Former State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus joins ‘Fox and Friends’ to discuss U.S.-Russia relations under the Biden administration.
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Brian, I will send it to you,
Brian thanks so much Jillian
as a push for the probe of the
origins of the coast pandemic
intensifies Fox NEWS, confirming
the effort launched under
President Trump to get those
answers and investigate the
Wuhan lab leak. Theory was shut
down by the Biden
administration
here to react. Former state
department spokesperson during
those times, Morgan Ortagus,
you knew about this Morgan.
We knew about this theory for
a long time.
I think its still a theory
right.
There is nothing proven,
but what we do know is that we
should never believe the first
thing that the Chinese Communist
Party tells us.
We should approach it with a ton
of skepticism and why so? Many
really smart journalists and
scientists and others just
wanted to rush, including the
w dot HO wanted to rush to
believe whatever the Chinese
Communist Party
Brian Morgan, but specifically
specifically MIKE Pompeo,
launched an investigation on his
own
right
Brian, some Sty bypass the
bureaucracy holding it up and
stopped by this state department.
Here is a quote:
we have concerns about the
quality of its work.
Thats, an insult
yeah,
especially because the people
that Secretary Pompeo would have
been using for an investigation
are career. Diplomats are
intelligence professionals.
He wasnt using political
appointees for this type of
thing,
its insulting to the career
people who work on these probes,
Brian yeah.
It hurts us because we dont
have an answer and he is
depending on the w dot ho and
other investigators to find out.
He doesnt seem to care
a joke.
Brian lets fast forward to
Russia
June 16th announced a summit in
Switzerland,
Vladimir Putin and President
Biden,
despite the fact that they it
completed the pipeline on Nord
Stream, two no longer stopping
that thats going to bypass
Ukraine and go through Western
Europe,
so we militarily protect them
from Russia,
but they are now glued to
Russia.
Thanks to oil and gas,
despite the fact that the hack
that destroyed our EAST coast
oil flow came from within their
borders, despite the fact that
theyre will bullying us out of
the Artic,
we still look to meet. Do
we have any standards?
You know you just gave an
excellent summary of whats
going on.
Let me also add to that Brian.
We have the Inf treaty, which the
Biden administration
automatically renewed when they
come in
at the end of the Trump
Administration, through Marshall
Billingsley, we were trying to
get the Chinese on board.
We were trying to renegotiate
that treaty and not just give it
a blanket renewal, five years
thats what the Biden
administration gave them another
pass on a treaty that they were
probably violating. You know
the Biden administration keeps
saying that they want
predictability and stability in
the relationship with Russia.
I dont know what that means
from a foreign policy
progressive when we saw that
Russia may be amassing troops
again in Ukraine,
Biden had two warships turn
around headed toward the black
sea.
All I see is concession after
concession after concession to
the Russians.
I dont know what Putin has done
to deserve this meeting,
nor I do understand what the
Biden administration wants out
of Russia out of Putin
other than just to sort of get
them out of their hair and get
them off the world stage, which
you know Putin is never going
to agree to.
So I would like to understand
from the Biden administration
what in the world they hope to
get out of this.
They conceded on every major
issue that they could with
Russia leading up to this event,
so that its going to be, I
guess we will see
Brian by the way Navalny
almost died a couple of days
ago.
He has come up against him,
so we have no problem with that.
Evidently
also Ally Belarus, just forced a
plane down and arrested a couple
of journalists.
Vladimir Putin has to okay all
that stuff.
It doesnt seem to matter.
We will see what happens on June next, a Hollywood star mark
next, a Hollywood star mark
Gravel1500Palestinians face Exnu
Jerusalem,
two hundred protesters injured
nine children being killed.
Sanctions on South Africa helped
free black people, time upon
sanctions to on Israel free the
Palestinians join the call
all of a sudden it realizing
its leading to the
anti Semitism fervor. He tweeted this story
whats your reaction to this
whats, your reaction to this
exchange
yeah. I thought at least he
apologized.
It was pretty ignorant a lot of
his statements. They were just
factually incorrect.
He apologized, which is more than
we get out of some of the
extremist leaders in the
Democratic Party,
AOC Tlaib and others who make
anti semitic statements
at one point in time. They were
actually held accountable when
they first started this a few
years ago, when they were
elected,
Nancy Pelosi had them. Apologize
talked about Anti Semitism in
the party and that has since
been gone by the wayside.
You see that they tweet and say
these sort of things, and there
is no accountability.
So you know actors should
really if they want an education,
foreign policy, education. I would
be more than happy to help them
understand.
You have a terrorist entity in
Hamas that is attacking our
ally.
You have Abbas who has not held
elections for fifteen years.
All these people want to talk
about helping the Palestinians.
I have a whole list of things
that I could talk to you about
helping the Palestinians,
starting with asking Abbas why
you canceled elections for the
first time in fifteen years,
simply because he thought that
he was going to lose them
right.
What are these terrorist
entities doing to help the
palestinian people
the Trump administration? You
may not have liked our policy
towards Israel and the
palestinian people,
but we have a conference
in Baha, Ba Bahrain to try to get
palestinian show the palestinian
people what it would be like to
have a brighter future.
I havent seen any of these sort
of recommendations or policies
coming out other than the Biden
administration is saying that
they are going to give more
money to the palestinian areas
to rebuild which they senior
state department. Official
admitted may go to Hamas over
the past few days.
If you really care about them.
Lets talk about democracy.
Lets talk about elections
lets talk about real reform,
Brian. We are out of time, but
Hamas controls Gaza.
If you are going to rebuild Gaza,
money is going to Hamas.
Dont pretend its going to the
Palestinian Authority who are
useless, as is Abbas
a ridiculous meeting with
someone who calls himself a.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-09.