What did China get for its investment in Walz? (08-08-2024--Hour2)

[00:00:04] What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to 3 on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content, like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, go to thepetekalendershow.com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button, get every episode for free, right to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for your support.

[00:00:28] The rains in the Charlotte area all across the Carolinas from Hurricane, well, it's now a tropical storm or depression or something. Debbie. So Debbie has come ashore and she's dumping a lot of rain. So it's really raining outside. And that means when you're driving on the roads, it's going to be a lot of standing water. So, you know, probably leave a little bit more distance than you normally do. So probably what, six to eight inches at this point.

[00:00:58] Or if you feel like if you want to be super safe, maybe a whole foot, you know, rather than tailgating people all the time, maybe just give an extra foot. I mean, you're still going to plow right into the back of them. But anyway, I'm a big believer in the following distance. So do that. Increase your following distance.

[00:01:18] You know, don't break in the middle of a hydroplane incident. If you start, you know, getting squirrely, don't slam on your brakes. You're just going to make it worse.

[00:01:28] No cruise control. Don't use your cruise control during the rain. Also, turn your lights on, people.

[00:01:34] Got a message here from Kirk. He says, I've seen a couple gray cars, silver cars already. Yes. And by the way, just for the record, gray car does include the silver car persuasion as well.

[00:01:45] All for some reason, all of these gray and silver cars. I don't know why this particular color car is the worst offenders.

[00:01:52] They are the worst offenders. I don't know why that is. I assume it's some sort of a gray car code because I don't know otherwise.

[00:01:58] Why so many gray cars would try to camouflage themselves in rainstorms.

[00:02:04] So Kirk says, I've seen a couple already without their lights on.

[00:02:08] I drive an 18 wheeler and with all of the spray generated by going down the road, you cannot be seen in my mirrors.

[00:02:16] Yeah. Trucks kick off a lot of water.

[00:02:20] I never like being behind trucks.

[00:02:23] In the rain. Well, really, anytime.

[00:02:25] Um, because I can't see, you can't see around them.

[00:02:30] So I, you know, I mean, so I'm giving a lot of distance or I'm going to go, you know, around them or something.

[00:02:34] Um, but when it's raining, it's even worse because all the spray coming off the back of the truck.

[00:02:40] And, you know, I've always just thought in terms of myself, because like, I can't see much when I'm behind a truck in the rain.

[00:02:48] I never thought they don't see me behind them.

[00:02:53] So turn your lights on people.

[00:02:56] Okay.

[00:02:58] Hmm.

[00:03:01] Jan says, I see a path forward for the upcoming election.

[00:03:05] As a friend of mine once said, the first thing we need to do, though, let us turn on our brains.

[00:03:11] That's that might be asking a bit too much.

[00:03:15] Brett wants to know whether Kamala Harris is able to fly to campaign events free on the VP jet.

[00:03:23] Um, generally you have to have some sort of a, an official reason to use Air Force two or one for that matter.

[00:03:33] If you're flying all around for campaign events, if you're not doing it for official, you know, presidential or, or vice presidential business, then, um, then you're supposed to reimburse for the cost.

[00:03:46] But as long as you can, it's sort of like, you know, you're going to go out to dinner or something with your friends and then you're like, oh, well, let me, let me talk a little bit of business to you.

[00:03:54] Oh, good.

[00:03:55] Now I can write it off as a business expense.

[00:03:57] I think it's like that.

[00:03:58] I think that's how they probably operate.

[00:04:01] Um, did you see, by the way, what JD Vance did yesterday on the tarmac in Wisconsin?

[00:04:07] Because he's following Kamala Harris all around, wherever she goes to campaign, he follows.

[00:04:15] And I mean, it's, it's a, I think it's a pretty decent idea.

[00:04:18] I mean, it's not as great of an idea as let's say, you know, buying some ads to run on YouTube and on social media platforms.

[00:04:32] And, you know, during the Olympics, I mean, that's just crazy talk.

[00:04:36] Only Democrats do that.

[00:04:38] Um, for some reason, yeah, for some reason, the Trump campaign and the GOP, they're not running a lot of ads right now.

[00:04:44] I don't know why they're allowing the media to define Kamala and Walls, uh, or Kamala and Tim or Harrison Walls, Harris Walls.

[00:04:53] Um, I don't know why they're allowing them to be defined by their allies in the legacy media, but you know, who am I?

[00:05:00] Who am I to question success?

[00:05:07] Sorry.

[00:05:08] Anyway, um, John says, Pete, while you are giving advice to the great car drivers, okay, great car drivers, please tell everybody, regardless of the color of their car,

[00:05:16] if they are driving, do not turn your flashers on.

[00:05:20] Your flashers are for when you are on the side of the road, you are creating a hazard, not helping.

[00:05:25] I imagine the people who turn on their flashers while driving in the rain are also those who believe the zipper merge is superior,

[00:05:32] but we all know the fault in that thinking.

[00:05:34] That's not true.

[00:05:35] The zipper merge is superior.

[00:05:38] It absolutely is superior.

[00:05:40] All of the studies show this, John.

[00:05:42] So now I have to discard your first part of the message.

[00:05:47] And so now I think we have to advise people to turn on their hazards, even though apparently it's against the law in North Carolina to drive with the hazards on.

[00:05:54] By the way, the hazards can be used to alert people that there is a hazard.

[00:06:00] Just a heads up on that.

[00:06:01] Like, for example, driving down the interstate and some car crash occurs and you want to, and so you slam on the brakes and you want to alert people that something has happened ahead of them that they cannot see because their view may be blocked.

[00:06:14] You can turn the hazards on.

[00:06:16] And you don't leave them on.

[00:06:17] You just turn them on to alert people something's going on.

[00:06:21] But the zipper merge is superior.

[00:06:25] I mean, look, you may think that you're being nice by getting over two miles before the merge and then leaving a whole lane open and allowing people to zoom ahead in the lane and then everybody gets mad at them.

[00:06:39] But they're actually doing the correct thing.

[00:06:41] You were the one that got over too early.

[00:06:43] So, yeah, if you Google zipper merge, you'll find all of the studies, you'll find the videos, and they all show that it clears the traffic faster.

[00:06:55] And it reduces the road rage.

[00:06:58] But that's the thing.

[00:07:00] Like, more people need to do it.

[00:07:01] That's why I always talk about it.

[00:07:03] If more people do it, everybody understands that you fill all of the lanes.

[00:07:07] And then when you get to the merge point, then you go one at a time.

[00:07:11] Zipper, like a zipper.

[00:07:13] Left, right, left, right.

[00:07:14] And you zipper into the one lane.

[00:07:17] That only works, obviously, when the traffic is heavy and you're at a – and it's all clogged up.

[00:07:22] If the road is clear and you have a merge ahead, then you can merge whenever you want to.

[00:07:28] Zipper merge doesn't apply there.

[00:07:30] It applies when you are in heavy traffic and you're going down to a – you know, from two to one lane or something, and one of the lanes is blocked off with some cones or an accident.

[00:07:39] Then you zipper merge at the merge point where the lane ends.

[00:07:45] And if everybody does that, it goes a lot smoother and you get through it faster.

[00:07:49] And you're not blocking up traffic seven miles back behind you so people can't get off at their exit, you know.

[00:08:00] It's science, people.

[00:08:01] And I'm not talking science like Fauci.

[00:08:02] I'm talking like actual science.

[00:08:08] All right.

[00:08:09] Next up, China.

[00:08:12] Let me talk about China.

[00:08:13] Yeah.

[00:08:16] Specifically, Tim Walz's relationship with the communist country, which is a little suspicious.

[00:08:24] John Schindler wrote about this at the Washington Examiner.

[00:08:27] Mike, welcome to the program.

[00:08:29] Thanks for hanging on.

[00:08:29] Sorry about the false start there earlier.

[00:08:31] Mike, how are you?

[00:08:32] I know you're busy.

[00:08:33] But anyway, you made me aware of something recently, and I can't help hearing it all the time.

[00:08:41] You said that the press, the media, they always say that Republicans seize on something.

[00:08:48] Or pounce.

[00:08:49] Every time I hear it constantly, you made me aware of it, and I can't stop hearing it.

[00:08:55] It's true.

[00:08:56] If they're not pouncing, they're seizing.

[00:08:58] If they're not seizing, they're pouncing.

[00:09:00] Yeah.

[00:09:00] So I've never heard that expression about the Democrats.

[00:09:05] They never pounce or seize.

[00:09:06] No.

[00:09:07] No.

[00:09:08] Of course not, Mike.

[00:09:09] No, they don't pounce or seize.

[00:09:10] That seems very aggressive.

[00:09:12] They will simply respond, or they will address, or they will speak, or they will say, or they'll defend.

[00:09:19] They never seize or pounce.

[00:09:21] No, never.

[00:09:22] Right.

[00:09:23] Very interesting.

[00:09:24] But now that you made me aware of it, I can't stop hearing it.

[00:09:27] It's like the gray cars not turning their headlights on.

[00:09:29] Once you hear it, you can't not see it when you're driving around in the rain.

[00:09:34] You're right.

[00:09:35] Yeah.

[00:09:35] There you go.

[00:09:36] You're right about that.

[00:09:36] I have a white car, and I use my lights.

[00:09:39] Right.

[00:09:40] Now keep an eye out.

[00:09:41] You're going to see gray cars without their lights on.

[00:09:44] All the time.

[00:09:45] No, I have noticed that.

[00:09:46] Yeah.

[00:09:47] There you go.

[00:09:47] Mike, I appreciate the call, buddy.

[00:09:49] Thank you.

[00:09:49] Thanks for talking to me.

[00:09:50] Yes, sir.

[00:09:51] Take care.

[00:09:52] That's 704-570-1110 is the phone number.

[00:09:55] It's true.

[00:09:56] It's journalism-ing rule number two.

[00:09:58] See, I created a handy list of all the journalism-ing rules.

[00:10:02] And, oh, no, I'm sorry.

[00:10:04] It's not rule two.

[00:10:05] Rule two is if the scandal is about a Republican, then the story is the scandal.

[00:10:11] If the scandal is about a Democrat, then the story is the Republican reaction to the scandal.

[00:10:18] You run around sticking microphones in Republicans' faces, warning them not to overreach or don't make too much of this.

[00:10:26] And they're seizing.

[00:10:27] I think that's rule number three, if I remember correctly.

[00:10:31] It's been a while since I've checked out my own journalism-ing rules.

[00:10:35] But that's the – I believe it's three, which is that that's where the pouncing and the seizing.

[00:10:40] Because Republicans will pounce or seize upon a scandal.

[00:10:44] And then they will try to make political hay out of that.

[00:10:47] And that's – you're not supposed to do that.

[00:10:53] So get this.

[00:10:54] Have you heard – I know you've probably heard at this point some of the stories about Tim Walls.

[00:11:00] He is the governor of Minnesota, a.k.a. Tim Mankato.

[00:11:06] That was his fake email address that he was using in order to skirt FOIA, Freedom of Information Act laws.

[00:11:14] So this way when people would ask for all correspondence related to a particular item or issue, he could say,

[00:11:21] I don't have any, even though he's using an email account.

[00:11:25] But if you don't ask for that email account, then he doesn't give it to you.

[00:11:28] So it was a separate email account.

[00:11:30] Apparently it was called Tim Mankato.

[00:11:33] Anyway, this is about his teaching.

[00:11:37] No, it's not about him claiming to be the head coach.

[00:11:39] He wasn't the head coach.

[00:11:40] I think he was like defensive lineman or coordinator or whatever.

[00:11:43] He was a defensive coach or offensive coach.

[00:11:46] I forget which one.

[00:11:46] But not that lie.

[00:11:49] It's not – and it's not about the military service lie.

[00:11:52] It's not about that lie either.

[00:11:53] No, this is about his connection to China.

[00:12:01] And I don't know what it is with the Democrats and the communist Chinese – actually, I do.

[00:12:06] I'm just kidding.

[00:12:06] I do know.

[00:12:07] I understand.

[00:12:08] Okay.

[00:12:08] So alongside a left-wing record that is sure to attract Republican campaign fire, Tim Walls' deep affection for communist China is also likely to attract attention, says John Schindler.

[00:12:21] Who is John Schindler?

[00:12:23] He is formerly with the National Security Agency.

[00:12:28] He was a senior intelligence analyst and a counterintelligence officer.

[00:12:33] And he has this op-ed at the Washington Examiner.

[00:12:37] And he talks about Tim Walls' connection to China.

[00:12:42] He says shortly after finishing his undergrad degree in his native Nebraska in 1989, Walls headed to China to teach in a high school in the Guangdong province, which is north of Hong Kong.

[00:12:59] He asked later about his motivation for this at a time when few Americans were spending any time in China.

[00:13:07] Walls said, quote, China was coming, and that's the reason that I went, which is weird because if China is coming, then if you just stay put, it'll be there, right?

[00:13:20] What?

[00:13:21] Oh, do you mean like China is ascendant?

[00:13:25] Is that what he means?

[00:13:28] Probably.

[00:13:28] Upon his return home, Walls and his wife established a company called Educational Travel Adventures, or ETA.

[00:13:37] And it centered, it focused on taking American students to China.

[00:13:42] Together, the couple visited China every summer until 2003.

[00:13:51] So for like over a decade.

[00:13:53] Oh, also, they spent their honeymoon there.

[00:13:58] Much like Bernie Sanders honeymooned in the Soviet Union.

[00:14:03] Tim Walls, I guess he couldn't go and honeymoon in the Soviet Union.

[00:14:08] What with the wall falling and all that and the Soviet Union breaking apart.

[00:14:12] So I guess China will have to suffice, right?

[00:14:15] So he honeymoons in China.

[00:14:20] And by his own admission, Walls has visited that country about 30 times.

[00:14:26] He also, by the way, speaks a little bit of Mandarin.

[00:14:29] So he can communicate with oranges, which should be very helpful if he ever debates Donald Trump.

[00:14:35] I kid, I kid, I kid.

[00:14:37] Mandarin the language, right?

[00:14:39] Look, maybe the guy just really, really likes China.

[00:14:44] For some reason.

[00:14:45] Like, I don't know.

[00:14:46] Like, some countries captivate people's imagination.

[00:14:51] And maybe China is like that for him.

[00:14:53] I don't know.

[00:14:54] Maybe somebody could.

[00:14:55] I'm just kidding.

[00:14:56] No one's going to ask him about it.

[00:14:58] It's funny.

[00:14:58] I mean, you've got to get close enough to ask him a question, first of all.

[00:15:01] And they're not doing any of that.

[00:15:02] How many days has it been now?

[00:15:03] 18 days since they pulled off the coup?

[00:15:07] No press conferences yet.

[00:15:09] Nobody's been able to ask Kamala Harris or Tim Walls a question yet.

[00:15:13] At some point, though, I think it's going to come to a head, right?

[00:15:16] Because you've got J.D. Vance out there.

[00:15:18] He's been trailing Kamala Harris' plane, going wherever she's going.

[00:15:22] And yesterday, they ended up in Wisconsin together.

[00:15:25] And he starts walking across the tarmac to Air Force Two.

[00:15:30] And he makes a joke about, oh, you know, I just want to check out my plane that I'm going to be in, you know, starting next year.

[00:15:35] Ha, ha, ha.

[00:15:36] But also, he points out to the media, you guys, like, I'm here answering questions for you.

[00:15:41] Are you going to ask her any questions?

[00:15:43] Are you ever going to get a chance to ask her some questions?

[00:15:46] Like, he's shaming them.

[00:15:47] But, of course, they have no shame, so they didn't really get the point.

[00:15:50] John Schindler is a former senior intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer with the National Security Agency.

[00:16:00] He's got an op-ed at the Washington Examiner.

[00:16:03] Headline, Tim Walls' ties to communist China demand attention.

[00:16:08] He's not making any allegations here, nor am I.

[00:16:11] I'm just asking questions.

[00:16:14] Just asking questions, unlike our White House press corps.

[00:16:19] Or the people following.

[00:16:21] Oh, by the way, I actually just saw this.

[00:16:23] Hang on a second.

[00:16:26] Yeah, here it is.

[00:16:29] David Weigel.

[00:16:31] He is covering politics for Semaphore.

[00:16:34] He used to work at the Washington Post, Slate.com.

[00:16:38] Anyway, reporter guy.

[00:16:40] And I think this is from Politico's Playbook.

[00:16:42] Yeah, Politico's Playbook.

[00:16:43] He says, here's a detail I had not seen before.

[00:16:46] Kamala Harris has been talking with her traveling press off the record, which Biden rarely did.

[00:16:55] One reason that you haven't seen as much media grumbling about access.

[00:16:59] The outlets paying for the plane are getting FaceTime.

[00:17:06] So she's not taking questions publicly in a press conference setting.

[00:17:11] Instead, she's on the plane chatting it up with the reporters.

[00:17:15] Which, I don't have any problem with her on the plane talking to reporters.

[00:17:20] But it does make you wonder.

[00:17:22] Now, anytime you hear or read that, you know, a source with the campaign, it might very well be her.

[00:17:28] In fact, I'm going to assume it is.

[00:17:30] And that's why the press corps isn't grumbling, as he says, about getting access.

[00:17:38] That's why they're perfectly happy to chat offline, to chat anonymously with her, publish what she wants published, and not have a public press conference.

[00:17:50] It's been 18 days.

[00:17:54] She's named a vice presidential pick and still no press conference.

[00:17:58] I think Trump is doing one today at two at Mar-a-Lago.

[00:18:01] We'll try to jip it if we can.

[00:18:03] That means join in progress.

[00:18:06] It's an acronym in the business.

[00:18:09] Anyway, Dan McLaughlin, a writer at National Review, points out that this is just so perfect, right?

[00:18:16] The press gets to hear her talk, but won't share what she says with the voters.

[00:18:21] Unless they, you know, clean it up, obviously, and make her look good or something.

[00:18:26] That's the polar opposite of what a press corps in a democracy is supposed to do, by the way.

[00:18:32] I've heard that democracy dies in darkness.

[00:18:36] So that's how she's avoiding any of the criticism.

[00:18:40] She's giving special access to the press corps anonymously.

[00:18:48] Anyway, the guy that she picked, Tim Walz, who, as I understand it, also has not done any press availabilities like this,

[00:18:55] but maybe he's talking anonymously to the press in order to avoid any of the criticism publicly that he's not held any press conferences.

[00:19:03] But he went to China on his honeymoon and he took high school classes there every single summer.

[00:19:11] And John Schindler says, you might ask, so what?

[00:19:17] Although Democrats insist that Walz has advocated human rights and the cause of Tibet,

[00:19:23] which is, you know, not something that the commies in Beijing like people talking about.

[00:19:29] But his long history with China does raise uncomfortable questions for anybody who understands how China works.

[00:19:38] It was an odd choice to visit China in 1989.

[00:19:43] Now, maybe you're not old enough to remember what was going on in 1989,

[00:19:47] but that was right as the regime was crushing dissent with tanks in the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre.

[00:19:57] Tiananmen, Tim.

[00:20:00] This did nothing to diminish his admiration for Beijing.

[00:20:04] In fact, upon his return from teaching in 1990, he told his local newspaper, quote,

[00:20:10] I was treated exceptionally well.

[00:20:12] There was no anti-Americanism whatsoever.

[00:20:16] He said the police state had almost, quote, no crime.

[00:20:22] Do you remember all of the outrage that people expressed towards Tucker Carlson after his fawning reporting out of Russia?

[00:20:33] Where he went to the equivalent of a McDonald's and like, oh, look how clean it is around here.

[00:20:38] It is amazing, you know.

[00:20:41] And Democrats and media, but I repeat myself, they were like, oh, my gosh, Tucker Carlson.

[00:20:45] He's just like a PR guy for the, you know, for that tyrant Putin.

[00:20:51] How is this any different?

[00:20:53] It's not.

[00:20:54] Right.

[00:20:54] It's not.

[00:20:55] He comes back to America and he's like, oh, no crime.

[00:20:58] It was beautiful.

[00:20:59] No anti-Americanism whatsoever.

[00:21:01] Now, he did allow that the regime's massacre of students the prior year was less than ideal.

[00:21:09] You know, so they murdered a couple of students yearning for freedom.

[00:21:14] But he said if they had had the proper leadership.

[00:21:18] There are no limits on what they could accomplish.

[00:21:21] Talking about the Chinese Communist Party, if they had the proper leadership.

[00:21:25] See, so it was.

[00:21:26] Oh, what is Brett Winterbill say?

[00:21:28] The system failed.

[00:21:29] Right.

[00:21:30] They had the wrong people in there in the wrong places or something.

[00:21:33] And if they had just had the right leadership in place, then they wouldn't have massacred

[00:21:36] all of the Tiananmen Square students.

[00:21:38] Wouldn't have, you know, used force to oppress freedom.

[00:21:44] He says they are such a kind, generous and capable people.

[00:21:49] Neighborly, you might say.

[00:21:51] Right.

[00:21:52] To pull a word from Tim Walz's vocabulary.

[00:21:57] Neighborliness.

[00:21:57] One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.

[00:22:02] As they rat you out to the government.

[00:22:05] And so Schindler says we need to ask what's going on here, particularly in light of his

[00:22:09] admission in 1993 that his leading of student groups to China was funded by China.

[00:22:18] What did China think it was getting in exchange for this kind of an investment?

[00:22:23] What did Wallz think Beijing expected in return?

[00:22:27] See, because that's the thing about commies.

[00:22:29] Number one, they lie.

[00:22:31] Number two, they don't do this sort of thing unless they are expecting a return on the investment.

[00:22:38] See, Hunter Biden.

[00:22:39] John Schindler, former National Security Agency senior intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer,

[00:22:47] did a write-up at the Washington Examiner about Tim Walz and his affection and travel habits to China.

[00:23:01] He honeymoon there and began traveling there in 1989, which was when Tiananmen Square, the massacre occurred after the protests for freedom by the college kids.

[00:23:14] And then they were, you know, they were cracked down upon by the communist government.

[00:23:21] And then he continued to take kids, his own high school students, to every summer they would take, he would take them to China.

[00:23:29] And apparently these trips every year were funded by China.

[00:23:35] And so Schindler is asking, what was the Chinese government buying?

[00:23:43] What are they paying for?

[00:23:45] He says, the Chinese communists are not running a holiday charity for American tourists.

[00:23:51] For those communists, nothing comes without a quid pro quo.

[00:23:56] It's certain that Walls was vetted by the Ministry of State Security.

[00:24:00] That is the Communist Party's powerful secret police.

[00:24:04] Because that's how China works.

[00:24:07] No American would be allowed to run academic exchanges for a couple of decades on the CCP dime without the approval of the Ministry of State Security.

[00:24:18] It just would not happen.

[00:24:20] While this does not mean that Walls has some sort of relationship with the Ministry of State Security, he's not saying that.

[00:24:29] But what might it know about Walls after his 30 visits to that country?

[00:24:37] I think that's a very fair question.

[00:24:40] Three decades ago, a young American with an affection for China, who was also a part-time member of the U.S. military, would have been a tempting recruiting target for Chinese intelligence.

[00:24:54] Given that Beijing's spies represent the greatest espionage threat to the United States today, this is not merely an academic query.

[00:25:07] Think about who this guy was, Tim Walls, when he started going on these trips.

[00:25:12] He was in the National Guard, right?

[00:25:18] Part-time member of the U.S. military.

[00:25:22] Teacher.

[00:25:23] Right?

[00:25:24] Helping to educate the next generation of Americans.

[00:25:28] He also says we're coming off of four years of a Democratic president possessing odd, unexplained ties to Beijing, including millions of dollars given to his son by Chinese intelligence.

[00:25:43] Do we really want someone who may be even more compromised by China in the White House?

[00:25:49] Democrats have spent the last nine years obsessing about former President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Moscow, most of which turned out to be imaginary.

[00:25:58] By the way, this guy Schindler, no fan of Trump's either.

[00:26:03] I've been following him for a long time.

[00:26:05] He goes by 20 committee on Twitter.

[00:26:12] And he is not a big fan of Donald Trump.

[00:26:17] He says, would anybody, though, have thought that Trump was fit for the Oval Office if he had visited Russia 30 times,

[00:26:25] including on the Kremlin's dime and praised Moscow's glories, gushed of their glories?

[00:26:33] Do you think that the left would have a different opinion?

[00:26:36] Do you think the media, but I repeat myself, would have a different opinion if it were Donald Trump going to Russia?

[00:26:43] All things being equal, everything the same.

[00:26:46] Trump visits 30 times.

[00:26:47] All the trips are paid for by Russia.

[00:26:50] Do you think that people might ask a couple of questions about that?

[00:26:53] That's all that I am asking for here, too.

[00:26:57] The choice of walls, as the vice presidential candidate reveals,

[00:27:00] the Democrats' obsessive interest in counterintelligence was a partisan sham from the start.

[00:27:07] That is true.

[00:27:09] That is absolutely correct.

[00:27:11] They never did really care about the counterintelligence aspects of Trump with Russia.

[00:27:17] It was just a partisan attack.

[00:27:20] That's the only reason they made such a big deal about it.

[00:27:23] It was a way to harm him.

[00:27:24] It wasn't about any kind of actual concern.

[00:27:28] Because if you are actually concerned, this concerns you, too.

[00:27:32] And by the way, just for the record, I was concerned about Trump and Russia.

[00:27:36] And then, of course, I found out that it was all fabricated.

[00:27:38] And now I'm really concerned about our intelligence agencies.

[00:27:45] All right.

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