In many circles, former Governor Mike Huckabee is known for his down home, common sense. While fighting grows in the Washington sandbox, Huckabee has created his own lane, diagnosing problems and creating a wealth of solutions for success.
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Huckabee Today | Mike Huckabee: November 25, 2024 | Huckabee Today | November 25, 2024
- Good evening.
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- I'm mike huckabee, and welcome to huckabee.
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- Today, here in little rock, we look at the world
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- A little less frantically than people on both coasts,
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- But we look just as carefully.
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- Now, tonight, we're going to turn our eyes
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- Toward china, which may face some rough
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- Sailing with the incoming trump administration.
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- Our guide tonight is an american born
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- Scholar who is a certified china watcher.
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- You've seen him on this program before for a reason.
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- We take seriously when he talks.
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- I'm talking, of course, gordon chang.
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- He lived there for 20 years as a lawyer for american firms.
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- He's the author of several books about chinese
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- American relations, including this new book called plan
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- Red china's project to destroy america.
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- Gordon chang, great to have you back on the program.
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- I love the title of your book,
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- China's project to destroy america.
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- There's nothing subtle about that.
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- I mean, you kind of jump right into it.
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- Yes. and
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- Because china's regime believes that it must destroy america.
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- In may 2019, people's daily, which is the most authoritative
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- Publication in china,
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- Carried a landmark editorial that declared a people's war.
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- People's war is a phrase that has important meeting
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- In chinese communist history.
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- It means total war.
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- And we see, for instance,
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- They're taking american lives with fentanyl, with other means.
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- They are attacking our country across the board.
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- One of the ways they're attacking us
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- Is in cyber affects the ownership of tiktok,
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- Which is addictive for so many young people.
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- They've even been talks in congress
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- That there would be
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- A forced sale of tiktok to american interests,
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- So that the communist chinese party
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- Wouldn't continue to own and control it
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- Because of all the ways
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- In which they're siphoning off information about americans.
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- But this administration with joe biden
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- Seems to have been rather soft on china policies.
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- Whether it's them floating balloons over us or,
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- Owning tiktok or trying to buy up land.
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- Why has the biden administration been so reticent
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- To push back on china's aggressive behavior?
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- There's a lot of reasons.
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- You know, we can talk about the hunter
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- Biden laptop, about all the chinese money
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- That has gone into the biden family.
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- Maybe even blackmail because of hunter biden's,
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- Activities, which maybe china has evidence on.
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- But the one thing we know apart from all of this is that
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- Biden's views on china across decades have been misguided.
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- As robert gates,
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- Our defense secretary, famously wrote in his 2014 memoir,
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- Joe biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy
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- And national security matter of the last four decades.
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- And china certainly is one of them.
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- He believes we can cooperate with a regime
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- That is attacking us.
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- This past weekend, gordon, there was a very
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- Disturbing photo that came out of the summit,
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- That was being held.
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- And that photo showed,
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- The chinese president, xi jinping,
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- In the center front row.
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- Joe biden relegated to the back row at the far
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- End of the photo.
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- It was obviously an insult to put the american president
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- In a position that normally would be reserved for,
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- A very, very insignificant nation,
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- Not that any nation considers itself insignificant.
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- But there are nations
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- That have greater economic and or military position
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- For the united states to be forced for its president.
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- In a photo.
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- And i know that some people say it's just a photo.
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- There is nothing
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- That is just a photo when you're dealing
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- With the communist chinese party.
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- When you saw that picture.
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- How did you react to that and what
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- What did it say to the rest of the world?
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- I was stunned, governor, that
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- President biden was put in the corner in the back.
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- This is unprecedented.
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- This was a deliberate
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- Humiliation of the united states.
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- And it was not the only humiliating event.
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- So, for instance,
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- When xi jinping arrived in lima, peru, for the epic meeting,
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- Which is what you're talking about,
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- He got the red carpet treatment from the house.
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- President biden got a bare bones arrival,
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- When, air force one touched down.
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- This is, something which is, not only important,
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- But also it says something about the biden administration
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- Because our state department should have negotiated
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- Where biden would be for that family photo, as it's called.
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- And for biden to accept that that place.
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- That was wrong because that affected
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- Not just his personal dignity.
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- That's the dignity and the respect
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- Accorded to the united states of america.
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- I was
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- Struck by the fact that people were comparing it to a meeting.
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- I think it was maybe a nato meeting may have been a g7
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- Where donald trump was, going into that meeting,
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- And he literally elbowed his way past everyone
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- To get to the front.
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- And while people criticized it,
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- What he was really demonstrating was
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- Under president of the united states,
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- The most powerful country in the world.
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- I'm not going to be in the back of the line
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- And criticize him or not.
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- I thought it was a very bold, gutsy, but important move to say
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- You're not going to put me in the back of the line here.
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- That's not where the united states belongs.
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- It wasn't about him personally.
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- It was about who he represented.
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- And i just thought, what a contrast.
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- Joe biden willingly goes back and stands
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- At the most humiliating place in the entire photo.
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- Donald trump would have never tolerated that.
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- Yeah.
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- You're right.
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- You were referring to the nato summit
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- Where he elbowed decide the montenegrin leader.
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- And of course, in europe, trump took a lot of heat for that.
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- But it did show, as you say,
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- That the united states was not going to be disrespected.
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- And that's important.
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- And symbolism is extremely important for, chinese regimes.
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- And because of it, it's important to them.
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- It should be important to us because they're using that photo
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- Right now
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- To show that the united states is in terminal decline.
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- So it has real world consequences.
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- Governor.
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- The economy of china
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- Continues to, struggle in some ways, but
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- I think the chinese have made it very clear
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- They don't plan to coexist with us,
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- As you said at the beginning of our conversation.
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- It's all about destroying us.
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- It's not a matter of let's all get along,
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- But let's put america under our heel.
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- And i'm just not sure a lot of americans
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- Fully understand that that is the agenda.
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- It is not, a shared world.
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- It is a conquered world.
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- That's absolutely right.
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- And here are the consequences.
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- China has been using fentanyl to kill
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- 70 to 75,000 americans a year.
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- This is a project that has run from the top
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- Of the communist party.
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- We have had administration after administration failed
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- To recognize that.
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- And americans are dying as a result.
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- These are our neighbors.
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- These are our friends. these are family members.
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- And china is killing them without consequence.
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- And it's a tragic thing.
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- It's, more effective in some ways
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- Than bringing rifles and shooting people,
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- Because they can always deny they had any role in it.
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- But we know they did.
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- And on that note, we need to take a short break
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- To hear from our sponsors who make this show possible.
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- So don't go away,
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- Because we're going to be right back
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- With gordon chang in just a moment. stay with us.
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- And we are back now talking
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- With the growing reach of china with gordon chang.
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- He's the author of the new book called plan red
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- The china's project to destroy america.
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- And gordon, as i said at the beginning,
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- When we were first talking about the book,
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- That is the plan.
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- It's to destroy us.
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- One of the ways that they're doing that
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- We talked about sentinel,
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- But they're building up their military
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- Far more significantly than the united states.
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- We are in a desperate behind the eight ball situation
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- And the number of ships we have, the number of troops we have.
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- Our recruiting goals are lower.
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- It does not bode well that their military is
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- Growing exponentially and ours is shrinking exponentially.
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- Yes. xi jinping talks about going to war all the time,
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- But it's more than just talking.
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- He is engaged
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- In the fastest military buildup since the second world war.
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- He's trying to improve his regime.
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- He was stockpiling grain and other commodities.
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- He is firing military officers who are opposed to going to war.
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- He's surveying the us for nuclear weapons strikes,
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- Which is what that balloon of january
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- And february of last year was about.
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- And he's mobilizing chinese civilians for war.
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- So if, for instance,
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- That we're calling up reservists a couple months ago.
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- So this is an all of society effort.
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- And, you know, we don't have an example
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- In history where a militant regime
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- Has engaged in a rapid military buildup and not gone to war.
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- I think we all
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- Understand that
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- China is not doing this to defend themselves
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- Because nobody is threatening them.
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- They have a pretty good partnership with russia.
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- The only country that has even the capacity,
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- Both militarily and financially,
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- To do anything with them would be the united states.
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- Nobody from either party, from either extreme
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- End of either party, has suggested
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- That going to war with china is something we want to do.
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- So it's pretty apparent that this buildup has nothing
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- To do with their defense.
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- It has everything to do with them.
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- Looking toward a moment at which they will strike, whether it's
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- Us first and others later, or others first and us later.
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- You don't build a military to that capacity
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- Just because you want to engage in some, practice war games.
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- That's right.
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- And we have seen provocative chinese activity against
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- Not only taiwan, which they say is part of the mainland china,
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- But also against japan, the philippines and india.
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- Most notably,
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- They have challenged us in the global commons.
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- So it's clear that they intend to annex, areas near them.
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- But also xi jinping throughout throughout this century
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- Has been trying to impose chinese imperial era system
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- Where chinese emperors believed that
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- They not only had the mandate of heaven
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- To rule what they call tianshan or all under heaven,
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- But that heaven actually compelled them
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- To rule the entire world.
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- And since 2017, governor chinese officials have been talking
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- About the moon and mars as sovereign chinese territory.
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- I'm just stunned that there's, a lack
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- Of almost mature understanding of what china's goals are.
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- I mean, we're looking at this and there's no doubt,
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- But they're looking at first maybe taking over taiwan.
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- And gordon, when i was in
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- Taiwan this past june for a business conference
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- And a business enterprise that i have there,
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- I was somewhat surprised that the people of taiwan
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- Weren't as alarmed by the threat of china
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- As i would have thought they were.
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- I felt like there was more alarm in the united states about it.
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- Now, part of it is i think they just want
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- To go about their business.
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- They remind me very much of the israelis and their resilience.
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- They don't live in fear and panic and cower under their
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- Beds at night,
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- But they would likely be the
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- Tip of the spear when it comes to chinese aggression.
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- Yes. and i think it's because they've been accustomed
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- To the threats.
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- And china's, policy is actually to get the, people in taiwan,
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- To sort of not pay attention
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- Because they've been making these threats all the time.
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- They've become just immune to that.
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- And that's a problem because china is now threatening
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- Taiwan in ways which we haven't seen before.
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- And taiwan
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- Officials have actually been
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- Telling visiting foreigners that they expect china
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- To impose a quarantine within the coming months.
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- That's technically not an act of war,
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- But in today's circumstances,
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- It would certainly lead to a war.
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- So war could be a lot closer to taiwan than the people in
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- The street think.
- 00:12:26.204 --> 00:12:29.674
- Your book is called plan.
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- Read the chinese plan to destroy america.
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- There's more than one way to try to do it.
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- One is the obvious military goal.
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- We talked about drugs, but they're cheating on trade deals.
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- Their attempt to destroy our economy, by not playing fairly.
- 00:12:42.286 --> 00:12:46.657
- That's been one of their tactics.
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- And president trump
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- Has pushed back on them in a way
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- That the biden administration has not.
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- But that is clearly one of the weapons is economic.
- 00:12:53.564 --> 00:12:57.068
- How do they do that?
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- And what can we do to stop them?
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- There are two main things.
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- First of all, china's steel,
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- Somewhere on the order of half $1 trillion of u.s.
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- Intellectual property every year.
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- People argue over the amount.
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- Maybe it's $100 billion less, maybe $100 billion more.
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- But clearly in numbers that are just staggering.
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- Plus, the other thing are just predatory trade practices
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- That china has maintained, especially
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- Since they joined the world trade organization in late 2001.
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- They have not been honoring their commitments.
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- So through those two ways,
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- China has been able to injure the us economy.
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- You go through
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- Some parts of our country, you see devastated communities.
- 00:13:38.142 --> 00:13:41.445
- And one of the reasons why fentanyl has become so,
- 00:13:41.445 --> 00:13:44.882
- Pervasive is because people have lost hope.
- 00:13:44.882 --> 00:13:47.351
- They don't have a job,
- 00:13:47.351 --> 00:13:48.653
- Which means they can't have a family.
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- They can't have a normal life.
- 00:13:50.354 --> 00:13:52.590
- This is china destroying the fabric of american society.
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- The, extraordinary
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- Effort that they have put forth, really to change.
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- I think the american culture,
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- One of which is buying up land all over the country.
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- My daughter, who is the current governor of arkansas,
- 00:14:10.942 --> 00:14:14.145
- Came out and put out an absolute executive order
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- That the chinese were not going to be able to purchase land
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- In the state of arkansas.
- 00:14:21.252 --> 00:14:22.520
- I'm seeing other governors do that same thing.
- 00:14:22.520 --> 00:14:25.356
- And especially because they want to buy
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- Land near our military installations.
- 00:14:26.857 --> 00:14:28.993
- So for anyone who thinks they just want to grow soybeans,
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- Rice or cotton, i mean, what a naive view.
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- Because that's not why the chinese are buying up land.
- 00:14:35.499 --> 00:14:39.203
- You know, in oklahoma, which is near to arkansas,
- 00:14:39.203 --> 00:14:42.406
- We know that chinese parties have been basing
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- Human trafficking operations on farm land.
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- They build fences.
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- They build.
- 00:14:48.579 --> 00:14:49.413
- Everyone in oklahoma has a fence,
- 00:14:49.413 --> 00:14:50.948
- But people build fences to keep people out.
- 00:14:50.948 --> 00:14:53.818
- The chinese are building fences to keep people in.
- 00:14:53.818 --> 00:14:57.121
- They patrol their land with machine guns.
- 00:14:57.121 --> 00:15:00.791
- We know that they've been involved in illegal
- 00:15:00.791 --> 00:15:02.660
- Marijuana grows in places like oklahoma and maine.
- 00:15:02.660 --> 00:15:06.697
- The list goes on and on. what they've been doing.
- 00:15:06.697 --> 00:15:08.899
- They've been committing crimes on farmland.
- 00:15:08.899 --> 00:15:11.302
- And we should not be permitting
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- Anyone who's a chinese national owned farm
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- Or ranch land in the us,
- 00:15:15.740 --> 00:15:17.108
- Because no american can own a square inch of land in china.
- 00:15:17.108 --> 00:15:23.080
- Before we go, i want to ask about the tariffs.
- 00:15:24.015 --> 00:15:26.384
- President trump
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- Applied them before he's threatened to apply them again.
- 00:15:27.885 --> 00:15:31.489
- How much damage does that do,
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- To the chinese economic, strategy
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- When they have to pay money to send goods
- 00:15:37.995 --> 00:15:40.931
- That they basically created by slave labor and government
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- Subsidy to compete against american goods?
- 00:15:43.634 --> 00:15:47.471
- You could actually drive the chinese economy into the ground
- 00:15:47.471 --> 00:15:50.041
- Because xi jinping, who's
- 00:15:50.041 --> 00:15:51.275
- Turned his back on consumption as the only sustainable basis
- 00:15:51.275 --> 00:15:54.412
- For the chinese economy. he doesn't want to do that.
- 00:15:54.412 --> 00:15:56.847
- He wants to export his way out of a grim situation.
- 00:15:56.847 --> 00:16:00.117
- Tariffs could prevent him from doing that.
- 00:16:00.117 --> 00:16:02.420
- And it's not only the american market.
- 00:16:02.420 --> 00:16:04.321
- If president trump were to impose those tariffs
- 00:16:04.321 --> 00:16:06.791
- He talked about during the campaign,
- 00:16:06.791 --> 00:16:08.659
- I think other countries would follow his lead.
- 00:16:08.659 --> 00:16:11.295
- And that would be very good for the free world.
- 00:16:11.295 --> 00:16:15.866
- Well, i hope he follows
- 00:16:16.367 --> 00:16:17.468
- Through and i have every reason to believe he will.
- 00:16:17.468 --> 00:16:20.471
- Gordon chang, thanks so much for joining us this evening.
- 00:16:20.471 --> 00:16:22.673
- You've served up,
- 00:16:22.673 --> 00:16:23.941
- Some pretty serious food for thought, and we hope people
- 00:16:23.941 --> 00:16:27.311
- Will get the book plan.
- 00:16:27.311 --> 00:16:29.146
- Read how the chinese are planning on destroying america.
- 00:16:29.146 --> 00:16:33.284
- It's available wherever books are sold,
- 00:16:33.284 --> 00:16:35.019
- Or you can get it online.
- 00:16:35.019 --> 00:16:36.620
- And i suggest if this is an area where you want to know more,
- 00:16:36.620 --> 00:16:40.424
- Nobody better to help you figure it out than gordon chang.
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- We're going to be back
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- With many of your wonderful emails,
- 00:16:44.962 --> 00:16:46.897
- The things you've been saying to us.
- 00:16:46.897 --> 00:16:48.466
- The inbox is getting full.
- 00:16:48.466 --> 00:16:50.401
- We're glad you're sending them to us.
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- Stay right where you are. we'll be back in a moment.
- 00:16:52.403 --> 00:17:05.004
- Stay right where you are. we'll be back in a moment.
- 00:17:05.004 --> 00:17:05.116
- And welcome back.
- 00:17:05.549 --> 00:17:06.350
- We are always happy to get your emails.
- 00:17:06.350 --> 00:17:08.252
- You know, you can send them to us
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- Real easily at comments at mike huckabee.com.
- 00:17:09.587 --> 00:17:13.424
- Let's go to the mailbox.
- 00:17:13.424 --> 00:17:14.725
- Well, the electronic mailbox and see what you've sent us.
- 00:17:14.725 --> 00:17:17.595
- This comes to us from norma, lives in new york city,
- 00:17:17.595 --> 00:17:20.297
- Says i'm an 82 year old senior citizen,
- 00:17:20.297 --> 00:17:22.833
- And i've considered myself a moderate liberal conservative.
- 00:17:22.833 --> 00:17:26.737
- I guess that's somewhere in the middle.
- 00:17:27.538 --> 00:17:29.173
- I know it's contradictory,
- 00:17:29.173 --> 00:17:30.741
- But it's what i believe represents most of our country.
- 00:17:30.741 --> 00:17:34.512
- I enjoy your tv program and your common sense approach
- 00:17:34.512 --> 00:17:37.314
- To important issues, politics
- 00:17:37.314 --> 00:17:39.416
- And the political arena.
- 00:17:39.416 --> 00:17:41.051
- Actually, she says, you would have made
- 00:17:41.051 --> 00:17:43.454
- An excellent president.
- 00:17:43.454 --> 00:17:46.123
- Thank you very much, laura.
- 00:17:46.123 --> 00:17:47.191
- I thought so. that's why i ran.
- 00:17:47.191 --> 00:17:49.627
- Unfortunately, there weren't enough
- 00:17:49.627 --> 00:17:50.761
- People as smart as you are to help me get there.
- 00:17:50.761 --> 00:17:54.198
- She's also goes on to say, i believe you to be a man
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- Of character, calm, fair and unbiased judgment.
- 00:17:56.967 --> 00:18:01.472
- Thank you norma, and i deeply appreciate your kind words.
- 00:18:01.472 --> 00:18:06.043
- Kathy, who lives in arizona, tells us just a thought.
- 00:18:06.043 --> 00:18:09.213
- When people talk with me about needing
- 00:18:09.213 --> 00:18:11.015
- Term limits, i'm skeptical it would ever happen nationally.
- 00:18:11.015 --> 00:18:14.885
- However, in a sense, term
- 00:18:14.885 --> 00:18:16.320
- Limits do exist on a loose level in the form of a ballot box.
- 00:18:16.320 --> 00:18:20.324
- Don't like what's happening with reelecting the same people?
- 00:18:20.324 --> 00:18:24.662
- Kathy. that's true.
- 00:18:25.129 --> 00:18:26.397
- Every election is potentially a term limit, but the reality
- 00:18:26.397 --> 00:18:29.733
- Is incumbents by about 80 to 90% get reelected.
- 00:18:29.733 --> 00:18:34.805
- They have the power, the title and the money.
- 00:18:34.805 --> 00:18:37.441
- And it's very difficult to get rid of one.
- 00:18:37.441 --> 00:18:39.543
- It happens occasionally, but not often enough.
- 00:18:39.543 --> 00:18:43.547
- So i still will push for legislative action
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- To impose term limits on every person in government
- 00:18:47.585 --> 00:18:50.888
- For the simple reason that government
- 00:18:50.888 --> 00:18:52.890
- Shouldn't be a permanent job.
- 00:18:52.890 --> 00:18:54.758
- It ought to be a period of personal service,
- 00:18:54.758 --> 00:18:58.329
- And then go home and live under the laws
- 00:18:58.329 --> 00:19:01.765
- That you have passed for the rest of us.
- 00:19:01.765 --> 00:19:04.435
- This comes to us from mandy.
- 00:19:04.435 --> 00:19:05.736
- She says, my query regard states where voters passed amendment
- 00:19:05.736 --> 00:19:09.506
- Three and the like.
- 00:19:09.506 --> 00:19:10.874
- The whole amendment is horrifying
- 00:19:10.874 --> 00:19:12.276
- And incredibly sad to say the least.
- 00:19:12.276 --> 00:19:14.345
- And adding insult to injury,
- 00:19:14.345 --> 00:19:16.046
- Such an amendment removes parents and guardians
- 00:19:16.046 --> 00:19:18.449
- Right to know that abortion is taking place.
- 00:19:18.449 --> 00:19:22.253
- So clearly she's speaking about a state measure.
- 00:19:22.253 --> 00:19:26.390
- But quite frankly, there should never be a time
- 00:19:26.390 --> 00:19:30.427
- When the government usurps the role of parental authority.
- 00:19:30.427 --> 00:19:34.265
- Whether it's to get a tattoo are on abortion,
- 00:19:34.265 --> 00:19:37.635
- And whether it's to have surgery that mutilates a child
- 00:19:37.635 --> 00:19:42.273
- Are chemically castrated. what?
- 00:19:42.273 --> 00:19:44.475
- It's absurd to think that we would ever allow the government
- 00:19:44.475 --> 00:19:49.179
- To become the replacement for mothers and fathers.
- 00:19:49.179 --> 00:19:52.549
- I've said my entire life, and i've said it more in politics
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- The last 30 plus years.
- 00:19:55.586 --> 00:19:57.454
- Mothers and fathers
- 00:19:57.454 --> 00:19:58.856
- Will always raise better children than governments will.
- 00:19:58.856 --> 00:20:02.026
- And that's why we need for the government to empower
- 00:20:02.026 --> 00:20:05.129
- Mothers and dads, not the government.
- 00:20:05.129 --> 00:20:07.865
- Don't put too much in their control.
- 00:20:07.865 --> 00:20:10.501
- They will take it and they will abuse it,
- 00:20:10.501 --> 00:20:13.570
- And they will absolutely mess it up.
- 00:20:13.570 --> 00:20:17.041
- Well don't leave. i got some more for you.
- 00:20:17.041 --> 00:20:19.076
- Some final thoughts that you'll want to stay for.
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- So stay with us and we'll be right back after this break.
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- Finally, tonight, the trump administration
- 00:20:29.006 --> 00:20:30.264
- Will face several overseas challenges beginning in january.
- 00:20:30.264 --> 00:20:33.667
- China presents one major challenge.
- 00:20:33.667 --> 00:20:35.769
- As gordon chang made very clear tonight, that others will come
- 00:20:35.769 --> 00:20:39.173
- From russia, the ukraine and from iran.
- 00:20:39.173 --> 00:20:42.910
- If things go as planned,
- 00:20:42.910 --> 00:20:44.478
- I'll be involved personally in representing american values
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- In jerusalem.
- 00:20:47.414 --> 00:20:48.716
- I'm humbled that president elect trump is nominating me
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- To be ambassador to israel.
- 00:20:51.852 --> 00:20:53.554
- I'm excited to be entrusted with such a vital
- 00:20:53.554 --> 00:20:56.490
- Portfolio representing the president's policies,
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- Especially given the success of the abraham accords.
- 00:21:00.060 --> 00:21:04.031
- Here's what i would ask.
- 00:21:04.031 --> 00:21:05.532
- Add me to your prayers.
- 00:21:05.532 --> 00:21:07.634
- I certainly will need them.
- 00:21:07.634 --> 00:21:09.870
- But i say to you,
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- Thanks for joining us here on huckabee today.
- 00:21:11.305 --> 00:21:13.440
- And remember,
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- We're here every weekday night and twice on weekends
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