WarRoom Battleground EP 568: The IRS Is Coming For MAGA
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Summary
In this episode of The War Room Posse, we are joined by Ken Klippenstein of The Intercept, an investigative reporter who has been leading the charge against the National Security Agency (NSA) for years. He has been instrumental in uncovering the deep state cover-up of the government's efforts to silence the War Room posse and any American who dare to speak out against the ruling class.
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this is what you're fighting for i mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing
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people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the
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authoritarians get total control and total power because this is just like in arizona this is just
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like in georgia it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and
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misrepresentations is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is
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the fight all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's
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your host stephen k bannon you're in the war room on wednesday july 3rd in the year of our lord 2024
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and what can only be described as a historic and quite busy week almost makes sense where they're
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weaponizing the federal government not just to silence this show but to come after the war room
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posse the maga movement writ large and frankly any american that dares to speak out against the ruling
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class the regime i'm honored to be joined in this show for the first time by a true investigative
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reporter someone who actually does the work believe me much to the dismay of the national security state
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ken klippenstein formerly of the intercept you know has a wonderful sub stack i know the war room posse
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might not be familiar with you but they're definitely familiar with your work you were behind
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some really wonderful reporting that came to sort of the big tech collusion with the federal government
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all kind of taking place at cissa dhs how they've been colluding to deprive us not just of our first
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amendment rights but to really weaponize the federal government against people who dare to criticize
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uh joe biden and his fellow apparatchiks but you have a wonderful story that i've been wanting to get
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you on the show to discuss for a very long time that shows how this true weaponization i use that
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word in its truest sense um has extended all the way down to the irs showing new documents that you
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obtained uh that they are now going after again sort of a vague description but people who threaten
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their quote ability to govern whatever the heck that means i'll let you just take a stab at it and sort of
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walk the audience through this story and on the other side of it uh we can get into more detail
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yeah so that language ability to govern appears in uh the irs manual which was changed in
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december of last year and so that's kind of a vague term but one which doesn't appear in any of the
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previous irs manuals that you know provides the basis upon which they can launch investigations what
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they prioritize how they go about um conducting um you know the criminal investigations that they do
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and so the question is so what does that mean another point in the irs official documents they
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define um uh you know the the u.s government's ability to govern is you know collect taxes um you
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know conduct policy so uh this could mean any number of things and i think that this is worth
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looking at critically because when you look at the um reporting on the irs a lot of the discourse on it
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is tax the rich so on and so forth you know which people have their views on but when it when it
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comes to the um uh national security application on that that gets almost no coverage whatsoever
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and so the question is how are they deploying that and i think that um the reason people should be
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uh paying attention to this is because after 2020 uh two events in particular january 6th and then
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also um the george floyd protests um you see the part of the federal government and the national
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security community in particular really prioritize turning their attention inward away from
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the traditional target they've had post 9 11 foreign terror groups like al-qaeda and isis and
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looking at domestic groups so in 2021 uh shortly after i think the day after biden's inauguration he
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announces the first ever um directing the intelligence community to produce its first ever domestic
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terrorism uh national national strategy so this is a huge shift um you know uh uh comprising
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the entirety of the intelligence community and one which i think has not gotten a whole
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um a lot of the uh attention as we focus on ukraine we focus on the middle east i think this has kind
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of fallen by the wayside and deserves more scrutiny speaking of this shift and reading the story you
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can see you know words obviously matter to these people a lot and i think that's how you can kind
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of discern where they're going with it we focused a lot on this show you know stochastic terrorism sort
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of rebranding what the dhs the cia basically the intelligence community is focused on right it used to be
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sort of external threats it seems like they're now focusing more so on domestic terrorism whatever
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you want to to qualify that as but they sort of swapped out from what i understand the the purview of
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narcotics and terrorism for the concept of quote national security so i'm curious from your perspective
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in looking at that phrase you know going after people who quote threaten their ability to govern from
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from your reporting and the documents that you've obtained focusing on the first part of that sentence
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what does you know going after uh look like under the auspices of the irs what what are the abilities that
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they have to go after americans well so they have an army of investigators called uh the same thing as
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the fbi actually special agents and so um these are the guys that go out and they're uh the irs you know
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people think of it as just you know they they're who you pay your taxes to but they're a member of
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all kinds of different task forces involving you know the fbi um the department of online security
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and in fact if you look at um uh how the irs has described its um purview in the context of uh budget
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allocation they say we are not going to imping you know we pledge not to impinge on uh the fbi's um
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uh collecting of um informants and sources so they're clearly de-conflicting and working closely
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with um these other agencies uh you know a particularly strong example being um in in regards
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to these uh counter narcotics efforts that have gone back a number of years but again we've seen
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a realignment in terms of the um strategy and this is something that not just uh gets scant attention
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the media and to some extent um you know obviously i wish the media did better in in this respect but
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i'm a little bit sympathetic because they don't make it easy to report on these things you really
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only get um hints like the kind that you mentioned at the beginning of this interview the change in
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language uh in the in the operating manual mentioning um national security more mentioning
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the uh government to the u.s washington's ability to govern and so you really have to read the tea
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leaves because they're not forthcoming about what any of this means um and so uh to some extent
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your guess is as good as mine but it has it has a huge um national security mission and component
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that i don't think um should be should be overlooked when we when we when we think about this agency
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which again people think of as just oh that's where i pay my taxes to i think there's an interesting
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juxtaposition to be drawn to because back in 2022 when they were you know duking it out over the
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inflation reduction act and all of that fiscal debate which we obviously obviously covered very
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intensely uh here in the war room you know there were such strong demands for what was it nearly
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a hundred billion dollars more for the irs to expand their budget to you know when you have a
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congress that's campaigning and and campaigned on cutting not just federal spending but going
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striking the heart of the beast going after uh government weaponization and then you see them
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giving a hundred billion dollars to i think americans least favored agency i don't know if it pulls
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better or worse than the mainstream media but the irs it's sort of an interesting thing because
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they're not really making the case to the american people why they need right these additional funds
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i'm just curious from your perspective how do you think that additional influx of cash again coming
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from being being okayed by republicans who in the same breath are telling us that they're doing
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everything to stop government weaponization do you think that is only continuing to embolden
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these agencies like the irs like the fbi to be able to continue to go after the american people
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yeah that's one of the most frustrating aspects of being a reporter who focuses on national security is how
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much less candid they are in this domain than any other that i can even think of and then um you
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know when you try to investigate these things how much you're stonewalled in terms of um you know
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asking the public affairs people what's going on there is just a reflexive secrecy that is
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characteristic i think of the entire uh national security community and very often i use that word
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uh reflexively um to to mean they don't even think about it so there have been cases i've been doing
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stories i'm trying to find out what the uh uh what say an intelligence agency is doing i find out
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what it is it's not actually in some cases it's not even harmful it's just that they have this
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regimented attitude of do not talk about these things um that you know i think it uh contributes
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to the distrust and you know there's a lot of discourse about um concern about people's belief
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in conspiracy theories well one way to combat that is to stop being so secretive about things so that
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people don't have to create their own theories about what's going on just tell people what it is
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doing disclose what it is uh what the purpose of this uh mission is because again all we have is
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these uh few stray references and the i think sordid history of the um irs to use as a guidepost
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and i mentioned some of the history uh in my story which people can find on um subsac i was i didn't
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know this i was amazed to learn that since its inception um there have been cases of it being
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deployed in a political fashion um first by uh franklin delano roosevelt against his um uh populist
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firebrand opponent uh huey long um and then subsequent to that uh by richard nixon and then
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you know by all kinds of administrations since then so there's a rich history of um shenanigans let's
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say and so i think there's a reason for you know people to be skeptical about how this is being
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deployed again as distinct from the collecting of revenue which is necessary for any government to do
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and you know if you look at the polling around collecting revenue for corporations that tends to be
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quite good so i understand that but this part has i mean i couldn't when i was researching for
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the story i couldn't find any coverage of this whatsoever no they're their own worst enemies if
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they actually wanted to curtail the spread of you know conspiracy theories disinformation whatever they
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want to euphemistically refer to it as the way that they kind of launch these initiatives which are
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concerning when you look at the words that they're using they certainly don't don't help themselves and
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i'm sure you you know very well as do i it's not like you know they're holding press conferences
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to announce these new initiatives these are files that are uploaded secretly that i don't even think
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they actually know the links are public that you can only get by you know algorithmically manipulating
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certain aspects of websites and then once you you've you know put up the story they're deleting the
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files and then they don't talk about the committees anymore so it's it's an interesting it's an interesting
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thing if you want to talk about you know how you do your reporting feel feel free to go off a little
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bit and the press is kind enough not to use the stray references that i've been talking about
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so that they don't have to worry about it that's much to my benefit very often i find them and i'm
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like oh my gosh how did nobody find this before i can't believe this is just sitting there um because
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the reality of um uh you know the way the federal government operates is it's such a huge system
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with so many moving parts that you know i tend to actually be pretty bullish about the possibilities
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of investigative reporting because of um the nature of this sprawling uh i think you were used the word
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beast before it's really hard for them to control every aspect of it make sure that details don't
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tumble out and so um for that reason you know i'm really hopeful about what you can find and try
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to i mean you know you can't always find the degree of detail and um you know the the kind of
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resolution that you want to to figure out exactly what they're doing but you can get a pretty good
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rough idea um uh just by just by reading carefully government reports talking to people in the community
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who've retired who will introduce you to people that are still inside um and you know just being
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attentive to what uh records these agencies are producing as opposed to i think what much of the
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rest of media relies on which is the other media and just it becomes an echo chamber where they're
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just copying what other people said reliance on you know ngos that produce reports that are um you
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know uh kind of pre-produced for you and you just sort of write it up that can be a way that uh media
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which is you know losing a lot of revenue in recent years to try to um cut costs they've really
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cut costs around this sort of investigation i'm talking about just doing the homework reading the
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documents and so what that means is that they're not going to stop they still need to have stories so
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then um they become more dependent on think tanks they become more dependent on advocacy organizations
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they become more dependent on congress on the white house um on you know on both parties to provide them
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with um the investigative work that they lack the time to do and the people that lose out i mean you
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know the press gets to go home with a you know 900 word story that they didn't have to spend a lot
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of time on the ngo and the think tank and congress gets to have a story put out that are is in their
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interests the party that loses out is the american people because they end up getting um reporting that
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is biased in favor of the uh interest group that provided it to the press so that's kind of uh generally
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my modus operandi for um you know approaching reporting and uh i like to think that it served me pretty
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well and it's really it's time consuming uh but i don't i don't think it's particularly hard you just
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again have to have fidelity of the primary source documentation it's almost like i think of the
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protestant revolution you want to read the holy text you don't want to rely on some guy who's going
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to convey it to you you know so i always encourage people try to read the don't even listen to me
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just go through and in my stories i try to link to everything so people can come to their own
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conclusions and find the language that we've been talking about um in the in the irs operating manual and
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decide for themselves and that's something that the media crucially does not do there's so much
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paraphrasing that they do that i think um you know there's there's a loss of fidelity to the to the
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source text when you do that i'm curious you are someone who like i said you don't come from the
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typical maga world right of guests that we we have on this show so it's fun to have someone who i can
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ask these questions to but from your perspective as someone who's probably a little closer to that kind
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of mainstream media just just world right you understand you sort of come from it and your in
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your opinion do you think you know for example right we play montages on the show all the time
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of anchors and people on you know cnn msnbc but what seems to be regurgitating the same exact phrasing
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the same exact talking points whether it's you know safe and effective or oh for a democracy right
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these words that they don't they don't come out of nowhere from your perspective sort of drilling
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down on what you were saying about how they're now getting these talking points these stories from
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whether it's think tanks or ngos the white house you name it do you think that that's a result of
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incompetence and these people just being you know lazy or is there something more not nefarious going on
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but is this trickling down you know i'm inclined to think about the story that you broke about the
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influence perception management office going up at the pentagon just a week after the ukraine invasion
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happened right is there some level whether it's coming from the federal government or or whoever that
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is sort of coordinating the messaging on these stories what's your take on it so i think the
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problem you're describing is particularly acute when it comes to national security because the
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federal government uniquely has a stranglehold on the flow of information about these agencies unless
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you're willing to do the things that we were talking about before which is read these reports very
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closely for a stray reference you know i have a wonderful editor who's been a national security reporter for
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close to 50 years and so he helps me go over these things and because of his experience he's able to
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notice kind of like um you know if a variable changes in the matrix and he says wait a second
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that wasn't there last year what is this and then we try and we compare it go back and try to see if
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there's any reference to that no that's new it's a change what does that mean when you start calling
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people and asking them um either in the agencies or outside of the agencies there's so many consultants
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that make wonderful sources because they are not um you know they're not vetted in the same fashion that
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that uh current employees they don't have the same set of interest they're not worried if they get
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fired for leaking um and so they'll they'll they can help point you in the right direction
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for certain things but to answer your question you know is it nefarious um how much this stuff is being
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directed i have to say i think a lot of it has um calcified into uh habit like i was saying before
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there is a reflexive secrecy there is a reflexive process by which reporters rely on these um uh uh you
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know pre kind of pre-written investigations by these ngos by these uh groups i'm sure the white
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i mean there's no question the white house plant stories i mean so many of the stories you read in
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cnn in politico and the new york times will have come from the national security council i know this
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for a fact having lived in washington for a number of years being friends with many of the you know
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national security reporters who i think you know i don't see this as a black and white thing i think
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people can do good work and other times they can rely on parties that perhaps they shouldn't
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the strong sense that i get in media is people either trying to do their best within a deeply
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broken uh system other people are just outright corrupt and will um use things from parties that
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are interested they either won't disclose that won't be honest about it um or they'll even obscure
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it um so i mean it's kind of like anything else there's all kinds of different motives that
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different people and different reporters have i mean i find good reporters that oh that's one of
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the things i learned very quickly when i first became a reporter i'm thinking okay what are
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the good sites what should i read and i realized okay well there are good and bad people at all
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kinds of sites um representing all kinds of different political philosophies and there are
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people within that there are people capable of both good and bad stories i certainly know that's true
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for me as well i've had stories that i look at when i'm younger and think oh i could have done a lot
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better with that so um i think it's complicated but uh for sure uh uh stories get planted um uh i think
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with respect to national security again the problem is particularly severe because of how
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much control they have over the information not just with the classification system but with the
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culture that exists the culture of secrecy there was a book written i think 1970s a camera by the
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author's name is called the cult of intelligence and kind of what he's describing is just the sense
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indoctrinated and inculcated into folks um in that in that in that system um to you don't talk to
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that you don't talk to people outside about these things and that and that becomes a uh and so it
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gets to the point where i'm talking to somebody they're talking about something that's completely
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unclassified there's no criminal sanctions for talking about it they're scared to even mention
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it because they have just been driven had driven into their heads that you know if you talk about
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this stuff you are a traitor and so that makes national and you know in the context of the um
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leak prosecutions under the bush obama trump and um i think there was one of the biden administration
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um that creates an atmosphere in which people don't want to talk and that just um magnifies
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the problems we've been talking about it makes the press more reliant on the official organs
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for information because they can't get that information from the uh unauthorized sources so
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so many leaks you see are are um what's called authorized disclosures that's an actual term so
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unauthorized disclosure refers to a um criminal leak of classified information but there is a
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technical term called authorized disclosure you can actually look at the documents released under
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foia showing that um the white house actually authorizes the release of secret information
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um to certain reporters and this is not a conspiracy theory i encourage people to look that up that's a
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real thing that's defined by um uh policy ken we'll definitely have to have you back going to drill
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down into that ukraine story and i'd love to get your kind of vantage point on how the mainstream
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media is spinning all the uh the joe biden debate aftermath and i'm sure there's some unauthorized
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leaks going on there but ken in the meantime if people want to follow you get your substack read
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it um support you where can they go to do all that um check out my substack kenklippenstein.substack.com
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i think i'm pretty sure i'm the only one with a name anything like that so uh shout out to me there i try to respond
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to any comments or questions that people have ken thank you so much for joining us thanks for having
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me of course what an interesting interview we'll definitely have to have him back he really does
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some great reporting just a wild story on the influence perception management office uh that
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the pentagon established just less than a week after uh ukraine was invaded by russia to uh basically
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spread propaganda spread and counter misinformation so i.e spread misinformation about what uh was going
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on there another individual who has i'm sure been accused of spreading misinformation although i think
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she maybe takes it the next level you guys are probably uh committing your own form of law fair as
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the biden regime would spin it is of course the one and only tiffany justice um for moms for liberty who
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comes on the show with some good news we don't try to just uh black pill you here in the war room
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uh but i hear you guys have had a victory for what is it the the fifth time or something like that
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in the federal and federal court when it comes to title nine so why don't you walk the audience
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through that yes the biden administration and the department of education has been rebuked again by
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another federal judge uh this is a win in the 10th circuit this is the moms for liberty case that was
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brought by southeastern legal foundation and mountain state legal foundation with kansas alaska utah and
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wyoming this is a great win this means that every kid in any public school no public schools can
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implement these new title nine changes and we'll talk about what those are in a second um in kansas
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alaska utah wyoming or the schools attended by the members of young america's foundation female
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athletes united and moms for liberty members so uh now's the moment right now if you're listening
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email your uh kids your friends send a text let people know go join moms for liberty by july 15th
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your school will not be allowed to implement title nine changes this is no joke it's a really
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interesting position that the judge took um you know we were looking for a nationwide preliminary
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injunction moms for liberty is in 48 states with over 300 chapters and so we're really excited that
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our chapter members and their kids are going to have protections here we wish this extended to every
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kid in america and every school in america and if people sign up to be joined as moms for liberty members
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we can make that a reality natalie i want to tell you what the judge said about this rule first of
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all we know that the title nine regulations what the biden administration wanted to do ultimately
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was redefine sex to include gender identity and sexual orientation what did that mean practically
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that meant that you would have boys in your girls sports teams boys in your girls private spaces locker
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rooms uh bathrooms and vice versa and then this idea of gender ideology and secrets being kept from
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parents which is basically getting a rubber stamp from the government well this judge said no uh no no i'm
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sorry uh miguel cardona and and president biden and and the doe you can't just uh redefine sex um this
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is a rule that was made by congress the department of education uh lacks the congressional authority to
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make this rule to change it the rule is contrary to law the judge also said that the rule violates the
00:22:58.200
constitution's spending clause that the rule violates the first amendment because it is impermissibly
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vague and overbought and the rule violates the administrative procedure act because it is arbitrary and
00:23:07.900
capricious so this judge just basically laid down the law at natalie and um you know i think the
00:23:13.660
biden administration is getting worried uh there were some changes about some of the ways they're
00:23:17.940
talking about so-called gender affirming care and if we have time for that i'd love to tell you uh
00:23:22.480
why i think they're worried yeah no please drill drill down on that okay so um it's really interesting
00:23:29.600
four days ago the biden administration told the new york times that they oppose gender surgeries for
00:23:34.300
kids that was news to me because they have a man pretending to be a woman admiral levine who is the
00:23:39.340
assistant secretary of health and human services who um it goes by richard uh but really i'm sorry
00:23:44.780
goes by rachel but his real name is richard this is a man who had children uh as a father and then
00:23:51.080
transitioned uh supposedly later in life to be a woman he is on record as talking about how blessed he
00:23:56.120
feels to have been able to be a father and to have children before he became a woman or you know before
00:24:00.860
he started pretending to be a woman i'm very clear about this issue uh there are men and there are
00:24:05.260
women uh there are zero genders and infinite personalities and so this man adam admiral levine
00:24:11.960
um we found out that he had actually pushed to have age restrictions uh taken away from w path which
00:24:18.520
is this organization that kind of governs and gives recommendations regarding transgender health
00:24:23.240
admiral levine wanted age restrictions taken away um and so we found that information out through foia
00:24:28.720
now you have the biden administration telling the new york times they oppose gender surgeries for kids
00:24:33.460
we would like for that to be the case but then the white house said to 19th news which is funny 19th
00:24:39.840
news apparently they think they're speaking on behalf of women they're not um but they said that they
00:24:44.300
continue to support gender affirming care for minors like mental health care and respect the role of
00:24:49.100
parents families and doctors for these decisions now what we've seen is watchful waiting uh natalie in
00:24:54.740
europe we see that mental health care watching working with the child is what's best the best
00:24:59.640
approach when we're handling any issues of gender confusion in kids but again this has not been the
00:25:04.320
white house's position well uh four hours later uh the 19th news edited the article claiming that it
00:25:10.540
had been updated to clarify the nature of the white house's response that the white house still
00:25:14.800
opposes surgeries but now says we continue to support gender affirming care for minors which
00:25:19.280
represents a continuum of care so here's the deal what's the doe the doj what are they going to do
00:25:25.380
with these new title nine regulations again they've had five federal judges say no not happening in these
00:25:30.820
states not happening with these plaintiffs so they have a choice to make are they going to have are
00:25:34.920
they going to wait and not try to and put a stay and not try to implement these changes are they're
00:25:39.040
going to keep trying to shove gender ideology into all of our throats my message for the biden
00:25:44.140
administration is this um you're losing on this issue uh you are losing more americans every single
00:25:50.360
day truth is it's coming forward and and stopping the natural healthy development of children is wrong
00:25:55.900
this is a common sense thing that all americans know and understand so my advice to president
00:26:00.820
biden if he wants a chance of getting re-elected or kamala harris if she actually thinks that she's
00:26:05.340
going to become the president is you need to stop with the gender nonsense parents have had enough
00:26:09.640
you're going to lose the election because of it and i'm going to do everything we can at mom's
00:26:13.120
for liberty to make sure that that's the case we love it action action action tiffany if people
00:26:18.020
want to follow you uh support you guys how can they go and do all that go to moms for liberty.org
00:26:24.280
click to join as a member if you have kids in public school this means that your child will be
00:26:30.180
protected your public school will be barred from putting in title nine changes tiffany thank you so
00:26:37.020
much for joining us we'll definitely have you back more in posse stay tuned we got the one and only
00:26:41.700
mike benz for what is a can't miss interview coming up we'll be right back
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welcome back to the war room i'm always honored and pleased to be joined by the one and only
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mike benz now with today's news cycle frankly this last week i was like there are so many threads to
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pull and i think mike benz could could pick and pull all of them probably we could do hours of content
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um but we got you for 20 minutes so we got to cram it all in um i'd love to get your thoughts
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particularly on the whole debacle that is you know is biden going to stay in the race is he going to
00:30:16.440
step down but particularly through the lens which you've been really hammering on twitter of kind of
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the intelligence community's lack or silence on the matter why they're not weighing in how you think
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it's going to play out i will just let i'll let you rip because you you do my job for me well i've got
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my natalie winters pink on today actually it's a very whimsical there you go on wednesdays we wear pink
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it's you know it's an incredible moment in american history to watch this all play out i mean i think
00:30:45.300
the top headline of this all is that the parasite is looking for a new host body you have this blob
00:30:52.180
class in the dc power structure this foreign policy establishment that spans our war industry our
00:30:59.120
instruments of statecraft and our intelligence community these are the keeper of our national
00:31:04.740
secrets and of our american empire and joe biden has been a faithful servant for over 40 years
00:31:12.540
to that blob class in fact if you go back and look at the contemporaneous headlines of joe biden running
00:31:20.000
for president uh the mainstream media referred to as his run for presidency in 2020 is the revenge of
00:31:25.680
the blob and what you see right now is i think this incredible moment of weakness of joe biden where
00:31:33.480
the you know whatever you want to call it the weekend at bernie's presidency the uh the sort of boris
00:31:39.420
yeltsin um you know old stumbling frail all of these uh all of these things which are hidden
00:31:46.140
essentially from mainstream access uh although we're very evident to anyone with eyes and ears who's paying
00:31:53.260
attention on places like x or rumble uh have now all broken open and it has put trump way ahead in
00:32:00.180
the polls even in extremely left-wing polls even in cnn you know they are reading these things where
00:32:07.720
trump is up six points and the general is up in all seven swing states by by huge margins and you're
00:32:15.200
seeing this collapse of the perceived uh the perceived victory potential of biden on the basis
00:32:21.720
of votes and so because of that you have this huge structure within the democrat party clamoring for a
00:32:28.040
new a new president a new presidential candidate because they perceive that biden will lose on the
00:32:34.500
basis of votes and what i've been pointing out all week is the very strange silence of the intelligence
00:32:40.460
community on an issue of grave concern you would think to national security that is the commander
00:32:48.040
in chief cannot keep his eyes open past 4 p.m and when it clock strikes about 9 or 10 p.m he turns into
00:32:55.040
effectively a total vegetable he's having to take afternoon naps um you know that that are only
00:33:01.400
really approximated by people in old age homes or or people below the grade of kindergarten and so because
00:33:08.320
of this you know national securities uh emergencies happen every week in some country somewhere there
00:33:16.160
are issues of grave concerns to the cia to the uh to the pentagon to the state department uh and to our
00:33:23.200
whole national security council interagency process that require the president to be cogent to make a decision
00:33:29.920
to either green light something or to veto it and joe biden who is dubbed mr foreign policy in his
00:33:38.160
rise to the presidency by the council on foreign relations who spent 40 years at the top of the
00:33:43.820
senate foreign relations committee so i mean his stretch in the senate foreign relations committee goes
00:33:48.800
so far back that he actually blocked jimmy carter's cia director nominee back in 1977 that's how far back
00:33:57.200
joe biden goes it with his role with the blob you know he of course uh became the senator at the age of
00:34:03.480
29 years old so he has had this long trust of of the blob he has had this favors for favors relationship
00:34:12.360
and he has been their man in washington he has been the perfect vassal host body for them for now
00:34:19.520
literally half of a century from from 29 until now 81 and the issue is is they need another host body
00:34:29.420
who is as pliant who will green light everything uh and the issue is is there not that many great
00:34:36.680
people in the democrat party to pick from the democrat party has a lot of of folks who are
00:34:41.600
focused on domestic priorities who are focused on things like dei and crt and and who are not as
00:34:48.260
or climate and who are simply not as well versed in the secrets of the american empire what we're doing
00:34:54.980
to seize eurasia from russia what we're doing with all of our interventions around the world
00:35:00.240
all the cloak and dagger work that the cia does now kamala harris was on the senate intelligence
00:35:06.220
committee and if you go to my x x feed at mike ben cyber you'll see near the top of it i posted
00:35:11.920
uh news articles that showed bipartisan report uh support from both the dnc and the gop wings of the
00:35:19.660
senate intelligence committee for kamala harris now she that of course the senate intelligence
00:35:24.640
committee is oversight of the cia but the fact is that she was very green she was like barack obama
00:35:30.060
who was a junior senator when he ran for president but us but between his own past with his own family's
00:35:36.860
strange relationships to cia cutouts like us aid and the ford foundation and others through his mother
00:35:42.600
uh and the diplomacy role of his father and things like this you have he was still very green he was only
00:35:49.600
you know a couple years into into congress when he ran for president and it's a very similar thing
00:35:54.680
with with kamala harris uh so i think that they if if harris is going to be the pick they're going to
00:36:00.800
need a biden-like figure to be the kind of shadow president as joe biden was for barack obama uh on all
00:36:08.300
things foreign policy for those eight years and the issue is is outside of hillary clinton it's hard to
00:36:14.220
think of anyone in the democrat party who really is as versed in the dark deep secrets of the american
00:36:21.600
empire i'm curious your thoughts on the reporting coming out that you know hunter biden is involved
00:36:29.560
in high-level white house meetings now do you think that that is something that has been you know going
00:36:34.580
on for a long time and the media is deciding to weaponize it now in the news cycle sort of against
00:36:39.880
him in this evolving weird civil war that you know either lead to biden's ouster or not or what do you
00:36:45.520
make of that i think it's absolutely fascinating i mean it has to be pointed out immediately that it
00:36:52.000
puts the lie to every statement we've been told in the press and by the presidency over the past four
00:36:58.480
years which was that joe biden does not talk to hunter biden about business and hunter biden does not
00:37:05.100
talk to joe biden about what he's doing as president and there's this chinese firewall shall
00:37:10.480
we say between the two never the twain shall meet hunter biden is off doing his own thing with cocaine
00:37:16.320
and prostitutes and foreign dealings and joe biden is off doing his own thing in the oval office and
00:37:21.600
then magically as soon as joe biden falters suddenly hunter biden is effectively acting as his proxy
00:37:27.800
teleporting into the west wing to directly participate in uh in essentially presidential
00:37:34.880
matters which should not be a surprise to anyone i think who's been following my work and reporting on
00:37:41.280
this matter because hunter biden is a figure who is cloaked in this uh intelligence and national
00:37:48.560
security in military world he of course was a you know uh military officer effectively in in the navy
00:37:55.720
and then he did you know these incredible suite of foreign dealings where he had the head of chinese
00:38:02.760
intelligence as his client he was involved in effectively bio labs with metabiota uh he was
00:38:09.960
involved in foreign dealings with mexico as as natalie you've covered through eplata and of course most
00:38:15.620
famously he was involved in burisma on the board of directors sitting right next to cofer black the 30-year
00:38:23.320
cia veteran in the directorate of operations there uh while the state department had an in-process
00:38:29.800
plan to kill russian gas pry it off of europe and build up ukraine's gas uh uh endogenous gas supply to
00:38:40.440
replace the russian gas using burisma and now when the state department declares that as a foreign policy
00:38:46.680
goal that activates the cia to do plausibly deniable work within the region to support that foreign policy
00:38:53.160
goal so you know that that to me is why hunter among many other things i mean i've listed hunter's
00:39:01.320
military roles and his his roles as sort of intermediating these foreign dealings which
00:39:06.200
touched the state department but then of course you have the fact that hunter biden was on the chairman's
00:39:10.840
advisory committee of the ndi the national democratic institute which is the dnc wing of the cia's top
00:39:18.760
cutout the national endowment for democracy which was effectively established in a letter from the cia
00:39:24.040
director under the reagan administration uh william colby uh to to get get back the powers the cia used
00:39:30.840
to have before the church committee hearings in the 1970s but by cloaking it at a national endowment
00:39:35.960
for democracy instead of having the cia do it directly and lo and behold hunter biden in the
00:39:41.320
midst of all these other intrigues that touch the the cia and state department and military worlds
00:39:47.240
ends up on the on the chairman's advisory committee of the cia's number one cutout so to see hunter biden
00:39:54.760
now uh in the west wing uh effectively acting as a proxy uh commander in chief is not surprising to me
00:40:03.000
because hunter biden is read into the secrets of the biden family as i just mentioned biden is the
00:40:09.640
has been the keeper of secrets for half a century for the cia and the state department and the u.s
00:40:14.600
military that knowledge was passed on to his son his son brokered these international business deals
00:40:20.120
that kicked up a percentage to the big man he was the he was the bag man for for uh for joe biden's
00:40:27.560
uh representation of the blob and so they need a trusted advisor in there to intermediate that and
00:40:35.080
i think that there are basically two forces within the white house that fit that one of them is hunter
00:40:39.080
biden the other one is a man named mike donilon who is uh who has been advising joe biden since 1981
00:40:46.920
so for you know basically 40 43 years mike donilon has been the effective political groomer of joe biden
00:40:56.360
now why is that important well mike donilon's brother is a guy named tom donilon tom donilon is
00:41:02.920
the chairman of the black rock investment institute he is the he is the guy who makes the determining
00:41:09.320
judgment on how black rock's 10 trillion dollars of assets under management get allocated so you have
00:41:17.320
and you put that together with the fact that joe biden only ran for president after he got the green
00:41:21.880
light from larry think at a meeting in january 19 at black rock headquarters and you basically have
00:41:27.720
biden as a black rock president uh who's simultaneously serving the interests of the blob within the u.s uh
00:41:36.360
the u.s pentagon intelligence and statecraft structure and there is that of course feedback
00:41:41.880
loop between the international business of black rock and the affairs of the cia the state department
00:41:47.320
the military to maximize the profits of those commercial forces speaking of the kind of
00:41:53.880
enmeshment not just of family members and foreign policy though i think that is too euphemistic a term
00:42:00.120
you picked up on some interesting developments going on at usa id specifically with samantha power
00:42:05.800
who as you rightfully note is kind of overseeing and help ushering in this invasion of our country
00:42:12.200
not just of illegal aliens but of you know new biden voters they know american people aren't
00:42:16.680
gonna although maybe if you look at his debate performance it makes sense right if you speak
00:42:20.520
english you're not gonna you're not gonna vote for him so that's maybe why they need uh illiterate
00:42:24.440
people who don't speak english um but her husband also recently got an appointment at the department
00:42:30.680
of homeland security to help kind of oversee immigration matters can you walk us through all that
00:42:35.880
yes so first it's important to understand that usaid is not a charity usaid is a cia front usaid was
00:42:44.520
created in 1961 because the cia the state department and the pentagon were all tripping over each other
00:42:51.080
about all the different money that they were funneling all the different resources all the different
00:42:56.040
arms and munitions that they were funding to political resistance groups to journalists on cia payroll
00:43:02.840
to academics being funded by the state department to paramilitary groups and so because you had
00:43:10.200
all these different agencies in the national security world all trying to provide logistical
00:43:15.240
aid for their own purposes they needed a central coordinating body to centralize that aid so that
00:43:21.160
it was all streamlined inefficient and so usaid was created in order to effectively serve as this
00:43:27.480
intermediary between the the overt and covert support needs of the u.s military the u.s state department
00:43:35.320
and the u.s intelligence community and there's a million examples of this that you can you can read
00:43:40.440
even in the past several years i mean famously in 2014 for example while joe biden was president
00:43:46.360
usaid created a in cuba a uh a a twitter knockoff app called zunzanio where they uh where usa gave
00:43:57.080
millions of dollars to a company to develop a literal twitter knockoff just copying its entire ui
00:44:03.880
but only for the people of cuba and in their own documents usa described how they were doing this in
00:44:09.560
order to get all of these people within cuba to start using this app and and using this social media
00:44:16.440
thing and then over time they would change the messaging and the algorithms of the app in order
00:44:23.000
to get them to revolt and overthrow their government by sending them messaging and by pushing messages
00:44:28.920
on social media that would psychologically influence them to overthrow their own government
00:44:33.640
and just a few years ago usa was then caught funding the uh the same summer unrest in in 2020 in cuba
00:44:43.080
where the usa literally put rap groups on their payroll in order to uh to write songs uh
00:44:50.920
instructing fellow cubans to take to the streets usa was busted for example in uh in colombia and
00:44:56.680
venezuela running uh fake aids clinics that uh that is setting up uh things that look like it was aid
00:45:05.080
for health clinics but actually running armed paramilitary and and guns through these uh aids clinics in
00:45:13.320
order to try to overthrow the government of venezuela and you can go country by country on virtually every
00:45:19.000
country on planet earth and this pattern repeats and repeats and repeats uh to the point where they're
00:45:24.440
now as of as of a few years ago actually getting kicked out of several countries because the gig is
00:45:29.880
up everyone knows what they are and again just to say this because this really should be emphasized
00:45:35.000
because usa was created in 1961 but for the first time ever joe biden when he became president he
00:45:41.640
elevated usa to a permanent seat on the national security council the national security council is that
00:45:47.880
very small uh sort of select elite group of national security institutions the pentagon the state department
00:45:55.960
the cia and usa aid was given a permanent seat right next to them that is how important they saw usa as
00:46:02.680
a cutout uh of these statecraft initiatives now why is this all important for the the 2024 election
00:46:09.320
usa is the primary entity responsible for our illegal immigration crisis
00:46:15.160
usa is the top funder of the constellation spiderweb of ngos that are importing illegal immigrants from
00:46:23.640
venezuela from panama from mexico from guatemala from honduras from el salvador we are emptying their
00:46:31.800
prisons and usa is putting them in is funding ngos to transport them directly from these foreign countries
00:46:40.280
prisons up through our southern border and those same ngos have a have a pattern in practice of
00:46:49.320
participating in ballot harvesting type activities or at least at least several of them do and so you have
00:46:54.680
this weird situation where us aid the cia front after the cia already was effectively responsible for
00:47:02.760
russiagate it was the january 6 2017 cia memo just uh basically calling the 2016 election
00:47:09.880
illegitimate because of russian interference that created the intelligence community consensus
00:47:14.760
that trump was a putin puppet and then you add the cia behind the ukraine impeachment in 2019 with
00:47:20.440
eric cia morella you had john brennan and that crew um all you know basically already clamoring for
00:47:27.560
trump's indictments and predicting his indictments um uh even as early as 2018 that trump would not
00:47:34.360
escape justice when he was done his term and lo and behold that's exactly what happened but now you have
00:47:39.400
this yes you at this uh cia front usa gets more funding annually and mike we're coming up against
00:47:45.080
the end of the show i know the audience gets very mad at me it's only when i interrupt you because
00:47:50.040
they say i've always been 20 minutes already i know i know you could blame steve stern we have to go to
00:47:57.560
him but we'll have you back we'll have you back i was told by production that apparently i don't smile as
00:48:03.480
much when i'm not in the palm beach studio so this is me smiling and laughing now but it's serious
00:48:09.160
times serious stuff mike ben's we're gonna have you back i promise this is not me cutting you off
00:48:18.680
i will have you back and i won't interrupt you if people want to follow you in the meantime where can
00:48:23.720
they go and support the foundation where can they go to do all that yes so at mike ben cyber on x that's
00:48:30.600
at mike ben cyber all one word and uh foundation for freedom online dot com is my foundation's
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website where we do investigative journalism on the censorship industry check me out there we uh
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we're prolific this episode is really going to anger the national security state and and i'm here for
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it mike thank you so much for joining us we will have you back i promise great talks in steve stern
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what's happened to steve what's happened to other patriots in this country that have a voice and they
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try to silence the voice you know they haven't silenced me yet i guess i'm not that important so i just get
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on it although although i hear you are taking a vacation to europe we'll have we'll get into that
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the next time you're on the show steve we gotta bounce thank you so much for joining us and thank
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you for everything you do for this great country war and posse i will see you tomorrow july 4th
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hosting this show again in the meantime have a good one
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