This weekend, NPR interviewed Representative Adrian Smith, Republican Nebraska, an estimate got your question. Is the American entitled to eat the segment was about cut food stamps empires agenda was clear, show the Republicans, don't here as American starve, which is why they want to cut food stamps Psmith answered well, they nutrition. Obviously, we know, is very important and I hope that we can look to. It is in general. It is essential. This was now for the media, who declared method under had. After all, doesn't everyone have the right to food now? imagine a land where there is right to food. Food, housing and healthcare. Imagine that such rights are enshrined in the constitution. Of that when that would mean that everyone in the land could live free without the burden of worry over such basic resources. Right now, the south african Constance It guarantees a right to all of these commodities. In fact, the constitution even create Legal duty for the government to help secure such commodities. It there's some eleven million food, insecure people, The country, including one point- five million children with chronic malnutrition and growth stunting life expectancy in South Africa

fifty seven years there. Currently twelve million people in the country without adequate housing Relation of South Africa is about fifty five million people declared on the right is obvious, does not make that commodity materialise and it certainly doesn't make it materialise in the most efficient fashion markets make come these materialise in the most efficient fashion in the United States, nine out of ten Americans live above the mobile poverty standard. Ninety six percent of poor parents their children were never Hungary in the past year, according to scour the heritage foundation and a portrait is more likely to have a cable tv, a computer, a white screen, plasma tv, an Xbox or tv in the home and be hungry even the Department of Agriculture, the government agency possible for administration of food stamps, upon which approximately fifteen posts, of Americans now rely admit that well, six percent of Americans. Households have to worry even about decreased calorie consumption want to know what fails gap for Americans when their poor feeding America, I, the charity, the receives nine hundred million dollars per year in food donations, the vast bulk from private companies. In fact, there is strongly

between food stamps and obesity, so miracle, worse off than South Africa. Despite our constitution, not mandating food is right, of course, not working. We can be better off because it turn that, using government to confiscate wealth from the very people who produce cheaper and more plentiful products ends, exacerbating scarcity, declaring things right feels good. Those rights come with forced redistribution, ism the things become less available. So no, you don't have a right from the government to food, give the freedom from government to live in a country where food is available in plenty and where your fellow Americans help pick you up when you are down I'm bench of here. This is the bench of Hiroshima by hope. Everybody had a wonderful memorial day. We can. I hope that you took a few minutes to pay on in tribute to the men and women who sacrificed their lives, laid down their lives for the free is that we now enjoy. Obviously, that's that's a sacrifice we can never live up to, but that doesn't stunt our ability to try or relieve us of our ability to try. I want to know

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And it is a market difference when, when trumped talks about the Military- and I think this is why so many people resonate to trumpet resonated to him. The general election when from talks about military there's a marked warmth. There is a guy who like the military. This is guy who, as respect for the military it somebody who's he's the military, the leading edge of american Power and American Goodness indecency, as post President Obama, while he seemed a bit discomfited with with the american military, always seem like somebody who's uncomfortable with a marrow military power, somebody who is uncomfortable around soldiers and members of other members. Military is the same thing with Hillary Clinton, who reportedly in the nineties, actually asked if there is a way that she could prevent people from wearing the uniform in the White House. Accordingly, a couple of people who worked in the White House at the time from obviously lot of warmth towards military that showed a memorial day, which is quite wonderful here, was president from speaking yesterday about the sacrifice made by the fallen let us also pledged to tell the stores of Robert Chris Andrew

and all of America's fallen warriors today and for the next one thousand years, and he spoke I thought in really glowing terms that the military, whose use really quite wonderful he also March. First, memorial days, commander in chief by cutting through the thrones motorcycles, participating in rolling thunder the Secretary of State Rex tellers and also as part of rolling thunder, and he He delivered a tribute. He called so members angel sent us by God, he's had to every gold star family God is with you and your loved ones are with him. They died in war so that we can live in peace. Every time you see the sunrise over this bless land. Please know that brave sons and daughters pushed away the night and delivered for us for all of us rate, inglorious dawn, pretty good and again. This is one of the reasons. I think why President Trump ISM I think this is why President Trump is, is that there is a certain, that level Americanism that people people

as an aid to in Trump things about America, that I think trumped doesn't understand. I think he does understand that level. Patriotism is a great picture from hugging a six year old, born in Christian, jeez dress like Marine, because his father, whose Marine sergeant Christopher Jacobs, has killed during a training accident in California into that in eleven. I, the EU. You won't see any of this on the news by the way that the media refused to cover anything that trumped does that's unifying or nice and this was unifying at nice and good for president from for doing it. The other I felt great tribute military came from an active do former active duty. Military guy was activity until five minutes ago, general matters who, of course, is the Secretary of defense. He was here over the weekend and one of the new shows about what keeps him awaken. I normally when members of the administration of Alma trump anybody else. When there asked what keeps waken, rightly talk about Russia. They talk about ices, they talk about all the various threats in the world. This is, a stellar answer. What keeps you

wake at night? Nothing, I keep. Other people awake at night a pretty amazing, pretty amazing I love that is so equally, I it was. It was him channeling brand crimson from breaking bag is the one who Knox pretty spectacular stuff. Well, here's the thing Trump has the capacity to unify. He does if he would just pay attention to pay attention to policy. If you just buckle down patriotic rallies go That is why I think on its foreign trip, he gained some points in the estimation of the american public, because you didn't rubber, America badly. He went out there, whose line here I mean there are a lot of people in the media were very upset about him like pushing me the President of Estonia, I guess out of the way or do can a weird handshake with manual mccrone is the present France but in essence, Trump was fine abroad, and that, despite the media, efforts to paint him as some sort of idiot who's gonna make a miracle abortion terrible on the world stage. We'll talk about Europe's reaction to trumpet

the second, because actually Europe that's being really stupid. I will talk about that in a second, but the making here's that Trump is still president with potential at this point in time. Bill Clinton lower approval rating than Donald Trump down. So Trump still has the potential to turn this thing around in order for him to turn. This thing around, though, he's going to need start acting in ways that aren't vague. What I mean by that- is that the big controversy over the weekend was this controversy over jarred cushion adjourn questioner is forced from son in law. Journalists are really has no business being part of the government and sighed braked folks, but juridical schaffner is not qualified to be in government. He spent no time at all in his life thinking about government thing thou governance, he is a stock guys stock market Wall Street Guy, who, happens to be married to the president's daughter and suddenly is in charge of Middle EAST peace, the opium crisis, the infrastructure plan, and all these other things, from doesn't want to deal with again. If ITALY, when it does the same thing with Chelsea husband, we'd all be saying. This is ridiculous in every sense of the word, Trump has given up power, degenerate and now jarred got trumped or than trouble because they're all these

lorries breakin over the weekend, I wanna deconstruct them and break them down. The media is making more of them than they are, but from Shouldst move on beyond jarred cushion, who is a New York leftist? Who has no business in government, so here's what broke over them on Thursday, NBC News Report that Jericho sure, why is subject scrutiny in the FBI's ongoing Russia probably talked about this on Thursday. It makes no difference because again, there's no element that says that he is actually guilty. Of anything at this point. So so what so he's is owed their looking at him? Not a big deal, then, on Friday, the Washington Post drops I shall read: they report the cushions and the russian ambassador surgically Achan Slate has a good run down of this, the real leftist, but this is basically just straight reporting, therefore, that cushions, and russian ambassador saga kiss, like discuss, setting up my secret communications back channel, between the Trump transition, seen team and the Kremlin. In December. In March, the White House did she had met, but the post sources say the FBI. Took an interest in what was discussed and

apparently right after that, you, commissioner, had a meeting with the head of a russian Putin Run bank. Basically right about the same time, the tell him. The Washington Post report damning is not that they are setting up a channel lots of president set up back channels with other countries, for negotiation purposes, because they don't want every negotiation to be out in the open, it's important to be able to pick up the phone and have talks with people the World Well, if areas ones that should have drawn more scrutiny was in two thousand, a Brok Obama set up a bad channel with the iranian government, which really have drawn scrutiny, should prevented him from being elected. If we didn't have our heads up our box, but you know that Back channels are certainly common in american politics. The problem with this back here Is that, according to the Washington Post- and this is under dispute now, Fox NEWS said that it really go to this way than your time centre can confirm the Washington Post Expire reporting, the White House not denied this cushion or a pair We asked the russian Ambassador Kisyak if the back channel could involve walking over to the russian Embassy and speaking in Paris. Into Kisyak and using basically methods of communal.

Nation from the russian Embassy back to Vladimir Putin. Now that is actually suspicious. So, if that's true that problem Why would you want to set up what is basically what they call skiff which is a a secure, a secure income. Our mental ized area, where intelligence can't get it viewed from russian Embassy loud. You want that the russian KGB, the efforts be. Why would you? Why would you want? why would you want to set the efforts? Be, could monitor your communications by the USA? Could not that is suspicious in that's a problem, but again that has not been, confirmed and their suspicion that may be, the Russians are leaking that out there just to make trouble. So we don't have confirmation on that. It is notable White House is not formally denied that yet then on Saturday, Reuters, reporting cushion or had made undisclosed contacts of closely at between April in November of last year. It sources the to discuss terrorism in economic relations between the Eu S in Russia. On Sunday, the New York Times reported commissioner, was among the voices pushing trump to fire. James call me and Monday, the New York Times reported that could,

met in December with Putin Associate Sergei Gorka was the head of that Russian Bank. I was talking about subject you sanctions in the interests of establishing a back channel with the Kremlin. That's a weird report also because Gorka is not a political actor he's. Actually, the financial actors, that's very weird way of setting up a batch house. It's the way the bat channel was set up, that's a little bit. Suspicious and the fact that they didn't report any of these contacts in first place which they could have done in confidential classified settings. Now the answer to this is basically one of two things one is there are setting some sort of back channel because they don't trust american intelligence, not leak. That's quest they considering that America, intelligence has been unbelievably leaky ever since Trump took office, It's also a little bit suspicious again because the- people at intelligence, whatever you ass, you say about them. David French makes this point at least they take an oath to protect and defend the constitution. You can't say the same about the Let be everytime up here. When the various believes the various intend I go, efforts be before CIA.

But defends number. One is that defence number two is just ignorance that georgian nobody was doing. You want to set up a secure back channel where he couldn't be bond and so he walked into the russian embassy and wanted something done there, and he proposed this kind of off the top of his head cause. You done them that is possibility number two and possibility number three that there's actual corruption going on. So here's the way this played out over the weekend, James Clapper two former of the CIA, under President Obama he hears over and over and over. He has no evidence of collusion between the trunk team and the Russians body says warning. Light was on regarding russian collusion with you from a theoretical standpoint. I will tell you that my dad toward morning. Light was clearly on, and I think that was the case with all the city and tells us can be very concerned about- the nature of these approaches to the Russians? Ok, so that the one that left ITALY is leaning on the right is leaning on a fact. He says he has no evidence of collusion. Both can

true you can be suspicious and you can also see there's no evidence as yet general on Kelly's the head of the Department of Homeland Security- and he said they know- should be worried about setting up these dat channels. Everybody has that channels. What's the big deal anyway, that you can commuter communicate, with people critically, organizations that maybe not, but to be friendly to US It is a good thing in Ghana comes to whatever the communication is comes back into the government and shared across the government, So it's it's! It's not a bad thing to have multiple communication lines to any. Ok, but they then he was asked well about using russian Embassy in Eden, really emigrate, answer to that we'll get to more reactions, the cushion her story in what I really think is going on in just second the first and want to say thank you to our sponsors over Legacy Box so, as I say, frequently

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We have no idea of its true. Let's say it is true. Isn't too the problem. Here, the accusation here that there were some collusion during the campaign with the Russians? What everyone agrees? If the story is true, it occurred after the campaign during the transition. So unless there's some nefarious can action Here- version connection to the world, what was alleged to have happened during the campaign? And, lastly, we find you bob. Child connections with adversaries for generations, Henry Kissinger had them with the Russians and the chinese Hilary had a bag channel to establish the opening of negotiations with the Iranian in what ended up as the Iranian Nuclear Deal and Morocco Bhamo with Cuba. It's absolutely not yet, and the negotiations with Canada occurred in secret in occurred in Canada in secret. Our negotiations with the Cubans. This,

happens all the time. I don't quite understand where the crime either, then it's another peace that has Russia and the headline people in a headline and thus is supposed to be scandalous. Show me: ok, I greet round him. I don't see what scandalous about the story. It's not really standing up to scrutiny overtime. However, when I talk about why it is that Americans are growing such diverging conclusions from the hip behaviour of the Trump Administration and how Trump can help cure some of the media in the media are not going to let go of it, but also about can do to get past this because it will dog him, regardless of who you blame, is going to continue to jog him until we come to some sort of realistic conclusion on all of the south. In order for you to hear about it, so you're gonna have to go to daily wire dot a subscribers over eight dollars a month. Daily wire and you become a subscriber, a a daily dailies if you're already enormously

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I think that's happening right now is that we have a in attempt by everyone in the political world to buckle down in their own bubbles. Will we talk before about the idea that their bubbles in politics in it we tend to India can confirmation biased, whatever bats our position we tend to? We turned back whatever. Doesn't we tend to ignore and this Russia story is a perfect example of this. If you start with the premise that Donald Trump is corrupt and that the Russians were helping out Trump, Then all of the evidence lines up in favour of that theory. If you start from the premise that Trump is an amateur he's learning as he goes. He makes mistakes he dumb things, but there's no abbot, if anything going on here, then only lines up with that as well, and we need to acknowledge the vagueness in the evidentiary line in order for us to sort of understand where this goes from years of ISA, from the premise that seventeen Belgians agencies that the Russians were involved in the election cycle and that they wanted Hillary Clinton to be damage by these revelations from Wikileaks and by the hacking of

see and the stealing of John presses emails and all of this, then you look at a line of evidence that looks like us, Michael Flynn, was trumps, close adviser and deeply, I'll do the Russians was getting money from Russia today, due to dinner, where he sat next to Vladimir Putin. He was also involved that the turkish government, its get made a half million dollars from turkish government or in point sixteen election cycle and then was sitting about his conversations with ambassador surrogate cautiously act. Front of my parents, making pence go out there and make a fool of himself down from campaign. Manager was Paul Manifold, whose early, very dirty guy, no man corporate new one of metaphor sort of emissaries. He approached me and two thousand two thousand thirteen, because you want to write a bunch of stuff about Ukraine in favour of the then pro russian dictator, gonna Kovich. I decline any pay on those grounds. I thought that I am not willing to write stuff that I don't believe for pay so

do you wanna call which in any case, but talked about his opponent to machine cup. But the point is the guy who approached me sad manner, forts in bed with the Russians in bed with the Ukrainians, basically point, is the guy who approached me said man, efforts in bed with the Russians in bed with Ukrainians, basically and he's making tons of money in there's lots of money being made in this particular ass. A metaphor been dirty and been in bed with the Russians for a long time I so this campaign manager. Is it possible that he was working the Russians in order to benefit trump and from either knew that didn't know about it. Yeah, it's possible Carter, page one from form policy advisers was apparently being recruited by the Russians, as some sort of winning agent in all of this, and then the Trump in dreams. Call me and then saying it was too it was to prevent pressure, Russia, investigation from continually making about wants the rush investigation to shut down all of it. If you, The premise the trunk is guilty all the lines up with the conclusion that Trump is guilty. Now here's We are on the right thing. There's no evidence that many collusion

she was going to Russia was doing. We still don't have any hard evidence that trumps people were talking with the Russians about shifting the election cycle. We have no evidence. Certainly, the trump himself was involved in this trumpets. Very frustrated trump is angry from us. We stand why it is the people are doing what they're doing and slander. He's good name as he sees in so he There's call me because he's frustrated. They call me. Won't you say the truth, which is there is no evidence, he's anger, intelligence community, because the intelligence community keeps leaking smoke worth is no fire he's angry because during cushioned is being unfairly malign over story in which commissioner may or may not have sought some sort of back channel communications. But who cares its vat channel? medication. Now how does the cushion restore if it and so the right says they saw a crowd? Hammer says with no story here also, if cushioned setting up a back channel now, then wouldn't that sort of say that their no collusion before right. Why set up about general now, if you're really hated channel eternal after what you say is that's not really good argument. The fact is that pushing are probably didn't think that is and what was going on in the presidency. He may have had some sort of communicate

with the Russians about finances, but once is TAT his father in law, one then to set up a really really secure back channel, because now he's gonna be under a lot more scrutiny. It was day of his father in law had lost, and I wouldn't made much of a difference. Everybody would just ignored the rest of it because who cares Hilary one after we want It was time to set up a more back channel negotiation, so no proof that they had been talking earlier asked. The left would say so again. The point here is that you can do, two very different narrative from the same sort of facts, depending on the premise that you're using- and so I would suggest, is that we each put aside whatever premise we're using and we let the Evidence- fall where it may. There's not enough evidence right now to see Trump. Russia collusion there's not enough evidence now what trump off the hook further Trump Russia stuff there's doesn't the way the trunk could fix. This is by stop acting suspiciously. And what I mean by that is that frustration, is leading him to make impetuous decisions that don't reflect well on him and that's hurting him and what I would suggest a president trump is just goes went on this stuff every time, there's airports, it listen, Robert dealers in charge

there's a full investigation of all of this going on. If impropriety is found will deal with it. I am not responsible for impropriety. My campaign was not responsible for impropriety and we are confident that after Robert Mueller does the full stick, then you will find there's nothing wrong here, including on resources sources all day, giving a vague information that is unconformably, but many deny what I want to deny it, I'm not going to comment on all the rest until the investigation is finished, because that's why we have a special investigative why the deputy attorney general right, Rosen, seen set up a special investigator. All of this stuff can buzz about it. You can talk about it, but in the end, let's get back to the business of the american people. Instead, Trump is going on Twitter and he's fulminating about the fake news, which makes them look anger. So from the right. We say: will you angry because genuinely angry from what they say he's angry, because he doesn't want to get caught and he's peeved about it, so the best thing trunk reduced maybe the one thing he won't, which is just outside. Went on this stuff and allow investigation to go forward, because what he's doing now breathing oxygen into the room. Now, with all this going on it also obvious that the media

an extraordinary way there. Their focus on suppose it from Russia collusion when there's no evidence as James Clapper there's no evidence of yet prudence of yet of trust Russia collusion is amazing. There are there and also to make Trump into something. Disaster on the world stage is really over. The top trump made Not only made alembic mistakes on this on this foreign policy trip. I think that the NATO meat was not great. Did the g7 meat was not great. His big mistake there is, come out. He should have full scale, embraced article five, worn Putin about article five, basically, If you're a member of NATO, we will defend you, he sort of edged around it. General matters went up and cleaned up his work after him and said: or it will stand by article five. Everything is hunky dory, but he should have said more if it gets for this and John Mccain Senator Mccain, who I don't love for a lot of reasons, but on this is correct. He says the Vladimir Putin is illegal but on this is correct. He says the Vladimir Putin is a bigger and bigger we'll both recognizes, and we should take that seriously, how much of

to global security. Do you consider the russian President, Vladimir Putin? I thank you. The premier and import and threat more so than ISIS. I think ISIS can do terrible things. And I worry a lot about what is happening with the muslim faith. And I worry about a whole lot of things about it, but the Russians who are trying who tried to destroy the very fundamental of democracy, and that is to change the outcome of an american elections. I see no evidence, they succeeded, but they try. And they are still trying. They are still trying to change. Elections just tried to affected come on the french election, so actually I view Vladimir Putin, whose dismembered Ukraine a sovereign nation whose pressure on the Baltic. I view the Russians as far as the Far EAST the challenges that we have is to be a friend who a terrorist act, but they certainly are threatened terms with global security. Here, something that people need to understand. I think

trot misunderstand the setting matters, does understand this America strength on the world stage, why more of the world is free. It is why you have nice things. Okay, the fact is that we do not participate in global foreign policy be, as we just feel like sacrificing american blood and treasure. It's because the car that you do I've as a result of the foreign policy that we have pursued the fact that the word the western world lives under the Umbrella of american security is of benefit to american citizens. The fact that you're drunk in a Bmw right now and not at the behest of Adolf Hitler is because of american foreign policy, the reason that you are engaged with with japanese products. The reason that the parts in your phone are made in south korea- this is all because the umbrella of american security. American security has provided the the necessary preconditions for global trade, more freedom at home and abroad, because the fact is that mere an American under America under siege is a less free America. In times of war, America

it's less free. This is true on everything, from surveillance under the Bush administration to determine under after whenever America is free. That requires us to be muscular on the global stage. Vladimir Putin, is that muscular parity and when he goes out there and he dismember sovereign nations, America sphere of influence, grow. Smaller more nations fall into the sway of people like Vladimir Putin. You may think that has no impact on you, but the fact is, it does have an impact in terms of the products that you buy in the in terms of the job that you have in front of the growth of the global economy. Things like this matter, if you're about your job, the lot, thing you need is for more markets to be shutting their doors to America, which is one of the things Lattimer Putin would like pursue. In the last thing you It is for China to increase its sphere of influence in the South Pacific, swallowing up nations in trade agreements that were not privy to that's a lie, sing. You need, if you're a company that seeking to grow on the world's agenda, where all afraid being our computer, but the fact is America. How can reach everybody? Our economies, the size of the rest of the global economy combined? This notion that

Erika is is somehow on the ropes and that if we engage in trade or we engage in global foreign policy, that a hurt us just stupid, wherein were inestimably more rich right? than we were nineteen, forty five we're, difficult, more rich. Now, the world. Nineteen. Seventeen and idea that, though we can treat from the world stage. Potent can fill the gap that Chinese, the gap and ever we'll be hunky. Dory is just not true, and this is why I think that it's important that we recognise when it comes Things like NATO. Can NATO isn't just about? We have, we're gonna. Do we have to send our people die in far off lands like Estonia in order to preserve some sort of status quo ante? That's not what this is this is about the guarantees that weep by to NATO, are in our interest the trunk is very mad that all these people are paying two percent in the NATO fund. Ok, that's fair! I think it's fair to pressure them to pay more into NATO, The fact is, NATO is in our interest. Ok, it's because of NATO that we have a largely disarmed Germany, it's because of you know that we have a largely disarmed Western Europe in Eastern Europe is because we have.

These and bases in Japan. The Japan is not rearm between why Japan doesn't have a nuclear weapon. These are good things. Ok, it's good that America has more power. Or because, even if there is a country that we like, like Germany, if Germany has how did you bad things? That's not going to be great for us, because they may not agree with us K Us filling. The gap does just Minos filling the gap in terms of preventing our enemies from rising, it also means the people who we consider our erstwhile friends. We don't control their foreign policy good for us to control some of their foreign policy and other isolationist. You think that it's bad, it does not bad. The fact is that we, more blood and treasure in the first half of the twentieth century than we have any other foreign entanglements, and since then, we ve spent far less why because we don't have to engage in two world wars and that's because of american influence abroad, but that's it that's why things we're gonna, let every getting lost in the trees with regard to what NATO nation

pay, but I don't really care that much of Estonia pays one point: seven percent of its budget to two of GDP to defence, or if Germany has one point, five percent would be better if they pay to yet of course, is that a key issue in foreign policy. No, it's not a key issue in foreign policy. Now that said, I The Europeans are being stupid in their own way. We'll talk about that just second, but first I want to say thank you tore sponsors over at I was Eugene yourself. Do you have life insurance piece of you? Don't you need it? Ok, you need life insurance. Personal level on a business level I had to live Europe's policies, one for my family. We have one for the company as well, which gives my partners incentives here, if our ratings go down, but in any case life insurance is a great way to pay tat the people around you, but the bay in the best way to get a great palace with the best services over policy genius tat com near the best online life insurance market place. They give you the most accurate quotes from the top a rated life insurance companies they play for five billion dollars in life insurance for people. Like you, never licence. Customer service team tell me find the best policy at the best price.

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he's trying to drive a hard bargain with the Europeans for his political base and Angela Merkel. Hang on the leader, France. They are trying to show that their independent of Trump before their unpolluted Basic angler Merkel comes out and she says we're on our own. We don't need trump anymore. We're gonna have to act like were like were the great defenders of of Europe on the sixth Hercules on a times when we completely count on others, they are over to a certain extent Merrick. I have experienced this in the last few days, Ngos, and that is why I can only say that we are clearly must really take our fate into our own hands. Ok, so here is the reality when she says stuff like this, it is so intensely stupid. It is so intensely stupid. One of the reasons that it is so intensely stupid, is because she is still going to need our help. Ok, Donald Trump is a is a mercurial guy and taking Donald Trump after for your own domestic consumption. Just for your own pride is really credibly stupid it's incredibly stupid, because the fact is that the Russian Republic has a

There are significantly more powerful. There is significantly more powerful than the then, the german military aid like by an enormous extent, by a huge, huge extent. Ok, Russia is right there. They are ranked, I believe, number two in terms of in terms of global general military strength in terms of global fight, However, I believe that that Russia is number two on the planet if you look at, if you look at Russia, verses, Germany. I believe that Russia out ranks Germany, by a factor of like ten to one in terms of aircraft. Germany's right number, nine in terms of global military, so in our available russian seventy million people available Germany, as thirty seven million people available in time, of aircraft. Russia has thirty eight hundred aircraft available this from global firepower. Dotcom Germany Six hundred. Ninety eight aircraft together dramatically drama equally outnumber in terms of helicopters, their outnumbered fourteen hundred

The three hundred seventy five in terms of attack helicopters outnumbered for her ninety two, forty seven in terms of fighter craft, their outnumbered eight hundred and six to ninety two. So Germany has allowed us to pick up the slack four years. So here's the thing when it comes two German, not spending two percent of GDP other or military. There are the ones who lose because of right be ready. German Germany who fall so its Germany's own fault. They did this then drawing away from front just because they want to prove to people their independent and strong roots, stupid, they should be making overtures to trump their shooting ourselves in the foot. Basically, it's a lot of stupid people on foreign policy, doing a lot of stupid things over and over and over again, ok time for some things I like some things that I hate. So what's good things I like so I want to talk about the the problems at present from talked about in in Riyadh. A little bit ago Depend of modernizing Islam. How do we get past radical Islam really info in book out by Christine Douglas wounds and incomes out next month. It's called the challenge of modernizing Islam. I read this over

we gonna two series of interviews with islamic reformers. These are people who ve been threatened with death for the crime of her. Spoken out against radical fundamentalist islamic people include people exuded, jasper and traffic, Hamid and he'll rise up and there asked have questions about the Koran. And what it says in how they read verses that are the to interpret in a decent way and and then the last hundred pages are so is all about how to modernize Islam that Islam can enter the modern world. This is the big challenge because much we talk about military firepower in fighting the terrorists, does that. Islam is the fastest growing religion on the planet, and they continue to convert p at an astounding rate of one point, five billion Muslims on planet earth there's gonna be need. Some needs to be some. Some rare Reshafting inside Islam and people to do. It are some people who talk in this book, the challenge modernizing Islam is from encounter books having its available next month, so go out and check it out. Ok, other things that I, like, ok, so There is a out there pretty crazy. So in Texas

there was a red. There was a rally against Senate built which is a new law signed earlier this month and imposing penalties on sanctuary cities during the protests about The illegal immigrant protesters showed up and started chanting shouting and in threatening people and republican representative Matt Rinaldi claim that he called ice, on the floor. He said: ok, you're, all legal immigrants, ices coming for you, which of course meant that a democratically crazy and here's looking to table that the recent meeting in sending invasion in translation services and at that point, one of Democrats written to shoot him if he's demonstrates which side democratic element of homesickness, I like clarifying events. This particularly is clarifying about ok time for a good thing,

I hate, so I could with his life also when I decided not to do so the so lesson in case. You will not watching others again between the San Francisco Giants in Washington Nationals and Bryce heart? for it is one that all players in the majors one of the youngest players ever to hit many home runs, as he has terrific, terrific glare and hunters. Stricklin was the pitcher for San Francisco giants in the class couple years ago. High Harper hit a couple home, runs off of Strickland the game yesterday Strickland absolutely plant them, and it was clear that that he that he threw him on purpose and harbour charges, the mound and baseball fight. I put this stuff, I hate just because baseball fights are always kind of a cross between the hip ballet in Fantasia and a hockey fight, which is to say their fight, but they have none, the actual damaging power or skill or the hockey fight where people actually go, not each other's d. That and you will, see that here thirty years be others here,

that is cool when a great job and Hunter Strickland out here, Wego Harper's charging about- oh, my goodness, their bad. At this meeting, the only There are limits to couple great baseball fights in in baseball history. One of them was, of course, that fight between the Texas injuries in France, a blue Jays last year, where everybody suggestion Clark, those initially oclock an odour. Order, is a slap in the face. Really got in a solid right crossed. It do I to bodies is draw thou solid, baseball fight. This is about, is better baseball fighters you'll see. First of all, you Bryce Harbour Play baseball profession, we're gonna, throw helmeted somebody you should really attempt to throw it in their generals, and then just the amount of boy band that's happening during this baseball fight is pretty astounding. General clicks about ten seconds. Long look where he throws this

I mean there's a guy to secondary, thereby Enderley. These guys are about many can really her each other if they tried, but that's the best was We don't have to table it, but just a marsh those picture for the for the giants. Happily, he comes out of the Bolton. And he runs into his own. Garlic is way too enthusiastic, and so just like rats right into his own back again baseball phase that like hockey fights, except that the danger or skill involved us that's pretty excellence ok final point and then we'll, and they will come up Dan rather has. Since I or do president tromp asking him to condemn what happened over the weekend when there is a guy who was shouting racial slurs, muslim girl and she He's got up and tried to defend, some girl any step, two of them death. Third guy Was- was really deeply wounded, and so rather wants to make. It seem like this fault, even though the guy who committed the atrocity was, if apparent either Bernie Sanders guides

started. I apparently just crazy. I mean that's really if you read its base proposed he's, obviously just enough, but the idea here is that the left is to create a counter narrative where the right is creating all sorts of violence in the three, this fascist violence against Muslims. It's not true, but the left instead of reckoning with the fact that radical Islam is threat. Instead, they decide that is actually the right. That's the deepest threat to America in order to promulgate that they ve, taken this situation in Portland and try to save he's the outgrowth of the particular ideology. The Trump is pushing. There is about the algae that avoids supremacy. But Trump is not actively pushing end. To pretend that he is is to be ignorant and and disingenuous about politics. Ok, so we'll be back here. Right, because, tomorrow and Thursday, our both jewish holidays. So try to take care of yourself, for that is when the Jews receive the tourism will be celebrating. That will be back on Friday with the mail bag and plenty more I mentioned here, this is the bench appear: Russia,