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extra attention, but I don't know for sure that the data is right. But I'll bet it's alarming no matter what it is. All the smart people said that the John Bolton investigation was because Trump was getting revenge on all of his enemies and John Bolton was just one of them and so he went after him first. Well, it turns out that the John Bolton investigation started under Biden. So everything in t…
← Previous segment →d at and said, "Yeah, that's a problem." You looked at and said, "That's classified. Why is that even classified?" So I think I'm going to grade this one as a wait and see because the part of this story that doesn't make sense is that somebody like Bolton would play so fast and loose with classified stuff if it could really hurt the United States. I wouldn't be surprised about somebody who cut some corners if they knew it wasn't going to hurt anybody. And he would know. He would know if it was going to hurt anybody. So I'm going to wait to see if his defense looks something like, yeah, it was technically classified, but look at it for yourself. I mean, you judge. Does that look like it would hurt anybody? Maybe it wouldn't. I don't know. So I'm going to be a little bit open-minded about this. I'm not a big fan of John Bolton, but the law is the law. You got to look at it individually.
The Last Refuge talks about how John Bolton's business model was basically selling information and influence. I guess that's true. But it feels like a little bit of an overstatement because selling information and influence, that's just a lobbyist, right? I mean, they're all doing that. So I don't know if that's a statement that you could just hang on that one guy. Anyway, I'm not wanting to defend Bolton. I'm just telling you I don't have enough information to form a final opinion on it.
You heard the story that Microsoft was doing some technology support work for the government. Not some, but doing a lot. And some of that included the Department of Defense. And we found out not long ago, and just the news is reminding us, that Microsoft was hiring Chinese programmers to manage the Department of Defense cloud systems. And I'm not talking about Chinese Americans. I'm talking about Chinese programmers who live in China and are only Chinese. Now, as you know, every Chinese citizen has kind of an obligation to report everything to the government. And these guys were in charge of our Department of Defense cloud system. Do you think there was anything that they had access to that we wouldn't want the Chinese government to know abo
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ut in the Department of Defense cloud system? Well, so now that we know that Secretary Hegseth is working with Microsoft to make sure they don't use any more of those Chinese nationals, see if they can fix that. I guess the Trump administration is looking at tightening up our visa rules, visas where people from other countries under their visa are in the United States for extended periods. But ap…
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