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Sanchez Effect is a journalistic rebellion. RT’s flagship program is led by Rick Sanchez, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning newsman who’s made a career out of defying the status quo.. “When only one side of a story is permitted, that’s when I push harder. If Moscow is deemed off-limits, it’s precisely where I want to be. Because more often than not, truth resides in the places we’re told not to look.”

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00:00:00reportedly
00:00:05of of of been running such black sites for years. Head to our website for more on this developing story. And do stay with
00:00:08us up next, Sansha's Effect. Bye for
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00:00:55All of right, of
00:00:56a hi everybody, I'm Rick Sanchez,
00:00:57of this is the Sanchez Effect and we want to get right. do it, because I think you've
00:01:01been watching what's been happening in Europe lately, there have
00:01:04of been uh mad protests in uh places like Italy in uh
00:01:08and violent by the way, violent uh skirmishes between
00:01:12citizens and police in Italy, in Spain, in Brussels, over the
00:01:16weekend, we saw them in Germany, we saw them in
00:01:18of Switzerland as matter of fact, the place you don't usually see this kind of
00:01:22thing, the the worst of all of course have been taking place
00:01:26periodically in in France, and we thought that we were basically...
00:01:30a
00:01:31of law there in France, but they're at it again. uh, we understand that there are
00:01:35now hundreds of thousands of people who have been taken to the streets, it
00:01:39was originally built as something that would be peaceful, that is not the case.
00:01:43we've got some live pictures we can show you coming in right
00:01:46a now, a this is it. look at this, it's like sea of humanity
00:01:49in in
00:01:50of Paris in right now, with all
00:01:52of of these people taking to the streets, good god,
00:01:55700,000 anti-government protesters
00:01:59protesting the... Macron government, the government of
00:02:03of Emmanuel Macron, it started like a month ago, first of all when
00:02:07people took to the streets because they were angry about
00:02:10of education costs, but then it
00:02:12of spread, that's where it started, after that it became a
00:02:16protest about the economy, and uh most of
00:02:20it was joined by uh by workers uh
00:02:24by construction
00:02:25of workers, then transportation workers, then union
00:02:29workers.
00:02:32of of and now all
00:02:34in of kinds of people from the different a sectors
00:02:34of the workforce have been joining this
00:02:37a uh these these mass protests and yes they have been at
00:02:41times violent and they've burned parts of buildings and
00:02:45in they've of scuffled
00:02:46the with
00:02:46the police and uh it just does not appear that
00:02:50the government is able to
00:02:52in any way satisfy these folks have been
00:02:55de taken to the streets over the last month
00:02:57we we do have our correspondents following this
00:03:01where we've attempted to see if we can uh make uh if we can touch
00:03:05base with him real quick Yasem is uh the correspondent who's
00:03:09been
00:03:09me following this what what is there he is yes Yasim we see you what
00:03:13of is the situation right now my
00:03:16of friend well in republic square thousands of people are
00:03:20converging on the square and while this is happening police are
00:03:23detaining protesters left right and center I can only say that
00:03:27I haven't visually seen any acts of aggressive. and so I can't really uh atest
00:03:31to why they've been detained, but I've been to different locations across the French Capital
00:03:35and
00:03:36of I've seen very similar scenes uh, we can expect hundreds of demonstrations across the
00:03:40country in different locations and that applies to the French capital as well,
00:03:43and within the next half hour, maybe an hour we expect this
00:03:47crowd to march down the streets
00:03:49a and uh march through some significant and
00:03:52of notable places and uh either ending up at blaster
00:03:55de la nation or
00:03:56of some other designated area that is going to be changing as these
00:04:00demonstrations progress, it's funny that this is happening right after the elections
00:04:04in the United States cuz the message from the people
00:04:08of of the United States is, pay attention to us, we're angry at you, Mr. Trump, we're
00:04:12of angry at the government in general, and this doesn't end or begin with Mr.
00:04:16Trump, this is kind of pattern that started for some time where it seems like the
00:04:19people are saying, stop it, stop with
00:04:22of Ukraine, stop with Iran, stop with Iraq, stop with all these wars, stop
00:04:26sending money everywhere, stop giving things to to to... millionaires
00:04:30of and all the others and and start giving us what we need
00:04:34of to live decent lives, we want our wages to go up, we want the
00:04:38cost of living to go down, that seemed to be the message that's now being heard
00:04:42out
00:04:42of the United States, how similar is that to what people are asking for
00:04:46there? Rick, I feel like that sentiment
00:04:49can to be applied to every country on the face
00:04:52of the planet, give her take uh, but specifically in the case of Europe
00:04:56that does apply, we've seen unrest in France. naturally, we've
00:05:00seen it in Germany, in places like Denmark and Italy,
00:05:04and the list goes on, and that does come back to the sentiment that
00:05:08it seems that governments are so focused on giving money to actors out.
00:05:12outside their own nations, outside their people, that the people are
00:05:16converging and essentially saying, well, this is a wake-up call, hello,
00:05:20uh, what about us, but I'll tell you one thing that the macron government has done, that is
00:05:23achieved, uh, and it's not just uniting the people, uniting the people to a
00:05:27degree is, I think easier uh, than uniting
00:05:31politicians, and on Wednesday, Macron's budget for
00:05:342027 went to the French national assembly, and outside of two
00:05:38abstentions, every single law maker voted against that
00:05:41bill. Uh, I don't recall a moment in history in which every single
00:05:45law maker any assembly or parliament or congress has
00:05:49actually agreed on one single idea, so
00:05:53they they rejected his budget, did his budget include, and I'm
00:05:57just guessing here, uh, more money for uh,
00:06:00the for for Ukraine and for Zelensky's government, for
00:06:03example, two degree, yes, but it's not
00:06:07just limited to that, so because the policies that the French government
00:06:11has been under. taking these past few years, their trade deficit
00:06:15continues to grow, the value the euro again to a
00:06:19degree is being challenged because the french government needs money, but
00:06:22borrowing that money is becoming more expensive, and for 20,
00:06:262027, for the next year, if I'm not mistaken, the national interest payment for
00:06:30it, the interest payment for the national interest is going to be around 90
00:06:34billion euros, that's a lot of money that the French are going to
00:06:38be paying for practically nothing, when that money could
00:06:40be spent on policies that could... alleviate the situation the people here
00:06:44behind, you know, uh, we're seeing
00:06:47video uh that we have on screen, you don't see it, we see
00:06:51it, in fact Jeene uh put that up uh so he
00:06:55can help describe to us, we're watching skirmishes
00:06:59with what look like police officers, I imagine they're police
00:07:02officers, I don't know if they're federal or or
00:07:05local, uh, and they're apparently taking on the
00:07:09protesters who are - there.
00:07:12is the they seem to be holding billy clubs of some of
00:07:16some form, can you tell us what is this, where is this and what's going
00:07:20on? just very briefly, i'm going to step over to the side so i
00:07:24can actually take a look at that footage and tell you whether it's around
00:07:27bastil and i'm taking a better look, yeah so those were
00:07:31from demonstrations in b, i'm going to step back into frame rake uh so i was there
00:07:35when that was happening and like i said these demonstrations are going to be taking
00:07:39place across the capital, yes the police and the port
00:07:42decided that they could conver converge on the republic square, but the people have
00:07:46different idea because there are so many people available to protest up
00:07:50until now we've been monitoring unions or student unions and the young people have been
00:07:54taken the treats, but on Thursday for today uh
00:07:58energy workers have decided to take the take the day off to protest uh
00:08:01education workers though there are a lot more people available to be on the streets
00:08:05and uh that was that was area close to plus la Bastin which is the basti
00:08:09square uh and protesters did converge on that area.
00:08:12they erected barricades to prevent the police because
00:08:16protesters were being prevented from entering bussing square and we've been
00:08:20observing this uh behavior for these past few weeks after October
00:08:2317th when uh when those riots and the looting was observed uh the
00:08:27protests that follows were push outside the city center those are where the
00:08:31protest mainly took place as we walked those long kilometers being there
00:08:35was an issue the metros rep and the government or the uh
00:08:39municipality wasn't providing sorry the municipality wasn't providing means to get
00:08:42people to those locations, so that's why while the protests were happening
00:08:46here, it makes sense that people were trying to get to different areas uh that were that are infidence
00:08:50to known uh for gathering and protesting against government the path. we've
00:08:54got some new pictures coming in, those are from our friends over at
00:08:58Rupley, and they're sending us uh new video. this is
00:09:01apparently different location, as you see that guy was hit
00:09:05on the head with something, he's bleeding, uh, we see blood coming out of his
00:09:09forehead, we don't know how it happened, but again these are brand new. is coming
00:09:13into us now uh, final question to you, yessim, and I think this is a really
00:09:16important question, uh, it goes to accountability,
00:09:20uh, has the government accepted accountability for what
00:09:24is happening on the streets and seems to want to continue to
00:09:28happen, have they, have they done any kind of culpa, have have they
00:09:31told the people where, you know, we understand, we get your message, and
00:09:35we're going to deal with it, we're going to try and prove the economy, or are they
00:09:39doing what Mr. Macron said in his first? speech,
00:09:43oh, these people are all thugs, they're just bad people, and most
00:09:46them are Muslims, and that's why we're going to arrest them all or something
00:09:50to that effect, hopefully they've changed their tone a little bit,
00:09:54no, well, it's kind of part to argue
00:09:58that uh, well, macron has been successful in unifying politicians on
00:10:02the left and the right and the center, so to suggest that the people have united on the similar
00:10:06cause is very difficult to argue against at this point, yeah, but
00:10:10there have been French politicians and lawmakers that have been... commenting about making the
00:10:13necessary changes as to whether or not the leadership, well understand
00:10:17that is matter of concern, but
00:10:19what i can say in clarity is the government has acknowledged
00:10:23one thing that
00:10:24it is. listening, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they are hearing what the
00:10:28people have to say, because in the weeks that followed after October 17,
00:10:32the protest essentially force the government tan to change the
00:10:35French university admission system, the parker
00:10:39suit system that the french students have been arguing against,
00:10:42so they took that and they vowed to make the necessary changes, but when it comes to the
00:10:46cost of living and providing aid to uh foreign entities
00:10:50in traine and and lot has been
00:10:53gone untouched. and unnoticed, which says
00:10:56that they
00:10:56are observing what's happening, they are listening, but they choose not to hear what the people
00:11:00have to say, yeah, that there's exact, i was just laughing when you were saying
00:11:04that, yeah, we hear you, okay, you heard me, but what are
00:11:08you going to do about it, well nothing, it's like, then it's not
00:11:12enough, and we're going to continue going to the streets,
00:11:14and that seems to be the message that's being sent to them right now, this is crazy, as
00:11:18as as i as my colleague nikki said a little while ago, it's kind of crazy world
00:11:22lately, uh, yaseen, we're so glad that you're there, st safe,
00:11:25obviously these things can get a little crazy and a little violent, but I know you're experienced as
00:11:29a correspondent to follow these things, if anything uh happens, let us
00:11:33know, we could always just hit a button and get you back on the air, or not
00:11:37me, but Jean Will, so thanks so much, we appreciate everything you're doing. All
00:11:40right, let's talk about the other side the story, now we're
00:11:44talking about the the theme of this show today is
00:11:48discontent, and if there's a place in the world where there seems
00:11:51to be lot of discontent right now, it's in my country, the United'. states, I
00:11:55got to tell you, I didn't expect what happened uh, as we were
00:11:59bringing you these, the election coverage, uh,
00:12:03I didn't think that it would be as bad as it was, I
00:12:06expected that the Democrats would win, I think most people did, I expect that
00:12:10the democrats would win the house, I wasn't sure whether they would actually win the
00:12:14senate, and I thought that if they won the Senate, they would probably win by,
00:12:18oh, they'd pick up a couple of more states, but
00:12:21definitely not the way that they
00:12:23want it, in fact right now, it looks like they have
00:12:2754 seats that they have picked up in the Senate,
00:12:31the Republicans only have 44, that's a huge switch, and
00:12:35they're not done, because there's more states that are still being counted, so
00:12:38let's go to the map so I can break this down for you, buse I think it's important to be
00:12:42able to see it so that we can properly illustrate it.
00:12:46All right, here we go, this is the brand new
00:12:49map the senate in the United States of America, and of course the senate is the
00:12:53main house, United States has two parts to its legislature, the
00:12:57Congress or the House of Representatives, and then they have the Senate, obviously there's the
00:13:01executive branch, and then there's the judicial branch, but this is really what we're
00:13:04zeroing in on, because uh, this is the biggest
00:13:08sign of repudiation that we've seen in some time in the United
00:13:12States, we start with Maine all the way up there, see that ME, that's the
00:13:15initials for Maine, a state where Susan Collins was supposed to hold to it,
00:13:19most people would think she's been there forever, she was outed, they don't want her there
00:13:23anymore, so the democrats are taking over that and as we come down you can
00:13:27see Massachusetts, New Jersey uh
00:13:31going all the way
00:13:32down to Virginia, uh, those are usually democratic states, no
00:13:35surprise there, they hung to them, but here's the big surprise, North
00:13:39Carolina, North Carolina is a state that's been red, been
00:13:43republican, it's switched over to blue, even bigger
00:13:46surprise, South Carolina, Darline
00:13:50Graham, if you're wondering who the hell is Darline Graham,
00:13:54well you're ready for... She's the sister of
00:13:57Lindsaygram. Lindsaygram is the biggest warhawk in the history
00:14:01the United States. Everybody knew that, most people weren't very
00:14:04fond of him, but he was good friends with Mr. Trump, so Mr.
00:14:08Trump called his sister and says, "Why don't you become the new
00:14:11senator?" She says, "I don't know anything about being the senator." In
00:14:15fact, she said during news conference when she was asked by
00:14:18reporters, what do you know about Ukraine? What do you know about Iran? She said, "I don't know
00:14:22anything about any of those places. I i..." not a
00:14:25politician, well they ran her anyway,
00:14:28and she got crushed. the reason South
00:14:32Carolina's blue is because Darline Graham, who should have won
00:14:36race that usually is won by Republicans without having to do any
00:14:40work, she got killed in this state. in fact,
00:14:43here's Tucker Carlson talking about not just
00:14:47Darline, but kind of what it means that
00:14:51she lost this race, here he is. you can't
00:14:55say that the Republicans had it stolen cuuse they didn't, they
00:14:59got exactly what they deserved, and what they deserved was to be
00:15:02humiliated because of what they did to the rest of us. they literally
00:15:06tried to appoint Lindsay's sister, who maybe
00:15:10nice person or who knows, but knows nothing about anything by her own
00:15:14admission, tried to give her the senate seat, and not just by
00:15:18appointment, but like they stood her for election in South
00:15:21Carolina, and she lost. well, there's another state.
00:15:25the last time democrat was elected to the senate, probably should have
00:15:29check before the show did, it's been a while, you think of that as like
00:15:32core republican, mean that's that's the
00:15:35base, that would be like bathesda Maryland going for
00:15:39Trump, it's just it's not going to happen, oh but it just dead,
00:15:43and again it did, because that's insulting. Talk about core
00:15:47Republican, Georgia, blue,
00:15:51Georgia, that's the south, core Republican
00:15:54territory, want to see one even more,
00:15:58Texas, Texas is now democratic
00:16:01state, the governor is now
00:16:04democrat, right, the land commissioner. is now democrat,
00:16:08the majority the members the house of representatives are now
00:16:12democrats and most importantly the
00:16:15senator there, guy named James Talorico that most people would never heard
00:16:19of, is now the new senator from the state of Texas, same as New
00:16:23Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Kansas has been
00:16:27Republican for ever and a day, so was
00:16:31Iowa, both them has swit have switched,
00:16:35unexpected, unexpected. Here's another one,
00:16:39Mississippi, you know why it's gray? It's not confederate gray
00:16:42although it could be, we can't make it blue, we can't make it red because it's still
00:16:46undecided, and there's a real pos that in of itself is
00:16:49newsworthy, but now there's a possibility that Mississippi could eventually
00:16:53become blue as well because it looks like the candidate there is about to be declared, we'll be
00:16:57checking and if they announce it we'll tell you about it uh during the show,
00:17:01continuing uh we talk on Minnesota where I
00:17:05went to school, I went to school. the University of Minnesota, proud to be a golden
00:17:09gofer, it was expected to go red, it's
00:17:12blue, of course Ohi, this is the the
00:17:15almost the Mcdadi here, Ohio and
00:17:18Michigan, Ohio and Michigan, Ohio goes blue,
00:17:22Michigan goes blue, Michigan now has a senator who is a Muslim
00:17:26American, you know, and he
00:17:30was fought by almost everybody in the Republican
00:17:33party who talked more about his
00:17:37nationality or his parents nationality and his faith
00:17:41then they did his policies, that's when you
00:17:45know you're losing. one more, come over here with
00:17:48me, Alaska, look at
00:17:52that, Alaska has always been a red state, it's
00:17:56greay because
00:17:57they haven't been able to count the votes yet, it's that close, but it's looking like
00:18:01Alaska could be democratic state now as well, so
00:18:05this is story of repudiation.
00:18:07This is
00:18:07the story the people the United States, just like we just showed
00:18:11you
00:18:11in our report from France, where the people of Europe are
00:18:15saying, start paying attention to us, listen to
00:18:19us, listen to our needs, listen to what
00:18:23we as people need, as opposed to what donors
00:18:27and billionaires and other countries and Israel and wars
00:18:30and seems like the money is going everywhere but
00:18:34to the people, and that is the story.
00:18:38this election cycle, these midterms that I think the
00:18:42best word to describe them is a
00:18:44tsunami.
00:18:50All right, I'm going to bring an old friend now, we're going to talk about this, going
00:18:54to talk about American politics, buse we're both Americans. George Popanopolis
00:18:57is a former foreign policy advisor to
00:19:01president Trump, he's now media guy like myself, and he's good to join
00:19:05us to talk about this. George, how are you?
00:19:25uh uh, you know what? no, i'm going to start with the breaking news. i want to show you these pictures once
00:19:28again. for those of you at home who are watching us, we we started the
00:19:32newscast today with some these images that are coming in from Paris,
00:19:36France.
00:19:37700 thousand people are on the on the streets of Paris, France
00:19:41saying their government is not listening to them, similar to what I
00:19:44think we can say about the United States, not just under Trump, but in the
00:19:48past. What do you make the situation we're seeing not just in France, but by
00:19:52the way, in places like Switzerland and Spain and Italy and
00:19:56Germany, etc. Well, the will
00:20:00the people is paramount globally, and I think that's becoming
00:20:03more and more evident as the people become...
00:20:07far more educated on various
00:20:11policy issues and have access to
00:20:14diverse sources of information that a
00:20:18generation ago they did not. the advent of
00:20:22social media and other channels
00:20:26basically has given the people
00:20:29a an outreach to real
00:20:32facts uh that for years had been suppressed so it's no
00:20:36surprise. to see this new enlightened uh
00:20:40movements around the world that are revolting
00:20:44against um issues and totalitarian
00:20:47systems that have suppressed their will. It's funny you call him enlighten,
00:20:51but Macron calls them thugs and
00:20:54Muslims. It's always
00:20:58about othering descents, right? And that's
00:21:01something that just doesn't fly anymore, Rick,
00:21:05because societies have evolved, societies are getting far
00:21:08younger and many these countries, especially in France,
00:21:12they're becoming far more multi-thnic, multi-religious and
00:21:16the old orthodoxy that has attempted.
00:21:20basically quelm uh descents and to other
00:21:23them no longer prevails and that's really what you're
00:21:27seeing with these manifestations and it's all being
00:21:30exacerbated because of failed
00:21:33policies that don't address the needs the
00:21:37people and that's really why this is going to continue not only in
00:21:41Europe but also in parts the United States where so many have
00:21:45felt left behind for a long time yeah I was just referring to
00:21:49uh the cat
00:21:49Obama
00:21:55and he sounds real pretty and he talks with very cogeant
00:21:59statements, I i don't whether he's going to be a good candidate or
00:22:02not, but that's exactly what you just said, the
00:22:05republicans, instead of taking them on and going after his policies
00:22:09and talking about the effect that his policies might have
00:22:13on the people, they called him a muslim, they said
00:22:16he his sister once had a boyfriend who was in the muslim brotherhood or something.
00:22:20mean it seems to me that it's that that just doesn't work, it's
00:22:24ridiculous when you just go after someone's nationality or their faith rather than
00:22:28attacking their ideas. you know rick, i've been in
00:22:32conservative politics for close to 20 years, i was one of trump's
00:22:35original advisor, so i've been on this maga train since day
00:22:39one, and key principle the
00:22:43America first mog of movement that really galvanized
00:22:47millions of voters, independence, youth, and the left was
00:22:50because of promises made, promises kept. looking at
00:22:54this most recent election, you could see that the
00:22:57diametrically opposed vision the
00:23:00GOP took over, and that was promises made,
00:23:04promises not kept, and it ultimately resulted in these bizarre
00:23:08adhominan attacks that did not land on
00:23:12people like el saied, and what the democrats did, and i'll land on this because
00:23:15it's very important for your viewers to understand, what the democrats did is they actually
00:23:20took a playbook, a chapter, i should say out the maga playbook and
00:23:24ran an extremely populist campaign that galvanized their
00:23:27voters, and the independents, and even some on the right, and the
00:23:31youth, and Sayad was one the key candidates who did that a
00:23:35brilliant fashion, and that's why after all the odds and over
00:23:3940 millions spent against him, he's going to be the new senator out of
00:23:42Michigan. JD Evans just put out
00:23:46a tweet that I thought was very effective.
00:23:50and correct, in this tweet he describes what he's
00:23:54learned from polsters and he basically
00:23:57says that the polsters asked the American people,
00:24:01what do you want the president the United States and his
00:24:05administration to do, and here's what he said, they
00:24:09said, end the war, one, focus on the
00:24:13cost of living, two, put America first,
00:24:16three, change our relationship to Israel,
00:24:20four: now isn't it something? because it seems to me that
00:24:24those are the four things the administration did not do, and
00:24:27they're the four things that have cost them this
00:24:30election. that's what happens when people
00:24:34have the perception that america first principles
00:24:38and policies have been abandoned, and when the will the
00:24:42American people and their voices are not being heard,
00:24:46and that's what showed up at the box, at the ballot box.
00:24:50and the vice president Vance might talk the day after the election, but he's been
00:24:54vice president for the past two years, so he should have
00:24:58controlled or taken over the reigns if the pulsers
00:25:02were discussing this over the past two years. this was a preventable
00:25:05situation, moving forward, fortunately the democrats
00:25:09do not have as many seats in congress to really
00:25:13uh reshape the legislative process, the president still has
00:25:16enormous power in the executive office, but it's going to be... a long
00:25:20road to 2028 and if things don't recover right,
00:25:24i don't see the republicans winning in 2028 and
00:25:27potentially
00:25:28in the near future, yeah, and by the way, there's
00:25:30the democrats and then there's the republicans, and then there's mega, and lot
00:25:34of people are saying what this proves is magas dead, you think it
00:25:38is? no, i don't think maga is dead at all, actually, i
00:25:41think uh, as a polster's explained and and what the democrats did
00:25:45by running in populist, economic, in many
00:25:49ways nationalistic ways, they were very, they were more America first
00:25:53than the GoP was and that's really why they won.
00:25:57America first is incredibly powerful
00:26:01ideology and policies prescription to
00:26:04address many grievances on all sides the American
00:26:08spectrum, as long as those policies are properly
00:26:11implemented, and you have candidates that could properly and eloquently
00:26:15communicate what those policies are and how they benefit the American
00:26:18taxpayer and the American standing in the world. we had bad
00:26:22candidates,
00:26:23we they couldn't communicate the situation, the democrats filled that
00:26:26vacuum and many failed promises resulted in the situation
00:26:30that we just had yesterday, yeah and "know what you're speaking to cuz it's an American,
00:26:34I feel it, I see it, I see it with my kids, I see it with my
00:26:38neighbors, you know, the the average cost of a home in America is
00:26:41four to $500 thousand dollars, what young couples
00:26:45starting their life today can do what you and I did bause we're old
00:26:49enough to remember where we can pick up a home for less than
00:26:52$100,000, maybe get a flat or an apartment or buy a condo for
00:26:56like $75, $50,00, that's impossible
00:27:00today, there's no way you can do that." "We also, by the way, don't
00:27:04have a good healthcare system until you turn 65, while the
00:27:08countries we're giving all our damn money to, like Ukraine
00:27:11and Israel, have wonderful, splendid systems of
00:27:15healthcare, universal healthcare, free for everybody paid
00:27:19for by Americans who themselves, George, don't have it. You
00:27:23could say the same thing about maternity leave, you could say the same thing about
00:27:26overtime pay and other things that other countries who we give our
00:27:30money to have, and I think..." what's happening right now in America
00:27:34is the American people are saying the hell with that, we're we're
00:27:38tired of seeing our money go overseas to people who are ending up with more than
00:27:42we have, well that's why there's going to have to be
00:27:45reckoning, there's going to have to be
00:27:48redesign a complete
00:27:51revamping the GOP, because what
00:27:55Trump started with ended up as something completely different,
00:27:59Trump started off as a peacemaker, somebody that would not in in foreign
00:28:03theaters, we ended up in the Iran war, one the most unpopular wars
00:28:07in modern American history, we talked about America first, get
00:28:11billions of dollars were being spent overseas once again, we talked about
00:28:14taking care the American taxpayer and reindustrializing the
00:28:18United States, while tariffs ended up being a very bad policy that
00:28:22backfire on inflation, the cost of living, making everything lot more
00:28:26expensive that you just explained and that's why it disenfranchised so many
00:28:30people and immigration reform. ended up another complete
00:28:34disaster while it could have been done a very smart way with
00:28:38building the wall and re uh formulating the immigration
00:28:41laws and ended up with ice shooting American citizens on the streets and
00:28:45arresting uh innocent Mexico that all was leveraged by the
00:28:49democrats it was amplified on social media on the mainstream media
00:28:53and it really distorted what could have been a positive
00:28:57message into an extremely negative and dark message Rick how much
00:29:01of this is about Maga, and I'm just going to say
00:29:04it, how much of this is about maga turning into
00:29:08mega, i g, cuz once again, uh,
00:29:12do a favor, uh, Jean, put up that thing from the vice president
00:29:15again, put those four points up again, because I, I, I want to make point about
00:29:19this, because if you go down every one of those four points, the first one that Americans
00:29:23wanted that didn't get was end the war. Well, the war was started, as we all
00:29:27know, because Israel wanted the war to start.
00:29:30In fact, most Americans blame Netanyahu more. and they blame Mr. Trump for starting this
00:29:34war. The next one is focus on the cost of living and inflation. Well, inflation
00:29:38and the cost of living has gone up because since the war
00:29:41started, the uh trade roots have been shut down
00:29:45or blocked both in the straight of Hormus and in the straight of
00:29:49Amandab. So that's the reason we're having to pay so much more for all the
00:29:52goods that we use in our grocery stores and supermarkets
00:29:55etc. Uh, put America first. Well, again, that goes back
00:29:59to Americans feel like Israel is being put. before
00:30:03America, and then finally number four, change our relationship
00:30:07to Israel, well that's all about Israel, so when you really look at all four these
00:30:10points, they all really point indirectly to Israel, which
00:30:14makes people in the maga movement feel like you sold us
00:30:18a, you gave us mi
00:30:20g. america first means
00:30:24America first, and that doesn't mean cowtowing or putting the
00:30:28needs, priorities or interests of any foreign
00:30:31government. ahead the United States of America and the
00:30:35perception has been for years uh that
00:30:39unfortunately uh BB Netanyahu helped
00:30:42coerse the United States into a foreign war
00:30:46that was not in the US interest did not uh implicate
00:30:50U.S. national security interest and now has affected the domestic.
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