0:00

I'm

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Jennifer Griffin. Americans are

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celebrating the holiday weekend as

0:04

global strikes COVID lockdowns

0:06

threaten TO DAMPEN THE BIG SHOPPING

0:09

SEASON.

0:16

WORKERS AND DOZENS OF countries protesting

0:18

or walking off the job amid the

0:20

Black Friday shopping frenzy as

0:23

rail unions threatened to do the same.

0:25

raising the risk of a year end strike

0:27

with significant impact on the US

0:29

economy. This

0:32

has new COVID lock downs in China

0:34

spark worldwide economic fears.

0:37

We'll discuss what's at stake for

0:39

US companies. Then the president

0:41

prepares for big policy fights

0:44

when Republicans take control of the

0:46

house in January. Moderate lawmakers

0:48

hope to seize the moment and break the

0:50

gridlock to make deals both

0:52

parties can embrace. We'll ask

0:54

Republican congressman Brian FitzPatrick,

0:57

the cochair of the bipartisan problem

0:59

solvers caucus what he thinks

1:01

can get done in a divided government.

1:05

Plus, early voting underway in

1:08

parts of Georgia. We'll ask our Sunday

1:10

panel how a court ruling could

1:12

impact turnout in this huge

1:14

race. Then

1:18

journalist and author, Fuzz Bissinger,

1:20

joins me to talk about the mosquito bowl,

1:23

a hard fought football game between two

1:25

marine regiments on Christmas Eve

1:27

nineteen forty four. We'll discuss

1:29

what happened to the players in the

1:32

deadly conflict that followed.

1:34

Also

1:35

Kind of lifted our morale and

1:37

reassured us that the folks at home

1:39

were working on it.

1:40

the story of a single bracelet that

1:43

became a movement of millions to support

1:45

America's POWs. All

1:47

right now on Fox News Sunday.

1:49

And

1:59

hello from

1:59

Fox News in Washington. I'm Jennifer

2:02

Griffin, in for Shannon Breen. Major

2:04

economic concerns on a global

2:06

scale just as many Americans wrapped

2:09

up Black Friday shopping and

2:11

prepare for cyber Monday. PROTES

2:13

AT THE WORLD'S LARGEST IFFONE FACTORY

2:15

IN CENTRAL CHINA OVER COVID

2:17

LOCKDOWN. AMAZON WORKERS TAKING

2:19

TO THE STREETS IN DOZENS OF COUNTRIES AS

2:22

AMERICAN RAILROAD WORKERS ARE

2:24

POISED TO DO THE SAME HERE AT HOME

2:26

IF A NEW LABOR DEAL IS NOT QUICKLY

2:28

REACHED. In a moment, we'll be joined

2:30

by Republican congressman Brian FitzPatrick

2:32

of Pennsylvania, a member of the House

2:35

Committee on Transportation and

2:36

Infrastructure. But

2:38

first, let's turn to Lucas Tomlinson,

2:40

live in Nantucket, Massachusetts,

2:43

where the president is spending the holiday

2:45

weekend. Lucas?

2:49

Jen, president Biden has spent the last

2:50

few days relaxing on this little

2:52

island. But even while shopping yesterday

2:55

here in town on small business Saturday,

2:57

cannot escape questions about twenty

2:59

twenty four. Mister

3:01

president, how are your twenty twenty four

3:03

conversations going?

3:07

Nationwide, a massive

3:08

railroad strike looms with the potential

3:11

to cripple the transportation of a

3:13

third of all goods in the United States.

3:16

After Biden took credit for averting

3:18

a strike back in September, this

3:20

time he says he's taking a more hands

3:22

off approach. my team is gonna

3:24

touch all parties in the rooms with

3:26

the parties and I have.

3:31

III have not directly engaged

3:33

yet because they're still

3:36

Just days before Biden's press secretary

3:38

said the opposite. The president is

3:40

indeed

3:40

involved directly, but

3:42

I I don't wanna get into details at this

3:44

time, but he has been involved. Yes. I just

3:46

said the president has been directly involved

3:49

HE'S BEEN A TOUCH. THIS IS A THIRD TIME I'M SAYING

3:51

HE'S BEEN DIRECTLY INVOLVED. Reporter:

3:52

IT'S NOT JUST TRAINS THAT COULD GROUND TO

3:54

A HALT BUT AMAZON PACKAGES AS

3:56

WELL. after thousands of Amazon

3:58

workers around the world

4:00

walked out on the job on one of the

4:02

busiest shopping days of the year,

4:04

citing low pay and poor working

4:06

conditions. Protesters also

4:08

take into the streets in China, rejecting

4:11

what they call onerous lockdowns under

4:13

China's oppressive COVID zero

4:16

policy. the violence extending

4:18

to what is known as iPhone City

4:20

after two hundred thousand workers were

4:22

forced into isolation in trash

4:24

filled dorms.

4:27

Yesterday, the US Treasury Department

4:29

announced it would allow Chevron to resume

4:31

oil production in Venezuela in

4:33

an apparent bid to lower gas prices.

4:36

Jen? Lucas

4:37

Tomlinson traveling with the president

4:39

in Nantucket. Lucas, thank you.

4:43

Joining us now is Republican congressman

4:45

Brian Fitzpatrick, co chief of the

4:47

problem solvers caucus caucus. A bipartisan

4:49

group of fifty eight lawmakers welcome

4:52

to Fox NEW SUNDAY.

4:54

GOOD TO

4:55

BE WITH YOU, JEFFREW. GOOD TO

4:56

BE WITH YOU. CONGRESSMAN FITS PATRIC, THE

4:58

WHITE HOUSE SAYS THE DECISION TO ALLOW Chevron

5:01

to start pumping oil in Venezuela is

5:03

not about oil prices. Do you

5:05

believe them?

5:09

I

5:09

do not, Jennifer. You know,

5:11

the the energy crisis that we're facing right

5:13

now in America, much of

5:15

that has been off imposed by decisions

5:17

that were made by this administration early on

5:20

to shut down the Keystone XL

5:22

pipeline. So further

5:24

delaying the the permitting process

5:26

here domestically. I

5:28

don't know why we're going to communist dictatorships.

5:31

We're begging OPEC plus to

5:33

increase production when we have the energy right here in

5:35

America to get the job done. Staying

5:37

with the economy, we're facing

5:39

a possible nationwide rail strike

5:41

as Lucas reported. A SPIKE

5:43

WOULD DISRUP THE SUPPLY CHAIN AGAIN,

5:45

COST two billion dollars A DAY, COST

5:47

seven hundred thousand JOBS IF IT

5:49

LAST A MONTH, materials needed

5:51

by refineries won't be transported,

5:54

gas prices would go up. This is a

5:56

big problem for the president. Does

5:58

Congress need to step in?

6:01

the

6:02

Well, that would be the last resort,

6:04

Jennifer. So we're set to leave Congress

6:07

on December fifteenth. The cooling

6:09

off period for this

6:12

this negotiation is set down a few days

6:14

before Christmas. The union

6:16

members have a very reasonable ask, by

6:18

the way. Their benefits have not

6:20

been on par. That is the

6:23

transit freight workers union. I've not been on

6:25

par with other unions. They haven't had a raise in

6:27

several years. And

6:29

one third of the product, Jennifer, in the United

6:32

States, is transported by freight

6:34

rail, including close to seventy percent

6:36

of our agricultural grains,

6:38

feeds, fertilizer and the like. So

6:41

congressional inventions are last resort. I

6:43

suspect that after we pass the CR,

6:46

near December fifteenth, if that

6:48

strike has not been averted, we'll be called back before

6:50

Christmas. And

6:50

what do you think the truth is? Is the president

6:53

involved in these negotiations or are they waiting

6:55

until the last minute like they did in September?

6:59

I

6:59

believe he's involved. I mean, this is something

7:01

that would be of of significant

7:04

concern, you know, economic concern, and

7:06

and certainly, therefore, political concern for the

7:08

administration. So I'm sure there

7:10

involves They're probably, you

7:12

know, waiting until the right

7:14

time to reengage. Like

7:16

I said, it will be a few days before Christmas

7:18

before this actually manifests. But

7:21

congress will not let the strike happen.

7:23

That's for sure. It would be devastating to our

7:25

economy. So we'll we'll get to a resolution

7:27

one way or another. Republicans will

7:29

support the president if he agrees with

7:31

the railroad workers.

7:36

why certainly would. I every member of Congress

7:38

has got to speak for themselves, but failure

7:40

is not an option here. We cannot have

7:42

our transportation system responsible

7:44

for one third of our products

7:46

being transported throughout our country shutdown.

7:49

That's not an option. Congressman fits

7:51

Patrick, you're a former

7:52

FBI agent, there have been six hundred

7:55

mass shootings this year. The president

7:57

says he will pursue an assault rifle

7:59

ban. Will

7:59

you work with him?

8:02

We all

8:03

need to work together, Jennifer, to to end

8:06

gun violence in America. The reality

8:08

is that we have an epidemic here in the

8:10

United States that's not being experienced in

8:12

any other country in the world. And

8:14

there there's a lot of there's a lot of reasons

8:17

for that. I think people try to oversimplify the

8:19

problem. the key is to

8:21

make sure that every

8:23

single tragedy gets

8:26

gets unpacked and figure out what the problem

8:29

is with that individual tragedy. I know

8:31

we've had an issue with the background check

8:33

system. With Charleston,

8:35

we had an issue with the mental health system,

8:37

with Uvality. societal

8:40

problems as well. We have spikes in depression and

8:42

anxiety rates amongst our children throughout

8:44

America largely due to

8:46

social media. Jennifer, when you and

8:48

I grew up, if there was bullying going on in

8:50

school, you could identify the

8:52

bullier. Number one. And number two, the

8:54

bullying ended at three o'clock when you

8:56

left school. Now the bullying are anonymous.

8:59

Social media allows that bullying to occur twenty four

9:01

hours a day. So we have to fix

9:03

the loopholes in our background test system. We

9:05

have to fix our broken

9:07

mental health system in America. And we

9:09

have to deal with this societal social media.

9:11

It's a very complicated problem that

9:13

requires a complicated solution. But would you

9:15

support an assault rifle ban?

9:18

why voted for it, Jennifer. It's already

9:21

come up in the house several months back.

9:23

So that's sitting in the senate, and

9:25

that's that's where it resides right

9:27

now.

9:27

There's talk of more red flag laws

9:30

which allow authorities to

9:32

temporarily confiscate firearms if

9:34

the person is a threat to themselves

9:36

or others. You're one of five PUBLICAN

9:38

HOUSE MEMBERS WHO VOTED FOR A FEDERAL

9:40

RED FLAG LAW THIS SUMMER. AND YOU'RE

9:42

THE ONLY ONE OF THE FIVE WHO RAN FOR

9:44

RE ELECTION. Should the Republican

9:46

Party support red flag laws? Are you

9:48

noticing any shift among your

9:50

colleagues?

9:52

Yes. So it depends on how it's

9:54

written, Jennifer. So for example, the state

9:56

of Indiana, Republican House,

9:58

Republican Senate, Republican Governors signed

10:01

A similar build like that in the

10:03

law. In Florida, same situation

10:05

after Parkland, Republican House,

10:07

Republican Governor, Rick Scott, at the

10:09

time, Republican governor, signed it in the

10:11

law, and Republican governor now, Rick

10:13

DeSantis has kept that law on the book.

10:15

So There are ways you can write it where it

10:17

preserves due process, protects

10:20

law abiding gun owners' rights, but at

10:22

the same time advances community safety

10:24

because like I said, with every single

10:26

one of these tragedies, whether it be Parkland

10:28

or Uvality or Chesapeake,

10:30

Virginia, or any of these. It's incumbent

10:32

upon us to to analyze the

10:34

situation where were the gaps? Was it gap in the

10:36

mental health system? Was it a a

10:38

HIPAA reporting issue? Was it a

10:40

loophole in the background checks? Or was it a

10:42

something different?

10:43

Is Kevin McCarthy going to be the

10:45

next speaker of the house?

10:47

I

10:48

believe he is. I believe he is.

10:51

You know, I in touch with his team. We're

10:53

working conference wide to try to

10:55

get him to to two eighteen,

10:57

Jennifer. And the reality is he's earned it.

10:59

He's he deserves it. It would

11:01

set a terrible precedent if you were not to

11:03

get it because Kevin has

11:05

put four years worth of work, four years

11:07

worth of fundraising, traveling the

11:09

country, visiting all of our congressional

11:11

districts. He's he's worked

11:13

hard. He's accomplished the goal,

11:15

albeit a slim one of of winning back

11:17

the the house majority. and he deserves

11:19

it. And I don't believe there's anyone else in our conference

11:21

that could get to two eighteen. So I think

11:23

eventually we're going to get there. Howard

11:25

Bauchner:

11:25

Okay. Thank you very much Congress fit

11:28

men fit Patrick, for being with us

11:30

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11:32

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11:37

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11:41

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11:43

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11:46

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12:11

The

12:14

White House on a serious collision path

12:16

with organized labor as a

12:18

national rail strike looms could hit

12:20

Americans and disrupt supply

12:22

chains right in the middle of the holiday

12:25

season. And it's time now for our

12:27

Sunday group. political congressional

12:29

reporter, Olivia Beavers, retired

12:32

senior CIA station chief Fox News

12:34

contributor, Dan Hoffman. Fox

12:36

News senior political analyst, Juan Williams,

12:39

and Axios National Political

12:41

correspondent, Jonathan Swan. one,

12:45

organized labor is normally

12:47

friendly to president Biden and

12:49

democrats, but the risk of a

12:51

nationwide rail strike now is very

12:53

real. It could impact everything from what

12:55

we see on grocery store shelves to

12:57

prices at the pump to supplies that keep

12:59

our water safe The president helped

13:01

avert the crisis back in September, but

13:03

the tentative deal that was reached runs

13:05

out on December ninth. Is it time

13:07

for the president to step IN TO THE

13:09

NEGOTIATIONS TIME IS RUNNING

13:10

OUT IT SEEMS. WELL, I THINK THAT WHAT

13:13

YOU HAVE NOW IS LABOUR

13:14

SECRETARY MARDY WALL transportation

13:17

secretary Pete Buttigieg in

13:19

touch with both sides. The president's

13:21

approach is I'm gonna try to

13:23

ameliorate potential ImpACT

13:25

ON AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THE ECONOMY

13:27

FOR NOW. AND SO HE'S SAVING HIS

13:29

INTERVENTION. NOW THE REASON FOR THAT

13:31

JENNIS VERY INTERESTING. The

13:33

unions don't want the

13:36

congress and the president to intervene

13:38

ninety two. The last time there was

13:40

a strike, strike was over in two days

13:42

because Congress and the president intervene.

13:44

So

13:44

for now, both sides really want

13:46

the pressure, the deadline drama.

13:48

They think it helps them at bargaining

13:51

table. The

13:52

railroad companies in this country are very

13:55

profitable operations. In the

13:57

September deal, they gave a twenty four percent

13:59

over five year deal increase

14:01

in pay to

14:02

the unions. And they think that's a

14:04

generous offer. The unions on the

14:06

other hand The

14:07

trainmen, the engineers have approved that

14:09

deal, but the rest of the other the other union

14:11

said no, why? Because of benefits. And

14:13

you just talked about this with congressman

14:16

Fitzpatrick. What you get is

14:18

that they haven't the big railroad

14:20

companies have not approved sick pay sick

14:22

days. And the union say, hey, we

14:24

need fifteen sick days this job

14:26

is too demanding, and we

14:28

need some flexibility in terms of shifts.

14:30

And so right now, the big companies

14:32

have refused to reopen the talk

14:34

about benefits. the

14:36

unions say unless you do that, we don't have a deal.

14:38

So the deadline pressure is

14:40

something both sides see as helping to

14:42

force the deal. Well, you think they'll get a

14:44

deal. Well, I think, you know, it's

14:46

inevitable because the impact. It's not

14:48

gonna cancel Christmas, thank goodness. But I you

14:50

know, the supplies are on the shelves. But

14:52

this IS SOMETHING THAT COULD IMPACT THE ENTIRE

14:55

NATION'S ECONOMY AND YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT.

14:57

Reporter:

14:57

JONATHAN NOW TO DONALD TRUMP.

15:00

AND HIS THIRD RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE,

15:02

ARE YOU SURPRISED BY THE NUMBER OF

15:04

PROMINENT REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE COME OUT AGAINST

15:06

TRUMP EVEN HIS ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL

15:08

BARR writes Trump will burn down the

15:10

GOP, time for new leadership.

15:12

What's the reaction from Trump

15:14

advisers to his dining with white

15:16

nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar

15:18

a Lago? last week?

15:19

Well, there

15:20

actually haven't been that many permanent

15:23

permanentists have come out against Trump, and you're

15:25

even seeing there's a

15:27

few Bill Barr has already condemned

15:29

Trump before this. You see,

15:31

Chris Christie, he's pretty vocal.

15:33

even you look at people like Mike Pompeo,

15:36

Trump's former secretary say, he's

15:38

criticizing Trump without naming Trump,

15:40

which tells me Pence

15:42

sort of is is being kind

15:44

of gentle as well, which tells me that there is

15:46

still a fear among Republicans,

15:48

even ones who want to oppose in potentially

15:50

in twenty twenty four, that Trump still

15:52

commands a serious meaningful

15:55

proportion of the base, and they don't want to

15:57

cross him yet. DeSantis,

15:59

for example, has been completely silent.

16:01

Nick Fuentes, to your

16:04

question, one of

16:06

the most virulent

16:08

anti sea mites just

16:10

open racists horocaust

16:13

denier, you know, you just go through

16:15

his clips. It's it's kind of staggering

16:17

to listen to. Trump's

16:19

advisers, you know, the the

16:22

most of his core team right now

16:24

have been through, you know,

16:27

Charlotte'sville, Access Hollywood,

16:29

you know, go through the list.

16:32

This is sort of another day in the life of.

16:34

You don't get that they run around smiling

16:36

their hair on fire. I sort of see some people

16:38

say, oh, they're they're all freaking out. That wasn't been

16:40

my experience the last few days of talking to them.

16:42

These are people who've you know, it's sort of just

16:44

another day at the office actually.

16:46

And one person said to me and I

16:48

saw someone else sort of tweeted this, but

16:50

basically their their take

16:52

was in his Republican official

16:56

was he invites one notorious

16:58

antisemite to dinner, Kanye

17:00

West, he shows up with

17:02

another notorious anti c mice. So,

17:04

you know, the the surprise was that there was

17:06

two rather than one. but

17:09

it's doubling. That should

17:11

be cost for concern. Two is worse

17:13

than one. Yeah. Alright. Olivia, early

17:15

voting is now underway in parts of Georgia.

17:18

Obviously, there's a December six runoff

17:20

between Democratic senator, Rafael

17:22

Warnerque and Republican Hershel

17:24

Walker. It will decide whether Democrats have

17:26

fifty or fifty one seats, what are

17:27

you seeing? Well, you know,

17:29

right now, the polls suggest that it's just

17:31

as close as it was when we were watching

17:33

earlier during the midterms. There

17:35

were thirty five thousand votes

17:37

that separated Warrnock and

17:39

Walker. And right now, Warrnock seems to have the

17:41

edge, but given take the margin of

17:44

error, Abortion seemed to play a pretty large role in motivating

17:46

them across the turnout, and now it's sort

17:48

of early voting. There's

17:51

Sort

17:51

of an area where Democrats are really pushing that space,

17:53

so we're going to see how this plays out. But Well,

17:55

it's interesting you should mention that because Georgia's

17:58

supreme court reinstated

17:59

the state's ban on abortions after

18:02

roughly six weeks. Do you think

18:04

abortion will continue to play an

18:06

issue down there? I'm sure that that's going

18:08

to be definitely motivating people. There's

18:10

more support for something that's more like a

18:12

fifteen week ban, but, you

18:13

know, democrats are saying that this was a bigger

18:15

issue and and the polling the senate polls

18:17

to suggest more so. Dan, as

18:19

we speak, NATO ally, Turkey

18:22

is planning to carry out a ground invasion

18:25

into Syria. THEY'RE TARGETING THE

18:27

VERY Kurdish GROUPS THAT

18:29

THE U. S. RELIES ON TO FIGHT

18:31

ISIS. I SPOKE TO THE HEAD OF THE

18:33

SDF, THE Kurdish LEADER, who

18:35

said he had to put a pause in working

18:37

with the US again. You know, they were

18:39

guarding ten thousand ISIS prisoners.

18:41

Here's what he said

18:42

just earlier this week.

18:44

we shouldn't, but

18:45

do more of our forces have to be

18:47

on the border and the borders and the

18:49

front lines thinking about protecting

18:52

our people. So we

18:54

have to stop this

18:56

activities alongside the international

18:58

collision. We had no

19:00

choice. WHAT

19:01

DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE REGION

19:02

AND FOR U. S. TROOPS BASE THERE? ARE THERE

19:04

ABOUT one thousand TROOPS THERE? Reporter:

19:06

A TURGISH

19:06

IN COURAGION WOULD HAVE getting

19:09

negative impact on our ongoing fight against

19:11

ISIS. We've been allied with the

19:13

Syrian Democratic forces,

19:15

the Kurds. going back almost a

19:17

decade to twenty fourteen. They're also

19:19

guarding the Al hole refugee camp where

19:21

there are tens of thousands of terrorists

19:23

and they simply can't do it all

19:25

at I expect that their ongoing

19:27

back channel discussions with Turkey. Turkey has

19:29

a lot of leverage because they control new

19:31

NATO membership for Finland and Sweden.

19:34

and I'm sure we're making the point that a

19:36

Turkish attack on these Kurds would impact

19:38

Turkey as well because the terrorists would have a lot

19:40

of open field running potentially back

19:42

into Turkey. but

19:43

a big issue for the president, one

19:45

of the many national security threats

19:47

that he is facing right now.

19:49

Thank you very much, panel.

19:51

Up next, during one of the

19:53

most divisive times in world history, two

19:56

World War two Marine Regiments

19:58

came together for a game

19:59

of football before being sent to one of the bloodiest battles

20:02

in the Pacific. We sit down

20:04

with author Buzz Bisinger of

20:06

Friday Night Lights fame to

20:08

share the story of the mosquito bowl and what

20:11

happened next.

20:16

What

20:18

if

20:19

From the Fox News

20:21

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20:23

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20:25

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20:27

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20:36

The winter

20:38

of

20:39

nineteen forty

20:40

four was different for many Americans.

20:43

World

20:43

War II was raging across Europe and

20:45

in the South Pacific, and millions

20:47

of servicemen spent the holiday

20:49

season in unfamiliar lands.

20:51

Many spent time stationed on the

20:53

island of Guadalcanal once a

20:56

stronghold for the Japanese Army conquered

20:58

by US forces and used as a staging

21:00

point for future offensives.

21:03

But on Christmas Eve, conflicts

21:05

ceased for a moment, and the Marines

21:07

marked the holiday by playing in the

21:09

mosquito bowl. A BRUSING AND

21:11

BLOODY FUTION GAME BORN FROM TRASH

21:13

TALK AND INTENSE RIVILORY BETWEEN TWO

21:15

DIFFERENT MARINE REGIENTS. The

21:17

teams were stocked with former college players, including

21:20

several all Americans, sixteen

21:22

players were even drafted into

21:24

the pros. six months later, those

21:26

who played in the game also fought in the

21:28

battle of Okinawa, one of the

21:30

bloodiest of the war. The story of the

21:32

game and the events that followed are detailed in the

21:34

mosquito bowl, a game of life and

21:36

death in World War two. The newly

21:38

released book is dedicated to Neil

21:40

McCallum, a marine who was on

21:42

the sideline lines of the

21:43

dirt and coral field.

21:45

I was

21:46

a participant drinking

21:48

beer, hot beer at

21:50

that game. ninety four

21:52

year old McCallum spoke with

21:54

me from his home in Tampa,

21:55

Florida. The

21:57

war in New Europe

22:00

got more

22:00

attention than we did, and they

22:02

got more more of everything than than

22:05

we did. My only aim and all of

22:07

this is to keep our legacy

22:10

GOING FOR THE SIXPERING DIVISION

22:12

AND FOR ALL OF THE MEN THAT

22:14

WE'VE LAUNCHED. JOINING ME

22:16

NOW, THE AUTHOR OF THE MOSKETO BOL,

22:18

POLICE prize winning journalist,

22:20

Buzz Bisinger, best known for his non fiction

22:22

account of Friday night lights.

22:26

Buzz,

22:26

this is a great book. Well, thank you. Great book.

22:28

Thank you. Americans are preparing to watch

22:30

a lot of football today. Why did

22:32

you choose to write about this particular game?

22:35

Well, when I heard about

22:37

it, I was sort of floored. The idea

22:39

of a football game on the island

22:41

of Guadalajara canal in the Pacific on

22:43

Christmas Eve of nineteen forty four. And a

22:46

real game as close as they could get, you

22:48

know, they built goalposts, they built a

22:50

regulation field, PA

22:53

system programs. I said,

22:55

God, this is and fifteen hundred Marines

22:57

came, and I said, this is incredible,

22:59

but I realized They weren't men who played.

23:01

They were boys. They were still

23:03

boys. They were young. They were inexperienced.

23:06

And now they're in war where you lose

23:08

your boyhood very quickly. the

23:10

game was a way of being

23:12

boys again. And the upshot was

23:14

they had a blast fifteen hundred means,

23:16

as I said, The upshot was

23:18

of the sixty five who played in that

23:21

game, fifteen were later killed,

23:23

several months later at Okinawa, AND

23:25

THEN I SAID, I THINK THERE'S A BOOK IF I

23:27

CAN GET AT THE REPORTING. YET

23:29

IT

23:29

WAS MORE THAN A GAME. AS YOU

23:31

MENTION,

23:31

sixty five MARINE SUITED UP

23:34

It was broadcast on Armed Forces Network

23:36

across the Pacific. There were fifteen hundred

23:38

Marines on the sidelines. They took

23:40

a break from training

23:42

Half of them would not survive. That kind of

23:45

statistic we can't really fathom. What

23:47

happened during the game? Sunday was

23:50

it marine's who were doing this in so many

23:52

college players. I think it was the most

23:54

college athletes or athletes to

23:56

ever die in a battle.

23:57

football players

23:59

gravitated towards the Marine Corps,

24:02

which makes sense. You know, their macho, their

24:04

tough, they wanted combat. So a

24:06

lot of these guys, they were in the fourth regiment

24:08

and the twenty ninth were great football

24:11

players, and they would argue with one another

24:13

who has the better team, the fourth

24:15

of the twenty ninth in the Marines. So there someone's

24:17

trying to say, where Marines? We don't argue

24:19

we duke it out. And the

24:21

game was a way to have joy

24:23

to have fun. They beat the crap out of

24:25

each other. The score was zero

24:27

zero. And, you know, it

24:29

was as I say, it was a way

24:31

to be boys for the last time.

24:33

WHICH PLAYER REALLY STOOD OUT TO

24:36

YOU? WELL, ACTUALLY

24:36

THERE WERE SEVERAL. I MEAN, DAVID TRINER, I FELT

24:38

WAS Amazing. HE WAS A TWO TIME ALL

24:41

AMERICAN FROM Wisconsin. HE WAS

24:43

THE PERFECT all American. The

24:45

perfect all American, he was kind. He was

24:47

self effacing. He didn't like

24:49

publicity. He was handsome. a

24:51

great great man. He had a beautiful

24:54

fiancee. I I won't say what happened.

24:56

Maybe you can guess. But he got to

24:58

me. John McLaurie, who went to Brown,

25:00

got to me a a really

25:02

cerebral, interesting intellectual man,

25:04

great football player,

25:07

and, you know, a great

25:09

Illustrator. inside

25:10

the the inside cover the book is something

25:12

he did when he was in the jungle

25:14

of bokeh. And there's a beautiful

25:16

picture photo from Thanksgiving

25:18

of the Schreiner family before

25:21

Dave Schreiner deployed and

25:23

we

25:23

have that photo. the US

25:26

military was very different than and so was

25:28

college football.

25:29

Cup college football was the

25:32

thing. The pros were looked down upon. You know, that's where the

25:34

thugs go. There's no future in a

25:36

cowboy was huge. That was

25:38

the game. you know,

25:40

Notre Dame Army, Notre

25:42

Dame USC, you know, the big

25:44

ten. So if you were a college

25:46

football star, which many of these guys

25:48

were. That was a really, really,

25:50

you know, big deal, but combat

25:52

was different. You know, it was expected that

25:54

some of you you're

25:56

not gonna make it. You're just not gonna make it. But the military recruited

25:58

from football

25:59

teams. They thought football teams would make good

26:02

good soldiers AND

26:04

MARINES. I THOUGHT IT

26:05

WAS NOTABLE THAT IN nineteen forty, THERE WAS

26:07

A GALAP POLL TAKEN WHEN MANY OF THESE YOUNG

26:09

MEN WERE GRADUATING showing seventy nine

26:12

percent of Americans want to stay out of

26:13

the war. Only two percent of college

26:16

undergraduates believe the US should join

26:18

the allies.

26:18

America was pretty isolationists, but

26:21

not these players. No, I mean,

26:23

in nineteen forty, America was isolation

26:27

isolationists. There was a feeling that they

26:29

have been snuggered into getting into world war

26:31

one. They were upset with the British, and

26:33

they just wanna no part. They would send mil

26:35

aid. They would send financial aid, but Americans

26:38

wanted no part really until the

26:40

bombing of of Pearl Harbor.

26:42

That changed everything, and these guys said,

26:44

I want a piece of that. I can go

26:47

Schreiner could have had a cushy job in the

26:49

United States. HE COULD HAVE BEEN A FIZZED

26:51

INSTRUCTOR. HE SAID NO, I WANT TO

26:53

GO IN THE COMBAT. Andrew: FINALLY, WHAT

26:54

WAS THE MESSAGE FROM

26:55

THIS GAME REGARDING

26:56

THE DIVIVIONS IN THE COUNTRY THEN AND THAT

26:58

WE SEE IN AMERICA TODAY. WELL, I

27:00

THINK ONE OF THE UNDERLINE MESSAGES IS

27:03

UNITY. EVERYBODY SERVED

27:05

women served in industry and

27:07

manufacturing because all the men, you

27:09

know, were gone. Black's

27:13

SERVE DESPITE SOME Withering, WASES,

27:15

RACISM ON THE LINE YOU HAD PEOPLE

27:17

FROM EVERY SOCIAL

27:20

ECONOMIC Sunday that's when you learn to

27:22

deal with people, to get along with

27:24

people, to love people because

27:26

they did. And you realize, you know,

27:28

our differences are really not THAT

27:30

DIFFERENT. Reporter:

27:31

INCREDIBLE STORY, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND

27:33

IT. BUDS, THANK YOU FOR AN AMAZING

27:36

AMERICAN STORY JOINING US THIS

27:38

HOLIDAY WEEKEND. This Thanksgiving Week, I want to

27:40

share with you another powerful example

27:42

of Americans coming together even

27:44

during one of the most unpopular wars

27:46

in the

27:47

nation's history, the Vietnam War.

27:49

Americans

27:49

have found common ground. This

27:52

is the story of one of our colleagues

27:54

here at Fox who wore a

27:56

bracelet bearing the name of an American soldier

27:58

held captive in Vietnam.

27:59

Decades later, he

28:01

tracked down the veteran. Here's

28:04

their story. As

28:07

war raged in Vietnam, a

28:09

quiet effort started by two

28:12

California sororities to show support

28:14

for the POW and MIAs who

28:16

were shot down in rice paddy

28:18

fields. Many held for years at the Hanoi

28:20

Hilton took off across

28:22

America. Students across America began

28:24

wearing bracelets with the name of an

28:26

American POW and the date they

28:28

were shot down. Stars like John

28:31

Wayne, Princess Grace, and Sunny and

28:33

Cher

28:33

wore them. Fox

28:34

News editor Brad Paxton was one

28:36

of those kids who sent his two dollars

28:38

and fifty cents a way

28:39

to purchase a bracelet. This is actually a

28:42

photo of me wearing the bracelet.

28:44

I

28:44

had lots of hair back then, but

28:46

This is an nineteen seventy. His bracelet honored

28:48

Navy Lieutenant Dave Carey shot

28:51

down in North Vietnam on August

28:53

thirty first nineteen sixty seven. It

28:55

was just a fad at

28:55

the time. I'd say fifty percent

28:58

of my junior high school was wearing the

29:00

bracelets. You didn't have to be for the

29:02

war against war. You just

29:04

could be in support of

29:05

these people who were had

29:07

been captured. Spurred by a conversation

29:09

with his wife about the bracelets

29:12

and how they united the country during a divisive

29:14

war. He decided to try to

29:16

find lieutenant Dave Carey. He went

29:18

down and pulled out a box I knew right where

29:20

it was and looked it Sunday. And then,

29:22

like, a lightning bolt is just

29:24

kind of like, I should just see whatever happened

29:26

to this guy. He

29:27

found him in Texas. eighty years

29:29

old Sunday now an author motivational

29:31

speaker. Carrie spent five

29:33

and a half years in the Hanoi Hilton,

29:35

some of it with John McCain,

29:37

who was shot down a month and a half after him. I sent

29:39

him an

29:39

email and a picture of the bracelet and to my

29:42

surprise within, like, minutes. He he emailed me

29:44

right back and said, I would love to

29:46

have it. I've been getting periodically for

29:48

all these years. You

29:50

know, someone will find me on the

29:52

Internet I'll get

29:54

an email and they have a

29:56

bracelet that they've worn. And then I

29:58

tell them that they have no idea

30:01

how much those bracelets meant to us when we

30:03

were in Hanoi. Those bracelets were

30:06

incredibly important to us kind

30:08

of lift carrie, who

30:10

retired as a captain,

30:11

can still recall the day he was shot

30:13

down.

30:13

The missile went right between us. There was

30:15

a huge explosion. Fireball

30:18

blew the tail section off my airplane. The airplane just

30:20

stayed on its back. It was just a blur. So

30:22

this thing is falling and spinning and

30:24

tumbling through this guy, ejected from

30:27

the airplane, had a parachute landed

30:29

in the middle of a small North Vietnamese

30:31

village. He still remembers the

30:33

beatings. I was interrogated. The

30:35

interrogation led the beatings. A beatings led

30:37

the torture. My arms didn't work. My

30:39

arms didn't work for weeks and weeks.

30:41

I ate by wiggling her out of my

30:43

stomach, stick my face in a bowl of ice.

30:45

Into my mind, came the

30:47

first line of the twenty third song. The Lord is

30:49

my shepherd. I could think

30:52

about that line. They found other tricks

30:54

to keep their minds intact. I

30:56

let slip that I had taken French in high school and

30:58

at the Naval Academy. And so

31:00

I immediately became the French teacher. That

31:03

was French according to me.

31:05

because there was a lot of stuff I had to make up. Meanwhile,

31:07

back in

31:07

California, the woman who started the

31:10

bracelet movement, Carol

31:12

Bates Brown, was a student

31:14

at Cal State Northridge. She and a girlfriend

31:16

came up with the MIA POW

31:18

bracelet concept. We were able

31:21

to get materials

31:22

donated, and somebody came

31:24

up with the idea of putting names on the bracelets.

31:26

And when it really took off

31:28

like it did, it it was just

31:29

shocking and unbelievable. But at all,

31:32

I think we distributed something like

31:34

five million bracelets during that

31:36

time.

31:36

They were especially popular

31:38

from nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy

31:41

three. Decided the kids could pay for a

31:43

movie they would pay for a bracelet. The

31:45

campaign led to a decade's long career at the

31:47

Pentagon for at the intelligence

31:49

agency in the office of

31:51

POW, missing personnel. Fifty

31:53

five years later, Dave Carey

31:55

still has the flag airmen carried

31:57

in their flight suits in case they

31:59

had

31:59

to eject. It says, I'm a citizen

32:02

in the United States, America. I do not speak

32:04

your language Please take me to someone

32:06

who provides for my safety and see them,

32:08

my return to my people, my

32:10

government will reward you. But when

32:11

they heard kids back home were wearing

32:13

bracelets with their names on them. That

32:15

gave them hope that they had not

32:17

been forgotten. We

32:18

kept our sense of humor and

32:20

we kept the faith. faith in

32:23

ourselves, faith in each other, faith in our

32:25

country, and faith in God. I always knew where the

32:27

bracelet was. I never forgot his name

32:29

even fifty years later. I could tell you

32:31

about lieutenant David Carey. He's a genuine

32:33

American hero. And

32:35

I'm just tumbled and to

32:37

have had a small footnote in

32:40

his story. While

32:40

in captivity, one of the ways

32:42

this naval aviator kept saying was

32:45

by pretending to play the

32:47

piano. After his release, he finally learned to

32:49

play on a real piano. Today,

32:53

he still receives mail from kids now

32:56

grown who wore those bracelets

32:58

for him and the other POW

33:00

MIAs. My message to any

33:02

one wearing the uniform of the United States of

33:04

America would be this. they are

33:07

way stronger, way more

33:09

resilient, way more resourceful

33:11

than they ever would give themselves credit

33:14

for. They just

33:16

haven't been tested.

33:19

There

33:23

you go. Our

33:25

sincere thanks to Brad Paxton, a

33:28

colleague and dear friend to us here

33:30

at Fox News

33:30

Channel's Washington Bureau. It

33:32

was an honor to share his story

33:35

that of lieutenant Dave

33:36

carrie Carey.

33:37

Up next, a deep dive

33:39

on global threats the rise of

33:41

China, and nuclear saber rattling by

33:44

Russia as president Putin tries

33:46

to change the map of Europe.

33:57

From

33:59

the

34:00

Fox News Podcast's network, in

34:03

these ever changing times, you can

34:05

rely on Fox News for hourly updates

34:07

for the very latest news and information on your

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time. Listen and download now at fox

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get your favorite podcasts. This

34:15

week, French

34:17

president Emmanuel Macron arrives in

34:20

Washington for a state dinner

34:22

Sunday full plate of global crises to discuss with president

34:24

Biden. Topics will likely include how

34:26

the US and Europe will continue to

34:30

support Ukraine and contain

34:32

Vladimir Putin. Joining me now,

34:34

Dmitry Al Paribic, a

34:36

Russian born American cybersecurity

34:38

and geopolitics expert. who has

34:40

tracked some of the largest threats

34:42

facing the US from Russia and

34:44

China. And Matthew Kreneig, the Atlantic

34:46

Council's acting director of the Skowcroft

34:48

Center for strategy and security. He's one

34:50

of the world's leading authorities on

34:53

nuclear weapons. Matthew Kim Jong

34:55

Un is seen again with his daughter

34:57

in INSPECTING BOLISTIC MISSELLS. WHAT SHOULD

34:59

WE MAKE OF THIS? Reporter: A

35:01

PROBLEM

35:01

THAT DICKATORS SHIPS ALWAYS HAVE IS WHAT DO

35:04

YOU DO

35:06

WITH SUCCESSION? and this is a family

35:08

business. Kim Jong Un's grandfather started

35:10

the country his father

35:14

after him AND SO I THINK KEM Jong Un

35:16

IS PROBABLY THINKING ABOUT A SUCCESSION PLAN AND BY HAVING HIS FAMILY

35:18

MEMBERS, HIS DAUGHTER IN THESE PUBLIC SETTINGS,

35:21

POSSABLY GRIMING THEM for succession. Meanwhile, the nuclear

35:23

threat continues to grow. North Korea, only the

35:26

third US adversary other than

35:28

Russia and

35:30

China, that can threat nuclear war against the United States, so this is serious

35:32

challenge. How should the US respond

35:34

to the recent escalation in missile

35:36

tests from North Korea? Well,

35:39

the Biden

35:39

administration has essentially put this on

35:42

the back burner. I think they see it as as a

35:44

difficult challenge, so they've prioritized

35:46

Russia, Sunday, and

35:48

other issues. But I think that's a mistake. This threat continues to

35:50

grow. And so I think the right approach is

35:52

is basically a pressure and engagement

35:54

campaign, increase the

35:56

diplomatic, economic, political pressure on

35:58

North Korea so long as it pursues

36:00

these destabilizing policies. But

36:02

hold out the possibility for engagement

36:04

negotiations if Kim Jong Un

36:07

is willing to come talk. And what's

36:08

the state of the US nuclear arsenal?

36:10

Can it still serve as a

36:13

deterrent?

36:13

Well, the US arsenal is effective today, but it's getting

36:15

old. It was built in the seventies and the

36:17

eighties. They're nearing the end of

36:19

their service lives. Sunday there

36:21

is a bipartisan plan to modernize US

36:24

nuclear weapons over the coming

36:26

thirty years, but that program has

36:28

been slipping. We need to make it

36:30

a priority to make sure that we have

36:32

a deterrent to protect ourselves and our allies. Dmitry, what lesson

36:34

is

36:34

President Xi taking from Ukraine?

36:36

And what should we make

36:37

of these Shanghai

36:40

protests. Some protesters have even called for

36:42

Xi to resign, which is

36:44

unprecedented. Well, the lesson the

36:45

main lesson he's learning, of course, is that if

36:47

you're gonna go against Taiwan, which

36:49

I think he wants to do in his

36:51

lifetime probably the next ten years. Maybe even

36:54

sooner, you better be ready. You better make sure

36:56

that your forces are ready,

36:58

they're trained, can execute the mission and hopefully do it quickly from his

37:00

perspective. The other lesson he may be learning,

37:02

which may be the incorrect lesson, is that the United

37:04

States can be declared use

37:06

of nuclear weapons or the threat of nuclear

37:08

weapons because he sees that we while we're

37:10

supporting Ukraine, we have not gone in and

37:12

helped them with our

37:14

own troops. that lesson

37:16

may not apply to Taiwan, but

37:18

that's what he may be infer. The protests are

37:20

really interesting because this is the first time that it

37:22

seems like presence she's really losing control over the zero

37:24

COVID policy that they've had for the last

37:26

couple of years. The cases are increasing

37:28

dramatically. There

37:30

are thousands of new cases a day in Beijing if we can even believe their

37:32

numbers are probably a lot higher. And

37:34

the population is fed up. They're

37:36

they're not willing to CONTINUED

37:39

TO LIVE IN LOCKADOWNS AND THAT IS GOING TO BE

37:41

VERY PRECARRIOUS FOR PRESENCE SHE GOING FORWARD.

37:43

Reporter: ALSO IN TAIWAN,

37:44

Pro China Party

37:46

just won municipal elections. What does this tell

37:49

you?

37:49

Well, this election was a municipal election. It

37:51

was not about China, but the fact

37:53

that the population is willing

37:55

to ignore the Chinese threat and vote for party

37:58

that is very friendly to the Beijing

37:59

government is an indication that Taiwanese are

38:02

just not prioritizing

38:04

the threat They don't believe it's real. They don't think an invasion is coming. has

38:06

real implications for US policy because if

38:08

Taiwan does not shape up. If they

38:10

don't dramatically increase their conscription, their

38:14

training, their military industrial complex to produce weapons

38:16

and to integrate them into their defense forces.

38:18

Taiwan is gonna be in real trouble.

38:21

despite what president Biden says about us willing

38:23

to come to their aid, if the Taiwanese

38:26

don't fight, Taiwan is gonna be

38:27

doomed. And they haven't buying the right type

38:29

of weapons from what I understand. Now

38:31

they're focused on old style weapons, tanks,

38:33

f sixties that may not be very

38:35

applicable to war if the if the Chinese

38:37

launch in airborne invasion, for example. Matthew, the

38:39

protests in Iran is A REAL

38:41

THREAT TO THE REGIMES. SHOULD THE VIDEN

38:44

ADMINISTRATION

38:44

BE SAYING MORE AND IS THE NUCLEAR DEAL

38:46

DEAD? WELL, YOU HAVE

38:47

TO REALLY ADMIRE THE YOUNG women

38:49

in Iran risking their lives standing up to

38:51

this brutal dictatorship. I do think the

38:53

Biden administration should be doing

38:55

more to support them both verbally and behind

38:57

the scenes. Unfortunately, the sad

39:00

reality when we've seen this before is that the

39:02

regime is willing to kill in

39:04

large number to stay in

39:06

power. The Iranians haven't been willing to die

39:08

in large enough numbers to take

39:10

power. And I do fear that that may be

39:12

the ultimate

39:14

outcome here. On the nuclear deal, the International Atomic

39:16

Energy Agency reported earlier this

39:18

month that Iran is now enriching to sixty

39:20

percent enriched

39:22

uranium. a hair's breath from

39:24

weapons grade at their underground facility

39:26

at Forto. Outside experts estimate

39:28

that the time it would take Iran to down

39:30

and build nuclear weapons has shrunk almost to zero. So I do fear

39:32

that the game is almost over here in

39:34

the bipartisan effort to stop Iran from

39:37

building nuclear weapons may

39:40

have failed. Dmitry, you

39:41

were sanctioned by Putin recently. Today, Ukraine

39:43

is marking ninety years since Stalin

39:45

imposed a famine that killed two

39:47

to three million Ukrainians.

39:50

what more should the the Biden administration be doing? And are you concerned that

39:52

house Republicans are gonna cut off aid

39:54

to Ukraine?

39:55

I don't think the military aid is gonna get cut

39:57

off. And as long

39:59

as Ukraine are able to get ammunition and weapon systems. They're gonna keep

40:02

fighting. They understand that this is an

40:04

existential struggle for their country. The real

40:06

problem that we face right now

40:08

is we're Sunday low on

40:10

a lot of munitions, the artillery munitions, missiles,

40:12

javelin missiles that they

40:14

use for anti tank strikes.

40:18

we need to be massively ramping up our production. We need to

40:20

be building new factories. And the reality is

40:22

these wars with new peer competitors like Russian

40:24

China can last a long time. and

40:27

if there is God forbid a conflict over Taiwan, we'll

40:30

run out of things very, very quickly. And

40:32

Dmitry, a

40:32

lot of people missed a key

40:34

move by the Biden administration regarding

40:37

export controls

40:38

in China's chip industry. What's

40:39

the significance? Well, this was

40:42

basically a massive declaration of a trade

40:44

war against China. Basically, constraining

40:46

their ability to produce advanced chips, which are

40:48

necessary for weapon systems, they are necessary

40:50

for advanced manufacturing and

40:54

advanced electronics And this is something that the Chinese are

40:56

gonna struggle a lot with. They have not been able to

40:58

achieve independent production. And

41:00

without ability to procure those chips, this will

41:02

really impact

41:04

their military significantly. Matthew, before we

41:05

go, what should we expect from

41:06

the U. S. Iran World Cup match

41:09

on Tuesday? We've seen

41:10

some protests. We've seen the players

41:12

not seeing it NATIONAL

41:14

ANTHEM THINKS SAYING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, TEARS IN THE STADIUM,

41:16

WHO IS GOING TO WIN, WHAT'S THE

41:19

SIGNIFICANCE? Reporter: YES. SO,

41:20

WELL, You you do have to

41:22

sympathize with the Iranian players

41:24

and another act of bravery refusing

41:26

to sing the Iranian national anthem as

41:29

a sign of protest. against the regime.

41:31

So it but I I am a

41:33

patriot. So USA USA USA. Howard

41:36

Bauchner: panel, thank you

41:37

so much. up

41:40

next. You

41:47

cranian

41:50

refugees use their musical talents to

41:52

send a message to Vladimir

41:54

Putin. I'll introduce you to a few of

41:56

them as they fight back with

41:58

instruments of peace.

42:00

You got the

42:01

ring. Hey. It's Will Caine, cohost

42:03

of Fox and Friends weekend, genius. I

42:05

share my thoughts on a wide

42:07

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42:10

politics and business. The Will Caine

42:12

podcast. Subscribe and listen now at

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dot com. As

42:18

we

42:19

give thanks this weekend, we'd like

42:21

to remember those facing a

42:24

long cold

42:24

Sunday winter in Ukraine.

42:26

the result of Russia's brutal invasion nine months ago. The

42:29

Ukrainian freedom orchestra is

42:31

a truly special ensemble

42:34

made of dozens of Ukrainian refugees,

42:35

musicians who toured Europe and

42:37

the United States imploring

42:40

people

42:40

not to

42:42

forget. I

42:43

sat down with a few of the musicians

42:45

when they visited

42:47

the Kennedy Center.

42:51

they fled Ukraine in the hours and days

42:53

after Russia's invasion, carrying

42:56

with them a few dollars, their

42:58

children, and

43:00

their instruments. Their

43:00

bows now serve as their weapons as Vladimir Putin's

43:03

army tries to expunge Ukraine from

43:05

the

43:05

map of Europe. I

43:08

consider

43:08

my musicians and soldiers of

43:10

music were a

43:11

free and independent Ukraine.

43:14

Couldn't keep trying to say there

43:16

is no culture. We are fighting the cultural front,

43:19

and our weapons are instruments.

43:21

Carrie Lynn Wilson

43:22

assembled seventy five Ukrainian GEES

43:25

WHO HAD NEVER PLAYED TOGETHER FOR AN

43:28

INTERNATIONAL twelve CITY TOUR THAT

43:30

ENDED AT THE KENITY CENTRE IN THE

43:32

NATION'S CAP It

43:33

came together

43:35

when I was

43:36

horrified by the invasion in

43:38

February. This was very personal for

43:40

me because I still have family. who

43:42

are in

43:43

Ukraine. I thought, I could somehow bring these refugees

43:46

together and and create

43:48

an orchestra to give them a

43:50

voice back because Putin has

43:51

silenced them. You compare your

43:54

musicians to foot soldiers. People have

43:56

described you as defiant Sunday

43:59

artistic resistance were

44:00

armed with our

44:01

emotions. We're driven by

44:04

the fact that we

44:06

want to prove, not only to Putin, but to

44:08

the world. For the future, not

44:11

only Ukraine as for

44:14

in independent for future democracy.

44:18

Among her

44:20

soldiers, Olga Shalishkova,

44:22

the director of Keefe's Mosart

44:24

orchestra, who fled Ukraine with

44:26

her sixteen year old daughter and

44:29

cat. It was dangerous,

44:30

we can see the

44:34

rockets on the sky

44:36

and the

44:38

sound of cloud. Why is it important

44:40

for

44:40

you to be in

44:41

this orchestra right now? We have

44:43

to remind

44:45

about the

44:47

work. Do you feel like

44:49

a soldier? I'm a musician. What

44:52

is your message to

44:54

Vladimir Putin? We

44:55

are exist. Ukraine is exist.

44:57

Ukraine is independent

45:00

country. Basis, Nasari's

45:02

stats,

45:03

special permission from president Zelensky to leave

45:06

Ukraine. How do you feel right now

45:08

about the idea of going back

45:09

to Ukraine? The best

45:11

think I can do. I'm a professional musician.

45:13

I think I'm a little

45:16

bit useless in Army. So this

45:18

is my my front. I

45:20

can play European music.

45:22

This orchestra has been

45:24

compared to soldiers. Yeah.

45:26

How are you a soldier? we

45:29

can tell the truth to to the whole world. I am a soldier because I'm

45:31

telling the truth and I'm not scared of

45:33

that. Those who have chosen to

45:35

stay in Ukraine what

45:38

courage, what bravery, and

45:40

what determination to stay

45:42

in their country to fight

45:44

for its independence. The

45:46

pieces she chose to play

45:48

during the tour all have deep

45:51

symbolism. I wanted

45:52

to feature Ukrainian composers.

45:55

Like

45:55

Valentin Syvastroff, whose seventh

45:58

symphony is dedicated to his

46:00

wife who died suddenly.

46:02

We dedicated to the

46:04

sultures and the innocent victims

46:07

of this war. Then

46:10

I chose B dollin's Figdile. Oh, it's called

46:13

Abshoila, which means

46:14

monister.

46:17

is about

46:22

fighting against the tyrant. Since

46:27

the invasion

46:30

on February twenty fourth,

46:32

the Kennedy Center has bathed ITSELF IN

46:34

THE COLORDS OF U. KRAIN'S FLAG. IT WAS OUR WAY OF

46:37

SAYING WE ARE WATCHING. WE

46:39

KNOW WE'S CARE. WE

46:41

ARE SUPPORTING YOU Ukraine's ambassador thank the American

46:43

people. In this time of tyranny,

46:45

dictatorship and total

46:48

force propaganda.

46:50

Everyone in our global orchestra should feel like an

46:52

essential instrument, making an

46:55

important and influential sound.

46:58

god bless America is lava Ukraine.

47:01

Each night, the orchestra

47:03

ends playing Ukraine's

47:06

snap show Anthem.

47:09

There's

47:11

something very cathartic playing

47:13

it and there's never a dried tear

47:16

in the audience and

47:17

we're

47:18

crying as we play it in in

47:20

our hearts. We're

47:23

proud of our country.

47:26

We're proud to follow a

47:28

soldier. soldier.

47:30

brave men who fight.

47:32

Really

47:34

touching all

47:34

all the time. I see the

47:36

whole audience with Ukraine and flags. Sunday

47:39

this is

47:40

a really emotional

47:41

moment. It's about a

47:44

bright future.

47:46

Your support very

47:48

important for us, for Ukrainian people.

47:52

We feel that we

47:53

are not alone.

48:00

Last month, Carrie Lynn

48:01

Wilson made her debut

48:04

at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York with

48:06

a Russian Opera that was banned by

48:08

Stalin. That's it for

48:12

this Sunday. Thank you for joining us. I'm Jennifer Griffin. Have

48:14

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