11:31 Like ABC? No, not at all. They are the ones that cracked open... Remember Fast and Furious? It was a CBS report that first really started to lay stuff down. Yeah. Interesting. Okay, yeah, that could totally be their mission. So is there any more on that clip? Yeah, there's like four minutes left. Oh, it's too much. No, I was gonna cut it. There's a point where there's a natural cut. I just decided. Let me play a few choice clips. I have four here from... Goodbye, Love. I have four clips from the actual interview. And if you look at the interview, the pieces that have been played on, I think, primarily CBS. I don't know if they've released it to other... Well, PBS, of course. I don't know if they've released it to other networks.
12:17 At this point, it's kind of, you know, how could you not let them play it? But I thought Assad was really, really good. He, I mean, the guy, seriously, if either one of us drops dead, bring him in. You know, the funny thing about that, I just can't deal with that list. And he's obviously taught English by a Castilian Spaniard. And the thing is, he's a dentist. You should get that fixed. I didn't know. Yeah, so and it was his birthday yesterday, although the interview of course was done. Wait, wait, it was Assad's birthday yesterday? What date was that? That would be, oh, I don't know, 9-11, September 11th is his birthday. Yeah. Wow. All right, so the couple of bits here that I thought were really funny
13:02 And he's essentially just throwing everything back in Charlie Rose's face. And I will say, Rose actually believes everything he's saying, which is a little creepy when you hear some of the questions. But this is where Assad just got into Charlie Rose's face in a very funny way. If he does. If he presents that evidence. This is where you can discuss the evidence, but he doesn't have. He didn't present it because he doesn't have. Kerry doesn't have. No one in your administration has. If they had it, they would have presented it to you as media for the first date. They have presented it to the Congress.
13:37 Nothing. They have shown the Congress what they have and the evidence they have from satellites, intercepted messages and the like. Nothing presented. Nothing has been presented so far. They have presented to Congress, sir. You're a reporter. Get this. evidence. I love this. Of course we have not seen any of the secret evidence that has been shown only to Congress because you know secretly yes as citizens you know obviously. Why is it such a big secret? Well Bashar is calling him out he's like there's no evidence isn't presented hey you're a reporter go get it and show it to your people and Rose is like
14:17 They're presenting it to the public representative. You don't show your evidence and what you're doing and your plans to other people within your own council. They're showing it to the people's representative who have to vote on an authorization to strike, and if they don't find the evidence sufficient... First of all, we have the president, of Colin Powell 10 years ago when he... So now he's doing a very smart thing saying look Colin Powell held up this I mean they had all the secret evidence they had the satellite photos they showed it then why not this time? Showed the evidence it was false and it was forged this is first. Second you want me to believe American evidence and don't believe the indication that we have we live here this is our reality. Your indications are that what? Sorry? What your indications are that was
15:07 that the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago. Alright, so then he goes into his kind of stand and spiel. And of course Assad's problem, although here is a guy who is speaking English, you know, and it is absolutely understandable, the lisp and the projection is a huge issue, it doesn't come across as very forceful. But the things that he says, if you listen through the lisp, there's another one where it's just in your face. Now his stance is that these are terrorists from outside the country who are fighting against his regime and we know that at least the United States has been helping them with non-lethal aid, although today Reuters reports that we are now supplying them with small arms
15:54 We had a clip of almost a month ago of somebody kind of accidentally admitting that we're supplying lethal aid. Right, right. Which we named the show Lethal Aid. Lethal Aid, exactly. Less than a month ago, I think maybe three weeks ago. So here's Asad on why this war is lasting so long. For their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on. Why has this war lasted two and a half years? because of the external interference. Because there's an external agenda supported by, or let's say led by, the United States, the West, the petrodollar countries, mainly Saudi Arabia, and before was Qatar, and Turkey. That's why it lasted two years and a half. So the guy is basically saying, hey, you know, the reason why it's taking so long is because you keep financing these a-holes.
16:48 That's why we're trying to beat them down, but you keep financing them. And then of course, Rose, and this was really interesting, where he cannot get it past his mind that this army of Assad is run by him, they are the loyalists, they'll do anything, they're like Nazi Sturmbannfuhrer troopers, they're just going to go kill, we are killing, and Assad calls him out on it again. But a human. or Superman, which is not the case. Or you have a powerful army. The army made of the people. It cannot be made of robots. It's made of people. Surely you're not suggesting that... He's like, the army is not made of robots, Charlie. They're made of people. I can't force them to do everything. They're people at the end of the day. They're not robots. This army is not at your will and the will of your family. How can you... What do you mean by the will of the family?
17:43 the will of your family. The brother is in the military. The military has been at, I mean, every observer of Syria believes that this is a country controlled by your family and controlled by the Alawites who are your allies. That's the control. If that situation is correct, what you're mentioning, we wouldn't have withstand 40 years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the States. We would have disintegration of Syria, if that's the case. And I think he's making a valid point here.
18:24 You know, there's even, just look on the social medias, as they'd say in Washington, about our own armed forces and their armed forces saying publicly, like, we're not going to do this. We are going to revolt against going into Syria or doing, even doing X, Y, or Z. I mean, you know, at a certain point you can only push your own people so far. I think it's a valid point that he's making, but it's very hard for people who have been indoctrinated And Charlie Rose is certainly one of them to even consider the fact that maybe you know the army wouldn't want to do that well This is exactly why Rose was picked. Yes, because he's he is a robot. He is the robot and he He reflects I think it's the top-down reflection. I think it starts at Obama, but Carrie and I have a clip here the regime clip Carrie has a
19:20 doesn't quite get it himself and so when he tries to even express what I think Rose is expressing in the question, you end up with this crazy, I think the John Kerry flub of the day, which is him responding to a question with this crazy answer. Under any circumstances, the Assad regime is the Assad regime. And the regime issues orders, and we have high-level regime that have been giving these instructions and engaging in these preparations.
19:59 with results going directly to President Assad and we're aware of that so we have no issue about the question here of Responsibility there is none the Assad regime is the Assad regime Wow he says there is none. Did you hear a little flubby mate? Yeah? We have no question of responsibility there is not but what he meant was of course There's no question what he meant when he says there is none what he meant was there is no question Yeah, but but the way it was put together that structure was there is no responsibility Because the human body and mind don't want to be untruthful. He can't help himself I just have one more clip of this Rose interview and and then I'll be done with it But again, this is not something unless you watch the PBS interview
20:49 Which I think, I saw 3,700 views online, I don't know what their TV ratings are but it's not high. And it was not propagated this because it was a pretty good rebuttal. No, you don't want to, look, we're in a situation. situation where we have to be lockstep obots, talking about that sort of thing, and we can't be distracted by some guy who might be sympathetic. Exactly. Alright, here's the war of words between the term opposition and terrorism. And Bashar al-Assad knows quite a bit about what's going on in the US and the UK and France. You can't allow the idea that there is opposition to your government from within Syria. That is not possible for you to imagine. To imagine that we have opposition? Yes. We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition.
21:52 We have it. But those are the people who have been fighting against you. Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement. Opposition doesn't mean to take armament and kill people and destroy everything. Do you call the people in Los Angeles in the 90s, do you call them rebels or opposition? What would the British call the rebels? less than two years ago in London. Did they call them opposition or rebels? Why should we call them opposition? They are rebels. They are not rebels even. They are terrorists. They are behaving. Is opposition, opposing country or government by behaving, by barbecuing head, by eating the hearts of your victim, is that opposition? What do you call the people who attacked the 2011th of September? Opposition? Even if they are not American, I know this, but some of them, they have I think national
22:45 nationality. I think one of them has American nationality. Is that true? Did one of the hijackers have the American nationality? Did I miss something? There was that one guy who wasn't on any of the planes that lived in Minnesota or something, remember they dragged him into court and threw him in the slammer? But what he's saying is so right, he's saying, hey you know if you're gonna drone some American in the desert and you call him a terrorist, you don't call him the opposition even though he hasn't even done anything. I mean come on, this is actual sensical talk. Yes, as opposed to care to carry and and in rows and I did you read Vladimir Putin's op-ed in the New York Times today No, I'll bring it up. Oh, okay. I have it here. There's a couple of heat So he responds to the entire New York Times by the way is somehow Again, I see here's another little tidbit We were pretty convinced that the New York Times has always been very closely associated with the CIA. Yes, and