President Trump is Playing 4D Chess with Mark Geist

The Right View with Lara Trump

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Lara sits down with veteran, security consultant, and 13 Hours best-selling co-author Mark “Oz” Geist—the American hero credited with saving 25 lives during the Benghazi attack. Mark walks Lara through the failures of leadership that left Americans vulnerable overseas, including Hillary Clinton’s disastrous decision-making impacting Americans on the ground from over 8,000 miles away. He also shares why a strong U.S. military is essential, how President Trump sees the world with clarity, and the difficult journey many veterans face transitioning back to life at home. Later, Lara welcomes Justen Overlander, former producer of The Chosen and creator of the new film Learning You, a moving story inspired by real families raising children with special needs. They discuss the film’s mission, the importance of faith-driven storytelling, and why Hollywood desperately needs more uplifting, authentic content.

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0:00.0	And I won't back down.
0:03.5	Hey, baby, there ain't no easy way out.
0:11.9	Hey, everybody, thanks so much for joining us right here on The Right View.
0:14.8	Tonight we're joined by veteran bestselling co-author of 13 hours, President of Veteran Nonprofit Shadow Warrior Project and
0:23.6	The Hero credited with saving 25 lives during the Benghazi attack, Mark Geist.
0:29.4	Mark, thank you so much.
0:30.9	It's so excited to get you on the show and talk to you.
0:34.4	You served our country as a Marine, as a deputy sheriff, so much more. But all of that
0:41.3	kind of came to a head when you ended up in the middle of the Benghazi attack as a security
0:47.7	contractor. So just kind of take me back. Did you ever expect to find yourself in the middle
0:53.8	of something like that at any
0:55.6	point in your career? Because that must have been absolutely wild. You know, probably not. I mean,
1:03.5	when you do, when you're working as a private security contractor, especially for, you know,
1:08.6	like the CIA or any of the other three-letter alphabet soup companies, you know, you know, like the CIA or any of the other three-letter soup companies, you know,
1:14.2	you know that you're working in the worst places in the world. So you always got to be ready for
1:18.2	something like that. Yeah. So what does that mean to be a security contractor for people who
1:22.9	aren't familiar with how this works? Because I think a lot of people assume you go overseas and you're
1:28.6	dealing with different situations, that's our U.S. military or that's one of the, as you say,
1:34.7	the three-letter organizations. What does a security contractor mean? Well, it is pretty broad.
1:41.0	When I first started in 2004, I was protecting State Department personnel as they moved in and around Iraq,
1:49.0	going to high-level meetings, meeting with the most important people in Iraq to help provide the foreign policy decisions back home.
2:01.7	From there, I ended up going to another contract where I was training Iraqi SWAT teams and
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