Episode 4727： Tearing Apart The Intelligence Community
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Stephen K. Bannon, Peter Navarro, Mike Ben Shapiro, and Sam Faddis join host Natalie Winters to discuss the latest in the ongoing saga of the raid on John Bolton's office at the White House.
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its implications for the economic outlook and the balance of risks.
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But I don't think he cared about the classification system.
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I don't think he appreciated the sensitivity of this information.
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And he didn't appreciate the sensitivity of how it was often acquired, the so-called sources
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So this had been briefed to him before I arrived.
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I think it simply had no impact on him, whatever.
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Here's one time I got 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
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And where do people like that go to share the big line?
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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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Here in the war room, it's Friday, August 22nd in the year of our Lord, 2025, Natalie
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Winters hosting, filling in for Stephen K. Bannon.
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We are awaiting the one and only Peter Navarro at the White House.
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We got Mike Benz, Sam Faddis, and an update from the West Coast, why they need what President
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Trump is doing here in D.C. while we wait for the one and only Dr. Navarro, Mike Benz,
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I wanted to get your sort of assessment and scoop of everything that happened this morning
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with John Bolton and why you think he is, you know, potentially of interest, shall we
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Well, we don't have any details about what the raid entailed.
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But given the dispute between John Bolton and the Trump administration around the potentially
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classified information in John Bolton's book that John Bolton put in there against the
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disputes of the Trump administration, it's quite possible.
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Well, I think signs are leading currently, the leading theory of the raid is that there
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may be classified information at his home and that this was, in a way, kind of similar
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to the kind of raids that the Biden administration was doing on Trump officials for that sort
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But John Bolton is, you know, quite an interesting character to be, if that is indeed what happened,
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it's a bit ironic given that John Bolton had made those accusations against President Trump
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And there is a question whether, if that is indeed the case, if that is what the raid was
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There is the question of potential prosecutions.
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And I just want to make this point up front, which is that there is the same problem with
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prosecutions of blob officials who have committed criminal wrongdoing in D.C., which is the D.C.
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And I believe that if Donald Trump, if President Trump and Vice President J.D.
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Vance, put out a call for 100,000 people who are centrist or independent or conservative
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jury pools, it would only take about 100,000 people to substantially change D.C.
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It's always been a 95 percent Democrat city, which means it's always been a 95 percent
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Democrat jury pool, which means it's very difficult to actually hold uniparty officials
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We saw this in the classified documents case about Joe Biden himself.
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If folks recall, while the Justice Department was doing the pre-dawn raid of Mar-a-Lago and
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indicting President Trump for mishandling classified documents, the Justice Department then suffered
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a very embarrassing quandary, which was that then sitting President Joe Biden was found
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to have had classified documents at his home and had had mishandled them, too.
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And then Special Prosecutor Robert Herr argued in a memo that the Justice Department should
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not bring the case against against President Biden, even though he had committed the same
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alleged underlying crime as President Trump, because a D.C.
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jury would find that he would be senile and genteel and would not want him to send him away
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So it was the same crime, the same facts of the case.
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But one person got indicted and the other person didn't just because of the issue of the jury
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So I believe if the Trump administration can turn D.C. into Miami, so to speak, Miami recently
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If there can be a call, an immigration to D.C., if for nothing else, to help the Justice
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Department be able to have a, be able to actually bring justice to Washington, D.C., I think that
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And speaking of the DOJ, I know it's just sort of breaking, but that they released the transcript
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of Todd Blanche's interview with Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Of course, the media focusing in that the DOJ did ask her about President Trump's potential
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connections to Epstein, which she repeatedly said there were none.
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She never saw him receive a massage or do anything, shall we say, untoward.
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But I'm curious, you've been sort of going through it.
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What's your sort of assessment of what's contained there?
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Well, one thing that's fascinating is she point blank tells the Justice Department, quote,
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I was part of the beginning process of the Clinton Global Initiative.
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And then she goes on to say that she believes Jeffrey Epstein actually funded the Clinton
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Global Initiative and that they came up with the idea together while on a trip to Davos.
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Now, we know that this lines up with the exact start of the Clinton Foundation in 2002 was
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exactly when Jeffrey Epstein was flying President Clinton around personally as kind of aerial
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I think they went to five different countries in Africa together publicly.
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And this was actually part of the process that I think brought Jeffrey Epstein a little
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bit too close to the sun was when he was personally flying President Clinton around while President
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And we know that what the Clinton Foundation was doing was essentially pay to play while Hillary
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Clinton was making her rise in New York Senate politics and then into the Secretary of State.
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And while they had all this clout and connections and pull within the Democrat Party, that they
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could essentially sell U.S. foreign policy to foreign donors and to big corporations so
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that they could essentially, instead of doing things in the national interest, have the State
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Department, the Defense Department, the CIA, USAID, essentially twist the governance and
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policies of foreign countries using the battering ram of the American diplomacy and war and trade
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machine in order to profit the people who personally paid the Clintons for those favors.
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And so this is totally in line with what I think is the most persuasive theory of the case on Epstein,
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He helped in the structuring of these complex, faux-philanthropic influence machines.
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He was a dealmaker, and it looks like he was part of the dealmaking that went into the origins of the Clinton Foundation,
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The Justice Department shut down the FBI investigation, and two, three different FBI investigations in the
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And the IRS investigation was shut down, we're told now, because the IRS claimed they did not have
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enough resources to investigate the Clinton Foundation.
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Evidently, the fraud there was so massive, the IRS's defense to get out of political cronyism
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is that, I guess, the fraud was too big to jail.
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And, Mike, I want to sort of bring this back to the broader discussion, I think, of how these foreign
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governments are sort of co-opting a lot of our domestic policy.
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Obviously, on the censorship front, we've seen the U.K. do a lot there.
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But yesterday, we ran out of time, but you had some updates on how foreign governments are
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See, what happened was, this started as a transatlantic censorship apparatus.
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It grew out of NATO initially as a response to losing Crimea in eastern Ukraine.
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And then it moved westward to Western Europe after the Brexit referendum.
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And then it moved finally to the United States in 2016 when Donald Trump won in that same DOD,
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CIA, USAID, State Department network brought that apparatus to the United States.
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But as we've gotten more and more victories here in the United States against the censorship machine,
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as we have cracked down on the funding arms and the funding spigots from the U.S. government,
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hundreds of millions of dollars, and I think the audience should be mindful of this.
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We've achieved huge wins in just seven months in the Trump administration,
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cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out of the NGOs and pressure cookers in the private sector
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that were pushing the tech companies to censor people.
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And so if you've experienced a lot more freedom on the Internet lately,
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it's not just because of Elon Musk, although he played the indispensable role in this, undoubtedly,
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but there's much less pressure on Facebook and on YouTube and on other organs from the U.S. government.
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The response to this from the censors in exile in the United States
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and their allies in ruling governments around the world has been to internationalize the issue,
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to take it upstream of the United States to the international community.
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And what they're now plotting and which has gone into effect,
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are you have foreign countries asserting global jurisdiction over websites on the Internet in countries far, far away?
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So right now the U.K. is actually fining the website 4chan $20,000 a day.
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So you add that up over a year, and this is very serious money.
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If 4chan was operated on a military base on the surface of the moon,
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imagine the U.K. government fining it for allowing speech that Brits can access through a VPN.
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This is a way of getting long-arm jurisdiction over American speech.
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And make no mistake, this was the plan from the beginning.
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The U.K. Digital Ministry and the U.K. Foreign Office,
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as well as their little honchos and MI6 and the U.K. Ministry of Defense,
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sent over a delegation to the Biden administration
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and personally briefed them on how they can work together
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to censor their mutual opponents on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The America First Legal, Stephen Miller and Gene Hamilton's legal shop,
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did an amazing job getting access to these documents.
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They explicitly plotted to get to censor American speech with foreign censorship laws.
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And the American censors in exile are champing at the bit
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as a way for them to get their old jobs back in the censorship industry
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and their old funding back from the government funding mechanisms
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that allowed them to do this all with our money.
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It's happening in the EU through the EU Digital Services Act.
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it's gone beyond what we can do within our own borders
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through tariffs, sanctions, security policy renegotiations.
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I believe we may need to threaten leaving NATO if this escalates.
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Mike, if you can hang with us through the break.
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We've also got Sam Faddis, and we're awaiting Dr. Navarro.
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But Mike, just to sort of wrap up directionally where you think we're going on the Bolton front,
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what you think we need to really be paying attention to,
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and you can sort of wrap up your censorship thoughts.
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So to me, what's happening on the John Bolton front, remember, he was the national security
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He was also the head of policy and budget for USAID, fascinatingly.
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John Bolton was also the person who almost single-handedly, well, I guess he had a little help from his
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friends, but he played a major part in getting us involved in the Iraq war, reportedly threatened
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the head of the OPCW, the chemical weapons folks who tried to bring Iraq into that in order to try to—he
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ousted them—ousted the head of that, threatened his family and children in order to ensure that the U.S.
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had a war predicate to get the U.S. into the Iraq war.
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But a lot of this comes down to the restructuring and accountability of the intelligence community,
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which, of course, as the national security advisor, John Bolton, was the senior official
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And what we saw this week as well was the ODNI director, Tulsi Gabbard, announcing a massive
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restructuring of ODNI, laying off 40 percent, I believe, of the staff within ODNI and dramatically
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downscaling and narrowing its role, citing bureaucratic bloat and a departure from its core mission.
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I think a lot of folks, when they initially saw that ODNI was going to have a massive staff
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reduction, saw that as being a kind of reduction of her powers.
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This, I believe, came from Senator Tom Cotton, who's the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee
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But this does appear to be the thing that Tulsi wanted.
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And you can see how, to the extent that ODNI is obstructed from the inside by a vast bureaucratic
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class who is not carrying out orders, who is working across purposes, that this could
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be a way to really streamline the efficiency as they continue their DIG transparency effort.
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But at the end of the day, you basically have two methods of accountability, three methods
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You have mass terminations, you have defunding, you have declassifications, and then I guess
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And I do want to stress that while we've made so many strides in reforms to these government
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institutions, at the end of the day, the Justice Department, it does need to deal with that
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And I just want to reiterate to any members of the administration who are listening that I
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do believe a public call to stack D.C. with conservatives so that the jury pool is even
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and you have a fair fight is really the only way to arm the Justice Department with the support
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that it needs within the community of peers of these national security officials who've
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gone rogue so that they actually get a fair trial and not a rigged one where they will
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be declared innocent and even having committed crimes and the DOJ will be permanently hamstrung.
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This is the problem when you have all these federal government offices headquartered in D.C.
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I think if there was essentially a kind of jobs program or something to entice people to
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move to D.C. to change that phenomenon, you would have a completely different administration
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Mike Benz, as always, thank you for laying everything out for us.
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We are joined now, I guess, kind of picking up where we left off by the one and only Sam
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Faddis, who has a great new sub stack piece up.
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Tearing apart the intelligence community is the easy part.
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It's the rebuilding it that will be the challenge.
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Obviously, Director Gabbard announced that they're going to be reorganizing, significantly
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Can you sort of walk us through what the announced changes are and just walk us through your piece?
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Well, when the Director of National Intelligence was created, when the Office of Director of
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National Intelligence was created after 9-11, the idea was you were supposed to have this
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small staff that would theoretically help all these agencies to talk to each other and
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coordinate because supposedly 9-11 was a failure in communication.
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But in any event, you were supposed to have a very small staff and a director and just coordinate
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It, of course, in classic Washington fashion, ballooned into this monstrosity, just, you
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know, duplication of effort, layers upon layers of bureaucrats.
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So the current DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, has been very clear since she got in that she's not letting
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And this is the biggest cut she has made so far.
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The point of the article was to say, it is a good start, but that is all it is.
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And again, as I often do to focus on CIA, since I'm closest to that, it is bloated.
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It is, has clearly involved itself, senior members, in all sorts of things now for many
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But at the same time, the actual mission that it is supposed to be accomplishing, collecting
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intelligence abroad, conducting covert action, when the president directs it to, pursuant
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to federal law, it doesn't do those things very well anymore.
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John Brennan took point on this and effectively destroying its effectiveness.
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And it is now run largely by guys and gals who were not operations officers like I was.
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In other words, they're not spies in common parlance.
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Uh, and they have no idea what they're doing beyond, again, the political things they've
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been involved in that clearly they should not be involved in.
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So it's not just cutting slots and getting rid of people.
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Uh, we need to make sure, first of all, we cut the right people and retain the right people.
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But then we have to understand that that whole apparatus, and it goes beyond CIH,
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and it's true of all the other agencies, is broken in the broken in the sense that it
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cannot perform the mission that it's actually supposed to perform.
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So it's, it is not, it's not like we're going to fire X number of people and then everything
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And right now, unfortunately, a lot of the senior leadership there has no idea how to do
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And Sam, if I can just hold you through the break, I want to keep drilling down on this.
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I was sort of perusing the legacy media's reaction to the announced changes from Director Gabbard.
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And they, of course, are taking the playbook that it's going to leave America less safe.
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I guess presupposing that the people she's axing were doing anything meaningful, like you alluded
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I'm just curious what your pushback on that front would be.
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Yeah, well, that's crap to use a technical term.
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I mean, look, it's predictable, and that's what they're going to say about any change.
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I mean, nobody in the real world wants to get lost in the intricacies of how CIA is structured.
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But just to put some meat on the bones of what I just said, it used to be, I mean, CIA exists
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basically to recruit sources, to recruit spies inside target organizations like Al Qaeda and
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And then to conduct covert action when the president signs a finding and gives them the legal authority
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OK, all of that is run by operations, the Directorate of Operations, known as the DO.
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So basically, CIA used to be built around the DO.
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And the guy who ran the Directorate of Operations, the DDO, was the heart and soul, the guy that
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OK, and they obviously have a director that sits at the top of this.
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And everybody else was, to use a military term, a supporting arm.
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In other words, they provided the money, they provided the logistics, whatever.
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He mashed everybody together into these mission centers with analysts and operators and other
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people with no discernible skills, all in these amorphous blobs, often run by people who
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So just some guy who left Northern Virginia is now in charge of running the ops against
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And then those people don't report to the head of operations anymore.
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They report directly like they're a shoe company to a guy called the chief operating officer,
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the coup, straight out of corporate lexicon, right?
00:32:02.160
In fact, the first coup was a guy they hired out of private business.
00:32:08.680
So the guy who basically supposed to be running all the operations worldwide came from, I think,
00:32:18.120
So you have complete, in addition to the issues everybody's familiar with, you know, interfering
00:32:23.220
in American domestic politics, you have deprofessionalized the whole organization.
00:32:30.100
It is a mess and it is incapable of doing what it's actually supposed to do.
00:32:38.000
So back to my point, just cutting numbers out of there and leaving it in this same completely
00:32:50.280
If you're going to do that, then just shut it down.
00:32:52.320
Because right now it is literally incapable of doing its job.
00:32:57.400
And, you know, at this point, many Americans would be like, okay, just get rid of it.
00:33:01.200
Well, you know, unfortunately, there are still bad guys out there planning on trying to get
00:33:06.080
nuclear weapons into New York City and detonate them in Manhattan.
00:33:11.340
So you kind of need somebody who actually knows what they're doing.
00:33:17.120
Before I let you go, I just want to get your thoughts on what happened earlier today.
00:33:29.020
We played earlier in the show his commentary about how no one is above the law.
00:33:33.480
And when President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence was raided that it was, you know, a fitting
00:33:39.280
I wonder how those words age, how he's feeling about them now.
00:33:43.300
But your thoughts generally on what transpired this morning, and I know we're still sort
00:33:52.060
But what exactly do you think is going on there?
00:33:55.480
Well, you know, what I think is going on is this is not a revenge ride.
00:34:00.260
This is not the, you know, the MAGA movement now going out and doing the same thing to the
00:34:06.960
This is the FBI and DOJ picking up an investigation that was ongoing into Bolton when Biden came
00:34:19.500
And as soon as he did, he directed that the investigation be shut down.
00:34:25.480
And the investigation was into issues surrounding the use of and disclosure of classified information.
00:34:31.960
And as I understand it, the basic backstory is Biden went out when he left the Trump White
00:34:41.640
He decided to write a book saying all kinds of things.
00:34:44.920
And he had to submit it for publication review, which everybody does if you've had access to
00:34:53.720
I submitted them all and went through this process.
00:34:57.100
Biden decided, I mean, Bolton decided at some point he didn't like the results of the process.
00:35:03.700
And he did not agree with the cuts they were saying he had to make.
00:35:09.240
So as I understand it, he basically blew off the process and went ahead and published a book with
00:35:17.460
information in it that he had been told was classified and could not be disclosed.
00:35:24.840
So we are now picking up an investigation that, you know, should have been completed years ago
00:35:33.260
and wasn't because of political influence, uh, interference, whether the guy will actually
00:35:38.840
be charged, whether he will be prosecuted in prison.
00:35:43.240
At this point, nobody knows because at this point they have not arrested him.
00:35:47.780
All they did was go through his house and take some things out of it.
00:35:54.400
Because obviously we've seen the legacy media coverage, making it seem like this is some
00:35:57.900
witch hunt, some form of retribution to use a word that they certainly became apoplectic
00:36:03.260
But this is essentially just resuming something that Biden through political motives and means
00:36:15.480
There's no ambiguity about classified information, right?
00:36:19.920
You know, when I was working at the CIA, I didn't just stuff some files in my suit jacket
00:36:25.400
at the end of the day and accidentally bring them home, right?
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I mean, classified information lives on classified electronic systems, or if it's hard copy, it
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lives in safes and inside controlled alarm spaces with guards.
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So you can't just accidentally, John, have a bunch of stuff that's classified sitting around
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In fact, just taking it out of classified space, even if you're not spying for it, just
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I am honored to bring on our next guest, Matt Brown of Yakima, Washington.
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I was just out there, I guess maybe of good taste or bad taste, but for some reason you
00:38:44.520
invited me to give one of the keynote speeches at Yakima County, your GOP Lincoln Day dinner.
00:38:52.360
I think you're also, what is it, the deputy mayor?
00:38:55.820
You're intimately involved with the kind of local life, certainly the crime scene.
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You have an intimate understanding of all of that from a government perspective.
00:39:07.780
I guess we could maybe have a contest for who lives in a more dangerous city.
00:39:11.260
I think maybe someone who lived in Seattle might win that one.
00:39:14.540
But I just want to just sort of bring you on to react to what you've seen President Trump
00:39:19.680
do here in D.C., and if you think that that's something that could be replicated in cities
00:39:29.520
Yeah, you know, it's very interesting to watch the crime.
00:39:33.880
What is it now, eight days and not a murder that's happened in Washington, D.C.?
00:39:38.120
I'm not entirely sure that's ever happened in Seattle's history over the last probably 10 years.
00:39:43.360
You know, between the crime that's running rampant in Seattle and in Washington State,
00:39:49.740
for that matter, we are at a kind of a rock and a hard place because we have a governor
00:39:56.500
right now that is defying Pam Bondi and President Trump at every turn.
00:40:01.760
Then we have an attorney general that is basically thumbing his nose and lining up lawsuits
00:40:07.640
against the Trump administration literally every day, which just is on taxpayers.
00:40:13.360
So, you know, the taxpayers of Washington State are paying for this to happen against
00:40:20.820
So, it's a fun time to live in Washington State.
00:40:23.920
You know, we are one of the actual states out of all 50 that have actually gotten to experience
00:40:30.720
the weaponization of government back through COVID.
00:40:32.900
We just had a business that was shut down during COVID for a million-dollar fine, and the
00:40:39.500
courts here just ruled that it was okay for them to be fined a million dollars.
00:40:44.120
It's a little restaurant, a little mom-and-pop restaurant.
00:40:47.420
And not only that, we've had all sorts of others.
00:40:52.560
So, if you, you know, if you don't like Matt Brown, you can call this hate bias hotline and
00:40:56.660
report all sorts of us in Washington State who are fighting against this crazy stuff.
00:41:05.620
And, you know, I'm excited that President Trump has been working to end the weaponization
00:41:10.000
of government and, you know, and fight back against these sanctuary policies that are really
00:41:16.180
causing death and destruction in Washington State.
00:41:19.380
I mean, we've lost a Washington State trooper because of a illegal alien that was, you know,
00:41:28.100
And when that happened, I mean, he was shot and killed.
00:41:31.160
And that is just one story of many that are happening right now in Washington State.
00:41:36.980
And I want to just say thank you, Natalie, for having me on.
00:41:40.240
It's not often that Washington State gets to be in this national spotlight in this sense.
00:41:46.420
But excited to was excited to have you to our Lincoln Day, but also excited to be able
00:41:52.740
We've got about a minute before we have to go to break, but can you just walk us through
00:41:56.640
on a positive note, some of the big wins that you guys have had in Yakima County, frankly,
00:42:01.000
under your leadership, but school board elections, local elections, how you flipped a lot of seats
00:42:09.540
We've since I became chairman, we have been focused on local elections.
00:42:13.700
So we were able to flip our city council from a 5-2 leftist control to a 5-2 MAGA control.
00:42:20.200
Then plus that, we flipped school boards all up and down our valley.
00:42:24.680
We've hit close to 80,000 doors and door knocking since I became chairman.
00:42:29.320
And we've raised over almost a million dollars in funds over the last three years to put donor
00:42:35.440
money back to winning elections locally in Yakima.
00:42:38.800
But not only that, we are hyper-focused at winning elections in Washington State.
00:42:42.780
A lot of folks don't realize this, but there are seats that are for the taking.
00:42:47.900
And because of my new role as Washington State political director for the Republican Party,
00:42:51.540
we are laser-focused at taking those seats back.
00:42:55.600
Matt, if you can just hang with us through the break.
00:42:58.200
I want to, you know, they say correlation doesn't equal causation, but what is it?
00:43:01.280
Like all the top 10 cities in terms of murder rates are all a Democrat run.
00:43:07.760
I think that's not just a correlation that is direct causation, but there's something
00:43:13.140
It's a just, I think, disregard, if not outright rejection of humanity that plagues the sort
00:43:18.120
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00:43:21.720
That's too euphemistic a word because I guess it's probably just a full-blown, full-throated
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But just sort of picking up where I left off, that was the one thing that I noticed from
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being in Washington, spending extended time there, that there's something, you know, we
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talk a lot about the battle between good and evil, and I'm from Los Angeles myself, so
00:45:29.580
But there's something that it almost, it's an evil force.
00:45:32.600
It's like a possession of, I think, a lot of these people who push these policies that
00:45:36.480
are just anti-humanity and directly result in the either, you know, widespread death or
00:45:41.760
deaths or just abysmal quality of life, I think the mandate stuff you were talking about,
00:45:47.580
It's a very weird version of the social contract that I don't think is anything rooted in what
00:45:55.000
But I'm just curious, your sort of perspective, you know, from whether it's the AG, your governor,
00:46:02.560
it just seems like every level there, there's just the stuff they say in public, it's so
00:46:07.620
brazenly, not just illegal, but directly harming their citizens.
00:46:16.280
I mean, sometimes I wonder, like, am I losing my mind?
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Are people actually saying these things as an elected official inside of our state?
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And then I'm going, maybe I'm the weirdo that maybe they're actually speaking normal
00:46:32.060
I mean, Washington State is ranked in the top three for homelessness.
00:46:35.980
We have 32,000 people currently experiencing homelessness in our state.
00:46:41.880
I mean, there's cities that are that size, and we have them on the streets right now in
00:46:47.180
I mean, some folks talk about, you know, the left coast, the Washington, Oregon, and in
00:46:51.720
California as the kind of the prime examples of what not to do.
00:46:56.160
I say, well, it's not even just what not to do.
00:46:58.940
It's, in my opinion, the woke ideology and what's getting spawned throughout the rest of the
00:47:03.380
country is originating from these three states.
00:47:06.540
And what that means is, in my opinion, is we have to really work.
00:47:10.840
We're on the front lines of, you know, working against, you know, darkness of what this is.
00:47:17.260
I mean, you have, I mean, I think Riley Gaines was here at one point because there was a male
00:47:23.200
competing in sports, and our OSPI director here said that doesn't happen at all in Washington
00:47:32.160
And it literally happened like a day after that multiple times all up and down in Washington
00:47:38.540
So it's almost like we're in the twilight zone every single day in Washington State, you
00:47:43.720
know, from, but it hasn't, it's not just recently either.
00:47:47.120
I mean, if you look at an Oregon in 2016, there was the Obama, Comey, FBI that went and
00:47:55.540
weaponized against the Lavoie Finnicum and the Bundys in Oregon.
00:48:01.320
That was a standoff that happened in that front.
00:48:08.040
So all of these things have started and originated here.
00:48:11.620
And so when people are like, oh, there's no hope in Washington, I'm like, there is hope.
00:48:15.800
But we are literally on the front lines of what is right and wrong, and it's happening
00:48:22.420
And just last question, just walk us through, I mean, the 70,000, the 80,000 doors that you
00:48:29.960
You know, this audience is very geared towards activism and action, very grassroots, a lot
00:48:37.420
I met a lot of them in Yakima at the dinner, a lot of War Room Posse.
00:48:43.380
But just your sort of grassroots ground game and, you know, perhaps a positive, a shining
00:48:49.140
light in an otherwise very, as you were saying, dark state, just what your sort of game plan
00:48:57.040
So for a long time, Democrats have used ballot harvesting to beat us over here in Washington
00:49:03.960
And with that, when I came on as chairman, I told our crew, I said, look, we're going to
00:49:10.200
It's completely legal in Washington state, believe it or not.
00:49:14.340
There's no even chain of custody is almost non-existent in Washington state in regards
00:49:20.460
And so I told my team, I said, we're going to do this.
00:49:23.960
And that has been the reason why we've been winning elections.
00:49:27.380
I mean, just in last year's election alone, we ballot harvested close to 2,000 ballots from
00:49:35.900
I have a team of about 15 people that were really highly motivated to get those ballots
00:49:43.140
But in that same sense, there was one legislative district, which is the 14th here in our county.
00:49:51.360
It should not have been won by us, but we held it.
00:49:54.180
Not only did we hold it, we won it by like plus five and plus eight with some of our candidates.
00:49:58.140
And that just goes to show how much hard work hitting doors, being on the ground and doing
00:50:07.100
Because if you're not doing that, we know we can complain about elections all day and
00:50:12.240
But if we're not willing to go toe to toe and compete head to head with Democrats on
00:50:17.000
these issues at doors, you really can't complain.
00:50:20.720
And in Washington state, voters really do stay home a lot because we're a mail-in balloting
00:50:26.860
And so in Yakima County, for example, this last primary, we had less than 17 percent turnout.
00:50:33.400
So we're not talking like we have to get, you know, we don't have to do a whole lot of
00:50:38.760
We're just trying to get all of our Republicans to show up and vote.
00:50:41.440
And if we do that, we'll start flipping the state.
00:50:46.460
Do you think that President Trump's effort to rid the election process of mail-in ballots
00:50:56.480
We actually have a voter ID initiative going right now in Washington state that is, you
00:51:06.060
We've just found recently 700,000 voters in Washington state, registered voters in Washington
00:51:11.460
state don't have a driver's license or social security number tied to their voter registration.
00:51:19.700
We've lost elections in Washington state less than like in 2022 with Tiffany Smiley running
00:51:30.340
You're talking twice that and people that we're not even sure are actual citizens to be
00:51:35.760
So, yes, getting rid of mail-in ballots and then also voter ID would be instrumental in
00:51:43.400
changing what's going on in Washington state, Oregon, and to be honest, California as well.
00:51:48.500
Matt Brown, if people want to follow you or even if they live in Yakima or the surrounding
00:51:53.220
areas of Washington and want to get involved, knock doors, do all that kind of stuff, where
00:52:04.260
You can also find us on X, which is just yakima underscore G-O-P.
00:52:09.460
Or if you'd like to get a hold of me, my website is mattforyakima.com.
00:52:27.780
Like I said, I was very lucky to meet a lot of War Room Posse.
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Many of you are probably watching this show, and it really was a wonderful night, not because
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I got to speak, but because I got to hear from you guys who are knocking 80,000 doors.
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