They'll Assume You're Gay

0:00This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. I believe that whoever was in that room and did that was a murderer. A new podcast series, Fault Line Haditha, tells the story of a shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. If you've got five players and you offer immunity to four, you better be right about the fifth because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Listen to Fault Line Haditha on the I Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And then I said, I don't really like the way Ken talks.

1:06And then I said something that they really hated. Please sir, don't say it sir. So I'm not going to say it but I'll tell you what I was thinking about some. I said, I don't really like the way he looks. I don't like it. I don't like it. You know what I do like? He was the greatest attorney general in the history of Texas. He was the greatest attorney general in the history of our country. He helped us so much with the walls, with illegal immigration, with everything. He was our greatest attorney general and he deserves to go to the United States Senate. That's not the average endorsement that you get. What was your take on the president's delivery there? Look, he's funny. He's almost like a stand up comedian at times. So, you know, if you're friends with him, he's sometimes give you a hard time. I'm sure he's done that with you before. Yes, he has. I would think if I was a conpax and I would say, could you lay off the, I look horrible,

2:09my suits are ugly. I don't know that we're gaining anything by drawing attention to your opinion about that. It's kind of fun. What a weird look. That's from the final night. There were only two nights of the midterm convention last night. I didn't see a second of it as I was back to school night at my son's high school and then I then I jumped into the 49ers Loram's game. So I didn't, I didn't catch any of the Trump vant speech. Very briefly, Brett Baer then asked, can Paxton some really hard questions about his record and alleged corruption and stuff? And Paxton, like a professional politician, parried them very, very effectively. So he's good at his job. And you're saying the reviews among people who pay attention to this sort of thing, thought JD Vance was good? Yeah, he had a really good speech. He's a very good speaker. He had some great moments. One of them in Promptu, Michael Playus 52, it's short. What the people at home missed is that we just had a protestor interrupting us and waving the Mexican flag. Well, my friend, if you love Mexico so much, get your ass over there.

3:16I'll buy you the plane ticket. And critics just feel like that's horrible and don't realize that easily a majority of the country agrees with that. Oh, yeah, easily. Not even please. Right. Critics shut up. Just briefly on the back to school night at my son's high school, I wish it weren't like this. I really pray to try to deal with it. I hated high school so much. Nearly being on my kids' campus and like walking around makes me so uncomfortable. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's how much I hated high school. Just being in the atmosphere, it's like, God, I hate all these people. I don't even know. You're attitude is poison. It is. It is. It's poisonous. I have jury duty today. As I tweeted out last night, they wouldn't have arrested him if they weren't guilty. Right.

4:16Everybody knows that. To which a number of people reacted. What just horror that I said that. Not releasing that to joke or something. I don't know. Well, wow, the humor impaired. By the way, just as a guy who served on the handful of juries, that you're sure. Jack is wearing a golf shirt, a polo shirt, if you will, of roughly raspberry color, I would say, kind of light, lavender-ish raspberry. It's got the horses green. They will assume that you are a gay man. So the defense will probably want to keep you around. So this is again, as the resident jury expert. This is, yes, this is from the Brady bunch. This is the attitude I'm taking into the courtroom that I learned as a child watching the Brady bunch. You see, in this country, we're very proud to have a process known as the law.

5:16And under the law, a man is presumed innocent until he's proven guilty. Sure, Dad. Right, Dad. In other words, we don't hang anybody without a fair trial. Everybody knows that. Sure, but sometimes we tend to forget. Well, I'm glad you understand. I'll see you kids later. I have to go shopping with your mother. Now, after telling you about hanging, I have to go shopping with your mother. Had you ever heard that before, Katie? That's pretty funny. But it's been a while. So you have that, buddy. Beautiful. Hey, oh, we don't hang someone. That's right, Dad. That's right. I don't want to hang somebody if they're innocent. So if it's going to be a jury of my peers, am I going to be surrounded by bald, surly talk show hosts? Is that what's going to be a roomful of her? That's my understanding, yes. I did think after I tweeted out that whole, they wouldn't have arrested them if they weren't guilty. If you ended up on one of those high profile, Nancy Grace's involved cable news every day all day trials, which you don't know that going in, they turn into that usually.

6:20That sort of remark would, you know, get talked about for an hour on some CNN show. Correct. One of their programs eventually said, if it didn't get you tossed off in advance, yeah. I haven't done this in a long time. I've only made it to the courtroom once. I think I've only actually shown up to the courthouse a total of three times in my life, where my group got called like it did this time. So I will show up to the courthouse. But the other two times you sit there for a while, scrolling your phone and at some point saying, you can go home and that's your duty for the year or six months or however long it happens. Yeah. How often they call you. It's kind of exciting when I actually made it all the way to the courtroom, but man, I don't know. If I had, yeah, if I made it all the way to a jury, was the longest jury you served on since you've served a couple of times? Oh gosh. It was two or three days. I think it was like two and a half days, but it was not a long one by any stretch.

7:23I mean, that's a fairly compact trial. I would not, since it was a felony, obviously. I would not plead hardship and try to get out of her anything like that, but man, with my schedule with both kids and nobody else taking care of them, it would be in my job. It would be pretty darn difficult for me to arrange making that work. Oh, yeah. I guess you're a good example of an exception to what I was about to say, which is my usual screed. Don't try to get out of jury duty. Do it. I know it's a pain in the ass. It's inconvenient. But number one, it is your civic duty. And if you love this country, that's one of the most important things you can do is serve on a jury. And secondly, it's an unbelievable learning experience. Oh, sure. That's why I want to do it. That's why I want to do it. It's just to have the experience and be able to talk about it or know about it. If I got chosen, I end up one of the magical 12 or however many alternates or however that works. Does the trial start today and I'm there today or does it start next week or? It would start on very, very rare occasions.

8:26It would start like, all right, we need you back by one o'clock in the afternoon and we'll get started. Generally it'd be the next day. It'll start in the morning. It's a Friday, so it'd be Monday. Oh, yeah. I hadn't even really thought about making it. I would have to make a ton of phone calls to try to arrange how I'm going to get my kids to school and picked up and the various activities and all those kind of things. But I'm sure I could do it. Just random strangers I would have driving my kids around. Oh, good. Good. I had another comment on the Served on a Jury. I missed, I accidentally missed last time. I miss red my number, something like that. And I got an angry letter. So I'm like missing it one more time from end and I'm in jail, I think. Wow. Which would release a good night's second. You know, here's my memory. This clouded my view of juries. My mom served on a jury once in our small town in Western Kansas. And it lasted a long time. My memory of it was at least a week if not longer.

9:28It was the neighbor's pipe. Some guy his pipe broke and flooded his neighbor's lawn and they got into whether the pipe was on their side of the lawn. It was all kinds of zoning and this and it just sounded. I remember hearing about it as kid and thinking I would hide to have to throw myself out of building. I couldn't listen to that conversation all day every day for a week. That would be awful. I've got to admit. If it was like a high level civil trial, like a complicated liability case or something like that, man, that would be an act of self-discipline. Oh right. Yeah. The whole because you had like crimes, exciting, you know, gripping the sort of thing they put on date line crimes. True. Which would keep you interested. This, well, I don't know. Most of the pipe was on his side. And according to the statutes and the ordinances, he owes 75% of the plumbing bill, but not the 25% of the refurbishing the lawn bill. I disagree. I think he should pay 18% of the resodding and I think that would be so dull.

10:32Well, and you have cases sometimes that are all about accounting. So you got one accounting expert who says, oh no, that absolutely falls within 403K-1. And for these reasons and those reasons and he testifies for two hours. What a half hours. Back in my chair. I'm going to scroll through my phone. You all come to, I will side with whoever's the majority. Oh, beautiful. I just can't make myself pay attention to this. Anyway, I'll let you know. And then the defense calls their accounting expert and he drones on for even longer. Can you imagine? Do you take notes or not take notes? You can't absolutely. Yeah. You can't take them with you. You can't take them home and you can't take them after the trial. You can't take them with you where? Like home or to the bathroom or anything. They got to stay in the jury room or in the jury box. What would I do with the notes in the bathroom that would be on toward? Go to the meat. Well, you'd call the media and give them all sorts of things. You want to see my notes and what the accountant said about the plumbing?

11:34No, thanks. No, thanks. I'm good. I'm straight, sir. Well, I'm sorry. And I haven't assured and assumed. No, sorry. That's it. It's inappropriate. It's an eye. I'm ashamed. I'm a memory with my memory and my lack of caring. I'd have to take notes on everything or we'd get in there and say, was this case I could be out again? What do we know? No, no. No, no. Some guy did some of these. You throw this guy off, but quick. Some guy did something to somebody. Was it a girl or a boy? I don't even remember. Well, it's their skin color. What was their skin color? Oh, Michael. See, that's that's too dark, too inappropriate. Oh, my God. Well, if I want to get thrown out, here's what I got to know. What was their skin color? The classic walk in with a rope. Okay. Oh, speaking of crime and punishment, happy 20th anniversary to simply save home security. The difference with simply say if there are quite a few differences, honestly, but the number one is that they don't wait until there's been a break off to, you know, give you

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13:38A shocking crime and a cover up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. Someone opened the door and was the primary shooter. Is it possible you could do that and then suppress the number? A new podcast series, fault line Haditha tells the story the United States government wants to keep buried. How can you not know? There were women and children in there. You can tell us here that you don't know what happened that day? Based on thousands of pages of previously classified documents and over 100 hours of secretly filmed video, the truth about one of the most infamous crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told. If you've got five players and one of them is guilty of murder at least and you offer immunity to the other four, you better be right about the fifth because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Listen to fault line Haditha on the Lie Heart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I've been talking back and forth these dudes overseas and they have access to a chimp

14:42who's been attacking people. This chimp is a large male chimp. It's been attacking people. This is I couldn't see a more perfect opportunity. I want the scariest, most aggressive chimp. I don't want anyone after I do this to be still saying, oh, it wasn't a mean one. I am going to go to where these guys are and we're going to set this up and I am going to take this chimp and do horrible things this animal. You guys are going to see what a human in his true primal nature looks like. That is MMA fighter Cole Johnson willing to fight a chimpanzee. I'm going to go to where these guys are. Africa is a zoo. What are you talking about? Down the street where these guys are. The guys who have access to the chimp. He explained that. Sir, it's as my daughter sometimes says to me, Dad, it's a good thing. God made you pretty. Sir, it's a good thing. God made you strong because you are dumb as a box of hair. Good Lord.

15:42You would be killed. You would be killed. All in the weird thing is that if he got the best of the chimp, we'd all be horrified and consider it awful. We don't need to worry about that. A chimpanzee has the strength of like five and a half men. I have a chimpanzee story from the weekend, but I don't feel like it's appropriate right now. You have a chimpanzee story from the weekend. Yeah, it's chimpanzee I saw. Wow, okay. All right. I was at an olive garden. No, I was at the zoo. Ah, that's a good place to view a chimpanzee. We should probably be saying chimpanzee because saying chimpanzee makes it sound as if we're casting dispersions on the chimps manliness or chimpliness, if you will. So this MMA fighter wants to fight a chimpanzee like in the cage that chimpanzee would not

16:44be aware of the rules. And if you tap out, it's not going to stop. Correct. You will be dead. Yes. We'll gouge your eyes out. Chimp's, it's documented. They go for the eyes and genitals. Barbaric. It is sir. And then of course, R-O-Y-H-N-S-D-Y-T. Help us. Rip off your head. And poop down your... Oh my. Oh, that's what would happen. Oh no. Again, the referee can try to intercede if he likes, but it's not going to get compliance. So next segment, I want to talk a little 9-11 and I don't know what put me in this mood about this. I have no interest in the modland, sad remembrance angle of it. But for some reason, maybe just I took in too much of it, I feel like since the enemy

17:47still exists in particular, I mean, I wouldn't like it particularly even if we had defeated the enemy. Because strong aggressives that are going to... Societies that are going to survive are, well, they're strong and aggressive and looking forward. They're not rolling around in their grief. Right. And then you add in the fact that the enemy is not only still alive, but in some way stronger than they've ever been. And still out there, and vowing to kill us. And spending the whole day, all of that was awful. That was so awful. I felt so bad and we felt bad. You felt bad, we all felt bad. We're also scared and sad. And I'm still scared and sad. Eh. No, I don't like that at all. To that point of how fundamentalist Islam is fairing whether it's stronger, weaker, it depends where you look. But it reminds me of the question that's been asked a lot this week. And it's a useful question.

18:47Did we win the war on terror or was the war on terror worth it or what lessons should we draw from 9-11? And again, I find it an interesting discussion, but I almost feel like, you know, after the fourth inning of a baseball game, we're asking, so did the Yankees win? I mean, did was the fourth inning worth it. And I'm like, well, golly, I don't know, because the Ump St. Play-Paw, we got to play the fifth inning. So yeah, there were ups and downs, there were mistakes made, there were absolutely the right things done at times. But this is mid-game analysis, folks. This is going to be going on for the next perhaps thousand years. The battle between modernity, Western values, and fundamentalist Islam. Do I have some interesting info from that day that I'd forgotten? I read some of the 9-11 report yesterday and the Woodward book Bush at War and a couple of different accounts of the day before the day of and the day after. They're pretty interesting in terms of our attitude at the time.

19:47Lots of stuff on the way. I hope you can stick around. A shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. Someone opened the door and was the primary shooter. Is it possible you could do that and then suppress the number? A new podcast series, fault-line Haditha, tells the story the United States government wants to keep buried. How can you not know? There were women and children in there. You can tell us here that you don't know what happened that day. Based on thousands of pages of previously classified documents and over a hundred hours of secretly filmed video, the truth about one of the most infamous crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told. If you've got five players and one of them is guilty of murder at least and you offer immunity to the other four, you better be right about the fifth because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Listen to fault-line Haditha on the My Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you

20:49get your podcasts. President Bush's Chief of Staff Andy Card now 79 can never forget it all came flooding back inside the classroom. That day I promised myself I was going to be cool, calm and collected and help the president. I decided I would tell him two facts and make one obvious editorial comment. 60 on page 153. A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack. Yeah, and I don't think this has a major effect on anything, but clearly, I didn't think this at the time, but clearly George Bush should at that point say, excuse me, I've gotten up and started to deal with it. The story was for a long time and I agreed with it that he stayed there to remain calm, that not upset people, but that doesn't make any sense to me in retrospect. But it doesn't matter. It's a myer point. And part of that is what I wanted to talk about is just the things that you can't feel

21:55or really fully understand unless you live through it in real time. George will wrote a great piece, I think the next day, the end of our vacation from history. The United States had a bed on a vacation from history where we were completely invulnerable to attack. Nobody could touch us. And it had been going on so long we had come to believe that nobody could touch us. That nothing bad could possibly happen to us and that was unrealistic. Is unrealistic, but it had been going on for so long. It was just so shocking. Part of it is just so shocking. We got attacked us. And I'm sure it felt that way for the president too. I don't think any president's sense then would react the way George Bush reacted. Like yeah, of course we did. What do we do now? Who was it? But we had been in such a comfortable, which fits in.

22:55So yesterday I did some reading of the 9-11 Commission report or listening to it rather and then read some of Bob Woodward's Bush at war, which had a lot of other information around it. And we had been so passive about al Qaeda and the threat of fundamentals, Islam, for so long. And there are examples in both Republican and Democratic administrations of, you know, we could, we kind of know where it been, Laden is. We could try to take him out now, but man, some women and children might get killed or what if we miss or, you know, the sorts of things that we don't worry about near as much now. That we worried about then because we had grown soft and politically correct and all the all kinds of different things. And for various reasons, the Clinton administration was really one of the early days of hyperpartisan ship, I think the sort that everybody talks about now. And I remember the Republican party when Clinton was trying to exact revenge for a couple

24:00of different attacks and preantively defang al Qaeda. He was accused of firing monocomisels and bombing an aspirin factory and that he was a maniac and way out of line. And so that contributed, at least on the Republican side of the aisle, Republican voters to the idea, these people are no threat whatsoever. Only a jerk like Clinton would say they were. That was not good, not good at all. Yeah, there are numerous examples of that and both sides. Absolutely. And I hope we don't lapse back into that or aren't lapsing back into that. I mean, the greatest sin of the left is clearly accusing anybody who's concerned about Islamism of bigotry that's absolutely idiotic. There's a lot of particulars from that day where it could have been stopped a bunch of different times if things had broken just slightly the other way. It also could have been a lot worse if things had broken slightly a different way, including

25:01if that plane that the passengers took down had crashed into the Capitol, that had 5,000 people in it. The plane that hit the World Trade Center and the plane that hit the Pentagon was going 540 miles an hour. He put that stick all the way forward and the plane that hit the ground in Pennsylvania also was going that fast. Of course, it was part of that, it was headed down, gravity was involved. Man, they put that plane into the cleverness of picking for transcontinental flights. So they're absolutely loaded with the maximum amount of fuel because three of them were headed to L.A. And one of them was headed to San Francisco. So they had the maximum amount of fuel you're ever going to have on a plane flying in the United States there to get the biggest fireball you could. If that thing had gone into the Capitol, wow, what would the conversation have been then and killed half of Congress, all of Congress, the Speaker of the House and Vice President?

26:06I mean, it's just it's unimaginable what had been going on there. Right. So we both could have gone on the other hand. One guy got wandered with his box cutter. Our metal detectors were way different back then. Lack of a sense of imagination because you're always fighting the last war. We were looking for bombs and guns because that's the only way high jackings had ever happened. So we had detectors that could catch bombs and guns. We had a rule back then that if you were on some sort of list, you were not allowed to get on the plane until we knew your suitcase was on the plane with the belief that nobody would blow up a plane with them in it because they'd kill yourself. So that would be crazy. And our metal detectors were set to just catch a gun or a bomb and not a box cutter. But one guy went through that what they have the video of this from the airport and it went ding or buzz or whatever. And they wand him and the guy just kind of says, whatever, you know, he didn't he didn't figure out what made it buzz or ding and let the guy go through.

27:10Of one very easy and then as the day unfolded, all the giant bureaucrac, bloated bureaucracies started running into each other and all kinds of different ways. It's really interesting to watch the tick talk of it when you're reading it in a book. You'd have thought when a plane got hijacked the way it did or after I hit the first world trade, that information had gone around faster to all the other airlines that holy crap. This is unfolding, but it took a long time before we grounded the flights or even aware that there was there were the possibility of multiple hijackings going on. And then the thing I was most shocked about reading the 9-11 report years ago was when it was inescapable. I mean, every single human being understood that this was a massive terrorist attack, multi-pronged, etc. And it was decided that we needed to scramble fighter planes. It was, you know, it was a Tuesday morning, but the people who made that decision didn't

28:12know who to call. Right. And the people they called didn't know how to reach the pilots. It was kind of, yeah, there was a lot of domestic thing. Geez, what do we do? Yeah, there was a lot of that, which, you know, I hope we're better at now, but I couldn't help but read it, rereading all that stuff again, thinking, God, if China shuts down the cell phones and the water plants and the, you know, it's going to be that sort of mess all over again. According to Woodward book, George Tennant, who was the CIA director at the time, he's having breakfast with a senator friend of his. And the senator asked him that morning when they sat down to eat, the senator said to him, so what's your, what's keeping you up at night? Which sounds like a legitimate question you'd have for a CIA director that you meet everyone so well. He said, Ben Laden, man, Ben Laden. And the senator was like, oh my God, Ben Laden again, man, you see Ben Laden in your nightmares, what a year, you're obsessed with Ben Laden. Well, we weren't obsessed with Ben Laden enough. And it goes through various arguments in the CIA and other departments in our spy agencies

29:16and the military of how serious we should take the threat from Al Qaeda. They tried to blow up the World Trade Center, you know, once in 92 or 93 or whatever, isn't we barely paid attention at all? Or one of my favorite nuggets from this whole thing is Al Qaeda blew a hole in one of our warships there. Cole. The USS Cole. A month before the Gore Bush election. And it wasn't even a topic of conversation for the debates or anything. That's how blind we were to it. Yeah, it was what we're especially blind to the idea that fundamentalist Islam Al Qaeda and its various offshoots were a worldwide political movement as opposed to, well, prior to 9-11 non-state actors were just not seen as something you had to worry about much. You'd have to go in and mow the lawn now and again because there have always been terrorist groups and activist groups and that sort of thing. But nobody took them seriously as a power that could cause serious damage or altered the

30:21trajectory of history. It was like a criminal gang. They were upon in our laws were fashioned to treat them as criminal enterprises as opposed to serious actors on the world scene. That's changed. And as we all know since the CIA, for instance, had several of the hijackers nailed down the guys in San Diego and different people that they are aware of, but they didn't share that information with the FBI or whatever other agencies that could have tied things together and figured some things out because of the whole what we learned to be called stovepiping thing, which hopefully we've fixed where they can share information and connect dots a little bit better. But giant, giant bureaucracies are just, well, they are what they are no matter what their goal is or who's running them. And I hope for better than we were that day for when the big Chinese attack comes.

31:22Here's where we could discuss how smart it was to develop the director of national intelligence and put another layer of bureaucracy in. I'm not really super interested in that discussion. The bureaucracies frustrate me. But it was probably a good idea whether it still is a good idea. I don't know. So we'll skip that one. Let other people have it. Yeah. I think it clearly wasn't. But just in general, I don't know how you stay game ready. And you haven't played a game in a long time. And that's where we were both like organizationally, like factually, like having rules in place or methods or a plan or this sort of thing. And then just emotionally, emotionally, we weren't game ready for that sort of thing to happen because it had been so long. I don't know how you stay game ready. Maybe you can't unless you don't want to be a nut and live like you're constantly under

32:24threat, even though you are. Yeah, that's a tough balance. You're probably right. You're never going to be as ready as you should be if you've not had a game as you're saying for a very long time. The thing that's changed that disturbs me the most is that the unity we saw post 9-11 would be much harder to generate now because of the success of the neo-Marxist critical theory crowd in our schools, teaching the kids that the United States is a force for evil. Upon ourselves, we were built foundationally on racism and oppression and the rest of it, which is perhaps the boomers in Gen X's greatest moral failings. We let this happen under our watch in our schools. What can you do about that? It's like the oak tree. When would the best time to have woken up to that have been? Well, probably around 1968. One's the second best time today. Start fighting it. One example of attitudes that I thought was interesting that I think has changed.

33:26CIA director Tenet, he finally gets back to the office. He's talking to his, I think it's armatage, but he's talking to one of the other people making decisions at this time. And Tenet says we got to evacuate the building. There are planes. They didn't know how many planes had been hijacked. They knew that some of them were headed. They wanted to already crash into the Pentagon. So they thought other planes were headed to other buildings there in DC. He said we got to get everybody out of the CIA building, especially the people on the top floor. And Tenet is told, well, the people on the top floor, that's where the super high intelligence people that are watching the world, we got to keep them in place. This is exactly what they do is deal with. He said, they're risking their lives if I live them, leave them up there. It's said, we're at war. The guy told him. This is what they do. You're going to have to risk their lives. And Tenet said, you're right. And let them stay up there. But the fact that even briefly, he thought, I got to get him out of there.

34:27And the other guy had to say, yeah, this is why we have a CIA. This is why we have that particular floor. That's what they do for a living. The fact that it took us a little while to get up to speed on that sort of thing. And I hope we're still on that footing that this is real. And there are bad guys out there. And are bad guys have to take on their bad guys? Yeah. I think we clearly are to a large extent, although that it's all politics, including what we're talking about is downstream of culture. And again, that's what I worry about. So the football season kicked off this way. Super excited. I'm a hardcore fan. I love it, love it, love it. I've watched college games and pro games so far. The weight is over. Football is here. And so is draft kings. Which is cool because it's now live in all 50 states. One app, every sport nationwide, hey, new draft kings customers sign up with the code Armstrong, spend five bucks to get $200 in rewards within 21 days, including all markets. That code is Armstrong in partnership with draft kings.

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36:32wants to keep buried. How can you not know? There were women and children in there. You can tell us here that you don't know what happened that day? Based on thousands of pages of previously classified documents and over a hundred hours of secretly filmed video, the truth about one of the most infamous crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told. If you've got five players and one of them is guilty of murder at least and you offer immunity to the other four you better be right about the fifth because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Listen to fault line Haditha on the Lie Heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

37:34It would be ridiculous from a rational point of view to suggest that a middle-aged man wearing a heavy flack jacket, humming a strike over the plate, would have any significance whatsoever. And yet, I'm getting choked up thinking about it. It was such a moment of, yeah, we're America. Let's do this. Well, you had the president of the United States standing on the mound, so he's up higher like a target like here I am in the middle of this giant stadium in New York. Here I am. I'm not hiding days after the attacks.

38:34Yeah, the world series. Like I was talking earlier, I mean, it was a real lesson in the importance of leadership to me. And I try to remember that, you know, in a family crisis or anything like that that sometimes having somebody say something or making an action really makes a difference. The bullhorn thing that we played earlier when he's standing on the rubble, everybody needed to hear that so badly. To hear him say, people are going to pay for this who did this. F. Yeah. Why I don't know, it's just a way we're built. We just, we just need to know somebody, somebody's taking charge, somebody's doing something. We're a social beast. We organize ourselves socially. Yeah, and we have leaders. One of my favorite stories has always been from right after 9-11. The day of 9-11, General Mokmoud Ahmed, who is the head of Pakistan's ISI Intelligence Service, which is all kinds of infiltrated by radical Muslims, the ISI of Pakistan, if you know anything about Pakistan.

39:42I mean, they have an interesting government over there where you got to keep the Muslim extremist happy or you're going to get blown up yourself. They're a nuclear power, all kinds of stuff. We have such a weird relationship with them. They had been allowing al-Qaeda to go back and forth across the border and, and, well, ultimately they hid Osama bin Laden from us for years. But so the ISI guy happened to be in Washington, DC on 9-11, and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitas, if you don't remember him. Big giant barrel chested looks like an offensive lineman guy. Allegedly went to Mokmoud that day with a list of seven demands on how you're going to work with us. The history starts today. There is no black or white. You're going to work with us on these seven things. We need to have military base. We need to cross over. You need to arrest these people or Armitas says he didn't say we're going to bomb you back to the Stone Age. Mosharaf wrote in his memoirs toward the end of his life that that's what he was told.

40:43We will bomb you back to the Stone Age. Which I believe is what we said. We can't say that out loud. That was a phrase so often used. We developed a abbreviation of it. Bit of pizza. Now that's a threat. More coming up if you miss this segment. Get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand. Armstrong and Getty. I believe that whoever was in that room and did that was a murderer. A new podcast series, Fault Line Haditha, tells the story of a shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. If you've got five players and you offer immunity to four, you better be right about the fifth. Because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Listen to Fault Line Haditha on the iHeart radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.