Greenland Seized? Iran Protests, Minnesota and the Dangers Ahead

The Cameron Journal

Tonight on The Cameron Journal Newshour, we're talking about all the hot news of the day. We have the situation in Iran, Minnesota and the on-going crisis over Greenland  I also talk about how Ukraine tested whether intelligence was being passed from the US to Russia and they found that it had been. We watch a video where JD Vance absolutely tears apart globalization (I love it) and we explore the next news narratives coming along.

Transcript

00:01:30I'm Cameron Cowan. This is the Cameron Journal News Hour.

00:01:33I got chit-chatting with Will from The Living Joke, and I did not set up all my links, but I'm almost done.

00:01:44There is so much happening in the world today.

00:01:49It's a little frightening, a little scary, but we're going to walk our way through it because there's so much going on.

00:01:57It's Greenland, it's Iran, it's Minnesota, it's everything. Twitter has been, ooh, it's been a fun day on Twitter today.

00:02:08Um, just every, you know, everybody freaking out about the potential end of NATO, if things with Denmark go the wrong way over Greenland, whether we actually need Greenland.

00:02:20It just goes on and on and on and on. Um, and on top of that, you have the, the Iranians calling for the return of the Shah, which, you know, I never thought would happen.

00:02:33Especially given our interview last week with Zolal Habibi, um, who talked about that they were not a lot of, um, uh, not, not a lot of, uh, a love for the Shah for obvious reasons.

00:02:46And, uh, that, um, that, that is, you know, uh, uh, a whole, a whole thing.

00:02:53So, um, we're, we're going to dive into, dive into that.

00:02:59It's also, you know, the, um, it, we're also going to get into, um, we're also going to get into a new article from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, um, talking about Pete Heggs as Christian Nationalist Crusade to remake the military,

00:03:15which is going on long before Mr. Heggs that came along, and that, uh, that's a whole, um, you know, a whole, a whole thing.

00:03:26Um, we're going to get into, um, we're going to get into a little video from Midas, touch about, uh, um, about what all, what Greenland all means,

00:03:40and, um, a big intelligence snafu that kind of also impacts the, uh, uh, uh, impacts the, uh, um, the NATO situation.

00:03:54Um, I even have a statement from Keir Starmer about that, because obviously Europe is freaking out.

00:04:01Um, we're going to dash through Davos real quick.

00:04:03I have a lot of stuff.

00:04:05I just have a lot of, a lot of things, um, happening.

00:04:10We may not really get to them all, um, sort of thing.

00:04:14But, uh, yeah, we're going to, we're going to have, we're going to have some fun.

00:04:19So, um, these All My Tabs aren't quite arranged the way that they need to be.

00:04:24But, um, we're going to, we're going to dive, we're going to dive right in.

00:04:28Um, before I do all that, though, I want to, one, remind you to subscribe to my newsletter, uh, CameronJournal.com slash subscribe, or CameronJournal.substack.com.

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00:05:17Um, before we get into the headlines, I have a personal note that I want to make.

00:05:22Um, today is Martin Luther King Day, um, as you might have seen.

00:05:26Um, and I received word this morning that my father, Wardell McGee, passed and went home to the Lord.

00:05:33Um, as we, as we would say, and he would say, um, this morning I received a call from family.

00:05:39Um, he was 79.

00:05:44Um, seven, um, no, I take that back.

00:05:4678, because his birthday wasn't until next month.

00:05:49Um, 78.

00:05:49Um, and, uh, he passed in Northport, Alabama, his home.

00:05:54Um, and, uh, he'd been having health issues for a while, so it wasn't unanticipated.

00:05:58And, um, although I was not there, I, I knew about it.

00:06:02And apparently he was, he was ready to go and he was ready for his health struggle to be over.

00:06:06Um, long time listeners of the podcast will know, I did not meet my father until I was 23 years old.

00:06:11And long time listeners of the podcast will also know that he and I had a difficult and distant relationship for the past 14-ish, 15-ish years, um, that we knew each other.

00:06:23But, um, the last phone call we had, he was in a rehab facility and we were talking about everything.

00:06:28And, um, the last phone call he had, he told me, I love you about five times.

00:06:33And at the time I thought it was a little bit corny.

00:06:35But as it turns out, it was the perfect final phone call for us to have.

00:06:38And so, um, I'm going to be passing this a little bit along to family and everything.

00:06:42But I wanted to, um, shout out my father.

00:06:46I mentioned it on Twitter this morning.

00:06:47Not that anyone would care.

00:06:49But, um, he, he, he, he didn't always express his love in the conventional way.

00:06:54But he loved to follow me on social media.

00:06:56He reposted stuff from the show all the time.

00:06:59He liked stuff from show, from the show all the time.

00:07:01Um, one of the times I got in the argument about racism on Twitter and I said, Jim Crow is a thing.

00:07:07There are people alive who live through it.

00:07:09My father lived through it and he's still here.

00:07:11And he actually commented and said, yep, still going.

00:07:14Um, which was really great and reinforced my argument.

00:07:17Um, so, uh, he, he loved interacting on social media.

00:07:22He loved basketball.

00:07:23He had a lot of interesting jobs.

00:07:24He was a snowplow driver for the city of Denver for years and years.

00:07:27He moved back down to Alabama in 2007.

00:07:30Um, he had a brief part in a movie as a doorman at one point.

00:07:34Um, he was a limousine driver for a while.

00:07:37Um, he was a semi-professional baseball player, um, for a lot of his, his adult life.

00:07:43Um, and, uh, and his moving up to Denver to kind of break out on his own was how he, uh, how he met my mom.

00:07:49Um, they had a short relationship, but not all the results were bad.

00:07:54So, um, so I, I just wanted to give him a special shout out.

00:07:58It's been weighing on me a lot today and it really shouldn't.

00:08:01We weren't that terribly close.

00:08:02Our relationship was brief in my 37 years of life and his 78 years of life.

00:08:09Um, but I did enjoy some of the wonderful times I had in Alabama with the family.

00:08:13I went down there for Christmas one year.

00:08:15I went on a couple visits down there and I was living in Seattle.

00:08:18It was a long flight.

00:08:20Um, it was a lot closer now.

00:08:22Um, and so, uh, so I just wanted to shout that out to everybody and, and let everybody know that there's been a little death in my, in my world.

00:08:30Um, death has been circling quite close lately.

00:08:34Uh, people who regularly watch know that I had a, a dear friend of mine passed last fall.

00:08:39Um, and so it seems like every couple of months I'm doing a memorial for somebody.

00:08:44Um, uh, oh, thank you.

00:08:47Someone in the comments.

00:08:48Thank you very much.

00:08:49Um, I, it seems that I spent a lot of time doing memorials, um, now, which is, um, really, really, really difficult.

00:08:59But I, I wanted to, to shout that out because it's been on my mind all day to day and I have not hardly been able to focus.

00:09:04I think I'm still processing.

00:09:06But I also come from people for whom the best way to get through grief is to begin working.

00:09:12So let's do that and dive into the headlines.

00:09:15Let me do this.

00:09:16Let me change to video.

00:09:19And let me get rid of this overlay, which was from last week's Living Joke Show.

00:09:24So, and I did not change the overload, uh, the overlays rather.

00:09:29Um, and we will, um, uh, begin right now.

00:09:35We'll dive into, uh, international news because we're going to talk about Venezuela and we're just going to, we'll just do that for an overlay.

00:09:43Okay, and let me get rid of those and get rid of those and move that over here and here we go.

00:09:49Um, oh, hello.

00:09:50Thank you for commenting, person on Twitch that says, yo, what's up, fat guy?

00:09:54I am very fat.

00:09:55Thank you for observing.

00:09:56I'm doing well.

00:09:57Let's talk about Venezuela.

00:09:58So, in the midst of the crisis in Greenland and everything else, we're still in the middle of the Venezuela situation.

00:10:10And, um, it, this post, Cory Booker was speaking out against this this morning and I thought this commentary was rather interesting.

00:10:19It says here, now they're including the Venezuela strikes in the narrative and not just Greenland.

00:10:24This is a shift.

00:10:25The words illegal, he said it out loud in writing.

00:10:29This is a new milestone being reached.

00:10:31They're not saying abuse of power or possible corruption.

00:10:34He's making a legal accusation.

00:10:36Legal.

00:10:36The words he's using and how he's using them are exactly how prosecutors talk about these types of crimes.

00:10:41He's laying a mens rea, which means why it happened, groundwork for establishing a criminal state of mind.

00:10:48He's laid out intent, enrichment, and concealment.

00:10:50Doing this sets the predication for hearings, investigations if there's time, and yes, impeachment.

00:10:55This is a signal, in my opinion, that they've fleshed out the violations of the law and had them legally reviewed.

00:11:02Language like this invites defamation unless it's true.

00:11:04The post definitely went through legal scrutiny.

00:11:07He's no longer saying if true or report suggests.

00:11:09I know it's excruciatingly slow for us, but in congressional terms, they're barreling towards impeachment as a ready option.

00:11:15And here's the reason why we're talking about this.

00:11:18There has been, especially today on Twitter, and even Instagram, a lot of people calling for the impeachment of President Trump.

00:11:26Who, you may remember, holds the record for most impeachments.

00:11:3150% of impeachments in U.S. history have been against Donald Trump.

00:11:35I don't think this dog hunts.

00:11:39And I'll tell you why.

00:11:41I don't think anybody, anybody, is in the mood to go through what happened in the first term.

00:11:48Um, that's not where the country's at.

00:11:51That's not where that is at.

00:11:53But, um, and the post from Cory Booker is here in short, and he says,

00:12:01After illegally and unconstitutionally striking Venezuela, Trump is now selling Venezuelan oil to a campaign donor

00:12:07and funneling the proceeds to an offshore accounting cutter,

00:12:10creating a potential slush fund with no accountability, oversight, or guardrails for Trump and his allies.

00:12:14His continued abuse of power doesn't serve the Venezuelan people or the American people,

00:12:18and certainly doesn't lower costs for Americans.

00:12:20This outrage is yet another example of his unchecked corruption as he again ignores laws

00:12:24and enriches his friends, donors, and himself.

00:12:27The part about this I definitely agree with is it is a narrative shift.

00:12:31I don't think it has much veracity beyond that.

00:12:35And I'll say, because no one's in the mood for it.

00:12:37And honestly, Democrats would have to knock it out of the park for the midterms in November.

00:12:42Supposing we even have elections.

00:12:44We're going to come back to that.

00:12:46Would have to knock it out of the park in November to get enough seats to even have a hope of being successful.

00:12:49And given that you need 60 votes in the Senate,

00:12:52and if everything goes right, they'll get a four-seat majority,

00:12:56they'll still need six Republicans to convict and remove.

00:13:02However, I think the focus needs to be less on impeachment

00:13:09and much more on Congress actually taking the time to restrict the power of the president.

00:13:14That would be a far, far better option.

00:13:16I'm not any happier about the strike in Venezuela than everyone else.

00:13:20Although I am happy that Maduro was gone.

00:13:21I'm just not happy with the way it happened.

00:13:23But no one's sad to see the back of Nicolas Maduro.

00:13:27Let's be clear about that.

00:13:29And the people saying that, oh, well, we should let...

00:13:31No, no, no, no.

00:13:32The world's a better place for being rid of Nicolas Maduro.

00:13:36But the way in which it was done is not great.

00:13:39Congress should work on that, not on impeachment.

00:13:42However, I think this is a very interesting...

00:13:44I do agree with this person.

00:13:46I think it is a very interesting narrative shift.

00:13:49And I think there's definitely a certain case being made.

00:13:51But I don't think it leads to impeachment.

00:13:54Moving right along.

00:13:56So, this post is rather interesting because it gets into alliance systems.

00:14:02And before we do that, I want to...

00:14:07Let's listen to Keir Starmer talk about Greenland before we dive into that post.

00:14:13Let's do this.

00:14:14He's a close ally of the United Kingdom and of the United States.

00:14:18A proud NATO member that has stood shoulder to shoulder with us,

00:14:24including at real human cost in recent decades.

00:14:27Alliances endure because they're built on respect and partnership, not pressure.

00:14:37That is why I said the use of tariffs against allies is completely wrong.

00:14:45It is not the right way to resolve differences within an alliance.

00:14:50Nor is it helpful to frame efforts to strengthen Greenland's security

00:14:56as a justification for economic pressure.

00:15:01Such measures hurt British workers, British businesses, and the British economy.

00:15:09And that is why I've been so clear on this.

00:15:11He's a close ally of the United Kingdom.

00:15:14It's kind of cut off at the beginning, but he's talking about Denmark.

00:15:17So, the reason why I picked that is because it was quite, you know,

00:15:22with everything going on between the Transatlantic Partnership and Greenland,

00:15:27we've had, you know, multiple statements.

00:15:30This one is from Keir Starmer, and I wanted to start with that first

00:15:32because this post is a bit disingenuous, and it's really the first part.

00:15:39It says here,

00:15:39Nobody can tell me what a, quote, alliance, unquote, actually is.

00:15:44I've literally seen supposedly in touch and educated Europeans say things like

00:15:48if NATO collapses, Europe will rearm and manage its own defense within 10 years.

00:15:53If you need 10 years to rearm, you aren't in a defense alliance.

00:15:56You are a free rider outsourcing your defense requirements.

00:15:59I've seen criticism from Europeans that if only the U.S. was determined,

00:16:02we could have kicked Russia out of Ukraine,

00:16:03as Europe only recently started providing any military support

00:16:06and still expects the U.S. to handle everything.

00:16:08That's not an alliance.

00:16:10That's a free riding problem.

00:16:12Until anyone can seriously answer, number one,

00:16:14what are shared threats we agree upon,

00:16:16and two, how we will burden share responsibilities equitably,

00:16:19there is no alliance that is a free rider and service provider.

00:16:23Okay.

00:16:25The rest of it is not important.

00:16:28This is what's important.

00:16:31So remember Keir Starmer just said,

00:16:34not using Terrors Against Alliance and Partners,

00:16:36alliances are built in trust, all this type of thing.

00:16:38There's a very specific reason we have disincentivized Europe from rearming.

00:16:47Let's open the history book together.

00:16:48In the 20th century, before 1950,

00:16:53Europe managed to have two world wars

00:16:56that killed 100 million people

00:16:59on almost every inhabited continent on this planet.

00:17:02And after 1945, some very smart people said,

00:17:06hmm, maybe we should take the guns away from the people conducting all the wars.

00:17:14Not just the Germans, everyone.

00:17:19And so, Europe did not necessarily rearm a whole lot after World War II.

00:17:26Now, admittedly, early in the Cold War, Europe was more armed.

00:17:32Some countries, like the UK, like France,

00:17:35mostly because they had overseas colonial possessions,

00:17:39needed to retain certain capabilities,

00:17:41and their economies were large enough to do so.

00:17:44Germany was disincentivized just from rearming.

00:17:47Most of Eastern Europe was under Soviet control by about 1952.

00:17:50And in Western Europe, you had a handful of countries

00:17:55who could basically hold off the Soviets long enough for America to arrive.

00:18:02Especially during the Cold War,

00:18:05there was a fear that without Western Europe

00:18:08being able to ably defend itself in an emergency,

00:18:12waiting for the U.S. to more fully arrive with more assets,

00:18:15that that was sort of good enough.

00:18:17At the end of the Cold War in 1991,

00:18:22there was mass disarmament around the world.

00:18:26The United States and Russia reduced arms as part of treaties,

00:18:30especially nuclear weapons around,

00:18:31which all of those treaties have now expired,

00:18:33but at the time we had a handful of nuclear nonproliferation treaties,

00:18:37and that had required a certain amount of disarmament.

00:18:39Europe, especially Western Europe,

00:18:41especially reduced spending on arms following the Cold War.

00:18:45And that has left some countries like Spain,

00:18:49post-Franco Spain,

00:18:50Portugal,

00:18:51Italy,

00:18:52Germany,

00:18:54South Central Europe,

00:18:55without a lot of military spending.

00:18:57Eastern Europe hadn't had military spending

00:18:59because most of them were part of the Warsaw Pact,

00:19:01or part of the USSR,

00:19:02and there were a variety of security agreements.

00:19:05Some countries,

00:19:05looking at you,

00:19:06Romania,

00:19:06overspent on the military,

00:19:08like the rest of the Soviet Union.

00:19:09Other parts were under more direct control

00:19:11and did not at all,

00:19:12like Ukraine.

00:19:12In the collapse of the Soviet Union,

00:19:15all of this was negotiated.

00:19:16The reason Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons

00:19:18was part of a security guarantee by Russia and the United States,

00:19:21which obviously Russia violated in 2022.

00:19:25So,

00:19:25there's a reason,

00:19:28so,

00:19:28the reason why NATO exists

00:19:30is,

00:19:31was to originally counter the Soviet threat.

00:19:34The second reason it existed

00:19:36was to help

00:19:37aid in common and mutual defense

00:19:40across all allies.

00:19:43Just because Europe doesn't have

00:19:44a lot of high troop counts

00:19:45or a lot of high plane counts

00:19:46or doesn't spend a lot on GDP

00:19:48doesn't mean they're not helping.

00:19:50That being said,

00:19:52Europe has been a bit of a free rider

00:19:54because successive presidential administrations

00:19:57have tried to get Europe

00:19:58to meet the 5% GDP minimum target

00:20:01for spending on defense.

00:20:03Because the U.S.

00:20:04or the,

00:20:04yeah.

00:20:05So,

00:20:05and because the U.S.

00:20:06has always had a large military budget

00:20:08and our military industrial complex

00:20:10likes to get paid,

00:20:10we obviously have always had

00:20:12this sort of outsized,

00:20:13you know,

00:20:14military budget

00:20:14because until very recently

00:20:16we wanted to be able to deploy

00:20:17forces anywhere on the planet

00:20:19at any time within 72 hours.

00:20:21We invaded in Afghanistan

00:20:22in three weeks.

00:20:24That was the attitude

00:20:25of,

00:20:26of,

00:20:26of the time.

00:20:27In a post-Cold War environment,

00:20:29there was not until very recently

00:20:31a huge reason for Europe

00:20:32to rearm.

00:20:34That does not necessarily mean

00:20:35an alliance is weaker.

00:20:37There are other NATO countries

00:20:39with capable militaries.

00:20:40There are other NATO countries

00:20:41that could serve as that stopgap

00:20:43in the event of,

00:20:46of some sort of,

00:20:47of some sort of Russian,

00:20:48Russian action.

00:20:49I think the implication

00:20:50that an alliance only works

00:20:53when everyone is pulling their fair weight

00:20:56isn't necessarily incorrect,

00:20:58but it's not,

00:20:59it's not by accident.

00:21:01A lot,

00:21:01some of the security protocols

00:21:03were quite intentional.

00:21:04And one of the intentions

00:21:06was to prevent

00:21:07another land war in Europe.

00:21:09Because again,

00:21:10we'd done such a good job

00:21:12with the first two.

00:21:14That,

00:21:14that was part of the problem.

00:21:15Now,

00:21:16geopolitics have changed.

00:21:18A lot.

00:21:19During the globalization era,

00:21:21which I think we can say

00:21:22is over,

00:21:23there was even less incentive

00:21:25because the U.S.

00:21:26was patrolling the oceans.

00:21:27So were the British,

00:21:28so were the French.

00:21:29But the U.S.

00:21:29only was patrolling the oceans.

00:21:30Trade was open.

00:21:31And there was this idea

00:21:32that the world's problems

00:21:33could be solved through trade,

00:21:35through negotiation,

00:21:36through diplomacy.

00:21:37This was an area where Europe,

00:21:38especially via the EU,

00:21:40once the EU became

00:21:41its own organization,

00:21:43excelled at a great deal.

00:21:47And,

00:21:47and,

00:21:47and then also denies the fact

00:21:48that we are the,

00:21:49one of the few,

00:21:50we're the only nation

00:21:51who's used the Article 5

00:21:53defense protocol of NATO

00:21:55to ask all NATO countries

00:21:56to contribute to our war

00:21:57in Afghanistan.

00:21:58Everybody was there.

00:21:59The Germans,

00:22:00the Danes,

00:22:01the French,

00:22:01the British,

00:22:02all this sort of thing.

00:22:03Britain lost tens of thousands

00:22:05of soldiers

00:22:06in Iraq and Afghanistan

00:22:08fighting alongside us.

00:22:09Same for Canada,

00:22:10same for a lot of other partners.

00:22:12Just because they're not

00:22:13spending a trillion dollars

00:22:14a year on the military

00:22:14doesn't mean they're

00:22:15layabouts and louses.

00:22:16Also,

00:22:16these countries have oftentimes

00:22:17opened their lands

00:22:19to military bases

00:22:20with all the associated problems,

00:22:22ask Japan about Okinawa,

00:22:24with the associated difficulties

00:22:25with that so that we could

00:22:26project power globally.

00:22:30Our ability

00:22:31to protect countries

00:22:32has been a huge

00:22:33diplomatic chip.

00:22:35It has been

00:22:36the paperweight

00:22:37that has ensured

00:22:39world peace

00:22:40for 80 years.

00:22:44As one one posted today,

00:22:45if you thought paying

00:22:46for the liberal world order

00:22:47was expensive,

00:22:48wait till you pay

00:22:48for what's next.

00:22:50An alliance

00:22:51is a deterrent.

00:22:53An alliance

00:22:54is an agreement.

00:22:54An alliance

00:22:56does not necessarily

00:22:57mean

00:22:58checking the accounts

00:23:00to see who's spent what.

00:23:01Sometimes it is,

00:23:03but that's not

00:23:04necessarily

00:23:05the be-all,

00:23:06end-all

00:23:06of what an alliance means.

00:23:08And that is

00:23:10an important thing

00:23:12to remember.

00:23:14And that's,

00:23:16there's a lot of,

00:23:17a lot of

00:23:20misunderstanding,

00:23:23I think,

00:23:23bad information

00:23:24about how these things

00:23:25really,

00:23:26really,

00:23:27really work.

00:23:28And that,

00:23:29that is

00:23:30perfectly demonstrated

00:23:31by

00:23:32this post

00:23:33and

00:23:34how

00:23:34different things

00:23:36are happening

00:23:36in geopolitics.

00:23:38and that's,

00:23:40that's

00:23:42extremely prescient,

00:23:43especially given

00:23:44this video,

00:23:46which is Emmanuel Macron

00:23:47talking about

00:23:49a major

00:23:50intelligence leak

00:23:51between

00:23:52the United States,

00:23:54Ukraine,

00:23:55and Russia.

00:23:56So,

00:23:57I love the

00:23:57Krasenstein Brothers.

00:23:58It says here,

00:23:59a French media report

00:23:59says Ukrainian intelligence

00:24:01stopped sharing

00:24:01high-value intelligence

00:24:02with the U.S.

00:24:03after concluding

00:24:04American leaks

00:24:05were reaching Moscow,

00:24:06citing a severe breakdown

00:24:07of trust during

00:24:07the Trump administration.

00:24:08The claim is attributed

00:24:09to senior Ukrainian

00:24:10intelligence leaders.

00:24:11Between this

00:24:12and the Greenland mess,

00:24:13can we just impeach

00:24:14Trump already?

00:24:14See what I mean?

00:24:15Everyone's got that

00:24:16on the brain.

00:24:17Not a thing.

00:24:18Anyway,

00:24:18I don't know

00:24:19if this is in English

00:24:20or not.

00:24:20If not,

00:24:21I will translate.

00:24:25Où l'Ukraine

00:24:25était éminemment

00:24:26dépendante

00:24:27des capacités

00:24:28de renseignement

00:24:29américaines

00:24:30à une écrasante

00:24:32majorité

00:24:32il y a un an.

00:24:34Aujourd'hui,

00:24:35les deux tiers

00:24:36sont fournies

00:24:36par la France.

00:24:37Les deux tiers.

00:24:37Alors cette déclaration

00:24:40n'est passée

00:24:41un petit peu

00:24:41une personne.

00:24:42Okay,

00:24:42he's talking about

00:24:43going to the U.S.

00:24:44to negotiate

00:24:45about Ukraine.

00:24:46That's not

00:24:47necessarily hugely

00:24:48important.

00:24:49They're going to get

00:24:49into the intelligence

00:24:50thing right now,

00:24:51but it's in French.

00:24:52You won't watch

00:24:52the whole thing.

00:24:53Krasenstein had

00:24:54the most important part.

00:24:55He was talking

00:24:56about his upcoming

00:24:56trip to the United States

00:24:57to negotiate

00:24:57about Ukraine,

00:24:58which is fine.

00:25:00So there's so much

00:25:04else going on today.

00:25:05This should be a much

00:25:06bigger story than it is.

00:25:09Basically, what had

00:25:10happened, I had read

00:25:11in other reports,

00:25:12is that the French

00:25:13and the Ukrainians

00:25:14decided to see

00:25:15how much intelligence

00:25:17or if intelligence

00:25:18about Ukraine

00:25:19was reaching Moscow.

00:25:20they fed fake

00:25:22information

00:25:22through to

00:25:24the Trump

00:25:25administration,

00:25:26found out about it

00:25:27on the other side,

00:25:28and concluded

00:25:28that, yes,

00:25:30that was

00:25:31definitely

00:25:31happening.

00:25:34And this was all

00:25:35exposed

00:25:36in this

00:25:38report.

00:25:42And that's

00:25:45how we

00:25:45that's

00:25:47a troubling

00:25:48thing,

00:25:49but the

00:25:50result of this,

00:25:51and I don't

00:25:52think I have

00:25:53any stories

00:25:53in here about

00:25:54this,

00:25:55but the result

00:25:56has been

00:25:56a lot of

00:25:58new people

00:25:59bringing up

00:26:00Trump's ties

00:26:01to Russia

00:26:01and the

00:26:02Russia hoax.

00:26:04That was never

00:26:04really a hoax,

00:26:05but that's a whole

00:26:06other conversation.

00:26:07Anyway,

00:26:07the whole Trump

00:26:08is a Russian

00:26:09intelligence asset

00:26:10has gotten brought

00:26:11up again in a big

00:26:12way.

00:26:12People are reposting

00:26:13articles.

00:26:14People are pointing

00:26:14at it again.

00:26:15All this type of

00:26:16thing.

00:26:17I don't necessarily

00:26:18know if that

00:26:19does or does

00:26:19not apply to

00:26:20Trump specifically.

00:26:21There's evidence

00:26:22for, there's

00:26:22evidence against.

00:26:25The only people

00:26:26who know that

00:26:26for sure

00:26:27work in

00:26:27Moscow.

00:26:29However,

00:26:29this is

00:26:30troubling

00:26:30simply because

00:26:31if Ukraine

00:26:33cannot trust

00:26:34their biggest

00:26:35ally who's

00:26:37applying material

00:26:37support,

00:26:39then Ukraine

00:26:39is in very

00:26:40deep trouble.

00:26:41Also,

00:26:42the fact that

00:26:44they're not

00:26:44providing us

00:26:45a high level

00:26:45intelligence

00:26:46anymore makes

00:26:46it a lot

00:26:47harder for

00:26:47our assets

00:26:48on the ground

00:26:49and yes,

00:26:50we do have

00:26:50assets on the

00:26:51ground in

00:26:51Ukraine,

00:26:52it's a lot

00:26:52harder for them

00:26:53to become a

00:26:53part of the

00:26:54fight and

00:26:54operate effectively

00:26:55either.

00:26:57Minus the fact

00:26:58this is a

00:26:59betrayal.

00:26:59Now,

00:27:00when we think

00:27:00about those

00:27:02thoughts about

00:27:02trust,

00:27:03those thoughts

00:27:04about being

00:27:05able to trust

00:27:06alliance partners,

00:27:07all this type

00:27:08of thing,

00:27:08if you can't

00:27:08trust your

00:27:09friend,

00:27:09do you want

00:27:10to hang out

00:27:10with your

00:27:11friend?

00:27:11If the

00:27:12United States

00:27:12becomes

00:27:13untrustworthy,

00:27:15which it's

00:27:17hard to think

00:27:18of it any

00:27:18other way

00:27:18after today,

00:27:20it will have

00:27:22devastating

00:27:23geopolitical

00:27:25consequences.

00:27:30If there is

00:27:33a big

00:27:33pullback,

00:27:35the EU

00:27:35even threatened

00:27:36to stop

00:27:36trading with

00:27:37the United

00:27:38States over,

00:27:39if tariffs

00:27:40implemented over

00:27:41Greenland,

00:27:42Europe is

00:27:43our second

00:27:43biggest trading

00:27:44partner after

00:27:44Mexico,

00:27:45and for those

00:27:46of you wondering

00:27:47what do we get

00:27:48important from

00:27:48Europe,

00:27:49insulin,

00:27:5074% of

00:27:51insulin is

00:27:51manufactured in

00:27:52Denmark

00:27:52specifically.

00:27:55It would

00:27:55take us a

00:27:56year and a

00:27:56half to

00:27:57replace that

00:27:57production

00:27:57capacity.

00:27:59Millions

00:27:59would die

00:28:00in insulin

00:28:01shortages,

00:28:02including

00:28:02children.

00:28:04So,

00:28:04just things

00:28:05to bear in

00:28:06mind as

00:28:07the trust

00:28:08with our

00:28:09alliance partners

00:28:10begins to

00:28:10break down

00:28:11ever so

00:28:12slowly,

00:28:12and it

00:28:13appears that

00:28:14the White

00:28:14House,

00:28:15or at least

00:28:15the Trump

00:28:15administration,

00:28:16somebody,

00:28:17is leaked to

00:28:17Moscow for

00:28:18high-level

00:28:18Ukraine

00:28:19intelligence.

00:28:22One of the

00:28:24big stories

00:28:25today,

00:28:26this is the

00:28:26New York

00:28:27Times live

00:28:28update,

00:28:29is about

00:28:30the text

00:28:31message that

00:28:33Trump said

00:28:34to the

00:28:34president of

00:28:35Norway,

00:28:36and it

00:28:39says here

00:28:40that President

00:28:40Trump is

00:28:41now claiming

00:28:42that one

00:28:42reason he's

00:28:43pushing to

00:28:43acquire

00:28:44Greenland is

00:28:45that he

00:28:45didn't win

00:28:45the Nobel

00:28:46Prize.

00:28:49And that

00:28:50might sound

00:28:51odd,

00:28:52but it

00:28:54would sound

00:28:55weird,

00:28:57except it's

00:28:59real.

00:28:59according to

00:29:02a text

00:29:02message he

00:29:03sent to

00:29:03Norway's

00:29:03Prime

00:29:03Minister

00:29:04over the

00:29:04weekend.

00:29:05Jonas

00:29:05Garstor,

00:29:06Norway's

00:29:07leader,

00:29:07received the

00:29:07text message

00:29:08on Sunday,

00:29:09an official in

00:29:10the Prime

00:29:10Minister's

00:29:10office said

00:29:10on Monday,

00:29:11quote,

00:29:12considering your

00:29:13country decided

00:29:14not to give

00:29:14me the Nobel

00:29:15Peace Prize

00:29:15for having

00:29:16stopped eight

00:29:16wars plus,

00:29:17I no longer

00:29:18feel an

00:29:18obligation to

00:29:19think purely

00:29:19of peace,

00:29:20although it

00:29:21will always

00:29:21be predominant,

00:29:22but now can

00:29:23think about what

00:29:23is good and

00:29:24proper for the

00:29:24United States

00:29:25of America.

00:29:26Mr.

00:29:26Trump wrote

00:29:27in the

00:29:27message,

00:29:27which was first

00:29:28published by

00:29:28PBS,

00:29:29Mr.

00:29:30Trump also

00:29:30questioned

00:29:31Denmark's

00:29:31claim to

00:29:32Greenland,

00:29:32saying,

00:29:33quote,

00:29:33there are

00:29:33no written

00:29:34documents,

00:29:34and adding,

00:29:35the world

00:29:35is not secure

00:29:36unless we have

00:29:36complete and

00:29:37total control

00:29:37of Greenland,

00:29:38thank you.

00:29:39The tensions

00:29:40over Greenland

00:29:40have sharply

00:29:41escalated in

00:29:41the last week,

00:29:42and the message

00:29:43injected a new

00:29:43level of

00:29:44uncertainty into

00:29:45Mr.

00:29:45Trump's thinking

00:29:45in his campaign

00:29:46to gain control

00:29:47of the island.

00:29:48Greenland has

00:29:48been a part of

00:29:49the Danish

00:29:49Kingdom for

00:29:49more than

00:29:50300 years,

00:29:51and world

00:29:51leaders have

00:29:52condemned

00:29:52Mr.

00:29:52Trump's

00:29:53insistence

00:29:53that the

00:29:53United States

00:29:54take over

00:29:54the territory,

00:29:55a giant

00:29:55ice-bound

00:29:56island in

00:29:56the Arctic

00:29:57region.

00:29:57According to

00:29:58copies of

00:29:58the message

00:29:59provided by

00:29:59the Norwegian

00:30:00Prime Minister's

00:30:00office,

00:30:01Mr.

00:30:01Trump's

00:30:01message was

00:30:02in a response

00:30:02to one that

00:30:03Mr.

00:30:03Storrs sent

00:30:04to Trump

00:30:04on Sunday.

00:30:05It was

00:30:05co-signed

00:30:05by the

00:30:06president of

00:30:06Finland,

00:30:07Alexander

00:30:07Stubb,

00:30:08a leader

00:30:08with whom

00:30:08Mr.

00:30:09Trump is

00:30:09close.

00:30:10The European

00:30:11leaders asked

00:30:11to speak

00:30:12to Mr.

00:30:12Trump about

00:30:13Greenland and

00:30:13his threat

00:30:14of using

00:30:14tariffs to

00:30:14pressure

00:30:15Denmark

00:30:15into selling

00:30:15it,

00:30:16which Denmark

00:30:16has refused

00:30:17to do.

00:30:18They asked

00:30:18for a phone

00:30:18call and

00:30:19struck a

00:30:19collaborative

00:30:19tone,

00:30:20writing,

00:30:20we believe

00:30:21we should

00:30:21all work

00:30:21to take

00:30:22this down

00:30:22and de-escalate.

00:30:23So much is

00:30:24happening around

00:30:24us where we

00:30:24need to stand

00:30:25together.

00:30:26After Mr.

00:30:26Trump's

00:30:27response,

00:30:27Mr.

00:30:27Storrs said

00:30:28in a statement,

00:30:28quote,

00:30:28as regards

00:30:29the Nobel

00:30:29Peace Prize,

00:30:30I have on

00:30:31several occasions

00:30:31clearly explained

00:30:32to Trump

00:30:32what is well

00:30:33known,

00:30:34namely that it

00:30:34is an

00:30:35independent

00:30:35Nobel

00:30:36committee,

00:30:36not the

00:30:37Norwegian

00:30:37government

00:30:37that awards

00:30:38the prize,

00:30:38Mr.

00:30:38Storrs said.

00:30:39The White

00:30:40House did

00:30:40not respond

00:30:40to requests

00:30:41for comment.

00:30:42Mr.

00:30:42Trump has

00:30:42repeatedly

00:30:42challenged

00:30:43Denmark's

00:30:43claims to

00:30:44Greenland,

00:30:44but in

00:30:45decades-old

00:30:45agreements with

00:30:46the United

00:30:46States

00:30:46assigned with

00:30:47Denmark,

00:30:47the United

00:30:47States has

00:30:48recognized

00:30:48Denmark's

00:30:49close

00:30:49connection

00:30:49to the

00:30:49island.

00:30:50A 2004

00:30:51amendment to

00:30:51an older

00:30:52defense pact

00:30:52between

00:30:53Denmark

00:30:53and the

00:30:53United

00:30:53States,

00:30:54which grants

00:30:54the United

00:30:55States

00:30:55broad

00:30:55military

00:30:56access,

00:30:56explicitly

00:30:57recognizes

00:30:57Greenland

00:30:57as an

00:30:58equal part

00:30:59of the

00:30:59Kingdom

00:30:59of

00:31:00Denmark.

00:31:01And in

00:31:011916,

00:31:02Denmark sold

00:31:02what are

00:31:03now the

00:31:03U.S.

00:31:03Virgin Islands

00:31:04to the

00:31:05United States

00:31:05for $25

00:31:06million in

00:31:06gold.

00:31:07In the

00:31:07treaty for

00:31:08that deal,

00:31:08a clause

00:31:09reads,

00:31:09quote,

00:31:09the United

00:31:10States of

00:31:10America will

00:31:11not object

00:31:11to the

00:31:11Danish

00:31:12government

00:31:12extending

00:31:12their

00:31:12political

00:31:13and

00:31:13economic

00:31:14interest

00:31:14to the

00:31:14whole

00:31:15of

00:31:15Greenland.

00:31:16In the

00:31:17past year,

00:31:18Mr.

00:31:18Trump has

00:31:18repeatedly

00:31:18vowed to

00:31:19get

00:31:19Greenland.

00:31:20Denmark has

00:31:21repeatedly

00:31:21rebuffed

00:31:21him.

00:31:22Denmark's

00:31:22position is

00:31:23that it

00:31:23does not

00:31:23have the

00:31:23authority

00:31:23to sell

00:31:24the

00:31:24self-governing

00:31:25territory

00:31:25and that

00:31:26Greenland's

00:31:2657,000

00:31:27inhabitants

00:31:27will decide

00:31:28their own

00:31:28fate.

00:31:29Polls and

00:31:29interviews

00:31:30show that

00:31:30an overwhelming

00:31:31majority of

00:31:32Greenlanders

00:31:32strongly oppose

00:31:33joining the

00:31:33United States.

00:31:34On Saturday,

00:31:35Greenlanders

00:31:35staged the

00:31:36biggest protest

00:31:36of recent

00:31:37months.

00:31:37Hundreds

00:31:38marched

00:31:38through the

00:31:39snowy

00:31:39streets of

00:31:39Nuuk,

00:31:40the capital

00:31:40chanting,

00:31:41No means

00:31:41no,

00:31:42Greenland is

00:31:42already great

00:31:43and Yankee

00:31:44go home.

00:31:45In the

00:31:45past few

00:31:45days,

00:31:46Denmark and

00:31:46other European

00:31:47countries have

00:31:47sent more

00:31:47military forces

00:31:48to the

00:31:48island.

00:31:49Small groups

00:31:49of Danish

00:31:50soldiers

00:31:50dressed in

00:31:51green camouflage

00:31:51and dark

00:31:52woolen hats

00:31:52have been

00:31:53walking through

00:31:53downtown

00:31:54Nuuk.

00:31:54Beyond the

00:31:55harbor,

00:31:55a 200-foot-long

00:31:56Danish warship

00:31:57people were

00:31:57breaking through

00:31:57ice has been

00:31:58patrolling the

00:31:59shoreline.

00:32:00A much

00:32:00anticipated

00:32:01three-way

00:32:01meeting last

00:32:02week in

00:32:02the United

00:32:02States,

00:32:02Denmark and

00:32:03Greenland,

00:32:03hosted by

00:32:04Vice President

00:32:04J.D.

00:32:05Vance in

00:32:05Washington,

00:32:06did not

00:32:06produce any

00:32:06breakthroughs

00:32:07and seemed

00:32:07instead to

00:32:08create

00:32:08misunderstandings.

00:32:09It was the

00:32:10first time

00:32:10Greenland had

00:32:11been included

00:32:11in such

00:32:12high-level

00:32:12discussions,

00:32:13and the

00:32:13Danish and

00:32:13Greenlandic

00:32:14officials left

00:32:14saying that

00:32:15a working

00:32:15group had

00:32:15been formed

00:32:16to explore

00:32:17possibilities

00:32:17for a

00:32:17solution.

00:32:18But the

00:32:18Trump

00:32:18administration

00:32:19said

00:32:19afterwards

00:32:19that the

00:32:20two sides

00:32:20would begin

00:32:20technical

00:32:21talks on

00:32:21the acquisition

00:32:22of Greenland,

00:32:23a statement

00:32:23that raised

00:32:24even more

00:32:24concern in

00:32:25Greenland,

00:32:25in Denmark,

00:32:26and across

00:32:27Europe.

00:32:34So what

00:32:35we're saying

00:32:36is Trump

00:32:37is mad

00:32:38that he

00:32:39didn't get

00:32:40the Nobel

00:32:40Peace Prize,

00:32:41even though

00:32:42the person

00:32:42who did

00:32:43win it

00:32:43actually gave

00:32:44it to him.

00:32:44That happened

00:32:45last week.

00:32:48And therefore,

00:32:50ergo,

00:32:51Greenland is

00:32:52his next

00:32:53big thing.

00:32:54Here's the

00:32:55funny part.

00:32:59Trump may

00:32:59not know

00:33:00that Denmark

00:33:01and Norway

00:33:01are separate

00:33:02countries.

00:33:03He just

00:33:03kind of

00:33:04thinks it

00:33:04was all

00:33:04of one

00:33:05amorphous

00:33:06blob

00:33:07sort of

00:33:08thing,

00:33:09which is

00:33:10rather

00:33:11interesting

00:33:12and entertaining.

00:33:13Again,

00:33:13it would

00:33:14sound

00:33:14weird

00:33:18except

00:33:21for

00:33:22the fact

00:33:24that it's

00:33:24real and

00:33:25it happened

00:33:25and we

00:33:27have it

00:33:27from the

00:33:27Norwegians

00:33:28and this

00:33:29is just

00:33:31this whole

00:33:33thing today

00:33:34has just

00:33:34blown so

00:33:35wide open.

00:33:36It's not

00:33:37even funny.

00:33:40It's

00:33:40I think

00:33:45the problem

00:33:46for Trump

00:33:47is it's

00:33:47personal.

00:33:47and ironically

00:33:50his own

00:33:51book,

00:33:51The Art

00:33:52of the

00:33:52Deal,

00:33:53expressly

00:33:54says not

00:33:55to do

00:33:55that,

00:33:56which I

00:33:56think is

00:33:57funny.

00:33:59He's kind

00:34:00of breaking

00:34:00his own

00:34:01rulebook

00:34:01on how

00:34:02to do

00:34:02deals.

00:34:04You can't

00:34:05let them

00:34:05be personal

00:34:06and he's

00:34:07making it

00:34:07personal.

00:34:08I think

00:34:09it's also

00:34:10kind of

00:34:10frightening

00:34:11when he

00:34:12says,

00:34:13I no

00:34:14longer feel

00:34:14an obligation

00:34:15to think

00:34:16purely of

00:34:16peace.

00:34:19I'm not

00:34:19going to

00:34:20ask what

00:34:20that means

00:34:21because,

00:34:22you know,

00:34:23the answer

00:34:25is obvious

00:34:25and the

00:34:25answer is

00:34:26rhetorical.

00:34:27But I

00:34:28kind of

00:34:28wonder where

00:34:29his head

00:34:30is at

00:34:30with all

00:34:32of that.

00:34:34But that

00:34:35is the

00:34:36latest with

00:34:36the Greenland

00:34:38system.

00:34:38That's kind

00:34:38of where

00:34:39it stands

00:34:40today.

00:34:43And there

00:34:43is,

00:34:44given all

00:34:45the military

00:34:46stuff that

00:34:46we have

00:34:47in Greenland,

00:34:47there's

00:34:48really no

00:34:48need for

00:34:48us to

00:34:49own it.

00:34:49I think

00:34:50Trump is

00:34:52doing this

00:34:52to own

00:34:53Europe.

00:34:54And not

00:34:55own as

00:34:55in buy

00:34:55it, I

00:34:56mean own

00:34:56in the

00:34:56internet

00:34:57speak,

00:34:57just to

00:34:58kind of

00:34:58pwn

00:34:59Europe.

00:35:01To be

00:35:01kind of

00:35:01like,

00:35:01well,

00:35:02you didn't

00:35:02give me

00:35:03the medal

00:35:03I wanted,

00:35:04so now

00:35:04I'm going

00:35:05to just

00:35:05seize

00:35:06some

00:35:06territory

00:35:07and go

00:35:10that route.

00:35:12Which is

00:35:14kind of

00:35:14frightening.

00:35:15It strikes

00:35:15as a

00:35:16little bit

00:35:16of a

00:35:17temper tantrum,

00:35:18but it

00:35:19is blown

00:35:20the situation

00:35:20wide open.

00:35:21There is

00:35:22a lot of

00:35:22threats from

00:35:23Europe coming

00:35:23out on

00:35:24economic

00:35:24sanctions,

00:35:25ceasing

00:35:25trade,

00:35:26tariffs,

00:35:27all this

00:35:28type of

00:35:28thing.

00:35:28Trump is

00:35:28doing the

00:35:29same.

00:35:30And given

00:35:31that Danish

00:35:31troops are

00:35:32in Greenland

00:35:32and Trump

00:35:33is preparing

00:35:34the 11th

00:35:35airborne in

00:35:35Alaska,

00:35:36literally we

00:35:37could end

00:35:37up with a

00:35:38shooting war

00:35:38with a

00:35:39NATO ally,

00:35:41and that

00:35:42could be the

00:35:43collapse of

00:35:43NATO.

00:35:43Let's

00:35:47think for a

00:35:47moment who

00:35:48benefits from

00:35:49the collapse

00:35:49of NATO.

00:35:51Who,

00:35:52who,

00:35:52who?

00:35:53Hmm.

00:35:56Who would

00:35:57benefit from

00:35:57the collapse

00:35:58of NATO?

00:36:00Oh,

00:36:01oh wait,

00:36:04I know.

00:36:06Russia

00:36:07benefits

00:36:08greatly

00:36:09from a

00:36:10collapse of

00:36:10NATO.

00:36:12Do with

00:36:12that information

00:36:13what you

00:36:13will.

00:36:15It is

00:36:15741 and

00:36:17we have a

00:36:17lot of

00:36:17tabs, so

00:36:18we're going

00:36:18to skip

00:36:19some things.

00:36:20We're going

00:36:21to skip the

00:36:21Midas Touch

00:36:22video.

00:36:24We're going

00:36:25to skip that

00:36:25one.

00:36:26Let me see

00:36:27if I have

00:36:27anything else

00:36:27on Greenland

00:36:28in here.

00:36:30I do have

00:36:30some stuff

00:36:31on Minnesota.

00:36:32We can go

00:36:32to Minnesota

00:36:32for a minute.

00:36:34Don't need

00:36:34that.

00:36:36That's

00:36:36Minnesota.

00:36:37We can

00:36:37talk about

00:36:37that.

00:36:39Oh,

00:36:40this is

00:36:40actually,

00:36:41we should

00:36:42watch this.

00:36:43So,

00:36:43there's not

00:36:44often I agree

00:36:44with J.D.

00:36:45Vance.

00:36:47Although I

00:36:48liked him

00:36:48better when

00:36:48he wasn't a

00:36:49fan of

00:36:49Trump.

00:36:51But,

00:36:51this is

00:36:53good.

00:36:54This is

00:36:55good.

00:36:55This is

00:36:56the sense

00:36:56he articulates

00:36:57very clearly

00:36:59what the

00:37:00right-wing

00:37:01issue with

00:37:01globalization

00:37:02is,

00:37:03what a

00:37:03lot of

00:37:04us have

00:37:04been saying

00:37:04about

00:37:04globalization,

00:37:05although I

00:37:06was talking

00:37:06globalization

00:37:06from the

00:37:07left,

00:37:08what a

00:37:08lot of

00:37:08people have

00:37:08been saying

00:37:09about

00:37:09globalization

00:37:09since the

00:37:10WTO

00:37:11protests

00:37:11with China

00:37:12joining the

00:37:12World Trade

00:37:12Organization in

00:37:131999 in

00:37:14Seattle.

00:37:15We may

00:37:16not like

00:37:16whose mouth

00:37:17it's coming

00:37:18from,

00:37:19but it

00:37:19sounds damn

00:37:19good.

00:37:20Listen up.

00:37:21Because there

00:37:22were two

00:37:23conceits that

00:37:24our leadership

00:37:24class had

00:37:25when it

00:37:25came to

00:37:26globalization.

00:37:27The first

00:37:28is assuming

00:37:29that we

00:37:30can separate

00:37:30the making

00:37:31of things

00:37:31from the

00:37:32design of

00:37:32things.

00:37:33The idea

00:37:34of globalization

00:37:35was that

00:37:35rich countries

00:37:36would move

00:37:37further up

00:37:37the value

00:37:38chain while

00:37:39the poor

00:37:39countries made

00:37:40the simpler

00:37:40things.

00:37:41You would

00:37:42open an

00:37:42iPhone box

00:37:43and it

00:37:43would say

00:37:44designed in

00:37:45Cupertino,

00:37:46California.

00:37:46Now the

00:37:46implication,

00:37:47of course,

00:37:48is that it

00:37:48would be

00:37:49manufactured in

00:37:50Shenzhen

00:37:50or somewhere

00:37:51else.

00:37:52And yeah,

00:37:52some people

00:37:53might lose

00:37:53their jobs

00:37:54in manufacturing,

00:37:55but they

00:37:55could learn

00:37:56to design

00:37:57or, to

00:37:57use a very

00:37:58popular phrase,

00:37:59learn to

00:37:59code.

00:38:00But I

00:38:01think we

00:38:01got it

00:38:01wrong.

00:38:01It turns

00:38:02out that

00:38:03the geographies

00:38:03that do

00:38:04the manufacturing

00:38:05get awfully

00:38:06good at

00:38:06the designing

00:38:07of things.

00:38:08There are

00:38:08network effects,

00:38:09as you all

00:38:09well understand.

00:38:10The firms

00:38:11that design

00:38:11products work

00:38:12with firms

00:38:13that manufacture.

00:38:14They share

00:38:15intellectual property,

00:38:16they share

00:38:16best practices,

00:38:17and they

00:38:18even sometimes

00:38:19share critical

00:38:19employees.

00:38:21Now we

00:38:21assume that

00:38:22other nations

00:38:22would always

00:38:23trail us

00:38:23in the value

00:38:24chain,

00:38:25but it

00:38:25turns out

00:38:25that as

00:38:26they got

00:38:26better at

00:38:27the low

00:38:27end of

00:38:27the value

00:38:28chain,

00:38:28they also

00:38:29started

00:38:29catching up

00:38:30on the

00:38:30higher end.

00:38:31We were

00:38:31squeezed

00:38:32from both

00:38:32ends.

00:38:33Now that

00:38:33was the

00:38:33first conceit

00:38:34of globalization.

00:38:35I think

00:38:35the second

00:38:36is that

00:38:37cheap labor

00:38:37is fundamentally

00:38:39a crutch,

00:38:40and it's a

00:38:40crutch that

00:38:41inhibits

00:38:42innovation.

00:38:42I might even

00:38:42say that it's

00:38:43a drug that

00:38:44too many

00:38:45American firms

00:38:45got addicted

00:38:46to.

00:38:47Now if

00:38:47you can

00:38:47make a

00:38:48product

00:38:48more cheaply,

00:38:50it's far

00:38:50too easy

00:38:51to do

00:38:51that rather

00:38:52than to

00:38:52innovate.

00:38:54And whether

00:38:54we were

00:38:54offshoring

00:38:55factories to

00:38:56cheap labor

00:38:56economies or

00:38:57importing

00:38:58cheap labor

00:38:59through our

00:38:59immigration

00:39:00system,

00:39:01cheap labor

00:39:02became the

00:39:02drug of

00:39:03Western

00:39:04economies.

00:39:04And I'd

00:39:05say that

00:39:05if you

00:39:06look in

00:39:06nearly every

00:39:07country from

00:39:07Canada to

00:39:08the UK that

00:39:09imported large

00:39:09amounts of

00:39:10cheap labor,

00:39:11you've seen

00:39:11productivity

00:39:12stagnate.

00:39:13And I don't

00:39:13think that's

00:39:14not a

00:39:15total

00:39:16happenstance.

00:39:17I think that

00:39:17the connection

00:39:18is very

00:39:19direct.

00:39:20Now one of

00:39:20the debates

00:39:21you hear on

00:39:21the minimum

00:39:22wage, for

00:39:22instance, is

00:39:23that increases

00:39:24in the minimum

00:39:25wage force

00:39:25firms to

00:39:26automate.

00:39:27So a higher

00:39:27wage at

00:39:28McDonald's means

00:39:29more kiosks.

00:39:30And whatever

00:39:30your views on

00:39:31the wisdom of

00:39:31the minimum

00:39:32wage, I'm not

00:39:33going to comment

00:39:33on that here.

00:39:34Companies

00:39:35innovating in

00:39:36the absence of

00:39:36cheap labor is

00:39:37a good thing.

00:39:38I think most

00:39:39of you are not

00:39:40worried about

00:39:40getting cheaper

00:39:41and cheaper

00:39:41labor.

00:39:42You're worried

00:39:42about innovating,

00:39:43about building

00:39:44new things,

00:39:44about the old

00:39:45formulation of

00:39:46technology is

00:39:47doing more

00:39:48with less.

00:39:49You guys are

00:39:50all trying to

00:39:50do more with

00:39:50less every

00:39:51single day.

00:39:52And so I'd

00:39:53ask my friends,

00:39:54both on the

00:39:55tech optimist

00:39:56side and on

00:39:57the populist

00:39:58side, not to

00:39:58see the failure

00:39:59of the logic of

00:40:00globalization as

00:40:02a failure of

00:40:02innovation.

00:40:04Indeed, I'd

00:40:05say that

00:40:05globalization's

00:40:06hunger for

00:40:06cheap labor

00:40:07is a problem

00:40:08precisely because

00:40:10it's been bad

00:40:11for innovation.

00:40:12Both our

00:40:13working people,

00:40:14our populists,

00:40:15and our

00:40:15innovators gathered

00:40:16here today have

00:40:17the same enemy.

00:40:19And the solution,

00:40:20I believe, is

00:40:21American innovation.

00:40:22Because

00:40:23honestly, 1010,

00:40:27no notes.

00:40:28He's not wrong.

00:40:30I have been

00:40:30saying on this

00:40:31show every night

00:40:33for three years,

00:40:34until you get

00:40:35American corporations

00:40:36off the teat of

00:40:37cheap labor, you

00:40:37will never solve

00:40:38immigration.

00:40:39simple as.

00:40:40It is literally

00:40:41that simple.

00:40:44That's it.

00:40:45And he's

00:40:46absolutely right.

00:40:48The whole,

00:40:48he's talking about

00:40:49what's called the

00:40:50head and body

00:40:50theory of

00:40:51economies.

00:40:52The idea was

00:40:52that poorer

00:40:53countries would

00:40:53make stuff,

00:40:54smarter countries

00:40:55would design it

00:40:55and do all the

00:40:57intellectual,

00:40:58you know,

00:40:59engineering,

00:41:00all this type

00:41:01of thing.

00:41:02And he's

00:41:02absolutely right.

00:41:03What especially

00:41:03China has done

00:41:04is they've

00:41:05taken that

00:41:05ability,

00:41:06those skills,

00:41:07that talented

00:41:07workforce,

00:41:07and they

00:41:08have gotten

00:41:09better and

00:41:10better and

00:41:11better to

00:41:11where now

00:41:12they are

00:41:12doing things

00:41:13on par with

00:41:14the United

00:41:14States.

00:41:15There was a

00:41:15group of

00:41:16auto executives

00:41:17that went

00:41:17over to

00:41:17China to

00:41:18look at

00:41:18BYD's

00:41:18facilities and

00:41:19they were

00:41:19blown away.

00:41:21Like,

00:41:22the CEO of

00:41:22Ford said,

00:41:23we are behind.

00:41:24We are so

00:41:25behind what

00:41:25the Chinese

00:41:25are doing.

00:41:26And there's

00:41:27a lot,

00:41:27when you're

00:41:28making stuff

00:41:28regularly,

00:41:29there's a

00:41:29lot of

00:41:30opportunity for

00:41:31innovation.

00:41:32Instantly,

00:41:32that's something

00:41:33where American

00:41:34industry has

00:41:35always struggled.

00:41:36One of the

00:41:36reasons Japan

00:41:37was able to

00:41:38rise in the

00:41:3870s and

00:41:3980s was

00:41:40ironically because

00:41:41of steel.

00:41:44After the

00:41:44war, Japan

00:41:45did not have

00:41:46very many

00:41:46steel mills,

00:41:47and so when

00:41:48they built

00:41:49new steel mills,

00:41:51they built

00:41:52them with the

00:41:53most modern

00:41:53technology of

00:41:54the time.

00:41:54That often

00:41:55includes what

00:41:55was called

00:41:56electric arc

00:41:56furnaces.

00:41:58They're cheaper,

00:41:59they're faster,

00:41:59they're more

00:42:00efficient, all

00:42:01this type of

00:42:02thing.

00:42:02So Japanese

00:42:03steel was much,

00:42:04much cheaper

00:42:05than American

00:42:05steel, which

00:42:06still used

00:42:06old-fashioned

00:42:07blast furnaces,

00:42:08which by the

00:42:08early 1970s was

00:42:09a dated

00:42:10technology.

00:42:11A lot of

00:42:11steel firms

00:42:12never installed

00:42:13new furnaces,

00:42:13didn't want to

00:42:14spend the

00:42:14capital, would

00:42:15rather return

00:42:15it to

00:42:15shareholders,

00:42:16and that was

00:42:17the American

00:42:17steel industry

00:42:18gone under.

00:42:19Incidentally,

00:42:20the Nippon

00:42:21steel deal,

00:42:22which Trump

00:42:22almost killed

00:42:23and eventually

00:42:24did go through

00:42:24with U.S.

00:42:25steel, part

00:42:26of Nippon's

00:42:27plan was to

00:42:28finally put in

00:42:30new electric

00:42:31arc furnaces

00:42:32in U.S.

00:42:33steel because

00:42:34they're just

00:42:35simply faster

00:42:36and more

00:42:36efficient.

00:42:38And steel

00:42:39is an excellent

00:42:40example.

00:42:40That's how

00:42:41that, that's

00:42:42a real-life

00:42:43example of

00:42:44how that

00:42:44happens.

00:42:45Japan did

00:42:46it, China

00:42:47did it, we

00:42:48have been,

00:42:48you know,

00:42:49dealing with

00:42:50these onslaughts

00:42:51from both

00:42:51sides for all

00:42:52of these years,

00:42:53and what it

00:42:54has left

00:42:54behind is a

00:42:55populace that

00:42:56doesn't have

00:42:56jobs, that has

00:42:57decreased spending

00:42:58power, you know,

00:42:59it's very hard to

00:42:59find jobs that pay a

00:43:00living wage, all

00:43:01this sort of

00:43:02thing.

00:43:02Your TV's never

00:43:03been cheaper,

00:43:04but that is,

00:43:07that's how we've

00:43:07gotten ourselves

00:43:09into the present

00:43:10situation and the

00:43:11present circumstances.

00:43:12When I saw this

00:43:13video, I was dead

00:43:14shocked that it was

00:43:14J.D. Vance

00:43:15talking about it,

00:43:16although he had

00:43:16talked about that

00:43:17in his books,

00:43:17I suppose it's not

00:43:18too surprising,

00:43:19but I was still

00:43:19shocked I had

00:43:20forgotten.

00:43:22And it's like,

00:43:22yeah, I could

00:43:23have said this,

00:43:24I have been

00:43:25saying this for

00:43:25years and years,

00:43:27like, yes,

00:43:28and offshoring,

00:43:29all this sort of

00:43:29thing, more,

00:43:30there are so

00:43:31many towns,

00:43:32especially in this

00:43:32region, I'm

00:43:33currently in

00:43:33Connecticut,

00:43:34especially in this

00:43:35region of the

00:43:35country, there's a

00:43:37whole legacy of

00:43:38industry here that's

00:43:39rotting and

00:43:40decaying.

00:43:41There are massive

00:43:42facilities that are

00:43:43rotting and decaying

00:43:44because those jobs

00:43:46left 30 years ago

00:43:47to Thailand, to

00:43:48Vietnam, to

00:43:49Malaysia, to

00:43:50Indonesia, to

00:43:50China, to

00:43:51Japan, all

00:43:52these sorts of

00:43:53things.

00:43:53And that has

00:43:55hollowed out the

00:43:56American workforce,

00:43:58and there are

00:43:59many towns that

00:44:00would be thriving

00:44:01and growing if

00:44:02they still had a

00:44:03major industrial

00:44:04employer there who

00:44:05was innovating and

00:44:06coming up with new

00:44:07products and new

00:44:08processes and new

00:44:09automation.

00:44:10Re-industrialization

00:44:11really is a

00:44:12revitalization of

00:44:13America.

00:44:14But that will only

00:44:16work if it is

00:44:18focused on people

00:44:19and workers and

00:44:21getting money in

00:44:22the pockets of

00:44:23people.

00:44:24And J.D.

00:44:25Vance is right.

00:44:26You cannot have a

00:44:29successful society

00:44:30that's relying on

00:44:31cheap labor, at

00:44:31least not for very

00:44:32long anyway.

00:44:34I think one of the

00:44:35things he kind of

00:44:36forgets is part of

00:44:37the reason the

00:44:38conceits of

00:44:39globalization were

00:44:40put into place was

00:44:41because of what

00:44:42happened, what was

00:44:43happening with

00:44:43inflation in the

00:44:45late 70s due to

00:44:46us leaving the

00:44:47gold standard in

00:44:481971 and we had

00:44:50really overspent in

00:44:51the 60s.

00:44:51So in the 60s

00:44:53we decided to do

00:44:54a lot of things

00:44:55at once.

00:44:55One of them is we

00:44:56created the modern

00:44:57welfare state, the

00:44:58other one was we

00:44:58went to the moon.

00:44:59The Apollo program

00:45:00was costing 10% of

00:45:01GDP at its closure

00:45:02in 72.

00:45:03It was very

00:45:03expensive to do

00:45:04that.

00:45:05And so coming out

00:45:09of the 60s, we

00:45:09had spent all of

00:45:10this money and the

00:45:12reality is we had

00:45:13spent more than we

00:45:15had gold and so

00:45:16Nixon decided to

00:45:16solve this problem by

00:45:18ending the Bretton

00:45:18Woods system which

00:45:19had set the price of

00:45:20gold fixed at 35

00:45:21dollars per one

00:45:23ounce of gold and

00:45:24he left the gold

00:45:24standards and let

00:45:25the currency free

00:45:26flow.

00:45:26The result was

00:45:28inflation.

00:45:29Now this was also

00:45:30abetted by the oil

00:45:32crises of 73, 74, and

00:45:3475 with OPEC and

00:45:35all this type of

00:45:36thing that a sudden

00:45:37increase in the

00:45:38cost of energy also

00:45:39fueled the inflation.

00:45:41But the way Volcar got

00:45:42inflation to come

00:45:43down was by raising

00:45:44interest rates

00:45:45absolutely sky high

00:45:47and by basically

00:45:48divorcing wages from

00:45:50productivity and

00:45:53that basically what

00:45:54they did is they

00:45:55filled them in with

00:45:55two things.

00:45:56They filled it in

00:45:56with cheaper goods

00:45:57made overseas and

00:45:58they filled it in

00:45:58with consumer debt.

00:46:00Both of the things

00:46:01that were innovations

00:46:01of the late, mid to

00:46:03late 80s.

00:46:04Didn't have credit

00:46:05scores before 89,

00:46:06didn't really have

00:46:07credit cards until

00:46:07the mid 80s, all

00:46:08this sort of thing.

00:46:09That was how they

00:46:10papered over the fact

00:46:11that workers were not

00:46:12keeping up, workers'

00:46:13wages could not keep

00:46:15up with productivity

00:46:16and break the cycle

00:46:17of inflation.

00:46:19And globalization

00:46:20allowed us to get

00:46:21away with that.

00:46:22Globalization's now

00:46:23falling apart.

00:46:25What comes next?

00:46:27I don't know, but

00:46:28J.D. Vance is right.

00:46:29If we want to fix

00:46:29this society, we have

00:46:30got to get off of

00:46:31cheap labor.

00:46:32People have got to

00:46:33get paid a decent

00:46:33wage again.

00:46:34We cannot continue

00:46:36with shareholder

00:46:36capitalism.

00:46:37We cannot continue

00:46:38stuffing the pockets

00:46:39of the asset wealthy

00:46:40and accept people to

00:46:41continue.

00:46:42Can't do it.

00:46:43Otherwise, we will

00:46:44end up with collapse.

00:46:44So, he's absolutely,

00:46:46absolutely 110% right

00:46:48and it's fair to say

00:46:50so.

00:46:50And anyone who gets

00:46:51in my comments and

00:46:52complains about me

00:46:52complimenting J.D. Vance

00:46:53can, you know, can

00:46:56suck it.

00:46:59I am...

00:47:01Oh, this is the post

00:47:02about Iran.

00:47:03But before we go to

00:47:04the post about Iran,

00:47:05someone asked a

00:47:05question in the

00:47:06comment section.

00:47:08Aren't the IRGC

00:47:09killing protesters in

00:47:10Iran right now?

00:47:11They are.

00:47:13Reports have come in

00:47:14of at least

00:47:1520,000,

00:47:18possibly more,

00:47:20people killed

00:47:21by the Iranian

00:47:23regime.

00:47:27The number

00:47:28is probably

00:47:29higher.

00:47:30There's an internet

00:47:31blackout right now

00:47:32and there's a huge

00:47:32crackdown.

00:47:34Rumor running around

00:47:35is that the crackdown

00:47:36is working,

00:47:37but we don't

00:47:38necessarily know

00:47:39for how long.

00:47:41Um, I want to

00:47:43dive in to, to

00:47:45this piece.

00:47:45It's full on

00:47:46sub-stack, but

00:47:47we're going to, uh,

00:47:49we're going to

00:47:49kind of go, go to

00:47:50the end, um,

00:47:52where it says,

00:47:53well, let's start,

00:47:54we'll skip over a

00:47:55little bit.

00:47:55So, it says here,

00:47:56there's an enormous

00:47:57amount of

00:47:57misinformation

00:47:58circulating about

00:47:59the current

00:47:59Iranian revolution.

00:48:00Almost all of it

00:48:01stems from

00:48:02historical revisionism

00:48:03and distortion

00:48:03deliberately spread

00:48:05since at least

00:48:05the 1970s by the

00:48:07Islamic regime

00:48:08and its ideological

00:48:08allies, most

00:48:09prominently the

00:48:10Islamist-Marxist

00:48:10terrorist cult

00:48:11M.E.K.

00:48:12Two core mantras

00:48:13have been relentlessly

00:48:14repeated by Islamist

00:48:15and Marxist camps

00:48:16and successfully

00:48:17entrenched over

00:48:17decades.

00:48:18The first is the

00:48:19claim that the

00:48:19Shah was a

00:48:20murderous dictator

00:48:21and a footman

00:48:21of the CIA.

00:48:24Now, just know

00:48:26that's the

00:48:27informational bit.

00:48:29Coming down here

00:48:29to the bottom,

00:48:31um, the,

00:48:34this context

00:48:34matters because it

00:48:35stands in contrast,

00:48:36in stark contrast

00:48:37to the mythology

00:48:38constructed around

00:48:38the Shah.

00:48:39Pahlavi is portrayed

00:48:40as a bloodthirsty

00:48:41dictator, yet even

00:48:42as critics speak

00:48:43of only a few

00:48:43thousand deaths,

00:48:44including executions

00:48:45nearly over four

00:48:46decades.

00:48:47The majority were

00:48:47linked to Marxist

00:48:48terrorism or

00:48:49Islamic insurgency.

00:48:50The high assessments

00:48:51around 3,000 span

00:48:52an entire era

00:48:53and describe a

00:48:54security state

00:48:54confronting political

00:48:55violence and

00:48:56terrorism, not the

00:48:57systemic killing

00:48:57of civilians.

00:49:00Now, contrast this

00:49:01with the Islamic

00:49:02Republic or any

00:49:02other regime in

00:49:03the region, including

00:49:03NATO member Turkey

00:49:04and Erdogan's

00:49:05mass killing of

00:49:05Kurds.

00:49:06According to

00:49:07Iran International

00:49:07and Iranian

00:49:08human rights

00:49:08networks, there

00:49:09is a clear

00:49:09pattern.

00:49:10In 78 to 81,

00:49:1188, and 19,

00:49:1320, and 23,

00:49:14and the most

00:49:14recent wave, tens

00:49:15of thousands have

00:49:15been killed in

00:49:16extremely short

00:49:16time frames during

00:49:17crackdowns.

00:49:18Reports of 20,000

00:49:19killed within weeks

00:49:20point to meticulously

00:49:21organized and

00:49:21executed genocidal

00:49:22waves carried out

00:49:23by the IRGC and

00:49:24proxy Arab militias.

00:49:26The barbarity of

00:49:26these operations

00:49:27includes street

00:49:28executions, rape,

00:49:29systemic maiming,

00:49:30the deliberate

00:49:30blinding of

00:49:31protesters, and the

00:49:31burning alive of

00:49:32defenseless civilians.

00:49:33As always, under

00:49:34closed terror systems,

00:49:35precise numbers remain

00:49:36unclear.

00:49:37However, this

00:49:37scale exceeds

00:49:38anything comparable

00:49:39to the Pahlavi

00:49:40area.

00:49:41Pahlavi's monarchy

00:49:41was a modernization

00:49:42project of very

00:49:43limited authoritarianism,

00:49:45constrained by

00:49:45institutions and

00:49:46guided by a

00:49:47forward-looking

00:49:47civilizational model

00:49:48that neither rested

00:49:49on a morbid

00:49:50ideology nor

00:49:50sacralized killing

00:49:52and industrialized

00:49:53terror.

00:49:53Curiously, Reza Shah

00:49:54and Muhammad Reza Shah

00:49:55portrayed as

00:49:56authoritarian dictators,

00:49:57despite being

00:49:58comparatively liberal

00:49:59next to Mustafa

00:50:00Kamal Ataturk,

00:50:02who ruled

00:50:03ruthlessly,

00:50:04crushed all

00:50:04opposition,

00:50:05and still

00:50:05revered as a

00:50:05national hero.

00:50:06The key

00:50:07difference here

00:50:07is timing.

00:50:08Ataturk emerged

00:50:09as a nationalist

00:50:09revolutionary on

00:50:10the ruins of the

00:50:11Islamic Ottoman

00:50:11Empire, which

00:50:12allowed him to

00:50:13take over Turkey.

00:50:14and it was

00:50:15kind of

00:50:17interesting

00:50:18because

00:50:19the Shah

00:50:20was not

00:50:21always popular.

00:50:22He was a bit

00:50:23decadent.

00:50:24This is a man

00:50:24that had his

00:50:24lunch flown in

00:50:25via Concord

00:50:26for a while

00:50:27late in the

00:50:29yeah,

00:50:30from Paris

00:50:30so he could

00:50:31have, you

00:50:31know,

00:50:32Parisian lunch

00:50:33sort of thing.

00:50:34Horrific waste.

00:50:37And I

00:50:38was mindful

00:50:39of reading this

00:50:40because last

00:50:41week we had

00:50:41on Zalal Habibi

00:50:42and I had

00:50:43asked her if

00:50:44there was

00:50:44any way

00:50:45the Shah,

00:50:48this guy,

00:50:49he has died.

00:50:51His son is

00:50:51the crown prince

00:50:52is still alive

00:50:53and he has

00:50:54been, you

00:50:54know, actively

00:50:55encouraging people

00:50:56to protest

00:50:57and to lead

00:50:58on all of this

00:50:58and I said,

00:50:59well, perhaps,

00:50:59you know,

00:51:00perhaps his son

00:51:01who would be

00:51:01Shah if they

00:51:01were still in

00:51:02power could,

00:51:04you know,

00:51:04aid with the

00:51:05transition of

00:51:05the Iranian

00:51:06government.

00:51:06He could

00:51:06partner with

00:51:07the diaspora

00:51:08and, you

00:51:08know, much

00:51:09like the

00:51:09monarchy

00:51:10helped

00:51:11transition out

00:51:12of Franco

00:51:12as Spain

00:51:13into a

00:51:14new modern

00:51:14era.

00:51:14Perhaps the

00:51:15Shah could

00:51:15help Iran

00:51:15do that

00:51:16too.

00:51:16And she

00:51:17said,

00:51:17no, no,

00:51:17no, the

00:51:18Shah was

00:51:18terrible.

00:51:19There was

00:51:20all these

00:51:20killings.

00:51:20He had the

00:51:21secret police,

00:51:21the Savak,

00:51:22all this sort

00:51:23of thing.

00:51:23And so I

00:51:23found it and

00:51:24it was lovely

00:51:24and interesting

00:51:25and fascinating

00:51:26and I was

00:51:27kind of just

00:51:28like, oh,

00:51:28it could be a

00:51:29thing.

00:51:29Nope, not

00:51:29popular.

00:51:30Okay, great.

00:51:31And this is

00:51:32kind of interesting

00:51:32to kind of

00:51:33stand in contrast

00:51:33to that idea

00:51:35that, you

00:51:36know, the

00:51:36Shah wasn't

00:51:37necessarily so

00:51:38bad and

00:51:39that, you

00:51:39know, perhaps

00:51:40bringing back

00:51:41the monarchy

00:51:41to Iran

00:51:42is a better

00:51:44idea than

00:51:46the current

00:51:46theocracy.

00:51:47I think

00:51:47anything would

00:51:48be better

00:51:48than the

00:51:49current

00:51:49theocracy,

00:51:49but it

00:51:50appears that

00:51:50a lot of

00:51:51at least

00:51:51the diaspora

00:51:52resistance

00:51:52groups like

00:51:53the one we

00:51:53spoke to

00:51:54are looking

00:51:54for just a

00:51:55more modern

00:51:55democracy

00:51:56than maybe

00:51:57a constitutional

00:51:57monarchy

00:51:58with a

00:52:00history of

00:52:01a leader,

00:52:02you know,

00:52:03hereditary

00:52:03leader that

00:52:04had been

00:52:05violent against

00:52:06the Iranian

00:52:07people.

00:52:08Although there

00:52:10are, I did

00:52:10see video

00:52:11today of

00:52:11protests of

00:52:12people asking

00:52:13for the

00:52:13Shah to

00:52:14return.

00:52:14So it'll

00:52:15be interesting

00:52:15to see what

00:52:16role the

00:52:17Shah plays

00:52:18in Iran

00:52:20and what

00:52:20role Reza

00:52:21Pahlavi

00:52:22plays, and

00:52:22he posted

00:52:23himself earlier

00:52:24today, he

00:52:25is planning

00:52:26to return

00:52:27to Iran

00:52:28to help

00:52:29Iran into

00:52:29this new

00:52:30era.

00:52:31It'll be

00:52:32interesting to

00:52:32see how

00:52:34these resistance

00:52:35groups that

00:52:35have been

00:52:36around for

00:52:3640, 50

00:52:37years,

00:52:37and the

00:52:38Shah

00:52:38clutch

00:52:39together in

00:52:40creating the

00:52:41new institutions

00:52:41and the new

00:52:42government of

00:52:42Iran once

00:52:43the present

00:52:43government is

00:52:44unseated.

00:52:47And I don't

00:52:49know if they're

00:52:49going to survive

00:52:50this.

00:52:50They have

00:52:51survived stuff

00:52:51before, but

00:52:52this one I

00:52:52think is

00:52:53particularly bad.

00:52:54And I

00:52:54think it's a

00:52:57very hard

00:52:57time right

00:52:58now if

00:52:59you are

00:53:00in the

00:53:01present

00:53:02Iranian

00:53:03government.

00:53:06This is a

00:53:07long article

00:53:07in the

00:53:07Atlantic about

00:53:08the America

00:53:10and the world

00:53:10and the changing

00:53:10world order.

00:53:11I might have

00:53:11to save that

00:53:12for the

00:53:12newsletter.

00:53:14This is

00:53:14about Davos,

00:53:16which is not

00:53:17important, all

00:53:17this type of

00:53:18thing.

00:53:18that's a

00:53:20post about

00:53:21the thing

00:53:21we just

00:53:21talked about

00:53:21with Norway.

00:53:24This is more

00:53:25to do with

00:53:26Minnesota, and

00:53:28we should check

00:53:29in on

00:53:32Minnesota

00:53:32quickly.

00:53:37This is really

00:53:37important.

00:53:38I might save

00:53:38it for next

00:53:39week because

00:53:39it's evergreen.

00:53:41Let us check

00:53:43in on

00:53:44Minnesota,

00:53:46though.

00:53:46So,

00:53:46this clip

00:53:48from Fox

00:53:50Business is

00:53:52Representative

00:53:52Andy Ogle

00:53:53talking about

00:53:54Minnesota and

00:53:55the present

00:53:56protests and

00:53:57the pushback

00:53:57against

00:53:58ICE action

00:54:01in Minnesota.

00:54:04And it

00:54:04is rather

00:54:06caustic, so

00:54:07let's listen

00:54:08in.

00:54:10Look,

00:54:11when you

00:54:11look at the

00:54:12footage of

00:54:13those folks

00:54:14that stormed

00:54:14that church,

00:54:15if that was a

00:54:15bunch of

00:54:16conservatives,

00:54:17a bunch of

00:54:17MAGA folks,

00:54:18they've all

00:54:19been arrested,

00:54:20right?

00:54:20But because

00:54:20they're libtards

00:54:21in a blue

00:54:22city, they

00:54:22get a pass.

00:54:23Enough is

00:54:24enough.

00:54:24You have,

00:54:25you know,

00:54:25when you look

00:54:26at ICE,

00:54:26when you look

00:54:27at the

00:54:27difficult job

00:54:28they're doing,

00:54:29more importantly,

00:54:30you look at

00:54:30the individuals

00:54:31they're detaining.

00:54:32So when you

00:54:32look at the

00:54:32criminal records

00:54:33of those

00:54:33that they're

00:54:34detaining,

00:54:34both from

00:54:35their home

00:54:35country and

00:54:36here,

00:54:36roughly 70%,

00:54:38roughly 70%

00:54:39have some sort

00:54:40of criminal

00:54:41record.

00:54:41This is who's

00:54:42being deported.

00:54:43Murderers,

00:54:43rapists,

00:54:44drug traffickers,

00:54:45child traffickers,

00:54:46we need to get

00:54:47rid of those

00:54:48folks,

00:54:48get them out

00:54:48of our society

00:54:49and if the

00:54:49libtards are

00:54:50going to side

00:54:50with lawlessness,

00:54:52that's on them,

00:54:53not on the

00:54:54rest of us

00:54:54because you know

00:54:55what?

00:54:55This is an

00:54:5680-20 issue.

00:54:57America wants

00:54:58a better economy,

00:54:59safe streets,

00:55:00and part of that

00:55:01is President

00:55:01Trump's

00:55:02deportation orders.

00:55:03Yeah.

00:55:03So look,

00:55:04you know,

00:55:04when you look

00:55:05at the footage

00:55:06that's certainly

00:55:17a position,

00:55:18the position

00:55:18is not

00:55:18exciting.

00:55:19I think

00:55:20it is,

00:55:22I mean,

00:55:22and he's not

00:55:23necessarily wrong

00:55:23about the

00:55:25people protesting

00:55:26in a church

00:55:27because the

00:55:27pastor was

00:55:29connected to

00:55:30ICE.

00:55:30That was a

00:55:31thing this

00:55:31weekend.

00:55:32There were

00:55:32protesters who

00:55:33attacked a

00:55:33church during

00:55:34services because

00:55:35the pastor there

00:55:36has been

00:55:36working with

00:55:36ICE.

00:55:37Don Lemon

00:55:37was there.

00:55:39There's been,

00:55:40I saw a tweet

00:55:40that said that

00:55:41he might be

00:55:41getting charged,

00:55:43catching federal

00:55:44charges for

00:55:45being a part of

00:55:46that under

00:55:46the KKK

00:55:47Act.

00:55:49And he's

00:55:50not wrong.

00:55:51If MAGA

00:55:52people were

00:55:53marching into

00:55:54a church in

00:55:55protest,

00:55:56it probably

00:55:56would not

00:55:57have gone

00:55:57down that

00:55:58way.

00:55:59However,

00:55:59I think

00:56:00it is

00:56:00unbecoming

00:56:04of a

00:56:07sitting

00:56:07congressperson

00:56:08to use

00:56:08a word

00:56:09like

00:56:09libtard

00:56:09on

00:56:10television.

00:56:12I think

00:56:13it is

00:56:13entertaining

00:56:14the casual

00:56:16way with

00:56:16which he

00:56:17just lets

00:56:17that fly

00:56:18and Fox

00:56:18doesn't

00:56:18push back

00:56:19on it.

00:56:22It's also

00:56:23an indication

00:56:24that he

00:56:24doesn't

00:56:24necessarily

00:56:25see the

00:56:27other side

00:56:27as people.

00:56:29Now,

00:56:30one could

00:56:31definitely

00:56:31argue there's

00:56:32plenty of

00:56:32liberals who

00:56:33think the

00:56:33same thing

00:56:33about MAGA

00:56:34people.

00:56:35That road

00:56:35travels both

00:56:36ways and

00:56:37it's very

00:56:38wide,

00:56:38well-painted

00:56:39and plowed.

00:56:42This is so

00:56:43emblematic of

00:56:44what's wrong

00:56:44with political

00:56:44dialogue today

00:56:45though.

00:56:47I mean,

00:56:47the situation

00:56:49in Minnesota

00:56:49is quite

00:56:50perilous

00:56:51given the

00:56:52present

00:56:53giant

00:56:53corruption

00:56:55scandal

00:56:55involving the

00:56:56Somali

00:56:56community

00:56:56and given

00:56:57what's

00:56:59happening

00:56:59with ICE

00:57:00and the

00:57:00protests

00:57:01and the

00:57:02shooting of

00:57:02Renee

00:57:03good and

00:57:04how that

00:57:04has become

00:57:05a thing

00:57:06of the

00:57:06moment

00:57:06and all

00:57:07this type

00:57:08of thing.

00:57:10It is

00:57:10quite obvious

00:57:11we're not

00:57:12seeing each

00:57:13other as

00:57:13fellow citizens.

00:57:15We're not

00:57:15seeing each

00:57:16other as

00:57:17people participating

00:57:18in society.

00:57:19We're seeing

00:57:20each other as

00:57:21MAGA Nazis

00:57:22and libtards

00:57:23and that's

00:57:24it.

00:57:25That's the

00:57:26sides,

00:57:26whatever have

00:57:27you.

00:57:28And I

00:57:29guess I

00:57:29don't expect

00:57:30a backbench

00:57:30congressman

00:57:31from Tennessee

00:57:32to be

00:57:33mindful of

00:57:34all of

00:57:34these things

00:57:35but it

00:57:35is a

00:57:36rather

00:57:36stark and

00:57:38sad moment

00:57:38I think

00:57:39for the

00:57:39country.

00:57:39I heard a

00:57:40comment.

00:57:43Oh,

00:57:43someone says

00:57:44the priest

00:57:44had the

00:57:45same name.

00:57:46He was

00:57:46unrelated to

00:57:47ICE.

00:57:47Well,

00:57:47see,

00:57:47that's even

00:57:48more dumb

00:57:48because then

00:57:48that whole

00:57:49protest was

00:57:49pointless.

00:57:52I had

00:57:53seen only

00:57:53a couple

00:57:54videos

00:57:55about it,

00:57:56the one

00:57:56with Don

00:57:57Lemon

00:57:57talking to

00:57:58somebody and

00:57:59there was

00:57:59another several

00:58:00tweets this

00:58:00morning about

00:58:01it.

00:58:01No,

00:58:01no,

00:58:01no.

00:58:02See,

00:58:02that's even

00:58:02more,

00:58:02that's even

00:58:03more,

00:58:03more dumb.

00:58:06And regardless

00:58:07of whether he

00:58:07was,

00:58:07thank you though,

00:58:09regardless of

00:58:10whether he was

00:58:10laid to ICE,

00:58:11those protesters

00:58:11shouldn't have

00:58:12been there.

00:58:12Not at church,

00:58:13not during,

00:58:13that whole idea

00:58:15was so dumb.

00:58:16Mostly because,

00:58:17and here's the

00:58:17important part,

00:58:18the right to

00:58:19protest ends

00:58:20at the sidewalk

00:58:21because the

00:58:23church's private

00:58:23property owned

00:58:25by at the

00:58:25church.

00:58:26So if you

00:58:27want to

00:58:27protest the

00:58:28church,

00:58:28you have to

00:58:29be outside

00:58:30on the street

00:58:30and the sidewalk.

00:58:31Now out there,

00:58:32you may put up

00:58:32as many signs

00:58:33as you wish.

00:58:34You may stand

00:58:34there all the

00:58:35live long day

00:58:36at 20 degrees

00:58:37in the snow.

00:58:38That's all fine

00:58:38for you.

00:58:39But that,

00:58:40they should never

00:58:41have gone inside,

00:58:42they should have

00:58:42never interrupted

00:58:43services,

00:58:44all this type of

00:58:45thing.

00:58:45Regardless of

00:58:46all of this,

00:58:47the political

00:58:47dialogue on all

00:58:48of this is

00:58:49absolutely gone

00:58:50to,

00:58:51gone to hell

00:58:52in a hand

00:58:52basket.

00:58:53And the fact

00:58:54that they didn't

00:58:54even get the

00:58:55right place

00:58:56to protest

00:58:56is even

00:58:57worse.

00:58:59So,

00:58:59terrible,

00:59:00terrible,

00:59:01terrible.

00:59:04Let's see.

00:59:05Oh,

00:59:05yes,

00:59:05here was the

00:59:06story about

00:59:06the 11th Airborne

00:59:07Division being

00:59:08on standby.

00:59:09This is

00:59:10Soldier of Fortune

00:59:11Magazine,

00:59:12on standby for

00:59:12possible deployment

00:59:13to Minnesota,

00:59:15although I don't

00:59:18think that's

00:59:18necessarily the

00:59:19case.

00:59:19This person

00:59:20says that

00:59:23Minnesota would

00:59:23be a good

00:59:24place to

00:59:25stage these

00:59:25forces in

00:59:26the lower

00:59:2648 to

00:59:28prep them.

00:59:29For Greenland,

00:59:30people are

00:59:31convinced that

00:59:32they're sending

00:59:33you in the

00:59:3411th Airborne

00:59:34Division into

00:59:36Minnesota because

00:59:37there's now a

00:59:39potential conflict

00:59:40between

00:59:40ICE and the

00:59:45Minnesota National

00:59:45Guard,

00:59:46which Tim

00:59:47Wallace has

00:59:47called up to

00:59:48restore order.

00:59:50So,

00:59:50you're going to

00:59:52see this because

00:59:53it's been all over

00:59:54social media,

00:59:55not just Twitter,

00:59:56but elsewhere.

00:59:57You're going to

00:59:57see this.

00:59:58We have no proof

00:59:59that the 11th

00:59:59Airborne is going

01:00:00to Minnesota,

01:00:01so just slow

01:00:01that roll.

01:00:02They're probably

01:00:03preparing to go

01:00:03to Greenland,

01:00:04which is a

01:00:05whole other

01:00:05problem and a

01:00:06whole other

01:00:06matter.

01:00:08But from a

01:00:09narrative perspective,

01:00:10you're going to

01:00:11see stuff like

01:00:12this.

01:00:14And this is

01:00:14where it's

01:00:14so kind of

01:00:16confusing right

01:00:17now because

01:00:19oh, this was

01:00:21the original

01:00:22post about

01:00:23the Nobel Prize.

01:00:28There's so

01:00:28much going on

01:00:29right now.

01:00:30It's so

01:00:31crazy.

01:00:33This post was

01:00:34very emblematic.

01:00:35It says the

01:00:35president is

01:00:36occupying a

01:00:37major city with

01:00:37armed paramilitaries.

01:00:41Is black

01:00:42meaning treaty

01:00:42allies to hand

01:00:43over their

01:00:43sovereign territory.

01:00:44fair.

01:00:46Is trying to

01:00:47set himself as

01:00:47the chairman

01:00:47for life of a

01:00:49UN rival with

01:00:50$1 billion fees

01:00:51for permanent

01:00:51membership.

01:00:52That's his

01:00:52peace council.

01:00:53And he's talking

01:00:54about canceling

01:00:55elections, which

01:00:56Trump talks about

01:00:57casually all the

01:00:57time and can't be

01:00:58taken seriously

01:00:58until he does

01:00:59something.

01:01:00There's so much

01:01:01going on right

01:01:01now, but

01:01:02particularly the

01:01:03situation in

01:01:05Minnesota is so

01:01:07difficult because

01:01:09you have this

01:01:11immigration

01:01:12situation, you

01:01:13have this

01:01:14massive corruption

01:01:14scandal, you

01:01:15now have people

01:01:16getting shot, and

01:01:17here's the

01:01:17problem with

01:01:18violence.

01:01:18Once violence

01:01:19starts, it's

01:01:20easy for it to

01:01:20escalate.

01:01:21Like, it's very

01:01:22easy for violence

01:01:24to beget more

01:01:25violence both

01:01:26ways.

01:01:26You see this

01:01:27with insurgency

01:01:28groups, you see

01:01:30this with things

01:01:31all the time.

01:01:32Violence is very

01:01:33good at making

01:01:34more violence.

01:01:35And my worry

01:01:36is that as we

01:01:38have more people

01:01:39protesting, more

01:01:40people trying to

01:01:41stop ICE, and

01:01:42not even at the

01:01:42right address,

01:01:44then there's

01:01:47going to be more

01:01:47opportunities for

01:01:48more conflict to

01:01:49occur.

01:01:50And as more

01:01:51conflict occurs,

01:01:53and it gets, you

01:01:54know, even worse,

01:01:55it gets more and

01:01:56more dangerous, and

01:01:57the chances for a

01:01:59larger and more

01:02:00protracted conflict

01:02:01get even worse.

01:02:02And for historical

01:02:03reference, you can

01:02:03see things like

01:02:04Kent State,

01:02:05there are other

01:02:06instances where

01:02:08that has happened

01:02:08and you've ended

01:02:09up with a quite,

01:02:11Kent State wasn't

01:02:11a huge loss of

01:02:12life, it was more

01:02:13psychological, only

01:02:13a few people died,

01:02:14but violence does

01:02:15beget more violence,

01:02:17and that is its

01:02:18own danger and

01:02:21its own thing.

01:02:24Oh, yes, that's

01:02:24the Trump-Russia

01:02:25thing, I'll talk

01:02:26about the newsletter.

01:02:29Oh, yes, with

01:02:31the not wanting

01:02:33to do elections,

01:02:34the preservation

01:02:34of our nation

01:02:35is more important

01:02:36than elections.

01:02:37Prepare to see a

01:02:38lot more talking

01:02:38points like this

01:02:39rolling out next.

01:02:39You don't preserve

01:02:40a nation by

01:02:40discarding elections,

01:02:41you dismantle it.

01:02:44That, yeah,

01:02:45narratively speaking,

01:02:47yes, you could hear

01:02:49this a lot more,

01:02:51and that is

01:02:53something we should

01:02:53all be very, very

01:02:54concerned about,

01:02:55but it is, oh, now

01:03:01this was good.

01:03:02We're going to save

01:03:03that for next week,

01:03:04and we're going to

01:03:04save that for the

01:03:06newsletter, but this

01:03:08is, this is good.

01:03:10This is from David

01:03:11Sirota.

01:03:13Things are bad in

01:03:14the right now, but

01:03:15some perspective

01:03:16helps.

01:03:17Not too long ago,

01:03:18leaders of both

01:03:18parties forcibly sent

01:03:20American teenagers to

01:03:21die in Southeast Asia,

01:03:22and then they had

01:03:23lied the country into

01:03:25another war that

01:03:26cost one trillion

01:03:26dollars and killed a

01:03:27million people, all

01:03:28while the economy was

01:03:29being rigged for

01:03:30bankers and billionaires

01:03:31to loot everything.

01:03:32Maybe the past

01:03:33politicians seem to

01:03:34like you, seem to

01:03:35you like nicer dudes

01:03:36than the current

01:03:37White House occupant,

01:03:38but things have been

01:03:39going in the wrong

01:03:40direction for a very

01:03:41long time, and even

01:03:42if you weren't paying

01:03:43as much attention

01:03:43because everyone

01:03:44had been a little

01:03:45bit more polite.

01:03:46The fact is, much

01:03:47of what we're living

01:03:47through now is less

01:03:49an anomaly and more

01:03:50a horrible culmination.

01:03:52I said fuck

01:03:56yeah David Stroud

01:03:56when I read this

01:03:57this morning, and

01:03:58that kind of loops

01:03:59back to the J.D.

01:04:00Vance video, actually.

01:04:03Like, this isn't

01:04:05the end.

01:04:07It's, I don't know

01:04:07why I don't follow

01:04:08David Stroud, he's

01:04:08from Denver even.

01:04:12It loops back to

01:04:12the J.D.

01:04:13Vance video.

01:04:13This is, we're at

01:04:15the end of that, all

01:04:17that stuff I said

01:04:17about the gold

01:04:18standard and Nixon

01:04:19and inflation, blah,

01:04:19blah, blah, this

01:04:20is the end, and

01:04:21this summarizes it.

01:04:23So, damn well.

01:04:26We didn't get here

01:04:27overnight.

01:04:29We did not get here

01:04:30overnight.

01:04:32And even given the

01:04:33things that are

01:04:34happening in Minnesota,

01:04:35the things that are

01:04:35happening in Iran,

01:04:37Greenland, ICE,

01:04:39you know, the

01:04:40protests last year in

01:04:41L.A., all this type

01:04:42of thing, this did not

01:04:43happen overnight.

01:04:44We didn't get here

01:04:45overnight.

01:04:46And it's seven

01:04:46after the hour, I

01:04:47gotta go.

01:04:48But we did not get

01:04:49here overnight.

01:04:49And we will, we

01:04:50will pick up, um, we

01:04:53will pick up, uh, you

01:04:56know, next week with

01:04:57more stories in the

01:04:57newsletter.

01:04:58Um, but I, I'm

01:04:59going to close on

01:05:00this one.

01:05:00It's from Insider

01:05:01Wire.

01:05:01And it says the FBI

01:05:03asks agents

01:05:04nationwide to

01:05:06deploy temporarily

01:05:07to Minneapolis.

01:05:11And, um, and this

01:05:13is one of the people

01:05:13trying to say that the

01:05:1411th Airborne is going

01:05:15to, is going to

01:05:16Minnesota.

01:05:16Minnesota, and it

01:05:17says, let me set the

01:05:18scene, 40 plus Jag

01:05:19lawyers, elite cold

01:05:20weather paratroopers

01:05:21from the army, 3,000

01:05:23lawless Gestapo on the

01:05:24ground, they're talking

01:05:25about ICE, um, and

01:05:26hundreds of FBI agents.

01:05:28Trump is setting up and

01:05:29testing out a coup on

01:05:30the state level, likely

01:05:31under the guise of

01:05:32federal fraud and

01:05:33rebellion.

01:05:34Minnesota is a, is the

01:05:35test case for total

01:05:36takeover by a

01:05:37dictatorial regime

01:05:38nationwide.

01:05:39Let that sink in.

01:05:40I don't think we're

01:05:41there yet.

01:05:43I'll say it.

01:05:44I don't think the

01:05:44airborne, the 11th

01:05:45Airborne is going to

01:05:46Minnesota.

01:05:47Um, I wouldn't

01:05:48necessarily refer to

01:05:49ICE as lawless

01:05:49Gestapo.

01:05:50Um, I think FBI

01:05:52agents going up there

01:05:53has probably a lot less

01:05:54to do with between

01:05:55the streets and a lot

01:05:56more to do with

01:05:57forensic accounting,

01:05:58um, which it appears

01:06:00that they need.

01:06:01Um, I think that, you

01:06:04know, is more, more

01:06:05into all of, into all

01:06:07of, all of that.

01:06:08Um, the 40 plus Jag

01:06:10lawyers, I'm not quite

01:06:11sure what that's for

01:06:12or about.

01:06:13Um, but you don't

01:06:13send in the lawyers

01:06:14unless you're planning

01:06:15on having legal

01:06:15issues.

01:06:16Um, I don't

01:06:18necessarily know

01:06:18that's what's going

01:06:18on in Minnesota or

01:06:20in Minneapolis.

01:06:21I think, I think

01:06:23there is a frustration

01:06:24in the country,

01:06:26especially with the

01:06:27corruption scandal,

01:06:28that there's a lot

01:06:29of waste going on,

01:06:30a lot of money

01:06:31going on.

01:06:32It's the narrative

01:06:32that blue cities

01:06:33and blue states

01:06:34are corrupt,

01:06:35ran by corrupt

01:06:35Democrats, and

01:06:36here's the reality.

01:06:37It's going to be

01:06:37very, very hard

01:06:38electorally to

01:06:39convince people to

01:06:40let Democrats be in

01:06:41charge when you

01:06:42have things like

01:06:42Minnesota happening.

01:06:43And New York and

01:06:44California are next.

01:06:46Trump has already

01:06:46said so.

01:06:47Hell, the bottom

01:06:48scroll in the one

01:06:49video about the guy

01:06:50saying libtards

01:06:51literally said they're

01:06:52already training

01:06:53Antifa people in

01:06:54New York City to

01:06:55resist ICE and all

01:06:56this sort of thing.

01:06:57this whole situation

01:06:59is getting out of

01:07:00control in more

01:07:02ways than one.

01:07:03Unfortunately, I

01:07:04don't think anyone

01:07:05has any restraint

01:07:06on either side.

01:07:07Antifa, different

01:07:08leftist groups and

01:07:09all this type of

01:07:10thing will be

01:07:11absolutely as crazy

01:07:12and what happens

01:07:13with these sorts of

01:07:14things with, you

01:07:16know, an insurgency

01:07:17versus a regime is

01:07:19you get these sort of

01:07:20leveling up of

01:07:21violence.

01:07:22You even see it in

01:07:23Iran.

01:07:24The more the regime

01:07:24cracks down, the

01:07:25larger the protests

01:07:26and the more

01:07:26violent they get,

01:07:27we're kind of going

01:07:28through the same

01:07:29thing.

01:07:30You know, the more

01:07:31sophisticated the

01:07:32protesters get, the

01:07:33more the federal

01:07:34government will come

01:07:34down.

01:07:35The more sophisticated

01:07:36the protesters get,

01:07:37the more the federal

01:07:37government will come

01:07:38down.

01:07:38It ends up just

01:07:39being a cycle that

01:07:40gets bigger and

01:07:41bigger and bigger

01:07:41and bigger.

01:07:42And I was even

01:07:43telling someone this

01:07:45afternoon, I said

01:07:46it's probably not

01:07:46going to be men in

01:07:47uniforms shooting at

01:07:48each other.

01:07:49It's going to be

01:07:49more like the

01:07:50troubles in Northern

01:07:52Ireland.

01:07:53Bus explosions, you

01:07:54know, with tax

01:07:56and nails that

01:07:57kill and maim

01:07:58people terribly and

01:07:59horribly.

01:08:00And that's a very

01:08:01hard thing to stop

01:08:03once it gets

01:08:03started.

01:08:04And that could be

01:08:05what we're really

01:08:06facing.

01:08:07And on that

01:08:08terrible note, I'm

01:08:10going to save these

01:08:10other stories for

01:08:11next week because

01:08:12they are interesting.

01:08:13Although not that

01:08:14one because that

01:08:14one's important for

01:08:15today, but we're

01:08:16not going to watch

01:08:16it right now.

01:08:16It's like a half

01:08:17hour.

01:08:18We're going to save

01:08:19all that for next

01:08:20week.

01:08:20Um, and I am

01:08:22going to, uh, let

01:08:24you all go.

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01:08:53But before then, I'll

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01:08:54on The Living Joke with

01:08:55Will and Connor.

01:08:56We have a lot of fun

01:08:57stuff to talk about,

01:08:58um, this week.

01:08:59And when I say fun

01:09:00stuff, I mean the

01:09:01things that we'll

01:09:01figure out tomorrow

01:09:02that we're going to

01:09:03talk about, and we're

01:09:04going to have a grand

01:09:04old time.

01:09:05So, thank you all so

01:09:06much for bearing with

01:09:06me this evening.

01:09:07Thank you all so much

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01:09:15Good night.

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