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August 19, 2024 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Man, look at the size of the crowd that is,
uh that is demonstrating outside the DNC.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Look at that.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
That's that's a beautiful gathering of jew haters right there.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I mean, are you kidding me? I mean that is
that is enormous. I thought walls didn't work. Weren't we
under that impression?

Speaker 4 (00:20):
Now?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Remember what walls don't work? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Is that why they build a wall around the DNC.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I mean, come on, you know when you're watching this
whole thing and look, I hope nothing.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I don't want anything to erupt there or what have you.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
But I will say, as far as demonstrations go, I
am happy that it's happening outside.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Of their convention. I'm gonna say it.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, No, I believe there will be skirmishes between cops
and protesters, especially at night while the main speakers are
going on. We will see videos of protesters and cops
getting into it.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
You know. But this is interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
How you've got a bunch of basically Kamala the communist,
with people who are even further left than her sitting
out there, you know, protesting against Israel and you know,
rooting for rooting for Hamas.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's it's it's.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
It's remarkable just how mentally deranged the left has become.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
She is a former State Department spokeswoman and founder of
Polaris National Security. Morgan Ortegas is joining us now. Morgan,
welcome to the Mark Blazer Show.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
How are you hey, Thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I'm great, hey, Thank you very much for joining us.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I got to ask you first and foremost, what was
it like being part of Trump the Trump administration? I mean,
what what I mean? How did how was that? I mean,
how did that come about? That was awesome?

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Well, yeah, it was absolutely amazing. You know, President Trump
and then Secretary of State like Pompeo. They really gave
me my dream job right to be able to represent
the United States of America on the world stage and
be the faith of America first foreign policy. It was exhausting.
It was twenty four to seven for two years, seven

(02:15):
days a week, and it was it was nutty. There
was no time to sleep. Somehow, I birthed a child
two days after the election during COVID and twenty twenty,
so it was pretty it was pretty nutty. But I mean,
but seriously, to get to stand in front of the
world and defend our policies and stand behind our president.
It was easy for me to do because I was

(02:36):
defending things like taking out customs Sulimani the world's are
just terrorist, and defending things like the Abraham Accords, you know,
peace deals and funny they kept saying that we were
going to bring about World War three. We brought about
the first peace deals between Israel and Arab States and
twenty six years and look with this administration of products
war in chaos and theater after theater, you have to also.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Be laughing Morgan when you see them saying this stuff
about you know, Trump and him slowing down and that
he's you know, having trouble doing this and what was it.
It was not too long ago one of the rallies,
and it's all starting to kind of run together for me.
But you know, he stopped for twenty one seconds.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
He froz. Now somebody in the.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Audience went down that was there, and he was waiting
to make sure that they got help. Was that, you know,
it's just the misinformation from the mainstream media constantly happening
with the Trump administration and everything that anything that has
to do with him and you're seeing the attacks over
and over and over. You had a front row seat
for all of that. But like you were saying, it

(03:37):
was like it was just tireless. And I was even
saying this, Don Junior has been on with me before,
and I'm like, I don't know how your dad continues
to go the way he goes. I mean, this is
a guy and you hear him say it, You'll hear
him say I had a great life.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I had all these things working for me.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
And I even said to him, like, why does he
I mean, look at what he is dealing with, not
only and it just got worse while he was present,
of course, and then it just picked up steam again
as we're headed towards November fifth. But that's amazing and
I'm not at all surprised to hear that. It was
just NonStop and finally you were like, Okay, I've had enough.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
I bet right, it's pretty bad. I'm maternity. People are
asking me like how are you doing. I'm like this
soeks like a break man. I'll take maternity lead every day.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
So yeah, I mean, gosh, when you look at it,
I was looking at your ex or Twitter from a
couple of days ago and today, of course you would
mark today was the anniversary which was on the fifteenth
of this this this withdrawal, this botched withdrawal from Afghanistan
three years and this disaster that happened and the thirteen
service members that died because of this administration's failed policies

(04:48):
and all of that. When you watch all of this
stuff now morgan playing out the way they're trying to
frame everything. I mean, it is the spin on top
of the spin, spin after spin. They cannot tell the
truth and get ahead. They have to lie constantly. But
your thoughts on that, I mean, what a what an
awful day in American history?

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah? It was. I mean just one of the worst
things that we've seen in modern American history. I it's
really what motivated me to sort of get back in
the fight. You know, after two years in the Trump administration.
I was just happens for anybody when you're in this
kind of role, right, You're just sort of exhausted. I
had a new baby, I was working on a new company,

(05:29):
you know, and just ready to take some time off.
And then you know, Kamo falls and I'm watching these
poor ascans, you know, hold on to our planes fall
to their death, you know, thinking maybe if I hold
on that I would be able to get to America
and get out of this place that was just ascending
into chaos. And not only that, I was also simultaneously

(05:49):
working to get friends out. And I was even infuriated.
Some people in the media that I knew were coming
to me saying, hey, you know, how get our people out?
And I was like, wait a minute, why don't you
go talk to the administration. You just held their water
for the campaign and got them elected, so why don't
you go to talk to your administration buddies about getting
friends out? So the listen. I obviously did everything that

(06:10):
I could to get people out of I had friends
that I had worked with the US embassy whose were
Afghan friends that you know, the Taliban would absolutely have
taken them out had they known that these people, you know,
where they were, had we not gotten them out, they
would have absolutely been targeted. And sadly, what we know
three years later, we know that we never got a
full accounting of how many Americans were left behind. Never

(06:32):
the administration has never given us that number. We don't
have a full accounting of how many are allies we
left behind. I just saw reports this week of a
judge who was an Afghan judge who was hunted down
and killed by the Taliban. We don't have a fullycounting
of how much how much military equipment that we left
behind either. And also, you know, we were told that

(06:52):
President of IIDAM withdraw the troops from Afghanistan and that
it would not be a safe haven for terrorist groups
to attack America. What we actually know is that now
isis Corizon, isus K, the ones that perpetrated the attacks
that killed thirteen of America's best young men and women
on the way out. Well we know isis K now
has a foothold in every single province in Afghanistan. Of course,

(07:15):
major drawbacks for women and girls, especially young girls who
can no longer go to school and have seen the
freedom that they thought they once knew in that country
taken away. But you know, mostly basically everything that we
promised the American people were going to do, which is
that we're not going to leave you behind us as
an American, that we're not going to allow these places
to be a safe haven from which terrorists can plan

(07:38):
attacks against America. All of that stuff has not proven true,
by the way, where the over the horizon strikes that
we were promised that would happen in Afghanistan. And finally,
you know, I can keep going, but I would say
finally nobody was held accountable. Nobody was fired. No one
even had the dignity to resign. And that's why you've
seen President Biden and Kamala Harris's National Secure make mistake

(08:01):
after mistake, war after war, chaos after chaos, because nobody
was nobody's al responsible, they keep failing forward.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, that's that has been a key. Uh, that's that's
part of this administration. Nobody You nailed it right there.
It doesn't matter where we go in their current administration,
nobody is held accountable. Including what happened recently is they
tried to assassinate President Trump. I mean we when we
saw something like that take place, and then you know,

(08:28):
you just everybody keeps passing the buck. I mean, there's
all kinds of different ways to slice that up. But
over the weekend, and uh it was in Pennsylvania and
Kamala I mean I I I gotta get your take
too on you know what they what what they are doing.
As far as she ends up being the top of
the ticket because I got to tell you, Morgan, I

(08:50):
didn't think I did not think she was going to
get elevated to this position.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
And we saw a couple of.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Their key people dragging on whether they were going to
endorse her or not, and to listen to her start talking,
Like over the weekend, she's lecturing this crowd in Pennsylvania
about democracy. I don't I'm sure you heard this, but
check this out.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
That's what our election is about. Our election is about
understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in
terms of what we stand for around the globe as
a democracy.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
As a democracy, we.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
Know there's a duality to the nature of democracy. On
the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact what
it does for its people to protect and defend their rights,
their liberty, and their freedom, you know, incredibly strong and

(09:49):
incredibly fragile.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
This makes me feel like I'm at a coffeehouse watching
a dramatic mounting of like some poetry or something. It
is so bizarre. Her delivery on the well, and look,
we're going to get more of this. I just can't believe.
I feel like they're they're holding her, They're kind of
doing the basement thing with her and just kind of
wait until they can get a slew of these, you know,

(10:12):
mail in voting or the early voting, if you will,
almost trying to steal some of these, because we both
know and everybody that's listening knows that if she starts
going unscripted, we're going to get a whole lot of this.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's going to make even less sense.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
I think.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
Listen, what the Trump campaign has to deal with is
what are the realities? The realities are everything that you
just said that the media is going to cover for her.
We've seen that constantly. They'll cover for They did it
for Biden in twenty twenty when you're in the basement campaign,
and they'll do it for her this time. Anything in
order to avoid anything, in order to stop Donald Trump, right,

(10:48):
and they don't care who it is. So you know
that's the hand that you're going to be dealt with.
You also know that she's not going to be held
accountable by the media. They're not you know, they're not
going to ask her tough questions and like you said,
she's just going to try to run out the clock.
The one thing that I would caution everybody. I've gone
back and looked at her debate with Pence in twenty twenty.

(11:09):
It wasn't that bad. Actually, I think there was times
that she was good, and so I think that, you know,
we have to be on our a game for the
debate where she where she's not good. Is the clip
that you just played to me, I don't Maybe that's
how they speak in California. I don't know. I don't
get it. I mean, you host a radio show. I
host a radio show. It's not how the people that

(11:30):
I surround myself with talk. Maybe that's like a California thing.
I don't know. It certainly is the world's a word salad.
But what we have to deal with is here's the
realities on the ground. The realities is the media is good.
The reality is the media is going to give her
the past. The reality is they will set the bar
so low for her in a debate that anything that
constitutes her you know, breathing and completing sentences will they

(11:54):
will say is a win for her. You know. The
reality is they're not going to hold her accountable. She's
not going to have to do much more, maybe than
one or two debates. So this is what we have
to contend with, so we have to have a good
ground game. But most important for people like me, I'm
not a part of a campaign. I'm not necessarily a
political person. I'm a foreign policy person, and I can

(12:14):
tell you from a foreign policy perspective, if you think
the past four years have been good on the world stage,
then you should absolutely vote for her. But if like me,
you are concerned about war, new wars, new catastrophes, Americans dead,
and almost every theater, a sense that there is nobody
in control, a sense that our enemies do not fear us.

(12:36):
If that's what you have since, as have I over
the past four years, then I would say to you,
vote for Kamala Harris while only inflame those tensions around
the world. It will make things worse, not better.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Former Stage Department spokeswoman and founder of Polaris National Security
Morgan or Tegas Morgan, it's great of you to join us.
Thank you very much for jumping on today and continued
success to you.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Thank you so much. Thank you
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