impressing donald trump, as much as his claims that it s the individual himself it s hard to believe that more than 2 or 3% of all republicans would actually agree with donald trump in their assessments of kim jong-un, vladimir putin, and xi jinping the problem is, you re not going to hear much pushback from any of them now, because they are so in hock to him for the primary process, at least, and don t feel that they can criticize him. but i think you re right he s comparing systems as much as he is individuals here. he likes that they re authoritarians, like he wish that he could, and he also likes that they flatter him, which they all know is to tell him, you re great, they think he s great. he also in that interview offered up praise for california governor gavin newsom. and he said, well, he was always very nice to me, so i like gavin newsom that s all it takes. that s the standard. if you flatter me, you re good
joey: welcome back. a new batch of classified documents surfacedded on social media sites last night sparking major concerns across washington. officials say over a hundred documents may have been on indiana thed highlighting national security details from ukraine, the middle east and china. kara frederick, formerly yeason to the nsa and director at herrage the foundation joins us now to the react. kara, what do we make of this. this is a problem because it s so blanketed in the fog of war. look at the information environment right now. it looks like these documents were printed off. whoever did the leaking took pictures, and they put it on discord, they put it on twitter, fortune, all sorts of social media platforms. so it s sort of lending new life into the phrase social media democratizes information. but at the same time the, you have russia saying that this is a western influence operation, and then you have other our allies saying, oh, this is meant to the sow discontent be
will: i m sorry to interrupt. you bring a process. the goal, they re saying, is to bring the process back to the united states, but there s still the issue of raw materials. in china, either through its own domestic geography or through its colonization of the world like africa can has control of those raw materials as well. i mean, tell me if you think this analogy is not unfair. you know, saudi arabia, or better yet the united states, has been has the capability, the whats i not just for energy independence, but to be a world power because of that independence. if we move in this direction, we re giving that power, we re taking it from ourselves and giving it to china because of their dominance of those raw materials. it s certainly true that china has a monopoly on the processing of many of these raw materials. that is not in dispute, i think, at this particular point. the problem the administration has is that first it tried to get americans to buy electric cars, and that reall
to defend yourself or else it s not chaos. you have the god given right to defend they don t want that. they want you relying on the state apparatus the, and they need this. so they always blame the gun as a vehicle to get it away from you. they don t really believe in any of this. keep in mind a lot of these people who claim guns as the root of the problem surround themselves, in fact, with guns. i always give a very simple example, if the left really believed in what they were saying, that guns, if you get, you know, laws will get rid of guns, can we just, like, do this the reasonably? i know liberals have a tough the time with this kind of stuff, the facts don t get in. if you enact laws, it will solve the problem. well, let s go to places where with laws are enacted, okay? this is how you would do it if you were a logical human being. i know you re not, but just try for a minute. let s go to chicago which had upwards of 6 of 00 plus homicides 600 plus homicides. and then they a
to electric cars specifically and specifically electric vehicle batteries, china currently processes about 70% of the lithium that goes into these batterys. over 80% of the cobalt that is required in these batteries and over 90% of the manganese that goes into these the batteries. it has a stranglehold on the processing of ev batteries. now, the biden administration s approach has been since passage of the inflation reduction act to try to shore up some of those supply chains and bring them otto u.s. the problem to the u.s. the problem the administration if has is that by virtue of doing so, it virtually eliminated any electric cars that could possibly meet these types of requirements, you know, being sourced either in the united states or being manufactured by countries that are friendly to to the us. will: right. the administration is effectively trying its best to thread a needle, and it s doing so remarkably poorly.