On today's show, we have special guest Steve Van Zucco on the show to talk about the Schumer Shutdown, and we have a special guest on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Eric Van Hollen. We also hear from the one and only Dr. Navarra and hear from Attorney General Eric Holder.
00:00:15.800So the donor class, and this is why just – I know we're rolling the show for a second.
00:00:22.040President Trump right now is under tremendous pressure.
00:00:24.680The reason Russ Vogt has not pulled the trigger on the deconstruction of the administrative state during the Schumer shutdown is President Trump is under enormous pressure from donors and RINO senators saying, oh, we can't do this.
00:00:42.220He's under tremendous pressure not to either put in a Title X escalatory ladder on the insurrection in these various cities and states or to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.
00:00:53.360The pressure around President Trump, the pressure around him right now not to get a peace deal in Gaza.
00:01:00.280People I don't think realize the pressure on him every day not to follow his natural instincts in the MAGA plan is enormous, and that's why I admire him so much.
00:01:11.020He's fighting the good fight every day, plus he's fighting the guys supposedly on his side.
00:01:16.300This is why, mark my words, they all hate Trump up there, all the establishment.
00:02:35.720The American people don't know the rationale behind the deployment of National Guard troops in my state.
00:02:40.900The word is, and I think it's been confirmed by the White House, they are going to transfer Texas National Guard units to the state of Illinois.
00:02:50.840Yeah, Chairman, as you shut down the government, you voted to shut down the government, and you're sitting here, our law enforcement officers aren't being paid.
00:02:58.240They're out there working to protect you.
00:03:00.260I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump.
00:03:03.220And currently, the National Guard are on the way to Chicago.
00:03:06.460If you're not going to protect your citizens, President Trump will.
00:03:11.400I've been on this committee for more than 20 years.
00:03:13.340That's the kind of testimony you expect from this administration.
00:03:16.440A simple question as to whether or not that a legal rationale for deploying National Guard troops becomes grounds for personal attack.
00:03:36.460I understand that Brian Ballard, long-time backer and head of the law firm where you work, was instrumental in lobbying the Justice Department to drop that lawsuit.
00:03:54.620So it's not subject to a court review.
00:03:58.180What conversation did you have with Mr. Ballard?
00:04:00.720Senator Blumenthal, I cannot believe that you would accuse me of impropriety when you lied about your military service.
00:04:14.220I am not asking you, I am not accusing you of impropriety.
00:04:18.600You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor.
00:04:22.200Don't you ever challenge my integrity.
00:04:25.760I have abided by every ethics standard.
00:04:28.960Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial as Attorney General.
00:04:34.260And anything with my former firm, Ballard Partners.
00:04:37.520It was because she had the audacity to remind Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino that he was obligated to follow a court order and the Constitution in California.
00:04:51.360According to reports, she was fired less than six hours after she told Bovino he couldn't arrest people without probable cause.
00:05:00.820So my first question, Attorney General Bondi, is a simple yes-no question.
00:05:06.820Do you believe that government officials like Gregory Bovino are obligated to follow applicable court orders, whether they agree with them or not, yes or no?
00:05:18.880First, Senator Padilla, you have gone on for over five minutes, and I wish that you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump.
00:05:27.100We'd be in really good shape then, because violent crime in California is currently 35 percent higher than the national average.
00:05:34.600Property crime in California is 18 percent higher than the national average.
00:05:39.920That should be something that we should be talking about and working together on, yet we're not.
00:05:47.000You're talking about all of my agencies, and I want to let you know what DEA has been doing, and they are working hand-in-hand with health and security.
00:05:54.100I appreciate that, and I'm going to go on for five minutes and criticize my agents who are out working without pay right now, because you voted to shut down the government.
00:06:05.300They're out there working without pay.
00:06:07.400Mr. Chairman, I asked a simple yes-or-no question.
00:06:09.940But in case I just didn't hear you, what is the answer?
00:07:01.780You were asked by my colleague from Vermont whether you will support providing a video or audio tape, if it exists, of Mr. Holman taking $50,000 in bribe money from the FBI.
00:07:17.920Will you support a request by this committee to provide that tape or tapes to the committee?
00:07:51.020And you don't have to defer to the FBI director to pass the buck.
00:07:54.560So I'm asking you, will you support a request so that the committee, or indeed I believe the American people, should be able to see that video or audio tape?
00:11:11.900We had Hawley and Tuberville and Banks on today, and they were absolutely outraged.
00:11:17.680Senator Hawley called for a special prosecutor.
00:11:20.780This is pretty blockbuster news, but the Democrats, all they went after Pam Bondi was to try to destroy President Trump's policies about mass deportations and particularly focus on Tom Holman, who's doing a magnificent job as the borders are.
00:11:39.960Steve, I am at the White House, but this morning I was at that hearing.
00:11:43.880I showed up a little before nine because Chuck Grassley once again revealed a big reveal about my own case of weaponization against me, and it was a beautiful thing to behold.
00:12:02.380You know, Steve, the first chapter of the book that you wrote the foreword to, I went to prison so you won't have to, basically begins with that arrest at Reagan Airport by what I thought was five armed FBI agents.
00:12:17.900But after what they released today, I've got to go back and revise that.
00:12:20.720They dropped the surveillance logs, number one, and they also dropped the document that shows the authorization.
00:12:29.460And what's so fascinating about these two new documents, first of all, they said right in there that I was not dangerous or armed.
00:12:41.460Ergo, they had no reason to take me in an armed takedown.
00:13:18.580And it's just like crazy stuff, like eavesdropping on Republican senators.
00:13:25.000It's like taking me down in an armed arrest.
00:13:28.200And I'll tell you, I almost got like contact schlease because I was sitting too close to Adam Schiff and the slime that drips off this guy.
00:13:40.460And I fear for my republic, Steve, when I listen to these guys on the left side of the dais, man.
00:13:47.620And all these Democrats, it's like they're attacking us.
00:13:51.540They're attacking us, Steve, for weaponizing government, the judiciary, the attorney general.
00:13:59.360After you and I both went to prison because these sons of bitches weaponized the government.
00:17:39.420It's like a misdemeanor for me with a circus leg irons arrest put in the cell where John Hinckley was after he shot Reagan.
00:17:53.560And they made a point of telling me about that.
00:17:55.400All that nice little treatment gave CNN the scoop and all of that.
00:17:59.220And now these documents that were revealed today by Senator Chuck Grassley, thanks again to Senator Grassley for getting this stuff out, thanks to the whistleblowers,
00:18:10.400show that not only did they have five armed FBI agents in a gangway, they had like a dozen of these guys tracking my movements.
00:18:20.160That's people that should have been tracking terrorists and drug cartels and otherwise protecting the American people.
00:18:27.560Meanwhile, meanwhile, Steve, why is James Comey, who's very well trained in guns, right, probably has a bunch of them in his basement,
00:18:38.980why is he allowed to self-surrender and not be, I don't know, circus arrested somewhere on his way to the beach so he can write 187-47, 187-47 like he did.
00:18:53.020So, look, this is, here's the big picture here, Steve.
00:18:57.340What Senator Grassley is doing is he's getting more and more documents out of the Department of Justice bureaucracy faster than we otherwise would.
00:19:08.020And it's showing what you and I have been talking about and experienced is a Democrat lawfare conspiracy to go after just about everybody in the Republican Party who's an associate of Donald John Trump and the president himself.
00:19:28.400I mean, yesterday's revelations, they're spying on Republican senators.
00:20:56.760Yeah, well, sort of, because the first thing that happened today that Grassley said correctly was the Democrats have been holding up all the appointments of all the people that we want to put in the Department of Justice.
00:21:10.100And Pam Bondi mentioned that in her opening remarks.
00:21:13.940And, you know, Steve, like, what are the worst bureaucracies we have, you know, where you have, like, it's like a pyramid at the top.
00:21:23.480And all they do is struggle with their careers below them in the pyramid.
00:21:27.520And justice has got, you know, look, the guy, my case here, my case, my cases on appeal, as yours is, the guy who was in charge of putting paper in on mine to the court was a guy who donated $20,000 to Biden and Democrats and his career totally died in the Democrat wool.
00:21:51.560And he slips through still working there because they don't have enough personnel.
00:21:55.640But to your point, special prosecutor, we need somebody to take control of this whole process because time's running out, Steve.
00:22:03.200You and I, if we learned anything during the first term, yeah, a little more than 1,500 days.
00:22:07.640And if you lose in the midterms, the House, then you got half that.
00:22:13.180So we need to go with the greatest sense of urgency.
00:22:44.800They send a dozen FBI agents to surveil me from my house, which is literally across the street from the FBI, where they could have taken me then or simply call me on the phone.
00:22:57.280I think people need to understand just how crazy that stuff is.
00:23:00.800But it was a point that the process is the warfare.
00:23:26.260And we're on the stage of the Republican National Committee.
00:23:30.000And here's the thing people don't understand, Steve, is when they do this kind of lawfare to me or Jeff Clark or John Eastman or you or the president, they do it to our families.
00:23:42.440And Bonnie stood by me through the whole thing.
00:23:48.580She came and visited me every weekend, Saturday and Sunday.
00:24:42.180They did it to humiliate her, to humiliate you.
00:24:45.860And by the way, this is at Reagan National Airport, not just one of the busiest airports in the world, but all these prominent people came through.
00:25:42.320If they can do it to me or you or the president or Eastman or Giuliani or Clark or everybody I served with in that first term, they can certainly do it.
00:32:15.720Tomorrow, I believe, not just Comey's going to get a rain, but another big announcement.
00:32:20.760I think we're going to hear an announcement about Marine Corps 250.
00:32:24.980And I can tell you from the Real American Voice team and from the war room, we're going to be there for the entire thing.
00:32:29.260So a bunch of big announcements today.
00:32:31.760Sorry I can't be back there for Sean Spicer's promotion ceremony.
00:32:35.560But as you can see, we've got a pretty good representation there.
00:32:38.860So, Philip Patrick, you came on the show a couple weeks ago, and you talked about, because I want to make sure everybody understands two things.
00:32:48.860Number one, it's not just the daily spot price of gold, right?
00:32:53.320I know a lot of people are focused on that, particularly now, what, almost a 50% run-up, I think, in the last 12 months.
00:32:58.720And this huge run-up since we started working with Birch Gold four years ago, I think it was $1,100.
00:33:04.260It's the process and why gold is a hedge against times of financial turbulence, both geopolitically and financially.
00:33:13.340Goldman Sachs, I think, came out today and took their price target for gold for next year, I think, from $4,200 or $4,300 to $4,900.
00:33:21.220But I want people to understand, there's something that is structurally happening in the world today around this de-dollarization movement that you pinpointed when you went in July to the Rio Reset down in Rio de Janeiro, and I think nailed it better than anybody.
00:33:37.640Walk us through what you said the central banks are doing now and the money center banks about fiat currencies, particularly the euro,
00:33:45.000and then what they're doing to take their asset base and actually increase their holdings in gold, sir.
00:33:52.800Yeah, this has been a fairly consistent trend.
00:35:06.500For the first time in decades, we're seeing mainstream money managers, pensions, institutions, endowments following the lead of central banks.
00:35:15.200And I think what we're seeing is an admission that paper promises alone don't cut it.
00:35:21.060Gold now more broadly outside of central banks is being treated like essential insurance, not speculation.
00:35:39.800What we're seeing today, I think, is a repricing of reality.
00:35:43.620For many years, the markets treated government debt and central bank policy as if it was risk-free.
00:35:50.300And I think we're seeing now globally that that illusion is breaking down.
00:35:57.420I want to go back to this fear versus acceptance.
00:36:00.940Fear has traditionally been, and this is why a hedge against geopolitical risk, against financial turbulence, as a risk-mitigating tool.
00:36:10.300Now you're actually saying we're going back to maybe even this concept in the 19th century, where it's looked at as something central, a central asset that is every bit as fundamental as fiat currency.
00:36:24.600Is that the point you're trying to make?
00:36:28.300Look, when you've got record sovereign debt, negative real yields on government debt, central banks hoarding gold, I think the market is simply adjusting to what's always been true.
00:36:39.880And that is that tangible assets deserve a bigger share of portfolios and central bank reserves.
00:36:47.120When the smartest money in the room starts buying the same asset that the founding fathers used as the definition of money itself, that is not a trade.
00:37:13.620Also talk about the law of unintended consequences in that if you look at this Ukraine situation, and you and I on here three years ago talking about the economic warfare part of this and how the globalists and the Atlantisists want to come up on Russia big time.
00:37:30.860The EU, the euro dollar as a potential global currency is essentially being eviscerated for the simple fact is that the EU guys led the charge to essentially steal the assets of the Russian people.
00:37:47.380First, to use it to collateralize loans, which they would take the interest and pay for the arms to attack the Russian army.
00:37:54.020But then this whole concept of the $350 billion, which most of it happens to be in European banks in euro dollars, right, in EUs, that in doing that, they've got everybody in the world saying, well, hey, maybe I get out of that.
00:38:10.420And this is one of the reasons the central banks are buying more gold than ever.
00:38:14.140It's the law of unintended consequences.
00:38:16.040They're trying to press the economic war and to weaponize the currency.
00:38:22.120The fiat currency actually drove kind of the logic of people saying, hey, maybe I ought to get out of that and maybe I ought to get into physical gold, sir.
00:40:17.760I just want people to know about how they get to you and how you walk people through it, because I know a lot of people are saying, hey, $4,000, maybe I missed this.
00:40:25.340And I keep telling them, I said, don't worry about the price today.
00:40:27.880Understand what's driving the price, and that will change your perspective or at least give you a window of how to make a decision here.
00:40:33.560So where do people go and how they interact with you and your staff?
00:42:10.460But make sure you make contact and build a relationship with the guys of Birchgold, Philip Patrick, and his team.
00:42:15.160I think another thing that the price of gold is showing us is that we have to get our financial house in order, right?
00:42:24.380You have this kind of disconnect now between Capitol Hill, what President Trump's trying to accomplish, what Scott Besson's trying to accomplish.
00:42:47.760And I think the increase in the price of gold is showing you that as people are sitting there going throughout the world going, I don't know.
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