Former National Security Advisor Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien joined me this AM:

Audio:

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Transcript:

HH: So happy to welcome a brand-new affiliate in Enid, Oklahoma, KGWA-AM960/FM 100.9, HD 4, 103.1. It is KGWA. And KGWA, be alert. Whenever you hear the name Ambassador Robert O’Brien, you should put down what you’re doing and listen closely. Former President Trump’s last national security adviser, very skilled diplomat, formerly the special envoy for hostage affairs for President Trump, before that, served George W. Bush in a variety of positions, superb lawyer. And he joins me this morning, I believe, in Tel Aviv. Good morning, Mr. Ambassador. Welcome back.

RO’B: Greetings, Hugh, from the Holy Land.

HH: Tell me what you were hearing off the record. You’re meeting with senior Israeli officials. We’re not going to name who. What are you hearing off the record from your old friends, and you spent a lot of time in Israel when you were the national security adviser, about this administration’s handling of the Israeli-U.S. relationship.

RO’B: Well, I think there’s a feeling of heartbreak, Hugh. I was down yesterday at Nir Oz, the kibbutz that was attacked, and then to the music festival. And when you see the bullet holes in the safe rooms for the families, and then see where kids were executed, their houses burned down. And you see what happened, the pictures of the families that will never come home flashed on the outside of their homes in the kibbutz. And seeing the pictures of kids who were at the music festival who were gunned down and slaughtered, it’s just heartbreaking. And for America to be telling the Israelis, and Jake Sullivan happens to be the current National Security Adviser running around during meetings, to hear the Americans tell the Israelis that we’re going to withhold arms and then try to force them into a ceasefire with a group that’s as bad as ISIS, it’s just heartbreaking. There’s a palpable sense that they know they need to stay close to America, and I encourage them to stay close to America. But they long for the old days. They long for the Trump administration, because they know and I know and you know, Hugh, October 7th would have never happened if President Trump had still been president. There wouldn’t have been a sense of weakness with America or its allies, and Iran would have never permitted this to happen. And so it’s heartbreaking.

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Traditional Christian expressions are in severe decline and have been for some time now.  The question is “Why?”

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Lt Gen Jonathon Riley, former commander of British Forces in Sierra Leone and Iraq and Deputy Commander of all Nato forces in Afghanistan. has penned a piece that at first glance I wrote off as conspiratorial nonsense but found it intriguing enough to read through and found it is anything but.  Rather the good general is cataloging efforts to control the weather by people that think it is the only viable response to “climate change.”  Yep, there are people out there that think that we can control the weather – not that we can inadvertently alter the climate, a long-term and global thing – but the weather, making it rain, make it cold, that sort of thing.  It is as if no one remembers the lessons of kudsu or the Burmese pythons in Florida.

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I spent a gorgeous day in Smoky Mountain National Park yesterday, just a short drive from my East Tennessee home.  Such glorious days need to be balanced with a dose of reality and so my thoughts return to the California I left a couple of years ago – the California I thought for many years I would never leave.  As unbelievably beautiful as the Smokies are, California really does have greater natural beauty.  The eastern Sierra, Yosemite, the beaches (where they are not overrun) are just amazing.  Such beauty and the weather are what keep people in California despite the exodus that has been apparent for the last five years or so.  I always have a stack of stuff around my desk of California news and as I reviewed it this morning and with the perspective of yesterday’s Smoky Mountain glory, I found another reason why I left California behind.  California does not glory in its beauty; it amplifies its ugly.

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Former President Trump joined me this morning:

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Transcript:

HH: We are now joined by former President Donald Trump. Mr. President, welcome back. Good to have you.

DJT: Good morning.

HH: The CPI number just came out at .3%. That means 3.6% year over year. It’s still too high. What’s your reaction to that number, Mr. President?

DJT: Well, it’s way too high, but if you go back two years, you see that was where it was just so bad, and nothing’s happening. Either you’re still way up in the stratosphere, close to 30%, the real number. Remember, they leave a lot of numbers out. You know, this crazy Biden administration, everything’s a game. And they leave a lot of numbers out. They leave the highest numbers, the worst numbers often times. They’ll leave rentals out. They’ll leave a certain food type out. The whole thing is rigged. They are the worst. He is the worst president. Hey, Hugh, this is, and you don’t have to say it. I will. This is the worst president in the history of the United States, and it’s not even close. And you can take the ten worst and add them up and they’re not as bad as this guy. And look, the inflation is bad, and the number today is bad. They want to try for the, you know, this is like using the Strategic Reserves for gasoline. They want to try and play around with the interest rates with the Federal Reserve, but you can’t lower them, because of the fact that you have the inflation. It’s a lot of inflation when added to the inflation that we’ve suffered that’s been so bad. It’s got to come down much more. That’s a lot of inflation, their number they announced.

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