Battleground LIVE: Trump 2.0 Is Crushing It w/Bryan Dean Wright

Tonight, on Battleground LIVE, I give a quick update on the tragedy over the Potomac, the latest example of how clueless the Democrats are, and Bryan Dean Wright comes on to hit all the headlines and do his weekly Global Intel Report.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Morning.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
You're about to enter the arena and join the Battle
to save America with your host Sean Carnell.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good evening, America, Welcome to Battleground Live. This is a
show where we kick ass, and we take names, and
we lockhorns with the radical left. We never quit, we
never surrender. From sea to shining Sea and everybody in between.
Welcome Patriots on this glorious Friday, and thank god it's Friday.

(00:34):
Excited to jump into the weekend, full speed ahead on
deck tonight. Well you know what time it is on
Deck tonight is the great Brian Dean Wright right night
here on Battleground Live. And I'm sure the ladies are

(00:55):
all rejoicing in the live chat. You all love Brian
Right and his perspectives and his white teeth, because of
course you do. Who doesn't you know, we don't have
a whole lot of guests here on Battleground Live. We
just don't the way that I bring on guests. And
you'll notice if I've seen many of you in the

(01:16):
live chats say, wow, Savage Rich is only savage on
this show. Well, at least you used to say that.
Now Savage Rich is kind of he's being him, he's
He's Savage on his show too. But the point is
Savage Rich has great, great perspectives, not just on polling. Yes,
he's the best polster in the business, but he's got

(01:38):
great perspectives on the politics of the day, you know, history,
the constitution, you name it, great perspectives on you know,
the the body politic here in America. It's just awesome
to get, you know, Savage Rich bearess once a week,
shotgun blasting his thoughts out there to the rumble sphere

(02:01):
and to those who listen on iHeart so same thing
with Brian Dean Wright. Brian Dean Wright is one of
the smartest, hands down one of the smartest foreign policy
analysts out there. Used to go on Tucker Carlson all
the time, but Brian also has really good perspectives, not
just about foreign policy but about everything. So I try

(02:22):
to bring on people who I think are just have
great personalities all around, people that I know that you'll like,
and so Brian Dean Wright, Savage Rich Bears certainly are
the regulars. Also want to give a shout out to
Dan Nunn in the Nun Report and his nun Chucks
for raiding the stream follow the nun Report. Folks. If
you're not following the nun Report already on Rumble, you

(02:45):
should be. Dan's got a great show. We should support
independent content creators. And by the way, the Trump administration,
the first four years, sorry, the second four years of
the Trump administration, seem to be they're going to be
embracing independent content creators and podcasts. In fact, Caroline Levitz,

(03:08):
who's the White House Press Secretary, and her second press
conference today, she brought in and took a question from
the Ruthless Podcast. The Ruthless Podcast is you know, I
know the guys who host that show or great, great guys,
but that podcast has become one of the biggest political

(03:29):
podcasts in America. And she took the very first question
from the White House podium from the Ruthless Podcast guys,
which is pretty damn cool. Right, So, supporting independent content
creators is more important, more important than ever because I think,
you know, even at the presidential level, people are starting

(03:52):
to realize that independent content creators are the future. Whether
it's Rich Barris, whether it's Brian Dean Wright, whether it's
right here, Battleground Live, or or Dan Nunnan and the
nun report. We should be supporting those people. They're in
the future, and that's a good thing because people like
Chuck Todd, as Trump calls him, sleepy Chuck Todd, Well,

(04:13):
he's out at NBC and not a moment too soon.
And guess what, he's going over to Substack to start
his own thing. But this guy like, never forget. This
is the kind of stuff that the people like Chuck
Todd used to give us.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Please vaccinated. If you know someone who's not vaccinated, find
a way to convince them to get vaccinated. Literally, the
only people dying are the unvaccinated. And for those of
you spreading misinformation, shame on you. Shame on you. People
are needlessly dying because of your misinformation. Think about it.
I don't know how some of you sleep at night.

(04:47):
Who are doing this for a living.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, okay, bro, good luck out there as an independent Chuck.
But you know these people that are being first first,
it was jim Acosta, good riddens. You remember Jimmy co
in the White House. The guy was insufferable. Remember he
tried to wrestle a microphone out of a woman's hand
as he was just standing up incessantly yelling and sometimes

(05:12):
you know, actually all the time interrupting the president as
he was trying to answer, a woman came over, tried
to take the microphone from her, and he's like grabbing
the microphone, fighting with her. I mean, he's out at CNN,
and good because he sucks. And now it looks like
Chuck Todd is out at NBC and that's good because
he sucks too. And Jen Ruben is out at the
Washington Post and that's good because she sucks as well.

(05:33):
Just saying there has been a massive or there is
happening right now, a massive change happening in the media,
and I want you all to be on the front
end of it because good things are happening. Now, let's
transition to a more serious topic here. I want to
touch on this, this tragedy that happened in Washington, DC

(05:57):
over the Potomac. Before you do that, before I talk
about that, make sure you smash that like button, little
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make the leaderboard. So smash that like button, little gray
thumb beneath the video. Yeah, this horrific accident over the Potomac. Clearly,

(06:22):
there is a constellation of different things that played a
factor here, that was a factor in this crash. There's
an investigation going on. We don't know all the details. Clearly,
both Secretary of Defense Pete heggsas said that there was
some sort of elevation issue with the Blackhawk helicopter. President
Trump late last night said the Blackhawk helicopter was flying

(06:44):
way too high. And today, moments before we went live
on the show, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy shut down the
airspace over the Potomac in and around Washington or DCA
Reagan International Airport. So lots of things happening really fast.
Still lots of unknowns. But if you're watching, and I

(07:08):
know some of you all listen, so this will be
tough to do, But if you're watching, pay attention to
this new video that just came out, because you know,
first of all, it's horrifying, right because it gives you
a very clear view of what actually happened between the
Blackhawk calicopter and the CRJ. But just look at the
trajectory of the black Hawk versus the trajectory of the flight.

(07:30):
That's all I'm gonna say.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
These videos, obtained exclusively by CNN, show previously unseen angles
of the collision between an American Airlines fight and a
US Army black Hawk helicopter. In the first video, the
black Hawk can be seen flying at speed over the Potomac.
From the left side of the screen. The American Airlines
can be seen flying towards the airport before the two collide,
causing a mid air.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Explosion and fall into the road.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
In a second video, you.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Can see the Army's going right the Airline light.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
After the collision and subsequent explosion, the airliner can be
seen spinning into the water and the black Hawk is
also seen falling into the water.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
So a lot of people have taken to the internet
and by the way they shared this video or this
they there's a rumor spreading online it was a trans pilot.
Trust me when I tell you, folks, no, it was not.
But a lot of people have taken to the Internet
and saying, well, how could something like this happen? It
looked like the Blackhawk flew deliberately into into the plane,

(08:39):
And I understand why people would think that, but believe me,
it's it's it's chaotic inside those Blackhawks. When you're flying
the radios in your ears, there's all sorts of radio traffic,
you're under night vision, all sorts of planes and lights
in the sky. I don't know what happened, but I'd

(09:02):
be remiss if I wasn't talking about it on the show,
because you know, sixty four brave souls perished, and I
was reading some of the stories today in prep for
the show, some of the you know, people who perished
on that flight. You know, I feel like it's my
duty as an American to know, you know, at least
a little bit about who these people were. And it's

(09:24):
just heartbreaking on so many levels. So I'm going to
do the best that I can keep you updated on
the story as new information comes out. In this case,
it was a new camera angle, but it's just a
heartbreaking tragedy. And three soldiers, three you know, American Army
soldiers perished in that as well, and so it's just

(09:45):
it just definitely want to get a sense of what
happened there. I want to talk a little bit about
the whole diversity equity and inclusion thing, because the media
is going after President Trump about this diversity equity him
talking about diversity, equity and inclusion. But listen Trump, Trump

(10:06):
is absolutely right about this. It's diversity equity and inclusion
is dangerous. It puts people's feelings about race, about creed,
about skin color over people's qualifications, and in professions where
lives are on the line, if you don't have the
best qualified person, it could mean death. It could be

(10:29):
the difference between life or death. And you know, I mean,
as for an example, listen to Sonny on the View
go after President Trump, and I don't know how she's
still on the air because what she says here is
absolutely horrifying. But just listen to this.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, I'm not going to dignify his remarks about DEI
I'm not going to do that. But to Anna's point,
just last week, Trump fired the heads of the Transportation
Security Administration and Coastguard, and he also eliminated all the
members of a key aviation security advisory group. The Aviation

(11:06):
Security Committee will technically continue to exist, but it won't
have any members to carry out the work of examining
safety issues at airlines and airports. I think that that
is very telling that when you know, voters decide that
they want someone to blow things up and they want

(11:29):
someone to blow up infrastructures.

Speaker 7 (11:32):
This is the result. You cannot blow up infrastructures and
take people that have real experience in these types of
issues and think that good things will happen because of it.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
So that's just irresponsible and frankly ghoulish and disgusting in
the face of her nothing in the face of this
horrific accident. Nothing that she cited there of President Trump
shifting around personnel and government caused this horrific accident. Nothing, nothing, nothing,
but when President Trump is talking about the dangers of diversity,

(12:08):
equity and inclusion, specifically within the FAA, which has been
an egregious offender of race based hiring practices. In fact,
remember I told you yesterday that there was a lawsuit
of one thousand air traffic controllers who were turned away
who met the rigorous standards of the traditional air traffic
controller tests. They were turned away for people who were

(12:32):
less qualified, who also filled a race quota, and that
is a very very dangerous thing. Listen to Pete bootgg Geg,
who is a Secretary of Transportation, talk about all the
close calls that they were experiencing while he was Secretary
of transportation over a year ago. Nothing got done, by

(12:54):
the way, But listen, here he is, in his own words,
talking about the dangers of everything that we've been talking about.

Speaker 5 (13:01):
How concerned are you?

Speaker 8 (13:02):
I'm very concerned. We watch these things very closely. If
you look at the last decade or so, you would
see between ten and twenty times a year typically that
this would happen. This year, we're on track to have
more than twenty, and even one is one that I
would not like to see happen.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
He's talking about close calls. This has been a problem
that has gotten worse. I mean, obviously Obama rolled out
these crazy d hiring practices in the FAA. Biden rolled
him out on steroids. This was an issue, these close
calls at airports all around the country while Biden was president.
You heard Pete Budageg talk about it right there, just

(13:43):
to give you a sense of why Trump is talking
about diversity, equity, inclusion. He's correct about this. But listen,
listen to this is a good example. Now, this guy
didn't get confirmed, but this was the guy that Joe
Biden picked to run the f a A. He didn't
get a confirm, but this is the guy that Joe

(14:03):
Biden wanted. Listen, listen just to just a little bit
of this.

Speaker 9 (14:07):
There's an ADSB transponder.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
I'm not sure I can answer that question right now.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
That's okay, We'll just keep going.

Speaker 9 (14:13):
So that's a that's a pretty important part. So what
are the six types of special use of airspace that
protect this national security that appear on FAA charts?

Speaker 5 (14:24):
Sorry, Senator, I cannot answer that question.

Speaker 9 (14:27):
So what are the operational limitations of a pilot flying
under basic MED?

Speaker 5 (14:31):
Senator, I'm not a pilot.

Speaker 9 (14:32):
So obviously you'd ever see that Federal Aviation Administration? So
any idea what those restrictions are under basic MED?

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Quickly?

Speaker 10 (14:43):
Well, some of the restrictions I think would be high
blood pressure. Some of them would be.

Speaker 9 (14:48):
It's more like how many passengers per airplane, how many
pounds in different categories, and what altitude you can find
or so, and then amount of knots. It's a or
two hundred and fifty knots. So it's not having anything
to do with blood pressure. So can you tell me
what causes an aircraft to spend or to stall?

Speaker 5 (15:08):
Again, Senator, I'm not a pilot.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Okay, let's keep going.

Speaker 9 (15:12):
What are the three aircraft certifications FA requires as part
of the manufacturing process?

Speaker 5 (15:17):
Quickly, please.

Speaker 9 (15:20):
Three aircraft certifications.

Speaker 10 (15:23):
Again, what I would say to that is that one
of my first priorities would be to fully implement that
Certification Act and reporting the three types.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
Mister Washington, that the three types?

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Okay, I mean, you get the point, right, And this
is I'm not trying to throw shade at mister Washington.
That's not what I'm trying to do. What I am
trying to say is that that was Joe Biden's first
choice to run the FAA. Clearly that choice had nothing
to do with his knowledge of the FAA. Right, Can

(15:57):
we at least be honest about that? Now, Again, the
confirmation process worked as it should in that specific instance.
But what do you think Biden was prioritizing over actual qualifications?
They're probably race right. And this is why President Trump
and his cabinet officials, whether it's Sean Duffy or Pete Hegseth,
have been talking about color blind and merit based. Color

(16:21):
blind and merit based because in jobs where lives are
on the line, you want the best of the best.
I don't care about people's feelings I want people who
are qualified because those qualifications and people's performance and jobs
like that could be the difference between life and death. Okay,
so I've got Brian Dean Wright on deck here in

(16:42):
a second, Okay, without further ado, my buddy, Brian Dean Wright,
former CIA operations officer and hosts of The Right Report
Daily podcast. My friend, Welcome, Welcome back to battleground.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Always a treat, Always a treat.

Speaker 11 (16:56):
I'm bringing the Paisley today because you said there were
a thousand gowls in the waiting room. So I want
to be ready for, you know, a nice Friday night
going out, you know.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Getting people excited for Valentine's Day. He's wearing the Paisley.
Look at the Paisley matches, the jacket.

Speaker 11 (17:15):
I'm not messing around, man, he said, you're like a
thousand or something. I gotta bring it.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Are you a pocket square guy? Would you wear a
Paisley pocket square with that?

Speaker 11 (17:23):
Well, you know I'm gonna have to invest in one.
I don't have one right now. What would you recommend?

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Let's you're the one.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
I shot a hank set.

Speaker 11 (17:30):
He's got the pocket square. He's very fancy.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yes he does. He does have the plant. Yeah, and
he does so Haig Seth. Has you ever hear those
seersucker suits? I don't know. Of course, he has a
couple of those, and he also does the plaid suits.
I can't do either of them. I'm a well black, charcoal,
navy blue kind of guy.

Speaker 11 (17:50):
And I salute your friend. Those those are kind of fellas.
I appreciate. We We love the New Yorkers, we do
we we love the metro men.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
But you know, I can't do I can't do that.
Sophia Ever said that, Yeah, I can't do. I can't
do suits with pizzazz.

Speaker 11 (18:04):
Yes, I just tell you you got it with the
attitude and the hair. Well that's so anyway. Good to
see you, friend, Good to see you too.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Uh, how what do you think I mean? Obviously, this
this tragedy over the Potomac, the media has been going
after President Trump pretty hardcore over the last couple of
days for calling out you know, diversity, equity and inclusion
practices and and and you know, there are what I
said in the lead and is that there are certainly
a constellation of different things that I am sure played

(18:35):
a factor in this crash. But you can't dismiss these
DEI practices. I mean because the FAA and and the
air traffic controllers, like Obama made a very clear decision
to deviate from the traditional ATC test and preferring instead

(18:56):
to implement one that was race based and and had
other factors that that that wasn't actually qualifications for the job.
And you know, there are all sorts of videos of
the former heads of the FAA talking about well as
a prior priority is diversity. And then of course the
class action lawsuit like of over a thousand air traffic
controllers that were turned away because they failed to fulfill

(19:17):
what were diversity quotas. And Trump is you know the
reason why, you know, don't I don't care that Trump
is calling this stuff out. I think he has to
call this stuff out. But if you are you know,
Brian is a former CIA guy, If you're you know,
an officer, I don't know what the technical term is,
so forgive me. But if you're in charge of a

(19:37):
tactical team and there is an air that's made somewhere
that that happens on your watch, and members of your
team get killed, the leader of that team is gonna
be pretty damn pissed off and he's gonna it's gonna
be no holds bar. And for me, like if that,
if something like that happened in an infantry between a
company that I was I was in command of in combat,

(20:00):
a preventable accident that got multiple people killed, I would
be highly pissed. So what are your thoughts on all
of this, the tragic accident to how it's unfolded thereafter.

Speaker 11 (20:10):
Well, look, I'll tell you what has happened. When I
was at the CIA and we would lose an officer,
you know, the first twenty four to forty eight hours,
we would be focused on making sure that we took
care of the person's family and kids. They were comforted,
and I think that that should be the end is
the focus for a lot of us. And in these
first twenty four to forty eight hours. Immediately though, in
parallel to that, you got an investigation into what went

(20:33):
wrong in the case of the CIA, Why did that
individual die and that operation? You know, what did we
We always look inward when you say what did we
do wrong? First, and then we look at external environment.
So I think that that's it's appropriate to have the conversation.
I would have preferred it to be a little bit
more quiet and settle these past forty eight hours. Let
us all mourn and pray with those who have lost
loved ones, but then look at all the different contributing factors. Obviously,

(20:56):
the military is going to be doing a lot of
questioning about the three individal on the black Hawk helicopter.
We're going to be looking at the training modules in
that area, in that space the time of day, one
of the most congested airspaces in the country.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
There are lots of things that could have contributed to that.

Speaker 11 (21:13):
So let us have that investigation, and as we do,
we should be asking about the training pipeline. Who was
in that helicopter, who is whether it be the CIA
or some of the boots on the ground that you
have worked with, Who are those people? Are they the
best and how did they get there? What we have
seen the service academies over the past four years, Secretary

(21:33):
Headset is going to have to really clean those out
because some of the people there who have graduated, who
are there currently should not be there. They were not
there because of merit. They were there because of the
color of their skin, or their sexual orientation or other
stuff that doesn't matter. So I think that is is
absolutely relevant and important to ask some of these questions
about DEI And I think we could also focused the

(21:55):
first couple of days on just giving a lot of
prayer and mourning for a lot of people in which
and DC and abroad. A lot of nations lost nationalists
as well, so it's a horrific event. The next week
a lot of really tough questions are going to be
asked and should be asked as we put people on
the ground and we hug in love on people who've
lost their loved ones.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yeah, I well, said my friend. I'm sure you watched
the confirmation hearings with Tulsi, with RFK and with Cash
Bettel this week. Brian, I got to tell you, I
am a couple thoughts right off, right off the top
of my head here. I am so sick and tired
of the political grand standing at these confirmation hearings the Senate.

(22:38):
All my life, the Senate was supposed to be the
greatest deliberative body in the history of the world. Where
the Senate would be, you know, the place where things
cooled off and there was high level debate in substantive
questions and whether or not. You know, a president's picks
or nominations aligned with someone's party politics was not necessarily

(23:04):
in question because obviously if you're a Democrat, you're gonna
have different priorities in a Republican and vice versa. But
what what the founders always envisioned of this process was
one where people say, Okay, this guy require he's got
the competency to lead this organization and he has a vision, right,
But this has turned into just one of the grossest

(23:28):
processes that I've seen in quite some time. And these
Democrats have just been have just been shameful. I mean,
how they treated Tulsa yesterday, They clearly were just trying
to embarrass her. And same with RFK Junior and the
reason why in Cash as well. But I look at
RFK Junior and Tulsa is just a little bit different

(23:50):
because they're former Democrats and they brought a hell they
they were a critical part, not that Cash wasn't, but
they brought a huge coalition into the America first tent sure,
and I just you know, I don't know, man, it
just seems like And then the other part of this
is that you have Republican senators who are wishy washy

(24:11):
on RFK and tausey. It's just so frustrating to me
this whole process.

Speaker 11 (24:17):
Yeah, look, I think you're flagging a couple of things. First,
you talked about you know, Democrats are throwing a lot
of spaghetti against the wall. And I think this gets
back to actually what another Democrat said many years ago,
Jack Kennedy, when he said, let us seek not the
Republican answer or the Democrat answer, but the right answer.
So I think that that is the ethos that most
of us would like to see on Capitol Hill during
these Senate confirmation hearings, putting it aside your politics. Is

(24:39):
this person a redeemable human who can actually help lead
that department of that agency? Okay, so that's first. Second,
they're giving senators only two minutes about to ask questions.
So in two minutes, are you really going to get
to the bottom of something? Are you gonna have a
thoughtful conversation or is it just going to be a
quick screaming contest so that you can take the clip,
send it to your stitues and try to raise some

(25:01):
money afterwards.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's what this is. This has turned into a carnival.
It's a circus. Part of this Also, I think that
we're going to go back into history.

Speaker 11 (25:07):
This goes back into well, how do we used to
elect senators a long time ago? It was actually the
state senators or the state represented the state House would
send back a couple of senators. The US Senate was
not directly elected by the people. The founders wanted it
that way to do exactly what you just said, which
is to be a very deliberative body, to sit back
and be reflective and to think, and i'd have to

(25:28):
worry about running for reelection or worried about the passions
of the people. They were focused on the interests of
the states. So that was the focus of the Senate.
We have changed that through a constitutional amendment. I think
it was a disastrous choice, by the way, but that
I think is that is part of the fundamental problems.
You've got a bunch of people who are running for
reelection trying to get in front of TVs and make
a big scene rather than governed the nation.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
So that is what I saw this week, nothing but
the circus and carnival.

Speaker 11 (25:52):
And that's why I didn't really cover it on my podcast.
It's because there's not a lot of value there. It's
like cotton candy, you know, it's like you're eating something,
but there's no coloric value crash. So that is what
unfortunately these confirmation hearings have turned into.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Well and then but yeah, yeah, I agree completely, and
you know, for Talsi especially, I mean I was listening
to some of the things that she talked about, and
I have the sound bite pulled of her with Mark
Kelly because Mark Kelly asked what I thought, we're fair
questions I did. I can't get down with this. Oh
you're a puppet of Putin or a puppet of a

(26:24):
sod or a puppet of this that's just like the
most surface level bullshit. I can't. It's just so dumb.
But I want to play a little bit of this
because what Tulsi is talking about here, I think gets
to the core of the of of of the faults
of or some of the faults that we've had at

(26:45):
the core of our American foreign policy. Can I play
this and just yeah, listen to this exchange, because I
think it's very informative.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
Thank you, mister Chairman. Colonel Gabbard.

Speaker 12 (26:56):
When Russia was denying as use of chemical weapons, they
accused the US of supporting terrorists. This is a line
that Putin used frequently during the Syrian Civil War as
he supported USAD. Syrian officials made similar comments. They did
it repeatedly, They did it in public, they did it
at the United Nations. In twenty sixteen, you gave an

(27:18):
interview in which you said, and this is a quote,
the US is providing direct and indirect support to terrorist
groups in order to overthrow the Syrian government.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
And in twenty nineteen, on.

Speaker 12 (27:30):
The Democratic presidential debate stage, you said of President Trump,
this is a quote. This current president is continuing to
betray us. We were supposed to be going after al Qaeda,
but over years now, not only have we not gone
after al Qaeda, our president is supporting al Qaeda. So

(27:51):
I'm interested to hear what was your goal in saying
these things and did you consider before saying them the
motives of Iran in Russia, what their motives might have
been before making these claims.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
So, first of all, I just and as all I say,
I think that's a fair question. I think that's a
fair question. I'm cool with that question, Senator.

Speaker 13 (28:13):
As someone who enlisted in the military specifically because of
al Qaeda's terrorist attack on nine to eleven and committing
myself in my life to doing what I could to
defeat these terrorists. It was shocking and a betrayal to
me and every person who was killed on nine to eleven,
their families, and my brothers and sisters in uniform. When

(28:36):
as a member of Congress, I learned about President Obama's
dual programs that he had begun really to overthrow the
regime of Syria and being willing to through the CIA's
Timber Sycamore program that has now been made public of
working with and arming and equipping al Qaeda in an

(28:59):
effort to overthrow that regime, starting yet another regime change
war in the Middle East. DoD train and equip program,
again begun under President Obama has widely been known, looked at,
and studied that ultimately resulted in over half a billion
dollars being used to train who they called moderate rebels

(29:21):
but were actually fighters working with and aligned with al
Qaeda's affiliate on the ground in Syria, all to move
forward with their regime change and not acknowledging what was
obvious at the time and what has unfortunately borne true,
which was that a regime change war in Syria, much
like the regime change wars an Iraq. The toppling of

(29:42):
Gaddafi and Mubarak, while these are all dictators, would likely
result in the rise of Islamist extremists like al Qaeda
taking power. I shed no tears for the fall of
the Asad regime, but today we have an Islamist extremist
who is now in charge of Syria, as I said,

(30:02):
who danced on the streets to celebrate the nine to
eleven attack, who ruled over it, lived with an Islamist
extremist governance, and who has already begun to persecute and
kill and arrest religious minorities like Christians in Syria. I
understand why that should be acceptable to anyone is beyond me.
It should certainly not.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
So. I mean, there's a lot there, and it was
a long segment normally, but I was. When I initially
saw that, I thought of you, and I wanted to
get a sense of what because look, I saw it
as clearly a terrible, evil human being. Okay, you know,
I don't I don't know how you feel about all this,
but tell me what you tell me your thoughts about
that exchange.

Speaker 11 (30:44):
So there was nothing that she said there. There was
an accurate She talked about Timber Sycamore. It's a program
I know. Well, there are a lot.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Of things to tell you what is it? Because I
mean I heard it, I didn't know about it.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Tell us what it means Timber Sycamore.

Speaker 11 (30:55):
And I can't go into a ton of details because
a lot of stuff is still classified. But the bottom
line is that she's correct to say that the CIA
and the Pentagon funded different rebel groups.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
We called them moderate, they were not. In some cases.

Speaker 11 (31:09):
We took these moderates and we sent them to Jordan
to be trained, the country of Jordan to be trained.
They ended up doing either nothing, or they would take
our guns and they would sell them on the black market.
They did that in them on Jordan, or some of
them would actually then go back into Syria where they
were supposed to do things in our behalf, but we
lost control of them. The operations officers like me were

(31:29):
supposed to handle these guys inside of Syria.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
These guys just went off the reservation.

Speaker 11 (31:34):
So she's correct to say that we trained a bunch
of people, sent a bunch of money, and he either
did nothing or they actually joined the bad guys. So
and then on Depenzagon did a similar program, they funded
a different set of good.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Bad guys.

Speaker 11 (31:47):
So she is right to say that the whole thing
is a mess, and that whether you like us it
or not, I don't like him. I think a lot
of recent people would say he was an awful man.
He did terrible things for twenty plus years. His father
did going back to the nineteen seventies. So it's clear
that that family was awful and vile. The whole bath Party,
whether be in Syria or Iraq, terrible. And it's also
true that we have to think about the day after that.

(32:08):
When we fund these rebel groups and then the dictator
goes down, what rises up?

Speaker 1 (32:13):
She is spot on to say that that is what
we should.

Speaker 11 (32:15):
Have learned, certainly in the war and terror in Iraq,
in Afghanistan and all the way, by the way, going
back to the nineteen eighties, when we funded the Buja
Hadeen to rise up against the Soviets, what happened to
those guys? Right, So it created the Taliban and al
Qaeda and the rest. So look, she's not wrong to
flag this stuff, to say we are inadvertently funding terrorism

(32:37):
and I would say to you what you and I
have talked about. The Biden administration funded through Ukraine the
provision of drones and drone providers to Islamic radicals in
the Sahell of Africa and to Syria the leadership of
HTS that is now in charge of Syria. So we
again are funding the moderate slash yeah, radical al Qaeda

(32:58):
or ISIS members certainly in the Sahel, And you could
make the same argument for the current.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Guys in Syria. So she's right, she's right on all accounts.
I'm not.

Speaker 11 (33:05):
You know, look, and I will end with this. It
is also true that foreign powers can control our politicians.
You and I've talked about how China does that extensively.
They have a beachhead in California with their program to
doing it. So it's reasonable to ask questions of all
of our policy makers to make sure that they love
this country.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
And they're not engaging in treason.

Speaker 11 (33:25):
Yes, if there is proof or evidence of that, that
should be provided in this case to Donald Trump and
his team to say you got a problem, right and
they solve it, or you.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Breef that to Capitol Hill.

Speaker 11 (33:36):
If the President whomever might me doesn't want to solve
the problem and is happy to bring on traders because
maybe they're a trader too.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Joe Biden.

Speaker 11 (33:43):
Then fine, brief that to Capitol Hill, and then you
bring that evidence out on Capitol Hill and you tank
the nomination the nomination because that's where the advice and
the consent comes in. This is how adults govern a republic.
That is not what we heard of the past three
or four days.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Yeah, Brian, I have to ask you, why, what is
the reasoning behind the SEA, I mean, behind the CIA
arming some of these not moderates but basically members of
al Qaeda and then you end up losing control of them.
If what's the logic behind it? Did they just say, well,
the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Will use

(34:22):
these guys in a proxy war to kill people who
are worse? Is that the logic behind this? Why do
we do this stuff?

Speaker 11 (34:29):
Look, this actually goes back to the nineteen fifties and
sixties when the CIA was first stood up and we
started doing one of the most successful covert action operations,
which is overthrowing the then dictator or president of Guatemala.
Very very successful, but really because it really wasn't a
covert action. But we funded the rebels effectively, so we
thought from that point on, we can do it everywhere,

(34:51):
and we tried and Iran it was a disaster, as
most of us know after the Shaw fell. The point is,
in the decades since, we've never really learned our lesson.
Every new generation of leadership of the CIA or every
president says, oh, I'm going to do it better this time.
I'm going to do a tighter group of rebels, I'm
going to vet them differently, I'm going to vet them better.
So it is a little bit of hubrius going into
a lot of these operations. And in fact, one thing

(35:13):
that I don't know that has been talked about a
lot is President Obama, to his credit, did ask the
CIA many years ago, give me an assessment of all
of your different COVID action operations and whether not the
rebel groups have been successful or not. I can't get
into the details of what that showed, but asking that
question should certainly be something the Capitol Hill should be
asking a president, and I'd say should be asking what
is your record when you fund these people? Are they successful?

(35:37):
And what are the second and the third orders of consequences?
That is something that a lot of foreign powers are
very angry and upset at this country.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Over the past fifty to sixty years.

Speaker 11 (35:47):
Is our foreign policy has just been very, very reckless,
and we haven't thought about the second and third orders
of effect, and we've wrecked a lot of places.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Around the world. That's fair.

Speaker 11 (35:55):
So I think that Tulsia Gabber when she's talking about
this stuff, when people are criticizing her, as the Democrats
did this week, that really goes back to about fifteen
years ago when they thought that she was going to
be a key leader in there. Yes, when she was
in Hawaii, they thought that she was going to want you.
I think she was the deputy DNC chief. Yes, she
was a very senior member of the party. Absolutely told

(36:16):
her tribe go pound sand I don't like you anymore.
That made them very angry. And in tribal politics, I
don't know if you're in Africa or you're an American.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
DC, tribal politics or if you.

Speaker 11 (36:26):
Push yourself out of the tribe, the tribe's going to
count for you.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
That's how it works. So that is that's what she's facing.
I think, miss Gaverick, I think.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
You're so right. It's what made the Democrats. I mean,
I just thought that they were absurd. Bernie Sanders, like,
do you support this onesie? He's screaming about a onesie
like he's in a few good gorgeous asking about a
cogress speak, do you.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Speak fluent socialist? That was gorgeous, gorgeous, beautiful, thank you,
thank you.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
But I just thought to myself, well, like with RFK
and TAUSA, you were friends with these people like five
minutes ago. All it's like, it's lately obvious what they're
doing as partisan politics. But speaking of partisan politics, Washington
Post is out with this, well, they're out with this
article talking about how a lot of FBI agents are
now under the microscope. Some of them are being fired,

(37:14):
other senior officials at the FBI are being forced to resign.
President Trump and his team are starting out with you
know this FBI agents who were assigned to prosecuting some
sixteen hundred January six ers who are at the protest
that day. President Trump is also looking very hard at
FBI agents who are involved in the raid at mar Lago.
The media is, you know, especially Democrats in the media.

(37:37):
I can't wrap my mind around it.

Speaker 6 (37:38):
Now.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
The Democrats are the Party of like the FBI and
their pro war. They never thought I'd see the day,
But the media is just completely melting down about President
Trump maybe taking some accountability or holding some of those officials,
some of those rogue officials at the FBI accountable. And
then today President Trump banned John Bolton and Brennan and

(37:59):
all the other forty seven or fifty one former intelligence officials,
the fifty one spies who lie about the Hunter Biden
laptop from ever entering US government facilities because of national
security concerns. So there's lots of things happening. I mean,
and I'm just kind of going through this stuff because
I've never seen a president move this fast in his

(38:22):
first two weeks in office. And then as all this
is happening at home, you've got Rick Grinnell going off
to meet with Maduro, which I got to say is
kind of a scary meeting.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, I saw that video.

Speaker 11 (38:36):
I'm like, good luck, brother, yeah's crotching come home. No, Yeah, Look,
let's think about this FBI stuff just for a second,
because it's really important.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
You know, we experienced from twenty sixteen to.

Speaker 11 (38:48):
Twenty twenty a constant braje and attack on Donald Trump
and his family and his administration. That has been demonstrated
by special counsels, inspector generals. We have some prosecutions of
these BI officials who cooked up the arrest warrants or
the surveillance warrants Carter Page, et cetera. So Donald Trump

(39:08):
has a very real concern based on that history. And
so and what could argue, well, that's four or five
years ago. Well that's in the past, right, But the
FBI director, but two minutes ago, as it were, Christopher
Ray called all of that lawlessness that the inspector general
and these special councils of highlight, he called all that
lawlessness missteps.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
You and I've talked about this before, missteps.

Speaker 11 (39:33):
So what does that tell you about the leadership as
well as senior FBI officials. If they called their lawlessness
over those years of trying to depose effectively and throw
out a duly elected president, if they'd simply call that
stuff a set of missteps, that would tell you that
the leadership and the senior you know, all the way
down actually probably to even the lower levels of the

(39:53):
FBI have been corrupted with partisanship.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
That is a really very serious concern.

Speaker 11 (39:59):
And the present in the United States, Donald Trump has
absolutely every reason to say I'm concerned that these guys
aren't taking seriously what they have done to this country,
not just me, but indeed to the nation, to the
rule of law that is legitimate. So getting rid of
a lot of people is totally fair. I can appreciate
why that might feel scary to some people. That feels
very like Wow Trump as hntler. Okay, but let's also

(40:21):
look at the evidence of what has happened at the
FBI over eight years that might suggest that we need
to do some house cleaning. So I think that that's
important context for us to remember not just what Trump
says or a Republicans say, but what are those inspector
generals and special counsels said about the lawlessness at the
FBI and former FBI Director Christopher Ray calling that stuff
a misstep? That for me makes all of this house

(40:44):
cleaning legitimate and fair and appropriate.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Wow, So what do you think of Clearly President Trump's
focus on Central America with Grinnell going off to meet
with Maduro and then Rubio's going down to Central America,
and it is like one of his first trips and
a Secretary of State, what do you make of all
of that? And people are like all fired up about

(41:08):
the cost of sending illegal aliens back to their home country.
I think there was an article in the New York
Post forty six hundred dollars per illegal alien to fly
them back. And I'm just thinking to myself of all
the money that this country has wasted and thrown away
on just insane, frivolous things. We're complaining about sending criminal,
illegal aliens back to their homes and these are like

(41:30):
the people that are being deported. Are should read some
of the criminal records on some of these folks, Brian
or like child rapists, murderers who were put back out
on the street. I mean, this is insane. But what
do you think of all of this? And why is
President Trump focused on Central America maybe even South America

(41:51):
and some of these first diplomatic trips.

Speaker 11 (41:53):
So this is really important because over the past fifty
or sixty years, we haven't had a Secretary of State
go to Central America and to Latin America for his or.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Her first trip.

Speaker 11 (42:02):
This is a demonstration to this region and really the
world that we are serious of re engaging with a
part of the world that we've kind of abandoned for many,
many years, frankly, and so I think that that's a
wonderful demonstration by this president to say that you all matter.
You are our backyard, and we are your backyard. You
are neighbors, and we need to focus on our relationships.
So kudos, I think that Trump Emperor to mister Rubio

(42:25):
for going down to this region to focus on it.
So he's stopping in places like Panama. We've talked about
why he's going there, the Panama Canal. The critical piece
that continues to be misreported or unreported in our media
is that the Chinese controlling both of these two ports
on each side of the canal. Why that is so
relevant is because per Chinese law, these guys, these Chinese nationals,

(42:46):
have to do whatever it is that the CCP tells them.
They have to execute whatever military or intelligence requirements that
the CCP has. So that is why they effectively have control.
That is to say, the Chinese Commonist Party he has
effective roll over this canal, or certainly could during a
time of war if nothing else, an intel collection platform.
Both of those are so President Trump is absolutely correct

(43:09):
to say, per the nineteen seventy seven treaty you all
and Panama have violated it and either going to clean
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Up or we're going to come down and take back
the canal, all right? One to two, So like what
do you guys want to do?

Speaker 11 (43:20):
So that's fair, and I think that is what mister Rubio,
that is the message he's delivering. Good for him equally
going into El Salvador, Guatemala and saying, look, let's work
on a deal where you're going to take back some
of these foreign nationals that we want out of our country.
It's basically the trash. Can you take our trash? Prison
Bouquetla of El Salvador has said, you know, maybe he might.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Have to build out some facilities to do that. So
we're going to owe him a lot.

Speaker 11 (43:43):
We're going to have to give him a few things
to take our trash, as it were. And I'm going
to refer to some of these illegals to your point
that have raped children, We're going to call them trash.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
That's fair.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
It's fair.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
The other question though, that you highlight, which is the cost.

Speaker 11 (43:57):
All right, So it does cost about thirty thousand dollars
per hour to operate a military jet to send people home.
It cost about seventeen thousand dollars per hour for an
ice plain to be sent home. So it's fair to
ask a question of can we do this less with
less of a cost, And the answer is yes. So
earlier this week is we all might remember from last

(44:18):
Sunday into Monday Colombia, and of course President Trump gotten
that big dust up the Colombians didn't want to take
back to your people. Trump was like, really, sanctions for you,
terrors for all of you. I'm going to ruin your country.
I don't care if you have beautiful coffee and women.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
I'll destroy it anyway. And that ended. That ended the
whole thing. But here's the key.

Speaker 11 (44:38):
But a lot of people didn't catch Over the next
forty eight hours, President Petro, who is a Marxist who
runs Columbia right now, he agreed to send his military
planes to the United States to pick up his Colombian people.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
Well wait a.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Minute, that's great news.

Speaker 11 (44:55):
Not only were we not spending thirty thousand dollars an
hour with our military or seventeen thousand dollars an hour
for the ice planes, We're spending zero. That is the
art of the deal, you get the other guys to
come pick up their citizens and take them home. That
is what I hope that the administration focuses on next,
especially when you stop and think about that, some of
the illegals that are here are because these nations encourage

(45:16):
their people to leave. President Petro of Columbia a lot
of people have forgotten this in September actually try to
get the Panamanians to open up that jungle between the
two nations it's called the Darien Gap, so that more
people could pass through and safely allegedly, But the point is.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
They were paving the road, man. They were paving the
road for these people to come to the United States.

Speaker 11 (45:36):
So yeah, it's fair that they spend their money and
their jets to pick up their people, not us. So
that is what I hope that this president continues to
do is push these nations to say, look, you're gonna
use your jets and your plans to pick up your
people or guess.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
What tariffs sanctions for everyone. Don't mess with me, I'll
low up your country.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
See what I want them to do? You're Trump? Your
Trump impersonation is really went along, my friend, I gotta
work on it.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
I got four years. I got to make it tight.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
The golden hair. You do, you do, okay. So, speaking
of tariffs, Caroline Levitt, who's the White House Press Secretary,
addressed tariffs on Mexico and Canada and the press briefing.
I want to play the sound and I want to
get your thoughts on all of this. Listen, Brian So,
the Canadian Prime Minister, said today that if US imposes tariffs, he.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Will respond and he will not relent until the.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
Tariffs are removed or we see the start of the
trade war we can.

Speaker 14 (46:31):
I don't think so. I think the President is going
to implement those tariffs tomorrow and he will respond to
mister Trudeau's comments in due time.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
I am sure things have to happen.

Speaker 9 (46:41):
What does the adminstration need to see in order to
avoid those tarriffs.

Speaker 14 (46:44):
Well, the tariffs are incoming tomorrow on Canada, and the
reason for that is because both Canada and Mexico have
allowed an unprecedented invasion of illegal fetanyl that is killing
American citizens and also illegal immigrants into our country. In fact,
I have more language for you right here. Canada, Mexico
and China, which, as I mentioned, President Trump will implement

(47:06):
a ten percent tariff on China. Have all enabled illegal
drugs to pour into America. The amount of fetanyl that
has been seized at the southern border in the last
two years alone has the potential to kill tens of
millions of Americans. And so the President is intent on
doing this, And I think Justin Trudeau would be wise
to talk to President Trump directly before pushing outlandish comments

(47:27):
like that to the media.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Man. I like that comment at the end strikes me
as true, Like Justin Trudeau would be wise to talk
about this with President Trump essentially behind closed doors before
whinding to the media. But a twenty five percent tariff
on Canada and Mexico for all the reasons that she cited,
the illegal invasion, fentanyl, everything else, deaths of Americans because

(47:52):
of that. Man, he's playing hardball, and I like it.

Speaker 11 (47:56):
So here's the thing that the trade agreement between the
United States, Canada and Mexico that is not up for
renegotiation until twenty twenty six. What Trump was doing here
is he's saying, basically, I'm going to levy twenty five
percent tariffs on boltiviole unless maybe you want to renegotiate
a little bit early, and when we do, it's going
to be on my terms, it's going to be on
better terms, it's going to be on the United States's terms.

(48:17):
So that's what he's doing here. Second, he also understands
we got data earlier this week that the Mexican government
tanked in the fourth quarter of last year for the
first time in about ten years.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
So the Trump would negotiate a team attack so it
went down.

Speaker 11 (48:32):
So another words, President shine Bomb of Mexico is in
a very weak position to negotiate. Her domestic economy is
already starting to sort of be on the ropes, as
it were, so that's he's got a little bit of
extra leverage. Second, we should also remember that we provide
a lot of stuff to Mexico. They need us more
than we need them. We give them about seventy percent
seven zero percent of their natural gas that powers their nation,

(48:54):
their power plants. We also tens of billions I think
it is at sixty some more billion dollars in remittances,
and of course all the factories on the northern that's
called the Makiladoras section of Mexico that's really important to
Mexican economy. So we got a lot of to squeeze,
you know, we can do without some of the craft
that comes across the southern border. Fentanyl certainly the biggest one,

(49:15):
but a lot of that other stuff too, you know.
In fact, one of the things that a lot of
people don't know is in these factory zones, they have
allowed Chinese companies to set up their factories so that
they can take advantage of the USMCA and send in
these cheap Chinese goods, avoiding the tariffs that we have
on China. So the Mexican government and Mexican businessmen are

(49:36):
setting up these factories just a couple of hours south
of San Antonio, for example. Well that's not only bad
because it's economically, you know, terrible, it's economic warfare. Basically,
the Chinese are cheating again. But what we also know,
again about the Panama example, these Chinese nationals have to
respond if the Chinese Communist Party did military or the
Intel says, go do something. So we've got basically these

(49:58):
these nests of spies saboteurs in these these Chinese factories
just south of the border. So it is yet another
reason why the president is very wise to smack the
hell out of the Mexicans to say you got to
tighten we got to tighten up this agreement. We've got
to fix a lot of stuff, and we've got some leverage.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
The Canadian one. I got to tell you, I'm a
little bit more not nervous.

Speaker 11 (50:18):
I'm just appreciative of one of the things that we
do buy from them that we need, which is crude oil,
especially our Midwestern refineries.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
That's a big deal because.

Speaker 11 (50:26):
Those have been built over the decades just for the
heavier crude that comes out out of Canada. So if we,
you know, slap this twenty five percent tariff on this
Canadian crude, Midwestern refineries aren't going to have many other
supplies and so they're got have to pay more, and
then that they're likely going to pass that along to consumers.
Not necessarily depends on the refinery in the company, but

(50:49):
those refinery margins are pretty narrow, so I could see
gas prices going up twenty to fifty I've heard some
estimates of seventy cents a gallon, depending on how long
this goes and how much you know the the effect is.
But I am a bit nervous about that one, only
because of the gas prices and a lot of people
hurting in the Midwest already because of the inflation. The

(51:09):
Trump team is aware of this, so we'll see how
long that the tariffs get slapped on for I suspect
that the Canadians are going to bend on this because
their economies that have a spot as well. Their auto
industry has shed over a million and a half jobs
over the past fifteen years or so. That has a
big deal for the Canadians. So they need our market
and it would hammer their auto industry, their auto supply

(51:30):
industry especially, So I think Trump's got some room to squeeze,
but They've also got a little bit of ability to
squeeze us too with that crude oil.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Yeah, clearly, definitely, definitely something to be concerned about. And
as you mentioned, I'm sure the Trump team is tracking this.
I just wonder how they plan to mitigate it.

Speaker 6 (51:47):
You know.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
Trump has also talked about this idea of clearing out
Gaza and relocating Palestinians exactly to break this down, boy,
because because many people I feel like have tried this. Yeah,
maybe maybe not tried it, but have thought about it. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (52:05):
So one of the great things about Trump is a
lot of us think things and then we don't say
them because they're like, wow, that's going to make a
lot of people mad or upset.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
The apple carte.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Trump's like, anyway, yeah, I love it.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
So look.

Speaker 11 (52:19):
The argument that Trump made last Saturday was that what
we ought to do is we should take the Gaza
Strip to two million or so Palestinians and clean them
out of Gaza, put them into probably Jordan, but likely Egypt,
camped them out there for some period of time. Demo
the entire Gaza Strip because it's basically demolished anyway, we
take out all that stuff, it's a construction zone. He said,

(52:41):
we'll rebuild the buildings and then we'll let people back
in the Palestinians. He said that process could be short
term or long term, and that made a lot of
Palestinians and a lot of Arabs very anxious because that
means basically they could maybe never go back. That was
a concern of a lot of Palestinians, but also the Jordanians,
the Egyptians because here's the dirty secret. Can I tell

(53:02):
you a Cia secret for a second. The Arabs don't
actually like the Palestinian cause a lot of them actually
believe and refer to the Palestinians as their hillbilly cousins.
And that is certainly true of Arab leadership across the
Middle East, so they're not really big fans of this
Palestinian cause. It's also true that the Palestinians have tried
to murder a lot of these Arab leaders in the

(53:24):
past decades, like the King of Jordan and the leadership
in Egypt.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
That's why Jordan in Egypt don't want the Palestinians.

Speaker 11 (53:31):
They're like, no, they may be Arabs, or they may
be Muslims, but these guys are crazy and they'll blow
us up as well as the Jews. So that is
why Jordan and Egypt have both refused this idea of
cleaning out gossip because they don't want these people either.
So I think that that's important for folks to know
that this Palestinian cause, it really is full of a
group of people.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Since nineteen forty eight with the reconstitution of.

Speaker 11 (53:52):
Israel, a lot of people just don't know what to
do about the Palestinian problem, right, So what that has
to be The solution is probably the Saladis or others
coming in and governing the Gaza and the West Bank.
Basically taking them over is the equivalent of states or
emirates and getting rid of Hamas. That's how you secure
the lives of the Palestinians and the Jewish states or

(54:13):
the Jewish people Israel.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
But the point is Trump was like, now I'll just
clean him out. Now I'll just kick him out.

Speaker 11 (54:19):
And what he's referencing here is he's got leverage, he
said yesterday. His leverage is we give billions of dollars,
a critical amount of money to Egypt, especially they would
be in big trouble without our money.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Trump knows that.

Speaker 11 (54:30):
It's also true that Jordanians, so it's gonna squeeze there
a little bit that I think is his strategy to
just even threaten it to find a solution here, especially
with Kamas, like who governs next? And in fact we
have the Secretary of Rubio spoke with the leadership of
the royal king, the royal family in Saudi Arabia, probably
trying to cook up a deal here, this big deal
in the Middle East to give the Saudis to take

(54:51):
over these Palestinian territories. I anticipate that that's part of
the art of the deal. Here is pushing these Arabs
to do the right thing from his perspective, to sault
at long last this issue the Palestinians versus Israel.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
God, it's fascinating because I feel like President Trump thinks
about these things, you know, differently than other people. But
he's also bold enough to talk about it. As you said,
you know where most American presidents Democratic, Republican, they're not
going to talk about it.

Speaker 11 (55:19):
They just want to look at There is a cost,
it's some level, I mean, to the to this as
it were. I think we've talked about the speaking softly
and carrying a big stick. Trump Trump speaks loudly and
he cares a two by four, right, So that's just
who he is. And there's a there's a cost of
it because it creates it's a disruption, and that can
create problems, but it can also result in some really

(55:41):
wonderful things and disruptors. Like if we look in the
private sector Elon Musk, what a what a disruptor there?
And from the space Flight X and other things. You
you break some stuff when you create things. And I
think that mister Trump of all people appreciates that as
a construction guy, and so it's a it's a.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
Different way of doing business.

Speaker 11 (55:59):
Uh So, I'm sure the CIA guys are keeping it
real busy right now, State Department two.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Okay, so real quickly. I don't want to keep you
two over time here because you're already been very generous.
But two stories out of Africa. Why should we care
about this.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Really important eastern Congo right now? It's the lot of
a war.

Speaker 11 (56:19):
Sadly that's happening the government of Rwanda and the rebels
were invading a really critical part of eastern Congo. Why
do we care about that? Well, a couple of reasons. First,
a lot of very important minerals come from that area,
cobalt and others. In fact, we have a railroad line
that we have played paid in this country, the United
States taxpayers about a half a billion dollars to build
a rail line into southern Congo. So we definitely have

(56:41):
an interest to know what's going on there so we
could see a disruption of these mineral supplies. A. B.
There is a lab in a city that was taken
over called Goma, that is a medical lab that has
viral samples, to include one called ebola that's where you
bleed from all of your pores and you die. It's
an awful, awful death. So we should probably want to
make sure that we're keeping a tab on that. And

(57:02):
the President is, and I know that Secretary Rubio is
as well, so we're watching it. That's why we should
keep on a track of the mineral stuff and this issue.
God forbid of an ebola outbreak. Second, South Africa. This
one's a big deal because South Africa really is a
laboratory when we talk about diversity, equity and inclusion. You
led with the top of the show, we talked about it.
It's so important in this country. I think a lot

(57:22):
of us understand. To rid our nation of it, South
Africa's gone in the other direction. Everything there is about race,
everything is because clearly of the apartheid rule. But one
of the things that they did in June of twenty
twenty three is they said to businesses, we're going to
give you water or not for your business depending on
the color of your skin. If you're black, you get
the most water, if you're sort of middle colored you

(57:45):
get a more middling amount. And if you're white, eh,
tough luck. That's one of the things that is so
important for us to watch what happens to a nation
when everything, to include water access is based on your
color of skin. About a week ago, sadly, the government
which is being led right now, that is the radical
leftist government. They're in a coalition with the White parties

(58:07):
and others, and a week ago they adopted a new
law that basically said the government, which we know as
leftists everything is based on skin color, can take any
property that it wants if it's for the public good.
This is a very expropriation, very Zimbabwe, very radical leftist
marks a solution to problems down in South Africa. The
White Party, the Democratic Alliance, they said, wait a minute,

(58:30):
we know where this goes. We watched what happened in
Zimbabwe and other places. You're going to start killing white
people and pushing them off of farms. Let's not go
down that path. You will turn this lovely nation of ours,
a rainbonation, into something horrible. So that is why we
continue and we should continue to watch South Africa. It
really is a laboratory for DEI on steroids. So if
we want to be reminded of what happens to a

(58:51):
country that has just collapsed over the last three years,
embracing dei. South Africa is a wonderful place to remind
ourselves of why we do not want to go down
that path.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
How the hell does the country survive? How do people
like dolling out water based on skin color? Doesn't seem
like something that Americans would tolerate for very long?

Speaker 1 (59:14):
Well?

Speaker 3 (59:14):
How no, how does South Africa and the government even survive.
I mean, you'd think people would be up in arms.

Speaker 11 (59:24):
Well that that is a big conversation. But the bottom
line is for decades, obviously, what the white folks ruled
that country. They were a minority under apartheid, and they
did some pretty terrible things. And in response, Nelson Mandela
and other radicalists Marxists, they did some terrible.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
Things as well.

Speaker 11 (59:38):
So you've got this nation that is built on this
foundation of a lot of complexity, racial complexities and otherwise.
But economically speaking, the country was in relatively good shape
through the nineteen nineties. That is no longer the case.
They can't keep their lights on man that they struggled
to keep their electricity supply because everybody keeps robbing it.
You've created businesses that have to have a certain number

(59:59):
of black folks as well, as white. So you have
racial quotas on everything, schooling, the military, businesses, your electricity supply,
your water supply, and the nation has struggled profoundly. It
is not the nation of twenty thirty years ago, even
when the ANC took over. And so I think that
that you're right to say. You know, why don't people
get to a place in South Africa where they are

(01:00:20):
they are engaging in revolts. You know, I don't know
what the cross A lot of people have wondered, like,
at what point is that nation going to collapse?

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
There's been a lot of debate over at the last
thirty years.

Speaker 11 (01:00:29):
It hasn't happened so far because enough people have decided
to ban together and keep working to try to keep
the nation together. A lot of business interests still down
in South Africa, and not just the white folks, but
a lot of ethnic Indians are in South Africa and
they're working really hard to keep that nation together as well. So, unfortunately,
I want to be hopeful for South Africa. They're a
very important a nation. It's a gorgeous place and the lovely,

(01:00:52):
lovely set of people there, but there is this radicalist
Marxist element that I think, unfortunately could destroy the country.
So important for us to watch as we try to
rip that stuff out of our system.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
Man Brian, tell us where we can find you, how
we can support you all that stuff, you know, the drill. Well,
look at this.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
I have my cup today. It's the right report. We love.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
People want those cups. I know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Gosh, I got to figure out a way to do it.
We're today so ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
Put on your piece Buddha gag hat and figure out
the logistics. Man, figure out the supply chain. Logistics.

Speaker 11 (01:01:26):
So great, if I go with Pete, my cups are
going to end up down to Guatemala and we're going
to be broken.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
So that's great.

Speaker 11 (01:01:33):
Uh so yeah, so sevent day or five days a week, God,
seven days a week. I don't want to do a
podcast seven days a week. That's on five days a week,
Monday through Friday, no later than five am Easter and
you can catch me on all your favorite podcast platforms.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
We talk about this country.

Speaker 11 (01:01:47):
You go around the world and yes on substack right
report dot substack dot com. I provide transcripts of what
I talk about every day, all of the resources and
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fact check or spread things the truth to other people.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
That's important. We got to do that. So it's good
fun and I always love coming on. Man.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Oh well, I appreciate you so much, Brian Dean Wright,
you are the best. Everyone should go subscribe to the
Right Report Daily podcast. Also subscribe to his sub stack.
If you can, have a great week with my friend
and I'll see you soon.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Looking forward to your brother.

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
Be well, all right, take care. That is Brian Dean
Wright one of the best in the business. He's always
very generous with his time and we thank him for that. Okay,
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I hope you all have a great, great, great weekend.
I know that we will here at Fort Parnell. I'll

(01:02:40):
have to tell you, you know, our oldest daughter is
a senior this year. We had to cobble together that
one page yearbook ad and got the baby pictures where
their graduation pictures. Commander Melanie is the toughest woman that
I know, but this has not been an easy process.
The kids get old too fast. Where does the time go?

(01:03:04):
I don't know. But folks so grateful to have you
here on the show. See you on Monday. God bless
you all, and God bless this amazing country that we
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