A 27-year-old man was caught with key fobs to access voting machines in Maricopa County, Arizona. Who was he paid to do this? And why did he do it? Plus, who are the other side of the story?
00:02:11.00061% of the tabulators in Maricopa County failed on election day,
00:02:16.000effectively shutting down election day for six hours.
00:02:19.000We've been suing over this, over this tabulator problem over and over again.
00:02:22.000And they just keep telling us, oh, there's no way there could have been some coordinated advanced effort to, you know, have these machines malfunction.
00:02:29.000And now here we are like, hello, this 27 year old kid that used to work at a left wing NGO just infiltrated Maricopa County.
00:02:36.000Yes, he was caught, but still he was able to leave with two separate key fobs, one to enter the building, the other one to actually change the tabulator settings.
00:02:43.000He brought them home. And the question we should all be asking is, who paid him to do this?
00:02:48.000I'm sorry, but this, this individual, I believe I found something in line was convicted from his home in 2020.
00:02:54.000He was arrested for theft in 2023. So clearly someone like that can be compromised.
00:02:58.000So I, it is my belief that someone paid him from one of these left wing NGOs to go get those two security things, bring them back to his house.
00:03:06.000And who was he going to give them to and who was paying him?
00:03:09.000And who was paying him? That's what I think we should all be looking into.
00:03:12.000I think there's a tremendous sense of urgency. Remember that ballots drop in the Arizona primary in one week.
00:03:17.000This is one week out from when the ballots drop for our primary.
00:03:20.000So what is going on here? Everyone should be on top of this.
00:03:23.000And reporters need to do their jobs and go, go look into this.
00:03:27.000I mean, if this was happening on the other side, on the right, I can tell you what,
00:03:30.000ProPublica would already have like 10 reporters on the ground at this guy's house.
00:03:34.000Calling, calling Vaughn Hilliard, calling Vaughn Hilliard. This is your beat, bro. Where are you?
00:03:40.000I expect to see this on, uh, uh, on Nicole Wallace this afternoon, a big breaking news thing of Vaughn Hilliard.
00:03:46.000Last thing, who, who, the FBI and, and how does this guy end up with lots of social media?
00:03:51.000And then now he's only got truth social where, where, how did that happen? How did that magically happen?
00:03:57.000It makes no sense. He is still in, in prison right now.
00:04:00.000He's still in a jail, being held in a jail cell because of his past, he, they won't give him bond because of his past conviction.
00:04:05.000So no one can explain to me how all of his social media sites have been wiped with the exception of a truth social account, which is a bizarre account.
00:04:12.000I went through it. And so someone did it.
00:04:15.000I don't believe it was him unless he has a cell phone in the jail cell.
00:04:22.000Okay. Uh, which is supposed to be, uh, it's supposed to be a bozo. No, no. Um, let's go to, so, uh, once again, Gina, uh, you're beloved because you've got this gig because you're a fighter on this very topic. So where are we going to go on this today?
00:04:37.000I need help. So, um, hit me at azgop.com. Uh, hit the donate button. Uh, I'm going to have to get my own legal team involved immediately. If, if I don't get a response from RNC, it's eight Oh 4 AM in Arizona. They have, they asked for 26 minutes. So, uh, if they're not willing to put a person on the ground filing a writ of mandamus today, then we're going to have to go our own way and get it done. And we will upper right corner on that.
00:05:03.000A writ of mandamus. Okay. Let's, let's everybody pile into the AZ, a GOP and let's get their back and we'll make sure the folks over the RNC, let's just get coordinated folks, not pointing fingers. Let's just get it done today. This is a big one. Thank you, ma'am. Gina Svoboda, what's your personal, where are they, where do they follow you, Gina?
00:05:19.720At AZGOP, at Gina Svoboda. Hit me on Twitter. Thank you guys.
00:05:26.900Thank you, ma'am. Caroline Wren, where do we follow you? You come in a little hot sometimes.
00:05:31.400A little bit. At Caroline Wren on all the different socials and the FBI hasn't wiped mine yet. So you can probably still find me.
00:05:39.820Hold it. We got, uh, errors, uh, excuse me, Utah today. Mayor, Mayor, where are we, where are we staying with our mayor? I think President Trump endorsed our mayor, right? Where are we staying with that? Is the Romney, is the Romney forces going to win this?
00:05:52.140You know, everyone has, but you know, he's been outspent like 10 to one by this John Curtis guy who all the, you know, McCarthy and Romney money, all that's coming in behind him.
00:06:01.220So I don't know what's going to be. Everyone in Utah has got to get out and vote today and you have to vote for Trent Staggs for U.S. Senate.
00:06:08.120We desperately need him in there and not the Mitt Romney endorsed candidate.
00:06:13.460Caroline Wren will follow that throughout the day. Boebert's going to be with us this afternoon.
00:06:17.040There's a lot happening in the war room this afternoon too. Caroline Wren, thank you, ma'am.
00:09:16.800You then, as is wont to happen when it's in the Wall Street Journal, you were carpet bombed all over Fox on every show to explain it.
00:09:24.060It was very straightforward about kind of going back to a 19th century model that you felt had to take place in Afghanistan to do an appropriate transition over a number of years for withdrawal of American combat troops.
00:10:12.780And Eric Prince goes, hey, you know, if you go back and look at this, they sucked down about $60 billion a year every year to fund this thing like magic.
00:10:21.260And you should be able to do it max at $10 billion.
00:10:23.680And you actually walked, I think, $10 to $15.
00:11:01.760Well, and the problem is you have to do it with contractors, right?
00:11:05.060You have to get the combat troops out.
00:11:06.140It was the only way we could provide the continuity because the big problem that the DOD had was they had been there for 20 years, but they'd really been there for 39-month rotations.
00:11:19.560It's not the same army the entire time.
00:11:21.620We went through 17 or 18 different commanders while we were there.
00:11:24.940And when you send troops in, they might be in an area for six months, nine months, maybe a year, and then they rotate out and they never come back to that same area.
00:11:33.080So you lose all the continuity, all the area knowledge of that specific area.
00:11:38.180And Afghanistan is very much a valley-by-valley, town-by-town fight.
00:11:42.240And the advantage that contractors can provide is they can pay the guy to be in for 60 or 90 days, go home for 30, back in, but go to the same village, to the same base, meet with the same people.
00:11:56.840So there is that brotherhood of arms, that continuity with the Afghans.
00:11:59.580All I was trying to replicate was what worked for 250 years next door in India with the East India Company, where it was 95% locals, 5% expats, and that worked.
00:12:27.660What lessons – we've got a couple minutes to this segment – importantly for today, what lessons in dealing with the deep state and not the administrative state of it, but really when you talk about the defense, intelligence, national security, the legal, what lessons do you derive from your spring and summer of 2017 assault on these guys?
00:12:50.240In the same way, when governments are looking at whether they can privatize trash services or municipal power, electrical power, all the rest, right?
00:13:03.300Everyone thinks, well, there's no way that anyone but government can do that.
00:13:06.180I'd say the lesson for the next Trump administration needs to be that there needs to be a case for the private sector to make their case in these debates so it doesn't have to be in all government all the time.
00:13:18.720Because remember, if in 1969 you said 50 years later the only way the U.S. gets to the International Space Station was on Elon Musk's rocket or a Russian rocket, you would have been laughed out of Johnson Space Center, right?
00:13:30.720But the idea of what is inherently governmental has shifted because of the explosion of technology and the ability for private sector to organize complex and difficult tasks has really changed.
00:13:42.460And especially we need to talk about the nature of warfare has really changed with the advent of drones.
00:16:49.560Okay, it'd take a while because Mitch McConnell and that crowd over there are going to hang you up for Trump people like they did last time.
00:16:55.420That's to oversee a bureaucracy of about 2.5 million, 2.25, 2.5 million federal employees and a military, this is the civilian aspect, the military of 2.5 million.
00:17:08.340But the government doesn't run like that.
00:17:11.200The government actually has, and nobody spent the time to go dig this out.
00:17:15.920The government, you can't run a $7 trillion institution with just 2.5 million people.
00:17:20.600They actually have 18 million contractors.
00:17:24.620Now, 10 million of those contractors are the IT guys and the people doing the buildings because they've tried to offload as much as to get away from pensions.
00:17:32.480But when you do the analysis, it looks like 8 million are kind of either SES or administrators, you know, all the way from the Grundunes all the way up.
00:17:42.100It's something that does a managerial function or a coordinating function.
00:17:45.300But that, and this is why the town is freaking out, we're going to go through all of that.
00:18:04.580If elections have consequences, then the government should be, along with the politicians, should be accountable to the voters.
00:18:12.980So Booz Allen and all the, McKinsey and Booz Allen and all these guys and all those, all the, all the firms that dumped on MAGA and ripped on MAGA and MAGA are a bunch of barbarians and MAGA this and MAGA that.
00:18:26.900All of your contracts are going to get reviewed.
00:18:28.940And I am of the opinion that if they are not with the president's program, they got to go.
00:18:34.020And I mean, go back to social media, interview them.
00:22:22.040And Rumsfeld said my job is – because he didn't see a war on the horizon thanks to the intelligence services that happened the next day.
00:22:28.320That was supposed to be the revolution in military affairs was to make the Marine Corps like – the Marine Corps – they were going to shrink your armies going to be like the Marine Corps.
00:22:37.580The Marine Corps are going to be like the special forces.
00:22:39.600There was going to be dramatic cuts, a totally rethinking of the fleets.
00:23:10.040They do artillery, and they're outgunning the Ukrainians three or four to one.
00:23:15.960They're using glide bombs, big, cheap, but they strap a precision kit on the front of, and they're launching those, and they're smashing cities.
00:23:24.100They're smashing entire buildings with kind of a pee-for-plenty, cheap way of releasing energy.
00:23:29.840But you're also seeing the thousands and thousands of cheap drones adapted, weaponized, and flown into key enemy vehicles or surface air missile systems or whatever.
00:23:47.660And the danger is as that tech proliferates, you're going to see all militaries around the world largely made obsolete because all of it is exceedingly vulnerable to that kind of attack.
00:24:03.140This is one of the reasons that even the tanks will get – one problem is that a lot of that technology is American technology.
00:24:11.780A lot of that I think comes associated with American technicians that probably are there.
00:24:15.880Also, the targeting of where that's going.
00:24:20.840They're even talking about targeting Moscow, but you've hit Crimea.
00:24:22.960They're talking about the bigger Atakums.
00:24:25.200Yeah, I'm talking about little cheap Chinese or Taiwanese drones.
00:24:30.040At least my sources tell me they're hitting tank columns, et cetera, in Russian territory that have not come – they're not outside of Kharkiv.
00:24:38.180That the war has expanded, particularly on a tactical level, with the drones.
00:24:42.980The bigger Atakums are in Crimea hitting the oil facilities, et cetera.
00:24:47.660But it's all – the commonality, at least through the Russian eyes, this is all American technology.
00:24:53.900American ingenuity coupled with the Ukrainians obviously are very entrepreneurial in doing this.
00:24:59.200There was a big strike in the last few days in the Crimea, Atakums missiles, that was targeting a space communications center, space surveillance system for the Russians there.
00:25:10.460Three or four of those missiles were intercepted, and they came down – and they're cluster munitions, and it came down on a beach area.
00:25:16.920So there's a bunch of civilians killed.
00:25:18.660I can understand the Russians are angry about that.
00:25:21.260But the war needs to be ended because there's about zero chance that the Ukrainians are going to actually advance their lines and retake those territories.
00:25:30.920All we're doing now is chewing up future generations of Ukrainian men.
00:25:34.980They should freeze the lines almost like North and South Korea, straighten it up, focus on –
00:25:57.820So there's a word of story – I'll try to get it to tonight – that just broke, that Keith Kellogg and others have been working President Trump with a peace proposal.
00:26:06.280Is there any possibility of the Russians buying into anything that has them give up a yard of territory in the Donbass or in Crimea?
00:26:15.760I think Putin announced he wants Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia.
00:26:22.020Of course, Crimea, they already consider Russian.
00:26:24.680And they want to have a plebiscite – those four areas, they want to have a plebiscite in 20 years on whether they want to stay Russian or stay Ukrainian.
00:27:17.060What's a loitering – but tell people what a loitering munitions.
00:27:18.580A drone that you send out and it hangs around in circles and then it's a kamikaze drone basically.
00:27:24.120I was at the Saudi defense show in February and saw hundreds of videos at the Russian booths of their stuff smashing Western equipment, smashing Abrams tanks and Crusader howitzer systems and M777s and that stuff.
00:35:23.900Because it's all about the Suez Canal.
00:35:25.320When you start messing with guys like that, they say, hey, don't mess with us.
00:35:27.960And so they hired David Sterling in a merry band of men, and they're actually armed by the Israelis, paid by the Saudis,
00:35:35.640under the operational control of the Brits, and they removed them.
00:35:39.420They did so well that David Sterling received a medal from the IDF for pinning down so many Egyptian troops that helped them win the Six-Day War.
00:36:26.860Because we've got two carrier battle groups keeping the Suez Canal open for the guys at Gestad and at the big ski resorts in Switzerland, sir.
00:36:34.540Yeah, that's an important point, that they pulled the carrier from the Western Pacific region to move it over to the Red Sea so that the other one can bump back into the Mediterranean to cover Israel's strength.
00:36:49.040Yeah, NATO is a joke with no real combat power.
00:36:52.780And so it goes to what we said before.
00:36:54.400Let the private sector have a seat at the table and provide options, because there are very real, legitimate options that can be executed immediately to put the Houthis in a better frame of mind.
00:37:04.940The reason I know this is a young man, our carrier battle group got taken out of the Western Pacific to go to the North Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf when the hostages were taken to Tehran, when you were in short pants.
00:38:35.780Why did they call him a child trafficker?
00:38:37.580I think it was to cover for a lot of the – I think CNN was trying to shift the narrative from military debacle brought to us by the Biden administration to, ooh, these bad people that are evacuating.
00:38:51.080Right, out of control of former Trump associates and or guys.
00:40:47.700It's too bad that – it's too bad the trial – we're not six months farther ahead because Jake Tapper would not be moderating the presidential debate.
00:40:55.020Well, I think there was more exposure about this who would not be moderating this debate.
00:45:17.760You've dedicated your life to making sure secure communications because of bad guys out there that want your information.
00:45:23.960You know, after the 2020 election and the nonsense they were doing to certain platforms and voices, they said we're never going to change big tech by complaining about it, only by competing with it and providing an uncancellable phone.
00:45:55.940The difference is this is our hardware with our operating system with our own store, messenger, VPN.
00:46:01.840And this phone doesn't have an advertising ID.
00:46:05.000So unlike your phone, which is working with all the apps to export everything you do, go, talk to, buy, shop, turns on your microphone, your camera, your GPS, this does none of that.
00:47:11.220And we've had a really good experience in transitioning people from the big tech world into being unplugged and a lot of very happy customers.
00:47:20.600When you first go into the store, maybe to do this store, they may ask you, where in the hell did you get this phone?
00:47:26.920I've had that from a couple of people.