ENDED THEIR SILENT PROTEST
AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT,
JOINING ME NOW FOUR-STAR
GENERAL JACK KEANE.
WORLD IS INSPIRED BY
COURAGE.
IT TAKES A LOT TO STAND UP
TO IRANIAN REGIME.
THEY DID NOT HESITATE IN
GIVING PUNISH MUCHMENT.
BUT WHAT WILL IT DO?
WILL THERE BE A REACTION
FROM IRAN TO WHAT THE TEAM
DID?
>> WELL NOTHING WILL HAPPEN
UNTIL THEY GET HOME.
LIKELY SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN
TO THEM.
THAT KIND OF A PUBLIC
DISPLAY IS AN EMBARRASSMENT
TO THE REGIME.
>> OLYMPICS, EMOTIONS RUN
HIGH.
ATHLETES HAVE BEEN WORKING
FOR YEARS, AT TIMES
POLITICAL STATEMENTS OF ARE
MADE.
WE HAVE SEEN THIS PLAY OUT,
I ADMIRE THE GUTS OF THAT
TEAM TO DO THAT.
KNOWING WHAT IS HAPPENING AT
HOME.
AND WE’RE OVER TWO MONTHS
NOW WITH PEOPLE IN STREETS,
REALLY DEMONSTRATING AGAINST
THE THE REGIME, THEY HUMAN
DIGNITY AND PERSONAL
FREEDOMS AND YEARNING FOR
DEMOCRACY, THEY ARE WILLING
TO RISK THEIR LIVES TO DO IT
THOUSANDS BEEN KILLED, TENS
OF THOUSANDS IN JAIL.
AND PROTESTS STILL CONTINUE,
AND THE ATHLETES DID THAT TO
A WORLD STAGE, IS
COMMENDABLE TO THEM.
DAVID: THE ARRESTS CONTINUE
AS YOU MENTION, MANY HAVE
BEEN KILLED.
THEY ARRESTED THE NIECE OF
THE SO-CALLED SUPREME LEADER OF THE COUNTRY, A WOMAN
OF THE COUNTRY, A WOMAN
CALLED HER UNCLE’ SCREAM A
REGIME’S MURDERIOUS AND
CHILD KILLING REGIME, THIS
CLOSE TO CIVIL WAR.
>> CERTAINLY, THAT
SIGNIFICANT IT REFLECTS HOW
SERIOUS THE PROTEST S NOT
ANYTHING QUITE LIKE THIS IN
41 YEAR HISTORY OF THE
REGIME.
DISAPPOINTING THAT UNITED
STATES HAS NOT TAKEN A MORE
AGGRESSIVE ROLE IN SPIKING
SPEAKING OUT, PROTESTERS
DON’T WANT US OR OUR GUNS
BUT THEY WANT OUR VOICE, WE
SHOULD BE PROVIDING THAT
VOICE AND EVERYTHING NEEDING
WORLDING -- ORGANIZING THE
WORLD WHO CARES ABOUT
DEMOCRACY.
WE HAVE SAID A COUPLE THINGS
BUT IT SHOULD BE CONTINUOUS
AND STRONG.
IT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AS
REAGAN DIM DEMONSTRATED.
DAVID: I REMEMBER DURING THE
BEGINNING OF OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION WE SAW
PROTESTS IN IRAN, NOT --
VIRTUALLY NOT A PEEP FROM
PRESIDENT OBAMA THERE, IS
BAD PRECEDENCE FOR WHAT
HAPPEN WITH THE DEMOCRATIC
ADMINISTRATION.
BUT DOES IT NEVERTHELESS,
DETRACK THE IRANIANS FROM
THEIR PURSUIT OF NUCLEAR
WEAPONS?
>> THEY ARE ON MESSAGE TO DO
THAT.
IT IS A REALITY THAT WE’RE
FACING, I THINK WE’RE
GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO
A PROGRAM COP BLIX,
CONFLICT.
THE ISRAELIS WILL NOT LET
THAT HAPPEN.
BUT I DON’T HAVE MUCH HOPE
FOR THEM STANDING DOWN, I
THINK THIS REGIME IS ABOUT
NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO PRESERVE
THE REGIME AND USE IT AS
BLACKMAIL AGAINST THE THE
NEIGHBORS IN THE MIDDLE
EAST.
THEY ARE ABOUT DOMINATION
AND CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE
EAST, THEY HAVE SAID THAT
EVERY YEAR FOR 41 YEARS,
THEY MEAN IT LET’S TAKE THEM
AT FACE VALUE.
>> LET’S TURN TO ANOTHER
NUCLEAR PROBLEM IN FORM OF
CHINA.
A PROTESTS THERE.
DO YOU THINK PROTESTS THERE
IS IT SIMILAR TO IRAN, THEY
ARE VERY BRAVE AND WE
APPRECIATE WHAT THEY ARE
DOING, BUT THEY WON’T MANAGE
TO CHANGE THE REGIME?
>> WELL WE DON’T KNOW WHAT
THIS COULD LEAD.
TO WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANYTHING
ON A SCALE LIKE THIS IS --
TIANANMEN SQUARE, IT IS
DIFFERENT BECAUSE THIS IS MORE WIDESPREAD, PROTESTING
MORE WIDESPREAD, PROTESTING
UNDER A REGIME SINCE
TIANANMEN SQUARE THAT GRIPS
AND CONTROLS LIFE IN ALL
ASPECTS IN CHINA, THEY HAVE
WIPED OUT CIVIL SOCIETY, NOW
THEY HAVE A HIGH-TECH
SURVEILLANCE STATE, THE
PEOPLE KNOW, THAT THEY KNOW
FACIAL RECOGNITION IS A PART
OF EVERY DAY LIFE IN CHINA,
BUT THEY ARE STILL TO THE
STREET, AMAZING THAT COURAGE
THAT IS TAKING PLACE, YOU
KNOW FULL WELL THEY ARE
ARRESTING LEADERS AND PEOPLE
THE CHINESE ARE WAY AND
CHINA -- TRYING TO FIND A
BALANCE, WILL THIS EVAPORATE
OR WILL THEY HAVE TO GO IN
WITH FORCE TO CRUSH IT, YOU
KNOW THEY WILL NOT LET IT
CONTINUE TO POINT WHERE IT
IS A THREAT TO THE REGIME,
THAT IS THE REALITY THERE
BUT, WHERE IS OUR VOICE ON
THIS?
THIS IS WHAT WE’VE BEEN LOOK
FOR.
A FACT, CHINESE HAVE
ADMITTED THIS TALK WITH
THEM, THEY FEAR THEIR OWN
PEOPLE PROTESTING AGAIN THEM
AND OVER THROWING THE
REGIME.
MORE THAN ANY ADVERSARY IT
HAS ALWAYS BEEN, WHEN YOU
HAVE THEM ON THE STREET
DOING THIS WE AND THE WORLD
SHOULD BE SUPPORTING THEM.
>> QUICKLY, ABOUT CHINA, BUT
WHAT HAPPENING IN U.S., NEW
LEADER OF CONGRESS, KEVIN
McCARTHY ABOUT TO BECOME
SPEAKER, SAYS HE WILL REMOVE
ERIC SWALWELL FROM THE HOUSE
INTEL COMMITTEE BECAUSE OF A
RELATIONSHIP HIGH HAD WITH
HE HAD WITH A WOMAN WHO WAS
PROBABLY A CHINESE SPY, DO
YOU THINK THAT IS THE RIGHT
MOVE?
>> WELL, I DON’T BELIEVE IT
IS MY PLACE TO GET INVOLVED
IN WHO SHOULD BE TO WHAT
POLITICAL COMMITTEES.
BUT I HAVE ALWAYS FELL FELT
BASED ON SWALWELL
RELATIONSHIP WITH A CHINESE
SPY FOR 3 YEARS, AND FACT
THAT NOTHING SEEMED TO BE
DONE ABOUT, THAT WAS VERY
CONCERNING TO US.
AND WHEN FBI SAID, THEY
DIDN’T THINK THERE WAS ANY
WRONG DOING, I WOULD
NORMALLY TAKE THAT AT FACE
VAL YOUVALUE FROM THE FBI.
BUT THE LEADERSHIP OF FBI,
WE HAVE A HEALTHY DOSE OF
SKEPTICISM NOW, ABOUT THEM
AND HOW POLITICAL THEY HAVE
BECOME.
I DON’T KNOW ALL OF THE
FACTS, McCARTHY HAS HAD
CLASSIFIED BRIEFINGS WE HAVE
NOT HAD ON THIS ISSUE, I
HAVE TO DEFER TO HIS
JUDGMENT.
HE HAS KNOWLEDGE THAT WE
DON’T HAVE.
DAVID: GENERAL JACK KEANE