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🗓️ 24 November 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Foreign service veteran Peter Galbraith talks about his 35 year history with the Kurds and how Trump's rash decision to sell them out in Syria will undermine America's standing and security in the world for years to come.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
0:06.7 | Boy, we got a great one today for a change. |
0:11.1 | A Peter Galbraith, who's one of these people who was in the Foreign Service for decades. |
0:18.8 | You saw some Foreign Service people at this people in these hearings, and they're |
0:23.9 | magnificent, as you can see, and Peter is. And Peter has a long relationship with the Kurds. |
0:32.2 | So among the awful, terrible things that Donald Trump has done, and this might be the worst in a way, |
0:42.1 | is that he sold out the Kurds who were our ally and who bled and died for us. |
0:53.0 | Peter has tremendous insight into this, and we'll be talking to him. |
0:58.2 | But first, I just want to talk about the hearings. |
1:03.1 | I'm just going to play a couple clips. I was just so, so frustrated that Democrats played it |
1:10.7 | so classy. Adam Schiff, brilliant, classy, not one Democrat |
1:17.9 | reacted to the stupid shit that the Republicans were saying they should have had a designated |
1:24.1 | guy, a guy, an enforcer. And you'll understand what I mean. |
1:28.4 | So let's play a few of these clips, and I'll try to react to them. |
1:32.9 | Okay, the first one we're going to do is a Republican congressman, Chris Stewart of Utah, |
1:39.5 | who makes a very, very stupid point. |
1:47.1 | It takes a little while doing it, but they had to kill time. |
1:50.3 | They had nothing to say. |
1:52.9 | So all they would do is say these insanely, obviously stupid things. |
1:58.6 | Here we go. |
2:00.0 | Question before us now is again extortion. That's the, |
2:02.8 | that's the latest version of the charges against the president. I'm not an attorney. Extortion |
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