Peter Schweizer Exposes How American Elites Sold Out to the Chinese Communist Party

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[00:20] hey everybody welcome back we

[00:22] we are here with the great peter

[00:24] schweitzer red handed everyone check out

[00:26] the book right now peter we could get

[00:28] into this you know as we go case by case

[00:30] because i do want to get into the

[00:31] specifics of the book it's just such an

[00:33] important contribution what you've done

[00:34] here and courageous by the way because

[00:36] people are so afraid to touch this topic

[00:39] how much of this kind of selling out of

[00:41] the america to china how much of this is

[00:44] just kind of seeking profits

[00:46] you know what's the psychology behind

[00:48] here how do the how do these elites that

[00:50] you have on the front cover here john

[00:51] boehner elon musk nancy pelosi lebron

[00:54] james i think that's henry kissinger if

[00:55] i'm not mistaken um and then bill gates

[00:58] and then joe biden how do they justify

[01:00] this

[01:01] uh it's a great question charlie um i

[01:03] think for some people the motivation is

[01:05] profit and money particularly those that

[01:07] don't have a lot of it uh you know if

[01:10] you're in public life and you're a guy

[01:11] like joe biden

[01:13] and you want to accumulate assets or

[01:15] your family wants to accumulate assets

[01:18] it's going to be very tempting and

[01:19] you're going to be willing to play ball

[01:21] uh if

[01:23] you know you don't have moral problems

[01:25] with doing this with other people like

[01:27] bill gates who's worth you know 100

[01:29] billion dollars plus it's harder to

[01:31] understand and i think in a lot of cases

[01:33] the motivation isn't simply just about

[01:35] money uh i think if you look at bill

[01:38] gates i think if you look at elon musk

[01:41] i think if you look at the guys at

[01:42] google

[01:43] there's a

[01:44] you might say authoritarian impulse or

[01:47] an authoritarian lust

[01:50] that they have that's a pretty strong

[01:52] statement to make but they make these

[01:54] statements about china where they they

[01:57] talk about the fact that decision making

[01:59] in china is so much more efficient uh

[02:01] some of them even say that that the

[02:03] chinese dictatorship is more uh

[02:05] responsive to the needs of the people

[02:07] than america's uh democratic republic um

[02:11] it's a bizarre sort of position to have

[02:14] but i think they actually believe it and

[02:16] i quote in the book um from a computer

[02:19] scientist from mit in the 1970s a guy

[02:23] named wiesenbaum who makes a really

[02:25] interesting observation charlie he said

[02:28] those that work in technology that are

[02:30] computer programmers in a sense they can

[02:33] develop a god-like complex because

[02:36] unlike any military commander political

[02:39] leader when they are doing their work as

[02:41] a programmer they are god they get to

[02:44] configure the program the universe uh

[02:47] the platform the way that they want to

[02:49] do it that's what mark zuckerberg got to

[02:51] do with facebook he got to

[02:52] in a sense uh reformulate the way in

[02:55] which people interact and his concern

[02:58] was that this leads

[03:01] people in the tech space to think that

[03:04] they should start reorganizing the rest

[03:06] of the world so i think it's money uh

[03:09] certainly in the case of a lot of

[03:10] politicians uh but i think when it comes

[03:12] to these very wealthy elites on wall

[03:15] street in silicon valley uh there is

[03:17] this um respect and admiration that they

[03:20] have for dictatorship

[03:23] that's very troubling and i think is

[03:24] part of the reason they say such

[03:27] wonderful things about beijing it's not

[03:29] just getting access to the market they

[03:31] actually really believe some of this

[03:32] stuff

[03:33] that's such an important point i mean

[03:35] you remember mike bloomberg said that

[03:36] when he was running for office he's like

[03:38] well come on you're trying to tell me

[03:39] that gg ping isn't responsive to the

[03:40] needs of his people

[03:42] and you're right i mean mark zuckerberg

[03:43] it's not just a matter of being god and

[03:44] configuring a new universe it's even

[03:46] worse than that it's like i can see what

[03:47] other people think as well like i can go

[03:49] see their private messages i can see

[03:51] their thoughts and their scent i can

[03:52] manipulate them i can actually

[03:55] incentivize them to buy certain products

[03:57] and feel certain ways and to get really

[03:58] depressed or really excited and i can

[03:59] control dopamine flows in teenage girls

[04:02] like really creepy you're right it's

[04:03] it's beyond any sort of control that

[04:05] alexander the great ever would have

[04:06] possibly ever had

[04:08] you know 2500 years ago okay so we have

[04:10] two minutes left in this segment and

[04:11] then we have a break and then a really

[04:13] long segment that i want to dive into

[04:15] this with you but before we get into the

[04:17] specifics because the next segment i

[04:18] would just want to talk all about biden

[04:20] and i have so many questions about this

[04:22] when you did this research

[04:24] were you shocked at the extent of the

[04:28] connection between the american ruling

[04:30] class in every single industry to the

[04:32] chinese communist party

[04:34] yes yes i was i expected there to be

[04:37] more big names in big tech and on wall

[04:40] street who would refuse to play the game

[04:42] with beijing

[04:43] that's the the reality i mean if you

[04:45] look at the titans of the the tech world

[04:47] you're talking about bill gates you're

[04:49] talking about the founders of google

[04:50] you're talking about mark zuckerberg uh

[04:53] you know a few others that i mentioned

[04:54] the book every single one of them uh has

[04:57] deep troubling and serious ties with

[04:59] beijing same thing on wall street

[05:01] blackrock blackstone ray dalios

[05:04] bridgewater associates the biggest hedge

[05:06] fund in the world all of them falling

[05:08] over themselves saying wonderful things

[05:10] about president xi

[05:12] turning the uh their their gaze

[05:14] elsewhere when it comes to serious human

[05:17] rights violations or the national

[05:18] security threat that china poses um

[05:20] every single one of them is doing this

[05:23] so it is all pervasive uh there are a

[05:25] few courageous voices resisting this in

[05:28] the tech world i talk about peter thiel

[05:30] who has

[05:32] sounded the alarm bells on this very

[05:34] effectively but yes i'm alarmed by the

[05:37] extent i'm also alarmed by the fact

[05:39] charlie that nobody asks them these

[05:41] questions when they go on cnbc when they

[05:43] go on abc news they never get asked

[05:46] questions about the things they say

[05:47] about china never so we have to take a

[05:49] break it's red-handed peter schweitzer

[05:52] long segment coming up next and we are

[05:54] now going to get into biden and the

[05:56] specifics it'll blow your mind everybody

[05:58] charlie kirk be right back

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