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We mention frequently here on this program how Donald Trump has remade the Republican Party, how Donald Trump has kicked some of the rough edges of the Republican Party out. And this is more clear than ever, given President Trump's approach to foreign policy. Unafraid to call Zelensky a dictator, which of course he is saying that I'm going to go visit Russia and Putin should go visit America. We're going to go broker peace. And as we are continuing the great revealing, which is what we are living through, the great revealing, it's more and more clear how not just ideologically weak, but also unimpressive. The previous ruling class of the conservative movement was this weekend, of course, is CPAC and everything happening there. But also there is this other event that is very important to emphasize. It goes to show what used to be within our ranks. In fact, included in this event, the principals first summit are people that used to be in Trump one, the first Trump administration.
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So this is, it's this weekend, it's the principal's first summit. Of course, they're doing it in Washington, D.C. the only place they could draw a crowd. And it is a very treacherous group of characters that are gathering, some of whom I don't even know who they are. But let's just emphasize a couple. John Bolton, John Bolton was the national security adviser for President Trump in the first administration. One of them, Alyssa Farah. Alyssa Farah worked for Mike Pence and was a top level communications director for President Trump and his administration in the first term. You got Steven Richer, who we helped get rid of, by the way, in Maricopa county as Maricopa county recorder. You have Harry Dunn, who was the January one of the January 6 police officers, I believe. Mark Cuban, Jared Polis, Chris Christie, remember Chris Christie used to be, I was going to say running around, but that wouldn't be fair.
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I was going to say he used to be running around. All of our circles say he was. What's a better word? Shaking around. Something like that's a bad visual. Got George Conway, goodness gracious, Adam Kinzinger. This here is the roster of the individuals that have been exercised out of the Republican Party. Their top speaker being a likely Democrat candidate in 2028 says a lot. What do these people believe now? They're gathering. You can call them rhinos and all that, but it's much more interesting than that. The one thing that unites every single one of these people, actually two things is their belief in neoconservative foreign policy, number one. And number two is their admiration of the Security state, the unquestioning gospel that is delivered from the Central Intelligence Agency, from our intel agencies. You have Asa Hutchinson. This here should give you such comfort of what Donald Trump has kicked out of our party and what you have kicked out of our party.
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Michael Steele, who used to be the chairman of the Republican Party in a time long gone. Jeff Duncan, who is or was the lieutenant governor of Georgia. And what they represent is a statist wing of the now changed Republican Party. And they know there's no place for them in this Republican Party. They know that they hate Doge because it might actually challenge the money train, that they have benefited for quite some time. They don't want an open border. And this is an extension of the damage that the Bush junta did to this country. They should try to do this conference in any other city, try to do this conference in Scottsdale or in Miami. Now, you could only do this in Washington, D.C. it's the only constituency in the country that would dare even entertain this nonsense. But it's a very, very important point because as we look at this roster, as you put it up on screen, understand there are still elements of the Republican Party that are currently in office that agree with all these people.
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But they're sleeper cells within our ranks. Now, of course, we love disagreement. That's never been the issue. If you want to be Susan Collins and you want to disagree with us publicly, let's have at it. Let's lay it down. I'll respect you. That is not the issue. The issue is people who lie and say that they are from deep red states, when in reality they're not. They say that they are Trump faithful. They say they are loyal to the agenda. You go look at their website, there's you know how many. There's a lot of US Senators that agree with this nonsense. It's such a time warp back to 2012. You read this. A lot of these are just abstractions as you go through this. The most important question, though is what do they believe is the role of American foreign policy? Every single person at this event supports sending more money to Ukraine.
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Every single person of this now dead Republican Party believes that deportations are cruel and unusual. And now you compare it with the current leadership structure. And it's not even that the list is that bad of the principles on their website. I mean, we believe in the Constitution, of course, we believe in all that. But it's so obvious why they're holding a lame rebel conference instead of hosting the president. They're lame in their week. Hegseth just announced an 8% annual cut at the Department of Defense. But let me reiterate, there are so many people in the Republican party, in the U.S. senate that hold these neoconservative neoliberal views. And just so we are clear, what is a neoconservative? A neoconservative is a modern day empire builder. They want to invade the world and invite the world. Neoconservatism is an outgrowth of Marxist ideology. It is statism at its core that we can go bring the American foreign policy machine to a country near you and bring democracy to Baghdad or bring democracy to Kabul.
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The project of Karl Rove, the project of George W. Bush. It really comes all down to Bush, really. There was a president who said all the superficial stuff that all of these other guys say, but was an inept ideological and practical failure. And the metamorphosis is continuing. But the point I want to reiterate to all of you is that there are still a lot of senators right now that talk a good game when it comes to President Trump, and they're not always there. Some that really might surprise you, and there's been some that have stepped up to the plate and have done a great job. But there's other senators that there's some questions. One in particular that is finally meeting with one of Trump's nominees. And I'm glad to hear it, but it's been a slow walk towards it. We're going to talk about that in the next segment.
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And he definitely comes from the foreign policy camp of Bill Kristol, from George W. Bush, from Dick Cheney. For those of you in Arkansas, I just want to ask the question, what's going on there? We're going to talk about it. Vice President J.D. vance has a very good friend. His name is Elbridge Colby. I've got to know Elbridge. Extremely thoughtful man who is against the Bush junta philosophy, as we have seen and articulated in the previous segment about this ridiculous gathering that they're doing. Elbridge Colby has been nominated by the president because he earned it to be basically a third in line at the Department of Defense. It's called the Under Secretary for Policy. Very, very important job. Extremely important job. So Elbridge Colby is not that controversial. In fact, he's incredibly qualified. You can listen to his conversation with Tucker Carlson. He's thoughtful, he understands the issues.
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He is as good as it gets. And he has written the premier book on the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, on the looming danger, the clear and present danger of the CCP and For whatever reason, we haven't been able to get a good answer. His nomination has been stalled and is being opposed by Senator Tom Cotton. Now, thankfully, we're moving in the right direction here. Senator Tom Cotton, I've known him for quite a while. I have nothing personal against him. I don't. I think he's phenomenal on immigration. I think he's great on crime. He's the one that was encouraging the President to invoke the Insurrection act during all of the Florida Palooza stuff. So he's great on a lot of issues. On foreign policy, we are on completely different planets. I've said that before on this program. Tom Cotton's foreign policy views are indecipherable from that of Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol.
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And you don't take my word for it. You can go look at the information and see what he says. His criticism when it comes to Ukraine is that Joe Biden did not do enough. He said we did not send enough money, we did not send enough weapons. That was his criticism on Ukraine. You can look it up. Please find the tweet, guys. I could read it on here. And so what's really going on here with the Elbridge Colby, Tom Cotton collision is that it's a philosophical and a worldview schism that is unfolding. I've now sent out two tweets. They've been seen millions of times, about 7 or 8 million times, asking the question, why Senator Tom Cotton is getting in Elbridge Colby's way to become third in line. It's one of Trump's picks. We don't know the answer to that question. It's probably because Senator Tom Cotton is getting a little worried that the Bill Kristol, George W.
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Bush foreign policy regime is coming to an end. It is sunsetting now, of course, every senator is able to ask robust questions to get assurances. All of that is fine. But it goes beyond that. Senator Cotton has called the president directly trying to undermine Elbridge Colby's nomination. Senator Tom Cotton has been trying everything he possibly can to derail this and saying, oh, I'm actually not trying to derail it. A lot of this is behind the scenes stuff that is now, of course, publicly reported. I'm happy to say, though, that Elbridge Colby is now meeting with Senator Tom Cotton and hopefully that will proceed. But I would love for those of you in the great state of Arkansas to chime in and to give your opinions, or anyone. How would you feel if Senator Cotton or other senators like him decide to vote against President Trump's nominees.
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It's not enough just to do Bobby Kennedy and cash. All that is great, Tulsi Gabbard, but now we are talking about the inner workings of these departments. And Elbridge's book, which you guys should all check out, the Strategy of American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict is one of the most thoughtful pieces of work. He is resolutely pro Israel, obviously, America first. And the criticism that they have against Elbridge Colby is that Elbridge basically has written that he does not want to go to war against Iran. That's it. That is their criticism. He has been very clear that we should not get into a kinetic bombing campaign, a ground war against Iran. And for that, it has resulted in a tension point. And you're seeing the ideological rift unfold. And I have been helping lead the X and the Twitter chatter here. Again, I hope Senator Cotton does the right thing.
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This is not against him personally, but I can tell you if he does oppose some of these nominees that the grassroots of Arkansas are not going to like that. They're not going to like the fact that President Trump won a declarative mandate election and he's not able to get his cabinet positions in and his sub cabinet positions in deputies, third in control, fourth in control. We have, we have one tweet from Senator Cotton about Ukraine, no timidity and half measures time to send Ukraine the weapons needed to end this invasion. Well, we did send the weapons that the invasion end, of course not.