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“At the same time as all these regulatory standards kicked in, the lawyers caught wind of this and started…suing doctors and criminally prosecuting doctors for under-treatment of pain. …Doctors were going to jail again for not using enough opiates. When that happened, immediately doctors froze, stopped prescribing, sent everything to the pain management teams, and pain management said, ‘Pain is what the patient says it is. Pain control is what the patient says it is.’ …And so, they were causing opiate addiction on one side, and they were killing opiate addicts on the other.” - Dr. Drew Pinsky 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1207DrDrewPinsky

"Look at the Chinese bond market today. The Chinese 10-Year is comfortably below 2%, around 1.75%. The Chinese 30-Year is below 2%…Think about what the Chinese bond market is telling you that the Chinese Communist Party won't tell you." China’s economy is collapsing, says billionaire investor Kyle Bass. What does that mean for American investors? And what does that mean for Xi Jinping’s plans to take Taiwan? 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1226KyleBass

“Their problem is larger than ours was during the global financial crisis.” China’s economy is collapsing, says billionaire investor Kyle Bass, the founder and chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management. He’s known for his prescient bets on major global economic events. In this episode, he reveals what the Chinese regime is trying to hide. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1226KyleBass

Merry Christmas, everyone! Here on the American Thought Leaders team, we want to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to all of you out there who have watched and enjoyed our show these last five years. May you all have a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones and a Happy New Year!

“We should be telling a true story of what America is." Kari Lake tells us her vision for Voice of America: "We can change hearts and minds around the globe, bring information and journalism to people in countries that don't have access to a free press." 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1223KariLake

“It only takes 10 or 15% of the industry to cut corners to gain an advantage here and there, especially on the lower-end market. And when that happens, it just proliferates, and it just becomes a feeding frenzy…And if that happens over time over several decades, we get a marketplace like today, where we have 300+ all time drug shortages. We have, on average, three drug recalls a day in the United States. Every year, it's about 1000 recalls in the FDA." -Victor Suarez 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1205VictorSuarez

"I have five investigators now. They're good. They do a lot of really good work, but five to do oversight investigations on a federal government that spends almost $7 trillion and employs a couple million people? It's literally a joke.” Sen. Ron Johnson is a ranking member of the homeland security committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and will chair the subcommittee in the new Congress. He says Congress has allowed its oversight authority to atrophy. “Yeah, we've got to fund the government. But then once we funded it, we need to take a look at what we funded, what we passed. Did it actually work?" 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1221SenRonJohnson

"What President Trump really needs to appoint or nominate is a Secretary of Information Extraction,” says Sen. Ron Johnson. Trump’s appointees may face a tough battle when it comes to restoring transparency, says Sen. Johnson. Johnson would know. He’s fought for documents as chair of the homeland security committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He’ll be chair of this powerful subcommittee again in the upcoming Congress. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1221SenRonJohnson

“Whether it’s ISIS, al-Qaeda, whether it’s North Korea, whether it’s Russia, whether it’s Iran, these are all absolutely, eminently manageable. … There is only one peer competitor we have which has the will and the capacity to displace us,” says Sebastian Gorka, who was recently named deputy assistant to Trump and senior director for counterterrorism. “China is sui generis in a category all by itself,” Gorka says. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1219SebastianGorka

“It’s a genius move.” Sebastian Gorka on Trump inviting Xi Jinping to his inauguration: “You're inviting the dictator of the world's largest communist nation to show how peaceful transition of power looks…This is how the will of the people is exercised." “On top of that…this is a message that American leadership is back. Recognize it or not—at your peril. The old sheriff is back.” 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1219SebastianGorka

“That’s sheer lunacy.” To believe the new rebel leader of Syria—who has ties to al Qaeda and ISIS—will be a moderate is naive and ridiculous, says Sebastian Gorka. “There's never been a jihadi leader…who suddenly becomes a moderate." Gorka has been tapped to be senior director for counterterrorism. Join us tonight for a deep dive into Trump’s counterterrorism strategy. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1219SebastianGorka

“Trump, in 2019, signed an executive order that clearly articulated and mandated that institutions, especially institutions that receive federal funding, cannot discriminate based on certain criteria, including national origin. ... Harvard cannot defend the fact that for three weeks, Jewish students were being followed and intimidated and bullied on their way to class by encampment leaders who were living in tents on campus calling for an Intifada and calling for the destruction the Jewish state from the river to the sea. They followed us to class, and Harvard knew about it, and they chose to do nothing about it. And that's why we'll win.” -Shabbos Kestenbaum 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1203ShabbosKestenbaum

"We found an extraordinary amount of military-use technologies were being shipped into Hong Kong…and often were being just turned around & shipped to Russia, often to sanctioned companies. …We're seeing arms, and we're seeing Iranian oil being sold through Hong Kong." Hong Kong, once a celebrated global financial center, has now become an essential node for authoritarian regimes in Russia, Iran, and North Korea to evade sanctions, says Mark Clifford, former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post and now President of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1217MarkClifford

"45 Hong Kong democrats were sentenced to a total of almost 250 years in prison…More than 1900 political prisoners have been convicted and been jailed in the last five years.” Mark Clifford, the former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, has witnessed Hong Kong’s transformation firsthand since the late 1980s. He’s the author of “Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World” and most recently “The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1217MarkClifford

"A major piece in schools is taking kids and thinking, ‘Well, they're kids, and so we better give them kids stuff’…But what happens is: we insulate them so much with childlike things they have no sense of taste. And if they have no sense of taste, then it's quite possible they're going to lose their reverence for tasteful things later on. So we have to give that to them now." "Socrates says the goal of education is to teach kids to identify what is beautiful. And so we have to give them beautiful things…If you recognize beauty, you can recognize what's good. Those are highly correlated in the classical world, especially in the Socratic sense." - Michael Fitzgerald, principal of Northern Schoolhouse 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1130MichaelFitzgerald

"Under the Trump executive order on combating antisemitism, the agency sent a strong signal that institutions can't use double standards and that they need to address discrimination against Jewish students the same as discrimination against other sorts of groups," says former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Kenneth L. Marcus. The Office of Civil Rights is an agency within the Department of Education that affects and protects students and families around the country. Join us for an inside look, as part of our series on the U.S. presidential transition period. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1214kenMarcus

"We shouldn't be saying, 'let's be harder on one side than the other.' We should be saying, 'let's find the truth. Let's follow the evidence where it goes. Let's make sure that everyone has appropriate protections of their rights and let things proceed as they may. In a sense, this is about law and order. It's about making sure that the innocent are protected, that the guilty are punished, and those who have been victimized are finding justice through the system." - Kenneth L. Marcus on protecting civil rights in schools 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1214kenMarcus

“The first thing that has to happen is policies have to be reversed from the Biden administration and new ones put in place right away to sew up the border - to make it so that people will not want to cross it illegally because they'll be detained and deported…They need to shut down the parole programs that we were just talking about. The CBP One program has to end on the first day - no more after that. And the flights program has to end on the first day as well.” - @tbensman 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader:https://ept.ms/S1121ToddBensman

"Western civilization is in real trouble, and we've lost the mechanisms of transmission, you might say, of the very fundamental principles and institutions of our civilization. And it's high time we did everything we could to get them back,” says Ralston College President Stephen Blackwood. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1212StephenBlackwood

"Universities are far too much under the sway of a kind of ideological nihilism or neo-Marxism, which denies the existence of higher-order goods…truth, beauty, goodness, love, redemption, justice, this whole range of metaphysical realities…[that] give human life meaning." “What that produces downstream is all kinds of corrosive and toxic effects: ugliness in architecture, partisan rancor and alienation in our political and civic life, a failure to tell the truth in journalism…" - Ralston College President Stephen Blackwood 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1212StephenBlackwood