Now, I've signed MOUs with Taiwan and the UK and multiple other countries.

They're going to the states now because Congress is so dysfunctional.

It's so political.

It's so partisan that they're literally coming directly to the states.

And I have an international strategy where I've met with 80 different ambassadors to put Oklahoma on their radar.

In this episode, I sit down with the 28th governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, to learn about

how he's reducing a state's vulnerabilities and dependency on communist China.

We should have a critical mineral stockpile in the U.S. We should be developing relationships

with Africa and South America.

China's doing those kind of things, and we have to make sure we can keep up with the demands

of the next century. This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick.

Governor Kevin Stith, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

Well, thanks so much for having me here. It's an honor to be with you.

Well, I want to talk about your activities countering the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese regime itself.

But before we go there, I want to talk a little bit about gardening, because I noticed that this is something that you're actually quite serious about and over having interviewed over a thousand people on this show I've

noticed people that do that are somehow involved with the land tend to be a little

more on the grounded side but just tell me a little bit about this the the

gardening aspect of your life sure absolutely well my my granddad was had an

eighth grade education was a dairy farmer from the northeast part of Oklahoma.

So I loved going up and hanging out on the ranch and on the farm with granddad.

And he always had a big garden.

So as a little kid, I didn't really appreciate it as much because he was having me help weed it and that kind of stuff.

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