June 5, 2025
MICHAEL LETTS: WE ARE AT WAR!
Top cop and former Special Forces Officer Michael Letts, CEO and Founder of InvestUSA.org joins us to discuss President Trump's travel ban announceement affecting over a dozen countries who are known to harbor terrorists, much to the consternation of the Left, who believe such actions are rooted in racism and Islamophobia.
Michael explains Trump's motives and what America is dealing with right now in geo-political tensions, and why the ban is necessary to keep Americans safe.
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This is America Day.
Beware the beast man.
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Alone among God's primates, he
kills for sport.
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Who's next?
Yay, he will murder his brother
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to possess his brother's land,
lagging our breed in great
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numbers, for he will make a
desert of his home and yours.
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Oh.
My God.
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Shun him out.
Of.
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Water drive him back into his
jungle lair, for he is the
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harbinger of death.
Fight, really.
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Yeah, we're going to get to all
of it.
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What is that?
What's that statement when you
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lock your doors at night, when
you when you, you know, shut it
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all down and you go to bed, you
lock your doors at night.
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You don't lock your doors at
night because you don't like the
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people on the outside.
You lock your doors because you
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love the people on the inside.
And there's a whole brew of
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control.
I listen, folks, I don't always
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have this desire, this burning
desire to talk about Donald
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Trump every day on the program.
But his administration is moving
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fast and furious on all kinds of
issues.
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And he or his administration,
particularly the Department of
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Homeland Security, have decided
that things are tense in the
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world today and that there's a
lot of antagonism and
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unsettledness in the world
today.
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And I think we could all agree
with that.
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Even Jamie Dimon, one of the
most powerful influential
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financial CE OS in the country,
had this to say just recently at
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a forum about America at.
That point Do we need to rethink
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what constitutes national
security?
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I wouldn't rethink it.
We know it constitutes national
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security.
We need.
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You know, I was saying we
shouldn't be stockpiling
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Bitcoin.
We should be stockpiling guns,
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bullets, tanks, planes, drones,
you know, rare earths.
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We know we need to do.
This is not a mystery.
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Now we know that 11 million
people came into the country
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unvetted during the previous
administration, that we know for
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sure.
We're seeing what we saw over
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the weekend, that tragedy in
Boulder, the the two people that
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were assassinated outside the
Israeli Embassy in Washington,
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DC.
Michael Letts, our national
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security top cop will be joining
us shortly to sort of give an
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overview of what we're up
against here.
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But I I ran across this clip,
which also I think hits the
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point for those people who do
not believe that America has
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anything to worry about.
Here is the lead pastor, Robert
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Stearns from Eagle's Wings
Ministry, an evangelical group.
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He had a few things to say.
My mind is overwhelmed because I
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I don't understand what it's
going to take for the West to
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wake up to the very horrible but
true reality that there is an
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evil in the world today called
radicalized Islam.
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And the focal point of the
hatred of radical Islam is the
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state of Israel and the Jewish
people.
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But the secondary hate of
radicalized Islam is the
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Christian Church and the
tertiary.
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The third place of hate of
radical Islam is moderate modern
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Muslims.
The whole civilized world is in
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danger right now of extremism.
Now, that is something that's
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somewhat sobering, as it should
be.
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But, you know, right now it's
June.
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It's Pride month.
We're celebrating.
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By the way, if you want to read
some real insight, Eddie Scary
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writes for The Federalist.
And he wrote about Pride month
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in DC and what it's like for him
and how much it disgusts him.
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And he, by the way, is gay,
which I did not know nor do I
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care, but he made that
announcement.
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He writes great articles, Eddie
Scary, and he pontificates on on
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the exhibitionism that has taken
over the gay pride and in you
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should read it.
And and while you're at it, why
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don't you jump on my sub stack,
which is real.
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Jim Watkins 1 And I have a
dissertation about the issue of
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family that is under attack in
this country for a whole host of
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reasons.
And leading the pack is this
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emphasis on pride and grooming
our children.
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And so we need to pay attention,
attention to that because it's
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having an effect, a detrimental
effect on family, on marriage
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and a whole host of other
sociological issues.
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Welcome to another day of
America.
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Jim Watkins here again.
We'll be talking to Michael.
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Let's coming up shortly.
He is a former cop, Special
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forces, a high-ranking official
in the state of South Carolina
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and law enforcement and a
consultant to the Trump White
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House.
So anyway, so we're also going
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to be talking to Mark Jones, who
is the Gun Owners of America.
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I'm a little off my game today,
primarily because I had A and
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and and I wasn't sure if I
wanted to talk about it, but my
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older sister passed away earlier
this week.
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Natural causes, they're saying.
And she lived in Phoenix in
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earshot of this program, which
you can hear on the Bull 1340
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and 99.1 FM.
And so when this happens, for
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anybody who's had any amount of
experience in this, it
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absolutely makes you stop and
assess the world and what's
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important and what isn't.
And we weren't always the best
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in terms, but we loved each
other.
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And I know that to be true.
And she left behind a cadre of
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good friends in the Phoenix
area, Jamie and and of course,
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some relatives near nearby.
And we've all been grief
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stricken, but we plow through
and, and, and that has made me
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think about what's important and
what is important.
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But family, it's the most
important thing.
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And I've said that a lot about
the importance of family.
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And unfortunately, in this
heated political environment,
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families have broken apart, have
torn asunder, as Kennedy would
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say.
And so we have to find out how
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we get back to that.
And, and, and I guess the only
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way to do it is to plunge
forward and try to make a
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positive difference in your
circle of influence.
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And that's what we try to do
here every day by bringing you
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information that allows you to
see perhaps what others don't
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want you to see.
Now, it's interesting with Trump
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and what he wants to do with his
ban and, and I I do agree.
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The story comes from Western
Journal.
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President Donald Trump signed an
executive order banning entry
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into the US from 12 different
countries while putting travel
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restrictions on seven others.
Now, what are the countries?
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Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the
Republic of Congo, Equatorial,
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Ghana, Entreya, Haiti, Iran,
Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen?
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Full restrictions on limited
entry.
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Now what do they all have in
common besides the fact the left
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wing media will tell you that
the it's racist?
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It's not though.
You heard Robert Stern just a
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moment ago talking about the
real danger of Islamic
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radicalism.
And it amidst this anti-Semitic
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wave that's washing across from
coast to coast and around the
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world, we also have to contend
with the fact that people that
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are also taking violent action
in protest of Palestine, What's
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going on in Gaza.
So there are a whole host of
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reasons why people can be
radicalized today.
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And we as Americans should be
smart enough to recognize that
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unlike the previous
administration that did not
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prioritize border integration,
we do.
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And it it behooves us and the
president and his team have a
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responsibility to protect us,
the constitutional
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responsibility to protect us
from people who would do us
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harm.
But if you want to take a
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political point on this and turn
it into a racial issue, well, go
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ahead.
But it's your brothers and your
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sisters and your aunts and
uncles and nephews and nieces.
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They're the ones that are going
to be subject to a terrorist
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attack.
I mean, when was the last time
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you've heard of anything in
Boulder where people are going
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out to protest peacefully for an
end to the Israeli Palestinian
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conflict?
And I know a lot of people that
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live in Boulder, they're friends
of mine, Christian good, God
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fearing, God loving people.
And, and they were burned.
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Molotov cocktails, a
flamethrower, like something out
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of Pulp Fiction.
And there's nothing to prevent
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this from happening every day.
So if the left is going to take
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a position here that Trump is
somehow being racist and
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singling out these countries
where they have radical Islam,
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then they're only adding fuel to
the fire.
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They're only trying to anger the
crowd a little bit more towards
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a president who actually is
trying to protect Americans.
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And there's nothing wrong with
the country trying to protect
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itself against violent
offenders.
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Whereas yesterday the response
to these acts of terror were
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unequivocal for the most part
from world leaders, today we're
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seeing already.
The.
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Shift to blaming the victim,
putting all of this at the feet
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of Israel.
It's imperative for those of us
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with a conscience to resist that
shift, to maintain that moral
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clarity.
That's the role of a friend.
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Welcome back to America Today.
Recent terror attack in Boulder,
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Co, has underscored the extreme
dangers posed to our country by
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the entry of foreign nationals
who are not properly vetted, as
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well as those who come here as
temporary visitors and overstay
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their visas.
We don't want them.
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Yeah, what's going on here?
Well, who can answer that
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question better than for those
who caught the not so subtle
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Immigrant song by Led Zeppelin?
I thought it was appropriate,
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but Michael, let's in this boy,
just a turn of events in 24
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hours.
But this is not a surprise to me
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because if you've been paying it
all to the conflict in Ukraine,
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which is escalated over the
weekend, Trump came out
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yesterday and said that he had
talked to Putin and it doesn't
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look like peace is going to be
happening anytime soon.
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Michael Letts, your input on
this and the Trump ban on these
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countries.
I think I mentioned countries
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mostly run by Marxist dictators
and they have no problem sending
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their radical Muslims over here
to do us harm.
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Give us your insight on all of
this.
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Go work our way backwards.
You have to do the ban on this
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because quite frankly, I think
hopefully everyone listened over
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the last few days and see saw we
have a very active terrorist
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network in this country.
There's no sign such as a lone
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wolf.
And they surfaced itself in
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Boulder, Co.
It's going to be surfacing a lot
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more.
And we're tired of helping feed
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it by bringing in those who
support that cause.
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And many of them came illegally,
and we're not going to let them
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even come in legally.
But that is their ideology.
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And they're trying to help build
a terrorist network to harm the
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American people.
So the president is dead on
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there.
We're not saying this is
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permanent, but until we get some
issues fixed and we get a feel
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as to how to make sure we have
eradicated terrorist network in
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the United States, we're going
to do what's in the best
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interest of the safety of the
American people.
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That having been said, it ties
right into the rest of Ukraine.
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But go ahead.
I think you had a question too.
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Not really.
I mean, I, I was just going to
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comment.
I have not seen what the left
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is, is how they're tackling this
issue.
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But I imagine that they're
calling Trump a racist because
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all of these countries or an
Islamophobe.
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What are you hearing?
All the above, all the above,
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they're using their same
rhetoric which we've talked
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about on this show, and the
rhetoric you see, this is a
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tyrant and org who had cares not
about his fellow man, but is
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trying to create a white
supremacist in this country.
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And that is the furthest thing
from the truth we're trying to
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do is keep you safe.
That's the most important thing.
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Jake Tapper made a good point
about what's happening in our
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and not I don't agree with that
very often.
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Jake Tapper very rarely says
anything that I agree with, but
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he made a salient point and I do
kind of want to.
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I want to play some of this
because it has a lot to do with
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why our schools are churning out
these anti American protesters.
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Take a listen to.
Do with an academic theology of
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oppressor and oppressed.
If you only look at the world as
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oppressor versus oppressed, you
have you then have to choose in
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a conflict, this group is the
oppressor.
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This group is the oppressed.
It's, it's also why, for
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example, there have been
conflicts on other college
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campuses where, where gay
students have protested things
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that are going on in Muslim
countries having to do with the
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LGBTQ community in those
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And the gay students are made to
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of them are white.
And that that's also what's
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going on when it comes to the
Israeli Palestinian conflict.
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The Israelis are made to be the
oppressor, the Palestinians the
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oppressed and on and on and on.
And that's part of of what's
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going on at Harvard, that
theology, that way of looking at
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the world.
Now the travel ban, just to
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reiterate our point, Michael
Letts, is that this is not it's
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going to be spun by the left as
being anti Muslim, anti Islam,
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whatever that the left wants to
take.
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But the reality on the ground is
we just think about what's
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happened.
We've had several different
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terror attacks going back to
people who have short memory
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what happened in New Orleans not
that long ago.
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Then what's happened with the
two Israelis.
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We see there's anti-Semitism
rising all over the country and
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then we have this bombshell
where two Chinese nationals
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trying to export into our
country a dangerous fungi that
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could destroy crops.
We learned this week that even
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the cartel is involved in trying
to implement this fungus fly
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worm that can have devastation
on crops, cows, dogs, humans.
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It's almost as if we're we're
lying in slumber.
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We don't realize how dangerous
the world is today.
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I think you raised a very
pertinent point, Jim.
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It's not just that we're at war,
folks.
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Let's just take off the gloves
and start calling things like
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you really are.
We are at full scale war the
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same way we were in World War 2.
It's a different operation.
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We don't fight with tanks and
boots on the ground anymore.
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We fight behind the scenes with
guerrilla warfare attacks,
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terrorist attacks, the economic
attacks, infrastructure attacks.
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We are at a full scale war for
those who want to destroy this
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country, and that is both
communists and the Muslims.
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And interestingly, they kind of
tear together sometimes because
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of the fact that they want to
make sure that they can control
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how you think, what you do and
what you say.
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We'll never die.
We'll never live like that.
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We'll die rather standing then
to be bowing on our knees before
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time.
Michael Letts is the Invest
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usa.org founder and CEO and a
law enforcement officer of
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decades.
You said something interesting.
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Maybe I shouldn't bring it up,
but I will.
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Maybe you can comment.
You said that in your
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conversations with the
president, and I think I heard
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you're right with Putin.
Putin asked a very important
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question of Donald Trump.
What was that question?
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Question is very poignant.
I don't want every American
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listening now to sit up for a
second and dedicate some
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attention to this.
And the question goes to the
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United States, Mr. President,
who is running your country?
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And before you take offense to
that statement, here's why that
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stand will be made.
You know, the president wants
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peace, but yet here we have
Congress sending over billions
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of dollars.
We have advanced technology that
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only America has and only
America knows how to use being
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used against Russia.
So do you want peace or do you
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want more?
What do?
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Who is running the show?
And I think that's a question we
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only better figure it out real
quick.
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Well, right now it appears to be
activist judges because you know
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that they're going to try to
shut down this travel ban
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because it'll for reasons that
are sentimental and emotional
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but not grounded in reality.
On the other hand, let's take
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the position that in in Russia,
you know, clearly Putin is
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running his country, but we also
recognize he is a dictator.
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And is he implying that that
maybe Trump should act more like
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him or is this real?
Is this an issue where maybe you
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tell me how did you what was
your?
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Take I think he has a point.
He listens because this is your
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show.
Jim, he listens to what happens
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in this country and he knows
this.
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That's you. 2 things you just
said, acting the judges.
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That's part of it.
The other part is you have a
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nefarious Congress.
Very large part of that are
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corrupt and who are determining
that they don't care what the
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American people want.
We don't want any more money to
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go to Ukraine.
We're going to send it anyway.
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So the you know the question.
He's asking is if you.
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Have nefarious people, whether
it's judiciary, whether it's
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congressional, whether it's
executive branch, etcetera.
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Why do you refuse to do anything
with them?
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Why are they not held
accountable for their actions?
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And quite frankly, we've been
saying that for some time.
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I know we're trying to work
within the parameters.
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And within the system.
But quite frankly, until people
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are unaccountable, we're going
to lose that fight every time.
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Well, this side, that question
that he posed, it's interesting
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because obviously Trump is
saying, I knew nothing about
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this past weekend's air bombing
of drones and taking down 30% of
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their their air fleet and all
that.
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And I could see Trump having
some plausible deniability.
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But do you believe that our
intelligence was aware of this
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operation?
And if Trump had been aware of
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it, do you think he would have
stopped it?
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Yes, that's for going backwards,
Yes.
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And quite frankly, let's just
remind your listeners.
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Just how many intelligence?
Senior intelligence personnel
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have we fired in the last two
weeks and why?
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Because they do not represent
what the administration is
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looking for.
So the question is valid.
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We're not saying that the
president is not trying to be in
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control, that that would be a
misinterpretation.
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What we're saying is you have
such a nefarious and corrupt.
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System until you.
Figure it out and start holding
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people accountable.
You can have a hard time running
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your country.
Well, I think the political left
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is suffering from Stockholm
syndrome.
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They're sympathizing with the
terrorists, and we'll have to
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leave it there.
Michael has a weekend show on
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crntalk.com.
It's Saturday at 2:00 PM
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Eastern.
Michael will continue this
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discussion, I'm sure, so join
him on Saturday.
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And you can listen anywhere in
the world at crntalk.com,
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Saturdays at 2:00 PM Eastern.
Thank you, Jim.
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God bless you.
God Bless America.
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America, get in the fight.
This is the last one we're going
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to get to have.
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This is America Day.
Beware the beast man.
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Alone among God's primates, he
kills for sport.
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Who's next?
Yay, he will murder his brother
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to possess his brother's land,
lagging our breed in great
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numbers, for he will make a
desert of his home and yours.
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Oh.
My God.
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Shun him out.
Of.
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Water drive him back into his
jungle lair, for he is the
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harbinger of death.
Fight, really.
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Yeah, we're going to get to all
of it.
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What is that?
What's that statement when you
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lock your doors at night, when
you when you, you know, shut it
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all down and you go to bed, you
lock your doors at night.
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You don't lock your doors at
night because you don't like the
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people on the outside.
You lock your doors because you
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love the people on the inside.
And there's a whole brew of
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control.
I listen, folks, I don't always
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have this desire, this burning
desire to talk about Donald
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Trump every day on the program.
But his administration is moving
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fast and furious on all kinds of
issues.
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And he or his administration,
particularly the Department of
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Homeland Security, have decided
that things are tense in the
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world today and that there's a
lot of antagonism and
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unsettledness in the world
today.
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And I think we could all agree
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Even Jamie Dimon, one of the
most powerful influential
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financial CE OS in the country,
had this to say just recently at
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a forum about America at.
That point Do we need to rethink
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what constitutes national
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I wouldn't rethink it.
We know it constitutes national
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security.
We need.
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You know, I was saying we
shouldn't be stockpiling
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Bitcoin.
We should be stockpiling guns,
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bullets, tanks, planes, drones,
you know, rare earths.
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We know we need to do.
This is not a mystery.
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Now we know that 11 million
people came into the country
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unvetted during the previous
administration, that we know for
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sure.
We're seeing what we saw over
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the weekend, that tragedy in
Boulder, the the two people that
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were assassinated outside the
Israeli Embassy in Washington,
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DC.
Michael Letts, our national
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security top cop will be joining
us shortly to sort of give an
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overview of what we're up
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But I I ran across this clip,
which also I think hits the
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point for those people who do
not believe that America has
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anything to worry about.
Here is the lead pastor, Robert
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Stearns from Eagle's Wings
Ministry, an evangelical group.
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He had a few things to say.
My mind is overwhelmed because I
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I don't understand what it's
going to take for the West to
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wake up to the very horrible but
true reality that there is an
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evil in the world today called
radicalized Islam.
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And the focal point of the
hatred of radical Islam is the
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state of Israel and the Jewish
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But the secondary hate of
radicalized Islam is the
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Christian Church and the
tertiary.
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The third place of hate of
radical Islam is moderate modern
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Muslims.
The whole civilized world is in
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danger right now of extremism.
Now, that is something that's
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somewhat sobering, as it should
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But, you know, right now it's
June.
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It's Pride month.
We're celebrating.
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By the way, if you want to read
some real insight, Eddie Scary
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writes for The Federalist.
And he wrote about Pride month
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in DC and what it's like for him
and how much it disgusts him.
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And he, by the way, is gay,
which I did not know nor do I
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care, but he made that
announcement.
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He writes great articles, Eddie
Scary, and he pontificates on on
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the exhibitionism that has taken
over the gay pride and in you
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should read it.
And and while you're at it, why
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don't you jump on my sub stack,
which is real.
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Jim Watkins 1 And I have a
dissertation about the issue of
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family that is under attack in
this country for a whole host of
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reasons.
And leading the pack is this
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emphasis on pride and grooming
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And so we need to pay attention,
attention to that because it's
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having an effect, a detrimental
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and a whole host of other
sociological issues.
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Welcome to another day of
America.
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Jim Watkins here again.
We'll be talking to Michael.
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Let's coming up shortly.
He is a former cop, Special
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forces, a high-ranking official
in the state of South Carolina
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and law enforcement and a
consultant to the Trump White
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House.
So anyway, so we're also going
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to be talking to Mark Jones, who
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I'm a little off my game today,
primarily because I had A and
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and and I wasn't sure if I
wanted to talk about it, but my
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older sister passed away earlier
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Natural causes, they're saying.
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earshot of this program, which
you can hear on the Bull 1340
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and 99.1 FM.
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anybody who's had any amount of
experience in this, it
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absolutely makes you stop and
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important and what isn't.
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in terms, but we loved each
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good friends in the Phoenix
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some relatives near nearby.
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stricken, but we plow through
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think about what's important and
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families have broken apart, have
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say.
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we get back to that.
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way to do it is to plunge
forward and try to make a
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positive difference in your
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And that's what we try to do
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information that allows you to
see perhaps what others don't
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want you to see.
Now, it's interesting with Trump
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and what he wants to do with his
ban and, and I I do agree.
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The story comes from Western
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President Donald Trump signed an
executive order banning entry
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into the US from 12 different
countries while putting travel
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restrictions on seven others.
Now, what are the countries?
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Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the
Republic of Congo, Equatorial,
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Ghana, Entreya, Haiti, Iran,
Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen?
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Full restrictions on limited
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Now what do they all have in
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wing media will tell you that
the it's racist?
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It's not though.
You heard Robert Stern just a
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moment ago talking about the
real danger of Islamic
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radicalism.
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wave that's washing across from
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world, we also have to contend
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are also taking violent action
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going on in Gaza.
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reasons why people can be
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unlike the previous
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prioritize border integration,
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responsibility to protect us,
the constitutional
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responsibility to protect us
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harm.
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political point on this and turn
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ahead.
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sisters and your aunts and
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you've heard of anything in
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out to protest peacefully for an
end to the Israeli Palestinian
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conflict?
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live in Boulder, they're friends
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fearing, God loving people.
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Molotov cocktails, a
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of Pulp Fiction.
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this from happening every day.
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a position here that Trump is
somehow being racist and
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singling out these countries
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then they're only adding fuel to
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They're only trying to anger the
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a president who actually is
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the country trying to protect
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itself against violent
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unequivocal for the most part
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seeing already.
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Shift to blaming the victim,
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of Israel.
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with a conscience to resist that
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clarity.
That's the role of a friend.
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Welcome back to America Today.
Recent terror attack in Boulder,
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Co, has underscored the extreme
dangers posed to our country by
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the entry of foreign nationals
who are not properly vetted, as
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well as those who come here as
temporary visitors and overstay
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their visas.
We don't want them.
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Yeah, what's going on here?
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question better than for those
who caught the not so subtle
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Immigrant song by Led Zeppelin?
I thought it was appropriate,
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but Michael, let's in this boy,
just a turn of events in 24
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hours.
But this is not a surprise to me
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because if you've been paying it
all to the conflict in Ukraine,
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which is escalated over the
weekend, Trump came out
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yesterday and said that he had
talked to Putin and it doesn't
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look like peace is going to be
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Michael Letts, your input on
this and the Trump ban on these
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countries.
I think I mentioned countries
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mostly run by Marxist dictators
and they have no problem sending
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their radical Muslims over here
to do us harm.
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Give us your insight on all of
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Go work our way backwards.
You have to do the ban on this
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because quite frankly, I think
hopefully everyone listened over
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the last few days and see saw we
have a very active terrorist
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network in this country.
There's no sign such as a lone
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wolf.
And they surfaced itself in
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Boulder, Co.
It's going to be surfacing a lot
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more.
And we're tired of helping feed
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it by bringing in those who
support that cause.
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And many of them came illegally,
and we're not going to let them
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even come in legally.
But that is their ideology.
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And they're trying to help build
a terrorist network to harm the
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American people.
So the president is dead on
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there.
We're not saying this is
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permanent, but until we get some
issues fixed and we get a feel
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as to how to make sure we have
eradicated terrorist network in
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the United States, we're going
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interest of the safety of the
American people.
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That having been said, it ties
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But go ahead.
I think you had a question too.
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comment.
I have not seen what the left
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is, is how they're tackling this
issue.
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But I imagine that they're
calling Trump a racist because
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all of these countries or an
Islamophobe.
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What are you hearing?
All the above, all the above,
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they're using their same
rhetoric which we've talked
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about on this show, and the
rhetoric you see, this is a
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tyrant and org who had cares not
about his fellow man, but is
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trying to create a white
supremacist in this country.
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And that is the furthest thing
from the truth we're trying to
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do is keep you safe.
That's the most important thing.
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Jake Tapper made a good point
about what's happening in our
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and not I don't agree with that
very often.
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Jake Tapper very rarely says
anything that I agree with, but
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he made a salient point and I do
kind of want to.
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I want to play some of this
because it has a lot to do with
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why our schools are churning out
these anti American protesters.
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Take a listen to.
Do with an academic theology of
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oppressor and oppressed.
If you only look at the world as
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oppressor versus oppressed, you
have you then have to choose in
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a conflict, this group is the
oppressor.
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This group is the oppressed.
It's, it's also why, for
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example, there have been
conflicts on other college
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campuses where, where gay
students have protested things
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that are going on in Muslim
countries having to do with the
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LGBTQ community in those
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And the gay students are made to
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of them are white.
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going on when it comes to the
Israeli Palestinian conflict.
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The Israelis are made to be the
oppressor, the Palestinians the
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oppressed and on and on and on.
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going on at Harvard, that
theology, that way of looking at
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the world.
Now the travel ban, just to
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reiterate our point, Michael
Letts, is that this is not it's
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going to be spun by the left as
being anti Muslim, anti Islam,
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whatever that the left wants to
take.
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But the reality on the ground is
we just think about what's
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happened.
We've had several different
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terror attacks going back to
people who have short memory
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what happened in New Orleans not
that long ago.
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Then what's happened with the
two Israelis.
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We see there's anti-Semitism
rising all over the country and
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then we have this bombshell
where two Chinese nationals
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trying to export into our
country a dangerous fungi that
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could destroy crops.
We learned this week that even
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the cartel is involved in trying
to implement this fungus fly
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worm that can have devastation
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It's almost as if we're we're
lying in slumber.
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We don't realize how dangerous
the world is today.
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I think you raised a very
pertinent point, Jim.
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It's not just that we're at war,
folks.
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Let's just take off the gloves
and start calling things like
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you really are.
We are at full scale war the
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same way we were in World War 2.
It's a different operation.
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We don't fight with tanks and
boots on the ground anymore.
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We fight behind the scenes with
guerrilla warfare attacks,
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terrorist attacks, the economic
attacks, infrastructure attacks.
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We are at a full scale war for
those who want to destroy this
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country, and that is both
communists and the Muslims.
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And interestingly, they kind of
tear together sometimes because
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of the fact that they want to
make sure that they can control
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how you think, what you do and
what you say.
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We'll never die.
We'll never live like that.
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We'll die rather standing then
to be bowing on our knees before
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time.
Michael Letts is the Invest
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usa.org founder and CEO and a
law enforcement officer of
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decades.
You said something interesting.
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Maybe I shouldn't bring it up,
but I will.
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Maybe you can comment.
You said that in your
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conversations with the
president, and I think I heard
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you're right with Putin.
Putin asked a very important
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question of Donald Trump.
What was that question?
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Question is very poignant.
I don't want every American
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listening now to sit up for a
second and dedicate some
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attention to this.
And the question goes to the
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United States, Mr. President,
who is running your country?
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And before you take offense to
that statement, here's why that
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stand will be made.
You know, the president wants
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peace, but yet here we have
Congress sending over billions
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of dollars.
We have advanced technology that
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only America has and only
America knows how to use being
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used against Russia.
So do you want peace or do you
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want more?
What do?
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Who is running the show?
And I think that's a question we
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only better figure it out real
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Well, right now it appears to be
activist judges because you know
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that they're going to try to
shut down this travel ban
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because it'll for reasons that
are sentimental and emotional
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but not grounded in reality.
On the other hand, let's take
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the position that in in Russia,
you know, clearly Putin is
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running his country, but we also
recognize he is a dictator.
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And is he implying that that
maybe Trump should act more like
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him or is this real?
Is this an issue where maybe you
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tell me how did you what was
your?
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Take I think he has a point.
He listens because this is your
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show.
Jim, he listens to what happens
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in this country and he knows
this.
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That's you. 2 things you just
said, acting the judges.
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That's part of it.
The other part is you have a
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nefarious Congress.
Very large part of that are
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corrupt and who are determining
that they don't care what the
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American people want.
We don't want any more money to
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go to Ukraine.
We're going to send it anyway.
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So the you know the question.
He's asking is if you.
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Have nefarious people, whether
it's judiciary, whether it's
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congressional, whether it's
executive branch, etcetera.
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Why do you refuse to do anything
with them?
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Why are they not held
accountable for their actions?
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And quite frankly, we've been
saying that for some time.
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I know we're trying to work
within the parameters.
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And within the system.
But quite frankly, until people
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are unaccountable, we're going
to lose that fight every time.
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Well, this side, that question
that he posed, it's interesting
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because obviously Trump is
saying, I knew nothing about
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this past weekend's air bombing
of drones and taking down 30% of
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their their air fleet and all
that.
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some plausible deniability.
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But do you believe that our
intelligence was aware of this
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operation?
And if Trump had been aware of
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it, do you think he would have
stopped it?
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Yes, that's for going backwards,
Yes.
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And quite frankly, let's just
remind your listeners.
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Just how many intelligence?
Senior intelligence personnel
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have we fired in the last two
weeks and why?
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Because they do not represent
what the administration is
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looking for.
So the question is valid.
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We're not saying that the
president is not trying to be in
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control, that that would be a
misinterpretation.
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What we're saying is you have
such a nefarious and corrupt.
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System until you.
Figure it out and start holding
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people accountable.
You can have a hard time running
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your country.
Well, I think the political left
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is suffering from Stockholm
syndrome.
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They're sympathizing with the
terrorists, and we'll have to
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leave it there.
Michael has a weekend show on
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crntalk.com.
It's Saturday at 2:00 PM
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Eastern.
Michael will continue this
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discussion, I'm sure, so join
him on Saturday.
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And you can listen anywhere in
the world at crntalk.com,
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Saturdays at 2:00 PM Eastern.
Thank you, Jim.
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God bless you.
God Bless America.
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America, get in the fight.
This is the last one we're going
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to get to have.
