Speaker 1: I'm Bill Cunningham, the Great American. Of course, we'll continue
Speaker 1: to follow the events happening New Orleans and also indirectly
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. Joanan, you and on ows Lieutenant General
Speaker 1: Richard Newton, retired Lieutenant General Richard Newton has spent about
Speaker 1: thirty four years and the military now retired Assistant Vice
Speaker 1: Chief of Staff and General Newton, welcome again to the
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham Show and General when these stories broke, As
Speaker 1: a great American, I like to think that the American
Speaker 1: military is the best and the brightest at times that
Speaker 1: may lose its way with some of their ideas about DEI, etc.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, many of us were somewhat shocked that the
Speaker 1: two persons involved in these acts of terror, one in
Speaker 1: New Orleans and one in Las Vegas, might have been
Speaker 1: related somehow. They were both served at Fort Bragg, probably
Speaker 1: with hundreds of thousands of others at the same time.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, as a retired military leader, I've read your resume.
Speaker 1: I'm honored to have you on the phone with me,
Speaker 1: Lieutenant General Richard Newton. But what came to your mind
Speaker 1: is these two events reporting this has taken place and
Speaker 1: both have a military connection.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Bill, It's good to be with you.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately under these circumstances. But nonetheless, the bottom line is
Speaker 2: the forces of Islamic radicalism have not gone away. This
Speaker 2: evil act of terrorism, both in New Orleans and also
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. These are acts of evil done by terrorists.
Speaker 2: In my book, regarding specifically the fact that their associated
Speaker 2: with military, certainly the terrorists in New Orleans had served
Speaker 2: eight years on acting dut the United States Army in
Speaker 2: five years in reserve. Shows the reach that you know,
Speaker 2: ISIS and others can have. You know, we have sixteen
Speaker 2: million veterans living in the U States and that's quite
Speaker 2: a large cohort. But I would say it's not just
Speaker 2: a military cohort that could be targets of influenced by ISIS,
Speaker 2: but other parts of the United States. And it just
Speaker 2: goes to show that ISIS have, you know, had somewhat
Speaker 2: been put in a weakened state under President Trump during
Speaker 2: his administration. Now that they're trying to fight back and
Speaker 2: to have influence not only in Europe as we saw,
Speaker 2: but also in the United States. It's unfortunate, but we'll
Speaker 2: get to the bottom of it. But you know, the
Speaker 2: American people. Again, we have to realize that we are
Speaker 2: a target, that we are hated by these fundamentalist groups
Speaker 2: and organizations, and that the fact is is that we
Speaker 2: can't take our freedom for granted at all.
Speaker 1: Well, the thing is, when I watched the media coverage,
Speaker 1: often it is said that the liberal media want to
Speaker 1: make a connection between terrorism and the US military, and
Speaker 1: that's somehow the wrong things are being taught. Or secondly
Speaker 1: that on one hand, they might be bloodthirsty warriors wanting
Speaker 1: to kill and Maine because they've served in the military,
Speaker 1: and the military comes in the media, something happens bad
Speaker 1: with a cop or with a deputy sheriff or somebody
Speaker 1: in the military, their status is put front and center.
Speaker 1: But you point out there's a thirteen or so million
Speaker 1: American veterans that have nothing to do with any of this.
Speaker 3: Probably the most.
Speaker 1: Peaceful, god fearing, law abiding citizens that have ever lived
Speaker 1: are veterans from the US military, and you're one of them.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't even think about such things.
Speaker 1: So there is there an argument available that whether it
Speaker 1: was Fort Hood with I recall the guy's name was
Speaker 1: Major Hassan, who was an Army major that murdered thirteen
Speaker 1: American soldiers and injured about thirty others.
Speaker 3: That when those in the media draw.
Speaker 1: A connection between the US military more or less giving
Speaker 1: birth to terrorists, what is your reaction, Well, it's interesting you.
Speaker 2: Bring out Major Hassan, by the way, who's on death
Speaker 2: row at Fort Leavenworth as we speak. I was the UH,
Speaker 2: one of the We had assembled a team on the
Speaker 2: morning of November fifth, two thousand and nine, or out
Speaker 2: of the afternoon in a high level investigative team UH.
Speaker 2: And I was part of that to the first couple
Speaker 2: of days of the Fort Hood investigation. UH. And what
Speaker 2: we discovered through FBI investigation, a separate Department of Defense investigation.
Speaker 2: Congress also was that there's this this concept and it's
Speaker 2: hard to get our minds wrapped around this bill because
Speaker 2: these are maniacs. These are people who who spurn hate
Speaker 2: and so and not just attributed to you know, a
Speaker 2: veteran population or any part of the American population. These
Speaker 2: are these are what I would call one offs of
Speaker 2: anyone around the world. Frankly. But what we discovered was
Speaker 2: that there's this what I call a linear radicalization. It's
Speaker 2: like you go from events connected to events connected to events,
Speaker 2: then you get this, uh, these terrorist acts. In the
Speaker 2: case of Major Hassan but who was an army major,
Speaker 2: but he was really a psychiatrist. He was a part
Speaker 2: of the Army Medical Court. He had some personal issues
Speaker 2: which led to things that and let's talk about perhaps
Speaker 2: the terrorists in New Orleans. Jobbern it was one where
Speaker 2: he was going through divorces, he had failed marriages, he
Speaker 2: had failed relationships with his with his daughters, he was
Speaker 2: high in debt, and then that led to an event
Speaker 2: whereby he had this armic religious intensification that was intensified
Speaker 2: steeped to what I'm making presumptions here, but I'm just
Speaker 2: going through what I think could be a process. So
Speaker 2: his Islamic beliefs are intensified, which then lead to a
Speaker 2: path of even more radicalization, which leads to the fact
Speaker 2: that he's going to go out and chill and name
Speaker 2: and he I believe he had every intent bill at
Speaker 2: three point thirty five in the morning on you know,
Speaker 2: just to it wasn't you know, twenty four hours or
Speaker 2: so ago was also be killed on spot there New Orleans.
Speaker 2: And so that's what we're going to find out. Again.
Speaker 2: The bottom line is that these radical Isami terrorists. They
Speaker 2: want to do harm to the American people. They want
Speaker 2: to do harm to everything we stand for. And while
Speaker 2: i'mount of roll he let me take one more point,
Speaker 2: if I may. The FBI Director Christopher Ray testified before
Speaker 2: the House of Representative in open form back in April
Speaker 2: that he is not seen in his thirty plus years
Speaker 2: in law enforcement and the FBI a condition where there
Speaker 2: is threats to the United States from our the safety
Speaker 2: of the American people as well as our national security
Speaker 2: that he has seen at that moment, and that obviously
Speaker 2: has come true. Today. You've got October seventh, most hateous
Speaker 2: attack and on twenty twenty three against against Israel, which
Speaker 2: has spurned off a lot of you know, terrorist and
Speaker 2: activity and so forth. You also have a very poor
Speaker 2: order that has ensued for the last several years, uh
Speaker 2: Princeville in Arizona and Texas, which allows for literally, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, bad people to do bad things coming in
Speaker 2: the back door of the United States. That's why I
Speaker 2: would advocate for and I would buy President Trump, that
Speaker 2: we have to stay offensive against you know, radical terrorist
Speaker 2: groups such as ISIS in northern Syria. We've got a
Speaker 2: base of operations there. We've been operating every between nine
Speaker 2: hundred and two thousand people. We need to go offensive
Speaker 2: against these radical uh these radical terrorist groups so that
Speaker 2: their terrorism and their reach in the United States doesn't
Speaker 2: doesn't come on shore.
Speaker 1: Lieutenant General Richard Newton retired. You bring up problems and Jabbar,
Speaker 1: the New Orleans mass murderer, had marital had women problems.
Speaker 1: He was in debt, and he turned toward a branch
Speaker 1: of Islam that said, the resolution of your difficulty is
Speaker 1: to go out and kill the infidel in large numbers.
Speaker 3: And I would anticipate them.
Speaker 1: Major Hasan, who was a psychiatrist, thought that he was
Speaker 1: doing the Lord's work when he's shot in cold blood
Speaker 1: thirteen proud American soldiers. And I would imagine when we
Speaker 1: get the final information out of Las Vegas, it'll be
Speaker 1: the same that somehow there's a branch of Islam that
Speaker 1: says the way to solve your difficulties is to murder
Speaker 1: innocent men, women and children. I've never left a Roman
Speaker 1: Catholic mass and said, you know what, damn, I want
Speaker 1: to go kill somebody. It happens in the Islamic world
Speaker 1: many times. On a late Friday that large numbers come
Speaker 1: out shouting, arguing and screaming about killing the Infidel, which
Speaker 1: is their path towards their version of heaven. And the
Speaker 1: head of the snake is Iran. You spent You're an
Speaker 1: Air Force lieutenant general retired, and the head of the
Speaker 1: snake is Iran, and the Iranian people need to be
Speaker 1: freed from its leadership. Have you ever encountered in the
Speaker 1: last since nineteen seventy nine, what forty five years, forty
Speaker 1: six years ago, that Iran is in a more vulnerable
Speaker 1: position than it is today and now's the time to strike.
Speaker 2: I agree from a standpoint of the vulnerability of Iran,
Speaker 2: I believe that certainly we all lot get a gratitude
Speaker 2: frankly to Prime Minister and in Yahoo and what he
Speaker 2: had done leading Israel in terms of that Heinus, they're
Speaker 2: nine to eleven, if you will, was on October seventh
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty three when Hamas did that attack, and
Speaker 2: then a day later Hezemlah starts ringing down missiles and
Speaker 2: artillery shells and cruise missiles and drones against Israel, and
Speaker 2: then a couple of days later you've got the housies.
Speaker 2: Now are tract me holding the Red Sea. Well, twelve
Speaker 2: percent of global commerce shipping goes through hostage to freelance
Speaker 2: of communication of shipping and so forth. And you're right,
Speaker 2: Iran has been the source of the largest export of
Speaker 2: terrorism buill has been the nation state of revolutionary Iran,
Speaker 2: and we're starting to see that. But nonetheless, I believe
Speaker 2: they are now on their heels and it's time that we,
Speaker 2: you know, focus and continue to support Prime Minister Ninyahu.
Speaker 2: Let them finish the job with Hamas and gothwel and
Speaker 2: finish the job at Hezelo in Lebanon, but also take
Speaker 2: a very close eye towards how we're going to deal
Speaker 2: with They're wrong. They cannot get any closer in their
Speaker 2: close bill to the development and therefore an ability to
Speaker 2: employ a nuclear weapon. I don't think we're going to
Speaker 2: see that happen on the Trump administration. There's three things
Speaker 2: as I segue into President Trump and how he sees
Speaker 2: things from a national security standpoint. First number one, strategic clarity.
Speaker 2: He's going to call out who the adversary is, who
Speaker 2: the enemy is. In my book, it's it's the leading
Speaker 2: culprit here is China. That's another conversation for another day,
Speaker 2: but includes Russia, North Korea, and certainly Iran. Secondly, he's
Speaker 2: going to make sure that other allies of ours and
Speaker 2: friends and allies of ours that they will also add
Speaker 2: towards their defense, that it's not just the United States
Speaker 2: always picking up the tab. I'm very pro for alliances,
Speaker 2: but I think it's others that others, especially NATO in
Speaker 2: other countries that also need to pair more of a
Speaker 2: fair share. But the third point is it's key under
Speaker 2: President Trump and his new national security team will focus on,
Speaker 2: is peace through strengths. The only thing in the adversary understands,
Speaker 2: in this case in Iran in order to deter them
Speaker 2: from either are expanding their nuclear weapons capabilities or employing
Speaker 2: weapons of mass destruction is you need both capability, which
Speaker 2: we have, but you need will will, especially at the
Speaker 2: political level. That's what's been lacking recently. And so that's
Speaker 2: the only thing A Putin understands, the only thing that
Speaker 2: Chi understands in China, that's the only thing I Toil
Speaker 2: understands in Iran. And so you're going to see that
Speaker 2: come January twentieth, that peace through strength and whether or
Speaker 2: not it leads to us having to decimate a run
Speaker 2: in terms of not there against their people. We have
Speaker 2: nothing against their people. It's against their nuclear weapons ambitions
Speaker 2: that will be determined. It's all up to your run.
Speaker 2: They want to back off, they have an opportunity to
Speaker 2: do so, but we're gonna have President Trump and others
Speaker 2: are not going to allow for them to have a
Speaker 2: nuclear weapon if that happens. If they get a nuclear weapon,
Speaker 2: it turns the Midies upside down and is a great,
Speaker 2: great threat to US national security.
Speaker 3: Is there any down in your mind?
Speaker 1: Lieutenant General Richard Newton retired that if Iran receives a
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon, given the opportunity to set it off in Israel,
Speaker 1: they would do it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, they would do it. Once they get hands on
Speaker 2: their capabilities, they will. But what you've got the chalcot
Speaker 2: us has changed a little bit. When Prime Minderson went
Speaker 2: after them a second time after they rained icy in
Speaker 2: their kind of OBUSI missiles and cruise missiles and drones
Speaker 2: against Israel in the end of October, he went after
Speaker 2: their uh, their air defense capabilities. He went up near
Speaker 2: where their nuclear weapons production sites are. He didn't go
Speaker 2: after the nuclear weapons production sites, but he may send
Speaker 2: the Ietola, and the regime messages that he can use
Speaker 2: his air power and he can go downtown Iran wherever
Speaker 2: he wants to go. And since he's taken out their
Speaker 2: defense system, they're really they have very little protection right now,
Speaker 2: and they know that. So I believe that they're to
Speaker 2: tred at this point, but for some reason they feel
Speaker 2: compelled to start and to really now develop the means
Speaker 2: to deliver a nuclear weapon. That's a whole new Tacus,
Speaker 2: and I believe you're going to see the United States
Speaker 2: leading the effort. I would advise the President to lead
Speaker 2: the effort to not let that happen and take out
Speaker 2: those nuclear weapons capabilities.
Speaker 1: Because Israel says never again. About a year and a
Speaker 1: half ago, I spent about two weeks in Israel and
Speaker 1: went through the Holocaust Museum. You see these young men
Speaker 1: and women Israeli IDF soldiers marching around with their weapons,
Speaker 1: and I felt safe. And the slogan of the Holocaust
Speaker 1: Museum was never again. And if Israel believes, which I
Speaker 1: think all of us do, that Iran would set off
Speaker 1: a nuclear war to kill as many as possible, including themselves,
Speaker 1: because it is a culture of death, not a culture
Speaker 1: of life. The way to get to heaven is to
Speaker 1: kill the infidel in large numbers. And as Infidels have
Speaker 1: been killed to the tune of some two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: in the past twenty five years at the hands of
Speaker 1: Islamic terror, but ninety two percent or other Muslims killed
Speaker 1: in Islamic terror, it is somewhat unusual to have Americans
Speaker 1: or the Europeans killed. Mainly the Islamic terrors kill other
Speaker 1: Muslims by ninety two percent. But nonetheless, we can't live
Speaker 1: under the gun, and there's nothing in the US military
Speaker 1: that causes someone to become radicalized. Over the weekend, I
Speaker 1: saw some reporting that maybe some of the teaching that
Speaker 1: you have done or generals have done, gives birth the
Speaker 1: radical Islamist in the military.
Speaker 3: That is a ridiculous charge. What do you say about that?
Speaker 2: I say that is absolutely first, unfathomable for anybody to
Speaker 2: think that. Secondly, I have the greatest trust in our
Speaker 2: men and women in unform. We have two point one
Speaker 2: million men and women unform, active duty, Guard, Reserve, and
Speaker 2: so forth. They are extremely well led, they're well equipped.
Speaker 2: We've got to modernize our force. But today we have
Speaker 2: several hundreds of thousands of men and women serving overseas
Speaker 2: and Harm's way, all volunteers, all raise the right hand
Speaker 2: like I did, to support and defend the Constitution of
Speaker 2: the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I
Speaker 2: would close on this point. Number one, I would make
Speaker 2: sure our American people and some of our listeners right
Speaker 2: now understand that this is still the greatest nation in
Speaker 2: the world. Secondly, we are the beacon of hope. We
Speaker 2: are the beacon of light of freedom of all nations
Speaker 2: around the world. They're all going to be looking to
Speaker 2: the United States and how do we deal with this
Speaker 2: homegrown domestic terrorism that perhaps has been influenced strongly influenced
Speaker 2: by isis how we're going to deal with that In
Speaker 2: New Orleans and subsequently likely in Las Vegas, they're going
Speaker 2: to be look to how we deal with that and
Speaker 2: how we're defending ourselves is going to have to start
Speaker 2: at the border starting on January twentieth. And my last
Speaker 2: point is that the fact is is that it's still
Speaker 2: you know, we're gonna call it's one hundred United States,
Speaker 2: and that's that's from a diplomatic standpoint, that's economically and financial,
Speaker 2: and that's with Mordack, and we are the sole superpower,
Speaker 2: but we're the superpower that understands how to support and
Speaker 2: defend freedom. We're the beacon for freedom for the rest
Speaker 2: of the free world. And I believe that is a
Speaker 2: charge that we have, and it's something that we realize
Speaker 2: that freedom isn't free. I would wish that we didn't frankly,
Speaker 2: didn't even have to have a military, but we do.
Speaker 2: The Enny gets a vote here, and so I believe
Speaker 2: that's where we're gonna believe. This is where the United
Speaker 2: States has got to lead, and we can no longer
Speaker 2: lead from the rear. We've got to lead from the front. Build.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're a great American. Lieutenant General Richard Newton retired
Speaker 1: to US Air Force thirty four years assistant Vice chief
Speaker 1: of Staff, and you're with News Nation at this point
Speaker 1: in Sean Compton and of course Danny Jansen and Lieutenant
Speaker 1: General Richard Newton, thank you for coming on the Bill
Speaker 1: Cunningham Show, and with your permission, will do it again.
Speaker 1: Thank you, General, Bill, Best to you, God blessed America.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile,