 Good afternoon everybody. Hope you're having a great afternoon and You know, he had a good Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving my favorite American holiday It's a celebration. What's Thanksgiving about? It's a celebration of the abundance that we have it's to give thanks To this abundance and where it comes from. Where does the abundance come from? It comes from hard work It comes from from the fact that people go out there and they make and they build and they create stuff And then they trade it's it's a celebration of capitalism. It's a celebration of free markets and trade And and it I always give thanks to to the people who make that possible to the people who work hard to the businessmen to the companies to the entrepreneurs Who make all the stuff that we consume who you know to put the chicken on the table the turkey on the table? I mean that requires a whole industry a whole business. Oh gross. He's still chain Capitalism is wonderful and and Thanksgiving and Christmas are both kind of celebrations. I actually like the commercialism and Christmas I love the gift buying in the presence and the lights and the just the atmosphere There's kind of material and kind of pro-capitalist kind of shopping is a good thing You know living a good life and enjoying it and eating good food and Spending the time with family and friends and you know just enjoying life so These are very uniquely American holidays Thanksgiving in the way we celebrate Christmas here very uniquely American that that celebration of life that embracing material well-being embracing wealth embracing a good meal and and Gifts and family and friends and just having a good time love it Love it. Love it. So I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving You know last last week we started going over and started discussing some of Trump's nominations And and I want to continue that this week and talk a little bit about his kind of font policy people He's so far appointed that we still don't have the biggies We don't have secretary state and we don't have the defense secretary But we do have the national security advisor We have the deputy national security advisor the CIA director you and US ambassador to the United Nations So we have kind of an outline of where the Trump administration is going with farm policy and who are some of the key Advisors key thinkers. They're gonna be help help this administration of framing Their farm policy going forward and and so I'd like to comment You know to discuss some of these appointments and then we'll see if we have time to discuss any of the others But and also in this context, I'd like to talk about What the United States on policy should be I mean, it's one thing to say American first But how does that manifest itself? Well, it should be a farm policy with regard to Iran What is Donald Trump probably going to do with the Iranians? What about Russia? What about ISIS? What about terrorism generally? How do we deal with Syria and the refugees and everything? So I want to at least hint at some of the answers to those questions We'll see how much time we get you know as we discuss these candidates I think we'll get a better picture of my point of view on these issues and my view of what Donald Trump is Ultimately gonna do About these issues if you want in on the conversation 312 64256 zero zero three one two six four two five six zero zero. What do you think about? Trump so far his nominations his appointments so far particularly when it comes to farm policy How do you think Donald Trump is gonna deal with the Iranians? How do you think he's gonna deal with the Russians? What should we do in Syria? All right, give me a call. Let's talk about it. All right, so let's let's start and now funny thing is I know some of the people Who being appointed I've met Michael Flynn and I met Kathleen McFarland So I've met them both Spent some time with both a little bit not I don't know them well But have have a bit of a sense of of them and you know, Michael Flynn is an impressive guy I mean, this is somebody who was military intelligence. So I don't know how much you guys know of my background now I you know, I'm not a general but I was an in military intelligence and Israeli military intelligence between 1980 1982 so I was I was in in Beirut in 1982. So I know a little bit not a lot, but I know a little bit about You know intelligence the military about what it's like to fight in the Middle East that I know something about What it's like what it's what the enemy is like. I suddenly know a lot about that But Flynn comes from a definitely a An intelligence. He was the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency usually fired from that role by by personal Obama and You know and in his since being a consultant, but I've seen her speak I've had a chance to talk to him I haven't read his book which which I probably should at this point And I think you guys should to really understand but but this is this is where see Flynn's strength, I mean clearly coming from an intelligence background in the Middle East He was in Iraq. He's been in Afghanistan. He had it up by intelligence Efforts vis-a-vis ISIS He knows the enemy. He knows who the enemy is. He knows the enemy. He knows the enemy is not just ISIS. He understands That that what's going on in the Middle East and I you know I've talked to him and and I've seen him speak about the threat that Iran poses But also the threat that Saudi Arabia poses our Saudi Arabia is not really our friend The Saudi Arabia is very much behind much of what's going on in the Middle East and much of the radicalization I think he understands that ISIS needs to be crushed In order to have a lasting impact. I think we're gonna defeat ISIS here shortly But they're gonna be crushed and unless you crush them They're just gonna find somewhere else. They're gonna pop up somewhere else. They're gonna Morph just like al-Qaeda in a sense morphed into ISIS ISIS will morph into something else You have to crush them and and how you crush them We'll get to in a minute So so I think he has his good knowledge of the Middle East Yes, he's very good on some of these issues around ISIS He understands that we have hampered the ability of the American troops to fight and Here I blame George W. Bush the George Bush after 9-11. Who's the engagement that he sent out kids to fight under? horrific just horrific treasonous Kids died for nothing kids died in order to protect the Iraqi civilians In order to you know to make sure they were firing at the same things kids our kids died Because they had to travel with lawyers who could give a thumbs up to whether they could shoot or not Kids died because helicopters had to get too close to their targets. So, you know, they wouldn't be too much collateral damage Kids died because they were they were their hands were tied behind their backs and blindfolds Who put in their eyes when they went to the battle by the Bush administration? Of course that continued with the Obama administration. So I think Flynn At least gets that whether anything will be done about it is a question and and that has to do with the culture at the Pentagon Which I think is completely corrupt and completely politicized and completely, you know Wrong in terms of military strategy, but you might have some positive influence there I know so it's gonna depend on who the Secretary of Defense is going to be because at the end of the day He's the one who runs the Pentagon so What is Trump's, you know, so Flynn is good on on on the Middle East or decent on the Middle East I'd say he gets that radical Islam is the threat He's not afraid of naming Islam and its relationship to that fate to that threat You know, he's been accused of being Islamophobic in this case. That's a compliment He realizes Islam as a religion is a threat because Islam is an important component Fundamental ideological component of those who are trying to kill us. So he understands that now Is he gonna get Donald Trump to do the right thing in the Middle East and you know, I am I'm quite skeptical But you know, we're gonna talk about what the right thing is and what I think Bush is actually gonna do Let me just talk about Kathleen McFarland I've also my Katie Katie McFarland. She goes by Katie and You know again smart Gets the Middle East gets the ball to be slum very well educated. I You know sticks me more like a mainstream Kind of a foreign policy person not a neocon, but also not a radical. I Doubt that she'd support a lot of what Trump said on the campaign trail. Although she trail although she claims to be a big Trump supporter she is She's been a commentator on Fox on foreign policy. She's had her own own show on foreign policy I guess on the on the online Channel of a Fox news. She's had this This program that deals only with foreign policy very well educated. She's served in the Reagan administration and She has been an advisor to Henry Kissinger and people like that. So in that sense, very, you know What surprised me is very mainstream. She she was a senior speechwriter to Caspo Weinburger now, you know again under Reagan I think the defense department had a much better strategy Certainly the under the Boris the neocons were less important So they view under Reagan was you have a strong military and incredibly strong military and then you only go to war When it's in America's vital national interest and Then you only go to win now. I like that. I like that a lot If we'd had that as a strategy and you only go to war against an enemy and enemy did this a threat To American life and property. So America's vital national interest and then you only go to win So that is a that's a good strategy for going to war. Okay. You're listening to your own book show We're talking farm policy. We're talking Trump's appointments. We'll be right back Commercials those of you in Facebook live three minutes All right, so today we're talking about Donald Trump's farm policy in the farm team. He's assembled We've got a national security advisor Michael Flynn. We've got a CIA director We'll talk about him in a minute Michael Pompeo. We've got a deputy national security advisor We just talked about Kathleen K T McFarlane and We have a US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and let me just let me just tell you that I think the problem with Donald Trump's Farm policy is he's not radical enough Let me repeat that the problem with Donald Trump's farm policy is he's too mainstream and these people at the end of the Day are going to be mainstream people. I want to see There's a real opportunity here because it's Donald Trump to do something radical to do something very different I don't think it's gonna happen now. We'll get into that and we'll get into what I think should be done for policy in a minute But let's just go with Mike pump Pompeo, you know again great credentials guy was first in his class at West Point is Harvard Business School what else You know, he he started a business and ran a business so he's got a business background Now he's being a house member for I think three terms Solid guy Problem with Pompeo is again. He's very conventional conservative, right? He's very pro NSA. We want NSA We want surveillance. We you know surveillance states those flim worries me a lot They want to increase NSA surveillance over Americans Pompeo's on record It's saying that he wants to bring Snowden back and they might kind of deal with the Russians to get Snowden back to put Him on trial and he should be given the death sentence. We should be killing Snowden For revealing the illegal activities of the United States government monitoring us Yeah, that's just horrible horrible horrible horrible stuff So that worries me again. He's not radical enough And you know on Islam is pretty good again. He's been caught in Islamophobia. That's always a you know With these guys sometimes Islam before Relates to people who just hate for the sake of hating but in this case I think you it's it's he was called that by care who which is a yeah anti-american Muslim organization he in the United States horrible horrible people and He's good in the sense that he understands the connection between Islam and The terrorists the terrorists that we face the terrorist threat that we face So, you know, okay. No, not a bad not a bad solution. I finally Nikki Haley Nikki Haley at the UN You know, Nikki's a good governor for I take it again a moderate mainstream Republican nothing too radical I have no idea what I've used on farm policy. I think nobody does Okay, so here's here's my point right like Donald Trump wants to be this clear the swamp I Can't think of anything more swampy more disgusting more offensive Then being at the United Nations Like this is an organization Where we have that whether whether the Human Rights Commission often has people from Syria or from Cuba or from Venezuela on places that are North Korea Violate human rights on a massive scale and yet they're the Human Rights Commission. It's an anti-Israeli anti-american anti-western entity even at its founding the the Security Council comprised of America and Stalin in the Soviet Union right unequal footing both reveal power. I Mean, that's morally offensive. It's morally disgusting Mao Zedong when they and when he was when China was invited into the Security Council again veto power You can't sit at the table with Stalin and Mao and pretend that you're equal morally These are evil evil evil regimes evil evil evil people in the United States is much much better than them and Shouldn't be anywhere near them shouldn't be in the same organization at these people So no, I think the United Nations should be Disassembled put it away. You can create a Union of free countries It's only like NATO right a union of free countries a company countries that that are basically free the chair some interest but you don't create a Union of Zimbabwe Venezuela the United States and Great Britain. I mean, what does that mean? What common interest do they have they don't have a common interest? So you want to be radical? Let's be radical. Let's really piss people off I'd say yeah, you know down in terms of real estate guy that real estate that the United Nations has in New York with a lot of money A lot of money ship them all to Caracas in Venezuela. Let let the United Nations meet in Venezuela They just come to the United States. He's fond leaders in in South America. Let them in South America from Venezuela instead of from the United States Somebody else take them that real estate. You could build nice nice, you know Overlooking the river overlooking Brooklyn on the other side nice property. We don't need the United Nations So if you really want to be a radical then don't put Nikki Haley at the United Nations put somebody Either insignificant to say pure I don't really care about this organization. It's stupid start cutting its budget Significantly or ideally just get out just get out. It's a lousy organization the whole structure You see my father policy is completely different Donald Trump says America first he talks to talk But he you know, it's not real because he doesn't know what America is. This is the big problem with Donald Trump He doesn't know what America is that what does it mean to me America first? It means that the priority the only priority of the government the only role of government is to protect the freedoms of Americans to protect the individual rights of Americans the right to life liberty property in the pursuit of happiness That's the role the United Nations does not serve a role in protecting the lives and property of Americans out you go it's easy and Then every alliance every relationship you have to evaluate Does it serve a purpose in protecting the lives and property of Americans or doesn't it? every Relationship we have with another country does it serve the purpose of Protecting the lives and property of Americans or doesn't it it's simple, right? So that should be the standard right that should be the standard But it isn't again Trump is is conventional when it comes to I think he's gonna be conventional on most of how he governs He'll be a conventional Republican. He'll be an outrageously Conventional Republican because you'll say outrageous things and he'll govern very conventionally and the things that he might be more radical on He's gonna be wrong on like building a wall and Like trade those are the things that he's weakest on okay If you want in in the conversation if you want to talk I don't ask any questions or if you want to comment on my views about foreign policy or Donald Trump's views about foreign policy 312 6425 600 312 6425 600 so I have very little say about Nikki Haley because I don't think this should be a US ambassador to the United Nations I think we need to get out of that organization And I and I also think that Donald Trump was right about NATO again I don't think he's gonna do anything about it Because I think he'll govern as a moderate as a middle of the roader, but I think he was right about NATO The Europeans are rich enough to defend themselves. Why don't we have to defend the Europeans, right? I mean all you Germans out there who might be listening to this or Dutch or deans or whatever, you know, your countries are wealthy enough You guys claim particularly if you scan the Navy that you're actually richer than we are in the United States Well, okay, you don't need us there. What do you need us for? Do I want to send my kid to die to protect Estonia as much as I love the Estonians or the Ukrainians? Right all the Germans don't need to protect the Germans. They can defend themselves Russia's not that big of a threat. They're a support country They've got one industry which is energy which has been devastated by the decline of energy prices And if Donald Trump actually does what he said he would do in terms of energy policy that is free up Drilling in the United States all places are gonna drop even further We're just kind of curious why I just thought of this Why why is Putin supporting Donald Trump when Donald Trump is gonna bring about a decline in energy prices gonna be interesting to watch Will he follow up in his energy policies? so You know, should there be a NATO maybe as long as it is Islamist threat. It's a union That can be a self-protection union to fight a real threat. I Don't think Russia is a threat to the United States. I think Putin is a really really really bad guy. Let's be clear I don't like him at all. He's a thug He's a bad bad guy, but he's not a threat to the United States So should we be placing out troops as a barrier between Putin in Europe when Europe is Wealthy enough to fund their own defense. I don't think so. So I think Donald Trump was onto something when he talked about But he's not gonna follow up you can see that the people here that he's appointed none of them We're gonna be for leaving NATO or Changing the relationship with NATO in any kind of fundamental sense. All right, you're listening to your own book show Well, we're radical in everything talk to you soon. Let's time is another four minutes There we go All right. Well, we're talking about foreign policy. We're talking about Trump's appointments for foreign policy We've gone through the four appointments so far and I was just articulating a few principles of my foreign policy And finally I get a caller from somebody who agrees with me. Hey Sharon. How's it going? My pleasure. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, no, I think you're right I mean, I think you're right in a sense the Millennium's are really delusional and and It really is a challenge and on getting them to understand the basic principles on which this country was founded and the basic principles that are required for this country to thrive and what they want with Bernie what they wanted is is is basically is You know social democracy and this is this is what Trump this is what Hilary and Obama have tried to do from the beginning what what they've always wanted and this is what the left wants they want us to be like Europe they envy Europe and they want us to be like the Europeans and Sure. Well, they actually like what she's doing. I think the Millennials like what what milk is developing Yeah Sure, I mean that you're in a roll shot. I'm gonna try to get us back to foreign policy Thanks for calling really appreciate the passion and the excitement, but you know, I don't really know that much about the The bankruptcy of the school and how how much corruption and how involved she was although I wouldn't be surprised if if there was a cover up But I want I want to get back quickly to foreign policy and then I've got a call from Nathaniel who wants to talk about a different a Different Trump potential appointee, but I'm gonna wait until after the break to do that I want to go back to it. Look, I agree with a lot of what you said there But you know, I don't think and this is this is where you're gonna hate me, Sean I don't think that the problem that the United States faces is anywhere near the problem that Europe faces and to some immigration We are not being flooded by Muslims We're not hundreds of thousands of millions of Muslims coming into this country, which is what is happening in Europe. We are not Going through an epidemic Epidemics of bad wood but but just a flurry of terrorist activities against us as Europe is Insighted by exactly those immigrants that are coming in we do not see Muslims in the United States Unassimilated to the extent that they are in Europe because they've embraced Multiculturalism so much that they refuse to require their Muslim populations simulate There's no assimilation in Europe Muslims in the United States the situation is very different than it is in Europe So I don't buy that there's a parallel because I don't think we're in that bad shape I think Europe's much much worse than where we are and I don't think a wall is gonna ever stop a terrorist It doesn't stop them in Israel. You just saw the fires in Haifa where they're burning down Parts of Israel they got they got into Israel in spite of the fence fences don't walls don't solve problems We've got an enemy and this is why get radical again. You got an enemy. It's called the slumming totalitarianism radical slum jihadists whatever you want Find them crush them kill them where they live Don't let them emigrate in here because get them before they even leave their countries and the way to do that It's to figure out where the spearhead of this ideology is and the spearhead is in two countries Iran and Saudi Arabia and until we're willing to deal with the funding the training the weapons that those two countries supply but every Islamist terrorist group in the world until we define Iran and Saudi Arabia as our enemy We cannot win this you don't win by building walls you win by going over there and crushing them and Making it so painful for them to kill Americans that they never think of doing it again. You're listening to your own book show We'll be right back. All right This is probably the only radio show where you will hear somebody say that they think Donald Trump's Views and foreign policy or actions of foreign policy. I think as they manifest ourselves in the coming years are going to be conventional Mainstream not radical enough. I've already called for the u.s To rethink NATO withdraw from the United Nations and declare Saudi Arabia in Iran number one and number two enemies of the United States And deal with them accordingly in order to defeat Islam Islamism That's America first that is a farm policy the places the individual rights of America's first identify Who is the threat and deal with it? Don't? Play around don't play around Don't make yourself loved and liked which I think is what Donald Trump will do a big part of his presidency He's trying to make the world love him a little bit like Obama We will see we will see all right Nathaniel wants to talk about Treasury Secretary go ahead Nathaniel and good afternoon I I actually want John Allison who who is it looks like is being considered for the Treasury Secretary I want John Allison as president. I I don't want him as Treasury Secretary Yes, John Allison is against deposit insurance. I think that's the best financial reform idea ever put forward I am against deposit insurance Both John and I are for privatizing deposit insurance and therefore if you get rid of deposit insurance You get rid of the entire regulatory infrastructure that is there to prop up the banks So they don't default on your deposit to get rid of all the regulations and they get the let the market actually monitor banks John if you were allowed To speak his mind if you were allowed to execute on half of the things that he believes it If he was allowed to really disagree with Trump if he's allowed To have influence over the decisions that Trump administration made with regard to trade He would be the best treasuries potentially the best Treasury Secretary in the history of the United States He's certainly the most principled the most knowledgeable You know potential candidate I can think of for a position for that position the question is Yeah, good Just it's just like I'm radical in front policy John and I are very radical when it comes to Economics he is a capitalist. He believes the only job of government Front policy wise but also domestic wise is the protection of individual rights You don't protect individual rights with deposit insurance. You violate them You don't protect individual rights by having a central bank. You violate them and John Allison is on record There's abolishing the central bank. You don't protect individual rights by setting trade barriers You violate them by setting trade barriers because you violate the rights of Americans to trade with whoever they want so John Allison would be a voice of reason a voice of individual rights a voice for freedom in the administration the question is Will anybody listen to it? Will anybody actually take him? You know take him seriously and if they do then again, this could be the most important appointment of a Treasury Secretary in American history because he could really do Something substantial and fundamental if they don't if he's just there for show It could be a disaster because then he might be associated then with such policies as trade barriers a Re-regulation of the financial industry where you don't really do anything. You just move move the pieces on On the on the board. You don't actually fundamentally revise them, but look freedom is good Freedom financially For the financial industry is good freedom for the individual is good personal responsibility Like you should be monitoring the bank that you invest money in And the market should be monitoring that not some government bureaucrat Who creates more hazard and create bad behavior among bankers? So what we want is more freedom John Allison is the freedom candidates here But because he's so radical I doubt that he'll be offered the position Thanks, Nathaniel. I appreciate that But yes, I think the Trump administration and many people who support Trump Believe that it is it is the way you do it is by force and and what you need is to crush those bankers and destroy Wall Street and start from scratch and and that is a anti-american anti-capitalist Anti-individual freedom anti-individual rights perspective an anti-reality perspective the fact is though it creates value Though it builds and makes stuff is the human mind what you need is to liberate the mind and the mind the mind the human mind rationality reason our capacity to think is threatened is is is held back is stifled by a gun by a fist by force by coercion By dictation by you know, so what you need if you want economic growth if you want success If you want prosperity if all individuals to have opportunities all individuals rich poor middle class Then what you need is freedom freedom from coercion freedom from government intervention freedom from government regulation and What you need is to wipe out the regulations not to tinker with them wipe them out like get rid of deposit insurance so We need to be radical you're listening to the radical you run brook All right, so we're talking about policy. We're talking about the appointments so far that Trump has made in front policy Not bad. Not bad. I'd give it a B B minus just not radical enough just just to to Conventional to convention allow Flynn is pretty good. I think it'd be good on Islam I think he recognizes who the enemy is will anybody pay attention will the Trump administration actually act on what Flynn recommends in the Middle East We will have to wait and see McFallen not bad KT is not bad. Yeah, Haley Pompeo Too much surveillance too much focus on surveillance state The job of the US government is to protect the individual rights of America's not violate them Now violate them. You want to listen to my calls get a want you want to listen to somebody's calls have probable doubt Probable cause probably doubt wheeler probable cause and go after them, right? But do not Blanket listen in look at emails We should not be the surveillance state we should be and to the surveillance state You want to defeat? the whole phenomenon of Islamic terrorism Take out the motivation Show them that they will be defeated show them that they will be crushed show them that Allah is not on their side You know the self-radicalized people here in the United States why they self-radicalizing suddenly Because ISIS has been successful because the ideology has proved Competent they pull down the World Trade Center. They killed 3,000 Americans. We did almost nothing Then they've taken over huge parts of Syria and Iraq. We did nothing They established a cauliflower. We did nothing. They kill Americans here. They kill Americans there. We do nothing People love to join a winning cause particularly if it promises them You know a life in heaven with 72 versions But take away the winning part of the cause and nobody joins nobody joins the losing cause I mean very few people some people do they're very few people. It's not a mass movement People rallied and went to Syria to join us is because ISIS was taking territory Isis look victorious. They were slaughtering people on YouTube But nobody the West was completely impotent didn't stop them didn't do anything that motivates When you take away the motivation when you crush them when you destroy them when you annihilate them nobody's gonna join the cause and That's what has to happen and it's not fun Right a lot of people will die if you fought a war properly if you actually engaged in a proper war with Iran and Saudi Arabia Iran Funds all the radicalization in the world on the Shiite side Saudi Arabia funds all the radicalization on the Sunni side. You want to get rid of the radicalization Stop them from doing that, you know, maybe with the Saudis. We just need to squeeze them harder because we're supposedly allies With Saudi families wealthy families in Saudi Arabia a funded Isis Fun terrorism fund all the mosques in the United States where radicalization happens all the mosques in Europe and in Asia and everywhere It's all Saudi money Put the screws on them to stop it Iran. You gotta have regime change in Iran You got good rid of a mula based You gotta have regime change not stopping just the nuclear deal. What did what did Trump say? He'd renegotiate the deal He's not going to I'm I'm willing to put money on this that he will not renegotiate the deal But more importantly, that's not good enough that regime has to go has to go All right, you know on this show we call for radical change domestically and internationally You'd be listening to your own book show and coverage you to go out there read Iron Rand and Stay tuned. We'll be back. We're here every Saturday and look forward to talking to you soon You'll be listening to you on book show Yeah, perfect Thank you See you sometime bite. I'm not am I on tomorrow? Yeah, let's see then bite you too