00:01:31.780So the FBI has opened a criminal investigation based on a referral from the National Security Agency.
00:01:37.400So our main Arizona spy agency believes that one of its intercepts was illegally given or provided to the New York Times.
00:01:47.900And the pool of suspects that the NSA believes had access to it and were in a position in the time frame when the leak occurred to create the leak appear to be people that work on the Democratic side of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
00:02:00.880So the FBI has opened a criminal investigation into that possibility.
00:02:05.300it's steaming ahead pretty quickly. And I get a sense that they could have a resolution and a
00:02:10.580decision whether they've caught their leaker in the next couple of weeks. But it's rare for the
00:02:15.120NSA to make a criminal referral about one of its intercepts. So it's something that it matters to
00:02:21.960them deeply. But here's how it drove a false narrative. So the intercept that was given to
00:02:28.320the New York Times, is two Hezbollah guys talking back in 2017 when Tulsi Gabbard made her famous
00:02:35.540trip to Syria. And they make a reference to the idea that she had a chance to meet with the big
00:02:42.840guy, not Joe Biden, by the way. And the New York Times and others and Democrats who probably were
00:02:49.540behind that leak tried to create a false story that the big guy was a Hezbollah terrorist leader,
00:02:54.680when, in fact, that's probably not at all what the conversation is about.
00:02:58.140In fact, the assessment of the intelligence community is the reference to the big guy was a Syrian ambassador.
00:03:04.700But they leaked that. It's a classified leak.
00:03:08.640They use the media. The media draws the wrong insinuation.
00:03:11.860A fake narrative is out there, and in this case, it was designed to stop Tulsi from being confirmed.
00:03:17.600No, she got confirmed, but that sort of leak is serious because it is a true intercept.
00:03:22.520It's an accurate leak of an intercept that was given the wrong interpretation.
00:03:26.460And so that's what's being investigated.
00:03:29.200And I want to remind people in the last few years, the last 15 months, we've had more leak prosecutions than I can remember in a decade.
00:03:37.860We remember John Bolton was a big one, but just last week there was an army person.
00:03:41.940There were several other intelligence people that have been prosecuted for leaks.
00:03:46.720They're creating for the first time accountability for leaks.
00:03:49.020In the future, it will probably create a disincentive when people start spending 5, 10, and 20 years behind bars for leaking this stuff.
00:03:55.720So one of the weapons of the weaponization era is now getting to face accountability and I think a disincentive for future people to do this.
00:04:05.600John, this is one of the, if not the top way they've come after the Trump, both the first term and the second term.
00:04:57.060This is time-tested, and the reason it keeps repeating itself is there have been no disincentive.
00:05:02.500Kash Patel and Todd really seem right now to be, Todd Blanche really seem to be cracking
00:05:10.760down and getting the sort of cases done quickly that will create a disincentive in the future.
00:05:15.420When people start going to prison for this stuff, it's going to be that. I want to remind people
00:05:18.820about one other thing about the Senate Intelligence Committee. Back in 18, in the middle of the
00:05:22.880Russia collusion caper, remember that it was that committee's intelligence security director
00:05:28.540who had to plead guilty. He was providing information. We know it was classified in that,
00:05:34.320but information to a reporter he was sleeping with or having a relationship with.
00:05:38.520And so this committee has a history of this, particularly when Democrats are involved.
00:05:43.600The one common person on this committee during that whole time, Mark Warner.
00:05:47.400I'm not saying that he or his staff are involved yet, but that Mark Warner guy drove a lot of these false narratives that we've now debunked.
00:05:58.380John, help the audience out here for a second.
00:06:00.560the nsa the puzzle palace out of fort meade the probably the most secret top secret uh compartmented
00:06:08.000they don't have a reputation of turning over intercepts where they see intercepts to they to
00:06:15.160notify somebody hey we gave that to somebody on the staff or somebody had that because
00:06:19.260everything they do is so compartmented how did this come about i think this one uh had some
00:06:27.460concern for two reasons. One, it was a very clear political leak, right? It was designed to
00:06:32.140impact the confirmation process. It had nothing to do with providing Congress something that would
00:06:38.300be beneficial to their understanding and oversight, right? It was purely, hey, let's see if we can get
00:06:44.660a reporter to make this look sinister so that we can stop Pelosi Gabbard from being Donald Trump's
00:06:49.320DNI and having a former Democrat in his cabinet. That's one component. I think the second component
00:06:54.380it is, the two people they were monitoring were very sensitive and long-term monitored sources.
00:07:00.420And once that conversation is leaked, they know, oh, darn, the way we've been communicating with
00:07:04.860each other, the NSA is living and listening to us, and they go dark, and they go on to different0.93
00:07:10.000devices. And that creates a tremendous loss of human intelligence and SIGINT. And so I think
00:07:16.980that those two elements drove the NSA to make the referral. Now, here's a great example of how the
00:07:22.460deep state is still somewhat in operation. This referral was made in July of last year.
00:07:28.360Kash Patel did not know about it until just a few short weeks ago. As soon as he found out about it,
00:07:33.080man, things went into hyperdrive and the counterintelligence division did its work. But
00:07:37.020someone grabbed that referral and hid it from the people and the decision makers who could
00:07:41.660have enacted upon it. And I think that's another component, a reminder that as much progress has
00:07:46.980been made against this, there are still bad actors doing bad things right now in Trump 2.0.
00:07:52.460Wow. Trump and Trump's FBI. Any update, any thoughts about this Brennan situation down in
00:07:58.640South Florida? I do. I think that fresh eyes have come in with Joe DiGenova, who is one of the most
00:08:04.940skilled prosecutors we've created in the last half century of federal prosecution. A U.S. attorney
00:08:11.060took down Marion Barry, the crooked mayor at the time, the cocaine-using mayor. Then was an
00:08:17.340independent counsel, then a special counsel. Now he's a special assistant U.S. attorney for this.
00:08:21.680I think there's been, from the work I can tell and the buzz in the defense lawyers community, I think a decision's been made that they're not going to bring a little tiny case against John Brennan, the perjury case from 2023, and then send it to the Washington, D.C. grand jury, or excuse me, to the Washington jury for a nullification case, right?
00:08:44.200because the most likely thing is John Brennan would not get convicted in DC. I think they've
00:08:48.460made a decision that this is the, uh, the keystone to a larger case where John Brennan's looked at
00:08:54.660as abusing the intelligence process. One, by knowing that Hillary Clinton had put the whole
00:09:00.620Russia collusion fake story together, allowing it to come all the way through without stopping it.
00:09:04.780And then after the election, taking the career conclusions of the ICA, which was that, um,
00:09:10.240Vladimir Putin did not intervene in the election and changing it to Vladimir Putin helped Donald
00:09:14.780Trump. I think the lie is going to be viewed as an overt act within the statute, but that they're
00:09:20.540going to go back and charge John Brennan with a larger conspiracy if the grand jury is inclined.
00:09:25.200Now, I think that is the sort of thing that is the more adult decision rather than just throw
00:09:29.980something out to get an effect. And I think that that's a sign of what's happened in Miami since
00:09:35.460Joe DiGeneva got there two weeks ago. You're starting to see an experienced prosecutor make
00:09:40.360experienced decisions and build cases that are lasting, keep them in Florida, not send them to
00:09:45.620the Washington, D.C. jury pool that is 90 percent Democrat. So my inclination is that may slow down
00:09:51.960a John Brennan decision by a few weeks to a couple of months. But the sort of case that John Brennan
00:09:56.700will face will be in Florida and it will be a conspiracy case that looks at the full time of
00:10:01.380what he did as an ongoing conspiracy. When you hijack the ICA, when you allow the FBI to go and
00:10:07.900investigate something you know is a ruse by Hillary Clinton, you've corrupted a much larger
00:10:14.540part of the intelligence process. And that appears to be where the DeGeneva team is going based on
00:10:19.520the buzz that the defense lawyers have right now. That is amazing. The timing of this will be the
00:10:25.820next couple of months as they put this conspiracy case together. Yeah, you got to give them a couple
00:10:29.720months to get stuff down there's some of the believe it or not some of the evidence has still
00:10:33.820not been sent from john thune senate remember we hit we hit that a couple weeks ago john thune
00:10:37.600still hasn't gotten the guys all they need i suspect that joe degenova won't wait any longer
00:10:42.320and he'll drop a subpoena on john thune and haul his butt into court if he asked him uh we should
00:10:47.700do that like this afternoon john solomon i would look forward to tossing tossing the ball to you
00:10:52.240guys you and amanda at six o'clock sir thank you so much where do people go to get just the news
00:10:57.080where they go for your social media justinnews.com jay solomon reports and like i said i'm always
00:11:02.060lucky to follow you at six o'clock really grateful for that opportunity every day thank you brother
00:11:06.560appreciate you great update 50 minutes from now you'll join john solomon and amanda head right
00:11:12.880here in umbrella america's voice do i have sean spicer no sure patty uh lyman uh we're going to
00:11:18.400play your cold open on the other side but walk us through what happened this is just historic we had
00:11:24.180some folks on today. We had Jeff Reier was on, Deloes Stallman was on. The grassroots that dug
00:11:32.240in here and worked so hard to bring about this and put pressure on people was amazing. Your
00:11:37.720thoughts, ma'am? Well, I think we've learned today something that I've learned in a number of years
00:11:45.000at the RNC, which is sometimes the tail can wag the dog. And today, I knew that the Virginia
00:11:55.780Supreme Court was going to rule this way. They had to, Steve. The law was so clear,
00:12:02.260and I was unwilling to make a political assessment, as some other people did, just saying,
00:12:07.640well, they have to get reappointed by Democrats, so the justices are going to rule with the
00:12:11.860Democrats. I'm not ready to have that level of diminished view of the Supreme Court of the
00:12:18.220Commonwealth of Virginia. I love many things about the decision. First of all, I think we
00:12:25.200have shown an awful lot of big shots all over the place. The little county judge in Tazewell,
00:12:32.960Virginia, didn't just fall off a turnip truck. Judge Hurley's brilliant opinion has stood the
00:12:40.480test of time. He found four massive constitutional violations. The court chose to focus in particular
00:12:47.500on one today. But Judge Hurley's brilliant opinion was reaffirmed wholeheartedly today
00:12:56.400in a four to three decision. And he knew the law. And I knew the day of the oral argument,
00:13:03.460Steve, and you and I spoke that day, I knew that the justices were prepared, they were educated,
00:13:12.140they had done their homework, they asked intelligent questions, and they got right to0.99
00:13:16.340the heart of the matter in a way that only Native Virginians can do. I think I commented that day1.00
00:13:23.360that the presentation by the California lawyer sent in to represent the Commonwealth, the yes
00:13:29.600position, one of Mark Elias's lawyer slash thugs. He was disrespectful, I think, in many of his
00:13:39.660responses to the Virginia Supreme Court justices on the verge of being flippant. And if you look
00:13:46.120through this opinion, you will see multiple smackdowns of the position of the Commonwealth
00:13:53.340that reminded me a little bit of Justice Alito
00:13:57.120taking Ketanji Brown-Jackson to school earlier this week,
00:18:01.040This is a matter of state constitutional law.
00:18:03.940There really isn't jurisdiction for the federal Supreme Court to weigh in here.
00:18:07.480There's not really. So everyone's saying, well, appeal this to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:18:10.860There's a doctrine called the independent and adequate state ground doctrine.
00:18:14.440This doctrine, it gets very technical. Basically, it's a state law matter.
00:18:18.040Before they got into it in Colorado, right, regarding whether Trump could be on the ballot.
00:18:21.740Absolutely. But there that was a function of the 14th Amendment.
00:18:25.080There was a federal issue involved, even though there were also state issues involved, too.
00:18:29.060It's not that the Supreme Court of the United States can't consider state issues.
00:18:32.660It's that this decision rests basically entirely on state constitutional law over which the U.S. Supreme Court does not really have jurisdiction.
00:18:42.080Tennessee just yesterday was allowed to redraw its maps right ahead of their primary, wiping out the lone Democratic seat out there.
00:18:52.820Louisiana is in the process. How significant do you think this is going to be for the midterms?
00:18:59.140Well, it is going to be significant for the midterms. I'll get to that in a second.
00:19:01.960It bears mentioning that the grounds by which this Virginia ballot initiative was overturned, not wanting to disenfranchise voters, again, I agree that that's a defensible ground and a vacuum.
00:19:16.060Here in Louisiana, where I live, we've literally disenfranchised about 42,000 voters.
00:19:20.480We don't know how many exactly because the state won't tell us, but the Supreme Court overturning of the Voting Rights Act led to Jeff Landry, the governor, declaring an executive order, declaring an emergency, canceling the House elections.
00:19:31.400But people had already started voting on absentee ballots.
00:19:33.740So we're literally disenfranchising people that have cast votes here in Louisiana.
00:19:39.020And the new Tennessee map that they've drawn is a total as an obvious affront to the law there, where they're not supposed to consider race.
00:19:46.180And yet somehow they've divided up Memphis equally into thirds, where black voters are divided now into three different districts at equal measure, a third, a third, a third.
00:19:55.740So just truly appalling what's happening in Tennessee and here in Louisiana in particular.0.71
00:20:03.120I think the Democrats are still clearly favorites to take the House.
00:20:06.500I think that this gives the Republicans at least a plausible map by which they might be able to protect the House or make the House majority for the Democrats pretty narrow.
00:20:17.960And so I think it has a meaningful difference.
00:20:20.120It probably will not be what flips the House.
00:20:25.040And, you know, we don't exactly know what the political environment is going to be this fall.
00:20:29.120What about, I mean, Jake Sherman and I have been talking about this when you necessarily when you redraw these maps and you take one safe Democratic district where you've crammed all the Democrats into it and you've dispersed them throughout the throughout the state.
00:20:42.520Are there going to be more competitive places?
00:20:45.220I do think that there will be some backfiring, but it's like on net there will still be more Republican seats.
00:20:53.180The Texas gerrymander was premised on the 2024 election map where Trump really overperformed among Hispanic voters.
00:21:02.860Now, if the polls are to be believed about just his massive drop of Hispanic voters, and not even really polls.
00:21:08.160We saw it in the New Jersey election, for example, just in highly Hispanic districts in the 2025 governor's election.
00:21:14.900And, you know, those maps that they drew to try to benefit them in places like the Rio Grande Valley, for example, you know, will probably backfire.
00:21:24.000There's a great Democratic candidate named Bobby Polito down there, for example, who will win one of those gerrymandered seats.
00:21:28.920So there will be some backfiring in some places.
00:21:31.340I think maybe this is a risk in Florida as well.
00:21:33.400But on net, I do think the Republicans have advantaged themselves.
00:22:33.320And so when people say things that are based on history, like, you know, it rains every third Tuesday, that's there's nothing that make that predictable about that.
00:22:43.920That's just a pattern. You still have to run the races. We have to put up a candidate.
00:22:47.680They have to put up a candidate. I think I feel really good about the Senate.
00:22:50.860But these four seats in Virginia puts, you know, Rob Whitman back in in the in the first.
00:22:56.820You've got John McGuire, Ben Klein and Jen Kiggins all now in the second.
00:23:02.140And those are all now very Republican favored.0.55
00:23:05.420Jen Kagan's obviously probably a little bit more of a competitive race, but I think she'll do fine.
00:23:10.760And then you do look at the four that Ron DeSantis added in Florida, the one in Alabama that you just mentioned, the one in Louisiana.
00:23:18.020Suddenly we're at a 10, just off that alone, that puts 10 seats.
00:23:23.240Remember, we are truly at a one seat majority in the House right now.
00:23:27.700We ended up with a two because a Democratic member from Georgia passed away last week.
00:23:32.260But, like, to go into the midterms, and I think we'll probably go in when all is said and done with about an additional, I mean, just in the last, like, three weeks, we will probably end up with a net 12 seats.
00:26:59.660We have a Democratic majority congressional delegation that, to be honest, is exactly what it should be based on the current voting patterns in Virginia.
00:27:08.960And it is temporary to the extent that it's every two years we get to vote.
00:27:13.060But it was on the precipice of becoming the most gerrymandered state in the union, and not one Democrat cared.0.96
00:27:19.320So I think, look, I love the fact that the grassroots, you guys on the show, have shown your power, whether it's buying my book or getting governors off their butts.
00:27:28.840We are showing that grassroots can make a difference in our economy and it can make a difference when it comes to legislative action.
00:39:47.960They're doing about as good a job as they possibly can, but it's a disaster.
00:39:53.040When you've got, I tell people, when you've got Russ Vogt and you've got Besson and you've got Trump and we still haven't been able to crack the code yet, this is the whole problem in the House.
00:40:03.800I mean, when Russ goes up, he's putting up a $5 billion rescission package.
00:40:09.140I mean, $5 billion is what they spend in an afternoon.
00:40:11.640And they're yelling and screaming on MSNBC.
00:40:13.780so unless you had somebody went in there with a consensus we had to do it i don't think you're
00:40:19.180going to cut spending to the degree you have to cut it and that's why the world right now is
00:40:22.960looking at this situation and making some decisions that i think are structural in nature
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00:45:08.660We just had the, Patty, I think from 1619 to 1776,
00:45:13.820the House of Burgess was the lower, was the assembly in the crown colony of Virginia.
00:45:19.680They just 250 years ago, I think this previous week, it dissolved understanding that Virginia was taking the lead with Thomas Jefferson and others, Massachusetts, to write the Declaration of Independence.
00:45:30.660They understood they were going to they were at war with the British and going to war.
00:45:34.500So no longer needed to have something associated with the crown colony.