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In the late 1960s, there was an article that was published in The Nation by two socialists named Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife, Frances Fox Piven.
The LBJ new state, the welfare state, had just been passed, and so the nation publiced,
the nation published this article from Cloward and Piven.
It was a strategy using the Sololinsky rule,
make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
The welfare state was now the book of rules.
So Cloward and Piven decided we can launch a campaign.
They wanted to try to collapse New York City, and they did.
They launched a campaign to overwhelm and collapse the system through government welfare programs.
It involved, quote, a massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls.
Under this strategy, welfare was a Trojan horse to make the entire system overwhelm and collapse.
The more people that got onto welfare, the state economy would buckle under the strain.
The welfare state was now being ordered from the top down, but Cloward and Piven said bottom up.
And it could be led by, quote,
demonstrations and cadres.
of aggressive organizers.
Don't you think that's what we have?
Now, that was in the 1960s.
I pointed this out and everybody said, oh, she was a little old grandmother.
You know, he's dead.
She's not making any impact.
But however, once I stopped talking about her in 2020, just before the election, the New York Times said,
Frances Fox Piven has become the intellectual guru of activist progressives.
What is she preaching?
Is it anything new?
It said, quote, she's trying to work with, saying that working within the system is terribly misplaced.
Ms.
Piven argues, since it's rigged by the elites against the poor, what's needed is a sense of crisis that will force change.
Okay,
now
it began with welfare, but it's now everywhere.
By the way, do you remember the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, Bill Clinton signed in?
Do you know who came up with that?
Cloward and Piven.
It eliminated the controls on voter fraud.
It made it easier for voters to register, but difficult to determine validity.
Examiners were under orders not to ask anyone for identification or proof of citizenship.
And it started with the mailing of voter registrations, enabling anyone to register without personal contact with a registrar or an official.
Okay?
Any of this sound like it's going to lead up to an overwhelming of the system because it has.
But listen to this.
Cloward and Piven,
they were looking at just a couple of things, but this strategy now has been used all across the spectrum of American society.
Do you feel a little overwhelmed with everything that's going on with your schools?
Do you feel a little overwhelmed by what's being shoveled at you in the news?
Do you feel a little overwhelmed when you go to pay your rent, pay your bills at the end of the month?
Do you feel a little overwhelmed when you are looking at your job, your income, price of inflation?
Do you feel a little overwhelmed with your debt?
How about the nation's debt?
The U.S.
national debt is now on pace to top $54 trillion in the next 10 years.
Everyone, including the the optimistic Congressional Budget Office, says it's not sustainable.
Americans can't afford groceries, but the government says it's not our fault, it's the grocery stores.
Record number of Americans can no longer pay their rent, but will government alter its fiscal policies?
No.
In fact, they've doubled down.
You remember the Clowards pivot strategy, push it to the brink, watch it collapse.
So, how do you do that with welfare?
Well, Biden has not changed the law.
His administration has just issued new guidelines for Medicaid.
Medicaid,
Medicaid,
Medicine, Medicaid now includes cover for rent, utility, and food.
It's becoming universal basic income.
I showed you record amounts of Americans can no longer pay for groceries and rent.
Now Medicaid's going to take all of that on and increase the debt.
Keep looking through this lens and reexamine what's happening at our border.
2023, worst year for illegal immigration ever.
10 million Americans, or sorry, 10 million foreigners, we don't know who they are, all across.
They equal the size
of a state now that is bigger than 38
of the 50 states.
Nobody's doing anything.
In fact, the new Biden policy is release them.
ICE circulated a plan to continue to release, just release them.
No, no, we don't even have to track them anymore.
Just release them.
Now, I want you to know: 59% of non-citizen households that we know of, this includes illegals, are drawing on government welfare.
You are paying for them.
22% are just taking direct cash.
42% are using welfare food programs.
42%
using Medicaid, which now includes rent and housing.
Hmm.
Now, let me just give you some of the headlines.
In the news.
With that in mind,
Biden administration continues to ignore the Supreme Supreme Court ruling.
They just wiped out another $1.2 billion in student loan.
Supreme Court said they can't do it.
They're doing it anyway.
Why?
Well, they want the votes.
Is that what it is?
Hochul.
Listen to this phrasing.
New York, quote, is absolutely overwhelmed by illegals.
We need a break.
We are at a breaking point.
Hmm.
Denver schools facing unprecedented challenges with influx of migrant students.
Interest on the national debt is now exceeding our entire defense budget.
Interest
on the money we've borrowed
is now a bigger payment than our entire war machine.
Why won't they stop stop it?
Well, shut down, slow down.
The showdown now between the Freedom Caucus and Republicans and Democrats give Johnson terms for a spending fight.
Radicalized conservatives say they've got to rein in spending.
Nobody's even willing to point out what I just said.
The interest alone.
Who is paying for all of these migrants?
I showed you yesterday, one,
one hotel in New York, one
is costing us $7.2 million
every month.
Here's a shock.
California Legislative Analyst Office Tuesday increased this year's projected state budget shortfall to $73 billion.
Now, remember, they just released this a couple of months ago and said, oh, it's not so bad.
Now they've doubled the debt for the year to $73 billion.
He projected $38 billion last month.
Why?
Well, the stock market's going up, but we're just not collecting enough taxes on that.
Really?
Is it that?
Is it that?
They've decided they're going to cut, you ready?
Money that hasn't yet been dispersed for wildfire resilience, flood control, and IT overhaul for the unemployment benefit system, which scammers pilfered tens of billions of dollars from it in the last four years.
You're going to do that
and what?
Maybe have another needle handout program?
How about we study more transgender things for the schools?
Meanwhile, while that's going on, California Democrats are introducing a bill to divert the surplus funds
to reparations.
Why would we be talking about reparations at this Oh, you know what?
It would overwhelm the system, wouldn't it?
Most Americans are now spending 11.3 of their income on food.
The last time that happened was during the Gulf War.
And try this from the New York Post.
World Bank president said, when it comes to a country's over-indebtedness, the four most dangerous words are, this time it's different.
But it's not different.
It's not only a single major country with troubling debt.
Each of the world's major economies has a serious debt problem caused by too many years of irresponsible budget policies and zero interest rates, and it could make it all the more difficult to avoid a recession and renewed financial
strain at home.
All
Western countries are in our position, many of them worse.
Why are we spending all of this money?
Why have we given Ukraine more than it took in inflation-adjusted dollars than it took to rebuild Europe under the Marshall Plan?
Why have we just given that money to them?
Cloward and Piven.
This is why nothing will be done at the border.
This is why nothing will be done about mail-in ballots.
The excuse is, well,
we don't have the results overnight like we used to because, well, all of the mail-in ballots and it's just a little overwhelmed.
Oh, the system's been overwhelmed.
Hmm.
I hope that helps you understand your world a little bit better.
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Over 50,000 ATT outages were reported officially at 7 a.m.
Eastern Time this morning.
Most issues were happening in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.
Other
systems were also affected.
Verizon and T-Mobile looks like,
well, it looks like they're heading on the way back up, and most of it is fixed.
They don't know what it was.
But yesterday, there was a cyber attack on the phone systems, the cellular systems in Israel.
And the Israelis are reporting that that was Iran that did that.
I think this is only a matter of time before we see stuff that will cause real problems.
There's a guy, John Aikoff, he wrote today,
tweeted,
once you've read One Second After,
cell phone outages carry a different weight.
And it's true.
If you've never read One Second After, I highly, highly recommend it.
It was written by William Forschen, and
he tells a story about what happens one second after an EMP.
And it,
I mean, you will,
it will open your eyes into how dependent we are.
And this was written years ago.
And at the time, I was like, oh, my gosh, I never even thought of that.
Oh, man.
Yeah, that would no longer, you just don't think of it.
And William's with us now to talk about the outage and
attacks on.
on our infrastructure.
Hi, William.
How are you?
Good morning, Glenn.
And thank you for the kind words about my book.
It's still selling strong.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
So,
William,
the attack on cell phones, our cell phones go down.
And I think a lot of America, they go into detox immediately.
They're just like,
I don't know what to do.
But this is something we don't know about today, but this is something that we know our Department of Homeland Security is saying they are waiting for cyber attacks.
It's a matter of
when, not if anymore.
And they're preparing.
Go ahead.
You know, Glenn, my college, Montreal College, has a strong cybersecurity training program.
And I'll go in their lab and just sit there sometimes.
Half hour later, I walk out scared to death.
Because if you saw the number of attacks, incoming attacks on our infrastructure, on our military, it's unrelenting.
We don't even know if some of them have broken through, put sleepers into them, and are waiting to hit.
This is just a foretaste of the future.
So
tell me what you think is most likely
and how it will affect us and how we should prepare for it.
Well, first of all, if our cell phones really went dead, my daughter would have a nervous breakdown.
Oh, yeah, I know.
I think a lot of our children would.
Yeah.
The whole college.
But number one, of course, is cyber attack.
That's unrelenting from Russia, any number of bad players.
Number two, actual fitness.
But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Cyber attack could include our water system, our electrical grid, or do you think it would be all of it or some of it?
It could be targeted to a specific or in a general offensive, like what I would call a first-strike scenario, a a widespread.
For example, take where you are.
Suppose water all across the board was shut down for 48 hours because that's all electronically controlled.
What would happen to your town in one day if all water was turned off?
Wouldn't be good.
It would be very bad within 24 to 48 hours.
Yes.
I'm mainly focused more on our electrical infrastructure.
I've been doing a lot of work.
I just talked with FEMA last week.
That's the bad one because if you lose electricity,
that's the fundamental building block.
Then everything goes: water, food, medical, all of it, all our distribution systems are gone.
How prepared?
I hate asking people questions like this who know.
How prepared are we?
We're not.
Okay.
You know, it was a, and let me point out.
You're not improving improving my mood much.
In my talk with Southeast FEMA last week, these are there are a lot of good people working in that system.
They're not bad guys.
And they say the number one thing is if only Americans would be prepared, one month worth of emergency supplies on hand.
That applies to everybody, whether you're living in an apartment in the city, have emergency water on hand, have food on hand, charge your systems up, have a small
cell phone charger.
These are basic things, and 90% of Americans just blithely go along.
It could be a very bad day.
Don't you want to be prepared before rather than after?
So if something like this happens,
would we be, do you think we'd be in lockdown situation or would you be able to travel?
you know, to lockdown.
Lockdown.
If you lost your whole electrical grid, even just regionally, it would very quickly have to be a lockdown to avoid panic,
try and keep control on population.
Those people living in New York, remember when Sandy hit 10 years ago, it got a little hairy there, even though tens of thousands of tons of emergency supplies were being moved in.
If it had gone for two weeks, it would have been very bad.
Yeah,
my uncle used to work for, I don't know what department in
the military, but he did some of the original studies on the after effects of war and crisis and everything else.
And he said, generally speaking, you have 72 hours.
If everything isn't restored in 72 hours,
you're done.
You're done.
He is dead on the mark.
72-hour max.
Again, if you have a...
Everybody listening to, if you have a month's worth of emergency supplies on hand, and it doesn't cost that much,
you can at least hunker down and be safe while the crazies are running up and down the street.
So if we had, you know,
it's strange.
You know, I thought EMP is the worst thing that could happen to us ever.
However, the more I see AI and everything else, it may in the end, and I'm saying 50 years from now, if AI has gotten out of control, an EMP might be our best friend.
It will kill millions of people, but it would release a slavery if, God forbid, you know, I'm in science fiction world here, but God forbid AI went bad.
I mean, it's
the ones and zeros would have to be confused.
Well, the EMP scenario, which is indeed the worst, according to two congressional studies, which I base my novels on, I've got four books out on the subject, 80 to 90% of the population would be dead a year later.
And people go, what?
Again, no food, no water, no medical supply, no command and control.
People die.
And they die very quickly.
You know,
when I read, this is years ago, one second after,
you got to the 30-day mark and you started talking about what was coming, you know, in the next, and I thought, oh my gosh, I've never even thought of that.
I mean, you're just, we're just not prepared even mentally to what would come.
Explain the 30-day mark.
Okay.
When I started working on the book, I went, I interviewed numerous different sources.
I remember two in particular.
Going to my chief of police, talking with him about it, and I said, okay, the grid goes down.
What do you do first?
He actually picked up the phone.
And then he said, oh, blank, my phones don't work.
I said, yeah, now what are you going to do?
The other interview was with the pharmacist.
At the end of one hour talking with her, she was in tears, and I darn near was in tears as well.
Because think about your pharmacy.
You go in, you get a medication, they put it into a computer, and a day later, it comes back out.
Or nursing homes, they're dead.
The vast majority of people in nursing homes will be dead within a week.
It's a scary scenario, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
And especially in today's world where we have so many people with technology that was not even around when you wrote the book or it was an infant stage.
And now,
you know, we know these attacks are happening all the time.
We know there are many countries that would like to take us down.
And our Achilles heel, you know, is we don't live in caves, far from it.
And if you are going against a a cave-dwelling nation, if they can knock out the electricity, we're dead.
They know how to live.
And it's not good.
Not good.
Well, you know, in the EMP scenario, which I wrote about one second after,
I had North Korea as the main player, most likely.
We'll never really know.
And it was pointed out, yeah, okay, they screwed us over.
We turned them back into the Stone Age, and my main character at the end said, what difference does that make for us?
We're dead anyhow.
What good is revenge at this point?
Yeah, a third world country like North Korea, the leadership will just go 2,000 feet underground and wait it out.
Won't matter.
What happens to us?
What happens to us?
Well, Bill, it's always great to talk to you.
Yeah, my girlfriend says that on a regular basis.
Don't be too cheerful today.
Yeah, but I don't know if she's ever said what my wife has said.
We have gone to a party one time, and she knocks on the door, and then she looks at me just before the doors open and she went, do not make anyone cry.
I know.
I know.
I've done it.
I have too.
God bless you.
Thank you so much, Bill.
I appreciate it.
And keep up the good work when you're getting the word out.
Thank you.
God bless you.
One second after is the name of the book and he's got follow-ups after that.
It's a must-read.
It's a fascinating book and fun to read.
I mean, fun to read.
As a novel, it's fun to read.
And you'll you'll think of things, and it will help you on.
It's why, really, honestly, I'm like, I gotta get an x-ray machine.
I gotta get something because nothing works.
Nothing works
if this all would happen unless it's you know protected.
But anyway, check it out.
It's one second after.
The best of the Glenn Bank program.
So, Stu,
this is riveting, and it might get too meaty, don't you think?
Yeah,
maybe, but I think, you know,
the way they explain it.
It's an entertaining story for the whole family.
Right, it really is.
And that's kind of what makes it easy.
So,
the
two-state solution, which is Israel living side by side
with
Hamas
is, you know, not something that you would think would really work.
But no, the Biden administration has really thought this thing through.
I was surprised.
I kind of thought maybe they really didn't put much thought into this,
but actually, it's impressive how much thought they have
put in share.
Sure.
You want to do that now?
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's do it now.
Okay.
So this is
a
testimony in Congress
from a high-ranking official.
It sounds like you're just reading this now.
Like you weren't.
Well, you did tell me we were doing the opposite here.
So I just, to clear it, I am not prepared because you told me we were doing the exact opposite segment, which I was just setting up.
And then you've now reversed it to the thing we're supposed to do at the hat bottom of the hour.
So that's why you're not in the Hall of Fame and I am.
No, that's the exact opposite.
I can wait.
what's happened the reason you're in the hall of fame is because i cover your mistakes
that's why
well
anyway i'm ready okay so uh i don't know her name because i don't have the article up because we weren't supposed to do it for half an hour but i want to play this clip it's a guy from it's a one of the congressmen from republican from uh florida and i and he is asking
what is this two-state solution and and and give me some details about how you've come to the solution that you the idea that you want a two-state solution so watch and learn correct we support a two-state solution okay have you looked at that objectively
uh what do you mean have you looked at it objectively have you analyzed that objectively um this is this is something that we do support yeah okay stop stop
this you know you're in trouble already the boat has leaks in it right she doesn't understand what what do you mean looked at it objectively because you might think like okay she might be thinking oh well obviously i've looked at it how else would i assess this right Right.
But, like, it does appear that she doesn't know what the word objectively means.
Right.
And it does appear because she immediately throws the we into it.
I mean, it's, no, it's something we that she really wasn't part of the process of figuring this out.
Right.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
That's not an answer.
Have you analyzed a second Palestinian state objectively?
Have you analyzed it objectively?
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking.
Have you objectively analyzed it?
You don't know what it means to objectively analyze it?
I don't know what it means to objectively.
Okay, so have you done that?
No, I have not.
If I understand your question,
stop here.
Because I mean, you might think at the beginning, no, she's got to know what objectively means.
I don't think she knows what the word means.
I don't think so either.
Right?
I don't think so either.
I'm starting to swim in your path.
Okay.
Okay.
I want to make sure I'm not.
We're being fair.
I mean, yeah,
I wanted to say
she's dumb as a box of rocks on the outset, but I didn't because I want to be fair.
And rocks may have been too high on the ladder at this point.
Right.
But I'm still open.
Maybe she's going to pull it out.
Maybe she'll pull it out.
Here we go.
Okay.
You might not be because I can't believe that you would answer it in that way.
So let me just start over.
You're here
representing support for a Palestinian state, correct?
Yes, yes.
Have you analyzed that support objectively?
Yes.
But you just said no.
So I'm trying to understand what you're saying.
I thought I made it pretty simple, but you said no, but I'll grant you that now you said yes, you have looked at it objectively.
So having looked at it objectively, which I would assume somebody in your position does,
who would you assess would lead that Palestinian state?
Pick a group.
You could name a group, but I'm saying Hamas, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah, some other group.
Who would lead it?
I think that has to be something that's considered.
I don't think I'm in a position to say that.
Who did you objectively assess would lead it in determining you have support for a Palestinian state?
I don't think that I can answer that question.
I think this is part of a larger discussion.
But you objectively assessed that you support a Palestinian state.
I do support a Palestinian state.
In objectively assessing that, who do you assess would lead that state?
What group that does not receive military support from, say, Iran, do you assess would lead that state?
I understand your question.
Good.
But I think I would have to have a little, I would, I don't, I don't feel comfortable saying that without have you not assessed
what group would lead it?
Have you or have you not assessed who would become the leader of that Palestinian state?
This is part of a larger discussion.
But have you or have you not assessed that?
I have, this is a part of a larger discussion.
I don't think I can't answer that question.
Hey, stop, you stop, stop, stop.
Yeah, and you're there testifying in defense.
So this is the time to have the larger discussion.
I mean, he's asking the first question.
Have you objectively, you know, looked at all of this and come to this conclusion?
Well, I don't know what that means.
Well, that's a good question.
Okay, here's what it means.
When you look at it, you're for the two-state solution.
Who do you assume is going to take power?
I mean, who do you think that is?
If you can't answer that, then you haven't even looked at the situation.
No, you don't even have the most basic understanding, which of course is
the situation we are in, right?
Like she doesn't have any idea what she's talking about here.
Now,
Dave Rubin, who is the person I saw post this, said, you know, we have an administration filled with, you know, senile people and diversity hires, right?
Like that's, and that's kind of what it seems like.
I don't think you have to be just diverse to be moron.
No, I mean, maybe it's full of morons.
That's very true.
I don't care what color.
Well, they do.
But I think
that's your point.
They care what color.
They care.
I don't.
You might think, listen, listen to this and think: okay, well, look, this person has no.
How
you just bring up some random official and ask them these detailed questions.
They might not know what this is.
This is Bonnie Jenkins.
Bonnie Jenkins.
She is the U.S.
Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
That's the person who doesn't know what the word objectively means.
Again, the U.S.
Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
This is not a nobody.
This is somebody who has deep knowledge and effect on U.S.
policy in the most crucial aspects of our world.
No, I don't agree with that.
You said she has deep knowledge.
Supposed to to have.
Supposed to have.
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
Go ahead.
Here's some more.
I'm not answering whether you have or have not assessed that.
I cannot answer a question about me, particularly what I think
it should be.
I mean, I think that's what I'm saying.
You came here and said there should be a Palestinian state.
Have you or have you not assessed who would lead that?
Just yes or no.
Have you looked at who would lead it or have you not?
I support a two-state state.
I know you said that numerous times.
Have you or have you not assessed who would become the leader of that state?
Fatah, Hamas.
No, I think she really knows what assessments are.
Palestinian authority somewhere else.
Stop again because this is an interesting part of this.
She obviously hasn't assessed this, nor does she know what the word assessment means or objectively.
But that's a pretty low bar.
I mean, objectively,
I'm being so generous here.
Maybe you just are under the gun in the spotlight.
You're like, I'm not sure.
I don't want to answer that.
But assess.
Really?
Have you thought about it fairly?
Yeah.
Have you thought about it?
When you're thinking about this, who did you think would be like the people that took over?
Because, you know, you need to think that through.
It's like if the president steps down, you have to ask the very next question.
You know,
I want the president to step down.
Oh, okay.
Who replaces him?
Exactly.
That's what you're asking.
You have to have a, what's the next step?
Everybody automatically goes, yeah, you know,
Kamala.
You know what I mean?
Right.
That's assessing who would take over.
The most basic thing you need to do if you want to do something like this is to have a plan, right?
Have some idea.
At least have thought about the idea.
But wait a minute.
They didn't in Afghanistan.
No.
They didn't in they don't with Russia.
Does that not explain all these situations?
Does this testimony not explain all these situations?
So what I wanted to get to there, though, is Brian Mast
could have done something like,
who is going to lead this and stop?
Right?
Because she has, I would guess, absolutely no idea what any of the options are.
However, he goes a step further and gives her all of the main options that you might consider in this situation.
A multiple choice question.
All she has to do is answer C.
Right, yeah.
The third one, I would just say, say that, or whatever one you think it is.
Okay, so here we go.
Have you assessed who it would be?
I don't feel comfortable.
I'm sorry.
I don't feel comfortable.
You don't care.
I don't feel comfortable saying if you have assessed something.
No, what I don't feel comfortable is making a statement when I think it's part of a larger discussion.
Don't even say who it is.
Just answer, have you assessed it?
Have you assessed who the leadership is?
Put it this way:
there will be an assessment of this question
within the U.S.
government.
Why do you support it?
Why are you supporting something?
I'm not in a position right now to say what that is because I think this is part of a larger discussion.
Honestly, it's amazing.
I think it goes back to your original statement, which was probably the correct one, that you have not objectively looked at this.
And you got it right when you said that.
I'm going to move on to another question.
I'm not part of what the U.S.
government wants to do.
I can't.
You're supposed to be the part of the U.S.
government.
She's not an anti-government.
I have more time.
Sorry.
I have more questions, so I apologize.
So, do you assess that a Palestinian state would be more likely to be designated as a major non-NATO ally like Israel or Egypt, or would you assess that they would have to be labeled a state sponsor of terror?
I can't answer that question.
Have you assessed that?
These are questions that I'm not in a position to answer.
I'm asking if you are in the position to answer if you
have assessed whether that would be the case.
You came here sitting before Congress saying you are here representing the idea that there should be a Palestinian state.
You said you looked at it objectively, which you probably didn't.
And I'm asking
if you assessed that.
So you can answer whether you assessed something or not.
What I can answer is this is part of a discussion that
I don't think that I should should be making those decisions.
No, you shouldn't be in the role.
We agree fully.
You should not be making it.
Whether you assess something is amazing.
Let me ask one more question.
Why do you think that we should make a country out of a people that just conducted a Jewish genocide four months ago?
I'm not sure what you're...
what you're asking here.
Can I have time to repeat the question for her, Mr.
Chairman, since she doesn't understand?
I could do not.
Mr.
Chairman,
the time limit has occurred.
So the question, to repeat it, since you said you don't understand.
Mr.
Chairman, I continue to object.
Why do you want to make a country of a people that just conducted a Jewish genocide?
I think I said it very clearly.
Please answer.
I'm not going to respond to a question
about that one.
Sorry.
I don't feel like
I want to answer your question.
I really do.
But I just don't feel like I'm in a position right now that I can answer those type of questions.
What kind of questions can you answer?
This is a question that's going to be just: this is a question for the U.S.
government.
And you're the U.S.
government.
You are the U.S.
Undersecretary of State.
Oh, my gosh.
I've never heard anything like that.
Never.
And like, you know.
We have a horse on the highway.
I've never.
This is not normal.
She's a horse on the highway.
And you know, you watch her and she seems nice.
She does.
She seems like when she said, I really do want to do what I'm saying.
I said she did.
I think she does.
She just has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
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