00:06:48.700We're going to do a cold open, and then I'm going to come to you.
00:06:54.340You actually sat in the hearing today.
00:06:55.700Senator Schmidt's also going to be with us.
00:06:57.360But we will go back to the White House as soon as the president starts taking,
00:07:02.700if he does take questions, he may not.
00:07:04.240Let's go and play the cold open for Dr. Peter Navarro.
00:07:06.760A man who played a key role in President Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election
00:07:11.260returned to Capitol Hill to testify about that very case.
00:07:16.080Jeffrey Clark was named as an unindicted co-conspirator
00:07:19.300in special counsel Jack Smith's probe into fake electors scheme.
00:07:23.460He was pardoned by President Trump last year.
00:07:26.740And now, Republicans are giving him another platform in Washington
00:07:30.160as they take issue with Smith's investigation.
00:07:33.680But Democrats say Clark is bubbling over with conspiracies.
00:07:37.960He has an idea, a theory, that the Chinese were hacking smart thermostats in the United States.
00:07:47.360Another theory he has, the CIA was working with Italian contractor to use military satellites to change votes in America.
00:07:57.340Another conspiracy theory, he even wanted to help Trump declare a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
00:08:05.080We are extremely fortunate in America that Mr. Clark's conspiracy theories and efforts failed.
00:08:12.300Chris, this hearing was a trip into bizarro world where Republican senators who really should know better essentially tried to make the case that the Jack Smith investigation of Donald Trump's alleged conspiracy to try to overturn the 2020 election,
00:08:26.720which involved a lot of figures, including Jeffrey Clark, was somehow an improper weaponization full of misconduct by career FBI agents and prosecutors.
00:08:36.600There's no evidence of that, no matter how hard they try to argue it.
00:08:40.260And what was so interesting about this hearing is that, you know, they bring Jeffrey Clark to testify.
00:08:44.760Jeffrey Clark tried to essentially co-opt the Justice Department into claiming fraud when there was no fraud.
00:08:50.620And he was indicted in Georgia over those allegations.
00:08:54.440And he was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Jack Smith case.
00:08:58.260And had he succeeded, there might have been a very different outcome in 2020.
00:09:03.000But the fact is, Donald Trump wanted to make him attorney general.
00:09:05.580But every single senior official in Donald Trump's Justice Department threatened to resign if he did that.
00:09:12.160And now these Republican senators are trying to make Jeffrey Clark into some kind of hero and victim.
00:09:17.300He's facing disbarment in Washington, D.C.
00:09:19.820Mr. Clark, the White House visitor log only appeared to record appointments with you on December 22nd, 2020, and January 3rd, 2021.
00:09:29.900But we know you had more conversations with President Trump between those dates because Deputy Attorney General Donahue reprimanded you on January 2nd, 2021, for continuing to violate Department of Justice White House contacts policy.
00:09:44.580Mr. Clark, what was your primary form of communication with President Trump during this time period?
00:09:49.820Senator, I'm not going to answer questions about my communications with the president while I was in the executive branch.
00:10:18.540There was a conversation where President Trump indicated he would appoint you acting attorney general in person or not.
00:10:24.620Again, Senator, you're asking about matters that are privileged.
00:10:27.520I do want to say something about Jack Smith, because the single most salient fact in regard to me of Jack Smith is that he referred to me initially in the indictment against Trump as unindicted co-conspirator number four.
00:10:39.620And after the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States, he issued, he got a superseding indictment, and it dropped all reference to me.
00:10:48.120And the D.C. Barr similarly should have immediately dropped his case.
00:10:51.020If only we could get him under oath to ask a question like that.
00:10:54.160Well, it sounds like that's coming, Senator.
00:11:07.000Did you make any contact with the FBI, as he suggested?
00:11:11.600There was no time to do that before the meeting on January 3rd that you referred to.
00:11:16.420When I spoke to him, it was January 2nd.0.71
00:11:18.920Does it in some way endorse his wild and ridiculous ideas?
00:11:26.180Well, it's a case of misplaced priorities, Chris, to be honest with you.
00:11:29.800I mean, you have spent a lot of time in recent weeks talking about the president's polling and his almost record low favorability ratings and the things that people care about are economic issues.
00:11:43.780And what's so interesting about the Senate Judiciary Committee is that it has oversight of antitrust issues.
00:11:50.260And there have been a lot of reports in recent days about possible collusion amongst big egg manufacturers, egg-producing companies.
00:12:01.420Why not use this time to explore that, right?
00:12:04.000They have oversight to an extent over oil companies who are making record profits right now.
00:12:11.020So, you know, it is I don't care what or how Jeffrey Clark tries to, you know, change how he is perceived by history is not going to work.
00:12:24.580And Senate Republicans really are just missed a real messaging opportunity to show how they're fighting for the for the American public and what's top of mind for them.
00:12:35.140okay dr peter navarro you were in uh you were at the uh hearing today you have a
00:12:42.140strong interest in this and other players put us in the room
00:12:45.360schmidt senator schmidt that guy is off the charts i'm so happy that your audience is going to hear
00:12:54.740from he gave the most concise and eloquent explanation of the weaponization of government
00:13:01.240The importance of what Senator Grassley is doing in a series of hearings cannot be overstated, Steve.
00:13:10.500Watergate, if you think about it, was just a small burglary.
00:13:15.100Some documents, some photographs, this.
00:13:20.040What Grassley is going to prove is that this was a stolen presidency.
00:13:28.620this is the biggest conspiracy this country has ever seen and it's really interesting
00:13:36.440you listen to these cold opens everybody's trying to obfuscate what happened so let me
00:13:41.020let me try to put this in perspective and i speak from from the perspective of somebody who went to
00:13:46.640prison as a result of this weaponization so you can think of me as a dot in a matrix
00:18:30.240Well, it turns out that we're dots in this matrix, and those guys, as they were going after us, it turns out that they appear, according to whistleblowers, involved in all the other things.
00:18:42.340This was a sustained chronic attack on the president that began with the Russia hoax, began with the Steele dossier.
00:18:56.080Now, Walter G. Adonina, the FBI agent who put me in leg irons and was involved with you as well, he was the guy who read the Steele dossier, according to whistleblowers, and said, this is true, when we know it was, like, absolutely false.
00:19:14.860And what that did was set in motion Crossfire Hurricane and eventually the Mueller report, and he worked on that, right?
00:19:25.100And then you go, and there's all these other operations.
00:19:29.340There's Crimson River, a.k.a. Red Massari.
00:19:33.800And what's interesting, Steve, is all these guys that Grassley's uncovering whistleblowers are involved in not just one of them, but in all of them, okay?
00:19:51.160It goes all the way to the White House.
00:19:52.900This is not some independent DOJ or FBI.
00:19:55.300Jonathan Suh, this guy is a shadowy dealer, right?
00:19:59.980And after, interestingly enough, after he tried to take away executive privilege from me, you, and the president, he got out of the White House because he knew that he was coming down.
00:20:12.360But before that, he was also involved in all this other stuff.
00:20:16.620So what's going to happen here is as we get more and more of these emails that see the communication between all of these folks, we're going to see possible felonies.
00:20:29.860For example, one thing this FBI agent Giardina might have done was violate the rules of getting information and looking at all the wiretaps.
00:20:43.200Now, keep in mind, keep in mind, this stuff, Watergate was like one wiretap at the DNC, right?
00:20:53.140This thing, Arctic Frost, involved hundreds and maybe thousands of illegal looks at people like everybody at the RNC.
00:21:05.860I had to laugh out loud when I saw this one.
00:21:07.680They they went after the Republican attorneys general.
00:21:12.980OK, everybody who was in the Republicans attorney general.
00:21:16.980That organization. I mean, that's unbelievable.
00:21:19.660And so in this country, when you have an entire government, White House, Congress, and judges, by the way, all pushing along this apparatus, the process, one of the things Schmidt said that was beautiful today, the process is the punishment.
00:21:43.060And the goal isn't isn't, you know, the ultimate goal was to stop Trump from getting back the White House.
00:21:49.700But one of the ways to do that is basically through the lawfare that takes all.
00:21:56.120Yeah. He's the king on the chessboard. But it's going to bankrupt.
00:21:59.060We're pawns and rooks and so much of this art across and what they did under Biden in 21.
00:22:06.000But some of that, as I talked to Solomon today, a big hunk of this happened on Trump's watch when he was the head of the I mean, it's Chris Ray.
00:22:27.560You've got the Republican establishment that is and you saw the Democrats in all their glory today, Welch and Durbin and that crowd.
00:22:34.220But the Republican establishment, except for a handful of people, most of whom are on this committee, are one of the biggest blocks of making some progress on this.
00:22:46.720The DOJ and the FBI, they've got to rapidly increase their cadence here, okay?
00:22:52.320Because they've been holding on to stuff.
00:22:56.300I mean, Solomon's like a bulldog on this stuff.
00:22:58.780Cash tells us, he told Maria Bartiroma, two weeks, coming shortly.
00:23:03.200Yeah. Well, yeah. She was bracing him up, right? And she's sitting there frustrated because I want to forget about accountability.
00:23:10.800I want to show me the money. I want to see. I want to see. But here's my point is that this thing that Grassley's doing is he's uncovering all of the backwaters of these agencies where these deep staters live and suppress things.
00:23:27.220And that's why these names are important.
00:24:06.100But the point is that as we uncover all of the communications of these deep staters, we are able to connect the dots in a way which shows the biggest conspiracy in American history in terms of politics.
00:24:23.720And the Democrats, they keep running away from this. It's like when when Schmidt, Senator Schmidt, finished his eloquent statement today, Welch comes over and immediately he pivots and he says, it's like, oh, I was on the Capitol when all the violence happened.
00:24:40.020And so somehow that justifies a whole apparatus, a whole government going in and basically put.0.93
00:24:49.180It's not stupid. He asked really good. The first question he asked was great, which is, was who won the 2020 election? And of course, that's a very simple answer. I remember the Green Bay sweep. Yes. Joe Biden did not win 2020. Donald Trump won the 2020 election.0.90
00:25:05.400The sort of the the illegal and inappropriate certification of those electors in those states, those battleground states, particularly states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.
00:25:21.220The Navarro report remains unrebutted, unrebutted, unrebutted, that is the best.
00:25:27.680If you had had document proving the steal, if you had made one tiny mathematical error, Rachel Maddow would spend it.
00:32:12.080Well, I think that the more we learn about it,
00:32:15.520the more terrifying this whole operation was. I think we had some sense of the timeline and the
00:32:20.520arc of the story, which, of course, Jack Smith, two days after President Trump announces he's
00:32:25.240running for president again, is appointed as special counsel. We see all these zombie cases
00:32:30.380resurrected in these jurisdictions that are rigged with prosecutors who want to jail their chief
00:32:36.200political adversary and President Trump throw him in jail for the rest of his life. But I think the
00:32:40.480more we learn, Steve, about this is how broad in scope it was. This wasn't just about President
00:32:46.540Trump. This was about going after the American right, intimidating. And I think ultimately what
00:32:53.040Jack Smith wanted was a big time show trial where everybody's brought in. I mean, think of
00:32:58.700just sort of this Soviet style sense of justice. That's what he really wanted. And he thought he
00:33:04.420was like the main character. He was the good guy. Jack Smith's a dirtbag and he's a villain in this
00:33:09.100story. And I think we need to expose that. I also think that we need to have Jack Smith come before0.94
00:33:14.200that committee. But in order to do that, all these documents that we're gathering, these hearings are
00:33:18.340really important because as a prosecutor, former attorney general, you want to have as much
00:33:21.880information as you can before Jack Smith is under oath on that witness stand. And we ask him a bunch
00:33:27.260of questions about what this was about. But I think we know this was at the highest level,
00:33:31.380a thousand times worse than Watergate, Steve. I mean, this makes Watergate look like a third
00:33:36.100rate burglary uh which was this is at the highest levels of government a coordinated effort with
00:33:42.560different prosecutors in different jurisdictions with jack smith a known sort of henchman in all
00:33:47.280this was to get president trump get him off the ballot throw him in jail for the rest of his life
00:33:52.480and intimidate the rest of our movement so that this populist movement that we've seen that was
00:33:56.940brought to bear 10 years ago uh is dead and what they ended up doing because the american people
00:34:02.840sat in that jury box themselves, Steve, they rendered their own verdict. And it was an acquittal
00:34:07.640and bringing back in the best political comeback, President Trump. So we cannot let this lie. I don't
00:34:13.880think we can let this go because we have to make sure that the people who weaponize government are
00:34:18.180held accountable. And that means prosecutions as far as I'm concerned. I want to make sure,
00:34:22.840because you mentioned like the Moscow show trial in 1935, which is what Jack Smith was drawing to
00:34:28.140here in washington dc where they had a rig jury uh durbin taunted you today taunted jeff clark
00:34:35.140on msnbc they're taunting us i just want to make sure your uh your plan is once you get
00:34:43.060enough documentation is to have jack smith come under oath and be able to answer questions of
00:34:48.680your subcommittee sir well that would be in front of the full judiciary committee and chairman
00:34:53.120grassley would have to call for that but that's certainly something that i'm advocating for so
00:34:56.800we've had three different subcommittee hearings, Steve. I chaired the subcommittee on the
00:35:01.500Constitution. We had two others where we each time we keep getting more and more documents
00:35:06.280from whistleblowers. But I think to build that case, to have as much information possible,
00:35:10.660ultimately the culmination of this Arctic Frost Committee is front of the full Judiciary Committee
00:35:15.480with Jack Smith in front of that committee. And then after that, we'll see, let the chips,
00:35:19.980you know, fall where they may. But I do think, and I certainly hope that this broader
00:35:26.220conspiracy that even predates arctic frost is something that the democrats they thought they
00:35:31.600were killing a movement they thought they were getting rid of trump and what they did was is
00:35:36.320they helped bring them back i think because the american people saw this for what it was but we
00:35:39.500have a job as fact finders i think through this oversight to get as much information as we can
00:35:43.720in front of jack smith coming for that committee senator you saw welch today you saw durbin the
00:35:50.740rest of them today but how much cooperation are you getting i think this is one of the frustrations
00:35:55.880of people they see you take charge of this today it went it i think most people felt it went great
00:36:01.480but are you getting cooperation from other republicans like there's issues about thune
00:36:06.760uh holding back senator thune right now they're not releasing some of the testimony of brennan
00:36:12.160it's all these issues about the grand jury down in florida you've got other issues people are
00:36:17.280telling me that even your committee is having a tough time on on requests and getting information
00:36:21.500We know that Tom Fenton and John Solomon are saying they have no FOIA, the Trump administration and some various branches that are slow walking things.
00:36:31.620Do you think the Republicans overall think like you do and members of your subcommittee that this is a thousand times worse than Watergate?
00:36:41.640And for the good of our republic going forward, we have to get all the information out and hold people accountable that did this, sir?
00:36:48.640I think so. But like with any organization, there are some that are more energized and action-oriented than others.
00:37:01.520Because part of this dragnet, Steve, I mean, you lived it. Peter lived it.
00:37:06.540At the time, I was chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association.
00:37:11.040We had records subpoenaed, unbeknownst to us, when I was chairman.
00:37:14.300I was also in front of those 2020 election lawsuits.
00:37:18.120I mean, the damage that they wanted to inflict on anybody associated with this challenge in 2020 or anything after, they were out to ruin people's lives.
00:37:28.300I don't need any convincing of what the core aspect of the Democrat Party right now.
00:38:04.580If we don't think that this is going to happen again, we're fooling ourselves if there are not repercussions.
00:38:09.480And so I think we've got to be steadfast on this and have that kind of fire in our belly, not just for answers but for true accountability.
00:39:39.980They never forgave any of us for it, and they weaponized the judicial system against everybody.
00:39:43.620And that is, I think, the takeaway here. We can't lose sight of what that was about and what it could be again if they ever get power.
00:39:51.280Senator, people in our audience have a high level of interest in this. How can they follow you? Social media, website, where do they go?
00:39:58.440Yeah, at Eric underscore Schmidt, S-C-H-M-I-T-T is the X handle that we use, the official one, Senator Eric Schmidt.
00:40:04.640The other one's my personal. Then on Facebook and then also on Instagram, Eric Schmidt Mo.
00:40:11.020So we're pretty active on social media. We try to keep people informed with clips, opinions, and we have a little fun with it, too.
00:40:18.480But this is a pretty serious topic. And like I said, and you know this, this makes Watergate.
00:40:23.780This is just this is just one hundred, a thousand times bigger than Watergate.
00:40:27.260There's no question in my mind what the levels they went to to try to get rid of President Trump, to try to, you know, put him in jail and also derail this movement we have.
00:40:36.380well i gotta tell you from your opening uh comments to tee it up today all the way through
00:40:42.680the questions and the responses the sense of gravitas i think people realize this is very
00:40:46.960serious we have serious people running it now senator thank you so much for what you did today
00:40:51.780and thank you for coming on the war room thank you sir dr navarro got called back to the white
00:40:58.980house for a meeting as often happens i want to thank peter for coming down here i really want
00:41:02.900to thank Peter for spending a great piece that Dr. Navarro wrote that was up today in the Federalist
00:41:10.880I really want to thank Sean Davis and the team over there the Federalist is I think one of the
00:41:15.780most extraordinary sites out there if you get a chance it's totally free no paywall just like
00:41:21.500Daily Signal and Breitbart go go there every day Citizen Free Press Gateway Pundit some of the
00:41:28.760great sites we have on the right national pulse they put up a great piece today at the federalist
00:41:36.280with dr peter navarre about this not not about economics not about uh not about uh some of the
00:41:43.620things he's been working on on trade and obviously teeing up everything for this big china meeting i
00:41:48.560think it may have the china meeting may have a little different tone on it given that president
00:41:53.860Trump is not backing off the blockade. I don't think it's confusion of what's coming out of
00:42:00.640Iran. It's what we've talked about here in the war room. And President Trump just put out a
00:42:04.360true social moments ago saying, hey, look, we kind of shattered the command over there.
00:42:08.240We don't really know who's in charge. We know they've distributed out the military
00:42:13.120operation to about 30 nodes. I keep saying the pirates down at Strait of Hormuz, I don't think
00:42:20.480early report to anybody they've been reporting to themselves for 2 000 years i think they're0.95
00:42:25.080still doing now they realize they can actually uh hondo people and get the uh and get two million
00:42:30.940dollars per vessel they're not going to give that up but the president said uh he's going to extend
00:42:36.180at least we're not going to attack for a while but the navy's going to keep the blockade up
00:42:42.760and we are going to um not pull back any of our naval forces so a lot going on today
00:42:50.380We're going to take a short commercial break here and get into it.
00:46:51.740Talk to Natalie Dominguez and the team.
00:46:53.640David Zier, we're going to go and play
00:46:55.380back as an entirety in a moment, this Justice Department, a major Justice Department
00:47:00.080press conference with both Cash Patel and Todd Blanche on an organization that is about as
00:47:08.120demonic as you can get, the Southern Poverty Law Center. Can you get us up to speed on what
00:47:11.700happened, sir? Yeah, I just found out a little while ago, an 11-count indictment by an Alabama
00:47:19.480a grand jury, including bank fraud, for setting up fictitious companies by SPLC, Southern Poverty
00:47:27.240Law Center executives, lying about the purpose of those accounts, and then six counts of wire
00:47:32.800fraud conspiracy to commit money laundering. It looks like Todd Blanche is off to a running start
00:47:38.300here in his new role. It's a nonprofit, and they need to operate lawfully with transparency,
00:47:44.420And apparently they didn't do that. And they even paid money to groups like the KKK and the National Front and the National Socialist Movement, the American Front.
00:47:54.240You know, Steve, I'm standing here in the Capitol Rotunda right under us, that tram where we saw all those Trump clothes strewn about the day of J6.
00:48:02.540You know, did they have anything to do with busing in any of those groups who started stuff on J6?
00:48:07.400And then in Charlottesville as well, it was brought up in the in the press conference about Charlottesville, how many plants were bused in in Charlottesville.
00:48:14.420of groups that got money from the SPLC. And my family has been a victim of the SPLC. We ran a
00:48:20.820group on Long Island that was targeted by them and also Acts for America and other groups.
00:48:25.620How many good groups are taken down when in fact they were the evil presence that were paying
00:48:31.420groups to commit, I believe, acts of violence and other that should come out. And $3 million
00:48:38.780dollars were paid um to activists uh over an eight-year period uh they went into some detail
00:48:45.880on that and uh i gotta say um this is really um earth shaking because the left depended on the
00:48:53.000spLC and you know this guy's a hate group that guy's a hate group their hate speech and they're
00:48:58.520the ones who were guilty of it allegedly okay we're gonna get to all of that cash and uh and
00:49:06.900Todd, we're also going to talk in the 6 o'clock hour about what's going on in Virginia in the
00:49:10.720last hour as we run through the tape. The chairman of the Virginia Republican Party is going to join
00:49:15.060us and others of these chairmen of these rural counties that have really led the fight, the
00:49:18.500grassroots effort that led the fight. And so I'm so proud of Todd Blanche, DOJ, FBI, going after
00:49:25.880Southern Poverty Law Center. There's not a bigger group of demons in the United States than these
00:49:31.320people, and they all should be in prison. Real quickly, David, because the president is obviously0.54
00:49:35.540talking to his military leadership and national security leadership about what we're going to do
00:49:41.400in Iran, even as we speak. You were there for the budget. Tell me, you were there for the budget
00:49:45.960meeting today at the Pentagon. What did you learn? It's a large budget. It's about a 42%
00:49:53.040increase over last year's here. And there's a lot of things in there that focus on shifting from,
00:49:58.700you know, government bureaucracy to cooperation with the private sector. That was the theme
00:50:03.260across the board, getting stuff at speed and scale in alignment with Trump's defense
00:50:07.860executive order, acquisition executive orders to get it to our troops. A lot of money in here that
00:50:13.660I noticed, one of the things that stood out for me is autonomous warfare. I think there were only
00:50:19.060a couple of hundred million dollars in that in last year's budget. It's 54 or so billion dollars
00:50:24.540this year. Drone technology and other autonomous submarine and type vessels, you know, I was at
00:50:30.820that Anduril facility with Pete Hegseth a few months ago in Rhode Island, underwater autonomous
00:50:35.500vehicles. And it's a massive budget, but a lot of stuff goes to pay raises for our troops on a
00:50:41.540sliding scale, depending on your rank, improving their housing and living conditions. But the other
00:50:46.120thing that really struck me here is the Navy's concentration, $65 billion for the Trump battleship
00:50:52.380type program, the Golden Fleet and other things here. The Navy presentation was very, very
00:51:00.180impressive, Steve. 291 ships currently in our inventory, but they're going to be speeding up
00:51:06.520the delivery of these capabilities there. And it was just a comprehensive presentation.
00:51:13.980Sounds like they're pretty motivated. We'll see if it gets through the House Armed Services Committee.
00:51:19.960Hegseth is scheduled to testify, I think, next week with General Cain, maybe on the 29th,
00:51:25.380in front of the House Armed Services Committee,
00:51:27.280and we'll see if this budget, $1.5 trillion, can get approved.
00:51:32.920It's just, you talk about the fleet and the operational tempo.
00:51:35.920When I entered the service during the Carter years,
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