00:03:47.660Or John Foon ought to get a deal and get it done.
00:03:50.020But nine weeks have elapsed since the request came in.
00:03:53.780Eight weeks have elapsed since the deadline passed.
00:03:56.200That's really intransigence and obstruction of a federal prosecution.
00:04:00.680The third thing that both Kash Patel and I have been talking about and that Tulsi Gabbard has been assisting in with her great declassification efforts is the fact that we're beginning to be able to prove documents with documents and evidence that 2020 wasn't a person.
00:04:16.100election. It was not the most secure election in American history like Chris Krebs declared on
00:04:21.380television. We now know that Iran and China hacked voter registration databases. We now know,
00:04:28.100as of this morning with the new document that Tulsi declassified at our request and that I put
00:04:32.640out this morning, that the intelligence community unanimously assessed in January and February
00:04:38.280of 2020 that America's election infrastructure was highly vulnerable to foreign intrusions.
00:04:45.080And of all the things that they flagged, the most vulnerable were the voter registration databases, the very things that China and Iran just a few months later would hack.
00:05:07.480There could have been greater offensive measures taken to make sure that the things that did happen, China and Iran hocking into the registration databases, China sending fake driver's licenseeers hoping they could get ballots that would vote for Joe Biden, those things could have been warded off with a more aggressive and assertive campaign.
00:05:25.400But instead, when the president, President Trump, did get briefed on this particular memo, now he didn't get briefed on the later intrusions by China, but he did get briefed on this memo.
00:05:34.600He told the people, there's a picture up on the website, you can actually see the meeting, all the president's men and women around the desk, the rest of the desk in the Oval Office, he said declassify this information, get it out to the public.
00:05:47.100According to Chris Porter, the officer who wrote this memo, who couldn't talk about it until today when it was declassified, the CIA and others thwarted the president's will.
00:05:57.000did not declassify that information, left the states, the state election systems, the secretaries
00:06:02.220of states, and others in the dark about the vulnerabilities that were going on. I think
00:06:07.100that's an extraordinary statement. And then later, when some of the vulnerabilities are exploited,
00:06:13.440and China does the driver's licenses, does the hacking into the thing, Iran hacks into one state0.53
00:06:18.900and takes 100,000 voter IDs and starts using them in the election, they don't tell us. They keep us0.82
00:06:24.260in the dark, and they keep telling us and they force feed us a false narrative that it was a
00:06:28.480secure election. It wasn't. This is not the most exposed to stuff that Tulsi Gabbard holds in her
00:06:33.900hands. She's working to declassify evidence that will show how many states were penetrated by China
00:06:39.540and what happened with the data. Keep in mind, as best I can tell, not a single state has been
00:06:44.500informed that China hacked into their voter registration data or got access to a third
00:06:49.340party or other means. That is a crime. Six years later, we don't know that, that these states
00:06:55.400haven't been able to effectively ward off against further intrusions, try to figure out what data
00:07:02.200was compromised. I do believe that John Ratcliffe and Tulsi Gabbard are going to drop those in May.
00:07:07.300I think that will be an extraordinary moment. That will be more important than anything that
00:07:11.460we put up to date on the election integrity stuff that we're reporting on. And I just want to
00:07:16.760remind everybody, in Great Britain, this happened in Great Britain in 2024, it was a national scandal
00:07:22.220for months. Will the country in America react the same? Will our leaders react the same? Will
00:07:29.300John Thune and the excuse makers in the Senate pass the Save America Act? This new data in May,
00:07:35.680I think, could be an incredible impetus for everybody to reevaluate where they stand
00:09:16.140Biden, then Biden in those years in the wilderness where Biden is now trying to put using lawfare to put Trump in prison and destroy other people around him.
00:09:28.960This is what I think drives people crazy.
00:09:30.840You've been fighting to get this information out nine months ago, and now we're in April heading into May, and every day it's a struggle.
00:09:39.080This really says it's fine, but this is also President Trump's government.
00:09:43.660This is what I think drives people totally insane.
00:09:46.480If you look at this continuum, right, this critical path, you've got about a third of the time is under control of really President Trump's government of people that he's selected that are obviously working against him.
00:10:02.160Then you drop the bomb that John Thune, who just yesterday said, we're not taking back up the Save America Act.
00:10:09.920John Thune sits there and is holding up key, key, key, key paperwork, memos and letters that we can get, you know, Brennan nailed on.
00:10:19.820So what is going on is are there elements of the Republican establishment that are just as just as tied into the deep state as the Democrats?
00:10:29.960And in this process, this grand conspiracy timeline proves it.
00:10:36.380More than half of the time this grand conspiracy has been going on against the president.
00:10:41.360His own party was in control of the executive branch in the Congress.
00:10:45.700I just want to let that seep in a second.
00:10:48.460Fifty percent of this conspiracy was carried out on Donald Trump's watch against him by the people that he trusted around him.
00:10:54.840Now, I put that photo out this morning so everybody could see who's in the room.
00:10:58.420Gina Haspel, the CIA director, top FBI officials, top Holman security officials.
00:11:04.120If Chris Porter is right that the president ordered those documents released that day and those people walked out of the room and say, I ain't going to do it, there should be a consequence for that.
00:11:16.760If after that, if some of the things that happened in the 2020 election, because they were still vulnerable, occurred, and we didn't tell the American people, and we came out and said it was a perfect election, most secure election in history, those people can be held to account.
00:11:30.980I thought the single most important thing that Kash Patel said on Sunday with Marie Bartiroma wasn't the deadline, because you and I have been talking about that deadline now for about a month.
00:11:40.980It was the fact that he considers some of this election matters to be part of the grand conspiracy.
00:11:48.380So there looks to be a fifth element now.
00:11:50.420All right, we got Russia collusion, Ukraine impeachment, classified documents, Arctic
00:11:55.440Frost, which is the effort to repackage January 6th into some sort of insurrection against
00:12:02.160But Kash Patel saying the fifth element, which falls between 1-2 and 3-4, is the effort
00:12:08.760to hide vulnerabilities that were going on in the election and perhaps allow certain
00:12:13.780election rule changes to occur that violated state laws.
00:12:17.200I want to remind everybody that when Gash raided Georgia, he said that the law he was rating it under was the law that says if you have laws in your state, you don't follow them under a federal presidential election, you can be prosecuted for evading a law because the legislature, not the election bureaucrats, get to decide the manner of the election.
00:12:36.700And so in Georgia and in Wisconsin, there's some pretty strong evidence, and now maybe Michigan and Arizona, pretty strong evidence that some of the rules were changed that were not in compliance with what the legislators want.
00:12:49.140That could become another part of the grand conspiracy, and Kash Patel confirmed that is a part of the grand conspiracy.
00:12:55.620It was the first time I had heard that was when he said it to Maria.
00:12:58.280So you have a five-headed conspiracy now, five different subjects, five different operations going on, and it appears that they're doing that to put them all together, and you've got a very senior prosecutor at the helm.
00:13:10.940Now, listen, a lot of the things that I have now put out, I originally FOIA'd since Donald Trump became president.
00:13:17.620I used the open records law, and I was turned down by multiple agencies.
00:13:32.760It's an unnecessarily slow process for a president who clearly values transparency.
00:13:38.220I think the president's about to throw a hand grenade into the middle of that dynamic and create a new mechanism by which this information can be declassified and released.
00:13:46.840I think we'll hear about that in the next 10 days.
00:13:48.900john where do people go to keep up with your uh your reporting sir yeah just the news.com uh
00:13:56.880jay solomon reports on all social media john solomon reports the podcast and every night at
00:14:01.660six o'clock i'm lucky enough to follow you right here on real america's voice just the news no
00:14:06.120noise john uh amazing tenacity if it was not for your tenacity we would not be here today
00:14:13.520grinding this thing through just incredible thank you so much thank you sir country the
00:14:18.280country owes John Solomon what they tried the bureaucratic this is what's
00:14:23.500insane do you hear what he just said that the John Solomon's got it for you
00:14:29.080you would think these departments would say John come on over and let's go
00:14:32.920through the files this is what frustrates Fenton and in Solomon so much
00:14:38.720the apparatus is relentless and not putting forward this information short
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00:16:28.160I want you to think about that for a second.
00:21:05.880Let's land it up next to each other on a piece of paper, and you see who was right and who was wrong, who was telling the president the truth, and who was lying and spinning.
00:21:16.420So Tulsi releases these documents this morning that in January and February, at the highest level of the intelligence community and DHS and Justice Department, the law enforcement community, knew that the system was hackable and very hackable.
00:21:32.140and they took a united front not to release that not to tell the states the chinese communist party0.55
00:21:39.440hacked it and then they lied about it krebs should be in prison for the rest of his life
00:21:46.140krebs ran right to 60 minutes maybe we'll just play that this week on the six o'clock show
00:21:52.400krebs went right to 60 minutes the most secure election history and chad wolf no offense bro
00:22:14.100It's in his book, Bald Face Lied to the President.
00:22:18.600In November, maybe early December, I think it was late November of 2020, right after the election.
00:22:26.360He said he had gone out to the field offices and asked specifically for a report in the field offices of Atlanta and Phoenix and Detroit and Milwaukee and Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
00:22:40.480He had asked had there been any election interference of note, and people come back and said no.
00:22:49.860We know that the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia actually sent him a letter saying, I think we've got to delay the certification of this election because of grievous errors.
00:23:01.480This was about the mail-in ballots and about the cages and having the double envelopes and not being able to get to them until they ripped them open.
00:23:08.200The Democratic machine knew exactly what they were doing.
00:23:12.120And Barr lied about that, sat in the Oval Office and lied to the fact, how do we know this?
00:23:17.160that guy eventually I think ran for governor
00:24:21.160Because the big law firms, the conservative law firms,
00:24:24.220have put the word out that if you work for Trump's main justice,
00:24:28.780if you work as a president, you come on one of these special projects,
00:24:31.420you're not going to be, you're not going to work at a major law firm.
00:24:38.600Todd Blanche had to leave his law firm.
00:24:40.800His partner said, if you take that job with Trump, you have to leave.
00:24:45.360I had some of the big, I've got the bills are short.
00:24:47.300I had some of the most powerful law firms in the country that represented me.
00:24:50.580And they came to me after January 6th and said, anybody associated with Trump and any of his kind of inner circle, we can't represent anymore.
00:24:59.960Because, not because of you personally, we like you, you're fine.
00:32:28.320What actually has to happen between now and 7 p.m. to squeak out a victory here?
00:32:35.520Southwest needs to understand that what happened last year where, if you look at it, it's probably 400,000 votes total across the state, folks who voted for Trump who didn't turn out last time for whatever reason.
00:32:48.940They don't vote in presidential elections.
00:32:57.560Hang on. Hang on. The reason is very simple. Glenn Youngkin, the whole getting Youngkin in the first time was a massive effort of this show and John Furks and other people to turn out Trump voters from 2020. And Youngkin didn't include Trump. I mean, this is 100 percent on Youngkin. He didn't. This is a complete debacle is because of him. The reason Trump voters aren't coming out. They don't think he's MAGA. You know why? He's not MAGA.
00:33:21.740I don't put this on you and the candidates that ran this until now he's flying around the state and flitting around and putting a couple million bucks in in the typical way he flits around.
00:33:31.780People need to see that there's true action.
00:33:34.220If we lose today in the Commonwealth, Commonwealth is like Colorado because they're never going to reverse this back, right?
00:33:42.460They're never going to reverse this back.
00:33:44.040It's going to be like it's going to go from a slightly purple state to a deep blue state.
00:33:48.420no state officers control control of the house of delegates and you have 10 you have 10 democratic
00:33:55.880congressmen with this lobster that comes out of fairfax and the federal government just keeps
00:34:00.640expanding and northern virginia gets more and more radical with people that are not even born
00:34:06.160in this country so there's no probability virginia goes down to about number 40th on priority list
00:34:12.960they're trying to save anymore, doesn't it? Well, as you pointed out before this, I was really
00:34:18.500hoping we would see more money earlier in this campaign from the RNC and from other groups in
00:34:25.240Washington that they wouldn't repeat what I'll say was kind of stingy last year. I mean, they
00:34:30.160left a number of us hanging when we were pretty tight in the polls. And I do absolutely agree
00:34:34.980with you, Steve. Embracing President Trump is really important if you want those core Trump
00:34:40.620supporters to turn out. The one thing I'll say is that there are people who are out campaigning
00:34:46.100today and have been campaigning for the last couple of weeks who hate each other in Virginia.
00:34:51.840They don't agree on things. There's a past where they're mad with each other. They are working
00:34:58.580hard to try to accomplish this, and I'm hoping that they've been able to collectively pull
00:35:05.360their pockets of supporters and groups that maybe don't understand what's on the line
00:35:12.780together and get them to show up. But I cannot argue with you. I think it's a disaster if we
00:35:18.640lose. But the reason that's happening, it's good that it is happening now. There's a simple reason
00:35:23.420it's happening. You and Jeff Reier and this amazing grassroots, particularly the chairman
00:35:30.320of these rural counties just sat there and go with that kind of toughness and grit to say,
00:35:36.080hey, we're not prepared to have the Commonwealth destroyed because this is what you're going to
00:35:39.440destroy of representative government. We're going to fight this. It was the grassroots momentum and
00:35:43.200nobody tossed any money. And this thing, even President Trump's campaign to throw five million
00:35:48.420dollars, the leaders of that decided to a grassroots effort not to buy more TV spots.
00:35:53.760Remember, if the consultants can't find a way to grift off the money and that's buying TV,
00:35:58.380You're right about that. Which we know doesn't work. It's this is all right now, particular Trump voters, low, lower propensity voters, lower information voters.
00:36:07.080It's all voter contact. It's doing what they're doing in Kent. It's doing what they're doing in Hanover.
00:36:11.980It's doing what you've been preaching. And that. And hey, guess what?
00:36:15.180That works when people actually see the lobster because the Democrats never show it.
00:36:19.700They go, what? That's not a fair map. That's Fairfax.
00:36:23.040That's the most liberal progressive part of the country controlling the entire Commonwealth of Virginia.
00:36:28.380Brother Reed. And they are seeing it when when we get the map up in front of folks. I've been
00:36:34.700posting it through socials all over the place. You know, one other factor here, Steve, that's
00:36:40.300important is last year when we were running, it was all a hypothetical that the Democrats would
00:36:47.100be radical in Virginia. You know, Abigail Spanberger, our new governor, had presented
00:36:51.540herself falsely as some sort of soccer mom with a gun who, oddly enough, used to be in the CIA.
00:36:58.380I still can't figure out why no one had concerns or investigated that.
00:37:02.520But she presented herself as a moderate.
00:37:04.600Now, I knew it was baloney because she had been my congresswoman.0.60
00:37:08.740And I saw her go after Dave Brat in the front row of his town hall meetings like she was one of these radical no king protesters.
00:37:17.920So I was telling people, don't be fooled.1.00
00:37:20.040This lady is going to be hyper aggressive.1.00
00:37:40.320She's going after law enforcement.1.00
00:37:42.580She and her party proposed 51 taxes on everything,1.00
00:37:47.040including your mattress that you sleep on.
00:37:49.280People are having a visceral reaction to that.
00:37:52.200And I am hopeful that with the grassroots effort that you've referenced, which is real, it has been done, and doesn't cost the millions of dollars that the consultants can skim off of, coupled with people being really ticked off about the governance they're getting from people who presented themselves as moderates who cared about affordability and dining room tables, economic issues.
00:38:21.060I'm hoping our crowd is going to turn out.
00:38:23.940But, you know, they don't answer polls when you call them.
00:38:27.040They're not interested in talking about it, assuming they even pick up the phone.
00:39:18.360it's do or die here for fair representation, for the democracy that these Democrats constantly
00:39:24.980claim they care about. Well, that's what's on the ballot today. Are we going to support
00:39:30.860democracy, support your neighbor and their vote and their voice going forward? Or are we going to
00:39:36.940allow Democrats to scam you and stomp on your voice and vote? And I'm just praying our guys
00:39:45.560will respond brother reed you fought a good fight on this one uh let's keep uh let's keep driving
00:39:52.060through 7 p.m tonight and of course we'll cover this we'll do it uh throughout the evening thank
00:39:56.360you sir appreciate you thanks steve let's get the over to john reed's uh social media let's put that
00:40:02.340up follow it throughout the day we're gonna try to get jeff on here in the second hour maybe a
00:40:07.060couple of these uh chairmen um although everybody's out as they should be eric bowling where are where
00:40:15.000are there's a lot of macro things happening where are we on this uh brother i know we're going to
00:40:20.740talk about your overall idea of making some deal between big oil and some of this and chinese
00:40:26.500communist parties weighed in but where do you think we are right now before we got a couple
00:40:30.200minutes before we go to break i'm gonna hold you over where do you think we are in this
00:40:32.740right now we're just very nervously up a touch remember this may contract and crude oil is
00:40:39.220coming off the board today massive volatility usually by the end of the day so we're looking
00:40:43.340of June right now. Up a little bit, Stephen. And yeah, we can talk about the plan, but more
00:40:48.340importantly, you see what Saudi and Iran, there's some private war going on. I think we were talking
00:40:54.460about this offline. And you've been saying this the whole way. Saudi Arabia, some of the other
00:41:03.620Middle Eastern producing countries, hate Iran. Hate Iran for what they've done. They fear Iran.
00:41:08.420They're the bully in the Middle East.0.93
00:41:10.760And so there is an undercurrent going on there.1.00
00:41:13.280But I do think that we're getting close to a deal.
00:41:16.580I think the people who know a lot are not driving the price way up based on what they could be doing with some of the rhetoric coming out of the Iranian contingency.
00:41:27.020So it feels like this is a lot of positioning publicly so that they can kind of lean on the negotiators the other side so they can get a better deal.
00:41:37.300But I do honestly believe that it's almost like he's been doing what we've been talking about, Steve.
00:41:43.040It was within the first week or two of the war, I came to you and I said, look, there's a way to get this.
00:41:49.180They may not make everyone happy, but you're going to have to really bring them to their knees.0.96
00:46:13.300No, no, you're on it, and I will tell you,
00:46:15.840I get the alerts from the press pool any time the president or vice president move.
00:46:20.420They can move from the White House to the golf course.
00:46:24.780I get the narrative on what happened on the way.
00:46:27.720again for the vice president as well and I haven't gotten any movement from the vice president as far
00:46:32.180as the press pool is concerned nothing no emails at all and I will add Steve I don't know if you
00:46:36.060watched that CNBC probably didn't it was right before your show started but Trump called into
00:46:40.880CNBC for a very wide-ranging about almost a 30-minute conversation and he mentioned that
00:46:49.160J.D. Vance was definitely involved in negotiations but then didn't say he was going to be there for
00:46:54.840So he may be negotiating. You could Zoom it as well, which would probably, to your point, why send the VP over there and have risk them not showing up in embarrassment to the United States?
00:47:07.680So it may be a strategy. He'll do it from the White House.
00:47:11.940But here's my point. You're not – if you've got to Zoom it, that's fine. Do that.
00:47:15.720But look, there's two things. Number one, it's the terms of the negotiation.
00:47:20.700Obviously, there's a big gap between the bid and the ask.
00:47:25.080There is also who are we negotiating with and can they deliver on what they agree to?
00:47:31.840I don't happen to believe that the guys I see can deliver particularly on Hormuz because Hormuz, some days it's closed, some days it's open, some days ships are trying to run the blockade, other days they're not.
00:47:42.800Do we have the clip about UAE, about President Trump?