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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The DOJ is weighing whether to disarm transsexuals. It is
an issue that has us all twisted up in knots.
The Ak guy is here to chop it up, and
famed filmmaker Denesh Desuza is telling a tale as old
as time regarding the Israel Palestine conflict. You'll get a
sneak peak of his latest work this hour. A senior
Pentagon official is with us to explain the new old
(00:22):
name of the Department of War, and we'll check in
on the New York mayoral race. Cuomo, of all people
may be gaining steam faster than the death count in
an empire state nursing home. It's all next to the
Matt Gates Show. Let's do this shaking up Washington, d C.
We're breaking the fever.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Do you haven't watch his guy on television.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
It's like a machine.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
He's great. Matt Gates. As we join you this evening,
the Department of Justice is reportedly considering gun control for transsexuals.
I'm not sure the founding fathers had men in dresses
in mind when they were open about a well regulated militia,
but here we are. I can't say i've ever personally
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seen a transsexual with a gun. Frankly, after spending about
four grand on laser hair removal, I'm shocked many have
money for AMMO tonight. We defend these transsexuals and their
constitutional rights, and we dare Washington Democrats to do the same.
Trans rights or human rights. That's what's been yelled at
me and baritone from some very ugly humans and dresses
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with Adams apples. Here's what we don't like. The government
often tests their worst ideas on the smallest, weirdest group
of people. It's rare. Any limitation on rights starts with
Wall Street billionaires. And here's the thing. If they can
take guns from trans people, you think they're stopping there,
it's just the first domino. The next thing, it's sorry,
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folks with peanut allergies, you're too unstable for firearms. Then
it's if you ever cried during the movie The Notebook,
you have to hand in your glock. At the end
of it. The only people left armed or the irs auditors.
So where are the Democrats? You think they'd be all
over this. We're here to protect marginalized voices. Say the
words armed transsexual, and every Democrat suddenly develops laryngitis. They
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look like they just saw Joe Biden trying to plug
in a USB stick. Confused, horrified, but mostly just hoping
someone else deals with it because they love saying trans
rights are human rights until it's the Second Amendment. Then
it's well, we meant rights to give kids gender blockers,
but not those rights. And what exactly is the DJ
worried about the trans people will organize. Imagine just for
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a moment, the trans militia, Well, nobody shows up on time,
but the eyeliner game is flawless. The war paint would
take two hours to put on, and by the time
they're ready, the insurrection would already be over. Or imagine
confiscating guns from this group. The searches would be revealing
and awful all at once. Here's what I remember. When
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they wanted to censor white nationalists on Twitter, I didn't
care censor away. I figured then we woke up one
day they were calling all of us white nationalists, even
though that is definitely not what was the case. So
if people can have constitutional rights stripped based on the
judgments of others, those judgments tend to become very generalized
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and far more dangerous than whatever is happening at the
Pink Pony Club in West Hollywood joining us now you
know him as the AK guy. He's a Second Amendment activist,
licensed firearms manufacturer, and congressional candidate for Texas's twenty third district,
Brandon Herrera. So, Brandon, a lot of people wanted to
see you as the ATF director. If you were, what
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would be your recommendation on limiting gun rights for transsexuals?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So it's definitely an interesting, interesting point right now because
people are finally starting to wake up to the fact that,
you know, despite making up less than just a fraction
of one percent of the population, the violence from transgender
or gender just for individuals is completely overrepresented, especially when
it comes to specific targets like you know, in this case,
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Catholic schools. It's definitely something that needs to be talked about. However,
it is one of those weird slippery slopes. My main
concern on this is that if we use federal powers,
like for example, through the executive branch of the DOJ
to decide what a mental illness is to where like
on a forty four to seventy three the paperwork you
have to fill out to purchase firearm from an FFL
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or a gun store or something like that. If they
have the ability to rewrite that, what's going to stop
the next Joe Biden from coming in and deciding that, Hey,
if you are a disabled veteran who claims PTSD on
their disability rating, you are now mentally ill and cannot
purchase a firearm legally.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
That would be my primary concern.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It remains mine. If they take the guns away from
the trans how long until the authoritarians in power are
going to call us all trends. I've already been called
trands a very unfortunate lighting problem at the RNC when
I gave a speech there and they were saying I
was trans. So I think that there is a real
problem with centralizing this type of power. And is it
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surprising to you that more Washington Democrats aren't standing up
for trans rights in this matter?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
You know, I was wondering if this was just a
very very you know, inflammatory take from the DOJ and
what really the plan was with this. And I hope
in the back of my mind that this was done
intentionally to just sigh off the Democrats into actually defending
the Second Amendment.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
For once you know what, you know, what if that's it, bravo,
that would be the chef's kiss. But you know, you
do make a really important point about these designations about
someone being mentally ill. And I want to get into
how we've seen some of the red flag laws used.
I have become aware of cases where just in someone's divorce,
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a red flag notification almost becomes regular part of the
litigation process. Talk about how some of those designations have
been weaponized against people who definitely deserve the full complement of.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Their rights absolutely, And there's several states where it's pretty
egregious where they've enacted things like red flag laws where
that they have actually resulted in deaths because you know,
the police will show up to try to take somebody's guns,
they'll do no knock grades, they'll you know, because the
state can legally then take your firearms, and it has
resulted in people dying in those encounters with law enforcement.
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That's just stuff that it shouldn't exist under the American constitution,
because you know, you can't just accuse someone of a
crime with no evidence and have the full weight of
the federal government or state government come down on that
person and remove their god given constitutionally protected right to
defend themselves.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Even rights that are not express in the Constitution should
not be taken away without due process. That is a
fundamental feature of structural due process. And when you have
red flag laws, you are guilty until proven innocent. You
lose your rights until you are able to come and
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make some showing that the elevator is still going to
the top floor. And if you would have told me
years ago, like pick any state that is the least
likely state in America to bring red flag laws to
the country, I would have picked the lone Star republic.
Folks in Texas are usually pretty pro Second Amendment. But
it was the United States Senator from Texas, John Cornyn
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and then one of the Congressmen from Texas, Tony Gonzalez,
who actually put red flag laws into this incentive structure
where now state and local governments get more money if
they do red flag laws. How possibly did this bad
idea come out of Texas?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
You absolutely nailed it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
So you know, you think that a Republican from Texas
would be about as conservative as you get.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
But unfortuate, we have plenty of squishes.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
We have people like the two biggest ones that I
can think of, especially regarding this issue, would be Tony
Gonzalez and John cornan over in the Senate I called.
I called John Corn and he's the Tony Gonzales of
the Senate because they both voted for the Bipartisans Safer
Communities Act, which you absolutely nailed it in your description,
did a lot of things. It was a Biden gun
control push and they signed onto it. And I cannot
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stomach a Texas Republican voting against gun rights. It's one
of the many reasons I got involved in trying to
take Tony Gonzalez's seat because we cannot. If you cannot
stand for the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Fourth Amendment,
these things that are critical to the way the American
Americans live protected by the Constitution, then you don't deserve
to represent the state.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You are out on the campaign trail talking to voters
beyond the Second Amendment, what concerns are you hearing about,
and how are voters reacting to the updraft we're hoping
to see in the Trump economy.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
There's a lot of issues, particularly here in District twenty three.
It is the biggest. It is the district with the biggest.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Border frontage with Mexico out of any other district in
the country. So the border issue is just a huge,
huge issue here. Thankfully, since Trump took office, things have
been getting better and it's been able to be seen
and felt everywhere here in the district. But there's still
a lot more work to do, and we need solid
conservatives to be representing this place, not people who are
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going to be kneecapping an actual conservative agenda.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Brandon Herrera, the AK guy, also a candidate for the
United States Congress. Thanks for coming on and defending the
rights of transsexuals with me. I don't know that that
was something that we necessarily had on our twenty twenty
five being go card, but we have done it while
the cowards in Washington and the Democratic Party remained silent.
So thanks for you know what.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
That's the thing to remember is that any tool that
can be wielded for you can be wielded against you.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
But I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Brother, Amen, Take care and coming up. Denesh Desuza has
a remarkable new film out that try to chronicle some
of the history around the conflict that we see playing
out with Israel and Gaza. And Palestine. It's a spicy interview.
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Then another sign appeared to heaven, an enormous red dragon
revelation twelve to three.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Once again an armed attack in the Middle East, but
this time it's different.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
October seventh was the Devil's Helmett.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
So who are the Jews? Who are the Palestine? And
whose land is it?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Really?
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Could the fate of the world of humanity itself be
somehow tied to this place.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The Bible speaks about this whole war as a dragon
representing the enemy attacking a woman representing Israel. We're approaching
the end of time.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
God will reveal himself more and more.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Dramatically speak back through the stones.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
The story that Daved in telling is that Israel is
a colonial project.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
The problem with that is the city of David.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
We are an inconvenient truth.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Are you aware of any significant archaeological finding that contradicts
the Bible?
Speaker 9 (13:44):
Nope.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Based on Jonathan Conn's number one international bestseller, The Dragon's.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Prophecy, Naesh Desuza's newest film is titled The Dragon's Prophecy
and explores the biblical history of the Israel Palestine conflict.
It aims to connect the ancient narrative with today's realities
and was filmed in turbulent areas. Desuza even described going
into a war zone to produce the movie. The documentary
goes into whether the Israel Palestine conflict represents a revival
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of an ancient biblical conflict. Desuza promises that the film
will shake the left and the right. It frames the
October seventh terrorist attacks in Israel as a modern echo
of ancient biblical conflicts, notably those between the Israelites and
the Philistines. It suggests that there's contemporary events that we
are seeing that are not isolated geopolitical incidents, but are
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unfolding according to an age old prophetic pattern. The narrative
goes further, suggesting we may be witnessing an end of
Time's prophecy coming to life, describing the conflict as part
of a larger spiritual struggle involving the destiny of nations
and humanity itself. Here to tell us about his new film,
The Dragon's Prophecy, author and filmmaker Denesh Desuza, Good to
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see you, Danesh. How will people feel about this Israel
Palestine conflict that they're seeing unfold today after they see
your film?
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Well, the conflict today is trapped, I would say, in
a certain type of discourse in which you have familiar
and really tired slogans on both sides, right from the left.
We keep hearing about colonialism. We hear chants of genocide,
we hear Israel is our only best friend. This film
steers clear of most of that kind of rhetoric. It
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tries to lift the debate. Now, first of all, it's
on the scene. I mean, Matt, I went into a
war zone to make this film, and I have interviews
on the Gaza border where you can hear bombs going off,
machine gun fire.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
It's all in the movie.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
I'm at the side of the Nova Festival, I interview
survivors of October seventh, and we have October seventh footage
that has never been seen before. In fact, we have
to put a little bit of a graphic warning, not
because we use the most sort of grouse footage, but
because we actually put you there so that you can't
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understand any of this, just like you can't understand, you know,
the the Japanese War in World War two without understanding
Pearl Harbor, right, that was the provocation that led to
everything else. And similarly, October seventh, I think is an
event of historic and I would say even to some
degree biblical significance.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And this is a bit of a new angle.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
In the movie, we sort of look at the clash
between the between Israel and the Palestinians through the lens
of some ancient conflicts between the Israelites and some of
their classic enemies right out of the Bible, people like
the Philistines, but also others.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Tell us about some of the folks you spoke with
and what message they wanted to convey.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
I have a one on one with Nedan Yahu, and
now I did forty five minutes with him, and I'm
going to do that as a special podcast. But as
about five minutes of him in the movie. But it's
really Nedan Yaho as you've never seen them before. I mean,
he's animated, he's sarcastic. He talks about his views of Jesus.
Normally Netanya, who is a very polished and clipped politician
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who sort of comes in with a rehearsed here's what
I'm going to say. But that's not the Nearanya who
you see in this film, the US ambassador of Mike Huckabee,
isn't it. Eric Stacklebeck, who's been an on the ground
reporter covering radical Islam for a long time. The scholar
and commentator Eric Metaxas talks about biblical archaeology. But we
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also take you to some of these archaeological sites. Why
because in the end, part of what this debate is
about is like whose land is it really? And I
think the Jews have the claim here to being, in
a sense the original inhabitants, the Aboriginal inhabitants, if you
want to say, of that land, because they were there
going back four thousand years.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, I wonder how that elevates the debate. If Native
Americans showed up in the United States and said we
can prove that we were here four thousand years ago.
Would that really elevate the debate about the rights of
Native Americans today with tax free cigarettes and casinos.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Well, what I would say a Matt is this, you
can get a country if you look at the borders
of countries around the world and how they got their land.
They got their land one of three ways. The first
ways by being there all the time, right by being
there first. How the Indians get India, Well they've been
there as far as we know, so original inhabitantcy is
one claim. The second claim is you get a country
through negotiation. Someone kind of negotiates it out, like the
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UN basically decides after nineteen forty eight, okay, we're going
to have Israel were Palestine, We're going to partition it.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And the third way is by conquest.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
So in the case of America, you have a dispute,
right because the Native Americans were here first, they have
the original inhabitants card. But then you could say that
they were having wars against each other, taking each other's land,
and the white man came and took it from them.
So conquest is another way to establish title. But here's
what I'm saying. The Jews have it all three ways.
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They were there first, they got it by negotiation, the
UN gave it to them, and they've won every war
nineteen forty eight, nineteen sixty seven, nineteen seventy three, and
now of course October seventh. So they are whatever check
box you want to use, Israel checks all the boxes.
In the United States, there's a kind of a conflict,
but in Israel, there's no conflict.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Would you say the same about Gaza.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Well, the Gaza situation is tricky because Gaza, interestingly, used
to be in ancient times the land of the Philistines. Now,
the Philistines were Greeks. I mean, they came from Cyprus,
they came from the Aegean, these were Europeans. So these
are not the inhabitants of Gaza today. There's a very
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weird sort of similarity of the name. But it comes
through a peculiarity of history, Matt, which is that the Romans,
when they conquered Jerusalem, the Jews had some uprisings. The
Romans got mad, and the Romans basically said, to annoy
the Jews, We're going to take the name of their
ancient enemies, the Philistines, and we're going to call this
land Palestine. So the Romans are the ones who inflicted
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on the Jews the name of their classic enemy, and
so there's a kind of strange sort of connection of
names between the Philistines and the Palestinians. But it's important
to realize that genetically those are not the same people.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Fast forwarding a few thousand years, in your discussions with
people about October seventh, did you glean any insights about
why there was such a reduced security presence on that day?
Speaker 8 (20:36):
The answer is a great sort of almost biblical proportion mystery.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
And by that what.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
I mean is Israel was truly, in a sense blinded
on October seventh, in a manner that I think not
just the Israelis but the rest of us really never expected.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Now, well, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
There were some who expected it, though, Danaeshiman. If you
look at some of the reports from the younger officers
at the IDF, they were regularly writing back that they
were concerned as they were observing some of these assault
tactics that Hamas was horribly planning. And I've been down
to the border, I've been Israel a number of times.
(21:18):
Oftentimes you can't go a few feet without an IDF
soldier with guns. And there is a theory, and I
don't know if it's true. I'm wondering if your film
explored it that Netsan Yahu was willing to accept a
greater degree of violence so that he could externalize his conflict,
That in the days before October seventh, he was dealing
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with intense political pressure. He had previously really green lit
a lot of the golf monarchies to fund Hamas, and
then after telling the golf monarchies to fund Hamas, then
after pulling back security, you have this horrible event that
no one would would want to have happened, and now
we're in this war with tens of thousands of people dead.
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Is that something people will learn about?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
I mean, it is true that even going back to
World War Two, there are many people who suspected, for instance,
that FDR was aware of Japanese militarism, was even aware
of the impending.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Attack on Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
There is a theory that says that this was fdr
sneaky tactic to get us.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Into the war.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
Look, you might remember that you know, for Nedan Yaho,
he was sitting on a knife edge politically, and you
have an Israeli left that is far more, i mean,
as ferocious as any left in America.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Let me put it this way.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
If there was a shred of truth in what you're saying,
and Netan Yaho, for example, in some cynical way provoked
October seventh, you would not see the phenomenon that you
see now, which is a remarkable phenomenon. The Israeli left
and the Israeli right united on the determination to eradicate Hamas.
In other words, the journalists in Israel, the left in
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Israel would have excavated this and absolutely eviscerated Nedan Yahoo.
I don't think his government could survive the truth of
this kind of a revelation. So I'm just going to
put it right now into the sort of unconfirmed theories.
I'm not closed to looking at it. I've just never
seen a shred of evidence for it.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, the strongest evidence I've seen are simply the reports
from the IDF service members, and that of course doesn't
implicate anybody's act of malice, but it certainly indicates that
there was awareness, and if that awareness was jettisoned in
some malicious way. I just think it's something that deserves review,
and I don't know that it's gotten a ton of review,
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and like to the point, to the point that while
there would be division in Israel, I think about after
nine to eleven, right, and even though some of the
actions of our government after nine to eleven were really foolish,
like the Patriot Act and decades of forever War, there
was a whole lot of unity around President Bush in
those days following, so that I don't know that that
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necessarily vindicated that someone was right all along or continues
to be right. Now. Where can folks check out the
film though, because I think it'll be it'll be an
excellent way to get historical context for a lot of
the things we're seeing on our TV screen today.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
So the film is called The Dragons Prophecyfilm dot com
and you can watch the trailer. By the way, the
film comes out right around October seventh. That's going to
be in theaters and also streaming and DVD. But if
I can just answer your point about nine to eleven,
you know, remember that before nine to eleven there were
a number of attacks Cobar towers, the attack on the
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US embassies, the attack on the USS coal So with
the benefit of hindsight, we could say, wait a minute,
we should have seen it coming.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Clinton should have seen it coming. Bush should have seen
it coming.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
But see, the truth of it is they didn't see
it coming, because it is actually only through the rear
view mirror that you can understand the g Those things
were not just mirror attacks way over there. They were
preludes to much more serious attack that was coming over here.
So I think that's what we're seeing here with regard
to net and Yahoo. We're saying in retrospect, yeah, there
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was a memo over here on an IDF officer over there.
But of course the point is when you're looking at
that stuff in front, it's very difficult to see what's
going to come.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
From densh Bush didn't like give Tsa the day off
on nine ten and nine to eleven. The reason those
things are distinct is because the security posture in southern
Israel changed before October seventh. It was diminished, and so
that change in status I think provokes more questions than
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the United States being caught flat footed on nine to eleven.
I mean, do you acknowledge that there was less security
in southern Israel on October seventh than previously.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I think that should I think that should be looked at.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Here's where I think the real focus of the debate is,
and it is on this issue of civilian casualties and
of genocide. And you know, here's how I think about it.
If a bunch of guys did a home invasion on me,
and they enter my house, they kill my wife, they
rap my daughter, they kill my kids. I grab a
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gun and chase after them, and in the act of
running away, the guy then jumps into a car, emerges
from it holding his own wife and his own kids,
and he goes, don't shoot, don't shoot, because after all,
you can't kill women and children. I say to myself, Look,
it's not me, it's you who are putting your women
and children in danger. I have every right to retaliate.
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In fact, given what you've done to me, there's almost
no limit to what I would be justified in doing
to you. And you are the one responsible for the
civilian casualties on both sides.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, certainly Hamas uses civilians, as you know, as shields,
and that's terrible. And I think that similarly, everyone can
lament the civilian death and the suffering as we kind
of point figures and fingers and see who's faulted. It
is Danash Desuza. I wish wish you good luck in
the film. I hope folks check it out and then
can approach these questions with great understanding. Thanks for being
(27:07):
on the show.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
It's my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
And coming up, the Department of Defense has a new name.
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Speaker 10 (29:38):
So, we won the First World War, we won the
Second World War, we won everything before that and in between,
and then we decided to go, wo, can we change
the name to Department of Defense?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So we're going Department of War. I think that's a
big one.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I'll be honest.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I think.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
It's shown tell in the Oval as President Trump signs
executive order to rename the Department of Defense the Department
of War, with Secretary Pete Hegseth taking the title Secretary
of War. It's part of the Warrior Ethos campaign, meant
to project readiness after the Revolutionary War, Congress created the
War Department in seventeen eighty nine to oversee the army
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and early naval operations. Its first head was Henry Knox.
It managed major conflicts like the War of eighteen twelve,
the Civil War, and both World Wars. After World War II,
reformers pushed to unify military command Under the National Security
Act of nineteen forty seven, The War Department became the
Department of the Army, and the Air Force emerged as
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its own branch. By nineteen forty nine, the establishment was
named the Department of Defense, placing the Army, Navy, and
Air Force under a single civilian Secretary of Defense. That's
the modern structure still in place today. Congress hasn't officially
approved of the name switch yet, which technically means it's
the Department of Defense, but with a war nickname. When
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your buddy Chad insists everyone call him Tank even though
he cries during Pixar movies, joining us now, Press Secretary
for the newly renamed Department of War Kingsley Wilson. So, Kingsley,
do you get a new business card now that says
Department of War? Does it come with a badge? What's
it like with the renaming.
Speaker 11 (31:19):
We're definitely not wasting any time here at the Department
of War. All around the building currently we are changing
our signs, we're changing titles. The Secretary of War's office
now says Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War on the front door.
We are so excited about this change, and it really
speaks to what we've been trying to do as a
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department since President Trump took office. We are putting war
fighting first. We're getting back to basics and the warrior ethos.
This change communicates lethality. We're not going to spend our
time endlessly defending people across the world. We are in
the business of fighting and winning wars. That is a
clear end state, that is a clear direction, and we
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couldn't be more proud to be a part of this
historic change.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Have you gotten any reaction from the fighting force? What
are you hearing from them?
Speaker 11 (32:10):
Absolutely, our warriors are so excited and inspired to serve
under a Secretary of War. We won wars when we
had a Secretary of War and a war Department. We're
going back to that legacy and we are getting back
to those founding principles that have for so long defined
what it means to be a man or woman in uniform.
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We're getting out of the ideology, the wokeism that has
infected our military, and we're focusing on what makes our
warriors great, and that is that they are fighters. Our
warriors are excited across the force, and we're excited with
them here at the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So I did find the name change interesting because President
Trump wants to end wars. He is the greatest force
for peace in the world today, and so I was
wondering how you see the President's stated desire to end
war interfacing with now wars on everything.
Speaker 11 (33:01):
It's a great question and I can definitely, you know,
call some fears there and tell you that this is
a president and a Secretary of War who do not
seek war. They seek peace. But in order to have peace,
we need strength. We need our allies to understand that
we are capable to strike at any time at any
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place of our choosing, and Secretary of War communicates that right,
words matter. We are no longer mincing words. We're being
clear about what we do as a department, and we're
not going to get bogged down across the world defending allies.
There's no end state there, right, there is an end
state with war. You either win or you lose. It's
been a while, unfortunately, since the United States has won
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a war. And under this president, we are going to
hopefully never have to get engaged in a war. But
if we do, we are one hundred percent going to
defend our people and win.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You talk about that lethality, and we've seen the Pentagon
put that on display through our brave service members and
of occasions. Right now, there's a lot of attention on
the Caribbean. I think we've seen some organizations of like
John Boats or pangas flying the Venezuelan flag down there.
What is the DoD's message now to the h I
(34:14):
guess loosely assembled Venezuelan Navy.
Speaker 11 (34:19):
Yeah, we are certainly very focused on that region. This
is a president who has prioritized the Western Hemisphere for
the first time in a long time. We have not
had a Department and a Pentagon that has been focused
on the threats at our own doorstep. We've been bogged
down in the Middle East and we've been distracted by ideology.
Now we're defending our borders, we're defending our waters, and
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we're defending our people from deadly drugs that are flowing
just off the shores of this country. This is a
president and a Secretary of War in Pete Hegsath who
are committed to keeping the American people safe. That starts
here at home and on our shores. And we are
going to ensure that people do not traffic and you know,
distribt drugs across the Western Hemisphere if it endangers American
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interests and American lives.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
We saw recruiting really decline with a lackluster mission, when
there wasn't vision, when there wasn't inspiration. It was really challenging.
And you've come on the program a number of times
to talk about how recruiting has really surged. I'm eager
for an update on that. But I wonder if you
think that it is being animated in any way by
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people seeing, Hey, it's here on our streets where our
military is assisting to keep people safe. It's here in
the Western hemisphere where we're getting drugs out of the
Gulf of America. Do you think those things are intertwined.
Speaker 11 (35:42):
Absolutely, it completely matters. I can tell you know. I've
been with the Secretary of War then the Secretary of
Defense to the border and talk to the troops who
are defending our sovereignty and protecting Americans down in El Paso, Texas,
and they are so proud to be doing that mission
because for decades we have defended other people's borders while
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our own was under siege. And it really is, I
think a source of pride for them to be able
to know that they're keeping their family members safe and
they're protecting their children, their grandparents. It means so much
more when it's close to home. So I think it's
going to absolutely reinvigorate and continue this incredible success that
we have seen with recruiting.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Well, we wish you well in that endeavor and as
they're changing all of the signs there at a Department
of War where we're sure it will be an inspirational moment.
Kingsley Wilson, the Press Secretary at the newly renamed Department
of War.
Speaker 11 (36:36):
Thanks for joining us, Thanks for having me, Matt.
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Speaker 1 (40:14):
New York City. They'll pick a mayor soon. And we've
been following the campaign and all of its hairpin turns.
What a wild race. Just yesterday we got political pundit
in chief President Trump weighing in. Trump acknowledge that Democrat
socialist Zoron Mamdani has acquired a lead and was likely
to win if there wasn't a consolidation of candidates. Jim
Walden was a minor player in the mayoral race. He
(40:36):
dropped out and asked others to do so to help
build some sort of unified resistance against Zoron, But that
seems unlikely in a race with egos larger than the Empire.
State building Republican Curtis lee Was says he's not dropping out.
Probably answered that question thousands of times. And current Mayor
Eric Adams allegedly met with President Trump's good friend and
(40:57):
envoy Steve Whitcoff about a federal job. Former New York
State Governor Andrew Cuomo might actually be the reasonable choice,
which is hard to even say. Brandon Strock is the
founder of the walk Away campaign. He's here to help
us figure it all out. So, Brandon, where are the
winds blowing in this New York mayoral race.
Speaker 12 (41:18):
Well, the wins continue to blow forward at this point.
Speaker 13 (41:22):
We did finally have a candidate drop out, Jim Walden,
but just a few weeks ago we had another one enter.
So we're kind of back where we started about three
weeks ago or so. But you know, it's looking at
this point like our top contender against Mom Donnie is
of course Andrew Cuomo, followed by Curtis Leewa.
Speaker 12 (41:40):
And then at mayor Adams.
Speaker 13 (41:43):
Really these are the three candidates that are pulling at
this point with any you know, sort of percentage that
actually makes a difference.
Speaker 12 (41:51):
And then Joseph Fernandez entered the race recently.
Speaker 13 (41:54):
So the last I heard, Trump came out today and
said he's pushing for two to drop out and he
wants it to be a one against one. I still
believe that to be the best scenario we could possibly
be looking at, but we really can't control these things.
The Sliwa and Adams have said they have no intention
of dropping out.
Speaker 12 (42:11):
So at this point, it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
You have made a political career explaining to people how
they have to vote differently than they have previously. There's
the organizing principle of the walk Away campaign. You might
have voted Democrat, that's against your interests. Come vote Republican.
So now you have to possibly convince Republicans to vote
for a Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
How do you do that? What is the.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Pitch like when you have to explain to some maga
hat wearing Republican that the best chance to not be
governed by socialism is to vote for someone who might
have killed their grandmother.
Speaker 13 (42:49):
Well, it's not an easy sell, I can assure you
of that. But I think that the good news is
that most people recognize that the alternative is really no
alternative at all. You know, I mean the threat that
zoron Mom Donnie poses, I think for the city, and
you know the way he's pulling right now. I mean,
it's it's a very real and legitimate threat. And so
(43:10):
I think people recognize. I don't think anyone's probably going
to get exactly the candidate that they want or that
they're looking for. I mean, most Republicans that I know,
diehard Republicans, wish that we had some other options or alternatives.
Speaker 12 (43:23):
I know a lot of people love Curtis Lee.
Speaker 13 (43:25):
Well, I think he's a great guy, and you know,
certainly no disrespect to Curtis whatsoever. But I think, you know,
a lot of people are feeling like whether you're more
on the kind of moderate centric side, or if you're
you know, a.
Speaker 12 (43:38):
Die hard right winger.
Speaker 13 (43:39):
I don't know that anyone's going to get their their
dream candidate in this situation.
Speaker 12 (43:43):
So the I think the.
Speaker 13 (43:45):
Pitch in the cell is really, look, do you want
to have a socialist Do you want to live under
communist rule in New York City?
Speaker 12 (43:52):
You know?
Speaker 13 (43:52):
Do you want to have these insane policies that are
going to make us less safe, less prosperous, are going
to drive out wealthy people, are going to drive out corporations,
are going to destroy jobs, are going to destroy the
housing market, are going to have people living in squalor
are going to lead to.
Speaker 12 (44:07):
Empty food shelves.
Speaker 13 (44:09):
I mean, it's the alternatives, it's you know, this isn't
just about like left versus right. This is really about
common sense versus leftist extremism. And I think that most
people realize they're going to have to probably hold their
nose and vote for a candidate who is not their
favorite or ideal, but at least they're not a communist at.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
This stage of the game, it sounds like you're telling
people that that candidate needs to be former Governor Cuomo,
even though it's probably hard to even say those words
to the people of New York who suffered under his
leadership when you're trying to persuade maybe that center left
voter to consider Cuomo or another candidate. Is there a particular,
like single policy of Mom Donnie that you've pointed out
(44:50):
that's been uniquely effective at getting maybe those folks in
center left to not go along with the march to socialism.
Speaker 13 (44:58):
Well, so, you know, we've been doing these events all
over the city. In addition doing rallies and things like that,
we're also doing these like live street debates, like open
mic street debates, and so we've had a lot of
Mom Donnie supporters approaching the microphone and either asking us
questions or debating us, and you know, things like that.
And what we're finding is overwhelmingly it's it's really young
people i'd say twenty six, twenty seven or younger, and
(45:20):
usually more in the realm of like twenty one twenty
two years old, you know, like college age kids, and
the issues that seem to be the most important to
them are Israel and Gaza and what else. It's really
Israel and Gaza and the does.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
The New York mayor play a key role in resolving
territorial disputes in the Middle East?
Speaker 12 (45:42):
This is what this is.
Speaker 13 (45:43):
The conversation that we've been trying to have with these
guys is like, like, guys, listen, we've got a lot
of problems right here in the United States of America.
Like it's great that you feel like you have to
dedicate all of your time, energy, and your passion towards
what's going on in the Middle East. But you know,
if you want to look, you know what's happening to
children who are starving, and you know people who are
(46:04):
living in terrible conditions. That's happening right here in New
York City. It's happening right here in America. So why
don't we take care of the problems that we have
right here in our own backyard before we start looking
to what's.
Speaker 12 (46:14):
Going on in the Middle East.
Speaker 13 (46:16):
But uh, the other issues I think that probably we
have to deal with a lot when we're talking to
them are issues like crime, safety And what I keep
trying to tell these young people too, is you know,
you may think that you're you know, you're being told that,
you know, you can have free college, free health care,
you know, all of the free groceries, free transportation, all
these things. It's actually, you know, this young generation gen
(46:38):
Z who's gonna end up financially shouldering the burden for
a lot of these false promises and the false marketing
of Zoran Mamdani because you know, obviously the taxpayers are
going to have to pay for all this, but it's
going to drive us into debt, and then somebody's gonna
have to pay for this debt, and the taxpayers are
going to have to pay for this. When you start
explaining to people that you know, you're it's like having
a credit card. You know, you might feel like you're
(46:59):
running out getting something for free today, but it's going
to cost you ten times into the future. So I
think when we started explaining this to them, we did
an event recently in Washington Square Park and we had
at least five, six, seven young people in their early
twenties asking us questions, and by the time we got done,
they actually all of them except for one said to us,
you know, thank you, you've really educated me. Here now
(47:20):
I'm thinking differently about this. I'm going to have to
put some more thought into this. So I think we
are actually having some success waking some of these people up.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
Well, we did see reports that President Trump's friends were
talking with Eric Adams. Some have surmised there might have
been a discussion about an opportunity to join the Trump administration.
If Eric Adams were out of the race and Slee
was stayed in, do you think that would be enough.
Do you think that would be enough consolidation of vote
potentially behind Cuomo to defeat Mom Donnie.
Speaker 13 (47:50):
Well, again, you know, obviously the best possible scenario is
a one against one situation.
Speaker 12 (47:54):
But here's the math.
Speaker 13 (47:56):
I mean, we have four million, seven hundred thousand registers
voters in New York City. We typically have a pretty
low turnout for mayoral election, somewhere twenty one twenty two percent,
So as it is right now, I think we'd have
to have something like forty two percent voter turnout if
nobody drops out of the race.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
I believe that.
Speaker 13 (48:13):
I believe Momdni is probably going to get about five
hundred thousand votes in the primary. He got something like
four hundred and sixty five thousand. We have this stupid
ranked choice voting which pushed him over the top. He
was able to get like five hundred and fifty thousand
votes or something like that in the end with the
ranked choice voting. But I don't think that that many
people beyond the primary are going to turn out for him. I'm,
(48:34):
you know, extending him the credit to say, I think
he might get a you know, five hundred thousand votes
or so, but yeah, I mean, the best possible scenario
is going to be a one against one because you know,
typically I don't know if we're going to see two
million New York registered voters come out in this election,
but we would need to see that, I think in
order for these guys to be able to take him.
Speaker 8 (48:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
Well, we're glad you're out there on the trail. Stay safe,
keep organ and folks and getting the truth of in
between their ears every opportunity you can. Brandon Strock, founder
of the Walkaway Campaign, Thanks for being here, Thanks Matt,
and coming up, we will cover the death of a
legend in fashion in culture. It's quite something and we'll
chat about it with Simona Papadopolis after quick break.
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Speaker 1 (51:29):
Ever, tonight we pause to reflect on the passing of
a true visionary whose threads wove through the fabric of
our world in profound ways. Giorgio Armani, the iconic Italian
fashion designer, died yesterday at the age of ninety one.
(51:50):
He leaves a legacy that transcends runways and red carpets.
He started his fashion business with just ten thousand dollars
after having tried his hand at medicine. His style ex
soft power. It made suits feel like a second skin
for men for women. He pioneered the power suit. He
also commented at times on politics, and even referred to
the current Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Maloney as quote a
(52:14):
woman with balls. He pushed for AIDS research and more
sustainable fashion. Harmani was more than a designer, He was
a cultural architect. Joining us now co host of the
Global view show Simona Papadopolis, Simona, how are your friends
in Italy reacting to the passing of Georgia Our Money?
Speaker 9 (52:32):
Hi, Matt, Thanks for having me well here in Italy
where I am right now. The passing Georgia money is
lead as something deeply personal because Georgia money, and in
many ways it's not simply a fashional and successful fashion
designer is a embodiment of Italian culture, Italian lifestyle, and
Italian ultimate concept of elegance, which he defined as something
(52:56):
that lead you to be remembered rather than noticed. Is
the king of fashion in a way that emphasized simplicity
yet past selectivity and a very special approach to fashion
which is stripped out of all excesses and all loud
(53:17):
logos and everything that is so show off. So everything
that's really sober is what our Money interprets as elegance.
Timeless elegance that also marked the many Olivewood movies, the
one that made him famous internationally with the Richard Gere
(53:37):
American Gigolo where it suit for the first time appeared
and to get to dress all the major Hollywood stars,
royals so forth. For Italy today is very very Yes,
there was a very sad day and is constantly remembered
as not only the king of fashion but the quintessential
icon of Italian style.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
There is something to the simple elegance of our money
style that projected such power in both men's clothing and
in women's clothing, with the power suit, with the way
that he used simple cuts and simple colors for a
dramatic presentation. Do you see just the legacy of our
(54:21):
money impacting other designers other features of fashion and culture.
Speaker 9 (54:27):
Well, I believe that it really redefined what class means
in the fashion world, and many other designers have followed
this lead, including Valentino, most of them even French designer
like the Ore. Everything is really delivering the same message.
(54:47):
Be simple, be essential, but be class c and feature
style which is there to represent your personality. There is
a power, as you said, into simplicity, but of course
not playing simplicity, but seems simpletely done of luxurious fabrics
(55:09):
and incredibly precise work. Everything screams quality. Everything screams powerful
taste for beauty and h and luxury interpreted as quality,
not as showing off something really really loud. So many
(55:31):
other designers don't follow this this trend. Of course, for
for our Money was not important to be trendy. It
was important to be timeless. And that's that's a getting
of his style as well.
Speaker 1 (55:42):
It does seem like beauty is having a bit of
a comeback here in the United States. After COVID there
was such drabness and the styles all turned into like
hoofs and bell sleeves, and beauty is on a comeback
in the United States. Is it the same in Europe?
Speaker 9 (55:59):
Well, well, in Italy in particular.
Speaker 5 (56:03):
You remember him and during.
Speaker 9 (56:05):
COVID, the people were wearing designer pajamas, seer card Money
pajamas were very much in fashioned. This is really Italian obsession.
So it doesn't it doesn't really count. But I think
it's a trend all over the world to come back
to more sophisticated appearance. Where for sophistication, I mean water
(56:26):
Money really embodied with his designs and this I said,
it's really much about lifestyle. It was it was a
messenger of lifestyle, and I think this is what Italy
exported at its best abroad as well as the United
States after COVID, where people started again to leave, leave
in their dresses, living in their in their you know,
(56:46):
their social life, and I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (56:49):
Well, we always appreciate you coming and raising the class
of the Mad Gate Show. Simona Papadopolis, Thank you as
always for being on.
Speaker 9 (56:57):
Thank you so much for having me Nette, Thank.
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