their way of life is in danger that the country's slipping away they are gravitating towards autocracy they want a strong man I alone can fix it sort of a person and so they respect Putin they like Putin and let's face it it is it is absolutely horrific that Trump holds up and slobbers all over Putin and Kim Jong-un and president XI all that kind of stuff I'm going to ask you a couple I'm going to say a couple names you tell me Friend or Foe ready okay Vladimir Putin Friend or Foe foe 100% no question okay so why are are all these Republicans so sympathetic to him then well so here here's what's going on Anthony if uh if you read particularly I don't know if you read an apple bomb's book uh autocracy in her newest one Twilight of democracy actually I've invited her on actually I just I just bought that book it's a small little book i y i i saw it in Barnes & Noble I purchased it I I haven't read it but go ahead so an appom her her book from two summers ago is Twilight of democracy so when you look at the Balkans and other places that have slipped into ethnic strife and conflict what you find is is that the one group that had been dominant that had been the all powerful group as they start to slide into minority they fight back uh and they fight back and lose respect for the rule of law and all this kind of thing they want to preserve their way of life no matter what in fact one of the most interesting statistics uh or determinants I heard for whether or not your county had somebody at the January 6th Insurrection was whether there was a dwindling white population in your county so that that was one of the greatest determinants as to whether or not somebody from your county was at the January 6 Insurrection which is very interesting so if you look at the Balkans and other places that have slipped into ethnic strife and conflict and one the minority trying to shove the M the newly uh minted majority out that's what you see not even out but to prevent them from uh rightly taking power and that's what we've got here so now with these people who feel their life is in their way of life is in danger that the country's slipping away all of that kind of stuff they are gravitating towards autocracy they want a strong man I alone can fix it sort of a person and so they respect Putin they like Putin and let's let's face it it is it is absolutely horrific that Trump holds up and slobbers all over Putin and Kim Jong-un and president XI all that kind of stuff so that that's where a lot of that nonsense is coming from well abomb believes he does that because he wants to be them do you think that's the cas oh I think if given the choice yes what kind of insane person says I want to be a dictator on want what kind of American citizen who who appreciates the founding documents the founding of this country what America stands for who would even can you can you imagine Reagan making a joke like that I mean that's insane no look listen I listen I work for the man and I saw how dangerous he was and so they tried to discredit me the way they fired me and then roughed me up on the way out because they were like okay this guy sees exactly what we're doing he doesn't like what we're doing and so they went to discredit me so I know exactly what they're doing I just wrote a piece on Project 2025 that is Trump's agenda it's he he put 85 of his acolytes in there um but you know he's up against you know she has some hard-left policies so there's a lot of people in the middle that don't see it as clearly as you and me and they're like okay well she's got hard left policies he's not hard left but he he he he could be an alligator that eats you while you're crawling on his back you see what I mean yeah and so for Trump it's not necessarily the policies he likes he likes that there's no guard rails that these guys can do whatever they want and nobody stands in their way everybody falls in behind them never in front of them and says stop that's what Trump likes about so Putin Putin is a foe and I'm glad you said that because I've I've seen the intelligence briefings I know what a foe he is I know what he's capable of and I always tell people uh that Putin's people uh uh which was written by kathern Belton she was the former Financial Times Moscow bureau chief uh HR McMaster who has a new book out he sent me during Co in 2020 a copy of her book I read it from cover to cover Putin is a foe President Chief from China foe foe absolutely no question yeah I mean listen this is one of the things with the populist agenda and kind of the American first crowd is they don't want America to project power or be involved in other nations but they still want America to be number one those two are mutually exclusive you can't sit behind your oceans and be number one if we step off the world stage she and P and China are going to step into that power vacuum they are already doing it with the belt and Road initiative and have been up up to it for you know decades uh I think it's I think it's over 20 years now so this is you can't have both you can't be isolationist and number one it just doesn't work that way okay let's keep going I I'm with you and you and I share the same philosophy and it's evident from your books and uh I'm an American Fur first and I'm I'm a partisan last actually so I don't even recognize the party that I used to be a part of which was Reagan and Abraham Lincoln's party but