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Erick Stakelbeck: Exposing the China Agenda | Stakelbeck Tonight

October 23, 2025 | 25:5

Erick Stakelbeck: Exposing the China Agenda | Stakelbeck Tonight
Erick Stakelbeck hosts journalist Lee Smith who exposes the deep-rooted ties between American elites and the Communist regime in Beijing in his book "The China Matrix." As he unravels the decades-long scandals involving politicians like Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and George W. Bush, Smith reveals a web of espionage, corruption, and betrayal that threatens American national security. With President Trump's unwavering stance on holding China accountable, the story delves into the dangerous implications of China's military buildup, espionage activities, and influence on American universities. The battle for peace through strength is at the forefront as the world teeters on the edge of global domination.
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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Exposing the China Agenda | Stakelbeck Tonight | October 23, 2025
  • Welcome to stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stakelbeck
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  • And it's said that nature abhors a vacuum.
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  • Folks, this definitely applies to the middle east.
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  • Just look at the past decade.
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  • U.s. forces withdraw from iraq in 2011,
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  • And isis soon fills the void.
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  • President trump
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  • Takes office in early 2017 and keeps his campaign promise.
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  • He smashes isis,
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  • But then joe biden gets into office, and the iranian regime
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  • And its ring of fire become the dominant forces in the region.
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  • Now, in 2025, with president trump back in office,
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  • Iran and its proxies have been severely weakened
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  • Thanks to
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  • Devastating military strikes by israel and the united states.
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  • So who will be next to fill the vacuum that's been created
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  • In the world's most strategic and chaotic region?
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  • I believe we should all be keeping an eye on turkey.
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  • It's a nato member nation that has the second largest
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  • Military in the entire alliance, behind only the united states.
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  • Here's the bad news.
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  • Its leader, recep tayyip erdogan, is a radical islamist
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  • Who follows the ideology of the muslim brotherhood.
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  • He's notoriously anti-israel and even offered a public prayer
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  • Back in march wishing for israel's destruction.
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  • Now, erdogan
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  • Wants to play a role in postwar gaza at israel's doorstep.
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  • Israeli prime minister
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  • Benjamin netanyahu is understandably saying no way.
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  • Folks keep a very close eye on this.
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  • Erdogan is making moves, and it's very clear that he is
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  • An adversary to not only israel but to the west.
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  • When you see trouble coming, you should prepare.
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  • Coming up, a former u.s.
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  • Naval commander shares
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  • A cautionary tale of terror and inaction.
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  • And it all starts now.
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  • Long before
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  • The twin towers fell, al qaida was waging war
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  • Against the united states in places like yemen.
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  • It was there in yemen's aden harbor,
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  • That an al qaeda terrorist carried out a suicide bombing
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  • Against the uss cole, a u.s.
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  • Navy guided missile destroyer.
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  • 17 u.s.
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  • Sailors were killed and 37 injured in the october 2000
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  • Attack, which should have been a wake up call for the west.
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  • Commander kirk
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  • Lippold was the commanding officer
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  • Of the uss cole when al-qaeda attacked.
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  • He's featured in the great new daily wire documentary
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  • Uss cole al-qaida's strike before nine over 11,
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  • Which revisits the warnings
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  • America missed and the decisions that followed.
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  • Take a look.
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  • All the while, he told us al-qaida is planning to attack
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  • A. u.s..
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  • Navy ship as its refueling in the port of aden.
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  • There was a lot of warning out there to the ships.
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  • Did the cole get that information? i can't tell you,
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  • But the lot
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  • Was very hard to what could be next?
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  • I don't think we missed any specific threats.
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  • It wasn't if it was going to happen.
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  • That was when the united states was going to be attacked.
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  • They were walking into a trap.
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  • I saw a boat coming at us.
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  • They're close enough that i could see them
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  • Smiling and waving.
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  • And the explosion happened.
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  • Two men in it was apparently not seen as a threat.
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  • May have been impossible to prevent.
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  • Osama bin laden
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  • Had essentially declared war against the united states.
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  • Certainly emboldened, though, tied up.
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  • Why were we even operating in that port?
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  • What was the intelligence community doing?
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  • No one connected all the dots until it was too late.
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  • People in the u.s.
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  • Didn't comprehend
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  • That there was an organization called al-qaida.
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  • People living in caves,
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  • Basements who actively sought to kill americans.
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  • I think our government certainly had
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  • Enough of the information to have done something.
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  • They were focused totally on us.
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  • No one was looking up the chain of command.
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  • We had an opportunity to disrupt what became 911.
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  • Uss cole
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  • Al-qaida strike before 911.
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  • And commander kirk lippold joins us now.
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  • Commander, so great to have you. the documentary is excellent.
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  • It looks great as everyone just saw.
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  • And it is so timely.
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  • The uss cole incident happened 25 years ago.
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  • Hard to believe,
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  • But we're locked in a struggle against islamist right now.
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  • It continues.
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  • Commander, take us to the immediate
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  • Aftermath of the suicide bombing aboard the destroyer
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  • That you were commanding. what did that look like?
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  • I can't imagine the chaos in the immediate aftermath.
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  • And how do you get it together there?
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  • 17 sailors murdered here by an al-qaida terrorist.
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  • How do you get it together and lead?
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  • Well, first and foremost, erick, thank you for having me on.
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  • And i'll be quite honest, i was blessed with a great crew.
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  • I trained them hard, and every time they would get close
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  • To meeting the bar of standard of performance, i raised it.
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  • Which of course meant we were better and better.
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  • What that happened is the morning of october 12th,
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  • When we pulled in for what was called the brief stop for fuel.
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  • We had been refueling for about 45 minutes,
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  • Expecting to be there 6 to 8 hours.
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  • We had contracted for three garbage
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  • Barges to take trash, plastic
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  • And hazmat off to came out and left.
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  • The third boat that came out
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  • Turned out to be that al-qaida waterborne improvised explosive
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  • Device with two suicide bombers that blew a 40 by 40ft whole.
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  • And when we got hit,
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  • The one generator stayed operating of the two
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  • We had running, it blew a 40 by 40ft hole, as i mentioned.
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  • And it was chaos immediately.
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  • There was devastation rendered metal torn piping,
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  • Live electrical wires,
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  • And the announcing system for the ship failed
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  • So that there was no way to tell the crew
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  • What had happened, where to go, what to do.
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  • Yet they fell
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  • Back on their training and we were able to react to that.
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  • Get the ship stable in a little over an hour
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  • To stop it from sinking, and is a real testament to the crew.
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  • That first day, 33 wounded were evacuated off the ship
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  • And to local yemeni hospitals, and of those 33, 32
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  • Would survive.
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  • You know, commander, it's amazing.
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  • It's detailed in the film.
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  • And by the way,
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  • This was just the latest in a series of al-qaeda attacks.
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  • You think the 93 world trade center bomber,
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  • The black hawk down incident, the list goes on.
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  • 98 the africa embassy bombings.
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  • What did you think of the aftermath?
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  • When the dust settles, we know.
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  • Look, this was al-qaida
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  • And it's about 11 months before nine over 11.
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  • What did you think about the u.s.
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  • Reaction in the aftermath?
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  • Did we still take al-qaida too lightly after the uss cole?
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  • Well, the way i.
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  • Look at it is what reaction?
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  • Because our government essentially did nothing
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  • In the immediate aftermath.
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  • We've got a lot of support to help us maintain the crew,
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  • Keep the ship afloat and be able to get her out of that port.
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  • 17 days
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  • After we were attacked
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  • Onto the heavy lift ship, blue marlin to be back
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  • Brought back to the united states.
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  • But the bottom line is, in the time
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  • After the attack itself, we had one administration
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  • With president clinton that kept raising the bar with response.
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  • When you look at it, he just kept saying,
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  • I want further proof that it was al-qaida
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  • When we had solid information, that it was
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  • Very good intelligence and then he got out of office,
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  • Did nothing.
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  • By the same token,
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  • When the bush administration came
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  • In, they kind of took an attitude of, hey,
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  • We're forward looking, not backward acting.
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  • And so what ended up happening is they did nothing in response.
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  • That's what set our nation
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  • On that course to 911, is that there was no response
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  • To the attack that killed 17 of my sailors,
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  • And caused $250 million worth of damage to a u.s.
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  • Navy warship.
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  • And as we know from the 9/11 commission report, it infuriated
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  • Bin laden.
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  • And that's why nine over 11, in fact, happened.
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  • Yeah, commander, it is maddening.
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  • But but it's a necessary story.
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  • Needs to be told this a three part
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  • Documentary series, folks you can watch right now
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  • Daily wired.com. commander.
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  • Last question
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  • 25 years on from the uss cole terror attack lessons for today.
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  • Look, we're still locked in the struggle against jihadist.
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  • And i think of yemen.
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  • Of course, the iran backed
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  • Terrorists, they're harassing shipping in the red sea around
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  • That aden area.
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  • Lessons for today from the uss cole.
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  • And has the west learned its lesson?
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  • We need to make sure these terrorists
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  • And their state sponsors ultimately get held accountable.
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  • That is the only way they're going to stop it.
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  • And it is the only way
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  • Our government maintains the credibility.
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  • As a global leader. commander, keep up the great work.
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  • God bless.
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  • We'll see you again soon.
  • 00:08:55.891 --> 00:08:56.859
  • And coming up after the break, we're talking
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  • The threat of radical islamist.
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  • What about communist china?
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  • Folks, you won't believe the inroads
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  • They're making in our country.
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  • More with investigative journalist
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  • Lee smith after the break. stick around.
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  • Lee smith after the break. stick around.
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  • Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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  • From an isolated, volatile nation
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  • To one of the world's great economic powers,
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  • The rise of china seems improbable.
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  • How does a communist regime that brutalizes its own people
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  • Become a darling of american elites who protect it
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  • Over the very american workers they claim to support?
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  • Investigative journalist and bestselling author
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  • Lisa smith breaks down the sordid history of the china u.s.
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  • Relationship and how president trump is setting things right.
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  • In his new book, the china matrix the epic story
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  • Of how donald trump shattered a deadly pact.
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  • Lee, always great to see you.
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  • Congrats on the book.
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  • It's revealing in parts, it's infuriating.
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  • And we need to know how our elites.
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  • We're talking silicon valley, wall street, etc.
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  • Have emboldened this communist regime in beijing.
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  • Lee, talk a bit more about that.
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  • How? look, look, our elite class has been literally
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  • In bed with the chai coms in beijing for decades.
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  • Yeah, it's very shocking, eric.
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  • And it goes back to the very beginning.
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  • You know, because a lot of people the way
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  • They just a lot of the way americans have described
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  • This relationship, washington policymakers,
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  • When they've been most skeptical, they've said, well,
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  • Of course, it sort of got off the tracks,
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  • But it started in a
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  • Very important way when, richard nixon and henry kissinger
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  • Opened up to china in 1972 and was very important.
  • 00:10:38.831 --> 00:10:42.034
  • Now, as it turns out, that was a very bad moment,
  • 00:10:42.034 --> 00:10:44.970
  • For americans to reach out to a very,
  • 00:10:44.970 --> 00:10:48.273
  • A very damaged and sick and sickening chinese communist
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  • Party.
  • 00:10:53.612 --> 00:10:54.880
  • And i have to say, donald trump is the first american president
  • 00:10:54.880 --> 00:10:57.883
  • Who has pointed this out,
  • 00:10:57.883 --> 00:10:59.318
  • Who has noted this news, decided to do something about it.
  • 00:10:59.318 --> 00:11:02.354
  • Now, there have been
  • 00:11:02.354 --> 00:11:03.021
  • Other american policymakers,
  • 00:11:03.021 --> 00:11:04.656
  • Other american leaders in the past on the right,
  • 00:11:04.656 --> 00:11:07.693
  • As well as on the left, who have pointed out
  • 00:11:07.693 --> 00:11:09.762
  • How bad this relationship has been for american workers.
  • 00:11:09.762 --> 00:11:13.432
  • But it's not just bad for american workers.
  • 00:11:13.432 --> 00:11:15.434
  • It's also bad for society.
  • 00:11:15.434 --> 00:11:17.503
  • It's bad for civil society.
  • 00:11:17.503 --> 00:11:19.404
  • The way that we've adopted
  • 00:11:19.404 --> 00:11:20.672
  • So many norms that have come from this poisonous
  • 00:11:20.672 --> 00:11:23.742
  • Communist party in china, that, you know, that it's responsible
  • 00:11:23.742 --> 00:11:27.179
  • For tens of millions of murders of its own,
  • 00:11:27.179 --> 00:11:30.249
  • You know, of its own citizens since the,
  • 00:11:30.249 --> 00:11:33.452
  • Since the revolution in 1949.
  • 00:11:33.452 --> 00:11:36.388
  • So donald trump is really the first one who has set this
  • 00:11:36.388 --> 00:11:39.291
  • Right and said, we have to do something.
  • 00:11:39.291 --> 00:11:41.126
  • We cannot continue,
  • 00:11:41.126 --> 00:11:43.028
  • To tie our fate to that of this communist party.
  • 00:11:43.028 --> 00:11:46.965
  • Lee, i want to talk more about how president trump
  • 00:11:46.965 --> 00:11:48.700
  • Is holding that regime in beijing accountable.
  • 00:11:48.700 --> 00:11:50.702
  • But why are the elites, american elites,
  • 00:11:50.702 --> 00:11:53.772
  • Business elites in particular?
  • 00:11:53.772 --> 00:11:55.440
  • Why are they so attracted to communist china?
  • 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:58.076
  • Why do they want to invest in chinese companies?
  • 00:11:58.076 --> 00:12:00.813
  • Why are they enamored with china's social credit system?
  • 00:12:00.813 --> 00:12:04.850
  • What's the attraction there?
  • 00:12:04.850 --> 00:12:06.018
  • Well, i think at first it was very simple.
  • 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:08.654
  • It was just the sheer amount of money.
  • 00:12:08.654 --> 00:12:10.923
  • And this is what started to happen in the 80s and the 90s.
  • 00:12:10.923 --> 00:12:13.692
  • But then, of course, when, china gained admission
  • 00:12:13.692 --> 00:12:17.663
  • To the world trade organization, then it just went crazy.
  • 00:12:17.663 --> 00:12:21.166
  • So starting in the 2000s, if you look at our trade
  • 00:12:21.166 --> 00:12:24.603
  • Deficit with china, it's absolutely obscene.
  • 00:12:24.603 --> 00:12:27.673
  • It's hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
  • 00:12:27.673 --> 00:12:30.642
  • So the total right now
  • 00:12:30.642 --> 00:12:31.710
  • Is well into the many trillions of dollars.
  • 00:12:31.710 --> 00:12:34.279
  • And the problem with this is this is not just american jobs.
  • 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:39.051
  • It's very, very important,
  • 00:12:39.051 --> 00:12:40.018
  • Especially american manufacturing jobs.
  • 00:12:40.018 --> 00:12:42.454
  • But what that trade deficit,
  • 00:12:42.454 --> 00:12:44.256
  • What that trade imbalance
  • 00:12:44.256 --> 00:12:45.457
  • Has done is this is what's built the chinese military.
  • 00:12:45.457 --> 00:12:49.194
  • This is what's built, chinese tech.
  • 00:12:49.194 --> 00:12:52.164
  • This is what's built chinese ai.
  • 00:12:52.164 --> 00:12:54.566
  • This is what's built
  • 00:12:54.566 --> 00:12:55.767
  • The missile systems that are pointed at american cities.
  • 00:12:55.767 --> 00:12:59.371
  • Right.
  • 00:12:59.371 --> 00:13:00.606
  • Because our elites decided that it was much better for them,
  • 00:13:00.606 --> 00:13:02.941
  • Much more profitable for them to manufacture goods
  • 00:13:02.941 --> 00:13:06.845
  • And to sell them back, to export them back to the united states
  • 00:13:06.845 --> 00:13:10.716
  • That they made.
  • 00:13:11.083 --> 00:13:11.650
  • So much money from that,
  • 00:13:11.650 --> 00:13:13.785
  • That that's what they decided was the good thing.
  • 00:13:13.785 --> 00:13:15.821
  • And unfortunately, there were so few people
  • 00:13:15.821 --> 00:13:18.223
  • Who are looking out for american national interest
  • 00:13:18.223 --> 00:13:21.960
  • Who are looking at for the interest of american workers.
  • 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:24.429
  • We're looking at just for the interest
  • 00:13:24.429 --> 00:13:25.664
  • Of ordinary americans, when they should have understood
  • 00:13:25.664 --> 00:13:28.467
  • That they were
  • 00:13:28.467 --> 00:13:29.134
  • Basically handing a dagger
  • 00:13:29.134 --> 00:13:30.802
  • That would be held to the knife of america
  • 00:13:30.802 --> 00:13:32.804
  • By the chinese communist party.
  • 00:13:32.804 --> 00:13:34.439
  • Yeah.
  • 00:13:34.439 --> 00:13:35.574
  • And plunge into the back of the american worker. lee.
  • 00:13:35.574 --> 00:13:37.509
  • It's a disgusting betrayal.
  • 00:13:37.509 --> 00:13:39.978
  • It's much more than a sell out.
  • 00:13:39.978 --> 00:13:41.179
  • And you lay it out in your great book, the china matrix.
  • 00:13:41.179 --> 00:13:43.515
  • Folks you can pick up right
  • 00:13:43.515 --> 00:13:44.416
  • Now, amazon.com, wherever books are sold.
  • 00:13:44.416 --> 00:13:47.185
  • Leader after leader.
  • 00:13:47.185 --> 00:13:48.787
  • Pretty much allowed this system to continue
  • 00:13:48.787 --> 00:13:50.956
  • Where we
  • 00:13:50.956 --> 00:13:52.124
  • We have massive deficits to china, as you just laid out.
  • 00:13:52.124 --> 00:13:54.826
  • What makes donald trump different?
  • 00:13:54.826 --> 00:13:56.762
  • He's the first one, as you said,
  • 00:13:56.762 --> 00:13:58.263
  • Who has called it out and said, no more.
  • 00:13:58.263 --> 00:14:00.666
  • Enough is enough.
  • 00:14:00.666 --> 00:14:01.800
  • Donald trump, long before he became president,
  • 00:14:01.800 --> 00:14:05.871
  • Donald trump was worried
  • 00:14:05.871 --> 00:14:07.072
  • About trade imbalances at first, it was at first was japan.
  • 00:14:07.072 --> 00:14:10.208
  • And this was in the 80s. but then,
  • 00:14:10.208 --> 00:14:13.045
  • But then as the problem
  • 00:14:13.545 --> 00:14:14.947
  • Became china, donald trump started talking about that, too.
  • 00:14:14.947 --> 00:14:18.283
  • And if you look at his 2000 book, the america we deserve,
  • 00:14:18.283 --> 00:14:22.187
  • He starts
  • 00:14:22.187 --> 00:14:23.188
  • Talking about china there, and he talks about
  • 00:14:23.188 --> 00:14:25.357
  • He crucially, he talks about the trade
  • 00:14:25.357 --> 00:14:27.693
  • Imbalance, which is a very big deal.
  • 00:14:27.693 --> 00:14:29.328
  • But there's something else, too.
  • 00:14:29.328 --> 00:14:30.929
  • He talks about the nature of the chinese communist party.
  • 00:14:30.929 --> 00:14:34.333
  • He said, look,
  • 00:14:34.333 --> 00:14:35.300
  • The way that they treat their own,
  • 00:14:35.300 --> 00:14:36.668
  • Their own people is a big deal and partly has to do
  • 00:14:36.668 --> 00:14:39.604
  • With human rights,
  • 00:14:39.604 --> 00:14:40.772
  • But it has something to do with how they will treat us to
  • 00:14:40.772 --> 00:14:44.343
  • They show absolute contempt for our system, for our values.
  • 00:14:44.343 --> 00:14:49.214
  • And what does that tell us about how they'll treat us?
  • 00:14:49.214 --> 00:14:52.484
  • So donald trump has had very good insight
  • 00:14:52.484 --> 00:14:55.153
  • Into the nature of this regime for a quarter of a century now.
  • 00:14:55.153 --> 00:14:59.291
  • So it's not surprising
  • 00:14:59.291 --> 00:15:00.659
  • That he would finally be the one said, enough.
  • 00:15:00.659 --> 00:15:03.362
  • We can't go on with this any longer.
  • 00:15:03.362 --> 00:15:05.430
  • The about 40s until the break.
  • 00:15:05.430 --> 00:15:07.632
  • Then we will bring you right back.
  • 00:15:07.632 --> 00:15:09.134
  • What is xi jinping and the regime in beijing?
  • 00:15:09.134 --> 00:15:12.070
  • What is their view and response to president trump?
  • 00:15:12.070 --> 00:15:16.541
  • Well, i mean, they
  • 00:15:16.541 --> 00:15:17.576
  • They they know right now that donald trump,
  • 00:15:17.576 --> 00:15:20.145
  • They've known this since the first term.
  • 00:15:20.145 --> 00:15:21.913
  • They've known it
  • 00:15:21.913 --> 00:15:23.081
  • Since the first term that donald trump does not trust j.
  • 00:15:23.081 --> 00:15:26.051
  • He does not trust the regime.
  • 00:15:26.051 --> 00:15:27.452
  • Look at what happened that was covid.
  • 00:15:27.452 --> 00:15:28.987
  • And by the way, i have a wonderful interview
  • 00:15:28.987 --> 00:15:31.723
  • With president trump in the book.
  • 00:15:31.723 --> 00:15:33.992
  • And the president
  • 00:15:34.426 --> 00:15:35.961
  • Is very forthright, talking about the threat of china
  • 00:15:35.961 --> 00:15:39.031
  • And talking about why he lost faith in jinping.
  • 00:15:39.031 --> 00:15:43.101
  • So there's covid,
  • 00:15:43.101 --> 00:15:44.503
  • There's the rejection of the comprehensive trade deal
  • 00:15:44.503 --> 00:15:47.472
  • That the trump administration won and the first term.
  • 00:15:47.472 --> 00:15:50.108
  • And then there's the fact that the chinese have fulfilled only
  • 00:15:50.108 --> 00:15:53.478
  • A fraction of the obligations laid out in the phase
  • 00:15:53.478 --> 00:15:57.015
  • One trade deal from january 30th, 2020.
  • 00:15:57.015 --> 00:16:01.253
  • Lee, great break down, folks.
  • 00:16:01.253 --> 00:16:02.788
  • The book is called the china matrix.
  • 00:16:02.788 --> 00:16:04.456
  • While you're at it, be sure to follow
  • 00:16:04.456 --> 00:16:05.590
  • Lee on x and across social media.
  • 00:16:05.590 --> 00:16:07.359
  • Much more coming up with our good friend lee smith
  • 00:16:07.359 --> 00:16:09.561
  • After the break.
  • 00:16:09.561 --> 00:16:10.595
  • What is china doing on american college campuses?
  • 00:16:10.595 --> 00:16:14.132
  • And what about specific politicians
  • 00:16:14.132 --> 00:16:16.768
  • In dc in bed with the communist regime in beijing?
  • 00:16:16.768 --> 00:16:20.939
  • More with lee smith after the break. don't move.
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  • More with lee smith after the break. don't move.
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  • Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
  • 00:16:29.579 --> 00:16:31.081
  • We're talking to our friend lee smith,
  • 00:16:31.081 --> 00:16:32.449
  • Great investigative journalist and author
  • 00:16:32.449 --> 00:16:34.117
  • Of the brand new blockbuster the china matrix.
  • 00:16:34.117 --> 00:16:36.986
  • Folks, pick it up right now, amazon.com,
  • 00:16:36.986 --> 00:16:39.089
  • Wherever books are sold
  • 00:16:39.089 --> 00:16:41.091
  • To say it's a must read goes without saying.
  • 00:16:41.091 --> 00:16:43.526
  • And one reason for that is the investigative work lee has done
  • 00:16:43.526 --> 00:16:47.497
  • Exposing certain politicians, and this goes back decades
  • 00:16:47.497 --> 00:16:51.000
  • And their rosy relationship with communist china.
  • 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.270
  • Lee i think of china gate under bill clinton.
  • 00:16:54.270 --> 00:16:56.372
  • That whole scandal, i think of joe biden,
  • 00:16:56.372 --> 00:16:58.775
  • Of course, his ties to china and hunter biden as well.
  • 00:16:58.775 --> 00:17:02.278
  • Members of congress lay that out for a bit.
  • 00:17:02.278 --> 00:17:04.881
  • I think it may shock some people.
  • 00:17:04.881 --> 00:17:06.449
  • The extent of those relationships.
  • 00:17:06.449 --> 00:17:09.252
  • Well, erick, thanks for mentioning
  • 00:17:09.252 --> 00:17:10.620
  • Starting off with china gate because i found some things
  • 00:17:10.620 --> 00:17:13.089
  • There that were sort of left, left on the table previously.
  • 00:17:13.089 --> 00:17:16.626
  • I think a lot of people don't understand that bill
  • 00:17:16.626 --> 00:17:19.562
  • Clinton was targeted by a chinese espionage campaign.
  • 00:17:19.562 --> 00:17:23.833
  • So when we
  • 00:17:23.833 --> 00:17:25.034
  • Talk about the amount of money that was put into the, dnc,
  • 00:17:25.034 --> 00:17:28.872
  • Campaign funds,
  • 00:17:28.872 --> 00:17:30.640
  • A lot of that money went right into the clinton campaign,
  • 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.343
  • And it came from chinese intelligence officials.
  • 00:17:33.343 --> 00:17:36.346
  • So that's a very important thing to keep in mind.
  • 00:17:36.346 --> 00:17:38.882
  • And he was targeted
  • 00:17:38.882 --> 00:17:39.949
  • As part of china's subnational campaign
  • 00:17:39.949 --> 00:17:42.719
  • When he was governor of arkansas.
  • 00:17:42.719 --> 00:17:44.587
  • So i go into some detail on that.
  • 00:17:44.587 --> 00:17:47.056
  • I really show what happened during china gate.
  • 00:17:47.056 --> 00:17:49.526
  • But again,
  • 00:17:49.526 --> 00:17:50.226
  • One of the things that i want to
  • 00:17:50.226 --> 00:17:51.361
  • Emphasize is it's not just democrats.
  • 00:17:51.361 --> 00:17:53.730
  • The stuff that went on with joe biden when he was vice
  • 00:17:53.730 --> 00:17:56.833
  • President and president is extremely bad, right? joe?
  • 00:17:56.833 --> 00:18:00.336
  • What joe biden did as barack obama's vice president,
  • 00:18:00.336 --> 00:18:04.107
  • He let, corrupt, made an agreement with the chinese
  • 00:18:04.107 --> 00:18:08.378
  • To allow corrupt chinese companies to list on u.s.
  • 00:18:08.378 --> 00:18:12.081
  • Stock exchanges where, u.s.
  • 00:18:12.081 --> 00:18:15.552
  • Investors lost billions and billions of dollars.
  • 00:18:15.552 --> 00:18:18.888
  • So that's very bad.
  • 00:18:18.888 --> 00:18:20.657
  • But remember, it's republicans as well.
  • 00:18:20.657 --> 00:18:23.159
  • It's a republican administration
  • 00:18:23.159 --> 00:18:24.827
  • That first set this relationship in motion.
  • 00:18:24.827 --> 00:18:27.330
  • And that was richard nixon, george h.w.
  • 00:18:27.330 --> 00:18:29.999
  • Bush, george w bush,
  • 00:18:29.999 --> 00:18:31.801
  • And then one of the real bad
  • 00:18:31.801 --> 00:18:33.069
  • Guys during this whole relationship
  • 00:18:33.069 --> 00:18:34.704
  • Was george w bush's treasury secretary, henry paulson.
  • 00:18:34.704 --> 00:18:38.841
  • So it's a bi partizan issue.
  • 00:18:38.841 --> 00:18:41.711
  • It's been going on in washington
  • 00:18:41.711 --> 00:18:43.513
  • For 50 years, and that's what really needs to be emphasized.
  • 00:18:43.513 --> 00:18:47.217
  • It's been both parties.
  • 00:18:47.217 --> 00:18:48.851
  • And the other part
  • 00:18:48.851 --> 00:18:50.053
  • That needs to be emphasized is it's really donald trump
  • 00:18:50.053 --> 00:18:52.889
  • Who has worked to break us out of this terrible
  • 00:18:52.889 --> 00:18:55.892
  • Pact with the chinese communist party league.
  • 00:18:55.892 --> 00:18:58.962
  • Great points. and two things. as i'm reading the book.
  • 00:18:58.962 --> 00:19:01.464
  • I'm thinking, number one, many of these people,
  • 00:19:01.464 --> 00:19:03.399
  • Our elites, political business elites are compromised.
  • 00:19:03.399 --> 00:19:07.237
  • And number two, thank god for president trump.
  • 00:19:07.237 --> 00:19:09.839
  • Needless to say,
  • 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:11.074
  • Hey, the universities hotbeds of radicalism,
  • 00:19:11.074 --> 00:19:13.710
  • Which you've documented anti-israel,
  • 00:19:13.710 --> 00:19:15.345
  • Anti-american, anti-semitic incitement
  • 00:19:15.345 --> 00:19:17.447
  • Happening on a regular basis at our elite universities.
  • 00:19:17.447 --> 00:19:21.217
  • But what about china? lee?
  • 00:19:21.217 --> 00:19:22.752
  • How does the regime in beijing
  • 00:19:22.752 --> 00:19:24.187
  • Have its claws in the american university?
  • 00:19:24.187 --> 00:19:27.624
  • Well, that's a very big deal.
  • 00:19:28.258 --> 00:19:29.525
  • And actually, i'd go through this in one section of the book.
  • 00:19:29.525 --> 00:19:32.262
  • A lot of people i know are very concerned.
  • 00:19:32.262 --> 00:19:34.163
  • When donald trump, a couple of months ago
  • 00:19:34.163 --> 00:19:35.965
  • Now was talking about, 600,000
  • 00:19:35.965 --> 00:19:39.035
  • Chinese students in our system, well,
  • 00:19:39.035 --> 00:19:42.238
  • It's actually the number per year, about 300,000.
  • 00:19:42.238 --> 00:19:46.342
  • But there is a, an important section in my book
  • 00:19:46.342 --> 00:19:49.379
  • Where donald trump becomes extremely alarmed
  • 00:19:49.379 --> 00:19:52.148
  • During his first term to find out
  • 00:19:52.148 --> 00:19:53.850
  • How many chinese students
  • 00:19:53.850 --> 00:19:55.351
  • Are in the united states
  • 00:19:55.351 --> 00:19:56.786
  • And how many of them are in sensitive research institutions,
  • 00:19:56.786 --> 00:20:00.890
  • Including many at our nuclear labs throughout america.
  • 00:20:00.890 --> 00:20:04.861
  • So donald trump is aware of the threat.
  • 00:20:04.861 --> 00:20:07.163
  • Donald trump does not want to have,
  • 00:20:07.163 --> 00:20:09.832
  • Chinese graduate students spying on americans
  • 00:20:09.832 --> 00:20:13.469
  • Through our research institutions.
  • 00:20:13.469 --> 00:20:15.905
  • But that's a very big deal.
  • 00:20:15.905 --> 00:20:17.307
  • And look at how much money
  • 00:20:17.307 --> 00:20:19.275
  • The chinese contribute to various universities as well.
  • 00:20:19.275 --> 00:20:22.845
  • It's not
  • 00:20:23.112 --> 00:20:24.280
  • Just through the full tuition that their students pay.
  • 00:20:24.280 --> 00:20:26.683
  • It's also they're paying to have access to
  • 00:20:26.683 --> 00:20:29.485
  • Other parts of our sensitive information.
  • 00:20:29.485 --> 00:20:32.889
  • In some cases classified information
  • 00:20:32.889 --> 00:20:35.391
  • At american universities. yeah.
  • 00:20:35.391 --> 00:20:37.327
  • President trump is trying to clean up
  • 00:20:37.327 --> 00:20:38.761
  • That chinese web of espionage.
  • 00:20:38.761 --> 00:20:40.630
  • It's been going on for decades.
  • 00:20:40.630 --> 00:20:42.098
  • Lee. hey, peace through strength.
  • 00:20:42.098 --> 00:20:44.767
  • We talk about it a lot here on the show.
  • 00:20:44.767 --> 00:20:46.436
  • President trump's a big believer in.
  • 00:20:46.436 --> 00:20:47.937
  • And of course, you talked in the last segment
  • 00:20:47.937 --> 00:20:49.972
  • About china's military buildup, nuclear buildup.
  • 00:20:49.972 --> 00:20:52.809
  • I how important is president trump's peace
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  • Through strength approach
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  • In dealing with a very aspirational regime
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  • In china right now, with really aspirations
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  • Not only of regional hegemony,
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  • But global domination, ultimately?
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  • Well, erick, i think in this respect,
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  • I think if we go back to the, the strikes on iran's
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  • Nuclear facilities, that's a very big deal
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  • For a number of reasons.
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  • First of all,
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  • Because iran is china's chief asset in the middle east.
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  • So that's one very important thing to basically, cripple
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  • One of china's regional, regional assets.
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  • That's a big deal.
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  • Second of all,
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  • The fact that donald trump was not afraid to show force.
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  • Right?
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  • Donald trump goes that goes out there, says, look,
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  • We want to negotiate this.
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  • We want to do this peacefully.
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  • But if we can't do it peacefully, we'll do it
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  • The other way instead.
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  • And so when donald trump talks about negotiating
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  • With the chinese, the chinese understand
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  • That there is something standing behind this too.
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  • It's not just that donald
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  • Trump is going to go out there and, and talk
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  • And just let these talks
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  • Be used against american national security.
  • 00:21:57.640 --> 00:22:00.777
  • Behind that talk, there is very serious
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  • Intent to advance american peace and prosperity.
  • 00:22:02.612 --> 00:22:06.749
  • Such great work, so important all around
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  • And important book for these times, folks.
  • 00:22:09.318 --> 00:22:11.487
  • It's called the china matrix.
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  • It is a must read.
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  • Pick it up right now.
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  • Amazon.com wherever books are sold, of course.
  • 00:22:15.892 --> 00:22:18.060
  • Also follow lee on x and across social media.
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  • Lee. great work.
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  • We'll see you again soon. my friend. god bless.
  • 00:22:21.798 --> 00:22:24.000
  • And coming up, my final thoughts on this crazy world we're
  • 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:27.537
  • Living in and the real answer to setting things right.
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  • That's next. stick around.
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  • That's next. stick around.
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  • Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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  • As we wrap up here, we've been talking tonight
  • 00:22:39.624 --> 00:22:41.326
  • About those twin threats communist china, radical islam.
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  • I think of the words of jesus
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  • In the gospel of luke chapter 12, verse 54.
  • 00:22:46.064 --> 00:22:48.767
  • He said to the crowd, when you see a cloud rising
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  • In the west, immediately you say, it's going to rain.
  • 00:22:51.736 --> 00:22:55.674
  • And it does.
  • 00:22:55.674 --> 00:22:56.675
  • Well, folks, when you see these threats
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  • Rising in the east, there's going to be trouble.
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  • And there is. we need to be aware.
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  • We need that vigilance.
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  • We need to have discernment
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  • And know the enemy, know the radical left,
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  • Radical islamist, have this unholy alliance.
  • 00:23:08.386 --> 00:23:10.755
  • It threatens america and the west.
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  • So stay in prayer and be wise.
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  • Hey, tomorrow night.
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  • Speaking of which, bill o'reilly is with us.
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  • It's going to be good.
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  • Until then, god bless you. we'll see you soon.
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