WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:09.080 Good evening everybody, and welcome to another edition of The 2 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:12.160 Cajun Night Live. I am your host, Jacob Mook the 3 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:15.080 Cajun Night. We're gonna be talking about some news stories 4 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.320 right now. We're gonna start off in America. Then we're 5 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:20.079 gonna go into some kind of America kind of foreign 6 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:21.960 policy things. Then we're gonna bring up a couple of 7 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:24.800 foreign nations with some things going on. A lot of stuff, 8 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:27.440 a lot of stuff going on. Uh yeah, I see 9 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:29.960 it's Onny. You're traveling right now and didn't have anything prepped. Dope. 10 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:31.879 That's fine, dude. I'm just glad that you're with us 11 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.920 this evening again. If you anybody here has anything they 12 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:37.119 would like to add into the conversation, please send it 13 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:39.840 into the chat. Our homegirl, Claire, has already sent one 14 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:41.799 article in that I am going to pull up here 15 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:44.079 in a bit. But uh, all right, let's just go 16 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:48.679 in and get right into it. Let's start off. So 17 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:53.079 starting off here, the Senate has rejected funding for a 18 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:56.399 bill with no end insight of government shutdown. This is 19 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:59.560 from CNBC. Listen, I understand that some of the new 20 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:03.159 sources that I pull up are very liberally based or 21 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:05.840 very conservatively based. It doesn't matter. The reason why I 22 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:08.120 pull these up and why I give the distinction of 23 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.480 where this source is coming from is that everybody understands 24 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.000 what kind of bias we're going into before we start reading. 25 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:16.680 And I think it's worth noting that, yes, we must 26 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.920 look at what CNN is saying about things, as well 27 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:22.280 as what Fox is saying about things, as well as 28 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:24.280 what Al Jazeera is saying, as well as what the 29 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:27.120 BBC is saying it. We have to take in all 30 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:29.760 of these things to try to attribute it all to 31 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:32.640 get a better picture of the whole schematic here. Okay, 32 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:35.159 so let's get into it here. Senate rejects funding bill 33 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:38.120 with no end insight of government shutdown. This was actually 34 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:41.719 published today. The government shutdown entered its third week with 35 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:44.719 no viable deal to resolve it. The Senate for the 36 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:49.640 ninth time rejected duel stop and go funding stop gap 37 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:53.480 rather stop gap funding bills, as Republicans and Democrats continue 38 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:57.840 to argue for dueling measures. Democrats insist that funding deal 39 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:02.120 in include extending in it's Affordable care AC subsidies, which 40 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.599 are set to expire at the end of twenty twenty five, 41 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.639 So all right. A lot of people know that the 42 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:11.680 government is shut down right now. Not many people know 43 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:14.639 the nuances as to why it is shut down right now. 44 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:17.680 And I've said this joke before, but I do actually 45 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:20.000 stand on this. At this point, we might as well 46 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:22.879 just make it a federal holiday. Y up, here comes 47 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:26.039 the yearly shutdown. Yeah, and it doesn't matter who's in office. 48 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.919 This is a thing that has gone on multiple administrations. 49 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:33.039 You know. Yes, right now it's being blamed on Trump 50 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:36.120 because it's Trump, and before that it was being blamed 51 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:40.280 on Biden because it's Biden, and like the president has 52 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:42.919 a hand in it. Don't get me wrong, But this 53 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:46.479 really and truly is a Senate thing. It's not an 54 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.560 executive branch thing. But let's get into the article. Let's 55 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:52.840 talk more about the votes and what is going on 56 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:55.560 here as to the whys for the government shut down, 57 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:58.319 and possibly can we get it over with? Can we 58 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:01.719 move forward here? Yeah, let's just read in here. The 59 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:04.039 government shut down stretch into its third week on Wednesday, 60 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:06.840 as Republican and Democrat senators continued to dig in their 61 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:10.599 heels on dueling stop gap funding proposals. The Senate on 62 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:13.680 Wednesday for the ninth time rejected a gop led short 63 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:17.680 term funding resolution in a fifty one to forty four vote. 64 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:20.120 The Senate once again did not approve a stop gap bill, 65 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:24.479 in which Republicans insist on a clean continuing resolution that 66 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:27.719 would provide funding to reopen the government until at least 67 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:32.120 November twenty first. Democrats want any funding bill to extend 68 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:35.639 and Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to 69 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:37.960 run out at the end of this year. That and 70 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:40.840 other provisions in the Democratic bill would cost an estimated 71 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:45.919 one trillion dollars. Wednesday's vote occurred days after the Trump 72 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:49.039 administration said in a court filing that more than four 73 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:54.800 thousand federal employees received notifications that they were being laid off. Again, 74 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:58.560 that's four thousand federal employees. And they don't really give 75 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:01.319 a lot of distinctions as to, you know, the type 76 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:04.479 of federal employees this is. But even still, four thousand 77 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:08.360 jobs is not that massive of a hit. I don't know. 78 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:11.280 I don't know if he's cutting off entire, you know, 79 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.159 branches of the government here. Is he shutting down entire 80 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.560 agencies with this or was it kind of trimming the 81 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:20.120 fat on a couple of different places. I don't know. 82 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:22.720 I don't know. But continuing on here, it says the 83 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:26.120 White House Budget Director Russell Vaux said Wednesday that he 84 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:29.000 could be more than ten thousand or there could be 85 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.040 more than ten thousand job cuts. But shortly after Voue 86 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:35.240 made that remark, a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily 87 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:39.680 blocked the Trump administration from firing federal workers amid the shutdown. Okay, 88 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.160 firing and being laid off for two different things. In essence, 89 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:45.759 they have the same results, Like, yes, the person who 90 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:49.240 has the job no longer can punch the clock anymore. However, 91 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:51.600 a firing means that they're getting rid of this person 92 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:53.319 and the position is now open and they're going to 93 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:56.000 hire somebody else. Laid off means that they are shutting 94 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:58.120 down the need for that position and they're not going 95 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:01.959 to be hiring anybody new. Anybody's clear here. Firing and 96 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:04.680 laying off, although they do have the same effect for 97 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:09.000 the individual employee, there is different ramifications to that on 98 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:15.360 the back end, So anyway, these are layoffs, not firings. Anyway, continuing, 99 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:18.959 Trump administration officials blame the so called reductions in force 100 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:23.399 on Senate Democrat's refusal to vote for the Republican funding proposal. 101 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:26.639 And here we go with the finger pointing, in the 102 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:29.199 name calling, and the these said that, she said that, 103 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.040 he said all the stuff Democrats are dug in. Fifteen 104 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:36.600 days into a government shutdown, Democrats show no sign that 105 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:40.399 they're ready for it to end. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, 106 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:43.480 a Republican from South Dakota, said earlier on Wednesday on 107 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.839 the chamber floor, not even the prospect of military families 108 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:50.480 going without paychecks was enough for Democrats to reopen the government. Now, 109 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:52.800 I should make a mention of this. It has been 110 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:56.319 understood and declared that the military are not going to 111 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:01.040 miss any paychecks. They're gonna get paid. They found things 112 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:03.079 in the budget to make sure that they're gonna get paid. 113 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:06.000 I remember seeing these news clips of these military members 114 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.839 in line for like food stamps and WICK. I'm sorry, 115 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.120 just everybody's clear. When I was in the military, I 116 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:15.480 was on WICK like that. That's the military doesn't like 117 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:20.000 make money. You make way way less than minimum wage. 118 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:23.079 And yeah, they make up for it, quote unquote because 119 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:25.920 you have your housing paid for and your health and 120 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:28.800 dental paid for, and oh you have a clothing allowance. 121 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:30.959 It's like five hundred dollars a year. That's not even 122 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.800 gonna replace them uniform items that you you tore up 123 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:37.920 over the past year. Yeah, it's it's not. Nobody joins 124 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:40.120 the military to get rich. I'm sorry. And if you 125 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:42.319 if you think that that's like your plan, then I 126 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:43.720 hate to break it to you. That's not how this 127 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:47.519 is gonna go. This being said, Yeah, when me and 128 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:49.839 my first wife were together and we had a baby, yeah, 129 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:52.879 we had to apply for WICK because we were that broke. 130 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:55.480 And it's not because we had horrible spending habits. Although 131 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:58.040 calling us paid us paid on myself, it could have 132 00:06:58.040 --> 00:06:59.800 been better. I could have been a little wiser with 133 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:03.800 my and wiser with my investments. Very true, but it's 134 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:07.160 also very difficult to support a family when you're getting 135 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:10.120 two checks a month equaling to a grand total of 136 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:13.920 like seven to fifty for the month, and that's your 137 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:16.680 entire income you get paid on the first and the fifteenth, 138 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:20.279 That seven fifty is split over two checks. Like, I'm sorry, 139 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:22.040 that's just the way it is. And if you're trying 140 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:25.240 to support a family, you're taking whatever help you can get. 141 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:28.079 So when I saw the news clip of the family 142 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:31.000 members and these these military members online to get food 143 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:35.319 stamps and wick. I got to tell you, I wasn't 144 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.600 really shaken by this. Our military should never have to 145 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:41.279 live like this. First of all, I agree. Second off, 146 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.519 this is not nuanced. This is not because of the 147 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:46.519 government shutdown. This is the way it's been four years 148 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.399 from this was twenty eleven when I was getting my 149 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:54.600 wick shit. So it whatever. Anyway, continuing on send it. 150 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.800 Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, everybody knows him, the Democrat from 151 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:00.720 New York, counter thuns argument, saying that the government has 152 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:04.600 been shut since October first because Republicans quote refused to 153 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:06.759 work with Democrats in a serious way to fix the 154 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:11.000 health care crisis looming over the American people. As we speak, 155 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.000 families are receiving letters for their new health insurance rates 156 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:18.120 and more states more states are opening their window shopping 157 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:21.040 period for what health insurance will look like next year. 158 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:24.680 Direct quote from Schumer. With open enrollment around the corner, 159 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:27.600 Republicans cannot continue to kick this can down the road. 160 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:31.079 It's happening now. The healthcare crisis is now, he continued. 161 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.639 Thune and other Republicans have said that they are willing 162 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.200 to discuss the questioning are the question of extending ACA 163 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:40.720 enhanced tax credits after a short term funding is approved. 164 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:44.279 We need five more Democrats to say enough is enough 165 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:47.039 to put the American people ahead of the far left 166 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:51.240 and support this clean, non partisan continuing resolution sitting right 167 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:53.399 there at the Senate desk, ready to be picked up 168 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:56.919 and passed today. That was Thune that said this. On Wednesday, 169 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.720 President Trump issued a presidential memorandum directing Defense Secretary Pete 170 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:04.159 Hexeth to use remaining congressional funds to keep paying active 171 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:08.080 duty military personnel. Once again, they had the funding, They 172 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.960 have the money. It's not an issue. And if I'm 173 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:15.080 not mistaken, even when I was in there was government 174 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.879 shutdowns and I was stationed in Washington, DC, we still 175 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:20.080 got paid. There was never a risk of us not 176 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:23.720 getting paid. Although we we found some obscure thing within 177 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:26.240 our contracts to where if we were to go I 178 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:28.600 think it was like more than thirty one days without 179 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:32.600 receiving any compensation for our time. There was some way 180 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.120 that you could file some paperwork and your contract could 181 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:38.399 be null and void. That being said, it wouldn't have 182 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:39.960 really worked out that way anyway. But we were a 183 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:41.799 bunch of dumb nineteen year olds, and we thought we 184 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:44.120 knew how the system worked, you know, you know the 185 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:48.120 type that being said. Yes, the military is still getting paid, 186 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:51.519 the government shutdown is still on, and uh yeah, there's 187 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:54.440 no end in sight on this. We're gonna listen in now. 188 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:57.440 This was dropped four hours ago, and this is a 189 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:01.279 Mike Johnson speaking on the press briefing on day fifteen 190 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:03.000 of the government shut down. This is a couple of 191 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:04.879 days ago, but it just dropped a few hours ago, 192 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:06.919 and let's just hear what he's got to say on it. 193 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:08.399 Thanks a speaker. 194 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.639 OMB put out memos saying that they're going to batten 195 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:12.919 down the hatches. 196 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:14.240 And ride out the shutdown. 197 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:17.000 But as you pointed out, they're gonna pay the troops 198 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:18.120 as well as they. 199 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:19.399 Said pay law enforcement. 200 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:24.759 Should law enforcement include Capitol police who protect you your family, 201 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:29.360 you know, mister Scalise, the whip as well as the 202 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:30.639 Capitol building in gentlemen. 203 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:33.399 Yeah, we've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement, 204 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:35.679 and we've shown that in word and deeds. And I 205 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:37.960 can tell you that I was with the President for 206 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.559 a couple of hours in the Oval Office last night. 207 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:42.679 I spoke with the thrust vote in the Rose Garden 208 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:44.960 before they Charlie hurt service. 209 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:45.759 They are. 210 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:49.240 What's the right word for la Warren about this, that 211 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:52.799 no one on the Republican side is taking any pleasure 212 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:55.600 in this scenario. Yes, we're always for reducing the size 213 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:57.720 and spoke of the government and all of that, but 214 00:10:57.799 --> 00:10:59.279 this is not the way to go about it. We 215 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:02.120 don't shut the gard now, turn out the funding streams 216 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:06.399 and then require all these. 217 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:05.720 Cuts like this. 218 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:08.679 So what they're doing is they're having a triosh federal spending. 219 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:11.440 As you know, is because anybody, as we've said, any 220 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:13.799 person who's in the White House with regardless of party 221 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:16.679 and their director of O and B is given this 222 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:20.519 unfortunate reluctant task they have to figure out in trioge 223 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:23.480 what are the most essential services, personnel policies and what 224 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:25.320 or not. They're going to look at that through a 225 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.039 partisan lens. But when they look through it through that lens, 226 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:30.600 I mean we're looking at it right now as conservative 227 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.120 Republicans that the White House. That's who serves in the 228 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:36.279 White House right now. If Joe Biden or Kamala Harris 229 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:37.679 are a Democrat with air, they would look at it 230 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:39.240 with a totally different set of lenses. But I can 231 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:42.440 tell you that when we look at that, we prioritize 232 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:44.360 troops and law enforcement absolutely. 233 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:45.039 So if there is. 234 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:48.080 A mechanism to do that, they will find it and 235 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.399 they will fund it. The reason the way they were 236 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:52.639 able to get the troops paid for this paycheck, and 237 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:54.879 as I said, this is not an enduring solution because 238 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:56.720 we will run out of the funds, but there were 239 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:00.519 some unspent funds and effectively R and D accounts defense 240 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.399 they move that over to prioritize the payment of those 241 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:05.919 who are putting their lives on the line today, and 242 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:10.720 that families in serious situations, That money will be replaced, 243 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:12.960 as it's been explained by the White House, after the 244 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.000 funding gets going again. If we can find a similar 245 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:18.639 mechanism to take care of Capital police, of course they'll 246 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:21.000 do that, but that's in a separate branch. 247 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:25.720 So Capital City police are going to also be getting 248 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:28.440 their paychecks. I guarantee they're going to find a fund 249 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.039 for it. That's how this goes. And I mean they're 250 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.120 taking it from the R and D Department, from the 251 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:36.000 Defense spending or I should say the second the Department 252 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:41.000 of War spending. Okay, cool, I don't see an issue. 253 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.320 It sounds like they resolved at least that one portion 254 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:46.840 of this issue. But again, the government shutdown is still happening, 255 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:49.759 which you're gonna hear a lot about this episode, because 256 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:52.519 every single news clip must bring up the fact that 257 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:55.240 it is still going on. It is what it is. 258 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:58.080 But as we were talking about this, we're going to 259 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.720 take a quick little detour because as we're talking about 260 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:02.600 the government shutdown and the troops not getting paid, and 261 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:04.559 now they're talking about they will get paid and so 262 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.639 will police officers. I feel like it's a really good 263 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:11.320 time to bring up this guy. So local twelve father 264 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:18.320 accused of killing daughter's alleged rapist is now running for sheriff. Yeah, yeah, 265 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:21.039 So this guy basically took justice into his own hands. 266 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:26.559 Rightfully so rightfully so and I stand on that. But anyway, 267 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.240 and now on the other side of it all, he's 268 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:33.840 decided he's gonna run for local sheriff. This is Lenoke County, Arkansas. 269 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:36.159 A father accused of killing his fourteen year old daughter's 270 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.960 alleged rapist announce he is running for sheriff because the 271 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:43.519 system failed. Agreed one hundred percent Aaron Spencer, thirty seven 272 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:46.559 years old, announced his campaign for Lenote County Sheriff on 273 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:49.399 a Facebook post last Friday, almost a year after the 274 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.919 alleged murder of his daughter's rapist. Let's listen to his 275 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:55.559 campaign video. I feel like he's just gonna be a banger. 276 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:56.360 Let's check it out. 277 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:01.600 Hello, Loano, my name is Spencer. Many of you know 278 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:04.559 my story. I'm the father who acted to protect his 279 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:07.840 daughter when the system failed. I'm also a husband, a 280 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.159 combat veteran of the eighty second Airborne Division, a contractor, 281 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:14.159 and a farmer. And through my own fight for justice, 282 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:17.399 I have seen first hand the failures in law enforcement 283 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.879 and in our circuit court, and I refuse to stand 284 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:24.919 by while others face these same failures. That's why I'm 285 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:29.440 announcing my candioncy to run for Lonoke County Sheriff. This 286 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:33.039 campaign isn't about me. It's about every parent, every neighbor, 287 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:36.440 every family who deserves to feel safe in their homes 288 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:40.679 and safe in their community. It's about restoring trust where 289 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:44.360 neighbors know law enforcement is on their side, and families 290 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:46.440 know that they will not be left alone in a 291 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:50.799 moment of need. Together, we can build a safer, stronger 292 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:56.360 Loanoa County for every family. I'm Aaron Spencer and I'm 293 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.000 running for sheriff of Lonoke County. 294 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:06.360 Get this man elected. Let's go, dude, I love that, 295 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:09.519 all right, Let's go. That just kind of goes over 296 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:11.519 some of what he said and his thing. Let's go here. 297 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:14.759 Spencer was arrested in October of last year, twenty twenty four, 298 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:20.720 after he allegedly killed Michael Fossler, sixty seven, in Loanoke County. 299 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:23.600 The day of the incident, Spencer reported to the police 300 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:25.879 that his daughter was missing. As police were on their 301 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:28.200 way to Spencer's home, Spencer found his daughter in a 302 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:32.159 vehicle with Fossler. Falsler had a no contact order because 303 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.720 he had stalked and raped the fourteen year old, so 304 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:40.399 it was already understood. Spencer then allegedly allegedly shot and 305 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:42.919 killed Fosler after a confrontation between the two men. A 306 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.480 rows the child's mother had thought that Fosler might be 307 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.240 trying to kill her daughter because he was wanted for 308 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:51.879 possibly or if possible, six to nine felonies, and her 309 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:57.159 daughter was the only witness. Wow Sheriff John Stally noted 310 00:15:57.200 --> 00:15:59.960 that Spencer's case would be up to the Loanoke, Lona, 311 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.519 whatever County Prosecuting Attorney's office to decide whether or not 312 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:06.639 to actually file charges against Spencer. Spencer is out on 313 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:10.879 bond and his case remains ongoing. Yet he is finding 314 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:14.720 the time and the motivation to run for county sheriff. 315 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:19.279 I support this man. We need to get him in office, 316 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:24.960 like now, get him there faster, Arkansas. Let's go man. Okay, 317 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.039 So at least there's a little bit of good news 318 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:30.279 in the articles in the goings and comings of the day. 319 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:35.360 Now swapping over, let's talk more federal things again from 320 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:40.639 NBC News. US will neither be commanded nor controlled by China, 321 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:44.039 the sense said as trade standof deepens. So for anybody 322 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:47.480 who has been paying attention, the tariff war has not 323 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:53.120 exactly gone away. It subsided for a bit. People found 324 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:55.440 a common ground for a little minute, and everybody seemed 325 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:58.440 like they were gonna work together all Kumbai a style 326 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:02.600 kind of Well. Well, then apparently China decided that they 327 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.200 wanted to start some things again. Trump decided that he 328 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:07.680 was about that smoke, and now we are back at it. 329 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.240 Trump just they currently have a I want to say, 330 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:12.559 a thirty percent tariff on China as of this moment, 331 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:16.319 and basically Beijing is trying to flex and saying we're 332 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:22.000 not going to let any precious minerals leave our nation anymore. 333 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:23.680 And you know they run the reins as far as 334 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:25.960 that goes, right, the h what was the world? I'm 335 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:28.160 looking for the things for semiconductors and things like this, 336 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:31.720 and uh Trump said, fine, if you don't, then we'll 337 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:34.359 put one hundred percent tariff on top of what's already 338 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:38.000 been enacted. So Beijing is already on this thing. And 339 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:40.720 of course the TikTok sale gets brought into it as well, 340 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:43.599 which people think has already been bought and paid for it. 341 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:46.720 It's not exactly true. It's not exactly true. Let's read 342 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.240 in here. Beijing has yet to approve the sale of 343 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:54.119 TikTok us, increased soybean purchased, or ease export controls despite 344 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:57.559 several rounds of US trade talks. Let's get into it here. 345 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:04.480 US trade representative Genie Amison Jamieson, Well, all right, Jamieson 346 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:07.480 Greer said on Wednesday that China's recent restrictions on rare 347 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:11.400 earth mineral exports are a global supply chain power grab, 348 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.279 and it absolutely is China was very strategic in that 349 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:16.880 as far as trying to make sure that you had 350 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:18.480 to go through them to get this kind of stuff. 351 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:22.799 But moving on, Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Perscent spoke 352 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.200 to reporters at the Treasury Department in Washington, where Pacent 353 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.440 said Beijing's actions amounted to a provocation. The remarks were 354 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:33.799 the latest sign that the US China trade relationship continues 355 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:38.599 to deteriorate after Beijing's surprise announcement Thursday of new limits 356 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:42.200 on rare earth minerals and reg related technologies. In response, 357 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:45.839 President Trump threatened to impose all hundred percent tariffs on China, 358 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:50.359 as well as export controls on any and all critical software. 359 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:52.519 This is a picture as a matter of fact of 360 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:58.440 Scott Descent and Chinese Vice Premier he Lafang Lifing. I 361 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:00.880 don't know. Before the meeting of the first Meeting in 362 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:05.680 China US Economic Trade Consultation Mechanism in London on June ninth, 363 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:09.480 the only way China can avoid these new tariffs, Greer 364 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:13.200 told the NBC News is to drop the proposed export controls. 365 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:16.480 But since in Grear were cautiously optimistic, that Beijing would 366 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:20.079 back down and return to the negotiating table direct quote 367 00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:23.559 here from Greer. Our expectation is that they won't implement 368 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:26.640 the controls and that we'll be able to back We 369 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:29.000 will be able to be back where we were a 370 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:32.960 week ago, where we had their tariff levels we've agreed to, 371 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:36.240 and we have the flow of rare earth magnets we 372 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:40.119 agreed to in the meantime. But since that Washington is 373 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:44.480 conferring with its allied trade partners about a Jesus, I 374 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:48.720 can't speak with their trade partners about a unified response 375 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:51.960 to the restrictions. This is China versus the world, he said, 376 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:55.279 We and our allies will neither be commanded nor controlled. 377 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:59.039 Rare earth minerals are critical to manufacturing a wide variety 378 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:02.559 of products such as bad electric vehicles, household goods, TVs, 379 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:06.000 and smartphones, solar panels. After three rounds of what the 380 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:09.839 officials called successful trade talks, China also has yet to 381 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:13.039 officially approve the sale of TikTok us and has not 382 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:18.680 bought any soybeans from American farmers since May. Nonetheless, Graham 383 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:21.799 Bricint said the current ninety day pause on tariffs with 384 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:25.359 China renewed at least three times so far, could be 385 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:28.640 re upped again for a longer interval if China lifts 386 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:32.319 the rare earth restrictions. So let's get into this now, 387 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:35.039 talking about the soybean growth and all these things. The 388 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:37.720 farmers are the ones that are actually getting the brunt 389 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:42.759 of that trade dilemma. We're gonna listen in for WKYC 390 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:47.240 Channel three. Government shut down latest and the farmers express frustrations, 391 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:54.720 and of course the healthcare debate continues. Let's listen in. Well. 392 00:20:54.759 --> 00:20:58.279 Today marks day fifteen of the government shut down, as 393 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:01.559 the Senate again failed to pass a short term spending 394 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:05.279 bill to end the ongoing closure for the ninth time. 395 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:06.240 Now, oh my gosh. 396 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:08.480 And this is all coming, of course, as trade talks 397 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:11.640 are heating up between the US and China and v 398 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:14.160 SES Julie's certain reports from Washington. 399 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:19.319 The already tense trade relationship between the US and China 400 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:20.640 appears to be getting worse. 401 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:22.359 Made no mistake. 402 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:25.720 This is China versus the world. 403 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:29.559 Those words from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessend come after China's 404 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:33.599 surprise announcement that it's putting export limits on rare earth minerals. 405 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:37.720 Those materials produced largely by China are used in everything 406 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:42.240 from electronics to cars and even military equipment. Trade Representative 407 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:44.599 Jamison Greer taking a tough stance. 408 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:48.240 China's announcement is nothing more than a global supply chain 409 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:51.960 power grab. It is an exercise and economic coersion on 410 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:53.599 every country in the world. 411 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:57.599 In response to China's move, President Trump threatened massive tariffs 412 00:21:57.640 --> 00:22:01.599 on Chinese imports unless that country changes course. But it's 413 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:04.519 not just rare earths that has the two nations at odds. 414 00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:08.200 It's also soybeans. China buys more soybeans than any other 415 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:11.359 country in the world from the United States not anymore, 416 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:15.839 Trump calling that a quote economically hostile act and threatening 417 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:19.640 to end cooking oil exports to China. American farmers are 418 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:20.559 caught in the middle. 419 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:23.000 We gotta feel like we're a scapegoat here. We're you know, 420 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:26.279 we are hanging absolutely. 421 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:28.920 This trade tug of war coming at a difficult time 422 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.640 for the US, the government heading into week three of 423 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:35.039 a shutdown with no end in sight, both sides pointing 424 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:36.559 fingers at each other, and. 425 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:40.960 All those Americans living in uncertainty, Well, there's going to 426 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:44.759 have to wait until Democrats far left base is satisfied. 427 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:49.359 With open enrollment around the corner, Republicans cannot continue to 428 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:53.160 kick this can down the road. It's happening now. The 429 00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:56.160 healthcare crisis is now in Washington. 430 00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:58.119 Julie Serkin, NBC News. 431 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:00.720 All right, so that was kind of a good recap 432 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:04.079 on all the things we've discussed thus far. Now let's 433 00:23:04.119 --> 00:23:10.000 move into another thing that Trump is getting involved with. Venezuela. Yeah, 434 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:16.640 we're going there. Venezuela allegedly broke up an extremist false 435 00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:19.200 flag attempt that was about to go down on the 436 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:23.039 US embassy there. Now, everybody knows that I am a 437 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:26.920 conspiracy theorist. I love a good conspiracy. There have been 438 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:30.440 tons of false flag attacks that have happened in our lifetime. 439 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:34.359 It's not hard to find them. This being said, I 440 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:38.319 don't know if this is an actual false flag that 441 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:41.079 they foiled and they're just bringing it up now to 442 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:45.880 try to save face, or if this is completely fabricated. 443 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:49.200 I don't know, But let's read into it now because 444 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:52.640 this ties into Trump getting ready. He just gave the 445 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:58.480 CIA authorization to send agents into Venezuela. Let's get into it, 446 00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:03.359 shall we. Let's start off here. Venezuela denounces alleged extremists 447 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:07.359 plan to attack shuttered US embassy complex. The embassy, which 448 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:10.720 is closed, maintains a staff responsible for security and maintenance, 449 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:14.599 despite the rupture of diplomatic relations with Venezuelan President Nicholas 450 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:18.319 Maduro's government in twenty nineteen. Let's get into it here. 451 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:21.839 This is from Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela warned Monday of an 452 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:25.440 alleged plan by extremists to attack the shuttered US embassy 453 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:29.680 complex in Caracas with explosives, coming as bilateral tension simmer 454 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:34.920 over Washington's military deployment in the Caribbean. Jorge Rodriguez Yeah, 455 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:37.440 I said that right. Jorge Rodriguez, head of the National 456 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:42.119 Assembly and of Venezuela's delegation for dialogue with the US SEDNA, 457 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:46.039 statement that though through three different channels, the United States 458 00:24:46.039 --> 00:24:48.880 has been warned of a serious threat from far right 459 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:53.400 wing groups posing as followers of Maduro through a false 460 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:57.559 flag operation prepared Yeah, through a false flag operation prepared 461 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:00.839 by extremist sectors of the local rights. There are attempts 462 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:04.039 to plant lethal explosives at the US embassy in Caracas. 463 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:07.160 The US State Department did not immediately respond to a 464 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:10.599 request for comment. Shocker, I know the embassy, which is 465 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:13.440 currently closed, maintains a staff responsible for security and maintenance 466 00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:16.200 of the premises. Despite the rupture of diplomatic relations in 467 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:20.079 twenty nineteen, At the same time, we have reinforced security 468 00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:24.160 measures at that diplomatic site, which our government respects and protects, 469 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:27.400 said Rodriguez, a close ally of Maduro who serves as 470 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:30.839 President of the National Assembly. He said that a European 471 00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:34.519 embassy had been informed in order to act as a 472 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:38.279 liaison to communicate the situation. The large embassy compound has 473 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:41.559 been guarded since its closure by patrols conducted by Venezuelan 474 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.079 police in the surrounding area. During the first term, President 475 00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:48.799 Trump broke ties with Maduro and recognize an opposition leader 476 00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:51.440 as Venezuela's a legitimate ruler in a failed attempt to 477 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:54.559 oust the leftist leader. As part of the diplomatic break, 478 00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:58.559 the State Department suspended operations in its Caracas embassy this 479 00:25:58.599 --> 00:26:02.200 is in March of twenty nineteen, and evacuated all diplomats, 480 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:05.480 fearing a takeover of the Hilltop complex in the southeast 481 00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:09.119 of the capitol. The alert came as Venezuela had repeatedly 482 00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:12.640 denounced what it calls a US threat over the deployment 483 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:16.480 of warships in the Caribbean, which Washington says is aimed 484 00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:20.160 at combating Latin American drug cartels. Trump accused of Maduro 485 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:23.440 of being one of the world's most major drug traffickers, 486 00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:25.680 and announced in early August that the reward for his 487 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:30.000 capture would be doubled to fifty million dollars US. Maduro 488 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:32.359 in turn accused of the United States of fabricating that 489 00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:35.960 narrative to try to force him from office. On Friday, 490 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:40.319 US State Secretary, I'm sorry, US Defense Secretary. They keep 491 00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:44.599 calling him that it's the US War secretary. People. The 492 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:48.960 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced what would be the 493 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:51.559 fourth strike on a small vessel in the Caribbean since 494 00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:54.200 the arrival of the US ships. The United States claimed 495 00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:58.440 the vessels traffic drugs and that their crews are Narco terrorists, 496 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:00.920 as was the case with the four people killed Friday. 497 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:04.000 According to heg Seth, Maduro has described the US naval 498 00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:06.720 deployment as a threat to the sovereignty of the South 499 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:09.759 American country. The US government has given no indication that 500 00:27:09.799 --> 00:27:12.200 it plans to ground incursions with the more than four 501 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:16.039 thousand troops stationed in the area. All right, so that 502 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:18.839 was from the Associated Press, And yes, of course they're 503 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:20.880 going to have a narrative spin it one way or another. 504 00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:24.200 But apparently they're saying that there was a false flag thing. 505 00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:27.279 We got to talk about this. Cool, cool, cool. Now, 506 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:31.640 in response to all of this, Trump is authorizing the 507 00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:36.119 CIA to go into Venezuela. Let's listen in straight from the. 508 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:39.160 Horse's mouth, but we do begin with the Trump administration's 509 00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:43.680 move to give the CIA authority to conduct operations in Venezuela. 510 00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:45.640 For more on, let's let's bring in CBS News White 511 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:49.119 House reporter Olivia Ronaldi. Olivia, thanks for joining us. During 512 00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:52.319 today's press conference, President Trump was asked about why he 513 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:56.200 authorized the CIA to go into Venezuela. What did he 514 00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:57.200 say in response to that? 515 00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:00.519 Well, Nancy, he was asked that by our own ed Keith, 516 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:03.279 this was breaking news heading into the Oival office, that 517 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:06.119 Ed was able to ask the President why he gave 518 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:09.880 that authorization to have the CIA go into Venezuela. Take 519 00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:13.319 a listen to what the President said here, Why did. 520 00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:17.079 You authorize the CIA to go into Venezuela, and is 521 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:20.000 there more information you can share about these strikes on 522 00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:22.200 the alleged well, I can't. 523 00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:25.519 I authorized speak for two reasons really. Number one, they 524 00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:28.759 have emptied their prisons into the United States of America. 525 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:33.039 They came in through the well, they came in through 526 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:35.160 the border. They came in because we had an open 527 00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:37.240 border policy. The other thing of drugs, We have a 528 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:39.759 lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela, and a lot 529 00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:42.079 of the Venezuelan drugs come in through the sea, so 530 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:44.359 you get to see that, but we're going to stop 531 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:45.000 them by land. 532 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.200 Also, now, Nancy, this is in addition to those strikes 533 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:51.720 that you mentioned earlier that the US is conducting off 534 00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:54.359 of the coast of Venezuela targeting five votes that they 535 00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:57.759 say are carrying drugs into the US and have killed 536 00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:01.319 about twenty seven people through those strikes. The President also 537 00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:05.319 said he's looking to do strikes on Venezuela's territory. Now 538 00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:08.759 that would be a significant, significant escalation. 539 00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:12.920 Absolutely, Olivia and ed our colleague. They're also asked to 540 00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:17.400 us about some concerns among Republican and Democratic lawmakers on 541 00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:21.680 information they've received about those strikes. What did they say 542 00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:23.880 and what was the president's response there? 543 00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:27.440 Well, they say they're not getting enough justification for why 544 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:31.400 these strikes are necessary and who they are targeting. Last month, 545 00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:34.240 the Trump administration sent a letter to Congress saying they're 546 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:38.720 an armed conflict with combatants armed combatants, which is the 547 00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:42.200 same justification they used for attacking al Qaeda in the 548 00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:45.079 early two thousands. Now they're saying that's the justification they're 549 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.559 using for these strikes in Venezuela. But we've heard from 550 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:51.160 lawmakers who say there's just not enough information that they're 551 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:54.599 being given as to these strikes, who's being targeted, if 552 00:29:54.599 --> 00:29:58.440 they're successful at all, and why this needs further escalation, 553 00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:02.200 if there are plans to have a covert CIA operation 554 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:06.680 in Venezuelan territory and strikes on their. 555 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:09.599 Land, Olivia Ronaldi joining us there from. 556 00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:13.039 D okay, So the CIA will now be having a 557 00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:16.920 little bit of presidence in Venezuela, which, to the shock 558 00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:19.319 of no one, is not the first time that the 559 00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:23.359 CIA has been operating inside of Venezuela. But you know, hey, 560 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:26.680 here we are. Now, let's talk about this authorization a 561 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.440 little bit further. Trump's this is from the Guardian. Trump 562 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:35.400 says he authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela. Move marks 563 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:40.319 escalation in maduro pressure campaign. As president says us mulling 564 00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:43.440 strikes on Venezuelan territory, and I would agree with that. 565 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:48.720 Striking a boat and open water, there is a little 566 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:53.680 bit of lit bill leeway given right to say, well, 567 00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:57.559 if this boat is confirmed to be trafficking drugs, and 568 00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:00.720 the president of Venezuela saying that they are not trafficking 569 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:05.200 drugs from Venezuela, there is a little bit of some 570 00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:08.279 some leniency as far as the whole benefit of the 571 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:12.039 doubt goes here. Even though it's understood that these boats 572 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:14.759 are leaving Venezuela and satellites are tracking them in the 573 00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:17.240 whole nine Maduro can at least claim a little bit 574 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:21.400 of an immininity on that. Right now, we were to 575 00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:27.480 start striking the Venezuelan land itself, we now enter into 576 00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:31.799 a whole different kind of conversation. But let's dive in here. 577 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:34.559 Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had authorized the 578 00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:38.000 CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela, marking a 579 00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:42.359 sharp escalation in his administration's pressure campaign against Maduro's regime. 580 00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:48.039 Trump further suggested that he was considering strikes on Venezuelan territory, 581 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:51.000 a dramatic step that could go beyond a series of 582 00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:54.359 recent lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, which Democrats 583 00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:59.960 and United Nations experts have FORCI forcibly condemned as unlawful. 584 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:04.720 The president remarks about the CIA confirmed an earlier story 585 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:07.240 from The New York Times, which they reported on a 586 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:12.000 classified directive about a secretive operation in Venezuela. Trump said 587 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.640 his administration was looking at land as it considers striking 588 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:20.559 continued strikes on the region, but declined to answer when 589 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:25.680 pressed on whether the CIA had authority to execute Maduro. Again, 590 00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:29.000 I'm just gonna I'm gonna throw this out. I don't 591 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:31.400 know this for a fact. I've got no source to 592 00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:34.000 back the claim that I'm about to make. But I 593 00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:37.640 just I have a weird, sneaking suspicion. Call it a 594 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:43.000 conspiratorial hunch if you will, that Maduro will be found 595 00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:46.720 dead sometime in the next six months to a year. 596 00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:50.039 I don't know that for a fact. But if we 597 00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:52.519 know for sure that the CIA is gonna start sending 598 00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:56.759 operatives to Venezuela proper and there is already a fifty 599 00:32:56.839 --> 00:33:01.319 million dollar bounty on this dude's head. I'm just I'm 600 00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:04.519 not saying, but I'm just saying, Okay, to quote Canas Owens, 601 00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:08.440 there you go. I think the Venezuelan is the Venezuelans 602 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:11.680 is feeling the heat, the president added. Trump justified the 603 00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:14.960 CIA's intervention by repeating his claims that Venezuela had been 604 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.279 releasing prisoners into the United States. We just heard all 605 00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:20.720 of that, echoing baseless assertions that became one of his 606 00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:23.680 common refrains on the Capitol trail last year or the 607 00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:26.759 campaign trail last year. Rather, he also claimed that Venezuela 608 00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:30.680 was bringing large volumes of drugs into the US by sea. Again, 609 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:34.319 that's not even a source to debate about. That's kind 610 00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:37.200 of understood fact at this time. But I'm not saying 611 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:40.920 before I even say that the drug cartels that are 612 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:46.240 operating and flooding America with drugs are not all Venezuelan 613 00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:51.519 based at all. There are some trend De Raua, for instance, 614 00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:55.000 is a Venezuelan based drug cartel. That is a fact, 615 00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:58.720 and from the prisoners that they have taken from trende Arawa. 616 00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:01.400 They all say that they they are answering to Maduro. 617 00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:03.920 Whenever they ask who's their leader, who's the head of 618 00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:07.119 this cartel, all of them say that it is Maduro. Now, 619 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:11.400 could that be just your you know, your local street 620 00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:14.480 punk drug pusher that's just throwing out a name. Is 621 00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:16.880 there anything to back that claim? I get it, I 622 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:20.960 understand this. That being said, no one from the Mexican 623 00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:24.199 drug cartels are claiming that the Mexican president is the 624 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:27.760 leader of their organization. That's actually kind of like a 625 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:31.599 crazy thing. Most cartel leaders would say they'll either play silence, 626 00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:34.719 or they'll give some name of one of their higher 627 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.119 ups that's already a known about figure that's already on 628 00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:39.920 the CIA watch list. Kind of thing. For them to 629 00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:42.760 name the president of the country that they came from 630 00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.719 as the head of their drug operation is pretty wild. 631 00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:48.079 I'm not saying that should be a justification for an 632 00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:51.079 all out war against Venezuela. I'm just throwing it out 633 00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:54.000 as a weird thing. But moving on here. Experts have 634 00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:57.039 repeatedly cast doubts on some of the President's claims about 635 00:34:57.039 --> 00:35:01.400 the threats Venezuelan's pose in the US. Earlier this month, 636 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:04.920 the Trump administration declared drug cartels to be an unlawful 637 00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:08.239 or unlawful combatants, saying the US is now an armed 638 00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:11.559 conflict with them, justifying the military action as a necessary 639 00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:15.039 escalation to stem the flow of drugs. The move has 640 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:18.119 spurred anger in Congress from members of both major political 641 00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:21.400 parties that Trump was effectively committing an active war without 642 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:27.519 seeking congressional authorization. I mean, okay, yeah, he declared war 643 00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:31.159 on the drug cartels. You don't how are you gonna 644 00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:34.159 go through the Congress to get approval to declare war 645 00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:41.480 on this. It's very similar to declaring war on the Taliban. 646 00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:44.840 We can't do that. So we didn't declare war. We 647 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:48.280 had operations, right, That's how they didn't have to go 648 00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:51.440 through Congress to have military operations. He's not gonna have 649 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:53.400 to go through Congress to have some sort of a 650 00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:57.000 military operation and to send in the Marines, which is 651 00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:59.800 the whole point of them. So yeah, there you go. 652 00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:04.679 On Wednesday, Gene Shaheen, the ranking Democratic senator on the 653 00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:08.559 Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said while she supports cracking down 654 00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:13.719 on trafficking, the administration has gone too far in what way? 655 00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:16.920 In what way, is this too far? I don't see it, 656 00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:21.440 but okay. The Trump administration's authorization of covert CIA action, 657 00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:25.440 conducting lethal strikes on boats and hinting at land operations 658 00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:29.639 in Venezuela slides the United States closer to outright conflict 659 00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:34.400 with no transparency, oversight, or apparent guardrails. The American people 660 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:37.079 deserve to know if the administration is leading the US 661 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.639 into another conflict, putting service members at risk, or pursuing 662 00:36:40.679 --> 00:36:46.719 a regime change operation. Again, they nobody joins the military 663 00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:50.400 to not get put in risk anyway, kep Moving on, 664 00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:53.920 Maduro decried Trump's comments in what he called coup de 665 00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:57.760 tah orchestrated by the CIA. Shortly after, Trump also said 666 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:00.960 that he was considering strikes against the Venezuelan carts on land. 667 00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:04.079 No to war in the Caribbean. No to regime change, 668 00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:07.000 No to coudata orchestrated by the CIA. That was from 669 00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:10.159 Maduro direct quote. The leftist leaders said in an address 670 00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:13.599 to a committee set up after Washington deployed warships in 671 00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:16.559 the Caribbean for what it said was an anti drug operation. 672 00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:20.280 At least twenty seven people have been killed in the 673 00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:24.719 US Caribbean attacks so far. After another boat was struck, 674 00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:28.400 Maduro on Wednesday ordered military exercises in the country's biggest 675 00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:32.199 shanty towns and said he was mobilizing the military, police 676 00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:38.159 and a civilian militia to defend Venezuela's mountains, coasts, schools, hospitals, factories, 677 00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:41.880 and markets. Trump has claimed they are Narco terrorists with 678 00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:45.480 providing evidence, without providing evidence. Rather, he has also said 679 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:48.559 the strikes were targeting members of the Trende Raval gang, 680 00:37:48.679 --> 00:37:51.440 claims that the White House has not supported with concrete proof. 681 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.079 You and experts said in September that the strikes on 682 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:58.559 vessels violated international law, and a Democratic congressman said over 683 00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:02.039 the weekend that the attacks were illegal killings and wouldn't 684 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:06.079 stand up in a single court of law. Again, I'm 685 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:11.760 I'm if this boat that was struck was moving drugs 686 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:14.719 and had members on it that were members of the 687 00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:19.679 Trende ar Raval cartel, how I must be missing the 688 00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:24.559 gap here. He just declared war on cartels. If this 689 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:29.719 boat was cartel affiliated, that's that's kind of how wars 690 00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:33.440 go down. I don't know. Moving on the Trump administration, 691 00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:37.239 earlier this year cited unsubstantiated claims of affiliation with the Trende, 692 00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:41.079 a rival gang to fast track deportations of Venezuela's of 693 00:38:41.199 --> 00:38:44.800 Venezuelans to a notorious El Salvador prison. Trump is also 694 00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:47.360 pushed to in the temporary legal status of hundreds of 695 00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:50.440 thousands of Venezuelans. Trump is accused Madurea of heading the 696 00:38:50.519 --> 00:38:54.239 drug cartel, charges he denied. In August, Washington doubled a 697 00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:58.159 bounty on his head for fifty million dollars. The Venezuelan 698 00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:01.599 leader is widely accused of having stolen elections last year, 699 00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:04.639 which again that's to the shock of absolutely no one, 700 00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.920 that's how politics go in this region of the world. 701 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:12.480 But anyway, so that's the latest. Be on the lookout 702 00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:17.880 for CIA operatives to be operating inside of Venezuela. And yeah, 703 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:19.679 that's gonna be a thing that we have to talk 704 00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:21.880 about here soon. I'm sure that Maduro is either going 705 00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:25.559 to be arrested and or found dead. I could be wrong, 706 00:39:26.119 --> 00:39:30.039 but if you look at the track record of coups 707 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:32.360 that have taken place in South America over the last 708 00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:36.039 fifty years, you know what, there's a YouTube video. I 709 00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:38.039 got a quick video pulled up as a matter of fact, 710 00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:40.639 for anybody who's curious about how many coups have taken 711 00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:45.360 place in South America in the last fifty sixty, maybe seventy, 712 00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:48.119 give or take years, then we look at what's about 713 00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:50.960 to go down to Venezuela with CIA operatives being there 714 00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:54.039 boots on the ground. You make your own assertions about 715 00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:55.840 what you think is about to happen. But you know what, 716 00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:58.840 let's just play this quick little clip and maybe you'll 717 00:39:58.880 --> 00:39:59.840 understand where I'm coming from. 718 00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:02.800 He here's every South American country which has had its 719 00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:06.400 government overthrown by the CIA since nineteen forty seven. Costa 720 00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:09.920 Rica in nineteen forty eight, Guatemala nineteen fifty four, Al 721 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.760 Salvador nineteen seventy nine, Nicaragua nineteen eighty one, Panama nineteen 722 00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:18.760 eighty nine, Paraguay nineteen fifty four, Brazil nineteen sixty four, 723 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:23.800 Peru nineteen sixty eight, Chile nineteen seventy three, Uruguay nineteen 724 00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:28.360 seventy three, Argentina nineteen seventy six, and Venezuela in two 725 00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:32.159 thousand and two. Many of these were perceived as ideologically 726 00:40:32.199 --> 00:40:36.440 opposed to the United States, were leftist dictatorships or were 727 00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:38.400 some combination of the two. 728 00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:43.079 So again I don't know this for a fact. This 729 00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:47.960 is completely speculative and all that. But man, whenever you 730 00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:50.119 see that and you look at how the CIA is 731 00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:53.039 moving into Venezuela right now, it just it seems like 732 00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:57.239 the chips are falling into place. But again, I will 733 00:40:57.320 --> 00:40:59.639 keep my finger on the pulse of this situation so 734 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:01.360 that we can can talk about it more in the 735 00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:04.360 coming weeks. On the Cage to Night Live. Now let's 736 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:08.559 go on further. John Thune asks if he've used Trump's 737 00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:13.800 twenty million dollar bailout for Argentina as an American first policy. Yes, 738 00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:18.039 Trump is trying to give the Argentinian president a twenty 739 00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:21.119 million dollar bailout, and of course he is getting flag 740 00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:24.679 for that. Let's talk about it. 741 00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:28.599 The President has discussed a life fund of twenty million 742 00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:33.280 dollars Argentine. Do you think that's responsible, especially when giving 743 00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:36.320 that your government shutdown and do that as an America 744 00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:36.880 First falls. 745 00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:40.719 You know, I think that something along the lines of 746 00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:43.320 what he's doing has been done in the past, I 747 00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:47.079 mean previous administrations. If they think there are reasons in 748 00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:49.800 the interest of economic stability in areas of the world, 749 00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:53.039 that are important to us economically those there are previous 750 00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:56.119 administrations that have made similar decisions. In this case, my 751 00:41:56.199 --> 00:41:58.920 understanding is it's a currency swap, and so it's a 752 00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:02.800 it's a structured in a way that hopefully will support 753 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:06.639 and give some stability to their economy. And I think 754 00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:09.840 the US has some strategic interest in that region of 755 00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:13.280 the world. So you know, again, I think it's a 756 00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:16.679 decision the administration is making based on precedent that past 757 00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:21.639 administrations have used, and I hope that the Argentine economy 758 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.639 responds in a way that keeps them a stable economy 759 00:42:24.679 --> 00:42:27.039 working in a part of the world where American needs allies. 760 00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:32.400 Okay, very very very political answer, very talking around the 761 00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:34.480 question rather than just answering the question if this is 762 00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.639 an America first policy. But let's get into it here. 763 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:41.679 This is from USA today. Why is Trump bailing out Argentina? 764 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:45.519 What we know after White House visits with l Loco, 765 00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:50.480 which is the nickname for the Argentinian president. Let's actually 766 00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:53.000 know what they got a quick clip here. We can 767 00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:55.599 listen in together and learn about this as a group. 768 00:42:55.679 --> 00:42:56.159 Let's go. 769 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.320 This man because his philosophy is correct. 770 00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:15.079 US President Donald Trump expressed his support for Argentina's President 771 00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:18.639 Javier Malay during their meeting at the White House Tuesday. 772 00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:22.000 The visit comes days after the US agreed to provide 773 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.760 a major financial lifeline to the South American nation. The 774 00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:30.679 meeting also occurred ahead of Argentina's midterm legislative elections. 775 00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:34.400 We are going to work very much with the president. 776 00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:37.400 We think he's going to win, he should win, and 777 00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:39.360 if he does win, we're going to be very helpful. 778 00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:40.960 And if he doesn't win, we're not going to waste 779 00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:41.400 that time. 780 00:43:41.599 --> 00:43:45.920 Trump's remarks rattled Argentine markets that had previously been buoyed 781 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.159 by the support package recently announced by US Treasury Secretary 782 00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:53.880 Scott Bessant, the centerpiece of which is a twenty billion 783 00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:59.440 dollar currency swap with Argentina's central bank, exchanging stable US 784 00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:04.159 dollar for volatilpesos. Bessen said in the meeting that the 785 00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:09.000 support package depended on the continuance of economic policies favored 786 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:10.400 by the Trump administration. 787 00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:16.239 We're confident that the President's party will and the coalition. 788 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:20.480 Will do well in the election, and this aid is. 789 00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:24.880 Predicated on robust policies and going back to the failed 790 00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:28.400 Perona's policies would cause a US rethink. 791 00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:32.719 The economic lifeline for Argentina marks an unusual move for 792 00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:37.000 the US, particularly under an administration that has largely stayed 793 00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:40.719 away from major foreign interventions. The White House has framed 794 00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:44.159 the deal as a strategic effort to stabilize a key 795 00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:48.480 regional ally, but it has drawn criticism at home, including 796 00:44:48.519 --> 00:44:53.480 from Democratic lawmakers who have accused Trump of prioritizing foreign 797 00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:59.000 bailouts and investor protections while the US government remains shut down. 798 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.280 And the US government has only been shut down for 799 00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:06.400 fifteen days. But that's a talking point that they will 800 00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:10.199 continue going on about. But let's continue here the key 801 00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:14.159 points here. President Trump hosted the Argentine President, Javier Malay 802 00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:17.280 at the White House after announcing a twenty billion dollar 803 00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:21.079 bailout for Argentina. Now you also heard that it was 804 00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:23.920 a currency swamp on the screen just a moment ago. 805 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:26.960 They showed that it's like a dollar forty US equals 806 00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:31.079 like two hundred and fifty of the Argentinian I don't 807 00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:34.079 remember if it's at Paso or what the currency was there, 808 00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:38.320 but whatever their local currency is, and I don't it 809 00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:41.320 basically is a bailout. Yeah, it's gonna be a currency exchange, 810 00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:43.079 and they're going to say it's not like that, it's 811 00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:47.320 we're getting equal back and this. Yeah, but the Argentinian 812 00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:50.519 dollar is dropping and they're not going to get better 813 00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:53.079 anytime soon. So let's just call it for what it is. 814 00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:58.199 It's a twenty billion dollar gift essentially, and especially interesting 815 00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:01.079 after Trump just did all the things with those to 816 00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:04.360 cut wasteful spending and stop sending money to so many 817 00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:08.239 other foreign countries for useless and frivolous expenditures. That was 818 00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:11.320 their whole big push. Now, why is it so critical 819 00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:15.559 to him to send twenty billion US to Argentina? Who 820 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:20.639 if we're gonna say a strategic ally, that's another interesting 821 00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:23.840 talking point Argentina. Yeah, I'm not saying that they're not 822 00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:27.440 important by any means. I'm not gonna try to sound 823 00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:30.719 like I'm an asshole in that way. But what I 824 00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:33.440 am gonna say is that Argentina really doesn't hold much 825 00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:39.599 strategic importance to anything in that area, unless a potential 826 00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:46.039 military push into one of their kind of neighboring ish countries, Venezuela. 827 00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:48.639 Possibly possibly, I don't know, but I'm just throwing it 828 00:46:48.679 --> 00:46:51.880 out as perhaps that might be the long con or 829 00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:53.920 the long game that he's trying to play here. Let's see. 830 00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:57.679 Malay has often compared is often compared to Trump. He 831 00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:01.039 has pursued an aggressive cost cutting a and his party 832 00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:04.719 faces a midterm election this month. The financial assistance has 833 00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:09.880 drawn criticism from some American farmers and Democratic lawmakers. Interesting 834 00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:12.119 that American farmers would have something to say about this. 835 00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:15.159 Let's get into it. We talked about him hosting Malay. 836 00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:19.440 Trump has described Malay as his favorite president, and the 837 00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:23.280 eclectic leader has drawn comparisons to Trump. Malay has repeatedly 838 00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:26.840 wielded a chainsaw on stage to promote slashing spending, but 839 00:47:26.920 --> 00:47:30.360 his agenda, which also includes deregulation and free market reform, 840 00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:33.519 has led to a volatile peso currency. It is the 841 00:47:33.639 --> 00:47:38.679 Argentinian peso and seen investors aggressively dump Argentine stocks and bonds. 842 00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:41.719 Voters will deliver their verdict on Malay's party since he 843 00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:44.159 took office in December of twenty twenty three. At the 844 00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:48.800 Argentine midterm elections for legislators later this month, Trump said 845 00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:52.679 support for the country relies on his success. It says 846 00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:55.639 directly quotes we heard Trump say a moment ago. We 847 00:47:55.639 --> 00:47:57.760 think he's gonna win. He should win, and if he 848 00:47:57.800 --> 00:47:59.480 does win, we're going to be very helpful. And if 849 00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:01.719 he doesn't win, can to waste our time. The comment 850 00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:06.440 rattled Argentina's markets, according to Reuters. So why is Trump 851 00:48:06.519 --> 00:48:10.639 bailing out Argentina? Argentina is in a deepening economic crisis 852 00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:13.880 with a volatile currency. According to a blog published by 853 00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:16.480 the Council on Formulations, the ins and outs of the 854 00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:19.800 crisis are complicated, but undergirding it all is the fact 855 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:23.480 that the country is running out of hard currency. Trump 856 00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:26.920 denied that money was politically motivated when a reporter asked 857 00:48:26.920 --> 00:48:30.320 on October fourteenth, instead saying, it's really meant to help 858 00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:34.480 a good financial philosophy and we can help our neighbors. 859 00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:38.400 The Trump administration has also argued the financial crisis in 860 00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:41.599 the region could affect other countries in the region. So 861 00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:45.440 is that what he's after? He's trying to stabilize the 862 00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:48.880 entire region by stabilizing this one country that happens to 863 00:48:48.920 --> 00:48:53.280 have his homie as the president. Yeah, out loud, that 864 00:48:53.400 --> 00:48:56.000 sounds a little suss I'll be honest with you. The 865 00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:59.880 US Treasury Secretary Scott Pssent said that the United States 866 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:02.400 economic lifeline from Malay's country will take the form of 867 00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:06.239 a currency swap with Argentina's central bank. That's a move 868 00:49:06.280 --> 00:49:09.679 that amounts to effectively exchanging stable US dollars for the 869 00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:14.079 volatile peso, he said on to Fox News. The ingram 870 00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:17.599 angle last week denied that it was a bailout according 871 00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:21.440 to Reuter's. However, the CFR article said it needs the 872 00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:25.519 standard qualifications to be considered a bailout, Reuters reported. He 873 00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:28.679 said the assistance was a strategic move for the United 874 00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:32.079 States for its openness to allow US companies to develop 875 00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:36.119 rare earths and uranium resources, and Malay's promise to keep 876 00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:41.079 to get China out of Argentina. Ah, there it is. 877 00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:45.119 There's the kicker. So let's talk about reactions to the 878 00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:48.719 Argentina bailout. The decision to give Argentina a bailout has 879 00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:51.679 angered some American farmers, who have expressed concerns that Trump's 880 00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:55.800 tariff on China may have caused the Beijing markets to 881 00:49:55.880 --> 00:50:00.440 shift purchases of soybean's two countries such as Argentina. Why 882 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:03.960 would USA help bail out Argentino while they take American 883 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:09.320 soybean producer's biggest market, the Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, 884 00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:12.519 a key soybean producer, wrote on social media last month. 885 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:16.960 Democratic lawmakers have also criticized Trump for the move, accusing 886 00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:20.079 him of prioritizing foreign bailouts and protecting investors as the 887 00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:22.920 country has eclipsed two weeks in a government shut down. 888 00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:26.199 According to Reuters, so they go into who is the 889 00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:29.320 Argentinian president. We already know about him. He's seen as 890 00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:32.599 El loco. He's crazy, he brings a chainsaw to talk 891 00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:36.199 about government slashes. But let's talk about this here. On 892 00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:38.800 October six, Malay took to the stage in Buenos Aires 893 00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:40.679 for an event that appeared to be part of a 894 00:50:40.719 --> 00:50:45.320 book launch, part rock concert, and part political rally. Malay's book, 895 00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:48.960 The Construction of the Miracle compiles his speeches and social 896 00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:51.800 media posts going back several years. It's five hundred and 897 00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:54.880 seventy three pages. On stage in front of an estimated 898 00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:58.280 fifteen thousand people, the former frontman in a Rolling Stones 899 00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:01.880 tribute band saying a nine set of mostly nineteen eighties 900 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:05.559 rock anthems. I'm human, he told the pack stadium. At 901 00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:08.039 one point, it might not seem like it, but I 902 00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:13.519 am wow. So Trump is trying to bail out his homie, 903 00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:16.920 and again they keep saying it's for strategic purposes. Could 904 00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:20.159 that be something tied to Venezuela? Could that be something 905 00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:21.880 tied to China? And to be honest with you, if 906 00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:24.719 you look at the China Venezuela connections, I think that 907 00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:28.800 this might be a multi pronged situation. I don't know. 908 00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:31.679 I'm not smart enough with economics to know if a 909 00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:33.960 twenty billion dollar bailout is going to be enough to 910 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:37.920 really do much in this regard that being said, I 911 00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:40.440 don't think that this is really putting it as as 912 00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:44.599 the media says, an American first policy. But I guess 913 00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:46.400 we'll have to see how it shakes out. Tony. What 914 00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:47.679 are your thoughts? 915 00:51:48.079 --> 00:51:50.679 Yeah, I wanted to say, when Malay took power a 916 00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:54.079 little over a year ago or close to two years 917 00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:58.840 ago now, whenever that was, I remember Argentina was on 918 00:51:58.880 --> 00:52:01.679 a path to join Brick that time, and he reversed 919 00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:04.519 that right away. So I think what's going on right 920 00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:08.000 now is kind of like his reward for doing that, 921 00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:10.519 And there must have been some understanding that if you 922 00:52:10.599 --> 00:52:12.840 get ever get into trouble, the US will help you, 923 00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:16.119 and the US is trying to well, Trump is trying 924 00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:17.639 to live it up to that side of the bargain. 925 00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:20.800 I think you could be onto something with this, honestly. Yeah, 926 00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:24.360 I mean I'm trying to remember. I don't remember who 927 00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:27.519 the administration was before Malay, but it was very liberal 928 00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:29.400 and they were wanting to be a part of bricks. 929 00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:32.920 I remember that Venezuela. They are a part of bricks, correct. 930 00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:36.480 I think maybe I don't remember, but. 931 00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:37.320 I want to. 932 00:52:39.559 --> 00:52:42.360 And they do have a very good relationship with China, 933 00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:45.639 and Argentina did have a better relationship with China, but 934 00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:50.039 not anymore. Argentina's had something like four currency defaults since 935 00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:53.800 the year two thousand and the main presidents I'm aware 936 00:52:53.880 --> 00:52:56.360 of since the Parons are the Kirchners. 937 00:52:57.199 --> 00:52:57.400 Yeah. 938 00:52:57.599 --> 00:52:59.679 I don't know who was in right before Malay though, 939 00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:00.920 but whoever that. 940 00:53:01.039 --> 00:53:03.639 Was, and I'm not sure if I could even pronounce 941 00:53:03.639 --> 00:53:05.679 the name right Kirkner or or. 942 00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:07.760 Yeah, it's a German name. There's lots of Germans and 943 00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:10.400 Italians and are interesting. In fact, it's kind of funny. 944 00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:12.599 It's wider than Europe, very interesting. 945 00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:17.760 The German and Italian influences in Argentina. You know, funny 946 00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:20.320 how those things happen right after nineteen forty five. But yeah, 947 00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:21.119 neither here. 948 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:22.920 Nor there though. 949 00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:27.880 Probably honestly, but yeah, especially with the colonial Liberdad. I 950 00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:31.480 think it's called the uh, the basically Nazi colony that 951 00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:35.280 is operating in Argentina right now. It's it's pretty wild 952 00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:39.679 to look at. But uh. Anyway, so I don't know 953 00:53:39.719 --> 00:53:42.519 what's gonna come of this. It's very possible that Trump 954 00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:46.599 does this bailout thing and saves the Argentinian presidency and 955 00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:49.320 he's able to kind of like you said, he he 956 00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:52.519 got Argentina off of the bricks conversation, so now you know, 957 00:53:52.599 --> 00:53:54.719 you scratched our back, will scratch eres kind of thing. 958 00:53:54.760 --> 00:53:56.280 I don't think that's going to do well in the 959 00:53:56.320 --> 00:53:58.760 public image for Trump, but I also don't think he 960 00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:01.599 really cares about the public image of him is, which 961 00:54:01.599 --> 00:54:04.400 is there's pros and cons to that. I be honest, 962 00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:07.519 I see both. But yeah, so we will see what 963 00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:11.280 happens with the Argentina conversation and the Venezuela conversation. I 964 00:54:11.320 --> 00:54:13.000 think there is more of a connection here than what 965 00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:16.440 initially meets the eye. I think China is absolutely at 966 00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:19.320 play with all of this, especially like we just talked about, 967 00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:22.119 now that they're not buying American soy they are now 968 00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:26.280 buying Argentinian soy And I'm wondering if this twenty billion 969 00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:29.199 dollar bailout might be another way to tell Argentina, hey, 970 00:54:29.639 --> 00:54:33.079 you're not selling soy beans to China anymore. And I 971 00:54:33.119 --> 00:54:36.360 bet Malay would capitulate and be down with that as 972 00:54:36.360 --> 00:54:38.559 long as the money came flowing in. I don't know, 973 00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:42.880 I'm just speculating from my dvantage point. Now let's get 974 00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:46.480 into this kind of going off topic, but still staying 975 00:54:46.519 --> 00:54:50.679 on topic as far as the legal system in America goes. 976 00:54:51.079 --> 00:54:55.079 Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones's appeal in the Sandy hook 977 00:54:55.239 --> 00:54:58.519 defamation case on I mean, if you have heard about this, 978 00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:02.800 but so long story short, Sandy Hooks shooting took place. Okay, 979 00:55:03.079 --> 00:55:07.480 Alex Jones one of the all time greatest conspiracy heads 980 00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:11.079 in the game currently. Okay, agree with things he says, 981 00:55:11.159 --> 00:55:13.719 disagree with things he says, It doesn't matter. You can't 982 00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:16.320 deny that the man is at least a cultural icon 983 00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:20.679 in the realm of conspiratorial conversations. That being said, he 984 00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:24.440 made a lot of claims about Sandy Hook, about how 985 00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:27.360 it was all fake and these parents of these these 986 00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:31.280 murdered children were all crisis actors. And he not only 987 00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:34.679 doubled but tripled down on this and then got brought 988 00:55:34.719 --> 00:55:37.199 before the Supreme Court and they said, no, you are 989 00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:41.400 gonna have to make massive payouts to the family families, 990 00:55:41.559 --> 00:55:44.000 I should say. And now he just tried to have 991 00:55:44.079 --> 00:55:48.039 this repealed, and the Supreme Court basically said, nah, homie, 992 00:55:48.199 --> 00:55:50.639 that's not happening. But you know what, let's hear about it? 993 00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:52.239 Is it from CBS News New York. 994 00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:56.400 The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist 995 00:55:56.559 --> 00:55:59.880 Alex Jones over the one point four billion dollar judgment 996 00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:03.840 against him for calling the twenty twelve Sandy Hook Elementary 997 00:56:03.840 --> 00:56:08.280 School shooting a hoax staged by crisis actors. The Info 998 00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:10.800 Wars host had argued that a judge was wrong to 999 00:56:10.800 --> 00:56:15.000 find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress 1000 00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:18.559 without holding a trial on the merits. Jones is separately 1001 00:56:18.599 --> 00:56:21.920 appealing a forty nine million dollar judgment and a similar 1002 00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:25.440 defamation lawsuit in Texas after he failed to turn over 1003 00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:28.960 documents sought by the parents of another Sandy Hook victim. 1004 00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:32.519 The justices did not comment on their decision. 1005 00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:35.679 So essentially he's still going to have to pay. But 1006 00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:39.199 the one point four billion dollars in all these things. 1007 00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:44.679 His company has grown substantially since that judgment has been passed. 1008 00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:47.199 And I'm not saying it's because of the judgment or 1009 00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:50.599 even in spite of the judgment, but Alice Jones and 1010 00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:53.159 Info Wars as a whole is doing better now than 1011 00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:55.840 they have ever done. A lot of people will say 1012 00:56:55.880 --> 00:56:57.280 there's no way he's ever going to be able to 1013 00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:00.280 make that kind of a payout one point four billion dollars. 1014 00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:03.400 I have a weird suspicion that he'll be able to 1015 00:57:03.679 --> 00:57:06.280 give him another ten years and he'll probably be able 1016 00:57:06.280 --> 00:57:07.719 to make the payments, but of course he's going to 1017 00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:09.199 try to fight it tooth and nail as much as 1018 00:57:09.199 --> 00:57:11.320 he can. Look, one point four billion dollars is not 1019 00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:15.039 a small amount of money to pay out. That's pretty large, 1020 00:57:15.920 --> 00:57:17.760 but so are some of the claims that he was making. 1021 00:57:18.360 --> 00:57:23.039 So anyway, not trying to detract from the conversation of geopolitics, 1022 00:57:23.159 --> 00:57:24.880 but I thought that that was interesting to bring up 1023 00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:27.840 as well, because now we go into talking about courts 1024 00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:32.920 and legal things. This is from SCOTUSblog dot com. The 1025 00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:37.400 Supreme Court appears ready to curtail major provisions in a 1026 00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:41.000 voting rights act. Now, this one kind of hits near 1027 00:57:41.039 --> 00:57:46.679 and dear to myself because Louisiana is currently getting ready 1028 00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:50.079 to draw a new map. California drew a new map 1029 00:57:50.119 --> 00:57:52.639 and people got pissed about it. Texas drew a new 1030 00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:56.480 map in response to California drawing that map. Now Louisiana 1031 00:57:56.880 --> 00:57:59.519 is about to draw another map to talk about which 1032 00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:02.800 dish get how many votes? As far as these things go, 1033 00:58:03.199 --> 00:58:05.559 and the Supreme Court is now weighing in on it, 1034 00:58:05.599 --> 00:58:11.480 and they're saying that it's all racially motivated. I shit 1035 00:58:11.599 --> 00:58:14.559 you not. They are literally saying that the redistrict thing 1036 00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:20.599 of the map is specifically and inherently a racially motivated decision. 1037 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:24.239 Never mind the fact of the race has nothing to 1038 00:58:24.280 --> 00:58:28.199 do with this. In my personal opinion, I know tons 1039 00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:32.519 of Republicans of all different races and backgrounds. I know 1040 00:58:32.679 --> 00:58:37.480 tons of Democrats from all races and backgrounds. As far 1041 00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:40.119 as that's concerned, Louisiana has a population it's like a 1042 00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:43.800 third of the population of Louisiana is of the African 1043 00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:49.320 American persuasion. Not all of those are Democrats. And I 1044 00:58:49.320 --> 00:58:53.159 would also like to mention that black conservatives in this 1045 00:58:53.320 --> 00:58:56.440 state are not some sort of a weird monolith by 1046 00:58:56.480 --> 00:58:59.880 any means, especially now after the last couple of elections. 1047 00:58:59.880 --> 00:59:02.280 But sure, we got to make it a race issue, 1048 00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:04.920 let's get into it. The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared 1049 00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:07.559 ready to strike down a twenty twenty four congressional map 1050 00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:10.719 that the group of voters has challenged as the product 1051 00:59:10.760 --> 00:59:15.519 of unconstitutional racial jerrymandering. That is, according to them, it 1052 00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:18.559 sorts voters based on race in violation of the Fourteenth 1053 00:59:18.599 --> 00:59:22.079 Amendment's equal protection clause. During nearly two and a half 1054 00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:26.039 years of oral arguments, the Court's conservative justices signaled that 1055 00:59:26.079 --> 00:59:28.599 they are likely to undermine a key provision of the 1056 00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:31.840 Voting Rights Act, even if they may not ultimately strike 1057 00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:36.400 it down altogether. Wednesday's oral argument was the latest chapter 1058 00:59:36.480 --> 00:59:38.719 in a dispute that dates back to twenty twenty two, 1059 00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:42.000 when Louisiana adopted a new congressional map in the wake 1060 00:59:42.039 --> 00:59:45.079 of the twenty twenty census. Roughly one third of the 1061 00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:48.719 state's population is black, but the twenty twenty two map 1062 00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:51.679 had only one majority black district out of the six 1063 00:59:51.800 --> 00:59:55.280 districts allotted to the state. That prompted a group of 1064 00:59:55.320 --> 00:59:57.800 black voters to go to federal court, where they argued 1065 00:59:57.800 --> 01:00:01.000 that the twenty twenty two map violated Section two of 1066 01:00:01.079 --> 01:00:06.079 the Federal Voting Rights Act, which barres discrimination in voting practices. 1067 01:00:06.559 --> 01:00:10.559 The US District Judge Shelley dick Wow agreed that the 1068 01:00:10.559 --> 01:00:13.960 twenty twenty two map likely violated Section two. She prohibited 1069 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:16.199 the state from using the map in future elections and 1070 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:18.840 ordered the state to draw a new map with two 1071 01:00:19.159 --> 01:00:22.360 majority black districts. The US Court of Appeals in the 1072 01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:25.239 Fifth Circuit upheld that ruling. He gave the state until 1073 01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:28.079 January fifteenth, twenty twenty four, to enact a new map 1074 01:00:28.199 --> 01:00:31.119 or face the prospect that the lower court would adopt 1075 01:00:31.159 --> 01:00:34.960 a plan. For the twenty twenty four elections, Louisiana drew 1076 01:00:34.960 --> 01:00:37.800 a new map that created a second majority black district. 1077 01:00:38.119 --> 01:00:40.599 The twenty twenty four map drew a challenge from a 1078 01:00:40.639 --> 01:00:44.400 group of voters who described themselves as non African American. 1079 01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:48.239 A three judge federal District court agreed with them that 1080 01:00:48.280 --> 01:00:51.840 the twenty twenty four map violated the Constitution's equal Protection 1081 01:00:51.960 --> 01:00:55.639 clause by sorting voters based on race, and it barred 1082 01:00:55.639 --> 01:00:58.159 the state from using the map in the future elections, 1083 01:00:58.719 --> 01:01:02.760 so getting into it here. In May twenty twenty four, 1084 01:01:02.800 --> 01:01:06.519 the Supreme Court put three judge district courts ruling on hold, 1085 01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:09.360 which allowed the state to move forward with the using 1086 01:01:10.039 --> 01:01:12.800 the new map in twenty twenty four elections. Voters in 1087 01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:17.159 the sixth district, the new majority black district, elected Cleo Fields, 1088 01:01:17.320 --> 01:01:20.559 a former member of Congress who had represented another majority 1089 01:01:20.559 --> 01:01:24.679 black district during the nineteen nineties, to represent them. Louisiana 1090 01:01:24.679 --> 01:01:26.960 and the black voters appealed to the Supreme Court, which 1091 01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:29.239 heard oral arguments for the first time in the spring 1092 01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:32.639 of this year. Louisiana contended that once the law made 1093 01:01:32.719 --> 01:01:35.719 the excuse me. Once the lower courts had concluded that 1094 01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:39.320 the twenty twenty two map likely violated the VREA and 1095 01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:42.480 directed it to draw map with a second majority black district. 1096 01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:45.159 Its primary goal was to protect the state's powerful Republican 1097 01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:47.920 incumbents in Congress, such as Speaker of the House Mike 1098 01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:53.280 Johnson and Representative Julia Letlow, who sits on the House 1099 01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:57.920 Appropriations Committee. The non African American voters countered that it 1100 01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:02.159 was utterly implausible that both race and politics were equally 1101 01:02:02.199 --> 01:02:05.280 responsible for the twenty twenty four map. The state first 1102 01:02:05.320 --> 01:02:08.519 decided to draw the second majority black district, and then 1103 01:02:08.639 --> 01:02:10.519 considered how to draw the map in a way that 1104 01:02:10.559 --> 01:02:14.559 would protect Republicans, they contended. On June twenty seventh, the 1105 01:02:14.639 --> 01:02:17.840 last day before the justices summer recess, the Court issued 1106 01:02:17.880 --> 01:02:20.760 a brief order setting the case for another argument in 1107 01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:24.320 the twenty twenty five twenty sixth term. On August first, 1108 01:02:24.679 --> 01:02:28.480 Justices issued an order in which they directed the litigations 1109 01:02:28.519 --> 01:02:32.360 to file briefs addressing a new question whether the state's 1110 01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:36.880 intentional creation of a second majority minority district violates either 1111 01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:40.480 the fourteenth or fifteenth Amendment, which bars the government from 1112 01:02:40.519 --> 01:02:45.039 denying or restricting voting rights based on race. At Wednesday's 1113 01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:50.119 oral argument, lawyer Jannai Nelson, representing the black voters, defended 1114 01:02:50.119 --> 01:02:52.679 the twenty twenty four map. She told the Justices that 1115 01:02:52.840 --> 01:02:56.079 a mere two years ago, in Allen versus Milligan, a 1116 01:02:56.159 --> 01:02:59.840 case nearly identical to this one, the Supreme Court noted that, 1117 01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:04.599 under certain circumstances, it has authorized race based redistricting to 1118 01:03:04.719 --> 01:03:10.280 remedy state restriction maps that violate Section two, Louisiana Solicitor 1119 01:03:10.360 --> 01:03:17.559 General Benjamin Auguena Auguinaga, I don't speak the language. I'm sorry. 1120 01:03:17.719 --> 01:03:21.320 By contrast, urged the Court to reevaluate its voting precedents, 1121 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:24.960 although the state had defined the twenty twenty four map 1122 01:03:25.079 --> 01:03:27.519 when the case was before the Supreme Court in March. 1123 01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:31.639 The General told the justices on Wednesday that those precedents 1124 01:03:31.880 --> 01:03:35.880 had place states in impossible situations where they only where 1125 01:03:35.920 --> 01:03:40.800 the only sure demand is more racial discrimination for more decades. Therefore, 1126 01:03:40.840 --> 01:03:43.320 he said, we have taken the position that Section two, 1127 01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:48.599 insofar as it requires race based redistricting, is unconstitutional. Chief 1128 01:03:48.760 --> 01:03:52.360 Justice John Roberts, the author of the court's opinion in Milligan, 1129 01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:55.719 appeared to suggest that the Milligan case should not necessarily 1130 01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:59.199 dictate the outcome of the Louisiana case. That case, he said, 1131 01:03:59.400 --> 01:04:01.960 took the exist misting precedents as a given, and he 1132 01:04:02.039 --> 01:04:04.320 continued that it was a case in which we were 1133 01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:07.920 considering Alabama's particular challenge based on what turned out to 1134 01:04:07.960 --> 01:04:13.719 be an improper evidentiary showing. Justice Elena Kagan countered that 1135 01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:18.039 Alabama had made several arguments that we specifically rejected in Milligan, 1136 01:04:18.519 --> 01:04:22.400 and that the answers that you just gave, and in 1137 01:04:22.480 --> 01:04:24.719 the answer that you just gave to me, it seems 1138 01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:26.920 to me that you repeated each and every one of 1139 01:04:26.920 --> 01:04:31.480 those arguments that we rejected. It's a fair point. Justice 1140 01:04:31.480 --> 01:04:35.079 Brett Kavanaugh, who joined the majority in Milligan, raised a 1141 01:04:35.159 --> 01:04:38.679 point that he had made in concurring opinions in a 1142 01:04:38.719 --> 01:04:41.840 concurring opinion in that case. This Court's case is a 1143 01:04:41.920 --> 01:04:46.559 variety of Contexts have said that race based remedies are 1144 01:04:46.599 --> 01:04:49.840 permissible for a period of time, sometimes for a long 1145 01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:53.599 period of time decades in some cases, but they should 1146 01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:56.960 not be an indefinite and should not have or or 1147 01:04:57.000 --> 01:05:00.880 should have an endpoint. Nelson resisted any tension that Section 1148 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:04.280 two or race based redistricting should have a similar endpoint. 1149 01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:07.519 She noted, among other things, that Congress decidedly did not 1150 01:05:07.679 --> 01:05:10.599 include a time limit in Section two, even though it 1151 01:05:10.639 --> 01:05:14.840 had done so elsewhere in the Vra. Justice Kintaji Brown 1152 01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:17.840 Jackson emphasized that Section two is not a remedy in 1153 01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:21.360 and of itself, but is instead the mechanism by which 1154 01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:24.760 the law determines whether a remedy is necessary, which she 1155 01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:27.840 said may or may not involve the consideration of race, 1156 01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:31.559 and so that's why it doesn't need a time limit, 1157 01:05:31.639 --> 01:05:35.559 she reasoned, because it's not doing any work for any 1158 01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:38.079 work other than just pointing us to the direction of 1159 01:05:38.119 --> 01:05:40.760 where we might need to do something, as they had 1160 01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:44.119 in or argent argument. In March, some justices questioned whether 1161 01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:47.159 the District's court decisions findings in the twenty twenty two 1162 01:05:47.199 --> 01:05:50.599 map likely violated Section two justified the creation of the 1163 01:05:50.639 --> 01:05:54.159 twenty twenty four map with its second majority Black District 1164 01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:58.840 Justice Clarence Thomas president prest Nelson, asking whether the lower 1165 01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:03.559 court had ordered this particular map. Nelson responded that had not. 1166 01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:06.719 The court gave the State of Louisiana an opportunity, as 1167 01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:11.079 this Court has suggested to it do. It gave it 1168 01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:14.639 broad discretion, gave it wide latitude to create a map 1169 01:06:14.760 --> 01:06:18.440 that felt that it felt was satisfactory. But the General 1170 01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:20.920 told Thomas that the District Court's decision of the twenty 1171 01:06:21.000 --> 01:06:23.480 twenty two map is the only reason that the twenty 1172 01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:26.840 twenty four map exists. Louisiana, he said, drew the twenty 1173 01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:30.000 twenty four map under protest because the threat was that 1174 01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:32.400 the federal courts were going to do it if we didn't. 1175 01:06:33.119 --> 01:06:36.400 Just as Amy Cony Barrett echo Thomas's concerns about the 1176 01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:39.840 weight that the district court decision should carry, she noted 1177 01:06:39.880 --> 01:06:43.320 that the court had assumed, without deciding, that complying with 1178 01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:46.360 the Section two is a compelling interest for purposes of 1179 01:06:46.400 --> 01:06:49.119 the Fourteenth Amendment, as part of the test that comes 1180 01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:53.960 into play when race occupies a predominant role in redistricting. 1181 01:06:54.400 --> 01:06:57.920 But in the case like this, like the one involving 1182 01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:01.000 the twenty twenty two map, when this doesn't really think 1183 01:07:01.039 --> 01:07:04.159 that the map violates Section two and it hasn't been 1184 01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:08.360 finally adjudicated, it seems to suggest that there is really 1185 01:07:08.440 --> 01:07:12.039 a compelling interest. Or she's asking, does it seem that 1186 01:07:13.039 --> 01:07:15.719 it does? It seem to suggest that there really is 1187 01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:19.280 a compelling interest. Kavanaugh also appeared somewhat receptive to the 1188 01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:23.320 Trump administration this argument made by Principal Deputy Solicitor General 1189 01:07:23.400 --> 01:07:29.320 Hashim Moupon all Right, that the constitutional problem before the 1190 01:07:29.320 --> 01:07:32.840 court is not the mere consideration of the race in districting. 1191 01:07:33.239 --> 01:07:37.719 The problem is when race subordinates traditional neutral principles and 1192 01:07:37.800 --> 01:07:41.559 is factor that cannot be compromised. The Trump administration, while 1193 01:07:41.599 --> 01:07:45.880 not jettisoning Section two would make it more difficult to 1194 01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:49.000 bring a Section two claim. In its view, a violation 1195 01:07:49.079 --> 01:07:51.599 of Section two cannot rest on a lack of equal 1196 01:07:51.639 --> 01:07:55.239 opportunity for minority plaintiffs to participate in the political process 1197 01:07:55.360 --> 01:07:59.039 when politics, rather than race, is the likely reason for 1198 01:07:59.079 --> 01:08:03.039 the state's refusal to create a majority minority district. Anyway, 1199 01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:05.159 you know, I only got a little bit left to 1200 01:08:05.159 --> 01:08:08.719 gover Nelson cautioned that adopting her opponent's position would create 1201 01:08:08.760 --> 01:08:11.760 a staggering reversal of precedent that would throw maps across 1202 01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:14.519 the country into chaos. But if the court believes that 1203 01:08:14.559 --> 01:08:17.680 the twenty twenty four map is unconstitutional, she continued, it 1204 01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:20.119 should send the case back to the lower court for 1205 01:08:20.199 --> 01:08:23.159 it to use one of the many alterations that are 1206 01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:26.560 available to meet Section two and also comply with the Constitution. 1207 01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:29.359 But it should lead the lower Court's findings that the 1208 01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:32.479 twenty twenty two map violated Section two undisturbed, she said, 1209 01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:36.000 and it must be remedied. Moupon countered that there are 1210 01:08:36.119 --> 01:08:39.880 roughly sixty black representatives in Congress right now and only 1211 01:08:39.960 --> 01:08:44.199 fifteen majority black districts. None of these positions advanced by 1212 01:08:44.199 --> 01:08:47.920 the Trump administration or the other litigations opposing the twenty 1213 01:08:47.960 --> 01:08:50.600 twenty four map, he said, is going to lead to 1214 01:08:50.720 --> 01:08:54.399 there being no black representation in Congress or anything remotely 1215 01:08:54.479 --> 01:09:00.119 approaching that. Okay, long article, but long story short, we're 1216 01:09:00.159 --> 01:09:02.800 wanting to redistrict the map based off of a census 1217 01:09:02.800 --> 01:09:08.720 that was took and them redistricting this map precedent to this, 1218 01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:11.279 or you know, a couple of years ago they redistricted 1219 01:09:11.359 --> 01:09:14.319 to where there was two majority black districts. They're saying 1220 01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:16.920 that they need to redistrict this again because that's race 1221 01:09:16.960 --> 01:09:20.960 based and not census based. Take that for what you want. Honestly, 1222 01:09:21.960 --> 01:09:25.520 I don't know. I don't have any real fear of 1223 01:09:25.640 --> 01:09:29.319 Louisiana becoming a blue state. As far as federal elections go. 1224 01:09:29.760 --> 01:09:32.000 State elections kind of swing one way or another. We 1225 01:09:32.079 --> 01:09:37.039 have Democrat governors sometimes and Republican governors others. That kind 1226 01:09:37.079 --> 01:09:39.119 of goes up in the air depending on who the 1227 01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:43.000 candidates are. To be honest with you, but yeah, apparently 1228 01:09:43.039 --> 01:09:47.800 Louisiana is possibly also having some jerrymandering issues, and uh, 1229 01:09:47.880 --> 01:09:50.239 the Supreme Court is weighing in on this. Say, I'm 1230 01:09:50.399 --> 01:09:51.920 see your hand raised, brother, what you got. 1231 01:09:55.000 --> 01:09:57.640 My question is while we did, people are trying to 1232 01:09:57.680 --> 01:10:01.119 bring back segregation when that we all evil. 1233 01:10:03.439 --> 01:10:09.840 Well, it's not necessarily segregation in that way. So jerry mandering, 1234 01:10:10.840 --> 01:10:15.399 I'm trying to find a way to describe this without pictures. Essentially, 1235 01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:19.319 it is redrawing the lines to where you get more 1236 01:10:19.399 --> 01:10:22.640 votes that look like they're swaying one direction rather than another. 1237 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:24.640 A vote is a vote is a vote, and it 1238 01:10:24.680 --> 01:10:28.880 counts this way. But they are saying that the black 1239 01:10:28.960 --> 01:10:33.199 vote is going to be made lesser by redrawing the 1240 01:10:33.239 --> 01:10:36.800 maps to where instead of having two majority black districts 1241 01:10:37.039 --> 01:10:39.880 who are voting on behalf of all of the African 1242 01:10:39.920 --> 01:10:44.199 American population in Louisiana according to these people, which is incorrect, 1243 01:10:44.640 --> 01:10:48.000 but whatever, they're saying that the black vote will not 1244 01:10:48.079 --> 01:10:51.960 be counted as much. And I understand what they're saying. 1245 01:10:52.039 --> 01:10:56.399 Jerry Mandering has been done very very bad, bad, bad, 1246 01:10:56.439 --> 01:10:58.479 bad things in the past. I'm not taking away from that. 1247 01:10:59.399 --> 01:11:02.520 But again, more and more black voters in this state 1248 01:11:02.920 --> 01:11:07.079 are swapping sides, So having two majority black districts, I 1249 01:11:07.119 --> 01:11:10.239 don't think it's going to help the cause. From the 1250 01:11:10.800 --> 01:11:14.359 left versus right, conversation like they think it will. But 1251 01:11:15.159 --> 01:11:19.640 you know, I'm I'm all for rezoning when it's needed, 1252 01:11:20.520 --> 01:11:23.760 especially in this state. There is so much movement that 1253 01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:27.039 has happened in the last twenty years. Certain cities, Okay, 1254 01:11:27.119 --> 01:11:30.359 New Orleans and Baton Rouge and Shreveport are always going 1255 01:11:30.359 --> 01:11:33.439 to be majority black cities. I get that. But if 1256 01:11:33.439 --> 01:11:35.760 you look parish to perish, what other states have, like 1257 01:11:35.760 --> 01:11:39.840 county to county, it's not so segregated like it once was. 1258 01:11:40.319 --> 01:11:43.279 I mean, hell, Livingston Parish, it's not too far from me. 1259 01:11:43.840 --> 01:11:47.439 At one point was very, very heavily white based, and 1260 01:11:47.479 --> 01:11:49.920 it was very racial. As a matter of fact, it 1261 01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:52.000 was very racist. It was seen as like the last 1262 01:11:52.000 --> 01:11:55.199 stronghold for the Klan in this state. Right that is 1263 01:11:55.239 --> 01:11:57.520 no longer the case, and there are more and more 1264 01:11:57.560 --> 01:11:59.800 black people that are moving out that way, and they're 1265 01:11:59.840 --> 01:12:03.920 not doing it because of you know, gentrification or whatever else. 1266 01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:07.199 The opportunities in Louisiana are more equal now than they've 1267 01:12:07.239 --> 01:12:10.600 ever been, and you have people, regardless of whatever race, 1268 01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:14.119 they are making equal money to white people, so they're 1269 01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:17.119 able to move into the same areas that white people 1270 01:12:17.159 --> 01:12:20.319 are living. We have a real melting pot that is 1271 01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:22.119 going on in this day right now, which I am 1272 01:12:22.199 --> 01:12:25.039 all for for the record. So for them to redraw 1273 01:12:25.119 --> 01:12:29.640 these maps to make more black districts, they're using race 1274 01:12:29.760 --> 01:12:33.079 as their motivating factor, and I think that's just wrong. 1275 01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:35.159 But I know that I'm looking at it from my 1276 01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:37.840 own vantage point here. But Tony, go ahead, brother. 1277 01:12:38.720 --> 01:12:42.680 Yeah, pall politics is friend enemy and just the basic 1278 01:12:42.760 --> 01:12:47.039 definition of jerrymandering is that depending on how you draw 1279 01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:49.760 the boundaries, you could take a fifty to fifty Republican 1280 01:12:49.880 --> 01:12:53.319 versus Democrat state and you could get like ninety percent 1281 01:12:53.359 --> 01:12:56.479 of the House representatives to be Republican just by drawing 1282 01:12:56.520 --> 01:13:00.199 the boundaries a certain way, or ninety percent Democrat just 1283 01:13:00.199 --> 01:13:04.199 by drawing the boundaries a certain way. And since there's 1284 01:13:04.239 --> 01:13:07.600 an obvious beneficiary to any kind of drawing in the boundaries, 1285 01:13:07.840 --> 01:13:09.960 the other party is always going to see it is unfair. 1286 01:13:10.680 --> 01:13:16.359 As for segregation and everything, yeah, I'm glad that we 1287 01:13:16.680 --> 01:13:21.039 don't have mandatory segregation. But here's the big butt. You know, 1288 01:13:21.479 --> 01:13:24.880 some people do really well in a non segregated, integrated environment, 1289 01:13:25.199 --> 01:13:29.680 other people not so much. Some people do want some segregation, 1290 01:13:30.279 --> 01:13:33.760 not just white people either. So there's been some black 1291 01:13:35.239 --> 01:13:39.319 movement to you know, creating their own spaces for example, 1292 01:13:39.399 --> 01:13:42.920 black only dormitories or the Black National Anthem being serving 1293 01:13:42.960 --> 01:13:47.199 sporting events. And I don't know if I'm in favor 1294 01:13:47.199 --> 01:13:50.319 of that, but it just goes to show that it's 1295 01:13:50.359 --> 01:13:52.479 not one size fits all. I think like eighty percent 1296 01:13:52.520 --> 01:13:55.840 of people can get by really well in an integrated culture, 1297 01:13:56.279 --> 01:13:59.279 but there's always like twenty percent that won't. And if 1298 01:13:59.720 --> 01:14:03.000 having some Blacks only spaces or some whites only spaces 1299 01:14:03.079 --> 01:14:07.520 even today in modern day America, would help them, maybe 1300 01:14:07.560 --> 01:14:08.319 it's okay. 1301 01:14:08.079 --> 01:14:13.520 To do that. I get what you're saying. And there 1302 01:14:13.640 --> 01:14:20.000 are certain cultures that do well in de facto segregation, 1303 01:14:20.479 --> 01:14:23.439 not d joro right, Dajora being the one where there's 1304 01:14:23.520 --> 01:14:26.279 legal there's laws in place saying that you can only 1305 01:14:26.319 --> 01:14:28.239 live here, you can only work these jobs based off 1306 01:14:28.239 --> 01:14:30.920 of your race. De facto segregation is more just like 1307 01:14:31.479 --> 01:14:34.880 this culture and society in this one city is inherently 1308 01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:37.880 very Latin based, and that's just how it goes because 1309 01:14:37.880 --> 01:14:39.520 that just happens to be where all the Latin people 1310 01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:42.439 move to or all the black people live in this city, 1311 01:14:42.439 --> 01:14:45.199 and that just makes it what it is. Fine. I 1312 01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:47.399 don't have a problem with that. But what I'm saying 1313 01:14:47.439 --> 01:14:51.239 is redrawing the lines based off of race alone. That 1314 01:14:51.640 --> 01:14:54.520 leads down this road where they think that the majority 1315 01:14:54.560 --> 01:14:57.960 black districts are only going to vote Democrat, and that 1316 01:14:58.039 --> 01:15:01.079 is simply not the case. That may be the case 1317 01:15:01.119 --> 01:15:03.640 in some places, that may be the case in a 1318 01:15:03.680 --> 01:15:07.520 lot of places. I can speak pretty intelligently on this 1319 01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:10.319 one in Louisiana, even though, Yeah, if you were to 1320 01:15:10.319 --> 01:15:13.359 look at the census and see how many Black Louisianians 1321 01:15:13.399 --> 01:15:16.439 are registered Democrat, but then you also compare that to 1322 01:15:16.479 --> 01:15:19.000 how they voted in the last two elections for state 1323 01:15:19.159 --> 01:15:22.079 and for federal, it's not gonna work out the way 1324 01:15:22.079 --> 01:15:25.239 that they hope it will. But you know, it's an attempt. 1325 01:15:26.520 --> 01:15:29.680 I see what you're saying. Some cultures benefit from segregation 1326 01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:33.720 in some way, shape or form, some benefit from integration. 1327 01:15:34.720 --> 01:15:37.039 I am personally of the belief, and I could be 1328 01:15:37.079 --> 01:15:39.680 wrong here. I don't know. I'm not an expert in 1329 01:15:39.720 --> 01:15:43.600 all things. I am of the opinion that America has 1330 01:15:43.680 --> 01:15:50.159 done our best when the integration came into play. I 1331 01:15:50.199 --> 01:15:53.199 don't know. Maybe I'm just completely off my rocker on 1332 01:15:53.239 --> 01:15:55.800 that one. But ever since the Civil Rights Acts, and 1333 01:15:55.840 --> 01:15:58.520 ever since the schools were integrated in all these things, 1334 01:15:58.800 --> 01:16:00.920 I feel like we as a soil and culture have 1335 01:16:01.039 --> 01:16:03.880 done better in certain regards and worse in certain regards. 1336 01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:06.680 I'm aware of this, But overall, I would say that 1337 01:16:06.720 --> 01:16:10.279 we have advanced ourselves far and beyond our for lack 1338 01:16:10.279 --> 01:16:14.960 of better words, competition nation, competition than any other. And 1339 01:16:15.079 --> 01:16:18.319 I'm not saying it's because of our what's the way 1340 01:16:18.359 --> 01:16:20.880 that they were saying it's our differences that make us stronger. 1341 01:16:21.960 --> 01:16:23.399 I think there's something to be said for that. But 1342 01:16:23.439 --> 01:16:26.840 I also think that trying to blend everybody together to 1343 01:16:26.840 --> 01:16:29.520 get a unified American culture is the way that we 1344 01:16:29.560 --> 01:16:34.079 should move forward. I don't know, but. 1345 01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:40.520 Who is assimilable today, Like even Muslims can be assimilated 1346 01:16:40.640 --> 01:16:45.279 and people from I don't know, it's China and India 1347 01:16:45.399 --> 01:16:48.680 that those I think India and Islam are the biggest, 1348 01:16:49.560 --> 01:16:52.520 you know, hardest to assimilate that most people on the 1349 01:16:52.560 --> 01:16:53.640 right consider today. 1350 01:16:54.039 --> 01:16:56.840 So they can assimilate, but they have to leave their 1351 01:16:56.960 --> 01:17:00.640 cultures behind. When you get to America, you take on 1352 01:17:00.720 --> 01:17:04.560 your American identity, You become a member of this nation. 1353 01:17:04.720 --> 01:17:07.239 You don't try to make America like the country you 1354 01:17:07.399 --> 01:17:10.199 just left. That's the only way that this culture can 1355 01:17:10.239 --> 01:17:12.000 thrive and move forward. I'm not saying you need to 1356 01:17:12.079 --> 01:17:14.640 leave your religious practice behind, or leave your language at home, 1357 01:17:14.720 --> 01:17:16.600 or any of those types of things. That's fine. Be 1358 01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:19.000 proud of who you are and what it took to 1359 01:17:19.000 --> 01:17:22.199 get you here. But once you get here, work towards 1360 01:17:22.239 --> 01:17:25.199 making your home country, which would be America at that point, 1361 01:17:25.479 --> 01:17:27.760 a better country. Don't go out of your way to 1362 01:17:27.760 --> 01:17:30.600 make America more like Mexico, or more like India, or 1363 01:17:30.640 --> 01:17:33.840 more like wherever you That goes against the entire premise 1364 01:17:33.880 --> 01:17:38.079 of coming here. That's my opinion. Anyway, I got a 1365 01:17:38.119 --> 01:17:40.760 quick little video that's gonna break down jerrymandering a little 1366 01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:42.079 bit better because I feel like I did a bad 1367 01:17:42.159 --> 01:17:44.760 job explaining. Let's listen in, and this is essentially what 1368 01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:47.119 they are trying to do in Louisiana right now. 1369 01:17:47.800 --> 01:17:50.760 So you want to know what gerrymandering is. First, Let's 1370 01:17:50.800 --> 01:17:51.960 start with government. 1371 01:17:51.720 --> 01:17:52.279 One oh one. 1372 01:17:52.800 --> 01:17:55.600 In the United States, each state elects a certain number 1373 01:17:55.600 --> 01:17:59.800 of representatives based on the state's population. The larger population, 1374 01:18:00.039 --> 01:18:04.199 the more representatives you have. Each representative represents a district 1375 01:18:04.359 --> 01:18:08.039 or a geographical area, including its voters. Ideally, we want 1376 01:18:08.079 --> 01:18:10.600 to have a range of representatives who reflect the political 1377 01:18:10.680 --> 01:18:13.359 views of the population across the state. But how do 1378 01:18:13.399 --> 01:18:16.359 we decide who gets to vote for each representative. Let's 1379 01:18:16.399 --> 01:18:19.199 look at an example. Suppose we have a very tiny 1380 01:18:19.239 --> 01:18:21.880 state of fifty people. Thirty of them belong to the 1381 01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:24.439 Blue Party and twenty belong to the Red Party, and 1382 01:18:24.600 --> 01:18:26.760 just our luck, they all live in a nice even grid, 1383 01:18:26.800 --> 01:18:29.039 with Blues on one side of the state and Reds 1384 01:18:29.039 --> 01:18:31.439 on the other. Now, let's say we need to divide 1385 01:18:31.479 --> 01:18:34.720 the state into five districts. Each district will send one 1386 01:18:34.760 --> 01:18:38.920 representative to the House to represent the people. Fortunately, because 1387 01:18:38.920 --> 01:18:41.720 our citizens live in a neatly ordered grid, it's easy 1388 01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:44.640 to draw five lengthy districts, two for the Reds and 1389 01:18:44.720 --> 01:18:49.680 three for the Blues. Voila perfectly proportional representation, just as 1390 01:18:49.680 --> 01:18:50.680 the founders intended. 1391 01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:52.760 Now, let's say instead that. 1392 01:18:52.720 --> 01:18:55.119 The Blue Party controls the state government and they get 1393 01:18:55.159 --> 01:18:58.840 to decide how the lines are drawn. Rather than draw 1394 01:18:58.920 --> 01:19:01.840 districts of horizontals, they draw them vertically, so that in 1395 01:19:01.880 --> 01:19:05.760 each district there are six Blues and four Reds, with 1396 01:19:05.840 --> 01:19:09.159 a comfortable blue majority in the state. Each district elects 1397 01:19:09.199 --> 01:19:12.359 a Blue candidate to the House, the Blues win five 1398 01:19:12.399 --> 01:19:16.600 seats and the Reds don't get a single one. Oh well, finally, 1399 01:19:16.680 --> 01:19:19.760 what if the Red party controls the state government. The 1400 01:19:19.800 --> 01:19:23.000 Reds know they're at a numerical disadvantage, but with some 1401 01:19:23.039 --> 01:19:26.279 creative boundary drawing, they can slice the Blue population up 1402 01:19:26.399 --> 01:19:29.079 such that they only get a majority in two districts. 1403 01:19:29.239 --> 01:19:31.800 So despite making up forty percent of the population, the 1404 01:19:31.880 --> 01:19:33.560 Reds win sixty percent of the seats. 1405 01:19:34.039 --> 01:19:35.159 Not that This. 1406 01:19:35.159 --> 01:19:38.000 Process of redrawing district lines to give an advantage to 1407 01:19:38.000 --> 01:19:41.239 one party over another is called jerrymandering, and it's nothing new. 1408 01:19:41.920 --> 01:19:45.600 The term jerrymander is named after early nineteenth century Massachusetts 1409 01:19:45.640 --> 01:19:49.279 governor Elbridge Jerry, who redrew the map of the Senate's 1410 01:19:49.279 --> 01:19:52.239 districts in eighteen ten in order to weaken the opposing 1411 01:19:52.279 --> 01:19:56.159 Federalist Party. Our example is, of course a huge simplification. 1412 01:19:56.720 --> 01:19:58.960 In the real world, people don't live in neatly ordered 1413 01:19:58.960 --> 01:20:02.279 grids sorded by plays party. But for politicians looking to 1414 01:20:02.319 --> 01:20:05.840 give themselves an advantage at redistricting time, the process is 1415 01:20:05.880 --> 01:20:09.920 exactly the same and the consequences are very real. Jerrymandering 1416 01:20:09.960 --> 01:20:12.960 is at least partly to blame for lopsided representation in 1417 01:20:13.039 --> 01:20:16.359 the House seen in recent elections, and it's been argued 1418 01:20:16.359 --> 01:20:20.119 by the President for political polarization since representatives don't have 1419 01:20:20.199 --> 01:20:24.720 to compromise hardline views in order to win seats. 1420 01:20:25.279 --> 01:20:27.800 And there we have it. So I think you did 1421 01:20:27.800 --> 01:20:29.640 a way better job of explaining it than I did. 1422 01:20:29.720 --> 01:20:33.479 But so again, Jerry mannering is nothing new. Redrawing the 1423 01:20:33.520 --> 01:20:36.520 maps are nothing new. But yeah, this is apparently what 1424 01:20:36.560 --> 01:20:38.760 they're trying to go through in Louisiana, and the Supreme 1425 01:20:38.800 --> 01:20:40.680 Court has to weigh in on it. And also for 1426 01:20:40.720 --> 01:20:42.439 the record, Tony, with the example that we gave earlier, 1427 01:20:42.479 --> 01:20:44.920 as far as like foreign assimilation, I feel the same 1428 01:20:44.920 --> 01:20:48.199 way as far as like California transplants moving to Texas 1429 01:20:48.760 --> 01:20:52.039 and trying to make Texas more like California. Like this 1430 01:20:52.119 --> 01:20:55.319 is right. I know. Wait, you're a California transplant. 1431 01:20:56.119 --> 01:20:58.640 Yeah, I grew up in California until I was thirty 1432 01:20:58.640 --> 01:20:59.760 one to move to Texas. 1433 01:21:00.119 --> 01:21:02.520 But do you vote like Californians or do you vote 1434 01:21:02.520 --> 01:21:03.840 to keep Texas like Texas? 1435 01:21:04.239 --> 01:21:06.800 No, I've always voted to libertarian and Republican. 1436 01:21:07.239 --> 01:21:09.640 That's my point. You didn't come to California, or you 1437 01:21:09.640 --> 01:21:11.600 didn't come to Texas trying to make it more like La. 1438 01:21:12.359 --> 01:21:15.399 You came knowing that Texas is Texas, and if you 1439 01:21:15.399 --> 01:21:16.720 want to keep it that way, you have to vote 1440 01:21:16.720 --> 01:21:17.359 a certain way. 1441 01:21:17.920 --> 01:21:21.399 So okay, well I got one other thought here. You know, 1442 01:21:21.520 --> 01:21:24.680 California was more Republican when I was born than Texas 1443 01:21:24.800 --> 01:21:28.439 is now. So Texas, unfortunately, as much as I love 1444 01:21:28.479 --> 01:21:32.159 it and it's like the best state in so many ways, 1445 01:21:32.199 --> 01:21:35.319 it's going to go the way California eventually. I hate 1446 01:21:35.319 --> 01:21:37.680 to say it, but the whole US is a little 1447 01:21:37.720 --> 01:21:40.880 screwed in that regard. Everything goes to the left with time. 1448 01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:43.279 And I hate to be, you know, so doom pilled 1449 01:21:43.279 --> 01:21:45.680 on this, but I just that's the way I see 1450 01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:47.319 things going eventually, and I hate it. 1451 01:21:47.560 --> 01:21:50.159 I know, I know, and I don't like it either. 1452 01:21:51.000 --> 01:21:54.680 And to your point, for the record, California is majority red, 1453 01:21:55.119 --> 01:21:58.239 like hands down. But if you look at population density 1454 01:21:58.319 --> 01:22:02.119 and the big cities and how those dishes have been jerrymandered, 1455 01:22:02.399 --> 01:22:06.079 this that makes the state inherently blue. The vast majority 1456 01:22:06.119 --> 01:22:09.000 of people that live in California are hard line Republicans. 1457 01:22:09.359 --> 01:22:12.279 It's the big cities and the surrounding areas that make 1458 01:22:12.359 --> 01:22:14.840 it the blue state that it is, and Texas is 1459 01:22:14.840 --> 01:22:17.399 going through their own version of that right now. And 1460 01:22:17.520 --> 01:22:20.840 to that point, California and Texas just went through their 1461 01:22:20.880 --> 01:22:23.720 own map redrawings last or this year, as a matter 1462 01:22:23.760 --> 01:22:26.199 of fact, so it's it's just a mess. 1463 01:22:27.319 --> 01:22:30.760 Yeah. Territorially, California is definitely very red. When you look 1464 01:22:30.760 --> 01:22:33.199 at the map, I'd say the population is more like 1465 01:22:33.439 --> 01:22:37.600 sixty percent Democrats, so it is a pretty large majority Democrat. 1466 01:22:38.079 --> 01:22:41.319 And yet that forty percent of Republicans is still so big. 1467 01:22:41.359 --> 01:22:44.159 There's more Republicans in California than there are in Texas, 1468 01:22:44.640 --> 01:22:48.359 because California's population is about forty million, Texas is about 1469 01:22:48.359 --> 01:22:53.439 twenty five. Yeah, in Texas, unfortunately it's gone a little 1470 01:22:53.439 --> 01:22:59.000 purple recently. But yeah, in California there's still a surprising 1471 01:22:59.079 --> 01:23:01.640 number of Republicans that most people aren't aware of. 1472 01:23:02.359 --> 01:23:05.319 That's very true. It's very true. And again I'm hoping 1473 01:23:05.760 --> 01:23:08.640 and praying to the Good Lord that Texas stays red. 1474 01:23:09.399 --> 01:23:11.800 I agree with your statement, by the way, I don't 1475 01:23:11.800 --> 01:23:14.319 want to be doom pilled. I want to get high 1476 01:23:14.359 --> 01:23:17.640 on hopium over here. But at the same time, the 1477 01:23:17.720 --> 01:23:20.920 facts of the facts, and if the trajectory that they 1478 01:23:20.920 --> 01:23:23.319 have been on for the last few years continues down 1479 01:23:23.359 --> 01:23:26.079 that way, it's only a matter of time. Texas was 1480 01:23:26.279 --> 01:23:28.840 way more purple in the last elections than I think 1481 01:23:28.840 --> 01:23:32.199 we've ever seen in our lifetime. Given another twenty years, 1482 01:23:32.600 --> 01:23:37.119 thirty maybe and Texas might very well become a blue 1483 01:23:37.159 --> 01:23:40.279 state and it will be a sad day. But anyway, 1484 01:23:41.039 --> 01:23:44.880 all right, moving on from the conversation about politics, kind 1485 01:23:44.920 --> 01:23:48.840 of but still in line with administrational changes and things. 1486 01:23:49.560 --> 01:23:52.000 I don't know who's heard about this, but apparently there 1487 01:23:52.079 --> 01:23:55.000 is about to be a Katari Air Force base built 1488 01:23:55.079 --> 01:23:59.680 in Idaho. Now let's break this down because we're hearing 1489 01:23:59.680 --> 01:24:02.159 a lot of conflicting reports here. There are some that 1490 01:24:02.199 --> 01:24:04.880 are saying that it is going to be an American 1491 01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:08.399 Air Force base that is used primarily to cross train 1492 01:24:08.520 --> 01:24:11.479 kataripilots or cutter. I keep hearing that use that way 1493 01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:14.840 whatever Katari pilots on the I think it's the F 1494 01:24:14.840 --> 01:24:17.720 fifteen platform, which is what they primarily use over there, 1495 01:24:17.760 --> 01:24:20.720 which is fine, is a great training jet. And so 1496 01:24:20.920 --> 01:24:22.479 this base is going to be kind of seen as 1497 01:24:22.479 --> 01:24:27.520 a joint force base for our international allies. But it's 1498 01:24:27.560 --> 01:24:30.119 going to be a US Air Force base. Then there 1499 01:24:30.199 --> 01:24:33.000 are others that are saying Katar is going to own 1500 01:24:33.079 --> 01:24:35.640 the land itself, that this is on and they're going 1501 01:24:35.680 --> 01:24:40.159 to have Katari troops stationed there year round. And we 1502 01:24:40.239 --> 01:24:43.520 now have a foreign government with a military base on 1503 01:24:43.760 --> 01:24:50.199 US soil, which is mind blowing that. Let's get into 1504 01:24:50.199 --> 01:24:54.159 the article here. This is from Air Force Times dot com. 1505 01:24:54.840 --> 01:24:56.800 Let's hear what the Secretary of War has to say 1506 01:24:56.840 --> 01:25:00.800 on this. The War secretary that keep saying to Secretary, 1507 01:25:00.920 --> 01:25:02.800 I swear to God. It's like these people can't read. 1508 01:25:03.279 --> 01:25:06.279 The War Secretary's announcement that the United States would allow 1509 01:25:06.359 --> 01:25:09.560 Qatar to build an air Force facility in Idaho was 1510 01:25:09.680 --> 01:25:13.119 in the works for years, and mirrors accommodations made for 1511 01:25:13.199 --> 01:25:16.159 a handful of other allies in the country. A US 1512 01:25:16.199 --> 01:25:21.079 Air Force spokesperson told The Military Times on Tuesday, again, 1513 01:25:21.159 --> 01:25:25.600 not Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. War Secretary Pete Hegseth said 1514 01:25:25.600 --> 01:25:28.840 Friday during a meeting that the Pentagon, or at the 1515 01:25:28.840 --> 01:25:34.840 Pentagon with his Katari counterpart, sowed then obdural Abdul Rahman 1516 01:25:35.439 --> 01:25:40.079 Althani good Lord, that Mountain Home Air Force Base will 1517 01:25:40.079 --> 01:25:43.520 host a contingent of Katari F fifteens and pilots to 1518 01:25:43.640 --> 01:25:49.880 enhance our combined training and increase lethality interoperationally. After criticism 1519 01:25:49.920 --> 01:25:54.119 from prominent figures in the GOP's magabase, including right wing 1520 01:25:54.159 --> 01:25:59.760 personality Laura Lumer, which I'm sorry, I am not a 1521 01:25:59.760 --> 01:26:05.680 fan of Laura Lumer even a little bit. God, I'm 1522 01:26:05.680 --> 01:26:09.000 gonna go on a quick side tangent about this human being. 1523 01:26:11.000 --> 01:26:14.880 She is essentially a conservative. I'm gonna call her a 1524 01:26:14.920 --> 01:26:18.520 content creator, and I mean that in a very demeaning way. 1525 01:26:19.560 --> 01:26:21.880 And she is also one of these people that has 1526 01:26:21.920 --> 01:26:24.720 Trump derangement syndrome on the other side of it, to 1527 01:26:24.760 --> 01:26:27.279 think that everything that Trump says is as if it's 1528 01:26:27.319 --> 01:26:31.920 the word of God himself. Okay, that being said, there's 1529 01:26:31.960 --> 01:26:36.760 a Medal of Honor recipient that is a Democrat, and 1530 01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:42.039 that's fine. Uh, she basically went on this whole spree 1531 01:26:42.079 --> 01:26:47.319 of shitting on this guy and calling his service essentially bullshit. 1532 01:26:49.479 --> 01:26:52.920 Keep in mind, he is awarded the Medal of Honor 1533 01:26:53.560 --> 01:26:57.359 for some gangster shit that he did overseas for our country. 1534 01:26:58.039 --> 01:27:01.279 But because he's listed as a Democrat, she decided to 1535 01:27:01.279 --> 01:27:05.359 go ahead and try to take shots at this guy 1536 01:27:06.079 --> 01:27:09.880 so on behalf of anybody that actually gives a fuck. 1537 01:27:10.560 --> 01:27:14.439 Fuck Laura Lumer. Just so we're all clear, moving on, 1538 01:27:16.359 --> 01:27:20.279 including right wing personality Laura Lumer. Qatar's media attache in 1539 01:27:20.319 --> 01:27:23.760 the United States later clarified that a standalone Katari air 1540 01:27:23.800 --> 01:27:27.119 base will not exist, reiterating that Qatar will have a 1541 01:27:27.159 --> 01:27:31.840 facility at an existing US base. US Air Force spokesperson 1542 01:27:31.880 --> 01:27:35.239 and Stephanick hope I pronounced that one right said that 1543 01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:38.239 the service notified Congress about its intent to make a 1544 01:27:38.319 --> 01:27:42.760 foreign military sale to Qatar in twenty seventeen, during President 1545 01:27:42.800 --> 01:27:46.560 Trump's first term. An environmental assessment was made in twenty 1546 01:27:46.640 --> 01:27:50.399 twenty two at Mountain Home Air Force Base, where Singapore 1547 01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:53.920 already has an F fifteen training facility that was established 1548 01:27:53.920 --> 01:27:57.359 in two thousand and nine. Stephanick added Mountain Home is 1549 01:27:57.399 --> 01:27:59.560 not only is not the only air Force base in 1550 01:27:59.600 --> 01:28:03.439 America or on American soil with facilities owned and operated 1551 01:28:03.439 --> 01:28:07.560 by foreign allies. The EUNATO Joint Jet Pilot Pro Training 1552 01:28:07.600 --> 01:28:11.880 Program in Shepherd Air Force Base in Texas hosts allies 1553 01:28:11.920 --> 01:28:16.199 including Germany, Italy, Norway, and the Netherlands. Singapore is another 1554 01:28:16.239 --> 01:28:19.439 facility on Luke Air Force base in Arizona that will 1555 01:28:19.479 --> 01:28:22.680 soon move to Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Arkansas. 1556 01:28:22.760 --> 01:28:25.399 According to the US Air Force, they paid for it, 1557 01:28:25.479 --> 01:28:28.840 and we build it and secure it. Stepanek said. Military 1558 01:28:28.920 --> 01:28:32.239 leaders hailed a ribbon cutting for the new facility at 1559 01:28:32.279 --> 01:28:35.479 Ebbing in September of twenty twenty four. The Air National 1560 01:28:35.520 --> 01:28:38.520 Form military sale of F thirty five pilot training center 1561 01:28:38.640 --> 01:28:42.920 is being funded and occupied by allies including Poland, Finland, Singapore, 1562 01:28:42.960 --> 01:28:46.600 and Germany, with Poland graduating its first pilots from the 1563 01:28:46.600 --> 01:28:49.760 training center in May of this year. City and local 1564 01:28:49.800 --> 01:28:53.720 military officials in Mountain Home, Idaho holiday news conference Tuesday 1565 01:28:53.760 --> 01:28:56.640 to address questions about last week's announcement of a new 1566 01:28:56.720 --> 01:29:01.319 katar Amiri Air Force training facility at the nearby base. 1567 01:29:02.319 --> 01:29:05.960 Direct quote here, I think the keyword here is hosting. 1568 01:29:06.439 --> 01:29:09.760 We are excited to host the Katari's and partner with 1569 01:29:09.840 --> 01:29:13.239 the Mountain Home Air Force Base. Colonel Michael A. Perez, 1570 01:29:13.319 --> 01:29:16.439 commander of the three hundred and sixty six Maintenance Group 1571 01:29:16.520 --> 01:29:19.319 at the base, tot reporters. This is nothing new. This 1572 01:29:19.399 --> 01:29:22.039 has been in the works as far back as twenty seventeen. 1573 01:29:22.439 --> 01:29:26.399 City representatives and US military officials visit Qatar on in 1574 01:29:26.439 --> 01:29:29.239 May Rather in twenty twenty three to discuss the Katari 1575 01:29:29.279 --> 01:29:34.800 Air Force's needs and expectations. Mountain Home Mayor Rich Sykes said, so, 1576 01:29:35.600 --> 01:29:37.840 to put it to rest here, Qatar is not going 1577 01:29:37.880 --> 01:29:41.680 to own a base in the United States. They are 1578 01:29:41.720 --> 01:29:45.520 going to own a building at a United States Air 1579 01:29:45.520 --> 01:29:49.399 Force owned facility. And again this is not like it's crazy. 1580 01:29:49.479 --> 01:29:52.560 We have had multiple countries do very similar things. And 1581 01:29:53.880 --> 01:29:58.319 you know, Qatar is an ally of ours. I mean, yes, 1582 01:29:58.359 --> 01:30:00.239 I understand that people are gonna throw shades their way 1583 01:30:00.239 --> 01:30:02.840 because they're a Muslim country. I get it. Okay, fine, fine, 1584 01:30:02.880 --> 01:30:07.520 have your opinions on this, But Qatar is a homie. 1585 01:30:07.640 --> 01:30:11.159 I mean, they already have Patriot missile systems there. That 1586 01:30:11.239 --> 01:30:13.960 was a whole thing we talked about whenever the Iran 1587 01:30:14.279 --> 01:30:18.079 strikes happened on their nuclear facilities. Iran started firing at Katar. 1588 01:30:19.479 --> 01:30:23.079 It's not this is an ally of ours. So I 1589 01:30:23.119 --> 01:30:25.720 see the need for some cross training, especially when it 1590 01:30:25.720 --> 01:30:27.760 comes to some of our more high tech platforms, like 1591 01:30:27.800 --> 01:30:30.239 the F thirty fives that is going out like hotcakes 1592 01:30:30.279 --> 01:30:34.520 right now. America just gave the designation to Lockheed Martin 1593 01:30:34.560 --> 01:30:38.880 to build two hundred and ninety six more f thirty fives. 1594 01:30:39.359 --> 01:30:42.279 So with that being said, some cross training with our 1595 01:30:42.319 --> 01:30:45.119 allies I think is not necessarily a negative thing. However, 1596 01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:48.800 I completely understand people having a little bit of hesitancy 1597 01:30:49.079 --> 01:30:52.159 towards the conversation. But let's get into it here. It's 1598 01:30:52.359 --> 01:30:56.159 this is from KGW News as headlines swirl. Qatar won't 1599 01:30:56.199 --> 01:31:00.640 have separate military bases in Idaho. Let's listen in that a. 1600 01:31:00.600 --> 01:31:03.800 Foreign country could soon have a military base right here 1601 01:31:03.840 --> 01:31:07.760 in the northwest in Idaho, about fifty miles southeast of Boise. 1602 01:31:08.039 --> 01:31:12.199 Secretary Pete Hegseth made the announcement Friday alongside leadership of 1603 01:31:12.239 --> 01:31:15.239 the Middle Eastern country we're talking about here, Qatar. 1604 01:31:15.920 --> 01:31:18.880 Today, we're announcing or signing a letter of acceptance to 1605 01:31:18.920 --> 01:31:23.560 build a Katari Emi Air Force facility at the Mountain Home. 1606 01:31:23.359 --> 01:31:27.880 Air Base in Idaho. Location will be host. 1607 01:31:27.680 --> 01:31:31.399 To contingent of Katari F fifteen's and pilots to enhance 1608 01:31:31.439 --> 01:31:36.000 our combined training, increase lethality, interoperability. Is just another example 1609 01:31:36.520 --> 01:31:37.720 of our partnership. 1610 01:31:38.920 --> 01:31:39.039 Now. 1611 01:31:39.079 --> 01:31:41.439 Of course, in the wake of that announcement, social media 1612 01:31:41.640 --> 01:31:44.720 was ablaze with reaction from both sides of the aisle, 1613 01:31:45.079 --> 01:31:47.960 and while the announcement appears to mark the first time 1614 01:31:48.000 --> 01:31:50.600 a foreign country will have its own base on US soil, 1615 01:31:50.960 --> 01:31:53.840 there's a lot of context missing if you only hear 1616 01:31:53.880 --> 01:31:56.279 that part and not the rest of the story. So 1617 01:31:56.359 --> 01:31:59.920 let's dive in. Qatar will not have its own separate base. 1618 01:32:00.119 --> 01:32:03.000 It will be a group of buildings to handle training 1619 01:32:03.039 --> 01:32:06.439 and maintenance for Katari troops at the US Air Force 1620 01:32:06.520 --> 01:32:10.520 Mountain home Base. A US Air Force spokesperson says security 1621 01:32:10.560 --> 01:32:12.960 at the base itself will continue to be handled by 1622 01:32:13.079 --> 01:32:17.279 US forces, requiring proper credentials to enter and things like that. 1623 01:32:17.720 --> 01:32:20.439 In fact, that same base in Idaho has hosted a 1624 01:32:20.479 --> 01:32:24.199 squadron of fighter jets from Singapore since two thousand and eight. 1625 01:32:24.760 --> 01:32:28.439 Secretary Hegseth even posted on social media Friday night, writing, 1626 01:32:28.479 --> 01:32:31.199 in part, to be clear, Qatar will not have their 1627 01:32:31.199 --> 01:32:34.199 own base in the United States, nor anything like a base. 1628 01:32:34.600 --> 01:32:37.720 We control the existing base like we do with all partners. 1629 01:32:38.239 --> 01:32:40.880 It's also worth noting this agreement with Qatar has been 1630 01:32:40.920 --> 01:32:43.920 in the works for several years. The country decided to 1631 01:32:43.960 --> 01:32:46.920 buy the fighter jets from a US government program called 1632 01:32:47.000 --> 01:32:50.840 Foreign Military Sales back in twenty seventeen. The US Air 1633 01:32:50.880 --> 01:32:54.359 Force says discussions to train Katari troops on those jets 1634 01:32:54.760 --> 01:32:58.520 began shortly thereafter, around twenty twenty, work began on an 1635 01:32:58.560 --> 01:33:01.680 environmental assessment to look it impacts to the area for 1636 01:33:01.760 --> 01:33:05.960 Qatari facilities, and that assessment was completed in twenty twenty two. 1637 01:33:06.359 --> 01:33:09.079 That's what you're looking at here. And on the flip side, 1638 01:33:09.199 --> 01:33:12.199 Katar hosts a US air base in the Middle East 1639 01:33:12.239 --> 01:33:15.760 with roughly ten thousand American troops. So that's more of 1640 01:33:15.800 --> 01:33:19.159 the background leading up to Friday's announcement. But there's been 1641 01:33:19.199 --> 01:33:23.199 movement recently between the countries as well. Two weeks ago, 1642 01:33:23.199 --> 01:33:27.960 President Trump signed an executive order guaranteeing the security security 1643 01:33:27.960 --> 01:33:31.439 of Qatar, which is not a member of NATO. Shortly 1644 01:33:31.479 --> 01:33:34.560 after that, the Israeli government and Hamas agreed to a 1645 01:33:34.600 --> 01:33:38.000 peace deal, which Qatar was involved with. But why allow 1646 01:33:38.079 --> 01:33:40.840 Qatar to have a military presence in the US. It's 1647 01:33:40.880 --> 01:33:43.800 a thorny issue, no doubt. Qatar has been accused of 1648 01:33:43.880 --> 01:33:47.279 financing terrorist organizations and has played both sides of the 1649 01:33:47.279 --> 01:33:49.479 fence when it comes to Israel and Jamas. But as 1650 01:33:49.840 --> 01:33:53.039 many of you remember, the news of these Katari facilities 1651 01:33:53.039 --> 01:33:56.319 in the US is not the first flight related news 1652 01:33:56.800 --> 01:34:00.000 involving the country and the current administration. In the White House, 1653 01:34:00.439 --> 01:34:03.800 Cutter asked for anything in exchange for that four hundred 1654 01:34:03.920 --> 01:34:07.760 million dollar luxury jumbo jet, and how can the American 1655 01:34:07.760 --> 01:34:09.319 people be so sure that they will. 1656 01:34:09.159 --> 01:34:09.880 Not in the future. 1657 01:34:10.000 --> 01:34:12.239 Well, I think what happens with the plane is that, 1658 01:34:12.359 --> 01:34:14.760 you know, we're very disappointed that it's taken Boeing so 1659 01:34:14.880 --> 01:34:16.560 long to build a new air Force one. You know, 1660 01:34:16.600 --> 01:34:18.439 we have an air Force one that's forty years old. 1661 01:34:18.720 --> 01:34:19.319 I have a lot of. 1662 01:34:19.239 --> 01:34:22.600 Respect for the leadership and for the leader guitar, and 1663 01:34:22.640 --> 01:34:24.560 I think they very nice. They knew about it because 1664 01:34:24.560 --> 01:34:27.720 they buy Boeings. They buy a lot of Boeings, and 1665 01:34:27.760 --> 01:34:30.880 they knew about it, and they said, we would like 1666 01:34:30.960 --> 01:34:34.319 to do something, and if we can get a seven 1667 01:34:34.479 --> 01:34:39.159 forty seven as a contribution to our defense department to 1668 01:34:39.359 --> 01:34:42.920 use during a couple of years while they're building the 1669 01:34:42.960 --> 01:34:46.479 other ones. I think that was a very nice gesture. Now, 1670 01:34:47.079 --> 01:34:48.920 I could be a stupid person to say, oh, no, 1671 01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:51.279 we don't want a free plane. We give free things 1672 01:34:51.279 --> 01:34:53.760 that we'll take one too. And I think this was 1673 01:34:53.880 --> 01:34:55.319 just a gesture of good faith. 1674 01:34:57.159 --> 01:34:59.720 Back in May the Defense Department announced it as officially 1675 01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:03.479 accepted that luxury jet from Qatar to use as the 1676 01:35:03.560 --> 01:35:07.159 new Air Force One. The gift drew concerns from lawmakers 1677 01:35:07.159 --> 01:35:09.760 in both parties, but that did nothing to stop the 1678 01:35:09.800 --> 01:35:13.560 plane's delivery. Also worth noting, a Trump branded golf course 1679 01:35:13.720 --> 01:35:17.960 is being developed in Qatar, so that can't really be 1680 01:35:18.000 --> 01:35:22.359 ignored here either, as the Trump Organization's business deals with 1681 01:35:22.520 --> 01:35:26.119 foreign governments with President Trump still in office have generated 1682 01:35:26.199 --> 01:35:29.239 questions as well. But back to the original headline here, 1683 01:35:29.319 --> 01:35:32.479 a foreign country building a military base on US soil. 1684 01:35:32.960 --> 01:35:35.560 Qatar will not have its own base, but it will 1685 01:35:35.600 --> 01:35:38.039 have its own facilities as part of a US Air 1686 01:35:38.079 --> 01:35:38.720 Force base. 1687 01:35:40.119 --> 01:35:42.119 Okay, so there we go a little bit more in 1688 01:35:42.159 --> 01:35:45.359 depth on this. And yes, it is worth noting that 1689 01:35:45.680 --> 01:35:49.000 Qatar just donated the new Air Force one to Trump. 1690 01:35:49.000 --> 01:35:54.479 It's a very lavish, expensive gift. Perhaps that was something 1691 01:35:54.560 --> 01:35:56.960 to be said. As far as greasing the wheels goes 1692 01:35:57.439 --> 01:36:01.119 with this new military joint venture, I don't know that 1693 01:36:01.199 --> 01:36:04.359 for a fact, but it makes sense on paper. But again, 1694 01:36:05.079 --> 01:36:07.800 this is not unprecedented. There are multiple countries that are 1695 01:36:07.840 --> 01:36:10.399 allies of ours that have done very similar things. Now, 1696 01:36:10.880 --> 01:36:14.680 Qatar is an interesting case because they have been seen 1697 01:36:14.760 --> 01:36:18.680 as riding the fence when it comes to for instance, Gaza, 1698 01:36:19.520 --> 01:36:21.199 and there is a couple of claims that have been 1699 01:36:21.199 --> 01:36:25.720 made about them funding and supporting terrorist organizations. Then also 1700 01:36:25.920 --> 01:36:28.840 they have a lot of a military personnel from the 1701 01:36:28.960 --> 01:36:31.159 United States station there. We have a base in Qatar, 1702 01:36:31.920 --> 01:36:37.319 so kind of interesting. I understand people's hesitation, I really do, 1703 01:36:37.479 --> 01:36:39.680 and I'm not saying it's not you know, it's not unfounded. 1704 01:36:40.439 --> 01:36:42.239 But I also am of the belief that when you 1705 01:36:42.279 --> 01:36:45.560 look at the amount of Katari money that is being 1706 01:36:45.600 --> 01:36:48.319 spent on US politicians right now, not just the air 1707 01:36:48.359 --> 01:36:54.000 Force one gift, I mean legislators, congressmen, senators, all of 1708 01:36:54.039 --> 01:36:57.119 these people, representatives, A lot of people want to draw 1709 01:36:57.159 --> 01:37:00.600 comparisons about or or at least draw attention to Ape 1710 01:37:00.720 --> 01:37:04.439 and sure we should do that. Qatar is out spending 1711 01:37:04.520 --> 01:37:06.920 Israel right now by leaps and bounds. As far as 1712 01:37:06.960 --> 01:37:11.359 buying American politicians, I feel like that also might have 1713 01:37:11.439 --> 01:37:13.600 something to do with the greasing of the wheels to 1714 01:37:13.600 --> 01:37:17.920 get this pushed through. Anyway, moving on, while we're still 1715 01:37:17.920 --> 01:37:21.920 talking about aircraft and bases and things, and we're not 1716 01:37:21.920 --> 01:37:24.560 gonna spend too much time on this. But did anybody 1717 01:37:24.640 --> 01:37:28.479 hear about the mysterious aircraft crash near Area fifty one 1718 01:37:28.880 --> 01:37:33.800 in October of this year? Now, well, let's learn about 1719 01:37:33.800 --> 01:37:37.359 it together. Mysterious aircraft crash near Area fifty one just 1720 01:37:37.399 --> 01:37:40.720 got weirder. The incident in the Nevada Desert prompted flight 1721 01:37:40.800 --> 01:37:43.840 restrictions over the crash site, and now a joint investigation 1722 01:37:43.960 --> 01:37:47.640 with the FBI. This article was published October sixth of 1723 01:37:47.680 --> 01:37:51.520 twenty twenty five. Let's get into it here. Details are 1724 01:37:51.520 --> 01:37:55.880 man scant about an unspecified US Air Force aircraft widely 1725 01:37:55.920 --> 01:37:58.720 believed to be a drone of some kind, which came 1726 01:37:58.760 --> 01:38:01.359 down in southern Nevada not far from Area fifty one 1727 01:38:01.600 --> 01:38:04.840 nearly two weeks ago. Whether the aircraft was ever actually 1728 01:38:04.840 --> 01:38:08.279 inside Area fifty one's highly restricted airspace, also known as 1729 01:38:08.479 --> 01:38:12.479 the Box, is unknown. The mishap prompted authorities to temporarily 1730 01:38:12.520 --> 01:38:15.279 close the airspace above the crash site with some exemptions, 1731 01:38:15.520 --> 01:38:18.199 while the wreckage was cleared. In a bizarre twist of events, 1732 01:38:18.199 --> 01:38:20.920 the US Air Force has publicly disclosed that it and 1733 01:38:21.039 --> 01:38:25.319 the FBI are now investigating apparent strange tamperings at the 1734 01:38:25.399 --> 01:38:29.279 crash site afterwards. This crash happened on September twenty third. 1735 01:38:29.399 --> 01:38:31.800 Let's get into it. On September twenty third, twenty twenty five, 1736 01:38:31.840 --> 01:38:34.640 an aircraft assigned to the four hundred and thirty second 1737 01:38:34.680 --> 01:38:37.439 Air Wing was involved in an incident with no fatalities 1738 01:38:37.560 --> 01:38:40.840 or injuries, the wings public affairs officers released in the 1739 01:38:40.920 --> 01:38:44.600 statement regarding the incident on October fourth. The site was 1740 01:38:44.640 --> 01:38:47.560 secured and guarded until recovery and clean up operations were 1741 01:38:47.560 --> 01:38:52.600 completed on September twenty second. Excuse me, twenty seventh. The 1742 01:38:52.680 --> 01:38:55.760 four hundred and thirty second Wing is headquartered at Creech 1743 01:38:55.880 --> 01:38:59.119 Air Force Base. The flying squadron assigned to the four 1744 01:38:59.119 --> 01:39:03.359 to thirty second are primarily equipped with MQ nine Reaper drones, 1745 01:39:03.680 --> 01:39:05.960 but this is not the only type of aircraft the 1746 01:39:05.960 --> 01:39:08.640 wing operates, as we will come to learn later on. 1747 01:39:08.960 --> 01:39:10.840 This is a picture of the MQ nine Reaper, by 1748 01:39:10.840 --> 01:39:15.000 the way. During a follow on site survey on October third, 1749 01:39:15.039 --> 01:39:19.680 investigators discovered signs of tampering at the mishap location, including 1750 01:39:19.680 --> 01:39:22.720 the presence of an inert training bomb body and an 1751 01:39:22.760 --> 01:39:25.960 aircraft panel of unknown origin that were placed on the 1752 01:39:26.039 --> 01:39:30.520 site post incident. The release put out this past weekend. 1753 01:39:30.680 --> 01:39:33.239 At it the matter is under investigation by the Air 1754 01:39:33.279 --> 01:39:38.199 Force and special investigations in the FBI. No further details 1755 01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:42.119 are available at this time. So again they go more 1756 01:39:42.159 --> 01:39:44.039 in depth with it all, and I feel like we 1757 01:39:44.119 --> 01:39:47.119 might even make a cult conspiracy episode talking about this event. 1758 01:39:47.640 --> 01:39:49.800 But I just wanted to make a mention of this. No, 1759 01:39:49.840 --> 01:39:52.960 I'm not saying this was alien craft. I'm also not 1760 01:39:52.960 --> 01:39:56.640 not saying it, but it's interesting that there is yet 1761 01:39:56.640 --> 01:40:02.239 another random, crazy, questionable crack near Area fifty one in Nevada. 1762 01:40:02.399 --> 01:40:03.720 So I just thought it would be fun to bring 1763 01:40:03.760 --> 01:40:05.880 that up to kind of break up the the more 1764 01:40:05.920 --> 01:40:09.279 negative conversations that we are having. Now, there is a 1765 01:40:09.399 --> 01:40:12.720 video that has been making its way around the interwebs. 1766 01:40:13.159 --> 01:40:17.279 Hamas gunman are carrying out public executions right now. This 1767 01:40:17.399 --> 01:40:21.039 ties into Hamas carrying out public executions of one hundreds 1768 01:40:21.119 --> 01:40:25.039 of victims last week. But let's talk about it a 1769 01:40:25.079 --> 01:40:28.640 little more in depth, because out loud that sounds wild. 1770 01:40:28.920 --> 01:40:31.520 Let's learn about this. We're gonna listen to Sky News 1771 01:40:31.560 --> 01:40:33.640 Australia just for a few minutes of this, and then 1772 01:40:33.640 --> 01:40:36.039 we're gonna get into some articles breaking down what this 1773 01:40:36.279 --> 01:40:39.680 is and why these executions are taking place. Let's learn together. 1774 01:40:40.560 --> 01:40:44.079 A graphic video has shown Hamas fighters conducting a public 1775 01:40:44.119 --> 01:40:48.840 execution of alleged Israeli collaborators. The footage here shows Hamas 1776 01:40:48.840 --> 01:40:51.600 gunman lining up seven men in a public square and 1777 01:40:51.640 --> 01:40:56.760 shooting them from behind. Hamas confirmed the authenticity of the video. 1778 01:40:57.079 --> 01:40:59.000 The group told Reuters they. 1779 01:40:58.920 --> 01:41:03.079 Will not be tolerated any violations of ordering. Gaza Palestinian 1780 01:41:03.119 --> 01:41:05.760 security sources say dozens of people have been killed and 1781 01:41:05.840 --> 01:41:10.640 clashes between Hamas fighters and rival tribal groups in recent days. 1782 01:41:11.680 --> 01:41:13.880 It depends on what level you want to go down to. 1783 01:41:14.000 --> 01:41:18.399 But you know you've got Hamas and allied groups who are, 1784 01:41:18.520 --> 01:41:22.359 if you like, of an Islamist stamp. You've also got 1785 01:41:22.439 --> 01:41:29.920 non Islamist, hardline Palestinians who reject any accommodation with Israel. 1786 01:41:31.039 --> 01:41:33.479 And then you've got some groups who are not allied 1787 01:41:33.520 --> 01:41:38.560 with Hamas. And then you've got clans and families. In 1788 01:41:38.600 --> 01:41:42.199 many cases those people are against Hamas as well. 1789 01:41:42.640 --> 01:41:44.479 So what you got there is a power vacuum. We've 1790 01:41:44.479 --> 01:41:47.079 seen this before. Joining us live on our Wednesday morning 1791 01:41:47.159 --> 01:41:49.920 is our panel with two men with experience in intelligence 1792 01:41:49.920 --> 01:41:53.600 communities in ca Labor MP Julian here, Liberal MP Philip Thompson. 1793 01:41:53.640 --> 01:41:55.880 Good morning to you both. So, Julian, I'll start with 1794 01:41:55.920 --> 01:41:59.119 you here. How concerned are you about a war if 1795 01:41:59.159 --> 01:41:59.960 you like within. 1796 01:41:59.800 --> 01:42:04.880 A war, war, a war within a war, pain, a. 1797 01:42:04.760 --> 01:42:06.720 War within a war. You've got a war within a 1798 01:42:06.720 --> 01:42:08.119 war if you want me to spell it out. You've 1799 01:42:08.159 --> 01:42:12.920 got a small kind of civil war between these rival 1800 01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:16.880 groups in Gaza, now that small picture, while you've got 1801 01:42:17.079 --> 01:42:20.359 the bigger war which Donald Trump now has conceded. 1802 01:42:20.479 --> 01:42:23.520 Is over happy to comment on that. I thought you're 1803 01:42:23.560 --> 01:42:25.760 talking about the Coalition and the Liberal Party and their 1804 01:42:25.840 --> 01:42:29.600 civil war. Look, that video is disgusting and it reinforces 1805 01:42:29.640 --> 01:42:32.560 the position the government's taken to listen to MASS as 1806 01:42:32.600 --> 01:42:34.960 a terrorist group and make clear that they can have 1807 01:42:35.079 --> 01:42:37.720 no role in the future governance of a Palestinian state. 1808 01:42:39.199 --> 01:42:41.399 Philip, as someone who knows a bit about warfare, what 1809 01:42:41.399 --> 01:42:46.520 do you make of this power vacuum? 1810 01:42:47.159 --> 01:42:51.960 Well, it's quite concerning. And hearing from President Trump earlier 1811 01:42:52.000 --> 01:42:55.640 saying that if a mass doesn't disarm, he'll disarm them, 1812 01:42:56.239 --> 01:42:58.960 it is very concerning to see that there is conflict 1813 01:42:58.960 --> 01:43:02.279 that is bubbled up over again and execution's happening. We 1814 01:43:02.279 --> 01:43:04.039 should be keeping a close eye on it because if 1815 01:43:04.039 --> 01:43:09.720 it isn't controlled, it will explode into militia style conflict 1816 01:43:09.960 --> 01:43:12.640 throughout the regions and something that we don't want to see, 1817 01:43:13.000 --> 01:43:14.279 especially in times of peace. 1818 01:43:14.319 --> 01:43:16.399 Talking yeah, I mean this is what we'd be phasing 1819 01:43:16.439 --> 01:43:19.399 if we went in with peacekeeping troops. John o'duanneam supported 1820 01:43:19.399 --> 01:43:22.640 that yesterday. If we were asked big caveat there, would 1821 01:43:22.640 --> 01:43:25.560 you support that? Phillip peacekeeping troops to Gaza. 1822 01:43:27.840 --> 01:43:28.319 I think it's a. 1823 01:43:28.319 --> 01:43:32.279 Bit early right now to be talking about setting Australians 1824 01:43:32.319 --> 01:43:37.159 as peacekeepers, especially since we're only now seeing the release 1825 01:43:37.199 --> 01:43:40.000 of hostages. Not all of the bodies of the hostages 1826 01:43:40.359 --> 01:43:44.840 have been released. It's still in turmoil and conflict and 1827 01:43:44.840 --> 01:43:47.920 things like that. It will put people in danger. And 1828 01:43:48.319 --> 01:43:50.199 if you're going over to be a peacekeeper, it's not 1829 01:43:50.199 --> 01:43:52.159 supposed to be in a kinetic role. You're not supposed 1830 01:43:52.159 --> 01:43:53.960 to be gunfighting. You're supposed to be there to make 1831 01:43:54.000 --> 01:43:58.560 sure that the peace is stable and happening. With linking 1832 01:43:58.600 --> 01:44:02.000 backs to the NAT, the UN, the US, I don't 1833 01:44:02.039 --> 01:44:05.600 think we're there yet because of these public executions. If 1834 01:44:05.880 --> 01:44:08.439 Australians were there now, it would be a kinetic fight 1835 01:44:08.560 --> 01:44:11.319 and it would draw in every other nation. So I 1836 01:44:11.319 --> 01:44:13.760 think we've got to watch this from a distance, but 1837 01:44:13.800 --> 01:44:16.279 also make sure that we're standing closely with our allies 1838 01:44:16.279 --> 01:44:18.640 in the US and the UK and offer support where 1839 01:44:18.680 --> 01:44:21.520 they think it's needed. But right now we'd been in 1840 01:44:21.520 --> 01:44:22.399 a gunfight. 1841 01:44:22.319 --> 01:44:27.560 How would you feel about peacekeepers, Julian, I mean the 1842 01:44:27.560 --> 01:44:32.000 government would consider any requests for contributions to international efforts 1843 01:44:32.000 --> 01:44:34.720 in the normal way. I'll make one point I've said 1844 01:44:34.760 --> 01:44:37.039 for years, I think on your show, Pete, in forums 1845 01:44:37.079 --> 01:44:41.680 and elsewhere, that my view about this decade's old conflict 1846 01:44:42.119 --> 01:44:44.640 is that it will only end when the world sets 1847 01:44:44.680 --> 01:44:48.319 limits to the conflict and intervenes collectively to guarantee the 1848 01:44:48.359 --> 01:44:51.479 security of the State of Israel and the Palestinian state. 1849 01:44:52.039 --> 01:44:56.640 So, yes, there was public executions. Hamas was doing it 1850 01:44:56.680 --> 01:45:01.960 to Palestinian people. They were saying that these were Israeli 1851 01:45:02.039 --> 01:45:06.479 sympathizers for lack of better words. They had their own 1852 01:45:06.520 --> 01:45:09.359 claims as far as what these people were, and look, 1853 01:45:09.640 --> 01:45:11.600 this is a group that is carrying out their own 1854 01:45:11.760 --> 01:45:15.000 justice on their land. And I get that. But also 1855 01:45:15.159 --> 01:45:17.800 for everybody that thinks that you know, these poor gosins 1856 01:45:18.199 --> 01:45:22.399 were not being repressed or you know, in any way 1857 01:45:22.479 --> 01:45:26.159 by Hamas. It's not a good look. And Hamas even 1858 01:45:26.199 --> 01:45:28.239 came out later and said, no, that was absolutely us. 1859 01:45:28.520 --> 01:45:32.319 We were absolutely doing public executions in the street. Again, 1860 01:45:32.520 --> 01:45:36.039 not a good look. And there is currently a power 1861 01:45:36.119 --> 01:45:39.479 vacuum in Gaza because Hamas was the ruling faction. Yes, 1862 01:45:39.520 --> 01:45:42.720 they had elected leaders, but they were put there by Hamas. Okay, 1863 01:45:43.359 --> 01:45:48.640 now Hamas has lost power quote unquote, and I am 1864 01:45:48.720 --> 01:45:51.880 hoping that they will stay without power in this area. 1865 01:45:52.880 --> 01:45:55.159 We shall see how this plays out. But let's get 1866 01:45:55.159 --> 01:45:58.439 into the BBC article here. Footage shows public executions in 1867 01:45:58.600 --> 01:46:03.119 Gaza city streets. Footage has emerged showing the public executions 1868 01:46:03.119 --> 01:46:06.840 of three men accused of being Israeli collaborators in Gaza City. 1869 01:46:07.560 --> 01:46:10.079 This was published, I should mention on October twenty second. 1870 01:46:10.439 --> 01:46:13.239 This is before the six men that we just saw 1871 01:46:13.600 --> 01:46:17.159 being publicly executed as well, So there is a mass 1872 01:46:17.199 --> 01:46:20.479 of public executions that are going on here. BBC Verify 1873 01:46:20.640 --> 01:46:24.039 has verified wow that the location of the executions was 1874 01:46:24.079 --> 01:46:26.640 on a street outside of Shifa Hospital in the center 1875 01:46:26.680 --> 01:46:29.039 of the city, which is the focus of a major 1876 01:46:29.119 --> 01:46:33.319 Israeli ground offensive. Video circulating on Sunday evening showed at 1877 01:46:33.359 --> 01:46:37.720 least five armed, armed and masked men, three blind, blindfolded 1878 01:46:37.720 --> 01:46:40.199 Palestinian men kneeling on the ground, and a large crowd. 1879 01:46:40.560 --> 01:46:42.920 One of the armed men is heard saying the death 1880 01:46:42.960 --> 01:46:46.199 sentence has been decided for all collaborators. There are cheers 1881 01:46:46.199 --> 01:46:47.920 before the three men are pushed to the ground and 1882 01:46:47.960 --> 01:46:49.720 shot several times in the back of the head. The 1883 01:46:49.720 --> 01:46:54.600 crowd then praises Hamas armed wing the Casam brigades. The 1884 01:46:54.640 --> 01:46:58.640 Palaestinian security official from the Hamas run Gaza government told 1885 01:46:58.680 --> 01:47:01.560 Reuters that the execution were carried out by the Joint 1886 01:47:01.640 --> 01:47:06.039 Operations Room of Palestinian Resistance. This is a rare instance 1887 01:47:06.079 --> 01:47:08.600 in which a public execution in Gaza has been captured 1888 01:47:08.640 --> 01:47:11.359 on video. There have been previous reports of Hamas using 1889 01:47:11.439 --> 01:47:14.640 violence on those who dissent. In May, Hamas led groups 1890 01:47:14.640 --> 01:47:19.199 are poorly executed four Palestinians for looting aid trucks Okay. 1891 01:47:19.279 --> 01:47:23.439 In Sunday's footage, one armed man singles out Yasir Abu 1892 01:47:23.560 --> 01:47:27.439 Shabab as a major collaborator who they seek to kill. 1893 01:47:27.680 --> 01:47:31.359 Abu Shabab is a major figurehead of a clan which 1894 01:47:31.399 --> 01:47:34.159 has reportedly been armed by the Israeli government. It has 1895 01:47:34.199 --> 01:47:38.079 been operating in Rafa, in an area under Israeli military control. 1896 01:47:38.319 --> 01:47:42.079 The group has presented itself as an opposition forced to Hamas. 1897 01:47:42.560 --> 01:47:47.399 So again, depending on what narrative you'll get, Gaza is 1898 01:47:47.520 --> 01:47:51.359 only just anti Israel, and there's nobody in Gaza that 1899 01:47:51.439 --> 01:47:55.920 does not like Hamas. That is certifiably not true. I mean, 1900 01:47:55.920 --> 01:48:00.880 that's it's the wherever you go, there's gonna be leading faction, 1901 01:48:01.000 --> 01:48:03.279 there's gonna be people that do not like that leading faction. 1902 01:48:03.479 --> 01:48:07.359 So the media has skewed and spun a lot of 1903 01:48:07.399 --> 01:48:09.960 this narrative as far as Gaza is concerned, some of 1904 01:48:10.000 --> 01:48:14.119 it some of it very purposely done to make Hamas 1905 01:48:14.199 --> 01:48:18.119 look like victims and all this, and it's crazy to me. 1906 01:48:18.279 --> 01:48:21.000 The victims of this entire conflict have been the civilian 1907 01:48:21.039 --> 01:48:25.479 population in the Gaza strip. Hamas have been the bad guys. 1908 01:48:25.720 --> 01:48:28.800 The IDF have been the bad guys. The civilian population 1909 01:48:28.880 --> 01:48:31.479 who wanted none of this smoke are the only ones 1910 01:48:31.520 --> 01:48:34.119 that have really suffered. I'm gonna just call it now, 1911 01:48:34.159 --> 01:48:38.479 but anyway, in July, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu confirmed that 1912 01:48:38.560 --> 01:48:41.079 Israel was arming clans in Gaza that he said were 1913 01:48:41.079 --> 01:48:45.079 opposed to Hamas. However, Yaser Abu Shabab posted online to 1914 01:48:45.199 --> 01:48:50.119 categorically reject that Israel had supplied his group's weapons. Okay, 1915 01:48:50.159 --> 01:48:52.279 so Hamas just doesn't like this guy and his claiming 1916 01:48:52.319 --> 01:48:55.479 that he is Israeli aligned whenever he himself said that's 1917 01:48:55.520 --> 01:48:58.680 not true. That same month, a senior officer in Hamas's 1918 01:48:58.680 --> 01:49:01.399 security forces told the bb SEE that the Palestinian Armed 1919 01:49:01.399 --> 01:49:03.600 Group had lost much of its control over the Gaza 1920 01:49:03.600 --> 01:49:07.159 Strip and that armed clans were filling the void. Aboushabab's 1921 01:49:07.279 --> 01:49:10.720 armed group has been advertising for recruits on social media, 1922 01:49:11.079 --> 01:49:14.800 was reported. The news agency quoted residents and sources close 1923 01:49:14.840 --> 01:49:17.600 to Hamas As saying that other groups opposed to Hamas 1924 01:49:17.760 --> 01:49:20.600 had also emerged in parts of northern Gaza and near 1925 01:49:20.720 --> 01:49:25.079 Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. Israeli troops, meanwhile, have continued 1926 01:49:25.119 --> 01:49:28.319 to operate in Gaza City. The Israeli military said troops 1927 01:49:28.319 --> 01:49:32.239 had dismantled military infrastructure used by Hamas and killed a 1928 01:49:32.319 --> 01:49:35.560 Hamas cell that had attacked Israeli soldiers, wounding an officer. 1929 01:49:36.159 --> 01:49:38.960 It is said that its objectives are to free the 1930 01:49:38.960 --> 01:49:42.000 hostages still held by Hamas and defeat up to three 1931 01:49:42.039 --> 01:49:45.079 thousand fighters in what it has described as the group's 1932 01:49:45.159 --> 01:49:49.000 main stronghold. However, the offensive in Gaza's biggest urban area, 1933 01:49:49.199 --> 01:49:51.600 where one million people were living and a famine was 1934 01:49:51.640 --> 01:49:56.720 confirmed last month, has drawn widespread international condemnation. Last week, 1935 01:49:56.720 --> 01:49:59.600 a spokesperson for the UN's Humanitarian Office said she had 1936 01:49:59.640 --> 01:50:03.199 seen a constant stream of Palestinians heading south during a 1937 01:50:03.239 --> 01:50:06.159 recent visit to the city, but that hundreds of thousands 1938 01:50:06.199 --> 01:50:10.359 remained in the city. She described the situation as cataclysmic. 1939 01:50:10.680 --> 01:50:13.720 The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza to response 1940 01:50:13.800 --> 01:50:18.000 to the Israelis attack on southern Israel on October seventh, 1941 01:50:18.000 --> 01:50:21.319 twenty twenty three, in which about twelve hundred people were 1942 01:50:21.399 --> 01:50:23.800 killed and two hundred and fifty one were taken hostage. 1943 01:50:24.039 --> 01:50:27.279 At least sixty five thousand, three hundred and forty four 1944 01:50:27.279 --> 01:50:30.000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks and Gaza since then, 1945 01:50:30.039 --> 01:50:35.239 according to the territories Hamas run health Ministry. Now, all 1946 01:50:35.359 --> 01:50:39.039 of that being said, as of this moment, HAMAS says 1947 01:50:39.079 --> 01:50:42.720 that it has returned all Israeli hostages that it can recover, 1948 01:50:42.920 --> 01:50:46.359 living and dead. This was posted five hours ago. Let's 1949 01:50:46.359 --> 01:50:48.880 listen in This is from CBS News. 1950 01:50:48.640 --> 01:50:51.560 And Hamas says it has returned all of the Israeli 1951 01:50:51.600 --> 01:50:55.439 hostages that it is able to recover, living and dead. 1952 01:50:55.720 --> 01:50:58.319 That would mean the remains of nearly two dozen people 1953 01:50:58.439 --> 01:51:03.199 kidnapped on October seventh, twenty twenty three, they never come home. 1954 01:51:03.720 --> 01:51:07.479 Barbara Plutt, Usher with our partners at BBC News, has. 1955 01:51:07.359 --> 01:51:11.560 More a dispute over the remains of the dead hostages 1956 01:51:12.119 --> 01:51:14.800 is shaking up the ceasefire here. Israel had said that 1957 01:51:14.840 --> 01:51:18.439 Hamas wasn't handing over enough bodies fast enough, and it 1958 01:51:18.520 --> 01:51:21.680 threatened to restrict the flow of aid into Gaza. Hamas 1959 01:51:21.760 --> 01:51:26.079 responded by handing over a few more, including two of 1960 01:51:26.119 --> 01:51:28.680 them on Wednesday night. But now it's saying that's all 1961 01:51:28.680 --> 01:51:31.079 it can do for now. It says it's committed to 1962 01:51:31.119 --> 01:51:34.199 the ceasefire deal, but locating and recovering the rest of 1963 01:51:34.199 --> 01:51:36.239 the bodies is going to be a major effort and 1964 01:51:36.279 --> 01:51:40.319 will require special equipment. Now, it was understood that finding 1965 01:51:40.399 --> 01:51:43.359 some of the bodies would be quite difficult because of 1966 01:51:43.399 --> 01:51:47.199 the ruins and rubble of Gaza. But Hamas has only 1967 01:51:47.239 --> 01:51:50.960 handed over nine. There are still nineteen left and in Gaza, 1968 01:51:51.000 --> 01:51:54.479 Palestinians are worried that any further delays will cut off 1969 01:51:54.520 --> 01:51:57.359 the flow of aid. They have been stockpiling what food 1970 01:51:57.399 --> 01:52:00.399 there is and the prices have really been rising. Under 1971 01:52:00.399 --> 01:52:03.479 the deal, Israel is also supposed to hand back the 1972 01:52:03.479 --> 01:52:06.800 bodies of Palestinian prisoners. So far it has returned ninety, 1973 01:52:07.399 --> 01:52:10.680 but the hospital is struggling to identify some of them 1974 01:52:10.720 --> 01:52:13.600 because they came with numbers, not names, and the doctor 1975 01:52:13.640 --> 01:52:16.520 in charge says that some of them are unrecognizable. 1976 01:52:17.000 --> 01:52:20.319 Back to you, Barbara Flett Usher, thank you. 1977 01:52:21.800 --> 01:52:25.199 So we shall see what happens with this. Is this 1978 01:52:25.319 --> 01:52:27.960 going to be the thing that makes the conflict kick 1979 01:52:28.039 --> 01:52:31.239 back off because they're not returning all the bodies? Are 1980 01:52:31.239 --> 01:52:32.800 they going to find some other thing to keep the 1981 01:52:34.000 --> 01:52:37.199 flames of this conflict alive? And well? Are they going 1982 01:52:37.239 --> 01:52:40.399 to let cooler heads prevail finally and let the ceasefire continue? 1983 01:52:41.119 --> 01:52:45.680 I don't know. I don't know, Tony. You have a 1984 01:52:45.680 --> 01:52:48.479 couple of different opinions on this. I'm sure what is 1985 01:52:48.520 --> 01:52:49.319 your take on this? 1986 01:52:51.760 --> 01:52:55.800 Sorry, I was still stuck back in the Gaza situation. 1987 01:52:56.359 --> 01:52:58.960 I saw a lot of people actually saying, oh yeah, 1988 01:52:59.159 --> 01:53:01.439 Hamas was totally right to execute those people, and I 1989 01:53:01.479 --> 01:53:04.840 didn't look into it a huge amount. They blamed them 1990 01:53:04.880 --> 01:53:08.079 for price gouging, which is something that I don't believe 1991 01:53:08.119 --> 01:53:11.760 is wrong in the first place, and collaborating with Israel, 1992 01:53:12.079 --> 01:53:14.920 which may be true but also may not be true. 1993 01:53:15.199 --> 01:53:18.319 There's an enormous amount of pressure on the people who 1994 01:53:18.359 --> 01:53:23.279 lived there. And also I think they're very PTSD. There's 1995 01:53:23.279 --> 01:53:26.600 a lot of PTSD in Gaza, so they are going 1996 01:53:26.680 --> 01:53:28.880 to be less inhibited in killing each other now than 1997 01:53:28.880 --> 01:53:32.159 they would have been otherwise because they've seen so much 1998 01:53:32.239 --> 01:53:36.199 death and this is just kind of something they're inured 1999 01:53:36.319 --> 01:53:38.319 to now, if that's the right word. They're kind of 2000 01:53:38.359 --> 01:53:43.560 numb to it. But you're asking about the Taliban and Pakistan. 2001 01:53:43.640 --> 01:53:45.439 No, no, no, I was asking about Gaza. I was 2002 01:53:45.479 --> 01:53:48.000 asking you what your take was on Gaza. But we're 2003 01:53:48.079 --> 01:53:50.680 going to get to Afghanistan and Pakistan here in a moment. 2004 01:53:50.760 --> 01:53:52.479 But before we get there, I did want to check 2005 01:53:52.479 --> 01:53:53.760 out the chat and I did want to hear in 2006 01:53:53.800 --> 01:53:56.680 from any of you that have any opinions on what 2007 01:53:56.720 --> 01:53:59.359 we have covered thus far. And I know that you 2008 01:53:59.560 --> 01:54:01.600 Tony or somebody that keeps your finger on the pulse 2009 01:54:01.760 --> 01:54:04.800 for geopolitical things. So I was wondering what your take 2010 01:54:04.960 --> 01:54:07.560 was on the Hamas. I don't want to use the 2011 01:54:07.640 --> 01:54:10.720 term death squad because I feel like that's not exactly accurate, 2012 01:54:11.119 --> 01:54:15.119 but them seeking their own specific brand of justice for 2013 01:54:15.239 --> 01:54:18.800 Israeli collaborators, and I also could get that point right, 2014 01:54:18.840 --> 01:54:22.279 So like, if these people are aligning themselves with Hamasa's enemy, 2015 01:54:23.039 --> 01:54:27.760 executions are to be expected. But I'm also wondering if 2016 01:54:27.840 --> 01:54:30.279 that is going to be used as more provocation to 2017 01:54:30.359 --> 01:54:34.439 keep the conflict going even further aligned. Aside from the 2018 01:54:34.479 --> 01:54:37.680 bodies not being recovered and returned to Israel and all that, 2019 01:54:38.359 --> 01:54:40.560 the public executions are not a good look as far 2020 01:54:40.600 --> 01:54:43.439 as showing that they nobody wants Amasa to continue to 2021 01:54:43.479 --> 01:54:46.840 be the reigning power in Gaza. But this shows that 2022 01:54:46.880 --> 01:54:50.079 they still have power in Gaza. So do you think 2023 01:54:50.119 --> 01:54:52.920 that that might also play into Israel showing even more 2024 01:54:52.920 --> 01:54:55.239 of a military presence in this area going forward. 2025 01:54:56.560 --> 01:55:01.319 Well, I bet I bet that half the population of 2026 01:55:01.399 --> 01:55:04.560 Gaza still will want Hamas in power. It's gonna be 2027 01:55:04.560 --> 01:55:08.479 hard to tell. But like the North Korea, I believe 2028 01:55:08.520 --> 01:55:12.399 that Kim Jong un is legitimately popular there. And even 2029 01:55:12.399 --> 01:55:14.239 if you didn't put a gun to people's heads, they 2030 01:55:14.239 --> 01:55:16.920 would still say, oh, yeah, he's our guy. He's the 2031 01:55:16.960 --> 01:55:20.439 only guy they can imagine as his leader. And it's 2032 01:55:20.479 --> 01:55:24.079 probably similar with Hamas. Another thought that pops into my 2033 01:55:24.119 --> 01:55:26.359 mind is there are a lot of executions at the 2034 01:55:26.439 --> 01:55:29.520 end of World War Two by the Allied side and 2035 01:55:29.960 --> 01:55:32.560 the Axis side when they could do it too, right 2036 01:55:32.560 --> 01:55:36.479 before they lost power. It's kind of sad that that's 2037 01:55:36.560 --> 01:55:40.960 just how people, the behavior people drift into when there's 2038 01:55:41.000 --> 01:55:44.439 a lot of death around, they must feel like it's 2039 01:55:44.439 --> 01:55:47.000 going to solve problems. And I think it's kind of 2040 01:55:47.039 --> 01:55:49.720 ironic that the Europeans, at least my whole life, have 2041 01:55:49.800 --> 01:55:52.199 been very anti death penalty and they really look down 2042 01:55:52.199 --> 01:55:58.640 on Americans for it. But just in living memory, it's 2043 01:55:58.640 --> 01:56:01.319 fading now, But at the end of the World War 2044 01:56:01.359 --> 01:56:04.079 Two they were still executing people with guillotines. 2045 01:56:04.800 --> 01:56:07.560 The French last guillotine death happened in like the seventies. 2046 01:56:07.800 --> 01:56:10.159 Death penalty until nineteen seventy. 2047 01:56:09.760 --> 01:56:11.199 Seven, yeah, seventy seven. 2048 01:56:11.239 --> 01:56:15.359 In fact, Japan still exercises the death penalty. Yeah, I 2049 01:56:15.359 --> 01:56:17.880 mean they haven't. I think Japan had a moratorium on 2050 01:56:17.960 --> 01:56:20.399 it in like twenty eighteen way more recently than you 2051 01:56:20.439 --> 01:56:22.760 would have expected, and it's still on the books over there. 2052 01:56:22.800 --> 01:56:27.680 But and China still does it. But yeah, yeah, Gaza 2053 01:56:27.720 --> 01:56:31.840 having the death penalty, maybe it shocks Western Europeans, but 2054 01:56:31.960 --> 01:56:33.800 it really shouldn't shock most people. 2055 01:56:33.560 --> 01:56:35.439 In Yeah, I would agree with that. 2056 01:56:35.520 --> 01:56:36.840 Doesn't Reel have the death penalty. 2057 01:56:37.720 --> 01:56:39.840 I don't know if they do. I believe they do, 2058 01:56:39.920 --> 01:56:42.359 but I think it has to be. It can't just 2059 01:56:42.399 --> 01:56:44.840 be for like, you know, a string of bank robberies 2060 01:56:44.920 --> 01:56:48.199 or anything like that. It has to be basically an 2061 01:56:48.239 --> 01:56:52.680 attack on Israel itself. Yeah, they I could. I don't. 2062 01:56:53.199 --> 01:56:55.279 I can't even imagine them not having the death pane, 2063 01:56:55.319 --> 01:56:57.359 to be completely honest with you. With net and Yahoo 2064 01:56:57.359 --> 01:57:01.000 in charge, there's no way. There's no way. But I 2065 01:57:01.079 --> 01:57:05.960 don't know. But yeah, so I'm with you. I'm not 2066 01:57:06.079 --> 01:57:11.199 against people getting their justice by any means. Of course, 2067 01:57:11.239 --> 01:57:13.600 I'm not pro Hamas here, and I don't think that 2068 01:57:13.640 --> 01:57:16.079 Hamas is like the good guys in executing these people. 2069 01:57:16.159 --> 01:57:18.199 But I understand that I also have my own biases 2070 01:57:18.199 --> 01:57:20.760 as far as that's concerned. It's not the executions that 2071 01:57:20.840 --> 01:57:24.159 have a problem with Yeah, I think I am against 2072 01:57:24.159 --> 01:57:27.039 the death penalty, just in principle, I could go either 2073 01:57:27.119 --> 01:57:27.560 ray on it. 2074 01:57:27.840 --> 01:57:31.600 I'm not super strongly opinionated on it. The people who 2075 01:57:31.640 --> 01:57:34.880 say that, well, you're not pro life unless you're also 2076 01:57:34.920 --> 01:57:36.720 against the death penalty, I think that's. 2077 01:57:38.439 --> 01:57:38.680 Yeah. 2078 01:57:38.760 --> 01:57:40.920 There's way more important issues out there than the death 2079 01:57:40.960 --> 01:57:46.199 penalty ward peace and abortion, and there's a whole host 2080 01:57:46.199 --> 01:57:48.279 of other issues. How many people die of the death 2081 01:57:48.319 --> 01:57:52.520 penalty every year worldwide? Maybe a few dozen or hundred, right, 2082 01:57:52.520 --> 01:57:55.119 and they mostly deserve it, right, you know, I'm not 2083 01:57:55.159 --> 01:57:56.560 going to cry too hard about them. 2084 01:57:56.920 --> 01:57:59.439 No, I agree with you one hundred percent. But I 2085 01:57:59.479 --> 01:58:01.600 am curious how that's gonna shake out. As far as 2086 01:58:01.600 --> 01:58:05.920 the Israel Gaza conflict is concerned, I don't know for 2087 01:58:05.960 --> 01:58:07.600 a fact that Israel is going to use that as 2088 01:58:07.720 --> 01:58:12.560 justification to continue pushing further in with a military presence. 2089 01:58:13.279 --> 01:58:16.199 I don't know if they're gonna use the issue with 2090 01:58:16.279 --> 01:58:21.439 the recovering of bodies of captives as provocation either. I'm 2091 01:58:21.479 --> 01:58:24.319 hoping that cooler heads can prevail and that this whole 2092 01:58:24.520 --> 01:58:27.880 situation can be put to rest in whatever the hell 2093 01:58:27.960 --> 01:58:32.399 that looks like moving forward. But I also don't believe 2094 01:58:32.439 --> 01:58:37.760 that net Yahoo is satisfied. So I wouldn't be surprised 2095 01:58:37.760 --> 01:58:40.640 if he looks for any and all reasons as provocation 2096 01:58:40.720 --> 01:58:44.279 to continue to push. But we shall see, we shall 2097 01:58:44.319 --> 01:58:46.319 see how things shake out. And to all the people 2098 01:58:46.319 --> 01:58:48.600 listening to the Cajun Night, I know there's thousands of 2099 01:58:48.600 --> 01:58:50.239 you listening. As a matter of fact, I look at 2100 01:58:50.239 --> 01:58:52.880 the analytics. I know what's happening. You would need to 2101 01:58:52.920 --> 01:58:54.800 be a part of this conversation. Go to link in 2102 01:58:54.840 --> 01:58:56.960 the description below and join us at Cajun Night on 2103 01:58:57.039 --> 01:58:59.399 Patreon to join us every Wednesday night to let us 2104 01:58:59.600 --> 01:59:03.199 hear what you think about the conversation. But moving forward, 2105 01:59:03.319 --> 01:59:08.359 let's talk about Afghanistan and Pakistan. All right. So both 2106 01:59:08.399 --> 01:59:09.960 the articles I have pulled up from this are from 2107 01:59:10.000 --> 01:59:13.239 Al Jazeera. Yes, I understand they have their biases as 2108 01:59:13.239 --> 01:59:17.279 far as things are concerned, But that being said, I 2109 01:59:17.319 --> 01:59:20.000 think it's worth listening. So real quick, we got a 2110 01:59:20.039 --> 01:59:22.279 four minute video that we're going to play here. This 2111 01:59:22.399 --> 01:59:25.039 article doesn't do a really great job all the way down, 2112 01:59:25.119 --> 01:59:26.520 is more like a blog post. I do have an 2113 01:59:26.560 --> 01:59:28.159 article that we're going to talk about here in a moment, 2114 01:59:28.239 --> 01:59:31.119 but right now, let's hear from this video here. It's 2115 01:59:31.159 --> 01:59:33.960 a four minute long video describing what is going down 2116 01:59:34.199 --> 01:59:34.720 right now. 2117 01:59:35.359 --> 01:59:41.119 Taliban and Pakistani forces have traded five across the Afghan border, 2118 01:59:41.119 --> 01:59:45.479 with Taliban officials saying their forces captured three Pakistani military outposts. 2119 01:59:45.840 --> 01:59:49.199 Taliban said the attack represents a retaliation for what it 2120 01:59:49.279 --> 01:59:52.760 calls a violation of its sovereignty on Thursday with air 2121 01:59:52.800 --> 01:59:56.119 strikes on the capital Kabul. Pakistan has long accused of 2122 01:59:56.119 --> 01:59:59.119 Askanisan of harboring armed groups that carry out attacks inside 2123 01:59:59.159 --> 02:00:03.960 its territory. Islamabad also said its forces destroyed Taliban outposts. 2124 02:00:04.159 --> 02:00:08.239 Afghanistan's foreign ministers said on Friday relations with his country 2125 02:00:08.319 --> 02:00:10.720 must go through proper diplomatic channels. 2126 02:00:11.520 --> 02:00:15.039 Afghanistani, could you be no foreign military has ever been 2127 02:00:15.079 --> 02:00:18.000 accepted by the people of Afghanistan and they still don't 2128 02:00:18.039 --> 02:00:20.880 accept it. This is our decision that Afghanistan is a 2129 02:00:20.920 --> 02:00:24.159 free and independent country and after this it will remain 2130 02:00:24.239 --> 02:00:27.520 free and independent. If countries want to have relations with us, 2131 02:00:27.880 --> 02:00:30.800 they can come to the diplomatic mission, but we don't 2132 02:00:30.840 --> 02:00:33.159 accept them in military uniform. 2133 02:00:33.920 --> 02:00:36.560 Kamal Haida joins US live now from Islamabid with the 2134 02:00:36.640 --> 02:00:39.439 latest on this developing story. Come on what is actually 2135 02:00:39.439 --> 02:00:40.079 going on here? 2136 02:00:45.159 --> 02:00:48.439 Well, First of all, It's important to note that there's 2137 02:00:48.479 --> 02:00:50.680 a little bit of a background here, and that is 2138 02:00:50.840 --> 02:00:55.600 the fact that Pakistan had repeatedly, as you mentioned, told 2139 02:00:55.640 --> 02:00:59.399 the Afghan side that they must restrain and prevent the 2140 02:00:59.680 --> 02:01:04.039 grot bordered attacks because under the Dohai Agreement, the Afgran 2141 02:01:04.119 --> 02:01:07.680 Taliban had assured that their soil would not be used 2142 02:01:08.079 --> 02:01:13.039 in attacks on any country. So importantly, the Pakistanis told 2143 02:01:13.079 --> 02:01:17.640 the Avrans that they must do something on several occasions. However, 2144 02:01:18.279 --> 02:01:20.600 they did not get a firm reply, and in the 2145 02:01:20.680 --> 02:01:25.119 past week, Pakistan lost almost two dozen of its security 2146 02:01:25.159 --> 02:01:29.560 forces personnel, including officers, in attacks carried out near the 2147 02:01:29.600 --> 02:01:33.920 Afgran border. Pakistan had said that it would retaliate and 2148 02:01:34.000 --> 02:01:38.680 take massage into its own hand after those reports of 2149 02:01:38.920 --> 02:01:42.960 air incursions into Afghan airspace. The Taliban said that they 2150 02:01:43.000 --> 02:01:47.720 were launching a reprisal attack, after which the Pakistanis retaliated 2151 02:01:48.000 --> 02:01:51.760 with heavy artillery fire as well. They're claiming that they 2152 02:01:51.800 --> 02:01:56.479 have taken over nineteen posts from the Avrans on that 2153 02:01:56.640 --> 02:01:59.560 border area. And also the fact that this comes at 2154 02:01:59.600 --> 02:02:04.760 a time when the Afghan foreign Minister Mutaki is in Delhi, 2155 02:02:05.079 --> 02:02:10.319 which Pakistan viewed with suspicion because of its deteriorating relationship 2156 02:02:10.359 --> 02:02:15.000 with India. Pakistan continues to maintain that these ttp fighters 2157 02:02:15.359 --> 02:02:18.479 are directly getting support from the Indian intelligence. 2158 02:02:19.720 --> 02:02:23.600 Come on, the Taliban and Pakistan have had quite close 2159 02:02:23.640 --> 02:02:24.800 ties though in the past. 2160 02:02:29.840 --> 02:02:34.920 Indeed, it is alarming because over the past, after this 2161 02:02:35.000 --> 02:02:39.920 new government took over, and we're talking about Taliban one 2162 02:02:39.960 --> 02:02:42.720 point oh and this is Taliban two point oh, it 2163 02:02:42.760 --> 02:02:47.039 has changed a lot. There are restrictions inside Afghanistan on 2164 02:02:47.119 --> 02:02:52.319 women's education, women's rights, and of course the fact that Afghanistan, 2165 02:02:52.399 --> 02:02:55.680 according to Pakistan, has not been able to live up 2166 02:02:55.720 --> 02:03:00.279 to its promises of preventing their territory being you their 2167 02:03:00.359 --> 02:03:04.640 sanctuaries for carrying out the attacks against Pakistan, so that 2168 02:03:04.880 --> 02:03:08.800 relationship has now starved. Pakistan says that it does not 2169 02:03:08.960 --> 02:03:12.840 take kindly to this new growing nexus between New Delhi 2170 02:03:12.880 --> 02:03:16.079 and Kabbal and of course, Pakistan said that it will 2171 02:03:16.119 --> 02:03:19.880 retaliate in kind whenever provoked. This is of course a 2172 02:03:20.000 --> 02:03:25.079 dangerous crisis because both countries have economic issues, both countries 2173 02:03:25.119 --> 02:03:28.439 have a history of friendship and brotherhood, and of course 2174 02:03:28.479 --> 02:03:33.079 friendly countries are now asking Pakistan and Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia 2175 02:03:33.239 --> 02:03:37.159 Cutter even the Iranian foreign minister saying that both sides 2176 02:03:37.680 --> 02:03:42.359 must exercise maximum restraint and try to solve this diplomatically. 2177 02:03:43.760 --> 02:03:45.600 Come on, thank you very much. Come on, hid there 2178 02:03:45.800 --> 02:03:48.680 in all right? So let's read in a little bit 2179 02:03:48.800 --> 02:03:55.079 here updates. Afghanistan's Taliban and Pakistan say border clashes killed dozens. 2180 02:03:56.079 --> 02:03:58.000 Some of the keynotes that we need to talk about 2181 02:03:58.000 --> 02:04:01.399 what happened today as we closed the live page soon. 2182 02:04:01.479 --> 02:04:04.520 Pakistan's military says it has killed more than two hundred 2183 02:04:04.520 --> 02:04:08.359 Taliban and other fighters in an overnight border clash, adding 2184 02:04:08.520 --> 02:04:10.800 that twenty three of its soldiers were killed and twenty 2185 02:04:10.840 --> 02:04:14.399 were injured. It added that its forces carried out infrastructure 2186 02:04:14.439 --> 02:04:19.199 damages to Taliban posts, camps, headquarters and support networks. Afghanistan 2187 02:04:19.279 --> 02:04:22.239 claims it killed fifty eight Pakistani soldiers in the fighting. 2188 02:04:22.720 --> 02:04:27.560 Afghani Foreign Minister Amir Khan Matiki says Kabul achieved our 2189 02:04:27.600 --> 02:04:30.800 military objectives last night and that its military has paused 2190 02:04:30.840 --> 02:04:34.199 the fighting from our side for the time being. Katar 2191 02:04:34.279 --> 02:04:37.279 and Saudi Arabia have expressed deep concern over the recent 2192 02:04:37.720 --> 02:04:41.399 escalation and tensions along the border, calling for restraint and 2193 02:04:41.479 --> 02:04:45.079 the need to be to de escalate Iran said it 2194 02:04:45.159 --> 02:04:48.319 was ready to assist in easing tensions between the two countries. 2195 02:04:48.439 --> 02:04:51.560 Of course, Iran is there to hease the tension because 2196 02:04:51.560 --> 02:04:53.880 they don't have any anything they need to be more 2197 02:04:53.920 --> 02:04:57.279 pressed with anyway. So real quick, here is a map 2198 02:04:57.359 --> 02:05:02.279 of the situation along the Afghani and Pakistani borders showing 2199 02:05:02.279 --> 02:05:04.760 some of the conflicts that have taken place. And again, 2200 02:05:04.800 --> 02:05:06.800 we're not gonna spend too much time into this article 2201 02:05:06.800 --> 02:05:08.560 because it seems like it's more of a blog post 2202 02:05:08.560 --> 02:05:11.039 than an article, but we do have another Al Jazer 2203 02:05:11.239 --> 02:05:13.960 article pulled up talking about it. So it says that 2204 02:05:14.000 --> 02:05:17.720 it claimed dozens of casualties in the border clashes. Let's 2205 02:05:17.720 --> 02:05:20.239 get into it here. Pakistan's military says it killed more 2206 02:05:20.239 --> 02:05:23.800 than two hundred Afghan Afghan fighters, while Afghanistan claimed it 2207 02:05:23.880 --> 02:05:27.039 killed fifty eight Pakistani soldiers in cross border clashes along 2208 02:05:27.079 --> 02:05:31.800 their frontier. A spokesperson for Afghanistan's Taliban government on Sunday 2209 02:05:31.880 --> 02:05:35.000 said thirty other Pakistani soldiers were wounded and a significant 2210 02:05:35.039 --> 02:05:39.319 amount of Pakistani weapons fell into Afghan hands. Now, the 2211 02:05:39.359 --> 02:05:44.199 Taliban blames Pakistan after an explosion or explosions in Kabul 2212 02:05:44.600 --> 02:05:48.840 amid outreach to India. Pakistani raids near Afghan border killed 2213 02:05:48.840 --> 02:05:52.000 at least nineteen soldiers and thirty five fighters. Now, how 2214 02:05:52.119 --> 02:05:55.199 Pakistan misread the Taliban and lost peace on the frontier, 2215 02:05:55.199 --> 02:05:58.000 We're going to talk about that, and India to reopen 2216 02:05:58.079 --> 02:06:01.560 its embassy in Kabul after four year hiatus amid new 2217 02:06:01.600 --> 02:06:06.119 Taliban ties. Now, I find that also very interesting that 2218 02:06:06.199 --> 02:06:10.600 Pakistan twice this year has been involved in border clashes 2219 02:06:10.640 --> 02:06:13.439 with its neighbors. Just a few months ago, we were 2220 02:06:13.479 --> 02:06:17.079 talking about the Pakistan India conflict that was going on. 2221 02:06:17.159 --> 02:06:19.319 They basically lobbed some rockets at each other, They killed 2222 02:06:19.359 --> 02:06:21.520 a couple of people on each side, and they decided 2223 02:06:21.520 --> 02:06:23.760 that they were gonna cal them down with it. Now 2224 02:06:23.880 --> 02:06:28.319 Pakistan and Afghanistan are getting after it literally just to 2225 02:06:28.359 --> 02:06:31.640 the other side of their country. Pakistan is just becoming 2226 02:06:31.680 --> 02:06:34.319 a whole warring nation over there, isn't it? Now? Is 2227 02:06:34.359 --> 02:06:36.880 it their fault? Are they just responding to things that 2228 02:06:36.880 --> 02:06:40.279 are happening to them, you'd be the judge. But also 2229 02:06:40.479 --> 02:06:43.239 in the back burner of this, I find it interesting 2230 02:06:43.319 --> 02:06:47.560 because China has influence in this area. They have a 2231 02:06:47.640 --> 02:06:51.199 massive influence in India, they have a massive influence in 2232 02:06:51.239 --> 02:06:55.680 Pakistan and a massive influence in Afghanistan because of their 2233 02:06:55.680 --> 02:06:59.479 Belt and Road initiative. So with all this going on, 2234 02:07:00.520 --> 02:07:02.640 just being a little bit of a conspiracy theorist here, 2235 02:07:03.319 --> 02:07:07.159 I'm wondering if this is being orchestrated. I don't know 2236 02:07:07.199 --> 02:07:09.359 that for a fact, but we'll see how it all 2237 02:07:09.359 --> 02:07:14.800 shakes out anyway. Mujahid challenged the Pakistani reports, adding that 2238 02:07:15.439 --> 02:07:18.720 nine Taliban soldiers were killed in overnight operations and nearly 2239 02:07:18.760 --> 02:07:22.399 a dozen others were injured. Pakistan's military, on the other hand, 2240 02:07:22.399 --> 02:07:25.600 said twenty three of its brave sons quote unquote were 2241 02:07:25.680 --> 02:07:28.439 killed in the clashes, and officials said they closed their 2242 02:07:28.479 --> 02:07:33.640 borders with Afghanistan. Border hostilities erupted after Thursday's explosions in Afghanistan, 2243 02:07:33.680 --> 02:07:38.439 which the Taliban blamed on Pakistan, representing the sharpest escalation 2244 02:07:38.520 --> 02:07:42.960 in months of strained relations over Islamabad's allegations that Afghanistan 2245 02:07:43.039 --> 02:07:48.840 is harboring armed groups behind attacks inside Pakistan. Earlier on Sunday, 2246 02:07:48.880 --> 02:07:51.760 Taliban said it captured three Pakistani border posts during its 2247 02:07:51.880 --> 02:07:55.920 retaliatory attacks at several points along the border in Kunar 2248 02:07:56.039 --> 02:08:00.840 and Hellman provinces. Oh wow, Yeah, I'm not going to 2249 02:08:00.880 --> 02:08:03.119 try to pronounce that name. The spokesperson for the Afghan 2250 02:08:03.159 --> 02:08:06.600 Ministry Defense said late on Saturday that the Taliban forces 2251 02:08:06.600 --> 02:08:10.359 that carried out successful retaliatory attacks against Pakistani soldiers in 2252 02:08:10.399 --> 02:08:14.720 response to the neighboring country's repeated violations of and airstrikes 2253 02:08:14.760 --> 02:08:18.880 on Afghan territory. The Pakistani state media on Sunday said 2254 02:08:19.000 --> 02:08:24.800 its forces seized nineteen Afghan border posts, citing security sources 2255 02:08:24.920 --> 02:08:27.920 who said Afghan Taliban fighters at the post were either 2256 02:08:28.000 --> 02:08:33.039 killed or fled. A video broadcasted by Pakistani television showed 2257 02:08:33.079 --> 02:08:37.720 Afghan posts in flames Taliban soldiers allegedly surim during in Kuram. 2258 02:08:38.640 --> 02:08:43.399 Radio Pakistan, citing security sources, said Pakistani forces completely destroyed 2259 02:08:43.399 --> 02:08:51.560 the Taliban's Monajba Camp, Battalion headquarters, Jendusar Post, Turkmenzai Camp 2260 02:08:51.920 --> 02:08:56.920 and kur Kharchar Fort. I am sorry for the mispronunciation. 2261 02:08:57.199 --> 02:09:00.920 I speak the American English. The state broadcaster said Pakistan 2262 02:09:01.279 --> 02:09:04.159 was targeting the hideouts of armed groups near the border 2263 02:09:04.239 --> 02:09:07.960 with great precision. The fighting has prompted calls for restraint 2264 02:09:07.960 --> 02:09:12.520 from Iran, Katar and Saudi Arabia. Long term consequences of 2265 02:09:12.560 --> 02:09:16.359 this are worrying. The overnight fights marks a sharp excalation 2266 02:09:16.479 --> 02:09:19.880 between the South Asian neighbors, coming days after an explosion 2267 02:09:19.920 --> 02:09:25.159 in Kabul and Paktia Paktika that the Taliban government blamed 2268 02:09:25.159 --> 02:09:28.800 on Pakistan. Islamabad did not claim responsibility for the blasts, 2269 02:09:29.079 --> 02:09:33.520 but Defense Minister of Pakistan told parliament that enough is enough, 2270 02:09:33.680 --> 02:09:38.359 warning Kabul of consequences for continued assaults on Pakistani forces, 2271 02:09:39.079 --> 02:09:42.880 an unarmed Pakistani source told or excuse me. An unnamed 2272 02:09:42.920 --> 02:09:46.279 Pakistani source told Reuters that the strike targeted the leader 2273 02:09:46.399 --> 02:09:53.239 of the t Reek e Taliban Pakistan the TTP in Kabul. 2274 02:09:54.199 --> 02:09:59.600 Once warm, relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have deteriorated as 2275 02:09:59.680 --> 02:10:02.239 islam Mama Bad has accused Coable of harboring members of 2276 02:10:02.279 --> 02:10:05.680 the TTP and other armed groups which carry out attacks 2277 02:10:05.720 --> 02:10:09.800 against it. The TTP or Pakistani Taliban, were formed in 2278 02:10:09.800 --> 02:10:13.359 two thousand and seven in response to Pakistan's military operations 2279 02:10:13.399 --> 02:10:17.399 in its tribal border regions supporting the US invasion of Afghanistan. 2280 02:10:17.760 --> 02:10:21.319 It has since waged a deadly insurgency. Since the TTP 2281 02:10:21.600 --> 02:10:24.039 issue has become a major sticking point in the relations 2282 02:10:24.039 --> 02:10:27.920 between the two countries. This is an Islamabad based expert 2283 02:10:27.960 --> 02:10:31.560 on Pakistani and Afghan armed groups told Al Jazeera the 2284 02:10:31.680 --> 02:10:34.640 long term consequences are worrying as they will only deepen 2285 02:10:34.800 --> 02:10:39.600 existing animosities. He said Pakistan has faced an intensified offensive 2286 02:10:39.600 --> 02:10:42.479 from the TTP in recent months, and with Islamabad based 2287 02:10:42.520 --> 02:10:47.920 Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies reporting the August 2288 02:10:47.960 --> 02:10:51.000 marked the deadliest month for militant violence in more than 2289 02:10:51.000 --> 02:10:53.600 a decade. The institute said that one hundred and ninety 2290 02:10:53.600 --> 02:10:55.880 four people were killed and more than two hundred injured 2291 02:10:55.960 --> 02:10:58.319 in one hundred and forty three attacks across the country. 2292 02:10:58.840 --> 02:11:02.279 Pakistan now ranks second in the Global Terrorism Index, which 2293 02:11:02.279 --> 02:11:05.800 evaluates countries based on the impact and consequences of attacked 2294 02:11:05.800 --> 02:11:09.319 by or attacks by armed groups within their borders. Tens 2295 02:11:09.359 --> 02:11:12.520 of thousands have been displaced due to the military's operations 2296 02:11:12.560 --> 02:11:16.159 against the TCP and other armed groups. The flare up 2297 02:11:16.199 --> 02:11:20.359 in fighting coincided with Afghan foreign minister's visit to India, 2298 02:11:20.439 --> 02:11:24.760 signaling a potential shift in bilateral relations and provoking Pakistan, 2299 02:11:24.880 --> 02:11:29.560 which regards New Delhi as a regional rival. Pakistan's military 2300 02:11:29.560 --> 02:11:31.760 said in a statement that it was concerned about the 2301 02:11:31.760 --> 02:11:34.119 timing of the fighting and said India was the biggest 2302 02:11:34.119 --> 02:11:38.079 sponsor of terrorism in the region. Again not surprising that 2303 02:11:38.119 --> 02:11:40.760 Pakistan would take that stance, especially seeing as how just 2304 02:11:40.800 --> 02:11:43.920 a few months ago they were having armed conflict with India, 2305 02:11:44.319 --> 02:11:47.359 so moving on. New Delhi denies the charge, while the 2306 02:11:47.359 --> 02:11:49.840 Taliban says it does not allow its territory to be 2307 02:11:49.960 --> 02:11:53.600 used against other countries. Meanwhile, the Iranian Minister of Foreign 2308 02:11:53.600 --> 02:11:57.920 Affairs called on his country's two neighbors to exercise restraint. 2309 02:11:58.560 --> 02:12:01.920 Our position is that both sides much exercise restraint, he said, 2310 02:12:01.960 --> 02:12:04.720 according to the report by the AFP News agency, adding 2311 02:12:04.720 --> 02:12:08.760 that stability between the countries contributes to regional stability. Saudi 2312 02:12:08.760 --> 02:12:12.479 Arabia two express concern. The Kingdom calls for restraint, avoiding 2313 02:12:12.600 --> 02:12:16.159 escalation and embracing dialogue and wisdom to contribute to reducing 2314 02:12:16.199 --> 02:12:19.600 tensions and maintaining security instability in the region. That's the 2315 02:12:19.600 --> 02:12:23.079 Saudi Foreign Minister said that the Kingdom affirms its support 2316 02:12:23.119 --> 02:12:26.600 for all regional and international efforts aimed at promoting peace 2317 02:12:26.640 --> 02:12:31.000 and stability, and its continued commitment to ensure security which 2318 02:12:31.039 --> 02:12:34.439 will achieve stability and prosperity for the brotherhood or the 2319 02:12:34.439 --> 02:12:40.319 brotherly Pakistani and Afghan peoples. It added, so they basically 2320 02:12:40.319 --> 02:12:43.640 had some explosions that took place. This sparked the conflict. 2321 02:12:44.039 --> 02:12:47.039 One side blames the other, the other side blames this side. 2322 02:12:47.279 --> 02:12:50.600 It's how this goes. So we shall see. It is 2323 02:12:50.680 --> 02:12:54.760 not a good look. I will admit that the Taliban 2324 02:12:54.960 --> 02:12:58.840 leader is currently in India in a little bit of 2325 02:12:58.840 --> 02:13:03.079 a speaking engagement, while Pakistan just finished up a conflict 2326 02:13:03.119 --> 02:13:05.640 with India and is now in a conflict with Taliban 2327 02:13:05.680 --> 02:13:10.479 in Afghanistan. It's it's it's not a good look and 2328 02:13:10.520 --> 02:13:12.279 of course is going to lead to them having a 2329 02:13:12.279 --> 02:13:15.680 little bit of skepticism. As far as the Taliban's words. 2330 02:13:16.039 --> 02:13:17.680 I don't know. I don't know how this is going 2331 02:13:17.720 --> 02:13:20.239 to shake out. Tony. I don't know if you have 2332 02:13:20.319 --> 02:13:22.039 an opinion on this matter, but if you do, I 2333 02:13:22.039 --> 02:13:22.880 would love to hear it. 2334 02:13:23.760 --> 02:13:26.920 Well, Lady Snooze, I just found on Twitter from two 2335 02:13:27.039 --> 02:13:30.520 sources say that a forty eight hour ceasefire has just 2336 02:13:30.600 --> 02:13:34.279 gone into effect. I guess that's good news for everyone 2337 02:13:34.800 --> 02:13:37.279 who would have been fighting and dying in that time. 2338 02:13:37.960 --> 02:13:42.039 And this is just a bit of a tangent. But 2339 02:13:42.199 --> 02:13:46.199 did you hear Trump say yesterday that that Mody told 2340 02:13:46.239 --> 02:13:49.479 him he was going to stop buying Russian oil. And 2341 02:13:49.800 --> 02:13:51.960 I haven't heard anything to back that up that that's 2342 02:13:51.960 --> 02:13:54.560 actually true, But I can totally understand that Mody would 2343 02:13:54.600 --> 02:13:56.960 say something like that if it's just cheap words, and 2344 02:13:57.039 --> 02:13:59.239 you know, maybe he'll stop like one percent of it. 2345 02:13:59.800 --> 02:14:02.520 But that's kind of what I'm assuming it's gonna be. 2346 02:14:02.600 --> 02:14:05.000 The end result, like, not much change on that front. 2347 02:14:05.039 --> 02:14:07.439 I know it's kind of diverting to another topic. No, No, 2348 02:14:07.479 --> 02:14:10.199 you're India. Kind of made me think of that. 2349 02:14:10.479 --> 02:14:14.439 No, We're It's definitely a tangent, but not completely off 2350 02:14:14.520 --> 02:14:16.039 based from what we're talking about. So I am mad 2351 02:14:16.079 --> 02:14:19.960 at it. Okay, Trump saying that Mody claimed that he's 2352 02:14:19.960 --> 02:14:23.319 gonna stop buying Russian oil. I believe that's probably more 2353 02:14:23.439 --> 02:14:25.960 cheap words than anything else. We're talking about a bricks 2354 02:14:26.039 --> 02:14:30.279 nation not doing trade with another bricks nation. I find 2355 02:14:30.319 --> 02:14:33.960 that highly unlikely. Now that being said, could that also 2356 02:14:34.000 --> 02:14:36.640 be in response to Trump putting on higher tariffs on 2357 02:14:36.760 --> 02:14:39.680 China and India, who just got done with the whole 2358 02:14:39.680 --> 02:14:43.680 tariff debacle with America doesn't want to continue that conversation. 2359 02:14:44.039 --> 02:14:45.880 So did he say some cheap words to kind of 2360 02:14:45.880 --> 02:14:48.600 bypass and subdue Trump for a bit. Did he mean 2361 02:14:48.680 --> 02:14:50.720 these things? Was it actually ever said or is this 2362 02:14:50.760 --> 02:14:53.680 Trump talking shit? I could say it is going a 2363 02:14:53.720 --> 02:14:55.680 couple of different ways on that, for sure. I don't 2364 02:14:55.960 --> 02:14:59.000 personally as of this moment, very subject to change. I 2365 02:14:59.159 --> 02:15:01.359 do not think that India is about to stop buying 2366 02:15:01.439 --> 02:15:04.119 Russian oil when they have had all the opportunity to 2367 02:15:04.119 --> 02:15:07.279 stop doing this in the entire conflict between Ukraine and Russia. 2368 02:15:07.680 --> 02:15:10.359 The world told them to stop and they basically were like, yeah, 2369 02:15:10.359 --> 02:15:12.199 but he's selling it to us for cheap, so like, 2370 02:15:13.000 --> 02:15:15.119 we're just going to keep doing it. I don't think 2371 02:15:15.199 --> 02:15:17.720 Mody is going to do that because in turn, that 2372 02:15:17.760 --> 02:15:21.359 would affect his people. And I will say this for Mody, 2373 02:15:21.560 --> 02:15:25.600 like him or hate him. He is an Indian first dude, 2374 02:15:26.119 --> 02:15:28.840 which he should be being the leader of India. So 2375 02:15:29.159 --> 02:15:31.479 if it's going to be bad for his people, he's 2376 02:15:31.479 --> 02:15:34.680 not going to do it. At least that's my hot 2377 02:15:34.720 --> 02:15:37.760 take on him. 2378 02:15:38.000 --> 02:15:40.920 But anyway, yeah, I agree, all right. 2379 02:15:41.039 --> 02:15:44.199 So in what you were saying, though, Yes, Pakistan and 2380 02:15:44.279 --> 02:15:48.159 Afghanistan have agreed to a forty eight hour ceasefire. This 2381 02:15:48.279 --> 02:15:50.840 was actually posted nine hours ago as a time of recording. 2382 02:15:50.840 --> 02:15:52.640 This is from the BBC let's listen in. 2383 02:15:53.279 --> 02:15:56.479 Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to a forty eight hour 2384 02:15:56.600 --> 02:16:01.319 ceasfire following days of crosswater fighting. Later's development comes shortly 2385 02:16:01.359 --> 02:16:04.119 after Pakistan said it carried out what it called precision 2386 02:16:04.239 --> 02:16:07.359 strikes on carbar. Both sides say several people have been 2387 02:16:07.439 --> 02:16:10.720 killed and injured and skirmishers on the border. Pakistan's Foreign 2388 02:16:10.760 --> 02:16:13.720 Ministry is saying both Pakistan and Afghanistan will make some 2389 02:16:14.159 --> 02:16:17.840 efforts through dialogue to find a positive solution to what 2390 02:16:17.960 --> 02:16:23.039 was described as a complex yet resolvable issue. Pakistan corresponding 2391 02:16:23.119 --> 02:16:25.920 Caroline Davies explained to me what's been happening on the border. 2392 02:16:26.560 --> 02:16:29.079 We've been hearing about these clashes happening over the course 2393 02:16:29.119 --> 02:16:30.760 of the last few days. As you say, firstly, we 2394 02:16:30.800 --> 02:16:34.120 started hearing about them over the weekend, and then last 2395 02:16:34.200 --> 02:16:37.920 night again we heard firstly hum on social media talking 2396 02:16:37.959 --> 02:16:41.319 about this. Then we started hearing confirmation from the Taliban 2397 02:16:41.440 --> 02:16:45.719 authorities and then confirmation as well from the Pakistan side too. 2398 02:16:46.079 --> 02:16:49.200 Now what was also apparent is that as well as 2399 02:16:49.239 --> 02:16:52.120 having these attacks on the border, both sides are trying 2400 02:16:52.159 --> 02:16:53.959 to get the upper hand on social media and the 2401 02:16:53.959 --> 02:16:57.559 impression that this is giving to other countries as well. 2402 02:16:57.920 --> 02:17:01.239 Both sides are talking about are blaming the other side 2403 02:17:01.280 --> 02:17:04.479 for starting any of these skirmishes overnight. We've seen that 2404 02:17:04.520 --> 02:17:07.280 from the various comments that they have released, and they're 2405 02:17:07.319 --> 02:17:09.719 also talking about who is getting the upper hand in 2406 02:17:09.799 --> 02:17:12.360 terms of who is inflicting the most damage on the 2407 02:17:12.399 --> 02:17:14.799 other side too. It's very difficult to be able to 2408 02:17:14.920 --> 02:17:17.440 verify the numbers that are coming out from both sides 2409 02:17:17.479 --> 02:17:20.559 that we have heard accusations from them, and social media 2410 02:17:20.639 --> 02:17:23.559 is also full of videos that are alleging to show 2411 02:17:23.600 --> 02:17:26.920 images of people who have been killed in these attacks. 2412 02:17:26.920 --> 02:17:30.239 There's also images that are apporting to be of checkpoints 2413 02:17:30.239 --> 02:17:32.600 that are being blown up. So really a battle of 2414 02:17:32.600 --> 02:17:35.719 information as well as these border clashes too. 2415 02:17:37.159 --> 02:17:41.159 So again we will see if the ceasefire actually holds 2416 02:17:41.200 --> 02:17:45.040 and cooler heads will prevail. I hope it does. I mean, 2417 02:17:45.120 --> 02:17:49.360 you know, I'm all for war if it's justified, but yeah, 2418 02:17:49.479 --> 02:17:53.280 and honestly, regardless of how that shakes out, I just 2419 02:17:53.360 --> 02:17:55.879 hope that America doesn't try to get involved and stick 2420 02:17:55.920 --> 02:17:59.079 its hand somewhere. We just got out of Afghanistan. We 2421 02:17:59.120 --> 02:18:02.200 don't need reason to go back over there, realistically, and 2422 02:18:02.239 --> 02:18:06.159 I know that Pakistan and America are allies. I know this, 2423 02:18:07.040 --> 02:18:09.680 but I am also of the belief, just knowing what 2424 02:18:09.760 --> 02:18:13.079 I know about Pakistan, they are more than capable of 2425 02:18:13.120 --> 02:18:16.799 handling the Taliban. I'm just throwing this out. They are not. 2426 02:18:17.559 --> 02:18:20.760 They may not be a military powerhouse by any stretch 2427 02:18:20.760 --> 02:18:23.280 of the imagination. I mean, when they were taking off 2428 02:18:23.280 --> 02:18:26.159 and they were fighting against India, that wouldn't work well 2429 02:18:26.200 --> 02:18:30.840 because India would have absolutely dominated Pakistan. When it's Pakistan 2430 02:18:30.920 --> 02:18:34.600 versus the Taliban, Yeah, that's not a very fair comparison, 2431 02:18:34.680 --> 02:18:37.040 even with the Taliban having all of the weapons that 2432 02:18:37.079 --> 02:18:42.120 we left there because of Biden's hasty evacuation for lack 2433 02:18:42.120 --> 02:18:46.319 of better words, of Kabul. Even with that, yeah, I 2434 02:18:46.319 --> 02:18:48.040 don't believe that it's going to be much of a 2435 02:18:48.120 --> 02:18:51.360 fight in the grand scheme of things. I could be wrong. 2436 02:18:51.520 --> 02:18:53.639 I could be wrong. But again, there's a forty eight 2437 02:18:53.639 --> 02:18:57.479 hour ceasefire that is currently under review for lack of 2438 02:18:57.479 --> 02:19:01.040 better words, and we shall see if that does continue. 2439 02:19:01.639 --> 02:19:05.600 Sticking on with the BBC, let's talk about France real quick. 2440 02:19:06.120 --> 02:19:09.719 The French Prime Minister backs freezing mcrone's pension reform to 2441 02:19:09.760 --> 02:19:14.079 save the government. Yeah, the French government is also in 2442 02:19:14.120 --> 02:19:16.920 a shutdown right now, and they are also having a 2443 02:19:16.920 --> 02:19:20.840 whole prime minister dispute. We're not gonna spend too much 2444 02:19:20.840 --> 02:19:22.959 time on this, but I figured we could lead this 2445 02:19:23.000 --> 02:19:26.440 on at least somewhat of a semioka note with the 2446 02:19:26.440 --> 02:19:31.159 world and the things. French Prime Minister Sebastian Lecornu has 2447 02:19:31.200 --> 02:19:34.840 told Parliament that he backs suspending controversial twenty twenty three 2448 02:19:34.879 --> 02:19:37.840 pension reforms in the face of crucial votes of no 2449 02:19:37.959 --> 02:19:41.239 confidence later this week. The charges, which raised the retirement 2450 02:19:41.280 --> 02:19:44.760 ah from sixty two to sixty four, were seen as 2451 02:19:44.760 --> 02:19:49.280 a signature reforms in e Manuel mccrone's presidency. He is 2452 02:19:49.479 --> 02:19:52.760 a direct quote from him from Lacornu this autumn, I 2453 02:19:52.799 --> 02:19:55.440 will propose to Parliament that we suspend the twenty twenty 2454 02:19:55.520 --> 02:19:59.280 three pension reform until the twenty twenty seven presidential election, 2455 02:20:00.000 --> 02:20:02.760 corn who said to applause from the left wing parties. 2456 02:20:03.120 --> 02:20:06.600 Lecornu was reappointed prime minister last week, only four days 2457 02:20:06.639 --> 02:20:12.120 after he resigned. He resigned and then was reappointed. But yeah, 2458 02:20:12.239 --> 02:20:15.200 that's that's France for you, and needs the support of 2459 02:20:15.239 --> 02:20:19.239 the socialist MP's in Parliament if his government is to survive. 2460 02:20:19.799 --> 02:20:22.520 Opposition parties on the far right and far left have 2461 02:20:22.600 --> 02:20:27.680 called confidence votes known as censure votes on the Cornu's 2462 02:20:27.760 --> 02:20:33.319 government for Thursday morning and are demanding parliamentary elections. The 2463 02:20:33.360 --> 02:20:36.360 Socialists said that they would be they would be prepared 2464 02:20:36.399 --> 02:20:38.840 to support the new government, but only if it promises 2465 02:20:38.920 --> 02:20:43.479 to completely suspend the macrone's pension changes. If he does 2466 02:20:43.520 --> 02:20:47.200 not explicitly say the words immediate and complete suspension of 2467 02:20:47.239 --> 02:20:51.680 the pension reform, it will be censure. Socialist MP Laurent 2468 02:20:51.879 --> 02:20:55.399 Baummel said earlier on French TV. He is holding his 2469 02:20:55.479 --> 02:20:57.799 destiny in his own hands. He knows what he has 2470 02:20:57.840 --> 02:20:59.520 to do if he doesn't want to be the prime 2471 02:20:59.520 --> 02:21:05.760 minister who resigns every week. Ee, that's a that's a statement. 2472 02:21:06.840 --> 02:21:09.360 But yeah, apparently your boy can't decide if he wants 2473 02:21:09.399 --> 02:21:11.799 to be prime minister or not. But all right, And 2474 02:21:12.239 --> 02:21:15.319 I could be wrong in this, like his sixth or 2475 02:21:15.360 --> 02:21:19.799 seventh time trying to resign and keeps getting put back 2476 02:21:19.879 --> 02:21:23.360 in the position. I could be wrong. The reforms were 2477 02:21:23.399 --> 02:21:26.200 finally pushed through Parliament in March twenty twenty three, less 2478 02:21:26.200 --> 02:21:28.200 than a year after McCrone was voted in for a 2479 02:21:28.280 --> 02:21:32.280 second presidential term. There have been months of political debate, 2480 02:21:32.360 --> 02:21:35.760 strikes and street protests, and in the end the bill 2481 02:21:35.799 --> 02:21:38.600 had to go through without a vote in Parliament using 2482 02:21:38.600 --> 02:21:42.680 a constitutional mechanism known as forty nine to three. Last week, 2483 02:21:42.799 --> 02:21:45.479 la Cornew said it was something many French people remembered 2484 02:21:45.520 --> 02:21:49.879 as a wound on democracy. On Tuesday, he made a 2485 02:21:49.920 --> 02:21:53.959 plan to the MPs that suggested or that suspending the 2486 02:21:53.959 --> 02:21:58.799 pension reform would cost four hundred million euros, which is 2487 02:22:00.239 --> 02:22:04.920 equivalent to three hundred and fifty pounds million pounds in 2488 02:22:04.959 --> 02:22:08.239 twenty twenty six and a further one point eight billion 2489 02:22:08.319 --> 02:22:12.200 euro in twenty twenty seven. This will have the compensated 2490 02:22:12.319 --> 02:22:14.159 or I'm sorry, this will have to be compensated by 2491 02:22:14.200 --> 02:22:17.719 other savings. Locorn who said Locorn who is France's third 2492 02:22:17.760 --> 02:22:20.440 prime minister in the past year. But even if he 2493 02:22:20.559 --> 02:22:23.159 does survive, he needs to get a budget through Parliament 2494 02:22:23.239 --> 02:22:25.920 that brings down a budget deficit headed for five point 2495 02:22:25.959 --> 02:22:30.520 four percent of the economic output this year. Cool so 2496 02:22:30.600 --> 02:22:35.600 their GDP is going into a deficit of five point 2497 02:22:35.680 --> 02:22:40.399 four percent. That's wild. France's public debt earlier this year 2498 02:22:40.440 --> 02:22:44.319 stood at three point four trillion euro which is all 2499 02:22:44.879 --> 02:22:48.280 or almost one hundred and fourteen percent of the GDP, 2500 02:22:48.799 --> 02:22:52.559 the third highest in the Eurozone after Greece and Italy. 2501 02:22:53.280 --> 02:22:56.959 Wow Lecorn who has been one of mccrone's most loyal allies, 2502 02:22:57.000 --> 02:22:59.920 so his decision to row back on such a contested 2503 02:23:00.079 --> 02:23:03.360 reform shows how keen the president is to avoid further turmoil. 2504 02:23:04.239 --> 02:23:08.559 Felipe Agyon a gion I don't know, who was jointly 2505 02:23:08.559 --> 02:23:12.360 awarded the twenty twenty five Nobel Economics Prize on Monday, 2506 02:23:12.479 --> 02:23:15.239 said earlier that he also backed a suspension of the 2507 02:23:15.239 --> 02:23:18.280 pinch reform because it would still come at a smaller 2508 02:23:18.319 --> 02:23:23.360 cost than the insustainable or instability that would follow another 2509 02:23:23.440 --> 02:23:28.239 government collapse. Another government collapse. They show a quick little 2510 02:23:28.239 --> 02:23:32.399 image here of the French National Assembly breakdown of seats. 2511 02:23:33.159 --> 02:23:38.680 Long story short. The France unbowed holds seventy one seats, 2512 02:23:38.680 --> 02:23:43.360 the Communists holds seventeen seats, Ecologists hold thirty eight, the 2513 02:23:43.479 --> 02:23:48.920 Socialists hold sixty nine, The Assembly Alliance or Ensemble Alliance 2514 02:23:48.959 --> 02:23:52.040 holds one hundred and sixty one, the Republicans hold fifty, 2515 02:23:52.239 --> 02:23:54.840 the National Rally holds one hundred and thirty eight, and 2516 02:23:54.879 --> 02:23:58.600 the others hold thirty one. So anyway, they're basically trying 2517 02:23:58.600 --> 02:24:01.799 to avoid another French government collapsed to happen right now. 2518 02:24:02.440 --> 02:24:05.120 And yeah, they are having a real issue holding on 2519 02:24:05.200 --> 02:24:10.840 to prime ministers whatever. Anyway, Anyway, I think on that note, 2520 02:24:10.959 --> 02:24:12.959 we are going to wrap up this episode of The 2521 02:24:12.959 --> 02:24:15.079 Cajun Night Live. I want to thank everybody for joining 2522 02:24:15.079 --> 02:24:17.559 me this evening. As we took a wild trip around 2523 02:24:17.559 --> 02:24:20.239 the world. 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