K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor | 07-17-26
Sid & Friends In The Morning
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🗓️ 17 July 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We love bringing on KT. McFarland every Friday. |
| 0:02.5 | She's, I think she's the smartest political person out there. |
| 0:06.4 | KT., good Friday morning. How are you? |
| 0:09.2 | Terrific, thank you. |
| 0:10.9 | You are terrific. |
| 0:11.7 | So tell me what exactly the president accomplished last night, and to Norman Josh Shapiro's point, if he's been so upset, and I agree with him. |
| 0:20.2 | I agree with him that I do think the Chinese do metal. Well, he had his opportunity in China not that long ago to walk up to Xi and say, hey, buddy, we know what you're doing, cut it out. So what did he accomplish last night? And if he is so upset, why didn't he approach Xi when he was in China? Yeah, I'm scratching my head. |
| 0:39.1 | I just don't understand it. |
| 0:41.9 | It's disinformation campaign. |
| 0:43.9 | Look, everybody does this disinformation campaigns. |
| 0:46.5 | The Russians and Chinese, they understand that the great strength of America is that we're self-governing a self-governing democracy. |
| 0:54.0 | But there's also also in many ways |
| 0:55.4 | our greatest weakness because it can be people can countries, ideologies can scramble our brain. |
| 1:02.1 | And they use China particularly uses TikTok. I'm much more concerned with China using TikTok |
| 1:07.2 | to sort of targeted ads to scramble people's brains, hate America, love America, |
| 1:14.6 | this aspect of America, that aspect of America, really than I am about all the other stuff. |
| 1:20.6 | But it's a disinformation campaign. |
| 1:22.3 | The Russians have been doing since the beginning of the Soviet Union because their feeling is that the United States can never be destroyed from without, |
| 1:31.4 | but it could be destroyed from within. |
| 1:33.3 | And so they're trying to foment division, animosity, doubt, distrust of the whole constitution |
| 1:41.1 | and democracy in the electoral system. |
| 1:43.2 | And when Xi Jinping came out last week and said, well, we need to have state directed |
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