On the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead's first show in RFK stadium, former Rep. Adam Kinzler (D-Illinois) and Rep. Steve Israel (D, Ill.) join host Stephen K. Baughman (R-Ill.) and producer Peter Navarro (D.C., D.C.) to discuss the night that changed the landscape of American politics.
00:00:27.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:32.000Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:36.000If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:43.000War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Banff.
00:00:46.000Kelly, I'd be wrong. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the idea of, um,
00:00:55.000Powell being asked about the Grateful Dead and going to the Dead concert during the, uh, during the hearing.
00:01:01.000And, uh, him saying that it was, uh, he's been a Dead fan for 50 years, had a terrific time for the concert.
00:01:06.000But the important thing was that there was bipartisan agreement on the Grateful Dead among both a Republican and a Democratic congressman on that issue.
00:01:14.000So I don't think we want to miss this moment to emphasize and underscore and highlight bipartisanship, even if it's about the Grateful Dead when it comes to Congress.
00:01:22.000I think it's a generational thing, Steve.
00:01:26.000Gentlemen, if you could pause for a moment.
00:01:29.000All right, uh, thanks to Chair Powell for, for, uh, being here with us today.
00:01:33.000Um, back in 1995, uh, I worked here in Congress as an intern for Dick Gephardt.
00:01:39.000I, uh, I was in his press office and we had newspapers, you know, where my job would be to clip out the, the articles and paste them on a sheet.
00:01:48.000Um, but when I was here in 95, uh, the Grateful Dead were playing.
00:01:52.000It was one of Jerry Garcia's last concerts.
00:01:54.000And I was just so disappointed that I missed that concert.
00:01:57.000Um, but was excited to see that from public reporting that you were at the most recent Dead & Co, Dead & Company show.
00:02:05.000Um, I've, I've been to this, this version with John Mayer and enjoyed it, but I, you know, we weren't here.
00:05:06.000He said in order for things to get better, it's gonna take a long time, and during that long time we're gonna have slow growth,
00:05:12.000and low and moderate income people are gonna take it basically in the shorts.
00:05:16.000So it's everything that we've said it was, it's gonna be a, uh, a Hobbesian, uh, turn of events, but it's not gonna be short, it's gonna be long.
00:05:26.000Um, with respect to that hearing, um, I listened intently to your show this morning and couldn't agree with you more, uh, that Durham is, uh, fruit of the poisonous Bill Barr tree.
00:05:39.000And we knew from the beginning when Barr went the special prosecutor route, the whole point was to delay any findings until after the election.
00:05:49.000So there would be no vindication of Trump.
00:05:52.000That was, that was the tell, Durham himself was the tell in Bill Barr's con game.
00:05:57.000That guy is one of the most dangerous men in America right now.
00:06:02.000Peddling, with respect to Adam Schiff and Jim Jordan, look, hey Jim, hey, look at me, baby.
00:07:09.000It's amazing that Republicans are so hellbent all these years later and ahead of another contest on muddying the waters about whether or not that's a good thing.
00:07:19.000In that vein, I have to ask you about what they're going to do tonight.
00:07:22.000The Republican controlled house is set to vote for the second time in just two weeks to censure you allegedly for saying that Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
00:07:35.000I mean, the Mueller report volume one says just that.
00:07:39.000And you articulated the distinction between being able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a criminal conspiracy took place.
00:07:46.000That is very different from what Mueller does find, which is the shared mission and a welcoming of Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
00:07:54.000Why do you think they're so obsessed with with bringing this up and punishing you?
00:08:00.000Well, look, I think they go after people that they feel are a threat or effective in holding them accountable or holding Donald Trump accountable.
00:08:09.000And and I and I don't expect this to be the last attack on me for doing that, because they're going to continue to serve this disgraced former president.
00:08:19.000They have essentially decided that they're going to be fully subservient to his wishes.
00:08:38.000So the ball may have been dropped in the Durham proceedings, but Representative Ana Paulina Luna picked it up seven months pregnant and just truck stick Adam Schiff on the House floor.
00:08:49.000The vote to table the motion passed without a single Republican objector last week.
00:08:57.000As your viewers may remember, the coward 20 didn't even let it come to the debate floor.
00:09:48.000And that's the story, thankfully, not what happened in the Durham proceedings.
00:09:52.000Well, this will kill his Senate run, so that's the important thing here.
00:09:56.000Let me ask you, is your sense right now, because there was all kind of rumors this afternoon that leadership had really told her to knock this stuff off and don't do this.
00:10:05.000Is your sense is that this will pass right now?
00:10:08.000I know she's been whipping this individually, but do you think this thing will pass?
00:10:24.000But, you know, if people have been on Twitter or Getter over the last week, they've seen that the coward 20 certainly don't want to be in that position anymore.
00:10:33.000And I think this is really a good precedent to set because, you know, what we just did with Bud Light, what we just did with Target, we just did to our own house members that won't do what the people want.
00:10:44.000And there are going to be some more important votes after this one.
00:10:48.000So we got to bring the ball across the finish line here.
00:10:51.000You know, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, they're filing these privileged resolutions as well to impeach Joe Biden and to impeach Mayorkas, Ray Graves, the D.C. attorney, Merrick Garland.
00:11:06.000So these privileged resolutions are headaches for leadership because they get through the committees, go right to the House floor.
00:11:15.000They have to be voted on within like a few days or a week.
00:11:18.000So, you know, Marjorie talked about her impeachment resolution for Joe Biden has been sitting in judiciary for two and a half years.
00:11:24.000It's the number one most viewed bill when she makes it a privileged resolution.
00:11:47.000I was I was very I didn't get to see the Matt Gaetz part of it, all that.
00:11:50.000But I was very disappointed in that the Democrats and Durham's pathetic.
00:11:55.000If you don't think Durham's pathetic and it is as Peter Navarro said so eloquently, fruit of the poison bar tree, because I just think he's absolutely pathetic.
00:12:05.000And I think he's a weasel up there when he answers any question.
00:12:08.000But you're a University of Chicago law school grad.
00:13:05.000So when it comes down to it, the Durham report, as much as it proved in the history books that the Russia collusion, you know, spying hoax was real, that it was a hoax.
00:13:18.000But it really didn't hold people accountable.
00:13:41.000You can sign up for my email list or follow me on Twitter where I have been calling out specific members of Congress for not obeying the will of the people.
00:13:51.000And, you know, that's I'm just trying to be the voice of the people here.
00:14:20.000We're going to hear from Nancy Pelosi, Anna Polina Luna.
00:14:23.000And we're also going to drill down on what, pal, the stagflation that is before you, all brought to you by the radicals in the Democratic Party and the titans on Wall Street, the tech oligarchs, all of it.
00:14:45.000Well, Congress once again allowed itself to be pushed into appeasing the administration and raising the debt ceiling for the 79th time, paving the way for continued reckless spending and further devaluation of the U.S. dollar.
00:15:14.000As our national debt continues to skyrocket, how are you protecting your savings?
00:15:21.000Times like these are a great reminder to diversify a portion of your savings into gold.
00:15:26.000And you can do that with the help of Birch Gold.
00:17:54.000And it just begs the question whether or not you were really trying to find that out.
00:17:59.000Because it's one thing to criticize the FBI for their FISA violations, to write a report.
00:18:06.000They've been criticized in plenty of reports.
00:18:08.000Some have referred to your work as just a repackaging and regurgitation of what the Inspector General already told us.
00:18:14.000So if you weren't going to do what Mr. Jordan said you were going to do in that video and give us the basis for all of it, what's this all been about?
00:18:26.000Well, I'm not exactly sure of the import of your question.
00:18:29.000If your question is, did we try to locate and interview Mr. Mifsud, the answer is yes.
00:18:35.000Why didn't you subpoena him to a grand jury?
00:18:46.000Was it you and Bill Barr looking for authentic pasta over there or Mifsud?
00:18:49.000No, we not. We were looking for information that might help us locate Mifsud.
00:18:54.000But you know who I think could probably locate him?
00:18:57.000The features of Western intelligence and possibly our own government that put him in play.
00:19:02.000Like your report seems to be less an indictment of the FBI and more of an inoculation, lowercase i, of course.
00:19:10.000And like many inoculations, it may have worse consequences down the road.
00:19:14.000We'll have some time to discuss this matter further, but it's just hard.
00:19:18.000It's just hard to like pretend as though this was a sincere effort when you don't get to the fundamental thing that started the whole deal.
00:19:50.000Mr. Durham, isn't it true that Danchenko admitted that information he provided to Christopher Steele in June of 2016 was, quote, rumor and speculation?
00:20:00.000And Danchenko himself estimated that he was responsible for 80% of the intelligence and 50% of the analysis in the Steele dossier. Is that right?
00:20:10.000Do you agree with his assessment or his estimate of his participation in the dossier?
00:20:15.000Yeah, we have no reason to doubt that. I mean, Steele identified him as the primary subsource or the principal source of the information.
00:20:22.000Yeah, and that's what I mean. Steele used that rumor and speculation to build his dossier.
00:20:28.000And we've wandered all over this. There's none of those statements were corroborated at all.
00:20:34.000And yet, Danchenko's reputation for veracity was considered bad. He was considered a boastful man who had low credibility, right?
00:20:43.000There was information that the bureau had along those lines. Yes, sir.
00:20:47.000And in fact, when he lost his visa, his work permit, he used a Russian business as a front to basically fraudulently get a visa to work in the United States.
00:21:02.000Is that right? Page 128 of your report.
00:21:04.000Yeah, he went to work for a company in the United States and Steele was paying him through a cutout through that company in the United States.
00:21:11.000Yeah, most of us who look at that that area of the law regularly, like I do, would say that's immigration fraud.
00:21:17.000So and it's also true. We talked about this. It's true. There was an FBI counter espionage investigation into Danchenko 2009 to 2011.
00:21:27.000And that was a result of him approaching some Brookings Institution co-worker trying to essentially solicit espionage on behalf of the Russian government.
00:21:38.000And then even though the Washington field office is right there and he lived just a few miles from the Washington field office, the case was closed on Mr. Danchenko, that investigation, right?
00:21:51.000The Danchenko investigation is being done by Baltimore, the Baltimore field office. But that's right. He stayed where he.
00:21:59.000Nonetheless, he lived. I live out there. I know it's around the corner from there.
00:22:04.000So so let's let's take a look at let's boil this down.
00:22:08.000After determining that nothing that Danchenko told Steele could be verified, it was all a pack of lies and innuendo and rumor.
00:22:15.000After further determining that he had attempted to solicit espionage for Russia and he had himself been subject of an investigation by the Bureau.
00:22:22.000And after having committed immigration fraud, the FBI hired him on as an informer and paid him 220 grand and proposed an additional 300 grand to be paid to him.
00:22:32.000Now, that's all that's your testimony. That's in the report. It's all there.
00:22:36.000And that's even after the validation management unit had determined that Danchenko was a concern and likely had connections to Russian intelligence.
00:22:44.000That's in your report as well. Correct.
00:22:47.000And very special Agent Helson knew most of these facts, but continued to endorse Danchenko's recruitment and payment as a confidential human source. Right.
00:22:55.000That's correct. So I'm going to give you these things.
00:22:59.000And I think you understand why so many of us are over underwhelmed with some of your recommendations for the FBI, but overwhelmed by what's gone on here.
00:23:09.000The FISA application, we've talked about that, where that came from.
00:23:13.000We've talked about that the FBI has conducted millions of unconstitutional backdoor FISA 702 searches.
00:23:19.000A disparate treatment of Hillary Rodham Clinton, which you discuss in your report.
00:23:25.000The sweetheart Hunter Biden plea deal that would send normal Americans to jail for years.
00:23:32.000We have 50 intelligence officers signing on to a letter stating they would rather have a job in the Biden administration than tell the truth to the American people.
00:24:12.000But Ms. Sparts gave an excellent enumeration of all the things that you found in your report.
00:24:20.000And that's why people like me, and I don't want to speak for anybody else on here, we're baffled, just utterly baffled, that more people have not been held accountable for their crimes.
00:25:21.000But the fact that you allowed that plea to occur, right, and then the punishment was insufficient, the fact that you didn't charge Andrew McCabe, you didn't convict the lying Democrats or the lying Russians, you didn't investigate Mifsud or the Mueller probe, even though, as we sit here today in black letter, that was your charge.
00:25:40.000Have you ever heard of the Washington generals?
00:26:06.000Oh, I'm thinking, I'm sorry, of a different, I was thinking of a different thing.
00:26:08.000Yeah, yeah, so their job is to lose, and I'm kind of wondering, and it just seems so facially obvious that it's not what's in your report that's telling, it's the omission, it's the lack of work you did.
00:26:19.000And for the people like the chairman who put trust in you, I think you let them down, I think you let the country down, and you are one of the barriers to the true accountability that we need.
00:26:27.000I told you, thank God for Andy Biggs, and thank God for Matt Gaetz.
00:26:32.000Peter Navarro, and I told people for years this was going to happen, so your assessment, sir?
00:26:39.740That Jim Jordan we saw on the tape, you ought to play that over and over again, because that guy should go on a milk carton, because he's missing, okay?
00:29:47.040I thank the gentleman for yielding in for his great presentation today.
00:29:51.700Today, we are on the floor of the House where the other side has turned this chamber, where slavery was abolished, where Medicare and Social Security and everything were instituted.
00:30:15.700The only advantage to all of this is that instead of reversing what we did on the IRA to save the planet, or reversing what we did to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, you're wasting time.
00:30:27.680Adam Schiff is one of the greatest remembers of that.
00:30:48.240From the highest levels of office, an elected member of this body enabled the fraudulent spending of $32 million out of the pockets of our American people and threw it down the drain to knowingly chase ghosts, all for political gain.
00:31:00.540This man occupied a position of the highest trust and authority.
00:31:03.900As chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff launched an all-out political campaign built on baseless distortions against a sitting U.S. president at the expense of every single citizen in this country and the honor of the House of Representatives.
00:31:17.640With access to sensitive information unavailable to most members of Congress and certainly not accessible to the American people, Schiff abused his privileges claiming to know the truth, while leaving Americans in the dark about this web of lies.
00:31:33.560Lies so severe that they altered the course of the country forever.
00:31:36.560The lie that the president will suspend the House is not in order.
00:31:42.240Members, please take your conversations off the floor.
00:32:20.080And shifty shift, looked the American people, and lied about going into the skiff.
00:32:25.200You've got to remember, why was he running the deal when we controlled the House?
00:32:29.180Because Paul Ryan, who's on the board at Fox News, made Devin Nunez step down, recuse himself.
00:32:38.900Nunez recused himself because he'd come to the White House for one meeting, made him recuse himself, and basically put in charge Trey Gowdy, who was a worm, and handed it to Swalwell.
00:32:49.740And shift, shift, ran House Intel on this and sat there on the Rachel Matters show night after night after night and lied to the American people.
00:32:57.280He had seen classified information, Dr. Navarro.
00:33:20.480It was an op that had the full collusion of what was already then a weaponized Justice Department, weaponized by the deep administrative bureaucrats within both the FBI and the Department of Justice.
00:33:39.320And there's so many unclean hands here that it defies the imagination, as Gates said, that Durham could not connect any of these dots and all of these people roll free.
00:34:16.800It's the plotting to overthrow a sitting president.
00:34:20.880I mean, you compare that to what they try to do with the J6 people, to what the FBI and the Justice Department and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party actually did?
00:38:07.160And what's missing in that whole debate, Steve, is the understanding that these are politician-induced disasters.
00:38:16.600The demand pull inflation from the Biden and congressional Kevin McCarthy facilitated overspending plus the loss of strategic energy dominance to the Green New Deal.
00:38:31.480Those are the kinds of things that are bearing down, and they expect a buffoon like Jerome Powell to solve that with a wave of an interest rate.
00:39:31.000And I'm just hoping people will get themselves economically literate to understand all the crap.
00:39:37.800And, look, we're trying to hold these people to account, and, frankly, the Republicans in Congress right now are letting this country down.
00:41:11.460Well, sure enough, yesterday about four on their website,
00:41:14.500ERCOT published a voluntary conservation notice warning folks that, well, ERCOT is not in emergency operations, but concerned.
00:41:22.700They had hit by 449, a 79,000 megawatt peak of demand on their system, leaving only about 5,000 megawatts before they'd go critical and be short and they'd lose the grid.
00:41:36.500So about a 6% reserve margin, where, again, this argument that's been going on on the overstatement of reserve margins by ERCOT,
00:41:43.620where they say in the past they've been at a 13.5% planning margin, well, yesterday was about 6%, and owing to the fellow who runs NRG, who I mentioned, Mauricio,
00:41:55.960you know, they're running more like 6%, which is just too, way, way too close to the line.
00:42:01.660You know, nationally reserved margins typically in the winter are 23%, 24%, in the summer, 13.5%.
00:42:08.340Actual Texas is at 6% because of this 38,000 megawatts of wind, which, again, yesterday at 4%, only 5,000 megawatts of the wind was operational because of the lack of wind.
00:42:20.460When it gets super hot in the summer, you tend not to have any wind.
00:42:24.960So the electrical load-carrying capacity of that wind in a lot of the country is counted at about 16% because that's all you can really rely on minute by minute on average of it being there for you
00:42:38.680So this is the issue with Texas, massive over-absorptional wind, investors chasing subsidies,
00:42:45.160and the government letting them build and build and build without having a capacity payment structure to allow the building and base-load gas plants.
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00:51:12.680I told then-president-elected Trump, it's the nullification project.
00:51:18.620It was quite evident in the hours right after he won the election, in the early mornings of the 9th of November of 2016.
00:51:27.180There was an organized effort to nullify his election.
00:51:30.860Just like this organized effort now to keep him – when he's up by – he's up by six points over Biden right now.
00:51:38.740We're going to have Rasmussen in tomorrow morning to talk about China, talk about some of these issues, talk about President Trump where he is.
00:51:58.580He's the one they never, ever, ever in a million years ever thought would arrive to take on this system.
00:52:03.720Someone that had made it and had been a success inside the system but understood, given his roots in Queens, New York, of an ability to uniquely connect, uniquely connect to American working men and women.
00:52:24.800But that's what this drama is about, is about the whole effort of that organized administrative state, deep state, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, all of them, and the radical, atheistic, neo-Marxist, Democratic Party to stop him.
00:52:49.000Donald Trump ain't going to fade away.
00:52:50.900Remember, in January of 2021, if he had gone back to Mar-a-Lago and just been a good little boy, none of this would happen in the last couple of years would have happened to him.
00:53:02.700I'm going to tell you how it's going to be.
00:53:04.880Donald Trump's returning to the White House.
00:53:07.700And I don't give a damn if Nancy Pelosi doesn't like it, if Shifty Schiff doesn't like it, if Merrick Garland doesn't like it, if Lisa Monica doesn't like it, if Chris Wray doesn't like it.