I talk about Panama Canal all the time.

Who's controlling this very important waterway?

It's the most strategic waterway for the United States of America on the planet.

China is the dominant player right now between us and them.

At Turning Point USA's Amfest Conference in Phoenix, Arizona,

I sat down with Lieutenant General Michael Flynn,

now retired from the U.S. Army, who has been advising Trump's

national security team. 80% of the largest ports in South American, either the Chinese own them

or they control some component, and yet we have people in our government that go Russia, Russia, Russia.

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick.

Michael Flynn, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders. Great. Thank you to have them in. I'm a huge, huge fan of you personally and also Epoch Times and just what you guys represent. So thanks.

That's extremely kind. You know, I'm going to start, we're of course going to talk extremely kind you know I'm gonna start

we're of course gonna talk about you know what you're doing now and well why

don't we actually start there yeah so what are you doing now what's what's

next with this new administration coming in part of what I have been doing is you

know because my background is intelligence, national security, foreign policy,

you know, certainly the military. And so I have been working with and advising sort of in a,

in a background way, because that's the way I like, I want to be, you know, as things are now,

particularly during this transition, with the national security team that President Trump has assembled. So, you know, as things are now, particularly during this transition, with the national security team that President Trump has assembled.

So, you know, from people like Tulsi Gabbard, who I've known for a long time, when Kelsey first came in as a first-term Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii, I got to know her then, and we've maintained that relationship for a long time, as well as, you know, Cash Patel, Mike Walts, who's going to be the National Security Advisor, Cash, who's going to be, of course, FBI director, Pete Hague Seth, who's been nominated to be the Secretary of Defense. Tom Holman, I've been in touch with Tom Homan, off and on, and trying to help him to, you know, to navigate.

Tom doesn't need a lot of navigation.

Tom knows exactly what he's, what he wants to do.

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