March 16, 2023 • 30 mins
Lt Col Dan Rooney, an Air Force fighter pilot, author of Fly Into the Wind, and founder of Folds of honor and Tyler Merrit, CEO of Nine Line Apparel, and friend of this program, talks about the Russian Jet and American drone, what the Biden administration is saying happened, and explains what it looks like to him - as a point of note, Tyler flew Apache gunships and then transitioned to MH60 Blackhawks for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and was the air mission commander for SOAR, the Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
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you want to be a part of the program. Even
NBC News is acknowledging the obvious that this clearly was
the shooting down of our drome was on purpose. We
have Centator Marco Rubio saying the following let me, well,
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let me just play it for you. Well, there's been
no additional briefings from what's been made available publicly. But
I think a couple of things they are important here.
At The first is this, this was a deliberate effort.
This wasn't some accident, it wasn't some harassment effort that
you know, went awry. That this was a design. They
basically decided we are going to begin to shoot down
US assets, you know, whatever's flying in what they call
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restricted airspace. It's over international waters, international airspace, but they
declare a restriction over it for whatever reason, they want
to conduct military operation, and they're saying anything that flies
and they we're going to shoot it down. So this
is a direct test of the Biden administration to trying
to see what the limits are, and it's a message
of their displeasure. A bit more important, I think it's
a test to see if we'll respond to it, it
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will continue to fly, or if this causes us not
to fly in that area anymore. I agree with the
assessment of Marco Rubio, and just like the spy balloon
of the Communist Chinese, Joe Biden did nothing and don't
think they're not related. They are related because Vladimir watched
the entire incident. You know, the spy balloon flies over
Alaskan airspace, all over the rest of Alaska, down the
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coast to Canada, into Idaho, over to Montana, right over
our ICBM missile sites are silos down to Kansas, Missouri,
up to Kentucky, and then off the coast of Carolina.
And then they finally shoot it down after China got
all the intel they could ever want, need or desire.
And then as a result of the public reaction to
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their inaction, they shoot down three other still to this
day unidentified flying objects with four hundred thousand dollars sidewinder missiles.
But they don't know what they shot down. Turns out
that it might be a balloon, club balloon, like one
hundred and fifteen dollars balloon that they shot down with
a four hundred thousand dollars missile. It's unbelievable. Now, you've
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got to remember, the first instinct is not only to
blame Trump. The first instinct was to say, oh, no, no, no,
this is probably unintentional. If it's probably the result of
profound incompetence on the part of one of the Russian pilots.
Let me see profound incompetence when they not once but
twice dumped fuel in mid air on our drone. That
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was that was what profound incompetence. Actually, that sounds like
a mastery of a fighter jet pilot. I don't know
many fighter jet pilots that are that are probably or
profoundly incompetent. You're not gonna put somebody in a you know,
multi multi hundred plus million dollars jet and they're not
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properly prepared to fly it. They did it once, they
did it twice, and then they took this sucker out
of the air, and now we have, you know, the
situation that we have. Now the question comes to this,
though nothing happened to the communist Chinese, and nothing's gonna
happen here as it relates to Russia with Joe Biden,
you know, and I know a lot of people you
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know might say, see this is all because of the
war in k with Ukraine. All right, let me just
stop everybody here. Joe Biden doesn't do anything right. Joe
Biden's been wrong on every foreign policy issue for the
past forty years. Former Secretary of defense. Kate said that, however, however,
when the question is is when an innocent sovereign country
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is invaded and there is an assault, a death and
destruction and the targeting of innocent human beings and apartment
buildings and neighborhood, etc. Like we see Vladimir Putin as
unleashed in Ukraine. Now, what Joe Biden should have done.
If the United States, I said from the beginning they
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want to help financially, they can, but he should have
secured the financing in Europe because it's in their backyard.
He should have gotten NATO involvement, which he didn't do.
And all they did is pony up more money billions, billions, billions, billions,
and the Europe is watching and saying, well, why should
we contribute? Let the US pay for this. No. And
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the saddest part of all of it is, if you're
ever going to fight a war, if you're ever going
to contribute to a war being fought, you need to
fight to win it quickly. The way Donald Trump knocked
out the Caliphate, Well, Hannity, what if he is as
a tactical nuke, Well, there are Western countries that have
tactical nukes too, and guess what. That's what we called
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in the Reagan years, mutually your short destruction. You know
they were raider Reagan. Don't forget what Reagan did. Remember
if Reagan ordered to strike on Tripoli and Bengalazi retaliation
for a number of attacks from Libya, including the US
aircraft and the West Berlin nightclub bombing. One US servicemen
died and another fifty were injured. And you know where
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that missile went. That strike killed Kaddafi's fifteen month old
adopt a daughter and injured two of his sons. Guess what,
Kaddafi didn't do it again. And for all these people
out there saying we shouldn't should if you take out
one of our drones, We're gonna take out at least
five of yours. That's the message. There's got to be consequences.
Somebody comes up and hits me in the face, I
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am going to hit them till they can't hit me again,
period and a sentence. You know these people that you know, well,
we shouldn't do anything. What do you mean we shouldn't
do anything? That weekness will encourage more of this. So
I believe it's called peace through strength, It's not peace
through appeasement. It's not peace through you know, lying and
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making excuses for aggression. It's unbelievable. Anyway, eight hundred and
nine for one, Shawn our number if you want to
be a part of the program here to get reaction.
Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney is with US Air Force fighter pilot,
author of Fly Into the Wind and founder of Folds
of Honor. Our friend Tyler merrit is back CEO of
nine Line Apparel. Tyler, am I allowed to mention at
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an effort that you made for somebody that I know
pretty well that I work with. Absolutely, Tyler Merritt and
his group of people he's with Nine Line Apparel had
a big, big part to play in rescuing not only
Benjamin Hall, my friend and colleague from Fox, but many
other people. I mean, you have these special ops guys
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that are retired. They're going in there at their own
expense in many cases, and they're rescuing people Americans in particular,
like they did in Afghanistan and bringing them home. And
you're a hero for doing that, Tyler. I appreciate all
that you've been doing and continue to do well well.
I appreciate that, Sean, and to be clear. You know,
the Aarroycovery group. Those are the guys out there rescuing
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an orphans Stoff and they had Russians from taking out
indifferent lights. And there's other groups out there. An individual
by the name of c. Spray code name that was
actually out there rescuing those individuals. You know, I played
a small part in all these things. I was booting
the ground February, Parch, April, May all the way through June,
just to see what was actually going on. Because news
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is not news anymore. As you and I have talked
many times, the sensationalism, So you have to get on
the ground and see what's actually happening or else You're
just at my right in my characterization that this is
a mass targeting of civilians by Vladimir Putin and that
there's been a you know, death and destruction at a
level that nobody wants to show. Yeah, the level of
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evil between the Chinese regime and the Russian regime, which
is absolutely interconnected, is similar to that what we saw
in the nineteen four do you see You know, these
individuals they do not have an idea of limited warfare.
Everything is on the table, but they play a different
game where we're being very out there on what we're doing.
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You know, they're very clandestine, and we should probably look
at that playbook again because we've already laid our hands.
We put our card on the table. President Biden. I
don't know who's advising him, but where we are right
now is not where we should be. Let me bring
in Colonel Dan Rooney. Colonel you're an Air Force pilot.
Let me ask you is it Do you believe this
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incident with our drone and Russia was unintentional? Do you
believe that this was the result of profound incompetence on
the part of Russian pilots or do you agree with
me that these Russian pilots probably on the orders of
Vladimir Putin directly. I don't think they do it independently.
That it is a pretty skillful maneuver to actually dump
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fuel on a drone not once but twice and then
clip its wing and send it, you know, spiraling down
to the ground. Yes, so it's great to be with you,
and you know I'm always on your side. To start,
I've watched the footage a lot, and so it was
a combat fighter pilot for twenty two years. The dumping
fuel was obviously an aggressive act, but the way he
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actually hits the drone, he's belly up in his fighter jet,
and that is like cardinal rule number one. You would
never do it on a what's called to rejoin in
a fighter jet because you don't have a visual So
I think it may be a combination of both of
those things that if you were going to knock this
thing out of the air with your airplane, which is
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not a great tactic, but if you were going to
do that, you would want to have visibility on where
you're actually going to clip that reaper. And in this case,
he goes belly up and it looks like he tries
to bail out of it, but he is, you know, incompetent.
These Russian guys, you can watch the work they're doing
in Ukraine. They have great airplanes. This, you know, the
SiO twenty seven, the sukoi is actually stands for the legend.
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So this pilot that hit the drone will be a
legend forever. Maybe not the kind you want to be,
but it's just really hard to tell watching that footage,
but the fact that they were there right, it's guilt
by association It's like when your model is that, but
you have to admit, and you are admitting that there's
no way that the two fuel dumps were not intentional.
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That was intentional, absolutely, absolutely. And the other thing too,
they they don't operate because they don't have decentralized execution
where you'd send fighter pilots out there and what's called
close control, so they are getting controlled by the mother
ship whoever it is putin in the regime. They're not
acting on their own. So they were there, it was hostile,
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and whether the intent was to take it out of
the air with a fuel dumper accidentally run into it,
the realities are it was knocked out. And I'm with you.
Parody in the world stage breaths chaos, and what we
have right now is parody. We're not you know, we're
not strong, and that opens the gates to stuff in Ukraine,
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anally in Taiwan. All of these issues come from weakness
as a country and how we integrate or you know,
react to the world. Well, now, Russia, by the way,
is warning the United States to stop their hostile flights
over the Black Sea, even though this was over international waters.
That's not even an issue in dispute, and there's been
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a ratcheting up of rhetoric, as I would expect after
an incident like this. Quick break more with Lieutenant Colonel
Dan Rooney on the other side and Tyler Merritt. All right,
we continue with Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney and Tyler Merrit.
He's the CEO of nine Line Apparel. The question is
is how should the US respond now? One one development
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that has happened. Finally, it appears Joe Biden has stopped
every step of the way Tyler, the Polish government from
giving MiG fighter jets to Zelenski. And I'm like, why
would you ever? Why would you deny Zelensky if you
want them to win the war? Parody in the skies?
Why would you give dominance of the air to Vladimir Putin?
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Which makes no sense to me? Yeah, well, the whole
thing makes no sense. And since being on the ground
and working with both governmental and non governmental organizations on
both sides of the Aisle, I could say that we
messed this up in the very beginning. We washed our
ends of Ukrainians that they're not our partner. At the beginning,
we left civilians a bunch of no offense to myself
included you know, washed up sitcom guys and al Bundy's
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who should not be in the Super Bowl, to essentially
help with finding communication methods, finding clandest ways to get
weapon systems, get people out. And we kind of left
that out there until we started to see the will
of the people. The will of the Ukrainians is much
different than the conscripted will of the Russians and the
people in Belarus. I met those individuals, they listened to
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Channel one and they start to see that Russia is
nothing but propaganda. So from the very very beginning, we
did not help our clandest science sources. We abandoned them, right.
We left the Fox recorders to die and rely on
civilians to go and rescue them. We showed that we
had no ability to help, kind of behind the scenes
like we've done many times, and it's dead. Now we're
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overtly saying, hey, this is not a un allied but
we're going to give billions of dollars of weapons, of
weapons of high matters, of two missile systems, and we're
just going to deny the F sixteen. So you're still
getting military aid. And then at the same time, we're
still in China as of recently, less than a month ago.
If you provide military aid, you know there will be consequences. Well,
guess what China's been providing non lethal aids in the beginning.
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They're going to provide continue to provide non lethal and
I would argue it's still almost lethal when you're providing
telegus options and the ability to attract people. If I
were president, I wouldn't have put us in this position,
but I would put a hold on any more money's
going to Ukraine. And Joe Biden needs to convene, Well,
if we had a real president, it needs to convene
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a meeting with every European country and he needs to
hand each leader piece of paper with a financial figure
on it what their contribution needs to be. And unless
they meet that contribution, unless they do their part, it's
their backyard. The United States, I have look, support for
this conflict is diminishing every day, and frankly, and if
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you're not going to fight the war to win it,
then don't fight. It just gives you might as well
just hand over Ukraine to putin because that's what you're
gonna do. Either you're in it, to win it, and
they're going to pay for it themselves, or and will
help with the money, or we're getting out. That's it.
That's what we did with President push in the aggression
against a presidents who's seen right. That's that's how we
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did it. In the Desert Storm era, we had a
coalition of the willing, and we had all of these
organizations and all of these nations fighting together. And we
don't have any foothold anymore in legitimacy in the world
stage because we have a choke of a president and
that's projecting weakness, and that is pure and simple. I
have a couple more questions on the other side of
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this break. Eight hundred nine four one, Shaan is our
number if you want to be a part of the program.
As we continue with Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney Tyler meritus
with us. Tyler is an issue as it relates to
his apparel company, and we'll get to that. Eight hundred
nine four one, Shawn our number. We'll also get to
your calls next half hour as we continue. By the way,
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even NBC News is getting that you know what Putin
and this drone incident are really all about that Russian
leadership approved all these aggressive actions, and even our own
you know, Joint chiefs of Staff and Defense Secretary admitted
here they've been ratcheting up their aggressiveness. You think maybe
we should have known that before the incident with the drone. Anyway,
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here's NBC. The US says those Russian jets made at
least nineteen passes by the drone in international airspace Tuesday,
even dumping jet fuel on it before clipping and damaging
the drone's rear propeller. The US then down to the
thirty two million dollar drone into the sea tonight. Officials
here say it's unclear whether Russia's actions were intentional. It
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is possible that this was just a reckless, incompetent piece
of aviating by the pilot, but we don't know for sure.
And Peter, we've just learned who in Russia, the usays,
gave the green light for this less. Three US officials
familiar with the intelligence tel NBC News that Russia's aggressive
actions yesterday, including dropping jet fuel on the drone, were
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approved by the highest levels of Russian leadership, but the
actual collision with the drone, they say, was likely not intentional.
All right, So there's the report. Anyway, we continue our
final moments now with Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney and Tyler
Merrit's CEO of Nineline. What should the military reaction be
in your view? Yeah? What do you need to go
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back to? Like hitting the drone sean and you to
be able to clip the propeller off. The best aviator
in the world wouldn't be able to pull that. But
that's not what I'm asking. They're being very aggressive in
the skies against American targets and it goes all the
way back to March first. I mean they were flying
armed aircraft over US bases in Syria. So this has
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been happening with zero reaction and until we start posturing
in that part of the world. All right, So give
me a solution. What should the reaction be. You're sitting
in the situation room with the President. He turns to
you and he says, Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney, what should
we do? What do you say? Yeah, We've got to
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get a presence over there, There's no doubt, and we
need it. If we're going to fly predators national waters,
we have to have assets supporting them over there. There
is no doubt this will continue until we put an
aircraft carrier, until we forward deployed fighter jets in that
area to deter this aggression. And you know, we've watched
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it for a long time. I don't know if it
will or when it will happen, but if it doesn't,
we'll continue to be on show. Is like this talking
about this stuff continually. Yeah, last question for you, Tyler,
I understand nine Lives. Now. You use all American cotton
and everything made in America with your line of clothing
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nine line. By the way, we have a link on
our website, Hannity dot com and you have great stuff
up there. Anyway, you use everything, everything's done right here
in the USA. Now you're under attack by other companies
that are, for example, using cotton and slave labor from
the wager minorities for example in China. Why are you
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under attack for that? I guess that's a good question
for marker Riview and Senator Cotton. They're the ones who
wrote the ball, the bill that became law as of
June of last year, and in that state that no
material specifically in my industry cotton, whether it's it's completely
that the entire product made in Jinjang were just the
cotton it picked from slaves that are currently held there
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for being mugglum, the only crime being Muslim that you
couldn't import that, and you had to sign waivers that
the customer Border Patrol that you're not importing these things.
And a supplier of mine tested positive for containing this
cotton in products that were being sold to me as
they were ethically sourced in Central and South America. Because
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while I do make a majority of our product in
the US, right eighty percent of our shirts that were
sold in the last year are usay made, there's some
that are made of USA cotton in Central and South America.
And I have a lot of different manufacturing partners, so
I tested them all. I tested Ham, I tested Della Canvas,
I tested other brands, and those other brands that I mentioned.
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You know, I have been threatening litigation, have been coercing
me in many ways to stop talking, to give up
my First Amendment right, and you know, Mishaw, that obviously
the wrong path to take, because I've gotten louder and
I'll continue to tell people, Hey, Mark Ruvial, Senator Cotton,
you guys wrote laws that have finds that could be
an acted for US companies aiding Chinese companies which are
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aiding the communist regime, which are aiding these things because
they are connected in the fact that Russia is being
emboldened and empowered because China is giving them more and
more aid, and lethal aid is not off the table.
They joined a pack as a February of last year,
but no limit coalition in China has economic workfare on
the table. And I would say to the US government
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economic warfare towards China should be on the table, because
they're not our allies and we rely on them way
too much. Unreal these times, we're living in a very
very dangerous and you see what's happening. We have new
access of evil merging right before our eyes. And meanwhile,
when Donald Trump left office, not only was our border secures,
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not only were we energy independent, not only was the
country safe and secure, but we had an alliance, believe
it or not, with Israel, the Saudias, the Jordanians, the Egyptians,
the Emirates, and now you see Russia and China, they're
getting closer every day along with Iran. And now the
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Saudis have decided a partner with Iran. And make peace
with them because the US is not leading anymore. This
is getting very, very dangerous, and of course we've also
given up domestic energy production, which is even more dangerous.
Thank you both appreciate it. Eight hundred and nine four one,
Sean our number. If you want to be a part
of the program. Let's say hi to Zaban. Is his
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name in Florida, Zaban, Hi, How are you glad you called?
Good afternoon Sean. Really great to hear your voice. As
a retired Air Force flight engineer, I have a couple
of theories on this your own thing. The Russian side,
they took it out before I saw the videotape. What
my first theory was they used a what the mix
have like the our fighters to have afterburner, So I
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was under the impression that maybe they used an after burner,
get in front of it and just blast it because
it's so powerful that they could put foot the drone
into a into a corkscrew spin. The other theory I
had was what we saw on the video is that
Russian coming right at the drone. But what we used
to in the in the Air Force with the tactics,
they used to have a thing called the thump, So
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the fighter jets at the last minute, they'll do it.
They'll pull up and all that weight turbulence will hit
the drone like like slam it and put it into
a corkscrewed type of spin. But apparently the fighter pilot
was not that great and UH end up tapping the propeller.
So that's my two cents as far as that goes.
I appreciate your insight, and you know this, this is
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a problem. America better come to grips with really quick here.
This weakness is incurring more and more and more aggression
and that is a big problem, and America better responds
sooner than later, because if they don't what's happening. I
do agree with you. I do agree with you that
this is from the highest of the Russian UH infrastructure,
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of these commands. And the thing is they probably sent
some hotdog fighter pilots in there to do that and
they couldn't execute it properly. So appreciate you being one
of us, ABAN and thank you for serving your country too.
You're you're an American hero. My friend, gotta take a
quick break. We'll come back. Eight hundred and nine four
one Sean. If you want to be a part of
the program. All right, back to our busy phones. Let's
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go to Derek and Texas. Derek, how are you glad
you called? Hey? Greeting Sean. What's going on? Beautiful, beautiful
downtown Fredericksburg, Texas. I just wanted to say that, well,
I agree with you man that you know, this whole
thing is a is a cluster, and Putin is a
horrible human being, psychopath. He's invaded and I'm hearing from
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both the left and the right unfortunately that what we
need is very you know, like you're hearing very strong
rhetoric coming out of both sides, and this escalation is
only going to lead to World War three, and there
is no winner in World War three. We keep Russia's
poking the bear with us, We're poking the bear with Russia.
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And okay, so what what you're saying is let Russia
take Ukraine. No, absolutely not. I'm saying there has to
be some peace talks somewhere, some diplomacy to end this thing,
because it's either going to end by the way, I'm
not against that at all. I'm not in any way, shape,
amount or form. Let me let me tell you where
I am now, and I've been pretty consistent on this
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from the beginning. We should help financially, but it was
predicated on my belief that Europe, this being in their backyard,
should be on the front lines of all the help here.
And they've been negligent, and the US has been ridiculously,
you know, reckless, and it's spending and willingness to give
money when Europe is not stepping up and doing their part.
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So I would I would put a pause today on
all spending, and I would send every European leader a
number what they need to contribute for the United States
spends another penny helping Ukraine and that, and let me
tell you what the result of that is going to be.
They will step up and they will pay the money.
Because there is a clear and present danger that the
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territorial ambitions of Vladimir Putin go way beyond Ukraine, way
beyond Ukraine. Do you agree with that. I do not
agree that his territorial ambition goes beyond Ukraine. I don't
kind I've not read anything that. I mean, we can
say that he may be he's probably a madman, He's
probably a hitler, but he's a hitler with nukes and
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we don't want to. I mean, the fact that I'm
even having this conversation to be seems absurd because we're
being led down a path. Well did did uh? You know?
For example, didn't Neville Chamberlain believe he'd have peace in
our time? Absolutely, but he wasn't dealing with the nuclear
superpower at the time. Oh so the fact that their
nuclear's superpower that factors into our decision. Okay, that's a
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fair point. However, are you going to allow yourself to
be held hostage by that threat? Well, in Fredericksburg, Texas,
and in Texas in general, we're not being held hostage.
And I'm really I don't see. Well, if you're not
going to do everything you would do to win the war,
then because you fear that at the end of this
he's gonna do something that evil, then it's gonna happen anyway. Well,
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and if you think he's if that's a fear of yours,
why you wouldn't have a fear of further expansionism. I'm
having a hard time understanding that. Listen. I let's go
back to the to the really good point that you made,
and that would be a negotiated settlement. Let's be honest here.
I mean, Russia already annexed Crimeau. Clearly the don Boss
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region is more Russia aligned than Ukrainian aligned, and there
were more Russian nationals there. Okay, that should be on
That should be in the negotiating table or on the
negotiating table. But now, what are we going to do
with Belarus? Now we're talking about a country that basically
is another satellite of Vladimir Putin? What do you think
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is going to happen there? I mean, I'm I'm asking
you a good questions. You got who admit you are?
You're asking me good questions. I have no idea. I'm
just you know, I know Putin when I'm what I've
read is has reached out to Zelinsky to discuss a
negotiated settlement. Not really, as he's reaching out. Every time
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there's been a minor ceasefire and any talk or hope
of peace talks, he ends up taking out major, massive
civilian areas because the Ukrainians have let down their guard.
That has happened every time. Absolutely, But you know, my
whole argument is that's happening in Ukraine, and it's horrible
and it's awful and it's disgusting. But that same thing
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could happen here. It could happen in the rest of Europe.
If we keep poking the bears, this has got to stomp.
There has to be How are we responsible for what happened?
You're blaming us? Why would you blame America in this? Yeah,
because we showed weakness with a pullout of Afghanistan. I
mean here we are. Well, that's part of it. You're
right again. I'll give you credit, absolutely so. But that's
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my point. All we're showing is weakness. I think we're
kind of talking over each other here and we're missing
each other's point. I'm hearing you loud and clear. Every
single incident we're referring to here shows weakness. That that's
the one common thread. Now, the question is how do
we show strength? Do we have thirty seconds? I'll let
you answer that, Okay. The way we show strength is
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by getting a different administration. Unfortunately, we are stuck with
what we have for the next two years. And you know,
Putin and Gee, they're all watching this pull out of Afghanistan,
and we, as the American people, are relying on the
same politicians and bureaucrats that led us through COVID and
this withdrawal of Afghanistan too. We're trusting them to get
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us out of this quagmire without starting World War three?
Do you feel confident that that will happen? Do we
feel confident as American people? You know, you know what
the sad answer is going to be to you. And
I'm just always honest with my audience. Under Joe Biden,
I don't think he's capable of doing anything right. You're
really right. Our backs are against the wall here and
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our enemies know it. And that's the worst part. I
do not like being in a week in position. I
just don't, and we are. That's a sad reality. Anyway,
Great call, Derek, call anytime. We appreciate you down in Texas.
Thanks for being there. Thanks eight eight hundred ninety four one,
Sean if you want to be a part of the program.
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number is eight hundred and nine pot one, Sean, if
you want to be a part of the program. Even
NBC News is acknowledging the obvious that this clearly was
the shooting down of our drome was on purpose. We
have Centator Marco Rubio saying the following let me, well,
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let me just play it for you. Well, there's been
no additional briefings from what's been made available publicly. But
I think a couple of things they are important here.
At The first is this, this was a deliberate effort.
This wasn't some accident, it wasn't some harassment effort that
you know, went awry. That this was a design. They
basically decided we are going to begin to shoot down
US assets, you know, whatever's flying in what they call
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restricted airspace. It's over international waters, international airspace, but they
declare a restriction over it for whatever reason, they want
to conduct military operation, and they're saying anything that flies
and they we're going to shoot it down. So this
is a direct test of the Biden administration to trying
to see what the limits are, and it's a message
of their displeasure. A bit more important, I think it's
a test to see if we'll respond to it, it
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will continue to fly, or if this causes us not
to fly in that area anymore. I agree with the
assessment of Marco Rubio, and just like the spy balloon
of the Communist Chinese, Joe Biden did nothing and don't
think they're not related. They are related because Vladimir watched
the entire incident. You know, the spy balloon flies over
Alaskan airspace, all over the rest of Alaska, down the
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coast to Canada, into Idaho, over to Montana, right over
our ICBM missile sites are silos down to Kansas, Missouri,
up to Kentucky, and then off the coast of Carolina.
And then they finally shoot it down after China got
all the intel they could ever want, need or desire.
And then as a result of the public reaction to
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their inaction, they shoot down three other still to this
day unidentified flying objects with four hundred thousand dollars sidewinder missiles.
But they don't know what they shot down. Turns out
that it might be a balloon, club balloon, like one
hundred and fifteen dollars balloon that they shot down with
a four hundred thousand dollars missile. It's unbelievable. Now, you've
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got to remember, the first instinct is not only to
blame Trump. The first instinct was to say, oh, no, no, no,
this is probably unintentional. If it's probably the result of
profound incompetence on the part of one of the Russian pilots.
Let me see profound incompetence when they not once but
twice dumped fuel in mid air on our drone. That
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was that was what profound incompetence. Actually, that sounds like
a mastery of a fighter jet pilot. I don't know
many fighter jet pilots that are that are probably or
profoundly incompetent. You're not gonna put somebody in a you know,
multi multi hundred plus million dollars jet and they're not
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properly prepared to fly it. They did it once, they
did it twice, and then they took this sucker out
of the air, and now we have, you know, the
situation that we have. Now the question comes to this,
though nothing happened to the communist Chinese, and nothing's gonna
happen here as it relates to Russia with Joe Biden,
you know, and I know a lot of people you
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know might say, see this is all because of the
war in k with Ukraine. All right, let me just
stop everybody here. Joe Biden doesn't do anything right. Joe
Biden's been wrong on every foreign policy issue for the
past forty years. Former Secretary of defense. Kate said that, however, however,
when the question is is when an innocent sovereign country
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is invaded and there is an assault, a death and
destruction and the targeting of innocent human beings and apartment
buildings and neighborhood, etc. Like we see Vladimir Putin as
unleashed in Ukraine. Now, what Joe Biden should have done.
If the United States, I said from the beginning they
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want to help financially, they can, but he should have
secured the financing in Europe because it's in their backyard.
He should have gotten NATO involvement, which he didn't do.
And all they did is pony up more money billions, billions, billions, billions,
and the Europe is watching and saying, well, why should
we contribute? Let the US pay for this. No. And
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the saddest part of all of it is, if you're
ever going to fight a war, if you're ever going
to contribute to a war being fought, you need to
fight to win it quickly. The way Donald Trump knocked
out the Caliphate, Well, Hannity, what if he is as
a tactical nuke, Well, there are Western countries that have
tactical nukes too, and guess what. That's what we called
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in the Reagan years, mutually your short destruction. You know
they were raider Reagan. Don't forget what Reagan did. Remember
if Reagan ordered to strike on Tripoli and Bengalazi retaliation
for a number of attacks from Libya, including the US
aircraft and the West Berlin nightclub bombing. One US servicemen
died and another fifty were injured. And you know where
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that missile went. That strike killed Kaddafi's fifteen month old
adopt a daughter and injured two of his sons. Guess what,
Kaddafi didn't do it again. And for all these people
out there saying we shouldn't should if you take out
one of our drones, We're gonna take out at least
five of yours. That's the message. There's got to be consequences.
Somebody comes up and hits me in the face, I
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am going to hit them till they can't hit me again,
period and a sentence. You know these people that you know, well,
we shouldn't do anything. What do you mean we shouldn't
do anything? That weekness will encourage more of this. So
I believe it's called peace through strength, It's not peace
through appeasement. It's not peace through you know, lying and
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making excuses for aggression. It's unbelievable. Anyway, eight hundred and
nine for one, Shawn our number if you want to
be a part of the program here to get reaction.
Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney is with US Air Force fighter pilot,
author of Fly Into the Wind and founder of Folds
of Honor. Our friend Tyler merrit is back CEO of
nine Line Apparel. Tyler, am I allowed to mention at
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an effort that you made for somebody that I know
pretty well that I work with. Absolutely, Tyler Merritt and
his group of people he's with Nine Line Apparel had
a big, big part to play in rescuing not only
Benjamin Hall, my friend and colleague from Fox, but many
other people. I mean, you have these special ops guys
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that are retired. They're going in there at their own
expense in many cases, and they're rescuing people Americans in particular,
like they did in Afghanistan and bringing them home. And
you're a hero for doing that, Tyler. I appreciate all
that you've been doing and continue to do well well.
I appreciate that, Sean, and to be clear. You know,
the Aarroycovery group. Those are the guys out there rescuing
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an orphans Stoff and they had Russians from taking out
indifferent lights. And there's other groups out there. An individual
by the name of c. Spray code name that was
actually out there rescuing those individuals. You know, I played
a small part in all these things. I was booting
the ground February, Parch, April, May all the way through June,
just to see what was actually going on. Because news
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is not news anymore. As you and I have talked
many times, the sensationalism, So you have to get on
the ground and see what's actually happening or else You're
just at my right in my characterization that this is
a mass targeting of civilians by Vladimir Putin and that
there's been a you know, death and destruction at a
level that nobody wants to show. Yeah, the level of
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evil between the Chinese regime and the Russian regime, which
is absolutely interconnected, is similar to that what we saw
in the nineteen four do you see You know, these
individuals they do not have an idea of limited warfare.
Everything is on the table, but they play a different
game where we're being very out there on what we're doing.
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You know, they're very clandestine, and we should probably look
at that playbook again because we've already laid our hands.
We put our card on the table. President Biden. I
don't know who's advising him, but where we are right
now is not where we should be. Let me bring
in Colonel Dan Rooney. Colonel you're an Air Force pilot.
Let me ask you is it Do you believe this
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incident with our drone and Russia was unintentional? Do you
believe that this was the result of profound incompetence on
the part of Russian pilots or do you agree with
me that these Russian pilots probably on the orders of
Vladimir Putin directly. I don't think they do it independently.
That it is a pretty skillful maneuver to actually dump
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fuel on a drone not once but twice and then
clip its wing and send it, you know, spiraling down
to the ground. Yes, so it's great to be with you,
and you know I'm always on your side. To start,
I've watched the footage a lot, and so it was
a combat fighter pilot for twenty two years. The dumping
fuel was obviously an aggressive act, but the way he
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actually hits the drone, he's belly up in his fighter jet,
and that is like cardinal rule number one. You would
never do it on a what's called to rejoin in
a fighter jet because you don't have a visual So
I think it may be a combination of both of
those things that if you were going to knock this
thing out of the air with your airplane, which is
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not a great tactic, but if you were going to
do that, you would want to have visibility on where
you're actually going to clip that reaper. And in this case,
he goes belly up and it looks like he tries
to bail out of it, but he is, you know, incompetent.
These Russian guys, you can watch the work they're doing
in Ukraine. They have great airplanes. This, you know, the
SiO twenty seven, the sukoi is actually stands for the legend.
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So this pilot that hit the drone will be a
legend forever. Maybe not the kind you want to be,
but it's just really hard to tell watching that footage,
but the fact that they were there right, it's guilt
by association It's like when your model is that, but
you have to admit, and you are admitting that there's
no way that the two fuel dumps were not intentional.
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That was intentional, absolutely, absolutely. And the other thing too,
they they don't operate because they don't have decentralized execution
where you'd send fighter pilots out there and what's called
close control, so they are getting controlled by the mother
ship whoever it is putin in the regime. They're not
acting on their own. So they were there, it was hostile,
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and whether the intent was to take it out of
the air with a fuel dumper accidentally run into it,
the realities are it was knocked out. And I'm with you.
Parody in the world stage breaths chaos, and what we
have right now is parody. We're not you know, we're
not strong, and that opens the gates to stuff in Ukraine,
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anally in Taiwan. All of these issues come from weakness
as a country and how we integrate or you know,
react to the world. Well, now, Russia, by the way,
is warning the United States to stop their hostile flights
over the Black Sea, even though this was over international waters.
That's not even an issue in dispute, and there's been
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a ratcheting up of rhetoric, as I would expect after
an incident like this. Quick break more with Lieutenant Colonel
Dan Rooney on the other side and Tyler Merritt. All right,
we continue with Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney and Tyler Merrit.
He's the CEO of nine Line Apparel. The question is
is how should the US respond now? One one development
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that has happened. Finally, it appears Joe Biden has stopped
every step of the way Tyler, the Polish government from
giving MiG fighter jets to Zelenski. And I'm like, why
would you ever? Why would you deny Zelensky if you
want them to win the war? Parody in the skies?
Why would you give dominance of the air to Vladimir Putin?
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Which makes no sense to me? Yeah, well, the whole
thing makes no sense. And since being on the ground
and working with both governmental and non governmental organizations on
both sides of the Aisle, I could say that we
messed this up in the very beginning. We washed our
ends of Ukrainians that they're not our partner. At the beginning,
we left civilians a bunch of no offense to myself
included you know, washed up sitcom guys and al Bundy's
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who should not be in the Super Bowl, to essentially
help with finding communication methods, finding clandest ways to get
weapon systems, get people out. And we kind of left
that out there until we started to see the will
of the people. The will of the Ukrainians is much
different than the conscripted will of the Russians and the
people in Belarus. I met those individuals, they listened to
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Channel one and they start to see that Russia is
nothing but propaganda. So from the very very beginning, we
did not help our clandest science sources. We abandoned them, right.
We left the Fox recorders to die and rely on
civilians to go and rescue them. We showed that we
had no ability to help, kind of behind the scenes
like we've done many times, and it's dead. Now we're
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overtly saying, hey, this is not a un allied but
we're going to give billions of dollars of weapons, of
weapons of high matters, of two missile systems, and we're
just going to deny the F sixteen. So you're still
getting military aid. And then at the same time, we're
still in China as of recently, less than a month ago.
If you provide military aid, you know there will be consequences. Well,
guess what China's been providing non lethal aids in the beginning.
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They're going to provide continue to provide non lethal and
I would argue it's still almost lethal when you're providing
telegus options and the ability to attract people. If I
were president, I wouldn't have put us in this position,
but I would put a hold on any more money's
going to Ukraine. And Joe Biden needs to convene, Well,
if we had a real president, it needs to convene
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a meeting with every European country and he needs to
hand each leader piece of paper with a financial figure
on it what their contribution needs to be. And unless
they meet that contribution, unless they do their part, it's
their backyard. The United States, I have look, support for
this conflict is diminishing every day, and frankly, and if
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you're not going to fight the war to win it,
then don't fight. It just gives you might as well
just hand over Ukraine to putin because that's what you're
gonna do. Either you're in it, to win it, and
they're going to pay for it themselves, or and will
help with the money, or we're getting out. That's it.
That's what we did with President push in the aggression
against a presidents who's seen right. That's that's how we
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did it. In the Desert Storm era, we had a
coalition of the willing, and we had all of these
organizations and all of these nations fighting together. And we
don't have any foothold anymore in legitimacy in the world
stage because we have a choke of a president and
that's projecting weakness, and that is pure and simple. I
have a couple more questions on the other side of
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this break. Eight hundred nine four one, Shaan is our
number if you want to be a part of the program.
As we continue with Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney Tyler meritus
with us. Tyler is an issue as it relates to
his apparel company, and we'll get to that. Eight hundred
nine four one, Shawn our number. We'll also get to
your calls next half hour as we continue. By the way,
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even NBC News is getting that you know what Putin
and this drone incident are really all about that Russian
leadership approved all these aggressive actions, and even our own
you know, Joint chiefs of Staff and Defense Secretary admitted
here they've been ratcheting up their aggressiveness. You think maybe
we should have known that before the incident with the drone. Anyway,
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here's NBC. The US says those Russian jets made at
least nineteen passes by the drone in international airspace Tuesday,
even dumping jet fuel on it before clipping and damaging
the drone's rear propeller. The US then down to the
thirty two million dollar drone into the sea tonight. Officials
here say it's unclear whether Russia's actions were intentional. It
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is possible that this was just a reckless, incompetent piece
of aviating by the pilot, but we don't know for sure.
And Peter, we've just learned who in Russia, the usays,
gave the green light for this less. Three US officials
familiar with the intelligence tel NBC News that Russia's aggressive
actions yesterday, including dropping jet fuel on the drone, were
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approved by the highest levels of Russian leadership, but the
actual collision with the drone, they say, was likely not intentional.
All right, So there's the report. Anyway, we continue our
final moments now with Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney and Tyler
Merrit's CEO of Nineline. What should the military reaction be
in your view? Yeah? What do you need to go
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back to? Like hitting the drone sean and you to
be able to clip the propeller off. The best aviator
in the world wouldn't be able to pull that. But
that's not what I'm asking. They're being very aggressive in
the skies against American targets and it goes all the
way back to March first. I mean they were flying
armed aircraft over US bases in Syria. So this has
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been happening with zero reaction and until we start posturing
in that part of the world. All right, So give
me a solution. What should the reaction be. You're sitting
in the situation room with the President. He turns to
you and he says, Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney, what should
we do? What do you say? Yeah, We've got to
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get a presence over there, There's no doubt, and we
need it. If we're going to fly predators national waters,
we have to have assets supporting them over there. There
is no doubt this will continue until we put an
aircraft carrier, until we forward deployed fighter jets in that
area to deter this aggression. And you know, we've watched
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it for a long time. I don't know if it
will or when it will happen, but if it doesn't,
we'll continue to be on show. Is like this talking
about this stuff continually. Yeah, last question for you, Tyler,
I understand nine Lives. Now. You use all American cotton
and everything made in America with your line of clothing
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nine line. By the way, we have a link on
our website, Hannity dot com and you have great stuff
up there. Anyway, you use everything, everything's done right here
in the USA. Now you're under attack by other companies
that are, for example, using cotton and slave labor from
the wager minorities for example in China. Why are you
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under attack for that? I guess that's a good question
for marker Riview and Senator Cotton. They're the ones who
wrote the ball, the bill that became law as of
June of last year, and in that state that no
material specifically in my industry cotton, whether it's it's completely
that the entire product made in Jinjang were just the
cotton it picked from slaves that are currently held there
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for being mugglum, the only crime being Muslim that you
couldn't import that, and you had to sign waivers that
the customer Border Patrol that you're not importing these things.
And a supplier of mine tested positive for containing this
cotton in products that were being sold to me as
they were ethically sourced in Central and South America. Because
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while I do make a majority of our product in
the US, right eighty percent of our shirts that were
sold in the last year are usay made, there's some
that are made of USA cotton in Central and South America.
And I have a lot of different manufacturing partners, so
I tested them all. I tested Ham, I tested Della Canvas,
I tested other brands, and those other brands that I mentioned.
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You know, I have been threatening litigation, have been coercing
me in many ways to stop talking, to give up
my First Amendment right, and you know, Mishaw, that obviously
the wrong path to take, because I've gotten louder and
I'll continue to tell people, Hey, Mark Ruvial, Senator Cotton,
you guys wrote laws that have finds that could be
an acted for US companies aiding Chinese companies which are
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aiding the communist regime, which are aiding these things because
they are connected in the fact that Russia is being
emboldened and empowered because China is giving them more and
more aid, and lethal aid is not off the table.
They joined a pack as a February of last year,
but no limit coalition in China has economic workfare on
the table. And I would say to the US government
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economic warfare towards China should be on the table, because
they're not our allies and we rely on them way
too much. Unreal these times, we're living in a very
very dangerous and you see what's happening. We have new
access of evil merging right before our eyes. And meanwhile,
when Donald Trump left office, not only was our border secures,
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not only were we energy independent, not only was the
country safe and secure, but we had an alliance, believe
it or not, with Israel, the Saudias, the Jordanians, the Egyptians,
the Emirates, and now you see Russia and China, they're
getting closer every day along with Iran. And now the
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Saudis have decided a partner with Iran. And make peace
with them because the US is not leading anymore. This
is getting very, very dangerous, and of course we've also
given up domestic energy production, which is even more dangerous.
Thank you both appreciate it. Eight hundred and nine four one,
Sean our number. If you want to be a part
of the program. Let's say hi to Zaban. Is his
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name in Florida, Zaban, Hi, How are you glad you called?
Good afternoon Sean. Really great to hear your voice. As
a retired Air Force flight engineer, I have a couple
of theories on this your own thing. The Russian side,
they took it out before I saw the videotape. What
my first theory was they used a what the mix
have like the our fighters to have afterburner, So I
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was under the impression that maybe they used an after burner,
get in front of it and just blast it because
it's so powerful that they could put foot the drone
into a into a corkscrew spin. The other theory I
had was what we saw on the video is that
Russian coming right at the drone. But what we used
to in the in the Air Force with the tactics,
they used to have a thing called the thump, So
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the fighter jets at the last minute, they'll do it.
They'll pull up and all that weight turbulence will hit
the drone like like slam it and put it into
a corkscrewed type of spin. But apparently the fighter pilot
was not that great and UH end up tapping the propeller.
So that's my two cents as far as that goes.
I appreciate your insight, and you know this, this is
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a problem. America better come to grips with really quick here.
This weakness is incurring more and more and more aggression
and that is a big problem, and America better responds
sooner than later, because if they don't what's happening. I
do agree with you. I do agree with you that
this is from the highest of the Russian UH infrastructure,
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of these commands. And the thing is they probably sent
some hotdog fighter pilots in there to do that and
they couldn't execute it properly. So appreciate you being one
of us, ABAN and thank you for serving your country too.
You're you're an American hero. My friend, gotta take a
quick break. We'll come back. Eight hundred and nine four
one Sean. If you want to be a part of
the program. All right, back to our busy phones. Let's
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go to Derek and Texas. Derek, how are you glad
you called? Hey? Greeting Sean. What's going on? Beautiful, beautiful
downtown Fredericksburg, Texas. I just wanted to say that, well,
I agree with you man that you know, this whole
thing is a is a cluster, and Putin is a
horrible human being, psychopath. He's invaded and I'm hearing from
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both the left and the right unfortunately that what we
need is very you know, like you're hearing very strong
rhetoric coming out of both sides, and this escalation is
only going to lead to World War three, and there
is no winner in World War three. We keep Russia's
poking the bear with us, We're poking the bear with Russia.
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And okay, so what what you're saying is let Russia
take Ukraine. No, absolutely not. I'm saying there has to
be some peace talks somewhere, some diplomacy to end this thing,
because it's either going to end by the way, I'm
not against that at all. I'm not in any way, shape,
amount or form. Let me let me tell you where
I am now, and I've been pretty consistent on this
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from the beginning. We should help financially, but it was
predicated on my belief that Europe, this being in their backyard,
should be on the front lines of all the help here.
And they've been negligent, and the US has been ridiculously,
you know, reckless, and it's spending and willingness to give
money when Europe is not stepping up and doing their part.
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So I would I would put a pause today on
all spending, and I would send every European leader a
number what they need to contribute for the United States
spends another penny helping Ukraine and that, and let me
tell you what the result of that is going to be.
They will step up and they will pay the money.
Because there is a clear and present danger that the
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territorial ambitions of Vladimir Putin go way beyond Ukraine, way
beyond Ukraine. Do you agree with that. I do not
agree that his territorial ambition goes beyond Ukraine. I don't
kind I've not read anything that. I mean, we can
say that he may be he's probably a madman, He's
probably a hitler, but he's a hitler with nukes and
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we don't want to. I mean, the fact that I'm
even having this conversation to be seems absurd because we're
being led down a path. Well did did uh? You know?
For example, didn't Neville Chamberlain believe he'd have peace in
our time? Absolutely, but he wasn't dealing with the nuclear
superpower at the time. Oh so the fact that their
nuclear's superpower that factors into our decision. Okay, that's a
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fair point. However, are you going to allow yourself to
be held hostage by that threat? Well, in Fredericksburg, Texas,
and in Texas in general, we're not being held hostage.
And I'm really I don't see. Well, if you're not
going to do everything you would do to win the war,
then because you fear that at the end of this
he's gonna do something that evil, then it's gonna happen anyway. Well,
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and if you think he's if that's a fear of yours,
why you wouldn't have a fear of further expansionism. I'm
having a hard time understanding that. Listen. I let's go
back to the to the really good point that you made,
and that would be a negotiated settlement. Let's be honest here.
I mean, Russia already annexed Crimeau. Clearly the don Boss
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region is more Russia aligned than Ukrainian aligned, and there
were more Russian nationals there. Okay, that should be on
That should be in the negotiating table or on the
negotiating table. But now, what are we going to do
with Belarus? Now we're talking about a country that basically
is another satellite of Vladimir Putin? What do you think
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is going to happen there? I mean, I'm I'm asking
you a good questions. You got who admit you are?
You're asking me good questions. I have no idea. I'm
just you know, I know Putin when I'm what I've
read is has reached out to Zelinsky to discuss a
negotiated settlement. Not really, as he's reaching out. Every time
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there's been a minor ceasefire and any talk or hope
of peace talks, he ends up taking out major, massive
civilian areas because the Ukrainians have let down their guard.
That has happened every time. Absolutely, But you know, my
whole argument is that's happening in Ukraine, and it's horrible
and it's awful and it's disgusting. But that same thing
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could happen here. It could happen in the rest of Europe.
If we keep poking the bears, this has got to stomp.
There has to be How are we responsible for what happened?
You're blaming us? Why would you blame America in this? Yeah,
because we showed weakness with a pullout of Afghanistan. I
mean here we are. Well, that's part of it. You're
right again. I'll give you credit, absolutely so. But that's
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my point. All we're showing is weakness. I think we're
kind of talking over each other here and we're missing
each other's point. I'm hearing you loud and clear. Every
single incident we're referring to here shows weakness. That that's
the one common thread. Now, the question is how do
we show strength? Do we have thirty seconds? I'll let
you answer that, Okay. The way we show strength is
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by getting a different administration. Unfortunately, we are stuck with
what we have for the next two years. And you know,
Putin and Gee, they're all watching this pull out of Afghanistan,
and we, as the American people, are relying on the
same politicians and bureaucrats that led us through COVID and
this withdrawal of Afghanistan too. We're trusting them to get
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us out of this quagmire without starting World War three?
Do you feel confident that that will happen? Do we
feel confident as American people? You know, you know what
the sad answer is going to be to you. And
I'm just always honest with my audience. Under Joe Biden,
I don't think he's capable of doing anything right. You're
really right. Our backs are against the wall here and
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our enemies know it. And that's the worst part. I
do not like being in a week in position. I
just don't, and we are. That's a sad reality. Anyway,
Great call, Derek, call anytime. We appreciate you down in Texas.
Thanks for being there. Thanks eight eight hundred ninety four one,
Sean if you want to be a part of the program.
At the top of the hour, Sarah Carter with an
investigative report on the border. It's so bad. It's gonna
(30:34):
be a bigger year this year than last year's record,
and a bigger year than the previous year's record, and
I know it's making our country. It's so vulnerable, it's
it's insane. We'll continue
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