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And on the other side of the world North Korea firing back at president Trump
Slamming his State of the Union address a foreign ministry official today responding to the President's speech say North Korea's nuclear capabilities
Will quote completely deter Trump and his lackeys from showing off on the north on the Korean, Peninsula
Well the statement comes as President Trump tries to increase pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear program
The president meeting with defectors from the country on Friday at the White House to highlight the North's human rights abuses
For more on this were joined by ambassador John Bolton former US ambassador to the netid nations senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
a Fox News contributor and chairman of the gatestone Institute here in New York
ambassador Lackey showing off on the Korean, Peninsula
In their the way the only way the North Koreans can frame
It could be referring to vice president
Pence who will be attending the Olympics there later this week and represent our government at the opening ceremonies I?
Just love North Korean propaganda. It never it never fails to to get a laugh from people but look
This is the real face of North Korea that this is the regime that's very very close to getting
deliverable nuclear weapons
And I think that it was interesting that they use the term
Deter America their nuclear capability, so I think they're kind of puffing themselves up here. I think they are worried about a US
Preemptive strike against their nuclear program not that I have any evidence. That's about to happen
That's for sure, but I think they're trying to apply if we strike them. They'll hit us with nuclear weapons
They don't have that capability at the moment
I think it shows actually they're nervous
And what they really want to do is back us off so vice president pence as you mentioned will be?
Going for the opening ceremony. It's an important assignment. He's not just there to watch the ceremony
He'll be meeting with South Korea and South Korean president moon be going up to the DMZ
So this is a significant time for him to be there. Yeah, it's going to the DMZ a
Reminder or is it a poke in the eye of Kim jong-un?
Well, I think it's important that Presidents and vice presidents go up there. I think it reaffirms our support for the South Korean
alliance
And I think it's a mark that we see through the North Korean propaganda
Maybe other people around the world are owing and eyeing because the North Korean and South Korean female ice hockey
Stars are going to play as one team that this whole thing is blue smoke and mirrors. It's an effort to divert our attention
from their continuing progress on
Nuclear nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles yeah and the Korea that North Korean singer is being paraded around like Madonna. You know or Lady gaga
but with North Korean security
I mean while the symbolism of the President of the United States meeting with North Korean defectors
We saw the during the State of the Union that the marvelous. You know just amazing tear in the eye
Inspiring image of a jae-sung ho when he raised his crutches the crutches really a freedom
It was hit by a train as he fled North Korea. Tell me about the meaning of that
Well, I think that's a direct message both to the North Korean regime and to China you know these refugees go through hell really
to living in North Korea
And then getting out trying to escape through China often aided by Christian churches as they're passed down to Southeast Asia
exploited especially the women
It's really it's a tale of great heroism so when they get out and they talk to the South Korean authorities
This visit with President Trump
I think is a real signal to the people inside, North Korea
That the United States knows the fate that they're suffering and that we have their best interest at heart
I think it's very similar to some of the things that
President Reagan did during the Cold War that inspired the prisoners and the Soviet gulag
so that this is really I think as well for China to understand how strongly this administration feels about
the the threat that the North Korean regime posed and apparently some of the defectors that they get to China and it captured they get
Repatriated back to North Korea, and they get executed publicly. We're told yeah look
It's very risky to try and escape and and and that's why the heroism that they display is so important
It's so important to recognize it look
I don't think we can blink the reality here North Korea is getting ever closer to deliverable nuclear weapons
Barring some dramatic action by China which is an increasingly fading. Hope I think at this point
We're coming down to the decision either to accept nuclear weapons in the hands of this very
Bizarre regime or consider the use of military force these are not happy choices
But we're running out of options wooden military force though when that choice be catastrophic considering the millions who could could be killed
potentially in South Korea with Seoul 35 miles in the DMZ
Consider the millions of Americans who could be killed by this bizarre bizarre regime led by a man
Who had assassins kill his own half-brother with VX gas?
In a Malaysian Airport, you know this regime may be rational
But it's rational in its own strange world and having them with that capability and the ability to sell it to others I think
We're gonna have to have a debate on this are we going to accept that or do we find it not?
Acceptable now I take the word
unacceptable
To mean we will not accept it that that's the issue we're coming to you know you mentioned a President Reagan meeting with the dissidents
He met in 1988 with dissidents in Moscow during a visit. He said this quote
I have to believe that the history of this troubled century will indeed be redeemed in the eyes of God and man and that freedom
Will truly come to all and do you believe that potentially one day could include, North Korea?
Well, I think it certainly could include, North Korea South Korea has proven. It's a can function as a democratic society
And I think that's why the ideal goal here ought to be to convince China to let us
reunify the Korean Peninsula essentially having the North
Absorbed by the South it'd be better for the Korean people would certainly be better for us to have the North Korean regime disappear
Here is the most important thing about the noonas memo and the argument over the FBI and our security services
It was actually made by Tom Perez chair of the DNC
Quote we can't let them undermine our justice system to serve their partisan political
Interests no one is above the law dead, right?
But includes the democrats and it includes the FBI and the security services our government is
Supposed to be accountable to us through our elected representatives. They have to be able to question
Every part and every action of the federal government at any time
But the Democrats accuse Republicans who are doing just that of playing politics while they're standing up for democracy
Here her right as if the Democrats aren't playing politics
Just look at their smug and pompous Adam Schiff for him the road to the Democratic presidential nomination
Yes folks
He really is planning to run in 2020 leads through Moscow and there Russia conspiracy that he's shamelessly used to build his profile
The Democrats are playing politics with everything these days
But Trump hatred is turning Democrats brains and values to mush
By denouncing any effort to reduce low wage immigration as white nationalism
They've become the Stooges of big business by building up Russia and turning a blind eye to China
They've become the Stooges of the authoritarian dictator. She drinking and now by opposing
accountability for the FBI in the security services they've become the Stooges of the surveillance state
The security bureaucracy is up in arms about the idea that anyone should question the FBI or the Justice
Department of course, that's what the insiders would say they want to protect their power. They don't want Outsiders
interfering in their cozy little world
But that was the whole point of the 2016 election to disrupt the insiders cozy little world to disrupt the snooty
Self-serving ruling elite no wonder they resist no wonder. They're trying to crush Donald Trump
He represents a mortal threat to their interests in their way of life of
Course they dress up their resistance in high-minded rhetoric about protecting democratic norms
but in reality
It's they the insiders and the permanent ruling class who are undermining democratic norms by
subverting the very core of our democratic process the idea
That elections should actually change things
That way that people should be in charge through the representatives
We elect the ruling class in Washington has a different idea not we the people but you that people
ruled by we the elite as
I know from experience in the end there is only one way to curb the power of this arrogant
Bureaucratic establishment, and that is to cut it down to size
radically
Drastically irreversibly to take power and resources away from Washington and put it in the hands of the people in the states in our local
communities
That is the next revolution we need
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We've heard a lot in recent months about the deep state
Supporters of the president claim it's a shadowy group of Trump hating officials in our national security
Bureaucracy who tried to stop him becoming president and still plotting to get him out in
Response Democrats are never Trump Republicans dismissed talk of a deep state as a crazy conspiracy theory
There once was a time when the left cared about civil liberties and the right cared about government overreach
But now in their hatred of Donald Trump the elites in both parties are turning a blind eye to a real problem
That's been around for decades
In which every American who cares about our democracy should be seriously concerned about the rise of a permanent ruling class in our federal
Bureaucracy that arrogantly believes has got the right to block the policies of the leaders that you elect they block
Republicans, and they block Democrats they're blocking president Trump and unless we do something about it
They will block his successes, too. Yes. There is a deep State and it's the subject of tonight's swamp watch
The federal bureaucracy has become so
Unaccountable that it's impossible for citizens to know how big it is or what it does in their name and with their money you can't
Get a straight answer out of the government itself of course the administrative conference of the United States lists 115 federal agencies
But according to the federal government's own website usa.gov. There's over 400
There's a similar lack of transparency about how many government bureaucrats there are what they all do according to some estimates
There are nearly 2 million of them some say 3 million, but there's no way you can go to find out
here's what we do know these federal bureaucrats are unelected their pay is largely based on tenure not performance and
Special rules along with powerful public sector unions give them almost total job security all of which adds up to zero accountability
Public sector unions don't just protect bureaucrats jobs though. They spend millions on lobbying and political
Donations to make sure elected politicians don't rock the boat
For example the American Federation of government employees spent over 3 million dollars on lobbying and gave over 7 million dollars in campaign
Contributions just during the 2016 election cycle this is
Taxpayer funded lobbying of the government by the government what a sick?
swampy joke of course with their jobs
So well protected and no need to go to all the trouble of actually getting elected this permanent bureaucratic class can spend more time creating
The rules and regulations that affect the rest of us in 2016 Congress enacted
214 laws in that same time federal agencies issued three thousand eight hundred and fifty three rules and regulations
That's 18 regulations from the bureaucracy for every law passed by Congress
But there's an even more insidious way the deep state exercises its power by blocking the policies of the people that you elect
President Obama was elected to end America's Foreign Wars
That's what he promised, but the permanent national security bureaucracy had a different idea first. They refused to even give