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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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All right, we begin tonight's discussion with several reminders of
just Howen's stable the world has become in the final
days of Joe Biden's presidency. Western official saints tonight they
are investigating whether the Russian air defense systems brought down
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a jagliner of civilians from Azerbrajan. It's the latest and
a long line of casualties in the three year war
that has rocked Europe. Meanwhile, Israel launched a massive offensive
today designed to degrade the capabilities of the Iran back
Hooti rebels, I call them terrorists actually, who have terrorized
the Middle East shipping lanes for months now. And Finland
will It just announced it's boarded an oil tanker it
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believes is part of a secret effort by Russia to
cut underseas internet and phone cables, disrupting communications to Western countries.
We're going to keep a close eye on all three
of those hotspots tonight. Meanwhile, State Department in US Intel
documents published today by Just the News outlined fresh concerns
that the rebels who ousted Syrian strongman Bashar all us
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Out a few weeks ago have long concerned American officials
because of deep ties to terrorism groups like al Qaeda
and ISIS and the Al Nazra front. The document show
US intelligence believes the rebel group known as HTS, which
now has effective control of Damask, has engaged in killings, bombings, torture, kidnapping,
and even the forced military enlistment of children. All these
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are in violation of human rights standards, according to the documents.
Now US has considered htsa terrorist group for about a decade.
Now you can check out those documents over as the
News and see exactly why that is and why there's
a lot of concern about what lies ahead for that country.
We're going to go We're going to dive deeper into
those issues in a second, starting with our first guest,
former Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coats. But first check
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with my amazing co host, Amanda Headero's down in Alabama. Amanda,
how are you happy day after Christmas?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yes, Happy Boxing Day. As you know, I'm married to
a commonwealthaer and so those folks, the Brits and the
Canadians and the Australians celebrate Boxing Day, So happy Boxing
Day to everyone. Yes, I'm looking to looking forward to
talking to Victoria Coats because I know that the situation
in Syria is not black and white, but there certainly
seems to be a lesser to evil scenario going on.
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It's just whether or not we can trust the voices
coming out of HTS as far as what they want
to do being the opposition to Bashar al Assad and
if things will actually improve there. So I'm looking forward
to chatting with her.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, so much going on. Favorite moment for me. On
Christmas Day, America First League put out some new photos
Amanda Joe Biden with Hunter Biden meeting President She in
twenty thirteen. That said famous December twenty thirteen trip where
Hunter Biden went on air Force to met his business partners.
There his father met with the business partners. We now
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have confirmed, justin news reporting visually photographically, that Joe Biden
did in fact bring his son. There you go, Hunter
Biden to meet with President she at that point, the
brand new leader of China. Pretty odd for a father
and president that bring their son along for such a
trip when other higher ranking US officials might have benefited
from the relationship. But that is just how the Biden
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family did their work over the few years. We'll be
able to ask a lot of folks about that. But
you're seeing those pictures today and.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So supposally within the eleven year pardon window.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, exactly, that actually falls outside the pardon window too much. Yeah,
December twenty thirteen. Maybe maybe Joe biden't have to go
back and amend that after these photos came out. But
fun little factor I in a confirmation of some of
our reporting here at Real America's Voice and justin News.
All Right, As I mentioned a man at the top
of the show, former Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coach
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is joining us. She right now serves as a vice
president the Heritage Foundation's Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy.
She's on the phone. We're so lucky to have her.
She's got a brand new book out, The Battle for
the Jewish State, How Israel and America can win, very
topical given tonight's actions with Israel. Victoria, Merry Christmas. Good
to have you on the show. Let's see Victoria there,
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can I hear you? See if we got you there?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
There you are? Okay, I lost your first second on audio.
My apologies, No, no, no, good to have you on,
Murray Christmas. I want to start with a little bit
of today's news developments. One of those, really I think
related to your great book. Israel not waiting for other
Western countries to step in the void and degrade the
hoodie rebels, continued military operations. They took it upon themselves
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today to take some pretty big strikes. Good news for
the Western world, bad news for Iran and its rebels.
Your thoughts about what's going on there.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
This is very necessary work that Israel's doing, and we
should have been doing it.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Really for the last four years.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Is the Huji have been menacing commercial shipping through the
Red Sea, and they shot a drone at Tel Aviv yesterday,
you know, on Christmas Day, which happened to be the
first day of Hanuka, and so that was their gift,
was a killer drone shooting toward Tel Aviv in Israel
was like absolutely not. And so instead of kind of
pussy footing around as we've been doing for the last
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four years, they're taking the fight to the Uji. They're
degrading them, and they're going after most importantly john Iranian
assets in Yemen and so the IRGC officers, the supply chains,
that's what the disrupting. So they are literally doing the
Lord's work. We should be thanking them, We should be
helping them.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, we should be helping them.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Victoria, I want to ask you about what's to come
regarding whatever ceasefire conversation is taking place, because what I have,
what I have continuously heard from advocates for Israel is
that any type of ceasefire agreement is really just a
ceasefire for Israel because you rarely have the other side
that is going to comply in this case, at least
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specifically mus But you still have an outstanding one hundred hostages.
So do you anticipate that those are good faith arguments
on the other side, and if so, where does this
end up?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
No, Amanda, there are no good faith arguments on the
other side. And what we've heard of the last twenty
four hours I think is really shocking, which is a
masque cannot provide a list of the living hostages. They
don't know who they are and they don't know where
they are. They've been disturbing reports over the last year
that the hostages have been sold between different rorist groups
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in Gaza. It is primarily Hamas, but certainly not exclusively Hamas.
So that now just said today the right thing, which
is it gets a list first, then we talk about
a ceasefire. What Hamas is saying is give us a
cease fire, then we'll give you then maybe we can
get you a list, which is impossible right now. None
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of that should be the case, and President Trump was
one hundred percent correct. They all come out by inauguration
day or there's hell to pay. That's the message that
they should be getting, not that this is some kind
of negotiated situation right now.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, as is in a good position to negotiate any longer.
It's so degraded. Speaking of President Trump, he had a
rather busy day on social media yesterday. I was amused
watching the media's reaction to it as he talked about
maybe making Canada the fifty first aid, buying Greenland, maybe
reclaiming control of the Panama Canal. A lot of people
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that all these are just musings and and crazy stuff.
But to me, when I look at it and some
of the other things he's been saying, it looks to
me like he's trying to define a new geography for
the defense of America and Western democracies. He's changing the
map and the way we look at the map. Am
I misreading what he's been talking about?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Well, I mean, I don't want to speak for him,
but what I would say, John, is that, yes, he's
talking about Latin America, he's talking about North America. He's
talking about our neighborhood in the Atlantic Ocean. So these
are strategic areas that the United States needs to have
dominant influence over and start with the Panama Canal. That
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was President Reagan. Originally that was the hallmarket this nineteen
seventy six primary campaign. It's ours, we paid for it,
and that is all true. It was President Carter who
subsequently unilaterally gave it back to Panama.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
We pay exorbitant fees.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Meanwhile, Panama has gone into agreements with China for special
economic zones on either side of the canal.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
That's all that has to change.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
And for Canada, I mean, which should be a great
partner to the United States. Hopefully they'll be under new
leadership next month and we can talk about that, but
also a great natural resource producer. With the United States
Canada sort of working in tandem, we could really dominate
world energy markets. And I think that there could be
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all sorts of discussions of what that would look like.
And then finally, Greenland again home to extraordinary natural resources,
and it's a situation where their post government, which is
actually the government of Denmark, would be interested in a
collaborative arrangement with the United States. Think about a ram code,
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for example in Saudi Arabia. How successful that was of
a partnership between Saudi and the United States. The AM
and a RAMCOS stands for America that you can develop
resources that way and keep again keep China out. And
so there are also sort of reasons that the former
and now president elect should be talking about these places.
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These are all direct interests for national security for America.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And thank Kevin, he's doing it.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
For each of these locations. I know it was. Was
it earlier today or yesterday? President Trump announced his appointment
for the ambassador to Panama for each of these locations.
How important is it to have an ambassador who stands
on the same side as the president with respect to
these foreign interests and does that ambassador role play a
huge part in these types of agreements or future relations.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
It's very significant. And up until now, my dear friend
George Blass, who was our ambassador to Portugal and is
going to be our ambassador to Japan, has been in
charge of putting together President Trump's political ambassadors. And Panama
traditionally has been a career foreign service appointment for the
State Department, And if you ask the State Department, they
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will tell you with tears in their eyes, as Amanda,
that this is, you know, a historically career position.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
You can possibly put.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
A political in it, and God bless President Trump and
the people running the transition for saying no, this is
a critical post. That post needs a line back to
the oval, not to the foggy bottom. Thank you very much,
and to the career of bureaucracy at the State, because
we're going to be negotiating some serious things and so
I would love to see a much higher percentage. We
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were blessed by our political ambassadors in the first term.
You think of David Friedman in uh in Jerusalem, you
think of David Fisher in Morocco. These are and John
Recolta in UAE. These are the ambassadors who got us
the Abraham Awards. So they should be putting blind politicals.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Have lost Victoria there a man that I think what
Victoria was talking about is so important, not only disrupting
the map, but disrupting the traditions of the State department
to get better results in these countries where career officials
often having pushed the envelope in the American direction. It
seems that that's where President Trump, I think has gone.
The last two days Christmas was a very busy day
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for President Trump. Was really pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I know, typically this time between Christmas and New year's
at least in the political news space is kind of
no man's land. But President Trump has not allowed.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
There to be a dull moment.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I'm going to be very interested to see what happens
with these ambassador roles, because i mean, like Victoria said,
these are typically positions where you don't hear a ton
of news out of the embassies of foreign countries unless
it's in a conflict zone. So President Trump having these
new ideas putting them out there on Twitter. I mean,
we all saw the pushback from the leader of Panama
with regards to the Panama Canal. There are going to
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be fireworks flying all the way up until January twentieth,
and then even more so after. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Well, folks, I'm sorry we lost Victoria there. But she's
got this fantastic book. If you haven't grabbed it, it
is a must read if you want to understand what's
going on on. Why net Yahoo himself, the Prime Minister
of Israel, went out on his own. It's called the
Battle for the Jewish State. How Israel and America can win?
I think what Victoria just said really summarized great. One
of the big points in her book. Israel is doing
the work that the US was afraid to do in
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the Middle East. They're making the region more safe with
its war against Hesbelahamas and the Hoodies. All right, we're
going to have more in just a few minutes, including
about those houstages we were talking about talking about in Gaza.
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