00:00:44.540I think he's got the right temperament.
00:00:46.080I've got a lot of questions like, you know, who won the election in 2020?
00:00:49.540So he at least acknowledges that truthfulness.
00:00:52.520But remember, Margaret, this was totally caused by Donald Trump.
00:00:57.580Well, he could have nominated Jay Clayton a week ago and we wouldn't have gone dark.
00:01:02.780This is an extraordinary series of events that we have to take more time to talk about on the other side of the break.
00:01:07.420Let me take it and we'll finish it. We'll be right back.
00:01:09.860Before the break, Senator, we were talking about the next director of national intelligence.
00:01:15.180The hearing for Jay Clayton is next week, this Wednesday. Right.
00:01:19.860How quickly can he get confirmed? And and what does that do in terms of blocking Bill Pulte from ever taking the job?
00:01:29.640Well, I've got questions for Jay, like want to make sure that he's going to maintain the integrity of our elections,
00:01:37.140not try to pull the things that Miss Gabbard did where she was interfering in domestic election activities with the seizure of the ballots in Fulton County.
00:01:45.700My hope is if we can get unanimous consent, we could even get him confirmed this week.
00:01:50.900I would hope that the president would then say to Tulsi Gabbard, who is going to stay till the end of the month,
00:01:59.540you know, stay at least until Clayton is confirmed or allow the number two to stay.
00:02:05.520That's a shocking statement from you because you are a huge critic of Tulsi Gabbard.
00:02:10.820How much damage could Bill Pulte actually do in a matter of days?
00:02:14.000Well, my fear is not so much the damage he could do on Section 702, which has a full audit trail.
00:02:20.560If he misuses that, we'll figure it out.
00:02:23.120But having him exposed where he doesn't even have a security clearance to all our nation's classified programs, out of ignorance, he might give away information.
00:02:33.340I've had heads of our intelligence communities say to us they're terrified of showing him information.
00:02:39.200I've had foreign governments express huge concern.
00:02:43.020The one thing we know about Bill Pulte is he will do whatever Donald Trump says.
00:02:47.000He was able to weaponize private mortgage insurance information.
00:02:51.220Giving them the keys to the 18 intelligence agencies would be a disaster and a national security threat.
00:02:56.540He is eminently qualified for this job.
00:02:59.140The statute says that this person should have background in intelligence.
00:03:08.200Why is he the right guy based on that?
00:03:09.500Well, I think that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York also deals with some intelligence matters.
00:03:18.420But I also know that people who have had any experience or dealt with him in any fashion believe him to be somebody who is incredibly competent,
00:03:29.120that can take on any task and manage it effectively.
00:03:31.680But I do believe that to answer your question specifically,
00:03:34.140I do think that position entails a certain amount of dealing with intelligence communities and agencies.
00:03:41.060Pulte has the backing and the faith of the commander in chief.
00:04:58.600Right now, we've got to force this. Thune has got to go. Just bottom line, all you guys in the Senate, you like sharing your committees, you're going to lose. No one has any enthusiasm at all, at all, in going and going door to door or to engage, to have voter engagement.
00:05:17.460The question of going forward expeditiously on Jay Clayton is a question about making sure that Mr. Pulte never sets foot inside the DNS building and never gets a look at all of our national security secrets.
00:05:46.000And I think it's a wake up call to the White House staff. One thing you say about Bill Pulte, he's a man of action. President Trump wants action, wants action.
00:05:54.880I'm going to ask you about Jay Clayton, the DNI nominee. You just met with him. What do you think of him?
00:06:00.260Well, first of all, I'm trying to do everything possible to avoid Bill Pulte, who is totally unqualified, doesn't even have a security clearance, getting the keys to the 18 intelligence agencies.
00:06:11.640This goes way beyond our debate about Section 702. This guy should not be inside the most secrets of our secrets in terms of our 18 intelligence agencies.
00:06:21.300You know, I've known Jay Clayton. I think he will stand up for the Constitution. I got a lot of questions tomorrow.
00:06:27.560Will he make sure there's no D&I interference in our elections? Will he acknowledge Joe Biden won the presidency?
00:06:33.540Will he make clear that he will speak truth to power, even if it's uncomfortable?
00:06:38.640But end of the day, I do think Clayton will be confirmed.
00:06:41.700And my hope is that we can move it along quickly so that Pulte never actually gets into the job.
00:06:46.900We could actually get Clayton conformed by the end of the week.
00:06:49.460People can still vote against him if they want to.
00:06:52.840But let's not let Pulte get a look at our nation's most important secrets.
00:07:26.340I believe, and there are probably 20% of the Democrats, 25% of the Democrats who agree that we can't allow this tool to go vacant.
00:07:36.620or go unused. President Obama supported it. President Biden supported it. And I do think
00:07:42.620we have put in good reforms. We can always do better. But I sure don't want, God forbid,
00:07:48.420something happens while 702 is expired. And this president who's not really been that supportive
00:07:53.840of it, but would then claim, you see, bad things happen because the Democrats didn't renew this
00:07:58.360tool. These people are arrogant. And right now they're doing very sophisticated war gaming,0.99
00:08:03.700very sophisticated, let's say, association with intelligence agencies and I think rogue
00:08:10.180law enforcement agencies. This is why it's so important. Jim Marchand said earlier on our show
00:08:16.260today, Jim Marchand has information about how his election was stolen. What did he do? He went to
00:08:22.840Tulsi Gabbard. Why has Tulsi Gabbard been so important? Because as director of national
00:08:27.880intelligence, she has information about the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign actors
00:08:33.600hacking into the registration systems, hacking into at least 18 to 20 states of voter registrations.
00:08:42.560That's why she was in Atlanta. That's why she went to Maricopa County.
00:08:46.380That's why Jim Marchant went to her. Well, Tulsi Gabbard is leaving next Friday.
00:08:51.000Why do you think they do not want Bill Paltty to step foot into a DNI headquarters?
00:08:57.140Why are they moving heaven and earth and Democrats today? Mark Warner, Chuck Schumer.
00:09:03.840And right before we came on air, Focahontas, Elizabeth Warren all came and said we'd be jeopardizing national security if we allow Bill Pulte to step foot in the DNI.
00:09:14.860You know what it would be jeopardizing? Bill Pulte would understand exactly where to go in Tulsi Gabbard's files to look at the information about stolen elections, stolen elections in Nevada, stolen elections in Georgia, stolen elections in Maricopa County.
00:09:33.160the 2020 big steal. He would know exactly where to go. And that information is sitting in those
00:09:39.700files. And that is the only reason the Republican establishment and Democrats have come together
00:09:45.540to say, hey, we have to move heaven and earth. You have to remember how extraordinary it is of
00:09:52.140what they're trying to do with Jay Clayton to get him in. Normally, it would take you months on a
00:09:57.360DNI nominee to put their records together of all the foreign contacts they've had. And Jay Clayton
00:10:04.300has a tremendous track record. He was managing director of Sullivan and Cromwell, one of the
00:10:10.100most prominent law firms in the country, the law firm of Goldman Sachs, the law firm who's one of
00:10:15.220the most senior partners, was John Foster Dulles before he helped set up the CIA. It would take
00:10:21.140months for Jay Clayton to put together just his foreign contacts so they could do due diligence
00:10:26.500about what that means. Jay Clayton right now was nominated, I think, on Thursday. This coming
00:10:33.100Wednesday, this coming Wednesday, he's going to have our next Wednesday, he's going to have a
00:10:38.240hearing. And then Thursday, excuse me, it's this week, Wednesday, he's going to have a hearing.
00:10:43.340Thursday, they're going to have a vote. Friday, he's going to go in and be sworn in. They are
00:10:48.240waiving everything in the Senate to do it by voice acclamation to get him in. Why is that?
00:11:21.420That means it's all going to come down on your shoulders.
00:11:26.360Yanked his pick for intelligence chief to be head of the Department of National Intelligence,
00:11:32.200director of national intelligence, I should say.
00:11:34.580Jay Clayton, I guess, will not be at a Senate hearing today.
00:11:38.500It seems to put the nomination process on hold.
00:11:41.620And the president says that Bill Pulte will remain as acting director of national intelligence for now.
00:11:46.880The president also said he refused to approve FISA, the surveillance law, without a voter I.D. bill to save America Act attached to it, which is a no go for Democrats.
00:11:58.260As Punchbowl puts it, all of this together spells disaster for Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
00:12:04.840I'm not looking at an Ivy League graduate that that has worked in the agency and then gone to an international gone work for an international investment bank and then gone to a private equity firm and then dipped in and out of administrations.
00:12:19.300I'm looking for a brawler. Right. I think I want a brawler.
00:12:24.320Everybody should take that as the equivalent of a papal bull.
00:12:28.500He picked a fighter. You should take that as a papal bull.
00:12:31.540He's sending you a signal. Action, action, action.
00:12:38.220It's Wednesday, 17 June in the year of our Lord, 2026 overnight explosive, whether it's the deal in Iran, a criminal investigation, as we told you was going to happen on this leak to the New York Times writer Haberman and Jonathan Swan.
00:12:54.860But the biggest news, obviously, the president of the United States in the middle of the night here.
00:13:00.240But I guess maybe four o'clock in the morning, five o'clock in the morning there.
00:17:05.180not try to pull the things that Ms. Gabbard did where she was interfering in domestic election activities with the seizure of the ballots in Fulton County.
00:17:13.720My hope is if we can get unanimous consent, we could even get him confirmed this week.
00:17:18.940I would hope that the president would then say to Tulsi Gabbard, who was going to stay till the end of the month,
00:17:27.600you know, stay at least until Clayton is confirmed or allow the number two to stay.
00:17:33.560That's a shocking statement from you, because you are a huge critic of Tulsi Gabbard.
00:31:32.160He's done an incredible job, made a ton of money over at Fannie and Freddie for the government, was able to fix those systems and said, wait a minute.
00:31:39.500why are they doing a rush job there's the president of the united states i'm paraphrasing
00:31:43.060right here as he's sitting with modi he said why are they doing this rush job to get the new guy in
00:31:49.060without giving us anything where's the save america act and he what he goes in why don't
00:31:53.440i have the save america act if all of a sudden you guys are pushing this and he goes where's
00:31:57.560my single person voting where's my no uh mail-in ballots where's my single day voting where's voter
00:32:02.920id we want all of this and they're going to take away uh pulte and they're doing away with the now
00:32:08.240Now they're saying the FISA Act isn't good enough.
00:32:09.900And he's playing full hardball with them, Steve.
00:32:35.340This is what we've hoped for, a throwdown,
00:32:38.240that leads to a showdown. We need a showdown with the Senate. The Senate is treating President
00:32:43.260Trump as a lame duck. That has to end, or we're going to lose the Senate. That's what I keep
00:32:49.720saying. Nobody in this audience, nobody throughout the country, I talk to them, they have no intention
00:32:54.080of going door to door and canvassing for these deadbeat senators. Jack Posobiec.
00:33:00.140Now, Steve, that's exactly right. Look, this is what we were saying all last week. The Senate
00:33:04.840doesn't have the leverage here. President Trump has the leverage here. If they want something so
00:33:11.100bad, what are they willing to concede? What are they willing to give up? This is where the Save
00:33:17.440America Act comes in. And by the way, the president doesn't want FISA. There's no one who's been more
00:33:22.420abused by FISA than President Donald J. Trump. So they need to go to him to say, Mr. President,
00:33:29.540please, please, could we get some extension? We'll put some protections in. I'd love to see FISA
00:33:33.580a reform on this, by the way, or maybe even scrap the thing and create an entire new system.
00:33:37.960Right. That'd be my pie in the sky choice for all of this. But Steve, what the president is
00:33:42.300sitting there doing saying, wait a minute, you're asking me to sign off on all this stuff
00:33:45.820and you're not giving me anything. You're not giving me a dime. You're not giving me a crumb.
00:33:50.180And then I'm sure that the president's crack staff sent him that Senator Cotton tweet and
00:33:56.540said that they're defying you. He said, oh, you know something? Fine. Not only are we throwing
00:34:00.200down on Pulte. We're also bringing back the Save America Act because you know something?
00:34:05.000The price just got a little bit higher. It got higher. Suck on this, right? It just goes up.
00:34:11.460The price of the brick is going up. The price of the brick going up.
00:34:16.220Before I lose you, the 12 or 14 point plan, Bloomberg leaked. Somebody gave it to them,
00:34:21.940obviously, and they put it out today. So it's all out there. Have you had a chance to go through it,
00:34:26.280Well, Steve, I've gone through, but I see that I've got a 12 point plan from Bloomberg. I've got a 14 point plan from CNN. We've got all sorts of different pieces of this floating around. And of course, the White House is pushing back. I saw Stephen Chung was pushing back and said, this is not comport with reality for what we're seeing with the MOU. And so we do need to wait for the White House to actually put that out.
00:34:48.540I do think the president is using a little bit of his flair for the theatrical here.
00:37:40.960How about not just for the sailors, of course, and for the families of the fallen that we lost at the outside of this.
00:37:46.880I don't want to lose sight of that either.
00:37:48.200But also, Steve, how about for the American people, for the American people, a summer-long tax holiday that is underwritten by every single member of the coalition of these Middle Eastern nations that came in, that we went in, that we defended, whether it be the Gulf nations.
00:40:07.140It is not Mark Werner. It is not Elizabeth Warren. It is not Chuck Schumer. It is not Hakeem Jeffries. His name is Donald J. Trump. He is the one who won in 2016 and 2024. And gosh, I would love to see what Fulton County says about who won in 2020. I love to see the tail of the tape down there.
00:40:28.480But of course, Steve, yes. So I have my post up to Senator Cotton, updating him on what the president has said, has already announced regarding that hearing.
00:40:37.360We will certainly see what comes down. And I'm already working on communications with various members of, let's just say various members of Washington, D.C., various elected officials to see what exactly is going on this afternoon.
00:40:52.500i tell you jack you dressed up you think you were going over to dni today for your first day on the
00:40:58.280job we're not breaking news here i don't want the media to be in full meltdown uh you're the
00:41:02.280associated press of the american first and maga movement sir your twitter feed where do people go
00:41:06.540yeah people want to go follow me just go to uh twitter and look up mark levin because apparently
00:41:12.940he's been tweeting about me all day all night he's got poso on the brain so you know you just
00:41:18.800go follow no no good access okay you you went there you went there so hang on can denver put
00:41:24.500up the obsession when i sent you guys the obsession thing look oh my gosh hang on levin
00:41:32.920the tel aviv levin is all night long he's been putting up stuff and i don't it's getting0.74
00:41:39.680uncomfortably his what he's putting up jack is getting uncomfortably homoerotic right is he like0.71
00:41:45.500got a thing for you? He's obsessed by Jack Pessoa because there's something weird going on,
00:41:51.240right? A grown man, a grown ass man doesn't do what Mark Levin's doing. So what, what is the0.98
00:41:57.720story? I don't want to get into the psychoanalysis of Tel Aviv, but, uh, you know, he's living in
00:42:03.080his bunker somewhere in some Bayoneros Island off of Florida. What is going on here? What is
00:42:07.800the obsession about? Well, he's got, he's got some kind of obsession. He's talking about,
00:42:11.860Oh, this this this young Polish man from from Norristown right down the road, by the way, from Cheltenham.
00:42:17.220We both went to the same school, Temple University.
00:42:19.820So, you know, look, look, Mark, if you want to if you want to go hang out, eat some Polish food, you want to go eat some eat some eat some kielbasa, go eat some pierogies.
00:44:25.160President Trump is dropping a $100 trillion bomb on the globalist.
00:44:29.900Jerome Powell's term has come to a close, and he's installing a real America first Fed chair who will, according to Jim Rickards, slash rates and supercharge our reindustrialization.
00:44:44.140This is what one man is calling Trump's gift on America's 250th anniversary, unleashing a historic super cycle in American mining, rare earths, uranium and gold.
00:44:55.580The same forces that turned $5,000 into over a million in less than five years during China's booms are hitting here now.
00:45:04.040Jim Rickards, the former CIA, Pentagon, and White House advisor, has the battle plan.
00:45:09.900The gold royalty stock that could skyrocket in the next few years and the uranium power for AI.
00:45:49.080We love all of those people, and they're great people.
00:45:51.440How long do you expect Bill Pulte to be acting D&I?
00:45:56.880Well, as long as it takes to get everybody else approved.
00:45:59.840I mean, they were doing a rush act, and we didn't get anything for it.
00:46:03.860Look, he's a very legitimate guy. He's very smart. He's a brilliant guy.
00:46:07.560Look at the job he did at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac.
00:46:10.680I mean, it's worth probably a trillion dollars right now.
00:46:14.020So we put him there, but all of a sudden it was like a rush act by the Democrats,
00:46:18.640and they said they were going to approve FISA.
00:46:20.680And I said, but we want Pfizer approved, but we want the Save America Act approved.0.90
00:46:26.180Voter ID, proof of citizenship, no mail-in ballots, with exceptions, like for the military, sick, you're sick, you're traveling, disabled.0.93
00:46:37.620Very, you know, open and generous.1.00
00:46:39.720We also want no men playing in women's sports, so we want no transgender mutilization of our children.0.99
00:46:46.540none so those are five things that are 99 percent to i mean that's all we want and it's not a lot0.99
00:46:55.080the save america act and that can be passed anyway they want to pass it but i'm not going to sign
00:47:00.980fisa unless it's done and this was like a rush act and it was a rush act by the democrats all
00:47:07.240of a sudden they want to get and why are they afraid of this guy i mean they're so afraid of
00:47:11.900him, they'll do anything not to have Pulte go in there. He's a very capable guy, and they're worried
00:47:17.200about that. Jim, you're here, you're going to break down the geopolitics and geoeconomics of
00:47:23.700the deal, but I got to ask you this, because you worked in the intelligence, you and Fattis are CIA
00:47:28.380alum. Just do a reset. Where are we on this, and why has the whole, you talk about politics being
00:47:36.760divided. The apparatus has unified over the topic of Bill Pulte, that he must not, that's the name
00:47:43.520he must not say, and he will never set foot in DNI. Jim Rickards, your thoughts? Right. I was a
00:47:50.720secret agent for 10 years. My security clearance was so high, I can't even tell you how high it
00:47:55.500was. It's classified. Anyway, I can't think of a better choice than Bill Pulte. I mean, I was
00:48:00.580inside, did a lot of missions, et cetera. Can't think of a better choice because, well, he's
00:48:06.260obviously highly intelligent, but he's also got the technological skills. You need that.
00:48:10.380Quick aside, I did a mission in a denied area. I won't say which country.
00:48:16.580It wrote a report, got back. This junior analyst came up to me and she said,
00:48:21.080Jim, I hear you know a lot about this country. She was working on the same case.
00:48:24.700I said, yeah, have you read my report? And she said, no. I said, I'll tell you what,
00:48:29.140I'll give you two weeks. Try to find it. Ask around. She had all the security clearances.
00:48:33.040I said, if you can't find it, I'll give you a copy of myself.
00:49:30.080But these major cabinet departments have their own intelligence agencies inside.
00:49:36.260Talk to us about, we've had this before.
00:49:38.720Kennedy with Alan Dulles, the Bay of Pigs, he was lied to, misled, a ton of things.
00:49:44.620He moved on them too, did he not, sir?
00:49:47.700Yeah, John Foster Dulles, Alan Dulles, their brothers, one's running the State Department,
00:49:52.380one's running the CIA for the entire 1950s.
00:49:55.320Alan Dulles goes back before that early 60s.
00:49:57.260They lied to Kennedy about the Bay of Pigs.
00:50:00.720Kennedy, to his credit, took responsibility.
00:50:03.600He was lied to, but he stood up and said, you know, yeah, this was us, and I'm the president, and I take responsibility for it.
00:50:09.880But he fired Alan Dulles in a heartbeat and brought in John McCone, who had a military background, and they cleaned the place up for a while.
00:50:18.100I mean, it tends to go off track further down the road.
00:50:21.000But even then, even with John McConaugh, who was a very good director, they were still trying to assassinate Castro with these, you know, exploding coral reefs and poison cigars and everything else.
00:50:31.100So it's they're pretty, pretty incorrigible, but all the more reason to bring in Bill Paltty.
00:50:36.680Well, I believe they had something to do with the assassination of President Diem in Vietnam.
00:50:42.320And I'm not so sure they got a clean skirt on on Jack Kennedy, but that's a topic for a different day.
00:51:18.540They get this $300 billion reconstruction fund. We open the strait, yeah, but they get to charge tolls. They get their oil back on the market at a higher price than before the war began.
00:51:28.220I mentioned in our last interview that the new generation of Iranian leadership, religious, civil, and military, are younger, significantly younger than the older generation.
00:51:42.400They were born after the revolution of 79.
00:52:18.920They say they're not going to build a nuclear weapon, but they said that 10 years ago.
00:52:22.480And they've got 60 percent, about 1,000 pounds of 60 percent of rich uranium, which is not far from being able to be detonated as a nuclear device.
00:52:31.120So there's practically nothing in it for the United States except, you know, get the oil flowing and everything around one.