U. S. Military our u. S. Military to get out. Who did that . Which country and why were going to tell you im rick sanchez. This is direct impact. The. This is a seismic event in global politics. Bottom are put in the victory in the russian president ial election, wasnt just a when it was a land slide. Mr. Potent has secured another 6 year term is russias president solidifying his grip on power for the foreseeable future. This when, by a whopping 87 percent. Thats a big number, which naturally makes one ask, is he really favored by that Many Russians . I think you know what, thats a fair question. So lets check the numbers. And the only way to really do that is, is to look at what legitimate poles have been taken. Right . Real poles. What, what did the ping in other words, what did the people of russia say before the election . Okay, here it is. Weve got a graphic for you. Take a look at this graphic. This is from a statistic, one of the most respected worldwide researchers and page stores. They conducted their pole in russia in february of 2024, a month ago. And it found 8 of 10 russians approve of mr. Payton. They seem to think that hes doing a good job and inside his like abilities, the number of people like him has gone up by 9 Percentage Points over the past 2 years. Now, obviously, if you live in a western country and you may be hearing the sound of my voice right now, lets say youre in europe or something, or lets say you were in north america or you were here in the United States had come right next to the us capital here, youre probably saying watch really why . Because the only thing that you ever hear about putting comes in the form of a steady tide of negative stories like hes site and theres something. So let me remind you one more time, because i know what youre thinking. That poll that i just mentioned, it was not conducted by russians that paul was not conduction by the kremlin. It wasnt conducted by mr. Putins campaign team. It was conducted inside russia by one of the most trusted global posters. That is based, by the way, in germany, not russia. Of course, that poll doesnt even get mentioned in western media. Why would they write this . What youre about to see here is how they covered mr buttons with or the outcome was never in doubt. This may have been an election, but it certainly wasnt a contest. It was stage, manage the crime and controls absolutely everything including the elections. So whats the point of them . I mean, i gotta tell you, i was watching television. That was all day long. Every channel everywhere. So they were his para cool about this. But, and youll notice as you watch most of those and we can go on forever. But it would get boring because they basically all saying the same thing as you watch those reports to is when is presented as cheating. By all of that, hes accused of authoritarianism. Hes accused of electoral manipulation. So lets talk about those 2 things. What do you say . What do you say we start with . So lets pick the electoral manipulation. Fact, when our now President Joe Biden was running for office in 2020, he wasnt considered to be a top candidate. You probably remember that maybe you dont. I certainly do, he was getting crushed in the debates. Any way behind Bernie Sanders and behind elizabeth worn and behind the boat, a judge. But then, you know, a funny thing happens. So the Democratic Party gets together all the officials kind of pull a fast one. So they consolidated me try it again. They consolidated the pledge delegates kind of played with the numbers to stack them up just right then the party at projects went out to people like people to judge, for example, who was the time or popular the mr button. And they got him to quit the rates. Theyve got to get out and endorse by essentially turn over all his delegates to buy and then oh, what a surprise, what a judge ends up with a big job and the bite and cabinet used to be the mayor of a small town. Now hes a cabinet member. I wonder how that happened. Now you want to talk about authoritarian is just fine. We can go there to, lets talk about the Republican Party that you know what happens there. Its pretty simple. If youre a republican elected official and you criticized donald trump right now in america, you go out and you criticize donald trump, youre elected official in your republican, you know what happens pretty much by 1st trump goes after you. And what hes going to say about you a pretty, i mean this guy, he plays for kates rights and then his talk radio and his conservative media base goes on the attack. And they let everyone in the audience know that you are not loyal to donald, drop it after that, youre done or worse. What does that sound like or terry . And isnt me. See, i dont make these point because im trying to take sides is either by doing or trump this, it doesnt matter who you like or you dont like. I simply think that the, if were going to be throwing stones at somebody else as a so called electro. Busy manipulation and authoritarianism, then maybe what we 1st should do is board up our glass house. What do you say . By the way, if youre so, if we are so damn determined right now, to be the Electoral Police of the world and judge who are the good Democratic Leaders and who are the bad Democratic Leaders and who has chosen correctly and who is not chosen correctly. But, you know, we may also want to do that was thinking about this, we may want to take a better look at some of those people that we call the good ones. Im going to give you an example. Now see that dude right there. Thats the egyptian president of bells, pi l c c. The very people who call out president put in question, heres electability, did something very interesting this weekend. 6 of them including are sort of on there. Like in the present of the european commission. They went to egypt to break bread with mister c. C. They were there giving him the 7400000000 euros, 7400000000 with a be help egypt economy. And other words, they got his back. Theyre gonna take care of it. They like their friends, but heres what they may be conveniently forgot that you need to know about cc. As recently as 2014 egypt had a democratically elected president. That guys name was mohammed morsey. Suddenly he got, hes ousted, hes replaced with cc, who somehow gets 97. Let me say that again. 97 percent of the vote. 97 percent. Now isnt that interesting . Think about it. Winning almost all of the votes in the case of egypt did not set off any dictate or alarm bells throughout europe or the United States for that media. Nor has it prevented Close Military and economic ties with the country. But when it comes to russia, its just the opposite. Im not trying to judge one side or another. Im just telling you what its like. So lets talk about this. I want to break it down now with those steve go, hes in moscow where he served as a, an election observer. And were also joined by elijah magneer, who is a veteran war correspondent and a journalist. Steve, youre there in moscow. You saw things for yourself. So im gonna start with you by the way, i want to show you some video. This is almost laughable, but theres all this video out on the internet. I dont know if youve had a chance to see some of it. You probably havent because youre there. But uh, i dont know if we have that. If you can see, if you can put that up, it shows people who are uh, election officials, soldiers for example, who are going behind the curtain with like with machine guns too. Apparently checking to see how people are voting, and theyre apparently there to intimidate voters, etc, etc. Now, i gotta tell you, ive been looking at some of these pictures and they looked like their doctor. They looked like the fact, but there appeared all over the internet. So im just showing that, showing them for the reason that youre there. Did you see anything like that . Can you confirm anything like that . Or what did you see while you were monitoring the elections there in russia . I saw the exact opposite of that. Thats not real, thats fake. I was in uh don bass and dont ask in mary opal in september for referendums where they were voting for the 1st time for members of congress to go represent them in the do by the congress in moscow and in their local officials. People were bringing their kids, there was no intimidation, and that was near the war zone. This time i was in a place called tamara. Its a of a providence of about 2000000 people tomorrow. The city is the capital of about a 1000000. And again, people were bringing their kids, they werent coming in at gunpoint, there was no intimidation. There were some Police Officials at most point places like they are in the United States there for protection and to provide to some measure of security. But there was no intimidation, in fact people works, thrilled and excited to vote. I had one guy because i asked him, i said, why are you turning out what its clear put is going to win. And he said, it is my patriotic duty as a russian to vote to exercise my civic duty. And i support what present britain is doing. And my vote for him is like shaking his hand and saying, find you cheap it up. It was not a civil electric where youre choosing left to right. It was a full speed ahead because the economy is booming. Despite the sanctions. 2. 6 percent gd, page 7 Percent Inflation with sanctions. And the rest of the people say and stay the course. Sounds like youre doing a commercial now for the russian government. It does sound good, i understand. But i have to ask you some of the top questions, the co workers, did you see them leaning towards who did you see them helping people at any time . You know, on the contrary, there was one elderly gentleman who actually complains that just because he didnt bring his glasses, he couldnt read the the ballot, the the paper ballot. And one of the co worker says, i cannot tell you. I cannot point to which name youre asking for, asked another phone or, or go in there and do your best. They are meticulous about doing that. And keep in mind that they have video cameras in every precinct where in tomorrow theres a whole bag of these camera views that people can be reviewing as its happening live stream views for the 3 days. If people are voting and during the count and the same things happening at tens of thousands of precincts across brush or 11 different time zones, everything is available for people to see in real time, including people at home. They can go online and watch any pre sites across the account. Thats fascinating. And i have to ask you the final question. Just to be fair of a journalist that i have to ask this question, did you see people who were a gets put in, who tried to get into Public Places or somehow denied, or were told about the vote or did you see any kind of the opposition for example, and how were they treated, you know, and its this thing they have the day of silence the day before the 3 day voting theory starts on television commercials, radio, spot stuff, which ive been involved in politics since i was about 12 and im looking at the whole time, but how would i cheat . Is it possible to g . I got to tell you, i cant see a way, but more importantly, there were opposition candidates. One of them was a man named slootsky. Its one of the larger opposition parties. I actually was with his chief deputy last night and i asked him what, whats next for mr. Slootsky . They were not claiming that there was pressure. They were like objective to the results and, and they got stuck between them about 1011 percent. There were opponents, but youre not going to run successfully against the guy that a the people are surrounding and wanting to, to back in carpenters or countries under attack. And 2nd, which was the economies that people are not going to vote against their own interests. And these other guys were legitimate candidates, the communist party got about the lowest level. Theyve got to use a lot. So let me bring you into this conversation. I find it fascinating how the u. S. Media and other western media around the world. Treating the story. Its almost like, i mean, 87 percent. Thats a pretty big knot. I can see it was a 1640 your be even something smaller than that, but they have been they have almost been absolute in their determination to tell the world that there is no way that putting you could have won this unless you cheated. What do you make of that . I was actually, what is the difference in the election in russia is because the model is new to the, to the west and wide. And what i mean by a new model is if we take and the boss, for example, after the 2nd was more at the nature now in general. And the frame general was responsible for the resistance a day, a shot with the good fade in the president ial election because officer, the war people one can you faces. If we take the, you run your rock pool, for example, the president hatching there said johnny also said, but that is due today. Failure of boosting the economy because the economy was doing very bad in the russia is completely different. We have the president who won the war on the crane, who managed to gain, to treat one that needs to defend directions in ukraine, and then he boosted the economy. And i called the other countries in the west will have a very high inflation. And doing very badly in the economy and the suffering from the consequences of the war. So the combination also winning militarily, boosting the electra, the economy, and the also the dignity of direct some people. It is what gave the road to bracket inputs in pop and for him to get the 87 percent. How much of this is historical . How much of this has to do . And lets think back now i know we is westerners, we can never think of history. We, we think history began this morning when we woke up, but the russian experience has been one where post world war 2 russians have generally felt like theyve lost some of their standing. And theres this narrative, so that exists that they feel like to has given them back, that very thing that they felt they lost, which is why the polls show that his numbers are actually going up. I want to ask you about that because i think that that historical determinative is important. On this day, were going to take a quick break. Were going to talk about that. Im also going to tell you about Something Else thats going on with tick tock or some intelligence officials have not come out. And theyve said much of what were talking about with the talk is conjecture. Well talk about that as well. Stay right there will be right back. The take a fresh look around his life. Kaleidoscopic isnt just a shifted reality distortion by power to division with no real opinions. Fixtures designed to simplify will confuse really once a better wills. And is it just as a chosen few fractured images presented to this, but can you see through their illusion going underground . Can the crime for almost 3 centuries, its been a stronghold of russian culture. 10 years ago of the events, the divided dependence was history and to before and after. It became part of russia for good. The divorce to do so to this, to me was to see the fitness, the superficial. If the boy at the different chest here, it was more or less to about that bill jeffers to do some with you the, with the solution if you choose to cause the orders the think within those, the mist village is the listen of what the quote was pretty crossed and the good person and it says good sense because its and this is literally the floor that i was doing that i need you to the, to the what, the spit i didnt i suppose by us. But im probably the coolest side of things. But it was supposed to, we need to chip to the vehicle because danielle, could we move in, you receive the lets get back to that. Im so glad youre back. Im are to inch as a direct impact, elijah, i want to bring you back in because i wanted to ask that question. As i was hearing you speak, i was thinking about this. Its a narrative that most people in the world dont understand, but its uniquely russian. Its a narrative that say. Busy is Something Like post gorbachev, post fields, and we kind of lost our way we didnt, we werent considered or we didnt feel like we were that country again. That was one of the most important countries in the world. And its been a very important part of europe. How important is that narrative . Can you take us through that . I would say the a and the west to understand the culture of other populations that to the fadia of the for was that the americans and nature and i have conducted and ive gotten this done in the rock given syria may be a every way and the culture that we phrase and all the russian people, the dignity, but this time it is not only about dignity, its the, the victory of president food in is talking to different people, different volts of the society that look at pride, dignity, loyal victory, and also pragmatic aspect so that the pride of the russian people to hear that the west has got the which 15 nations in germany to defeat the russia. And to break the russian economy. And to stand against a superpower that credit and put the mileage off to president jensen. And before him go by chance to bring back the russia to the level off super pilot and seek the friendship of the west on equal bases. We see how the west, since the war in syria and 2015 tons of bad on russia and decided that to us i should not be left some and should not bring to the level of a supervisor again, that dignity when the russian people heard about how the west is gathered to the feet, dressed up and put the mileage to when the wall and stand up to the strongest armies in the world gather to the priest direct. Yeah. And put the managing to do that with a good economy because this is way i think theyre still heading to the front market correction. Now this combination managed to bring the front didnt put into bala with this percentage with this high percentage. Now think theres no surprising for the west to spend against this result. Ive been in the election and been this way that and i so when president my daughter was elected in the house, the west already gave the result before the election. That that would not recognize it because he is not part of the west thing club. So that is very obvious, the reaction of the way today. I think the word if we were to choose the word the, the word that fits what is now in the russian sold. It may not have been there some, what are you as a narrative is pride . I think its pride and i think pride is important for all peoples of the world. I want to change the subject. I want you guys with something on tick tock. Here we go, tick tock up. Well, apparently you heard the accusations coming mostly from the old middle aged man and women in congress seem to believe the tech talk like the beatles and rock and roll music will destroy their world. So. So whats the deal here . Well, at the core of all of this is the fear, the tick tock, Chinese Parent Company by dance will undermine those by collecting and then sharing our secrets and spying on us. And so it goes to what were doing is changing our chef and removing a provision that concerns us as the Chinese Communist party could potentially request as a top is used as a new source by huge numbers of young people. We really want in the age of a i 6 that kind of power given to an adversarial nation. Yeah. All those young people spoken as a man who probably doesnt even know how to use his own e mail. You notice that they say it all about what could happen, what might happen not what actually has happened. Well, let me tell you about something that actually did happen according to a report. In intercept Us Intelligence has produced no evidence that the popular social media side has ever coordinated anything with beijing. The fact that that hasnt stopped many in congress or even President Joe Biden from touting legislation that would force the sale of the app. But most intelligence reports say, most of the accusations for tat presented so far is being done. So in the form of hypotheticals, in other words, what china might do in the future, what china possibly could do that is what theyre saying right now about tick tock. Let me stop right there and ask you guys, see, let me go to you. What do you think is behind this whole take docs . Year for the 1st fall, im devastated at my dance rios may somehow be blocked and people wont be able to see the 2nd. These are the intelligent sites, is these are the f b i to see i and others who, who told us just before super tuesday, that the russians might put nukes in space, no evidence that they were no evidence that it was planned. It hasnt been done. But again, there was a scare people to doing whatever it is they want them to do the same thing with this tick tock, fee, or as you point out, theres no basis for it other than to create the climate of fear to drive people in the direction that unfortunately, they want to drive a st. One intelligence officials. Theres a because its mostly conjecture. We got a problem. All right, now watch this a lot because i need to go see, let us presence on the territory. The republic of nisha is illegal and violates all the constitutional and democratic rules which would require the suffering people in particular students, elective representative to be consulted on the installation of a foreign on the, on this tower tree. That is a spokesperson for the new military government in new chair, essentially telling us the us that he wants us out of his west african country. He is ending the military Cooperation Agreement with the United States. The state department, the u. S. Has had a lease on his territory and this year which is essentially a drawing based right. But theres, your leaders are now saying that you, its just taking advantage of that opportunity and that hospitality. Apparently, and according to the sources that the u. S. Gave new share government on ultimate them that it most kind of ties to other nations. For example, russia and the ron this year feels about might be a bridge too far. And those now told us its they who have to leave elijah, let me throw that one to you. Whats going on in africa where perhaps and maybe im overstating this. Our own country is losing emphasis. Losing control and other countries like russia are gaining. This is the result of the war and ukraine. They said you would, that these are rising today, everywhere in west asia, in asia, in the middle east, in africa, and in south america. So, and before the United States, friends was kicked out of book, you know, 5 to mining and the jazz. And now the weston tape for christie and douglas tend to a so expose with the war on god that the word the seeing how button the button is the west and how that was done that the west is beating with the rest of the world. Yeah, this is why immediate is coming out and saying to the americans, we dont want to and we can live without you. And we can have friends on equal basis, but not my so to say basic i wonder where its used to deal with the one wonders how many other countries might come out in the set do the same thing, steve, elijah, you guys have been great guess. Thanks so much for all your wisdom and for sharing your ideas and stay safe there. Uh the steve go and. Busy enjoy yourself and if you do have an adult beverage have one for me. Before we go, i want to remind you of our mission is simple really. I wanted to silo the world and weve gotta stop living in these little boxes truths. Dont live in boxes are everywhere. 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