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7:31

Daniel Hoffman here on

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expertise in foreign affairs

7:37

and national security is,

7:40

I think, top notch.

7:42

There are very few people, Daniel, that I

7:45

go to for expert advice

7:47

on what is happening, particularly right

7:49

now with Ukraine and Russia. And

7:51

with issues around the world, it's

7:53

you. I wanna go to you. I wanna get your

7:55

take on what's going on. So thank you so

7:57

much for being on the show. No.

7:59

Thanks.

7:59

It's always a pleasure and an honor to

8:02

join you. So thanks again for the invitation.

8:04

Appreciate it. Yeah. I

8:05

know I wish sometimes people who are just here as,

8:07

like, chitchatting, like, before

8:09

we get on because we are we just

8:11

let it all out. We don't even we don't hold

8:13

anything back. And, you know,

8:15

but one of the things that you told me as you

8:17

know, as you came on, was this

8:20

amazing amazing

8:22

work and I wanna honor your son

8:25

that your son has done to

8:27

raise money to fight childhood

8:29

cancer. Can you talk a little bit

8:31

about that? And I'm gonna direct everybody

8:33

to fox news dot com in a minute to let

8:35

them know where they can read

8:37

the story about the work that your son has

8:39

done.

8:40

Yeah, I will. So, you know, my

8:42

wife Kim passed away

8:44

in March of twenty twenty one she

8:46

had neuroendocrine cancer of the pancreas

8:49

discovered in January twenty seventeen. So she

8:51

fought really hard for four years

8:53

and She fought for every every

8:55

second on this earth that she could have,

8:57

especially and even after, you know, we

8:59

knew that that she wasn't gonna make it, she

9:01

wasn't gonna be cancer because she had to

9:03

get me in a position where I could

9:05

raise my kids. And III learned more from

9:07

her about what's most important that

9:09

is raising two little boys who are now twelve

9:11

and nine than from anybody on this

9:13

planet. But, you know, my my two sons

9:15

and I, you know, we grieve together. There

9:17

is an element of honestly a post traumatic

9:19

stress from that, from losing my

9:21

wife and young kids. But

9:23

part of the grieving process is that, you know, we

9:25

never ever give up. My wife

9:27

took the fight to cancer and and never

9:30

quit. And so one of the ways that we

9:32

do that is I asked my older son who's

9:34

twelve, I said, look, He's

9:35

got a charity project that he he needs

9:37

to do, and I asked him what he wanted to do. And he

9:39

said, I wanna honor mom's memory and

9:41

do something connected to cancer. We had a

9:44

long conversation over days. You wanna

9:46

do something for the cure, which is, you

9:48

know, million dollar moonshot or maybe you

9:50

wanna work on the care. And he said, you

9:52

know, dad, the cure is too much for

9:54

me. I'm a kid, but Maybe I can

9:56

help people who have cancer. And so

9:58

I've been in touch with the Jesse Rees

10:00

Foundation because their national spokes

10:02

person, one of them is Caitlyn Santa now an Olympic

10:04

gold medalist in swimming. And

10:06

so I directed my son to that website

10:08

and and had him take a look and he you know that

10:10

Jesse Rees got brain cancer when she was

10:12

eleven, and she died when she

10:14

was twelve, just my

10:16

age. And and she came up with this

10:18

idea to to to help kids

10:20

who have cancer bring some joy to their lives

10:22

by sending them jars. She called them

10:24

joy jars full of toys and

10:26

and other gifts. that they could open and know

10:28

somebody cares about them and that really

10:30

struck a chord with my with my

10:32

older son. He

10:33

said, I wanna do something to help

10:35

them. I

10:35

wanna help those kids. And

10:38

so I called the Jesse Reese

10:40

Foundation. I talked to their director of community

10:42

development and they said, look, if you could raise a few

10:44

thousand dollars, we'll do

10:46

an event in your town.

10:48

And I said, well, my son,

10:50

I think we should set a goal.

10:52

We're gonna set a goal of, let's say, a hundred

10:54

thousand dollars and I think they thought I was crazy,

10:57

but my twelve year old son,

10:59

Jared, wrote a very heartfelt, beautiful

11:01

letter that I sent around to a lot

11:03

of potential corporate sponsors. He

11:05

did a podcast, and

11:07

then he was interviewed in the article

11:09

that you mentioned by Fox News.

11:11

And so the donation

11:13

started to to flow. We had one big

11:15

one that was from an anonymous. I mean, I know

11:17

who the person is. The person just wishes to

11:19

remain anonymous. but he's

11:21

up to two hundred thousand dollars. The event

11:23

is scheduled for October eight in

11:25

Tyson's Corner at our our local

11:27

gym. the the general manager, the gym,

11:29

my son my two sons and I went

11:31

to him and said, look, this is what we're

11:33

doing, and he said to me, we get asked for these

11:35

sorts of things all the time, but we're

11:37

doing this one. And because I

11:39

know your kids, you know, and I knew your wife, and

11:42

and we wanna help. And so they've given us

11:44

their facility, the whole, you know, basketball

11:46

courts. And It's an all day event where

11:48

we're gonna have over a hundred and fifty people

11:50

already signed up to to stuff Joy

11:52

Jars. I was joking with the

11:54

Jesse Reese Foundation. You know, I'm from

11:56

Boston, so the movie Jaws kinda

11:58

I

11:58

remember that. Remember when

11:59

back to Robert Jaws trying to fight the

12:02

shark and the sheriff's Oh, yeah. even

12:04

bigger boat. And I said that Jesse Reese's

12:06

foundation, like, we're gonna need a, you know, more joy

12:08

jar stuff. We got two hundred thousand

12:10

dollars worth of joy jars we need to stuff.

12:12

But you know, and I'll just tell

12:14

you to to kinda close it out. I mean, it

12:16

brings, you know, a lot of joy to my to from

12:18

my kids and it's how we grieve through this

12:20

process. And and you

12:23

know, God bless Jesse Reese. I never met

12:25

her, but her older sister, Shea.

12:27

You know, she gets on the phone with my kids and

12:29

they and they share in the

12:31

grief that they both that they all, you

12:33

know, struggle with every day. They they share

12:35

that together. And I'll just tell you one

12:37

last thing. I I learned Russian and I read a

12:39

lot of Russian literature and the

12:41

opening lines of Anna Correna know

12:43

were our that every

12:45

happy family is alike and every unhappy

12:47

family's unhappy in its own way. And I read

12:49

that whole book in Russian and I believe

12:52

that until my wife got cancer and I

12:54

realized that No. My unhappy family is a

12:56

hell of a lot like a whole lot of other families

12:58

that are unhappy. The Jesse Rice

13:00

family, god bless Jesse Rice. She left us

13:02

a map. I love her family and they

13:04

love mine back and we are in this together. We're

13:06

unhappy in different

13:08

ways, but the same way, you know, and we share

13:10

our grief and we derive we get so

13:12

much support and we get a lot of love and a lot

13:14

of kindness from one another. And

13:16

honestly, that's just what keeps us going.

13:18

And so if you ask me, like, what am

13:20

I most most excited

13:22

about what means the most to me in my life

13:24

for my kids for sure. And this

13:26

particular charity project, and we're

13:28

gonna maintain our relation chip with Jesse

13:30

Reese's foundation, you know, forever. It

13:32

just means the world to to my two sons

13:34

in me. So I appreciate you giving me the chance

13:36

to to kinda wax on about it,

13:38

but Honestly, you know, more than anything.

13:40

That's what my family's all about right

13:42

now. I tell

13:43

you your wife is smiling down

13:45

on you and Jaron

13:48

and your and your set to your

13:50

sons and the work that you're doing because

13:52

this is what Daniel,

13:54

this is what we all should be doing.

13:56

We spend so much time. So

13:58

much time is wasted. Fighting

14:00

one another. Fighting one another.

14:02

And we've seen that in our country with you

14:04

know, just politics and the divisions

14:07

and people aren't talking to each

14:09

other anymore. When it's the simplest

14:11

things in life, just those moments

14:13

that you shared with your wife, with your

14:15

children, those beautiful moments

14:17

that you have, but those are

14:19

the things that we take with us.

14:22

Those are the things that live in our spirit

14:24

and what your son's doing is just

14:26

remarkable. I mean, you must be so

14:28

proud of him. I know I am III

14:30

hope I'm in D. C. on October eighth.

14:32

I hope that I can help stuff

14:34

some jars with you. I mean, I

14:36

want everybody Well, I want

14:38

I will

14:38

You know, we got Starbucks

14:41

coffee and a bunch of pizza on the way

14:43

too. So look, I I try to

14:45

teach my kids. If there's one thing I I try

14:47

to teach them it's empathy. See

14:49

the

14:49

world through the eyes of others. You

14:51

may

14:51

agree or not agree with what they're saying, but

14:54

see the world through their eyes, understand

14:56

them, was what I had to do

14:58

with CIA. A lot of people think the CIA

15:00

is Jason Born or if you're older

15:02

like I am Sean Connery and that

15:04

cool stuff. yeah, I

15:04

learned how to do some, you know,

15:07

learn how to, like, repel

15:09

and shoot weapons and trauma first aid

15:11

and jump out

15:12

of a plane, whatever other cool stuff you did. At the

15:14

end of the day, it's about sizing

15:16

people up and understanding from

15:18

another person's optic what they're going

15:21

through. That's how you recruit sources. But

15:23

it's

15:23

also how we should live our lives.

15:25

Like, my

15:26

older son warms my heart because he

15:28

sees the world through the eyes of these kids

15:30

who have cancer because his mom

15:32

died from that same disease.

15:34

And my kids are understanding what

15:36

empathy is. Certainly,

15:38

sympathy is impossible without empathy,

15:40

but just living on this planet. And as

15:42

you said, I

15:43

wish Democrats and Republicans would

15:45

be more empathic with one another and

15:47

work their stuff out without resorting

15:50

to nasty name calling and failing to

15:52

solve the problems that, you know, are

15:54

inflicted upon all of us here, whether we're

15:56

Democrats or Republicans, and our elected

15:58

representatives don't always do a great job of

15:59

that. And sometimes

16:00

I think that they ought to go and listen to some

16:03

first grade teacher and learn a little

16:05

bit about how you can get along better.

16:07

But Or even your

16:07

son, take take lessons from what people

16:10

are doing out out in the real world.

16:12

And and you're right about

16:14

I I say this to you, you know. My daughter

16:16

has never known her dad not to be

16:19

blind. He's always been blind.

16:21

I remember when she was two years old and she

16:23

would have to guide him around, you know, if I

16:25

wasn't around, she would guide Marty

16:27

around, you know, the store

16:29

or move him this way or that

16:31

way. And it just became a part of her life or

16:33

like, Daddy look at my dress and she

16:35

take his hands and put it on her

16:37

shoulders and field address,

16:39

or can you see my face if you touch

16:41

it? Will you be able to see me, you know,

16:43

those things, but it made

16:45

her stronger, not that

16:47

we wanted he didn't want to be blind.

16:49

Nobody wants that. Nobody wants these

16:51

things. Nobody wants to lose the

16:53

person that they love. But it's amazing

16:56

when children who are so

16:58

resilient and have a good parent like you. I think

17:00

you're a phenomenal parent and a

17:02

phenomenal father have a way to

17:04

gear those those

17:06

emotions and those feelings so

17:08

that a child grows up

17:10

with empathy, a child grows up

17:12

saying, I know, I can imagine

17:14

how you feel. I can imagine how you

17:16

feel because I've been there and

17:18

let me help you out. Let me lift you

17:20

up. You

17:21

know, that the commonality both talking about

17:24

is that both our families are

17:26

very open with just

17:29

personal

17:29

struggles and challenges that we've had

17:31

to face. And that's

17:33

the only way to deal with a challenge

17:35

like that is head on and just

17:38

My my sons and I

17:39

we remember my wife Kim all the time,

17:41

and I was just reading to my

17:43

younger son last night in bed, and I looked at him. I

17:45

said, you know, who gave you

17:47

the best snuggles ever he's like mom did, you

17:50

know?

17:50

And I'm like, yeah, you're right. And and

17:52

we had

17:52

that moment where we talked about,

17:54

you know, his mom. And and

17:57

you know,

17:57

that just being open about

17:59

the feelings that you have and grieving

18:02

together because I I mean, that's how you, you know,

18:04

that's how you manage it, how you get

18:06

through it. you carry that brief with you

18:08

forever. And what I love

18:10

about your family is that

18:12

somebody not strong and without the

18:14

kind of support that that your husband has, wouldn't

18:17

have been

18:17

able to live the kind of life he's living.

18:20

But his

18:20

life is full. He's got a great

18:22

family and you're all making

18:24

that

18:24

happen because you love him and you support him

18:27

and and he does the same for

18:29

you. It's Great. And I think

18:30

we all learn that. Right? Like, not everyone, but,

18:33

like, I think, depending on what we've been through in

18:35

our own lives, and and this is probably gonna go

18:37

to your work, and everything else,

18:39

we learn I at least I've

18:41

learned in my life that when I make a

18:43

commitment to someone, when I make a commitment to

18:45

my country, my work, my

18:47

husband, my family. That's a

18:49

real commitment. That's not a fly

18:51

by night. Like, something happens to you. I'm

18:54

gonna pack my bags and I'm out the door.

18:56

You know? there's a real

18:59

commitment to and it's hard sometimes.

19:01

Everybody's everybody has a struggle

19:03

and, you know, there's THERE'S ALL KIND OF

19:05

EMOTIONS. NOBODY IS A SUPERHERO. WE'RE

19:07

ALL DEALING WITH OUR OWN JUNK

19:09

AND -- BUT

19:11

THERE'S a commitment there, and something so fulfilling

19:13

about that. Because once you kind

19:15

of get through that, it's like all next

19:17

level, isn't it? It's like kind of

19:20

it's it's a it's a next level. I

19:23

you can't really explain to people what

19:25

that is, but that love and that

19:27

feeling of committing yourself to

19:29

something and getting through it together is

19:32

really a spectacular it's

19:34

a

19:34

spectacular feeling to

19:37

know that you'll be there for each other. You

19:39

know?

19:39

Yeah, I totally agree with you. And I felt

19:42

that same common

19:44

powerful, like, unity of mission when I was serving overseas,

19:46

especially in war zones when I was in Iraq

19:48

or Afghanistan or traveling in Afghanistan,

19:52

there's nothing like, you know, having,

19:54

you know, missiles raining down

19:56

on you if you're in a war zone or people

19:58

getting shot at or other to

20:00

bring everybody together in common cause. And

20:02

and you get a lot, you know, you get a lot of

20:04

strength from that common mission and that

20:07

honor and that pride that you're serving

20:09

your country, gosh, that just means

20:11

the world to people. There's one thing I miss

20:13

about CIA. It's all those great people

20:15

with whom I had the honor of serving, you know, and

20:17

I'll see him on occasion now, but I'm

20:19

not

20:19

doing the work with them anymore. You know? And

20:21

that's yeah. That's sometimes

20:23

that that's tough. I had a lot of good

20:25

memories, and sometimes I'm sorry. I'm

20:27

not making new ones.

20:28

Oh, I know. I know. Let's talk about that

20:31

because right now there is a

20:33

massive conflict. If anyone knows

20:35

or understands Russia. I think it

20:37

would be you, Daniel, you speak, you speak

20:39

Russian, you speak

20:41

Finnish when we were in Finland. I

20:43

couldn't believe how great you you had

20:45

just mastery of the of the Finnish language,

20:47

which is probably one of the hardest languages

20:49

in the world to learn and

20:51

Russian as well. It's a very difficult language

20:53

to learn But what's happening right now

20:55

in Ukraine, in the Ukrainian conflict?

20:58

And I'm you know, you could see

21:00

I mean, Ukraine's made

21:02

great strides against Russia. There's a

21:04

lot of concern right now that the Russians,

21:07

especially, Vladimir

21:09

Putin, may

21:11

up the ante. There's worry that

21:14

he could use a smaller

21:16

nuclear weapon that he won't

21:18

want to lose publicly against

21:21

Ukraine. talk a little bit about that because you know the

21:23

personalities of the people that we are

21:25

dealing with. So should we be worried

21:27

about that? Should the Ukrainians? Yeah.

21:30

So

21:30

whenever Russia's involved with anything, you

21:32

should be worried. And look,

21:34

what we're seeing right now from

21:37

Ukraine

21:37

is a really effective counter

21:40

offensive where Ukraine has taken

21:42

over the affirmative region. And it's

21:44

important because there was one particular

21:46

town, I assume, which means raise in in

21:48

English. And the Russians were using that as

21:50

a logistical base from

21:52

which to launch attacks in the Dunbar's

21:54

region in the south against Ukraine.

21:56

So this is a big deal. It's

21:58

not a coincidence that Ukraine has been able

22:00

to launch this counter offensive and stay

22:02

in the fight because the United States

22:04

has finally been providing some of the weapons

22:06

that they so desperately needed, but

22:08

it took us so long. And and one of

22:10

the questions I think historians will be

22:12

asking is, well, It's counterfactual history, but

22:14

what if we had given Ukraine all of

22:16

the artillery and and and the

22:18

military equipment a little

22:19

bit sooner? Like, maybe a year ago or

22:21

even April of twenty twenty one, maybe Russia wouldn't

22:24

even even attacked. I think they still would have, but

22:26

Ukraine would have been in a better position to

22:28

repel them. you

22:29

know, Russia has made incredibly horrific tactical

22:32

errors. And if they hadn't made those errors,

22:34

you know, there would be even more

22:35

depth in destruction in Ukraine. So

22:38

We're seeing this counter offensive. We're seeing a lot of concern

22:40

in Russia. I listened to the news

22:42

on a regular basis and and some

22:45

of the you know, Kremlin state TV

22:47

pundits are saying that

22:50

this military special

22:52

operation as Vladimir Putin likes

22:54

call it even though, hey, it's a war. When when twenty five thousand

22:56

of your soldiers are dead -- Right. -- end of the

22:58

war. So they're calling that a failure,

23:00

and they're

23:00

starting to play game. And of course, they won't

23:03

blame Vladimir Putin, but

23:05

they're looking for other scapegoats.

23:07

And the real question to get to your point is,

23:09

well, what is Vladimir Putin gonna do about

23:11

this? Because his propaganda

23:13

machine called

23:14

Ukraine an existential

23:15

threat, a country run by Nazis, which is

23:18

totally preposterous or president's

23:20

Jewish, you know, and The next season

23:22

you know, the the that was a different

23:24

time in history, and those were, you know, I don't

23:26

know, Hitler's Germans, but the Ukrainians

23:29

aren't that. So if you

23:31

fail to conquer Ukraine, Vladimir

23:33

Putin,

23:33

then what's

23:35

what are you gonna do about it? and

23:37

and he's facing threats from his ultra

23:40

nationalist

23:40

wing of his supporters because they

23:43

don't understand why two hundred days later he

23:45

hasn't conquered Ukraine. Gorbachev,

23:48

who just died a couple weeks

23:50

ago,

23:50

outlived his own country,

23:52

and his legacy is that he dialed

23:54

down the end of the evil empire. Thanks

23:56

to president Reagan's leadership and

23:58

president Bush without

23:59

resorting to violence, he wouldn't do it.

24:02

And

24:02

Vladimir Putin is

24:04

using violence and trying to restore, not maybe the

24:06

Soviet Union, but a sphere of influence by

24:09

forcefully conquer in

24:12

Ukraine and imposing regime change

24:14

on the government in Kiev, he's not gonna

24:16

succeed at that. So What

24:18

happens next? He's used band chemical nerve agents. He

24:21

tried he turned and

24:23

defector into a human dirty bomb in

24:25

the UK. He's got nuclear

24:27

weapons. He's got other weapons of mass

24:29

destruction when he used those. He's

24:31

already killed countless civilians,

24:33

reigning down hell on the menoprene.

24:35

So I just fear things are gonna get

24:37

even more bloody in Ukraine,

24:39

tragically for the people there and

24:41

and for the region, but especially for the Ukrainians,

24:43

you know, millions of them have fled

24:45

We take

24:46

so much for granted in our concert. If we

24:48

go into school every day, we can put food on our

24:50

table, yet we've got other issues here like inflation

24:52

and things that we're concerned about. But

24:54

not living

24:55

in a state of war like they are.

24:57

Well, and it's

24:57

I also think about, like,

25:00

not only the fear that

25:02

Vladimir Putin could definitely pursue

25:05

the use of a small, maybe

25:07

nuclear weapon against Ukraine try

25:10

in in effort to to

25:12

save face before the world because I think

25:14

that's probably what he's most concerned about

25:16

right now. But I'm also worried

25:18

about the fact that we've seen

25:21

Vladimir Putin over the years become

25:23

really we've allowed him to become the energy

25:25

giant. Right? I mean, this is this

25:27

is a nation

25:29

that is has played a a number

25:31

of games with the West. Of

25:33

course, look at what's happened in Germany.

25:35

Look at what's happening across Europe.

25:37

as the winter approaches and look at their

25:39

relationship with China. And

25:41

that combination with China

25:44

is something that I think

25:47

is this is a new world. And

25:49

III don't wanna use the world, new

25:50

world order because I

25:52

don't wanna say that. But this is

25:55

something that's evolving because

25:57

of the developments that

25:59

we've seen, because of of

26:01

of their ability to grow and

26:03

not just and I'm not talking about

26:05

economically, but but through energy resources.

26:08

And China's done the same thing. China's

26:10

done the same thing while we've been focused on the

26:12

monetary. Right? Economics,

26:14

world economic forum, our economics,

26:16

our economics, and, you know,

26:19

manufacturing overseas. I mean, I feel like

26:21

China and Russia have been collecting, you know,

26:23

like in a

26:24

monopoly game, all of the

26:27

resources. that we need to to sustain

26:30

ourselves. I mean, am I wrong? I don't know.

26:32

No.

26:32

You're a hundred percent right. This war in

26:34

Ukraine has been transformational, I

26:36

think, in three ways. first is what

26:38

you talked about. Vladimir Putin has

26:40

delivered a real pivot for Russia.

26:43

Away

26:43

from the west, they're not exporting

26:46

gas and oil to the west, like

26:48

they were. Unfortunately, there's still,

26:50

you know, Europe is still dependent upon rush

26:52

week. We warn them, you know, we've been warning them

26:54

for a while, but over dependence on

26:56

Russian hydrocarbons and they didn't

26:58

listen. But Russia has pivoted to China.

27:00

China's importing massive amounts of

27:02

Russian oil and gas and the Russians are

27:04

relying on Iran their drones and North Korea

27:06

for artillery. So it's a pivot to that

27:09

troika of

27:09

of dictatorships, and it's what Putin wanted

27:11

because he knew that being linked with

27:13

the west meant being

27:14

economically meant being linked or

27:17

risking being linked

27:19

in other ways, you know, that if ideas

27:21

of democracy, freedom and liberty from the

27:23

west seep into Russia, that's the

27:25

greatest threat to his regime. So that's the

27:27

first, you know, kind of big

27:29

transformational change I think that we've seen. The second

27:31

one that is ongoing is this

27:33

war is a failure And there is massive

27:35

pressure on Putin's inner circle. His minister of

27:37

defense, Shawigu, who never deserved the

27:39

job, doesn't have the

27:41

military credentials for it and failed with

27:43

his strategy in Ukraine is

27:45

under pressure. So is the director

27:47

of the FSB boardnikop and the

27:49

national security adviser, Patrick Ship,

27:51

who used to be director FSB. Those are the

27:54

three in Putin's inner circle who are the

27:56

most who are certainly the strongest.

27:58

And

27:58

the question is, kind of who turns on

27:59

whom first? And that's a big requirement for our

28:02

intelligence community. How are those

28:04

three? And their key

28:06

lieutenants reacting to this failure

28:08

in Ukraine? And are they gonna try to Putin

28:10

in the back before he stabs them first? I

28:12

mean, that's just that's a big issue. So

28:14

lots of pressure there. That's kind

28:16

of a second one. And the third one have been Putin's efforts to just

28:19

crush dissent. He's ended it

28:21

for anybody who's, you know,

28:24

supporting human rights or democracy, but

28:26

this latest car bomb reminded

28:28

me of, like, the godfather where

28:30

this right wing kind

28:32

of nationalist, ultra nationalist, Alexander

28:36

Dougan, was leaving an event on a Saturday night and

28:38

they blew up his car, but his

28:40

daughter happened to be in it instead of him. That

28:42

was meant for him a message to to

28:45

Putin's kinda ultra nationalist guys,

28:47

like, Stop criticizing me too

28:49

much. Turn your your ire

28:51

on others or else this is how

28:53

you're gonna end up and then countless executives,

28:56

Luke Boyle and others who have you

28:58

know, died in very suspicious

29:00

circumstances like falling out of a

29:02

hospital, you know, seventh floor,

29:04

wing of a hospital, and Nobody

29:06

exactly knows how that happened or

29:08

somebody drowning in the, you know, in in

29:10

the sea. I mean, it's just classic

29:12

stuff. Mafia hits. Mafia style

29:14

hits in Russia. So the

29:15

Putin is feeling a lot of pressure, not

29:17

from

29:17

the population writ large. He's got

29:19

them pretty well suppressed, but it's it's

29:21

the people who are in more

29:24

closer to his inner circle. And so

29:26

I think he's gonna put up with this.

29:27

I mean, think about Dugan. I mean

29:29

-- Yeah. -- his daughter was in the

29:32

car. I

29:32

mean, this is like I mean, you're dealing and you're right. You're talking about

29:34

mafia style hits. I mean, it's Vladimir Putin that

29:36

I'm I've been thinking about this for

29:38

a week now. when is somebody gonna try

29:41

to take him out? Because they may be

29:43

like, okay, this is getting out of

29:45

control. He is not winning the war

29:47

in Ukraine. I mean, they could

29:49

turn on him. They could turn on

29:51

him old Soviet style.

29:53

Right? Right.

29:54

I mean, that in previous wars that

29:57

Russia lost, So

29:57

nineteen o five to Japan ends

30:00

in revolution, failed revolution, but

30:02

it's a dress rehearsal for nineteen

30:04

seventeen when they lost to the Germans and you got

30:06

a Soviet, you know, Bolsheviks. And

30:09

so

30:09

Vladimir Putin is well aware that

30:11

when Russia loses a war, it might not

30:13

end too well for the leader who might end up with

30:15

his head on spike. And you're

30:17

absolutely right. I mean, we don't know this

30:19

because it's gotta be super

30:22

secret. But there were, you know, hundreds of

30:24

attempts to kill Hitler back in the day. I'm

30:26

sure there's there's talk about

30:28

it, about

30:28

removing Putin. But Putin is a KGB guy and

30:30

he's pretty smart about keeping himself safe.

30:33

Anybody who's been around him at

30:35

big events, you know, notices he

30:37

doesn't eat or drink anything. Very careful

30:39

about his surroundings. Very

30:41

careful about being to anybody who

30:43

could do him harm. So, you

30:46

know, it would be a very difficult

30:48

operation to remove him, you know,

30:51

by force and send them off to the

30:53

sanitarium or even something

30:55

more diabolic. But that's

30:57

something that we have to be aware of. And

30:59

remember, like, country has a lot of nuclear

31:01

weapons and they could wipe the

31:03

United States off the map. We shouldn't

31:05

assume that if Putin is

31:07

overthrown, that the next guy who

31:09

takes over is gonna be any better.

31:11

Right. Works could be more dangerous to the

31:13

United States instead. Kind of

31:14

like the devil you know versus the

31:16

devil you don't know. or you

31:18

might

31:18

kinda know that devil. You might have a dossier

31:21

on him. I mean, you know,

31:23

but it's not gonna be Christopher

31:25

Steele's dossier. It's probably gonna be

31:26

a real life, but not gonna Not that piece

31:28

of crap. And not that piece of crap, Tawsey.

31:30

But Right. But the thing that we gotta do, the

31:32

two things we gotta do is is this

31:35

administration, we need to have the outreach to

31:37

Russian officials,

31:38

diplomats, military and intelligence talking

31:41

about what's going on as a in a back

31:43

channel kind of secret

31:45

way protected from any

31:47

public scrutiny. And then we need intelligence

31:50

collection on what's going on inside

31:52

Russia. God bless ambassador Sullivan. You know, he just retired

31:54

from Moscow out of Moscow,

31:56

former deputy secretary stayed under

31:58

secretary Pompeo. He's one of the great

32:01

public sermons. I'm not just saying that because he's from my

32:03

hometown of Boston, but he was an

32:05

exceptional exceptional diplomat,

32:07

and and we're gonna miss his presence

32:09

in Moscow. We don't have an ambassador there now, and

32:11

we kinda need one. Do we have

32:13

enough, you know,

32:15

people working in,

32:17

you know, these that's what I'm always worried about. I don't

32:20

I always think there there's not enough human

32:22

collection in places like North

32:24

Korea or even Iran or

32:26

China or

32:26

Afghanistan. Or Afghanistan. Exactly.

32:28

Or Afghanistan, and we're we're

32:30

kind of losing that

32:33

intel collection ability. And

32:35

I'm And that scares me because something could

32:37

come out of left field. I

32:38

mean, look, they they could I mean,

32:41

he could end up dying. Vladimir

32:43

Putin could easily end up being taken

32:45

out. I mean, I I don't wanna say this to

32:47

scare him, but, you know, I mean, there are

32:49

people probably around him that want to see

32:51

him go. And then you're right, someone else

32:53

fills his place. Another thing that

32:54

really worries me too. And this

32:56

this

32:56

to me, I don't think it's my paranoia. I

32:58

think it's reality based on what

33:00

I've been investigating. and

33:03

what has been out there in

33:04

open open source as you guys like to

33:06

say it, you know, out there in the media. Look at what

33:09

China has done in the United States over the

33:11

last decade and a half. I

33:13

mean, purchasing land all

33:15

around our military bases,

33:17

putting in telecom, Huawei,

33:22

telecom communications in around our

33:24

hundred and fifty nuclear silos

33:27

in Montana, setting up their little

33:29

systems in our cellular towers,

33:31

which I pray and hope that

33:33

we eventually became smart

33:35

enough to take care of, but

33:37

they were there. Last I saw, you know, people

33:39

are concerned about this. I have

33:41

Admiral Kirby, you know, at

33:43

the Pentagon the AP asked him or

33:45

someone had asked him there at the Pentagon, hey, what

33:47

about China purchasing all this

33:49

land? Doing all these land grabs in America

33:51

even in our farmlands?

33:52

Should we be concerned about that? But it's right

33:54

around our military bases. And he's like,

33:56

that's not in my ballet wick. What? You're

33:58

at the Pentagon? It's

33:59

in your ballet wick. What are you

34:02

talking about? Are

34:02

you concerned

34:04

that these nations that these

34:07

adversaries of ours? Daniel, that

34:08

we're asleep at the wheel

34:10

here, The Trojan horse

34:12

is already here and they could be working

34:14

against us to knock us down,

34:16

to take, you know, to be

34:18

the world powers to be the

34:20

leaders in world power. Yeah.

34:22

So, I mean, we're under siege

34:24

for sure. You know, China is

34:26

is attacking us every day in

34:28

the homeland. as

34:29

you said, massive amounts

34:31

of espionage. They're flooding

34:33

the zone with their confucius

34:35

institutes and the thousand talent program

34:37

and then they're their so called

34:39

diplomats and spies here in United States, cyberattacks.

34:42

The FBI, according to directorate, opens

34:44

up a new counterintelligence investigation

34:48

related to China every few minutes. So yes.

34:50

And Admiral Kirby,

34:51

I was disappointed that because he's at the bully

34:54

pulpit, you know, so this is

34:56

your chance. to raise awareness and say,

34:58

yes, this is of great concern. And

35:00

then tell us who's responsible. Like, does the

35:02

Congress need to

35:04

legislate? Right. does the

35:06

executive branch need to take action? What do we need to

35:08

do? We got a bunch of

35:09

citizens here. See something, say

35:11

something. You know, we're a

35:14

democracy, and and we have a lot of freedom here. You

35:16

know, I was just

35:17

tracking in China. You've

35:19

got people screaming from their

35:20

apartment high you know, their their apartment complex

35:22

is because they're in lockdown, you know,

35:24

or they're they're when they do get

35:26

out, they they it's a

35:28

feeding frenzy to grab anything they can from the local markets because then they gotta

35:30

go sit at home for two more weeks. I mean, that's

35:33

the dictatorship that they live in.

35:36

And

35:36

they're jumping out of their windows. They're jumping out of their windows off

35:38

their balconies. It's it's it's I'm

35:40

gonna

35:40

play this clip because I want people to hear it.

35:43

I know we've got this clip Given

35:45

the fact that known

35:48

adversary in the case of

35:50

China, foreign buyers

35:52

are buying hang up US real

35:54

estate, in some case farms around military installations. Is this on the

35:56

administration's

35:56

radar? And what

35:58

is being done, perhaps, to

36:02

study this? or to protect Americans from making

36:04

sure that homes remain

36:06

affordable and so on. I

36:08

think

36:09

that question of home ownership is a little bit out

36:11

my out of my swim lane, but but It's

36:13

still securitization. Particularly when it comes

36:16

to around

36:18

military installations. What I will tell you is that

36:20

the president has been

36:22

nothing but clear about

36:25

our concerns about Chinese unfair trade practices and

36:27

economic practices. I pray. I

36:30

understand that, ma'am. Look, buying

36:34

a flag around the military supplies. I'm

36:36

I'm I'm probably not the right person

36:37

to ask about homeownership here in

36:39

the United States. Appreciate.

36:41

This is about buying of

36:43

land around military installations. Is that

36:45

a concern to

36:48

this administration? to

36:50

your office last week. They've had a week to look at this, including the architects.

36:52

We're gonna we can

36:53

get back to you afterwards. You gotta move back. Go ahead.

36:55

Go ahead. Go ahead. I love

36:58

that gal. I I sent that to your office about a week

37:00

ago. So you have like a week. I'm not

37:02

throwing you off here. And I gotta tell

37:04

you, Daniel,

37:06

before you know,

37:07

for full disclosure when I first came

37:09

to Washington DC and then

37:12

shortly after the Obama

37:14

administration came, you know, on

37:16

board and and Obama began his tenure as president. I

37:18

was the Pentagon correspondent for the

37:20

Washington Times. So I

37:22

knew then

37:24

captain Kirby I knew Admiral Mullen who, you know,

37:26

the joint chiefs. And I would

37:28

travel with them sometimes to

37:30

Afghanistan and other parts, and a lot of times I

37:32

was just on

37:34

the ground. For the most part, there was a lot of

37:36

great cooperation except in

37:38

one area,

37:40

China. china always

37:42

an issue. They didn't even wanna talk to Bill Gertz. I don't know

37:44

if you know who he is, but Bill Gertz. Yeah. He's

37:46

written a ton of books on China. Of course.

37:49

He is an expert on China, and I remember

37:51

always hearing from the Pentagon. Hey, if we're gonna

37:53

go in for a meeting at the Washington Times, is

37:55

Bill Gurt's gonna be

37:58

there because WE'RE NOT GOING TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS ON

37:59

IS THE U. S.

38:02

SO HESITENT? SO

38:04

HESITENT

38:04

TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT China

38:07

who is an open adversary of

38:09

ours and who has promised

38:12

to to to take away our power and knock

38:14

us down. They've they've made

38:16

that promise. So the

38:18

the Obama administration, in my view, at

38:20

least, was like the last gasp

38:22

of try to bring China

38:24

into the community of nations and find

38:26

common ground. You remember that -- Right. -- that famous meeting in

38:28

the Rose Garden with President Obama and

38:30

Xi Jinping when she promised not

38:34

to militarize South China Sea. And what did they do? What are they doing now?

38:36

Mhmm. Look, I think one of

38:38

the

38:38

president

38:39

Reagan one of the

38:41

greatest things he did was

38:44

to tell all of us in very clear

38:46

terms where

38:47

we stood in

38:50

our ideological fight against the

38:52

Soviet Union and what that

38:54

administration his his administration was doing

38:56

about it. And and,

38:58

you know, that is

38:58

we're not doing that right now. I'm I'm not

39:00

sure that Americans understand as well as

39:03

they should. Just the

39:04

ubiquitous nature of China's threats, how

39:08

significant they are to our national security and

39:10

maybe most importantly what we all need to be

39:12

doing about it. And it might involve some

39:14

sacrifice on the part of

39:16

American citizens which is why the president needs to address them. I'll tell you what, I have no

39:18

plans to go back in the government.

39:20

But one of the things I've learned is, you know, if

39:22

I ever did go back

39:24

is that when you're behind the

39:26

bully pulpit and you get a question that

39:28

matters, answer the question.

39:30

If it's

39:30

out of your that's not out of his

39:32

lane. He's

39:32

in his lane and defense. That's in his lane. But most questions are gonna

39:34

be in your lane. And you could even say, well,

39:36

let me tell you that, you know, ownership

39:39

of land. It's a question sypheus

39:41

and most Americans would be like, CFIUS.

39:43

What's that? Doesn't matter? Right. Right.

39:46

He can say, let me tell you about

39:48

the threat from China and why it matters.

39:50

And yes, we've got to do something

39:52

about them not getting access to land near our military bases. They tried

39:54

to do it in Texas. I've I've written about

39:56

that for Fox News. But

39:59

when you

39:59

got that chance, I think he I I've

40:01

met admiral Kirby too, and then I think

40:03

he probably I I can't know

40:05

for sure. I'm I'm wondering

40:07

whether he regrets not taking that opportunity to raise

40:10

awareness of the director Ray does

40:12

it, but the president needs to do more

40:13

of it. President Biden

40:16

could get up on his bully pulpit as president Reagan did.

40:18

And and and

40:19

then also look for

40:20

those, you know, tear down the wall, mister Gorbachev,

40:22

those kinds of moments. And and

40:25

that's a But, you know, it's almost like they wanted him to avoid

40:26

it because he he said you got the questions

40:28

a week ago, so he knew it was gonna

40:32

come up. but he didn't wanna answer it. And by the way, CFIUS

40:34

is the committee on foreign investments in the

40:36

United States. CFIUS is

40:38

a board that involves very

40:40

high level government officials from all

40:42

different agencies. They're supposed to be

40:44

vetting all of these foreign

40:46

purchases in the United States. and and

40:48

saying, hey, no way if it's an

40:50

adversary, you're not gonna be buy and

40:52

land right next to our

40:54

bases and sticking,

40:56

telecom, secretive,

40:58

whatever communications devices in our

41:00

cell phone towers around our nukes, This

41:03

is just kind of insanity

41:06

unless

41:07

unless we

41:08

know how China operates. and you

41:11

know how China in over the world. There's a lot

41:13

of money coming from China.

41:15

And China likes

41:18

to buy on the local

41:20

level to the top level.

41:22

China looks to to

41:24

purchase people, to own

41:26

people, to develop

41:28

friendships that seem on the outside, amiable

41:30

and nice. But on the

41:32

inside, there there's another operation at

41:34

play. So that's what really scares

41:36

me about this,

41:38

Daniel, is that we're not seeing what's

41:40

happening right before our very eyes, and

41:42

that one day we may wake up

41:46

and it might be too late. And that that really

41:48

worries me. I I could talk to you

41:50

forever, but I am gonna ask you this before I let

41:53

you go. the Biden administration's persistence in pursuit

41:55

of the Iran nuclear deal.

41:58

Why do

41:58

they want this so badly? Why

41:59

are they

42:02

so desperate despite everything we know about Iran.

42:04

Despite the fact that the Israelis are

42:06

now saying, hey, look, the

42:08

Iranians are

42:10

trying to rush towards a nuke. This is

42:12

not gonna change it. In fact, it's gonna make

42:14

it happen a lot faster. Why

42:16

why is why are they so desperate?

42:19

from Obama divided? Yeah. So

42:21

look, first of all, it's a bad deal,

42:24

obviously. Nuclear sunset clauses,

42:26

nothing to do with Iran's ballistic

42:28

missile program. and

42:29

nothing to do with their state's sponsorship of

42:31

terrorism, which is a big deal. The next leader

42:33

of Al Qaeda is in Iran right

42:35

now, Safe Alotto. And the deal was so bad

42:37

that Democrats

42:38

didn't support it in the Obama administration.

42:40

That's why it never became a treaty.

42:43

the concern

42:43

I have, the reason why they they want it

42:45

so badly is because they don't wanna go to

42:48

plan b, which is to blow

42:50

stuff up. What are you gonna

42:52

do? The Iranians have a a clandestine nuclear program. They failed

42:54

to disclose at least three sites

42:56

to the IAEA where

43:00

they were enriching uranium. They've got all the know how.

43:02

They are a nuclear threshold

43:04

state. So if the if

43:06

there's no deal, what's your plan? Are you

43:08

gonna allow

43:10

Iran

43:10

to look like North Korea in the Middle East? Are

43:12

you kidding me? So I think

43:14

the

43:14

fact that they're pursuing this, the

43:17

way they are reflects

43:19

perhaps that they just don't have

43:21

another plan or if they do have another

43:23

plan, they

43:23

sure don't wanna put it in action. And

43:26

the Iranians have to be

43:28

understanding that as well. It doesn't take a

43:30

clandestine source in the US government to know

43:32

that the US wants the deal pretty badly

43:34

because maybe they

43:34

don't wanna blow stuff up in Iran.

43:36

maybe.

43:37

You know, the Iranians tried to kill former national security adviser

43:39

John Bolton. They tried to

43:41

kill the Saudi ambassador South

43:44

Arabia's ambassador here in the United States ten

43:46

years ago in Georgetown in Washington,

43:48

DC. And that was the

43:50

Islamic Ministry

43:50

By the way, that was

43:52

during the Obama administration. And Eric

43:54

Colder came out with the DOJ

43:56

and had a, you know, explained that

43:58

no, this isn't just a rumor, this is a

44:00

fact. the Iranians were gonna use somebody from Mexico actually target

44:02

the ambassador at a restaurant in

44:05

DC. So I

44:07

was working at CIA and was there for all

44:09

the briefings, you know, and I was thinking at

44:11

the time that's pretty amazing and

44:14

I my imagination wouldn't have

44:16

predicted all of

44:18

that. So Right. I mean, they've got, you know,

44:20

asymmetric proxy terrorist groups

44:22

like Lebanese Hezbollah and they've

44:24

got the Houthis and they've got a whole

44:26

bunch of proxy terrorists in Iraq, and they probably have

44:28

sleeper cells all around

44:28

the world. And so go to war with

44:30

Iran wouldn't be very pleasant. And if we

44:33

were to bomb their nuclear capacity

44:35

out of existence, we would

44:38

face

44:38

a war, arguably, a

44:39

risk of war, and I don't think they want this.

44:41

That's why the Trump administration when

44:43

they took out the

44:44

commander of the IRGC Soleimani. I remember you call me on

44:47

the phone that night telling me, hey,

44:49

wake up. Look what happened.

44:52

That was a big deal. And Yeah. Right. is much less effective

44:54

now in the region because they don't

44:56

have that guide. They're much less effective at

44:58

controlling events in Iraq because of

45:02

that. was the right thing to do. And tell me what have we faced

45:04

as a result. Tell me what Iran has

45:06

done to us that makes it not worth

45:08

having struck Soleimani. So This

45:12

administration has allowed themselves to be

45:14

deterred by

45:14

their own kind of fanciful

45:16

concerns about how the adversary

45:18

may react, whether it's Russia, Iran,

45:21

China, sometimes you've got to

45:23

just go for it, and I'll give him I'll

45:25

give president Obama credit for launching the raid to

45:27

kill Bin Laden. That was risky. But you've

45:29

got to there's no such thing as certainty in life.

45:31

I always say, the only certainty I have is I

45:33

love my wife and kids. The rest of it's at

45:36

some level

45:36

of confidence, low medium or high. But

45:39

again, I

45:39

think that the the really concerning

45:42

part for me about this is, this

45:44

administration doesn't wanna prevent doesn't wanna do what

45:46

they have to do to prevent Iran from having a

45:48

nuclear weapon and Israel

45:50

will, but that's not enough.

45:51

They don't have the capability that we

45:53

have. Right.

45:53

We can't we can't make Israel

45:55

our plan b. Like, okay. Well, if Iran develops, and

45:57

I feel like that's what we've done. We've said to

46:00

Israel, okay, we're not

46:02

gonna take any blame for

46:04

this. But if they develop it, we'll just

46:06

kinda stand back and let you guys

46:08

handle it. No. It doesn't it

46:10

doesn't work that way. It's the reason why

46:12

our allies don't

46:14

trust us. It's the reason why they

46:16

don't trust us. I I don't know,

46:18

Daniel. Maybe it's maybe it's me. I I already

46:20

think there's sleeper cells here because

46:22

our board has been so wide open. And as you know, so

46:24

much time down there, and I am

46:26

always concerned about that

46:30

being just funnel for, you know, for bad guys as

46:32

well as good people who are just looking for

46:34

another life. But but among those

46:36

people are people that are taking

46:38

advantage of

46:40

And we've already, I think, apprehended over

46:42

eighty since Biden has come

46:44

into office that have been connected to

46:47

terrorist organizations or nations that

46:50

terror. So that is

46:52

already concerning. That we know of. And eight

46:54

hundred thousand plus that have come into the

46:56

country that have not

46:58

been vetted that have not ever we

47:00

don't even know who they are. They've just melded into the fabric of America and

47:02

their some of them may be sleeper

47:04

cells. I'm scared

47:05

of that. I worry about

47:08

that. I mean,

47:09

that's what concerns me is that Iran operates in Latin

47:11

America, so does China, by

47:13

the way, and Russia. I

47:16

wouldn't put it know

47:18

to recruit locals in

47:21

those countries

47:22

and have them enter

47:25

the United States in a

47:27

way that makes them appear like

47:29

anybody else except that they've

47:31

been given instructions by their Iranian handlers. And it might even

47:33

be a false flag where the Iranian's aren't even telling them

47:35

that they're being that they're in contact with

47:37

the Iranian's or maybe somebody else. But just to

47:40

to kind

47:42

of establish themselves

47:43

in the US, work whatever jobs you work, and we'll

47:45

be in touch with you down the road to ask

47:47

you to do something. And it could

47:49

be a part of whatever

47:51

their operation is, it could be

47:54

conduct surveillance on a target like we

47:56

saw with the Saudi ambassador ten

47:58

years ago. Surveil it did you know, you

48:00

gotta surveil the target before you strike the

48:02

target. So there's a whole

48:03

host of things that could be happening. And

48:05

I've always felt like if we don't

48:07

know what's going on,

48:09

in a place where there's some risk to our national

48:12

security. Afghanistan is a good example because we

48:14

bug out of Afghanistan and don't have the

48:16

capacity to collect intelligence that

48:18

we need or that we used to

48:20

have. That's

48:20

the risk for us. You know, we don't have we don't

48:22

have the intelligence that we need. And and that's that's an

48:24

issue in the on the border. As you correctly

48:28

point out. Howard Bauchner: Yeah.

48:29

Well, you know, I mean,

48:30

I hope that everyone that's

48:32

listening right now, listen to what Daniel's

48:35

saying. I mean, These are

48:38

very important issues for every single

48:40

one of us. And as we come up to

48:42

the election, no matter what you believe, no

48:44

matter who you are. Remember, our

48:46

national security is literally at risk

48:48

right now. We live in a different day and

48:50

age. We live in a modern age

48:53

where our enemies have as

48:55

much capacity to do

48:58

damage as as we do, I

49:00

mean, and and maybe

49:02

even more so if we're not paying attention. But,

49:04

Daniel, I wanna thank you for being on the show. I

49:06

want everyone to go to Fox News.

49:08

The story is Virginia

49:10

twelve year old

49:12

is health BEING KIDS WITH CANCER AFTER LOSING HIS

49:14

OWN MOM TO THE

49:16

DISEASE. DANIEL, YOUR SON IS MY

49:18

HERO JAREN HOFMAN. HE'S twelve

49:20

YEARS OLD. He's raised, what,

49:22

two hundred thousand dollars

49:24

now for

49:24

for children fighting,

49:28

childhood cancer, in honor of your beautiful wife, and that's gotta a

49:30

pretty awesome feeling for for

49:33

your whole family. Yeah.

49:35

Thank

49:35

you so much for for hearing the story

49:38

and for supporting us.

49:40

You know, I I think about

49:42

my wife. you

49:43

know, from the time I wake up till the time

49:45

I go to sleep and all the time in between,

49:47

you know. And the fact

49:50

that my son is is honoring her

49:52

memory like this and

49:54

helping kids fight in cancer. You

49:56

know, that's that means the world to

49:58

me. And and it's really heartwarming. Just

50:01

how many people support this cause. And and

50:03

I encourage people go look at the Jesse Rees Foundation.

50:05

You'll see the story, watch the video

50:07

of of Jesse

50:10

Rees, and I'm gonna guess that you're probably not gonna make it through the

50:12

video without without shedding a few

50:14

tears. But that's how we all kinda come

50:16

together and support each other, you

50:18

know. And I always say, oh, God bless the

50:20

Reese family for for doing

50:22

this. Jesse Reese's father is a

50:24

pastor and he devoted

50:26

his life now to to sending these JoyJars,

50:28

hundreds of thousands of them all over the

50:30

world today. I gotcha. so awesome. Yeah.

50:32

That's

50:32

so awesome. So there are these big jars and you just put all

50:34

kinds of cool stuff in it. Is that what we're gonna do?

50:36

because if I get down there on October

50:40

eighth, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be annoying you just stuffing

50:42

jars and and and

50:44

doing everything I can.

50:47

But Jesse's dad will be there, and he's gonna speak

50:49

to us, and then they're gonna explain how

50:51

Jesse wanted the the jars to be stuff. She

50:53

had her own way of doing it.

50:55

And so we honor her memory by doing this

50:58

as she taught us. And

51:00

and then they

51:00

try to to stuff the jars with the stuff

51:02

that the kids want. They are in touch

51:05

with with

51:05

hospitals and other caregivers so that

51:08

they're giving kids, you know, what they want, what they

51:10

need. And then the kids feel like, hey,

51:12

somebody cares about me, and that brightens my

51:14

day. And I'm gonna But there's a big

51:16

connection, I think, between

51:18

feeling like people care about

51:20

you when you're fighting cancer. My wife got a

51:22

lot of that strength from her family and

51:24

friends who were in her corner. And when when she

51:26

was too tired to fight, we all stepped in and

51:28

fought for her until she was ready to get back

51:30

in the fight. and that's what you're doing by

51:32

by giving these kids the joy

51:34

joys and showing them that here's somebody

51:37

from across the the country who's who's

51:39

thinking about you and cares about you. That

51:41

is

51:41

awesome. III just can't

51:44

wait to be a part of it. I'm so grateful that

51:46

you shared that story here.

51:48

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51:52

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51:54

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51:55

I'm gonna cry. I just I

51:57

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52:00

I know

52:00

everybody who's listening, who especially those

52:03

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52:05

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52:07

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52:09

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52:11

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52:13

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52:20

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53:44

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53:50

them know that we care. And thank you again Daniel

53:52

for informing us about what

53:54

is happening in our world, especially

53:58

why we should be paying attention to what is happening in Ukraine,

54:00

why we should be paying attention

54:02

to what China, our adversary,

54:04

is doing to us here right

54:07

at home in our homeland and why we

54:10

as a nation need to start

54:12

mending our fences, getting

54:15

back together, like, some common ground

54:17

to discuss these very important

54:20

issues because guess what? This

54:22

is the that we all have

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to protect. There's no other nation on

54:26

Earth like it. Again, Daniels

54:28

always welcome back on my show, and

54:30

thank you so much for being a part of this

54:32

show, everyone. god bless you, god bless our

54:34

great nation, and god

54:36

bless all the children in

54:38

the world that

54:40

we may one day find a cure for this

54:43

horrible disease known as

54:45

cancer. And thank you

54:48

so much. to everyone for doing your

54:50

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54:52

to fight.

55:06

Today, I'm joined

55:09

by Rebecca Weber,

55:10

the CEO of the Association

55:12

for mature American

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