Kash Patel and Ric Grenell Interview Clip - Ronald Reagan Statue in Berlin

Ric Grenell was the head of U.S. Intelligence in President Trump's Cabinet, and was responsible for supervising 17 United States security agencies, regularly briefed by the heads of each of those agencies on national security issues around the world as well as within the U.S.

Prior to that however, he served in various government roles and served under a number of U.S. Presidents beginning with George W. Bush's administration.

He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany and it was during that time when he had a statue of President Ronald Reagan placed on top of the U.S. embassy overlooking the Brandenburg Gate as well as the very spot where President Reagan delivered his speech were he famously said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!", and saying it directly to the Russian President at the time, Mikhail Gorbachev.

That speech was delivered in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, and a few short years later the wall came down. Three times the powers that be in Washington DC removed those words from his speech, and three times the President wrote them back in by hand. He was going to speak those words and that was final, and so he did, against people who were vehemently objecting to his doing so and telling him those words would not be well received and could present the U.S. with various serious problems. The President didn't believe them, and pointed out that those words were the exact reason for making the speech and that without them the speech would be pointless.

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Personally, I happen to feel that it is times like those and profound and positive words well placed and with the proper intentions, based upon what is right and what is wrong ensuring to remain on the side of righteousness, when the world is changed for the better. I also feel like it is the fault of the people who don't have the courage to speak such words at such times and encourage others not to which causes the world to lose just a little bit more of its humanity and the spirit of happiness, and hope fades away a little bit further than it was. I'm glad President Reagan had the courage to change the world with that speech, and he will live until recorded history fades away as having done so too, I might add.