John Bolton faces 18 counts related to the retention and transmission of national defense information, including a charge of conspiracy to obtain, retain, and transmit classified information. The charge carries a penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
00:03:54.000Well, that information was classified.
00:03:56.000It went over an unclassified email system.
00:03:58.440Those people don't get prosecuted for doing that.
00:04:00.960So what's at issue here are not documents marked classified, which was the case in the Donald Trump indictment.
00:04:08.620These were this was information that John Bolton gathered and wrote down in diaries and sent that the FBI and the CIA
00:04:17.180and other people have determined contained national defense information.
00:04:20.580And when you look at the descriptions in the indictment, it's pretty clear that some of it probably did.
00:04:25.280But the question here is, where is the line for people who are writing books?
00:04:29.640If John Bolton did go through the publication review process here.
00:04:32.660Now, now there's allegations that he ignored some of the suggestions from people about what to leave out of the book.
00:04:39.480But there's a lawyer named Mark Zaid who represents a lot of people who write books.
00:04:43.840And what he was saying last night is that if you're going to prosecute John Bolton, you got to prosecute a lot of other people who wrote books and had potentially classified information on their email systems, which was then left out of the books.
00:04:56.340But which was actually sensitive. And the other thing is, Abby Lowell, John Bolton's lawyer, is saying here that this was not classified.
00:05:05.540These were this was information that he kept for diaries.
00:05:08.740And he said that the FBI has known about this for a long time.
00:05:11.640And that's true. This arose in the Biden administration.
00:05:13.940And and what what what what seems to be the case is that they did not know the extent of what was in at least one of his email accounts until they discovered that Iran they discovered the material that Iran had hacked through a U.S.
00:05:30.560That's according to my reporting. And that's one of the reasons this case didn't go forward in the Biden administration is because officials were concerned about revealing that penetration.
00:05:39.680The Trump administration has made a different calculation. They're OK with revealing it.
00:05:43.720They've revealed it now to the Iranians. So whatever penetration they had is now shut down.
00:05:48.320That's how badly they wanted to prosecute John Bolton.
00:05:50.960And that's where you can ask questions about whether this case should have gone forward, guys.
00:05:55.560Vote, who was a key architect of Project 2025 and also served as OMB director during President Trump's first term.
00:06:03.820He has been a catalyst behind the administration's efforts to fire federal workers, gut key agencies and slash foreign aid.
00:06:12.380Now, a piece published jointly by ProPublica and The New Yorker is taking a deeper dive into vote's dismantling of the federal government,
00:06:22.720chronicling his rise from the mailroom of the U.S. Senate to what some call the shadow president.
00:06:30.380And vote's vision for the U.S. government and all powerful executive branch would be able to fire workers, cancel programs, shutter agencies and undo regulations that cover air and water quality,
00:06:44.580financial markets, workplace protections and civil rights.
00:06:49.000The Department of Justice, meanwhile, would shed its historical independence and operate at the direction of the White House.
00:06:56.600All of this puts vote at the center of what Steve Vladek, a law professor at Georgetown, described to me as the Trump administration's complete disregards for the law.
00:07:08.140And if you look at historical parallels and you read books like the one written by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright or Anne Applebaum,
00:07:21.380the groundwork being laid here for destroying democracy.
00:07:25.900But John Bolton did come back with a statement on this and he's you know, he's not going down as just James noted as well without fighting.
00:07:34.480He said, quote, these charges are not just about Trump's focus on me or my diaries,
00:07:40.540but his intensive effort to intimidate his opponents, to ensure that he alone determines what is said about his conduct.
00:07:48.440Dissent and disagreement are foundational to America's constitutional system and vitally important to our freedom.
00:07:54.880I look forward to the fight to defend my lawful conduct and to expose his abuse of power.
00:08:01.960The question is, which guardrails are left, given what the Supreme Court has done?
00:08:09.780And that's the reason why I feel the need to come on tonight and really just speak in very clear terms,
00:08:14.420because the only guardrails is is the American public and our skepticism and that we don't start with the presumption that an indictment returned against Donald Trump's political enemies is on the up and up.
00:08:26.360We start with the presumption, the strong presumption that when Donald Trump's political enemies all of a sudden find themselves magically under indictment,
00:08:34.940that it's probably not on the up and up, that it probably is because something untoward happened.
00:08:40.120And so that's all I'm asking everyone to do right now.
00:08:45.600This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:08:50.480Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:10:05.800And, of course, I'm here for the next couple of days to talk to the conservatives and the grassroots conservatives in the Lone Star State to figure out.
00:10:14.960The Lone Star State is supposed to be the railhead of MAGA.
00:10:17.020But the folks here don't have time to even much help us on the national level because you're trying to turn around Texas.
00:10:31.000But instead of Texas leading the fight to lock arms with President Trump and make sure his agenda is not just passed, but passed with as big and a maximum of an impact as possible, the failed liberal establishment in the Texas government is forcing Texas taxpayers to basically fund the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris agenda, even though they've been absolutely routed at the ballot box.
00:10:54.820Zelensky's at the White House at 1 o'clock for this massive discussion about providing Tomahawk missiles and other offensive capabilities to the Ukrainians in the Ukraine war against the Russians.
00:11:10.480The Council on Foreign Relations, our own Dr. Peter Navarro, is giving an address about the trade policy and I think particularly going to delve in to this economic war against China.
00:11:20.180Let's go to the Council on Foreign Relations, Peter Navarro.
00:11:24.220After all, it's not every day I get to speak before an audience that has opposed nearly every policy I've ever helped advance in the White House.
00:11:37.060CFR has been uniformly anti-tariff and anti-Trump and highly skeptical of an America first foreign policy that in truth is restoring our trade balance,
00:11:49.220rebuilding our industrial base, strengthening alliances like NATO, keeping, and as we just saw in the Middle East, negotiating the broader peace,
00:12:01.100and reasserting American sovereignty on the world stage.
00:12:04.960So let's ask ourselves the obvious question.
00:12:09.000How did the gulf between the Council on Foreign Relations and Trump world grow so wide?
00:12:16.900If you ask an AI search engine, try this, I did, it will tell you that the Council on Foreign Relations embodies an establishment,
00:12:30.660technocratic, and globalist ideology, one comfortably wedded with Wall Street and the multinational corporations that love open borders,
00:12:39.720cheap offshore labor, and an endless stream of subsidized imported goods.
00:12:47.080By contrast, the Trump administration since 2017 has stood squarely with the people who make and grow things in this country,
00:12:55.580our farmers and ranchers, our manufacturers and workers.
00:13:00.400What many in this audience dismiss as populism or nationalism simply means doing what's best for Americans first.
00:13:09.720It's protecting our jobs, communities, and the industrial base that anchors our national strength.
00:13:18.180History is indeed a harsh mistress here.
00:13:22.640Exhibit A, Council on Foreign Relations members helped negotiate NAFTA,
00:13:28.780which hallowed out the U.S. manufacturing base and triggered one of the largest illegal mass migrations in modern history.
00:13:37.180CFR analysts championed China's 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization,
00:13:45.740the single worst trade deal, the single worst trade deal in American history.
00:13:51.360Then came the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
00:24:08.940But, you know, the New York Times is the paper of that and the journal of the paper of globalism.
00:24:14.160Why can't we translate Trump's victory, and particularly Trump's principles as laid out, at least on the geostrategic side and the economic side,
00:24:22.520why are we having such a hard time here in Texas?
00:24:25.060Because I think I've come to the conclusion is Texas is actually the railhead of MAGA, but it's a purple state by the way that the elected officials run it.
00:24:36.760The Texas voters, the men and women who love this state, the 30 million people who call Texas home, they are red.
00:24:42.640But the reality is, and people don't know this because all they watch is maybe a few seconds of our governor or lieutenant governor on Fox News every once in a while.
00:24:48.760They think our government matches that and that we're red.
00:24:51.640The reality is that the Texas people are red.
00:24:54.020The Texas government is blue and has been for a long time.
00:24:56.800And that's why you see people like Peter Navarro representing the president of the United States,
00:25:00.660walking into a room full of people who for a generation basically have been able to control the regulatory capture and other things.
00:25:13.780And President Trump is an existential threat to that.
00:25:16.300And the state of Texas should be a multiplying force and an amplifier for what President Trump is trying to do and break the mold by the liberal to the people.
00:25:26.900What Texas elites are in the governing philosophy down here because they say they're Republicans, but they're really – they're anti-populist, anti-Trump globalist.
00:25:38.180And that's why you have these policies, whether it's transgender ideology.
00:25:42.080I mean, you've got one of the great universities.
00:25:43.680I told you, the men and women I know that are Aggies are the most conservative, hard-bitten crew.
00:25:49.900And I see what's happening at Texas A&M.
00:25:51.940I go, how can that possibly happen at Texas A&M?
00:25:55.080Well, I say as a proud member of the Fightin' Texas Aggie class of 2004, it's one of the reasons that people – why are you picking on A&M so much?
00:26:07.580But now they've been taken over by leftists because our governor has appointed a bunch of woke, progressive leftists that have allowed this leftist, Marxist, socialist ideology to proliferate unchecked.
00:26:18.740And now the hardworking men and women of the state of Texas, they're being taxed out of their homes – the highest property tax in the country, by the way – to fund the leftist ideology, which leads us to the transgender movement, the transgender violence.
00:27:20.760One analysis last year, Texas has the highest property tax rate in the country, effective property tax rate.
00:27:28.140And what are they doing with all this money?
00:27:29.700Well, we're funding the exact opposite of everything President Trump is fighting for in Washington.
00:27:34.880We're probably the biggest funder of DEI and transgender indoctrination in the whole country.
00:27:38.140And this is why you've got, I think, some of the best, if not the best, grassroots fighters in the nation right here in Texas.
00:27:45.420I just want to say we're going to go to break here in a second.
00:27:47.220The other day on Tel Aviv Levin, on Mark Levin's show they had, the radio show they had Abbott, and he was praising Abbott for, Abbott was taking credit for the five seats, the redistricting.
00:27:59.480He actually had the chutzpah to try to dance it and go, hang on, this is all these grassroots organizations, Brian Harrison, War of River Pound it every day, Abbott's fight test, behind the scenes, everything.
00:28:11.120And he's taking credit now for, he's taking credit for the redistricting.
00:28:16.240Well, yeah, he has a habit of doing this.
00:28:19.480You know, I forced a professor to be fired at A&M.
00:28:22.620And then like clockwork, there's a tweet from the governor, this professor must go.
00:28:25.460And I'm like, well, okay, well, where were you, you know, when your reasons were hiring all these leftists?
00:28:29.360And here's the thing, too, on the five seats, yeah, we got it done, and thank God we did.
00:28:32.940But quite frankly, without the grassroots pressure and the president having to tell, hey, these Republican elected officials, get off your duff and do something.
00:28:39.860And by the way, Steve, you were right on this, the posse, it should have been more than five seats.
00:28:43.360And even the lead author of the bill has admitted we could have had more than five seats.
00:33:53.300I think we still have 2.3 million civilian workers in the government.
00:33:57.140I know Russ has a plan to go all the 500,000 above, which we're – and President Trump's under tremendous pressure by Wall Street, by the rhinos in the Senate, which is virtually all of them.
00:34:16.300That's what they voted for last November.
00:34:18.780And I'm really thrilled that one of the silver linings of the Democrats' total – I would say it's incompetence, but it's like willful malice, what they're doing with this Democrat-led Schumer shutdown.
00:34:27.920I think one of the silver linings is my friend and former colleague and yours, Russ Vogt, getting to finally do some of the things that I think, quite frankly, Russ has been preparing for many, many years to get to do.
00:34:38.720Because one of the things I think the American people now understand is that the president is supposed to be the head of the executive branch.
00:34:45.020But he's constantly undermined by the hundreds of thousands of woke leftist Marxist progressives that in theory work for the president but are in fact actually undermining everything President Trump is trying to do.
00:34:55.820And this is what – in the years in the wilderness, right, the Project 2025 team, but it really was Russ Vogt, CRA, Heritage, Stephen Miller's America First Legal, so much Brooks Rollins, the America First Policy Institute.
00:35:08.020You know, CPI with Senator DeMint and Mark Meadows.
00:35:11.780All these groups working together with really Miller and Russ and the viceroy, Mike Davis, saying, hey, we want to get down to a real driving – we're going to drive the narrative here on the Article II powers of the president of the United States.
00:35:27.760He's chief executive officer of the country.
00:35:29.760That means he can fire who he wants, and the appropriations bill is a ceiling, not a floor.
00:35:41.740And most importantly I think has been so different, he is the chief magistrate and chief law enforcement officer of the United States government.
00:35:49.000So the Justice Department and the FBI are not hermetically sealed away from the executive branch, Brian.
00:35:55.560I think that's the big challenge we've had now in everything we're doing, and it's not going to stop.
00:35:58.920No, and I was in those fights with President Trump in the first term.
00:36:01.880It's not just the career bureaucrats that make up the vast majority of the massive federal workforce.
00:36:06.840But the president gets to politically appoint 1,000-plus people to come in and serve with him and make sure his agenda is carried out at all the different agencies.
00:36:14.660But even keeping the people that are appointed by the president, they're explicitly at the appointment of the White House.
00:36:20.900During the first term I can tell you that there were a lot of D.C. swamp creatures that made their way into President Trump's first administration.
00:36:26.560And it was even the political appointees that were undermining him, but to your bigger point, Steve, if you work in the executive branch, if you're a bureaucrat somewhere, your ultimate boss, if you care about that pesky little thing called the Constitution, is the president of the United States, and the president is Donald J. Trump.
00:36:41.260And if you're a bureaucrat in the executive branch, you're there to carry out his agenda.
00:36:44.400One of the most striking differences between the first term and the second is that those years in the wilderness, people were at work, not just in the policies, but also the people.
00:36:52.680You get 3,000 people you can get on board as soon as they get a security clearance day one, 1,000 basically have to get confirmed by the Senate.
00:37:00.540And this confirmation by the Senate, right now, President Trump put out a true social last night about eight U.S. attorneys that he can't get in in blue states because of this concept of the blue slip.
00:37:11.940I don't think President Trump's calling for that to go away.
00:37:14.000I don't think it's going to go away, Mr. President.
00:37:15.640It's a custom and tradition to stick with.
00:37:17.200But John Thune ought to call a real recess, which they've never had for one day of President Trump's first term or second term.
00:37:24.600The reason is Mitch McConnell and the writers in the Senate don't trust President Trump on a recess appointment.
00:37:30.040Right now, Thune needs to, you know, next week to get Johnson, since the House is out and Johnson said he support this, to actually call it a formal recess.
00:37:39.500And let's get these recess appointments, particularly these U.S. attorneys.
00:37:45.200We've got a cold open from the one aspect I can tell you they're driving, driving, driving is this investigation of the deep state, the investigation of what happened, the conspiracy in the first term, and particularly now Antifa and everything associated with Antifa.
00:37:59.420You've got the Treasury Department on this.
00:38:03.240We've got Matt Palumbo, who's the specialist in Soros and the devil spawned the sun.
00:38:08.940Let's go and play the clip and bring Matt Palumbo on.
00:38:10.980The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the White House is planning to install true Trump loyalists in the IRS criminal unit for the not sole purpose, but one of the reasons is to target left leaning groups.
00:38:30.300And, you know, we've been hearing rumors about this and reports.
00:38:33.040I think Jeff and his team at Reuters did a story a week ago about targeting these left wing groups.
00:38:37.960And when I hear this, my mind immediately went back to Watergate, actually.
00:38:43.200You know, everybody remembers that there was bugging.
00:38:45.380You know, that was, you know, they were bugging the Democratic headquarters back then.
00:38:48.060But, you know, there were many other crimes involved with Watergate.
00:38:51.000And one of the big ones was Nixon and his henchmen sending a list of enemies over to the IRS and asking them to go investigate.
00:38:58.440I mean, that was a big that was one of the articles.
00:38:59.920It was part of the articles of impeachment.
00:39:01.620One of the things that led to his resignation.
00:39:03.480Now, of course, that was a very different time because at that time when that list came over to the IRS, the people, they didn't act on it.
00:39:12.280And, in fact, and then eventually, you know, Republican members of Congress stood up and said, this is one of the reasons, Mr. President, you're going to lose an impeachment vote.
00:39:46.060Tell that to the families of the ICE agents that were shot by alleged Antifa activists just within the last month here in the Lone Star State.
00:40:39.620I still think the best book on Soros written.
00:40:41.420And immediately he told me, he said, hey, I'm going after the kid because he's the devil's spawn.
00:40:46.100It may actually be bigger than the old man.
00:40:48.560Where do we stand with this now, the shocking?
00:40:51.020Because, hey, the Treasury Department's got their terrorist financing group up on money laundering and terrorist financing and the IRS simultaneously.
00:41:01.860And you can tell how important this is because the mainstream media is in total meltdown of this probably more than anything else they're dealing with.
00:41:31.260You know, they're arguing that, oh, we're not directly paying people to do violence.
00:41:35.080It doesn't mean anything if groups have a record of doing violence.
00:41:38.720You know, the analogy I've given is they will hand gasoline and matches to an arsonist and then say, well, we couldn't have possibly known it was going to go on there.
00:41:48.720And Alex cited a New York Times article that made that exact argument.
00:41:53.740And they had claimed that a recent report from the Capital Research Center, which does profiles on left-wing groups, had made that exact claim.
00:42:02.660There's no evidence of any direct funding.
00:42:05.900And, you know, I read the report, and I'll read directly from it.
00:42:09.700The Open Society Foundation, since 2016, gave $80 million to pro-terror groups.
00:42:16.040And this is split between groups that are themselves going out and committing acts of violence or are making light of violence, doing propaganda for groups like Hamas to downplay their atrocities or providing legal aid, you know, free legal aid to these protesters.
00:42:32.040And we talked in the last show how Alex had used environmentalist groups sort of as a front for other left-wing causes in that he had authorized over $438 million in new spending to environmental groups ever since he took over.
00:42:49.260But that's only a small percentage of what they actually do.
00:42:52.720They're sort of a catch-all for left-wing activism.
00:42:56.180And a lot of the Palestinian groups he funded are in that pro-terror category, where regardless of your position on the Israel-Palestine conflict, even if you are, you know, someone on the right who is more sympathetic to the Palestinians, it's no doubt that these left-wing groups are really anti-American groups.
00:43:15.420We saw that with them, their number one issue being, well, we want a ceasefire, and then the second we get a ceasefire, I don't think Rashida Tlaib had posted on Twitter for a couple days after that even happened, never mentioned it.
00:43:28.020Most of these groups calling for a ceasefire now never mentioned it, did not give Trump any credit because they didn't really care about that issue.
00:43:35.520That was just the rallying cry, but they have a million other little things they want to do.
00:43:39.340Now, when it comes to other things the IRS could look into, and we talked about this in the last show, in the last chapter of my book on Alex that comes out in about two weeks, I looked into all of the groups in the U.S. that he had funded the year he took over the OSF, which is the most recent year we have data.
00:43:59.980And I looked at groups, and it's over $500,000 in funding, and there are a number of groups that are set up basically to give plausible deniability.
00:44:09.000They are in this sort of funds of funds category where he will give $10 million to a group, and I'll go through the social media, their YouTube, their website.
00:44:18.680There is no activity, no press releases, no news of anything they're doing, but they present themselves as active groups.
00:44:27.140And then you go through their financials, their public statements, and all their operations are giving money to other groups.
00:44:33.980And then their expenses will be $100 a year.
00:45:14.140They're already laying their illegal defense.
00:45:17.660They know they've got big problems, and they've never had Treasury come after them.
00:45:21.160They've never had the IRS come after them.
00:45:22.900And they've never had them come after them for money laundering and for tariff financing.
00:45:26.860And these have very stiff penalties, as right now, Bolton is getting arraigned, I think, in Maryland, in Greenbelt, Maryland, on his 18 counts.
00:45:38.100Each count has 10 years, so it's 180 years in prison.
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00:53:43.640Yeah, we just closed up with the Florida Attorney General James Utmeyer and Dr. Latipo, our Surgeon General, who recently banned all vaccine mandates in schools, which our moms stood to their feet and cheered for that when he was discussing that today.
00:53:59.300So it's been a strong morning of Florida leaders.
00:54:01.820We're moving into breakouts right now.
00:54:03.460So we've got covering all kinds of topics, AI and education, sextortion happening on digital platforms of children, getting into some deep and depressing things, unfortunately.
00:54:14.520But here at Moms for Liberty, we know our future is bright.
00:54:17.480We have a big lunch session coming up very soon with a couple panels with Corey DeAngelis and some alternatives to teachers unions.
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