Episode 4060: It’s Not A Comeback; It’s Retribution
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Summary
Tulsi Gabbard has been nominated to become the next Director of National Intelligence, a position that has been a long time coming. She is the first woman to be nominated for the position, and her confirmation has sent shockwaves through the intelligence community and around the world.
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
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I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
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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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Director Brennan, your thoughts about Tulsi Gabbard?
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Well, Nicole, I think you and Tom Nichols have done a great job
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just underscoring all the concerns that people have about this appointment.
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Clearly, Tulsi Gabbard has taken actions and made statements over the past several years
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that really raise serious questions about her common sense,
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her judgment, as well as her political sympathies.
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Cozying up to Putin, as well as to meeting with Bashar Assad,
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I think really does show that she doesn't have the type of perspective that is needed
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for somebody who's going to head up these 18 intelligence agencies.
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And as Tom Nichols said, she doesn't have any qualifications.
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The Director of National Intelligence, that's a really serious position
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that requires somebody who actually has an understanding of the intelligence community.
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It's like an orchestra conductor of all the different agencies and departments
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And I don't think she understands even the instruments that are involved in this orchestra,
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nor has she had any experience at the strategic level of running and leading a large, complex organization.
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And the Director of National Intelligence is, according to legislation,
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the President's principal intelligence advisor,
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the person who is responsible for making sure that the President's daily brief is put together
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the person who puts together the budget and the priorities of the intelligence community.
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So I know that this appointment is sending shockwaves here in the United States,
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is this really somebody who Donald Trump is going to entrust
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with the care and the leadership of the intelligence community?
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And we haven't even gotten to Tulsi Gabbard potentially having access to national security information.
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And I actually think almost more than Matt Gaetz,
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as much as she says that she's an anti-war person, she's not.
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a Tulsi Gabbard nomination is a pro-war nomination globally.
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As is Donald Trump as President of the United States.
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Of course, there's going to be no more endless foreign forever wars.
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And I think we're a little bit past the opening salvo
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with some of the appointments that were just referenced
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It is Friday, November 15th in the year of our Lord, 2024.
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coming at you live from West Palm Beach, Florida,
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where we have officially been unburdened by what has been.
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while Stephen K. Bannon was locked up in a federal prison.
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And I'm so honored today to be filling in and hosting,
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And frankly, appointments speak louder than words.
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And I think with the heavy-handed picks we've had thus far,
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though we call it justice here in the war room,
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of this second coming of a Trump administration.
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You know what speaks even louder and roars above all of that?
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It's quite an interesting and telling question.
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Mark Zaid, impeachment whistleblower connoisseur,
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That's the only thing that President Trump wants.
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I'm not going to cede ground to you guys on that.
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a loser, as I'm sure Stephen K. Bannon would say,
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the next time that you talk about security clearances,
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And not just because of the whole 51 intel officers,
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Hunter Biden, hard drive Russian disinformation,
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Yeah, what qualifications and what perspective is that?
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to a president nominating members of his senior team.
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Gates is not only totally incompetent for this job,
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or the civic virtue the founding fathers wanted.
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and gave you a say in anything that's going on.
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were talking about when they started this country?
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Yet there's no virtue in killing other Americans,
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and then having the nerve to stab the family members
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by saying that the candidate that their families support
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Yet no wonder why President Trump wants his own generals
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there's already reporting out today that they're busy.
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military, really it's called the stolen valor crowd.
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I care about, let's get this word through your brains,
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Maybe that should be Merriam-Webster's word of the year
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because I think you guys should get used to it.
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Yeah, how'd your never Trump issue fare in 2016?
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because I'm pretty sure that you guys are the same voices
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telling us that in order for us to win elections,
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All your National Review pseudo-intellectualism aside.
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these Senate confirmation processes extremely closely.
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because for all of you who are a little hesitant,
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Do you have any concerns about weaponization then?
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especially when it comes to foreign policy, right?