Teethree in your 28 team book why we fight do you write the most significant threat we face today to emanate from the world of nonstate actors they come from old nationstate adversaries who have learned from the end of the 20th century toy understand the only way to defeat us is by using your regular or indirect means of attack. The assassination of general t14 fit into this quick. It was the shadow commander because he wasnt just a Major General in the regular army and a normal battle it isnt the battleyb of the bulge or the first gulf war but use proxy forces on Six Continents including the us with the italian ambassador to wage irregular warfare the weaker power has developed a far more powerful adversary like United States no longer a superpower we are a hyperpower no one can come close to us in our conventional capacity we have 12 aircraft carriers we have more special forces than most countries have soldiers. So how is a nation as powerful as us to use proxies and terrorism and irregular warfare and t14 was the commander of that kind of warfare for the largest statesponsored terrorism to date of the Islamic Republic of iran teeseven you also write we are not interventionist but we are not isolationist. When it comes to this president yes. As the strategist and advisor it was not a hard decision for me to agree to work for him because this is a man who is proud of his country and proud of being an american but had enough of stupid wars. The ideas you can call the neoconservative or neoliberal but you go to the middle east or central asia to create democracy he does not wish to change other peoples regimes but if there was a threat as there was this weekend to our nation and citizens not only where he was but the intent to execute attacks iraq and syria and libya to have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of us americans. And donald trump, president trombley seems intelligence like that he doesnt talk about redlines, he takes actions against one of the most dangerous man in the world is dead. Host susan rice of the Obama Administration in the new york s times writes the aeschylus tory cycle began may 2018 President Trump recklessly ignored the advice of his National Security teamgnn and the opposition of our allies to unilaterally withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal despite the parents to the term. What adherence . Is she a comedian . That is beyond the pale deescalation began 1979 when americans were taken hostage for over a year ago thats when the escalation began. The escalation began when Qassem Soleimani and the unclassified report that he was responsible of the death for at least 603 american servicemen and women in iraq if your viewers see a veteran with missing limbs today and you see somebody who has prosthetics who lost an arm because of an iud in all likelihood the result that iran gave to the munitions to iraq that person now has no d limbs and thats where the escalation began. When i was in the white house the president asked me in the oval office what do we do about theke jcpoa . I said kill it. Then secretary of state john kerry said we know more than 140 billion some of these funds will be used to sponsor terrorism. The one who was sympathetic to isis and wants to sendwa them 500 he was doing so through an fbi agent. He did not know that but that individual is now sitting in a federal prison pleading guilty of the federal crime of Material Support of terrorism for 500. The Obama Administration released more than 140 billion which we know in part was used to fund the operations in the terrorism for Major GeneralQassem Soleimani. Host of the troops in the middle east those in parliament have voted to get rid of foreign militaries. The middle east is not a problem we can solve. The president understands that the metric is of the national interest. His first reaction his first gut instinct is can we bring the boys and girls home quex from wherever they are afghanistan or iraq, you name it the good news he is a pragmatist who understands not only is it not our job to change other countries to be a reflection of our self but its not feasible in places like afghanistan or iraq this iis why wrote my second book. We are there for the same reasons we deployed october 2001 to make sure that these territories are never ever again used to have mass casualty attacks on the soil of the United States or against citizens around the world. That is our reason for being thereev. That can be done with a much smaller footprint than either the bush or the obama thadministration. Host this past october you will on the website with syria and the american troops and one purpose to destroy the physical caliphate of isis. Right. The other thing a very proud of his the second Obama Administration is jv you have to take it seriously and that caliphate it with a 1924 and to change his tune to say its just a threat we have to come to terms with it is a generational for our children and grandchildren will deal with isis. And we came into the isis loan the white house we had a very different vision. He said no. Isis can be destroyed if we get out of the way of the military these crippling rules engagement. We have Fighter Pilots and people in the air over convoys with live video feed who were told you cannot take them out the lawyers got in the way that tactical interference by the Obama Administration had to be dismantled and thats way they said to the president we have to have a talking point we can understand with the destruction of the physical caliphate when the president made it clear i have your back and you can do this we destroy the caliphate together in five months something we were told it was generationally now we have to live with it was gone do you remember the front pages of the newspaper the decapitation of us generally journalists in those cages alive . Because we had a commander in chief finally in the white house there is someone from illinois and said they will have to suffer the consequences. Your first book you wrote about president obama his keenness for hellfire missiles with a better understanding of a commitment to winning the war against jihad is him strangely enough it didnt as one highranking special forces general shared with me president obama and his w team took the drone strikes as the easy button to thinking that soandso is a member of al qaeda i do not want to drone. Kill him then to prevent the next 9 11 but then you write this is not only simplistic but dangerous. Talking about Qassem Soleimani. Yes. What was missing after the Obama Administration is the idea the avowed policy that terrorism is the result of poverty for disenfranchisement beginning the Obama Administration john brennan who had become the cia director said terrorism is the result of poverty and lack of education if that were true half of india would be terrorist half of china would be terrorist and they are not that is a flawed analysis so with this concept of when we find them we kill them it was whack a mole. That was the phrase i used in defeating jihad because just the idea the president had a peer canvas on which that disposition matrix to the location of individuals would be shared with him and he would decide which we should kill today is sheer insanity can you imagine eisenhower or churchill choosing which theater commander to kill . When we arrived in the white house we had 420 obama holdovers from the National Security council do you know how many worked under eisenhower . Seventyfive. Nobody can tell me eisenhower was less complicated under Ronald Reagan it was only 75 what they had done was replicate a government and made what should have been strategic a tactical function and they missed the ideology whit which engineering students dont become suicide bombers on 9 11 because they are uneducated i went to the head of al qaeda the Obama Administration said islam is irrelevant and if you want to understand where we are going read the president speech to the muslim allies and his incrediblele speech in warsaw where he talks about the enemy being evil to be disenfranchised it is an evil ideologyid just as fascism was an ideological threat and the soviet union was an ideological threat jihad is him isnt about poor people but those who subscribe to that g heidi ideology and the only way to live is under a global caliphat caliphate. Host what do you listen about what happened to general Qassem Soleimani there is a prediction this could lead to war. Its stunning over the last 72 hours world war iii was training on social media. What world do these people liveve in quex do they really think . And somebody comes up with a criticism the best place to start is take politics out of it whoever you work for so they say we should not have killed him . How is that better . The man whose hands are drenched in blood of 603 us servicemen and women and responsible for the maiming of thousandson this man, who we knew according to exquisite intelligence was initiating operations in the coming weeks to kill hundreds of us citizens let alone our allies leaving him alone to do his business is better and what world. Anybody that is not cheering for when obama killed osama and when we took out aku bakr albaghdadi it is not cheering at the murderous and dirk incarnate individual like Qassem Soleimani examine your conscience because i dont care what your politics are for what god you pray to her who you go to bed with you need to examine your conscience if you think that person did not deserve to become a pile off ashes. Host how did you get to know President Trump . I thought i was at the pinnacle of my career teaching marines i havee special regard for that. I was in my third year at the World College in Quantico MarineCorps University and then i get a phone call from someone i didnt know from a hole in the ground im the Campaign Manager from kennedy trump and he said he is preparing for the full gop debate on National Security focus. And so i said sure i could help prepare for the debate i went to trump tower and then we had this blue sky discussion on the civil war right up to isis and then he discuss stopped a dead and he said i like this guy lets hire him. Asked me to become a consultant to the Trump Organization and prepare policy papers and briefs for his debates and then eventually became part i a new general who hand handled his Transition Team i became a part of the official of clinton and trump i was part of the Transition Team then offered the job Deputy Assistant to the president that i started 12 1 a. M. 2017. I lasted seven months. You have to ask steve bannon that. That they said have you seen the news . I was cut off from the world. I went to an area that i could check internet and i saw steve bannon had resigned out of the blue. He was my media boss i was Deputy Assistant he was the chief strategist. And withoutt telling me in the two months prior to that it was clear to me that the new National Security advisor mcmaster was foul i was always present for key meetings with russia and china and i was being left off when he became National Security advisor so i knew i was boxed out. And then my top cover resigned then i had a tough decision do i stay with a good federal salary paid for by the us taxpayers and be consistently boxed out with somebody who with me and then as i wrote my letter to the president said those anti maggot forces are descending on the white house with hr mcmaster is one of those then the president agreed no i have a National Radio show with 2 million listeners and more than a million followers on social media. So myy decision and that reagan called the shining city on the hill and thats been great the last two years. On how the last three years have progressed and thats a bonus chapter. Host teethree is our guest this month we invite one author to discuss his or her body of work. You talked about how you met President Trump and how he hired you on the spot when you go to your Wikipedia Page, teethree it says in here various National Security scholars and policymaking circles have characterized you as fringe. There isin an individual a successful author with the wall street journal that has labeled me as fringe he called me up and laughed and said if you are writing about the person who was in the white house as a strategist and you call him fringe perhaps you are the fringe individual because of who is in the white house as soon as i became the face of the administration the First Executive order we dropped was the travel ban. That was not being well received so as soon as the criticism was so loud can i help you explain this to the American People why this is a threat assessment so they threw me into the media and as soon as i became a public surrogate the attacks began. I thought i was ready. I had been in dc for a decade but what was launched against me not just my credentials which i understand. But as soon as that happened people who call themselves journalists didnt just attack me, they attacked my wife, they attacked my dead mothers reputation. And then they wrote a piece about my 18 yearold son , high school aged son in which the title of the piece is my son is a traitor. Something happened in the city its fundamentally unamerican. You can have differences with somebody in the administration but to call yourself a journalist and to go after somebodys family like they went after bearing trump after milania and eric and donald junior. Wikipedia unfortunately is one of the worst sources out there. As soon as things were said about me and my nationalist intentions and racism i asked to changee those entries with factbased sources. What did wikipedia do . They blocked the page so it cannot beth changed. That is fundamentally wrong. Host is that a common practice . Not common is they see a lot of backandforth people putting negative and somebodys trying to correct ito then they just lock and nothing can change. Host back to your Wikipedia Page it says following the 9 11 attacks teethree became a public figure in hungary as the television counterterrorism expert but failed to obtain the National Security clearance of the office to serve on the committee. I served on the committee. Actually served as the independent expert from the Hungarian Parliament to investigate the biggest scandal in post communist hungary in april of that year the election was held the conservative government was replaced of socialist that members of the former communist policy and that it was a frontpage story with a document from the cold war but had the rank of a secret Police Officer who had the same name as the newly elected Prime Minister. When hungry found out the new Prime Minister was a former secret Police Officer under communism the committee was paneled and i became one of the two independent experts. It says you were regarded as a spy working for the british counterintelligence. It says you were regarded as a spy working forki the british counterintelligence another uniquely american what happens in israel yes i served in the military intelligence of the british army when i was in college. Host teethree is our guest the war for america solos most recent book why do you open with your daughter at Trinity Colleg college . Is one of the reason i wrote the book because i experienced an event that shook me to my marrow and she created for me after i drafted it graduating from Trinity College it was a tough four years she was involved in the that made the National News right before the term began they were on the deck of the building my daughter stepped out on the deck and the soon as she did all three disconnected. Luckily nobody was killed that my daughter sustain nerve damage to her legs but despite that she was persevered cap to the crew team she had four different jobs in college and then she was invited to join the church of institute a handful of remaining conservative professors now they are hierarchical left so now they wanted to propagate the values of the judeochristian civilization that was the last straw of the social justice warriors so they took my daughters photograph on social media and posted it on campus put her name in village underneath this is the face of white supremacy. Why . Because she was my daughter despite the fact she had helped ethnic and minority women for those that have been abused by their partners or husbands. So whenr it came to her graduation i was very and trepidation is. I didnt want to cause a scene so isu went out to the quad isat under an oak tree not even with my family so there would be no distractions from the celebration and it was all fine until after the ceremony my daughter received her diploma the caps were thrown in the air then i decided to make my way back to my wife and my daughter and in the throng i was