we re talking about big countries argentina, brazil we re talking about the brick countries but then argentina joining as well. this is a lot of influence for china. it is taking over resources but it is also the typical thing that we also see here buying off elites. buying off people in charge who know they can just for a generation for several generations make sure that their families are well off. but they sell out their countries in the process and it s happening all over latin america and it will be very difficult if not impossible to unwind this biden administration asleep at the wheel. kamala harris said she s doing a lot of reading and listening to experts in advance of her trip to africa. so i hope she has i hope she has the guts while she s in africa to go see those little children working in the mines who are little basically slaves and they are fueling this green energy. we have fossil fuel here that we can use instead doing this in africa. take it to
years, that s a major issue for the american people. that type of implied pressure, whether real or perceived, should be known by the american people through disclosure. and i think that s what the oversight committee is doing, we are going to continue to investigate this. this is not gotcha politics. if you make the green new deal of the energy fabric of the country, tell the american people you have to get the minerals from cobalt mines in africa using child slave labor and the batteries are put together in china and the chinese will make massive profits while we get green. is the biden family getting money as a result of this as well, these are things the american people need to know, why the oversights committee will continue to push. john: the question i have here, and you could put it under the heading of patriotism, happening at a time when china was building up the military, building military facilitiesed on disputed islands in the south
her electric car? probably not. electric cars run off lithium ion batteries filled with little element called quo battalion. where does this little element come from. nearly all of it comes from mines deep in the heart of africa. and it s being fueled by slave-like conditions. [chatter] jesse: thee are cobalt mines in the congo where thousands of africans work in the extreme heat and dangerous conditions for pennies. in america we call that illegal. but biden, aoc called that the green new deal. but children halfway around the world are the ones paying the price. they spend all day covered in toxic chemicals to make your electric car. mothers with newborn babies strapped to their chest, they are mining in dark pits.