On today's show, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) and Dr. Darren Beattie (D-VA) discuss the latest in the ongoing saga of the January 6th hearing, including the fake handcuffs on AOC, Joe Biden's arrest at the Supreme Court, and the ongoing investigation into the events that took place on January 6, 2019. They also discuss what to expect from tonight's hearing, and whether or not it will provide any new insight into what actually happened on that day. And, of course, there's still time to catch up on all the news from the past week, including AOC's arrest, the Joe Biden arrest, and more. Subscribe to our new show on Apple Podcasts and leave us your thoughts and reactions in the comments section below. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow patriots! Timestamps: 2:00 - AOC arrested at Supreme Court 4:30 - Joe Biden arrested on purpose 6:15 - What's going on with AOC? 8:20 - What will happen with the Trump/Russia investigation? 9:00 11:30 12:40 - What do we expect from the hearing? 14:15 15:00 | What's next? 16:30 | What will the committee do? 17:15 | What can we expect? 18:20 19:40 | What does the committee have to do with the hearing 21:30 // 22:00 // Is it all going to happen? 26:00 + 27: What will we learn from the evidence? 29:00 / 30:00 & 30: What are the next step? 35:00 @ what will we get? 36:00 Is it possible? 37:00 Can we be done with this? 39:00 Do we have a chance to learn from it? 40:00 What s going on? 41:00 How will we know what we should do with this information? 45: What s the best way to move forward? 42:00 Are we done? 44:00 We ll find out what we can we know? 47:00 Does it all of this in the meantime? 46:00 Thoughts on the evidence we can learn from this so far? Theme song by Ian Dorsch Theme by Ian Somerhalder
00:04:47.000Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:04:54.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:04:57.000He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
00:05:00.000So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:05:04.000If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots!
00:05:39.000We are live broadcasting from Capitol Hill, our office here in the Longworth building.
00:05:44.000And we've got the great Darren Beattie, publisher of Revolver News, with us to break down the news of the day and really the news of this evening and going into next week as well.
00:05:54.000We've got the fake handcuffs on AOC today.
00:05:57.000Appending to a very real arrest that several Democrats sort of walked themselves into on purpose over at the Supreme Court.
00:06:04.000And Joe Biden apparently does not have cancer but does have COVID. So we hope for his speedy recovery from those things and anything else that may ail him.
00:06:14.000Tonight, the January 6th committee is meeting.
00:06:16.000And in a lot of ways, we learn as much from what the January 6th committee doesn't show you as we learn from the things that they do show you.
00:06:25.000So joining me now is Dr. Darren Beattie.
00:06:27.000And Dr. Beattie, what do you expect from the January 6th committee tonight?
00:06:35.000What I don't expect is anything that actually provides insight into what actually happened on January 6th.
00:06:44.000The ostensible reported topic of the hearing tonight is going to be the, I think it's the period from when Trump gives his speech to sort of the follow-up message that he did later in Later in the afternoon on January 6th.
00:07:04.000So I imagine it will focus on some kind of half-hearted attempt, as they've been doing, to link Trump to this so-called insurrection, to say, oh, he didn't call it off strenuously enough, and just more of the same, basically, of what we've seen.
00:07:24.000And I don't know if we're going to be treated to another Ridiculous spectacle along the lines of this Hutchinson woman or the weird Halloween costume tier like militia men that they paraded in the last hearing.
00:08:13.000And if we had real Republicans on the committee, my guess is a lot of that testimony, a lot of those records, would in a lot of ways exonerate the president, his advisors, the people who wanted to show up on January 6th and make an argument.
00:08:30.000So, you know, we met with Vice President Pence December 21st over at the White House, and as you might imagine, in those late weeks in December, there was some confusion in the Congress about how the procedure would go on January 6th.
00:08:44.000Would it be, you know, a unicameral gathering with the Senate the entire time?
00:08:48.000Would there be breakouts during those breakouts?
00:08:51.000Would it be House debate, then Senate debate?
00:08:53.000Would the debate occur simultaneously?
00:08:55.000Would there then be a rejoining back to a unicameral vote of some kind?
00:09:00.000And who would preside in such a unicameral environment?
00:09:05.000So we went over to the White House to really understand kind of the flow of the day, as expected on January 6th from the vice president's perspective.
00:09:12.000And the vice president said, and I remember his exact words, he said, we need to have the debate.
00:09:19.000I think where there was agreement among members of Congress, President Trump, Vice President Pence, is that we had legitimate election integrity grievances that we wanted to air.
00:09:28.000We wanted to use January 6th as a mechanism to drive better improvements to the elections process going forward, perhaps even inspire better bills at the state level on ballot custody, on mail-in voting, on signature verification.
00:09:44.000I mean, that was the flavor of the arguments we were constructing.
00:09:47.000And we left on December 21st in the White House fully expecting that that was what the vice president was going to do because he told us that was what he was going to do.
00:09:58.000And then very likely Joe Biden was going to be president of the United States, barring some vast departure of the voting bloc the Democrats have been able to rely on.
00:10:07.000And that has been now greatly tortured.
00:10:11.000And I haven't gotten my letter from the January 6th committee.
00:10:14.000I would probably be pretty anxious to go in in front of the cameras and in front of the whole country and lay out the truth of what happened and what we were preparing to do.
00:10:26.000They don't want people, you know, actually in front of the American people.
00:10:29.000They want to do this Adam Schiff scenario where they tuck you in the bunker in the basement, they video you for eight hours, and then they slice and dice out the testimony.
00:10:39.000Now, that brings us really, I think, to Ray Epps.
00:10:43.000You have called Ray Epps the smoking gun of the Fed'surrection, and we've talked a lot about his movements, his Almost paramilitary organization of other people that day.
00:10:56.000His presence in critical moments at critical points.
00:11:00.000And then we get this New York Times piece.
00:11:03.000A Trump backer's downfall is the target of a January 6th conspiracy theory.
00:11:08.000And the mainstream media has been highly critical of the documented video evidenced reporting at revolver.news that is still up, that I still encourage everyone to check out.
00:11:19.000And, you know, Dr. Beattie, what struck me about the New York Times piece is they never ask Ray Epps the operative question.
00:11:25.000Was he ever working for or in concert with anyone that was directed by the federal government?
00:11:32.000Why do you think they didn't ask him that question?
00:11:37.000But before I get to this, I just want to make a couple points about the committee and its structure generally.
00:11:44.000I mean, really, it's set up, as I said in another context, to call it a kangaroo court is...
00:11:52.000Misplaced because we haven't picked a sufficiently embarrassing animal to do justice to what this is.
00:12:00.000I mean, it's a double whammy from the standpoint of these witnesses, because first of all, they're not going to pick anyone to come up and testify that there's any kind of possibility that they would deviate from the predetermined narrative.
00:12:18.000Secondly, even the people like Hutchinson and others that they bring on who are totally in line with the Benny Thompson, Adam Schiff narrative, they're not even allowing any opportunity for cross-examination.
00:12:32.000It's really set up from the beginning to be this fake thing and couldn't be further from A vehicle or an institution that's genuinely set up to get to the bottom of what happened.
00:12:45.000Before we get to Epps, I want to drill down on this because there have been a lot of people critical of Kevin McCarthy for pulling all of the remaining Republicans off the committee when Jim Jordan and Jim Banks were not allowed to serve on the committee.
00:13:01.000And I would love to see my colleague Kelly Armstrong, who's a very capable criminal defense lawyer before coming to Congress, I would love to see him there answering questions, but I have not joined the chorus of criticism of McCarthy on this point because were we really going to sit there and allow Nancy Pelosi to have veto over our members?
00:13:22.000Were we really going to get Just, I mean, you know, I don't know.
00:13:27.000I don't even know the right word for it.
00:13:28.000We're really going to get defrocked in such a way that, like, Republicans could be on there, but only the, like, low-energy Nancy Pelosi Republicans that were pre-approved.
00:13:37.000I mean, as we look back at that decision, I almost think McCarthy made the right decision, even though there are definitely times now when I wish we had Kelly Armstrong there answering questions.
00:13:46.000I mean, I think we could get in the weeds on that question, but I think more importantly is that Any body that purports to conduct an actual disinterested, objective dive into finding out what January 6th was all about, for Nancy Pelosi to have Such oversight over any committee automatically dooms it from the start.
00:14:17.000And however we got to the position where we are now, it's just important to point out and emphasize that although it bears the trappings of some kind of legal proceeding, and there are a lot of, I think, incredibly improper ways in which the committee sort of is...
00:14:37.000Operating in concert with the Department of Justice in a manner that's actually deeply subversive to democratic processes, that this is far from anything resembling a legitimate investigation.
00:14:55.000Part of the reason for that is that they're not only cherry-picking their witnesses but even their cherry-picked witnesses have total safe harbor to say whatever they want without any potential of criticism.
00:15:11.000The ridiculous Hutchinson testimony could not have happened if Yeah, let me start with my cross-examine of Cassidy Hutchinson.
00:15:24.000Cassidy Hutchinson, who, full disclosure, was my friend.
00:15:27.000I worked closely with Cassidy Hutchinson.
00:15:29.000I would have likely asked, well, GCAS, after January 20th, when Joe Biden was the president, you were on your way to Palm Beach, eager and excited and devoted to Donald Trump and his post-presidency.
00:15:50.000That professional path with this strained horror you felt on January 6th.
00:15:55.000I probably would have asked her about the records and emails where she was requesting support from President Trump, his network, his donors, his legal assets, so that she would not be mistreated by a committee that she herself deemed BS. So I worry with Cassidy Hutchinson that it's more about Vindictiveness and vengeance than it is about a sincerely held belief that developed on January 6th.
00:16:24.000It's really about the committee because my understanding is I'm not positive positive, but I'm about 95% sure that among those deposed by the committee were the two individuals who had been able to speak directly on the scenario that Hutchinson described In her testimony,
00:16:46.000namely one of the Angle, I think his name is, so the security official and another White House security official whose name I've forgotten.
00:16:56.000But I believe both of those people were deposed by the committee.
00:17:01.000So why have Hutchinson come on and tell this You know, fabulous tale secondhand and giving it that she learned secondhand and now the audience, the American public, is getting thirdhand.
00:17:13.000If they've already deposed the people who are allegedly like direct witnesses to this, why don't they put them on the witness stand or at the very least released The transcript of their interviews to the public to cross-reference to what Hutchinson's testimony is.
00:17:32.000And of course, if there were cross-examination, people could ask that directly.
00:17:36.000So again, it's worse than a kangaroo court, but I think There's so much to be said for that, but maybe it's best to shift to Epps right now because we could talk about what a joke the committee is for hours.
00:17:51.000There's a report coming out that you've written the foreword to, the January 6th report.
00:17:56.000Is there going to be Epps analysis in this document?
00:18:02.000There's going to be Epps analysis and much more.
00:18:04.000I encourage the audience, if you like Revolver is reporting on January 6th.
00:18:10.000If you like the information and analysis that I give on January 6th, this is a very special opportunity because this report is going to be a public document.
00:18:23.000The New Yorker, I believe, is releasing its version.
00:18:28.000Skyhorse, which has published a lot of great stuff, including Robert Kennedy's amazing book on Fauci, Is publishing a version of it and they have me doing the introduction much to the chagrin and even scandal of a lot of the left-wing press because it's a subsidiary, Simon& Schuster.
00:18:49.000So they say, how could Simon& Schuster support this conspiracy theorist and whatnot?
00:18:58.000Order it and show Simon& Schuster that there is actually support for someone who dares to present the other side of the story in a reasoned and factual and highly analytical manner.
00:19:11.000And so you go to Amazon, Right now you can pre-order it.
00:19:15.000And yes, absolutely, there will be a lot of material on Epps.
00:19:18.000There will be material on this really bizarre pipe bomb situation.
00:19:24.000We haven't heard the half of all the weird stuff going on with the pipe bomb situation and much more.
00:19:30.000But these are all the questions that the January 6th committee Fails to explore because they're so obsessively focused with this ridiculous narrative on Trump because the idea isn't really to prevent another January 6th, it's to prevent another Trump presidency.
00:20:25.000Benny Thompson, who is the chair of this committee, many people don't know this, but I think it's worth pointing out that in his personal capacity, he actually sued Trump.
00:20:37.000Very shortly after January 6th, in his personal capacity, he sued Trump And the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys and I think Rudy Giuliani.
00:20:48.000And in this personal lawsuit, Benny Thompson adduced this theory whereby Trump was colluding with these militia groups to overturn the election.
00:20:58.000Now, leaving aside the fact that that theory is ridiculous, how can any committee that purports to be remotely objective put as the chair of the committee someone who's already adduced A comprehensive and elaborate theory of the case beforehand in a capacity of a personal lawsuit.
00:21:21.000And by the way, we've done a piece on this, but the personal lawsuit traces back very, very suspicious connections to our old friend Norm Eisen, who is one of the key sort of lawfare operatives against Trump and has been running impeachment scams against Trump since day one, when like Before Trump even got into office, they were preparing this ridiculous emoluments clause thing.
00:21:49.000And just another point about Benny Thompson is he happens to be the chair of the Homeland Security Committee.
00:21:54.000And it's basically the Department of Homeland Security that's tasked with implementing this domestic war on terror.
00:22:02.000The Homeland Security Department was set up in the aftermath of 9-11 to go after Islamic terrorism, basically, or radical Islamic terrorism.
00:22:11.000Now, with the pretext of January 6th and the false narrative behind it, the DHS specifically is at the forefront of this reconfiguration of the national security state against the American people.
00:22:25.000And Benny Thompson is the DHS's stooge in Congress.
00:22:30.000And so I think those are just two very important There are conflicts of interest that sort of compound upon the already kind of ridiculous way in which the committee is structured that should drive home to any thinking individual just what a sham this operation really is.
00:22:50.000Insurrectionist Benny Thompson is one of my favorite episodes that we've made on the podcast.
00:22:55.000Benny Thompson was more than just a little sympathetic to black nationalists who moved to his tiny little community in Mississippi in order to set up a black ethnostate.
00:23:13.000He was also sympathetic to voter fraud, the whole conspiracy that George Bush stole the election in 2000. Yes, they've been on all sides of the election-denying insurrections.
00:23:25.000So, the hidden agenda behind the New York Times Desperate Puff piece on Ray Epps.
00:23:32.000Why did we get this New York Times piece on Epps now, and what does it mean to you?
00:23:41.000Even the New York Times, I'm surprised that just as an editorial matter, they're not a little bit more protective of their reputation as an ostensibly legitimate paper of record.
00:23:58.000The one person caught on camera Repeatedly urging people to go into the Capitol as early as January 5th is the one January 6th riot participant about whom the New York Times will write an ultra-sympathetic puff piece.
00:24:22.000If you read this piece, it's almost designed like these sympathy pieces for families after some kind of natural disaster, who have their home and everything ruined, and they go to the ruined neighborhood without all of the houses blown down, and they do a sympathy sort of personal profile piece.
00:24:45.000That's almost the kind of piece that the New York Times decided to do about Ray Epps, which is weird enough.
00:24:52.000But what's a scandal are the key questions that get to the core of the whole matter of January 6th that the piece fails to explore.
00:25:00.000You think you're a New York Times journalist.
00:25:03.000You have access to this individual who, whatever you think about him and whatever you think about January 6th, this individual is, in Ray Epps' own words, at the center of it.
00:25:15.000He's at the center of the controversy regarding what January 6th actually was.
00:25:20.000And so you have access to this guy for a whole day.
00:25:24.000And instead of writing a piece that includes, hey, Rayap, so are you going to give a blanket denial of any involvement with The federal government with any involvement with sort of a cutout organization or intermediary.
00:25:40.000No, there's no blanket denial in the entire piece.
00:25:44.000All there is is Epps reiterating a highly legalistic denial that he presented to the January 6th committee through his lawyer, who just happens to be a decade veteran of the Phoenix FBI field office, saying that Ray Epps was never It's such a specific denial, it's damn near an admission.
00:26:45.000I've got to get to this text message you referenced.
00:26:48.000And again, you've got to read the exclusive piece, Revolver.News, the hidden agenda behind the New York Times Puff piece on Ray Epps.
00:26:56.000And what's amazing is that when there's actual sourcing, when there are actual records and there are actual videos, in the Revolver pieces, you actually get to see the videos.
00:27:08.000But here, there's apparently a text message that Ray Epps sends to his nephew who After the riot occurred, where he talks about how he helped orchestrate the movements of people leaving President Trump's speech at the Ellipse.
00:27:23.000Now, you know by the time President Trump was done at the Ellipse, Ray Epps wasn't even at the Ellipse.
00:27:49.000And by the way, I think the relevance of the text message is this is part of a host of information that's going to further complicate the official narrative.
00:27:59.000And this New York Times piece, the only sensible explanation for it is that this is the This is a damage control push in anticipation of more damning information pertaining to EPS because EPS is the smoking gun of the Fed's direction.
00:28:16.000They would otherwise have no interest in reintroducing this individual's name to the public at all.
00:28:22.000The only reason that would make sense is if it's getting even worse.
00:28:26.000And there are two other really key questions that are astonishingly not explored in this New York Times piece.
00:28:33.000The other one is it calls him a Trump supporter.
00:28:36.000It says he went to DC to defend Trump.
00:28:40.000And in fact, it further elaborates that he just went to DC at a last minute trip with his son in order to hear Trump's speech on election fraud.
00:28:51.000The piece doesn't say that Ray Epps actually never ended up going to Trump's speech.
00:28:56.000So this alleged Trump supporter who traveled all the way to go to the speech, instead he goes all the way from Arizona to DC, does not go to the speech, and instead He fixates on this bizarre mission to get everyone to go into the Capitol to, in his own words, according to the text message, to orchestrate the movements of the people to the Capitol on the day of.
00:29:23.000And then he happens to be conveniently positioned right at the peace monument, which is the site of that initial and decisive breach, right before the Proud Boys even arrived there.
00:29:35.000And according to the official narrative, it's the Proud Boys that kicked everything off.
00:29:39.000So not only does he travel all that way and just not go to the speech, He happens to be positioned at the right place at the right time to kick off that initial breach of the Capitol.
00:29:51.000And the New York Times piece, the Times reporter, I'm sure knows that he didn't go to the speech or he should know that he didn't go to the speech.
00:30:00.000And instead of pointing out that he didn't go, there's nothing about it and no explanation as to why in Ray Epps' account, He went there to go to the speech and he ended up not going and instead focused on this maniacal mission to get everyone to go into the Capitol.
00:30:18.000And then the final and most obvious but most important question that the New York Times piece fails to explore, fails to devote a single sentence to it, is, Ray Epps, where did you get the idea to get everyone to go into the Capitol?
00:30:36.000On January 5th, you were the only person saying it.
00:30:41.000And in fact, the idea was so outrageous, so outlandish, so out of place, that the immediate reaction of the crowd around him was to call him a fed.
00:30:53.000And yet, notwithstanding this sub-zero buying temperature of the crowd around him, he's undeterred And he continues to call people to go into the Capitol.
00:31:05.000And just as an amazing side detail, both of those real iconic times where he's telling people, go into the Capitol, into the Capitol, he prefaces this command by saying, I probably shouldn't say this because I'll get arrested.
00:31:21.000I'm probably going to go to jail for this, but...
00:31:28.000You know, engaging in illegal activity or at least encouraging others to engage in illegal activity.
00:31:33.000And I suppose it would be one thing if it were just some random drunk guy with a ridiculous idea and that's the last we heard of it on January 5th.
00:31:42.000But he follows up with this and he's everywhere January 6th.
00:31:46.000orchestrating people's movement to the Capitol.
00:31:48.000He's pre-positioned at the initial breach point before the Proud Boys even get there, and he whispers into a guy's ear two seconds before that guy becomes one of the first people to break down the bike rack barricades on the west side of the Capitol.
00:32:04.000Well astonishingly they don't even ask him what his goals are.
00:32:07.000I mean you would think the New York Times would start by saying, gosh there's all this video of you moving people in position for a breach, you encouraging people the night before.
00:32:16.000What were you hoping to accomplish by getting people into the Capitol?
00:32:22.000And what I think people have to realize is that the New York Times is the comms department for the deep state.
00:32:30.000The New York Times and the Deep State are linked.
00:32:33.000They perform different functions under the same banner.
00:32:36.000And, you know, you have a revolving door of individuals and information kind of swirling around with the Department of Justice, with the FBI, with a lot of these entities, and the New York Times.
00:32:49.000And so, of course, it's the New York Times that's going to do this.
00:32:51.000But I've got to ask you, Dr. Beattie, we've gone over the New York Times interaction with Epps and the deficiencies there, but now let's talk about the committee.
00:32:59.000Because Adam Kinzinger came out and tweeted with great bravado that the committee had spoken to Epps and that he'd given his sworn testimony and that that would be released.
00:33:09.000Of all the junior staffers lurking around the White House that we've heard from and that we may hear from tonight, kind of interesting that we haven't had one single clip from Ray Epps.
00:33:26.000And really, like, provides some compelling context within which to digest all of this is that Ray Epps, whose behavior on January 5th and 6th was so egregious that he was one of the first 20 people put on the FBI's most wanted list for January 6th.
00:33:45.000And in fact, I failed to mention this, the New York Times' own video documentary on January 6th, ominously titled Day of Rage, features Epps multiple times and narratively depicts him as one features Epps multiple times and narratively depicts him as one of the handful of rioters who plan to storm the Capitol in advance.
00:34:08.000The New York Times' own video documentary on it, his behavior was so egregious that he was cherry-picked to emphasize what a day of rage, an ominous day this was.
00:34:19.000And now he goes from all of that to being unarrested, unindicted, the only January 6th participant that Adam Kinzinger will defend, and the only January 6th participant about whom the New York Times will write a puff piece.
00:34:47.000But it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't.
00:34:49.000I don't think we're going to see any clips of Ray Epps on tonight, the grand conclusion, the grand finale.
00:34:55.000And I think that their way of dealing with those unanswered questions was to have The mouthpiece of the deep state, the comms department of the deep state, the New York Times, put this piece out.
00:35:04.000But folks can always get the truth at revolver.news.
00:35:08.000And really, I think the best thing people can do if they want both sides, if you don't want to be programmed, if you don't want to be manipulated by this illegitimate, partisan, unconstitutional, rigged process, the January 6th report forward by Dr. Darren J. Beattie Go get it, read it, be fully informed, and help us get the truth out.
00:35:30.000One entity that doesn't always help us get the truth out, Dr. Beattie, is the CIA. And I wanted to move to another piece that you've aggregated onto Revolver.News, the original reporting from Newsmax.
00:35:41.000And the piece really cites the director of the CIA, William Burns, talking about the fact that Vladimir Putin is, quote, too healthy.
00:35:51.000Dr. B, why is the head of our CIA commenting on the health of the Russian president?
00:35:59.000I mean, especially, you got Biden falsely claiming he has cancer, then truthfully claiming he has COVID. Don't we have kind of enough issues with the health of our own president to be talking about Russia's president like this?
00:38:09.000And again, I think it could mean anything.
00:38:11.000And if we were to really analyze it properly, I'd want to actually hear exactly what he said and get the exact context of how he said it.
00:38:23.000But I don't think that any CIA official is really immune to this kind of It's dangerous rhetoric when it comes to Russia.
00:38:36.000But it makes me believe it might be a code or it might be an op because it divorces from what we've heard from Burns previously.
00:38:45.000So when you see someone wildly switch, it almost...
00:38:48.000It has a certain operational feel to it.
00:38:51.000Dr. Beattie, I was among 18 Republicans who voted against the United States House of Representatives, lecturing to other NATO countries that they need to accept Finland and Sweden.
00:39:04.000I felt like it's probably good to end one war before we start the next one.
00:39:09.000And if there's any opportunity for us to wind down this carnage in Ukraine and to save people from being needlessly slaughtered, we should probably do that before engaging in other provocative NATO expansion.
00:39:21.000And yet only 17 of my colleagues join me on that.
00:39:24.000How do you think history will view this like era of reckless, provocative NATO expansion?
00:39:31.000Well, I think it's deeply damaging, not only to global stability in that region, but it's damaging to America's position in the world because it doesn't reflect a proper prioritization of our geopolitical interests.
00:39:51.000And I think as a matter of domestic politics, what it does is to underscore that, unfortunately, despite all of the Gains that we've gotten from the Trump phenomenon.
00:40:03.000We're better off than we were under Bush.
00:40:05.000But still, even the Republican Party is largely under sway of the national security state.
00:40:12.000And that's a very difficult teat to completely wean ourselves from because so much of the sort of mythology of American conservatism is winning the Cold War with the national security state.
00:40:35.000And so to fully update to the reality that the national security state is not only antithetical to America's long-term interests, but is directly hostile to...
00:40:48.000Conservatives in the United States, there's still a lot more lifting to do.
00:40:54.000And I think we're seeing, unfortunately, part of that legacy, but also we're seeing the more sort of Crude effects of just how the national security state can wield its influence through all kinds of other direct mechanisms, through its money, through its institutional influence, and so forth.
00:41:17.000Well, I think the American people get it.
00:41:19.000I mean, one comment, Puzzle Rock on Rumble.
00:41:22.000Matt, do Republicans have any idea how furious people are that they allowed the BS fake insurrection lie to go unanswered?
00:41:31.000And I think that a lot of voters feel this way.
00:41:34.000And as we go into a midterm election, you have to ask yourself, what is the covenant that Republicans offer?
00:41:40.000What is the value proposition to someone to vote for us in the midterm?
00:41:45.000And I think it has to be vindicating people's liberty and telling people the truth, the truth about January 6th, the truth about the 2020 election, the truth about the coronavirus and its origins, and the truth about the vaccine and why it was forced on so many people with these These just overbearing tools of the government.
00:42:04.000And too often, I think the Republicans don't learn that lesson, but the American people do.
00:42:09.000Just a quick response to that is, absolutely, look, there's as ridiculous as the whole, you know, January 6th issue seems.
00:42:19.000The stakes are very high and are no laughing matter at all.
00:42:23.000This is going to be the dominant narrative that the regime uses to fully facilitate the reconfiguration of the national security state against us, to weaponize the national security powers of the United States against us.
00:42:39.000And given how much is at stake, it's really scandalous not only how few Republicans are even drawing attention to it.
00:42:46.000So I have to always commend You're one of the handful of stalwarts of firebrands, really, who's brave enough and discerning enough and intelligent enough to understand what the stakes are and why it's important and to draw attention to this issue.
00:43:01.000But beyond the handful Of brave congressmen such as yourself, wouldn't it be worth at least a couple million dollars to the Republicans to blow this narrative up completely?
00:43:16.000Why isn't the GOP dedicating money to try to identify, for instance, the scaffold commander?
00:43:23.000You talked about him in a press conference.
00:43:27.000I think you're the only one who's really talked about him.
00:43:42.000And so why isn't the GOP dedicating 2 million, 3 million, 5 million, which is the grand scheme of their budgets that they routinely waste on dumb stuff.
00:43:55.000Why aren't they dedicating at least a few million dollars to definitively identifying this guy and potentially exploding the whole narrative right in Liz Cheney's face, right in Kinscher's face, right in Benny Thompson's face?
00:44:09.000The priorities here, they're not playing to win because if they were...
00:44:12.000No, they're playing to win by default, Darren.
00:44:15.000Right now, Republicans in Congress have an optimism that we are going to win not based on any covenant and promise and commitment to our voters, but because the other side has gone so crazy and has made people so uncomfortable and has made our country dirtier and poorer and less ambitious as a national prospect.
00:44:38.000My grave concern is not that we're going to lose the midterms, We're going to win them not understanding why and potentially just winning them by default.
00:44:47.000It's like winning a baseball game by forfeit.
00:44:50.000And really, the Democrats are kind of forfeiting a lot of this ground to us, but that doesn't absolve us of our obligations to get to the truth and to actually deliver wins for our people.
00:45:01.000And that, I think, has to become a greater kind of organizing principle of the Republican conference going forward.
00:45:09.000And based on what We're certainly seeing from the comments on this episode, people want these answers.
00:45:16.000And I know one place they can always get them, revolver.news.
00:45:19.000The scaffold commander you just mentioned, folks have got to go watch these videos that you've put on your site.
00:45:25.000I mean, just think about this context.
00:45:27.000The guy who is at the top of scaffolding, With a bullhorn directing people into the Capitol and just yelling at them to charge on has faced no consequence.
00:45:40.000But Peter Navarro has been in leg shackles and John Eastman got patted down and his phone taken away.
00:45:48.000So a trade advisor and a lawyer have faced extreme criminal process, and the guy at the top of a scaffold yelling people into the Capitol, absolutely nothing.
00:47:28.000Other than that, I'm on Twitter, at Darren J. Beattie.
00:47:32.000And as you mentioned, I encourage everyone to go to Amazon, find the copy of the January 6th committee report with introduction by me, not the New Yorker version, which is just going to repeat Benny Thompson's cliff notes.
00:47:49.000Go and get the Skyhorse version and And get a copy for your friends, too, because I think every American deserves to know the truth about January 6th.