WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:08.599 Good evening and welcome to another edition of The Cajun 2 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:11.519 Night Live. I am your host the Cajun Night Jacob Mook. 3 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:15.880 We're gonna start off talking about some at home conversation 4 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:18.160 and controversy. Then we are going to go across the 5 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:21.839 pond and talk about some things going on in different continents. 6 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:24.280 Before we get started, I should give the plug for 7 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:26.320 anybody who would like to join us for our Wednesday 8 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:29.559 Night live conversations. The link is in the description below. 9 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:33.600 Go to patreon dot com slash Cajun Nights. There's only 10 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:35.479 one tier for injury. 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And also 19 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:01.960 I should mention that the Cajun Night at Patreon is 20 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:05.519 the only place to get the audio or the video 21 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:09.079 for this. With that being said, let us talk about 22 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:11.560 this now Texas. For the past few weeks we had 23 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:14.519 brought up the fact that Texas Democrats took off from 24 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:17.640 the state rather than coming in to vote on the thing. Right, 25 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:20.920 they were afraid of the changing of the times. And yes, 26 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:24.239 I understand that Trump was pushing the rezoning and redistricting 27 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:27.040 laws in Texas. Of course, the Democrats are not going 28 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:28.519 to be happy about it because it's going to give 29 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:34.200 Republicans more seats in DC. I understand that. That being said, people, 30 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:37.400 regardless of political parties, regardless of which side of which 31 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.400 aisle they claim to have, a person who was elected 32 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:43.079 to be in this position to cast votes on behalf 33 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:46.760 of their constituents and then dip out instead of vote 34 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:49.920 on them. I feel that as cowardice. I know that 35 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:51.879 there are people that will say, well, Republicans have done 36 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.079 that too, but I feel the same way about them, Like, please, 37 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.480 don't think that I am throwing more credence towards Republicans 38 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.319 or Democrats on this. Just call them side A inside 39 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.640 B for lack of better words. Here, Side A wanted 40 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.959 to get this thing passed. Side B decided that rather 41 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.879 than voting for it, which is their job, they would 42 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:14.680 dip out and run to other cities that are very 43 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:19.879 side b ESQ. Right, doesn't matter, it's it's cowardice, it's wrong. 44 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:23.520 These people need to lose their jobs. But that being said, 45 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:27.639 it appears that they have finally come back and now 46 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:29.960 the vote is able to be passed. Let's get an 47 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.759 update on what is going on in the Texas House 48 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:34.400 with the new congressional map. 49 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:37.840 Now a, the Texas House formally voted to advance a 50 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:40.360 bill that redraws the state's congressional map. 51 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:42.759 It would pave the way for Texans to elect more 52 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.560 Republicans to Congress. Throughout the day, there has been intense 53 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.240 pushback inside and outside the House chambers. 54 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:51.360 Yeah, kV is Daniel perro is live at the Texas 55 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:53.919 Capitol and Daniel, you were inside the House chamber when 56 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:54.719 that vote happened. 57 00:02:54.719 --> 00:03:00.000 What was it like, Well, just a couple of minutes ago, 58 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:04.840 you add, Republicans erupt in cheers after that vote inside 59 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:08.319 the chamber. Shortly before that vote, we saw really quite 60 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:10.759 the scene where you had all the Republicans standing at 61 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:13.479 the front microphone while all the Democrats were standing at 62 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:16.840 the bat microphone, which is just so symbolic for this 63 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:19.599 whole debate and brutal battle that we've seen play out 64 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:24.639 here inside this capital over the last several weeks. For 65 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:28.639 Democrats today has always been about doing everything they can 66 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.800 to help in the expected legal challenges to this map. 67 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:36.759 HOUSEBO four would significantly change districts in Austin, Houston, North Texas, 68 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:40.199 and the Rio Grande Valley. President Donald Trump wants Texas 69 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:42.680 to secure five more Republican seats in the US House 70 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:46.400 of Representatives. Political observers say this map would likely help 71 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:49.759 accomplish that. The author of the bill, State Representative Todd Hunter, 72 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:52.759 says he's confident this map is legal. Four of the 73 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:56.639 five districts Republicans want to flip our majority Hispanic. Hunter 74 00:03:56.759 --> 00:04:00.000 notes the changes ad districts that are majority has Spanish 75 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:00.879 and Black. 76 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:09.759 This plan includes political considerations, public testimony, recognition of population growth, 77 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:13.479 and recent changes in voter trends. 78 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:18.160 Democrats say the votes of Texans of color will be 79 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:21.519 diluted in this new map. They highlight how the redistricting 80 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:25.360 is happening mid decade using five year old census data. 81 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.199 They argue that this is a clear violation of the 82 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:30.480 Voting Rights Act and the Constitution. 83 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:36.639 It is devastating what you are doing to poor minority communities, 84 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:39.600 but it's more devastating at the fact that sometimes you 85 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:43.600 can hate someone so much that you will do irreparative 86 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:47.879 damage to yourself. That is what you are opening yourselves 87 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:48.920 up to, is. 88 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:54.199 Take Several of the Democrats expressed frustration throughout the day 89 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:57.160 that the proposed map was the first item lawmakers debated 90 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:00.639 in the House during the second special session. Say lawmakers 91 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.519 should instead have prioritized bills related to last month's deadly 92 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:08.000 flooding across the state. Republicans say those issues are not 93 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:12.240 being neglected. Six bills related to disaster preparedness, relief, and 94 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:15.439 warning systems in the wake of that July flood is 95 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.839 They are all slated to be debated on the House 96 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:21.639 floor tomorrow. After the vote, the Speaker used a rare 97 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:25.920 procedural move which ended the day, starting a new legislative 98 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:28.079 day so lawmakers can take up the bill. They are 99 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.639 in the process of doing that right now, and once 100 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.279 they approve the bill for a third time, it will 101 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:35.519 then go over to the Senate for consideration. In the 102 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.959 upper chamber is expected to take up that bill tomorrow 103 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:41.480 at the Texas Capital Daniel perro kV News. 104 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.759 Okay, now it appears that the Democrats came back to work, 105 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:51.800 and much to their dismay, the vote passed. So Texas 106 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:56.279 is going to get redistricted. I'm sure that's an incorrect word. Apologies. 107 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:59.120 The map is going to pass, right, and so it 108 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:02.839 appears as of this moment that there will be four 109 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:06.879 to five new Republican seats in DC for the state 110 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.839 of Texas. Now, I understand that Trump was pushing this 111 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:14.560 initiative because that's in his best interest. I understand that. 112 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.720 But all things considered, I am happy that they finally 113 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.920 came back to work. I feel like that was a 114 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:26.879 very bad move on their part, and I don't know 115 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:29.800 all the nuances associated with it. That one guy saying 116 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:33.439 that this was spurned on by hatred and it was 117 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.399 marginalizing these groups even more and all of that, I 118 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:39.560 feel like, you know, I feel like that's a lot 119 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:44.959 of very bold claims for rezoning a map based off 120 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:50.319 of population density. But again, I don't know. I don't know. Everybody, 121 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:51.879 let me know in the comments what you think about 122 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:53.839 what's going on in Texas, right now, do you think 123 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.720 this is a positive thing a negative thing? Is this 124 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:01.120 all part of the overarching political agenda? You know? Do 125 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:04.079 you think this is a horrible thing that's going to 126 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:08.319 have irreputable damages done to certain communities. You let me 127 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:11.360 know what you think, But my statement still stands regardless 128 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:14.120 if you're a Republican or a Democrat, or an independent, 129 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:16.759 or a libertarian or a Green Party. I don't care. 130 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.279 If you were elected by your constituents to do a 131 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:23.680 job and you decide to run away rather than do 132 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.439 that job, I feel like you should lose your job. Tony, 133 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:27.959 go ahead. 134 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:31.879 Yeah, I still don't know what to think of this. 135 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:34.839 Part of me is a Republican and I want it, 136 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:39.079 but there's no good way. There's no perfect way to 137 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:44.079 do democracy. And the way a district is drawn really 138 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:47.480 makes a huge impact to who gets to represent the 139 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:51.319 people in it. So if you can draw a district 140 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:55.360 to you know, clump all of your political enemies into 141 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.560 very tight geographic areas, then they get way less representation. 142 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:04.639 And I understand that politics really is about rewarding your 143 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:07.639 friends and punishing your enemies on a certain level. But 144 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.040 on the other hand, we want to live in a 145 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:14.000 high trust society, and part of that involves making a 146 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:17.199 sacrifice a little bit. And I don't know what the 147 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:19.399 right answer is here, but I would err on the 148 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:23.480 side of rewarding one's friends and punishing one's enemies just 149 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:27.680 by instinct, I guess, so I guess I supported I. 150 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.079 And again I don't know if this if they were 151 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.559 using bad census data right to say that, especially in 152 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.720 these super densely populated cities in the state of Texas, 153 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:41.440 if you're trying to redistrict them, because there's for instance, 154 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:44.399 we just had something happen in Baton Rouge right in Louisiana. 155 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:49.279 Baton Rouge got sectioned off to where Saint George is 156 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:53.559 now Georgia's independent city. The city of Baton Rouge was 157 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:56.919 pissed about this, but the inhabitants of Saint George voted 158 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:59.799 upon this. They got They did the whole process. It took. 159 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:03.039 It started with a petition, they got it, going through 160 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:05.759 to the state capitol, all the things, and they finally 161 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:10.879 won it. The majority ruled on this. Right, the people 162 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:14.039 spoke and they got what they had voted for. Now, 163 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:16.360 I don't know if that is the case as far 164 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:19.679 as this Texas conversation is concerned did the people in 165 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:22.879 these new districts vote for this, did they want this 166 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.519 to happen, or is this something that they truly feel 167 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:31.480 is hurting their overall voice to be heard. I don't know. 168 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:36.919 Well, I'm all in favor of secession as much as possible. Yeah, 169 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.840 And that seems like that's what Saint George did, It's 170 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:42.320 what the United States did to Britain, that's what the 171 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:47.240 South tried to do to uh, the North, and it's 172 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:48.879 what Don Bess did to Ukraine. 173 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:49.919 UH. 174 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.720 And it's what Taiwan and Tibet kind of wanted to 175 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.639 do to China. And in general I support that. 176 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:59.960 Yeah, I'm I don't know, I'm call me a true 177 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:04.200 conservative or whatever our constitutionalist, however you want to label it. 178 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:08.639 I believe in the smallest level of government possible, right, 179 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:13.039 I do believe in having the most representation for your 180 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.879 vote that you can possibly have. Like I live in 181 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:20.120 in a neighborhood. We have a thousand houses in this subdivision. 182 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.600 I for the record, I hate that I live in 183 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:25.279 a subdivision with the HLA neither here nor there. If 184 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:29.159 this neighborhood was to have its own political entity, that 185 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:33.759 could be somebody to lobby for our interests in the 186 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:37.720 state capitol. At that level, a thousand houses get one 187 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.600 political figure to have our voice be heard. I love this. 188 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:45.159 That would be amazing. I know that that's way more 189 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.440 of a micro than whatever happened, but I'm in favor 190 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:53.879 of that. But again, I understand that to redistrict means 191 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.559 that somebody is being left out in the cold right 192 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.519 no matter what decision ever gets made, someone is getting 193 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.559 the shit in of the stick here. So I don't 194 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:05.320 want to make it sound like I'm a cold harder 195 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.519 Republican and you know, the Democrats in Texas can just 196 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:12.000 get bent. I'm not trying to have that mentality. If 197 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.639 the data is correct, and if they are rezoning these 198 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:19.080 maps based off of accurate census bureaus, then I don't 199 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:21.360 really see an inherent problem with it. And it seems 200 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:24.799 like the Democrats were having an issue with it and decided, well, 201 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.240 if I can't play the game my way, I'm taking 202 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:30.960 my ball and I'm going home. So and again I 203 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:32.919 may be missing a couple steps here. I don't live 204 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.960 in Texas. That's just what it looks like from the 205 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.960 outside looking in. So I don't know what to make 206 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:41.279 of it, but I am happy that everybody returned back 207 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:45.600 to work, and as an auxiliary vote that was being 208 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:48.240 passed at this time, I am happy that the relief 209 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.399 fund that was supposed to go to the flood victims 210 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:53.480 is getting released to them because they needed the Republicans 211 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:55.200 and the Democrats to show up to work to vote 212 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:56.960 on that as well. I know that that was a 213 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:02.080 super second and third tier vote compared to the rezoning laws, 214 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:05.480 and I hate that, but again, at least the people 215 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:07.639 are getting the help that they need. That makes me happy. 216 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:14.039 Suck all right, Moving on to the next topic. This 217 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:17.200 actually happened last week, and I was going to bring 218 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:19.039 it up last week, but just in the mix of 219 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:21.399 everything else going on, I didn't get a chance to. 220 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:26.320 This is from CBSU News. Excuse me, Yemen intercepts record 221 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:30.960 number of Iranian weapons bound for the houthis okay. US 222 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.480 Scentcom says, let's talk about it here. US Central Command 223 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:40.039 says that Yemeny partners successfully intercepted of Jesus these ads. 224 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:41.919 Of course, during the way of what I'm trying to read, 225 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:47.879 Yemeny partner successfully intercepted a massive Iranian weapons shipment that 226 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:51.360 was meant to reach the nation's Hoothy rebels. The Yemeni 227 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:54.960 National Resistance Force Forces seized more than seven hundred and 228 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.600 fifty tons of munitions and hardware, including hundreds of advanced cruise, 229 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:04.600 anti ship and anti aircraft missiles, warheads and seekers. Senkam said. 230 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:08.480 The seizure also included hundreds of drone engines, radar systems, 231 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:12.039 and air defense and communication equipment, as well as manuals 232 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:16.279 written in Farsi, Senkam said. Senkam said that the National 233 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:19.720 Resistance Forces reported many of these systems were manufactured by 234 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:22.960 a company affiliated with the Iranian Ministry of Defense. The 235 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:27.720 company is under US sanctions. The mark this marked the 236 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:31.360 largest seizure of Iranian advanced conventional weapons in the National 237 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:35.039 Resistance Forces history. This is a direct quote here, I'm 238 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:38.120 assuming from Senthkam. Yeah, it is actually from the commander 239 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:42.919 of Sencom General Michael Eric Carilla, direct quote. We commanded 240 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:46.600 the legitimate government forces of Yemen who continued to interdict 241 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.120 the flow of Iranian munitions bound for the Houthis. The 242 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:54.120 intradiction of this massive Iranian shipment shows that Iran remains 243 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:57.879 the most destabilizing actor in the region. Limiting the free 244 00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:00.679 flow of Iranian support to the Houthis is critical to 245 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:06.840 regional security, stability and freedom of navigation. Yemen's Hoothy rebels 246 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:10.679 spent months launching drones and rocket attacks targeting military and 247 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:13.200 commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Eden. 248 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:17.799 The attacks targeted vital shipping lanes. The US conducted several 249 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:21.159 military strikes against the rebel groups, and May President Trump 250 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.679 said that the group had capitulated and the US would 251 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:27.399 not carry out further strikes. The Hoothies did not comment 252 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:30.919 on the alleged agreement at the time. Shocker I know 253 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.320 the Yemeni rebels attacked the Liberian flagged cargo ship in 254 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:38.279 the Red Sea on July eighth. Three people were killed, 255 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:41.840 two wounded, and several others were kidnapped. The Houthis also 256 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:44.600 claimed that they had attacked and sank another vessel on 257 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:48.120 July seventh. The incidents have raised concerns that the Houthis 258 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:52.080 may resume attacks in the area. So, while the Hoothies 259 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:55.559 seemed at least what we were told as the general 260 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:57.799 public is that the hoo Thies were on the back foot, 261 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:01.879 they've capitulated they're stopping their their foolishness in this area. 262 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:09.440 Then the Yemeni government sees seven hundred and fifty tons, 263 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:12.759 was it or did I misread that? Yeah, seven hundred 264 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:17.120 and fifty tons of munitions. Now I don't know how 265 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:22.080 much each individual RPG weighs, right, I don't know, But 266 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:24.000 either way you want to slice it, that is a 267 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:29.519 pretty solid stockpile of weapons that we already know that 268 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:32.639 the hoo Thies would be using. So it's a good 269 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:35.840 thing to see that that got seized. I'm happy about this. 270 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:40.279 At least the shipping lanes can remain open. That being said, yeah, 271 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:43.360 I don't think the hoo Thies because they're an insurgent group, right, 272 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:48.159 and insurgencies are not going to stop pretty much ever ever, 273 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:51.240 so now they're trying to take it to the next 274 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:55.159 level and stop the flow of weapons going to them. Now. 275 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:58.919 Of course, Iran, being the higher Iran or however people 276 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:01.960 pronounce it, is the biggest funder of the Hoothi rebels. 277 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.440 And I don't mean just money, I mean like weapons 278 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.799 being shipped from point A to point B. So overall 279 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:12.279 good things that this weapons shipment was seized. But how 280 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:14.360 do we know that this wasn't also a diversion to 281 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:16.960 where two and three and four other shipments made it 282 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:19.639 to them. We haven't really heard of anything from the 283 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:22.200 Hoothi rebels in this area in a little while. Is 284 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.320 that because they have finally capitulated or because they also 285 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:28.360 don't have the weapons to shoot? I think both they 286 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:29.759 are equally viable. 287 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:35.159 I think they still have some missiles to shoot. And 288 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:37.840 to my knowledge, they've still shut down the Red Sea 289 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.679 for any ships to go into Israel, So any ships 290 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:43.960 going from China to Israel, for example, have to go 291 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:50.159 all the way around Africa. That's still true. 292 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:51.320 Go ahead. 293 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.759 The Many said, well, I should say. The Houthi said 294 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:59.279 they're not going to attack any more US ships, but 295 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.200 they reserved the right to attack any ships bound for Israel, 296 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:06.480 and Trump said that was good enough, and both declared victory. 297 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:11.960 I would characterize the Huthies as the government of Yemen 298 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:16.039 and the de facto government of Yemen. They they roll 299 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.680 over about eighty percent of the population. And this other 300 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.400 national army of resistance that you're mentioning, I think it's 301 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:24.559 way out in the eastern part of the country, which 302 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:29.920 is much more sparsely inhabited, but This is the result 303 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:31.920 of a civil war in Yemen that went on from 304 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:35.759 twenty fifteen until I guess it's still going on. But 305 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.759 the Huthis have grown a lot in power from twenty 306 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:42.799 fifteen to twenty twenty or so, and they basically do 307 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:48.599 control the country now, and they control Hodata and Sona, 308 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.799 and they got access to the Red Sea. That's for Iran. 309 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.279 This is actually a little surprising to me because most 310 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:57.400 of the things I read about Iran right now say 311 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:00.079 that Iran's trying to build up its own missile stockpiles 312 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.359 fast as it can because they think that war, another 313 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:06.160 war with Israel, a bigger one, is inevitable. 314 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:09.519 Has been saying that since Israel was founded, though that's 315 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:10.079 nothing new. 316 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:15.400 Well, I think it is new. I think Iran and 317 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:18.200 Israel never really attacked each other until a few months 318 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:22.319 ago with missiles. There were a few terrorist attacks here 319 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:24.720 and there, but like a huge barrage of missiles back 320 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:27.640 and forth, that never happened, and they both, to my 321 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:30.319 knowledge anyway, they both kind of ran out of missiles. 322 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:33.160 So they're both building up as many missiles as they can. 323 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.599 In the next wave that happens is going to be 324 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:36.599 ten times bigger. 325 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:40.880 That's fair. Okay, So a couple of things questions to you, 326 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.680 Tony here. Now, the weapons that were sees, they did 327 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:46.559 say there was a lot of drones, a lot of 328 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:48.720 motors for drones and things like that. So maybe it 329 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.240 wasn't so much missiles. I'm sure there were some. But 330 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:54.839 I also it wouldn't shock me to hear that Iran 331 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:58.720 is selling the who these uh you know, not their 332 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:02.079 best missiles that they have, just kind of their older 333 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:06.240 stuff that we notoriously the Huthis cannot hit the broadside 334 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:09.440 of a barn with the missiles that Iran is sending them. 335 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:12.160 This is not me taking an opportunity to take a 336 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:15.119 stab at the Iranian military. I'm saying that they're probably 337 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:19.079 selling them very antiquated things just to kind of give 338 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:21.279 them something, and hey, if they happen to hit something 339 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:23.799 with it, then awesome. If not, then well it's not 340 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:27.319 like Iran missed it. Anyway. That being said, yeah, Iran 341 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:30.680 is trying to build back their own military stockpileot this time, 342 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:34.079 I'm with you one hundred percent. But at the same time, 343 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:37.279 also you said that Chinese ships going to Israel. Now, yes, 344 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:40.319 the Huthis have said that they will no longer hit 345 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:44.319 US ships or try to try to hit US ships, 346 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:47.720 which is very smart of them. Does China and Israel 347 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:51.319 have a open trade relationship. I know that China is 348 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:55.359 one of the biggest manufacturers on Earth, but I don't 349 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:59.119 really know much about the China Israel connections. 350 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:02.880 I was just thrown out China as a stand in 351 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:07.799 for anyone in Asia, basically anything from Asia. I don't 352 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:10.960 know how good that relationship isn't. My overall impression is 353 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.319 that the Israeli Chinese relationship is getting worse and worse 354 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:18.000 with time. That's my overall impression. 355 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:20.960 I could imagine because they're Belt and Road initiative, it 356 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:23.359 seems like China is giving a lot of Arab countries 357 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:26.319 the hookup. So it just seems like enemy of my 358 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:29.839 enemy and friend of my enemy kind of conversation here. 359 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:32.200 I don't know that for a fact, right, So to 360 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:38.119 say that China being really tight with Pakistan, for instance, 361 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:42.759 doesn't inherently mean that China is anti Israel. But at 362 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:45.519 the same time, if they're hooking up Pakistan, I can't 363 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:50.240 imagine that they are also inherently friends to Israel as well. 364 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:51.319 I don't know. 365 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:55.480 I think they used to have a better relationship. In fact, 366 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:01.519 Chinese espionage on US military technology used to involve Israel. 367 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:06.240 So America gave away some well, America gave away I 368 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:09.759 think two heads up displays for some fighter jets, and 369 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:12.839 one of them found its way to China, but both 370 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:17.759 of them had to go through Israel first. Israel got 371 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:21.680 those two heads up displays and I guess they somehow 372 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:26.359 somebody gave it in an unauthorized way to China. So 373 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:29.480 the US was unhappy about that, but the US didn't 374 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:30.640 make a big deal out of it. 375 00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:34.359 Well, of course not as the Americans can or excuse me, 376 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.519 the United States government can obviously never be mad at 377 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:40.720 Israel about anything ever. So you know, that's just kind 378 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:42.160 of one of those things that we brushed on into 379 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:46.279 the rug, just like so many others, so many other things. 380 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:49.440 But you know what, as we're going into that comp 381 00:21:50.240 --> 00:21:53.319 natural segue, if you will, let's talk about what is 382 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:56.680 going on with Israel right now. So if you were 383 00:21:56.799 --> 00:21:59.119 on the Live last night, you heard that we talked 384 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:02.319 a little bit about this red heifer sacrifice in Israel. 385 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:05.039 And we're not gonna spend no real amount of time 386 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:07.960 talking about that this evening. All the reports that I 387 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:11.920 can find say that it was a rehearsal, and it 388 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:14.319 happened in early July. As a matter of fact, I 389 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:16.799 don't know why that is just now making its way 390 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:19.920 to the American conversation as far as news and media 391 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:24.839 and things go. But all right, there are some some 392 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:28.000 people out there that are saying that actually it was 393 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:32.160 a secret, correct ritual sacrifice and all the things. I'm 394 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:34.359 not really going to spend much time talking about that 395 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:36.759 this evening. Was it was it not? I don't know. 396 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:40.039 I'm not Jewish, It's not really my shtick. But that 397 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:44.799 being said, it's odd that that would potentially line up 398 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:48.359 with Israel entering the first stages of a full on 399 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:52.000 Gaza City assault. I got an article or excuse me, 400 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:55.680 a video pulled up here from NBC News. Let's listen 401 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:58.160 to what is going on. As of time of. 402 00:22:58.119 --> 00:23:02.039 Recording, it has firm that Israel has entered the first 403 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:05.480 stages of its planned assault on Gaza City, and Israeli 404 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:08.559 military officials says it happened after a clash with Hamas. 405 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:12.680 That official also says Israel's military already has a hold 406 00:23:12.759 --> 00:23:15.519 on the outskirts of the city. It comes just hours 407 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:18.640 after Israel said it would call up sixty thousand reservists 408 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:21.559 for the Gaza City offensive. That is in addition to 409 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:25.839 the seventy thousand already serving. Let's get right to NBC's 410 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:28.759 International course bond At Danielle Hamamjin Danielle. What more do 411 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:31.359 we know right now about this assault and what happens next? 412 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:35.400 It doesn't come as a big surprise, although it's coming 413 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:38.640 pretty quickly. I must say, Christine, as you say, sixty 414 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:41.920 thousand reservists called up, an additional twenty thousand will see 415 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:45.759 their service extended. This is a massive operation they've called 416 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:50.559 Gideon's Chariots two. There are eight thousand people, eight hundred 417 00:23:50.599 --> 00:23:53.640 thousand people living in that area. For Palestinians, this will 418 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:56.400 mean that the thousands will be forced to go from 419 00:23:56.440 --> 00:24:00.039 northern Gaza to southern Gaza. The IDEF says that in 420 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:03.279 order to minimize harm to civilians, the IDEF will warn 421 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:07.720 the population and allow them to evacuate from maneuver areas 422 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:13.519 for their protection. Now, when Palestinians hear the word evacuation, Christine, 423 00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:17.640 this is usually codeword for displacement, and it comes with 424 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:22.839 a visceral fear that they'll never be able to return again. 425 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:27.799 This is all coming as we wait for an official 426 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:33.200 response by Benjamin Netanyahu on the proposal, the ceasefire proposal 427 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:36.880 the Hamas has agreed to. It's been now almost forty 428 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:40.680 eight hours, and so speaking to Palestinians in Gaza over 429 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:43.200 the past twenty four hours, many were hoping for a 430 00:24:43.319 --> 00:24:47.640 truce and now and now this, and they will tell 431 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:50.680 you they don't believe this operation is to stop Hamas 432 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:54.559 from regrouping. They believe this is the beginning of the 433 00:24:54.599 --> 00:24:59.279 full occupation of Gaza and the complete and total displacement, 434 00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:03.119 or the attempt totally displaced, displaced the entire population of 435 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:03.960 the Gaza strip. 436 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:08.279 We thank you for watching, and remember stay all right. 437 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:14.240 So as peace talks were allegedly trying to take place, 438 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:19.599 there is also a full scale assault going on into Gaza. Now, 439 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:22.440 I know, I know this is to the shock of 440 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:27.599 everyone listening, right that being said, Yeah, it's it's not 441 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:31.240 exactly playing out the way that everybody had hoped. Doesn't 442 00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:33.400 look like this is going to be wrapped up anytime soon. 443 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:41.000 And oddly enough, some of the more liberal platforms for 444 00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:45.480 lack of better words are actually starting to see the 445 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:49.960 insurgency for what it is. It's not a it's not 446 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:53.359 a comfortable conversation. I am not in favor of some 447 00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:56.680 sort of a mass genocide going on anywhere on Earth 448 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:00.440 for any reason. I'm not in favor of that. However, 449 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:05.880 there was a conversation once upon a time, right when 450 00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:10.160 America pulled out of Iraq. We founded something called the 451 00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:14.519 Sons of Iraq. And essentially there was these Iraqis that 452 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:16.599 were not in favor of Al Qaeda, they were not 453 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:18.880 in favor of any of these terrorist organizations, they were 454 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:23.079 not in favor of isol later ISIS, and so American 455 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:29.880 forces trained up the bear with me here, the most 456 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:34.920 adequate Iraqis that they had, and I use the term 457 00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:41.079 adequate very loosely, to try to fight against isol and 458 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:44.200 ISIS and all these other terrorist organizations, basically saying, hey, 459 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.799 this is your country, you should fight for it. Here's 460 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:53.079 some weapons, here are some training, go take back your country. 461 00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:56.559 We're not trying to be an imperialist power and take 462 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:01.160 new territory for America. You should have control over Iraq. 463 00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:04.720 So they started, The Sons of Iraq did not go well. 464 00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:09.079 I should mention but at least that was the thought process, right. 465 00:27:09.799 --> 00:27:14.200 There was at one time a conversation to say that 466 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:18.119 we should have a Sons of Palestine. Right, we should 467 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:22.200 take the moderate Palestinians who do not want Hamas to 468 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:24.680 be their ruling class the same way like you said, Tony, 469 00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:27.480 the Houthis are kind of the ruling class of Yemen 470 00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:30.279 right now. There are people in Yemen that do not 471 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:33.920 like the Huthis. They acknowledge them to be a terrorist organization. 472 00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:38.079 It's a minority, I should mention, but beside the point, 473 00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:41.480 they do exist. So if you were to give these 474 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:44.160 people in Yemen some weapons, some training, and say, hey, 475 00:27:44.359 --> 00:27:47.559 there's the Huthi rebels, go handle it, go get after it. 476 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:52.920 In theory on paper, that would play out well, except Yemen, 477 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:54.920 like you said, has been in a civil war for 478 00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:57.759 a little while, and all that would be doing is 479 00:27:57.799 --> 00:28:01.400 adding gasoline to a bonfire that's already full blaze. So 480 00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:05.039 it's not a good situation there. This idea was proposed 481 00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:08.000 as far as the Sons of Palestine. You find some 482 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:11.799 moderate Muslim people who do not want Hamas to be 483 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.079 in charge of them, and let them go fight Hamas 484 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:18.119 for you and take back Gaza, take back the West 485 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:25.599 Bank and run it in a purely Palestinian, non harmas way. However, 486 00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:31.400 there have been more and more videos, in real time videos, 487 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:34.759 and I know people are gonna say that it's all propaganda, 488 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:37.680 and I'm not one hundred percent denying that, but just 489 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:41.000 bear with me here. There was a video I recently 490 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:43.039 saw it. By recently, I mean within the last forty 491 00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:48.039 eight hours of Israeli troops that were clearing a schoolhouse 492 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:52.519 in Gaza, okay, And you could tell that they were 493 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.839 in one room and you saw a picture of you know, 494 00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:59.559 the human organs and things like that. It was it 495 00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:03.319 was obvious like an elementary to middle school. If I'm 496 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:06.599 gonna use like an American term to describe the schoolhouse itself. 497 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:10.920 It was that level of education for that level of adolescence, right. 498 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:14.680 It wasn't like a kindergarten class by any means, but 499 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:17.720 it was, you know, also not like a college. It 500 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:21.839 was somewhere I would say, possibly middle school. And you 501 00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:25.160 could see these Israeli troops that were doing like a 502 00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:30.480 CQB or close quarters combat to clear these rooms in 503 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:35.400 this schoolhouse. Okay, cool. They roll from one room, they 504 00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:39.640 push out, go down the main hallway and literally across 505 00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:44.519 the hallway from the classroom where we had a diagram 506 00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:49.039 of the human anatomy and a diagram of the periodic 507 00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:51.799 table of elements and all these things in era by 508 00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:56.960 my dad, you had a weapons cache. And this was 509 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:00.039 not a weapons cash as in a few guns that 510 00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:04.599 possibly the security liaison, which I understand is an inherently 511 00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:07.480 American thing. But bear with me again, it's not like 512 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.000 this was a couple of guns that possibly the school 513 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:14.480 of security or police officer would have in his office. 514 00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:24.279 This was crates of aks, RPGs, belt fed rpk's, and 515 00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:27.720 then also there was wooden and plastic versions of these 516 00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:30.759 weapons for the children to train with. 517 00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:38.400 It is so systemic in the Palestinian culture to fight 518 00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:45.480 against their quote unquote Israelia pressors that realistically, if the 519 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:48.960 world not America, not Israel, if the powers that be 520 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:55.680 were to create a Sons of Palestine organization to fight 521 00:30:55.799 --> 00:31:01.200 against Tamas, they very well may take out Hamas. It's 522 00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:04.440 very unlikely, but it's possible, right, It's possible they would 523 00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:08.519 retake Palestine to be a free and independent place in 524 00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:16.519 the Palestinian image, except the instant that Hamas was gone. 525 00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:19.839 They would then turn those weapons on Israel and we 526 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:24.400 would have it literally would be a wash, because they 527 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:28.599 would then start fighting the Israeli quote unquote opressors, and 528 00:31:28.920 --> 00:31:30.920 we would be back in this conversation like we are 529 00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:34.240 right now. There's no way to root out an insurgency 530 00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:37.720 than to actually pull it up by the roots. And 531 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:40.400 that sounds horrible, and I do not mean in a 532 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:44.599 genocidal way. What I'm saying is that for decades now 533 00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:47.160 it has been a systemic thing that they're even training 534 00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:53.039 their children in how to do guerrilla warfare for Israel 535 00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:57.839 or against Israel. It's not a pretty conversation. And as 536 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:01.039 I started doing more digging into this rap hole, that 537 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:05.039 wasn't a one off. There's multiple schoolhouses where these children 538 00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:07.240 are being taught how to use weapons and how to 539 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:11.519 hit certain very critical infrastructure in Israel. There was a 540 00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:15.359 map in another classroom as a matter of fact, of Israel, 541 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:21.319 with all of it being one color, not a dual 542 00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:27.160 state solution by any means. All of the Israeli cities 543 00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:30.920 were renamed in Arabic, and it wasn't like they put 544 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:35.000 Tel Aviv in Arabic writing. They renamed it an entirely 545 00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:38.119 different name, as if Palestine had taken over and killed 546 00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:41.680 all the Jews and made it what it is. They 547 00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:44.200 are teaching this to their children, as if this is 548 00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.200 a dream that they should aspire to achieve. 549 00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:48.960 What'd you call that dead naming? 550 00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:53.039 I you know, is that dead naming? Is this a 551 00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:56.839 Bruce Jenner slash Caitlyn Jenner conversation? I don't know? 552 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:01.920 Is dead naming? In two ways? Tell me it's the 553 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:04.599 name it was before nineteen forty seven, number one and 554 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:07.799 number two. It's the name it would be if all 555 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:12.000 the Jews laughter died, right, it's dead naming. 556 00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:16.240 Actually dead like dead naming. Yeah, yeah, I see what 557 00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:20.160 you're saying there. So again, I am not in favor 558 00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:24.799 of Israel Israeli troops killing women and children. I'm never 559 00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:28.240 gonna be okay with a war fighter on any front ever, 560 00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:34.680 killing innocence to further their goals. Ever, that being said, 561 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:37.920 we also cannot side step the fact that even the 562 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:42.480 children are taught to take up arms against their oppressors. 563 00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:45.640 It's it's a very very muddy, bad situation. 564 00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:49.559 Okay, I got I got a take on this. I 565 00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:53.559 think the idea would be a great idea. It presumes though, 566 00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:58.200 that that Israel wants a peaceful Palestinian state to live 567 00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:01.880 next to, and I think they do not that they 568 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:06.039 do not. Israel actually wants a simmering conflict. They want 569 00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:08.159 to control the height at the flame. That yeah, who 570 00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:12.920 has said that twice? Yeah, that's why Israel pressured the 571 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:17.760 Treasury Department of the United States and the government of 572 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:23.519 Qatar to uh so Kataris gave money to Hamas. Katar 573 00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:26.159 didn't want to give money to Hamas. Katar said, the 574 00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:28.760 US Treasury Department is going to sanction us if we 575 00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:31.840 do that. So the Israelis went to the Treasury Department 576 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:34.400 of the United States, So please don't sanction Katar if 577 00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:37.239 they do this. In the Treasury Department under I think 578 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:39.920 it was under yell and said, okay, it might have 579 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:40.880 been before that. 580 00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.840 Weird a weird. Uh, it's all you ever seen John Wick? 581 00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:48.599 No, I actually haven't. 582 00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:51.719 First of all, homework for you, Tony. You must watch it, 583 00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:54.000 not that you don't have to watch all five of 584 00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:56.440 them or eighteen of them. I forget what john Wick 585 00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:58.400 were on right now. It's kind of it's becoming people, 586 00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:01.400 it's becoming fast and furious the first one was excellent, 587 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:04.360 ye second one kind of third, fourth, and all the 588 00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:06.599 rest of them. It's like y'all are getting way off 589 00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:08.159 in the weeds here. But beside the point, there's this 590 00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:12.280 hotel called the Continental, and basically, this one spot on 591 00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:14.920 Earth is seen as neutral ground. No killing can be 592 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:18.039 done here. It is a meeting place, It is a 593 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:20.760 place of business, is a place of all these things. 594 00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:24.360 Qatar is kind of seen like that, right. It is 595 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:28.159 the place where, Oh you're from Russia, you're from America. Well, 596 00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:31.840 y'all can have a meeting in Qatar, but neither of 597 00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:34.239 y'all better start drawing weapons on each other or it's 598 00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:36.480 gonna be bad for everybody. If y'all want to have 599 00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:41.039 a civil conversation, Qatar is the spot Israel and Palestine, 600 00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:43.079 y'all want to come to the table. Qatar is a 601 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:46.079 good spot. They have tables there and you could play 602 00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:50.320 ball there kind of thing. But yeah, it's a very loose, 603 00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:54.079 loose translation of this time. But continue, I'm sorry. 604 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.119 There was a hotel called the Continental in Munich, and 605 00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:01.840 my great great uncle Frontz died in a boiler explosion 606 00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:03.400 there in nineteen thirteen. 607 00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:06.239 Oh god, that's just a complete. 608 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:08.000 Coincidence, but it's one hundred percent true. 609 00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:11.320 But is it a coincidence? Is that where Nazis met 610 00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:13.840 with other I'm sorry, good. 611 00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:17.280 Well, maybe they did later. I actually had two uncle Frances. 612 00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:20.239 My next uncle, Franz was born in nineteen twenty and 613 00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:23.599 named France, and then he died in Demyance in nineteen 614 00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:28.320 forty two. And then my dad was named France after him. 615 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:31.199 And my dad's still alive today, so he lived longer 616 00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:32.440 than both of them put together. 617 00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:35.119 Damn the war killed him. 618 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.679 Yeah. Yeah, he was in the lift of offa. He 619 00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:42.719 was on the ground on patrol, and in nineteen forty 620 00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:45.519 two he he just died. We're not one hundred percent 621 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.159 sure what happened to him, and I've been trying to 622 00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:50.280 find out because the Russian government has great archives, but 623 00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:54.199 I was given a URL I can't access. So maybe 624 00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:57.679 somebody can help me with that. Someday, get a vpndue. 625 00:36:57.719 --> 00:36:59.000 You might be able to get it that way. 626 00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:04.360 Yeah, I'll try that anyway. Qatar has in Saudi Arabia. 627 00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:07.840 Saudi Arabia have a lot of very radical Muslims who 628 00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:11.400 want to, you know, send money to al Qaeda and 629 00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:15.360 ISIS abroad, but then they got the governments that want 630 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:19.360 to clamp down on Muslim extremism. And I would say Israel, 631 00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:24.360 they want to keep these Gulf states in power, like Qatar, 632 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:30.000 Saudi Arabia, and Jordan, but they want most other Arab 633 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:33.239 states to be dissolved. So that's they got their way 634 00:37:33.280 --> 00:37:37.360 in Syria most recently, and in Yemen kind of recently. 635 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:39.480 The Hohothies control most of Yemen, but it's still a 636 00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:41.800 fractured state, and it's got a history of being fractured 637 00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:45.119 even in the sixties and earlier. And they especially got 638 00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:49.800 their way in Libya. So you know, give them, give 639 00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:51.880 them money and weapons to a group to overthrow its 640 00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:56.320 government can sometimes just permanently fracture a country. And I 641 00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:59.360 think Somalia even had that happen. I'm never sure what 642 00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:02.679 exactly is going on there. It always seems fractured. But 643 00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:05.559 the Israelis do want to keep the Saudi royal family 644 00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:08.119 in charge as much as possible. They prefer that over 645 00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:11.880 the devil. They don't know there. The Saudi royal families. 646 00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:15.960 The devil they know, and they get along pretty well, right, 647 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:18.719 And I know I'm getting kind of distracted, but yeah, Jamas. 648 00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:21.679 I think it'd be a great thing if there could 649 00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:27.079 be a peaceful government in Palestine. But from the point 650 00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:31.960 of view of many Palestinians, especially in Gaza, they've tried 651 00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:35.960 peaceful protests. In twenty eighteen there was a large scale 652 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.559 one called the March of the Great Return. They all 653 00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:42.039 carried signs within about three hundred feet of the fence 654 00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:45.840 that divided Israel from Gaza, and three hundred feet is 655 00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:48.159 about as close as you're legally allowed to go there. 656 00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:52.559 And Israeli snipers would snipe a few of them, so 657 00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:54.719 I don't know how many died. It's nothing compared to 658 00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:57.760 the current bloodshed. It was probably a couple dozen. But 659 00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:00.880 one guy in a wheelchair got hit. And they were 660 00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:05.000 hitting guys in their kneecaps, you know, specifically to cripple 661 00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:07.880 them instead of kill them. And Israeli true if they 662 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:10.960 would post these to telegram and say, oh hey, look 663 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:15.440 I got one. So just never got any play in 664 00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:19.960 American media, mainstream media, but within the Arab world, they 665 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:22.760 pissed a lot of people off. And Israel does want 666 00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:28.199 a certain amount of simmering conflict with Palestine all the time. 667 00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.360 They don't want it to die down too low that 668 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:33.079 the border will just freeze. And at the same time, 669 00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:35.960 they don't want it. They don't want it in October seventh, 670 00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:39.679 every day, right, they just want enough going on that 671 00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:43.559 they can keep the gears moving. And as long as 672 00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:45.480 the gears keep moving, what we just watched in that 673 00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:48.239 video is Israel's gonna take over the northern half of 674 00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:51.239 the Gaza script and push everyone there into the south. 675 00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:56.400 And then you know, phase two, question mark, phase three, 676 00:39:56.519 --> 00:39:59.760 question mark. They don't know exactly what's next, but they 677 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:02.000 they know what direction to push in and they're gonna 678 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:05.519 push in that direction. Just keep on making them miserable, 679 00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:07.679 keep pushing them more and more out of the way. 680 00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:10.280 Gaza was never part of historic Israeli either if you 681 00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:14.360 go back to like Wikipedia, where you know you see 682 00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:16.559 who try which tribe controlled what. It was never part 683 00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:19.519 of Judah. It was never part of Isakar or Manassa 684 00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:22.960 or any of the northern ones Ashdat, Ashkalan, and Gaza. 685 00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:25.280 They were in the far back. 686 00:40:25.400 --> 00:40:28.199 You go and do because there's one conversation that saved 687 00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:31.679 from the river to the sea. I've seen maps of 688 00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:35.679 like Judea at its largest, and there are those that 689 00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:38.679 say that that is clearly the land that is being 690 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:41.119 talked about here when it's like, but you're talking about 691 00:40:41.159 --> 00:40:44.079 like half of Saudi Arabia in that conversation as well. 692 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.880 And I don't agree with that for the record, but 693 00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:49.400 there are those that are of that standpoint. So when 694 00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:51.800 you say that Gaza was never a part of true Judea, 695 00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.360 like which at which point in history are we talking. 696 00:40:56.000 --> 00:41:00.400 I'm talking about about seven hundred BC to Jesus, it's time, 697 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:04.239 I believe. I believe even in Jesus's time it was Philistia. 698 00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:07.400 I could look it up, it would just take me 699 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:10.079 a while. I can't. Really, No, I'll get it right now. 700 00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:13.960 Yeah, I get it. I get it. I mean we 701 00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:17.280 and we recently. I just had this conversation with somebody, 702 00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:20.199 I think either today or yesterday as a matter of fact, 703 00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:25.559 talking about when Rome was in charge of the land 704 00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:32.639 of Judea. They even called it Judea until the Jewish revolt, 705 00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:35.119 right when they tore down the temple and all these 706 00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:39.159 things in seventy a d. They renamed the Lamb Palestine. 707 00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:41.760 It was never supposed to be called that, but the 708 00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:46.159 Romans reclassified at that after the Jewish Uprising. I mean 709 00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:47.920 you ever seen the movie ben Her. 710 00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:50.880 Uh? Yeah, I saw like half of it. 711 00:41:51.559 --> 00:41:54.239 Oh. First of all, if you only saw the first half, 712 00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:56.400 then you only see that was the worst half. The 713 00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:58.639 second half is where things pick up. But neither here 714 00:41:58.679 --> 00:42:01.280 nor not the new one, Not the new one, the 715 00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:07.639 original one, Charles. Yes, dude, Yes, that's legendary cinematography. Not 716 00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:10.239 to mention the chariot race that takes place. We're talking 717 00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:13.119 about stuntmen that were actually getting trampled by horses. There 718 00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:17.360 was no CGI like I mind blowing, mind blowing movie magic, 719 00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:23.599 neither here nor there. The Judaean like princely class, the 720 00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:26.559 Royalty of Judaea and all that. Although they were under 721 00:42:26.679 --> 00:42:32.840 Roman occupation, there was still a quid pro quo as 722 00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:34.559 far as it goes. If you want something to happen 723 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:36.800 in Judea, yet, you could come in there with your 724 00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:39.199 legions and you could force it upon the people. But 725 00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:41.239 that's not going to go well. They understood that the 726 00:42:41.320 --> 00:42:44.719 land was ruled by Jews or by the Hebrews or 727 00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:46.639 Israelis or whatever they would have called it at the 728 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:51.079 day and age. Palestine as a word didn't come around 729 00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:55.320 until after the revolt took place. They reclassified the land 730 00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:59.840 as Palestine, and it's been ran as that ever since. 731 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:03.360 So it's I don't know where Gaza was as far 732 00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:08.239 as prior to the time of Jesus or any of that, 733 00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:09.800 but I thought it was kind of in the same 734 00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:13.519 conversation as Judea. Yeah, you had Felicitia, you had the 735 00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:16.280 Philistines or Philistines, however you want to say it, that 736 00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:19.320 were occupying this land. But they were always enemies of 737 00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:21.480 the Jews, and at one point in time they were 738 00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:24.119 a very very small tribe. They held a very small 739 00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:27.000 portion of land. I mean, I guess that could be 740 00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:28.440 what we will call Gaza today. 741 00:43:28.840 --> 00:43:32.880 Possibly well what I'm looking at some maps right now, 742 00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:35.840 it chose the Kingdom of Judah was completely landlocked for 743 00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:40.079 its entire history, and the coastline was called Philistine city 744 00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:43.800 states including Ashdot and ashkal On, which are in Israel 745 00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:47.920 now but not Gaza, which well, Gaza is going to 746 00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:53.079 be in Israel soon, I guess. And in the Hasmonium period, 747 00:43:53.079 --> 00:43:55.840 which is like four hundred BC to Jesus's time almost 748 00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:59.239 or maybe one hundred BC, Yeah, it was it was 749 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:04.400 still Philistine, and the word philistine or Palestine goes back 750 00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:06.960 at least as far as four sixty BC, because that's 751 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:10.800 when Herodotus wrote about it and that's when he lived. 752 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:14.920 So there's been lots of conflicting names about this area 753 00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:18.280 going back all the way to probably a thousand BC. 754 00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:21.719 And it's not just one area, there's many. Of course, 755 00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:27.599 there's the twelve Tribes of Israel and like Issachar and 756 00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:31.199 Manassa and Dan and I forget all the rest, but 757 00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:34.599 there's you know, it's subdivided quite a. 758 00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:39.280 Bit, twelve tribes, but only subdivided into ten areas because 759 00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:43.000 Dan got kicked out and then the Levites didn't inherit Land, 760 00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:47.559 so you had ten tribes, ten sections. I'm with you. 761 00:44:47.679 --> 00:44:48.320 I'm with you on that. 762 00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:51.119 But Manassa and Dan and one of the other ones 763 00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:53.679 were actually east of the Jordan River. So that makes 764 00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:57.159 me wonder does Israel wanted that back too, because they 765 00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:01.760 seem to prefer the Hashemite government Jordan and they consider 766 00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:04.400 that the devil. They know, they don't want that to 767 00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:07.440 be a fractured stake, but that could change. I think 768 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:10.039 that probably will change. I think within our lifetime, within 769 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:13.360 the next fifty years, there will probably be an Israeli 770 00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:15.320 war with Jordan, and we won't be talking about the 771 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:17.519 west bank of the Jordan River anymore. We will be 772 00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:19.000 talking about the east bank. 773 00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:22.880 If that was to take place. So the Jordanian king 774 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.559 right now, he's not a fan of net and Yahoo. 775 00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:28.760 He's not a fan of Israel. However, he sees them 776 00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.960 as a necessary evil in the short term, you know. 777 00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:34.679 And the Kingdom of Jordan, the last time that they 778 00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.840 actually took an offensive against Israel from not mistaken, was 779 00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:41.559 during the Sixth Day War, right when they had all 780 00:45:41.639 --> 00:45:44.440 these nations come at them at the exact same time. 781 00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:47.960 Egypt tried taking the southern portion. Jordan tried to jump 782 00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:50.679 in and into the mix to expand their own territory. 783 00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:53.679 But that was the last time that Jordan actually took 784 00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:57.519 a offensive stance against Israel. At one point in time, 785 00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:00.159 they took kind of a you know, everybody, I was 786 00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:02.199 telling middle fingers at each other, but nobody was firing 787 00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:04.679 or shot. Then they got to the point of where 788 00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:08.559 the Jordanian king and net and Yaho are very tense. 789 00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:12.639 I'm afraid to call them allies. I feel like that 790 00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:16.159 might be a misnomer as well. But they don't hate 791 00:46:16.199 --> 00:46:18.199 each other, but they don't love each other either. 792 00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:24.559 Most of the Arab world, especially the anti Israel world, 793 00:46:24.719 --> 00:46:29.199 sees Jordan as sewn up by Israel and a friend 794 00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:31.760 of Israel. So when Iran was launching a bunch of 795 00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:36.239 missiles at Israel a couple of months ago, geographics Jordan's 796 00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:38.840 right in between, and Jordan's shot down a lot of them. 797 00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:42.960 So you know, I'd say Jordan is still mostly on 798 00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:45.800 Israel's side, and Israel isn't going to let that government fall. 799 00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:48.719 That's also the reason that the Muslim Brotherhood is not 800 00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:52.760 designated the designated a terrorist organization because there's about a 801 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.599 million members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan. 802 00:46:56.559 --> 00:46:59.199 Wait, I'm sorry, Since when is the Muslim Brotherhood not 803 00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:00.760 listed as a terror organization? 804 00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:03.719 I'm pretty sure it's still not. 805 00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:09.760 By who I know is in America, Darth they I. 806 00:47:09.719 --> 00:47:11.840 Mean, I would have to look that up. I maybe 807 00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:14.039 I'm remembering back to when they weren't, but I know 808 00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:15.880 that it's been under consideration. 809 00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:19.840 Now you got me messed up. I'm gonna look this up. Now. 810 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:23.920 Is the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization in America? Because 811 00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:26.360 I mean, every country lists their own, like the ira 812 00:47:26.599 --> 00:47:29.639 is considered a terrorist organization Ireland. I don't think America 813 00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:33.159 has that designation, so, like, you know, I get it, 814 00:47:33.199 --> 00:47:33.800 but hold on. 815 00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:38.519 They were formed in Egypt in nineteen twenty eight and 816 00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:42.599 they're really big and uh in Jordan. Right now, this 817 00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:45.159 is gonna we should probably pause or something. 818 00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:48.000 But I mean, I'm I'm gonna look this up. Let's see, 819 00:47:48.719 --> 00:47:51.400 we're we're I'm Google searching this one at this moment. 820 00:47:51.519 --> 00:47:52.400 Let's see what pops up. 821 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:55.599 Even just Ai mode isn't considered a terrorist. 822 00:47:55.480 --> 00:48:00.000 Ye, yeah, Ai is generating answer. Let's see. Several countries, 823 00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:05.719 including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, bah Rain, Jordan, Austria, 824 00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:09.480 and Russia, have officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a 825 00:48:09.599 --> 00:48:13.400 terrorist organization. So Jordan has them listed as a terrorist organization. 826 00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:17.280 Some of these designations have been relatively recent, with Austria 827 00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:20.159 and Jordan joining the list in recent years. However, the 828 00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:23.480 United States has not, to your point, Tony, the United 829 00:48:23.519 --> 00:48:26.800 States has not designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a whole 830 00:48:26.920 --> 00:48:30.719 as a foreign terrorist organization. While multiple US allies in 831 00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:32.880 the Middle East and Europe have taken such action, the 832 00:48:33.039 --> 00:48:36.840 US stance is more nuanced. The US has, however, designated 833 00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:40.960 several affiliates of the Muslim brotherhoods such as Hamas and Hassum, 834 00:48:41.480 --> 00:48:45.480 as terrorist organizations. So okay, so I was not up 835 00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:45.840 to date. 836 00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:49.280 Jordan has banned the Muslim Brotherhood earlier this year, it says, 837 00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:51.800 So my information was out of date, But I don't 838 00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:52.760 feel too bad. 839 00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:55.519 As was mine. I honestly thought America had the Muslim 840 00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:59.039 Brotherhood listen as a terrorist group. So we were both 841 00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:01.639 equally the wrong and equally right on this one. This 842 00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:06.719 is interesting times, but neither here nor there. So I 843 00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:09.119 don't know. I think that Jordan, like you said, I'm 844 00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:12.679 not saying they're a full on Israeli puppet. I don't 845 00:49:12.719 --> 00:49:15.360 want to go that route with it. But the Jordanian 846 00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:21.239 king absolutely sees Israel in if we're gonna, if we're 847 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:23.280 gonna put it on like a pH scale, it is 848 00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:28.719 just upwards on the positive side of neutrality. He's definitely 849 00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:31.440 he's definitely more in favor of NET and Yahoo than 850 00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:34.480 he is against him. And I'm I feel comfortable making 851 00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:35.280 that statement at. 852 00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:37.880 Least, Yeah, I agree. 853 00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:41.480 So, yeah, I don't know what's gonna shake out with 854 00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:45.159 all this. I don't want to see innocence uh murdered 855 00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:49.960 for Hamas to get their way or for the IDEF 856 00:49:50.079 --> 00:49:53.599 to get their way either. I've said this before. If 857 00:49:53.960 --> 00:49:56.480 we're looking for some sort of a good guy in 858 00:49:56.559 --> 00:50:01.320 the conversation, none can be found own honestly, And I'm 859 00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:04.880 not saying that every single person in Palestine is evil. 860 00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:07.360 I am not saying that every single idea of soldier 861 00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:11.639 is evil. Just don't don't misinterpret my words here. The 862 00:50:11.679 --> 00:50:14.360 people that are actually calling the shots on this one, 863 00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:18.840 I don't believe that there's anyone there actually acting on 864 00:50:18.880 --> 00:50:23.119 the side of morality and justice anymore. To be honest, 865 00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:26.480 I don't. I am personally just Jacob speaking on behalf 866 00:50:26.519 --> 00:50:30.599 of Jacob. I don't think this entire situation in Israel 867 00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:33.679 and gods and all that was ever a morality thing. 868 00:50:33.719 --> 00:50:36.320 And I understand, Oh do you do you remember what 869 00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:38.800 Hamas did when they came in and they took the 870 00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:42.880 hostages and all that. I'm person of the belief that 871 00:50:43.039 --> 00:50:45.000 was a part of a plan. Maybe this is just 872 00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:48.000 my conspiratorial brain coming out, but I find it very 873 00:50:48.039 --> 00:50:53.679 odd that Biden randomly found six billion dollars to give 874 00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:57.679 to Iran for some prisoners quote unquote, even though the 875 00:50:57.719 --> 00:51:00.760 whole stipulations to that deal was very, very weird, and 876 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:03.400 nobody actually could make sense of why we gave six 877 00:51:03.559 --> 00:51:08.199 billion to Iran. Next thing, you know, Iran being a 878 00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:12.000 super you know, supporter, let's let's leave it, a supporter 879 00:51:12.599 --> 00:51:16.760 of Hamas. Next thing, you know, Hamas has all of 880 00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:19.519 these weapons, all of this man power, all of that 881 00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:25.199 is around the Israeli border, and Moussad I don't even 882 00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:27.599 think it's an argument to be said, Mussad being the 883 00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:32.760 greatest intelligence organization on earth as of this moment, especially 884 00:51:33.400 --> 00:51:38.360 over there quote unquote open air prison of Gaza. If 885 00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:42.920 we believe that they missed, they they just didn't see 886 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.639 the amassing of troops and the amassing of weapons, and 887 00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:49.199 the paragliders and all these they missed one hundred percent. 888 00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:51.440 They just had no clue and got caught with their 889 00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:56.559 pants down, because that's something that Moosad does. Ever. But 890 00:51:56.639 --> 00:52:01.000 all right, I am person of the belief that at 891 00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:04.360 the powers that be, I mean, you want to drop 892 00:52:04.440 --> 00:52:07.920 names and say that in Yahoo or Biden or whatever, 893 00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:11.199 maybe yes, maybe no, But I believe that the true 894 00:52:11.239 --> 00:52:13.920 powers that be knew that it was going to take place, 895 00:52:14.159 --> 00:52:16.559 allowed it to take place so it could kickstart the 896 00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:20.679 entire conflict as we see unfolding before our eyes. So 897 00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:23.599 I don't believe that there are any good guys to 898 00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:28.679 be found anywhere in this conversation. Just me. 899 00:52:29.800 --> 00:52:32.760 Yeah. I feel like it's like Pearl Harbor and FTR 900 00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:37.519 wanted Pearl Harbor to happen, yep, and Israeli Zionis wanted 901 00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:41.079 the October seventh attack or something like it to happen. 902 00:52:41.559 --> 00:52:43.800 Maybe not exactly on that scale. Maybe they would have 903 00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:46.719 preferred it to be a little less, but they needed 904 00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:48.559 something like that to exploit. 905 00:52:48.920 --> 00:52:51.679 I think it's the USS independence. I think it is 906 00:52:51.719 --> 00:52:54.079 Pearl Harbor. I think it is the Gulf of Tonkin. 907 00:52:54.519 --> 00:52:57.360 I'm not saying that there wasn't a shit that exploded. 908 00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:00.760 I'm not saying that lives weren't lost. I'm not saying 909 00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:02.400 that it was a complete false flag and it was 910 00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:06.880 a complete op. What I'm saying is the attack was 911 00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:10.280 allowed to happen. 912 00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:13.559 Presumed that these border guards they should have been training 913 00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:15.639 for what happens if you have a breach? What do 914 00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:18.559 you do? That should just be part of training, you know, 915 00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:22.000 drills every week or so. I assume that our troops 916 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:24.639 and our border patrol do stuff like that, yes, and 917 00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:28.679 I guess the Israeli border patrol never did anything like 918 00:53:28.760 --> 00:53:30.719 that at all. That's my problem. 919 00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:33.760 They do get trained in that. I know for a 920 00:53:33.960 --> 00:53:37.800 fact that they get trained in that, So that's my point. 921 00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:43.400 So they just got caught slipping by their alleged open 922 00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:47.760 air prison population. The prison guards just happened to be 923 00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:51.320 missing that day and the prisoners were able to take 924 00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:54.559 over the prison and launch an invasion. I have a 925 00:53:54.639 --> 00:53:59.760 hard time believing the comedy of errors that occurred to 926 00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:05.199 where that could happen personally. So yeah, as far as 927 00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:08.840 this conversation goes, I hope that this hit whole Gaza 928 00:54:08.920 --> 00:54:15.239 Israel thing gets resolved sooner rather than later. That being said, 929 00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:21.159 as Israel is launching Phase one of their Gaza offensive, 930 00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:24.159 I don't think it's gonna get wrapped up anytime soon. 931 00:54:24.679 --> 00:54:29.000 So anyway, we will keep everybody posted on this as 932 00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:32.960 it plays out into the future. Now back to the 933 00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:37.880 conversations at hand again, This is from about a week ago, 934 00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:39.480 and I meant to bring it up last week, but 935 00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:41.159 I thought it was actually kind of funny and it 936 00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:46.119 is a weird segue into the Russia Ukraine conversation. So 937 00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:51.519 Sony closes all operations in Russia after eighteen years, ending PlayStation, 938 00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:55.239 music and film presence. Now, I'm not saying that this 939 00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:58.880 is gonna cripple Putin and cripple Russia. Don't misinterpret my 940 00:54:58.960 --> 00:55:01.159 words here, But I'm just saying it's funny that Sony, 941 00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:04.239 of all things, a gaming company and a music company, 942 00:55:04.239 --> 00:55:06.280 and yes they have their hand in movies as well, 943 00:55:06.679 --> 00:55:08.920 decide that they are going to be pulling out of 944 00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:11.719 all Russian business. Let's read it in here. This is 945 00:55:11.719 --> 00:55:15.440 from United twenty four Media. Sony has formally ended its 946 00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:20.199 presence in Russia, dissolving its local subsidiary, Sony Mobile Communications 947 00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:24.119 Roots on August eleventh. According to the United States Register 948 00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:28.880 of Legal Entities, the Japanese technology company had operated in 949 00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:32.840 Russia since two thousand and six, marking and eighteen year presents. 950 00:55:33.159 --> 00:55:38.199 Liquidation documents were submitted to the facts A Federal tax 951 00:55:38.239 --> 00:55:42.960 service in October twenty twenty four, following an earlier unsuccessful 952 00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:45.360 attempt to close the business in twenty twenty three, and 953 00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:48.639 its final year is a subsidiary primarily sold remaining stock 954 00:55:48.760 --> 00:55:54.440 and provided device servicing. Sony announced its devices I'm Sorry 955 00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:57.440 its decision to exit Russia shortly after the full scale 956 00:55:57.480 --> 00:56:00.840 invasion of Ukraine in February twenty twenty to joining other 957 00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:04.920 companies in supporting international sanctions. In March twenty twenty two, 958 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:09.519 the corporation halted console shipments, suspended PlayStation store operations, and 959 00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:13.159 donated two million dollars to assist Ukrainians affected by the 960 00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:16.840 war through the UN and Save the Children. Sony Pictures 961 00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:20.519 Entertainment also stopped releasing films in Russia, while Sony Music 962 00:56:20.599 --> 00:56:24.199 ceased operations in September twenty twenty two, removing foreign catalogs 963 00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:28.119 from local streaming services and spinning off its Russian division 964 00:56:28.199 --> 00:56:31.559 into an independent label. In twenty twenty four, the company 965 00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:34.840 began closing its branded stores in Russia, completing the process 966 00:56:34.880 --> 00:56:38.519 by summer due to the lack of product supply. Financial 967 00:56:38.559 --> 00:56:41.400 results reflect the decline a net loss of one point 968 00:56:41.480 --> 00:56:44.719 four to three billion ruples, which is about fifteen point 969 00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:48.320 nine We could round that up to sixteen million dollars 970 00:56:48.360 --> 00:56:51.719 in twenty twenty two and give or take five point 971 00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:54.920 nine million in twenty twenty three, followed by a modest 972 00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:58.119 profit of one point two million in twenty twenty four. 973 00:56:58.639 --> 00:57:00.760 These are USD by the way, I say the million 974 00:57:01.039 --> 00:57:05.639 generated solely from warranty and administrative services. Revenue dropped by 975 00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:09.880 approximately seventy six percent over the period earlier. A March 976 00:57:09.960 --> 00:57:13.880 twenty fifth report by Russian consulting firm KEPT found that 977 00:57:14.599 --> 00:57:18.320 about sixty two percent of Western companies with significant assets 978 00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:20.440 in Russia had exited since the start of the full 979 00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:25.400 scale invasion of Ukraine, with most transferring assets to domestic 980 00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:29.800 buyers or local management. So again, it's not I'm not 981 00:57:29.840 --> 00:57:31.599 saying that Sony is going to be the thing that 982 00:57:31.719 --> 00:57:34.800 ends the war by any means, but it's yet another company, 983 00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:37.559 and it's a Japanese company at that, that have pulled 984 00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:42.320 out full stop from Russia because of the situation there. Now, 985 00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:47.679 Trump is confident that the Russia and Ukrainian leaders will meet, 986 00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:52.039 despite Russian doubts. For anybody that missed it, Putin and 987 00:57:52.079 --> 00:58:00.519 Trump had a very good meeting in Alaska, Yeah, saying 988 00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:03.480 that they came to an agreement, but it seemed that 989 00:58:03.599 --> 00:58:08.360 both parties left that meeting feeling very good about the meeting. Ukraine, obviously, 990 00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:11.760 Zelenski is very pissed that that meeting took place without him, 991 00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:13.840 But we got to get to it right. We got 992 00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:16.559 to start the process some way, shape or form. Trump 993 00:58:16.599 --> 00:58:19.000 had already met with Zelensky and finally got him to 994 00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:22.320 the conversation right and said that, hey, we will launch 995 00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:26.039 our mining operations on the eastern side of Ukraine. If 996 00:58:26.119 --> 00:58:28.840 you agree to this, we will bring Russia to the 997 00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:32.199 table to have these conversations. Zelensky was pissed, but he 998 00:58:32.239 --> 00:58:34.599 finally agreed and said, fine, we will give you the 999 00:58:34.639 --> 00:58:37.079 mineral rights as long as you can end this war. 1000 00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:40.000 Russia said, no, no way in hell, we have no 1001 00:58:40.119 --> 00:58:43.280 interest in any this warring time soon. Now. Trump and 1002 00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:46.559 Putin just met in Alaska. They both left feeling very 1003 00:58:46.559 --> 00:58:49.239 good about it. Let's listen in on some of the 1004 00:58:50.079 --> 00:58:53.760 possible conversations that took place there. This is from a 1005 00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:58.280 local four from Detroit. Let's listen in. Where and when? 1006 00:58:58.559 --> 00:59:01.599 Those are the two big questions surrounding President Trump's wish 1007 00:59:01.639 --> 00:59:04.000 to have the leaders of Russia and Ukraine meet face 1008 00:59:04.039 --> 00:59:06.880 to face to finally end this war. But today the 1009 00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:10.199 Russians are publicly sounding less committed to a meeting with 1010 00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:14.280 Ukrainians than President Trump. Had expressed, as Monica Alba shows US. 1011 00:59:14.320 --> 00:59:17.599 This comes as attacks in eastern Ukraine continue. 1012 00:59:17.119 --> 00:59:17.760 To ramp up. 1013 00:59:19.719 --> 00:59:23.320 President Trump continuing to express confidence that the leaders of 1014 00:59:23.400 --> 00:59:26.400 Russia and Ukraine could soon meet face to face to 1015 00:59:26.480 --> 00:59:28.960 negotiate an end to their three and a half years 1016 00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:29.599 long war. 1017 00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:32.400 We're going to try and stop it, and I think 1018 00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:33.400 we have a good shot. 1019 00:59:33.679 --> 00:59:38.480 But today the Russians are throwing cold water on that mind, 1020 00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:41.840 the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying that talks between 1021 00:59:41.840 --> 00:59:45.719 lower level Russian and Ukrainian officials must take place before 1022 00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:49.360 sit down between the country's presidents is set. Lavrov adding 1023 00:59:49.360 --> 00:59:52.719 that discussions about security guarantees for Ukraine now taking place 1024 00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:56.280 among US and European leaders, but not the Russians, are 1025 00:59:56.320 --> 00:59:59.960 a quote road to nowhere. Despite that, more than third 1026 01:00:00.039 --> 01:00:03.400 NATO military leaders held a video conference today to talk 1027 01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:07.079 about what security guarantees for Ukraine which would satisfy both 1028 01:00:07.159 --> 01:00:12.119 Ukraine and Russia might look like. It comes after another 1029 01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:15.880 intense night of Russian bombing in eastern Ukraine. Officials there 1030 01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:18.920 say sixty drone strikes injured more than a dozen people. 1031 01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:23.000 The Russians have no interest and they've demonstrated no interest 1032 01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:24.119 in stopping this war. 1033 01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:27.440 Former Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor says Russia has no 1034 01:00:27.519 --> 01:00:29.639 incentive to negotiate with Ukraine. 1035 01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:30.920 He said, They're going to drag it out. 1036 01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:33.920 They want to continue to pound the Ukrainians until they 1037 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:36.679 get what they want, and that's why standing up to 1038 01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:38.079 them is the only way to do it. 1039 01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:41.559 Some lawmakers now urging the president to get tougher on 1040 01:00:41.719 --> 01:00:42.559 President Putin. 1041 01:00:42.840 --> 01:00:45.199 I think the only way to do that if he 1042 01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:48.440 does not move forward quickly with this summit or with 1043 01:00:48.559 --> 01:00:50.760 a ceasefire, is with very strong sanctions. 1044 01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:52.679 The White House has not said where a meeting between 1045 01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:56.000 Vladimir Putin and Voladimir Zelenski could take place or when, 1046 01:00:56.360 --> 01:01:00.119 but an administration official said Budapest, Hungary, and Geneva Switzer 1047 01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:04.480 are two possible locations that are being discussed. Monica Alba, 1048 01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:06.159 NBC News, Washington. 1049 01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:09.639 President Trump insists that US troops will not be deployed 1050 01:01:09.679 --> 01:01:12.440 to help protect Ukraine after the war is over, but 1051 01:01:12.519 --> 01:01:15.119 the President says the US could provide air support to 1052 01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:15.920 the Ukrainians. 1053 01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:17.280 We'll have much. 1054 01:01:17.079 --> 01:01:19.719 More from Washington, d C on nightly News tonight. 1055 01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:23.519 Right, all right, So that was from NBC. I should add, 1056 01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:26.320 so the meetings seem to have gone well, and again 1057 01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:29.599 they're not saying anything that we haven't said before. A 1058 01:01:29.679 --> 01:01:33.039 quick expedient into this conflict is in the best interest 1059 01:01:33.079 --> 01:01:36.920 of everybody. Yeah, duh. That was the entire point. This 1060 01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:40.360 special military operation was only supposed to last two weeks. 1061 01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:42.119 We are at three and a half years of it 1062 01:01:42.159 --> 01:01:45.119 as of this moment. I believe we're gonna see the 1063 01:01:45.119 --> 01:01:49.679 fourth year old around. But again, it seems like Putin 1064 01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:52.840 might be more willing as of this particular moment in 1065 01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:56.440 time to come to the negotiation table. I don't know 1066 01:01:56.480 --> 01:02:00.199 if that's a true statement or not. I only have hopes. Now, 1067 01:02:00.559 --> 01:02:05.679 let's talk about Trump's security guarantees quote unquote for Ukraine 1068 01:02:06.199 --> 01:02:08.480 and it does this actually line up with what we 1069 01:02:08.719 --> 01:02:13.719 just heard. Let's listen in This is from WMAZ thirteen. 1070 01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:17.119 Yes, and European allies pushing ahead with plans for how 1071 01:02:17.159 --> 01:02:20.280 to protect Ukraine if the war with Russia comes to 1072 01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:20.679 an end. 1073 01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:23.400 A potential summit with the leaders of both of those 1074 01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:25.880 warring nations continues to be negotiated. 1075 01:02:26.239 --> 01:02:28.679 Netlie Brand has more details for the Whitehouse. 1076 01:02:33.840 --> 01:02:38.159 Ukraine says a drone strike overnight injured fourteen people, including 1077 01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:42.440 young children. President Vladimir Zelinsky says a separate attack damaged 1078 01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:46.239 five apartment buildings, and he called for strong security guarantees 1079 01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:50.480 to ensure a truly, reliable and lasting peace. US Secretary 1080 01:02:50.480 --> 01:02:53.480 of State Marco Rubio is discussing what form that could 1081 01:02:53.559 --> 01:03:00.280 take with European allies, as NATO defense chiefs hold a 1082 01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:04.199 virtual meeting today to continue working out details. Russia is 1083 01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:07.840 sounding off against any NATO troops on the ground in Ukraine, 1084 01:03:09.559 --> 01:03:13.239 with the Foreign Minister saying discussing security issues without Russia 1085 01:03:13.480 --> 01:03:16.239 is a quote road to nowhere. The Kremlin is also 1086 01:03:16.360 --> 01:03:20.079 not confirming that Russian President Vladimir Putin will participate in 1087 01:03:20.119 --> 01:03:23.480 direct talks with Ukrainian President Zelenski, but the White House 1088 01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:26.239 as Putin promise President Trump he would take part. 1089 01:03:26.519 --> 01:03:27.199 I can't tell you. 1090 01:03:27.280 --> 01:03:29.280 There are many options that are being discussed by our 1091 01:03:29.400 --> 01:03:31.480 national security team right now with both parties. 1092 01:03:31.920 --> 01:03:35.639 Source tells CBS News Budapest, Hungary, is one city under 1093 01:03:35.719 --> 01:03:39.480 consideration for the Putin Zelensky talks. The White House hopes 1094 01:03:39.519 --> 01:03:42.480 to have a date and location set by later this week. 1095 01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:46.519 I don't know, maybe I'm just speaking on behalf of 1096 01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:49.440 myself here. But even if you were to get Zelenski 1097 01:03:49.480 --> 01:03:52.480 and Putin into a room together, I have a hard 1098 01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:55.400 time believing that they would have a productive conversation to 1099 01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:58.039 actually bring about the end of the war. I feel 1100 01:03:58.039 --> 01:04:02.360 like both of them are very eageric dudes, And I'm 1101 01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:05.320 not saying that to shit on one side or the other. 1102 01:04:05.719 --> 01:04:07.440 I think that's just kind of the nature of the 1103 01:04:07.480 --> 01:04:12.519 beast on this one. Zelenski wants Crimea to be back 1104 01:04:12.639 --> 01:04:17.239 into the realm of the Ukrainian people, and Putin wants 1105 01:04:17.280 --> 01:04:19.679 to at least keep the lands that have already been 1106 01:04:19.679 --> 01:04:23.079 taken up until this point, I don't see them coming 1107 01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:27.840 to any kind of real agreement on this. However. Trump 1108 01:04:27.880 --> 01:04:33.199 whispers a crazy Putin deal theory to Emmanuel Macron in 1109 01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:37.000 a hot mike moment. This just happened, as a matter 1110 01:04:37.039 --> 01:04:40.079 of fact, let's talk about it. Trump's comments came during 1111 01:04:40.119 --> 01:04:42.760 a Monday meeting with European leaders as he looks to 1112 01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:46.519 secure a peace deal between Russian and Ukraine. Uh, this 1113 01:04:46.639 --> 01:04:48.920 is a video. We're gonna play that in just a second, 1114 01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:51.639 but let's just read about it first. President Trump was 1115 01:04:51.679 --> 01:04:54.480 heard in a hot mic moment whispering to French President 1116 01:04:54.519 --> 01:04:57.760 Emmanuel Macrone. Yes, the same Macrone that is married to 1117 01:04:57.840 --> 01:05:01.679 a dude that people call brigit. But conversation for another day. 1118 01:05:01.719 --> 01:05:06.119 And Kennice owens that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin 1119 01:05:06.360 --> 01:05:09.840 wants to make a peace deal for the US. Leader 1120 01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:13.159 Trump is really of the belief that he is so 1121 01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:16.440 smooth at talking that he's got Putin eating out of 1122 01:05:16.440 --> 01:05:18.360 the palm in his hand, and he really wants to 1123 01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:22.880 make it happen, remarking the hunch even sounded crazy to him, 1124 01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:27.400 direct quote, I think he which is Putin, wants to 1125 01:05:27.400 --> 01:05:29.159 make a deal. I think he wants to make a 1126 01:05:29.159 --> 01:05:31.920 deal for me. You understand that Trump was heard telling 1127 01:05:31.960 --> 01:05:35.800 Macrone ahead of a multilateral meeting with European leaders Monday, 1128 01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:39.599 as crazy as it sounds. Top European leaders converged on 1129 01:05:39.639 --> 01:05:42.400 the White House Monday when Trump haild his highly anticipated 1130 01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:45.880 meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky in the hopes of brokering 1131 01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:48.400 a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, a middle ward 1132 01:05:48.400 --> 01:05:51.519 that has raged since the winter of twenty twenty two. 1133 01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:55.199 Trump spoke with the European leaders following his meeting with Zelensky, 1134 01:05:55.440 --> 01:06:00.440 which included discussions on quote unquote security guarantees for Ukraine, 1135 01:06:00.519 --> 01:06:04.599 which guarantees would be provided by the various European countries 1136 01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:08.039 with a coordination with the United States of America. Trump 1137 01:06:08.119 --> 01:06:12.639 said on Truth's Social Monday of the meeting, so let's 1138 01:06:12.639 --> 01:06:15.199 see five key moments now, I'm not worry about that. 1139 01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:17.960 European leaders who joined the meeting at the White House 1140 01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:22.960 Monday included Macrone, Finished President Alexander Stubb, Italian Prime Minister 1141 01:06:23.559 --> 01:06:28.159 Georgia or yeah, I think Georgia Maloney, UK Prime Minister 1142 01:06:28.280 --> 01:06:33.639 Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Frederick Murrs, and European Commissioner President 1143 01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:37.840 Ursula von der Leyton and NATO Secretary General Mark Root. 1144 01:06:38.159 --> 01:06:41.159 Macrone joined NBC News following the White House meeting and 1145 01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:45.320 was asked point blank about Trump's comments to him. There 1146 01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:48.000 is a direct quote here. What went through your head 1147 01:06:48.039 --> 01:06:50.760 when he said that to you, NBC's Christian Welker asked 1148 01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:54.519 Macrone after the transcript of Trump's exchange with mcrone earlier 1149 01:06:54.519 --> 01:06:58.800 that day. McCrone celebrated the exchange as evidence of Trump's 1150 01:06:58.840 --> 01:07:03.679 conviction the war between Ukraine and Russia will end. Direct 1151 01:07:03.800 --> 01:07:05.360 quote at the end of the day, if we have 1152 01:07:05.440 --> 01:07:07.960 a deal which is compliant with the long standing and 1153 01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:11.320 robust piece, this is great news, what Crohne said during 1154 01:07:11.320 --> 01:07:15.480 the Monday interview, continuing the quote, and your president indeed 1155 01:07:15.599 --> 01:07:18.360 is very confident about the capacity he has to get 1156 01:07:18.360 --> 01:07:20.760 the deal done, which is good news for all of us, 1157 01:07:20.800 --> 01:07:24.440 and can break this. I would say this daily killings. 1158 01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:28.599 When asked about the hot mic exchange, a White House 1159 01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:32.039 spokesperson told Fox News Digital that Trump is the only 1160 01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:34.639 world leader who has gotten Putin to join the negotiation 1161 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:37.320 table for a potential peace deal as war rage for 1162 01:07:37.400 --> 01:07:40.760 more than three years, quoting here, as President Trump has 1163 01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:43.679 said he has a good relationship with President Putin and 1164 01:07:43.840 --> 01:07:46.599 only he was able to bring President Putin to the 1165 01:07:46.599 --> 01:07:50.079 table for a peace deal. The spokesperson said, European leaders 1166 01:07:50.119 --> 01:07:53.000 recognize that after three years of killing and deadlock under 1167 01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:56.320 weak Joe Biden, there has been more progress towards peace 1168 01:07:56.360 --> 01:07:59.679 than ever before because of the President's leadership. Trump joined 1169 01:07:59.679 --> 01:08:02.079 Fox and Friends Tuesday morning and said he intends to 1170 01:08:02.159 --> 01:08:05.000 let Putin and Zelensky meet one on one before moving 1171 01:08:05.039 --> 01:08:09.920 forward with peace negotiations, which could include a landswap deal. 1172 01:08:10.360 --> 01:08:13.800 They haven't exactly been the best of friends, Trump said Tuesday. 1173 01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:16.560 Maybe they're getting along a little bit better than I thought. 1174 01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:19.039 Otherwise I wouldn't have set up the two of them 1175 01:08:19.199 --> 01:08:22.760 a meeting. I would have set up a trilateral meeting. 1176 01:08:23.119 --> 01:08:26.760 Trump added that the negotiations would not include omitting or 1177 01:08:26.880 --> 01:08:30.520 admitting Ukraine into NATO, but said some European nations have 1178 01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:34.880 agreed to provide NATO like protections, including security guarantees. I 1179 01:08:34.920 --> 01:08:38.399 don't know how accurate that is, but we shall see. 1180 01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:40.960 Trump met with Putin in Alaska Friday, which did not 1181 01:08:41.079 --> 01:08:43.319 yield a peace deal, but open the door for more 1182 01:08:43.399 --> 01:08:47.119 in depth peats talks. Following Trump's campaign trail pledged to 1183 01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:51.640 indie bloody war that began under his predecessor's tenure. Trump 1184 01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:54.960 called Putin following his White House meeting Monday and set 1185 01:08:54.960 --> 01:08:57.760 the table for a meeting between Putin and Zelensky. He 1186 01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:00.640 said on a truth social post this week. At the 1187 01:09:00.680 --> 01:09:03.079 conclusion of the meeting, I called President Putin and began 1188 01:09:03.119 --> 01:09:05.720 the arrangements for a meeting at a location to be 1189 01:09:05.800 --> 01:09:09.720 determined between President Putin and President Zelenski. That was Trump's post, 1190 01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:13.039 Continuing it says after that meeting takes place, we will 1191 01:09:13.079 --> 01:09:17.000 have a tri trial it which would be the two 1192 01:09:17.079 --> 01:09:20.600 presidents plus myself. Again, this was a very good early 1193 01:09:20.640 --> 01:09:22.560 step for a war that has been going on for 1194 01:09:22.600 --> 01:09:26.239 almost four years. Vice President JD. Van, Secretary of State 1195 01:09:26.279 --> 01:09:30.119 Marco Rubio, and Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff are coordinating with 1196 01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:33.640 Russia and Ukraine. Thank you for your attention on this matter. 1197 01:09:34.039 --> 01:09:37.479 Now I want to see and hear this hot mic 1198 01:09:37.600 --> 01:09:40.439 moment and let's see what actually was said in the 1199 01:09:40.479 --> 01:09:41.880 tone thereof. 1200 01:09:44.920 --> 01:09:50.319 A little tangent. Good, great, thank you for pod event 1201 01:09:50.479 --> 01:09:51.319 which I. 1202 01:09:55.399 --> 01:09:55.560 Set. 1203 01:09:56.079 --> 01:09:56.359 Lady. 1204 01:10:02.720 --> 01:10:04.520 I think he wants to make a deal for me. 1205 01:10:04.920 --> 01:10:07.439 Understand that, as crazy as it sounds, you sit down, 1206 01:10:07.960 --> 01:10:08.920 Sit down, everybody. 1207 01:10:09.880 --> 01:10:13.760 I think we'll let we'll let please. 1208 01:10:14.680 --> 01:10:23.359 Yeah, that didn't sound too convincing to me. 1209 01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:34.560 He's a tall guy, good looking, incredible. 1210 01:10:40.600 --> 01:10:45.800 Isn't it just it's such an incredible place. Well, we're 1211 01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:49.960 building a big ballroom, beautiful right here. 1212 01:10:50.319 --> 01:10:53.399 If you go, it would be right through that, right 1213 01:10:53.439 --> 01:10:55.800 through here. 1214 01:10:56.880 --> 01:10:59.399 It's gonna be, I'll tell you, but it's going to be. 1215 01:11:00.039 --> 01:11:06.319 It's going to be fantastic. Actually, you can let. 1216 01:11:06.199 --> 01:11:09.920 Them come in, all right. So again that didn't sound 1217 01:11:09.960 --> 01:11:13.119 too convincing to me personally. I think he wants to 1218 01:11:13.119 --> 01:11:14.520 make a deal with me, believe it or not. As 1219 01:11:14.600 --> 01:11:16.520 crazy as it sounds, I think he wants to make 1220 01:11:16.520 --> 01:11:19.159 a deal with me. You understand that it sounds like 1221 01:11:19.199 --> 01:11:21.159 he's just kind of talking shit to try to flex 1222 01:11:21.199 --> 01:11:23.880 on the cron I could be wrong here. Let's see. 1223 01:11:23.880 --> 01:11:26.840 This is another clip. This is from Fox News. As 1224 01:11:26.840 --> 01:11:28.359 a matter of fact, let's see what they have to 1225 01:11:28.359 --> 01:11:28.920 say on it. 1226 01:11:33.159 --> 01:11:37.119 President Trump making major progress toward peace and high stakes 1227 01:11:37.119 --> 01:11:41.199 talks with Ukrainian President Zelenski and European leaders in the 1228 01:11:41.239 --> 01:11:42.520 Oval Office yesterday. 1229 01:11:42.560 --> 01:11:43.279 Look at that picture. 1230 01:11:43.439 --> 01:11:47.199 President Trump also confirming a meeting between Russian President Putin and. 1231 01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:51.960 Zelenski is in the works before he hopefully meets them together. 1232 01:11:51.800 --> 01:11:54.359 And joining us now on the phone with more details. 1233 01:11:54.399 --> 01:11:56.359 The President of the United States, the forty fifth and 1234 01:11:56.399 --> 01:11:59.640 forty seventh President Donald J. Trump, Mister President, thanks so 1235 01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:01.479 much for you want to find some friends this morning. 1236 01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:04.920 Good morning. That's quite a crew. That's quite a crew. 1237 01:12:06.439 --> 01:12:09.479 Well, mister President, the whole world was watching yesterday as 1238 01:12:09.520 --> 01:12:13.840 you got leaders from the European Union, NATO as well 1239 01:12:13.960 --> 01:12:15.640 from all over the world. 1240 01:12:16.199 --> 01:12:17.640 How did you get them. 1241 01:12:17.720 --> 01:12:21.840 To Washington, to the Oval Office so fast. 1242 01:12:22.520 --> 01:12:25.199 Well, I think really they have respect for our country. Again. 1243 01:12:25.279 --> 01:12:27.000 A year ago, they wouldn't have come, they wouldn't have 1244 01:12:27.039 --> 01:12:30.239 even thought about it. Now we've become the hottest country 1245 01:12:30.279 --> 01:12:32.439 anywhere in the world. Everybody wants to be here. When 1246 01:12:32.479 --> 01:12:35.079 I made the call, they came and they said, there's 1247 01:12:35.119 --> 01:12:37.119 really never been anything like it. You know, you'd have 1248 01:12:37.159 --> 01:12:40.119 one president or one prime minister, but there's never been, 1249 01:12:40.439 --> 01:12:43.680 you know, such a group. And these really represent the 1250 01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:46.800 European nations, these people, and they're very good people, and 1251 01:12:46.800 --> 01:12:49.600 they want to end the war, that horrible war with 1252 01:12:49.800 --> 01:12:51.560 Ukraine and Russia to horrible war. 1253 01:12:52.560 --> 01:12:56.119 It was such a sense of unity and we all 1254 01:12:56.279 --> 01:12:59.560 enjoyed watching it because America is on top, and it 1255 01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:03.079 was on your turf, on your terms. I know yesterday 1256 01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:05.359 you talked about arranging a meeting to take place in 1257 01:13:05.399 --> 01:13:08.439 two weeks between Putin and Zelensky. Is there an update 1258 01:13:08.479 --> 01:13:09.960 there and do you plan to attend? 1259 01:13:11.039 --> 01:13:14.079 No, I thought I do. First, let him let them meet. 1260 01:13:14.159 --> 01:13:16.800 You know, they haven't been exactly best friends. I haven't 1261 01:13:17.159 --> 01:13:20.720 gotten along very well. And I call President Putin yesterday 1262 01:13:20.720 --> 01:13:23.039 and I do have a good relationship, but it, you know, 1263 01:13:23.119 --> 01:13:25.800 only matters if we get things done. Otherwise, I don't 1264 01:13:25.840 --> 01:13:28.439 care about the relationship. I do have a good relationship 1265 01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:30.479 with them, but I want to get things done. You know, 1266 01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:33.720 I've gotten I've saw seven wars, we ended seven wars. 1267 01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:35.439 I thought this would be one of the easier ones, 1268 01:13:35.479 --> 01:13:38.039 and this has turned out to be the toughest one. 1269 01:13:38.199 --> 01:13:42.520 India Pakistan. I mean these were big ones, and also 1270 01:13:43.359 --> 01:13:46.119 all big ones, and some going for thirty one, thirty 1271 01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:48.720 two years, one for thirty five years, the Congo and 1272 01:13:48.760 --> 01:13:51.439 think of that, the Congo and Rwanda for thirty five years. 1273 01:13:51.520 --> 01:13:54.199 I got that one done. I got them all done. 1274 01:13:54.279 --> 01:13:57.000 But this one is the one that is the most difficult, 1275 01:13:57.079 --> 01:13:58.680 and I thought it would be an easy one. So 1276 01:13:59.199 --> 01:14:02.079 I hope President Putin is going to be good, and 1277 01:14:02.119 --> 01:14:04.560 if he's not, it's going to be a rough situation. 1278 01:14:04.760 --> 01:14:10.520 And I hope that Zelensky, President Zelynsky will do what 1279 01:14:10.560 --> 01:14:13.479 he has to do. He has to show some flexibility. Also, 1280 01:14:13.680 --> 01:14:16.880 the thing is a mess. This was started by Joe Biden. 1281 01:14:17.479 --> 01:14:19.760 This was a war that should have never happened. Millions 1282 01:14:19.800 --> 01:14:23.439 of people are dead, the country's blown to pieces. Ukraine 1283 01:14:23.479 --> 01:14:26.159 and it's a it's a shame, you know, my wife 1284 01:14:26.159 --> 01:14:30.439 wrote Blani wrote that beautiful note to President putting aback children. 1285 01:14:30.800 --> 01:14:34.159 The children are devastated to take it away from their homes, 1286 01:14:34.159 --> 01:14:36.399 the whole thing. And this is a war that would 1287 01:14:36.399 --> 01:14:39.479 have never ever, ever happened if we had a president 1288 01:14:39.560 --> 01:14:41.159 a real all right. 1289 01:14:41.159 --> 01:14:44.520 So he's just gonna, as he typically does, throw things 1290 01:14:44.560 --> 01:14:46.680 at the feet of Biden and say that it's his 1291 01:14:46.760 --> 01:14:50.079 fault of this happened. And I'm not necessarily in well, 1292 01:14:50.079 --> 01:14:53.920 I'm not gonna agree with that because the issue with 1293 01:14:54.039 --> 01:14:57.720 Russia and Ukraine goes a lot further back than Biden. 1294 01:14:57.760 --> 01:15:01.279 I mean, how the crimea take over happened under Obama 1295 01:15:01.760 --> 01:15:04.199 and I'm sure that we could start planning blame there, 1296 01:15:04.760 --> 01:15:09.359 which is another one. As of this moment, Tulsea Gabbert 1297 01:15:09.640 --> 01:15:14.920 just pulled the security clearances of thirty five thirty seven 1298 01:15:15.039 --> 01:15:19.039 different federal agents because of a Russia Gate scandal from 1299 01:15:19.159 --> 01:15:22.800 Obama's time in office. They are doing literally everything in 1300 01:15:22.840 --> 01:15:25.840 their power to get people off the conversation of Epstein. 1301 01:15:26.279 --> 01:15:28.880 We will get to that next, but before we do, 1302 01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:31.920 what are youall thoughts on this as of this moment? 1303 01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:37.159 Well, I got in my mind is racing. But I 1304 01:15:37.279 --> 01:15:39.840 was really glad that that meeting happened. I think Trump 1305 01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:43.119 wants to end the war, and Trump, unlike the Europeans, 1306 01:15:43.159 --> 01:15:46.760 is very comfortable with asking Ukraine to give up a 1307 01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:49.920 lot of its territory. And I think the best parallel 1308 01:15:49.960 --> 01:15:56.000 to this is the Mexican American War, where Mexico seated 1309 01:15:56.039 --> 01:16:00.119 an enormous amount of territory, including Texas through California. Obviously, 1310 01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:02.960 as we should all know back in eighteen forty eight, 1311 01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:07.000 was it, I think something like that, and the US 1312 01:16:07.159 --> 01:16:10.520 was asking for a lot more. The US President Polk 1313 01:16:10.800 --> 01:16:15.760 wanted all of Mexico potentially, he especially wanted Baja California. 1314 01:16:17.039 --> 01:16:21.479 But can you imagine what if the Mexican leadership was 1315 01:16:21.520 --> 01:16:24.399 it Santayana at the time, maybe, yeah, what if they 1316 01:16:24.399 --> 01:16:27.760 had had Europeans whispering in their ears, no, don't give 1317 01:16:27.800 --> 01:16:30.479 the US anything. You don't need to see any territory 1318 01:16:30.520 --> 01:16:33.399 at all. Just wait for US to send you more 1319 01:16:33.439 --> 01:16:36.720 money and weapons and don't give an inch. And that's 1320 01:16:36.880 --> 01:16:39.680 kind of the situation where in with the Europeans right now, 1321 01:16:39.840 --> 01:16:43.960 when the real you know, negotiation has to start with 1322 01:16:44.079 --> 01:16:46.039 the idea that Mexico. You're going to lose a lot 1323 01:16:46.039 --> 01:16:49.600 of territory. The question is just how much. Just capitulate 1324 01:16:49.800 --> 01:16:52.279 you will be better off. You don't need to give 1325 01:16:52.319 --> 01:16:54.600 them Baja California, but you do need to give the 1326 01:16:54.680 --> 01:16:57.119 US a lot of territory. 1327 01:16:57.000 --> 01:16:59.239 To that point. As a matter of fact, Mexico and 1328 01:16:59.239 --> 01:17:01.039 I understand what's all and strictly in the realm of 1329 01:17:01.119 --> 01:17:04.479 hypotheticals here, but Mexico at that time would have never 1330 01:17:04.560 --> 01:17:08.159 listened to European influence. They had a real distrust of them. 1331 01:17:08.720 --> 01:17:08.880 Uh. 1332 01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:12.880 For anybody who doesn't know Alexander the First, which was 1333 01:17:12.960 --> 01:17:17.319 the last Emperor of Mexico. Long story short, there was 1334 01:17:17.319 --> 01:17:21.239 a little bit sorry Maximilian, excuse me, Maximilian, the last 1335 01:17:21.239 --> 01:17:28.279 Emperor of Mexico. Has anybody ever been curious why the 1336 01:17:28.439 --> 01:17:33.319 music that comes out of Mexico sounds very polka esh 1337 01:17:33.680 --> 01:17:36.640 that they almost it's a it's like a cousin to 1338 01:17:36.760 --> 01:17:40.000 polka music. The reason why is because they grabbed a 1339 01:17:40.159 --> 01:17:46.840 German dude who under the tutelage of Austrian. Yeah, yeah, Austria, 1340 01:17:46.920 --> 01:17:49.319 Hungary and Germany. I always grouped them in together. When 1341 01:17:49.319 --> 01:17:51.720 we're talking about, like you know, that time frame, they 1342 01:17:51.720 --> 01:17:56.159 were all cousins to each other, but so right, right, 1343 01:17:56.199 --> 01:17:58.239 which is odd, very odd. 1344 01:17:58.279 --> 01:18:00.319 But the Austrians. 1345 01:18:00.039 --> 01:18:04.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah, So Maximilian the First they asked Europe 1346 01:18:04.560 --> 01:18:07.920 to send them a emperor or a king or something 1347 01:18:08.000 --> 01:18:11.079 like that to rule them. And Napoleon the Third, the 1348 01:18:11.199 --> 01:18:13.800 nephew of the Napoleon that you've all heard of, the 1349 01:18:13.840 --> 01:18:19.119 little guy, he sent his cousin essentially, or his great nephew, 1350 01:18:19.479 --> 01:18:23.319 Maximilian the First, and he brought with him a giant 1351 01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:26.560 army of a band, not an army that was a 1352 01:18:26.560 --> 01:18:30.439 proper trained fighting force, a band. And that's why we 1353 01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:34.199 have like the accordions and the horns and all these 1354 01:18:34.239 --> 01:18:39.319 things with traditional Mexican and Tauhano music was strictly because 1355 01:18:39.359 --> 01:18:43.960 of German and Austrian influences, because of Maximilian the First. 1356 01:18:44.479 --> 01:18:46.720 So that's that's an interesting rabbit hole if anybody wants 1357 01:18:46.720 --> 01:18:49.640 to dive down that one day. But to your point, Tony, yeah, 1358 01:18:49.680 --> 01:18:54.479 that would be like Mexico asking Europe for their opinion 1359 01:18:54.600 --> 01:18:58.199 on how much land they should secede and actually taking 1360 01:18:58.239 --> 01:19:00.880 their advice, which is mine blowing. Actually. 1361 01:19:02.520 --> 01:19:06.399 Yeah, Ukraine and Mexico in this situation just need to 1362 01:19:06.439 --> 01:19:08.479 give up a lot, like Germany gave up a lot 1363 01:19:08.520 --> 01:19:11.359 of its historical territory in nineteen forty five as well. 1364 01:19:11.640 --> 01:19:14.119 Sometimes you just lose, and you gotta swallow the bitter 1365 01:19:14.199 --> 01:19:18.039 pill because it's better than refusing to. 1366 01:19:19.600 --> 01:19:24.399 Yeah, I don't see a positive ending for this war 1367 01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:29.279 for anybody, honestly, even if, even if Russia gets all 1368 01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:32.520 of the land. Right now, let's say, in a hypothetical sense, 1369 01:19:32.680 --> 01:19:35.359 Zelenski and Putin were to come to the table tonight, 1370 01:19:35.920 --> 01:19:39.079 as of time recording, they're actually secretly meeting right now, 1371 01:19:39.479 --> 01:19:41.840 and they agree that wherever the lines are at right 1372 01:19:41.880 --> 01:19:44.239 now is the new lines on the map. Let's just 1373 01:19:44.319 --> 01:19:47.399 walk away from it clean, and let's get either way 1374 01:19:47.399 --> 01:19:52.319 it goes. Russia has lost an insane amount of manpower 1375 01:19:52.640 --> 01:19:56.159 because of this conflict, and so has Ukraine. No One 1376 01:19:56.239 --> 01:19:59.520 is walking out of here with clean hands or feeling 1377 01:19:59.560 --> 01:20:03.960 good about this decision, no way you slice it. If 1378 01:20:04.159 --> 01:20:07.159 Russia keeps the land they've taken thus far, Selenci's going 1379 01:20:07.239 --> 01:20:09.439 to go down in history as the guy that lost 1380 01:20:09.560 --> 01:20:13.920 a massive portion of Ukraine. If Russia secedes and goes 1381 01:20:13.960 --> 01:20:17.239 back to the pre invasion map, Putin's going to be 1382 01:20:17.279 --> 01:20:21.399 seen as the world's biggest bitch, which is a whole 1383 01:20:21.479 --> 01:20:24.960 conversation in and of itself. Like you said earlier, in 1384 01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:29.720 earlier episodes, they both overestimated their capabilities by a lot. 1385 01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:32.880 It's nobody's walking out of this clean. 1386 01:20:33.840 --> 01:20:39.199 Many such cases. But after the Mexican American War, I 1387 01:20:39.239 --> 01:20:41.560 don't know a heck of a lot, But it doesn't 1388 01:20:41.600 --> 01:20:46.560 seem like relations for that bad. There were episodic conflicts 1389 01:20:46.560 --> 01:20:48.960 between the US and Mexico after that, and the US 1390 01:20:49.039 --> 01:20:53.199 purchased some additional territory in southern Arizona, but there was 1391 01:20:53.239 --> 01:20:57.359 nothing really huge again, and my hope is that the 1392 01:20:57.399 --> 01:21:01.000 relationship between Ukraine and Russia could be that peaceful. 1393 01:21:01.520 --> 01:21:04.079 Well, that's because Mexico had bigger fish to fry than 1394 01:21:04.119 --> 01:21:07.119 America at that time. They were fighting the French. After 1395 01:21:07.239 --> 01:21:09.840 the whole secession happened. They were worried about French troops 1396 01:21:09.840 --> 01:21:12.840 in their area, which is a whole other other conversation. 1397 01:21:13.479 --> 01:21:16.920 But yeah, they weren't happy with US, but they also 1398 01:21:17.000 --> 01:21:21.560 had more present danger in their face. And then when 1399 01:21:21.600 --> 01:21:24.640 that finally that conflict went by the wayside and everybody 1400 01:21:24.720 --> 01:21:27.920 kind of settled out, they just the map was redrawn. 1401 01:21:28.359 --> 01:21:30.840 Time to rebuild from what we have now and that's 1402 01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:33.720 kind of where it is to this day. So yeah, 1403 01:21:33.720 --> 01:21:36.000 I'm with you on that front, and that maybe that's 1404 01:21:36.039 --> 01:21:38.920 what's needed, right, Maybe there needs to be a new 1405 01:21:38.960 --> 01:21:41.359 boogeyman that comes out in this area to get everybody's 1406 01:21:41.359 --> 01:21:44.399 attention off of this conflict and on to the next one, 1407 01:21:44.439 --> 01:21:47.319 if you will. I don't think that'd be good for anybody, 1408 01:21:47.359 --> 01:21:50.039 but it's at least a thing that has happened in 1409 01:21:50.079 --> 01:21:53.479 the past for sure. Uh, I don't know. 1410 01:21:53.600 --> 01:21:58.119 Well, Yeah, Germany's relationship with the Eastern Europe and the 1411 01:21:58.159 --> 01:22:02.159 pre war, pre World War two period was hostile, mostly 1412 01:22:02.199 --> 01:22:05.000 because there were eleven million Germans living outside of Germany 1413 01:22:05.039 --> 01:22:07.439 and Eastern Europe, and after nineteen forty five they were 1414 01:22:07.479 --> 01:22:09.640 all kicked out of Eastern Europe and they moved to 1415 01:22:10.159 --> 01:22:14.319 what is now Germany. So the ethnic tension was a 1416 01:22:14.319 --> 01:22:16.319 big deal at that time. And now that the ethnic 1417 01:22:16.359 --> 01:22:21.479 element has removed, Eastern European relations has been a lot better. 1418 01:22:21.880 --> 01:22:23.720 And it's very similar that there were a lot of 1419 01:22:23.800 --> 01:22:28.079 ethnic Russians and Gonskandnetsk in these other parts of Ukraine 1420 01:22:28.560 --> 01:22:31.399 who were very disenfranchised within Ukraine. Then they wanted to 1421 01:22:31.399 --> 01:22:34.640 secede and join Russia. They haven't really moved around too much. 1422 01:22:34.680 --> 01:22:37.279 The border's just been drawn in a new place where 1423 01:22:37.319 --> 01:22:41.520 they're in Russia now, So that demographic, you know, high 1424 01:22:41.560 --> 01:22:46.680 potential energy situation will be gone if the border's redrawn, 1425 01:22:47.039 --> 01:22:49.960 and I think it'll stay away. That's my opinion. I 1426 01:22:50.039 --> 01:22:52.640 think if they drew a no border right now, just 1427 01:22:52.680 --> 01:22:55.039 like you're saying, kind of like the US did with Mexico, 1428 01:22:55.720 --> 01:22:59.479 we would have years or decades a peace. Potentially. 1429 01:23:00.159 --> 01:23:01.000 Some times I'm. 1430 01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:04.239 Fearful that I'm not fearful that, oh it's you know, 1431 01:23:04.279 --> 01:23:06.439 it's going to erupt in conflict again because they hate 1432 01:23:06.439 --> 01:23:08.560 each other so much, because they've killed each other so much, 1433 01:23:08.640 --> 01:23:12.760 because you know, Japan and Korea and China killed a 1434 01:23:12.760 --> 01:23:14.920 lot of people in World War Two, and then they 1435 01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:18.520 went to trade with each other after that. Western Europe 1436 01:23:18.560 --> 01:23:20.640 and Eastern Europe killed a lot of people in World 1437 01:23:20.640 --> 01:23:23.560 War two, and then it's been pretty peaceful ever since then. 1438 01:23:24.520 --> 01:23:27.640 Yeah, but the culture of Southeast Asia or just East 1439 01:23:27.680 --> 01:23:30.600 Asia as a whole, is very different than the culture 1440 01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:36.239 of the Ukrainian geopolitical comp there's different conversations. But to 1441 01:23:36.439 --> 01:23:39.960 your point, they started making trade happen with each other. 1442 01:23:40.000 --> 01:23:42.600 But I mean, Ukraine and Russia haven't stopped trade. There 1443 01:23:42.680 --> 01:23:45.560 is still the massive fuel pipeline that runs between Ukraine 1444 01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:47.560 and Russia, and there are still payments being made on 1445 01:23:47.600 --> 01:23:50.560 a monthly basis regardless of what the war is doing. 1446 01:23:50.640 --> 01:23:54.199 So to your point, trade would resume for sure. 1447 01:23:54.760 --> 01:23:58.640 Yeah, I think it would. Beat. Ukraine and Russia have 1448 01:23:58.640 --> 01:24:03.840 had mostly peacefuls all the way until maybe the past decade, 1449 01:24:03.880 --> 01:24:06.760 and especially the last three years, there have been millions 1450 01:24:06.760 --> 01:24:11.399 of Russians and Ukrainians intermarrying and living in each other's countries. 1451 01:24:11.439 --> 01:24:13.680 It's kind of like how we have lots of Mexicans 1452 01:24:13.720 --> 01:24:16.399 living in the United States. We have Mexican restaurants all 1453 01:24:16.439 --> 01:24:20.520 over the dang place, even in you know, rural you know, 1454 01:24:20.600 --> 01:24:23.800 North Dakota. And if you were to live in Russia 1455 01:24:23.800 --> 01:24:26.680 and you just looked at Donald Trump's rhetoric about Mexicans 1456 01:24:26.680 --> 01:24:29.319 in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen, you would think US 1457 01:24:29.399 --> 01:24:31.960 and Mexicans must really hate each other, and a few 1458 01:24:31.960 --> 01:24:34.159 of them do, but the vast majority of US get 1459 01:24:34.199 --> 01:24:37.039 along fine. Yeah, that's the way it could have been 1460 01:24:37.039 --> 01:24:39.920 with Russia and Ukraine. And that's the way I think 1461 01:24:39.960 --> 01:24:42.439 that it eventually will be with Russia and Ukraine. They 1462 01:24:42.479 --> 01:24:45.560 don't actually really see themselves as they have to be enemies, 1463 01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:48.560 like the Germans and the English. They're really friendly sometime, 1464 01:24:49.239 --> 01:24:51.479 and you know, then the World Wars happened, but they 1465 01:24:51.560 --> 01:24:54.279 still tried to be friends, you know, whenever they weren't 1466 01:24:54.319 --> 01:24:54.600 at war. 1467 01:24:55.479 --> 01:24:58.920 Are you still the belief Tony that at March of 1468 01:24:59.000 --> 01:25:02.760 twenty twenty six, but at least by then we will 1469 01:25:02.760 --> 01:25:05.039 see a peaceful situation in this region. 1470 01:25:05.720 --> 01:25:09.159 I'm still betting on that. So yeah, I wonder if 1471 01:25:09.159 --> 01:25:11.720 I should put ten dollars on it or something. That's 1472 01:25:11.720 --> 01:25:13.359 what I said in March, and it was kind of 1473 01:25:13.479 --> 01:25:17.199 arbitrary just twelve months, So yeah, all right, I'll send 1474 01:25:17.239 --> 01:25:18.640 you ten dollars if I'm wrong. 1475 01:25:18.840 --> 01:25:20.760 Hey, you know what, we can have a running back 1476 01:25:20.800 --> 01:25:22.920 going on. We can up it to twenty as a 1477 01:25:22.960 --> 01:25:25.119 matter of fact, with oh Jackson on that. You know, 1478 01:25:25.319 --> 01:25:29.399 we'll see. But that's the thing. I'm not even I 1479 01:25:29.399 --> 01:25:31.640 don't even feel good about saying that there won't be 1480 01:25:31.680 --> 01:25:37.319 a peaceful situation seen by March. I just from my perspective, 1481 01:25:37.359 --> 01:25:39.680 and I'm not some sort of master of geopolitics by 1482 01:25:39.680 --> 01:25:42.760 any means right. I understand there's way more nuances that 1483 01:25:43.239 --> 01:25:47.800 I am unaware of for that conversation, but I have 1484 01:25:47.880 --> 01:25:52.000 a hard time seeing either side coming to the negotiation 1485 01:25:52.159 --> 01:25:57.159 table on this one because neither side can win. There 1486 01:25:57.239 --> 01:26:00.680 is no winning as far as this conflict is concerned. Right, 1487 01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:03.439 What does winning look like for Russia? What does winning 1488 01:26:03.439 --> 01:26:07.279 look like for Ukraine? They both want way too much 1489 01:26:07.319 --> 01:26:10.239 than they can actually have, So I don't think there's 1490 01:26:10.279 --> 01:26:12.880 gonna be any side that feels good about it. And 1491 01:26:12.920 --> 01:26:14.479 that's the thing. Even if they do come to some 1492 01:26:14.520 --> 01:26:18.079 sort of a ceasefire agreement, I could see one false 1493 01:26:18.119 --> 01:26:23.359 step coming out and rekickstarting all the conflict again in 1494 01:26:23.399 --> 01:26:24.319 the snap of a finger. 1495 01:26:24.920 --> 01:26:28.960 I think. I think victory for Russia looks like victory 1496 01:26:29.000 --> 01:26:32.359 for the United States in eighteen forty eight. They get 1497 01:26:32.359 --> 01:26:36.239 a lot of territory, draw a new border, and say 1498 01:26:36.319 --> 01:26:39.840 this is the way it's gonna be. And I think 1499 01:26:39.960 --> 01:26:43.760 that has a high potential for being a permanent, peaceful solution. 1500 01:26:45.520 --> 01:26:48.600 Well see if it happens. Man. Honestly, I don't know. 1501 01:26:48.920 --> 01:26:53.600 I've got such a lack of faith in governments as 1502 01:26:53.600 --> 01:26:57.479 a whole, especially when war is on the table. I 1503 01:26:57.520 --> 01:26:59.960 hope you're right. I just I have a hard time 1504 01:27:00.079 --> 01:27:02.920 I'm believing it from my layman's perspective at this time. 1505 01:27:02.960 --> 01:27:06.319 But hey, Trump is making deals happen. He's getting people 1506 01:27:06.319 --> 01:27:11.960 to negotiation tables. We'll see, we shall see. But speaking 1507 01:27:12.000 --> 01:27:15.960 of Trump and speaking of deals being struck, let's talk 1508 01:27:16.000 --> 01:27:21.159 about something happening on our home soil. So Trump's DOJ 1509 01:27:21.560 --> 01:27:25.159 is handing the Epstein documents to the House Oversight Committee 1510 01:27:25.159 --> 01:27:31.239 on Friday as subpoena deadlight deadline rather looms. House Oversight 1511 01:27:31.319 --> 01:27:35.039 Committee chair James Comer says the DOJ is cooperating in 1512 01:27:35.159 --> 01:27:40.039 good faith effort to produce the files. Again, I don't 1513 01:27:40.039 --> 01:27:42.199 have a lot of faith as far as this is concerned, either. 1514 01:27:42.359 --> 01:27:45.880 But it is a greater than zero percent chance that 1515 01:27:46.079 --> 01:27:52.800 a heavily, heavily heavily redacted stack of Epstein files is 1516 01:27:52.840 --> 01:27:55.079 about to be released to the DOJ and in turn 1517 01:27:55.159 --> 01:27:58.359 release to the public. List listen to old James Comer 1518 01:27:58.560 --> 01:27:59.880 and see what he has to say about it. 1519 01:28:02.279 --> 01:28:05.399 Appreciate everybody being here today. We're very excited. This will 1520 01:28:05.439 --> 01:28:13.560 be our first deposition in our bipartisan investigation into the 1521 01:28:13.720 --> 01:28:19.159 entire Epstein Alan saga. So We've got a lot of 1522 01:28:19.239 --> 01:28:23.079 questions for former Attorney General bar I appreciate his willingness 1523 01:28:23.119 --> 01:28:27.479 to come in and hopefully this will be the first 1524 01:28:27.479 --> 01:28:29.720 of many. All that triphy question. 1525 01:28:30.039 --> 01:28:33.800 You set a deadline for tomorrow for DJ to release 1526 01:28:33.840 --> 01:28:37.279 the unredacted full Epstein file. Do you expect them to 1527 01:28:37.439 --> 01:28:38.039 deliver on that. 1528 01:28:38.279 --> 01:28:42.800 Well, we're having really good conversations. You have to understand 1529 01:28:42.840 --> 01:28:45.720 how many you could imagine how many documents there are. 1530 01:28:46.399 --> 01:28:48.840 I think that we're going to have the I think 1531 01:28:48.880 --> 01:28:53.119 we'll receive the documents very soon. They're compiling everything together. 1532 01:28:54.000 --> 01:28:57.680 I think we're working together in a good faith effort, 1533 01:28:58.119 --> 01:29:01.680 and everything's coming along. I expect to receive the documents 1534 01:29:01.720 --> 01:29:02.319 very very soon. 1535 01:29:02.439 --> 01:29:04.720 Is that their explanation though, that there's just so many 1536 01:29:04.760 --> 01:29:06.119 documents that they can't meet your door. 1537 01:29:06.239 --> 01:29:09.720 We always get that explanation every investigation we've done in 1538 01:29:09.760 --> 01:29:11.319 the two and a half years i've been here. But 1539 01:29:11.520 --> 01:29:14.680 I think that I'm confident we're going to get the documents. 1540 01:29:14.840 --> 01:29:16.680 Are there other topics you're hoping to ask them about 1541 01:29:16.680 --> 01:29:18.279 as well, or just Epstein. 1542 01:29:17.880 --> 01:29:18.399 And ox faults? 1543 01:29:18.600 --> 01:29:20.960 Well, that the subpoena was just for Epstein. There are 1544 01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:24.279 some other things that I'm curious about. So we'll see 1545 01:29:24.279 --> 01:29:27.640 how it goes. But obviously the purpose of this deposition 1546 01:29:27.800 --> 01:29:30.680 is on Epstein, and when we learn more, I'll be 1547 01:29:30.680 --> 01:29:32.600 happy to come out and answer some questions. Thank you 1548 01:29:32.640 --> 01:29:33.279 all for being here. 1549 01:29:35.119 --> 01:29:39.039 Okay, so again, let's see if it actually comes through 1550 01:29:39.079 --> 01:29:41.720 to fruition or if it's going to be a way 1551 01:29:41.760 --> 01:29:45.800 too heavily redacted. List that nothing new as far as 1552 01:29:45.880 --> 01:29:48.359 information is going to come to light, we shall see. 1553 01:29:48.359 --> 01:29:51.279 But let's read in here. The Trump administration will begin 1554 01:29:51.399 --> 01:29:54.840 handing over documents related to Epstein's case to the House 1555 01:29:54.920 --> 01:29:59.279 Oversight Committee on Friday. Like we just heard Chair James 1556 01:29:59.319 --> 01:30:03.199 Comer say, House investigators originally requested the Department of Justice 1557 01:30:03.279 --> 01:30:09.720 to produce a tranch Trunch Trench sure of files pertaining 1558 01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:13.359 to the late pedophile and his accomplished Ghizlaine Maxwell by 1559 01:30:13.439 --> 01:30:16.680 twelve pm on Tuesday, August nineteenth. It's part of a 1560 01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:20.399 wider bipartisan investigation into the handling of the Epstein's case, 1561 01:30:20.680 --> 01:30:24.640 which has also reached several former attorneys general, FBI directors, 1562 01:30:24.640 --> 01:30:29.239 and former first couple Bill and Hillary Clinton. Shocker that 1563 01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:32.000 they would be involved with this. Let's not forget the 1564 01:30:32.079 --> 01:30:34.840 painting that was over the fireplace on Epstein Island of 1565 01:30:34.840 --> 01:30:37.960 Bill Clinton in a blue dress. That's a real painting 1566 01:30:38.000 --> 01:30:41.159 that was there. But anyway, Comer announced Monday afternoon that 1567 01:30:41.239 --> 01:30:44.279 he would delay the deadline until Friday in late in 1568 01:30:44.399 --> 01:30:47.760 light of the DOJS cooperation. This is direct quote. Officially 1569 01:30:47.760 --> 01:30:49.880 with the Department of Justice have informed us that the 1570 01:30:49.920 --> 01:30:53.399 Department will begin to provide the Epstein related records to 1571 01:30:53.479 --> 01:30:56.159 the Oversight Committee this week on Friday. There are many 1572 01:30:56.199 --> 01:30:58.880 records in DOJ's custody, and it will take the Department 1573 01:30:58.960 --> 01:31:01.920 time to produce all the records and ensure identification of 1574 01:31:02.000 --> 01:31:07.560 victims and any child sexual abuse material are redacted. Comber 1575 01:31:07.600 --> 01:31:11.199 said in a statement, I appreciate the Trump's administration's commitment 1576 01:31:11.279 --> 01:31:14.359 to transparency and efforts to provide the American people with 1577 01:31:14.439 --> 01:31:17.920 information about this matter. Comber told the reporters early Monday 1578 01:31:17.960 --> 01:31:20.359 that his panel was having good conversations with the DOJ 1579 01:31:20.479 --> 01:31:24.439 related to the document production, but was noncommittal when asked 1580 01:31:24.479 --> 01:31:27.039 if the August nineteenth goal would be met. You can 1581 01:31:27.079 --> 01:31:29.239 imagine how many documents there are, he said, We just 1582 01:31:29.239 --> 01:31:31.520 heard him say that. As a matter of fact, Comber 1583 01:31:31.560 --> 01:31:36.720 said the DOJ was operating in good faith. Requested materials 1584 01:31:36.760 --> 01:31:40.680 included all documents and communications in the DOJ's possession relating 1585 01:31:40.720 --> 01:31:43.720 to both Epstein and Maxwell, as well as files further 1586 01:31:43.800 --> 01:31:48.760 relating to or referring to human trafficking, exploitation of minor 1587 01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:54.159 sexual abuse, or related activities. Documents relating specifically to the 1588 01:31:54.239 --> 01:31:57.560 DOJ's prosecutions of Epstein and Maxwell, Epstein's two thousand and 1589 01:31:57.600 --> 01:32:01.279 seven non prosecutal agreement with federal prosecut in Florida, and 1590 01:32:01.359 --> 01:32:04.800 any materials related to Epstein's death were requested. The House 1591 01:32:04.880 --> 01:32:08.800 Oversight Committee asked for the documents to be largely largely unredacted, 1592 01:32:08.840 --> 01:32:12.079 according to the subpoena obtained by Fox News Digital, except 1593 01:32:12.119 --> 01:32:17.199 for redactions to protect the personal personnel Jesus, except for 1594 01:32:17.359 --> 01:32:21.479 redactions to protect the personally identifiable information of victims, for 1595 01:32:21.560 --> 01:32:24.479 any child sex abuse material as defined by the Department 1596 01:32:24.520 --> 01:32:27.960 of Justice manual, and any other redactions required by law, 1597 01:32:28.119 --> 01:32:32.720 which no one is upset about that. Okay, we're not 1598 01:32:32.760 --> 01:32:36.039 trying to have these victims have their name blasted all 1599 01:32:36.039 --> 01:32:40.119 over the place to where they feel re triggered by 1600 01:32:40.159 --> 01:32:42.439 the horrible events that they were a part of. Like 1601 01:32:42.479 --> 01:32:45.840 I we get that we want to know the other 1602 01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:49.600 guilty parties, not the names of the victims. I don't 1603 01:32:49.640 --> 01:32:52.720 think anybody that's asking for the Epstein files is asking 1604 01:32:52.760 --> 01:32:55.159 for the names of the victims, but sure they keep 1605 01:32:55.159 --> 01:32:58.439 going on about that. The deadline comes a day after 1606 01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:01.680 former Attorney General Bill bar was deposed by the House 1607 01:33:01.720 --> 01:33:05.119 Overside Committee behind closed doors. Barr was the first person 1608 01:33:05.199 --> 01:33:08.279 scheduled to appear in the committee's probe under subpoena. The 1609 01:33:08.359 --> 01:33:14.079 Clintons both have separate deposition dates scheduled for October. Comber 1610 01:33:14.199 --> 01:33:16.720 was directed to send the flurry of subpoenas after a 1611 01:33:16.760 --> 01:33:20.760 House Overside Committee subcommittee panel voted in favor of them 1612 01:33:20.840 --> 01:33:24.720 during an unrelated hearing in July. Renewed fervor over Epstein's 1613 01:33:24.760 --> 01:33:28.039 case in Gulf Capitol Hill after entered GOP fallout over 1614 01:33:28.119 --> 01:33:32.119 the Trump administration's handling of the matter. Yeah, I'll bet 1615 01:33:32.680 --> 01:33:36.520 the DOJ effectively declared the case closed after an quote 1616 01:33:36.600 --> 01:33:42.319 unquote exhaustive review revealing Epstein had quote unquote no client list, 1617 01:33:42.840 --> 01:33:46.960 did not blackmail prominent individuals, and confirmed he did die 1618 01:33:47.000 --> 01:33:50.720 by suicide in a New York City jail while awaiting prosecution. 1619 01:33:51.920 --> 01:33:54.199 I'm just gonna be speaking on behalf of Jacob on 1620 01:33:54.279 --> 01:33:58.239 this one. Lies, lies and more lies. But all right, 1621 01:33:58.319 --> 01:34:01.560 let's continue in respe response to the backlash by some 1622 01:34:01.640 --> 01:34:04.680 on the right, Trump directed the EJ to release grand 1623 01:34:04.760 --> 01:34:08.439 jury testimony related to Epstein, a request that's been tied 1624 01:34:08.520 --> 01:34:12.000 up in courts since then. While Attorney General Pam Bondi 1625 01:34:12.119 --> 01:34:15.640 had her deputy Todd Blanche interview Maxwell in person to 1626 01:34:15.840 --> 01:34:20.640 uncover any possible new information. Comer also subpoena Maxwell, but 1627 01:34:20.680 --> 01:34:23.840 agreed to defer her scheduled deposition until after the Supreme 1628 01:34:23.840 --> 01:34:27.640 Court heard her appeal to overturn her conviction. I still 1629 01:34:27.720 --> 01:34:31.279 find it odd that we are only just now actually 1630 01:34:31.359 --> 01:34:36.199 questioning Maxwell. It's not like she refused to answer questioning. 1631 01:34:36.960 --> 01:34:42.079 They refused to question her until like last month. That 1632 01:34:42.279 --> 01:34:45.880 is mind blowing to me. But when you understand the 1633 01:34:46.079 --> 01:34:49.840 realm of the political elite and how Epstein's Island and 1634 01:34:49.960 --> 01:34:52.159 all of the other things played in with that, it 1635 01:34:52.239 --> 01:34:55.760 also makes perfect sense. So I don't know what's gonna 1636 01:34:55.760 --> 01:34:58.960 come of this. I'm not expecting a lot, to be 1637 01:34:59.000 --> 01:35:02.359 completely honest with you, I hope for a lot. I 1638 01:35:02.399 --> 01:35:05.479 hope that we get a real client list or flight 1639 01:35:05.600 --> 01:35:09.880 logs or anything of the nature of this. But I 1640 01:35:09.920 --> 01:35:13.119 also believe that this is going to be heavily heavily 1641 01:35:13.159 --> 01:35:16.560 redacted to protect all of the important players. Hell, Trump's 1642 01:35:16.600 --> 01:35:20.439 name was listed on these logs multiple times. I don't 1643 01:35:20.479 --> 01:35:24.319 know if this was because Epstein was the money laundering 1644 01:35:24.399 --> 01:35:27.079 guy for the political elites of the world, and maybe 1645 01:35:27.159 --> 01:35:29.439 that's why Trump's name was listed, because he was trying 1646 01:35:29.439 --> 01:35:31.319 to hide some dollar bills to where he didn't get 1647 01:35:31.359 --> 01:35:34.800 taxed on it. Okay, was it flight logs on the 1648 01:35:34.840 --> 01:35:39.920 Lolita Express. Was it times that he actually visited Epstein's 1649 01:35:39.960 --> 01:35:43.359 island itself. The sky's a limit as far as the 1650 01:35:43.439 --> 01:35:47.319 hypotheses are concerned. I am hoping that the list is 1651 01:35:47.319 --> 01:35:49.239 not going to be too heavily redacted and we get 1652 01:35:49.239 --> 01:35:52.640 some real justice. I just have a hard time actually 1653 01:35:52.720 --> 01:35:56.960 believing it and seeing it for myself. I don't know anyway. 1654 01:35:57.039 --> 01:35:59.000 All Right, before we wrap, I am going to go 1655 01:35:59.039 --> 01:36:02.000 to the chat and see what everybody has shared on 1656 01:36:02.039 --> 01:36:06.720 this evening. Let's see, Raven Lee has shared an article 1657 01:36:07.079 --> 01:36:13.680 business Louisiana Meta AI Data Center. WHOA what is happening here? Okay? 1658 01:36:13.720 --> 01:36:18.960 Louisiana regulators approve power plant for Giant Meta AI data Center. 1659 01:36:19.600 --> 01:36:21.800 All right, yeah, we definitely got to talk about that one. 1660 01:36:22.119 --> 01:36:26.000 Scrolling down a little bit here, Claire has sent another article, 1661 01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:32.520 Roadblocks retaliates against child abuse survivor who exposed platforms predator problem. 1662 01:36:33.159 --> 01:36:34.760 All right, yeah, we're definite gonna have to talk about 1663 01:36:34.800 --> 01:36:36.119 that one as well. I'm just gonna pull up all 1664 01:36:36.119 --> 01:36:37.920 the articles that y'all send as a matter of fact. 1665 01:36:38.840 --> 01:36:43.039 Another one from Claire. This one says research suggests doctors 1666 01:36:43.119 --> 01:36:47.239 might quickly become dependent on AI. I agree with that. 1667 01:36:47.319 --> 01:36:49.760 We'll read into that one here in a moment. All right, 1668 01:36:49.920 --> 01:36:52.960 let's go let us all all right, I'm go ahead 1669 01:36:52.960 --> 01:36:55.560 and share the screen again again. For anybody who is 1670 01:36:55.640 --> 01:36:57.000 just listening, who would like to be a part of 1671 01:36:57.039 --> 01:37:01.439 this conversation, please join us on Wednesday nights at the 1672 01:37:01.560 --> 01:37:04.720 Cajun Night on Patreon. Link is in the description below. 1673 01:37:05.520 --> 01:37:09.520 Let's start off here. Louisiana regulators approve power plant for 1674 01:37:09.640 --> 01:37:15.439 Giant Meta AI data center. The growing risk of AI 1675 01:37:15.840 --> 01:37:18.239 and the fact that most people don't actually see it 1676 01:37:18.239 --> 01:37:20.920 as a risk still bothers me. But all right, let's 1677 01:37:20.920 --> 01:37:24.000 read it in here. State regulators on Wednesday approved a 1678 01:37:24.000 --> 01:37:29.640 controversial plan to Power Tech Giants' Meta largest official intelligence 1679 01:37:29.720 --> 01:37:34.199 data center yet to be built in rural northeast Louisiana, 1680 01:37:34.199 --> 01:37:38.119 clearing the wave for construction of three gas fired electricity plants. 1681 01:37:38.399 --> 01:37:41.159 The Public Service Commission voted four to one in favor 1682 01:37:41.199 --> 01:37:43.800 of the plan proposed by Energy at a meeting in 1683 01:37:43.840 --> 01:37:47.479 the city of Plaqueman, following hours of public debate. The 1684 01:37:47.520 --> 01:37:51.199 power plant is key for Meta's ten billion dollar facility 1685 01:37:51.279 --> 01:37:54.239 to move forward. The project will be built on former 1686 01:37:54.279 --> 01:37:58.159 agricultural land the size of around seventy football fields. Meta 1687 01:37:58.159 --> 01:38:01.319 CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spoken to further expanding it to 1688 01:38:01.399 --> 01:38:05.439 a size that would rival the footprint of Manhattan as 1689 01:38:05.439 --> 01:38:08.760 the company dives headlong into the high stakes race to 1690 01:38:08.840 --> 01:38:14.439 dominate the energy AI or emerging AI industry. Wednesday's approval 1691 01:38:14.479 --> 01:38:19.159 was largely expected, as Louisiana officials, including Governor Jeff Landry, 1692 01:38:19.520 --> 01:38:23.039 have welcomed the project as an economic development game changer 1693 01:38:23.079 --> 01:38:25.600 in a long struggling region of the state, but the 1694 01:38:25.640 --> 01:38:29.560 project in Richland Parish has also drawn sharp criticism over 1695 01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:35.560 its huge energy needs. Speaking on behalf of somebody who 1696 01:38:35.600 --> 01:38:39.880 lives in Louisiana and knows Plaquemen very well, I wouldn't 1697 01:38:39.960 --> 01:38:46.640 call that area a long struggling region. They have quite 1698 01:38:46.640 --> 01:38:53.399 a few big facilities and refineries dal Plaquemin, Shintech, Tocaya 1699 01:38:53.520 --> 01:38:58.199 Carbon Black Placid who holds a lot of government contracts 1700 01:38:58.239 --> 01:39:01.960 as far as jet fuel and diesel goes. So I 1701 01:39:02.000 --> 01:39:05.279 don't think this is a long struggling area by any means. 1702 01:39:05.359 --> 01:39:07.439 It's rural, but that's also because most of the people 1703 01:39:07.520 --> 01:39:11.800 that live there want it to remain rural. But all right, 1704 01:39:12.000 --> 01:39:17.119 moving on, Much of the debate has involved whether average 1705 01:39:17.159 --> 01:39:19.960 electricity rate payers and businesses state wide will end up 1706 01:39:20.000 --> 01:39:22.079 shouldering at least some of the costs associated with the 1707 01:39:22.079 --> 01:39:25.720 power plant Energy has set out for the facility. Energy 1708 01:39:25.760 --> 01:39:28.720 says there are safeguards in place and argues that the 1709 01:39:28.760 --> 01:39:33.239 new plant will ultimately benefit everyone. In one sense, I 1710 01:39:33.239 --> 01:39:35.359 could see that, especially if you're building a power plant. 1711 01:39:35.479 --> 01:39:38.560 Usually these plants will sell back their excess energy to 1712 01:39:38.720 --> 01:39:41.960 the city, which in turn will lower energy costs for 1713 01:39:42.039 --> 01:39:46.079 the local inhabitants of said city. That's not a one 1714 01:39:46.159 --> 01:39:50.359 hundred percent guarantee, But I've worked at many a facility 1715 01:39:50.399 --> 01:39:52.520 that have power plants that end up selling it back 1716 01:39:52.560 --> 01:39:55.840 to the city. So who knows Those divisions were on 1717 01:39:55.880 --> 01:39:59.439 display at Wednesday's fast tracked vote, which occurred a couple 1718 01:39:59.479 --> 01:40:02.319 of months before were initially planned. I'm not for this 1719 01:40:02.359 --> 01:40:05.600 project one percent, ten percent, or one hundred percent. Commissioner 1720 01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:08.399 Foster Campbell, who represents the district where the data center 1721 01:40:08.479 --> 01:40:13.439 will be built. I'm for this project one thousand percent. Well, 1722 01:40:13.439 --> 01:40:15.720 all right, as far as tripling down goes, there we go. 1723 01:40:16.079 --> 01:40:19.800 Commissioner Devonte Lewis casts the only vote against the plan. 1724 01:40:20.159 --> 01:40:23.039 He says the agreement left fundamental questions on the table 1725 01:40:23.079 --> 01:40:28.720 that were too bitter to swallow. Proponents spoke at length 1726 01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:31.279 of the higher rates of poverty in the region and 1727 01:40:31.359 --> 01:40:35.119 the need for high paying jobs in North Louisiana. We're 1728 01:40:35.199 --> 01:40:39.279 currently underway on the facility is already leading to exponential 1729 01:40:39.319 --> 01:40:42.119 growth for small businesses in the area, said Rob Cleveland, 1730 01:40:42.159 --> 01:40:46.000 head of the Economic Development Authority in Northeast Louisiana. We 1731 01:40:46.119 --> 01:40:49.039 choose Louisiana as a home for our largest data center 1732 01:40:49.119 --> 01:40:52.960 yet for a variety of reasons, including excellent access to infrastructure, 1733 01:40:53.239 --> 01:40:57.640 a strong workforce, and a reliable grid, said Ashley Settle, 1734 01:40:57.640 --> 01:41:00.680 a spokesperson for META. But over a dozen people from 1735 01:41:00.720 --> 01:41:03.920 across the state urge regulators to deny the vote, raising 1736 01:41:03.960 --> 01:41:08.000 concerns over raising gas prices, unclear job commitments by the 1737 01:41:08.039 --> 01:41:12.920 tech company, water demands of the facility, and environmental risks. 1738 01:41:13.800 --> 01:41:16.960 META has provided no assurance that these supposed jobs are 1739 01:41:17.000 --> 01:41:20.079 going to go to Louisiana residents. That's a very good 1740 01:41:20.079 --> 01:41:22.720 point set a Lake Charles's resident with a financial and 1741 01:41:22.840 --> 01:41:26.840 environmental impact this big Please please push this vote so 1742 01:41:26.960 --> 01:41:30.399 the enormous risk associated with this Meta's data center will 1743 01:41:30.399 --> 01:41:33.199 need roughly three times the amount of electricity of the 1744 01:41:33.199 --> 01:41:37.359 City of New Orleans uses in a year, increase Energy's 1745 01:41:37.399 --> 01:41:41.880 electric needs in the state by around thirty percent yikes. 1746 01:41:42.520 --> 01:41:46.039 With the Commission's approval, the utility can now begin constructing 1747 01:41:46.119 --> 01:41:50.479 the three new plants and other transmissions infrastructures. Two of 1748 01:41:50.520 --> 01:41:53.199 the electricity plants will be located near the data center 1749 01:41:53.239 --> 01:41:56.760 in Richland Parish and a third in Saint Charles Parish. 1750 01:41:57.199 --> 01:42:02.560 Both environmental advocacy groups and oil gas petrochemical companies disputed 1751 01:42:02.760 --> 01:42:06.640 Entergy's request to build over five billion dollars in new infrastructure, 1752 01:42:07.039 --> 01:42:10.479 arguing that the plan risks increased bills for all types 1753 01:42:10.520 --> 01:42:13.000 of rate payers. The imposition of the risk to the 1754 01:42:13.079 --> 01:42:16.600 rate payers, and the increase in introduce returns comes upfront, 1755 01:42:16.880 --> 01:42:20.239 while the potential benefits of the taxpayers may materialize over 1756 01:42:20.239 --> 01:42:22.800 the course of many years, but are based on speculative 1757 01:42:22.840 --> 01:42:26.319 assumptions and thus far from certain at this time. The 1758 01:42:26.479 --> 01:42:30.479 Louisiana Energy Users Group wrote in a letter Monday to 1759 01:42:30.560 --> 01:42:36.000 the regulators LEEUG that group is composed of about of 1760 01:42:36.079 --> 01:42:39.800 around thirty companies in the state, including Exxon Shell and Dow, 1761 01:42:40.159 --> 01:42:43.079 which collectively spend over five point five billion in the 1762 01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:47.399 state each year on electricity and other services. So, okay, 1763 01:42:47.680 --> 01:42:51.640 they are approving this new power plant to be built 1764 01:42:51.680 --> 01:42:57.199 to power meta AI data. That's I'm already not in 1765 01:42:57.239 --> 01:43:01.960 favor of it, just because of the AI conversation. It's yeah, 1766 01:43:01.960 --> 01:43:06.159 this will lead to some local jobs, certain like long 1767 01:43:06.239 --> 01:43:09.159 term local jobs. You're gonna need electricians, you're gonna need 1768 01:43:09.199 --> 01:43:11.600 texts to run the facility and do maintenance on and 1769 01:43:11.640 --> 01:43:15.479 all of that. But a data center doesn't have thousands 1770 01:43:15.479 --> 01:43:18.359 and thousands and thousands of employees like some sort of 1771 01:43:18.359 --> 01:43:22.520 a manufacturing or a production line goes. So I see 1772 01:43:22.560 --> 01:43:26.039 it as a short term money grab for sure. I 1773 01:43:26.079 --> 01:43:28.439 don't see it as a long term good thing. But 1774 01:43:29.439 --> 01:43:33.960 the Apparently the lawmakers and regulators are super on board 1775 01:43:33.960 --> 01:43:37.359 with this. I guess weny embrace for impact on that one. 1776 01:43:38.119 --> 01:43:40.520 Moving on to the next topic that was brought into 1777 01:43:40.560 --> 01:43:45.319 the check, Roadblocks retail retaliates against child abuse survivor who 1778 01:43:45.399 --> 01:43:51.880 exposed platforms predator problem. Okay, I don't know what is 1779 01:43:51.960 --> 01:43:54.479 going on. Well, I mean I do because people are 1780 01:43:54.520 --> 01:43:58.680 talking about it. But Roadblocks has been on the mind 1781 01:43:59.079 --> 01:44:02.039 of so many of my favorite content creators this week. 1782 01:44:02.159 --> 01:44:06.960 I have legitimately watched three different long form videos about 1783 01:44:07.079 --> 01:44:12.600 roadblocks and how they are a being used by predators 1784 01:44:12.680 --> 01:44:18.000 to prey upon children. B Roadblocks knows this and is 1785 01:44:18.000 --> 01:44:21.800 doing nothing about it, and then C in certain cases, 1786 01:44:21.880 --> 01:44:26.239 Roadblocks is promoting it for that purpose, and then D 1787 01:44:27.079 --> 01:44:30.640 when that gets exposed. Roadblocks is actually suing these people 1788 01:44:30.760 --> 01:44:35.840 for spinning rhetoric that is baseless, even though these people 1789 01:44:35.840 --> 01:44:38.920 are showing receipts and can prove every single claim that 1790 01:44:39.000 --> 01:44:41.119 is being made. So you know what. Let's read in 1791 01:44:41.199 --> 01:44:45.600 on this. One content creator's viral videos led to six 1792 01:44:45.840 --> 01:44:49.720 arrests before the company silenced him with legal threats. A 1793 01:44:49.800 --> 01:44:52.960 childhood survivor of grooming on Roadblocks is now facing corporate 1794 01:44:53.000 --> 01:44:57.319 retaliation after his viral predator catching videos led to multiple 1795 01:44:57.439 --> 01:45:04.239 arrests and exposed systemic failures in the platform's child protection systems. Wow, 1796 01:45:04.640 --> 01:45:08.760 all right, let's let's talk about it here, Sinar Gould, 1797 01:45:09.000 --> 01:45:17.279 Greatco and Hinsley pllcsggh and Milberg, Coleman, Bryson, Phillips, Grossman, 1798 01:45:17.720 --> 01:45:20.880 Jesus Christ. These law firms have been retained to defend 1799 01:45:20.880 --> 01:45:23.920 the YouTuber Michael Schlepp, a twenty two year old Texas 1800 01:45:23.920 --> 01:45:26.800 content creator who was banned from Roadblocks and served with 1801 01:45:27.119 --> 01:45:30.640 cease and assist letters after his investigative work resulted in 1802 01:45:30.720 --> 01:45:34.560 six confirmed arrests of alleged child predators operating on the 1803 01:45:34.600 --> 01:45:38.079 gaming platform. The legal action against Slap comes as his 1804 01:45:38.199 --> 01:45:42.399 removal has sparked the viral hashtag free Schlap movement, garnering 1805 01:45:42.399 --> 01:45:45.640 millions of views and prompting a major Roadblocks influencer to 1806 01:45:45.680 --> 01:45:49.520 quit the company's creator program and protest crime journalist Chris 1807 01:45:49.520 --> 01:45:53.239 Hansen maybe You've heard of him, has contacted Schlepp about 1808 01:45:53.239 --> 01:45:57.720 participating in an upcoming documentary investigating Roadblocks's handling of child 1809 01:45:57.840 --> 01:46:02.960 safety issues. A survivor's mission becomes legal target Schlep's anti 1810 01:46:03.000 --> 01:46:05.840 predator work stems from his own traumatic experiences as a 1811 01:46:05.920 --> 01:46:09.319 Roseblock user. Between the ages of twelve and fifteen, he 1812 01:46:09.439 --> 01:46:13.079 was groomed by a prominent Roadblocks developer who had official 1813 01:46:13.199 --> 01:46:18.239 company merchandise distributed nationwide and contracted directly with Roadblocks for 1814 01:46:18.279 --> 01:46:23.199 platform events. The developer, since Schlept, graphic violent content, pornography, 1815 01:46:23.359 --> 01:46:26.880 and engaged in inappropriate sexual conversations. This is a direct 1816 01:46:26.920 --> 01:46:30.359 quote here. When my client attempted suicide and was hospitalized, 1817 01:46:30.600 --> 01:46:35.560 his mother contacted Roadblocks seeking help. Roadblocks was unresponsive until 1818 01:46:35.680 --> 01:46:39.840 she threatened legal action. Only then did they engage, and 1819 01:46:39.960 --> 01:46:44.520 only to claim the abuse happened quote on another platform, 1820 01:46:45.039 --> 01:46:48.800 despite the predator being a contracted Roadblocks developer who the 1821 01:46:48.840 --> 01:46:52.760 company promoted at events. The developer who groomed Schlepp was 1822 01:46:52.800 --> 01:46:56.239 eventually banned from Roadblocks, but only years later after another 1823 01:46:56.319 --> 01:47:00.359 female developer reported sexual abuse, Roadblocks had continued paying and 1824 01:47:00.439 --> 01:47:05.800 promoting the predator Throughout Schlep's ordeal Wow working with established 1825 01:47:05.840 --> 01:47:10.560 predator catching organizations including Predator Poachers, which has over three 1826 01:47:10.640 --> 01:47:15.279 hundred convictions, and EPD Watch, Schlepp's team achieved a remarkable 1827 01:47:15.319 --> 01:47:20.319 success rate six arrests from seven real life confrontations with suspects. 1828 01:47:20.960 --> 01:47:25.640 Suspected predators initially contacted through Roadblocks. Rather than addressing the 1829 01:47:25.680 --> 01:47:31.000 safety vulnerabilities, Schlepp exposed, Roadblocks updated its terms of service 1830 01:47:31.119 --> 01:47:36.479 to specifically target quote unquote vigilante groups, and then banned 1831 01:47:36.560 --> 01:47:39.760 him from the platform. The company then escalated with legal 1832 01:47:39.800 --> 01:47:43.319 threats under the Computer Fraud Act, the same statute used 1833 01:47:43.319 --> 01:47:46.920 in Roadblock's shameful lawsuit against another prominent critic, Ruben sim 1834 01:47:47.279 --> 01:47:52.159 who has also recently retained the SGGH and Milberg Law firms, 1835 01:47:52.680 --> 01:47:55.079 is a direct quote here. Instead of thanking someone who 1836 01:47:55.119 --> 01:47:58.359 is protecting children and working with law enforcement, Roadblocks is 1837 01:47:58.399 --> 01:48:01.520 trying to silence them with the same legal intimidation tactics 1838 01:48:01.560 --> 01:48:05.399 they've used before. This pattern suggests a company more concerned 1839 01:48:05.399 --> 01:48:09.119 with suppressing criticisms and addressing the predator problem on their 1840 01:48:09.159 --> 01:48:14.800 own platform. Geezus Okay, so they just Roadblocks just started 1841 01:48:14.840 --> 01:48:17.720 digging and they have not put down the shovel yet. 1842 01:48:18.119 --> 01:48:22.640 Here we go. The hashtag free Schlap campaign has exposed 1843 01:48:22.680 --> 01:48:26.800 broader frustrations with Roadblocks child safety records, with supporters noting 1844 01:48:26.880 --> 01:48:29.840 the irony of the company punishing someone for doing the 1845 01:48:29.880 --> 01:48:33.880 protective work they claim to prioritize. Michael is doing exactly 1846 01:48:33.880 --> 01:48:37.119 what Roadblocks should be doing, identifying and stopping predators who 1847 01:48:37.159 --> 01:48:42.239 target children. This is Milburgh co counsel Gary Klinzer or 1848 01:48:42.399 --> 01:48:46.720 Ya Klinger and Melinda Maxon. Instead of partnering with him, 1849 01:48:46.720 --> 01:48:48.840 they are trying to destroy him, and that tells you 1850 01:48:48.960 --> 01:48:53.560 everything about their real priorities. The case is attracted attention 1851 01:48:53.680 --> 01:48:57.159 from major media outlets and child safety advocates, with several 1852 01:48:57.279 --> 01:49:01.319 nation national interviews scheduled this week. The controversy has also 1853 01:49:01.359 --> 01:49:04.399 prompted at least one major Roadblocks content career to publicly 1854 01:49:04.520 --> 01:49:08.840 quit the company's influencer program in solidarity with Schlep. Roadblocks 1855 01:49:08.880 --> 01:49:14.920 Corporation declined to comment. Shocker moving on here. SGGH specializes 1856 01:49:14.920 --> 01:49:18.279 in high profile litigations against major corporations, while merril Berg 1857 01:49:18.640 --> 01:49:22.079 is a leading class action and whistleblower protection firm with 1858 01:49:22.239 --> 01:49:28.840 extensive experience in cases involving corporate accountability and consumer protection. Roadblocks, whistleblower, Schlep, 1859 01:49:28.960 --> 01:49:33.439 and sim are represented by Martin D. Gould, Michael R. 1860 01:49:33.520 --> 01:49:37.960 Greco and Steven L. Vander Porten of Stenar Gold Greco 1861 01:49:38.079 --> 01:49:41.760 and Hensley Jesus a lot of names these very high 1862 01:49:41.800 --> 01:49:46.000 profile legal firms. Let's just leave it at that. Let's 1863 01:49:46.000 --> 01:49:49.560 see Stinner Gold Greco Hinsley is a boutique national personal 1864 01:49:49.600 --> 01:49:52.880 injury firm dedicated to advocating for victims of abuse and 1865 01:49:52.960 --> 01:49:56.840 catastrophic injuries in high stakes litigation. We pride ourselves on 1866 01:49:56.920 --> 01:50:00.920 being innovators of law and providers of justice. Okay, so 1867 01:50:01.079 --> 01:50:05.039 it becomes pretty much an ad for them. Recent success 1868 01:50:05.119 --> 01:50:09.319 included participating in global settlements valued at nearly three billion dollars, 1869 01:50:09.600 --> 01:50:12.600 with over four hundred million dollars recovered on behalf of 1870 01:50:12.640 --> 01:50:16.560 survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation in the past eighteen months. 1871 01:50:16.640 --> 01:50:21.399 In addition to securing record recoveries, SGG attorneys have also 1872 01:50:21.520 --> 01:50:25.159 worked with clients who fought for and secure policy changes 1873 01:50:25.359 --> 01:50:28.359 helping protect future generations of children and adults from abuse 1874 01:50:28.399 --> 01:50:31.159 and exploitation. For example, as a part of a recent 1875 01:50:31.279 --> 01:50:34.720 twenty one point three million dollar settlement in the hotel 1876 01:50:34.720 --> 01:50:37.600 abuse case last year, one of the largest settlements in 1877 01:50:37.640 --> 01:50:41.920 the country for an individual survivor, The firm also successfully 1878 01:50:41.960 --> 01:50:45.640 secured policy and training changes for thousands of hotels, improving 1879 01:50:45.680 --> 01:50:49.159 hotel pre employment screening and safety for hotel guests at 1880 01:50:49.199 --> 01:50:55.720 employees nation and employees nationwide. Wow, so hashtag free chip 1881 01:50:56.159 --> 01:51:00.039 or schlip excuse me. I remember hearing his story and 1882 01:51:00.279 --> 01:51:03.479 I've seen some of his content. And for the record, 1883 01:51:03.560 --> 01:51:07.680 it's not every single game on Roadblocks, it's not. There 1884 01:51:07.760 --> 01:51:11.640 are some games where if there's even one, good God, 1885 01:51:11.720 --> 01:51:15.560 if anybody knows the content creator, donut operator, he showed them. 1886 01:51:16.159 --> 01:51:20.760 It is public bathroom simulator. That is the name of 1887 01:51:20.800 --> 01:51:25.680 the game where a kid playing Roadblocks would click on 1888 01:51:25.760 --> 01:51:29.760 this game. They would go into this public restroom and 1889 01:51:29.960 --> 01:51:33.119 start having conversations with other people as a way to 1890 01:51:33.399 --> 01:51:39.159 normalize having very off putting conversations in a public space. 1891 01:51:39.760 --> 01:51:42.840 This would lead to them going onto other apps and 1892 01:51:42.960 --> 01:51:47.560 other messaging platforms to try to make meetups happen. And 1893 01:51:47.600 --> 01:51:51.760 that's just one example. There are tons of examples. And 1894 01:51:51.800 --> 01:51:54.239 I know that Roadblocks has it to where you can't 1895 01:51:54.319 --> 01:51:57.319 use profane language and it exes out the comments that 1896 01:51:57.359 --> 01:51:59.560 you're trying to say that are bad words or whatever. 1897 01:52:00.119 --> 01:52:03.760 There's ways around that. There's ways around that. You know, 1898 01:52:03.880 --> 01:52:08.119 predators are not dumb, well they're stupid, but they're not dumb, 1899 01:52:08.159 --> 01:52:11.119 if that makes sense. They know ways of getting around it. 1900 01:52:11.119 --> 01:52:14.119 It's only one hack away, it's only one mod away, 1901 01:52:14.239 --> 01:52:16.880 or it's one code word away. And kids are in 1902 01:52:16.880 --> 01:52:19.800 the know about a lot of these things. So I, 1903 01:52:19.960 --> 01:52:23.479 for one hope that roadblocks gets banned. I am in 1904 01:52:23.479 --> 01:52:25.720 favor of that. I don't play it, My kids don't 1905 01:52:25.720 --> 01:52:29.520 play it. It's no skin off our nose. If one 1906 01:52:29.640 --> 01:52:32.640 more avenue that predators are using to hurt children get 1907 01:52:32.720 --> 01:52:36.159 shut down, I'm in favor of this. But I guess 1908 01:52:36.159 --> 01:52:38.359 we'll see how it plays out. I am happy that 1909 01:52:38.960 --> 01:52:43.359 certain lawmakers are actually becoming aware of this and it 1910 01:52:43.439 --> 01:52:46.439 is actually going by the wayside. Hopefully we shall see. 1911 01:52:47.319 --> 01:52:52.680 Moving on to the next conversation, research suggests that doctors 1912 01:52:52.760 --> 01:52:57.920 might quickly become dependent on AI. I actually believe this 1913 01:52:57.960 --> 01:53:01.560 when full stop, to be honest with you. Artificial intelligence 1914 01:53:01.600 --> 01:53:05.119 is beginning to help doctor screen patients for several routine diseases, 1915 01:53:05.279 --> 01:53:08.119 but a new study raises concerns about whether doctors might 1916 01:53:08.159 --> 01:53:12.159 become too reliant on AI. I think they currently already are. 1917 01:53:12.680 --> 01:53:16.520 The study, looking at gastro entrologists in Poland, found that 1918 01:53:16.560 --> 01:53:20.680 they appeared to be twenty percent worse at spotting polyps 1919 01:53:20.720 --> 01:53:25.279 and other abnormalities during colonoscopies on their own after they've 1920 01:53:25.319 --> 01:53:30.439 grown accustomed to using AI assisted systems. The finding, published 1921 01:53:30.439 --> 01:53:35.600 in the Journal of Lancet gastro Intology and Hepatology, suggests 1922 01:53:35.640 --> 01:53:38.640 that even after a short period of using AI, experts 1923 01:53:38.640 --> 01:53:41.600 may become overly dependent on AI to do certain aspects 1924 01:53:41.640 --> 01:53:46.800 of their job. We were quite quite surprised, Marsne Romance 1925 01:53:48.279 --> 01:53:56.720 Romaniz Yeah Polish, names a PhD gastro enterrologists at HT 1926 01:53:56.920 --> 01:54:01.000 Medical Center in Tichi, Poland, who led the study, But 1927 01:54:01.079 --> 01:54:04.159 not everyone is convinced that the paper proves doctors are 1928 01:54:04.199 --> 01:54:07.520 losing critical skills because of AI. I think three months 1929 01:54:07.600 --> 01:54:09.680 seems like a very short period to lose a skill 1930 01:54:09.720 --> 01:54:12.960 that you took twenty six years to build up, says 1931 01:54:13.159 --> 01:54:17.279 Johan or Johann Holman, a researcher at Manchester University in 1932 01:54:17.319 --> 01:54:21.840 England who has studied human reliance on AI. A human 1933 01:54:21.960 --> 01:54:26.119 believes statistical variations in the patient data might be part 1934 01:54:26.159 --> 01:54:28.479 of the explanation for why the numbers appear to drop. 1935 01:54:28.680 --> 01:54:31.359 Factors such as average age of the patients used in 1936 01:54:31.399 --> 01:54:35.119 different sections of the study might explain variation, he said, 1937 01:54:35.319 --> 01:54:38.479 AI and medicine Let's talk about it here. Artificial intelligence 1938 01:54:38.520 --> 01:54:41.680 is becoming increasingly common for a number of routine medical scans. 1939 01:54:41.880 --> 01:54:43.680 The next time you get a scan for your eyes, 1940 01:54:43.720 --> 01:54:46.880 breast cancer, or colon disease, there's a decent chance that 1941 01:54:47.079 --> 01:54:51.279 AI may be analyzing the image. AI is spreading everywhere, 1942 01:54:51.680 --> 01:54:55.680 Romantica says. At the same time, many doctors are playing 1943 01:54:55.760 --> 01:54:58.520 catch up because learning how to use the technology wasn't 1944 01:54:58.520 --> 01:55:00.880 a part of their training. But that's the thing with AI. 1945 01:55:00.920 --> 01:55:03.479 It's not hard to learn how to use. You give 1946 01:55:03.479 --> 01:55:06.000 it a command and it does it, and it learns. 1947 01:55:06.039 --> 01:55:07.960 The more you use it, the better it gets at 1948 01:55:08.000 --> 01:55:11.840 doing the job. So, okay, we've been taught from books 1949 01:55:11.840 --> 01:55:14.000 and from our teachers, he says, no one told us 1950 01:55:14.000 --> 01:55:16.800 how to use AI. Again, there's a voice spot. You 1951 01:55:16.840 --> 01:55:19.039 could push a button and just speak what you want 1952 01:55:19.039 --> 01:55:21.279 and it does it. But all right. A few years ago, 1953 01:55:21.399 --> 01:55:25.119 for clinics and Poland tried out the AI system to 1954 01:55:25.199 --> 01:55:30.039 detect polyps and other abnormalities during colonoscopies. The AI works 1955 01:55:30.079 --> 01:55:33.319 in real time analyzing video from a camera inside the colon. 1956 01:55:33.600 --> 01:55:35.920 If it spots something, it will highlight the area for 1957 01:55:36.039 --> 01:55:40.840 the clinician to see. I've actually never heard the word 1958 01:55:40.880 --> 01:55:45.039 clinician before, but okay, in this particular one, there's a 1959 01:55:45.079 --> 01:55:47.920 green box showing where the pollup might be. He says. 1960 01:55:48.640 --> 01:55:51.600 The clinics were collecting data on whether the AI system worked. 1961 01:55:51.600 --> 01:55:54.479 It turned out that it did, but when Romance Get 1962 01:55:55.560 --> 01:55:58.960 and his colleagues reanalyzed the data, they found something else. 1963 01:55:59.159 --> 01:56:02.720 After the system was introduced, doctors became significantly worse at 1964 01:56:02.720 --> 01:56:06.920 detecting possible pollups when the AI was switched off. According 1965 01:56:06.920 --> 01:56:10.119 to their analysis, after doctors got AI, detection rates of 1966 01:56:10.159 --> 01:56:13.560 possible polops fell from twenty eight point four percent to 1967 01:56:13.680 --> 01:56:17.439 twenty two point four percent, so a six percent drop 1968 01:56:17.560 --> 01:56:21.239 that's okay when their new AI system was switched off. 1969 01:56:21.279 --> 01:56:24.079 In other words, the doctors seem to become quickly dependent 1970 01:56:24.159 --> 01:56:27.920 on AI systems catching the polyps. They said, they're not 1971 01:56:28.000 --> 01:56:31.079 sure why it's happening, but it's He has some theories. 1972 01:56:32.000 --> 01:56:34.800 We are subconsciously waiting for the green box to come 1973 01:56:34.840 --> 01:56:37.119 out to show us the region where the polyp is, 1974 01:56:37.199 --> 01:56:40.920 and we're not paying attention as much anymore. There's other 1975 01:56:41.000 --> 01:56:44.000 examples that support that idea. A similar study has shown 1976 01:56:44.079 --> 01:56:47.600 that non experts do a worst job scanning mammograms if 1977 01:56:47.640 --> 01:56:50.239 they know they can get an AI system to help 1978 01:56:50.279 --> 01:56:53.399 them with the push of a button. Johan Holman, who 1979 01:56:53.439 --> 01:56:56.960 helped lead that mammogram study, describes it as a safety 1980 01:56:57.000 --> 01:57:00.119 net effect. He says these latest results could be interesting, 1981 01:57:00.119 --> 01:57:03.279 but he's skeptical. The study of kolonoscopies took place over 1982 01:57:03.319 --> 01:57:06.880 three months and the doctors participating had decades of experience. 1983 01:57:07.119 --> 01:57:09.760 He thinks statistical variations due to a number of factors 1984 01:57:09.800 --> 01:57:12.079 such as age of the patients, might be behind the 1985 01:57:12.079 --> 01:57:15.399 apparent drop. Additionally, he says, we don't know how many 1986 01:57:15.439 --> 01:57:18.920 polyps there really are, so we don't know the ground 1987 01:57:18.920 --> 01:57:21.680 of truth. But that means it's unclear how many of 1988 01:57:21.680 --> 01:57:25.800 the possible polyps the doctors supposedly missed were actually medically important. 1989 01:57:26.239 --> 01:57:31.560 The studies author, Romance sure does believe that the drop 1990 01:57:31.680 --> 01:57:34.760 is real, though he admits that studying AI in a 1991 01:57:34.760 --> 01:57:37.319 clinical setting like this can be tricky. There are a 1992 01:57:37.359 --> 01:57:41.119 lot of variables the researchers couldn't control. He's not against 1993 01:57:41.199 --> 01:57:44.399 using AI. He actually thinks the little green boxes help 1994 01:57:44.479 --> 01:57:47.960 him to do a better colonoscopies, but he thinks there 1995 01:57:48.000 --> 01:57:50.880 should be more studies like these examining how AI might 1996 01:57:50.920 --> 01:57:53.560 be changing the way doctors work in the real world, 1997 01:57:53.680 --> 01:57:56.800 because look what happened, Look what's happening, He says, we 1998 01:57:56.880 --> 01:57:59.479 have AI systems that are available, but we don't have 1999 01:57:59.520 --> 01:58:04.159 the data. Wow. And you know, honestly, we talked about 2000 01:58:04.239 --> 01:58:06.880 that not too terribly long ago on the Culture Conspiracy. 2001 01:58:07.399 --> 01:58:11.079 I can envision a world right now where more and 2002 01:58:11.119 --> 01:58:13.960 more doctors are going to be trying to use AI 2003 01:58:14.039 --> 01:58:18.960 to better treat their patients. Because although you have this 2004 01:58:19.039 --> 01:58:22.800 doctor that's been in this field for forty years and 2005 01:58:22.840 --> 01:58:26.079 they've seen just about everything, AI will be able to 2006 01:58:26.079 --> 01:58:30.800 pull from all medical journals, from all patient listings that 2007 01:58:30.840 --> 01:58:33.119 have happened at that clinic and around the world to 2008 01:58:33.239 --> 01:58:36.399 give you the best possible solution at that time. And yeah, 2009 01:58:36.439 --> 01:58:39.640 there's gonna be some variations because the medical practice is 2010 01:58:39.680 --> 01:58:42.800 an unperfect science, and what works for person A might 2011 01:58:42.840 --> 01:58:45.520 not work for person B, and what works for person 2012 01:58:45.560 --> 01:58:48.399 AMB might not work for person C. So I get that, 2013 01:58:49.159 --> 01:58:52.119 but I also see AI as the thing that's going 2014 01:58:52.199 --> 01:58:57.600 to be used more and more commonly in the medical space. Again, 2015 01:58:57.800 --> 01:59:00.800 I just have a healthy distrust for AI, I really do. 2016 01:59:01.079 --> 01:59:03.600 I hope that it doesn't become more mainstream but boiled 2017 01:59:03.680 --> 01:59:06.960 boy by the day. It just it is. It's becoming 2018 01:59:07.000 --> 01:59:11.600 that way anyway, everybody. We have covered a wide bevy 2019 01:59:11.680 --> 01:59:15.840 of topics this evening. We covered some at home conversation, 2020 01:59:16.000 --> 01:59:19.359 we covered some international conversation. We talked about some technology. 2021 01:59:19.760 --> 01:59:22.000 I like this all the way around. Once again, for 2022 01:59:22.039 --> 01:59:24.640 anybody who would like to join the conversation next Wednesday 2023 01:59:24.680 --> 01:59:26.560 night at nine pm Central. 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