The U.S. military has seized a Russian oil tanker bound for the North Atlantic Ocean. It's the same ship the Coast Guard had tried to seize last month near Venezuela, but they were unable to board it. Now, the vessel has turned around and headed south.
00:03:16.180It's Wednesday, 7th, January, Year of Alert, 2026. Let's get right into it, because we're pretty packed in this hour.
00:03:28.000We have Sam Faddis, a career operative with the Central Intelligence Agency, and now one of the grassroots leaders of the MAGA movement, and Captain Jim Fennell, a career naval intelligence officer.
00:03:38.580Sam, what has actually happened? Can you just walk us through the mechanics of this, that we've seized a vessel on the high seas?
00:03:46.560It looks like we've done it with a combination of special operators of the United States military and maybe even some other folks.
00:03:55.560So what we have is part of this dark fleet, one of these tankers that's running oil around the world to all of our adversaries that we attempted to board in the Caribbean some time back.
00:04:11.540The narrative is we then pursued it across the Atlantic. I think that's actually a misnomer.
00:04:18.080We just tracked it across the Atlantic until it got to a point where it was in a position that was most advantageous to us to board it, and then we put, I presume, Navy SEALs on board.
00:04:30.940We have seized that tanker. It is now under our control, and I presume it is heading back to the United States. I've seen that it has changed course already.
00:04:41.540It appears to be a Russian ship. I mean, it got re-flagged, but there's all kind of reports that it's a Russian vessel, and like you said, the dark fleet.
00:04:52.800We talk about this dark fleet because this is what upsets us about around Iran and with the mullahs sending oil to the CCP.
00:05:01.520Clearly, out of Venezuela, they're sending oil to the CCP.
00:05:05.620President Trump redirected that last night, $2 billion of that coming to the United States of America.
00:05:10.280What is the dark fleet? And knowing that the Russians are part of this, that we went and seized this, is this an act of war against the Russians, or where does that stand on the escalatory ladder?
00:05:22.020Well, I think what the dark fleet is, I mean, what you have is a collection of usually relatively small tankers that switch flags all the time, switch registrations all the time,
00:05:38.080and help all the pariah states of the world evade sanctions, not only moving oil directly to them, but in some cases, they're actually transferring oil at sea from one tanker to another.
00:05:50.720So, and, you know, to one extent or the other, people's hands are hidden here.
00:05:58.680So, yeah, absolutely, it could be a Russian vessel that they have been hiding behind another flag.
00:06:03.980I think it was flagged in Guyana before it decided in the middle of the Atlantic that all of a sudden it was a Russian ship.
00:06:10.100And what we're saying is, effectively, we're not going to let you play this game anymore.
00:06:16.140We're not going to be bogged down in this.
00:06:18.580We know what's going on and we're grabbing these vessels because they're violating sanctions.
00:06:22.320Is it a provocation to the Russians without question?
00:06:24.820Are they going to go to war with us over seizing one tanker in the United, in the middle of the Atlantic?
00:06:57.700We're not just going to chase you around and try to pursue this through legal proceedings.
00:07:01.520We're actually going to take these pieces off the board.
00:07:06.740You've had two special – and I realize it was enforcing a DEA indictment the other day, but it was a military operation to support that.
00:07:16.860So you've had two special operator involvements in the last, I don't know, five or six days.
00:07:22.740Is President Trump sending a message also that he's prepared to, you know, not just go to court and, like you said, take – but actually take direct military or paramilitary action to enforce what he wants, which is when somebody's got to sanction the United States, particularly in oil, it's not going to go to the Chinese Communist Party and it's not going to go to bad actors, sir?
00:07:46.820And he's saying – and that's not just verbiage.
00:07:49.320I'm prepared to put my money where my mouth is.
00:07:53.340And so we are enforcing to one extent or the other a blockade, at least over certain cargo in regard to Venezuela now.
00:08:00.200And there's been buzz in the press for some time that maybe various tankers are getting ready to run that blockade, basically try our hand.
00:08:10.420So everybody who was thinking about that can look at this action and say, well, now I know exactly what's going to happen.
00:08:17.020The SEALs are going to be on the deck and they are going to take control of my vessel and take it away and it won't be mine anymore.
00:08:31.620Of course, Greenland, the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap, and Greenland comes into play here.
00:08:40.140But what Sam Faddis just said is blockade.
00:08:42.640This started, as you and I have talked about, for months and months and months since we've had this vast armada, as the president refers to it, off the coast of Venezuela.
00:08:50.180I think a mini-carrier strike group plus an amphibious ready group, 12,000 to 14,000 fleet Marines, sailors, others off of Venezuela.
00:09:26.400Well, Steve, I think, you know, the verbology can, you know, we're going to watch different words be thrown around.
00:09:35.580But typically a blockade is used in terms of military operations associated with a kind of an act of war.
00:09:43.440Whereas a quarantine is, I think, what we've been actually doing.
00:09:46.660You know, the taking of the Bella One, the taking of the earlier tankers a few weeks ago.
00:09:55.060Oh, by the way, Southern Command also took the motor tanker, Sofia, here in the last 24, 48 hours as well off the coast of Venezuela.
00:10:04.140So what we're doing is we're enforcing our, it's international law as well as U.S. national law against sanctions against this dark fleet that's transporting illegally obtained oil.
00:10:25.760I'm not even sure that special operations or SEAL teams were involved with this operation.
00:10:29.800The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Monroe had been shadowing this vessel along with the intelligence surveillance reconnaissance from U.S. Navy P-8 aircraft.
00:10:39.940So we do what we call visit, board, search and seizure operations routinely in the United States Navy.
00:10:46.460And we work with our Coast Guard counterparts, law enforcement detachments to do these operations.
00:10:51.920Now, it could be that there were SEALs on board or special operations forces.
00:10:55.300But we have a capacity across the U.S. Navy and our Coast Guard to conduct these operations.
00:11:00.720So we don't just have to have these tier one assets that are very highly trained and very elite and very, you know, judicious use of their time and effort, like we saw, I think, on Saturday night in the raid against Maduro.
00:11:14.820So what I think we are saying to the rest of the world is read our national security strategy.
00:11:19.840We said we're going to enforce hemispheric defense.
00:11:22.620We have legal standing, both internationally and nationally, to interdict this dark fleet.
00:12:19.400Right there, the difference between quarantine, and I take the difference between a naval quarantine and a blockade, is a seismic difference.
00:12:26.500A quarantine is one thing like we had the quarantine in Cuba in the missile crisis.
00:12:41.320Do you think that this has escalated in Venezuela with their other allies, that would be the Mullahs in Persia, particularly the Chinese Communist Party that are very dependent on the world, and even the Russians, that we are escalating up?
00:12:56.500And President Trump is consciously escalating up here to let these folks know that if this has to go kinetic, it'll go kinetic.
00:13:04.980But I'm putting down the screws as tight as I can put them right now with maybe a little room there to go kinetic.
00:13:14.540I agree that a blockade is traditionally associated with kinetic warfare in a war.
00:13:19.420But you picking up and stopping a ship off of Iceland, off of the coast of Ireland, that's a little bit different than a blockading of a border.
00:13:39.960He said, hey, we've got to quarantine.
00:13:41.700We're going to use our naval forces to inform and enforce our policy.
00:13:47.220It was the Secretary of War that put out a tweet this morning that said, hey, we're now in the blockade mode.
00:13:54.660So when Secretary Pete Hexas says we're in blockade, over at the Pentagon, you don't use – you don't throw around terms loosely, do you, sir?
00:14:04.960And so we'll have to see what follows.
00:14:06.500And I would say that the use of that term has already had an effect because there's already been Chinese tankers that were heading towards Venezuela that have stopped and turned around.
00:14:17.220So I think part of this is to have the effect that we want, which is to say we're not going to allow Venezuelan oil to be stolen and expropriated out of our hemisphere and stolen from the people of Venezuela.
00:14:29.100And remember, a lot of this oil was originally under American companies.
00:14:34.540So it's all wrapped up in between this combined Venezuelan-U.S. national interest and that it's been raped.
00:14:43.020The Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians have been – and the Cubans have been stealing our resources and the resources of the people of Venezuela.
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00:16:39.100Captain Fennell, the Chinese foreign ministry already came out.
00:16:43.860Tell the audience what they said about President Trump redirected, quote-unquote, $2 billion of oil the Chinese were essentially stealing to the United States.
00:16:56.180Is the Chinese foreign ministry, are they signing off on that?
00:16:58.540Are they agreeing that President Trump can do what he wants to in the Western Hemisphere?
00:17:04.240No, the Chinese foreign ministry today came out and rejected our claims about the Western Hemisphere as the United States and that we can do, you know, we can take care of our hemisphere.
00:17:15.320And they said that this would be dividing spheres of influence and creating geopolitical confrontation that will bring, not bring peace to the world.
00:17:23.480So they're basically saying we're starting a war by declaration of that.
00:17:27.440But the reality is it was the Chinese that have declared that the South China Sea is their sovereign territory.
00:17:34.000It's the Chinese in 2007 that told Admiral Keating, the commander of PACOM, that they wanted to divide up the Pacific between the East and the West, and China would take the Western side of the Pacific and we could have the Eastern side.
00:17:46.500So the Chinese claims about we can't have influence in our hemisphere, where we're not claiming sovereignty over the Western Hemisphere.
00:17:54.660We're just claiming that we have influence there, and we're not going to allow outside influence to come in from nations, whether they're from Europe or from the likes of China or Russia.
00:18:04.340Wouldn't you say that President Trump actually, with the action in Venezuela and the show of force, we've never in history – we've got an armada down there.
00:18:18.600They're the size of armadas in World War II.
00:18:20.980I think it's much bigger than anything in the Gulf War.
00:18:23.940I think it's much bigger than anything on the invasion of Iraq.
00:18:27.480I mean, wouldn't you say it's co-sovereignty, sir?
00:18:30.040Well, we're not taking ownership and saying we're occupying and we're running things like the Chinese want to do in the South China Sea.
00:18:39.040The Chinese believe that the South China Sea is their sovereign territory, and they don't care about the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei.
00:18:49.280We're not saying that we are disregarding the existence of Venezuela or any other Caribbean nation.
00:18:54.540We're just saying that we're not going to allow outside influence to come in and steal resources and prop up dictators, anarcho-dictators like Maduro.
00:19:03.940So I think that's the real difference is we're standing up actually for the smaller nations, whereas China, if you go back to 2010 at the ASEAN Summit, their foreign ministry said we're a big country and we can do whatever we want.
00:19:16.140That's not what America is saying to the countries of Latin America.
00:19:19.400We're not saying we're a big country and we can do whatever we want and you'll obey us.
00:19:22.780What we're saying is we're trying to free you up so that you can have access to your own resources, you can be sovereign nations, and we will protect you from rapacious nations like China, Russia, Iran, and others in Cuba.
00:19:36.780We're standing up for small nations, whereas China says we will do whatever we want because you're a small nation.
00:19:42.420They take the view of might makes right.
00:19:44.580I don't think that's what we're standing up for right now.
00:19:46.900Sam, you've spent your career in service to your country in kind of these gray areas, dark areas.
00:19:58.060One thing I think has not been covered enough, the Swiss government announced within the first 24 hours, I think it was Saturday afternoon after President Trump's press conference,
00:20:08.240that they were freezing the assets of Maduro and anybody else associated with his regime from Swiss banks.
00:20:16.640I found that stunning because I've just seen activity where it's taken years and years and years of legal to even find out if they have assets, not even coming out and volunteering it.
00:20:27.280I mean, this to me shows you that the tariffs are working, but most importantly, they understand, the Swiss banks understand that President Trump's no games.
00:20:44.800If there's a God in heaven, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.
00:20:48.260Maduro being gone does not mean the regime fell.
00:20:51.440And there are a lot of people that are at least as bad, even worse than him, still in power in Caracas, cutting off their assets, cutting off their access to money, impacting not only their capacity to stay in power, but affecting any thoughts they have of we can skip out whenever we want and go live the high life on Lake Geneva.
00:21:12.260These are all other dimensions that have to be covered.
00:21:16.200You know, you wake up in Caracas today, you still got really bad people calling the shots.
00:21:49.020We particularly don't need United States commandos, special forces, or, you know, horribly, maybe even American infantry, or more air assets.
00:21:59.460You can do this by doing what you're doing in the Caribbean right now, in the Gulf of America, to shut down these oil shipments because you've sanctioned them.
00:22:08.260Couldn't we do the same thing in the North Arabian Sea and outside the Straits of Hormuz to shut down the mullahs and cut off the Chinese Communist Party?
00:22:19.840I mean, look, you know this as a naval officer.
00:22:22.820We are set up already with a basis to support that in the Fifth Fleet right there.
00:22:28.420And God knows we should not go down the road of even thinking about putting American troops on the ground in Iran.
00:22:36.080And we also shouldn't think that this is going to be resolved overnight.
00:22:39.400I mean, the people are fed up and they want the regime to go.
00:22:41.640But the regime is really good at killing and torturing and disappearing people and hanging on despite the fact that the Persians have wanted them gone for a long time.
00:22:52.820Sam, you spent, just for the audience, before we bounce, how much of your career did you spend at the CIA and how much of your career did you spend in that particularly broader bad neighborhood, sir?
00:23:05.000So I spent 30 years total in the IC and 20 of that was undercover with CIA.
00:23:10.020And virtually all of that was in the Middle East and South Asia and, you know, working against, amongst other people, the Iranians for a really, really long time and running Iranian assets cross-border into Iran for a very long time.
00:24:09.840All of the situation of bringing the mullahs to the knees and letting the Persian people take care of it is simply to do what we're doing in Venezuela.
00:24:18.320Cut off the oil to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:24:25.680We have the ability to interdict like we're doing right now, whether it's a quarantine or a blockade of what's going on in and out of Venezuela.
00:24:35.060We have the ability to provide influence into the Middle East.
00:24:39.060My great concern is that we've seen the power and the influence of maritime assets in this operation off of Venezuela in a relatively benign area or benign environment.
00:24:51.080I'm concerned about what happens if the Chinese decide to take Taiwan right now or what happens if China decides to do something against the Philippines or, as they've been pressing recently, against Japan and the entire Ryukyu Island chain.
00:25:04.340Are we able to operate and do the same kind of operations 9,000 miles away from CONUS?
00:25:12.320And so I don't want us to learn just lessons for benign environments.
00:25:16.140We need to learn lessons for highly contested environments against an adversary who's playing in their backyard as opposed to us playing in our backyard.
00:25:24.780Jim, Jim, where I believe that it's quite analogous to the summer of 1941, and I'm a huge proponent of cut the Chinese off of all chips, all access to education in this country, cut them off.
00:25:39.040And I'm a huge advocate of cut off the oil from Venezuela and cut off the oil from – to put them on – let's see how tough they are.
00:25:46.280Is that going to jam them up like we jammed up the Japanese in the summer of 1941?
00:25:50.320I think President Trump is well aware of that comparison, and that's why he said in his press conference on Sunday, and I think he reiterated on Air Force One, that he's not going to stop oil flowing to China.
00:26:04.700But what he now has is a chip in the game, so to speak, which is to say, we need rare earth elements, China, and you need oil.
00:26:11.560So if you're going to play with us and try to withhold rare earth elements from us, guess what we can do?
00:26:17.460So we just gained another chip in the great game, and President Trump seems to be very adept at playing this, and so I think he's going to be sensitive to that.
00:26:25.760And there's a way that we can do this to where we can buy time to regain our resources, regain our military strength, and to demonstrate to China that they don't want to go there.
00:26:35.700And I think that's the real challenge right now is, do we have enough time to restore our military power, the naval power that we've gutted for 35 years?
00:26:44.700And I think the President's well on his way to do that.
00:26:47.340This thing about Switzerland, seizing the assets of Maduro and his cronies, that's phenomenal because it shows the power of what the tariffs did.
00:26:57.600A year ago, you know, when the President imposed those tariffs last year, the Swiss government at the time, they kind of played games and didn't want to believe that that was happening, and Trump didn't lift them.
00:27:15.320And the new president immediately made this move without any consultations, without a referendum, without a national debate, because he understood that he needs to get across to President Trump, that Switzerland is going to play ball.
00:27:28.940And they may not like that in Switzerland.
00:27:31.100They may say that's an infringement on their neutrality.
00:27:34.240But the reality is the tariffs have had a great impact and are a game changer in how we deal with other nations.
00:27:41.000And I think the president understands it.
00:27:42.860And he's playing, he's adjusting those knobs, if you will, in a way he said, I can't even comprehend.
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00:31:17.940Cody, if we put the headline up, brother, I absorb news, as people know, just for doing the war room.
00:31:24.060One of the most shocking stories I have read, but to me it made total sense, was your story the other day where you say, and you've got sources, you and the Miami Herald have sources that say that this whole operation with Maduro was basically about a negotiated deal in Qatar,
00:31:43.200with Qatar being an intermediary with the United States, for the vice president of Venezuela today, who's kind of running the show down there under, obviously, the direct or indirect guidance of the president of the United States,
00:31:58.560she made a deal to serve up Maduro to save the regime.
00:32:03.900Yeah, so we know that back in October, these meetings started taking place.
00:32:10.200They involved the UAE and Delce Rodriguez, who is now the acting president there in Venezuela, and as well her brother, who is highly involved in the government.
00:32:21.100And we know there were at least two offers made, one in April and one in September, for some type of transition in the country that would not include Maduro.
00:32:33.040And it would include, one of them was to have Delce Rodriguez as the acting president, which is what we have now.
00:32:38.620And another one was to allow a former general who had defected from the government to return to the country and serve as the acting president.
00:32:51.100Now, this is all reporting from, originally from the Miami Herald, but certainly relevant now that Delce Rodriguez is actually in power.
00:33:04.000The United States clearly didn't accept that offer at the time, but quite clear that those channels remained open and that there was some type of deal to allow this sort of to all happen.
00:33:17.620Well, hang on a second, because at the same time, Grinnell, and I know the president, in fact, Marco summed it up, I think, pretty well the other day at the press conference.
00:33:26.680The president gave Maduro every opportunity, different proposals, listened to him, had Grinnell involved, other people involved, over and over again.
00:33:34.440Basically, I think it was to go into exile, either Spain or probably Turkey, maybe take some money with him, but get off all charges and live happily ever after.
00:33:42.780And he continued to blow the president off.
00:33:44.860And eventually, with Trump knowing him personally, you're going to hit a tripwire after a while.
00:33:49.800Now, as that was going on, you're saying that Delce, she approached, she initiated this because she's an interesting character.
00:33:58.220Remember, her family is kind of what I call a mafia or mob family that's been around for decades.
00:34:03.780I think it was her father was in the business of kidnapping American executives of oil companies back in like the 60s, 70s, and 80s and holding them for ransom.
00:34:13.140So did she approach us as President Trump was working with Maduro and he kept saying no interest and just blowing us off?
00:34:20.400Did she approach – did she understand that eventually something was going to happen?
00:34:25.000So she approached us through intermediaries in the UAE and Qatar?
00:34:30.840It's not clear who approached whom, but I mean there were some – there were conversations there.
00:34:37.740And we know that Jorge Rodriguez, her brother, and she as well have been very involved in negotiations involving the U.S. going back for years.
00:34:47.860They have been sort of the central figures of contact for Richard Grinnell, for U.S. negotiators.
00:34:55.340Jorge Rodriguez was central in the Barbados Accords, which ahead of last year's elections,
00:35:01.500supposedly would have allowed for free and fair elections in Venezuela, which, of course, the regime there in Caracas backed out on.
00:35:12.340So it's not clear who approached whom, who initiated this contact, but we do know that it happened.
00:35:19.540And it's quite clear just because these two figures within the government have the most amount of contacts with U.S. negotiators, with officials in the UAE.
00:35:35.820It's quite clear that something there was worked out.
00:35:38.880Do you – is – in your article, and I know you're doing additional reporting now and investigative reporting,
00:35:47.880should the audience take away that no matter what the public decorations of the vice president down there and others,
00:35:55.580that given the fact that somehow there was – it looks like there was maybe some sort of potential deal
00:36:02.720with intermediaries Qatar and UAE that things should go, no matter what the public sayings are,
00:36:10.860but things should go maybe a little more organized than other efforts that we've had in places like Iraq and Afghanistan?
00:38:29.280What's the thing this audience, because one of the powers of the worm is to be ahead of the curve.
00:38:33.560What should our audience be looking for of some of the developments you think are going to come up?
00:38:40.160I think we have to see what Delce Rodriguez, if her rhetoric continues to evolve over the next few days.
00:38:46.400Clearly, like I said, it evolved from one day to the next in about 24 hours.
00:38:50.960Do we continue to see those statements from from her indicating that she's willing to work with the U.S.?
00:38:58.380Trump has already said if she's not willing to work with the U.S., there could be a phase two of this.
00:39:04.960So the threats there from Trump are clear.
00:39:07.940So let's see what she says over the next few days.
00:39:11.140And she also has challengers to her power.
00:39:15.700I mean, I think it's quite clear the interior minister, who has been the enforcer of the government over the years, really a ruthless character.
00:39:27.560He certainly would like power as well.
00:39:30.880So even within that government structure, that regime structure, he's going to have some trouble, I think, holding that together.
00:39:38.040When Nicolás Maduro took power in 2012, 2013, there were questions about whether he could hold together this coalition of this of the regime.
00:41:00.500Do you believe that FBI has been fully exposed and held accountable for any increased criminal acuity that they contributed to on that day?
00:41:13.700I'm of the argument that based on the legal framework of the legislative branch and the Capitol, the jurisdiction itself, there's a statute called 2 U.S.C.
00:41:22.1201967 B sub 1 lays out the jurisdiction of the U.S.
00:41:27.760And they have primacy over the Capitol buildings.
00:41:29.560And then by extension, the Capitol grounds, along with MPD, for the FBI to have a role in the Fed's direction, if you will, they had to have operated under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Capitol Police.
00:41:40.440Now, I'm not disagreeing with you that there were 274 out there.
00:41:43.320That's what Cash Patel released out there.
00:41:46.000But in order to get to the totality of that Fed's direction, it starts with the legislative branch.
00:41:51.720And downstream from that, you had DHS potentially, MPD undercovers, FBI undercovers, CHSs, and then affiliates.
00:41:59.740And so I always say that it starts with the legislative branch, which cannot be FOIA'd, which cannot be Brady requested through a judicial process because it's a co-equal branch.
00:42:09.260And they're going to hide behind that essentially Praetorian Guard of information to disclose it.
00:42:14.780And that's why I say the only solution to get to the FBI's role and the legislative branch's role and the U.S. Capitol Police's role and the Capitol Police Board's role,
00:42:23.160and as well as the political leadership role of the bicameral, bipartisan leadership of the legislative branch,
00:42:28.800is you have to look into the senior lawyer's work product to be able to expose all of it.
00:42:34.760And that name is Tad Tobias, Thomas Aquinas Tobias.
00:42:39.180And the only person that can compel that is currently the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson,
00:42:43.740by ordering his House Sergeant-at-Arms, which as of January 3rd through the next year, is the chairman of the Capitol Police Board.
00:42:53.700And I think that's the immediate easy steps that can be taken tonight, literally, or tomorrow when they come back into session to have those discussions.
00:43:03.180So hopefully this airs and maybe gets to the right people and we can start the process of getting to the transparency part of January 6th
00:43:12.640and then effectively, furthermore, investigating the murder of Ashley Babbitt by Michael Byrd, right, U.S. Capitol Police officer.
00:43:20.980The one time in America's 250-year history that someone was slain inside of the Capitol without any transparent investigation for the public to see.
00:43:33.280Two of my favorite people there, Matt Gaetz and the Colonel, Colonel Ivette Reitling.
00:43:39.900An individual who was there every day that I was in federal court to have my back and to take on the protesters.
00:43:47.040A guy who's tough as boot leather and very smart.
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00:47:02.440Just take a couple of minutes and walk through.
00:47:05.420Just assume you're in the Oval Office.
00:47:07.960Just talk to the President of the United States.
00:47:09.900What do we need to do to get to the bottom of January 6th, sir?
00:47:15.140Okay, so January 6th, and everything downstream from that was basically under the framework of the United States Capitol Police, the Capitol Police Board, and the legislative branch.
00:47:28.160Meaning there's a statute called Title II U.S. Code, Chapter 29.
00:47:31.920And in that statute, you have two really relevant sections, 2 U.S.C. 1967, Paragraph B.1, which lays out where the U.S. Capitol Police has jurisdiction to criminalize anybody.
00:47:45.780And so every single J6-er was criminalized under that statute, and they were done so with evidence from another section, 1979B, where it is up to the Capitol Police Board to decide whether or not they're going to provide CCTV footage that's incriminating or exculpatory over to the Department of Justice.
00:48:07.740Because they have the authority to do so, and they decide based on their own political whims.
00:48:11.560Well, who is in charge of the Capitol Police Board?
00:48:16.400It consists of the two sergeants-at-arms that work for the Speaker of the House on the House side and the Senate Majority Leader on the Senate side, unless the Vice President, the President of the Senate, takes on that role as the Senior Constitutional Officer on the Senate side.
00:48:30.440Now, understanding that framework that the chair of that Capitol Police Board rotates between each of the sergeants-at-arms every year on January 3rd, as of a few days ago, the chair of the Capitol Police Board is now the House Sergeant-at-Arms who works for Mike Johnson, Speaker Mike Johnson.
00:48:46.920And the individual's name is Bill McFarland.
00:48:49.760Now, Bill McFarland can basically be ordered by Speaker Johnson to then go ahead and have the Capitol Police Board direct the U.S. Capitol Police Chief to have the General Counsel of the Capitol Police to release all deliberative documents, text messages, communications, planning, et cetera, et cetera, of the General Counsel, as well as the Capitol Police writ large,
00:49:15.140to disclose the planning for the actions on that day and any communications and coordination after January 6th that would include anything related to the evidence creation and collation, if you will, that was then sent over to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Matt Graves, during that period of time of total weaponization,
00:49:39.280as well as any coordination between Tad Tobias, the General Counsel, with Jamie Raskin, who was the lead impeachment manager for impeachment hoax number two,
00:49:49.640and furthermore, the Fed Surrection cover-up committee's staff director, David Buckley, who was one of the 51, oddly, one of the 51 spies who lied, along with John Brennan.
00:50:00.400So when Tom Fitton says that there were CIA assets under his FOIAs on January 6th, I would suspect that the person that would know exactly who those CIA personnel were
00:50:12.020was the former Inspector General of the CIA under John Brennan, who later became the Fed Surrection cover-up committee staff director, David Buckley.
00:50:20.760So, to summarize, Steve, the way you get to the truth of January 6th and the Fed Surrection component of it is you have to obtain all documents and communications that are in the General Counsel's Office of the U.S. Capitol Police
00:50:35.440because that is the deep state of the deep state within the legislative branch because he remains the senior officer, pre-J6, on-J6, post-J6, that remains in his position.
00:50:50.760And the only authority that can really get him to release it, I mean, I would recommend seizing his everything.
00:50:58.640Put him on administrative leave and immediately, or maybe even detain him, but if that's too aggressive, seize everything that he has and start to sift through it.
00:51:08.140And I think the best people that would need to look through it would be a coordinated effort between, say, for example, somebody like a James Blair, the deputy chief of staff at the White House,
00:51:17.240working with Marshall Yates over at the FBI, Ed Martin at the DOJ, and then lastly, on the legislative side of things, would be Barry Loudermilk along with his staff.
00:51:27.640That's how I would form kind of a task force to dig through that.
00:51:31.160But keep in mind, elements within the Republican Party will try to block that from happening, specifically the current chair of the House Administration Committee,
00:51:40.180which is the essentially replacement lackey for Paul Ryan.
00:51:44.420So you've got to keep an eye on that member of Congress from Wisconsin's first.
00:51:50.260Colonel, social media, where do people go to get all this?
00:51:53.180Yeah, so I'm on X, I'm on Getter as well, and I'm on Substack, kind of detailing out some of these things, and there's a lot more detail in this.
00:52:03.540And if you go into detail, you find the devils, and that's all I try to focus in on, is to find those devils and demons in our government.
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