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Peter Brown

Peter Brown

Retired U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral and former White House Homeland Security Advisor; Senior Fellow for Western Hemisphere Security at the America First Policy Institute.

Oct 9, 2026

15:41
Talk to me about what this agreement actually delivers for the American people and the West in general.
15:49
And you and I are both smiling because of the president's negotiating style and the way he did this, which was as he often does.
15:59
And he telegraphed it in his book four decades ago, The Art of the Deal, that he stakes out a what to some people is going to say crazy position or a maximalist position and then generates conversation about that demand.
16:16
And then his counterparty has to negotiate with that demand in mind.
16:21
And we end up – I've got to read for a second Secretary Rubio's statement.
16:29
And when I read it, it's going to be, this is where we ended up.
16:32
But if Trump had said at the beginning, this is what we want, people would have said, well, okay, that's pretty reasonable.

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21:57
should thank their lucky stars for that as
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31:37
it.
31:38
Yeah, it says he said Greenland will forever be part of the strategic defense area of North America and exclude any adversary from it and the surrounding area.
31:50
That's.
31:51
You can't argue with that.
31:53
It's so important.
31:55
The defense of the North Pole is so important for strategic ballistic missile defense of the United States.
32:02
It's indispensable from that regard.
33:46
Like as soon as we cut off the pipeline, the people of those countries actually went, oh, no, we really do want freedom.
53:42
How is it impacting the Western Hemisphere, which is your main area of focus?
53:47
Well, thanks for having me again, Kevin.
53:49
And yeah, these foreign policy matters, they're all interconnected, and they're all interconnected in the same way with the same kind of overarching adversary, and that is the People's Republic of China.
54:03
My friend, Congressman Carlos Jimenez, wrote a piece maybe a week or so ago about a specific port in Peru and it being open to the Chinese.
54:15
But the terminology that he used related to the recent movie, The Odyssey.
54:19
And he likens China's intrusion there to a Trojan dragon to which we've opened the gates.
54:25
And Canada has certainly opened the gate to the dragon.
56:58
What does this effectively give us?

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