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Sekulow | Sekulow - Chinese Spy Surrenders Ahead of Trump Visit | May 27, 2026
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- - welcome to sekulow.
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- It is going to be a packed one.
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- Don't wanna miss it.
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- This is very interesting timing, to say the least.
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- As even you have, you know, fox, you know, is there,
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- You got all the commentators
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- Are flying over to china, to beijing.
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- Bill hemmer is over there hanging out.
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- And at the same time here in america,
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- Of course president trump is headed to china.
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- We'll discuss all the details of what that is,
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- What they're referring to as with a summit, right?
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- High stakes summit. - that's right.
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- - that we keep hearing about of what's going on in china.
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- Could be a very big leap
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- In what our relationship is with china.
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- And at the same time,
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- And i only chuckle at this
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- 'cause it just, you couldn't write it better.
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- A mayor of a southern california city
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- Outside of los angeles.
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- Arcadia of course is not a, i mean it's not a big city,
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- But certainly not a small city as well.
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- It's a major area.
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- Has admitted, pleading guilty.
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- Again, this is an elected official, a mayor,
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- Of being a spy for china.
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- This is coming out of the news this morning.
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- And this is the real deal.
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- This is happening.
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- This is in our conspiracy theories.
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- This is some sort of version.
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- This is by, the quote is,
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- "by her own admission,
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- "eileen wang secretly served the interest
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- "of the chinese government."
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- And it gets even deeper than that.
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- - that's right.
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- So what we've got on one hand
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- Is the president going over for this summit with xi jinping
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- Taking over a roster of american ceos.
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- This is to try and kind of settle
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- Some of the economic differences
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- Between the two countries.
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- At the same time you have this plea agreement that came out.
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- This is between the united states of america
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- And eileen wang, who was the mayor of arcadia, california.
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- Before that, she was on the city council there
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- And is pleading guilty to charges of being a foreign agent
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- Of the chinese communist party.
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- The prc was directing her actions going back as far as,
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- At least in the allegations here, 2020.
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- Very interesting time that eileen wang
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- Was at the direction of the prc.
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- And you read some of these going back and forth
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- And where she's responding with like, thank you leader,
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- To the person who's giving her the directions.
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- Like this wasn't just a, i'll do this,
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- This was in the government, like even, protocol,
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- The way you think of a chinese spy
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- Responding to their handler
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- To push propaganda in the united states.
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- Very interesting time for this elected official
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- Also to be doing that
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- During 2020 when maybe china needed some pr
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- In the united states.
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- - i mean, this is what it says.
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- Says the agreement states that wang,
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- And soon this is her, who she's working with,
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- Received and executed directives
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- From the prc government officials
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- To post pro prc content on the website.
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- And then sometimes sought permission
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- From the chinese government officials
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- To post content as well.
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- So not only distributing content that was clearly made
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- To be distributed by the prc,
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- Also sought permission to post other content.
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- So again, when you're talking about there's control,
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- I mean this is happening again,
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- And this is probably one in a million
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- That's happening out a million,
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- But this is probably a very small example
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- Of what the influence is of,
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- You could say china and other
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- Foreign leaders throughout the world,
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- - right.
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- It's influence campaigns and it's,
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- It could be people who have even dedicated their life
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- To being the mayor of a city,
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- But at the same time are pushing out and asking for.
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- Not just saying,
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- I'm gonna put out info about china on my own website.
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- But saying, what can i put out to chinese officials?
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- And in doing so in a way
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- Where she immediately pleads guilty.
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- I mean, so she knew once they they caught onto this
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- And it looks like they caught onto this
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- Because her partner in the effort
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- Had already been arrested and charged
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- And is serving time in prison right now.
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- It's a wild story to read when you first read
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- That it's an elected official
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- In the united states of america working with the prc.
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- - yeah.
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- Directly elected official in the united states of america.
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- Who is being told what to do, what not to do, what to post,
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- And even had to seek permission.
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- We're gonna talk about that in a lot more.
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- Give us a call though.
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- What do you think?
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- Are you shocked by this?
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- I mean, i'll be honest,
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- Very few things shock me and surprise me.
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- This is one that's pretty wild.
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- - welcome back to sekulow.
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- A lot of you are just joining us right now
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- And we have to restate what's happening.
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- Obviously president trump, it's on the way to china.
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- They have a big summit that is gonna be happening.
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- We're gonna break down really
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- What's gonna happen in that summit as well.
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- What the intentions are, what we could see,
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- What the positives that come out of it.
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- Maybe some of the negatives too.
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- Rick grenell's gonna be joining us a little bit later.
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- We'll discuss that.
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- But at the same time, again, just to restate, if you didn't,
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- If you're just tuning in right now,
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- At the same time, this literally happened yesterday.
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- You had a mayor of a los angeles area city
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- Of arcadia, california,
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- Resign from being the mayor, plead guilty
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- And admit to being a actor for the prc,
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- Essentially being a chinese spy.
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- This is happening again as elected officials
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- In the united states of america.
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- This is the amount of influence, and you may go,
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- It's kind of wild that what you consider to be a,
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- Not a huge city.
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- I mean it is a, in a big market,
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- It's at a very large market.
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- But you're talking about,
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- You're talking about a city of 56,000 people.
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- It's not nothing, but it's certainly not, you know,
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- A major metropolitan, it is in a major metropolitan area.
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- But they decided, you know, we're gonna have influence
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- In these kind of places to keep the campaign.
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- It does beg the question of
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- How much is this happening throughout the country?
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- We know that it has happened before with the police stations
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- And all of those things that we revealed
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- Over the last few years.
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- But again, when we say it was working directly with 'em,
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- We know from at least the smallest of instances
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- Was being told what to post on social media,
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- What was being posted on their website
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- That promoted, you know,
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- Propaganda from the chinese government.
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- And then on top of that, on top of that,
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- Was actually seeking permission
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- On what they could and couldn't post.
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- - yeah, and i think that's
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- What's kind of shocking here as well
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- Is when you think sometimes some of these,
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- These charges where it's like,
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- Oh, you were acting as a foreign agent.
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- You understand like people get financial benefit
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- And maybe aren't doing the rules.
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- This one, when you really look at it and you're like,
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- This was an elected official,
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- Was having to ask permission from their handlers
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- Of what they could and couldn't publish.
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- And then when trying to show their work, like, look,
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- This got so much interaction spreading this propaganda
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- And says thank you, leader.
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- Like actually taking that direction
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- From a foreign government.
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- That is what's so shocking here.
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- But you have to put this in context
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- 'cause we've been talking about this threat for a long time.
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- You mentioned the police stations.
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- We know that eric swalwell notoriously had those issues
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- Where a chinese spy was within his own office.
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- You think about dianne feinstein, california senator,
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- Who had a long time spy, that was her driver.
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- The infiltration from the ccp in the united states
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- Cannot be understated.
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- We know that mike pompeo,
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- Who'll be joining us later in the week,
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- He, when he was secretary of state,
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- Had to shut down the consulate in houston
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- Because it was just a spy operation for the government.
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- This is deep within the united states right now.
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- It's something the trump administration's
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- Been fighting for a long time.
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- - and it's interesting fine line in washington dc
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- And in government as well.
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- Because you can register as a foreign agent.
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- I mean you usually you wouldn't be elected mayor of a town.
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- And be obviously it's highly regulated.
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- - [logan] more like a lobbyist for them.
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- - and there are people that do this
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- In a legal way in washington.
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- And so really that's the-
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- - as we do in other countries i'm sure.
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- - that's the probably the highest charge she's under
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- It looks like right now at
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- Is the easiest one to get her on certainly
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- And as well as her partner.
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- So what you have to then look at is,
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- And i think what would be the next level is,
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- Was there payment involved
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- Or is it really just doing this as as like a,
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- As just a, because you're pro china.
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- I mean, 'cause usually people
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- Are getting in trouble with this
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- And if they were doing a website like this,
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- It would be because of the,
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- There'd be financial plus,
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- You'd be acting as a foreign agent.
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- Usually you would not be considered
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- Acting as a foreign agent for free.
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- - well, and once again, when you read what's in this
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- The factual basis,
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- Because this is a plea agreement at this point,
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- She won't go to trial.
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- She's admitting to guilt with the government.
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- It shows how much information
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- The us government actually had on her.
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- But this is that it's a violation of 18 usc 951
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- Agents of a foreign government, which says,
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- For the purposes of this section,
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- The term agent of a foreign government
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- Means an individual who agrees
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- To operate within the united states
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- Subject to the direction or control
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- Of a foreign government or official except,
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- And then there's some exclusions as well.
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- And that goes to the people that are consular people,
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- Diplomatic officials.
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- They aren't considered a violation of this obviously.
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- But what this does carry with it
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- That she has pled guilty to now it'll be up to a judge.
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- She doesn't have to get convicted-
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- - [logan] saying i did it.
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- - it is up to 10 years in prison, $250,000 fine.
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- And three years of supervised release.
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- So a long portion of,
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- Now there's some people that are saying
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- It is not going far enough if you're spying for the chinese.
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- - or you may be saying that this person's
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- Also not gonna serve that long, you know?
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- Especially in los angeles county
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- Or wherever it may be.
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- - judge ends up sentencing this individual too.
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- But it's quite shocking when you start to think of that
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- With the context that the president
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- Is headed over to china right now for the summit.
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- - yeah, and let's pivot to that
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- Because i think this is an important thing that's happening.
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- 'cause look, i am not blind to the fact
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- That our relationship with china,
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- Though it is hostile at times, if you'd say,
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- I don't even, hostile is the right word.
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- It's certainly is conflicted.
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- - [will] right.
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- - is necessary.
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- We have to have relationship with china at this point.
- 00:09:54.973 --> 00:09:56.108
- Like we can't just cut off china.
- 00:09:56.108 --> 00:09:57.209
- Like people would wanna say that.
- 00:09:57.209 --> 00:09:58.710
- It's certainly not the way we have set up our society.
- 00:09:58.710 --> 00:10:00.846
- You may not like it, but it's not like if we,
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- If we got rid of chinese manufacturing,
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- If we got rid of those things right now.
- 00:10:04.649 --> 00:10:07.119
- We're not ready for that in america.
- 00:10:07.886 --> 00:10:09.054
- Let's just not pretend that we are.
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- Better at it, certainly.
- 00:10:11.556 --> 00:10:12.691
- But we're not there right now.
- 00:10:12.691 --> 00:10:13.959
- So a relationship with china
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- And then this specific summit
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- Is really going to talk about also the influence of ai,
- 00:10:17.162 --> 00:10:20.332
- And what that,
- 00:10:20.332 --> 00:10:21.800
- And who's gonna be kind of the leader in this moment.
- 00:10:21.800 --> 00:10:23.835
- And i think that's very important when you have really
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- The two big superpowers of the world
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- When you have us and china that have the tech centers
- 00:10:27.939 --> 00:10:31.810
- That this could become a, it could be a conflict
- 00:10:31.810 --> 00:10:34.780
- Or it could be a really big step forward
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- Towards some kind of ongoing partnership.
- 00:10:36.748 --> 00:10:38.250
- - but think about the different,
- 00:10:38.250 --> 00:10:40.185
- Yes, we're the two superpowers,
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- But think about the different,
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- It have personalities and way of life
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- With where ai could go in china quickly
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- And the difference between the united states.
- 00:10:47.659 --> 00:10:49.227
- Whereas here, citizens and we publicly freely
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- Even our own government officials raise concerns about ai.
- 00:10:53.598 --> 00:10:58.203
- In china, you've got a society
- 00:10:58.203 --> 00:10:59.304
- That you're not raising concerns.
- 00:10:59.304 --> 00:11:01.273
- - [logan] human lives very different.
- 00:11:01.273 --> 00:11:02.574
- - a lot easier to test these systems on people
- 00:11:02.574 --> 00:11:06.211
- When you are not going to be subject to
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- Any kind of legal action if it goes wrong.
- 00:11:09.447 --> 00:11:12.651
- So you can go, you can kind of push further
- 00:11:12.651 --> 00:11:15.453
- And there's not gonna be any kind of retribution for,
- 00:11:15.453 --> 00:11:18.156
- You know, government actors
- 00:11:18.156 --> 00:11:19.457
- Or the corporate kind of, i say companies,
- 00:11:19.457 --> 00:11:21.660
- But usually controlled by the government there
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- Or significant interest there.
- 00:11:23.862 --> 00:11:25.330
- And so i think that making a path forward
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- That makes sense for both is very important.
- 00:11:29.334 --> 00:11:31.236
- But like we said,
- 00:11:31.236 --> 00:11:32.704
- We don't have the manufacturer to compete with china.
- 00:11:32.704 --> 00:11:34.372
- In fact, chinese goods now are the higher end
- 00:11:34.372 --> 00:11:37.709
- Of imported goods to the united states.
- 00:11:37.709 --> 00:11:40.412
- So a lot of the stuff you see
- 00:11:40.412 --> 00:11:41.780
- Is not necessarily made in china anymore.
- 00:11:41.780 --> 00:11:43.415
- It's made in other places
- 00:11:43.415 --> 00:11:44.749
- 'cause the chinese goods are the more expensive side.
- 00:11:44.749 --> 00:11:47.219
- - well, and jordan, i think to the that point as well,
- 00:11:47.219 --> 00:11:49.721
- We've had senator hagerty on this broadcast many times.
- 00:11:49.721 --> 00:11:53.425
- We've reached out to his office,
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- See if we can have him on soon about this summit
- 00:11:55.460 --> 00:11:57.362
- Because this is such an important topic.
- 00:11:57.362 --> 00:12:00.432
- The united states relationship with china is necessary,
- 00:12:00.432 --> 00:12:03.902
- But it is a difficult one.
- 00:12:03.902 --> 00:12:05.537
- What we saw for so long was
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- Members of the left in the united states
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- That were not as hard on china
- 00:12:10.909 --> 00:12:13.144
- As we would have preferred.
- 00:12:13.144 --> 00:12:15.680
- And what do you see?
- 00:12:15.680 --> 00:12:16.982
- You see how much they were able to infiltrate
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- And put their influence here.
- 00:12:19.050 --> 00:12:20.819
- President trump during in his first term was tough on china
- 00:12:20.819 --> 00:12:24.155
- And then immediately returned to office
- 00:12:24.155 --> 00:12:26.291
- And went back to being tough on china.
- 00:12:26.291 --> 00:12:29.060
- The trade issue where people say
- 00:12:29.060 --> 00:12:30.762
- It will tank the world economy if you are tough on china,
- 00:12:30.762 --> 00:12:35.100
- Proved to be wrong.
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- It did not tank the world economy.
- 00:12:36.201 --> 00:12:38.670
- What they're gonna talk about though
- 00:12:38.670 --> 00:12:40.438
- Is the trade relationship.
- 00:12:40.438 --> 00:12:42.274
- Those mining issues, the rare earth minerals
- 00:12:42.274 --> 00:12:44.876
- That lead to both batteries and chips
- 00:12:44.876 --> 00:12:48.513
- And all of these things that our economy
- 00:12:48.513 --> 00:12:51.116
- Is so reliant on now, this is all a part of it,
- 00:12:51.116 --> 00:12:54.286
- But you also have to think the energy aspect as well.
- 00:12:54.286 --> 00:12:58.957
- The war in iran.
- 00:12:58.957 --> 00:13:00.558
- These are issues that will be discussed between the leaders
- 00:13:00.558 --> 00:13:03.428
- While they're there as well.
- 00:13:03.428 --> 00:13:04.963
- This was originally supposed to happen a few months ago,
- 00:13:04.963 --> 00:13:08.433
- But got pushed back because of the war in iran.
- 00:13:08.433 --> 00:13:11.836
- President trump, i believe was about a week into the war,
- 00:13:11.836 --> 00:13:14.039
- Was actually scheduled to be going on this trip.
- 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:17.342
- They pushed it back to now.
- 00:13:17.342 --> 00:13:19.144
- And so we'll see what impact does that have
- 00:13:19.144 --> 00:13:21.379
- Because of china's relationship with iran.
- 00:13:21.379 --> 00:13:24.516
- The oil that they receive from the middle east, china,
- 00:13:24.516 --> 00:13:27.585
- A lot of that is iranian oil.
- 00:13:27.585 --> 00:13:29.254
- All of these things factor in.
- 00:13:29.254 --> 00:13:31.589
- But it goes to show that the chinese government
- 00:13:31.589 --> 00:13:35.226
- Is not just who you're dealing with on the face.
- 00:13:35.226 --> 00:13:38.229
- They also have all these influence operations
- 00:13:38.229 --> 00:13:41.266
- - yeah, i mean big momentum going forward
- 00:13:41.266 --> 00:13:42.067
- Into this big summit in china.
- 00:13:42.067 --> 00:13:45.036
- I think it's good president trump is gonna be there,
- 00:13:45.036 --> 00:13:46.805
- Has at least a working relationship with the head in china
- 00:13:46.805 --> 00:13:50.775
- With the really all of the,
- 00:13:50.775 --> 00:13:52.043
- It seems like they have a good relationship
- 00:13:52.043 --> 00:13:53.211
- With this government
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- Or the best relationship you can kind of have
- 00:13:54.479 --> 00:13:56.581
- Considering the circumstances that we are currently in.
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- (bright music)
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- (bright music)
- 00:14:03.017 --> 00:14:04.715
- - welcome back to sekulow.
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- Joining us now, rick grenell,
- 00:14:07.117 --> 00:14:08.752
- And rick, we had you on yesterday.
- 00:14:08.752 --> 00:14:10.888
- We teased this a little bit talking about the summit
- 00:14:10.888 --> 00:14:13.390
- That president trump is heading out for.
- 00:14:13.390 --> 00:14:14.892
- But now we have some interesting context
- 00:14:14.892 --> 00:14:18.128
- To talk about the president going
- 00:14:18.128 --> 00:14:19.630
- And having this summit with the chinese.
- 00:14:19.630 --> 00:14:22.199
- Because today we find out that a mayor
- 00:14:22.199 --> 00:14:25.369
- In your sunny state of california just pled guilty,
- 00:14:25.369 --> 00:14:29.907
- Entered a plea agreement with the united states
- 00:14:29.907 --> 00:14:32.276
- For being basically a chinese spy.
- 00:14:32.276 --> 00:14:35.546
- Now is it super shocking?
- 00:14:35.546 --> 00:14:38.982
- No, because we know all of the context
- 00:14:38.982 --> 00:14:41.351
- Of whether it be spies in eric swalwell office,
- 00:14:41.351 --> 00:14:44.855
- In diane feinstein's office,
- 00:14:44.855 --> 00:14:46.690
- The consulate in houston that was a den of chinese spies,
- 00:14:46.690 --> 00:14:50.327
- Whether it be the confucius institute
- 00:14:50.327 --> 00:14:53.063
- Or the police stations in the united states.
- 00:14:53.063 --> 00:14:55.466
- We know how much the chinese communist party
- 00:14:55.466 --> 00:14:59.570
- Tries to exert their influence here.
- 00:14:59.570 --> 00:15:02.106
- However, the context of this coming out today
- 00:15:02.106 --> 00:15:05.676
- As the president goes there,
- 00:15:05.676 --> 00:15:07.344
- I think is a very good reminder for the people of the us
- 00:15:07.344 --> 00:15:10.647
- Of who we're dealing with.
- 00:15:10.647 --> 00:15:12.850
- - look, this is a problem
- 00:15:13.417 --> 00:15:15.519
- That we've been dealing with for a long time
- 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:17.855
- In which local and state elected officials, politicians,
- 00:15:17.855 --> 00:15:23.193
- Find themselves in positions of leverage
- 00:15:24.061 --> 00:15:28.031
- Against foreign actors.
- 00:15:28.031 --> 00:15:29.900
- Now, i have to be careful here in what i'm saying.
- 00:15:29.900 --> 00:15:33.637
- When i was dni, we had a situation during covid
- 00:15:33.637 --> 00:15:38.909
- That we had to give defensive briefings as we call them.
- 00:15:40.043 --> 00:15:43.447
- And the defensive briefing
- 00:15:43.447 --> 00:15:45.082
- Is when the intelligence community,
- 00:15:45.082 --> 00:15:46.984
- The fbi or someone from the cia
- 00:15:46.984 --> 00:15:49.653
- Shows up to tell a politician
- 00:15:49.653 --> 00:15:53.157
- That you're being leveraged against a foreign government.
- 00:15:53.157 --> 00:15:57.594
- And we don't always make an immediate assessment
- 00:15:58.562 --> 00:16:03.500
- Of the motives by the politician.
- 00:16:04.234 --> 00:16:06.870
- Sometimes the politician finds themselves
- 00:16:06.870 --> 00:16:10.207
- In these leverage moments
- 00:16:10.207 --> 00:16:12.409
- Where they didn't realize what was happening,
- 00:16:12.409 --> 00:16:15.179
- They didn't know it was a foreign entity.
- 00:16:15.179 --> 00:16:17.648
- Other times they do know it's a foreign entity
- 00:16:17.648 --> 00:16:21.718
- And they've crossed the line.
- 00:16:21.718 --> 00:16:22.986
- And so the defensive briefing is really
- 00:16:22.986 --> 00:16:25.422
- An offensive briefing to say, knock it off.
- 00:16:25.422 --> 00:16:29.359
- And this happens consistently.
- 00:16:29.359 --> 00:16:31.862
- Now, i'm somebody when i was dni
- 00:16:31.862 --> 00:16:33.964
- That i think that we should enforce the law
- 00:16:33.964 --> 00:16:35.766
- When it crosses the line
- 00:16:35.766 --> 00:16:37.834
- I think these people should be prosecuted.
- 00:16:37.834 --> 00:16:40.103
- I'm not sure that normal americans get a warning
- 00:16:40.103 --> 00:16:44.007
- From the intelligence community,
- 00:16:44.641 --> 00:16:46.610
- But elected officials many times
- 00:16:46.610 --> 00:16:48.045
- Are getting warnings rather than prosecutions.
- 00:16:48.045 --> 00:16:51.815
- And i saw it happening a lot during covid
- 00:16:51.815 --> 00:16:55.419
- And the leverage was the ppp
- 00:16:55.419 --> 00:16:58.121
- That we were trying to get from china.
- 00:16:58.121 --> 00:17:02.392
- China would say, hey, say this, do that,
- 00:17:02.392 --> 00:17:06.830
- And you'll go to the front of the line.
- 00:17:06.830 --> 00:17:10.033
- And that is the type of stuff
- 00:17:10.033 --> 00:17:12.035
- That local and state officials need to guard against.
- 00:17:12.035 --> 00:17:16.540
- Many of them are inexperienced politicians
- 00:17:16.540 --> 00:17:19.610
- Or new politicians
- 00:17:19.610 --> 00:17:21.144
- And they don't understand what's happening to them.
- 00:17:21.144 --> 00:17:24.681
- But some, like in this particular case
- 00:17:24.681 --> 00:17:26.917
- Know exactly what's happening
- 00:17:26.917 --> 00:17:28.785
- And it's their part of the scheme.
- 00:17:28.785 --> 00:17:31.688
- And so i think that this is a growing problem
- 00:17:31.688 --> 00:17:34.258
- That we still haven't been able to fix.
- 00:17:34.258 --> 00:17:37.728
- I think it's probably a human problem.
- 00:17:37.728 --> 00:17:39.429
- It's always gonna be around.
- 00:17:39.429 --> 00:17:40.998
- But certainly we need to be very tough on those individuals
- 00:17:40.998 --> 00:17:45.435
- Who are taking an oath to help the people
- 00:17:45.435 --> 00:17:50.073
- And yet helping another foreign government.
- 00:17:50.073 --> 00:17:52.809
- - well, rick, also, when you think about
- 00:17:52.809 --> 00:17:54.945
- The context of this as well,
- 00:17:54.945 --> 00:17:56.813
- That the fact that you have,
- 00:17:56.813 --> 00:18:00.117
- At the same time people wanting to talk about
- 00:18:00.117 --> 00:18:02.619
- Election integrity and voter integrity.
- 00:18:02.619 --> 00:18:05.656
- We have so many freedoms here in the united states
- 00:18:05.656 --> 00:18:08.325
- That the chinese government knows how to exploit
- 00:18:08.325 --> 00:18:11.395
- Our freedom of speech, the freedom of capital.
- 00:18:11.395 --> 00:18:14.598
- In many ways,
- 00:18:14.598 --> 00:18:16.033
- They know how to exploit these things to their benefit.
- 00:18:16.033 --> 00:18:19.603
- I think though, when you look at the problem for decades,
- 00:18:19.603 --> 00:18:22.806
- How weak the us foreign policy was on this adversary,
- 00:18:22.806 --> 00:18:28.145
- The necessary evil to some degree
- 00:18:28.879 --> 00:18:30.180
- That these trade relations with china are,
- 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:34.785
- That it took a backseat.
- 00:18:34.785 --> 00:18:37.354
- The paying attention to how much they were exploiting
- 00:18:37.354 --> 00:18:41.625
- The things that we take for granted sometimes
- 00:18:41.625 --> 00:18:44.861
- On a daily basis.
- 00:18:44.861 --> 00:18:46.663
- Now we have, and in the first administration we saw this,
- 00:18:46.663 --> 00:18:50.067
- We saw this with your work and we see it again,
- 00:18:50.067 --> 00:18:54.237
- Finally, someone willing to say,
- 00:18:54.237 --> 00:18:56.773
- We just gotta stand up to them.
- 00:18:57.407 --> 00:18:58.842
- We have to be tough.
- 00:18:58.842 --> 00:19:00.310
- And i think that's the question
- 00:19:00.310 --> 00:19:02.145
- Is that what even these summits at a time where you're,
- 00:19:02.145 --> 00:19:05.582
- You're seeing all the things going on in the world,
- 00:19:05.582 --> 00:19:08.852
- You still have this iran war in limbo,
- 00:19:08.852 --> 00:19:12.389
- Which is what delayed this summit.
- 00:19:12.389 --> 00:19:14.491
- But is it that important for the people,
- 00:19:14.491 --> 00:19:17.327
- Not just of the world, but of the united states
- 00:19:17.327 --> 00:19:19.563
- To see we have leadership who will stand up to china
- 00:19:19.563 --> 00:19:23.133
- And will go and negotiate and get the best deal possible?
- 00:19:23.133 --> 00:19:26.937
- - well, let me give you one example
- 00:19:26.937 --> 00:19:28.038
- Of what the chinese do
- 00:19:28.038 --> 00:19:29.373
- Is they try to inflame through our own courts,
- 00:19:29.373 --> 00:19:32.509
- The american courts
- 00:19:32.509 --> 00:19:34.378
- Or through environmental laws and actions that they take.
- 00:19:34.378 --> 00:19:37.848
- They try to inflame some of the conversations
- 00:19:37.848 --> 00:19:40.784
- That we have around fertilizer,
- 00:19:40.784 --> 00:19:42.586
- Trying to get fertilizer banned,
- 00:19:42.586 --> 00:19:46.790
- For instance, in the united states.
- 00:19:46.790 --> 00:19:48.425
- They inflame the debate about the science
- 00:19:48.425 --> 00:19:51.428
- Of some of this stuff.
- 00:19:51.428 --> 00:19:53.230
- Knowing full well that if the americans ban it
- 00:19:53.230 --> 00:19:57.200
- Or at least stop the manufacturing because it's expensive
- 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:00.637
- And the lawsuits and the regulation,
- 00:20:00.637 --> 00:20:03.540
- They know full well that if we stop, they supply it.
- 00:20:03.540 --> 00:20:07.310
- So it's a trade secret
- 00:20:07.310 --> 00:20:10.046
- Where they won't follow their own advice,
- 00:20:10.046 --> 00:20:14.017
- They won't have tough environmental laws.
- 00:20:14.017 --> 00:20:16.920
- They'll continue to make products that are questionable,
- 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:22.259
- But they don't have to face the scrutiny
- 00:20:23.126 --> 00:20:24.594
- As much as the american business community has,
- 00:20:24.594 --> 00:20:27.564
- And so we've seen that play out.
- 00:20:27.564 --> 00:20:29.766
- But thank god we've got president trump going over
- 00:20:29.766 --> 00:20:32.035
- Because he's clear-eyed about
- 00:20:32.035 --> 00:20:34.004
- The problems that american farmers have.
- 00:20:34.004 --> 00:20:35.739
- Remember in the last trade bill,
- 00:20:35.739 --> 00:20:37.474
- He really got a huge win for the american farmers,
- 00:20:37.474 --> 00:20:40.610
- Really forcing china to stop playing games
- 00:20:40.610 --> 00:20:43.146
- And to buy more of the american agriculture products.
- 00:20:43.146 --> 00:20:47.651
- And so i think you'll see farming as one of the top issues,
- 00:20:47.651 --> 00:20:51.888
- But also just simple trade.
- 00:20:51.888 --> 00:20:53.523
- Trying to make sure that china
- 00:20:53.523 --> 00:20:55.692
- In the world trade organization behaves.
- 00:20:55.692 --> 00:20:58.462
- We know that since they've been in it,
- 00:20:58.462 --> 00:21:00.931
- When bill clinton was leaving office,
- 00:21:01.731 --> 00:21:03.233
- He put them in the world trade organization,
- 00:21:03.233 --> 00:21:06.503
- China's gotten worse when it comes to their trade practices,
- 00:21:06.503 --> 00:21:10.340
- Their currency manipulation.
- 00:21:10.340 --> 00:21:12.809
- They certainly have gotten worse on human rights abuses.
- 00:21:12.809 --> 00:21:15.512
- And so we're not seeing the progress
- 00:21:15.512 --> 00:21:18.215
- That we thought we would see
- 00:21:18.215 --> 00:21:19.583
- By putting china in the world trade organization.
- 00:21:19.583 --> 00:21:21.685
- Let's let president trump do a good negotiation
- 00:21:21.685 --> 00:21:25.088
- And come back with a big win for america.
- 00:21:25.088 --> 00:21:27.824
- - when we have these big summits,
- 00:21:27.824 --> 00:21:29.793
- Obviously there's so much work
- 00:21:29.793 --> 00:21:31.061
- That goes into these summits on the front end
- 00:21:31.061 --> 00:21:34.431
- With all the diplomatic staff, the state department,
- 00:21:34.431 --> 00:21:38.268
- The intelligence community, everyone working together,
- 00:21:38.268 --> 00:21:41.404
- And with their counterparts on the other side.
- 00:21:41.404 --> 00:21:44.641
- Then you have a two day summit
- 00:21:44.641 --> 00:21:47.277
- And then you have the work that follows.
- 00:21:47.277 --> 00:21:50.046
- Kind of the big get for these type of summits
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- Is normally some sort of signed statement
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- Or some agreement that could come out
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- Between the two leaders
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- And then the work has to actually follow that.
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- Do you think that there could be some sort of
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- A big news item, a big get
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- That the president is looking to get out of this?
- 00:22:07.731 --> 00:22:10.300
- I know the diplomatic staff would love that.
- 00:22:10.300 --> 00:22:13.203
- Or is it mainly just gonna be a tough slog
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- And see where we end up?
- 00:22:16.273 --> 00:22:18.341
- - well i think we have to remember
- 00:22:19.109 --> 00:22:20.544
- That we have two different styles here
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- That are coming together and the diplomatic crash is real.
- 00:22:22.612 --> 00:22:26.082
- The chinese like to have everything buttoned up
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- Before the meeting even starts.
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- They've given us, i'm sure, i don't know for a fact,
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- But in my experiences
- 00:22:33.623 --> 00:22:35.659
- The chinese will have given us
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- An outcome document of let's be able to say this,
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- It's basically a press release
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- That says everything went great and here's what we discussed
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- Before we even have the meeting.
- 00:22:44.634 --> 00:22:46.403
- That's what the chinese like to do.
- 00:22:46.403 --> 00:22:48.271
- Where americans are much more,
- 00:22:48.271 --> 00:22:50.907
- Let's have a conversation and see what happens.
- 00:22:50.907 --> 00:22:52.776
- Donald trump is even much more so
- 00:22:52.776 --> 00:22:54.644
- Than an american traditional foreign policy by going all in,
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- Discussing anything and everything in real time
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- And pushing where possible.
- 00:23:02.919 --> 00:23:05.188
- So we don't know exactly what donald trump is going to do.
- 00:23:05.188 --> 00:23:08.692
- He's very unpredictable
- 00:23:08.692 --> 00:23:10.126
- And it's very good for america to have a president
- 00:23:10.126 --> 00:23:12.762
- And a negotiator who is unpredictable.
- 00:23:12.762 --> 00:23:15.231
- - alright, we got some calls coming in
- 00:23:15.231 --> 00:23:16.499
- About this relationship we have with china.
- 00:23:16.499 --> 00:23:18.101
- I think let's take one of those.
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- I just wanna start with, let's go, daniel.
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- Yeah, daniel, washington dc, go ahead.
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- - [daniel] hi, thank you for taking my call.
- 00:23:24.307 --> 00:23:26.776
- I'm just concerned about this incident in california
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- Where we have a foreign chinese person as a mayor.
- 00:23:31.114 --> 00:23:34.985
- Let's say that we have, we have congressmen
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- Who are from the minnesota who obviously hates america.
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- And i think that we should have people
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- Whose elected officials should be born in this country
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- Or at least be in this country since they're five years old,
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- To have, to learn to love this country.
- 00:23:51.034 --> 00:23:54.170
- - well daniel, i'll hop in.
- 00:23:54.170 --> 00:23:55.972
- So one, that would take constitutional amendments
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- To put more restrictions on who can be elected
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- As a representative or as a senator
- 00:24:03.046 --> 00:24:05.982
- Because that's where those definitions come from.
- 00:24:05.982 --> 00:24:08.985
- The president of the united states
- 00:24:08.985 --> 00:24:10.754
- Actually has a more strict requirement
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- On being born in the united states.
- 00:24:14.391 --> 00:24:15.625
- - is there a reason we have that still
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- For the president of the united states?
- 00:24:16.893 --> 00:24:18.395
- But not for all.
- 00:24:18.395 --> 00:24:19.562
- I mean i don't necessarily know in 2026
- 00:24:19.562 --> 00:24:21.931
- Where i land on out any of that issue to begin with.
- 00:24:21.931 --> 00:24:25.035
- But it is interesting that we've decided that, you know,
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- To be the highest of elected official,
- 00:24:28.104 --> 00:24:30.073
- There is certainly a higher standard,
- 00:24:30.073 --> 00:24:31.941
- But that higher standard involves something
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- That we don't even put on the rest of our elected officials.
- 00:24:33.543 --> 00:24:37.047
- Now, to me it's more you can move to a city,
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- You can learn it, a culture.
- 00:24:38.815 --> 00:24:40.216
- There's a lot of different things that can happen
- 00:24:40.216 --> 00:24:41.618
- When you're dealing with smaller populations as well.
- 00:24:41.618 --> 00:24:43.053
- - well, as well as the executive branch itself is,
- 00:24:43.053 --> 00:24:46.523
- Is the president.
- 00:24:46.523 --> 00:24:48.058
- The president is his own branch of government.
- 00:24:48.058 --> 00:24:50.360
- As we've talked about on this broadcast before,
- 00:24:50.360 --> 00:24:52.629
- When you are a member of congress,
- 00:24:52.629 --> 00:24:54.597
- You are one of a multitude depending on,
- 00:24:54.597 --> 00:24:57.267
- I mean that number can go up
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- For the house of representatives
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- Or be re shifted around depending on different factors.
- 00:25:00.236 --> 00:25:05.275
- But i think when you look at that,
- 00:25:06.042 --> 00:25:07.310
- It would take a constitutional amendment
- 00:25:07.310 --> 00:25:09.279
- And try getting that constitutional amendment
- 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:11.881
- Passed in this day and age, i don't think it would happen.
- 00:25:11.881 --> 00:25:14.417
- - where people would actually come down.
- 00:25:14.417 --> 00:25:15.952
- I think you could make cases for both ways this history.
- 00:25:15.952 --> 00:25:18.354
- - yeah, i'm not taking a side on that as much going,
- 00:25:18.354 --> 00:25:21.291
- I think it's interesting that
- 00:25:21.291 --> 00:25:22.392
- We still do have that to his point,
- 00:25:22.392 --> 00:25:24.027
- We have that requirement for president
- 00:25:24.027 --> 00:25:25.962
- But it doesn't trickle down.
- 00:25:25.962 --> 00:25:27.464
- - well and that's from the beginning, that was the founders
- 00:25:27.464 --> 00:25:30.066
- And there's a lot of in-depth analysis
- 00:25:30.066 --> 00:25:33.236
- That i don't know that we have time for to get on on.
- 00:25:33.236 --> 00:25:35.572
- - [logan] get in it, will. - this broadcast.
- 00:25:35.572 --> 00:25:37.273
- Normally you get on me
- 00:25:37.273 --> 00:25:38.641
- When i try to go too deep on things like that.
- 00:25:38.641 --> 00:25:40.110
- But i think the other point he was making, he said,
- 00:25:40.110 --> 00:25:42.445
- What if this was a senator or a congressman?
- 00:25:42.445 --> 00:25:45.248
- You think that is the goal to some degree of the ccp.
- 00:25:46.316 --> 00:25:49.986
- - and not to be a conspiracy theorist,
- 00:25:49.986 --> 00:25:51.955
- But who's to say it's not?
- 00:25:51.955 --> 00:25:53.990
- - well we think of the current sitting governor of minnesota
- 00:25:53.990 --> 00:25:59.262
- Who spoke so highly and had so many trips, to where?
- 00:26:00.330 --> 00:26:03.767
- China.
- 00:26:03.767 --> 00:26:04.901
- And that was actually a big issue
- 00:26:04.901 --> 00:26:06.302
- When he was on the ticket for
- 00:26:06.302 --> 00:26:08.505
- Vice president of the united states.
- 00:26:08.505 --> 00:26:10.740
- He was born here.
- 00:26:10.740 --> 00:26:12.442
- But one of the big questions is,
- 00:26:12.442 --> 00:26:13.877
- How much influence does china have over you?
- 00:26:13.877 --> 00:26:16.079
- 'cause he even was saying things like,
- 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:17.547
- They're not the enemy.
- 00:26:17.547 --> 00:26:18.548
- Don't worry about them.
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