In this episode, we take a look at what the deep state has been up to, and why it s doing what it has been doing for a very long time. The Deep State has been around for a long time, and we re here to remind you that it s not just about politics and culture, it s about our own interests and interests, and our own biases and biases, and the way we conduct ourselves in the public eye, and how we conduct our own research, and what we do with our own money, to influence the decisions we make and influence others in order to achieve our own ends. The deep state is not here to protect us, they are here to hurt us, and they re going to do whatever it takes to do so, and then some, to make us pay the price for it. The Deep state is here to keep us safe, and it s going to get us no closer to stopping pandemic pandemics, and that s what we need to do to stop pandemic viruses from getting into our bodies and our organs and organs, and bringing them into contact with our bodies, and into our every day lives. We need to stop the pandemic virus, SARS, and stop the spread of other viruses that threaten to kill us. us, too. This is not about politics, this is about our health and safety, not about who we are, but about what we are and we should be doing, and who we should do to prevent pandemic diseases. in the first place and why we should not be allowed to do pandemic research about pandemic vaccines and why we have to prevent them, not because they are dangerous why they should be how we should prevent them. and what they should do it what they are who they are, not why they are important, and how they should have them, and how they can do them, and not how they are going to the most important thing we can save us from pandemic epidemiology not we should do them in our lives What they should we do about them and their impact on our health Why we should we stop them? of course, we don t have to be worried about them, why they need to be preventable, what will they should they do them and why they will kill us
00:00:03.000Matt 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.
00:00:10.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.000If 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!
00:00:55.000Here's something remarkable and upsetting.
00:00:58.000On April 14th, Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz claimed China's Wuhan Institute had, quote, birthed a monster.
00:01:08.000Gaetz is a vigorous defender of the president.
00:01:10.000He's been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly threatening a witness against Mr. Trump.
00:01:17.000And he led a protest to delay impeachment testimony.
00:01:21.000The NIH gives this $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:01:27.000They then advertise that they need coronavirus researchers.
00:01:31.000Following that, coronavirus erupts in Wuhan.
00:01:34.000Is there a way to know that this virus, SARS-CoV-2, emerged from the wild into the human population, or has that not been proven yet?
00:01:46.000Well, I'm a scientist and what I do is I look at the evidence around a hypothesis.
00:01:50.000There is a huge amount of evidence that these viruses repeatedly emerge into people from wild animals in rural areas through things like hunting and eating wildlife.
00:02:00.000There is zero evidence that this virus came out of a lab in China.
00:02:05.000I've called on Secretary Azar to immediately halt this grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:02:11.000They have not been honest, and at worst, they've been negligent to the point of many, many deaths throughout the world.
00:02:18.000Dishonest and negligent allegations have now ended EcoHealth's carefully reviewed research designed to stop pandemics.
00:02:27.000This politicization of science is really damaging.
00:02:31.000You know, the conspiracy theories out there have essentially closed down communication between scientists in China and scientists in the US. We need that communication in an outbreak to learn from them how they controlled it so we can control it better.
00:02:45.000It's sad to say, but it will probably cost lives.
00:02:48.000By sort of narrow-mindedly focusing in on ourselves or on labs or on a certain cultural politics, We miss the real enemy.
00:03:00.000That clip is amazing every time I hear it.
00:03:03.000That is garbage masquerading as journalism coming from the premier CBS news product, 60 Minutes.
00:03:12.000But what you heard there was this Peter Daszek guy explaining to Scott Pelley that COVID Was through some animal transmission, maybe the Wuhan wet market, but certainly not the lab that the U.S. taxpayer had been funding, that Dashek had been benefiting from, and this great collaboration with China that they champion is certainly not something that is inured to the benefit of Americans.
00:03:39.000We've got a million dead people as a result of us putting money behind the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and of course now, We're good to go.
00:04:02.000Are undeniably this lab, this lab funded by the American taxpayer.
00:04:08.000And so there weren't a whole lot of voices out there making this argument after 60 Minutes said it was conspiratorial and outlandish and dishonesty, that we were the ones politicizing science, when in fact it was Peter Daszek and the folks there, perverting science, engaged in gain-of-function research, and the consequences were tragic.
00:04:32.000It's important to note that everything that we take as fact today was a discredited conspiracy theory.
00:04:40.000And it would have gotten you banned from Twitter before Elon Musk bought it.
00:04:47.000And that gain of function research Certainly was among the most dangerous research going on, and it also mirrors the State Department cables that showed back in 2018 that the United States had grave concerns about the lack of safety around that lab, but yet Peter Daszak is praised by Scott Pelley as heroic.
00:05:54.000And we all know the rest of the story.
00:05:56.000How many Americans we lost, And there has to be accountability for it.
00:06:02.000There is a COVID select committee that has been set up, and I hope that they do the diligent work to confirm this work by the U.S. Department of Energy.
00:06:12.000And, like, where's the apology from Scott Pelley, who said that I had, quote, killed critical research funding?
00:06:21.000Meanwhile, CBS was boosting and platforming corrupt scientists, deadly scientists, like Peter Daszak.
00:06:28.000The damages done and the plethora of lies have been peddled to the American public, but we must hold this administration accountable and the corrupt industries that were intermediaries for this devastating lab leak and research.
00:06:44.000I also want to share my thoughts on what's going on around the world.
00:06:49.000Now, the Washington war machine is raging at full speed right now as the Biden administration continues to escalate the war in Ukraine.
00:06:58.000It was Lincoln on Facebook who asked the question, why are we paying Ukrainian salaries and pension?
00:07:05.000Not just salaries, but literally the U.S. taxpayer is funding pension taxes.
00:08:37.000Since the onset of this war in February, the United States has been the top contributor of military equipment and aid to Ukraine, sending over $110 billion of our money to We're hemorrhaging money to Ukraine right now.
00:08:54.000And it's not only extended the brutality, but also piled up a lot more death.
00:09:01.000Thousands of people have died, civilians and combatants, and it's terrible.
00:09:05.000And thousands more will die if this war does not end.
00:09:08.000We need to urge Ukraine and Russia to sit down at the table and negotiate for peace to stop the killing.
00:09:20.000And it's exactly why 11 congressmen joined me in introducing my bill titled the Ukraine Fatigue Resolution, which halts USAID to Ukraine and urges the parties to negotiate an end to this conflict.
00:09:35.000And we totally have the power to do this.
00:09:38.000You know, we hear Jake Sullivan and so many others take the White House's message that only Ukraine can decide the future of Ukraine.
00:09:50.000But that just totally rejects a realistic view of foreign policy where our relationships with our neighbors do, in a lot of ways, define our boundaries and the way we protect our boundaries.
00:10:03.000In the United States' posture currently, you've got Mexico, a captive narco state, That is functioning as a turnstile for people all over the world to enter into our country illegally.
00:10:15.000And in Ukraine, of course, the relationship with Russia is going to define who controls Crimea and different portions of the territories that even the Ukrainians called the ungoverned territories in eastern Ukraine.
00:10:30.000One thing that shocked me Even China has a peace plan for Ukraine.
00:10:52.000And I found that interesting, that Ukraine, that Zelensky indicated that he wanted to meet with Xi.
00:10:59.000And so while China is undeniably an adversary that seeks to dominate the world, You always hear from the hawks and the neocons that it puts America in a better posture to combat China and all of our adversaries if somehow we're the world's policemen.
00:11:15.000But what if China sees that our involvement is extending the bloodshed and the conflict that I'm sure the people in this area would like to see come to an end?
00:11:25.000And they swoop in with a peace deal and they look like the adult in the room while you've got U.S. policymakers just shilling for defense contractors.
00:11:34.000So we should be champions for peace, not extended forever wars.
00:11:39.000And in a lot of ways right now, the United States is in a state of managed decline and we cannot continue to meddle in other countries' wars.
00:11:49.000We need to put The needs of our country and our own people first before the wants and wars of other nations.
00:11:56.000But if Ukraine isn't enough of a quagmire, we surely are making matters worse in Syria.
00:12:03.000It was recently reported that there were four American troops and a working dog injured in Syria while chasing an ISIS leader during a partnered raid with the Syrian Democratic Forces.
00:12:15.000Whoever they happen to be loyal to today.
00:12:17.000As we know, in Syria, the alliances and allegiances often shift as frequently as the sand.
00:12:31.000Congress has never authorized any kinetic participation of the U.S. Armed Forces in Syria.
00:12:37.000And that is why I have recently introduced a War Powers Resolution to direct Joe Biden to remove our troops from this zone of hostilities.
00:12:47.000Let us not forget, the Department of Defense has consistently lied about our involvement in Syria.
00:12:54.000President Trump wanted our troops out, but the DOD always pushes back.
00:13:00.000I'm glad in at least one case where you had folks out there, tens of Americans between armies of tens of thousands, we at least had the wherewithal to not be there igniting World War III. But here is the recent clip of Joe Biden claiming, we don't have any military in Syria.
00:13:24.000There's a significantly greater threat to the United States from Syria.
00:13:28.000There's a significant greater threat from East Africa.
00:13:31.000There's a significant greater threat to other places in the world than it is from the mountains of Afghanistan.
00:13:38.000And we have maintained the ability to have an over-the-horizon capability to take them out.
00:13:43.000We don't have military in Syria to make sure that we're going to be protected.
00:13:47.000And you're confident we're going to have that in Afghanistan?
00:13:49.000Yeah, I'm confident we're going to have the over-the-horizon capability.
00:13:55.000So at the time of this statement, we had over 900 troops in Syria.
00:13:59.000We clearly cannot trust the executive branch to act responsibly.
00:14:03.000Whether the root cause is the military industrial complex making billions of dollars or the nation building pipe dreams of the Ivy League foreign policy regime, it is destabilizing to the world.
00:14:14.000And we are wasting American tax dollars while our own people suffer, where they have real problems.
00:15:22.000And it's hard to see where these U.S.-funded, U.S.-led efforts are ultimately successful in accomplishing the objective of servicing our goals.
00:15:33.000And so I think we need to be more realistic and do less.
00:15:41.000So I want to talk a little bit also about what's going on at Project Veritas.
00:15:44.000Project Veritas has long been at the tip of our spear, exposing corruption and fighting for truth and transparency, often in uncomfortable places, often with non-traditional features of journalism.
00:16:00.000Now, we used to call the search for truth, even if it's uncomfortable, regardless of where it leads, we used to call that journalism.
00:16:09.000But until James O'Keefe founded Project Veritas, it seemed dead as a doornail.
00:16:15.000James O'Keefe single-handedly resurrected journalism from its swampy grave, and it hasn't been easy at times.
00:16:22.000James has faced every challenge imaginable from trumped up charges to civil suits to FBI harassment and more.
00:16:30.000And yet throughout these trials, he has managed to take on our biggest enemies.
00:16:36.000The most powerful political institutions.
00:17:19.000Do you expect James O'Keefe to show up to a confrontation in a Chevy Malibu UberX?
00:17:26.000Oftentimes, security is important, especially when you're holding the power to account.
00:17:31.000People's physical safety can be in jeopardy, and having the right security posture, the right operational posture, makes whistleblowers and insiders safer, makes journalists safer.
00:17:46.000They had an event at Miami Beach that was like a musical celebration of the journey of Project Veritas and all the courage that has to go into this type of guerrilla journalism.
00:17:59.000And when you're out there trying to encourage people to be whistleblowers or insiders, you have to acknowledge that their life is going to change.
00:18:09.000Especially if they're publicly making allegations against the powerful.
00:18:15.000They have family members disavow them.
00:18:17.000Their housing situation can change if they have a recalcitrant or agitated roommate.
00:18:23.000And so an important part of The Project Veritas experience is celebration.
00:18:31.000And having a moment to celebrate the brave who came forward is the only way to perpetuate the system where more people will see that that risk in life is worth it and can lead to change and can be acknowledged by others.
00:18:46.000And so bringing these folks together with policymakers and others was actually a really important thing for Project Veritas to be involved in.
00:18:58.000So when you look at the fact that it's like black cars and a Christmas party that undergird the allegations against O'Keefe, they kind of sound ridiculous.
00:19:07.000And to O'Keefe's credits, he has the receipts.
00:19:11.000He exposed this coup for what it really is.
00:19:15.000And if you listen to him explain in his own words in his farewell speech, you'll see it too.
00:19:24.000There were tactical disagreements about the boldness of approaches soliciting donations.
00:19:29.000I was told, and I'm paraphrasing, by asking for X dollars right now, you will prevent 10X dollars down the road.
00:19:38.000That advice ran contrary to everything I knew to be true in my 13 years of fundraising.
00:19:44.000But that conflict was even more fundamental.
00:19:47.000And essentially, it boiled down to this, and my vision, I'm going to paraphrase Howard Rourke, the architect, quote, I don't build in order to have donors.
00:19:58.000That's what I believed and I felt like we had a conflict of visions.
00:20:02.000We measure our success in terms of what we produce, not just in terms of our wallets.
00:20:09.000That was a pretty fundamental conflict, I felt.
00:20:12.000The day prior, I had informed him in front of his colleagues that if he wasn't willing to follow my lead, he'd be shown the door.
00:20:19.000I tried to deal with it privately, but I was unsuccessful, and the disagreement boiled over publicly in a staff meeting.
00:20:26.000The next day, this individual refused to resign, so I fired him.
00:20:32.000Later that same day, that's Thursday, February 2nd, a few days after the 50 million views visor videos, I was informed by a different officer of Project Veritas that he would go to the board in a few hours from that moment and have an emergency vote to restructure this company.
00:20:48.000Receiving an agenda in my email while I was sitting on an airplane tarmac with the doors closing, the meeting was scheduled for the moment that my plane landed in Nashville.
00:20:58.000It became clear to me in that moment I would be removed from my position at Project Veritas by the time I landed at my destination.
00:21:32.000This is an episode we did with James O'Keefe, February 3rd, 2022. I worry that the fact that your organization is the only organization in America that does what you do, it brings a certain frailty to it.
00:21:48.000And that's what I fear most, is that something could happen to Project Veritas, and then there would almost be no way to get corruption out.
00:21:57.000There would be no platform for whistleblowers.
00:21:59.000And so I just wonder, what do you fear most?
00:22:01.000As you wake up every day with the burden of managing this organization, inspiring these whistleblowers, What worries you?
00:22:32.000Like Veritas has like 70 employees now and quite a budget that's given to all these, you know, by these generous people, thousands and thousands of people.
00:22:43.000It's hard, you know, it's hard commanding respect from, you know, Being in the office and running an organization, running a company, I've had to learn how to be a CEO. I've had to learn how to be an organizational entrepreneur.
00:22:56.000That's probably the hardest thing about what I do.
00:23:03.000It's really remarkable that quite some time ago, James realized that if something was going to hurt Project Veritas, it wasn't going to be a threat from the outside.
00:23:12.000That internal leadership is so critical to the success of an organization like Project Veritas.
00:23:18.000And this development sheds a light on what James told me.
00:23:22.000I'm sure there's going to be more details to come.
00:23:25.000But what I know for sure is that there is really no Project Veritas to even imagine or contemplate without James O'Keefe.
00:23:34.000James O'Keefe is Project Veritas, and Project Veritas' supporters agree.
00:23:39.000Since James O'Keefe's departure, Project Veritas has lost hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter.
00:23:46.000I didn't follow them once they weren't associated with James O'Keefe.
00:23:51.000My official office account stopped following them.
00:23:54.000I don't think Project Veritas survives without its leader.
00:23:58.000If there's one person in our movement that deserves our loyalty, it's James O'Keefe.
00:24:03.000And if anyone stabs him in the back, they're stabbing our movement in the back.