Episode 3392： House Chairman Announces Serious National Security Threat
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Summary
10 people have been shot and rushed to local hospitals. Two people who are armed have been detained for further investigation. NBC News correspondent Jesse Kirsch is in Kansas City, Missouri with the latest on the situation. Breaking news out of Kansas City.
Transcript
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Kansas City, where shots have been fired at the end of the celebration for the Super Bowl champions, the Kansas City Chiefs.
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It is a fluid situation, but here's what we know so far.
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Officials say 10 people were shot and rushed to local area hospitals.
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The shooting took place at a garage near the city's main train station.
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Two people who are armed have been detained for further investigation.
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Officials are asking people to exit the area as soon as possible.
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Let's go down to NBC News correspondent Jesse Kirsch, who is in Kansas City, Missouri, with the latest.
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Hey, Lisa, I want to flag a picture you're seeing right now.
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This is a live image from just outside of Union Station on the outskirts of the stage area for the Kansas City Chiefs parade.
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And you can see authorities appear to be putting someone in the back of a vehicle,
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someone who was escorted over to this vehicle and placed into it,
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based on what our photographer has been able to see.
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And that is the live picture you are seeing right now.
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So we're going to stay with that picture on our camera so we can get as much footage of it as possible.
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But I am going to continue talking about everything else that's unfolding out here.
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And, you know, if you want to show other images, by all means.
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But we're going to keep the camera over there so we can get as much footage of that as possible.
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We were at the aftermath, the immediate aftermath of the celebration for the Kansas City Chiefs.
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For context, this is a town that loves its football team.
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This was the back-to-back Super Bowl championship parade and rally.
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Officials expected around a million people could be out here.
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That is something that can always boost the turnout at an event like this.
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And with so many people in the downtown, that would be like having roughly double the population of Kansas City in this downtown area at the same time.
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And in this immediate vicinity of Union Station, where the rally was, there were thousands of people out here.
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This was about an hour ago, a little bit more than an hour ago.
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And then we noticed something did not seem right.
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We saw people that were running away from the train station.
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And that is something that you don't expect in the aftermath of a large event, right?
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Who goes to a sporting event and then runs out of the event?
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You know it's going to take a while to get out, so you move at a triple pace.
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At the same time, we saw what appeared to be police officers rushing into the area,
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some of them even looking like they were jumping over the barricades up along the rally stage.
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And we also, at the same time, had had authorities on rooftops in the area, including at least one long gun position.
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And we noticed those teams appeared to be taking the situation, not that they weren't taking it seriously to begin with,
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
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You're just not going to get a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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We're going to go to a press conference here momentarily.
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Wednesday, 14 February, the year of our Lord, 2024.
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We're going to start at the top, and I will jump in.
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Tons of news today on Capitol Hill, but we want to get to the bottom of exactly what happened
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during this celebratory victory parade today for the Kansas City Chiefs
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and Kansas City, Missouri, the winners of the Super Bowl.
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I'm joined today by Police Chief Stacey Graves, our Fire Chief, Ross Grundison.
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After I'm done speaking, Police Chief Graves will give details on the incident that happened
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A few things that I want to make sure we note at the outset.
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First today, we had 600 Kansas City, Missouri Police Department officers, 250 from outside
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We went out today, like everyone in Kansas City, looking to have a celebration.
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That celebration was marred by a shooting today.
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And we recognize that there are some who are injured.
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One, we have spoken to the Kansas City Chiefs, who made clear that their prayers are with everyone
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who was at the parade today, everyone in Kansas City, and everyone who was touched by this
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They also noted that their players, coaches, and staff are all accounted for at this point
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We, however, note that this is a fluid situation, so all that we are sharing now may change as
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We've also received a call from the White House that offered all federal assistance in
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And certainly in the days ahead, in the hours ahead, we will make sure we continue to do
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I will say personally, first, a thank you to the women and men of law enforcement, to
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the women and men who work with the Kansas City Fire Department and our other agencies.
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When the shooting started, I, like many others, ran and ran for safety.
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I saw a number of agencies, including the Kansas City Police Department, officers with guns
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As I was leaving the scene, I saw members of our Kansas City Fire Department administering
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aid to folks who are seriously injured, without concern for the shootings and the challenges
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This is absolutely a tragedy, the likes of which we would have never expected in Kansas
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City, and the likes of which we will remember for some time.
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However, I want to say thank you to those who are making sure that we are safe today,
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those who are investigating this incident, and those who will continue to make sure that
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those who committed these acts today are brought to justice.
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We'll come back for some questions at the end of the chief's comments, but now the police
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Chief Stacey Graves, Kansas City, Missouri Police Department.
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At the conclusion of the chief's rally today, there were shots fired on the west side of Union
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Immediately, officers responded to the area, took two people into custody, and also immediately
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We're still gathering information on the number and the status of victims.
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But like I said, we know that one of the victims is deceased.
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The people who came to this celebration should expect a safe environment.
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We had over 800 law enforcement officers, Kansas City and other agencies at the location
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Because of bad actors, which were very few, this tragedy occurred.
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Even in the presence of uniformed law enforcement officers, who again ran towards them and took
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To the people who were injured in this tragedy, our hearts go out to you and your families.
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This investigation is just beginning and we are working safely to clear all surrounding
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We will keep you updated on Twitter and most likely a follow-up press availability.
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We have, we have, we have, we have, right now we have up to 10 to 15 injured by, yes, right now we do
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not have an exact number of people who were victims of a gunshot wound.
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It could be upwards from 10 to 15 with one deceased.
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I do not have conditions on our victims just yet.
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I don't, I do not believe that any of them were children.
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Chief, what prompted, what do you guys believe now prompted the shooting?
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We are still, that is still under investigation.
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I myself was outside when I heard the shots fired.
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It's going to take us a little bit to determine exactly what led up to the shooting.
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I will say though, we do have two suspects in custody.
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I have heard that, that fans got involved in the apprehension or
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I cannot confirm that right now, but that is something that I have heard myself.
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As soon as the rally concluded, there were shots fired on the west side of Union Station.
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I know one of the suspects was immediately pursued on foot.
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I have heard the information that was just requested.
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But after that, immediately officers began rendering life sustaining aid,
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calling in fire, which is the fire department, to also assist those victims.
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Do you know that there were more than two people taken into custody?
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Because we had two people, after you guys had made your announcement,
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Anyway, they asked the police chief, there's only two people and local TV guys are talking about.
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So there's a lot of from the Twitterverse coming up.
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We're eventually going to get this down so we can actually do it.
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We're not going to chase rapids here, obviously.
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But there's something very big that happened in Kansas City today.
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When you have a million people show up in Kansas City, Missouri,
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twice the number of people that live in the metropolitan area, it's a big deal.
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It was obviously very celebratory and one of probably the great franchises in modern professional football.
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There's a lot of stuff on the Internet, and there's, do we have it yet?
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There looks like a middle-aged or maybe slightly older Caucasian male.
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It looks like he's handcuffed by police, and he's being walked—a number of TV cameras on him,
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and we're trying to pull TV coverage or TV camera coverage from other sources now.
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There's also—looks like two or three young African-American males.
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We're not saying that either the white middle-aged guy or these African-American males did this,
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but right now it looks like there's footage from the scene that we're there at least handcuffed by police.
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The police are being very tight on what happened.
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And as soon as we get more information, we do know the Kansas City police has already stated
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they don't believe this is related to terrorism, but just criminal activity.
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So when we get more information, we will share with you.
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There's some of the local stills coming up on the Internet right now that we're screening,
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And as soon as we get more information, we will get back to you.
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This is a developing story, and it's going to be a big story when we find out who the perpetrators are.
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So that's why everybody's trying to get the information.
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It's a little odd that no information has been put out at all by the Kansas City authorities,
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which is traditionally—I have a rule of thumb about this, but that is inside baseball, as we say.
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Okay, tragedy in Kansas City, developing story.
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We're going to be all over this in the next two hours.
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Let's reset here for a moment and go to Capitol Hill.
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Certainly not as tragic as what went down in Kansas City at the Chiefs Championship Parade,
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In the middle of the day, I've never seen this.
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Colonel Harvey was the senior staffer under Devin Nunez on the House Intelligence Committee.
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I think Nunez was the last Republican to be the chairman.
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He now works with President Trump and for President Trump over at True Social.
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And by the way, Brian Costello is also going to join us.
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Colonel Harvey is going to join us because a lot went on at Capitol Hill.
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And like I said, we have stuff coming out of Kansas City and we'll get you updates as something solid or meaningful comes in.
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But as you know, here in the world, we're not going to chase rabbits.
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In fact, can we put the tweet up if we do have it?
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Long story short, he put this tweet out that said there was like classified information of an immediate threat that had to be.
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I mean, this guy's the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
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He's one of the most important jobs on Capitol Hill.
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He puts this tweet out that, you know, it's a serious threat and that the president needs to declassify this and the American people need to hear this right away.
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The Ukraine bills just got dropped off of the House.
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And the secret House session or the closed House session, first time since 1813, 1815, sometime we're going to burn the Capitol, was supposed to be on Thursday, supposed to be tomorrow.
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And, I mean, it set off fire alarms all over the place, from the stock market to capitals.
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Like, what in the hell is going on here, demanding President Biden release this information to the American public immediately as like a national security?
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And then it was immediately leaked, oh, it was something to do with Russia.
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I think it was posted or somebody went back on Turner's Twitter feed.
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When the war room posse was sitting there listening to Mike Lee's four-hour speech about why we shouldn't do Ukraine.
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And why Eric Schmidt and Ted Cruz and even Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, a lot of the neocons, a lot of the super hawks are saying we can't do this Ukraine bill until we secure the southern border.
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I mean, the number of kind of hardcore neocons said it can't be done.
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Where I come from, they're not going to tolerate it.
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Look, Turner, and we've had a huge problem with Turner from the beginning.
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This guy's the one suppressing real investigations.
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He is a, I don't want to say a country bumpkin.
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But he's the perfect, he's the perfect clown that comes to the imperial capital.
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And immediately they're telling him, they're rubbing up on him.
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And this guy's the one that's made the rounds on Meet the Press.
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And they're saying the head of the house intelligence.
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And they're with knitted brow, listening for deep thoughts.
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That, you know, when he was mayor of Dayton, the world's not sitting there waiting for his pronouncements.
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So, you know, and they're telling him, you're so brilliant, you're so bright.
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This is a guy that's going to, out of his way to suppress the investigations of Sequoia Capitol and the rest of this Chinese Communist Party direct,
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not even influence peddling, direct control of members of Congress.
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And funding the Democratic Party through Moritz and the rest of the guys over at Sequoia.
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It's so bad that it was Brian Costello and ours, relentless assaults on these guys that got him to break up Sequoia Capitol into Sequoia Capitol, China, and Sequoia Capitol, USA.
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Turner's the one of the guys that refuses and refuses and refuses to have investigations.
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Yet he's all, he's going to see Zelensky and he's a statesman and a big thinker and a huge strategic thinker.
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And these are the kind of clowns when they blow in off the prairie.
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The intelligence guys get them right away and they brief them.
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You can't possibly, this is, you know, the rest of your countrymen can't see this.
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And that's when he starts thinking great thoughts.
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And that's when he looks in the mirror and he says, you know, you know, he sees is not the bumpkin that rolled in out of Dayton.
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What he sees is a world leader, a man of importance, a man of substance.
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His mark in history is going to be Churchillian.
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All these guys, look at him all the weekend, they're Churchillian.
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Look at all the guys in South Dakota, North Dakota that voted for this.
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The folks out there in the States, good, hardworking, you know, common sense, traditional American values.
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This is not what they sent people to, to from South Dakota and North Dakota and Dayton, Ohio.
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They wanted to make sure that their values and quite frankly, their grit and determination and self-reliance and cussedness and, you know, common sense and kind of show me, you know, Eric Smith did Missouri proud.
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They were magnificent and kind of going through and it's just kind of common sense.
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This was the most desperate, and I think you're seeing now the desperate measures.
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He's not working on the discharge petition, but then maybe he's working on the discharge petition.
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You know, they're trying to either do a, they're trying to do everything that's outside the normal order.
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Donald Trump is an agent of chaos and his followers are domestic terrorists.
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Well, I would respectfully submit that you are the stability in this country, that you are the center of gravity of the decency and common sense in this country, and that the globalist, of which these guys get sucked into and patted on the head and said, man, you're really smart.
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You were really, you're like a global leader, smart.
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You're going to, you're going to be, you're a man of importance.
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Never in the history of our country, ever, ever since House Intel.
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Remember, House Intel came out of the, they came out of all the debacle of Watergate and the House Intelligence Investigation on the assassinations and the Kennedy assassination and the, it was, it came out of the Church Commission, essentially.
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Up until then, there was no Senate Intel and no House Intel.
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And they finally realized that these intelligence agencies are so out of control, just completely freelancing it.
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You had a State Department riddled with communists back in the 40s.
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You didn't know, running around the world, starting revolutions and coups and overthrowing things.
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Just walk down to Foggy Bottom and look at all the communists infecting the State Department and the Roosevelt administration and leading over to the Truman administration.
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Because Truman's another guy that blew up off the prairie from Missouri.
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He's a guy that was so, they thought so highly of him, they didn't even tell him about the atomic bomb.
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But you see, in Oppenheimer, he had pretty good common sense.
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Kind of that Missouri, I'm not a huge Truman fan, but he had pretty common sense when they started telling him about it.
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That movie, in fact, if you watch Oppenheimer, it's a movie about the deep state.
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One of my young charges after watching, he says, you know, this is a deep state film.
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Well, that's what the deep state controls Turner.
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They sent him over to Zelensky and gets the top secret briefings.
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And these Russians, and they're going to be putting, I don't know, nuclear weapons on the space station.
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Or they're going to be doing this or doing that.
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Well, dude, if that's what you're talking about, because that's the rumor.
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They're going to have it on the space station and drop a nuke on Dayton.
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He said, just give the $60 billion over to the Space Force.
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Mike, but I like directionally where you're going with that.
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We can't, we got to shut it down with nothing, but I like your direction.
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This is what, this is how over the top and insane these people are.
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This shows you the fetish and obsession with Ukraine.
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And I keep telling you, and I'm never wrong, when we kind of go in these kind of directions,
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there's something in Ukraine that is not for the family hour.
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I'm just saying, there's been so much dark there.
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It's like in the movie JFK, when they talk about, what is it, Project Anna, kind of the assassinating Castro.
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Well, that's what House Intel and Senate Intel was set up to kind of oversee.
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The president of the United States has to release immediately.
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This wouldn't happen to be about Ukraine or Pfizer or something about Russia.
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Another phony Russia situation that's going to scare everybody.
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There's not going to be any secret meeting tomorrow.
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They're not going to be behind closed doors because they're getting sent home.
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When you're sitting there trying to run every play on you and Hakeem Jeffries, you got guys
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You got House members that are sitting there saying, no, let's have a discharge.
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Let's do things that are just never done, not regular order, to try to jam this bill through
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and everything else and get the FISA extended for everything.
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And I'm one of the 26th that's named that they spied on, right?
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Actually, the piece of it have been out for years, but verifies that they use foreign
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intelligence agencies to spy on 26 of President Trump's closest associates.
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So that'll be a quite interesting one as we take that to court, suing certain individuals,
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For hopefully everything that they're worth and maybe more.
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For the first time, Harvey's going to come on here and say,
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Costello's going to tell you what a clown Turner is.
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But Harvey's going to tell you, hey, in the House Intelligence Committee, for a guy,
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The Speaker of the House had to come out like in all caps moments later and say,
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It's like that thing at the end of Animal House.
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What that leads me to believe is that Brother Turner put that tweet out by himself.
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He didn't think he needed to run it by anybody.
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Morning Mika saw you at a cocktail party and said, you know, you really are something.
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Zelensky treats me like a statesman and tells me, takes me into his confidence of how I'm going to save Zelensky.
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And be in the history books that we were writing about.
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And this is how we're in this situation with a southern border completely invaded.
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Now you've got hundreds of thousands of fighting age males from the Chinese cameras, from the PLA, up here with others, with every nation on earth.
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Would the folks in Dayton that are dying of fentanyl, would the folks in Dayton, the African-Americans and Hispanic citizens are having their wages crushed by the migrants that are all around Ohio driving wages down?
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Would maybe they want him down in Lukeville, Arizona, or El Paso, Texas, or Rio Grande City in the Rio Grande Valley, or maybe McAllen, Texas?
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You've got a 2,000-mile border, and they're coming across everywhere.
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Maybe even go to an Indian reservation down in New Mexico.
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See if the chiefs will have you down there and let you see what's coming up.
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The fentanyl and everything is coming up through New Mexico.
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And then why don't you put out a text, we will never, ever consider this bill until the southern border is closed.
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Because they're completely captured by the intelligence agencies, and they're completely captured by the defense industrial complex.
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Who is going to take care of Gallagher and all these guys?
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Gallagher is going to get kissed into a big job.
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And go on Fox, we can cut on TV for stupid people, and just get talking points all day long.
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How this is so important, so urgent, must be done.
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And if we don't do this, they're going to be in Paris next.
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Yeah, they're going to be rolling through the North German plane.
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They're going to be coming through the Folder Gap.
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They got that tank column, they can't even make it to Kiev.
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Those brothers are going to be coming, and that's a problem.
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Remember, Europe is so, this is Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
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They're being invaded by Syria and by North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, and their elites are doing nothing about it.
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And the biggest threat that the German government has, I don't see them saying anything about the Russians.
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They're coming to us and begging us to put more money in.
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All they're taking is alternative for Deutschland.
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Because they say we're being invaded, and they've got to be shut down.
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So all you do, you see the Guardian, the Financial Times, every day, what is the Germans doing?
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Are they getting to 2% for their own defense, and maybe even a little more if they're so scared about the Russians?
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No, they're going to put one-third of their people in their country that are in a party that says,
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hey, we're being invaded, maybe we're going to stop that alternative for Deutschland.
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They can't even make a telephone call unless German authorities are watching.
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They're the most significant threat to Germany.
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Okay, we're going to have some more footage on the Kansas City situation as soon as we can process it and render it and get it in there.
00:33:43.700
There's no, Johnson's not going to consider anything on this bill.
00:33:50.220
I believe there's a report, and I think it has been backed up, but I haven't double-checked this, that Johnson put a call in, I think, to the president to go sit down with him.
00:34:00.560
I guess if you're trying to show, okay, we're trying to work it out, we're trying to be bipartisan, we're trying to be good guys, that's fine.
00:34:19.180
They got to get over to Munich and get their pay envelope stuffed with cash.
00:34:36.920
I know that's totally unrelated to the South Carolina primary and President Trump.
00:34:42.920
Oh, by the way, Financial Times on the hard copy, and I think we're going to have this in Denver in a moment,
00:34:49.760
On the Financial Times, lead story this morning.
00:34:53.060
The nations of Europe are right now paying, getting ready to pay 2%.
00:35:16.080
He's forcing them and browbeating them to actually be an alliance, not a protector, and say, look, you guys got to get serious about this.
00:35:25.100
If you think there's all these threats, another thing you got to get serious about, why are we in an alliance that's going to be overrun by invaders from the Middle East and North Africa and, you know, sub-Saharan Africa?
00:35:40.440
If we want to be in business with those countries, we can make our own decision.
00:35:47.160
If we want an alliance, we'll go and cut deals and be allies with countries in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa or in the Middle East.
00:35:54.880
Actually, technically, we're not even an ally to Israel.
00:35:58.640
They are an ally partner and have been since their formation.
00:36:01.980
You saw how well it worked throughout the Gulf Emirates.
00:36:06.200
They're cutting deals with the Chinese Communist Party right now, as Brian Costello knows.
00:36:10.760
The $7 trillion being raised for artificial intelligence.
00:36:15.380
Where was Tucker Carlson when he called him out?
00:36:23.560
Who's cutting deals at long-term output deals with the Chinese Communist Party?
00:36:27.280
Well, let me just some random countries, Saudi Arabia, UAE, the Persians, Iraq.
00:36:35.800
Remember Iraq right now, all interests are controlled.
00:36:39.520
They're fighting and being controlled by other entities, not American entities.
00:36:43.320
That's $7 trillion flushed for nothing, for zero.
00:36:58.280
Democracy, fighting for democracy, freedom and democracy.
00:37:07.000
But we got them sent home, so they're not considering this.
00:37:19.440
Hey, it's not, you know, don't break out the Moet Shandon.
00:37:25.600
Don, but on Valentine's Day, keep the cork in, but at least we got them to go home.
00:37:31.080
And they can't do any more damage when they're out of town.
00:37:36.560
But the FISA, and the big FISA dramatic, you know, it's got to be dramatic.
00:37:43.020
And Turner is being, I think, dragged on social media because he's a buffoon.
00:37:51.660
His specific responsibilities as head of House Intel.
00:37:55.080
And I can't tell you, this is a very important, that and Senate Intel are quite important.
00:37:59.980
That's why you got to have guys like Devin Nunez, or before him actually Pompeo ran it.
00:38:05.080
But Turner's gone out of his way to kowtow, to big tech, to the big donors, to big money.
00:38:13.360
And he's the first guy out there with the Russians, the Russians, the Russians, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.
00:38:22.620
This buffoon decided to wreck everyone's Valentine's Day here.
00:38:25.580
I got a call from a bunch of Wall Street guys thinking it was China-related when he first said it.
00:38:31.400
And everybody was really, really surprised this was Turner running his own Russia hoax.
00:38:38.680
So let's not forget that he's appointed by Leader McCarthy to be the Gang of Eight, right?
00:38:46.060
I mean, you have the Gang of Eight sitting there being briefed.
00:38:48.640
And we've got one member of the Gang of Eight, McConnell, talking about going through a tragedy in his family.
00:38:58.120
I think it was D.C. Drano dug up the pictures of him in Kiev four days ago.
00:39:04.040
My experience, my direct experience with this was when I was dealing with the House Intel team,
00:39:11.100
and they were looking into what the real issue was, which was how China was buying Washington through the billionaire elite crowd,
00:39:18.480
which is a very substantial issue that nobody's looking into now.
00:39:21.860
Now, and Nunes left, and there was a whole Russiagate team doing that.
00:39:26.980
Turner got the job from McCarthy, and he perp-walked out all the people doing the Russia hoax investigation.
00:39:37.460
And, you know, as we're seeing stuff come out with Schellenberg and Tebe today,
00:39:41.400
more facts pulling everything together and getting into a wider audience,
00:39:44.900
you know, there's still a substantial issue there, right?
00:39:50.720
So Turner could be dealing today with, you know, we've got a suspicious death related to somebody in the Gang of Eight.
00:39:59.800
We've got it coming out that, you know, the IC was weaponized to try and change the outcome of an election.
00:40:08.860
He decides to pull the fire alarm for Ukraine and Russia.
00:40:16.960
I want you to go back to what your Wall Street guys are calling you because Costello's known,
00:40:20.960
not just simply for being here on the War Room, but all of his great Twitter feed,
00:40:24.900
is a guy that knows about the CCP and knows the infiltration scheme.
00:40:31.380
I mean, I got tons of phone calls from guys going, what in the hell is going on here?
00:40:35.680
Look, it's only been around since, I think, 78 or 79.
00:40:38.860
But no House intelligence members ever put out, either on a TV show, radio show, or through Twitter,
00:40:44.560
that we have a national security issue and the president's got to unleash all this.
00:40:49.400
The American people have to know about an imminent threat, an immediate threat.
00:40:53.600
And people are going, oh, my God, what's happening?
00:40:55.320
Are they getting ready to drop a hypersonic weapon on New York City with a nuclear tip on it?
00:41:05.140
Then you find out later when Johnson comes in, I don't know, 20 minutes later,
00:41:08.920
and puts this thing out, like, calm down, all caps,
00:41:11.580
you realize this clown just, he's just soloing.
00:41:19.220
He's got no national security people next to him.
00:41:27.080
He took, you know, some of the best people that Devin Nunes had assembled,
00:41:30.300
who really understood the system, walked him all out the door.
00:41:37.240
You know, so, yeah, this guy is, you know, he shifted the focus to trying to shift the focus to,
00:41:42.860
you know, Russia walking through Europe and, you know, with a European fetish he has.
00:41:47.660
I mean, part of me thinks it's as simple as he wanted to be on the plane to Munich to collect the cash
00:41:52.340
and was desperate and trying to figure out how to do it.
00:41:56.480
You know, it's just, it's baffling that this guy is in any, Steve, the entire,
00:42:04.920
Almost everyone you have on your show will be more qualified for that position than he is.
00:42:14.540
Love Dayton, love Ohio, love that part of Ohio, great people.
00:42:17.140
But a guy with no experience, McCarthy tapped him because he is a stooge.
00:42:23.820
He's the guy that tapped because he's not, you know, he's not the sharpest pencil in the stack.
00:42:35.380
And he plays that role well because he is a doofus.
00:42:43.580
How can you let a chairman of a committee essentially cause a national security-like meltdown in the country of capital markets and everything else?
00:42:58.220
Or, you know, to tee up the secret FISA means are going to take place.
00:43:10.800
But now you're seeing the nest of vipers that McCarthy left.
00:43:16.580
And Johnson ought to go through and start taking some tips.
00:43:26.360
I think he just announced he's retiring, not going to run again.
00:43:29.160
And that was, I think, a big deal for him because I knew him before he was in Congress.
00:43:33.000
And it was a big deal for him to run and then become chairman of DHS.
00:43:37.680
So let's go to, when you say the Gang of Eight, that is the House and the Senate people,
00:43:41.820
they get even more classified information in the General House.
00:43:45.280
And if the president wants to do a clandestine action, it's called a presidential finding,
00:43:49.660
you have to go to the Gang of Eight because it was so out of control in the 50s, 60s, and 70s,
00:43:54.980
this was the mechanism that was set up to kind of bring the people's representatives into.
00:43:59.520
So this is just a select group of people directly related, the majority leader,
00:44:08.480
So, but you have a member of Gang of Eight, that would be brother Mitch McConnell,
00:44:14.600
And this story gets curiouser and curiouser, sir.
00:44:23.860
So tragically, and again, I know we covered this this morning, but, you know, when there's
00:44:28.780
a passing, you can never offer enough condolences, I think.
00:44:32.920
Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law, Elaine Chao, so, or Angela Chao, Elaine Chao's sister,
00:44:43.040
We believe it's now being reported on their ranch in Texas, and the Tesla she was driving
00:44:53.500
Her Jim Breyer is a famous investor, invested in Facebook, was one of the early investors
00:44:59.580
in Facebook, and then went off and started funneling a lot of money into China through
00:45:05.520
He's on the board of another big China investor, which is, I believe he's on the board of Blackstone.
00:45:10.980
You know, so he's got a lot of China exposure, and here everybody's kind of shocked, right?
00:45:18.300
It's like there's a mysterious passing away of, you know, a prominent woman who was on
00:45:25.580
the board of directors of the Bank of China, was involved in the, you know, McConnell-Cow
00:45:30.940
shipping company, had done a lot in the shipping community, the shipping community is disrupted,
00:45:38.260
There's all these articles on Elaine Chao and her relationships and everything else,
00:45:42.620
and all at the end, it says there was a car accident.
00:45:46.600
You know, and it was reported by Kyle Bass on Twitter this morning, and it started leaking
00:45:51.080
out last night that this was more drowning than a car accident, and that it was a car
00:46:03.140
You know, we're hearing rumors that there, you know, and this would certainly be substantiated.
00:46:09.300
You know, Brian and Carr are very wealthy, so it's very realistic to believe that there
00:46:14.280
is video footage or video cameras on the ranch, and we're hearing that's in the possession of
00:46:33.700
We've got a lot of Chinese people coming over the border.
00:46:36.500
We have a prominent Chinese national married to a U.S. billionaire who suddenly passes, you
00:46:42.680
know, and everybody's a little bit on the edge of the seat.
00:46:47.500
And, you know, all of a sudden, he tweeted out, I first, everybody reached out to me.
00:46:56.180
Brian, real quickly, what's your Twitter account?
00:46:58.000
Where do people follow you for all breaking news?
00:47:08.780
So we've had a fiasco today, and I'm not even getting to the good stuff.
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Look, I could be dead wrong on this, and I don't want to get ahead of this story.
00:49:16.220
At 6 o'clock, I hear it's going to be Kansas City.
00:49:18.040
We're going to go back to a press conference, and we'll see what's going on from the authorities' side.
00:49:22.460
I know there's all kinds of rumors popping up on the Internet,
00:49:25.380
but let's wait until we have at least the official word that we can drill down on it
00:49:29.340
and see if it's all straightforward or a little spin.
00:49:33.640
As you can tell, it's in turbulence, times of turbulence.
00:49:35.800
And in Capitol Hill, remember, you're the stability.
00:49:40.600
You are, because of your phone calls, your emails to the local office, et cetera,
00:49:51.200
Where they're going to the music, they're frozen.
00:49:53.320
And that's why Johnson feels somebody's got his back, right?
00:49:56.780
Because remember, he's got people around him, these McCarthyists around him,
00:49:59.400
that want to fund the Ukraine and screw the southern border.
00:50:06.720
That's why I really want everybody that's in the local area,
00:50:27.680
We're going to now, we're putting this together,
00:50:30.860
but we're even going to start early on Wednesday afternoon.
00:50:32.880
We're going to have a Force Multiplier Academy.
00:50:38.620
I think we can get 200 people in this presentation hall that they've given us.
00:50:48.520
We're going to have many of the people that have either been authors of books
00:51:09.320
making huge announcements about books and films,
00:51:15.340
because we know you want more and more content.
00:51:16.860
We're also going to talk about the ubiquitous nature of the War Room.
00:51:27.440
and Matt and Mercedes made these tickets under $100.
00:51:40.920
and then he's going to go back to South Carolina.
00:51:47.260
I'm going to give one of the keynote addresses.
00:52:04.880
when the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee
00:52:16.700
Wants the President to unleash classified information.
00:52:32.500
That that's not the way you want to be represented.
00:52:41.840
there's a missile manufacturer right out there.
00:52:43.640
Wright-Patterson got tremendous patriot out there.
00:52:58.880
because they're just burning money in Washington, D.C.
00:53:02.000
and they're not going to stop until we stop them.