Sekulow - Chinese Spy Surrenders Ahead of Trump Visit

May 27, 2026 | 26:21

Jay Sekulow speaks about the protection of religious freedoms in America.

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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.
  • 00:09:19.171 --> 00:09:21.540
  • - or you may be saying that this person's
  • 00:09:21.540 --> 00:09:22.974
  • 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,
  • 00:09:43.028 --> 00:09:44.763
  • 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.
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  • Like we can't just cut off china.
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  • Like people would wanna say that.
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  • 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,
  • 00:10:00.846 --> 00:10:03.181
  • If we got rid of chinese manufacturing,
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  • If we got rid of those things right now.
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  • We're not ready for that in america.
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  • 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,
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  • And what that,
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  • And who's gonna be kind of the leader in this moment.
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  • 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,
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  • Yes, we're the two superpowers,
  • 00:10:40.185 --> 00:10:41.219
  • But think about the different,
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  • It have personalities and way of life
  • 00:10:42.487 --> 00:10:44.523
  • With where ai could go in china quickly
  • 00:10:44.523 --> 00:10:47.659
  • And the difference between the united states.
  • 00:10:47.659 --> 00:10:49.227
  • Whereas here, citizens and we publicly freely
  • 00:10:49.227 --> 00:10:53.598
  • 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.
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  • - [logan] human lives very different.
  • 00:11:01.273 --> 00:11:02.574
  • - a lot easier to test these systems on people
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  • When you are not going to be subject to
  • 00:11:06.211 --> 00:11:09.447
  • 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,
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  • You know, government actors
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  • 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
  • 00:11:25.330 --> 00:11:29.334
  • 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,
  • 00:11:54.059 --> 00:11:55.460
  • 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.
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  • The united states relationship with china is necessary,
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  • But it is a difficult one.
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  • What we saw for so long was
  • 00:12:05.537 --> 00:12:08.607
  • Members of the left in the united states
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  • That were not as hard on china
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  • As we would have preferred.
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  • And what do you see?
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  • You see how much they were able to infiltrate
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  • And put their influence here.
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  • President trump during in his first term was tough on china
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  • And then immediately returned to office
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  • 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,
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  • Proved to be wrong.
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  • It did not tank the world economy.
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  • What they're gonna talk about though
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  • Is the trade relationship.
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  • Those mining issues, the rare earth minerals
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  • That lead to both batteries and chips
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  • 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.
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  • The war in iran.
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  • These are issues that will be discussed between the leaders
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • And so we'll see what impact does that have
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  • Because of china's relationship with iran.
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  • The oil that they receive from the middle east, china,
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  • A lot of that is iranian oil.
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  • 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.
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  • They also have all these influence operations
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  • - yeah, i mean big momentum going forward
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  • Into this big summit in china.
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  • I think it's good president trump is gonna be there,
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  • Has at least a working relationship with the head in china
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  • With the really all of the,
  • 00:13:50.775 --> 00:13:52.043
  • It seems like they have a good relationship
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  • With this government
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  • Or the best relationship you can kind of have
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  • Considering the circumstances that we are currently in.
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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,
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • As much as the american business community has,
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  • And so we've seen that play out.
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  • But thank god we've got president trump going over
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  • Because he's clear-eyed about
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  • The problems that american farmers have.
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  • Remember in the last trade bill,
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  • He really got a huge win for the american farmers,
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  • Really forcing china to stop playing games
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  • And to buy more of the american agriculture products.
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  • And so i think you'll see farming as one of the top issues,
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  • But also just simple trade.
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  • Trying to make sure that china
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  • In the world trade organization behaves.
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  • 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,
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  • China's gotten worse when it comes to their trade practices,
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  • Their currency manipulation.
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  • 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
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  • That we thought we would see
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  • By putting china in the world trade organization.
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  • Let's let president trump do a good negotiation
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  • 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
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  • That goes into these summits on the front end
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  • With all the diplomatic staff, the state department,
  • 00:21:34.431 --> 00:21:38.268
  • The intelligence community, everyone working together,
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  • And with their counterparts on the other side.
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  • Then you have a two day summit
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  • 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
  • 00:22:01.858 --> 00:22:05.228
  • A big news item, a big get
  • 00:22:05.228 --> 00:22:07.731
  • 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
  • 00:22:20.544 --> 00:22:22.612
  • 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,
  • 00:22:30.654 --> 00:22:33.623
  • But in my experiences
  • 00:22:33.623 --> 00:22:35.659
  • The chinese will have given us
  • 00:22:35.659 --> 00:22:38.094
  • An outcome document of let's be able to say this,
  • 00:22:38.094 --> 00:22:40.864
  • It's basically a press release
  • 00:22:40.864 --> 00:22:42.399
  • That says everything went great and here's what we discussed
  • 00:22:42.399 --> 00:22:44.634
  • 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,
  • 00:22:54.644 --> 00:22:59.482
  • Discussing anything and everything in real time
  • 00:22:59.482 --> 00:23:02.919
  • 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.
  • 00:23:18.101 --> 00:23:19.336
  • 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.
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  • I'm just concerned about this incident in california
  • 00:23:26.776 --> 00:23:31.114
  • 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.
  • 00:23:39.823 --> 00:23:43.627
  • And i think that we should have people
  • 00:23:43.627 --> 00:23:45.629
  • Whose elected officials should be born in this country
  • 00:23:45.629 --> 00:23:48.431
  • Or at least be in this country since they're five years old,
  • 00:23:48.431 --> 00:23:51.034
  • 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
  • 00:23:55.972 --> 00:23:58.708
  • To put more restrictions on who can be elected
  • 00:23:58.708 --> 00:24:03.046
  • 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
  • 00:24:10.754 --> 00:24:14.391
  • On being born in the united states.
  • 00:24:14.391 --> 00:24:15.625
  • - is there a reason we have that still
  • 00:24:15.625 --> 00:24:16.893
  • 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,
  • 00:24:25.035 --> 00:24:28.104
  • 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
  • 00:24:31.941 --> 00:24:33.543
  • 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,
  • 00:24:37.047 --> 00:24:38.815
  • 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
  • 00:24:57.267 --> 00:24:58.835
  • For the house of representatives
  • 00:24:58.835 --> 00:25:00.236
  • 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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