WEBVTT 1 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:27.160 Willie rough You by Choice Hotels, Econo Lodge and Roadway 2 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:30.000 in Hotels are serving up double points were every qualifying 3 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:33.600 stay book at Choice Hotels dot com. Now here's the 4 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.520 man who's been recognized as radio's best, the recipient of 5 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:42.399 not won but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his broadcast exodence, 6 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:46.840 the one and only Bill Cunningham. 7 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:49.159 All right now, Billy Cunningham, the Great America. What a 8 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:51.600 glorious Sunday night. Throughout the nation and the world things 9 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:53.679 are happening. There's a report out of Fox News that 10 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.200 before midnight tonight, what's about about two hours from now 11 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:59.600 or less than that, we're going to have a report 12 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:02.600 out of the Trump administration that they're firing about twenty 13 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:06.680 one hundred more USA workers. And the notice is going 14 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:08.840 out now as we speak on this Sunday night, getting 15 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:10.879 ready for this week. It's going to be a great week. 16 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:14.040 I watched, of course, sixty minutes as much as I 17 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:17.319 could with my finger stuck down my throat, watching the 18 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:19.840 report of Scott Pelley about how important the Department of 19 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.040 Justice has been to the United States of America, comparing 20 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.599 a constitutional crisis to what happened in nineteen seventy three 21 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.439 and nineteen seventy four with Richard Nixon, going back to 22 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:33.680 eighteen twenty seven when President to Andrew Jackson said, if 23 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:36.599 this Supreme Court rules against me, let them enforce their 24 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:40.000 own So the media, especially sixty Minutes, it's about to 25 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.120 pay I think Donald Trump about ten million dollars in 26 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:47.560 damages for the non reporting of the interview of Kamala Harris. 27 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:50.959 But that's a different matter. That the media drumbeat is 28 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.120 beginning to get louder, that this is some illegitimate president 29 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:56.040 who shouldn't be doing what he's doing. Of course, the 30 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.000 thesis of Scott Pelly Tonight on Sixty Minutes was that 31 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:02.519 the Department of Justice is the final arbitrator of all 32 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:05.120 things right, good and just in the entire world, and 33 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:07.959 that somehow, if Donald Trump wants to install his own 34 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.520 people at the Department of Justice, which has happened for 35 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:13.360 the past one hundred years by almost every president, that 36 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:15.439 somehow that is sick and it's wrong, and it's a 37 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:18.599 constitutional crisis. And I watched some of this report, I 38 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:21.000 harkened back to all the topics you and I have 39 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:23.400 listened to and done together, and that is what the 40 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:27.960 Biden administration did purposely to Donald Trump, not just Donald Trump, 41 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:31.159 but to everyone around Donald Trump in the White House's lawyers, 42 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:34.560 his consultants, including chiefs of staff, etc. To bring them 43 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:36.800 down with the goal of getting Donald Trump locked up 44 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.240 before the twenty twenty four election. And but for the 45 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.520 stupidity and the recalcitrance of certain special counsel, it likely 46 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:47.159 would have happened. I often say when I speak to 47 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:50.400 members of the Trump family the road not taken, which is, 48 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.360 there is no question in my mind that if Jack 49 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:55.919 Smith was a bit more competent and started this thing 50 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:58.879 a year before he started it under the auspices of 51 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.439 Mary Garland, Joe Biden, who repeatedly said he wanted Donald 52 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:03.360 Trump prosecuted. 53 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:04.199 Yes he did. 54 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:08.479 The President said, prosecute directly and indirectly Donald Trump. If 55 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:10.280 he would have started that damn thing a year before 56 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:12.800 he did, and this thing was before a jury in 57 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.479 d C in Washington, d C. Is there any doubt 58 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:17.639 in your mind what the vericut would have been, Any 59 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:20.599 doubt in your mind that Judge Tanya Chudkin, who is 60 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.439 Obama appoint in a left winger, would have sent Donald 61 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:26.319 Trump to jail. She would have locked him up forthwith 62 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:29.800 and threw away the key. So how lucky. I often 63 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:34.319 say the prayer of the archangel Michael about the evil 64 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:38.080 crawling the earth looking to ruin souls and destroy lives. 65 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:41.919 And the system came close to being overwhelmed, not by 66 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:45.120 Donald Trump, but by the illegalities of the FBI and 67 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:47.960 the Department of Justice at the highest level. And so 68 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:50.680 when I watched this report tonight in sixty minutes, I 69 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:53.400 couldn't believe my eyes that I was hearing that sixty 70 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:57.360 minutes was saying, you know what, the Department of Justice 71 00:03:57.360 --> 00:03:59.759 and the FBI will be used by Donald Trump to 72 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:04.240 go after his political opponents, which is precisely which is 73 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:09.759 exactly what Joe Biden and Barack Hussein Obama and Kamala 74 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:14.879 Harris did for twelve twelve years after the political opponents 75 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:18.160 of the Democrats. That's what they did, and panel grand juries, 76 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:20.759 frighten people to death, and they did everything in their 77 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:23.480 power to make sure Donald Trump was not eligible to 78 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:26.199 run for the presidency. And it just didn't work out 79 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:28.920 by timing wise, and the fact that Judge Chunkin couldn't 80 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:31.399 get the defendant in front of her in time. The 81 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:33.360 case that went first was the one in New York City. 82 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:36.319 That was a joke, that was unbelievable to put that 83 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:38.839 thing on trial, And at some point in the next 84 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:42.120 six months, that entire thing will be reversed and Donald Trump, 85 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.879 so to speak, will not be a convicted felon. He 86 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:48.000 will be a free man, the victim of a political 87 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:50.519 witch hunt that was started by the Democrats to go 88 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:53.120 after Donald Trump, and so much more so, I kind 89 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:57.360 of snickered. I snickered tonight watching Scott Pelly and his erudite, 90 00:04:57.480 --> 00:04:59.839 arrogant fashion talk about how Donald Trump is going to 91 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:02.240 be a threat to democracy. Well, that's what I've been 92 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:04.600 watching for the last eight to twelve years. As the 93 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:08.040 Department of Justice went after Catholic churches, the Knights of Columbus, 94 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:10.480 they went after parents and school board meetings, they went 95 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:13.519 after grandmothers who prayed in front of abortion clinics. They 96 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:18.040 weaponized the Department of Justice against their political opponents. Now 97 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.120 that the shoe was on the other foot, from the 98 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:23.839 left foot to the right foot. Now it's completely disreputable 99 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:26.319 what Donald Trump seeks to do to get the truth out. 100 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:29.800 And I do trust Palm Pam BONDI the new Attorney 101 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:33.839 General and also the new FBI director, Cash Ptel, to 102 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:36.399 do what's right within the law, and not to give 103 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:38.920 Hillary Clinton a free pass who bleach bit at her 104 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.160 servers under a subpoena and took a jackhammer to him, 105 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:45.279 and not to Joe Biden, who had classified materials when 106 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:47.519 he wasn't the president as a senator at a VP 107 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:52.199 and he couldn't be classify in different locations including his garage, 108 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:55.600 and all of a sudden he wasn't mentally incompetent. 109 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:56.720 Couldn't be prosecutor are you kidding me? 110 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:02.040 That's what the Department of Justice did, and it's sick 111 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.839 and it's sad. So I just I sat there a 112 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.600 few hours ago and just be mused at the idea 113 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.759 at sixty minutes was going to be the arbitrator of 114 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:16.040 using the Department of Justice to go after one's political opponents, 115 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:20.680 which is exactly what happened, exactly what happened to Donald Trump. 116 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:23.279 And also in a sense Richard Nixon, I'm not going 117 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:25.519 to relate to gay Watergate. What he did in Watergate 118 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:29.639 was wrong, but he did the same things politically that 119 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:33.680 Democratic presidents including John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson 120 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:37.160 had did repeatedly. He came out of that genre. But 121 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.639 on one hand, you couldn't go after Kennedy obviously, and 122 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:43.279 Johnson was a media favorite and media darling. So by 123 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:46.120 the time he left office, and four years after he 124 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:49.040 left office, he was dead, and it was simply thought 125 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:51.879 that we'll go after the Republican. Richard Nixon in nineteen 126 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:55.160 seventy two got forty nine out of fifty states, had 127 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:57.120 nothing to do with Watergate, but then he engaged in 128 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:00.759 behavior to cover it up, which other president aident's Democrat 129 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:04.199 and Republican they had done for decades. Doesn't make it right, 130 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:07.360 but it makes it political. So get ready. It's going 131 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:09.040 to be a rough ride this week. But a couple 132 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:11.040 of things I want to bring it first and foremost. 133 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.680 You know about my feelings about cops, about police officers, 134 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:17.639 the thin blue line between democracy and anarchy, and we 135 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:20.560 lost a few great ones the last few days. I'm 136 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:23.680 watching TV on Friday night and I see that an 137 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.519 old friend of mine is now the chief of police 138 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:28.800 in Virginia Beach. 139 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:31.319 His name is Paul Newdigate. 140 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.360 He spent about twenty years as an assistant chief in 141 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:36.920 the city of Cincinnati where I live. In broadcast from 142 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:41.240 It's about the best there is. Chief Newdigate reported that 143 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:45.079 two young officers were gunned down in the streets of 144 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:47.959 Virginia Beach. I want you to know their names tonight, 145 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:51.279 and before you go to bed tonight, I would like 146 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:53.720 you to consider saying a silent prayer for the repose 147 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:58.199 of the soul. A police officer Cameron Gerwin and twenty 148 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:01.399 five years old, been on the forces for a couple 149 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.959 of years, and also officer Christopher Reese, thirty years old. 150 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:10.759 And Friday night, they were doing routine traffic patrol and 151 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:14.120 they noticed an expired license plate of someone. They simply 152 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:17.759 pulled the car over, which is happening tens of thousands 153 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:22.720 of time every day, every night in America. And unbeknownst 154 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:25.360 to them, there was a felon in that car within 155 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:29.439 the legal gun in his possession. He had numerous felon convictions. 156 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:32.440 His name was John McCoy. And they walked up the 157 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:35.120 side of the car asked for as for the license, 158 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:38.600 proof of insurance and registration. He didn't have it available 159 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:41.559 because he didn't have one. Unbeknownst to them, they were 160 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:45.600 a few seconds of being murdered. They told mister McCoy, 161 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.200 John McCoy, you got to get out of the car. 162 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:51.159 He refused to get out of the car. He finally 163 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:53.440 was coursed to leave the vehicle. He gets out of 164 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:56.200 the car and pulls out of his jacket pocket a 165 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:01.720 pistol shoots both officers. Officers went down in the streets 166 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.200 of Virginia Beach, and then he stood over both of 167 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:08.679 them and shot them again and again, defenseless on the 168 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:14.360 streets of Virginia Beach. And at this point the police 169 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:17.440 convened on the site. He was located a couple hundred 170 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:19.840 yards away in a shed hiding and there was a 171 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:22.840 single gunshot wound administered to the side of his temple. 172 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:26.360 And John McCoy right now is riding in hell with 173 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.480 many others and these two officers. The funerals are going 174 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:32.559 to be later this week, and just I will say 175 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.879 a prayer of thanks for the sacrifice these men, these 176 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.279 guys made on my behalf is the thin blue line 177 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:42.279 betweent de marcros and anarchy, anarchy once again. It's Officer 178 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:46.279 Cameron Gervin g I r v N, twenty five years 179 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:50.480 old and Officer Christopher Reese, only thirty years old, murdered 180 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:55.440 executed on the streets of Virginia Beach. Then, also about 181 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:58.000 a day and a half ago, this has become an 182 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:02.039 all too common event. There was a person who was 183 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:05.480 angry about the medical care provided to a friend of his. 184 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:08.559 They think that's the motive, but the police in York, 185 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:11.960 PA are not exactly sure. Governor Shapiro did a fine 186 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.120 news conference a couple of days ago, and there was 187 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:20.799 a criminal named Diogenes Ortiz, forty nine years old who 188 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:26.080 reported to the UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, Pennsylvania with 189 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:32.720 zip ties and a weapon. He invaded the intensive care 190 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:39.080 unit at the UPMC Memorial Hospital and the attacked targeted 191 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:45.480 specific individuals who he perceived as being medical individuals who 192 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:46.840 did not assist a friend of theirs. 193 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:48.320 Of course, it's only been a couple. 194 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:51.799 Of days, so actually why the motive might be not 195 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:54.559 as clear as it will be in the future. But 196 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:59.559 this man, this murderer, a zip tide, a couple nurses 197 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:03.960 and doc targeting specific staff members who allegedly did not 198 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:08.320 provide care to a friend of his. Officer Andrew Douart, 199 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:11.360 very young cop, but he's been at it for about 200 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:15.240 five or six years, ran toward the difficulties. Shots were 201 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:21.000 fired and Officer Andrew Duhart was murdered inside the hospital 202 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:24.840 and others were injured and wounded, but they will survive. 203 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:30.600 But again, add Officer Andrew Douart to your list of 204 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:34.080 a brave American who stepped forward. And this is a wave. 205 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:37.320 When I went to a Google search on this, there 206 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:40.240 has been an increase and that's why we have John 207 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:46.360 Lott coming up later of political medical assassinations in which 208 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:50.679 individuals seemingly are displeased with medical care, medical services, or 209 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:54.120 the hospital industry or the healthcare business, and it taken 210 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:59.360 upon themselves to kill individuals associated therein I'm HARKing back, 211 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:03.919 of course, to what happened with Luigi Mangioni, the murderer 212 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:08.120 of Brian Thompson on December the fourth, CEO United Healthcare. 213 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:13.159 He's become a hero with some liberals because he represented 214 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:16.600 insurance companies, and I would assume that these docs and 215 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:21.919 these intensive care nurses represented what medical care for those 216 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:25.519 in need. And so there's been a string of attacks, 217 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.639 I think encouraged by some in the left wing media, 218 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:31.960 as if this is justified. How many times have you 219 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:34.600 heard the past three or four months that the murder 220 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:38.559 of Brian Thompson was somehow justified. It was somehow justified 221 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:40.960 because he was the CEO of You're Not of Healthcare, 222 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:44.519 which is a for profit business operating within the laws 223 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:48.039 of this country. And Luigi hunted him down, spent weeks 224 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.679 planning it, executed him, shot him in the back like 225 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:53.799 a coward, and as he died on the sidewalks of 226 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:58.399 New York the murderer Luigi made his way was finally 227 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:02.320 captured three or four days later at of McDonald's in Pennsylvania. 228 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.919 It's sad, and of course this is the date before 229 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.039 I get in the essence of today's remarks, which is 230 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:14.960 the date that my father spent time in Iwajima. It 231 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:20.000 was exactly eighty years ago today, on February twenty third, 232 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:25.320 nineteen forty five, that six brave Marines raised the American 233 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:30.440 flag on Ewajima's Mount Sarabaci in commemoration of the fact 234 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:35.200 that after several weeks of fighting, vicious, cruel, unbelievable violence 235 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:38.919 inflicted upon American Marines and others by Japanese devendors, that 236 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:43.279 this was a circumstance where it was thought, okay, let's 237 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.960 wave the American flag, which will rally the troops, and 238 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:49.399 fighting continued for about another about another. 239 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:50.000 Two or three weeks. 240 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:52.919 At the end of the battle, which is things turned 241 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.840 out because of Rosia Mo Nagasaki probably did not have 242 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:57.679 to take place at all. It was going to be 243 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:00.159 a landing strip to be used in the future in 244 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:04.879 nineteen forty six for the assault on the Japanese mainland. 245 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:08.440 But at that point in March, in February and March 246 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:11.240 of nineteen forty five was uncertain the ending of the war, 247 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:16.240 and so at that point there were seven thousand Marines killed. 248 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:20.559 There were another fourteen thousand marines injured. The dead on 249 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.039 the evil side, the Japanese Imperial Army side was immense. 250 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:28.360 Out of all the twenty eight thousand defenders of You 251 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:31.120 with Jimma, only about one hundred and seventy five Japanese 252 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:36.080 soldiers remain. They killed themselves or in waves of attacks 253 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:40.279 on American marines would be killed. And that brings up 254 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:44.200 the whole concept I think of unconditional surrender. The only 255 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:46.639 way to win a war is to fight it all out, 256 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:50.120 and to win there is no substitute for victory. I 257 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:53.039 recall the great scene of Georgie Patten and the movie 258 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.240 Patent Late and I think sixty eight or sixty nine, 259 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:58.799 in which he said, I won't use the B word 260 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:03.440 referring to a childless, a child without a known father, 261 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:06.480 but he said, American soldiers will win this war not 262 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:08.720 because they're going to die for their country, because they 263 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:12.399 make the enemy die for their country. And America won 264 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:17.039 that war with unconditional surrender of the Germans, the Italians, 265 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:21.240 the Austrians, and of course the Japanese unconditional surrender. It 266 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:23.519 was thought, okay, let's have some plan here, let's do 267 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:28.639 something to have some conditional surrender. And whoever was in charge, 268 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:32.279 whether it was FDR or was Harry S. Truman, he said, no, 269 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:37.159 it's unconditional surrender. We occupy your island, we occupy your homeland. 270 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:41.039 We will prosecute this thing until total victory. I'm getting 271 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:43.519 to a point here about Israel, and the fact is 272 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:47.120 that when the existence of this country was at stake, 273 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:50.720 what did we do? Did we have conditional surrender? Did 274 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.159 we not use everything in our power, in our prestige 275 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:55.960 to save this country, which I consider to be God's 276 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:00.279 representative on Earth, of course not We firebombed Dresden one 277 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:04.440 hundred thousand civilians. We leveled every German city, killing millions 278 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:06.720 and millions of innocent men, women and children. In a 279 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:09.639 sense they were Germans. They weren't in the battle, but 280 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:11.879 they were Germans. They were part of the effort. And 281 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.440 when it came time to go after Japan that viciously 282 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.159 killed about two thousand of our citizens of Pear Harbor 283 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:21.039 on the summer of the seventh nineteen forty one, there 284 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:24.879 wasn't much outcry of using too much force against the 285 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:29.080 nation's enemy, that that is, the nation of Japan, and 286 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:31.559 did everything in their power to make the Japanese surrender 287 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:34.080 ahead of time before the two bombs were dropped on 288 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.679 August the sixth and August the ninth, nineteen forty five, 289 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:40.279 on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and the words of the 290 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:42.759 Emperor Hirohito were heard for the first time over a 291 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:46.639 broadcast provided by the American military forces to tell his 292 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:48.600 Japanese people to surrender. 293 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:49.799 That's it, it's over. 294 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:53.840 And then we occupied the island, We occupied German and 295 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:54.279 we won. 296 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:55.360 We won. 297 00:16:55.759 --> 00:17:00.480 They lost total war, and every means necessary We brought 298 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:03.720 the war. They wanted war, We brought it. But we've 299 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.079 not really won a war since nineteen forty five because 300 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:10.359 civilization would not allow it to occur. When I spent 301 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:13.720 time in Israel, their existence is at stake. Just a 302 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:16.279 few days ago, there was a plan to blow up 303 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:19.799 five buses and trains packed with Israelis on their way 304 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:24.559 to work. Sadly, someone put in the wrong time of 305 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:28.680 the timer on the bombs on the buses and the trains. 306 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:32.680 Instead of having go off at nine am Tel Aviv time, 307 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:36.240 it was nine pm and that was the default, and 308 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:39.240 they miscueued the time of the bombs. 309 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:39.440 To go off. 310 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:44.480 They intended to kill literally thousands and thousands of Jews 311 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:45.440 every chance they get. 312 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:46.759 What do they do? They kill Jews? 313 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:51.119 And so much like America in nineteen forty five, we must, 314 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:57.359 as supporters of Israel, encourage Benjamin Netanyahu to have unconditional 315 00:17:57.400 --> 00:18:00.319 surrender of a moss has Blat in Iran and end 316 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:02.920 this war once and for all. Let's continue with more. 317 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:05.119 Will set up more later on Bill cunning In The 318 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:08.480 Great American with you every Sunday night by Billy cunning 319 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:10.559 Him the Great American. Let's set up tonight's big show. 320 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:12.960 We've scheduled. They have you and I join us tonight. 321 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:17.400 Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. He's so pleased 322 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:19.640 he can't stand it anymore about what's happening to the 323 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:24.400 American economy. Also John Lott, former Deputy Attorney General under 324 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:27.519 Donald Trump on the first ideation about what's going to 325 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:30.799 happen now is that there will be more reporting of 326 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:34.839 crimes committed instead of prosecutions, because, as you know, the 327 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:37.440 last of four years, every time you turn on the 328 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:39.960 mainstream media, they would tell you, you know what, crime is down. 329 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:40.640 Crime is down. 330 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:44.559 No, no arrest are down, indictments are down. But actually 331 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:47.759 crime is up. Crime in America, as you know, is up. 332 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:50.480 It's demonstrated by the few remarks I made the beginning 333 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:53.279 about the killing of so many police officers and killing 334 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:57.279 of those involved in the medical industry. When the expectations 335 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:59.799 are one thing, the reality is another. They have someone 336 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:04.240 in made intensive care unit at a major hospital in York, Pennsylvania, 337 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:07.240 and to take hostage doctors and nurses, and then to 338 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:11.400 have a police officer murdered in the process, that the 339 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:16.640 murderer killed an innocent police officer, particularly discussing let's continue 340 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:19.480 with more the line becomes available eight six six six 341 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:22.400 four seven seven three three seven. Also later on tonight 342 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:25.920 is is a man named gorm who's a great environmentalists 343 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:27.880 and more. Bill Cunningham with you and all of the 344 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:37.839 great Americans every Sunday Night by Billy Cunningham, the Great American. 345 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:39.519 It kind of came lust about an hour ago. 346 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:42.880 One of the individuals in podcasting and talk radio I 347 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:46.039 really enjoyed listening to other than the great one Mark Levin, 348 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:49.079 of course and Jean Hannity, was the great Dan Bongino. 349 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:51.640 It was announced about an hour or so ago by 350 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:57.319 President Trump that Dan Bongino has agreed to join him 351 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:01.680 as deputy director of the FBI under a course Cash Patel, 352 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:04.440 both those are friends. I knew that Dan spent about 353 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:07.680 ten or twelve years in the Secret Service. He spent 354 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:10.960 about ten years in the New York Police Department, also 355 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:14.279 a close friend of Cash. Patel just confirmed to sworn 356 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:17.000 in I think on Thursday or Friday, and he's going 357 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:21.839 to be number two at the FBI. So imagine where 358 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:24.240 we were a couple months, a couple of three months 359 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:30.000 ago with Christopher Ray heading up the FBI, admittedly filing 360 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:34.799 false affidavis with the Pviza court, green lighting lies about 361 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.119 the so called Russian collusion delusion and also the Hunter 362 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:41.880 Biden laptop, all that stuff, and now in charge of 363 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:45.880 the FBI, it's Cash battel and I think Jay Egor 364 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.519 Hoover would be rolling over in his grave. And also 365 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:54.920 Dan Bongino will be appointed deputy director. And stories don't 366 00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:57.400 indicate whether he must be confirmed by the Senate, but 367 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:01.279 I think he probably does. And this is the latest 368 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:04.200 sign that Trump has committed to cleaning house at the 369 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:07.759 FBI that needs it badly. And he'll report directly to 370 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:12.119 Pam Bondi Director of National Intelligence Telsea Gabbert, of course 371 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.799 through Cash. Pttel who will be now is the head 372 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:19.119 of the FBI. And Patel had experiences in a lawyer, 373 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:23.519 high ranking official. Bongino has practical law enforcement experience, former 374 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:27.200 Secret Service and Secret Service, former police officer and an agent. 375 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:29.519 In fact, I see a lot of video of Dan 376 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:33.759 Bongino protecting Barack Hussein Obama, and I have people like 377 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:36.640 this in charge of the FBI, sending a message that 378 00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:39.400 the core mission must be returned to the rank and 379 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:42.880 file of the FBI. It can't be a political organization 380 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:45.240 as it's been for the past fifteen or twenty years. 381 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:50.119 And despite the protestations of sixty minutes in Scott Pelly tonight, 382 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:52.920 the FBI the last ten to twenty years has been 383 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:59.759 a political organization persecuting Republicans and giving Democrats free passes everywhere, 384 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:03.680 most famously in twenty sixteen when James Comy kind of 385 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.000 admitted that Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State and first Lady, 386 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:11.640 committed numerous serious felonies, but of course no jury in Washington, 387 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:13.880 d C. Would convict her because she's a woman and 388 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:16.960 she's a Democrat. I guess that's the standard, right. I 389 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:19.920 don't think Dan Bongino and cash Pttel will be given 390 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:24.680 to those standards. And so despite the arguments of sixty 391 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:28.119 minutes tonight, the FBI is in better hands they've been 392 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:30.480 in a while. And one thing that kind of irritates 393 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:34.960 me is whenever a Republican does something, they are criticized 394 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:39.119 many times on racial grounds or ecumenical grounds of one 395 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:41.640 type or another. In this case, when I look at 396 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:46.319 the cabinet of Donald Trump, it is very diverse. Given 397 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:50.559 no credit, I can't recall I googled this the compliments 398 00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:55.160 for the diversity of the Trump cabinet. Is there a 399 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:58.640 story out there available to be told by other than 400 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:01.839 Joy Reid, who's now out of MSNBC. By the way, 401 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:05.720 Marco Rubio is the first Hispanic to head up our 402 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:10.200 Foreign Service Secretary of State's office. Marco Rubio, who was 403 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:15.440 unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Hispanic. Susie Wiles Pat Summer 404 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.720 Awl is the daughter is the presidential chief of Staff, 405 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:23.039 the first female chief of staff in Washington, d C. History. 406 00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:27.400 The head of the Treasury is Scott Bissett. He's a 407 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:30.599 multi billionaire, a friend of Donald Trump, but he's also gay. 408 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:33.680 And normally when a person has professed as being a 409 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:36.920 gay person, in the media's eyes, that's a compliment. But 410 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:40.000 you'll never see any credit given to Donald Trump for 411 00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:44.039 apporting Scott Bissett the Treasury. Or Rick Grenell been on 412 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:47.440 my show several times. He's the envoy to get hostages 413 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:50.720 freed in Venezuela and elsewhere, and he's going to head 414 00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:56.319 up the so called relief efforts in Pacific Palisades in California. 415 00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:59.000 And he's saying early on Rick Grnell is saying, Look, 416 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:02.319 I may run, I may run for a governor. If 417 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:04.960 Kamala Harris announces that she's going to run for governor 418 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:07.279 because we can't take it anymore. Throw on top of 419 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:12.640 all that. Scott Turner, who's African American, great football player 420 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:15.559 at HUD. Throw on top of that Bobby Kennedy Junior. 421 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:16.359 Are you kidding me? 422 00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:20.680 Serving in a Republican administration Health and Human Services? You 423 00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:23.279 talk about a cabinet. Throw on top of that. Cash Betel, 424 00:24:23.359 --> 00:24:26.880 director of the FBI, and now Dan Bongino. It's the 425 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:30.400 it's fabulous, it's wonderful. Look at it. Throw on top 426 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:34.200 of that Pete Hegseth that he's not Lloyd Austin, who 427 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:36.359 needs to lose about one hundred pounds, who won a wall, 428 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:40.559 Secretary of Defense, who was with Raytheon for years, cashed 429 00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:43.640 out his tickets as a four star, went to Raytheon 430 00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:46.839 a defense contractor, made millions and millions of dollars in 431 00:24:46.920 --> 00:24:50.119 this lobbyist, came back to become Secretary of Defense. Did 432 00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:52.920 the media cover it that way? I don't think so. 433 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:56.000 Pete Hegseth got buyed by the skin of his teeth. 434 00:24:56.039 --> 00:24:59.200 I think he was at fifty was it fifty to 435 00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:02.880 fifty to forty maybe fifty to forty eight. He just 436 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:05.599 barely got through because of the vote of JD. 437 00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:06.079 Vance. 438 00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:08.359 So I kind of look at what's going on here, 439 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:10.160 and I'm thinking this is fabulous. So the vote on 440 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:14.440 Hegseth was fifty to fifty and then JD Vance broke it. 441 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:17.799 It's a wonderful thing to watch a diverse, bright, intelligent 442 00:25:17.880 --> 00:25:22.039 committeed cabinet wanting to do the bidding of the elected 443 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:25.440 president who won the parality of votes and he got 444 00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:29.039 seventy seven million votes. Donald Trump did seventy seven million. 445 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:32.440 And I still have my doubts about twenty twenty. How 446 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:36.000 Joe Biden got eighty one million votes, which is sixteen 447 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:39.680 million more votes than Barack Hussein Obama, which is four 448 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:42.359 million more votes than Donald Trump got in this election. 449 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:46.160 Somehow sleepy Joe got eighty one million votes. I have 450 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:50.119 my doubts, but nonetheless, this is good news. Dan Bongino 451 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:52.279 is leaving the world of talk. He's going to give 452 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:55.519 up his podcast and his talk radio duties and he's 453 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:57.720 going to go work for the president because he has 454 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:01.240 that calling. So for the fans of Dan Gino, it's 455 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:04.039 a loss for the country. It is my view a 456 00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:07.000 great gain now page two. I sound like Paul Harvey, 457 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:12.119 good day. And that is this that America's existence as 458 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:16.079 a nation has been challenged once or twice in American history, 459 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:19.160 and each time it was challenged, America went to war, 460 00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:24.240 unconditional war, unconditional surrender. The first time, you may think 461 00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:26.880 it was the War of eighteen twelve when the bridge 462 00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:30.400 burned down, burned the Capitol in the White House. In fact, 463 00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:33.160 when I went to the I had some friendship with 464 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:35.519 Nuke ingrig and he showed me the bloodstains on the 465 00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:39.400 marble steps of the Capitol in which individuals were defending 466 00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:41.519 the capitol against the burning of the capitol. But there 467 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:44.720 was a sense even in eighteen fifteen that there was 468 00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:47.680 not going to be the taking over of America by 469 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:52.240 the Brits. In eighteen sixty one, absolutely America went to 470 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:57.480 a total war North versus the South. The South for Democrats, 471 00:26:57.519 --> 00:27:01.160 and the Democrats wanted to secede from the Union. Abraham Lincoln, 472 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:04.640 a Republican, said nah babanah, nah babanah, No, we'll go 473 00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:07.759 to war. So the South started the war by firing 474 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:10.480 on Fort Sumter. It took about two years for Abe 475 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:15.200 Lincoln to find Ulysses S. Grant, and it was total war, 476 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:19.640 using all the armaments available in the eighteen sixties, resulting 477 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:22.680 in six hundred thousand deaths minimum in the North and 478 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:26.880 the South, and the Confederacy the Democrats were defeated, Slavery 479 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:31.599 was gone. Abraham Lincoln then was killed April the thirteenth 480 00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:36.799 of eighteen sixty five, and then President Johnson took over 481 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:39.559 from Tennessee and the rest is history. But there was 482 00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:42.960 a chance that America would not exist if the Confederacy 483 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:45.440 had won the war and they would have seceded from 484 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:47.559 the Union. They would have tried to get the Western 485 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:50.279 States to join their way of thinking. The country would 486 00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:52.039 have been on the wrong track in the country wouldn't 487 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:55.200 have existed. In nineteen forty one, America went to a 488 00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:58.839 total war, and it began, of course, with the attack 489 00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:01.880 on Pearl Harbor. But then for the next almost four 490 00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:06.440 years America had added We used every means in our method. 491 00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:10.359 We firebombed and carpet bomb the European cities and Japanese cities. 492 00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:13.519 They wanted war, and we gave it to them. And 493 00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:15.680 at the end of the day. There was some thought 494 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:20.160 that maybe in Japan we should not demand unconditional surrender, 495 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:23.920 but that was quickly dispatched at that point by Harry S. 496 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:27.400 Truman and said, no unconditional surrender, there are no terms. 497 00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:31.160 There was a time in Upomattox when General Lee, meeting 498 00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:34.880 with Ulysses, asked Grant wanted the terms of this surrender. 499 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:37.759 What kind of terms would you like, Ulysses asked. Grant 500 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:39.680 looked at him by the way from the state of Ohio, 501 00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:43.319 and said, unconditional surrender. What do you mean? And there 502 00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:46.559 was no doubt that when the existence of the nation 503 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:49.839 is at risk, the first thing that must do is 504 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:53.240 have unconditional surrender. We win, you lose. 505 00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:54.079 That's it. 506 00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:57.839 I have a great fear tonight, this Sunday night, that 507 00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:02.240 Israel will not be frommitted to have a total victory 508 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:05.440 over the forces of darkness and evil. We see with 509 00:29:05.559 --> 00:29:08.839 Hesbla Hamas the youthis and also what's happening in Iran. 510 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:12.920 I have a sense that Boca Haram or Isis whatever 511 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:17.319 it might be, could be dispatched quickly by the Israeli military. 512 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:20.559 There's no explanation I think up to this point for 513 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:24.880 Israel's behavior. If America's existence was at stake as a nation, 514 00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:28.960 what would we do. We would fight like warrior poets. 515 00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:32.960 We would fire bomb and carpetbamb Americans foreign cities. We 516 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:36.720 would call up twelve million more Army, Navy, Air Force personnel, 517 00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:40.200 and we would fight like warrior poets to save this country. 518 00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:45.160 Israel has been constrained for so long, not able to 519 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:47.680 win the war. We have not won a war in 520 00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:51.240 a sense since nineteen forty five. Korea was a halfway deal. 521 00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:55.200 Vietnam was a loss, Iraq was a loss, Afghanistan was 522 00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:58.559 a loss. We participate in wars, but we don't win them. 523 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:02.160 In the case of Israel, they do not have a 524 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:05.960 choice because their existence is at stake. What we did 525 00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:08.720 in Korea, what we did in Vietnam, what we did 526 00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:13.160 in Iraq, what we did in Afghanistan, the existence of 527 00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:16.599 our country was not at stake, so we pussy footed 528 00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:20.440 around and didn't win any of those wars. One might 529 00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:23.319 say Korea War was a halfway victory, and that's it. 530 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:26.519 We had the power to destroy North Korea and to 531 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:28.839 oppose our will on them, but we failed to do so, 532 00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:32.559 and ever since then, that is the template. In Israel's case, 533 00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:36.559 They're in a completely different circumstance. Would you agree. When 534 00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:41.400 I spent time in Israel about two years ago, I 535 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:47.480 saw a functioning Western style democracy. I saw churches in Jerusalem. 536 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:52.400 I saw churches Catholic churches in Tel Aviv. I saw 537 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:58.200 Muslim facilities all over the place. I saw Jewish ideations 538 00:30:58.240 --> 00:31:00.720 all over the place. I saw a country with about 539 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:04.200 six million Jews and about four million others who aren't 540 00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:07.240 Jews but live in peace in Israel. I saw border 541 00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:11.960 crossings in which every day twenty to thirty thousand Palestinians 542 00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.200 would go from Gaza or the West Bank into Israel 543 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:17.880 to work in return. I saw it constantly. I saw 544 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.279 functioning of functioning Western style democracy, with women and girls 545 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:26.559 having rights, with educational facilities, with first class medical care, 546 00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:30.119 with a farming community second to none, and a high 547 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:32.839 tech industry that was growing. And I saw, because of 548 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:36.319 the Abraham Accords, a nation ready to be accepted in 549 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:39.720 the Middle East as a functioning democracy in which Palestinians 550 00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:43.680 live in peace inside Israel. How is it possible that 551 00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:48.720 about twenty percent of the Kanessant is governed by Arab Muslims, 552 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.519 and that's the governing power inside Israel. That's the way 553 00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:57.920 they It is a Western style democracy. It's unfortunate that 554 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:00.640 the fact of life is what Israel has been doing 555 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:03.799 up to this point will not win the war. In war, 556 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:08.039 there is no substitute for victory. The existence of Israel 557 00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:11.039 is at stake. If the forces of evil in the 558 00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:14.839 Middle East had the same military power of Israel, and 559 00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:18.039 Israel had the power of Lebanon or Jordan or Egypt, 560 00:32:18.119 --> 00:32:22.599 guess what Israel would not exist. And right now someone's 561 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:26.000 got to decide, maybe it's Netsan Yahu or others. We 562 00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:28.759 must win this war and do what is necessary to win. 563 00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:33.920 War is terrible, War is brutal. War is particularly unkind 564 00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:37.200 to innocent men, women and children. It is awful. But 565 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:41.240 as indicated about it four or five days ago, via 566 00:32:41.279 --> 00:32:44.400 those five bus bombs that were planned, no one got 567 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:47.440 hurt because one of the Hamas terrorists put the wrong 568 00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:50.880 timing mechanism at nine pm instead of nine am. If 569 00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:53.000 it had gone off as intended, there would have been 570 00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:56.200 dozens or hundreds more Jews killed. This will go on 571 00:32:56.680 --> 00:33:01.240 and on and on until Hamas and has failed to exist, 572 00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:05.000 until Iran is on its back. There is no substitute 573 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:09.519 for victory except the unconditional surrender. Any military power on 574 00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:12.440 Earth that had just suffered the losses of Hesbla and 575 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:14.880 a Moss at the hands of the IDF would say, 576 00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:17.880 at this point, we give in, we quit. Did you 577 00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:21.240 see the smiling faces of hundreds or a few thousand 578 00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:24.400 of a Moss and their supporters handing over the bodies 579 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:28.519 of that proud mother eventually and then the two little 580 00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:31.200 babies that were brutally murdered at the hands of a 581 00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:35.759 Moss literally using their hands. To me, it is unbelievable 582 00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:39.160 what happened to Israel and how restraint they have shown 583 00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:44.119 because until October, until the attack in October. On October seventh, 584 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:48.079 twenty twenty three, it was the largest attack in Israel 585 00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:52.279 since nineteen forty eight, since that war. A little known fact, 586 00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:56.559 there were about four thousand rockets fired in the twenty 587 00:33:56.599 --> 00:34:00.799 one Jewish communities. There were hundreds of paragliders, well armed, 588 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:04.039 hype up on drugs, who flew into twenty one different 589 00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:10.159 Jewish communities. About six thousand Hamas attackers were involved, including 590 00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:14.320 thousands of Palestinians themselves living in gossip. There were about 591 00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:17.199 twenty one hundred Jews murdered and about two hundred and 592 00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:22.800 fifty hostages taken. Not just murdered, children were raped, babies 593 00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:26.760 were beheaded, women went through a living hell watching their 594 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.840 husband and or children being burned at a steak. They 595 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:35.280 were tortured, extremities who were severed from bodies. Cheryl Sandberg, 596 00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:38.679 who was with the Facebook and Google, documented much of 597 00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:42.400 this and a documentary she did. It is truly unbelievable 598 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:47.280 the brutality that Hamas showed toward the Jews in this contemptible, 599 00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:51.760 unprovoked attack that killed over two thousand Jews. The more 600 00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:55.119 Jews died in one day that since the Holocaust, and 601 00:34:55.159 --> 00:35:00.360 we just went through the commemoration of the opening the 602 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:04.039 rescuing of thousands of Jews in Auschwitz a couple of 603 00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:08.079 weeks ago. And when you're in a war for your survivability, 604 00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:11.960 the last thing you can do is be measured in 605 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.639 your response. One can only imagine a nineteen forty five, 606 00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:19.000 say in February or March of nineteen forty five, if 607 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.440 someone would have said FDR was on his last legs, 608 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:23.280 then he died in April. I think April the twelfth, 609 00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:27.159 nineteen forty five, that why don't we sue for peace 610 00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:30.360 with Germany? This is getting too brutal. We're killing too 611 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:34.400 many civilians, they're killing Ourgis, we're killing theirs. How about 612 00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:38.440 doing a government in Munich or in Bond whatever, and 613 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:42.599 we'll let Adolf Hitler or hers or his progenies they 614 00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:45.920 involved governing Germany. Would anyone even think about such a thought? 615 00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:48.960 Absolutely not if someone would have said, well, in Japan 616 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:53.079 in nineteen July nineteen forty five, let's sue for peace. 617 00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:58.239 Let's not obliterate Japan. And we can't have that. Israel 618 00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:01.679 must act as if there's survival is at stake. Fair 619 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:04.880 to do so, We'll have terrible consequences as we continue. 620 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.079 I'll have some setting up the rest of tonight's show. 621 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:11.719 Once again, Israel must win this war by any means necessary. 622 00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:24.159 Bill Cunningham with you every Sunday night. I can only 623 00:36:24.239 --> 00:36:27.159 imagine that after cash Bettel was sworn in on Friday, 624 00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:30.679 that his first call was to his friend Dan Bongino 625 00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:33.199 to join him as deputy director of the research. I've 626 00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:37.119 just went through quickly indicated it has not Senate confirmed. 627 00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:40.440 That means Dan Bongino can start work on Monday or 628 00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:45.000 so getting the FBI back under control. Despite the protestations 629 00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:49.239 of Scott Pelley at sixty minutes tonight, the FBI now 630 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.519 will be under control. When it was not under control 631 00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:56.000 for the last fifteen or twenty years. One couldnot have 632 00:36:56.079 --> 00:36:59.440 imagined an FBI doing its job by investigating the Catholic 633 00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:03.360 Knights of Columbus or telling those who go to a 634 00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:07.840 Latin mass or possible domestic terrorist, the Catholics that worship 635 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:12.480 the God, the true God is somehow they're un American. 636 00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.960 I can't imagine the FBI for years telling parents the 637 00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:18.639 school board meetings, don't voice your opinion, We're going to 638 00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:22.400 investigate you. A good FBI agent would have said, look 639 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.800 that the Russian collusion delusion is a farce and it's 640 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:27.639 a joke, and we know it's a joke, and we're 641 00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:29.760 not going to pursue that one. They would not submit 642 00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:32.679 false affidavits to affisee a court, for example. That's all 643 00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:35.440 the FBI has done at the top level, not at 644 00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:39.000 the rank and file, of course in cities like Cincinnati 645 00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:42.719 or Detroit or Miami, but at the FBI, the high level. 646 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:46.440 It's a terrible circumstance, and Scott Pelley should be told 647 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:49.559 that what he's seeking to have Donald Trump not do 648 00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:50.519 has already been. 649 00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:53.519 Done by the Democrats. Let's continue with more. Go Cunningham 650 00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:55.280 with you every Sunday. 651 00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:55.119 Know. 652 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:34.039 Willie Rock by Choice Hotels, Econo Lodge and Roadway In 653 00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:37.079 Hotels are serving up double points for every qualifying stay 654 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:38.360 book at Choice. 655 00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:39.599 Hotels dot com. 656 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:43.119 Now here's the man who's been recognized as radio's best, 657 00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:47.320 the recipient of not one but two prestigious Marconi Awards 658 00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:54.280 for his broadcast excellence, the one and only Bill Cunningham. 659 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:55.760 By Billy Cunningham, the Great American. Of course, the American 660 00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:00.119 renaissances underway. It's beginning in the first thirty days normally 661 00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:03.119 accounted president, it's the first one hundred days. It seems 662 00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:05.199 like he's been president for the last one hundred days. 663 00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:07.199 Has only been a little more than thirty five days, 664 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:09.719 and it's getting bigger and better than ever before. 665 00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:10.599 I love it. 666 00:39:11.079 --> 00:39:13.920 I know he's in a good place when sixty minutes 667 00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:18.519 attacks him. But nonetheless, Scott Powell is with the Discovery Institute. 668 00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:21.159 He's also a member of the Committee on the President 669 00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:24.960 Danger China and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. 670 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:28.480 His timeless book was Rediscovering America, the number one Amazon 671 00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:31.159 bestseller for about eight weeks. And of course last week 672 00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:33.199 was President's Day, and I watched some of the media 673 00:39:33.239 --> 00:39:35.480 going crazy, thinking, you know, what what we ought to 674 00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:37.519 do is get rid of President's Day because we might 675 00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:42.000 might be honoring Donald Trump, and which is not exactly 676 00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:45.119 the case. And Scott Powell, welcome again to the Bill 677 00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:47.840 Cunningham Show. And first of all, your colin, which is 678 00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:50.760 at townhall dot com, is a great one. And this 679 00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:54.000 one talks about the President's Day, et cetera. And it says, 680 00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:57.280 among other things, that reflections on Washington, Lincoln, and Trump 681 00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:01.599 on President's Day. And you link Trump with George Washington, 682 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:05.039 Abraham Lincoln, I would say Ronald Reagan. His portrait is 683 00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:07.480 with the President over his left shoulder. Tell me why 684 00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:09.239 you write such things about Donald Trump? 685 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:15.760 Well, Uh, each is very different, and but there are 686 00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:19.000 qualities of character that linked these three people. 687 00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:23.119 And and there. 688 00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:26.039 The three things that I think are important are faith, courage, 689 00:40:26.079 --> 00:40:31.159 and persistence. And of course you know Washington, Uh was 690 00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:33.320 shot at in the French and Indian Warrior had four 691 00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:36.719 bullet holes through his uniform. But a bullet didn't didn't 692 00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:38.039 even put a scratch in his body. 693 00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:39.400 Uh, And that. 694 00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:41.000 Gave that that that changed him. 695 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:42.840 You know, he knew that it was protected by God, 696 00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:46.159 and that gave him great courage. Trump's same story. He 697 00:40:46.239 --> 00:40:49.719 knows that it was God's protection that prevented him from 698 00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:52.719 being assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania. 699 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:56.760 That that and he's a changed man. And uh, he 700 00:40:56.840 --> 00:40:58.119 has incredible courage. 701 00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:02.480 And and then the third quality that both these people 702 00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:03.519 have as persistence. 703 00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:06.960 They just don't stop. They never give up. 704 00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:11.280 I mean, you know, we were outgunned, out maneuvered, outfunded, 705 00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:15.159 out trained in the War of Independence against the greatest 706 00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:17.679 military power in the world, that's Great Britain. But how 707 00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:21.719 did we win. Well, we lost more battles than we won, 708 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:24.639 you know, George Washington lost more than he won. But 709 00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:29.360 in the end, we defeated them at Yorktown. And they thought, 710 00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:32.079 after six years, you know, we can't beat these people. 711 00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:34.519 They're never going to give up, and so they just 712 00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:36.760 they built it. You know, it's done. 713 00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:38.920 To surrender. We'll call it a day. 714 00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:42.440 So one of the things you say in your column, 715 00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:45.199 which I think is beautiful, is that Washington and Lincoln 716 00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:48.239 agreed that America's greatest threat to national survival would come 717 00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:52.440 from within rather than some military invasion. And when jd 718 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:55.440 Vance about ten days ago at the Munich Security Conference, 719 00:41:55.440 --> 00:41:58.119 and I think Germany is now turning to conservatism again. 720 00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:01.239 But nonetheless he said to the Germans what had to 721 00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:05.760 be said about Germany from within, not from without America. 722 00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:09.559 It applies so starkly that when I watch what's happening 723 00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:11.719 in our major cities. I look at what was going 724 00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:13.920 on on the southern border, the northern border. I look 725 00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:17.000 at our trade deficit with China was a trillion dollars 726 00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:19.280 a year. I can't have faed them a trillion dollars. 727 00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:23.719 I look at perhaps entities taking away the US dollar 728 00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:26.719 as a reserve currency, and I look at all that, 729 00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:29.679 and I'm thinking, my God, were we in trouble? And 730 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:34.079 I think, as God's representative on Earth is United States 731 00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:37.039 of America. And if we fall, no one's going to 732 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:38.679 be left to pick us up. No one's going to 733 00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:41.559 come to our assistance. That were the one indispensable power. 734 00:42:41.800 --> 00:42:43.960 So what is it about Donald Trump that makes you 735 00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:47.159 say that he recognizes the enemy is from within? 736 00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:50.480 Well, that was his experience. 737 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:54.480 I mean, I think when he was elected in twenty sixteen, 738 00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:57.480 the first time, I think, you know, he'd come from business, 739 00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:02.159 he really didn't understand the dark side of politics so well. 740 00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:04.119 He was always a good deal maker. 741 00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:06.079 He could get he could get along with the opposition 742 00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:09.039 in his in his private life in business. 743 00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:12.639 But boy, when he uh, when when he had. 744 00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:15.199 Uh was elected to be president of the United States, 745 00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:18.559 people that he thought were going to cooperate and help 746 00:43:18.639 --> 00:43:23.119 him be his friends betrayed him. And uh, he had 747 00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:26.360 a you know, he he had a very tough four years. 748 00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:30.239 And what's so interesting. One thing that I say in 749 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:33.719 that article that I think you know, many others missed 750 00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:39.480 was that was there was a bigger thing about God's 751 00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:45.280 intervention in American life, uh, that that Trump is associated with. 752 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:49.480 You know, Trump felt very strongly that he was that 753 00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:52.440 that the voting irregular, the vote fraud prevented him from 754 00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:56.159 getting uh, you know, getting a second term. That he 755 00:43:56.159 --> 00:43:58.880 he won the election, but it was denied him because 756 00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:01.760 of vote fraud, and he was determined to turn that around. 757 00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:05.000 He asked people to come to Washington on January sixth, 758 00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:08.320 and you know and make their voices be known that 759 00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:12.639 if there were questionable electors, if the electoral College vote 760 00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:16.079 wasn't you know they didn't sit right in about sixteen 761 00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:19.599 station knows there were sixteen states that had questions, and 762 00:44:19.639 --> 00:44:22.159 that they should send it back to the state and 763 00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:25.360 then do a forensic type audit. But in any case, 764 00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:28.039 he was fighting to have his second term. But you 765 00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:31.880 know what God said. God knew that it would be 766 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:35.320 better if he was denied a second term, and that 767 00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:38.599 he reflect on his first term. He learned the terran 768 00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:43.679 he learned more about the enemy, and then American people 769 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:50.360 would also be subject to a horrible Biden administration, deep 770 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:54.039 state administration. And so it was that he had a 771 00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:59.480 second term he skipped and his and look how successful 772 00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:04.639 his his leadership is now. It's remarkable if he had 773 00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:08.159 if he'd had a consecutive term, he would not have 774 00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:09.760 accomplished what he's accomplished now. 775 00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:13.360 He had to go through a forging, a foundry process 776 00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:16.519 in which he became harder than blue steel. And if 777 00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:18.280 he were to roll it into his second term, it 778 00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:22.119 would have been like, well, h every day that passed, 779 00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:24.159 what would be the end of him? But now I 780 00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:27.559 have a sense the whole city's energized. Washington, d C. 781 00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.719 Is energized to do something great, whether it's Scott Bissett 782 00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:33.679 or Scott Turner or Marco Rubio, as Susie Wiles or 783 00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:37.360 Rick Granell. And I have a sense, Pete Hegseth that 784 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:40.559 whole crew would not have been available if he would 785 00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:43.000 have won the second term when he did, when he 786 00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:45.039 lost it, it would have been completely different. So when 787 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.880 you say God's hand, when I say God's representative on Earth, 788 00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:50.440 the United States of America, he can see the future 789 00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:52.159 of the president of the past. He knows what's going 790 00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:56.079 to happen, and he allowed this to transpire. So Donald 791 00:45:56.119 --> 00:46:01.000 Trump would be hardened by the enemies and freedom of liberty. 792 00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:03.559 And right now we have a warrior in the White 793 00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:06.239 House that would not have been there in twenty twenty one. 794 00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:10.239 That's right, That's that's the point I made though. But see, 795 00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:12.719 but Trump was fighting for it, he wanted it, he 796 00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:17.920 wanted it, but the hidden hand of Gods that nope, nope. 797 00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:20.480 It's not right. You're going to have it your second term. 798 00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:22.639 But you're gonna, we're gonna, we're going to give you 799 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:26.440 four years to prepare and we're going to get the 800 00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:29.119 American people to have four years of suffering so that 801 00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:31.800 the that the vote for you is overwhelming. 802 00:46:33.159 --> 00:46:34.599 Let me share with your permission. 803 00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:37.199 You and I texted about two or three days ago, 804 00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:40.719 and I texted you the word boot it instead of 805 00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:44.440 book it. And we set up the interview and then 806 00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:46.480 I said, okay, boot it, and then I said book it. 807 00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:48.639 And then you say this to me, Well, I kind 808 00:46:48.639 --> 00:46:51.800 of liked your instructions to boot it. Boot corruption out 809 00:46:51.800 --> 00:46:55.519 of the US government, Boot the global cabal, Boot the 810 00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:59.960 deep state democrats, Boot the illegal aliens, Boot eighty percent 811 00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:03.760 out of the federal government. Boot the CCP China out 812 00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:06.239 of Panama, and boot them out of the Western hemisphere. 813 00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:09.880 Boot the Chinese out of US farmland, Boot the UN 814 00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:10.679 out of New York. 815 00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:13.480 And that's just a start. So explain. 816 00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:16.000 And I read that and I said, that's a pretty 817 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:19.039 good starting point for the interview. Boot corruption. I look 818 00:47:19.079 --> 00:47:22.719 at the US eight I guess as an example. Yes, 819 00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:25.480 it's one percent or less than the budget, but it's 820 00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:30.079 in place to hide certain democratic individuals. And secondly, it 821 00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:35.000 spreads this virus that transgenderism around the world. So why 822 00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:38.519 is it important to eliminate USA it except for those 823 00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:42.719 programs like having African kids not get polio. Absolutely, if 824 00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:46.559 someone is suffering from HIV somewhere, okay, but that's not 825 00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:47.840 what USA does. 826 00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:50.599 And what's happening now is unbelievable. 827 00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:53.639 Explain when you say boot the corruption, can you identify 828 00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:55.239 all the corruption or just some of it? 829 00:47:56.559 --> 00:47:59.719 Oh? There is so much. There is so much corruption. 830 00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:07.559 Really have at least three sort of a nexus of corruption. 831 00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:11.440 We have the military industrial complex, We have the medical 832 00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:16.920 pharmaceutical industrial complex, and then we have the the media 833 00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:20.280 high tech information complex. 834 00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:23.079 And there are others, but those are those are. 835 00:48:23.119 --> 00:48:30.920 Three that have really, you know, corrupted the proper functioning 836 00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:33.280 of our governments. And it's really and it's denied the 837 00:48:33.280 --> 00:48:37.400 American people, you know, the information that they've needed to 838 00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:40.000 understand what's going on. 839 00:48:42.199 --> 00:48:44.000 And we live in the information age. 840 00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:46.840 And I guess this week or next Pete Hexsa's going 841 00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:49.840 to take a chainsaw to much of the US military, 842 00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:52.159 which is full of fat and flab. And I think 843 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:54.800 you spend nine hundred billion dollars in the military, You 844 00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:57.440 would have thought Republicans would hold the military sank or 845 00:48:57.480 --> 00:49:00.440 sank as we do. But that does is does not 846 00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:04.159 mean that we need seven hundred and fifty military bases 847 00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:06.639 in one hundred and fifty different countries all over the world. 848 00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:08.840 We don't need that. In other words, it needs to 849 00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:12.199 be lethal, it doesn't need to need to be bureaucratic. 850 00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:14.599 I think that's the points hech Seth is making. 851 00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:16.079 Yeah. 852 00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:21.519 Absolutely, I mean, what a change we've gone from Lloyd 853 00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:25.199 Austin fat Lloyd Austin that couldn't even do a push 854 00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:27.920 up to Pete Hayfath, which is out there in the 855 00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:34.440 parking lot of the Pentagon going through disguise's I mean 856 00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:37.760 incredible change. And he's you know, he has the experience, 857 00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:41.960 frontline experience, many many years of serving on the front line. 858 00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:44.760 You couldn't ask for a better of secret fary of events. 859 00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:47.440 And he's really a wonderful man. I've met him personally. 860 00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:51.880 He is he has all the qualities that are going 861 00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:55.440 to enable the military to really turn itself around. 862 00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:58.519 Under his leadership. I think the military will be very strong. 863 00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:01.480 What we now knew, our tax money has been looted, 864 00:50:01.719 --> 00:50:05.079 stolen and wasted. Politicians go in they make no more 865 00:50:05.079 --> 00:50:07.760 than one hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year, and 866 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:10.280 after spending half their money in taxes and half that 867 00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:13.360 money and living in two different places. Nancy Pelosi comes 868 00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:17.679 out with three hundred million dollars. Mitch McConnell, who's lost 869 00:50:17.719 --> 00:50:20.400 his way completely, is now worth a one hundred million dollars. 870 00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:23.719 You have all these individuals that are basically living in 871 00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:27.639 two expensive places coming out of public service with hundreds 872 00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:30.400 of millions of dollars. We've been looted, stolen, and wasted, 873 00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:33.360 and the President's going to go after the irs. I 874 00:50:33.400 --> 00:50:36.639 love the idea of the External Revenue Service to find 875 00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:38.480 out where the money is owed to us. All over 876 00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:41.519 the world owes us money. But secondly, you have a 877 00:50:41.679 --> 00:50:46.199 great interest in CCP, the Chinese Communist Party. Unlike the 878 00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:50.159 USSR of old, they were supposedly a great military power, 879 00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:53.159 but not an economic power. Why do you say, why 880 00:50:53.159 --> 00:50:55.280 do you belong to a committee to kind of constrain 881 00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:58.960 the Chinese Communist Party? Why are they the most dominant 882 00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:00.440 force ever to confront of America. 883 00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:06.519 Well, they have amped up the communist strategy way beyond 884 00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:10.440 what the what the Soviets had. You know, they believe 885 00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:15.960 in unrestricted warfare, and they have recognized and and of 886 00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:20.360 course China has a heritage that goes back to the 887 00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:26.159 Sun Sue. I think he lived, I don't know, more 888 00:51:26.159 --> 00:51:29.320 than two thousand years ago. Sun Su the military philosopher, 889 00:51:29.360 --> 00:51:34.599 said that the acme of military success is winning, you know, 890 00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:38.679 is winning the war, winning the battle without firing a shot. 891 00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:42.480 So the Chinese have really mastered this sort of cultural 892 00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:49.280 penetration and elite capture where they capture elites and they 893 00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:52.320 use you know, primarily its money. Of course, they have 894 00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.840 a lot of dollars to throw around. They have an 895 00:51:55.239 --> 00:52:00.840 annual budget of fifteen billion dollars. That is that that 896 00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:08.280 is used to target America and to carry out subversive activities. 897 00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:12.519 And many of these things are done sort of subliminally. 898 00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:16.039 People don't understand that the Chinese. 899 00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:16.880 Are our mortal enemy. 900 00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:21.679 And you know, they've created these Confucian institutes on campuses 901 00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:25.400 across the country. They're more Chinese students in America than 902 00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:29.920 any other nation by a factor of three anyway, and 903 00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:34.960 you know, they they they're just masters at at at 904 00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:39.039 at the cultural revolution. Of course, we know that that's 905 00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:42.280 what Mao did, but they have refined it and perfected 906 00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:46.000 it to such a point that Americans are are you know, 907 00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:51.159 are don't they don't understand really what's what's what's going on? 908 00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:54.960 And Scott when you look at their malware. Christopher Ray, 909 00:52:56.039 --> 00:52:59.679 the old director of the FBI, said about eight months 910 00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:04.079 ago that they have malware and every critical American utility, 911 00:53:04.519 --> 00:53:07.719 every phone system, every water system, and they test it 912 00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:09.599 out now and then to make sure it works and 913 00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:12.519 collapse systems. He made the point that if they have 914 00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:16.519 complete absolute war against US, we couldn't fly planes, we 915 00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:19.679 couldn't land planes, we couldn't make telephone calls, we would 916 00:53:19.719 --> 00:53:22.760 not have electricity, we would not have water, and within 917 00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:25.920 three days America would be in total chaos where there's 918 00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:29.000 no communication, and they can fly hot air balloons over 919 00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:31.119 the top of the country. They can send tens of 920 00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:34.360 thousands of students into our colleges and universities. They can 921 00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:37.679 buy millions of acres of farmland around US military bases 922 00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:40.320 and put malware all over the place so that we 923 00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:44.440 can't function. The average Americans got powered, doesn't understand the 924 00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:47.280 truth of what communists read China wants to do to us. 925 00:53:47.559 --> 00:53:51.519 Imagine a world without electricity, without sewer system, without water, 926 00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:55.119 without the ability to communicate. Imagine that world, and that's 927 00:53:55.119 --> 00:53:56.840 what China's planned for us. 928 00:53:57.719 --> 00:53:59.400 It is true, it is true, and I think that 929 00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:03.840 Trump understands this, and I think behind the scenes there's 930 00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:07.159 going to be a de engineering on a lot of this. 931 00:54:07.639 --> 00:54:10.079 And I would just I would love to see the 932 00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:14.280 new Secretary of Agriculture stand up and say, you know, 933 00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:17.519 we can't buy farmland in China. We're going to give 934 00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:19.559 you your money back. We're taking back all the land 935 00:54:20.119 --> 00:54:22.719 that was sold to you. Would give you what you 936 00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:26.239 paid for it, but you've got to pack your bags 937 00:54:26.239 --> 00:54:30.920 and leave. You know, you're not welcome to have farmland 938 00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:31.639 in America. 939 00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:34.159 We need our farm land every year. 940 00:54:34.239 --> 00:54:37.440 It's about a trillion dollars of a trade surplus they 941 00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:40.199 get from America. And so they're crying like a stuck 942 00:54:40.280 --> 00:54:42.679 pig when America says we're going to use the same 943 00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:45.440 tariffs on you China that you use on our products. 944 00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:50.280 Same thing in the heartland of Germany, the heartland of Europe, 945 00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:53.079 the same You don't see forge and Chevyes on the 946 00:54:53.159 --> 00:54:55.960 roads all over Germany, but you do see Volkswagens and 947 00:54:56.320 --> 00:54:59.480 BMW's and Mercedes here. And what's good for the goose 948 00:54:59.559 --> 00:55:01.280 is good for the gander. And I think that makes 949 00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:04.079 perfect sense. Well, we got to run. Scott Powell, thanks 950 00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:06.480 for coming on. And President's Day is going to remain 951 00:55:06.559 --> 00:55:09.000 for a long time. And the fact that Donald Trump 952 00:55:09.159 --> 00:55:11.960 is our president now as a matter of celebration, not regret. 953 00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:14.559 And Scott Powell, once again, thank you for coming on 954 00:55:14.559 --> 00:55:16.840 the Bill Cunningham Show. And Scott you're a great American. 955 00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:19.639 Thank you, Thank you, Bill, thank you. Let's do it again. 956 00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:22.880 Let's continue with more. Imagine hot air balloons flying over 957 00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:25.880 red China. I wonder if we have our ability to 958 00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:28.559 do to them what they do to us. I strongly 959 00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:31.719 suspect that we do not, because we don't have tens 960 00:55:31.719 --> 00:55:35.320 of thousands of American students in their elite universities. That 961 00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:39.880 doesn't happen, but the opposite does, and that's not a 962 00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:42.159 good thing. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham The Great 963 00:55:42.199 --> 00:55:47.599 American with you every Sunday Night by Billy Cunningham. I 964 00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:50.280 love hearing from Scott Powelly his perspective on things. I 965 00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:53.760 know the left was angry about President's Day last week 966 00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:56.440 because Donald Trump didn't deserve his own day. 967 00:55:56.079 --> 00:55:58.440 And the drum beat is there right now. 968 00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:01.440 Sixty minutes earlier tonight, Two of the three hit pieces 969 00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:04.599 were against Donald Trump, that somehow the Department of Justice 970 00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:07.559 under Joe Biden and Barack Hussein Obama were paragons of 971 00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:10.400 virtue only prosecuting crime, when what they did was turn 972 00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:15.440 a blind eye completely to democratic felonies like by Hillary Clinton, 973 00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:18.480 or by Joe Biden himself, or by Bill Clinton, etc. 974 00:56:18.800 --> 00:56:20.719 And they went after Donald Trump to keep him out 975 00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:23.599 of office. What they fear that Donald Trump might do 976 00:56:24.280 --> 00:56:27.760 is exactly what they've already done. On another point, to 977 00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:31.079 have Scott Powell on to talk about what's happening, as 978 00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:36.079 you know, in communist China, it is really unbelievable that 979 00:56:36.239 --> 00:56:39.239 we have had a policy of welcoming into this country 980 00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:42.800 every Chinese export with little or no tariffs, when our 981 00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:46.039 products can't be sold in Beijing, when their students are 982 00:56:46.079 --> 00:56:49.360 taught at our elite universities, and guess what the opposite 983 00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:53.360 is not true, when we can't buy their land, but 984 00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:56.840 they buy hours around military basis. And the most scary 985 00:56:56.880 --> 00:57:00.199 thought is there have the capability of shutting down through 986 00:57:00.199 --> 00:57:04.679 malware our electrical grid, our cell phones, our sewer systems, 987 00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:07.239 our merchants, et cetera. 988 00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:10.719 Through the Internet. That is a serious serious problem. 989 00:57:10.760 --> 00:57:13.960 Would you agree that I like to know whether or 990 00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:17.679 not we have similar capabilities against the against the Red Chinese. 991 00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:18.679 I have my doubts. 992 00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:21.199 So we finally have a president that will stand up 993 00:57:21.239 --> 00:57:23.840 to Jijiao Ping and say not on my watch. Let's 994 00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:26.679 continue with more. Thanks for listening, continue to follow what's 995 00:57:26.719 --> 00:57:28.400 going to happen this week? Bill cunning in the Great 996 00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:30.280 American with you and all of the great Americans. 997 00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:32.440 Guess what every Sunday. 998 00:57:32.199 --> 00:57:45.559 Night, Billy Cunning in the Great America. 999 00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:47.000 Let's continue now. I'll tell you what. 1000 00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:50.679 One of the world renowned, world recognize experts on guns 1001 00:57:50.760 --> 00:57:53.719 and violence is John Lott. He spent many years in 1002 00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:56.920 the Trump administration in the first term, written many books 1003 00:57:56.920 --> 00:58:01.079 on the subject, and in addition of being a Great American, 1004 00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:04.760 and he also runs crimeresearch dot org. And one thing 1005 00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:07.400 we spoke briefly off the air about it. Things are 1006 00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:10.000 now better than when we thought they would be, much 1007 00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:11.880 better than we thought they would be after the first 1008 00:58:11.920 --> 00:58:15.039 month of the Trump presidency. The FBI does not just 1009 00:58:15.159 --> 00:58:19.280 have a transparency problem, they're actually distorting data to secure 1010 00:58:19.400 --> 00:58:22.599 important crime statistics. The truth will set us all free. 1011 00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:25.519 And John Lott, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show, 1012 00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:28.079 and we just briefly off the air we discussed year 1013 00:58:28.199 --> 00:58:30.960 years with the Department of Justice in the first Trump term, 1014 00:58:31.199 --> 00:58:33.480 for which he wasn't really prepared to govern in a 1015 00:58:33.519 --> 00:58:37.079 sense because he relied upon others for key positions. I 1016 00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:39.440 think he was shocked when he won, and this time 1017 00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:41.199 he's not shocked at all. And in fact, in an 1018 00:58:41.239 --> 00:58:44.239 odd way, the last four years putting him through hell, 1019 00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:48.719 what was even hardening his resolve to get things done 1020 00:58:48.719 --> 00:58:51.400 but relate to the American people. What you told me 1021 00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:53.599 off the air about the leadership of DOJ and the 1022 00:58:53.679 --> 00:58:56.559 leadership of the Department of Education and the first Trump 1023 00:58:56.679 --> 00:59:00.880 term and how it's so much better today, right, Well. 1024 00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:01.320 I mean. 1025 00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:08.400 Trump relied on people, you know, other Republicans like the Bushes, 1026 00:59:08.920 --> 00:59:11.719 to go and help staff parts of the government. 1027 00:59:12.239 --> 00:59:14.199 You know, if you have somebody who's. 1028 00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.719 A governor who ends up being president, they're going to 1029 00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:19.760 take you know, like the California Mafia or the Georgia 1030 00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:22.880 mafia that they have there, you know, people that they've 1031 00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:25.320 been working with that they've kind of seen, you know, 1032 00:59:25.800 --> 00:59:29.119 actually operate government. Trump didn't have that. He had a 1033 00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:35.199 very small campaign staff in twenty sixteen, he didn't have, 1034 00:59:35.719 --> 00:59:37.599 so he relied on them, and it turned out to 1035 00:59:37.639 --> 00:59:42.000 be a mistake because the people that the Bushes suggested, 1036 00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:45.239 George W. Bush for the Department of Justice and Jeb 1037 00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:49.440 Bush for the Department of Education, hated Trump. I mean 1038 00:59:49.480 --> 00:59:53.239 I personally ran into people in the Department of Justice 1039 00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:56.440 who were political pointings. I mean it was bad enough 1040 00:59:56.480 --> 00:59:58.800 you have to deal with the civil service that just 1041 00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:03.559 hates publicans, but Trump had to deal with all these 1042 01:00:03.599 --> 01:00:07.039 political point pointies who just hated him and would do 1043 01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:10.159 whatever they could to make his life difficult. It's amazing, 1044 01:00:10.679 --> 01:00:13.199 you know, he could even accomplish half of what he did, 1045 01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:15.840 but he obviously accomplished was more. But this time he's 1046 01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:18.880 learned his lesson and the quality of people that he's 1047 01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:21.320 put in there is much higher. And that makes a 1048 01:00:21.400 --> 01:00:22.639 huge difference. 1049 01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:24.880 Of course, because he can only do so much, and 1050 01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:27.239 it's the first time he was shocked that he won, 1051 01:00:27.360 --> 01:00:30.800 so he relied upon the Bush He's a serious mistake 1052 01:00:31.480 --> 01:00:33.639 to staff the Department of Justice. I can rot it 1053 01:00:33.679 --> 01:00:36.039 off some of the names who running the FBI, etc. 1054 01:00:36.360 --> 01:00:39.599 The Department of Education, it was all Bushy's either Jeb 1055 01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:42.079 Bush or Bush forty one Bush forty three that told 1056 01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:45.159 him that this guy'd be good, Rod, that that guy'd 1057 01:00:45.199 --> 01:00:46.719 be good in a way. You go, and he never 1058 01:00:46.920 --> 01:00:49.400 and then immediately he's impeached as soon as he gets 1059 01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:52.480 into office. Even now he's only been in office a month, 1060 01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:55.719 our Democrats are still talking about impeachment. But let's get 1061 01:00:55.719 --> 01:00:58.719 onto the substance of your story, which is at the Federalist. 1062 01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:01.960 It's a great read, and it talks about the headline 1063 01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:05.840 is Trump's FBI reforms need to include ending its data 1064 01:01:05.880 --> 01:01:07.360 distortions on crime. 1065 01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:08.440 Please explain. 1066 01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:13.199 Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of people kind 1067 01:01:13.199 --> 01:01:16.360 of understand the political biases in the Department of Justice 1068 01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:20.000 and the FBI, as well as other agencies that are there. 1069 01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:23.679 You know, in the FBI you have things like going 1070 01:01:23.719 --> 01:01:28.079 after Catholics, or going after people who attended school board meetings, 1071 01:01:28.239 --> 01:01:32.039 or you have, you know, spying on a presidential campaign 1072 01:01:32.239 --> 01:01:37.199 for the opposing party in twenty sixteen. You know, you 1073 01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:41.079 have lots of political biases there that have to. 1074 01:01:41.039 --> 01:01:41.559 Be dealt with. 1075 01:01:41.599 --> 01:01:44.599 But what hasn't really been talked about by the political 1076 01:01:44.639 --> 01:01:48.400 biases involved in just the data. You let people on 1077 01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:51.880 the left control the data that gets put out. You 1078 01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:56.119 allow them to control the political debate. And we saw 1079 01:01:56.199 --> 01:01:59.440 this during the presidential campaign this last year. You know, 1080 01:01:59.480 --> 01:02:02.039 one of the headlines that we saw over and over 1081 01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:05.119 again for the media was that crime is down, but 1082 01:02:05.199 --> 01:02:09.159 people mistakenly think that it was increasing. And a lot 1083 01:02:09.199 --> 01:02:12.000 of that was based on the data for twenty twenty 1084 01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:16.599 two that had come out, came out in October twenty 1085 01:02:16.639 --> 01:02:19.559 twenty three, and so for a year we had headlines 1086 01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:24.239 on that. The problem was that this past September, when 1087 01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:27.079 the FBI put out it's data for twenty twenty three, 1088 01:02:27.679 --> 01:02:31.800 it secretly quietly changed the data for twenty twenty two, 1089 01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:34.039 no mention of it in the press release that. 1090 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:34.679 They put out. 1091 01:02:35.159 --> 01:02:38.360 If you read the report that came out in the fall, 1092 01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:41.639 all it said was we've in a footnote one sentence 1093 01:02:41.679 --> 01:02:44.880 said we've updated the data for twenty twenty two. But 1094 01:02:44.960 --> 01:02:47.360 what they had done was originally they said it had 1095 01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:51.480 fallen by two point one percent, and now with the revision, 1096 01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:55.320 it had gone up by four point five percent. 1097 01:02:55.760 --> 01:02:57.199 That's a pretty big swing. 1098 01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:00.480 And you would think given all the media coverage, you know, 1099 01:03:00.599 --> 01:03:04.559 David Muir in the presidential debate where he was quote, 1100 01:03:04.599 --> 01:03:08.639 you know, fact checking the president there on that he 1101 01:03:08.760 --> 01:03:11.480 was relying. The only final data that was out at 1102 01:03:11.480 --> 01:03:14.760 that point was the data for twenty twenty two, and 1103 01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:19.159 you know, it turns out that it was wrong. But 1104 01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:24.239 the FBI didn't, you know, acknowledge that they had changed it, 1105 01:03:24.280 --> 01:03:27.079 didn't explain why that they had changed it. 1106 01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:28.599 And even once it kind. 1107 01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:31.760 Of became viral that they had made this change, and 1108 01:03:31.800 --> 01:03:33.280 the mediate news media. 1109 01:03:33.079 --> 01:03:34.880 Organizations would reach out. 1110 01:03:34.719 --> 01:03:38.079 To the FBI before the election to try to, you know, 1111 01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:41.199 get them to make a definitive statement themselves on it. 1112 01:03:41.639 --> 01:03:43.719 They refused to do so. The only thing that they 1113 01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:46.760 would say is we stand by our data and just 1114 01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:50.400 leave it vague and not explain the change or even 1115 01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:53.400 officially acknowledged that it had gone from a drop to 1116 01:03:53.440 --> 01:03:54.079 an increase. 1117 01:03:55.119 --> 01:03:57.440 But you know, it's just one of many things they. 1118 01:03:57.360 --> 01:03:59.119 Put out reports all the time. And it's not just 1119 01:03:59.239 --> 01:04:02.639 the Department of that's the FBI. You have issues with 1120 01:04:02.679 --> 01:04:05.159 the Bureau of Justice Statistics, you have issues with the 1121 01:04:05.199 --> 01:04:09.679 Senates for Disease Control, and you know, Cash Petel is 1122 01:04:09.719 --> 01:04:12.599 going to have a huge job there at the FBI. 1123 01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:18.360 Yeah, I read according to other outlets, there was more 1124 01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:22.800 than five hundred times five hundred times, the mainstream media 1125 01:04:22.840 --> 01:04:24.800 and the two months running up to the election that 1126 01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:27.639 said crime is down. In fact, you you excerpted in 1127 01:04:27.960 --> 01:04:32.400 your column at the Federalists from NPR, which surely has 1128 01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:35.679 to be defunded. Quote this is NPR that we're paying 1129 01:04:35.719 --> 01:04:38.960 five hundred million dollars to get factual information from. Quote 1130 01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:41.960 violent crime is dropping fast in the US, even if 1131 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:44.360 Americans don't believe it. And then you have that back 1132 01:04:44.400 --> 01:04:47.400 and forth with David Mure when President Trump during the 1133 01:04:47.400 --> 01:04:50.800 presidential campaign said quote crime here is up and through 1134 01:04:50.840 --> 01:04:54.360 the roof, despite fraudulent statements that they made. Then David Muir, 1135 01:04:54.519 --> 01:04:57.280 who's that face, the voice of ABC News, said, quote, 1136 01:04:57.559 --> 01:05:01.719 mister President, you know the FBI says overall violent crime 1137 01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:04.800 is actually coming down in this country quote unquote. Then 1138 01:05:04.880 --> 01:05:07.360 let's move on. And so they threw into the middle 1139 01:05:07.440 --> 01:05:12.599 of the body politic poison, acidic water based upon false, 1140 01:05:12.679 --> 01:05:16.320 fraudulent data that the FBI, Christopher Ray knew it was 1141 01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:18.599 false when he put it out, failed to correct it 1142 01:05:18.639 --> 01:05:21.760 for political purposes. And that's one of the examples of 1143 01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:26.320 the political politicalization of the FBI, because they would report 1144 01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:29.559 only information that was good for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, 1145 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:32.440 and I think that's illustrative. And then you go on 1146 01:05:32.519 --> 01:05:36.000 to talk to statistics and the facts, and so I 1147 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:38.920 guess it's a pejorative question. But when you hear five 1148 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:41.519 hundred times and then during the Great Debate with David 1149 01:05:41.599 --> 01:05:43.840 Muir the crime is down, crime is down, do you 1150 01:05:43.880 --> 01:05:47.840 think some Americans took that in as factually accurate and 1151 01:05:47.960 --> 01:05:50.440 voted based thereon and voted for Kamala Harris. 1152 01:05:52.559 --> 01:05:54.320 I have no doubt that that was the case. 1153 01:05:54.440 --> 01:05:58.880 I mean, there was presumably a reason that the Democrats 1154 01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:01.360 and the media kept on pushing this claim. 1155 01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:02.599 But look, you know. 1156 01:06:02.559 --> 01:06:05.000 It's even worse than that, because there are two measures 1157 01:06:05.039 --> 01:06:07.719 that the Department of Justice has on crime. One is 1158 01:06:07.760 --> 01:06:11.800 the FBI data on crimes report to police. But we 1159 01:06:11.880 --> 01:06:15.519 know most crimes aren't report to police. Only about forty 1160 01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:19.079 percent of violent crimes and only about thirty percent of property. 1161 01:06:18.800 --> 01:06:19.679 Crimes are reported. 1162 01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:23.079 And so over fifty years ago, the Department of Justice 1163 01:06:23.119 --> 01:06:27.840 set up something called the National Crime Victimization Survey by 1164 01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:31.400 the Bureau of Justice Statistics, which gets a measure of 1165 01:06:31.519 --> 01:06:35.400 total crime from this truly massive two hundred and forty 1166 01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:36.880 thousand person. 1167 01:06:36.599 --> 01:06:38.039 Survey that they do each year. 1168 01:06:38.639 --> 01:06:42.800 And what you find is that during the Biden administration, 1169 01:06:42.960 --> 01:06:46.679 we had the largest percentage increase over the three years 1170 01:06:46.679 --> 01:06:50.039 that the data's out for that we've ever seen during 1171 01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:52.320 the fifty years that they've been putting the stay together. 1172 01:06:52.519 --> 01:06:57.320 During there's been a fifty four percent increase in violent 1173 01:06:57.440 --> 01:06:59.960 crime during the first three years of the Biden ministry, 1174 01:07:02.679 --> 01:07:06.280 forty three percent increase in rates, a sixty three percent 1175 01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:12.280 increase and robberies, and a four percent increase in egg 1176 01:07:12.360 --> 01:07:16.000 beata assaults. That's more than twice as large as the 1177 01:07:16.039 --> 01:07:20.320 next previous increase over the previous fifty years. But the 1178 01:07:20.400 --> 01:07:22.920 media just ignored that, even though if you're going to 1179 01:07:22.960 --> 01:07:25.679 ask people, would you rather get a measure of total 1180 01:07:25.760 --> 01:07:28.519 crime or would you rather get a measure of crimes 1181 01:07:28.559 --> 01:07:32.239 who poured to police? There are lots of reasons, and 1182 01:07:32.280 --> 01:07:35.440 you and I talked about it before about why not 1183 01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:38.000 all crimes are report to police and why that can 1184 01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:41.599 change over time. But the media not only did they 1185 01:07:41.639 --> 01:07:44.920 fixate on numbers that turned out to be wrong from 1186 01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:48.920 the FBI, but they ignored other data that would have 1187 01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:50.719 shown a very different story there. 1188 01:07:51.440 --> 01:07:54.840 Why what what's the motivation to lie to the American people, 1189 01:07:54.920 --> 01:07:58.000 And I would assume that David Mures and others knew 1190 01:07:58.000 --> 01:07:59.719 they were lying when they did it, or did they 1191 01:07:59.719 --> 01:08:02.440 not know and simply not look below the covers to 1192 01:08:02.480 --> 01:08:06.119 find what's underneath. Because arrest may be down, but crime 1193 01:08:06.119 --> 01:08:10.199 itself is way up when seventy percent of property crimes 1194 01:08:10.199 --> 01:08:13.159 are not reported to the police. Who can't arrest someone 1195 01:08:13.199 --> 01:08:15.400 with a non report unless the crime is committed in 1196 01:08:15.400 --> 01:08:18.600 some officer's presence, which is quite unusual. So what's the 1197 01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:21.600 motivation of the media to lie, especially in pr. 1198 01:08:22.239 --> 01:08:24.840 Look, I mean, I can't get into people's minds on this. 1199 01:08:24.960 --> 01:08:27.640 What I can say is I had an opt ed 1200 01:08:27.760 --> 01:08:31.600 in the Wall Street Journal in April. You would think, 1201 01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:34.840 you know, that would have at least alerted. I mean, 1202 01:08:34.880 --> 01:08:37.399 that's the biggest newspaper in the country. You would think 1203 01:08:37.439 --> 01:08:41.159 that at least some people would have noticed that discussion 1204 01:08:41.199 --> 01:08:41.920 at that time. 1205 01:08:42.640 --> 01:08:45.319 And another point in your column in the Federalist dot 1206 01:08:45.319 --> 01:08:48.199 Com John Lott is that the FBI isn't the only 1207 01:08:48.239 --> 01:08:51.720 agency that hides or dissorts data for political purposes. The 1208 01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:55.399 Centers for Disease Control under Joe Biden suppressed that of 1209 01:08:55.560 --> 01:08:59.279 proving that armed citizens help Prevent Crime by removing its 1210 01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:02.319 estimates that the defensive gun uses from its website because 1211 01:09:02.319 --> 01:09:05.359 I can only assume it didn't fit the media die tribe, 1212 01:09:05.439 --> 01:09:07.680 and I would think the Centers for Disease Control would 1213 01:09:07.720 --> 01:09:10.520 have little or nothing to do with defensive gun use, 1214 01:09:10.760 --> 01:09:15.720 but the federal government indicates that they do. And you 1215 01:09:15.880 --> 01:09:19.319 reference the fact that the National Academies of Science reported 1216 01:09:19.640 --> 01:09:24.000 in twenty thirteen, which was less violent time in our history, 1217 01:09:24.479 --> 01:09:28.640 that people use guns to stop crime anywhere between sixty 1218 01:09:28.720 --> 01:09:32.479 four thousand to three million times a year. Is there 1219 01:09:32.560 --> 01:09:35.640 something more current than the twenty thirteen estimate. We're twelve 1220 01:09:35.720 --> 01:09:38.840 years later, and what evidence is there that those armed 1221 01:09:38.840 --> 01:09:42.079 citizens actually stopped crime? Right? 1222 01:09:42.680 --> 01:09:45.279 Well, either are a couple of things in there. One 1223 01:09:45.359 --> 01:09:48.479 is the reason why the Centers for Disease Control removed 1224 01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:52.119 it from their website is because different gun control groups 1225 01:09:52.239 --> 01:09:57.199 during the Biden administration essentially lobbied and talked to the 1226 01:09:57.239 --> 01:09:59.600 Centers for Disease Control it to be hess to the 1227 01:09:59.600 --> 01:10:00.520 Biden administration. 1228 01:10:01.119 --> 01:10:03.319 And I quote one. 1229 01:10:03.199 --> 01:10:06.680 Of them there, the Gun Violence Archive, which is a 1230 01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:09.439 well known gun control group that the media uses. 1231 01:10:09.199 --> 01:10:09.800 All the time. 1232 01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:13.279 They were saying that, well, if you put that out 1233 01:10:13.319 --> 01:10:16.159 on your website. It's been making it more difficult for 1234 01:10:16.319 --> 01:10:18.600 us to push for the types of gun control laws 1235 01:10:18.600 --> 01:10:21.680 that we want. Is if somehow that's a legitimate thing 1236 01:10:21.760 --> 01:10:25.279 that the Centers for disease control should be considering and 1237 01:10:25.439 --> 01:10:28.560 determining whether or not information is put out there or not. 1238 01:10:29.199 --> 01:10:33.039 But yeah, there is more recent information on this. 1239 01:10:34.600 --> 01:10:34.920 You have. 1240 01:10:35.880 --> 01:10:38.680 For example, there was a study put out in twenty 1241 01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:41.279 twenty one that indicate there was about one point six 1242 01:10:41.399 --> 01:10:45.600 million defensive gun uses that occurred. You have to understand 1243 01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:48.520 the reason for the large range is that you have 1244 01:10:49.039 --> 01:10:54.399 government data from the Bureau of Justice assystems, which basically 1245 01:10:54.399 --> 01:10:57.319 puts it in the range of about one hundred thousand, 1246 01:10:57.840 --> 01:11:01.520 and then you have other academic surveys that put it 1247 01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:03.960 much higher. And the reason is very simple, and that 1248 01:11:04.119 --> 01:11:08.439 is what's the three screening question that's used. And and 1249 01:11:08.479 --> 01:11:11.520 the Bureau of Justice statistics what they say it they 1250 01:11:11.720 --> 01:11:15.359 ask you, have you been a victim of crime? And 1251 01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:18.119 the problem is is that a lot of people who 1252 01:11:18.399 --> 01:11:22.920 maybe use the gun defensively stop the crime before it occurred, 1253 01:11:23.439 --> 01:11:26.560 so they may not view themselves as having become a victim. 1254 01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:29.119 And if they say they were not a victim. Then 1255 01:11:29.159 --> 01:11:32.199 they don't ask any more questions than the survey there. 1256 01:11:32.760 --> 01:11:36.279 The academic surveys will ask things like, you know, have 1257 01:11:36.439 --> 01:11:39.680 you been threatened with violence with somebody that you have 1258 01:11:39.840 --> 01:11:44.079 been been threatened with violence? And that's and when you 1259 01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.319 ask that type of question, you get a much higher 1260 01:11:47.439 --> 01:11:50.800 rate of people that you then go and ask whether 1261 01:11:51.279 --> 01:11:53.720 you know how they behave, what the criminal did, and 1262 01:11:54.159 --> 01:11:56.239 and other things that go on there, and you get 1263 01:11:56.239 --> 01:11:59.359 it much. You get an estimate that's usually average around 1264 01:11:59.399 --> 01:12:03.399 two million a counch of gun news is the year, and. 1265 01:12:03.680 --> 01:12:06.279 So the long and the short is we look forward. 1266 01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:08.800 It's only been about a month, but we look forward 1267 01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:11.800 to crime data coming out of the FBI and the 1268 01:12:11.840 --> 01:12:15.880 Centers for Disease Control that are actually accurate and actually 1269 01:12:16.119 --> 01:12:19.960 reflect reality, not for political purposes one way or another. 1270 01:12:20.119 --> 01:12:22.399 I think a rest are down, but I think crime 1271 01:12:22.520 --> 01:12:26.079 is way up. Liberal prosecutors in many blue cities and 1272 01:12:26.079 --> 01:12:28.800 blue states don't want to prosecute crimes because it looks bad. 1273 01:12:29.239 --> 01:12:31.159 I live in the little city of Cincinnati, and I'm 1274 01:12:31.199 --> 01:12:33.760 being told repeatedly that crime is down in the city 1275 01:12:33.760 --> 01:12:35.840 of Cincinnati, but I don't believe it. I think a 1276 01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:38.399 rest are down. We have a lot of liberal judges 1277 01:12:38.399 --> 01:12:41.720 here like in major American cities, and those liberal judges 1278 01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:45.199 do not hold people accountable. In fact, to get out 1279 01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:48.039 on bond on a serious, serious felony is not that 1280 01:12:48.119 --> 01:12:50.199 big a deal. Ten years ago you couldn't get out. 1281 01:12:50.560 --> 01:12:52.439 It was good time that you would have applied. It's 1282 01:12:52.479 --> 01:12:55.520 your sentence. But that's completely different. Well, John Lotte, we 1283 01:12:55.560 --> 01:12:58.439 got to run once again. We began by talking about 1284 01:12:58.439 --> 01:13:01.560 how Bush was sandbagged and his first four years, and 1285 01:13:01.600 --> 01:13:03.560 I think, in an odd way, the hell that he 1286 01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:06.359 went through the last four years harden him in the 1287 01:13:06.520 --> 01:13:09.239 steel to make sure the next four years are going 1288 01:13:09.279 --> 01:13:13.560 to be significantly better, significantly different than the first four 1289 01:13:13.680 --> 01:13:16.680 years of the of the term, because when you put 1290 01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:19.279 Bush people in charge of the Department of Justice and 1291 01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:22.239 the Department of Education, that's not a good situation. Now 1292 01:13:22.239 --> 01:13:25.039 he knows what he's doing, got great people involved, cash, 1293 01:13:25.039 --> 01:13:26.960 PTTEL is going to do great work with the FBI, 1294 01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:30.560 et cetera. And once again it's Crimeresearch Dot Org. I 1295 01:13:30.600 --> 01:13:32.600 have it up right now. Many columns are up about 1296 01:13:32.640 --> 01:13:36.399 concealed carry permit holders and defensive uses things of that character, 1297 01:13:36.760 --> 01:13:39.680 and someone listening needs the actual facts on this it's 1298 01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:43.239 crimeresearch dot org and John Lott. We have a lot 1299 01:13:43.279 --> 01:13:45.439 to talk about. I think things are getting better. And 1300 01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:48.000 once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, 1301 01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:49.119 and my friend will do it again. 1302 01:13:49.279 --> 01:13:50.039 Thank you very much. 1303 01:13:50.279 --> 01:13:53.479 Thank you Bill. You make a big difference, so do you. 1304 01:13:53.600 --> 01:13:55.439 Thank you John. All right, let's continue with more. 1305 01:13:55.680 --> 01:13:58.640 Of course, he spent years in the Trump administration and 1306 01:13:58.720 --> 01:14:01.880 now he's out doing research of things in that character 1307 01:14:01.920 --> 01:14:05.159 about concealed handgun permit holders and the value they have 1308 01:14:05.239 --> 01:14:07.920 the law enforcement. Let's continue with more. Bill cunning Him 1309 01:14:07.920 --> 01:14:10.359 the Great American with you and all other great Americans 1310 01:14:10.920 --> 01:14:19.920 every Sunday Night by Bully cunning Him the Great American 1311 01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:21.560 and the good to hear from John on. You know one 1312 01:14:21.560 --> 01:14:25.359 thing he just pointed out. This guy's got crimeresearch dot org. 1313 01:14:25.439 --> 01:14:28.039 This guy's an academician, he's a scholar, he's an author. 1314 01:14:28.199 --> 01:14:30.479 He knows where the bodies are buried. How about the 1315 01:14:30.479 --> 01:14:34.800 fact that in America today, seventy percent of property crimes 1316 01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:38.840 are not reported to the police because the victim doesn't 1317 01:14:38.840 --> 01:14:40.600 feel as if it makes any difference to whether I 1318 01:14:40.640 --> 01:14:43.720 report the thing or not. Nothing's going to happen how's 1319 01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:47.319 that possible? If your car is broken into, if something 1320 01:14:47.439 --> 01:14:49.840 is stolen for a person's stolen in them all, or 1321 01:14:49.880 --> 01:14:52.720 maybe at a Publix or a Kroger or whatever, shouldn't 1322 01:14:52.720 --> 01:14:54.520 you have the confidence, Okay, I'm going to call the police. 1323 01:14:54.560 --> 01:14:56.359 I'm going to file a police report, and I'm going 1324 01:14:56.439 --> 01:14:58.840 to see what happened. But if we have so little 1325 01:14:58.840 --> 01:15:03.680 confidence and prosecutions of wrongdoors, why call the police in 1326 01:15:03.720 --> 01:15:06.600 the first place. The only crime that really can say, okay, 1327 01:15:06.680 --> 01:15:08.880 we know what happened here was a murder or a suicide. 1328 01:15:08.880 --> 01:15:11.960 You know you got a body and rape victims. You 1329 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:13.600 know there was a rape take place. But if you 1330 01:15:13.640 --> 01:15:16.159 talk about so many property crimes, we don't know what 1331 01:15:16.199 --> 01:15:19.159 the hell happened because we have no confidence, especially in 1332 01:15:19.159 --> 01:15:22.079 blue cities and blue states like in Chicago or Los 1333 01:15:22.119 --> 01:15:23.239 Angeles or New York City. 1334 01:15:23.479 --> 01:15:24.319 Why in the world. 1335 01:15:24.159 --> 01:15:27.279 Would you ever call the police in a property crime 1336 01:15:27.279 --> 01:15:30.720 when you know a CoP's not likely to arrive, or secondly, 1337 01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:32.760 when they do come, the person who did that is 1338 01:15:32.800 --> 01:15:35.279 going to be out of jail before the paperwork is done. 1339 01:15:36.039 --> 01:15:36.680 Unbelievable. 1340 01:15:36.800 --> 01:15:39.680 Let's continue with more up next to Steve gorm about 1341 01:15:39.720 --> 01:15:42.840 what Christopher wright Department of Energy is going to do 1342 01:15:42.880 --> 01:15:44.920 and more because I think there's a new sheriff. 1343 01:15:44.640 --> 01:15:46.640 In town and his name is Donald Trump. 1344 01:15:46.680 --> 01:15:50.000 Thank God, because there's a metamorphosis happening green energy right 1345 01:15:50.039 --> 01:15:52.880 now and it's its destruction. Goll Cunningham, the Great American 1346 01:15:52.920 --> 01:15:55.279 with you and all of the Great Americans every Sunday. 1347 01:15:54.920 --> 01:16:31.119 Now, Willie the Love You. 1348 01:16:31.199 --> 01:16:34.600 By Choice Hotels, Econo Lodge and Roadway In Hotels are 1349 01:16:34.600 --> 01:16:38.279 serving up double points for every qualifying stay book at Choice. 1350 01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:39.560 Hotels dot com. 1351 01:16:39.600 --> 01:16:43.039 Now here's the man who's been recognized as radio's best, 1352 01:16:43.359 --> 01:16:47.239 the recipient of not one, but two prestigious Marconi Awards 1353 01:16:47.359 --> 01:16:52.560 for his broadcast excellence, The One and Only Bill Cunningham. 1354 01:16:53.640 --> 01:16:55.720 By Billy cunning and the Great America. Of course, Steve 1355 01:16:55.760 --> 01:16:58.159 Gorm's an expert on the environment. In the climate, he's 1356 01:16:58.199 --> 01:17:01.479 a public speaker and executive director of the Climate Science Coalition, 1357 01:17:01.920 --> 01:17:04.479 advisor to the Heartland Institute, written many books on the 1358 01:17:04.520 --> 01:17:09.319 subject matter, including The Green Breakdown, The Green Breakdown, The 1359 01:17:09.319 --> 01:17:12.600 Coming Renewable Energy Failure, and Steve Gorm welcome again to 1360 01:17:12.680 --> 01:17:15.439 the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, I would 1361 01:17:15.479 --> 01:17:17.880 note I wanted to maybe to tell the American people 1362 01:17:18.359 --> 01:17:23.119 what are the Trump energy policies now, which fundamentally you've 1363 01:17:23.479 --> 01:17:26.439 advocated for a long time. But tell the American people, 1364 01:17:26.439 --> 01:17:28.439 in case they're not paying close attention, what are the 1365 01:17:28.439 --> 01:17:29.640 Trump energy policies? 1366 01:17:29.640 --> 01:17:30.319 As I speak? 1367 01:17:31.680 --> 01:17:34.159 Hey, Bill, great to join you again. Yeah. 1368 01:17:34.239 --> 01:17:38.279 The President Trump's administration in the first month has basically 1369 01:17:38.399 --> 01:17:41.039 dropped a bomb on green energy. It really is remarkable 1370 01:17:41.079 --> 01:17:45.119 what's going on. Four big areas, and these were done 1371 01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:47.640 with executive orders, but he's trying to follow these up 1372 01:17:47.920 --> 01:17:52.960 with congressional action. The first is he has canceled all 1373 01:17:53.079 --> 01:17:58.239 offshore wind turbine licenses. The federal government owns all the 1374 01:17:58.319 --> 01:18:01.039 land between three miles and two miles off shore, and 1375 01:18:01.079 --> 01:18:02.560 if you want to put up a wind turbine, you 1376 01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:05.760 have to get a license, and mister Trump has now 1377 01:18:06.239 --> 01:18:12.159 stopped issuing those. And he's also instructed the Secretary of 1378 01:18:12.199 --> 01:18:16.399 the Interior, Doug Burgham, to review any licenses that have 1379 01:18:16.439 --> 01:18:21.319 been granted. And so we had a big, big changes 1380 01:18:21.439 --> 01:18:25.039 right off the bat. For example, Denmark Orsted, a big 1381 01:18:25.079 --> 01:18:29.399 supplier of wind turbines, stock price dropped seventeen percent right 1382 01:18:29.439 --> 01:18:31.800 after the executive order. It took a one point seven 1383 01:18:31.880 --> 01:18:35.560 billion dollar charge. We've seen a bunch of other firms 1384 01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:38.159 that the stock price has gone down and they've had 1385 01:18:38.239 --> 01:18:42.800 charges as well. The second big area is that is 1386 01:18:42.960 --> 01:18:49.319 rolling back of electric vehicle incentives. And he used an 1387 01:18:49.319 --> 01:18:53.840 executive called Unleashing American Energy, which basically says, I'm going 1388 01:18:53.880 --> 01:18:58.439 to get rid of all the incentives for evs and 1389 01:18:58.479 --> 01:19:03.600 that includes the tax credits. And we're already seeing some 1390 01:19:03.640 --> 01:19:07.800 of this in the markets. The a lot of dealers 1391 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:10.399 are saying, well, they're not going to issue the tax credits. 1392 01:19:11.359 --> 01:19:14.039 Congress is trying to pass as something that will remove it. 1393 01:19:14.119 --> 01:19:17.560 This was in the Inflation Reduction Act. And then he's 1394 01:19:17.600 --> 01:19:21.479 also doing a bunch of other things about getting rid 1395 01:19:21.479 --> 01:19:27.640 of subsidies and favorable for electric vehicles. And it was 1396 01:19:27.720 --> 01:19:33.239 just announced the General Services Administration GSA is going to 1397 01:19:33.239 --> 01:19:38.199 shut down eight thousand EV chargers nationwide. They, by the way, 1398 01:19:38.199 --> 01:19:40.640 nobody is making money with EV chargers and not a 1399 01:19:40.680 --> 01:19:44.439 single firm that can break even an EV charger, and 1400 01:19:44.520 --> 01:19:47.920 so without all these subsidies, we wouldn't have all these things, 1401 01:19:48.560 --> 01:19:50.960 and the federal government's going to start shutting these down. 1402 01:19:52.199 --> 01:19:57.960 The third big area is the cuts to renewable funding, 1403 01:19:59.319 --> 01:20:02.960 and those are coming from all sorts of grants from 1404 01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:07.479 the EPA, and also was also in the Inflation Reduction Act. 1405 01:20:07.600 --> 01:20:11.640 They're trying to get rid of all those, so that's 1406 01:20:11.680 --> 01:20:14.600 another big deal. And then the last big area is 1407 01:20:15.520 --> 01:20:19.039 he has really made big changes to climate policy already 1408 01:20:21.319 --> 01:20:25.800 and one executiveority was putting America first in the international 1409 01:20:25.880 --> 01:20:30.319 environmental agreements. So he is withdrawing from the Paris Climate 1410 01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:34.960 of Courts, He's terminating the Green New Deal, which representive 1411 01:20:35.319 --> 01:20:40.119 Pacossium Courts has talked about quite a few years ago. 1412 01:20:40.279 --> 01:20:46.119 And then he's also even instructed Lee Zelden, our new 1413 01:20:46.319 --> 01:20:49.279 head of the EPA, to look at the Endangerment finding 1414 01:20:49.319 --> 01:20:53.279 of two thousand and nine, in which the EPA December seven, 1415 01:20:53.359 --> 01:20:55.359 two thousand and nine, a day that will live in infamy. 1416 01:20:56.199 --> 01:21:02.640 The EPA declared carbon dioxide I said it endangers of 1417 01:21:02.800 --> 01:21:08.199 the health and welfare of current and future generation. So wow, 1418 01:21:08.760 --> 01:21:12.159 those are all really really big effects. And oh, by 1419 01:21:12.159 --> 01:21:14.800 the way, there's a whole bunch of climate departments and 1420 01:21:14.840 --> 01:21:18.680 they are just canceling those throughout the government right now. 1421 01:21:18.760 --> 01:21:20.479 All these things that were set up to work with 1422 01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:23.199 the client on the climates he's getting rid of them, 1423 01:21:23.199 --> 01:21:25.800 so just massive changes, you. 1424 01:21:25.760 --> 01:21:28.560 Know, Steve Gorm I'm not in favor of EV's, I'm 1425 01:21:28.560 --> 01:21:31.439 not against them. I think it's a matter of choice. 1426 01:21:31.840 --> 01:21:34.840 If you want, knowing everything you know about EV's, if 1427 01:21:34.880 --> 01:21:37.359 you want to buy a Tesla or buy a Ford 1428 01:21:37.399 --> 01:21:40.520 EV as an American, have at it. It might make 1429 01:21:40.600 --> 01:21:43.720 sense if you're in an urban area. It's second or 1430 01:21:43.760 --> 01:21:48.680 third car, it's expensive, hard to repair, it's insurance rates 1431 01:21:48.680 --> 01:21:50.239 are higher. But if you look at all that and 1432 01:21:50.279 --> 01:21:53.279 you want to make some political or cultural statement, I 1433 01:21:53.319 --> 01:21:55.560 want to buy an EV, that's fine, but damn it, 1434 01:21:55.560 --> 01:21:58.119 I don't want to subsidize it. To give you an example, 1435 01:21:58.319 --> 01:22:01.479 about two or three weeks ago, run the middle of 1436 01:22:02.439 --> 01:22:05.600 middle end of January, Ford Motor Company guy's name is 1437 01:22:05.680 --> 01:22:08.880 James Farley, the CEO announced that they lost in the 1438 01:22:08.920 --> 01:22:13.800 year twenty twenty four five point two billion dollars on 1439 01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:18.000 their EV production and made about five point six billion 1440 01:22:18.359 --> 01:22:20.800 on gasoline powered cars, so it was more or less 1441 01:22:20.800 --> 01:22:23.680 an offset, and he said in twenty twenty five, we're 1442 01:22:23.680 --> 01:22:25.520 going to lose more money than that. He had to 1443 01:22:25.560 --> 01:22:28.199 warn the market that they geared up for this thing, 1444 01:22:28.279 --> 01:22:31.119 and that dog won't hunt. And on top of that, 1445 01:22:32.359 --> 01:22:35.680 Nicola and Assar Rivian, which are explained, what's happening with 1446 01:22:35.720 --> 01:22:39.319 government subsidies money right down the tubes like Celindra, right 1447 01:22:39.399 --> 01:22:41.760 down the tubes. What's happening to those two companies. 1448 01:22:42.680 --> 01:22:45.039 Yeah, so we've got you know, we have a whole 1449 01:22:45.079 --> 01:22:48.920 industries that are that live on government money. Now, these 1450 01:22:48.960 --> 01:22:51.720 are EV charging companies. A lot of the evs with 1451 01:22:51.840 --> 01:22:57.000 the text credits green hydrogen, carbon dioxide, pipelines. 1452 01:22:56.439 --> 01:22:58.279 Wind solar, all of these things. 1453 01:22:59.119 --> 01:23:04.319 But nevertheless, so as I think we've discussed before, a 1454 01:23:04.399 --> 01:23:08.720 green equipment companies are very very poor investments. An example 1455 01:23:08.880 --> 01:23:12.960 is Nicola, which is electric truck manufacturer. They filed for 1456 01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:17.199 bankruptcy last week. They had been valued when they did 1457 01:23:17.199 --> 01:23:22.359 an initial public offering at thirty billion dollars and they've 1458 01:23:22.399 --> 01:23:25.920 never made any money. And another one is a company 1459 01:23:25.920 --> 01:23:29.520 called Rivian Automotive, and in December, the biot And Administration 1460 01:23:29.600 --> 01:23:33.039 approved a six point six billion dollar loan to Rivian 1461 01:23:33.640 --> 01:23:37.720 to build a plant in Georgia. Just you know, talk 1462 01:23:37.920 --> 01:23:39.920 if you think Solendra was a big issue, this is 1463 01:23:39.960 --> 01:23:41.279 about ten times as big. 1464 01:23:42.199 --> 01:23:43.279 Rivian has never. 1465 01:23:43.079 --> 01:23:45.800 Made any money. Last year, I think they had a 1466 01:23:45.920 --> 01:23:50.319 revenue of four hundred million and had losses of about 1467 01:23:50.319 --> 01:23:54.199 four hundred million. I mean, it's just and we're just 1468 01:23:54.239 --> 01:23:56.680 going to have an endless round of bankruptcies here with 1469 01:23:56.720 --> 01:23:59.960 all of these firms. Another one is plug Power. Plug 1470 01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:03.600 Power to a company that produces hydrogen or green hydrogen. 1471 01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:06.560 They were founded about nineteen ninety eight. They have never 1472 01:24:06.600 --> 01:24:10.199 made a profit in twenty seven years, and they just 1473 01:24:10.279 --> 01:24:13.760 keep getting money from states and federals and other You know, 1474 01:24:14.680 --> 01:24:17.720 we have just all these industries that are just living 1475 01:24:17.760 --> 01:24:20.560 on all this federal money, and mister Trump is putting 1476 01:24:20.560 --> 01:24:21.439 a stop to all of this. 1477 01:24:22.920 --> 01:24:27.800 Any idea, can you, Steve Goren put a number on 1478 01:24:27.880 --> 01:24:31.880 the green energy breakdown? What's happened in this country? And 1479 01:24:31.960 --> 01:24:34.359 I think communist Red China is involved in this too, 1480 01:24:34.399 --> 01:24:37.600 because they sold us ninety five percent of our solar panels. 1481 01:24:37.600 --> 01:24:40.319 And I saw in Arizona so many of the solar 1482 01:24:40.359 --> 01:24:43.359 panels that was one hundred acres of solar panels that 1483 01:24:43.439 --> 01:24:47.680 were pitted because of a terrible storm that came and 1484 01:24:47.760 --> 01:24:52.439 that it blew them out. And somehow it's unbelievable how 1485 01:24:52.520 --> 01:24:55.239 much money, any idea, how much this boondoggle has cost 1486 01:24:56.000 --> 01:24:58.640 not the investors. If you wanted to invest in Nicola 1487 01:24:58.760 --> 01:25:01.720 or Rivion or or a plug Power, if you want 1488 01:25:01.760 --> 01:25:05.039 to invest in companies to build eight thousand EV power 1489 01:25:05.039 --> 01:25:08.279 stations around America that I think about ten, we're not ten, 1490 01:25:08.640 --> 01:25:11.520 about ten we're ever built. Have added your money. But 1491 01:25:11.600 --> 01:25:13.720 how much public money are we talking about over the 1492 01:25:13.760 --> 01:25:16.520 last ten to fifteen years beginning with Obama. 1493 01:25:16.920 --> 01:25:20.600 Well a lot Globally it's about about two trillion dollars 1494 01:25:20.680 --> 01:25:25.359 last year was spent unrenewables, and it's been it's been very, 1495 01:25:25.479 --> 01:25:27.560 very big, and over the last ten years have been 1496 01:25:27.640 --> 01:25:33.680 about six or seven trillion unrenewables. We still get eighty 1497 01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:36.520 percent of our energy from coal, oil, and natural gas, 1498 01:25:37.560 --> 01:25:40.079 so it's really not having much of an impact globally. 1499 01:25:41.640 --> 01:25:44.840 And again, the subsidies are just massive now. They're running 1500 01:25:44.880 --> 01:25:47.720 about under Biden. The last year, I think they got 1501 01:25:47.760 --> 01:25:51.119 up to eighty billion dollars in subsidies in terms of 1502 01:25:51.159 --> 01:25:58.199 tax breaks, tax credits, other things. And so we have 1503 01:25:58.279 --> 01:26:00.960 all these companies that are just are just living on this, 1504 01:26:01.039 --> 01:26:02.920 and we're going to have this is a lot of 1505 01:26:02.960 --> 01:26:07.399 this is going to just crash here. And I would 1506 01:26:08.000 --> 01:26:10.640 advise people that this green breakdown is coming, as I 1507 01:26:10.640 --> 01:26:13.000 said in my book The Coming Renewable Energy Failure, which 1508 01:26:13.199 --> 01:26:16.000 came out last year, and we're starting to see it. 1509 01:26:16.079 --> 01:26:17.880 This is going to take a long long time because 1510 01:26:18.119 --> 01:26:21.199 much of the world is invested in this energy transition. 1511 01:26:22.279 --> 01:26:25.680 But all green energy really means is higher energy prices. 1512 01:26:25.680 --> 01:26:29.479 It means electricity blackouts, means less freedom because they're trying 1513 01:26:29.479 --> 01:26:32.199 to force people to buy electric cars and get rid 1514 01:26:32.239 --> 01:26:35.960 of their gas stoves. It means energy shocks across the 1515 01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:38.399 world like we saw in Europe, and it isn't going 1516 01:26:38.439 --> 01:26:41.319 to have a measurable effect on global temperatures. There's no 1517 01:26:41.399 --> 01:26:44.720 evidence that that is going to occur, So we're going 1518 01:26:44.760 --> 01:26:46.439 to have a mixed future. I think evs are going 1519 01:26:46.439 --> 01:26:48.279 to get better and better over time, but they're a 1520 01:26:48.319 --> 01:26:52.039 long long way from becoming our main source of transportation. 1521 01:26:52.920 --> 01:26:54.680 Had a guest on a few weeks ago that talked 1522 01:26:54.680 --> 01:26:58.119 about in nineteen ninety we were told the kids were 1523 01:26:58.119 --> 01:27:00.800 told that by the time twenty twenty five rolls around, 1524 01:27:01.079 --> 01:27:04.039 no child in America will see snow, that ice and 1525 01:27:04.119 --> 01:27:06.800 snow will be gone, That the economy is going to 1526 01:27:06.880 --> 01:27:09.359 be the world's going to be heated up and on 1527 01:27:09.520 --> 01:27:11.399 the twenty twenty five. It's been a terrible year in 1528 01:27:11.439 --> 01:27:13.760 the Midwest. It's not good at all, in fact throughout 1529 01:27:13.800 --> 01:27:16.720 the South, and I think New Orleans had some snow 1530 01:27:16.840 --> 01:27:19.079 just before the Super Bowl. And you also have a 1531 01:27:19.119 --> 01:27:22.960 column you wrote in November. The headline is scientists have 1532 01:27:23.039 --> 01:27:26.840 not saved the ozone layer, and this is another scare 1533 01:27:26.880 --> 01:27:31.439 tactic employed by environmental extremists to frighten us into public 1534 01:27:31.439 --> 01:27:34.399 policy based upon the wrong decisions. When you wrote this, 1535 01:27:34.760 --> 01:27:38.159 explain why the ozone layer. We were told for years 1536 01:27:38.159 --> 01:27:41.680 that if the ozone layer went away, would all be fried. 1537 01:27:42.000 --> 01:27:44.520 But nonetheless it didn't happen. This is ten years ago, 1538 01:27:44.600 --> 01:27:47.880 predicted Tell us what NASA predicted ten years ago. 1539 01:27:48.880 --> 01:27:52.840 Yeah, well, this is way back about about nineteen seventy eight. 1540 01:27:52.880 --> 01:27:58.720 I think the nations of the world assigned a agreement 1541 01:27:59.760 --> 01:28:02.279 to try and get rid of all the chlorofluoro carbons 1542 01:28:02.279 --> 01:28:03.560 that our industry was producing. 1543 01:28:03.640 --> 01:28:04.159 These were. 1544 01:28:05.960 --> 01:28:08.680 The things that we're going into aerosols and other sorts 1545 01:28:08.720 --> 01:28:12.800 of things. A bunch of scientists said that these these 1546 01:28:12.800 --> 01:28:14.560 were going up in the atmosphere, they were sending the 1547 01:28:14.560 --> 01:28:18.600 ozone layer, and they were the ozone hole over the Antarctic, 1548 01:28:19.039 --> 01:28:21.600 and so the world is signed and I can't remember 1549 01:28:21.600 --> 01:28:25.239 the name of the agreements here, the Montreal Protocol. They 1550 01:28:25.279 --> 01:28:28.199 signed the Montreal Protocol, and they shut down producing these things. 1551 01:28:28.199 --> 01:28:31.920 They went they went to zero by two thousand. Yet 1552 01:28:32.239 --> 01:28:35.079 those on holes still up there. Every year NaSTA measures it. 1553 01:28:35.079 --> 01:28:38.239 It's been twenty years now since all the floral chlorocarbons 1554 01:28:38.239 --> 01:28:41.159 were gone and signed. Is saying, well, I was going 1555 01:28:41.159 --> 01:28:43.439 to take another two or three decades before we see 1556 01:28:43.439 --> 01:28:45.520 in effect. But you know, this is just another example 1557 01:28:45.520 --> 01:28:48.800 where scientists were wrong. The whole world marched in one direction. 1558 01:28:49.079 --> 01:28:51.239 And it's very similar to the fears about man made 1559 01:28:51.279 --> 01:28:54.520 global warming. You know, we've had a pretty cool winner 1560 01:28:54.560 --> 01:28:56.960 this year and might we might have some global cooling 1561 01:28:57.000 --> 01:29:00.000 coming up. What we need to do is reduce real poloe. 1562 01:29:00.760 --> 01:29:03.159 We need to give people choice to produce, to allow 1563 01:29:03.239 --> 01:29:05.159 them to buy evs or whatever they want to buy, 1564 01:29:05.800 --> 01:29:08.279 and quit having the government impose all this stuff. And 1565 01:29:08.479 --> 01:29:10.960 that's what mister Trump is going to do here. We're 1566 01:29:11.199 --> 01:29:14.600 turning this over in the United States and we may see. 1567 01:29:14.359 --> 01:29:16.039 This go worldwide. 1568 01:29:16.079 --> 01:29:21.560 We had just elections in Germany today or yesterday Europe, 1569 01:29:21.800 --> 01:29:25.840 and the Conservatives and the people that don't like the 1570 01:29:25.880 --> 01:29:29.239 climate agenda are gaining position. 1571 01:29:30.079 --> 01:29:32.359 And I think they only got like the Conservatives got 1572 01:29:32.439 --> 01:29:34.239 like twenty eight percent of the vote, which over there 1573 01:29:34.319 --> 01:29:37.159 is a big number. And the course they're on is 1574 01:29:37.159 --> 01:29:40.399 impossible to continue. And I think many Germans and Brits 1575 01:29:40.439 --> 01:29:42.560 feel like you and I may feel. Number one, we 1576 01:29:42.640 --> 01:29:46.439 have a terrible budget debt and deficit to thirty six trillion. 1577 01:29:46.520 --> 01:29:48.279 Number two, we had until about a month and a 1578 01:29:48.279 --> 01:29:51.239 half ago, open borders. And number three, we have to 1579 01:29:51.319 --> 01:29:54.640 exploit the energy resources in America. I'm told that Germany 1580 01:29:54.960 --> 01:29:57.319 has lots of natural gas and coal, but they can't 1581 01:29:57.439 --> 01:30:00.800 use it because of climate extremism, and they have to 1582 01:30:00.840 --> 01:30:02.560 buy a lot of it from Russia or from US. 1583 01:30:02.600 --> 01:30:05.640 And then Biden shuts down the LNG portals out of 1584 01:30:05.640 --> 01:30:07.720 New Orleans so that we couldn't transport it to them. 1585 01:30:07.760 --> 01:30:08.520 And that's all. 1586 01:30:08.760 --> 01:30:10.840 Do you have a sense that a long time ago, 1587 01:30:11.399 --> 01:30:14.039 the long and the Steve Gorms, the Bill Cunningham's, the 1588 01:30:14.079 --> 01:30:18.279 Sean Hannity's, the Joe Pegs, at some point it's sunk 1589 01:30:18.319 --> 01:30:21.079 into the minds of the American people that we can't 1590 01:30:21.119 --> 01:30:23.039 continue in this course and be great Americans. 1591 01:30:23.039 --> 01:30:24.600 Do you have a sense this is a breaking point. 1592 01:30:25.680 --> 01:30:26.520 Well, I sure hope. 1593 01:30:26.560 --> 01:30:26.680 So. 1594 01:30:26.760 --> 01:30:29.399 I think this is the start of the rollback and 1595 01:30:29.439 --> 01:30:32.840 the green initiatives and hopefully toward greater freedom. We had 1596 01:30:32.880 --> 01:30:35.800 that last election, and while mister Trump has been exceeding 1597 01:30:35.840 --> 01:30:39.479 everybody's expectations. Here, we'll just have to see how the 1598 01:30:39.479 --> 01:30:43.279 economy reacts and how the world reacts. But I'm optimistic 1599 01:30:43.399 --> 01:30:46.039 we can get back to free markets, we can get 1600 01:30:46.039 --> 01:30:51.399 back to choice, and get back to things that are 1601 01:30:51.439 --> 01:30:55.800 sensible rather than a government mandate and government government directed 1602 01:30:55.880 --> 01:30:58.239 policies in so many areas trying to tell. 1603 01:30:58.079 --> 01:30:58.920 Everybody what to do. 1604 01:31:00.119 --> 01:31:02.880 I hope Ford Motor Companies learn its lesson. I hope 1605 01:31:02.920 --> 01:31:07.399 the investors of Nicola and Rivian and also Plug Powers 1606 01:31:07.479 --> 01:31:10.600 learned its lesson. And the money we're saving out of 1607 01:31:10.640 --> 01:31:14.279 Doze is truly unbelievable. They want to stigmatize Elon Musk. 1608 01:31:14.319 --> 01:31:16.319 He operates under the power of the president. He can 1609 01:31:16.359 --> 01:31:19.039 do nothing without Donald Trump's approval. He can do nothing 1610 01:31:19.079 --> 01:31:22.239 without Donald Trump's Okay, he can do nothing without that. 1611 01:31:22.439 --> 01:31:25.159 And to find that waste, fraud and abuse is something 1612 01:31:25.479 --> 01:31:27.840 I have These clips I played before about Bill Clinton 1613 01:31:27.880 --> 01:31:30.560 talking about waste fraud and abuse, and Al Gore talking 1614 01:31:30.600 --> 01:31:33.520 about waste fraud and abuse, and Barack Hussein Obama and 1615 01:31:33.640 --> 01:31:36.359 Joe Biden talking about waste fraud and abuse, and now 1616 01:31:36.359 --> 01:31:38.319 that it's being located, they don't want it to go 1617 01:31:38.399 --> 01:31:39.960 because it's the way they get rich. I don't know 1618 01:31:40.039 --> 01:31:42.880 how politicians go into office making one hundred and seventy 1619 01:31:42.920 --> 01:31:44.800 five thousand dollars a year at the max. They live 1620 01:31:44.800 --> 01:31:47.520 in two different places and they leave worth hundreds of 1621 01:31:47.520 --> 01:31:50.079 millions of dollars. I'm talking about Mitch McConnell and Nancy 1622 01:31:50.119 --> 01:31:54.199 Pelosi and all the others. They're monetizing themselves. They've wasted 1623 01:31:54.199 --> 01:31:56.600 our tax money. It's been stolen, looted, and wasted, and 1624 01:31:56.640 --> 01:31:58.720 now we find out about it, and it's about time. 1625 01:31:58.760 --> 01:32:01.800 And I don't know how now Ford Motor Company can 1626 01:32:01.800 --> 01:32:04.439 continue in this course and be a functioning company. 1627 01:32:05.000 --> 01:32:05.199 Six. 1628 01:32:05.359 --> 01:32:06.520 I'm a Chevy kind of a guy. 1629 01:32:06.560 --> 01:32:08.640 But on the other end of the combustion engines, they 1630 01:32:08.680 --> 01:32:10.640 make a fortune, then they give it all away. And 1631 01:32:10.640 --> 01:32:12.800 when you buy a combustion engine, part of the price 1632 01:32:12.800 --> 01:32:14.119 of that is the loss of evs. 1633 01:32:14.199 --> 01:32:16.239 Correct, Yeah, I think so. 1634 01:32:16.479 --> 01:32:19.039 Anyway, people on to get my book Green breakdown, they 1635 01:32:19.039 --> 01:32:20.920 can learn the whole story of how this thing's all 1636 01:32:20.960 --> 01:32:24.800 going to fall apart. And it's full of great sidebars too. 1637 01:32:25.079 --> 01:32:28.039 For example, there's a sidebar in there. These are color 1638 01:32:28.079 --> 01:32:32.039 sidebars that says global warming makes couples cheat. This says 1639 01:32:32.039 --> 01:32:35.079 a dating website. This is Miami New Times the headline. 1640 01:32:35.880 --> 01:32:38.479 So in addition to the science and economics, got all 1641 01:32:38.520 --> 01:32:40.560 sorts of fun things in there about this mad, mad 1642 01:32:40.600 --> 01:32:43.600 mad world of climatism. But if they go to my website, 1643 01:32:43.640 --> 01:32:46.319 Steve Gorham G O R E H A M dot com, 1644 01:32:46.319 --> 01:32:49.640 I'll send him a signed copy and they can learn 1645 01:32:50.079 --> 01:32:50.880 all they need to know. 1646 01:32:51.800 --> 01:32:53.920 You know, I think maybe after all these years we're 1647 01:32:53.960 --> 01:32:57.319 having some measurable impact in a positive way. Steve Gorham, 1648 01:32:57.359 --> 01:32:59.199 you're a great American, and thank you for coming on 1649 01:32:59.239 --> 01:33:00.279 the Bill Cunningham Show. 1650 01:33:00.319 --> 01:33:01.880 Thank you, Steve, Thank you. 1651 01:33:01.920 --> 01:33:02.159 Bill. 1652 01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:06.239 Well, let's continue with more. And that's it. I've had 1653 01:33:06.239 --> 01:33:08.359 Steve on maybe for the last ten or twelve years, 1654 01:33:08.439 --> 01:33:11.720 and maybe there's an impact we're having with public policy, 1655 01:33:11.800 --> 01:33:14.840 the opposite of what liberals intend. Bill Cunningham with you 1656 01:33:15.399 --> 01:33:26.760 every Sunday Night by Billy Cunningham, The Great American. We 1657 01:33:26.840 --> 01:33:30.800 live in a country right now logically is as pure 1658 01:33:31.039 --> 01:33:33.720 and as good as perhaps it's been in the past 1659 01:33:33.760 --> 01:33:36.520 one hundred years. You can look up and see a 1660 01:33:36.520 --> 01:33:40.039 blue sky. The predictions of those on the radical left 1661 01:33:40.479 --> 01:33:43.119 twenty five years ago that by twenty twenty five there 1662 01:33:43.119 --> 01:33:45.279 wouldn't be any snow falling anywhere in the country, Are 1663 01:33:45.279 --> 01:33:47.479 you kidding me? Would he aired? Are you kidding me? 1664 01:33:48.439 --> 01:33:50.840 As a boy growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, there was 1665 01:33:50.840 --> 01:33:53.600 an occasion where you could not take fish out of 1666 01:33:53.640 --> 01:33:55.600 the Ohio River. Of course I wouldn't have done it anyway. 1667 01:33:55.640 --> 01:33:58.119 But right now, on a summer's evening, you can go 1668 01:33:58.159 --> 01:34:01.279 to the Ohio or Mississippi River and watch hundreds of 1669 01:34:01.319 --> 01:34:04.079 people taking fish out of the rivers. Because the pollution 1670 01:34:04.159 --> 01:34:09.399 has largely subsided. We all organize ourselves against pollution, but 1671 01:34:09.560 --> 01:34:12.920 against the idea man made global warming causing climate change. 1672 01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:15.439 And what's happened over the past twenty five or thirty 1673 01:34:15.520 --> 01:34:18.600 years or so is that these ideas have metastasized through 1674 01:34:18.640 --> 01:34:21.920 the high schools and colleges, universities, and graduate schools in 1675 01:34:21.960 --> 01:34:24.960 which a person is paid based upon their political belief. 1676 01:34:25.640 --> 01:34:28.720 If you believe in man made global warming causing climate change. 1677 01:34:28.880 --> 01:34:31.640 Your idea will be funded. If you believe in a lie, 1678 01:34:31.840 --> 01:34:35.479 you'll be paid, and politicians run on the idea. I 1679 01:34:35.520 --> 01:34:39.640 guess what that we can actually stop the earth from turning, 1680 01:34:40.279 --> 01:34:45.760 the oceans from waving in the skies, getting rid of 1681 01:34:45.760 --> 01:34:48.439 all the elements in the sky above which is caused 1682 01:34:48.479 --> 01:34:51.600 by man made global warming, which we cannot do. God 1683 01:34:52.000 --> 01:34:57.199 has corrected that we fund bad ideas that fuel public policy. 1684 01:34:57.520 --> 01:34:58.000 And now with. 1685 01:34:58.000 --> 01:35:00.640 Donald Trump, I pray to God that is largely over. 1686 01:35:01.359 --> 01:35:03.239 So let's continue with more. Coming up next to me 1687 01:35:03.319 --> 01:35:06.920 Grover Norquist Americans for Tax Reform, and he's been out 1688 01:35:06.920 --> 01:35:09.279 of for about thirty five years or so, preaching the 1689 01:35:09.319 --> 01:35:13.159 gospel of giving Americans more of freedom by allowing them 1690 01:35:13.199 --> 01:35:15.439 to keep more of their own money, and the centivizing 1691 01:35:15.479 --> 01:35:18.640 the economic activity instead of trying to destroy it, and 1692 01:35:18.680 --> 01:35:20.760 so much like with Steve gorm which I said to 1693 01:35:20.840 --> 01:35:22.319 him earlier, I think we've had some. 1694 01:35:22.760 --> 01:35:24.680 Measurable impact in the minds of voters. 1695 01:35:25.000 --> 01:35:27.680 I think the same thing is true about Grover Norquest 1696 01:35:28.119 --> 01:35:31.079 atr dot org. Bill Cunningham, the Great American with you 1697 01:35:31.159 --> 01:35:44.720 and all of the great Americans Every Sunday By Billy 1698 01:35:44.720 --> 01:35:47.119 Cunningham the great American. One of the great advocates for 1699 01:35:47.199 --> 01:35:50.279 tax reform in this country is Grover north Quest. He's 1700 01:35:50.319 --> 01:35:52.920 been fabulous on this issue for twenty or thirty years, 1701 01:35:53.279 --> 01:35:56.680 and now things I'm almost metastasized where actually it might happen. 1702 01:35:57.039 --> 01:36:00.279 When the Trumpster was first elected in twenty sixteen, and 1703 01:36:00.319 --> 01:36:02.359 I thought, okay, he said and made all these promises 1704 01:36:02.399 --> 01:36:04.960 that didn't occur, and I thought, okay, well, that's that's 1705 01:36:05.000 --> 01:36:08.239 the way politics go. But now this time, I think 1706 01:36:08.279 --> 01:36:11.359 maybe it's because of the last intervening four years, what 1707 01:36:11.479 --> 01:36:14.600 he was put through, and as a consequence of that, 1708 01:36:15.159 --> 01:36:18.159 he's now more committed than ever to doing what needs 1709 01:36:18.239 --> 01:36:20.920 to be done. And we indicate now that he's going 1710 01:36:20.920 --> 01:36:24.560 to go after the IRS. And Grover Norquist has written 1711 01:36:24.560 --> 01:36:26.920 on the subject many times. They have over two thousand 1712 01:36:27.039 --> 01:36:30.319 cars available for the IRS the cost of one hundreds 1713 01:36:30.359 --> 01:36:33.000 of millions of dollars. They have bullets, they have guns, 1714 01:36:33.039 --> 01:36:36.279 they have ammunition. And so Grover Norquist, welcome again to 1715 01:36:36.319 --> 01:36:38.520 the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, tell the 1716 01:36:38.560 --> 01:36:42.560 American people, how good do you feel now that tax 1717 01:36:42.640 --> 01:36:44.000 reform may actually occur. 1718 01:36:45.760 --> 01:36:47.680 Well, I think we're going to get the bill passed. 1719 01:36:47.720 --> 01:36:51.319 The President of today tweeted out the assertion that we 1720 01:36:51.439 --> 01:36:55.840 need now to pass one bill, not two bills. There 1721 01:36:55.840 --> 01:36:57.720 were some well meaning people who wanted to. 1722 01:36:57.680 --> 01:36:59.760 Do two bills. The problem is if you do two, 1723 01:37:00.119 --> 01:37:03.479 it would never actually get done. So we are now moving. 1724 01:37:03.319 --> 01:37:07.720 On one bill, which is the consensus issue here, and 1725 01:37:08.239 --> 01:37:09.600 that will be a tax cut. 1726 01:37:10.039 --> 01:37:12.239 The President's tax cut will be made permanent. 1727 01:37:12.600 --> 01:37:15.279 It will go out indefinitely, not just for ten years, 1728 01:37:15.279 --> 01:37:20.039 but permanently. And the good news there is that we 1729 01:37:20.159 --> 01:37:26.079 have people will be sure and secure in what we're accomplishing, 1730 01:37:26.800 --> 01:37:30.960 and you'll know, Okay, this is what your tax full expensing. 1731 01:37:31.000 --> 01:37:33.439 One of the things that passed in the original bill 1732 01:37:33.479 --> 01:37:34.239 which will be kept. 1733 01:37:34.399 --> 01:37:36.239 The lower rate for small. 1734 01:37:36.079 --> 01:37:37.319 Businesses will be kept. 1735 01:37:37.640 --> 01:37:40.520 The lower rates. Every American will have lower tax. 1736 01:37:40.359 --> 01:37:44.239 Rates than than before it because that's what was passed 1737 01:37:44.239 --> 01:37:48.079 in the original bill. And the cheerful news that we 1738 01:37:48.119 --> 01:37:52.000 will double the standard deduction for individuals and double the 1739 01:37:52.079 --> 01:37:55.439 per Chiub tax credit. All of these things which passed 1740 01:37:55.439 --> 01:37:57.960 in twenty seven will now be made permanent. 1741 01:37:58.279 --> 01:38:01.640 It is a huge, huge step in the right direction. 1742 01:38:01.880 --> 01:38:05.399 And as far as finding this trillion dollars, all of 1743 01:38:05.479 --> 01:38:07.720 us assumed there was waste fraud and abuse. In fact, 1744 01:38:07.760 --> 01:38:11.119 I've played before the cuts of Barack Hussein Obama talking 1745 01:38:11.159 --> 01:38:15.039 about waste fraud and abuse. In nineteen ninety four, there 1746 01:38:15.079 --> 01:38:18.279 was a big government commission put together by Bill Clinton 1747 01:38:18.760 --> 01:38:22.319 and Al Gore, and they had these four foot high 1748 01:38:22.359 --> 01:38:25.760 pages of rules and regulations. They said, okay, we're going 1749 01:38:25.800 --> 01:38:28.359 after that. Then you got Joe Biden. I've played his 1750 01:38:28.439 --> 01:38:30.399 cuts about all the waste fraud and abuse in the 1751 01:38:30.399 --> 01:38:33.880 federal government. And I played that, and I'm thinking, Okay, 1752 01:38:33.920 --> 01:38:37.560 that's going to happen. Why do you believe now, Grover Norquist? 1753 01:38:38.119 --> 01:38:40.279 I know I believe it now, which I haven't believed 1754 01:38:40.279 --> 01:38:44.840 it until recently, that this president is serious about cutting 1755 01:38:44.880 --> 01:38:47.479 the size and the scope of the federal government over 1756 01:38:47.520 --> 01:38:50.800 the objections of CNN. Why this time do you have 1757 01:38:50.880 --> 01:38:54.119 more hope than before? Because I've heard heard this song before, 1758 01:38:54.520 --> 01:38:56.920 sung by others, But this time I believe. 1759 01:38:56.640 --> 01:38:58.079 It several reasons. 1760 01:38:58.079 --> 01:39:00.600 The first is that we have a Republican House and 1761 01:39:00.680 --> 01:39:04.319 a Republican Senate. When Reagan was president, he had a 1762 01:39:04.319 --> 01:39:08.439 Republican Senate. He had the Grace Commission report, which came 1763 01:39:08.479 --> 01:39:11.560 out with many, many good and important ideas, some of 1764 01:39:11.560 --> 01:39:13.840 which could be done by executive orner, but many of 1765 01:39:13.880 --> 01:39:17.720 which required laws. And with a democratic House, nothing could 1766 01:39:17.760 --> 01:39:23.039 actually move. Nothing could move. When the Democrats had the 1767 01:39:23.039 --> 01:39:25.920 House in the Senate under Bill Clinton, they could say 1768 01:39:25.960 --> 01:39:29.039 they were for all these reforms, but all those reforms 1769 01:39:29.079 --> 01:39:31.840 reduced the number of democratic restinct workers in the country. 1770 01:39:32.119 --> 01:39:34.920 That was never ever going to get fixed that way. 1771 01:39:35.960 --> 01:39:38.520 The other reason to believe it is the president is 1772 01:39:38.520 --> 01:39:39.920 now in his second term. 1773 01:39:40.479 --> 01:39:44.960 He was here for four years. He's seen how the bureaucracy. 1774 01:39:44.920 --> 01:39:48.119 Lies to the president about what's actually happening in each 1775 01:39:48.159 --> 01:39:52.920 of these situations. And he had staff around him who 1776 01:39:52.960 --> 01:39:56.000 is hardened, and they have fought these fights before. 1777 01:39:57.000 --> 01:39:58.319 And I would add one other thing. 1778 01:39:58.920 --> 01:40:03.880 Elon and x Elon Musk has a lot of brilliant 1779 01:40:03.920 --> 01:40:06.159 talent which goes in and looks at the computers things 1780 01:40:06.199 --> 01:40:08.680 you think should have been done every year for the 1781 01:40:08.720 --> 01:40:11.720 last thirty years. For crying out loud, how in the 1782 01:40:11.720 --> 01:40:14.640 world did they not go into these computers to say 1783 01:40:15.119 --> 01:40:17.159 how old are the people on Social Security? Are there 1784 01:40:17.239 --> 01:40:20.680 several people with the same Social Security number? 1785 01:40:20.800 --> 01:40:22.880 Perhaps? You know, why in. 1786 01:40:22.840 --> 01:40:25.800 The world did this not get exposed before? This is 1787 01:40:26.479 --> 01:40:30.479 not you think it isn't terribly difficult. But they've gone 1788 01:40:30.520 --> 01:40:32.600 in with people who know what to look for and 1789 01:40:32.640 --> 01:40:34.920 how to find it, and they've been very good at it. 1790 01:40:36.079 --> 01:40:39.319 And then the same thing happened. Add one thing x 1791 01:40:39.720 --> 01:40:42.680 X Twitter. Right when we tried to take a good 1792 01:40:42.720 --> 01:40:46.880 idea and publicize it to cut taxes when the Republicans 1793 01:40:46.880 --> 01:40:49.239 took over in ninety four in the House and Senate, 1794 01:40:50.640 --> 01:40:54.000 what happened, Well, the New York Times wasn't interested in things, 1795 01:40:54.399 --> 01:40:58.640 and the Washington Post wasn't interested in it, and so 1796 01:40:58.760 --> 01:41:03.439 these are just they just were not interested in getting 1797 01:41:03.760 --> 01:41:06.359 any of these things done or in publicizing them. 1798 01:41:06.359 --> 01:41:09.039 And says, now, what can happen As. 1799 01:41:08.920 --> 01:41:11.560 Long as he thinks it's a good idea, you know what, 1800 01:41:11.840 --> 01:41:14.760 it'll get talked about. It will get talked about. He 1801 01:41:14.800 --> 01:41:17.840 will send it out and ten million people will see 1802 01:41:19.039 --> 01:41:22.279 what's going on, and that's over. It's one of those 1803 01:41:22.279 --> 01:41:27.520 things where frankly, they can't shut us up. They can't 1804 01:41:27.640 --> 01:41:30.479 shut us up. They want to, but they can't. 1805 01:41:30.880 --> 01:41:33.560 The stars have aligned, and they've aligned in ways I 1806 01:41:33.640 --> 01:41:37.199 thought it was possible but not likely. One thing, I know, 1807 01:41:37.279 --> 01:41:39.159 you're more familiar with the numbers than I am but 1808 01:41:39.479 --> 01:41:43.079 the government accounting off. As GEO said in twenty twenty three, 1809 01:41:43.600 --> 01:41:46.479 this is during the heyday of Joe Biden and n 1810 01:41:46.600 --> 01:41:50.600 Kamala Harris. Now, between two hundred and fifty billion up 1811 01:41:50.640 --> 01:41:53.760 to five hundred and fifty billion dollars a year was 1812 01:41:53.880 --> 01:41:56.720 lost through the federal government with waste, fraud and abuse. 1813 01:41:57.000 --> 01:41:59.319 Now that thing hit with a thud because nobody in 1814 01:41:59.359 --> 01:42:02.760 the Congress, Democrats controlled it wanted to highlight the fact 1815 01:42:03.079 --> 01:42:06.359 that every year between two hundred and fifty billion and 1816 01:42:06.479 --> 01:42:10.279 five hundred and fifty billion is simply lost, and that 1817 01:42:10.319 --> 01:42:13.159 thing has been resurrected. I watched the other day of 1818 01:42:13.199 --> 01:42:15.960 the interview with my friend, my good friend Sean Hannity, 1819 01:42:16.199 --> 01:42:18.000 and I spoke to him about a day or two 1820 01:42:18.079 --> 01:42:21.439 thereafter to get his perspective on things with the DOGE 1821 01:42:21.439 --> 01:42:25.560 and Elon Muskin and of course President Trump. And one 1822 01:42:25.560 --> 01:42:27.960 thing that came out of it is the President said, look, 1823 01:42:28.000 --> 01:42:31.159 I signed these eos, these executive orders. I sign them, 1824 01:42:31.319 --> 01:42:34.039 but then they go into a file somewhere and nothing happens. 1825 01:42:34.319 --> 01:42:37.079 He said, I did that in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. 1826 01:42:37.319 --> 01:42:41.560 I signed these executive orders. So what the bureaucracy ate 1827 01:42:41.640 --> 01:42:45.520 the homework. They didn't care. So what's different this time? 1828 01:42:45.640 --> 01:42:49.079 Why will the bureaucracy care when Trump signs an EO. 1829 01:42:49.680 --> 01:42:53.159 Well, they're putting people in who can actually manage that 1830 01:42:53.279 --> 01:42:57.680 sort of thing, and that has really changed. New leadership 1831 01:42:58.319 --> 01:43:00.800 at the head of each of these agents, at the 1832 01:43:00.840 --> 01:43:03.159 head of each of these departments. I mean, this is 1833 01:43:03.199 --> 01:43:06.039 just amazing what they've done. They've got some people who 1834 01:43:06.199 --> 01:43:09.760 just are willing to say, we're doing this and I 1835 01:43:09.880 --> 01:43:13.880 don't care to hear your objections because we've heard them before. 1836 01:43:14.760 --> 01:43:17.239 Can you imagine, you know, some of the people that 1837 01:43:17.560 --> 01:43:21.640 he's brought in, they have been through these wars, with 1838 01:43:21.720 --> 01:43:26.479 these conflicts, They've dealt with this before. They know how 1839 01:43:26.520 --> 01:43:30.680 the bureaucracy tries to get around decisions. 1840 01:43:30.079 --> 01:43:31.079 Made by the president. 1841 01:43:31.640 --> 01:43:36.920 And after this, the Supreme Court is now serious about life. 1842 01:43:37.039 --> 01:43:39.199 In the past, we had a very left wing Supreme 1843 01:43:39.239 --> 01:43:42.279 Court which would say, oh, you can't do this, and 1844 01:43:42.319 --> 01:43:45.239 you go why not? They say, well, we'll come up 1845 01:43:45.239 --> 01:43:47.920 with a reason why later. This is the Supreme Court 1846 01:43:48.239 --> 01:43:52.000 that recognizes the president runs the executive office. 1847 01:43:52.039 --> 01:43:54.079 The president runs. 1848 01:43:54.039 --> 01:43:58.000 The executive branch, not the bureaucrats. This is not set 1849 01:43:58.079 --> 01:44:00.239 up for bureaucrats. This is set up for the president 1850 01:44:00.319 --> 01:44:03.399 to run it and all of the decisions they've made 1851 01:44:03.439 --> 01:44:06.600 in the past. That allows some departments to say, this 1852 01:44:06.640 --> 01:44:10.159 is what we're doing, and the department's going to run it, 1853 01:44:10.239 --> 01:44:12.319 or this SEC is going to run over the FCC 1854 01:44:12.520 --> 01:44:15.319 or one of these alphabet things. This is very, very 1855 01:44:15.319 --> 01:44:21.079 important that we have people as cabinet officers who are 1856 01:44:21.279 --> 01:44:24.399 willing to push for what the President asked for. We 1857 01:44:24.479 --> 01:44:28.119 have a House and the Senate willing to investigate whenever 1858 01:44:28.159 --> 01:44:30.520 the bureaucracy is in the way, and we have a 1859 01:44:30.560 --> 01:44:34.520 Supreme Court that believes, yes, this is being made by us. 1860 01:44:34.760 --> 01:44:37.000 This decision is being made by the President, not by 1861 01:44:37.039 --> 01:44:37.640 bureau crounts. 1862 01:44:38.359 --> 01:44:40.319 I have a list here of the age of people 1863 01:44:40.359 --> 01:44:42.159 getting Social Security benefits. 1864 01:44:42.479 --> 01:44:43.840 It is totally ridiculous. 1865 01:44:43.840 --> 01:44:46.039 It wouldn't take a rocket science is to figure out 1866 01:44:46.319 --> 01:44:49.560 something is seriously wrong with one hundred and fifty year 1867 01:44:49.560 --> 01:44:53.399 olds getting Social Security along with a massive fraud. 1868 01:44:53.800 --> 01:44:54.840 I have the list here. 1869 01:44:55.279 --> 01:44:58.279 If you're between one hundred and one hundred and ten 1870 01:44:58.399 --> 01:45:01.720 years old, that's a pretty big number. One hundred and 1871 01:45:01.760 --> 01:45:04.680 ten years old. Four point seven million are on the 1872 01:45:04.760 --> 01:45:07.800 roles getting Social Security. If you're one hundred and fifty 1873 01:45:07.880 --> 01:45:11.000 years old, there's one point three million getting it. If 1874 01:45:11.039 --> 01:45:13.439 you're between ninety and one hundred and six million are 1875 01:45:13.439 --> 01:45:15.840 getting it. There aren't that many people alive, and you 1876 01:45:15.880 --> 01:45:18.800 would think, and according to Elon Musk, they're using the 1877 01:45:18.880 --> 01:45:22.520 technology that was available, believe it or not, during World 1878 01:45:22.520 --> 01:45:26.119 War Two to conduct Social Security payments. I want every 1879 01:45:26.119 --> 01:45:29.079 recipient to get every dollar that they're entitled to, but 1880 01:45:29.159 --> 01:45:31.319 I don't want to have Social Security tell me every 1881 01:45:31.359 --> 01:45:35.279 year there's one hundred billion dollars missing in Social Security. 1882 01:45:35.319 --> 01:45:38.720 There's no audit ever conducted in your business. At American 1883 01:45:38.760 --> 01:45:41.760 tax reform, I would assume at some point somebody looks 1884 01:45:41.760 --> 01:45:43.560 at an audit and say, we got an audit. See 1885 01:45:43.560 --> 01:45:46.520 where the money went to do secondary proof. But with 1886 01:45:46.600 --> 01:45:49.199 Social Security, that never happens. When I look at this 1887 01:45:49.279 --> 01:45:52.640 list of people getting Social Security benefits, it is absurd, 1888 01:45:52.960 --> 01:45:55.279 and Elon Musk wants to fix it now. 1889 01:45:55.399 --> 01:45:57.319 Lastly, I know it on your website. 1890 01:45:57.560 --> 01:45:59.319 I have many listeners believe or not, in the state 1891 01:45:59.359 --> 01:46:02.439 of California, and they've got a terrible problem coming up 1892 01:46:02.680 --> 01:46:06.039 because of what Gavin Newsom has done to gas prices. 1893 01:46:06.079 --> 01:46:08.479 In the Midwest. In fact, rates are coming down. 1894 01:46:08.520 --> 01:46:11.840 But can you tell the American people why the gasoline 1895 01:46:11.880 --> 01:46:16.039 prices out west are ridiculously high caused by Gavin Newsom. 1896 01:46:15.960 --> 01:46:19.159 Well, among other things, they've been not building pipelines, they've 1897 01:46:19.159 --> 01:46:22.640 been not building refineries, and because they have taxes, they 1898 01:46:22.680 --> 01:46:26.760 have tremendous tax taxes on energy and everything that goes 1899 01:46:26.800 --> 01:46:31.600 into energy. The higher energy costs in California are clearly, 1900 01:46:31.600 --> 01:46:33.960 as you point out, done by that governor and the 1901 01:46:34.039 --> 01:46:38.399 legislature and by previous governors of legislators that said, we 1902 01:46:38.439 --> 01:46:42.479 don't want pipelines coming into this into this beautiful state. No, 1903 01:46:43.279 --> 01:46:45.960 they're going to have a real problem now and in 1904 01:46:46.000 --> 01:46:46.920 the future. 1905 01:46:46.800 --> 01:46:48.560 And in fact it's going to get worse, not better 1906 01:46:49.319 --> 01:46:52.640 unless and people of California got to decide for themselves 1907 01:46:52.840 --> 01:46:53.920 what the hell's going on. 1908 01:46:54.319 --> 01:46:56.039 But tax reform is where you are. 1909 01:46:56.079 --> 01:46:59.119 Can you envision the day Grover Norquist, maybe in two 1910 01:46:59.239 --> 01:47:01.520 or three years, were going to have a flat tax 1911 01:47:01.960 --> 01:47:04.960 or a value added tax that the irs will not 1912 01:47:05.039 --> 01:47:07.840 exist and that will pay taxes when we buy something, 1913 01:47:07.920 --> 01:47:09.039 or there will be a flat tax. 1914 01:47:09.199 --> 01:47:10.399 Do you see that day coming? 1915 01:47:11.760 --> 01:47:14.319 Well, I think that we can and will get to 1916 01:47:14.399 --> 01:47:18.079 a single rate flat tax. And the reason for that 1917 01:47:18.239 --> 01:47:20.680 is that at the state level, there are eight states 1918 01:47:21.039 --> 01:47:22.479 where the income tax is zero. 1919 01:47:22.640 --> 01:47:24.920 That's a flat rate. That's my favorite flat rate path. 1920 01:47:25.880 --> 01:47:30.039 And there are fifteen other states that have single rates 1921 01:47:30.079 --> 01:47:33.520 of two, three, or four percent. So twenty three percent 1922 01:47:33.640 --> 01:47:37.600 of the twenty three states twenty three states, almost half 1923 01:47:38.079 --> 01:47:40.479 have a single rate tax, either. 1924 01:47:40.439 --> 01:47:42.479 Zero or a non zero number. 1925 01:47:43.000 --> 01:47:46.600 There are ten states that are phasing their income taxes 1926 01:47:46.640 --> 01:47:50.399 down to zero, where the legislature and the governor said 1927 01:47:50.439 --> 01:47:52.720 we're on the way to zero. Here's how we're doing it, 1928 01:47:52.920 --> 01:47:56.199 and they've passed the law to begin that March. So 1929 01:47:56.359 --> 01:48:01.439 over the next few years, probably in three years, there 1930 01:48:01.479 --> 01:48:04.640 will be a majority of states with a single rate tax, 1931 01:48:05.159 --> 01:48:09.359 and ten to fifteen years from now, they'll be fully 1932 01:48:10.159 --> 01:48:13.840 twenty states that have no income tax at all. So 1933 01:48:14.439 --> 01:48:16.960 as a majority of the members of the House and 1934 01:48:17.000 --> 01:48:19.520 a majority of the members of the Senate come from 1935 01:48:19.600 --> 01:48:22.760 states with a single rate tax or a zero income tax, 1936 01:48:23.119 --> 01:48:26.039 I could see how we do this nationally, not just 1937 01:48:26.079 --> 01:48:29.279 in our state. It works in Texas, it works in Florida, 1938 01:48:29.279 --> 01:48:32.399 it works in Ohio. You know, all of these states 1939 01:48:32.399 --> 01:48:34.640 have single rate Illinois for crying out loud, has it. 1940 01:48:34.800 --> 01:48:39.840 It's a single rate tax, and the legislature can't fix it. 1941 01:48:39.800 --> 01:48:43.439 It can't change it because people like a single rate tax. 1942 01:48:43.479 --> 01:48:46.399 They feel protected. They're not going to be divided into 1943 01:48:46.399 --> 01:48:49.199 different groups and mug one at a time. So it's 1944 01:48:49.199 --> 01:48:51.640 a huge, huge step forward. 1945 01:48:52.479 --> 01:48:52.640 You know. 1946 01:48:52.800 --> 01:48:55.079 Lastly, you may put yourself out of business. Go over 1947 01:48:55.199 --> 01:48:58.079 nor questatr dot org. You may be out of business 1948 01:48:58.119 --> 01:49:02.000 with this. But now Indiana's passed. They had unanimous vote 1949 01:49:02.000 --> 01:49:04.439 in the Senate by Democrats and Republicans in the state 1950 01:49:04.479 --> 01:49:07.319 of Indiana to phase out the income tax. Ohio is 1951 01:49:07.359 --> 01:49:09.960 on that route right now. It's three point five percent, 1952 01:49:10.079 --> 01:49:13.239 is on its way to zero. And when I look 1953 01:49:13.239 --> 01:49:16.560 at this, it has to be number one. When I 1954 01:49:16.600 --> 01:49:20.319 watch CNN, etc. They're telling me constantly, all this is 1955 01:49:20.359 --> 01:49:23.439 a billionaire tax build that Donald Trump wants to give 1956 01:49:23.520 --> 01:49:26.720 tax cuts to his billionaire friends at the expense of 1957 01:49:26.760 --> 01:49:29.399 your social security. Are you there to respond to that 1958 01:49:29.439 --> 01:49:32.279 one at all? How about the billionaires getting tax cuts 1959 01:49:32.479 --> 01:49:36.520 and mom and dad being thrown off a cliff totally ridiculous. 1960 01:49:37.119 --> 01:49:37.920 Well, here's the thing. 1961 01:49:38.000 --> 01:49:41.840 That is what the Democrats say every time, as a 1962 01:49:41.920 --> 01:49:47.399 tax doesn't matter what tax you're reducing, they think cutting 1963 01:49:47.600 --> 01:49:50.880 you know, raising every tax is a good idea. 1964 01:49:50.640 --> 01:49:52.560 And cutting any tax is a bad idea. 1965 01:49:52.960 --> 01:49:56.880 And the American people are not buying the argument that 1966 01:49:57.119 --> 01:50:03.199 reducing taxes for everybody is somehow gift to quote unquote billionaires. 1967 01:50:04.119 --> 01:50:09.279 My favorite is the Democrats say, well, if you tax corporations, 1968 01:50:09.800 --> 01:50:13.199 people don't actually pay for it. Well there is no, mister, 1969 01:50:13.279 --> 01:50:17.680 general voters, It just isn't. If you raise taxes on 1970 01:50:17.760 --> 01:50:20.279 general voters or the grocery store down the street. 1971 01:50:21.039 --> 01:50:21.800 What happens. 1972 01:50:22.119 --> 01:50:24.520 They raise the price of what they sell to get 1973 01:50:24.520 --> 01:50:28.399 the more money, or they reduce wages or the number 1974 01:50:28.399 --> 01:50:31.279 of people working in order to save the money that 1975 01:50:31.279 --> 01:50:33.760 they then give to the government. They have to get 1976 01:50:33.800 --> 01:50:36.119 the money somewhere, so they either take it out of 1977 01:50:36.119 --> 01:50:40.560 today's payroll by paying people less or hiring fewer people, 1978 01:50:42.000 --> 01:50:46.079 or if they can, they could raise prices, which hits consumers. 1979 01:50:46.520 --> 01:50:50.760 And if the company's really badly damaged such that the 1980 01:50:50.800 --> 01:50:55.079 stock goes down in the company, well, then half of 1981 01:50:55.119 --> 01:51:01.800 American families whose pensions are determined by the ice shares 1982 01:51:01.800 --> 01:51:06.359 of stock, will see the value of their retirement savings 1983 01:51:06.479 --> 01:51:12.119 go down. So retirees pay the corporate income tax. Consumers 1984 01:51:12.239 --> 01:51:16.279 pay the corporate income tax. Workers pay the corporate income tax. 1985 01:51:16.720 --> 01:51:18.880 Some things don't pay the corporate income tax. They don't 1986 01:51:18.880 --> 01:51:23.960 have any money. It's lungs to somebody else. And so 1987 01:51:24.239 --> 01:51:26.880 this is you know, if General Motors spend takes a 1988 01:51:26.920 --> 01:51:29.000 dollar and gives it to the government, that came out 1989 01:51:29.039 --> 01:51:31.800 of workers pay, or it came out of higher prices, 1990 01:51:32.119 --> 01:51:34.359 or it came out of collapsing value of the company. 1991 01:51:36.319 --> 01:51:40.640 We consumers pay every corporate tax. It's not don't tax you, 1992 01:51:40.760 --> 01:51:43.279 don't tax me, tax the guy behind the tree. When 1993 01:51:43.359 --> 01:51:47.239 business taxes go up, consumers pay one percent of those 1994 01:51:47.279 --> 01:51:50.159 taxes directly, or wages go down, one or the other. 1995 01:51:50.520 --> 01:51:52.880 Once again, Grover Nor course, I'll look Ford to the 1996 01:51:52.960 --> 01:51:54.479 days in the next few years. You and I have 1997 01:51:54.600 --> 01:51:58.920 no reason to talk atr dot org. Americans for tax Reform. 1998 01:51:58.960 --> 01:52:01.600 It's happened, and you may get yourself out of work, 1999 01:52:01.600 --> 01:52:04.079 but so be it, Grover nor question. You've been fighting 2000 01:52:04.079 --> 01:52:06.920 this thing for thirty years along with me. Thanks again 2001 01:52:06.960 --> 01:52:09.359 for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Grover, you're 2002 01:52:09.359 --> 01:52:10.159 a great American. 2003 01:52:11.159 --> 01:52:13.920 Oh and absolutely, and even after we win, I'll call 2004 01:52:14.000 --> 01:52:15.439 and we'll say hi anyway. 2005 01:52:16.640 --> 01:52:20.520 Grover, Thank you very much. Take care all right, let's 2006 01:52:20.520 --> 01:52:23.359 continue with more. That guy makes a whole bunch of sense. 2007 01:52:23.399 --> 01:52:25.199 He's been at it for thirty years. Don't believe what 2008 01:52:25.239 --> 01:52:28.079 the media tells you. You, as a consumer, pay all 2009 01:52:28.159 --> 01:52:31.239 business taxes in the form of higher prices for goods 2010 01:52:31.239 --> 01:52:34.199 and services. Bill Cunningham, the Great American, live with you 2011 01:52:34.319 --> 01:52:37.039 every Sunday Night, My Billy Cunningham, the Great American. Thanks 2012 01:52:37.079 --> 01:52:39.760 for listening tonight. As we began about almost three hours ago, 2013 01:52:40.199 --> 01:52:42.119 this is going to be a consequential week. I can't 2014 01:52:42.199 --> 01:52:45.600 imagine that so many federal courts will take away the 2015 01:52:45.600 --> 01:52:47.560 power of a president. Eventually, it's going to get to 2016 01:52:47.600 --> 01:52:50.119 the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court's going to rule 2017 01:52:50.119 --> 01:52:52.560 in favor of Donald Trump. Very confident because they have to, 2018 01:52:52.640 --> 01:52:57.840 that's the law. And secondly, I fear that Israel will 2019 01:52:57.840 --> 01:53:01.000 not do what it must do for its survivability and 2020 01:53:01.159 --> 01:53:03.960 if they don't act as if America acted in nineteen 2021 01:53:04.039 --> 01:53:07.119 forty one through nineteen forty five, And what's the only 2022 01:53:07.199 --> 01:53:09.079 way to have peace in the Middle East? To have 2023 01:53:09.319 --> 01:53:13.479 total unconditional surrender by hamas by Hesbla and by Iran, 2024 01:53:14.039 --> 01:53:17.000 that you cannot have a situation in Gaza in which 2025 01:53:17.039 --> 01:53:20.239 Hamas is still in charge, and that somehow all the 2026 01:53:20.279 --> 01:53:23.319 sacrifices up to this point will continue for generations to 2027 01:53:23.359 --> 01:53:27.359 come because Israel is being restrained by European powers or 2028 01:53:27.399 --> 01:53:30.600 others not to do what's right for their survivability. They 2029 01:53:30.680 --> 01:53:33.640 must survive. No nation could put up with what it 2030 01:53:33.760 --> 01:53:37.520 put up with beginning on October the seventh of about 2031 01:53:38.000 --> 01:53:41.720 five hundred days ago. And watch the murder of the innocence, 2032 01:53:41.760 --> 01:53:46.479 and the trade the innocent for mass murderers for everyone Israeli. 2033 01:53:46.520 --> 01:53:49.239 It's worth more than one hundred Palestinian murderers? Are you 2034 01:53:49.319 --> 01:53:52.880 kidding me? Somehow this must stop, and it must stop now, 2035 01:53:53.520 --> 01:53:56.119 and Israel must win this war, and they must be 2036 01:53:56.199 --> 01:53:59.119 unrestrained to do what they must do, especially toward Iran. 2037 01:53:59.199 --> 01:54:04.000 The Hasbalahanim, thanks for listening, and say a prayer of 2038 01:54:04.159 --> 01:54:07.359 gratitude for the sacrifice of so many police officers. The 2039 01:54:07.399 --> 01:54:10.840 thin blue line between democracy and anarchy. Bill Cunningham with 2040 01:54:10.920 --> 01:54:11.880 you every Sunday night.