Episode 3016: The Cowardice Of Mike Pence
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Summary
A coalition of 13 former U.S. presidents says democracy is strong, but it is under siege. Why are some of the most powerful people in the world afraid of democracy? And why are they afraid of it?
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going
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medieval on these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people
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the people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do
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everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and
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where do people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of
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these people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer
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is to save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k band
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teen presidential centers dating back a century is calling for a recommitment to the country's
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bedrock principles in a joint statement the coalition said americans should respect diverse
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beliefs noting that debate and disagreement are central to democracy it reads in part quote
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our elected officials must lead by example and govern effectively in ways that deliver for the
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american people this in turn will help to restore trust in public service the rest of us must engage
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in civil dialogue respect democratic institutions and rights uphold safe secure and accessible elections
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and contribute to local state or national improvement the coalition does not name any elected officials
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but there appear to be there a subtle rebuke of donald trump who is accused of trying to overturn the
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2020 presidential election the statement was signed by every presidential organization from herbert hoover's to
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barack obama's only the eisenhower foundation is missing in this so definitely a firm statement about the strength of democracy job
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yeah john meacham um there there there's been some complaining uh you've heard some some people i know and i have too
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wondering where some of these presidents are with some of these former presidents coming out speaking forcefully
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against uh trumpism against uh trumpism against what happened on january the 6th and the threats of democracy moving forward
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it is and you know most of these the president presidential libraries where the presidents are still around you know
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where the principal is still there uh are different than the ones obviously that are our legacy operations
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what's remarkable about this is you have a i wouldn't even call it bipartisan i'd call it suprapartisan
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a suprapartisan uh statement that says yes democracy strong i think more interesting is what why they had to do it
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it's that democracy is weak it's resilient but it is under siege and these are the scholars the foundation executives
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uh and the presidents themselves who understand the inherent fragility of these institutions and i think that
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uh it's it says a great deal uh you know if you do what i do for a living you know you go back and you
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you look at what was being said at a given time you know looking at the front page of the newspapers to see what
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the other stories were the fact that 13 former presidential institutions had to say hey democracy is
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important pay attention to it tells you a great deal about where we are on this uh early autumn morning
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okay um let's bring in dave bratt by the way it is uh saturday 9 september in the year of alert 2023
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uh welcome to our saturday show we're gonna kind of be on fire today at a different i was gonna try
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to do the 80th anniversary of 1943 the bloodiest year in mankind's history we're gonna have to do that
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at a later time hopefully next saturday i'll talk a little bit about it today because there's so much
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some not just news but also things that we have to get the war room posse and backup remember when
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they say against trumpism when mika and them are there with their knitted brow that means against
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you that's against the populist movement dave bratt help me out here why why is the uniparty
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showing that they're uniparty coming out and and trying to browbeat the trump movement sir
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yeah the uniparty and their uh quasi historians meachum and beschloss and these guys come up and
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they say we look back at all the great theorists or whatever any great theorist would never say
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we're defending democracy since socrates no great moral or political theorist has mentioned democracy
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we are a constitutional republic and then they go on and they add words about we need to be more
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decent more kind more humane there's a need for compassion tolerance and pluralism none of the
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architects of democracy or of a constitutional republic used any of that language the key language
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they all used for a thousand years was the absolute essential element for a republic to remain and that
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is the virtue of its citizens and so to have these folks come on board and just take pot shots using
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history and democracy which is one of the things the founders all got together to protect us from
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which is mob rule and mass rule and to throw that at the you know implicitly at the populace etc
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the populace are the one group who have retained the essence of the republic all these folks talk about
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uh being being uh compassionate tolerant pluralistic you want to know the one group they're not tolerant of
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the judeo-christian tradition uh if you're so tolerant can we have a discussion of christianity and its
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virtues on cnn i'm asking a question uh can we discuss uh christianity and its key virtues uh in the
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public square in our public schools we can discuss everything else right now in the public schools
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right uh up to the absurd and the grotesque uh is being allowed underneath this tolerance but you
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cannot discuss the chief attribute necessary for the maintenance of our republic and this is you know
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john adams ben franklin uh the lady famously asked him but you have a republic uh he says yes if you can
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keep it everybody knows that how do you keep it uh everybody knows the the the foremost problem with
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a pure democracy is the running of the passions what controls that moral discipline and the virtues
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this has been the longest standing debate and it's just stunning to see presidential historians
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and the likes ducking it it's because they don't want to have to get down to the meat and potatoes
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and you know surely uh you know obama who went to harvard and bush uh knows better than to use this
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uh this modernist uh lingo in place of the of the basics uh and you know president pence came out and
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was doing some similar stuff and of course the new york times and the ap and and cnn covered all that
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because it's a pot shot at the one group of populists i you know the populist thing wasn't even in vogue
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when i ran but i've had no issue and i was in the republican conference with the conservative
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supposedly republicans who ran us into this ditch with 50 trillion in debt our major trading partner
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is a totalitarian uh communist surveillance state we have a wide open border such that the mayor of
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new york city says that his city uh one of the grandest cities in history new york city is under siege
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and is being destroyed uh the conservatives allowed that to happen so the populists do share
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and pence quoted you know burke and and russell kirk who i i love uh but all they said the exact
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thing i've been saying the essence of the republic is virtue and that virtue of course in their minds
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all the great conservatives comes straight out of the judeo-christian tradition and animates the
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spirit of our country i have not seen that spirit moving uh it's ossified it's like a rock buildup in
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the republican conference they've run us into this ditch and the freedom caucus those are the folks who
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have the animating spirit that is is uh following the lead and listening to their constituents but then
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leading in principle the way a republic is supposed to be ordered we have an ordered freedom and i could
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go on on the conservative principles but that's the that's the basic response to that piece it's way
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off course why we talk about in a fourth turning it's the institutions that come into question and
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they have to be there has to be a cleansing there has to be a purging because they ossify use that word
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at the beginning why are all the presidential libraries are the repositories of the thinking
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of these great men why would why would all the libraries come together and obviously they're going
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after trump and trumpism particularly now with the 14th amendment fight to try to get him off ballots
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funded by conservatives uh about the lawfare which is all you know kemp and and having their backs uh you
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see the ken paxton uh impeachment down in texas why did these institutions come together do they see
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they see populism as a existential threat to them yeah of course the great men are gone right now we're
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being run by a bunch of you know harvard east coast elitist west coast elitist uh folks that pay
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attention to the donors who fund the libraries right so it's just like all the foundations that
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fund academic research uh if you want to stay in business if you want to keep your funding base you
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better say the right thing to the donors and that's what the conservative party has been doing i used to
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sit in that room right with 220 conservatives and anyone that's on a major committee or even a minor
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committee and that gets 10 million dollars for their election i got zero uh from the party has to toe the
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line and of course you know we've discussed the major issues but all of it is subsumed underneath
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the budget right the seven trillion dollar budget i ran on what was called the virginia republican creed
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it was a conservative statement uh i had no problem with it uh the the the free enterprise system equal
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rights and justice fiscal responsibility of course is the nugget right that's why the republican party has
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been ossified it knows it has to go along with the donors wishes that's why mccarthy okayed a seven
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trillion dollar budget uh and so there's nothing wrong with the virginia republican creed other than
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the fact that no republicans follow it right there is no fiscal responsibility these are the virtues
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required right when you talk about virtue you cannot spend more than you have by two trillion a year
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for the next 10 years that is not a virtue and so the republican leadership and most of the members
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i hate to say there's plenty of exceptions in the freedom caucus and and beyond but most of them are not
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being virtuous in their actions they'll all use the right lingo uh they'll act like they're virtuous
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uh they'll act like they're full of piety and spout the judeo-christian tradition uh but when it comes
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time to representing the people honestly and in good faith and looking out for the best interests of
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this country how in the world with can someone with good beliefs and virtues allow our chief trading
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partner who we built up to remain a totalitarian surveillance state our it uh billionaire class right
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the big seven firms in the u.s are worth more than all european firms combined helped to write the code
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that enslaves the chinese uh uyghurs and beyond in the chinese system how in the world can a virtuous
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people allow that to happen and so these presidential libraries didn't say much about the virtues that are
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required to run a republic they just gave the new trendy stuff we all got to get along we got to be
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humane okay please define humane aristotle had a different answer than john stewart mill who had a
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different answer than him who had a different answer than emmanuel kant who all had different
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answers from the buddhist tradition and the muslim tradition and the judeo-christian tradition
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so to say words like we need to be humane is to say nothing which of course is what these
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presidential libraries said in that statement it's a bunch of mishmash they have effectively said
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nothing and it's up to responsible voices to come forward and really show what it means and of course
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the judeo-christian system set up this entire establishment that does protect the right of the
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individuals i went to princeton seminary we gave the university back to secular uh ownership voluntarily
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same with harvard yale and all the rest of them and said the only requirement is you got to follow
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like aristotelian ethics or something like that right aristotle was pretty good on the basic virtues
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and they failed to do that they went post-modern and now there's no absolute truth no absolute ethics
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uh and that's where we stand right now in these presidential libraries should know much better
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dave i know you got to bounce but i just want to take a quick break i just have one question to ask you
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when we come back about tuesday night the house is coming back mccarthy's going to talk uh is going
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to give the plan right between now and the end of the fiscal year the next three weeks you've been
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in those rooms before and i want you to share your knowledge short commercial break dave bratt julie
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kelly alex degrasse caroline rent mike davis hitters only here on a saturday morning in the war room back
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war room here's your host steven k dave thanks i know you get a bounce just tuesday he's coming back he's
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going to address the conference we've heard from all the insiders that he's going to lay out his
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strategy on both impeachment uh the appropriations process everything he's on start making the case
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for the cr uh you've been in those rooms before tell me how he's going to pitch it and and where do you
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think we really stand in combating this uh unless unless the grassroots just speak out with a unified
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voice very loudly over the next few days there'll be a shiny object will be the complexities will be
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you know you guys got to go along with us you can't if we don't do this you can't believe uh you know
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what we're going to bear in the press the press will come after us uh and then all of these other
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objectives we're trying to seek you know with impeachment and immigration and the border all
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of that will be lost well all of that is happening because we funded the federal government at seven
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trillion dollars which has allowed us to have a a national intelligence service that's run amok with
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russiagate for three years 51 of our you know highest intelligence officers were in on a fraud
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uh the justice department has a two-tiered uh system of justice uh right now and it it appears and all
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the political views are just my own uh to be going after only one side of the ledger and not following
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the other side sins whatsoever and so all of these have been brought about because we've allowed the
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size and scope of the federal government to to be to grow out of control and so it doesn't matter
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what they say when we have a covet economy at seven trillion and every responsible person thought it
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would for sure go back down to five trillion but the ratchet doesn't go down ever right when you jack
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up your car it's up there and we're keeping it at seven trillion in the face of all irrationality and
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deficits that go on forever so they're gonna they're gonna come up with some scare tactics threaten
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everybody let them know you better play team ball here you're gonna lose your money you won't get
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re-elected we won't give you the 10 million uh your committee assignments will be in in jeopardy
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uh and so on one by one by one they'll pick them off and you know some patriots will stand firm and say i
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i can no longer bear this because i am trying to live out the virtues uh that will make this republic
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last the test of time and so god bless them pray for the leaders who will take that stand pray for all
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of the leaders pray for the democrats pray for our president those are instructions from god
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uh that always do give us some hope uh that something could change uh because god's providential
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hand i think is still behind us even though we are gradually turning away from that that wonderful hand
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dave brant how do we get you on social media all the great charts and everything you put up on the
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on the manifestation of this uh spiritual war in the economic realm where do people go
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yeah just uh come visit uh liberty university uh got some friends coming in right now i'm gonna run
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off and join them in the cafeteria and then uh bratt economics on getter and then uh of course share
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rumble and these hits with everybody just great way to uh to to find uh bratt economics and uh and
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cover the highlights uh with the war room and oxford don steve bannon who uh covers the news like no
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one else can thank you very much you've called a lot of things never in oxford don but i'll take
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it brother thank you so much dave bratt thank you for sticking around
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i want to make sure um because here's what's going to happen brad's buried a little bit buried the lead
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in in what he was talking about part of it in that remember he said i got no money
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the set when he ran for re-election they cut dave bratt out and literally gave him this is the
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republican apparatus in the house gave him zero dollars where they're always pumping in you know
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millions of dollars into these uh seats of the guys they want to keep um and bratt had to do it on his
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own why he stood up to him and particularly about fiscal responsibility because he kept saying
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this is a moral question we're we're literally not just impacting people that are living today in this
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country but we're having this impact on future generations and that we owe it to them to take
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hard stands now and they didn't want to hear it remember the reason we're here where we are is the
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complicity of the republican party and going along with it i'm gonna have julie kelly on in a few minutes
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and julie kelly has essentially turned herself into a court reporter to cover like nobody else
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uh january 6 and we're going to pull the camera back a little bit because julie
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is is always down in the details she's always bringing the receipts we're going to pull the
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camera back and and really talk about how people have comported themselves particularly people that
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are coming after this populist movement because right now they see that the establishment sees
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more than the tea party more than anything's ever happened the ross perot the pat buchanan
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they see the trump movement and the populist nationalist direction of the trump movement
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as an existential threat now here's what we keep saying and of course you know over this weekend i'll
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be putting up a go there are tons of articles coming out now uh axios just had one uh that came
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out yesterday and i've put it up about oh everybody's so surprised that the deficit doubled
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it's two trillion dollars not a trillion dollars and as i told um as i told people um the um
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we call this from the beginning why we could do the math we knew the impact that inflation was going
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to have higher interest rates was going to have in the economy one of the reasons that the number is so
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large there's a 300 billion dollar miss in tax revenues both at the corporate level the personal
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level but particularly the capital gains level and we said your your tax revenues are too aggressive the
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way you've projected is too aggressive way too aggressive now they're going to live with that
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in the meeting on tuesday what they're going to talk about is is ways to fool you to ways to for them
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to for them to go back and lie to their constituents and say we just need all we need is another 30 days i just
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need 30 days i just need a cr we just need to get 30 days into this i just need more time to pass
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these appropriations here's the problem there's no real cuts it's all performative we had richard
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stern on here richard stern told you it was the total cuts they're talking about real cuts i mean
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differences in previous years they've told you the historic we have done historic cuts you have to
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supporters because these are historic cuts it's 12 billion dollars this is not sustainable all they
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talk about is the green new deal and the sustainability of you know the you got to build a sustainable
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energy foundation you have to have a sustainable economy this is 10x more important than that
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and you go back to pre-civilization this is this is where we stand now this is this is one of the
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most important inflection points uh in this time in history this this show is built around
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empowering you this show is built around uh giving you access to information
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that allows you to use your agency in a direction that assist you your family your community and
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your country and therefore the world remember the united states has a robust economy if the united
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states is on the cutting edge of productivity and the creation of value and therefore the creation of
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wealth and that wealth is fairly distributed or spread we are in the sunlit uplands yep go back to
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2019 was the world perfect the world was not perfect president trump was being assaulted by all sides on the
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the remember they began the russia hoax that's we started the show in what october september october of
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2019 because of the impeachment we called it first said hey nancy plos is going to impeach you and people
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say no no no steve that's all fake news i go no show impeaching by i said the time thanksgiving i
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missed a couple weeks it was by christmas the show impeaching but the sunlit uplands was the
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the economy that's when they realized they had to do something because he would have won in a
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landslide given where the economy was in 2019 the ccp understood that too hence that's why you saw the
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bioweapon we call covet 19 of which now she's back again and they're going through the same
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iterations they did uh before of the shutdowns and all that so it is vital that you are armed
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for the onslaught that's going to come on you what the first things are come on is that you're
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irresponsible you're a domestic terrorist you're white nationalist you are uh dangerous people and
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one of the reasons you're dangerous one of the reasons you're dangerous is because you're so you're
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anti-government and you want the government to be burned down you want the government to be shut
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down you want to cut it off of their of their oxygen which is the federal reserve printing money
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and that's one of the principal reasons they hate you it's your principles and values obviously but
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how it manifests itself in this political fight where you're sitting there going no no no no no
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we're not going to play this game anymore you're not going to enrich the wealthy you're not going to
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enrich the defense contractors in the pharmaceutical industry you're not going to do it you're not going
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to do it while you're shredding the constitution while you've turned the doj and the fbi
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against working class people while you have them going to abortion centers to where the uh where
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the traditional catholics are on the knees praying the rosary outside and rouse them up with the fbi
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you're not going to we're not going to do it while you have the justice department
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totally weaponized against trump president trump is the leader of this movement it's not going to happen
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we demand a stop and we demand a stop now and you're not going to have our votes and by the way for
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congressmen that say no if mccarthy goes around it and goes to hakeem jeffries again like he did on the
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debt ceiling and gets 70 or 80 votes then it's time to get rid of you it's time for a motion vacate
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if you can't do it you can't convince the conference to do it if you always need you know dozens and
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dozens of democratic votes to keep your uh your term your speakership alive then it's time that that's
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not alive because you have failed in every aspect of it and one of the biggest failures one of the
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biggest failures of these gutless cowards is to address the railhead of the problem what is the
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railhead of the problem in this democracy in this constitutional republic the railhead of the problem
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gets back to the events of 3 november of 2020 what led up to it and what manifested itself at that time
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and then how it played through all the way to january 6th now the best person in the world that
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understands that better than anybody is julie kelly and she's going to join us on the other side we'll
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be back in the war room on a saturday in just a moment
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everything's just beginning for the games you want to play bring it on and now we'll fight to the end
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unmoored to conservative principles the future of this movement in this party belongs to one or the
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other not both that's because the fundamental divide between these two factions is unbridgeable
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history teaches that societies with more freedom and less government flourish
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we must work through the system the political home of those who believe in limited government and
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individual liberty who keep faith with our constitution is the republican party i think my question is you
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know the inflection point you talk about this moment for the party you know you look at even our most
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recent polling in terms of uh the issues itself you know your consistency on conservatism i think is
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unquestioned whether you agree or disagree with where you are ideologically but in terms of who would
00:31:51.260
be the best candidate to handle the economy trump is at 69 percent immigration 65 percent ukraine 63 percent
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government overreach 59 percent um isn't this war over and your side lost
00:32:02.280
i want to bring in julie kelly julie first off i want to just get some administrative stuff out of the way
00:32:10.860
given that at american greatness the other sites you've put up for the last couple of years
00:32:15.660
you know going back i don't know almost three years now um and and and people like revolver and others
00:32:23.260
have taken some of the hard work you've done and done an amazing job of analyzing and contextualize
00:32:29.560
that we've had many people do that but you've really been at the tip of the spear of being into the
00:32:33.700
details of what's going on on january 6th has mike pence ever reached out to you uh to to talk to
00:32:41.520
you about any article that you've ever written or has mike pence or anyone on his team contacted you
00:32:47.680
to be briefed on your encyclopedic knowledge of what is going on here ma'am
00:32:54.020
uh no he has not and i just want to make one correction i did leave american greatness a few months
00:32:59.820
ago so all my work can be found at my sub stack declassified with julie kelly that's where i'm
00:33:05.000
reporting now um but no mike pence uh no presidential campaign has reached out to me to get more
00:33:12.600
information about you know anything uh what's happening with january 6th the corrupt weaponized
00:33:18.960
uh retaliatory vengeful soulless cruel department of justice and the fbi um i mean i hear these words
00:33:28.040
come out of mike pence's mouth i don't know what he's talking about i mean he is right maybe he is
00:33:33.800
right there is no place for conservatism and populism in the same republican party but guess
00:33:39.520
what one person who allegedly represents conservatism is running about two three percent in the polls
00:33:45.620
and the other candidate who represents populism and maga and making america great again trying to
00:33:52.640
restore our country uh is way ahead of the field but i'll tell you what to hear him listen that we
00:33:59.040
have to operate through these institutions through this system just indicates to me he he doesn't know
00:34:07.380
what's going on in this system i mean the idea that we have to operate but that's all but hang on
00:34:13.840
that that's that's yeah that's what i want to ask you he sits there and makes this theoretical case
00:34:19.480
and quite frankly rebecca a sunny book farm kind of sixth grade civics in that unctuous voice
00:34:26.040
right is he living in the same era that we're living in julie tell me about that because you see it
00:34:32.600
every you're up close on it every day like no one in this country is tell me is he dealing with what's
00:34:39.280
happening in this country right now he's not at all so the question is and we talked about this the
00:34:45.100
other day what role is he playing um you know why is he trying to convince americans that this system
00:34:52.740
this government system regardless of what it is department of justice national security apparatus
00:34:57.700
even the military uh any system related to the federal government is working look at and that
00:35:05.340
extends beyond washington look at what's happening in fulton county we just learned yesterday
00:35:10.700
that the fulton county grand jury voted to indict people like david purdue and kelly loffler and
00:35:18.360
lindsey graham for what for talking about potential voting fraud in the state of georgia i mean every
00:35:26.420
institution has been hijacked by the left and these bloodthirsty democrats where does mike pence think
00:35:33.240
he thinks we need to work with that system instead of smash it to bits and rebuild it to the extent that
00:35:39.480
we can um so i don't know what role he's playing but he's hard to listen to and you know dating back
00:35:47.580
to january 6 2021 his account of that day as i said runs totally contrary to what his top aide said
00:35:55.640
he strung people along intentionally steve until one o'clock that day when the joint session was
00:36:02.840
scheduled to begin that is when he released his letter stating he would not do anything
00:36:09.000
about the handling of the electoral uh votes that day he knew he was not going to do anything but
00:36:15.280
he intentionally waited till the last minute so he could what he actually did was fuel a lot of anger
00:36:23.500
in the crowd i've seen defendants um this has been used as evidence against them posts and videos that
00:36:29.020
they made after finding out that pence at the very last minute uh would not do go along with the so-called
00:36:34.700
eastman plan so um you know but there is a part of the republican party that believes sort of what
00:36:42.380
republic what mike pence is saying not the base but certainly republican leaders which is why we see
00:36:48.880
so much silence related to uh what's happening with the january 6 defendants and you have someone like
00:36:54.600
colorado representative ken buck uh produced this just fact free for the most part letter uh in response
00:37:02.520
to his own voters concerns about the treatment of january 6 defendants so um you know these people are not
00:37:11.480
our allies they are cover-up artists and they're certainly playing on the other side of the team not on
00:37:18.020
our side so you believe that after seeing uh the mike pence and going through what he wrote in his book
00:37:25.500
versus you're the one person who's gone through all the testimony uh you believe that they're actually
00:37:30.920
on the other side they can't be any clear they're either putting up smoke screens they're trying to
00:37:35.060
cover for it they're gaslighting us however you want to say it but they're not our allies is that
00:37:40.920
your is that your theory of the case yes absolutely and i'll tell you there are still a lot of open-ended
00:37:46.440
questions about mike pence's role on january 6 we have not seen his communications for that day
00:37:52.500
um his whereabouts are is still very sketchy and i've seen this over and over in trials that they
00:37:59.500
could not specifically locate or they could not disclose where mike pence was they said he was in
00:38:06.380
an underground garage somewhere on capitol grounds well where did he go and i'll tell you why that's
00:38:12.360
important because the basis of thousands of charges of being in restricted grounds that day for these
00:38:18.380
defendants was that mike pence was there and because he was under secret service protection
00:38:23.880
as a secret service protectee the grounds in the building were off limits they also said that about
00:38:30.400
kamala harris by the way until a year later we found out doj was lying and that she actually was at the
00:38:35.820
dnc headquarters when the pipe bomb was found we still have no explanation as to why kamala harris left
00:38:42.060
the capital that day and went to dnc headquarters how her secret service detail
00:38:47.100
missed this explosive device but furthermore a lot of questions about mike pence's role
00:38:53.920
before and certainly on that day how why was he communicating with nancy pelosi and not the
00:39:00.080
president why was he communicating with capital police chief at the time steve sund i mean where
00:39:05.980
are his records where was he how much did he know in advance about what might potentially happen that
00:39:12.540
day i'll tell you a big lie that mike pence told a discrepancy between his book and the account of
00:39:18.520
mark short and greg jacob his general counsel mark short said that he drove to the capitol from the vp
00:39:26.160
residence uh to the capitol uh late that morning on january 6th mike pence said he went with his family
00:39:33.760
in the vehicle mark short said no they were in a separate vehicle why would mike pence not tell the truth
00:39:40.320
about that why would he say it was with the family and he wrote this dramatic thing you know saw all
00:39:45.460
these protesters and they were going to be so disappointed but he according to his own top aid
00:39:51.180
he they weren't even with in the car with him so as i said there's something very sinister about him
00:39:57.400
but also something very sketchy and shady about his involvement in the events of january 6th
00:40:04.140
talk to me about this delay because you've said through all the trials that triggered a lot if
00:40:12.040
not everything about it wasn't president trump it was the action of mike pence what walk me through
00:40:17.700
what in his book how does he describe uh not telling anybody well he has a few different excuses as to why
00:40:26.780
there was a delay for this memo that he finally released as i said around one o'clock one of them is
00:40:32.760
that he was still gathering information his account of the morning of january 6th is that he went to his
00:40:38.860
computer he typed out this memo there had been a couple of drafts but he made it sound like he was
00:40:44.580
making the drafts not mark short and uh greg jacob and another aid which seems to be the truth according
00:40:50.580
to their sworn testimony to the january 6th select committee he said he wakes up he says a prayer
00:40:56.800
you know he thinks about his oath of office he starts rewriting or writing this memo he wrote it
00:41:03.080
on his own he made it sound like he said his top aides short and jacob got to the vp residence
00:41:08.800
are uh about 10 50 that morning they both testified they were there at 8 30 in the morning that they
00:41:15.480
were collaborating on this memo that they were working on someone's laptop on it mike pence said
00:41:21.060
he was working at his desktop and then get this he said he printed it out went to see if he saved
00:41:27.700
the file on his computer he hadn't so his daughter had to rewrite it in the computer based on the
00:41:35.940
printed document neither greg mark short nor greg jacob said that at all so what's with this weird
00:41:43.640
story that it wasn't saved when obviously he had his top aides there that morning as they were
00:41:49.580
finalizing it then he said the reason it was late was because they wanted out of respect for
00:41:55.240
donald trump get this they wanted to wait until his speech at the ellipse was over before they
00:42:00.840
released the letter now as we know donald trump took the stage much later than originally scheduled
00:42:06.520
he didn't finish speaking at the ellipse until about 110 so then mike pence said well we were running up
00:42:12.360
against the clock because the joint session started at one so we released this letter emailed it to
00:42:17.940
you know all the house members and members of the senate then made it publicly available so you had
00:42:23.380
all these people at the ellipse trump is still speaking right before mike pence who was in charge of
00:42:29.340
the joint session he releases this memo after teasing people for days you'll recall that he might do
00:42:35.880
something oh and the biggest one steve my donald trump called mike pence at about 9 30 on january 6th
00:42:44.200
uh his aides were there mike pence said he went to take the phone call it lasted about 15 or 20
00:42:49.480
minutes i believe mark short said that um did he tell the president at the 9 30 call by the way i'm
00:42:56.340
working on this memo and i'm not going to go along with this plan there's no indication that he did
00:43:02.180
because trump called him back at about 11 30 and that's when he told him again very sketchy conduct by
00:43:09.220
mike pence no and they never uh by the way can you just hold through a quick break take a quick
00:43:15.000
break also never uh never ran the letter which is one of the most important legal documents
00:43:21.120
out there never ran it past and jacobs never ran past the white house council
00:43:25.140
jacobs is the counsel to the uh to the vice president never ran it by the white house council
00:43:31.000
never gave him a draft form never showed to anybody in draft according to the book and according
00:43:35.640
their testimony never showed to anybody in draft form a document that important he's just typing
00:43:40.320
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julie just if you just take a minute or two and and tell people in your own words the system that
00:46:03.900
we're really up against mike pence gives you this kind of rebecca at sunnybrook farm sixth grade civics
00:46:09.520
lesson what's the reality of what we're dealing with ma'am as you see it the reality is that you
00:46:15.940
have a department of justice that is twisting and misrepresenting and weaponizing statutes such as
00:46:23.480
obstruction of an official proceeding to turn political protesters into convicted felons that is
00:46:30.200
the 1512 c2 count you also have them twisting ancient statutes like seditious conspiracy which
00:46:37.760
no american has been convicted of before january 6th this is a charge that is usually applied to real
00:46:44.940
terrorists like the blind shake so they're now weaponizing that statute as well then you turn to
00:46:52.340
how they are adding prison time these excessive harsh sentences that for example we just saw in the
00:46:58.780
proud boys case but we've also seen this for more than two years uh what other in what other
00:47:05.820
jurisdiction is someone who allegedly sprays a keychain pepper spray at a police officer denied release
00:47:13.000
held in solitary confinement basically for a year and a half before you torment a plea deal out of this
00:47:18.460
man and he's then sentenced to 82 months in prison on top of that it just there's no comparison
00:47:23.980
between what's happening in these january 6th cases and anything else so you've got excessive
00:47:30.960
sentences the weaponization of statutes you've got judges who are putting their long term their
00:47:37.720
permanent imprimatur on the weaponization of these statutes and also the use of the terror enhancement
00:47:44.240
at sentencing what happened last week is judge tim kelly as we talked about made shaking a metal fence
00:47:52.140
a federal act of terrorism that is the terrorism uh sentencing enhancement he applied for five
00:47:58.920
members of the proud boys including henry gaitario who was in baltimore he wasn't even there on january
00:48:05.360
6th nonetheless he's now sentenced to 22 years in prison um but aside from how the system is operating how the
00:48:14.160
system is corrupt how this system is compromised the people who are running it what has always struck me the
00:48:21.560
most steve is the cruelty of these line prosecutors and these judges i've referred to them as sadistic
00:48:28.900
they are gratified by inflicting pain on people trump supporters keep in mind most of these january 6th
00:48:36.420
defendants have no money they have no criminal record they don't know how the justice system works or
00:48:41.320
certainly how it works in washington dc they are completely blindsided by how they've been treated
00:48:48.280
as domestic terrorists even for low-level petty offenses like parading in the capitol
00:48:53.020
so um what i how i see these line prosecutors and these judges operate i think that is what upsets me
00:49:01.280
infuriates me and and saddens me the most because the human beings who are behind this are really uh the
00:49:09.240
villains here and look it's not stopping i mean we just saw last week the raid of the man from uh oklahoma
00:49:16.340
and the the blowback to liberty safe for turning over that information to the fbi that's been
00:49:22.700
happening for two more than two and a half years big tech airlines banking institutions amazon you name
00:49:30.040
it they're working hand in glove with the fbi to produce records of their own customers to help the
00:49:35.700
fbi track down j6 trespassers and ruin their lives we are now seeing new arrests almost every single day
00:49:43.440
matthew graves the dc u.s attorney has promised to more than double the current caseload which is
00:49:48.700
now over 1100 individuals uh so this is not stopping so this is the system that not just j6ers are facing
00:49:57.280
but all of us eventually uh and mike pence to be the gutless coward he is that really triggered most of
00:50:08.120
this not to have any interest and to come out with this unctuous uh you know time for choosing
00:50:13.340
here's a time for choosing mike pence is a gutless coward he's going into the dustbin of history at one
00:50:19.480
percent in the presidential primary julie kelly how do people get to your sub stack man thanks for
00:50:25.580
having me on steve it's declassified with julie kelly um so i'm posting a ton of breaking news about
00:50:30.880
january 6th and doj and the trump cases as well and then i'm on social media twitter x julie underscore
00:50:38.140
kelly to true social at julie underscore kelly julie uh fight on tremendous work tremendous reporting
00:50:49.440
i mean that's one of the things that really upset me when i heard pence's speech it's not
00:50:56.420
his version of conservatism is one of the reasons we got here because it wasn't backed up with any
00:51:02.980
force any moral force they didn't really believe it and that's why they continue to roll over time and
00:51:08.980
time and time and time again because they won't stand in the breach and fight and the people like
00:51:14.600
the julie kelly's of the world uh will and that's and trump will this is why they hate trump and they
00:51:21.320
realize that populism and trump's uh the trump movement is ascendant okay um we've got a huge
00:51:29.280
week coming we're going to turn we're going to pivot we got alex the rest and catteline rent are
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00:51:37.460
about this really this tremendous fight that's now going to go in the courts about the redistricting
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the house of representatives you the war and posse were at the tip of the spear in making sure this
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went our way back over the last year and a half and guess what they've all gone to court seeing what
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00:51:59.320
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to do that is with salty go there do it today check it out