Hamas cease-fire, and if any hostage releases, is very reminiscent of the 1981 Reagan entrance. Is this a historic Trump moment coming? What about Panama? Canada?? Or the Gulf of America??? We will discuss all of this with Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano.
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new presidency. We get the announcement of Kerrie Underwood singing
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Even the garbage truck will make an appearance in the
inaugural parade. And are we closer than ever to a
Hamases fire and with it dozens of hostages being released.
More on that in just a second. Also, the President
spoke yesterday at the State Department, and.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
This is what he had to say.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
We've reinvigorated people's faith in the United States as a
true partner. Today I can report to the American people
our addressars are weaker than where we came into the
top four years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Just consider Russia.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
When Putin in Vada, Ukraine, he thought he conquered keev
in a matter of days. The truth is, since that
war began, I'm the only one who stood in the
center of Kiev, not him.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
And he went on to say that he hands off
a safer world to President elect Donald Trump. James Carafano's
lieutenant colonel, I consider one of the finest military and
foreign policy minds in the world today. Resides at the
Heritage Foundation, and he joins us this morning. Great to
have you back, Lieutenant Colonel. That's the president trying to
rewrite the last four years of history. How accurate is it.
Speaker 8 (02:33):
I don't know who the speech writer is, but they
do better jokes than Saturday.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Night Live it did on your correspondence stand up.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
Oh, come on, man.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
They're not going to be out of work then they
They've got a place to go and a job to do.
I mean, come on, you're not doing you know what
he said? No, No, seriously, it is true that all
of our enemies are weaker. Russia the military capability is
significantly degraded. I mean, Putin has lost significant ground in
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a lot of areas, not just in Ukraine. Iran is
definitely weaker. Their their circuits have been decimated. Chinese economy
has kind of sputtered here. Uh, and you know, China's
popularity has never been lower. None of this has to
do with the things that Joe Biden intention. These are
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all the result of Biden's weakness and all these guys
overreaching and making stupid decisions that this you know what
this is like, this is like you know, round two
of the the Ali fight where we replaced Ropado and
he gets punched to death. Biden's for Biden's been a
punching back for four years. If our enemies are are
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are having trouble, it's because of their stupid decisions, not
not anything good that he did well.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Yeah, and true and true leadership projects strength so that
wars don't happen, the withdrawal of Afghanistan. I don't think
history is going to be kind to this presidency at all.
I think the handling prior to Russia's invasion history won't
be kind to but kind of you know, I like
to reiterate this to people because I'm not an US
versus them guy. I want to see us stop being
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Republicans and Democrats and start being Americans. And I'm all
for this new rebirthing and restoration where the people take
control of the government again and elect wise proven leaders,
not politicians. But you're not Republican or Democrat. We've often
talked about how dangerous the Obama foreign policy was, how
surprisingly good Donald Trump's foreign policy was, How will the
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Biden administration be remembered in terms of foreign policy.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
So here's what was not in the speech. The untold
suffering in the world that resulted from Biden's deliberate actions
in Afghanistan, and today women cannot even talk to other women,
or be or have be or see daylight outside where
another human being can see them. They they have the
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least rights and the most oppression of any people on Earth.
There's only one person responsible for that, and that is
Joe Biden. In Israel, we had people massacred at a
at a at a music festival because because they thought
because people thought they could get away with it because
Biden is So We've had we have shipping in the
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Red Sea blocked blocked by a terrorist group which Biden
took off the terrorists lips. We have people in Ukraine
who are suffering and freezing through the winter because nobody
was afraid of Biden when they attacked these wars. We
had untold human suffering at the border because of the
incredible abuses of illegal human trafficking. All of this is
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directly the responsibility of Joe Biden. So, yeah, our enemies
are weaker, but you know how Biden accomplished that by
allowing them to inflict unbelievably and unprecedented human suffering on
people things that never even came close to happening when
Donald Trump was President of the United States.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
James Carafinals, the Lieutenant currently presides over the Heritage Foundation's
team of military and foreign policy advisors.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I mean, this is the perfect transition right to what
you're talking about, because we're kind of reliving history almost
fifty years later. Ronald Reagan, everybody knew was piece through strength,
very strong, it was respected, it was anticipated. Jimmy Carter
was perceived as meddling, very weak, and we had a
hottgest crisis and the hostages were released as Ronald Reagan's
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taking the oath of office. Now that Donald Trump has
made a crystal clear if these hostages aren't released by
the time I take the oath of office, all hell is.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Going to break loose.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Guess what we seem to be on the precipice of
not just a ceasefire, but three dozen hostages being released
if they're alive.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
This is a moment, is it not?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Well, you know, there's a perfect analogy action between Carter
and Reagan and Biden and Trump. The part of the
reason why Reagan was so successful was because our enemies
overreached so aggressively under Carter that they you stretcher over
me and so tight and it steps back. They were
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so aggressive and overreaching under Carter that when Reagan pushed back,
he was he was pushing back against an enemy that
exceeded its reach. And I think that's also true for
what we see with Trump and Biden. You know, I
do want to caution one thing about when they say,
you know, getting hostages back. When I talked to very
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senior Israeli officials many months ago at the time they
thought best case scenario they get back thirty live hostages.
I mean that that was almost a year ago. Now
I'm not thinking. I mean, I hope I'm wrong. I
don't think we're going to see dozens of live hostages
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come out. I mean some of these when they're saying
returning hostages, I think they're more about talking about returning bodies,
not live people.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Right.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
All right, So we've had this conversation in the past.
But for those that can't listen to every moment we
ever do. We've talked about this dance.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
What's your problem?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
That's right, But we talk about.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
This dance that that the islamis played, they get emboldened
they carry out a terrorist attack, they get beat up,
they take hostages so they can exchange the hostages and
end it. Then they go lay low for a decade
and they do it all over again. This time it
kind of drug out and and I think I brought
it up to you and then we talked about it
on the air, and that is I don't think they
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have their exit plan because I think they've killed the hostages,
and so I guess we're going to find out now.
And I like you and praying we're wrong. And there
are three dozen, but I think you're probably right. It's
going to be more remains than it is living hostages,
and probably far less than most of the world thinks.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
You know, there's a because terrorism as a as a
threat to us is definitely back on the table with
open borders and everything else. And I think there's a
lesson learned here about global terrorism. And something I think
we got wrong in the war on terrorism before and
people continue to get wrong, is the threat. I'm not terrorists,
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because they are terrorists all over the place and everything,
but the global terrorism, the idea to export terrorism and
to use terrorism part of kind of the larger that
is a that is as a threat the product of
the EBB and flow of geopolitics. It is not about
root causes and dealing with the underlying conditions and all.
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That's not what causes global terrorism. Global terrorism thrives or
receive because of the nature of global politics. And that's
why I know if I told you the story before,
but after nine to eleven, and somebody asked me one day,
they said, how many? How many Islamist terrorist attacks? And
we had the United States since nine eleven, and I thought, well,
that's a pretty obvious thing, because you know, I tracked
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that stuff every day, and I realized people didn't do that.
So we started taking count of terrorist plots, not successful
terrorist attacks, but terrorist plots aimed at the United States.
Islamist terrorist plots posted nine eleven, and we had this
robust database and we ran up until Trump got elected
and then we stopped. And the reason we stopped is
there just weren't any.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Weakness, But James, is that something new? Weakness always emboldens
an aggressor.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Right, Because I was going to say, is you know,
if people actually are paying attention, We've actually had several
Islamist terrorist spots aimed at the United States, not just
New Orleans and Las Vegas, but some of them, most
of them weren't successful, which is why we kind of
ignored this. But we've had an enormously resurgent threat and
and I would say a good chunk of that threat
is to two things. One is the incredible weakness of
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the administration. We can beat this thing that you know,
total complete, absolute death. The other is our enemies because
our where our enemies have overreached in hard power, they're
still aggressive and they still want to take down the
United States. So increasingly what they will do is to
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turn to alternatives to do that. We've always had state
sponsored terrorism, either directly or indirectly, but it thrives in
times when our enemies see that as a useful instrument
that come against us. So when their hard power is strained,
they're going to turn to this. And if we don't
close off those avenues, which is you know, we'll see
more of that. So again, this is where Trump is
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so important. It's not just a back off China and
Russian or on as direct threats, but also cutting off
the avenues of indirect threats.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Find final minute with Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano, Christmas New
Year's a lot of out of country travel for you.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Some things that built up.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
In one minute, from the Panama Canal to Greenland, to
Canada to the Gulf of America, all of these other
things that have come up with the entrance of a
second term of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
How important is some of this stuff.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Yeah, and that's the way to look at it. And
it's not at any specific policy thing or and he said,
but it's the overall message, which is, after multiple years
of weakness, we have allowed the Chinese and Russians and
Iranians to really penetrate our own home ground and that
has to stop. And all of this is a signal
that the Monroe Doctor is back. Enemies coming into this
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theater and messing with us in our own backyard. We're
not going to tolerate that. The difference, I would say,
between the Monroe Doctrine, which was largely the United States
kind of exercising this is the new Monroe Doctrine is
not going to be the United States kind of telling
everybody in the Western hemisphere. It's going to be working
with partners in the Western hemisphere to kick these guys out.
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Because this writes to all of us and Trump, and
all Trump is saying is, look, I'm going to be
serious about that, and I think people should see that
as a really positive, constructive thing because it's an element
of our national security and fire policy which has been
absolutely one thousand percent neglected the last four years.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Wonderful, Finally, a happy new year.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
You're back, Lieutenant Colonel James Carafinal read his great work
and his colleagues great work at Heritage Dowd or we'll
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Speaker 1 (13:30):
Thank you, Lieutenant Colonel.
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Let's speak her new Gingrich in nine minutes.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
He's got a documentary to on PBS Journey to America.
He and his wife, Callista not only were the executive producers,
but they're the narrators of the documentary. We'll talk all
about it with him in minutes. I was just mentioning
how one of the great crises of our hour is
loss of trust, and we're seeing that play out even
in the midst of the LA fires COVID. I could
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grab one example, who trusts the World Health Organization anymore?
Who trusts the CDC anymore? Who trusts the media anymore?
Who trusts their primary physician anymore? After all that, so
there's a cumulative exposure that just over time our roads. Traditionally,
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when Gallup would do polls about honesty and ethics and
the professions we rate highest and lowest. You know where
lawyers always ended up. Things have changed a little bit.
The latest research shows when it talks about majority positive,
we think the world of our nurses far more than doctors,
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military officers. Ironically, pharmacists are on.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That list.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Those we view majority negative lobbyists Members of Congress. I
always love that one. They're always there among the lowest
sixty eight percent negative, eight percent positive. But what happens
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election after election? Oh, Congress, they're all rotten to the core,
slimy politicians or career politicians getting themselves wealthy and getting
us more in debt. Oh, I love my congressman. That's
how we keep sending him back and back. I guess
who's the new number one most negative professionists? TV reporters,
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newspaper reporters, by the way, aren't far behind in that
negative scores. The death and decomposition of journalism and even
shows up in our gallop view of professions and mistrust.
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Speaker 6 (18:08):
We often talk about the matrix, the narrative silos of
the far left and the far right, and the two
never meet. It's never more true than when we're talking
about immigration. It's not enough to say we're a sovereign
nation and we need a secured border. It's an issue
of national security, national financial security, and national homeland security.
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But that's just the sin of commission of an invasion
through a porest border. What about strategic planned immigration, because
the right should be as outraged about that as much
as the poorest open border newte Gingrich and his wife,
(18:55):
Callistic Gingrich are the executive producers and they are the
narrators of a documentary that will air tonight at nine
pm Central ten pm Eastern on PBS. It's called Journey
to America. And the speaker joins us, how important is
this film for both sides, the left and the right.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Well on, Chris and I decided we had to make
Journey to America because we're both against illegal immigration, but
we're both deeply in favor of legal immigration. And by
the way, that reflects the American people. Seventy three percent
of the American people opposed illegal immigrants, seventy three percent
of the American people favor legal immigration. And we wanted
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to give folks who had an open mind that we're
willing to look at it, real human stories of people
who came to America legally, who have made this a
better country, given us a better future. And it's a
key part of American exceptionalism that we attract people from
all over the world. And I think in that sense,
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Journey to America is a very important documentary. They were
thrilled the PBS as showing it at ten PM. And
we think that a lot of Americans will be reminded,
first of all, that they probably know people who are
first generation legal immigrants, and they may well in their
own family have people one or two generations back at clusive,
for example, as a grandmother who came from Poland through
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Ellis Island in nineteen oh seven. And so these ties
are very real. President Trump's mother came from Scotland, and
Milania obviously came from Europe. I mean, so when you
look at it, all of us have ties. Sure that
mean that legal immigration is a key you have to protect,
(20:40):
yet at the very time that you are getting rid
of illegal immigrants.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
So, mister speaker, it's kind of like a legal immigration
is the sins of commission and really strategic wise, legal
migration that may have.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Been the sin of omission. We've got to get both right, right.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
I'm not quite sure I've used it that way, but
I think the points right. You want to have a balance.
And I'll give you the other example where I feel
very strongly, and that's the Dreamers. These are young people
who were brought by their parents when they were two
or three years old. Most of them do not speak
the language of their original country origin. Many of them
are valedictorians graduating from high school and college. Many of
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them become doctors and nurses. We need to find a
path to citizenship for the dreamers at the same time
that we're finding a path to kick them out for
the criminals and the murderers and the drug dealers, who
ought to be the first wave of deportation, should all
be everybody who's a criminal. It's not a complicated.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Issue because there's narratives on both sides, and both sides
got to get beyond them and to understandings. And I'm
hoping these journeys will do that journey to America with
Newt and Calistic Ingridge executive producers as well as co hosts.
And I actually love that it's going to be on
PBS to have this discussion, you know, on PBS and
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watch these lives and let these lives tell the story.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
What are you hoping we leave watching this with?
Speaker 9 (22:11):
I hope people will leave with a sense of the
remarkable diversity and the remarkable talent that has come to
America to make us a unique place. And I hope
that they will think about, you know, all the different
people that whether it's Hetty Lamar, or it is Mother
Cabrini or Henry Kissinger. I mean, there are just a
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ton of stories that you're going to watch and you're
gonna think, well, I mean, for example, Maria Dome grew
up in an orphanage in Siberia, came to America and
became the first woman ever to qualify as a marine
combat infantryman, and just you look at that and you think,
you know, what an amazing country we are to attract
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people from everywhere?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
How hard was it to narrow it down to nine?
And why these nights? Did you have a favorite?
Speaker 9 (23:04):
Well, we actually did. Originally we did fifteen, but that
because we just we did this on our own, because
we wanted to do it, and when we approached TBS,
he said, that's too long a show, and so we
had to regretfully, there'll be an executive version, they'll come
out of a director's version that'll come out later. They'll
have everybody in it. But we had a hard time
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getting down to the nine. You know, I'd hate to.
I mean, I've known I knew Henry Kissinger for goosh
over forty years. This may have been his last television interview,
and he's a remarkable person. But I also have to
say the great interesting experiences was she Van Fleet is
a good example. She was in Loudon County. She had
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as a young girl been in China for Moue cultural Revolution,
and she began to see the left in America resemble
the malice, and so she and began talking about, Look,
I've been there. I saw what it was like in China.
You have to start. She ended up being on televisions
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who wrote two books. She told her.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Former speaker Nude Gingrich the PBS special tonight, the ninety
minute documentary Journey to America, Part two of our visit
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what it was like to work with his wife.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
Well, I mean, she's really the driving force for us.
She loves me, she's very good at it. She's a
music major by background, so she has a very artistic
kind of rhythm and she drives us along with some
good friends of our seven, Na Block, who has only
done ten films within now, so she really likes doing films.
(29:19):
I really like doing books. But somehow we won't beg other.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
I'm going to do one last question off topic, if
you'll allow me. I'm going to say I want to
I want to say to your face what I say
behind your back. You were hands down, and I know
that some will debate Tip O'Neil and you. Those are
conversations that people have often. I've always said, hands down,
you were the most consequential and effective speaker in my lifetime,
and perhaps the contract with America, our legislative branch's best
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and truest to our intent.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
My question is can we have that again? And why not?
And why not now? And is it needed now more
than ever?
Speaker 9 (30:00):
We can have that again. It'll come in a different form,
it's a different dance. But the fact is it all
comes down to the American people. It's the American Ronald
Reagan said it was the American people that parentsed his
legislative agenda. It's the American people who supported the contract.
It was the American people who wanted to balance budgets,
and we did four in a row for the only
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time in a century. If Trump can mobilize the American people,
working with Speaker Mike Johnson and working with Majority Leader
John Thune, they will get amazing things done. And this
will be one of the most consequential presidencies, certainly rivaling
say Andrew Jackson. And I think that it's very possible.
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And I'm a big fan of Mike Johnson. He has
the hardest job in Washington. He only has a two
or three vote margin, and that means any given morning,
four of his members can causing chaos. So the level
of patience he has listening to everybody, understanding their problems,
trying to solve their problems, it's an astonishingly hard job,
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and Mike Johnson does up very very well.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Yeah, because we have you know, there's a feeling in
the air, mister Speaker, that something is changing, and it's
not just Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
It goes beyond that.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
We're even seeing it with the fires in Los Angeles,
that America is awakening to these narratives, these false narratives,
and they've kind of died of consequence in reality, and
the people are kind of going back to the table
and assuming their role in our in our founder's intent,
and they're ready for real servant leadership, and they're ready
for people to solve problems. How do you see this
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new future forming and what might it mean for not
just you know, dysfunctional government starting to work together, but
for kind of a cultural revolution that could.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Go beyond anything that we would call a Reagan.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Revolution again Rich revolution, or even a Trump revolution, a reawakening.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
And I think, look, I think there's a real possibility
that having seen left wing culture fail totally, both in
performance and in values, that you could have a very
dramatic shift back towards a work ethic, back towards patriotism.
And in that process, one of the things I'm trying
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to get it launched is a reform movement in Chicago
or Baltimore City or New York or Los Angeles that says,
we get parties everybody who agrees that the machine doesn't work,
that the bosses aren't competent. Everybody ought to be in
the same room, and we ought to collectively figure out
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how do we change these systems because they are disasters.
And the Los Angeles fire is simply the most obvious
example of disaster. But I could take you city by
city and show you disaster after disaster after disaster, and
the solution is found in true competent leaders right getting
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the solution is found in the American people rising up
as they did with the Progressive movement. Or there's an
amazing book called The Shame of the Cities published in
nineteen oh four, and it sparked a reform movement against
all the big city machines. And once you have today,
California is the worst example. You look at a place
like Chicago, it doesn't matter how bad they are, the
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machine wins. You look at New York City, I mean,
it's absurd. The machine wins. So there has to be
an anti machine movement across the whole country that builds
a citizen network and that sets out to fundly, fundamentally,
profoundly change the way government has been run.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Speaker New Gingrich and his wife Callista have put together
a Journey to America ninety minute documentary film. You can
see it tonight at ninth Central, ten Eastern on PPS.
Mister Speaker, the privilege was online. Thank you sir, great
being with you.
Speaker 9 (33:55):
Thank you all right.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
That's tonight ninth Central, ten Eastern on PBS. You know
that's theme throughout the show we were hearing. You heard
the speaker talking about the rising up of the people,
then the demanding of responsible governance. Coming full circle, we
began with the owner of the Los Angeles Times regretting
his endorsement of the Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass. Here's
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how he sounded. First of all, really accept comblain right.
So at the early Times we endorsed Karen Bass. I
think right now in front, that's a mistake and we
admit that.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
So I thought it was very early important early on
for me to come out, and I think we were
one of the few to say competence matters.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Good Blue but maybe twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Million views to show how that was really due to
the heart of most people, whether you right or left.
And it's the interesting thing is that maybe we should
think about how we elect people on the basis of
did they actually run job, do they actually make a payroll,
do they understand what it is? And rather than having
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professional politicians whose only job is ready to run for.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
See he's talking about professional politicians versus real leaders, proven
business leaders. New Gingrich is talking about leadership at the
city level based on this ineptness and failures, starting with
we the people, then at the city level, then the
state level. People think trump Ism is going to be
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some kind of a national politically shaping thing, and it's
looking like it's more local than ever. It really is
a rebirthing and a restoration, if you will, of the Republic.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
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the table for you, La, the fires continue to rage,
the winds are high, containment is low. Speaking of raging
citizens enraged over the inept leadership. America prepares for a
new presidency. We get the announcement of Kerrie Underwood singing
at the Swearing Inn ceremony, village people at inaugural balls.
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Even the garbage truck will make an appearance in the
inaugural parade. And are we closer than ever to a
Hamases fire and with it dozens of hostages being released.
More on that in just a second. Also, the President
spoke yesterday at the State Department, and.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
This is what he had to say.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
We've reinvigorated people's faith in the United States as a
true partner. Today I can report to the American people
our addressars are weaker than where we came into the
top four years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Just consider Russia.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
When Putin in Vada, Ukraine, he thought he conquered keev
in a matter of days. The truth is, since that
war began, I'm the only one who stood in the
center of Kiev, not him.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
And he went on to say that he hands off
a safer world to President elect Donald Trump. James Carafano's
lieutenant colonel, I consider one of the finest military and
foreign policy minds in the world today. Resides at the
Heritage Foundation, and he joins us this morning. Great to
have you back, Lieutenant Colonel. That's the president trying to
rewrite the last four years of history. How accurate is it.
Speaker 8 (02:33):
I don't know who the speech writer is, but they
do better jokes than Saturday.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Night Live it did on your correspondence stand up.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
Oh, come on, man.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
They're not going to be out of work then they
They've got a place to go and a job to do.
I mean, come on, you're not doing you know what
he said? No, No, seriously, it is true that all
of our enemies are weaker. Russia the military capability is
significantly degraded. I mean, Putin has lost significant ground in
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a lot of areas, not just in Ukraine. Iran is
definitely weaker. Their their circuits have been decimated. Chinese economy
has kind of sputtered here. Uh, and you know, China's
popularity has never been lower. None of this has to
do with the things that Joe Biden intention. These are
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all the result of Biden's weakness and all these guys
overreaching and making stupid decisions that this you know what
this is like, this is like you know, round two
of the the Ali fight where we replaced Ropado and
he gets punched to death. Biden's for Biden's been a
punching back for four years. If our enemies are are
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are having trouble, it's because of their stupid decisions, not
not anything good that he did well.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Yeah, and true and true leadership projects strength so that
wars don't happen, the withdrawal of Afghanistan. I don't think
history is going to be kind to this presidency at all.
I think the handling prior to Russia's invasion history won't
be kind to but kind of you know, I like
to reiterate this to people because I'm not an US
versus them guy. I want to see us stop being
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Republicans and Democrats and start being Americans. And I'm all
for this new rebirthing and restoration where the people take
control of the government again and elect wise proven leaders,
not politicians. But you're not Republican or Democrat. We've often
talked about how dangerous the Obama foreign policy was, how
surprisingly good Donald Trump's foreign policy was, How will the
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Biden administration be remembered in terms of foreign policy.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
So here's what was not in the speech. The untold
suffering in the world that resulted from Biden's deliberate actions
in Afghanistan, and today women cannot even talk to other women,
or be or have be or see daylight outside where
another human being can see them. They they have the
(05:10):
least rights and the most oppression of any people on Earth.
There's only one person responsible for that, and that is
Joe Biden. In Israel, we had people massacred at a
at a at a music festival because because they thought
because people thought they could get away with it because
Biden is So We've had we have shipping in the
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Red Sea blocked blocked by a terrorist group which Biden
took off the terrorists lips. We have people in Ukraine
who are suffering and freezing through the winter because nobody
was afraid of Biden when they attacked these wars. We
had untold human suffering at the border because of the
incredible abuses of illegal human trafficking. All of this is
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directly the responsibility of Joe Biden. So, yeah, our enemies
are weaker, but you know how Biden accomplished that by
allowing them to inflict unbelievably and unprecedented human suffering on
people things that never even came close to happening when
Donald Trump was President of the United States.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
James Carafinals, the Lieutenant currently presides over the Heritage Foundation's
team of military and foreign policy advisors.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I mean, this is the perfect transition right to what
you're talking about, because we're kind of reliving history almost
fifty years later. Ronald Reagan, everybody knew was piece through strength,
very strong, it was respected, it was anticipated. Jimmy Carter
was perceived as meddling, very weak, and we had a
hottgest crisis and the hostages were released as Ronald Reagan's
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taking the oath of office. Now that Donald Trump has
made a crystal clear if these hostages aren't released by
the time I take the oath of office, all hell is.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Going to break loose.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Guess what we seem to be on the precipice of
not just a ceasefire, but three dozen hostages being released
if they're alive.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
This is a moment, is it not?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Well, you know, there's a perfect analogy action between Carter
and Reagan and Biden and Trump. The part of the
reason why Reagan was so successful was because our enemies
overreached so aggressively under Carter that they you stretcher over
me and so tight and it steps back. They were
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so aggressive and overreaching under Carter that when Reagan pushed back,
he was he was pushing back against an enemy that
exceeded its reach. And I think that's also true for
what we see with Trump and Biden. You know, I
do want to caution one thing about when they say,
you know, getting hostages back. When I talked to very
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senior Israeli officials many months ago at the time they
thought best case scenario they get back thirty live hostages.
I mean that that was almost a year ago. Now
I'm not thinking. I mean, I hope I'm wrong. I
don't think we're going to see dozens of live hostages
(08:07):
come out. I mean some of these when they're saying
returning hostages, I think they're more about talking about returning bodies,
not live people.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Right.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
All right, So we've had this conversation in the past.
But for those that can't listen to every moment we
ever do. We've talked about this dance.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
What's your problem?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
That's right, But we talk about.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
This dance that that the islamis played, they get emboldened
they carry out a terrorist attack, they get beat up,
they take hostages so they can exchange the hostages and
end it. Then they go lay low for a decade
and they do it all over again. This time it
kind of drug out and and I think I brought
it up to you and then we talked about it
on the air, and that is I don't think they
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have their exit plan because I think they've killed the hostages,
and so I guess we're going to find out now.
And I like you and praying we're wrong. And there
are three dozen, but I think you're probably right. It's
going to be more remains than it is living hostages,
and probably far less than most of the world thinks.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
You know, there's a because terrorism as a as a
threat to us is definitely back on the table with
open borders and everything else. And I think there's a
lesson learned here about global terrorism. And something I think
we got wrong in the war on terrorism before and
people continue to get wrong, is the threat. I'm not terrorists,
(09:25):
because they are terrorists all over the place and everything,
but the global terrorism, the idea to export terrorism and
to use terrorism part of kind of the larger that
is a that is as a threat the product of
the EBB and flow of geopolitics. It is not about
root causes and dealing with the underlying conditions and all.
(09:49):
That's not what causes global terrorism. Global terrorism thrives or
receive because of the nature of global politics. And that's
why I know if I told you the story before,
but after nine to eleven, and somebody asked me one day,
they said, how many? How many Islamist terrorist attacks? And
we had the United States since nine eleven, and I thought, well,
that's a pretty obvious thing, because you know, I tracked
(10:09):
that stuff every day, and I realized people didn't do that.
So we started taking count of terrorist plots, not successful
terrorist attacks, but terrorist plots aimed at the United States.
Islamist terrorist plots posted nine eleven, and we had this
robust database and we ran up until Trump got elected
and then we stopped. And the reason we stopped is
there just weren't any.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Weakness, But James, is that something new? Weakness always emboldens
an aggressor.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Right, Because I was going to say, is you know,
if people actually are paying attention, We've actually had several
Islamist terrorist spots aimed at the United States, not just
New Orleans and Las Vegas, but some of them, most
of them weren't successful, which is why we kind of
ignored this. But we've had an enormously resurgent threat and
and I would say a good chunk of that threat
is to two things. One is the incredible weakness of
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the administration. We can beat this thing that you know,
total complete, absolute death. The other is our enemies because
our where our enemies have overreached in hard power, they're
still aggressive and they still want to take down the
United States. So increasingly what they will do is to
(11:21):
turn to alternatives to do that. We've always had state
sponsored terrorism, either directly or indirectly, but it thrives in
times when our enemies see that as a useful instrument
that come against us. So when their hard power is strained,
they're going to turn to this. And if we don't
close off those avenues, which is you know, we'll see
more of that. So again, this is where Trump is
(11:43):
so important. It's not just a back off China and
Russian or on as direct threats, but also cutting off
the avenues of indirect threats.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Find final minute with Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano, Christmas New
Year's a lot of out of country travel for you.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Some things that built up.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
In one minute, from the Panama Canal to Greenland, to
Canada to the Gulf of America, all of these other
things that have come up with the entrance of a
second term of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
How important is some of this stuff.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Yeah, and that's the way to look at it. And
it's not at any specific policy thing or and he said,
but it's the overall message, which is, after multiple years
of weakness, we have allowed the Chinese and Russians and
Iranians to really penetrate our own home ground and that
has to stop. And all of this is a signal
that the Monroe Doctor is back. Enemies coming into this
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theater and messing with us in our own backyard. We're
not going to tolerate that. The difference, I would say,
between the Monroe Doctrine, which was largely the United States
kind of exercising this is the new Monroe Doctrine is
not going to be the United States kind of telling
everybody in the Western hemisphere. It's going to be working
with partners in the Western hemisphere to kick these guys out.
(13:03):
Because this writes to all of us and Trump, and
all Trump is saying is, look, I'm going to be
serious about that, and I think people should see that
as a really positive, constructive thing because it's an element
of our national security and fire policy which has been
absolutely one thousand percent neglected the last four years.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Wonderful, Finally, a happy new year.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
You're back, Lieutenant Colonel James Carafinal read his great work
and his colleagues great work at Heritage Dowd or we'll
talk against suim.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Thank you, Lieutenant Colonel.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
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Speaker 1 (15:05):
Let's speak her new Gingrich in nine minutes.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
He's got a documentary to on PBS Journey to America.
He and his wife, Callista not only were the executive producers,
but they're the narrators of the documentary. We'll talk all
about it with him in minutes. I was just mentioning
how one of the great crises of our hour is
loss of trust, and we're seeing that play out even
in the midst of the LA fires COVID. I could
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grab one example, who trusts the World Health Organization anymore?
Who trusts the CDC anymore? Who trusts the media anymore?
Who trusts their primary physician anymore? After all that, so
there's a cumulative exposure that just over time our roads. Traditionally,
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when Gallup would do polls about honesty and ethics and
the professions we rate highest and lowest. You know where
lawyers always ended up. Things have changed a little bit.
The latest research shows when it talks about majority positive,
we think the world of our nurses far more than doctors,
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military officers. Ironically, pharmacists are on.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That list.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Those we view majority negative lobbyists Members of Congress. I
always love that one. They're always there among the lowest
sixty eight percent negative, eight percent positive. But what happens
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election after election? Oh, Congress, they're all rotten to the core,
slimy politicians or career politicians getting themselves wealthy and getting
us more in debt. Oh, I love my congressman. That's
how we keep sending him back and back. I guess
who's the new number one most negative professionists? TV reporters,
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newspaper reporters, by the way, aren't far behind in that
negative scores. The death and decomposition of journalism and even
shows up in our gallop view of professions and mistrust.
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Speaker 6 (18:08):
We often talk about the matrix, the narrative silos of
the far left and the far right, and the two
never meet. It's never more true than when we're talking
about immigration. It's not enough to say we're a sovereign
nation and we need a secured border. It's an issue
of national security, national financial security, and national homeland security.
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But that's just the sin of commission of an invasion
through a porest border. What about strategic planned immigration, because
the right should be as outraged about that as much
as the poorest open border newte Gingrich and his wife,
(18:55):
Callistic Gingrich are the executive producers and they are the
narrators of a documentary that will air tonight at nine
pm Central ten pm Eastern on PBS. It's called Journey
to America. And the speaker joins us, how important is
this film for both sides, the left and the right.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Well on, Chris and I decided we had to make
Journey to America because we're both against illegal immigration, but
we're both deeply in favor of legal immigration. And by
the way, that reflects the American people. Seventy three percent
of the American people opposed illegal immigrants, seventy three percent
of the American people favor legal immigration. And we wanted
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to give folks who had an open mind that we're
willing to look at it, real human stories of people
who came to America legally, who have made this a
better country, given us a better future. And it's a
key part of American exceptionalism that we attract people from
all over the world. And I think in that sense,
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Journey to America is a very important documentary. They were
thrilled the PBS as showing it at ten PM. And
we think that a lot of Americans will be reminded,
first of all, that they probably know people who are
first generation legal immigrants, and they may well in their
own family have people one or two generations back at clusive,
for example, as a grandmother who came from Poland through
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Ellis Island in nineteen oh seven. And so these ties
are very real. President Trump's mother came from Scotland, and
Milania obviously came from Europe. I mean, so when you
look at it, all of us have ties. Sure that
mean that legal immigration is a key you have to protect,
(20:40):
yet at the very time that you are getting rid
of illegal immigrants.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
So, mister speaker, it's kind of like a legal immigration
is the sins of commission and really strategic wise, legal
migration that may have.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Been the sin of omission. We've got to get both right, right.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
I'm not quite sure I've used it that way, but
I think the points right. You want to have a balance.
And I'll give you the other example where I feel
very strongly, and that's the Dreamers. These are young people
who were brought by their parents when they were two
or three years old. Most of them do not speak
the language of their original country origin. Many of them
are valedictorians graduating from high school and college. Many of
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them become doctors and nurses. We need to find a
path to citizenship for the dreamers at the same time
that we're finding a path to kick them out for
the criminals and the murderers and the drug dealers, who
ought to be the first wave of deportation, should all
be everybody who's a criminal. It's not a complicated.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Issue because there's narratives on both sides, and both sides
got to get beyond them and to understandings. And I'm
hoping these journeys will do that journey to America with
Newt and Calistic Ingridge executive producers as well as co hosts.
And I actually love that it's going to be on
PBS to have this discussion, you know, on PBS and
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watch these lives and let these lives tell the story.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
What are you hoping we leave watching this with?
Speaker 9 (22:11):
I hope people will leave with a sense of the
remarkable diversity and the remarkable talent that has come to
America to make us a unique place. And I hope
that they will think about, you know, all the different
people that whether it's Hetty Lamar, or it is Mother
Cabrini or Henry Kissinger. I mean, there are just a
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ton of stories that you're going to watch and you're
gonna think, well, I mean, for example, Maria Dome grew
up in an orphanage in Siberia, came to America and
became the first woman ever to qualify as a marine
combat infantryman, and just you look at that and you think,
you know, what an amazing country we are to attract
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people from everywhere?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
How hard was it to narrow it down to nine?
And why these nights? Did you have a favorite?
Speaker 9 (23:04):
Well, we actually did. Originally we did fifteen, but that
because we just we did this on our own, because
we wanted to do it, and when we approached TBS,
he said, that's too long a show, and so we
had to regretfully, there'll be an executive version, they'll come
out of a director's version that'll come out later. They'll
have everybody in it. But we had a hard time
(23:25):
getting down to the nine. You know, I'd hate to.
I mean, I've known I knew Henry Kissinger for goosh
over forty years. This may have been his last television interview,
and he's a remarkable person. But I also have to
say the great interesting experiences was she Van Fleet is
a good example. She was in Loudon County. She had
(23:48):
as a young girl been in China for Moue cultural Revolution,
and she began to see the left in America resemble
the malice, and so she and began talking about, Look,
I've been there. I saw what it was like in China.
You have to start. She ended up being on televisions
(24:08):
who wrote two books. She told her.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Former speaker Nude Gingrich the PBS special tonight, the ninety
minute documentary Journey to America, Part two of our visit
coming up straight ahead, Just wake it up. These are
your top five stories of the day.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
President Biden is.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Announcing a one time payment of seven hundred and seventy
dollars to each resident impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
People are impacted by these fires, who are going to
receive one time payment of seven hundred and seventy dollars
one time payment so they can quickly purchase things like water,
baby form prescriptions.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Biden was joined at his desk in the Oval Office
by Vice President Kamala Harris, FEMA officials, among others. The
death toll in the fires is up to twenty four people,
with Governor Gavin Newsome saying there are likely a lot more.
Southern California, Edison is being sued overclaims its electrical equipment
might be responsible for one of the wildfires in La.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
At least twenty four people are dead after the fires
broke out last Tuesday, and over one hundred and fifty
have been forced to evacuate. A lawsuit was filed by
a group of homeowners, business owners, and renters, and others
that had their property destroyed by the Eton fire in
the Pasadena region. Says that fire is the second most
destructive in the history of the state. Claims that eye
witnesses saw fire at the base of a transmission tower
(25:33):
that's owned by Edison in Los Angeles. I'm Michael Cassner.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
The Special council who investigated Hunter Biden is criticizing President Biden.
Mark Mayfield fills us in in a final report released
on Monday. David Weiss said the president cannot rewrite history.
After he spoke out against the case against his son
when he pardoned him last month. Biden called Hunter's prosecution
a miscarriage of justice. Why, said any politician that attacks
(25:58):
the decisions made by a prosecutor and calls them politically
motivated is undermining the public's confidence in the justice system.
Biden was charged with attacks and gun crimes before he
was pardoned. I'm Mark Mayfield. The Senate will start confirmation
hearings today for one of President elect Trump's cabinet picks.
Lawmakers will take a look at Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary.
(26:19):
Former North Dakota Governor Doug Bergham was set to face
questions to lead the Department of Interior, but his hearing
has been delayed two days over missing paperwork, as has
the delay come in for the Department of Veteran Affairs.
Former Georgia Congressman Doug Collins. That's now been postponed until
January twenty first because the FBI has not completed his
background check. As President, Biden looks back at his presidency
(26:43):
and his work in foreign policy. He says the Israeli
Hamas Sees fire deal is finally on the horizon.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Biden said he's working with Israeli Prime Minister net Yahoo,
Egyptian President LCCI, and the Emir of Cutter to seal
the agreement.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
We've said many times were at an inflection point.
Speaker 9 (27:00):
Posts Cold War period is over.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
The new error has begun on Russia's war in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Biden added there's more to do, saying the US has
delivered aid and garnered fifty nations support to assist Ukraine.
The President also touted his work to free Americans detained abroad.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
I'm Brian Shook. What's the old expression defense wins championships? Well,
the Rams had a lot of defense last night. Nine sacks,
six in the first half alone, an interception, a sack, scoop,
and score Rams twenty seven to nine over the Vikings.
Now we have the divisional round set Saturday three thirty
Central Texans and Chiefs, seven Central Lions and Commanders. Sunday
(27:38):
two Central Eagles and Rams five thirty Ravens and Bills.
Pistons won. Last night, Warriors lost grisfeld of the Rockets.
Clippers beat the Heat, Lakers lost one twenty six to
one oh two to the Spurs. Only one game on ice,
affecting your morning show cities. The Kings lost one to
nothing to the oilers. Birthdays today Nirvana drummer, Dave Grohl
fifty six Ozarks, Jason bay In fifty six, rapper ll
(28:02):
Cool j fifty seven and she played Bonnie and Bonnie
and Clyde. The Great actress Faye Dunaway is eighty four
years old.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
This is Your Morning Show with Michael de Chrono.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Southern California.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Edison being sued over claims maybe electrical equipment responsible for
starting one of the fires. Amass apparently ready for a
cease fire and willing to release nearly three dozen hostages.
Do three dozen hostages still exist? And the Senate will
start its confirmation hearings. Pete Hegseth is first up today.
Journey to America, a ninety minute documentary that's going to
(28:39):
air tonight on PBS, and the narration for the documentary
is done by Newt Gingrich and Calistic Ingrich. The former
Speaker and I have something in common. We're both celebrating
twenty fifth wedding anniversaries this year, and we asked him
what it was like to work with his wife.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
Well, I mean, she's really the driving force for us.
She loves me, she's very good at it. She's a
music major by background, so she has a very artistic
kind of rhythm and she drives us along with some
good friends of our seven, Na Block, who has only
done ten films within now, so she really likes doing films.
(29:19):
I really like doing books. But somehow we won't beg other.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
I'm going to do one last question off topic, if
you'll allow me. I'm going to say I want to
I want to say to your face what I say
behind your back. You were hands down, and I know
that some will debate Tip O'Neil and you. Those are
conversations that people have often. I've always said, hands down,
you were the most consequential and effective speaker in my lifetime,
and perhaps the contract with America, our legislative branch's best
(29:47):
and truest to our intent.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
My question is can we have that again? And why not?
And why not now? And is it needed now more
than ever?
Speaker 9 (30:00):
We can have that again. It'll come in a different form,
it's a different dance. But the fact is it all
comes down to the American people. It's the American Ronald
Reagan said it was the American people that parentsed his
legislative agenda. It's the American people who supported the contract.
It was the American people who wanted to balance budgets,
and we did four in a row for the only
(30:21):
time in a century. If Trump can mobilize the American people,
working with Speaker Mike Johnson and working with Majority Leader
John Thune, they will get amazing things done. And this
will be one of the most consequential presidencies, certainly rivaling
say Andrew Jackson. And I think that it's very possible.
(30:43):
And I'm a big fan of Mike Johnson. He has
the hardest job in Washington. He only has a two
or three vote margin, and that means any given morning,
four of his members can causing chaos. So the level
of patience he has listening to everybody, understanding their problems,
trying to solve their problems, it's an astonishingly hard job,
(31:04):
and Mike Johnson does up very very well.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Yeah, because we have you know, there's a feeling in
the air, mister Speaker, that something is changing, and it's
not just Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
It goes beyond that.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
We're even seeing it with the fires in Los Angeles,
that America is awakening to these narratives, these false narratives,
and they've kind of died of consequence in reality, and
the people are kind of going back to the table
and assuming their role in our in our founder's intent,
and they're ready for real servant leadership, and they're ready
for people to solve problems. How do you see this
(31:38):
new future forming and what might it mean for not
just you know, dysfunctional government starting to work together, but
for kind of a cultural revolution that could.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Go beyond anything that we would call a Reagan.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Revolution again Rich revolution, or even a Trump revolution, a reawakening.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
And I think, look, I think there's a real possibility
that having seen left wing culture fail totally, both in
performance and in values, that you could have a very
dramatic shift back towards a work ethic, back towards patriotism.
And in that process, one of the things I'm trying
(32:19):
to get it launched is a reform movement in Chicago
or Baltimore City or New York or Los Angeles that says,
we get parties everybody who agrees that the machine doesn't work,
that the bosses aren't competent. Everybody ought to be in
the same room, and we ought to collectively figure out
(32:40):
how do we change these systems because they are disasters.
And the Los Angeles fire is simply the most obvious
example of disaster. But I could take you city by
city and show you disaster after disaster after disaster, and
the solution is found in true competent leaders right getting
(33:01):
the solution is found in the American people rising up
as they did with the Progressive movement. Or there's an
amazing book called The Shame of the Cities published in
nineteen oh four, and it sparked a reform movement against
all the big city machines. And once you have today,
California is the worst example. You look at a place
like Chicago, it doesn't matter how bad they are, the
(33:22):
machine wins. You look at New York City, I mean,
it's absurd. The machine wins. So there has to be
an anti machine movement across the whole country that builds
a citizen network and that sets out to fundly, fundamentally,
profoundly change the way government has been run.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Speaker New Gingrich and his wife Callista have put together
a Journey to America ninety minute documentary film. You can
see it tonight at ninth Central, ten Eastern on PPS.
Mister Speaker, the privilege was online. Thank you sir, great
being with you.
Speaker 9 (33:55):
Thank you all right.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
That's tonight ninth Central, ten Eastern on PBS. You know
that's theme throughout the show we were hearing. You heard
the speaker talking about the rising up of the people,
then the demanding of responsible governance. Coming full circle, we
began with the owner of the Los Angeles Times regretting
his endorsement of the Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass. Here's
(34:20):
how he sounded. First of all, really accept comblain right.
So at the early Times we endorsed Karen Bass. I
think right now in front, that's a mistake and we
admit that.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
So I thought it was very early important early on
for me to come out, and I think we were
one of the few to say competence matters.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Good Blue but maybe twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Million views to show how that was really due to
the heart of most people, whether you right or left.
And it's the interesting thing is that maybe we should
think about how we elect people on the basis of
did they actually run job, do they actually make a payroll,
do they understand what it is? And rather than having
(35:05):
professional politicians whose only job is ready to run for.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
See he's talking about professional politicians versus real leaders, proven
business leaders. New Gingrich is talking about leadership at the
city level based on this ineptness and failures, starting with
we the people, then at the city level, then the
state level. People think trump Ism is going to be
(35:30):
some kind of a national politically shaping thing, and it's
looking like it's more local than ever. It really is
a rebirthing and a restoration, if you will, of the Republic.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael Openheld, Joano
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