been big reductions in New Hampshire.
I don't know if it's directly related to Trump's actions.
I know last year there was a reduction, but you know,
places like New Hampshi led the country per capita and
over those deaths. So I'm going to cover that and
bring you more information, and just remember the top ten
lobbyist for twenty twenty five, or for twenty twenty four,
(38:14):
the top ten lobbyists the recipients of their money were
all Democrats.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
The top ten, by.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
The way, and the top lobbyists of twenty twenty five
include the US Chamber of Commerce, Pharmaceutical Companies, National Association
of Realtors, General Motors, Blue Cross, American Hospital Association, the
American Medical Associations Meta, AARP, and others. So I got
to watch that and we're going to bring you more on.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
That as well. But I want to welcome back.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Astrophysicist Laura Finman, PhD. Laura, welcome back.
Speaker 7 (38:47):
Well, thank you, glad to be back.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yes, we have a lot to cover, so I'm going
to rifle through these China, their advancements, hunter killer satellites,
their mission to the moon. Are they going to beat
us back to the moon even though they've never landed
on it before? We have six times? Tell us about
what's going on with China and are we are we
in jeopardy?
Speaker 7 (39:09):
I would say if we don't change direction, we are
at risk of them beating us to the moon. They
are looking at a twenty thirty landing on the Moon
with astronauts, and one thing about China is they do
meet their schedules, whereas we always delay. So one of
the I think very exciting directions that Trump is proposing
for NASA is to really refocus NASA to you know,
(39:31):
to make sure that we hold that strategic high ground
and beat China to the moon as well as you know,
being competitive and lower th orbits. So you'll see in
the new budget that that priority is to beat China
and to get there first. And if we don't that,
we don't do that. If we keep things the way
they already are, we just won't make it. And so
(39:52):
it's absolutely critical. And I think, you know the goal
is to get an outposter based on the Moon and
then also to get humans on Mars and eventually a
sustainable city on Mars. I know Elon Musks is looking
at a SpaceX starship to Mars in probably twenty twenty
(40:14):
six when the Moon and the Earth Mars and excuse me,
the Earth are closer together, and he's looking at putting
an Optimus robot on that mission, which is kind of cool.
And then after that, you know, maybe twenty eight early
twenty nine, when the planets are close again, you'll look
at the human element. So a lot, a lot needs
to be done to make that happen. A very strategic
(40:36):
focus on human spaceflight. And there's also the reasons for
that is you want, you know, if we don't hold
a strategic high ground, you know, there's an impact on
national security, there's an impact on economic competitiveness and global influence.
So absolutely key to be the leader. And Trump has
(40:56):
realized that and you're seeing that reflected in the budget.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
It well, I can't wait for that video transmission of
the robot doing the Trump dance.
Speaker 7 (41:08):
That's perfect. I love it. That's great.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Yeah, I wanted to get into we have a little
bit more ground to cover here. The talent pool in
the space field in the United States. Is NASA suffering
and because the talent pool wants to go towards exciting
things like Blue Origin and SpaceX.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
Absolutely are I think you you know, young people graduating
or even people midsay are seeing SpaceX and the Blue
Origins and rocket labs as kind of things that are
moving faster on the cutting edge and more exciting. And
so you're seeing a lot of the real the new
talent going in that direction. And even companies like Boeing
(41:53):
and Lockheed also struggle with this try to keep the talent.
And so NASA has a chance challenge in how because
of their culture is more of a government. It's grown
into a government bureaucracy. I think in the sixties it
had more of that SpaceX culture and now you know,
over time being a bureaucracy. It's not even my own son,
(42:14):
you know, went into did a summer job there and
he just got so frustrated with the bureaucracy didn't want
to go back to work at NASSA. So I think
that is that has a change, that culture needs to change,
and I think the UH, I think everybody's aware of
it and wants to make the changes to make to
fix that.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yeah, and we didn't have you know, we didn't have
the computers back in the sixties and slide roles, engineers,
talent that people got us to the moon.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
It's pretty extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
But I wanted to talk to you about the STEM
programs in the United States. Do we have enough STEM
students to man all of these ambitions that the US
has and how do we get there if we don't?
Speaker 7 (42:56):
Well, we don't. And you know, there's been a large
effort to get STEM integrated in the schools, but it's
really the needle's not really moving very well. I've done
a lot in trying to integrate into schools to get
more kids interested and excited about space, you know, collaborating
with you know, MIT and NASA to do space programs
in the schools. But I think it's a big issue
(43:18):
in you know, the schools have got a traditional mindset
and when you look at what employer. You know, all
the data of what employers are looking for. The top
six skills from all different directions are the STEM skills,
and it is not The education system is not designed
to produce students to do that. And that's something I've
(43:39):
also been passionate about trying to see how we can
change that, whether it's in school or out of school.
But we definitely But I do think that you know
what Elon Musk is doing, what Jeff Bezos at Blue Origin,
you know, the young people are seeing that, and that's
what excites them, engages them into wanting to go into space.
Just like in this when we were younger, and I'm
(44:03):
you know, you're younger than me, David, But when I
was younger, it was Star Trek, it was you know
what happened, you know, nineteen sixty nine when they landed
on the mood. That's what excited me to want to
be an astronaut. I think that just making you know,
what's happening now is I think also exciting kids as
well to get in that direction.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Well, you know, NASA was half to me when I
was in school. They said I took up space. So
I'm just kidding, but listen, I really really appreciate you know,
all that you've accomplished. And without people like you, you know,
we wouldn't be doing what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
And it's really commendable.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
And the level of you know, of thought and science
that goes into this. You know, people can't even tie
their shoes out there, so we need And they say,
students one hundred years ago were more well read and
we're better in math than they are now. So I
hope we're not just the TikTok generation and we get
(45:03):
we get on track. Can you tell our viewers where
they can get your book? And and why did you
write it?
Speaker 9 (45:14):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (45:15):
Well, it's on Amazon. And the reason I wrote it
is I wanted more of a layman's version so that
the general a general person could understand what's happening in space.
Like a lot of times people go, well, why are
we spending money on space? You know, what is the urgency?
And I think it's just really critical to understand how
important it is. You know, Russia and China are demonstrated
(45:36):
in space they can take out satellites. That means, but
our whole economy, our whole life is around you know,
GPS and phones and financial networks. If they take those out,
you know, we're going back into the dark ages for
a while. So it's absolutely critical to be advancing in space.
Not to mention the enormous amount of resources out there,
(45:56):
there's like a quadrillion kind of dollar economy in space
if you get it developed. And I think I did
want to mention one thing that a key technology that
really will create a big golden age of space or
a boom is that fully reusable rocket. You know right now,
you know SpaceX you've seen is that can bring back
(46:18):
the booster stage and you saw that amazing video where
they brought it back and grabbed it with arms. But
he's designed starship now to the upper stage. Is they
want to get that reusable.
Speaker 4 (46:29):
And if they can get.
Speaker 7 (46:30):
That fully reusable, the cost to launch is so much less.
The frequency of launching comes up, and then you're going
to it opens up the market, especially in the United States,
for a lot of companies to participate and really energize
that commercial market.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Yeah, and SpaceX just launched twenty three Starlink satellites from
Florida in the first launch with its new Falcon nine booster.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Very exciting. I got to say, I know a lot
of young people that have.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
A renewed peaked interest in science and space exploration, but
especially defense because whoever controls space will have dominance. And
I want to thank you, Doctor Laura Lorna Finman. Where
can people follow you on social media?
Speaker 7 (47:16):
I think my Twitter Doctor Laura Finman at doctor Laura Finman,
and I have an Instagram with the same name and Facebook,
but I'm mostly on the on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, all right, I want to have you back. I
love talking about this stuff and your wealth and knowledge.
Thank you so much, and enjoy your weekend with your family.
Speaker 7 (47:37):
Thank you my pleasure to be on your show, David,
Thank you all right.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Yes, we'll be back with more next week. Don't go anywhere,
stay tuned to all the Real America's Voice news coverage,
and we'll see you soon.
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