Trump and his inner circle and his allies have been citing the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a justification to crack down not just on the accused perpetrator, but to bring the full weight of the government down on all their perceived enemies and opponents, the left. Even though there has been, thankfully, a welcome, universal, and unanimous condemnation of the murder and of all political violence.
00:08:23.060It's Wednesday, 17th, September in the year of our Lord, 2025.
00:08:32.800The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, is in England with the King.
00:08:37.580At Windsor Castle, you saw the very moving reception for President got in last night, but he actually got over to the castle today for a formal reception.
00:09:06.500They're going to do oversight on the FBI.
00:09:08.220Yesterday you saw fireworks, the most intense fireworks I've ever seen, I think historically, maybe before the Civil War, but I'm not so sure even then.
00:09:16.620A senior government official blowing back hard on these out-of-control left-wing Democrat senators, and I should say that if we were moving the project along, take apart the deep state, and got subpoenas going, and DOJ, we were on top of things with U.S. attorneys, shifty shift would not be there.
00:09:37.880He would not be there to try to trash Cash Patel.
00:09:40.100Anyway, we're going to go between Cash at House Judiciary, got Dr. Susan, was it Menardes, the fired CDC director that was only there for 30 days after her confirmation.
00:09:50.360She's in front of the, I think, the Health and Human Services Committee, chaired by Cassidy.
00:09:56.760She's there to basically say that Bobby Kennedy's the worst person in the world and that all these anti-vax wingnuts are trying to destroy the United States.
00:10:07.860And also, in and out what the main threat is going to be today is what's happened on Charlie Kirk's assassination.
00:10:15.140And as importantly, to get to the bottom of it, the designation of these terrorist groups as, wait for it, terrorist groups, so they can be fully investigated.
00:10:26.840Caitlin Collins last night trying to blow up Todd Blanche on what President Trump threw out, which is RICO investigations, criminal RICO investigations.
00:10:35.840They're making a big deal about that, that you can't investigate these groups.
00:10:41.080Although Grassley put out yesterday stunning information about what we knew about, a government, FBI involvement really in the 2020 election in people that were protesting the election fraud of 2020.
00:10:56.760In particular, they focused on, wait for a turning point in Charlie Kirk and the team, given that Charlie Kirk and those guys were instrumental in the recount, that a flawed recount in Arizona in early 2021.
00:11:10.800I think this file, Arctic Frost, is from 21 and 22, I believe, or 21 maybe to 23, Arctic Frost.
00:11:20.000Mark Mitchell is going to join us in a little while because the celebration on the left, he just heard, they're taking, they're looking at Democratic politicians and saying, well, they're united in about political violence.
00:11:36.020They are giving the very basic, oh, it's, you know, it's terrible for Charlie with his family and two children.
00:11:43.960But they are instigating it of these radical groups because these radical groups are also how they get elected.
00:11:52.120And that's why you got to get in back of the financing.
00:11:54.520It's, remember, I told you it's three layers of Antifa-like groups or the armed queers of Salt Lake City and all these revolutionary, really paramilitary groups.
00:12:07.160Now that are part of this radical transgender movement, uh, transgender movement, uh, and are getting more and more radicalized every day, more and more violent every day.
00:12:17.720They're actually, I think Ben Shapiro, I'm not sure he formally announced it, but I think he, there's some leak or something about he may be delaying some of his college campus tours.
00:12:27.020And you have some of the most radical groups on Reddit that are sitting there, you know, saying, hey, we told you direct action.
00:12:34.080Remember, direct action are things like, uh, firebombing, sabotage, uh, and assassinations.
00:12:40.340It's a revolutionary technique from, uh, from Europe.
00:12:43.100And you're seeing, uh, you're seeing right now that, uh, they're saying, hey, direct action works.
00:12:48.140Because Ben Shapiro is talking about maybe delaying somewhat his, uh, his, his campaign.
00:12:52.840I don't know if that's true, but this is what they're pushing out in Reddit that is a victory for them.
00:12:57.320Do we have, uh, do we have cash getting, uh, getting lit up?
00:13:05.640Let's get, we've got to get some commercial breaks in it because it's going to be intense.
00:13:09.480I see right there, it's Bernie Sanders.
00:13:11.440Bernie Sanders glazing, I'm sure, Dr. Susan Monares, who made it for 31 days as head of CDC.
00:13:19.480We're juggling a lot of balls here in the world this morning.
00:13:21.720Plus all the analysis and breakdown of what actually is going on in the world.
00:13:27.180And there's a lot, including capital markets, finance.
00:13:31.580Today, I think is the deadline for the pushing of the CR.
00:13:34.460Get ready to, folks, get ready to, um, to, you know, kind of shrug your shoulders and roll your eyes.
00:13:41.900But we're going to a CR at least to November.
00:13:43.740If you look at everything that's got to happen in November before Christmas, uh, it's like, you know, 30 major pieces of legislation are coming.
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00:16:27.040Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and welcome.
00:16:30.280Director Patel, you and I have not had the opportunity to meet.
00:16:33.900And alas, you failed to respond to the eight oversight letters I've sent you over the last seven months.
00:16:39.780So we do have a lot of questions piling up for you.
00:16:42.020But I want to start with a word of praise.
00:16:44.000The first FBI director was J. Edgar Hoover, who steadfastly refused to hire women, African-Americans, and other minorities as agents.
00:16:52.720And although he was a closeted homosexual who lived in domestic partnership for decades with Clyde Tolson, he also participated in anti-gay crusades.
00:17:03.020He aggressively promoted what we would today call white Christian nationalism.
00:17:07.200And he would undoubtedly be turning over in his grave to see as one of his successors a first-generation Indian American and a proud Hindu.
00:17:14.920So I congratulate you on being a breakthrough in this sense and being a beneficiary of the civil rights movement that opened up the FBI and the federal workforce to lots of people who never would have been hired in its first decades.
00:17:27.960Alas, you share J. Edgar Hoover's dangerous obsession with blind loyalty over professionalism and effective public policy.
00:17:35.500For Hoover, it was blind loyalty to him in keeping his secrets.
00:17:39.040For you, it's blind loyalty to Donald Trump in keeping his secrets.
00:17:42.960During your confirmation, it was widely noted on all sides that your primary qualification was your unwavering loyalty to Trump.
00:17:50.800Unlike other directors, you had no work experience at the FBI, but you had made over 1,000 media and political appearances in support of Trump's campaign.
00:17:59.860Your second confirmation vote was 51 to 49, the closest in history, with your opponents warning you were not qualified and had no interest in actually developing the qualifications for the job.
00:18:10.940I hoped that they were not, while most other new FBI directors drew on their experience as FBI agents, you didn't have that.
00:18:21.460But you did write a picture book trilogy for children ages 5 and up based on your experience clashing with President Trump's political enemies.
00:18:32.640In your book, you describe your literary alter ego, Cash the Knight, as a wacky, easily bored wizard carrying out King Donald's vengeance by driving his enemies out of the kingdom.
00:18:45.540In the books, King Donald is besieged by the evil Hillary Queentown, but saved in the end by Cash.
00:18:51.860Then Cash goes on to catch mules who are stealing the 2020 election for the great King Donald from Sleepy Joe.
00:18:58.700And then in the third book, Cash takes down the dragon of the jalapenos, nicknamed the DOJ.
00:19:06.480Your supporters had hoped that you would graduate from imagining yourself a romantic fairytale knight to actually running America's premier federal law enforcement agency.
00:19:17.400Alas, just as we've learned how dangerous it is to put a science-denying anti-vaxxer in charge of our public health,
00:19:24.980we've learned how dangerous it is to name as director of the FBI a man who thinks of himself as a fairytale knight who keeps a fire-breathing dragon named DOJ at home to forcibly drive villains out of the kingdom.
00:19:38.980When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, while his killer was still on the loose,
00:19:43.260you decided you didn't need to be at FBI headquarters in Washington to work with your team while the chaotic manhunt unfolded.
00:19:50.120You spent your evening dining in a swanky midtown Manhattan restaurant and tweeting out false information that the subject of the shooting was in custody,
00:20:00.040a statement you had to retract one hour later.
00:20:04.040Your performance was so disturbing that even the mega-bass was alarmed.
00:20:09.560Culture warrior Christopher Ruffo, who just a few months ago sat in your chair as a Republican witness,
00:20:14.980observed that you performed terribly and he called for your ouster.
00:20:18.880The FBI might be able to survive your delusions of grandeur and the explosively volatile temper that was on display yesterday in the Senate,
00:20:27.440but the intractable problem is that you are running the FBI not as a law enforcement agency charged with keeping the American people safe,
00:20:34.960but as a political enforcement agency working directly for the president's vengeance campaign.
00:20:40.260Seven months in, it's impossible to overstate the destruction, chaos, and demoralization you've brought to the FBI and its workforce
00:20:48.680and the resulting danger your actions have caused to our country.
00:20:52.940You've been systematically purging the FBI of its most experienced and qualified agents, division leaders,
00:20:59.660and experts in counter-terror, counterintelligence, and cybersecurity,
00:21:04.160precisely the people who have the expertise you lack and which the FBI and the country need.
00:21:10.560They've been expelled from the ranks of the Bureau simply because they did their duty investigating crimes,
00:21:16.080including those committed by the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6th, 2021,
00:21:21.620and beat the hell out of more than 140 police officers,
00:21:25.180or simply because you suspected them of being insufficiently loyal to Donald Trump.
00:21:30.580You illegally sacked Brian Driscoll, the former acting director of the Bureau
00:21:34.900and a decorated counter-terrorism expert who worked at the FBI for nearly 20 years.
00:21:40.140According to Driscoll, you told him your own job, quote,
00:21:44.060depended on the removal of agents who worked on the cases against the president,
00:21:48.500regardless of whether the agents chose to work on those cases or not.
00:21:52.780You added, quote, the FBI tried to put the president in jail, and he hasn't forgotten it.
00:21:58.460He forced out the leader of the Salt Lake City field office, Mehtab Saeed,
00:22:02.380just weeks before Charlie Kirk's assassination,
00:22:05.380depriving the FBI of an experienced counter-terrorism expert
00:22:08.980described by her colleagues as absolutely the best and legendary.
00:22:14.040She would have led the FBI's manhunt had she not been fired.
00:22:18.280When Trump decided that rounding up immigrants with no criminal records
00:22:21.580was more important than preventing crimes,
00:22:24.580like human trafficking of women and girls, drug dealing, terrorism, and fraud,
00:22:29.300you ordered the 25 largest field offices to divert thousands of agents away
00:22:34.600from chasing down violent criminals, sex traffickers, fraudsters, and scammers
00:22:39.700to carry out this immigration crackdown.
00:22:42.380Director Patel, you treated the men and women at the FBI with disrespect and paranoia.
00:22:48.740You've assembled a roving band of freelancing henchmen within your office
00:22:53.180and charged them with conducting unauthorized investigations,
00:22:57.240targeting and harassing career FBI employees.
00:23:00.960Amazingly, you've forced senior leadership to repeatedly take polygraph tests
00:23:05.240to prove their political loyalty and pushed out leaders who refused these demeaning exercises.
00:23:11.480And now we're seeing one very clear reason why you want to build a political FBI.
00:23:15.880The Epstein files, you want an FBI blindly loyal to Trump and to you as his enforcer
00:23:22.280so you can continue your cover-up of a massive international sex trafficking ring
00:23:28.680with more than 1,000 victims betraying all of the survivors of the sexual violence.
00:23:35.560Before you got into this job, you called for full release of Epstein files,
00:23:40.420telling podcaster Benny Johnson that the only reason the list was not released
00:23:44.440by DOJ and FBI was, quote, because of who's on that list.
00:23:50.800Upon your confirmation, you promised that, quote,
00:23:53.520there will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, no stone left unturned.
00:23:58.040And anyone from the prior current Bureau who undermines this will be swiftly pursued.
00:24:02.700This spring, you ordered hundreds of agents to pour over all the Epstein files,
00:24:07.360but not to look for more clues about the money network or the network of human traffickers.
00:24:12.460You pulled these agents from their regular counterterrorism or drug trafficking duties
00:24:17.440to work around the clock, some of them sleeping at their desks to conduct a frantic search
00:24:23.020to make sure Donald Trump's name and image were flagged and redacted wherever they appeared,
00:24:30.420whether an email, a text, a letter, an interview, a photograph, or a video.
00:24:34.280In May, Attorney General Bondi reportedly told Trump that his name had indeed appeared multiple times
00:41:27.920I didn't hear anything about that, an evidence-based science, because Americans are super freaking concerned about the vaccine.
00:41:36.580And as you all, your audience knows this, Steve, because you're the only one that had us on, except for a few others, to talk about COVID vaccine polling.
00:42:50.860Government health officials deserve criticism for how they handled the pandemic, 50%.
00:42:55.620And then do some CDC officials involved in government COVID-19 response deserve to be fired?
00:43:01.420Now, I guess she wasn't involved in the response.
00:43:03.480But, you know, sometimes you just got to be the scapegoat.
00:43:05.980So 42% yes, 41% no, 67% of Republicans, only 20% Republicans no.
00:43:11.820If they can't, sitting there in their comfortable establishment, understand the concerns of the voters and align themselves to the new direction of the country, I don't think the people are going to tolerate crap like this much more.
00:43:23.560And you saw the same thing out of Jamie Raskin.
00:43:25.760That was a beautiful work of gaslighting.
00:43:27.940I do not believe he wrote that himself.
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00:45:32.420You're somehow terrible if you want to change the childhood.
00:45:34.860We should be discussing what is the childhood vaccine schedule.
00:45:39.060And you should be, the burden should be on you.
00:45:41.980You want to make all the kids take this?
00:45:43.540The burden is upon you and the people you wouldn't fire to prove to us that we need to give our six-month-old a COVID vaccine and that we need to give our one-day-old a hepatitis B vaccine.
00:45:54.080That's what the debate ought to be about, not whether all vaccines are good or whether we live in Alice in the Wonderland.
00:47:57.820We already spent 21% of our GDP on this, highly taxpayer-funded because of Medicare and Medicaid promises.
00:48:03.840And I did a little bit of research with AI and went back and said, you know what, if they had capped those programs back in 1970 at the percent of GDP they were then,
00:48:13.540what would our government, total government debt be right now?
00:48:16.060It would be $11 trillion, not $30 whatever the frick trillion it is now.
00:48:20.440And what we haven't even been through, a population collapse.
00:48:23.700How is this current generation that can't even get started in life?
00:48:26.920How are they going to support all of the failing boomers?
00:48:31.020We are going to die and there needs to be really hard choices for that to happen.
00:48:35.180And we can't even have a hard choice about childhood vaccines.
00:48:38.180The U.S. vaccine market is $33 billion and they're going to fight tooth and nail to defend it.
00:48:43.540And you and I both know that the way science works, I'm not an immunologist, but they find the thinnest proof they can that, oh, well, there's nothing to see here.
00:48:52.260And then all of a sudden all these kids are shot full of thomiscerol.
00:48:54.860And RFK Jr. is the only person, as far as I know, who is really putting effort and money behind asking those questions.
00:49:02.040So I applaud him and I think Americans would, too.
00:49:04.540Here are two horrifying numbers, again, that that woman, the doctor, could have referred to from our polling if she had wanted to.
00:49:12.520So 28 percent of Americans think it's at least somewhat likely that somebody they know personally died from the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine.
00:49:24.480Has somebody in your family died from the COVID-19 vaccine?
00:49:28.180And has somebody in your family, you suspect, died of side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine?
00:49:33.06011 percent say someone in their household died of the virus.
00:49:37.36010 percent say somebody died from side effects of the vaccine.
00:49:41.160So now you can't draw – it's not apples to apples.
00:49:43.580We can't come down to an exact number of deaths.
00:49:45.820But the implication is Americans think that there are hundreds of thousands of deaths in America from this vaccine that was forced on Americans as a experimental therapeutic that Bill Gates was slobbering over himself to put into the arms of American children.
00:50:03.920They wanted pregnant women shot with this.
00:50:06.680And now they're rolling it back bit by bit.
00:50:09.460If this isn't the number one thing that there are torches and pitchforks for, I don't know what.
00:50:14.440And if the government, if the Republicans, if the people now at the head of these organizations do not have the resolve to stand on the line over this thing that now 56 percent of Americans agree that the vaccine is likely killing a significant number of people in America, then I don't know what we're doing as a republic because the voters are never going to get what they want.
00:50:49.540Mark Mitchell is going to talk about what nobody else is talking about is Reddit.
00:50:53.320So today we're talking about the structure of these Internet companies and the depths and darkness that abides there for – how do I say this?
00:51:03.560Capturing our youth and turning them into demons.
00:51:07.060The stuff you're going to see and hear.
00:51:09.980It can be taken away without stopping free speech.
00:51:15.200What you can do is designate these groups as terrorist organizations, get into it, see who's driving these messages, see who – not just the frontline grundoons, the hoplites, which they have in droves and they're recruiting more every day, but the people financing it, the people making money off it.
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