WarRoom Battleground EP 684： Fire In LA Wakes People Up To The California Way; Rescuing Our Republic
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Summary
In the midst of Southern California s most catastrophic fire disaster, the ongoing question of how and why hydrants around Los Angeles are running dry. Firefighters already stretched so thin are clearly frustrated. In this episode, we talk to firefighters in Altadena, who say they still don t have enough water.
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In the middle of Southern California's most catastrophic fire disaster, the ongoing question
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of how and why hydrants around Los Angeles are running dry.
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Firefighters already stretched so thin are clearly frustrated.
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What should the water pressure be right now, ideally?
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I mean, you want 50 to 80 is your ideal hydrant pressure.
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I think before I say anything else, it's important to say that multiple things can be true at
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And I say that because this issue is becoming a bit politicized.
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Officials are saying right now, Chris, that there is arguably no system that could have
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been created that could have provided enough water to enough crews as they fought these
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fires simultaneously Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, because they had reservoirs that were drained
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simply because this is arguably a once in a lifetime event.
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That said, this system certainly deserves a closer look.
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I spoke to firefighters here in Altadena today that have been fighting the Eaton Fire.
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And they say in the days since, removed from that initial intense firefight, that first
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24 hours, they say they still don't have enough water pressure here.
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And that's now three, maybe four days later, Chris.
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And that's why I think there is so much frustration, particularly from homeowners that we've heard
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who know that there was a hydrant on their street, if not in front of their house, that
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Of the Palisades, when you talk about water issues, one of the other bits of news that's
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been reported by the LA Times is the reservoir here in the Palisades.
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It was empty at the time of the fires that were going through maintenance of that reservoir.
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And that what it would have helped with if that reservoir was full is not necessary access
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to that water, but the water pressure in the system here in the Pacific Palisades, that
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once all these taps got turned on, the fire crews started trying to put out these fires,
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the pressure of having the water in the reservoir, and forgive me, I'm not an engineer on this.
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I might get some of the details wrong, but the pressure would have been better able to
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That being said, the LA Times is also reporting that officials or reporting that experts said
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that it probably wouldn't have made that big of a difference in totality, that this fire
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was just an exceptional, exceptionally powerful fire, and that the winds were really helping
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There were no fire crews that could have feasibly gotten this thing under control, given the
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And I think that's just a hard reality for folks to face.
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And they're going to want to have some more concrete answers.
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They're going to want to have somebody to blame for all of this.
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And they're going to ask very difficult and fair questions.
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And they already are, of the Los Angeles city government, about the response, whether they
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were prepared, whether there was water, whether the municipal system needs to be upgraded and
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bolstered, given the world we now live in, with climate change and these fires burning faster
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And, you know, there used to be a fire season here in LA, but they're in California.
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The Times is reporting the reservoir up in the hills, up here, the one that serves the
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I'm not a hydraulics expert, but our firefighters were pumping millions of gallons of water.
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The system's designed to be able to handle so much water.
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And even for brush fires, it was set up to handle a brush fire.
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But it was empty before the brush fire started.
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Well, what happens is at the beginning of the, I'm sorry, at night, this is a gravity-fed
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At night, there's tanks that sit above this community, and they fill up with water.
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And as the day progresses, the tank is feeding the pressure into this neighborhood.
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And so folks shower up, shave, water their community, their gardens, et cetera.
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In addition to people with their garden hoses wetting up their roofs, wetting up their homes,
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trying to make them more resistant to the fire.
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We had a lot of fire companies in here, and they're all drawing water at the same time.
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The capacity, the amount of pressure, the amount of water that was flowing, was way
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I ask you, we've got to deal with this misinformation.
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There were hurricane force winds of mis- and disinformation lives.
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And we're going to have to address that as well.
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And it breaks my heart, as people are suffering and struggling, that we're up against those
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And that's just a point of personal privilege that I share that with you, because it infects
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real people that are out there, people I meet every single day, people the mayor has been
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And they're having conversations that are not the typical conversations you'd have at this
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Did the city of Los Angeles fail you and your department and our city?
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It's my job to stand up as a chief and exactly say, justifiably, what the fire department needs
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to operate to meet the demands of the community.
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So let's get us what we need so our firefighters can do their jobs.
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Okay, welcome to the second hour of the War Room.
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It's Friday, 10 January in the year of the Lord, 2025.
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Second hour of the late afternoon, early evening show.
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The event that we're all planning for and we're going to start doing our critical path in
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the run-up to in the next 10 days, the historic inauguration of President Trump on the 20th
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As everybody in the war room posse and all the cadres, we understand that's the initiation
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of action where President Trump's actually in control, although he's been kind of in control
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since Election Day because with all international leaders, everybody, business leaders, I mean,
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I've never seen a pivot like this in my entire life.
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And who else sees it is Mike Allen and Jim Vanderhay over at Axios, who are the two most, you know,
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the guys are looking for those trends so they can talk to their corporate clients about it.
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They just had this piece yesterday that I put up on Getter, if you want to go find it,
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called, I refer to it as Full Spectrum Dominance.
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Actually, Mike Allen later saw it up on Getter and, you know, commented that that was a better
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So we're hurtling towards that, but there is a hinge moment, a major pivot.
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At AmFest, I can't tell you how many great people came up and how many people came into AmFest.
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You know, we sold the war room posse, thousands and thousands of war room posse members were
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there, you guys for the live shows, everything at AmFest.
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And a good portion of those came from California.
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And people were coming, Steve, we've got to have a meeting.
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You know, you take these meetings afterwards, you've got a meeting.
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We have to turn, we have to turn California red.
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And having lived in California, one as a naval officer, and then later with Mo's mom,
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we moved back there from New York after I'd finished Harvard and worked at Goldman Sachs.
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We went out there to basically work for Goldman Sachs and start my own firm.
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Mo was, I think, went out there at like three months old.
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But with all these other opportunities, you have to kind of make decisions about opportunity costs, where you spend your time.
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But now, because you have to realize, and that's why Katie Turr is so important to watch her.
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If you've been following Katie, they had, yesterday, I think she's from the Alphabet Avenues in Palisades, Pacific Palisades.
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The Pacific Palisades is this quaint little old village with homes, basically kind of classic, you know, California homes, kind of pre-World War II, post-World War II.
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It's not Beverly Hills with the big mansions, or it's not some of the other places in L.A.'s, Homeby Hills or, you know, certain areas of Brentwood.
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This is a very low-key place, but with tons of celebrities, but mainly celebrities who are on the lower-key side of things, but super progressive, super progressive.
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And, you know, kind of a mini railhead out there of, you know, the Rachel Maddow set and the Know-It-All set and everything.
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And that's why they had a thing of Katie Turr interviewed a guy who had been her next-door neighbor.
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They've been one of their playmates on the Alphabet Streets, and Pacific Palisades is gone.
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It looks like the firebombing of Kyoto or Tokyo, the worst bombing you ever did, low-altitude napalm, Curtis LeMay and the team, right?
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Worse than, quite frankly, even the nuclear weapon, the firebombing of Tokyo, the firebombing of Kyoto.
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And you said, they go, how could that possibly happen?
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Well, I kept asking this because we were watching the coverage all night.
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I said, you know, you don't see a lot of firemen.
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And when you see firemen, you don't see a lot of water.
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I realize they're going house to house, but, man, you've got to put up some kind of effort, and these firemen are incredibly brave.
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Now, Gavin Newsom, for all his happy talk, is cornered.
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He just, as we came on here, he's announced he's going to now have a formal investigation into the reservoir and the fire hydrants.
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Remember, on this show, I said, this doesn't make sense.
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They had these tanks of a million gallons each, but something feeds into the tanks.
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I said, the million, you know, for the tanks, the million here, the million there, the three tanks that ran out.
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The water that came, where the water come to fill the tanks, and why weren't they continuously filled as water went out?
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And she's making $750,000 a year, and now she's being crushed on social media.
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But there had to be something else I didn't know because I don't know the water system of Pacific Palisades or L.A.
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Pasovic played that the other day on the Pasovic show.
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It's a reservoir up at the top that has 117 million gallons.
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I don't know the exact interconnections, but that was empty for cosmetic changes, supposedly, to some roof.
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As the war room posse continues to dig and looking for receipts, all kind of things are popping up all the time.
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And Katie Turr right there, you're seeing progressive America.
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But she talks about the families and you go to the schools and there's no school and Christ Church.
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And I knew one of my business partner's wives was a teacher at Christ Church.
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Katie Turr goes back to the Alphabet streets where she was raised as a little child and has all these relationships and friends.
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And now half the friends have taken over the houses.
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Mo's got, I think, five or six of her friends from prep school down the street.
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And as that sinks in that it's gone, and how do you have it?
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This is what progressive politics and political correctness all gets you.
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And now they're going to demand accountability.
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And now when they're forced to demand accountability, you're going to see a moment in time, a moment in time where people can have their own awakening.
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I, I, I, I, it's horrible to think, but you're going to have suicides.
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Their entire life of that village, which has this tremendous kind of social life, is gone, and it's never coming back.
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It's a fire did it, and there was no preparation.
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And Bass and the mayor and these people just blow you off.
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Finally, the fire chief, the critically, you know, correct lesbian fire chief, says,
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And Gavin Newsom, to save his political career, is finally coming out and saying,
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But he's not hammering him because he wants to hammer somebody.
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They live in there thinking, as we said, that social structure's underneath you.
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As those people go through the trauma, and it is traumatizing, you're going to have psychological
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You're going to have the problems with children.
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You're going to have suicides coming out of this.
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You're going to have bankruptcies coming out of this.
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Remember, the whole thing is that they don't even pay the people who can't get insurance
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But the people in California have it within themselves to make these changes.
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You've got to dig and get the answers of how this happened and who is responsible.
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And once you get those answers, you'll take action.
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How many former liberals do we have, progressives do we have since the pandemic, are coming to
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How many moms were not with us when the pandemic started that kind of woke as they saw what
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the kids are being taught, and the public health officials become like the brown shirts?
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More people are coming to our side and say, well, hang over a second.
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And we all have to come together to think this thing through.
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This is what happens when you have ossified one-party rule, dictatorial rule.
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And Gavin Newsom all set to run his presidential campaign.
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Remember, he's going to show you the California way.
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The Trump program, the Trump economic nationalism, the Trump America first foreign policy, the
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Trump sovereignty, right, of our country so that illegal aliens have to go home versus
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Well, you're seeing the California way right there.
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And there's so much more that's happened today with the alerts coming out, mechanical.
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And I'm telling you, I know so many people out there, they're beyond anxious right now.
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Okay, we're going to have more about this on every day.
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And Natalie's going to do, you know, Natalie's home had to be evacuated.
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You want to talk about a despicable human being?
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Zuckerberg, you can take all the martial arts classes you want.
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We saw what nerd rule was about stealing the election.
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And we saw what nerd rule was during the pandemic.
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This country does not want nerd rule and not going back to it.
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We're not going to let people like you call the shots.
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You put $400 million, $450 million up to steal the election.
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And I believe strongly, sir, as the vast criminal conspiracy investigation,
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Yes, I know certain people don't want to hear it, but it's got to happen.
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I believe that you'll be charged with crimes, sir.
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And your million dollars as a supplicant tomorrow is not going to mean anything.
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It's a disgrace to give you VIP sitting at the thing.
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You're revolting for what you did to this country.
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Let's see him about, you know, being so overwhelmed.
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But it was really in the last 10 years that people started pushing for, like, ideological-based censorship.
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And I think it was two main events that really triggered this.
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In 2016, there was the election of President Trump, also coincided with, basically, Brexit in the EU and sort of the fragmentation of the EU.
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And I think that those were basically these two events where, for the first time, we just faced this massive, massive institutional pressure to basically start censoring content on ideological grounds.
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And I'm sorry to interrupt you, but when it first came up in 2016, did it come under the guise of the Russian collusion hoax?
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At the time, I was really sort of ill-prepared to kind of parse what was going on, right?
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But it's, you know, I think part of my reflection looking back on this is I kind of think in 2016, in the aftermath, I gave too much deference to a lot of folks in the media who were basically saying,
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OK, there's no way that this guy could have gotten elected except for misinformation.
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People can't actually believe this stuff, right?
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It has to be that there's this kind of, like, massive misinformation out there.
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Some of it started with the Russia collusion stuff, but it kind of morphed into different things over time.
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Well, it was he was so ideologically polarizing, right?
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Like, people didn't want to believe that anybody looked at him and said, this should be our president.
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So so I took this and just kind of assumed that everyone was acting in good faith.
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And I said, OK, well, there's like there are concerns about misinformation.
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We should just like when people raised other concerns in the past and we try to deal with them.
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OK, yeah, people know, you know, if you ask people, no one says that they want misinformation.
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So maybe there's something that we should do to to basically try to address this.
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So at the beginning, it kind of seemed like, OK, we should give a little bit of deference to the government and the health authorities on how we should play this.
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But when it went from, you know, two weeks to flatten the curve to, you know, in like in the beginning, it was like, OK, there aren't enough masks.
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And, you know, like everything was shifting around.
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And I it's become very difficult to kind of follow.
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And this really hit the most extreme, I'd say, during it was during the Biden administration when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program.
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And I'm generally like pretty pro rolling out vaccines.
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I think on balance, the vaccines are more positive than negative, but I think that while they're trying to push that program.
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I may have to do something because I would like to sit in a deposition.
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Zuckerberg, you're one of the worst people in this country.
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We are not going to turn this country back over to you nerds.
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Nigel Farage on the morning after Brexit said if we did not have Breitbart London and Raheem Kassam and Steve Bannon with Breitbart London, there wouldn't have been a Brexit.
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Because the reason I started Breitbart London was because of years before of what it would culminate in Brexit.
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Because the Daily Telegraph, the conservative paper had, you know, they were they were wimps.
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We had a hammer in James Dellingpole, the great James Dellingpole.
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And in the 2016 campaign, this started long before that.
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This started much earlier than that, back in 2015.
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Remember, he got all the conservative guys together except for Breitbart because they were rising in power and we were using Facebook.
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Now, we had to kind of buy ads, but we used it.
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Hey, dude, we thought your system through better than you.
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And then he left out one thing, you know, it's Brexit and Trump.
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And, you know, I didn't think Trump should win.
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I remember, we built this show off of Facebook.
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It was one AM radio station, our Facebook account, and then Real America's Voice picked us up back in 2019.
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Facebook was essential to actually getting the message out at the time.
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We were banned on the 11th day of, the 10th day of November.
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Everything we said, dude, was about the stint of that election that was stolen.
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After you spent $450 million of your own money to defeat Trump.
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Zuckerberg, we know, we've forgotten more about your acts than you even remember.
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I think of crimes, major crimes, but certainly major civil litigation.
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You think you write a million-dollar check, and you're in Mar-a-Lago, and you have a meeting.
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This is the first big fights with Jared Kushner and myself in 2017.
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They started rolling all these guys in to come in and see the president of the Oval Office.
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They don't think about how much money they create.
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Populist economics deals with breaking all these companies up.
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You've got to take this power, this concentrated political power they have because they're monopolies.
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Break it up and let entrepreneurs, let a thousand flowers bloom.
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I understand people say, but Bannon, nobody supports your raising taxes on the thing.
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You know, one of the reporters went around the house yesterday.
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There weren't a lot of guys saying, yeah, we'd love that.
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And there's not a lot of them going to support doing this.
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I've started a lot of projects when nobody was there.
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And they think that working class and middle class people, they think the citizens of this
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Or digital, just digital beings that you could just take their data and monetize it and give
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This is the great fight we have in front of us, folks.
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And if that's what we've got to face, wimps like that, you can hire all the lawyers in
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I want to give you a situation update, a SITREP situation report.
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Caitlin Collins just came across a few minutes ago on Twitter.
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President Biden says he hasn't made a final decision on preemptive blanket pardons, but
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is considering it given what Trump has been saying in recent days.
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This is two folks, and we've targeted them, definitely.
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We have to for the good of this Republican, particularly going forward.
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Got a book now, by Hans Monkey, The Swift Boating of America.
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It's by Tony Lyons, put out by Tony Lyons, the team at Skyhorse.
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The dossier I talked about earlier, you're talking about the Russiagate, the hoax, all
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Why do you call it the Swift Boating of America, sir?
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So the book's idea is to memorialize—you know, I wrote this before we knew that Trump
00:32:19.220
But at the time, the idea was to memorialize, what do we know about the Russia hoax?
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And there's over 600 footnotes, mainly to primary sources.
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So for someone one day to just be able to access all that information, what really happened?
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And so one of the things we know is what the Hillary Clinton campaign called this.
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So they didn't call it, you know, Russiagate or, you know, anything like that.
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What they called it was—they called it the Swift Boat Project.
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So there's an email from February of 2016 within the campaign—and by the way, this
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email came out through WikiLeaks—and in that email, campaign operatives are discussing
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this project, the Russiagate project, the Russia collusion hoax.
00:33:07.920
And of course, some people might say, well, you know, that ties in with John Kerry in 2004
00:33:13.800
But of course, you've got to remember, the Clinton people called it that, and they wouldn't
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have been happy with what happened to John Kerry in 2004.
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So in other words, they're admitting that the whole thing was a total smear from the beginning
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What's the process of—look, I happen to think the Swift Boating of John Kerry was not
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just smart, it was a way to get to the truth, right?
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It was a way to get to the truth, because it was on both sides.
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I actually had a company that put out the film about—it was a pro-film about him going
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However, the Swift Boating thing, I think, was absolutely appropriate, because it showed
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There's two ways to tell the story, the John Kerry way.
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The other way, I thought, was very powerful, and I think it opened up John Kerry to a lot
00:34:05.740
of powerful criticism, and it showed something about his character that you could see on
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How does that tie back directly to the Russia hoax, the dossier, all of that?
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It was certainly very effective back in 2004, and Democrats would have not been very happy
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So for them to then make up this hoax—and I think the most important thing to remember
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about this entire Russia collusion hoax is that it was entirely made up.
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You know, normally there's like some kernel of truth, and then you build on that, and
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This hoax was 100% fabricated by the Clinton people, and well, they called it that because
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they knew it was fabricated just as they thought the—never mind what we think—they thought
00:34:59.180
So they were doing that to Trump, and in short order—so the book kind of details what happened
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I can sit here and show you thousands of hours of MSNBC and CNN and experts and people
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I mean, tens of thousands of hours of mainstream and New York Times, Washington Post, article
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after article after article, where they're sitting there talking about the details of
00:35:32.440
it and the implications of it and all these different aspects of it, and everybody's involved
00:35:36.800
with it, I spent millions of dollars of my own money defending myself in front of the
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And then the House Intelligence Committee, which was a shifty shift, right?
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And then in the Senate Intelligence Committee, I got the receipts to show that.
00:35:54.540
So if it was a hoax, you're saying I should go—I legitimately can go back and start suing
00:35:59.180
people that this is a 100% hoax, none of it was true, that MSNBC, the Roberts family that
00:36:04.060
owns NBC, that CNN and John Malone—I guess he just recently bought it, but you're saying
00:36:08.660
he bought a big liability—if you're saying it's a 100% hoax, then don't Flynn and Bannon
00:36:15.380
and all the people rolled up in this thing that spent millions of dollars in defense of
00:36:19.080
themselves and their names, right, and actually from criminal charges, because that's what
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they wanted to do, and President Trump, that we all have the basis to go back and sue and
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What they did to General Flynn is absolutely horrific.
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And I mean, the book details exactly how that worked.
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So starting in February of 2016, when they came up with the project name, and then they hired
00:36:51.580
this lawyer, Mark Elias, and then he got these computer people to make up a fake data trail,
00:36:57.580
totally fake, to try and show that Trump was talking to Putin, all of it made up.
00:37:03.300
And then, of course, the part that everyone knows about, they hired this guy, Steele.
00:37:07.300
But they didn't hire him to do any research and to find out anything.
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I mean, they keep saying he's this Russia expert.
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He hadn't been in Russia for like 30 years or something like that.
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He'd been there like in the early 90s or so, and that was it.
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They could just call him like this former British spy or whatever, and then he says this.
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But he didn't come up with these stories himself.
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Clinton operatives told him what to write, and he just wrote it in his own words.
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And then he gave them a report, and then they used those reports to feed them to the media
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The way they – and Comey knew it was made up at the time.
00:37:49.080
He's on Ari Melbert thinking great thoughts, talking about they have a clip from him playing Comey.
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Steele just came out with a book with a name publisher saying that everything was true
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and all the work he did on the investigative work.
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Anyone who claims that any of this was true is lying because none of it was true.
00:38:13.820
In terms of the dossier, we can say this very specifically.
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Nothing, nothing in the dossier has ever, ever checked out.
00:38:20.020
Obviously, a name of a city will check out or name a person.
00:38:25.480
But everything else, like what that person did or where they went or who they talked to,
00:38:37.840
Are you saying when McCabe and those guys, when Crossfire Hurricane, when they went and
00:38:41.480
got the FISA warrants, they got all these warrants and did all this stuff, that they knowingly,
00:38:49.540
The people associated with this knew it was made up?
00:38:54.540
And there's two main kind of events that everyone needs to know about because they are just so
00:39:05.320
Before all these FISAs, before all these investigations, before Crossfire Hurricane, before any of it,
00:39:11.280
they found out or they were told, by they I mean the FBI, Comey, McCabe and so on, that this
00:39:18.380
This whole Russia collusion narrative was a Clinton campaign hoax.
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Event two, a few months later, the so-called primary subsource of Steele, the guy—so Steele
00:39:38.000
said, well, I didn't really find any of this out.
00:39:40.020
I had this other guy who gave me all this information.
00:39:43.240
Well, the FBI got to that guy, and they interviewed him, and he admitted that it was all baseless,
00:39:49.900
So they had these two massive reasons not to do any of this.
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And this is not an incompetent, keystone cops kind of—it's none of that.
00:40:04.760
How do people get to the—where do they get to this book?
00:40:08.220
I was just testing you, trying to push back, because you've laid it out very succinctly.
00:40:12.500
Other people have taken cracks at it, but you lay it very succinctly.
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Here, it's not about shades of gray or misinterpretation or people.
00:40:32.100
Why are they so afraid of Trump and this kind of gang of pirates around him, you know,
00:40:35.700
General Flynn and Steve Bannon and these others?
00:40:38.860
Here's what they're afraid of, because we're relentless.
00:40:42.120
And in 2024, 10 days from today, Donald John Trump is going to be—is going to take the oath of office as the 47th president of the United States,
00:40:50.620
and his team this time is much more battle-hardened, okay?
00:41:01.700
They knew that he was an armor-piercing shell, what I call a blunt force instrument that would deliver blunt force trauma to the system.
00:41:13.140
So when they sit there and weissman these guys to rule out, this is why it needs to be.
00:41:17.480
But what we need is a special prosecutor that has subpoena power and panel grand jury, and all the information eventually has to be put out in front of the American people.
00:41:28.300
If more information, you put it all out in front of the American people, but you adjudicate it in an official way.
00:41:33.820
That's the only thing that's going to stop this.
00:41:38.880
It would be very easy for people to say, just move on, right?
00:41:49.240
Nothing ended up happening at the end of the day.
00:41:54.680
You may lose a year or two of your life at the end of it, right, for all the anxiety and the pressure and all that.
00:42:06.200
The people around President Trump powered through it, okay?
00:42:10.200
And we became battle-tested and battle-hardened and better.
00:42:13.500
But the people that did this, and they did it for their own self-aggrandizement, their own control of power, that's why McCabe, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, all have to go to prison and throw away the key.
00:42:30.200
We must show people to come later that what happened in a certain time period when people challenged a corrupt and incompetent and anti-American system, they got the ultimate pushback.
00:42:51.820
I understand maybe there's some pricing issues.
00:43:01.080
But, yeah, it's published with Tony's firm, Sky Horse Publishing.
00:43:05.660
And, yeah, I mean, I either go there, go to Sky Horse's website, or I guess Amazon is probably the easiest.
00:43:22.600
But basically, since I started with this Russiagate, I've been on Twitter or now Excel.
00:43:27.080
It's just at my name, Hansmanke, H-A-N-S-M-A-H-N-C-K-E, just in one word, no spaces.
00:43:44.000
I want to go through this one, chapter and verse.
00:43:49.160
When they were told, because people were saying, hey, this thing's getting some momentum.
00:43:53.300
We got to shut it down because we know it's all lies.
00:44:01.220
Janet Yellen has kind of screwed up the balance sheet of the United States.
00:44:14.640
But because the way she financed it, kind of short term, facing the next Secretary of Treasury is a minimum of $7 trillion that has to be refinanced.
00:44:25.600
I don't think that includes the new deficits are coming.
00:44:29.220
Because I tell you, you know, I don't know, a third to a quarter has to be refinanced every year.
00:44:38.760
That means the BRICS nations still have something to complain about legitimately.
00:44:43.340
That's the decline in the purchase power of the dollar.
00:44:45.460
Now, President Trump is going to sort that out and turn it around.
00:44:50.360
It's going to take putting shoulder to the wheel.
00:44:51.620
In the interim, you need to know how we got here.
00:44:54.780
That's this theory called modern monetary theory.
00:44:59.520
You get a free explanation, kind of our next installment on the end of the dollar empire.
00:45:08.240
But I want you guys to build relationships with the people over Birch Gold.
00:45:11.400
Hey, even if you don't have the money or just you're not sure to do it now, you get to know people.
00:45:21.220
Remember, the one thing about this show we try to do is give you information to make your own decisions.
00:45:28.920
One of the blessings of liberty is to make those decisions.
00:45:31.460
But you have to do it with, you know, as close to perfect information.
00:45:37.680
So, folks at Birch Gold today, if you want to get stuff about the information about 401Ks, IRAs, all that, just take your phone and text Bannon.
00:45:53.600
John, can we play the – I tell you what, we're going to play it on the out.
00:46:07.680
Never bet against America, never bet against the American people, and never bet against Donald Trump.
00:46:29.000
He and We the People scored a decisive, too-big-to-rig electoral victory, against all odds.
00:46:38.280
Victory came in spite of a stacked deck, including the January 6th frame-up, multiple hoaxes, phony indictments, sham impeachments, and two assassination attempts.
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We the People enthusiastically fought for him, only to be shunned by family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues.
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But we the People stood in line for hours to cheer on the man that we knew could deliver us from the disastrous policies, the censorship, and the tyranny of the left.
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Now we shall revel in victory and celebrate the greatest comeback in American political history.
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A lot of people are shurred on dough, thanks to Joe Biden.
00:47:46.460
They'll be happy to see him go, and overjoyed to welcome back President Trump.
00:47:51.000
I just have to experience this moment in history in person, just as I did many years ago as a young TV news reporter in Washington, D.C.
00:47:59.560
Yeah, back in the day, I was an eyewitness to history in the nation's capital, covering President Reagan's first inauguration in 1981.
00:48:12.660
Ronald Reagan was sworn in after winning a landslide victory over Jimmy Carter and his four-year reign of error.
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Today's challenges are different, but the recipe for success is not.
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John Sparadopoulos, you've become an incredible filmmaker.
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We're going to put a link up because we're running out of time.
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I showed up to work at the Pentagon the next day.
00:48:42.600
My brother really, my younger brother, partied pretty hard.
00:48:49.120
He saw that crowd that performed the night before.
00:48:52.580
The first time that he did it on the west side of the Capitol, that beautiful view, all the other times on the east side of the Capitol, including President Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, all the famous ones.
00:49:07.000
And I might say I understand why local TV news is trying to change and become more like podcasts after seeing John as the younger version of John boring the hell out of me outside the IRS or something.
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This is the spirit of the truckers, the spirit of the people on the bridges when we went across the country.
00:49:36.400
That's what I tried to capture in this preview piece.
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And it's what I'm looking to get when we get to Washington.
00:49:44.220
So there's the rally the day before on the 19th, the inauguration on the 20th.
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Me and my crews, I've got a staff of about five people.
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And then looking at the news, we're looking for executive actions on border, on the bureaucracy, on energy.
00:50:04.620
We'll get you back on the show tomorrow morning because I want to kick this off.
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I want to see this little film you put together.
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