With Sam Faddis, Gordon Chang and Bill Walton

SAM FADDIS, former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

• Sam Faddis talks about the Haqqani network in Afghanistan and its connections to the Taliban
• Faddis: There is no reality behind the Biden administration’s assertion that we are dealing with a “kinder,” “gentler” Taliban
• Faddis: We will pay the price for what happened in Afghanistan all around the world
• Faddis: The Taliban has already decided that they are going to give the Chinese access to Afghanistan’s mass mineral deposits

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang

• Two themes that China is perpetuating today: America’s allies can no longer rely on the U.S. for protection and that the Chinese army can easily defeat the Taliban
• Gordon Chang: India will continue to harass Chinese interests throughout the Middle East
• Chang: There have to be questions about Dr. Anthony Fauci's role in helping the U.S. effectively fight COVID-19

BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• Bill Walton: Chairman Xi Jinping is not only signaling that Chinese businesses need to invest in things, like the military, that are good for China but he’s also beginning to supposedly crackdown on income inequality to promote “common prosperity”
• In China, the top 1% own 1/3 of the country’s wealth, while the bottom 25% own 1% of the wealth
• Walton: Money should be left in the hands of people who know how to invest it safely and strategically - Not government agencies
• Walton: If debt goes from $25 to $55 trillion, half of all borrowing will go towards paying off the debt’s interest - Meaning that we can’t pay a dime towards defense