00:01:05.340Let us begin with Operation Rampart 12.
00:01:11.880That operation was a preliminary investigation
00:01:16.420opened into some of the members of the House of Representatives.
00:01:23.860Rampart 12 appears to be a predecessor case to Arctic Frost and was opened January 2021.
00:01:35.240The investigation was based on allegations that House members led reconnaissance tours
00:01:42.060in advance of January 6th, but the available records show the evidence did not exist
00:01:52.280and the government knew it. Even so, J.P. Cooney personally concurred with opening the investigation
00:02:03.600even though his text messages with a colleague questioned predication.
00:02:12.720Cooney became Jack Smith's deputy and wanted to, in his own words, quote,
00:02:19.900prosecute any nun who still wears a head habit, end of quote.
00:02:26.360CUNY also, along with anti-Trump FBI agent Tebow, kept Rampart 12 active for a full year after it was improperly opened.
00:02:44.580Rampart 12 shows how partisan agents and prosecutors lacked evidence but still tried to fix a case against Republicans.
00:02:58.120Now let's look at the Willard inquiry. On January 2022, before Arctic Frost formally opened, Tebow, an FBI special agent in charge, Wayne Jacobs, tried to create a case.
00:03:18.900Notably, documents show FBI agent Jacobs was recused from Arctic Frost, and that may relate to the fact that his wife was on the J-6 committee staff.
00:03:37.180Months after recusal, documents show he was still involved, which would violate his recusal requirements.
00:04:16.620people get it operatives get it this is within our hands this is this is a psyop you cannot go
00:04:21.580you can't black pill yourself now when we have a fighting chance correct yeah i mean that's all
00:04:26.140they're maniacally focused on we need to be maniacally focused on getting out the vote
00:04:30.120controlling our destiny ensuring everyone else gets out the vote because it's one of the strongest
00:04:34.700weapons they have is this sort of massive misinformation campaign division trying to
00:04:40.120divide republicans of course people can debate right you know things in the past things they
00:04:44.520maybe disagree with, but now is not the time to, you know, it's, it's a choice election and that's
00:04:51.700the options ahead of us. It's a choice and it's a turnout. It's not a persuasion election. This
00:04:55.460is a turnout and this is about MAGA. It's about MAGA plus, which is the low propensity voters
00:04:59.860plus MAHA. So let's, let us tell you what we're doing today. Jack Smith is before the Senate
00:05:04.680Judiciary Committee. We're in cut in and out of that. It's already been pretty fiery. It started
00:05:09.040little while ago. Also, Neil McCabe is at the Make America Healthy Again conference all day.
00:05:15.340Tony Lyons is over there. So our coalition partner, Make America Healthy. It's actually
00:05:20.560a packed audience and we're going to jump there. Also, the president, they changed up a little bit.
00:05:24.860The announcement was supposed to be at two o'clock. The president of the United States had just left
00:05:28.500the White House going over to Treasury, to the Mellon Auditorium, where he will basically unveil
00:05:35.840this new government website with artificial intelligence or the president's term supreme
00:05:41.380intelligence uh caroline levitt we understand is going to be the opening act she'll come to the
00:05:46.180podium as soon as that happens we're going to cut back to to mellon and hear the president
00:05:51.880in its entirety then we're going to come back to uh alex degrasse but we'll go go because jack
00:05:56.900smith this hearing's pretty fiery and jack smith is not backing down an inch he is actually i think
00:06:02.920leaning into this. This will be the last hearing that happens, maybe for Jack Smith overall.
00:06:10.720One last thing, because we're going to get to you. We're not denied. There are polls out there
00:06:17.180that are suboptimal. They're not good. But as always happens, it's very difficult to
00:06:24.260poll the MAGA movement. This time, it's actually very hard because either people are not answering,
00:06:31.880There are not enough call centers out there.
00:06:33.500There's tons of logistics issues dealing with this polling, correct?
00:06:37.260Yeah, so certainly it's been very challenging to poll Republican voters.
00:06:40.460So in order to get Republicans really to go into the polls, and that's shifted in the last three weeks.
00:06:44.840That obviously either means two things, one of which is not good that there's a group of people that are not going to vote.
00:06:50.000That's why we're here. We've got to get everyone out to vote.
00:06:51.840The other option is that there's a nationwide and systematic under polling happening in all these public polls and all these, you know, university polls and polls that are leaked out from Democrats where they're undercounting Republicans because they're responding less likely.
00:07:05.620And it's harder to kind of get some weight and figure out how to model the electorate.
00:07:08.580So we've got to ensure it's the latter that these polls are not just a suppression tool, but also really just being challenged to get these people to respond to the polls.
00:07:18.300So that's really an important inside baseball thing.
00:07:20.900You can't. You have to ignore everything. All of the information. Just focus on what you can control.
00:07:25.740Don't worry about what you can control. Just focus on what you can control on your county committee.
00:07:29.100Don't focus on your town, the precinct strategy, the house races. This is all back to finish where we started.
00:07:34.000This gets back to the precinct committee. I had calls last night. There's more calls this week.
00:07:38.580We're talking to the coalition folks, Steve Stern, the precinct strategy folks, Dan Schultz.
00:07:44.520Everybody is jacked up. We got you know, you control what you control. Yeah. Right.
00:07:48.680I mean, it really is like the new ad out there that everyone's exploding about.
00:07:52.900It really is the final battle when you look at it in terms of what is ahead of us
00:07:57.820and what can happen if we let this slip from us.
00:08:02.160Right. And right now you're going to see.
00:08:04.180Let's go back to we're going to skip commercial breaks, too, I think.
00:08:07.200Also today, thank Real America's Voice for that.
00:08:10.300The new lead pool feed for the White House.
00:08:13.940I think we had 10,000 signups last night for Ravpool.
00:08:34.280Meaning Trump as a predicated subject.
00:08:37.340However, this document provides a sort of roadmap, end of quote.
00:08:44.860So you see, Tebow set the stage for Jack Smith to take the lead.
00:08:52.840And Tebow's draft case opening used liberal media outlets as sources.
00:09:03.380But the version sent to then Attorney General Garland had those liberal mentions removed.
00:09:13.520Of course, Garland turned a blind eye to Artic Frost's political origins.
00:09:20.280Artic Frost was formally approved April 2022.
00:09:24.080Thus, the foundation Jack Smith took over in November 2022 was built by partisan agents and prosecutors, many of whom staffed Smith.
00:09:42.000And Jack Smith took partisanship to a new level.
00:09:46.720Before Jack Smith, the government sought toll records from at least four members of Congress.
00:09:53.980Jack Smith sought the toll records of 16 members of Congress and also obtained the content of members' communication breaching the Constitutional Speech and Debate Clause.
00:10:11.960Smith's subpoenas targeted hundreds of Republican groups and individuals.
00:10:20.340He subpoenaed communications those folks had with media and with the legislative branch.
00:10:28.940He also subpoenaed 87 Trump White House phones, knowing that they'd include communications with members of Congress.
00:10:45.620He failed to filter out speech and debate privilege information,
00:10:51.420even though he and his teams knew that they'd scoop it up with their request.
00:10:58.740What I can say today is that Smith also obtained communications from members of the media
00:11:06.440to include 60 Minutes, Associated Press, Bloomberg, CBS, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, LA Times,
00:11:19.320Mark Levin Show, Media Research Center, NBC, NPR, New York Magazine, Reuters, The Federalists,
00:11:31.840the Washington Post, Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
00:11:38.760Now, what will partisan media say about this disgraceful government overreach?
00:11:48.180I want to hear their response, and I will if they are responsible media.
00:11:56.380This wasn't a normal prosecution by any means.
00:12:00.200Yet today, you'll absurdly hear from Democrats that it was.
00:12:07.720Importantly, Mr. Smith has claimed his focus was on January 6th, but his own conduct contradicts that assertion.
00:12:19.620Listen, when his team subpoenaed records, sometimes the date ranges extended weeks, months, or years before and after January 6.
00:12:37.600Indeed, some examples, Mr. Smith subpoenaed and obtained information on Republican groups as early as 2019 and as late as 2023.
00:12:52.840You see, that's what you must do if your case is designed to map out and target the entire Republican Party.
00:13:07.600Messages obtained between Jack Smith's senior officials also expose how they were aware of constitutional speech and debate clause concerns and targeting congressional toll records.
00:13:25.400In these messages, his future staff discussed how they can circumvent the statutory barriers Congress put in place to obtain congressional toll records.
00:13:40.680Then in 2023, Cooney, Gaston, Wyndham, and Ray Halzer were giving...
00:13:50.400some of my favorite people, Gaston, et cetera, the prosecution team.
00:13:56.620We are going to go, because we're going to get to DeGrasse.
00:14:00.160We've got a ton of data to go through, maps.
00:16:13.960No, I think they, well, I can't speak for all of them, but I think that they did one earlier, I think about just six months ago.
00:16:21.780And I think obviously they're looking at some reform on, you know, the process, the non-disclosure stuff, which I think everyone supports, which we've got to get that done.
00:16:30.260The House passed it so that you can't go and secretly seize your records without informing you and work with the tech companies to handle everything.
00:16:39.020But of course, that's just scratching the surface of what obviously needs to happen.
00:16:43.440One of the issues at Maha today and one of the issues with the AI is this whole thing of surveillance, the whole thing of data, the whole, you know, the libertarian wing of our movement.
00:16:53.580Plus, even the hardcore MAGA base are not excited about the government getting a lot of information to them, particularly when it comes to health care.
00:17:03.740Although, you know, they're arguably this is going to make it better.
00:17:05.940They're going to find a cure for cancer.
00:17:07.640There's a ton of issues in all of this.
00:17:10.320And, you know, some of this is put up before the midterm to show you the direction of people.
00:17:15.220But like I said, people are looking for accountability and they're looking for responsibility.
00:17:20.520I didn't appreciate last night. Johnson comes out on Fox is talking about data centers is a Chinese sign up.
00:17:27.600That is just B.S. That's just not true.
00:17:29.640Are the Chinese Communist Party trying to do everything possible to hurt the United States of America?
00:17:33.440Yes. But I came out last night on social media and said, hey, look, brother, cut off all the chips.
00:17:38.300And by the way, Politico's number one story this morning is on, wait for it, Jensen Wong behind the scenes pushing the sale of these restricted chips to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:17:53.400And now but we have people in the House like the Select Committee, et cetera, sitting there going, why are we selling the Chinese Communist Party the equivalent of uranium that would sell the Soviets to make a bomb?
00:18:05.580I think these people have to understand if you want to motivate people in the next 30 days, you've got to motivate them in the next 30 days.
00:18:12.520And hopefully this hearing today, I mean, Grassley is open and it's great.
00:18:29.240Members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss my work as special counsel.
00:18:34.420I've been fortunate to serve a country that I love for nearly 30 years in local, national, and international settings.
00:18:43.340My service has spanned both Republican and Democratic administrations.
00:18:48.120I am not a politician, and I have no partisan loyalty.
00:18:53.240My career has been dedicated to serving our country by upholding the rule of law and the core principles upon which our country was founded.
00:19:02.660I believe there is no role for politics in the proper administration of justice.
00:19:09.000A prosecutor's decisions must be based on the facts and the law.
00:19:14.140The status, power, prominence, or political affiliation of the subject of an investigation
00:19:21.100must play no role in the decision to investigate, prosecute, or decline to prosecute.
00:19:28.580I approached my role as special counsel following these principles.
00:19:34.220The special counsel's office followed Justice Department policy, observed legal requirements, and took action.
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00:49:40.240It's kind of aggregation right now of different.
00:49:43.180But working in a congressional office, this is going to make constituent services all the thousands of phone calls you get to people that need to know how to work through the morass of the government.
00:50:25.640That'll tee it up the rest of the day.
00:50:26.960Schmidt, Hawley, Cruz, others are going to be hammering him throughout the day.
00:50:31.260But let's finish with – I know the audience, since we didn't do a cold open this morning, we've got to blow your head up somehow, so we'll do Jack Smith.
00:50:37.460Let's go ahead and have Jack Smith in the conclusion of his opening statement.
00:50:40.360Members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss my work as special counsel.
00:50:46.240I've been fortunate to serve a country that I love for nearly 30 years in local, national, and international settings.
00:50:55.180My service has spanned both Republican and Democratic administrations.
00:51:00.140I am not a politician, and I have no partisan loyalty.
00:51:04.620my career has been dedicated to serving our country by upholding the rule of law and the
00:51:11.620core principles upon which our country was founded i believe there is no role for politics in the
00:51:18.620proper administration of justice a prosecutor's decisions must be based on the facts and the law
00:51:24.980the status power prominence or political affiliation of the subject of an investigation
00:51:32.940must play no role in the decision to investigate, prosecute, or decline to prosecute.
00:51:41.100I approached my role as special counsel following these principles.
00:51:45.980The special counsel's office followed Justice Department policy,
00:51:50.100observed legal requirements, and took actions based on the facts and the law.
00:51:55.460I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.
00:52:02.940I made those decisions without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.
00:52:16.520Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation.
00:52:25.560If asked whether to prosecute a former president today based on the same facts, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.
00:52:39.300The charges against President Trump were the result of the evidence.
00:52:44.460Grand juries in two separate districts reached this conclusion based on his actions, as alleged in the indictments they returned.
00:52:52.760Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power.
00:53:06.360After leaving office in January of 2021, President Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago Social Club and repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.
00:53:22.760Highly sensitive national security information was held in a bathroom and a ballroom where events and gatherings took place.
00:53:32.880As with my appearance before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, I am prepared to answer your questions truthfully.
00:53:41.520I stand by my testimony before the House of Representatives, and I will not be silenced by continued threats of prosecution from the president or others.
00:53:55.040As I appear before you today, it is my belief that the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we have experienced in our lifetime.
00:54:03.900individuals are threatened with criminal prosecution because they are perceived to have
00:54:10.320opposed the president predetermined outcomes increasingly seem to take precedence over the
00:54:17.280justice department's long-standing core values and traditions history teaches that the rule of
00:54:23.360law is rarely destroyed all at once it's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the
00:54:30.440public servants sworn to uphold it since january of 2025 we have witnessed precisely such an effort
00:54:38.060including the vilification of the agents prosecutors and staff who worked on my team
00:54:43.400simply because of their unwavering dedication to the rule of law
00:54:48.600okay jack smith's opening i would say in your face statement are you jacked up now to grasp
00:54:55.340I think we should send that out to every voter in the country.
01:01:43.820If you are in what you think is a marginally safe seat, you can be very surprised because the one thing the DSA and the Working Family Party does, they get out and they go door to door.
01:01:53.820We saw this in Texas early on, New York, but the state Senate District 9, which was a plus 17, we lost by 14 points on a special election in the winter.
01:02:04.940But those guys were not going to vote.