so that it is, quote, not up to the task for another term. panic that isn't sued in the democratic party . i would be panicking too if i were democrats today, and that was my nominate. i think they know they have a serious problem, but it's not just political is not just the democratic party is the entire country . we have a serious problem here because we have a president who, by all appearances is not up to the task. well, i don't think it was much of other bates or to canada, so for 19 minutes exchanged insults and the talking points which have been the rarest in a month. so i don't think it was a good luck for the united states, and they did leave me with some sense of an empire in the terminal decline. i would say that the election and most between to the political candidates and most people probably ask himself why the us couldn't produce any other candidates, which would be better. and i think the answer is that the merits across it is

obviously undermined by the corruption of the political system. and also there are dishonest media. i also, i would say that it in deeply polarized society. and there's a sense of the need to excuse anything that your own side does this, the amount of for group loyalty means that us are a little room for criticism on one's own candidates. and this tends to result in corruption really festering itself in the system. and therefore not being addressed either so which side is one? i think all the so far show steps have trump one, which is why there's now a huge advantage in the democratic party. so i also think it was a predictable decides to provide me with, obviously in cognitive decline, and it will be very difficult for binding to recover from this debate. it's unclear and, you know, it's the democrats. so put them on stage again, auction stage to replace them. so i guess decided excuse for the beta

sense could also result in more people looking towards the 3rd party candidates, such as the candidate which we get is next going underground space to a former special assistant. and donald trump, while he was us president and brian j. calvin, a does not hold back on his assessment of the current in couple of couches conversation with option, right ahead the i'm action or can see it welcome back to going underground, broadcasting go around the world from the off to the biden administration. was supposed to make a deal to free, the world's greatest john, this julie and assigned just before a televised debate to donald trump. it was on she released the cable from nancy. i a director bill barnes telling the u. s. government that nato expansion and to

ukraine would prevent war. in the past few days, russia has allowed to respond to the us. targeted kidding. of children on the russian beach is binding appears to declare a little bit of full on more on rushes, civilians who is of going underground can watch our interviews with julian hassan. john rumble where he outlined election interference by the democratic party in the usa natural and corruption of google. and the allies told to get the usa into for of a was today is also 10 years since a group calling itself isis. linked to al qaeda declared the states in syria and iraq, and it was juliet sons who exposed biden's. now national security advisor, jake sullivan, telling hillary clinton that al qaeda was on the side of the usa, appointed by president trump to the us national security council. now led by solomon is today's guest. brian cabinet was also a top binding official with homeland security. and he's now senior vice president of american global strategies and a visiting fellow at the heritage foundation. all right,

thanks so much for coming on the show in such a more dangerous world. would you say that when you were in the national security council on the trump and for a short time on the button? well, thank you so much for having me on today. ashan and i would have to agree that the world we live in today is fundamentally different from a security posture than it was 3 and a half years ago. the world we live in today is on this. there's stability is a thing of the past. we have conflicts ranging into regions, the world and china is, is really ramping up efforts to destabilize the, the south east asian pacific region. well, we'll have to ask you didn't pay going to contradict you on that one, you know, in this region, making a, making a rest spite from the what's happening in gaza in jerusalem. i mean, even the local paper here in dubai assigns to be freed man, up to 14 years, the japanese financial ties pictures of julian assigned. we've interviewed him on this program. i mean,

i do think it's interesting that when trump was asked trump by the subject of little affair of his own good play, he said, yeah, he's considering apart. and if he was elected president, and then suddenly we have a bite and reaching the justice department of biden, reaching a deal. what, what do you make of us on just release as well. that is certainly the case that was long overdue for some closure, as you mentioned 14 years and that dragged on to the legal system from where i'm sitting. i don't want to speculate into how different political parties are gonna pine on, on what to do next. the, in the heart of the matter though, is how do we protect the us operations? and in the end of the day, the united states has to conduct the various operations all around the globe to protect its own national security. and a part of that requires some information being compartment and classified and kept private. yeah, so i resigned the area. i mean i interviewed him and he,

clearly julian assigned, expose how the us democratic party with hillary clinton there. i am in the election with trump that time was trying to manipulate the electra was trying to destroy, but nissan does. there are resignations at the dnc after the week. unique's cables, you are at homeland security. what, what the election interference risks were, you know, just saying as regards what hillary clinton was up to, what they were officials in the d n. c. and of course, since then we've seen your former boss, donald trump drag through chords. the whole world is looking on and wondering what sort of, what's a demo proceed even avenue, a country it's a fair point and during my 3 years at the national security council, when i, when election security, the focus for the national security council, which is governed by the 1947 national security act is for an interference and for

an influence in the operations from overseas. so the work is heavily focused on cyber misinformation, from overseas. and there's a, there's a group within the department of justice that handles the domestic civil disruptions and misinformation, into campaigns. certainly it's, it's interesting the information that was shared and put light through angelina sons' efforts, and not to discredit the exposing those nefarious behaviors. the, the crux of the issue on the espionage charged was getting really after the threat it put under us military troops and, and us national security interest. but again, we are supposed to be a shining city on that hill for the rest of the world. right. comes to our democracy in the last several years that reputation has been tarnished by some of the just divisive behavior. and, and some of the antics that are being pulled into play in the political sphere here in the united states. yeah, i mean,

dollars on payments decided we level weekly leaks cuz it appears that he hadn't got that information of how clinton they've been trying to manipulate things in, in that election. but let's move on that to the foreign threats. today is the sign of a 3 of this group basis dash and jake sullivan, who i understand you did have contact with when you were at the national security council for a short while, thanks to julie is and we have the email sent by jake sullivan. then uh to the, uh, then secretary of state hillary clinton saying outside or is on our side in syria. that's what we have. thanks to wiki leaks. do. uh, did you know about that on the national security council, the jake sullivan, tell you about how the united states will decide about kaiser in syria now and in my work is strictly focused on homeland security, critical infrastructure security,

cyber. my interactions with jake solving were, are supporting that role. the national security council, looking at for relationships. foreign affairs fell to senior directors that were in those geographic that oversaw those geographic regions. but what possibly could have been the reason i'm trump is alluded to it and campaign speeches that the, the military industrial complex of the, of the democrats, a democratic regimes under obama could have been on the side of elk. either it's hard for me to speculate. i don't have all the information in front of me and you know, there's going to be a lot of these have these personal correspondence back and forth between the sectors of state and that's in the teams that they rely on to build their, their, their information space to make decisions, but it's really hard for me to speculate not having that information in front of me

and not being a part of those conversations at the time. but do you think when trump gets in perhaps kits in, in november, the new national security council will be looking at all the documents and the documentation, little bit closer than the drums 1st time as well. i don't have to tell you i the one the most important things is donald trump. foreign policy has been pretty straightforward and it's been actually very beneficial for the entire globe. donald trump has it is peace through strength. something that rig ronald reagan originally coined, but that was something that he truly embrace in his own style and put his own accent on that type of policy. and during those, those 4 years, the united states didn't enter in a new wars. we didn't take people based on information through 2nd hand sources or through the mist guidance of, of politicians, present trump assessed every relationship as on the merits that stood on. and that was not just for our allies and partners, but he also revisited how we looked at various various adversaries is actually

quite refreshing, except for the killing of so they money arguably, but yeah, what you just that said there echoed what the general gift catalog and fred flight sites with colleagues of joys on the national security council at that time said, quoting page and the emperor hadrian, well, trump is being very clear that the ukraine, the conflict wouldn't have happened on his watch. and other wiki likes document. i've got to hear from now that he's now had a busy guy, but he was, of course, ambassador to moscow. bill burns saying, warning of the way a u. s. policy could kick off a conflict in ukraine and the russia would have to move in because of nato expansion isn't. what went wrong? why did the biden blinking sullivan? uh, what, why is that administrative shouldn't being so wrong in as opposed to what you would

just think about not starting new conflicts of creating new conflicts. so i can play, i think the track record speaks for itself. they've got a couple of years where read opportunity they've had to demonstrate strength in foreign policy stage. even just bed demonstrated confusion, weakness, or even a desire to pacify and, and succumb to the pressures of more acts. if you look at the afghanistan withdrawal and how chaotic that was in what that did, leaving tens of millions of dollars, military equipment behind for an adversary to take over. if you're vladimir putin, you're sitting there looking at that and going on. this is not a government that's going to be able to stop me from rolling into your training, doing what i need to do to restore my my regime and restore my reputation. so again, if you look at all the, the, the, i, you see it is that you don't scale really tips, so you don't see it as the, by the ministration provoking and we know the made and cou, a 2014 use the, the withdrawal from afghanistan connected to an imperialist russia,

so that doesn't really open the way to the tone tag. you know, i, i wouldn't use your site mischaracterizing power. i would probably assess what i'm trying to get at one of the things that look similar investor and some nations could advisor robert or brian would start every monday senior directors meeting with was to remind us that weakness is provocative. and i would articulate that the weakness demonstrated by the, by the ministration on a foreign state, which has been preventative. provocative to vladimir putin provide provocative to the irene iranian regime. and now you're seeing the how she's you being in china is also using the sweetness to flex his muscles and see how far he can push, whether it's the philippines, taiwan, and now with a, an air defense invasion or a they've been is where they've been current in the incursion into the air defense of identification. so within south korea, just this past week. yeah. everyone laughed at donald trump when he

a very soon off to became going president. so the dangers of north korea in a way that the previous president just hadn't seemed to realize. now under biting. you have a situation where and i'm going to say vile from weakness. he poured billions of dollars of us weapons into so lensky is hands. but now of course, russia has is old with a complete alliance with north korea. how, how do you think a new government, a new administration in washington should deal with that alliance as well as a new government coming in to washington, dc is going to have to deal with a power vacuum that was not there 4 years ago. and what do i mean by a power vacuum? the absence of having a unified front uh, that's pulling to get other for the collective good and creating stability through

streaming. instead, you have an, a new access forming where you have russia in north korea, china and, and i ron or are starting to total less around these relationships that, that certainly are starting to mirror historical trends that we're quite worried some in the past century. and so i think you're gonna have to come into the next administration with eyes wide open challenges that are in front of you. and you're going to have to take some immediate steps to kind of reassert the us strength in a way that does not tip the scales to a conflict. it can be a reckless flexing of strength, that has to be very carefully crafted and done in a way that signals the message that we're not looking for conflict, but we are looking to stabilize a lot of the, the unrest that's occurring around the globe and calendar i'll stop you back, we'll offer, i'll move over specialist system to president trump after this break, the

plug it back to building on the right that was still here with people. i'm a special assistant, a president, trump and guard visiting fellow the cyber security intelligence and homeland security at the heritage foundation. brian cabinet. a brian in the end, if i one you are talking about the importance of not one thing conflict because that's the kind of thing. as the blinking says when he's on these wiggle stuff too is everywhere. is that just tool thing because he certainly seems to be flying around the world a lot. the saying he's for peace, just the way trump says he's for peace, but then conflict emerges wherever he goes. well, i don't, i don't disagree that his in goal is piece. i would argue that the ideology and the actions are taken to achieve that a piece are not worth it. and we've seen that for 3 and a half years that their approach to foreign affairs have been struggling and have opened the door to conflict. and, and frankly, you're looking at the, you know,

relationships on friday and, and one of the things that i recall was that the, when joe biden won the election in 2020, the assessment being made by many pop, i'll see makers from that administration, or it will be great to have the adults back in the room. well, if these are the adults back in the room, it's the last 3 and a half years have been really troublesome. again, i don't disagree that he was striving for a piece there. the tools are using the approach they're making or not letting themselves to that piece. of course, blinking has been clearer than any other sector, se doggedly, the had to say the proxy war in ukraine is good for the u. s. military industrial complex. good for factories. good for jobs in the united states. you never normally here foreign policy being used as an economic stimulus back at home, but conveyed in that kind of way to the american people. did that surprise you and does it work? you have to say we're going to continue the war,

continue having no negotiations and boring money does it? let's because it's good for the defense sector as a terrible approach and not the way you want to bring back a economic stability. if you look at historically, over time, some of the best score of this kind of entries had, has come during peacetime. unfortunately, the pandemic did set the stage for a lot of challenges, not just here in united states, but globally. and really when you're looking at what your secretary state should be saying, you shouldn't see the secretary state linking global conflict to a success on the the domestic defense, industrial base. that's seems a bit misguided miss out a bit out of place when in fact, what you should be looking for is healthy investment during peacetime, and ensuring that you have the tools that for provide strength will keep that piece in it. that doesn't require you to rapidly ramp up the defense industrial base or

spend down the defense industrial base. the other, the other thing it's interesting is they're saying that at a time when, you know, if you're comparing defense, industrial spending or defense spending as a whole against the g d, p would be, are almost said less than 3 percent. and that is the lowest historically we've been since pre reagan. but then what goes through your head when you hear that? i think jake sullivan said some of the things, but somehow this is a great way of helping the economy. i'm not sure how many ukrainians, any of the hundreds of thousands of ukrainians who have been killed. i think that you'll politicians and the united states are talking about it is it's a great way of helping the economy. a great way of helping me economy would be to create more jobs and to find ways to put americans to work here in america. or i think there's needs to be globally. there's a need to diversify supply chains. i think you're seeing country starting to do that, this new liberalism, or this new globalism idea that we took holes in the early 19 nineties to today,

or i guess, arguably through 202017 is as shown weaknesses where we centralize too many things we've put too many items that cannot fail into one region of the world or one country. and then you're either you serving a power through milan, influence, or you're running the risk that natural hazards or geopolitical contest can disrupt the flow of the supply chain for the entire globe. so, you know, one of the things, whether it's united states or other countries should all be looking at how they can diversify and have a matrix supply chain. a semi conductors are great example of this. i, i think it's irresponsible to have one company be responsible for 90 percent of the advanced semiconductors, i think for a healthy market, you would need to have several players in that space. now keep costs down and innovation high as there's competition. and then you'd step back and look at how we,

how we conduct martin warfare. what you're seeing today is what's happening in ukraine with the use of drones. we're using very low cost weapons platforms with very high advocacy and, and capabilities. yeah. but you know, how much money the as businesses give to your politicians as regards big capital expenditure items. what do you think some of these companies are going to think that alone, the semi conductor, the silicon valley companies, are going to think of uh, the kinds of policies being flagged up by that might happen in the trump administration, and how they would impact them. i mean, obviously, monopolies don't like stopping being much optics now, well, i will tell you this is actually what i'm hearing as i speak with different individual was, is a reassurance that they're not going to get something. this is,

i would put this in the context of 2015, 2016. there's a tremendous amount of angst. and that is, i fear about what type of policies a trump administration would bring into play in what you saw after 4 years the discredit the, the year on. cobit, if you look at the 2017 through 2019, was 3 years of economic growth, job growth of record pace. you're looking at some of the strongest earnings in the commercial sector. i think what you have now are a lot of companies that want to see that brought back. of course it means we want to have matrix to supply chains. of course means want to have diversified markets. that's not a negative net negative thing. in fact, in the tech companies, you look at what's happening right now. i would imagine they're going to argue that the f t c under the binding ministration has been targeting them in ways that are even expanding beyond the scope of our borders. where the united states federal trade commission is going into europe and helping europe fight anti trust cases against us tech companies. i mean,

that's unheard of. how does that make any sense in terms of national economic security and that's a whole program on its own. you were cutting out a little, i think, really the question, i think silicon valley is always the hitting this conversation because you're cutting out to touch that. what about then the fact that the bible says the u. s. military can target and russia directly, the weapons that he's sending to the landscape. what do you think? i mean, so i might say, and that's the increasing worries about a much bigger conflict before november. what do you see behind that strategy in terms of your national security, a sensible providing to continuously change the red lines that allow the weapons to? well, according to the russians, we attack themselves at it to the beaches of crimea, killing children. what were targeted by us soldiers? so i don't have a, any insight into who is targeting,

i would have to tell you that the united states has been providing weapons to ukraine, ukraine's picking the targets you creams choosing to conduct the military operations as choose what they said they need us soldiers themselves. to do the actual targeting in 6 you the trainers in a, in effect, to use weapons systems. there's obviously training and there is a need for us soldiers to train them out of how to use the weapons. but in terms of pulling the trigger pointing the weapon, i mean the weapon i, i can't speak intelligently because i'm not on the ground as to what's happening there. but i would tell you would be a deviation from us policy. it's in fact that was happening. and then you wake up, so then you wake up there, the heritage foundation. then you opened the newspaper and you see that there are russian warships 90 miles south of florida. well, i would definitely want you to have that given you a long career of homeland security and the national security on cyber threats on so many different threats to the homeland, to you when you step back and look at what's happening. and this is, we're in

a little bit of a, an interesting dance between russia in the united states on flexing muscles and who's going to back down 1st off, i recently had an article published on the, you know, the cuban crisis. 2 point now. and what we're looking at here is russia's willingness to bring a limited nuclear warfare to the united states doorstep. this has not been done since 1961, 62. and if i look at the united states, are we prepare for that type of engagement? i don't think that we have the civil preparedness or the mindset today that we had in the sixty's in terms of how to confront that. i think that's an area of growth for the department of homeland security to step up and kind of revisit with what it means to have civil preparedness. not just all the climate initiatives that are currently being pushed in this current administration. when you step back and look at as the, the willingness of russian to put

a nuclear submarine with nuclear capabilities, 60 miles off the shore of the united states and off the coast of florida, you look at a open border that has what? $10000000.00 plus on a on accounted for on documented the legal immigrants end of the country. and this is on the backdrop of isis researching into russia. you know, you just, we had in march and the attack that killed a 143. the concert hall this past week, we had 20 killed in what appears the tax on churches and synagogues in, in south east and south western russia. where you look at these things and couple that with how wide open are border is you have to think to yourself, who is allowing this to happen. and right now that's present biden's policies in the southwest border have left the door wide open is for affairs, policy has allowed russian to come right up to our coast with a nuclear submarine. and it again, it goes back to this week. this is provocation is provocative rather, and that's what you're saying. and so you had the f, b, i a rest 8 individuals across the country that were applauding supposedly plodding

for an attack. they had not only come into the country illegally at the southwest border, but were at some point in time, contact was made by d h s, and they allow these individuals to continue into the country. this is a broken, it's not a broken law it's. it's a lack of enforcement of law on the books, and that's something that doesn't take an act of congress that takes the executive branch to actually execute the, the laws that are on the books and weren't far from where it is. we have the full, the cheapest job with the state department under obama on the show was saying the victorian newland was fired for being something to do with the attack on the concert hall and in moscow. but you written about l n. c. let's just finally talk about you just mentioned just what exactly you mentioned limits and you click over . what exactly is it? and you just written about it. i notice, do you think you're maybe someone who will be account deposit of that?

who knows jake sullivan? do you think he understands what, what l. n c is? i think there's a strong understanding of what limited nuclear conflict is. when you look at the weapons, the nuclear arsenal for russia has not maintained itself as a strategic deterrent. they have a strategic to turn, it is not what it was several decades ago. instead, what they've done is refunds, their weapons in some capacity and some percentage to be low yield are also a little low yield nuclear weapons. and what does that mean? well, instead of having these nuclear missiles that eliminate entire cities off the face of a map, they have nuclear weapons that can take off uh city blocks and take off targeted infrastructure. so if you're trying to disrupt the united states and you want to take out the energy grant, you can, you can use a limited nuclear conflict to target a specific, a power generating facility. you can use it to target specific communications hubs that you need, that if you want to take down communications networks. and these are the threats

we're facing today. and what happens is we, we built up defenses in the united states to handle strategic intercontinental ballistic missiles. but what we don't have is the ability to, to detect, manage, and mitigate these low offer. lo, you'll, you'll bombs that are coming in. that could be deployed by an individual who are crossing the border illegally eat we can call them dirty bombs have a few years ago. but, but the accurate phrase is l n. c are low limited nuclear conflict. so, russia has an enormous stockpile tactical nuclear weapons. and those are anything from a rocket propelled to small missiles capable of being fired from close proximity. not uncommon to thank you. thank you're seeing it's been a pleasure on the show today. lots of for the show. i'll continue condolences to those very by you k u. s. u, i'm jealous, i didn't. this region will be back on monday with the president of rethinking

foreign policy informing us director of ease railey and g. o, but selim mitchell politic until them keep the judge viable social media if it's not sensitive, we'll country have to our child going on the ground tv hon. they'll come to a to you and all the episodes on going undergrad. see monday the around the presidential race heads to a real off with a reformist, the conservative candidates set to go head to head next week. also a had a warning, disturbing images. another tragedy on our land, enemies fired and civilians are civilians died. 5 people were killed, 2 were injured including 2 small children. sadly, ukrainian shelling and russian quarter regions results in civilian fatalities with several residential building shops on a church. some damaged in the.