Rebel News Podcast - After Andrew Coyne's “embarrassing” video on the Mueller Report, “maybe the National Post should just shut down”

00:00:00.000 Hey folks, today's podcast, I'm really glad you're listening to it.

00:00:03.540 I saw Andrew Coyne, the National Post, where I used to work many moons ago,

00:00:08.180 talk about the Mueller report and Donald Trump.

00:00:11.000 And I was just interested what my former colleague, Andrew Coyne, had to say.

00:00:14.820 It was a video posted on the National Post website, and I watched it, and I started counting,

00:00:19.300 and it was like a Geiger counting counter in a uranium mine.

00:00:22.800 Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping.

00:00:25.780 All the errors, I'm not going to say lies, because I think Coyne is just clueless.

00:00:31.100 All the errors he made in a five-minute video, I think I counted ten.

00:00:36.560 And I go through them here, partly because I'm interested in the Mueller story,

00:00:39.980 but mainly because I want to prove to you incontrovertibly that the National Post, alas, is fake news.

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00:01:25.560 All right, here's the show.

00:01:27.840 You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.

00:01:31.020 Tonight, maybe the National Post should just shut down.

00:01:34.520 I'll show you the most embarrassing thing from them in a long time.

00:01:38.040 It's March 29th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:40.540 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:46.400 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:50.440 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher,

00:01:54.240 is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:02:01.600 I love the National Post.

00:02:03.220 I really do.

00:02:04.380 You may know that I was on their editorial board for two years,

00:02:07.040 back in the early days of that company, 1999 to 2001.

00:02:11.040 That's almost 20 years ago now.

00:02:12.280 I know.

00:02:12.620 I'm getting old.

00:02:13.720 It was a great time to be there.

00:02:15.040 It was before the Internet killed newspapers.

00:02:17.260 So we were happy and hopeful like dinosaurs,

00:02:19.880 unaware that a big comet was heading towards Earth.

00:02:22.140 And I loved it since it was an explicitly conservative newspaper.

00:02:26.300 I used to haggle with the other members of the editorial board,

00:02:29.100 trying to fight on every issue to make the paper as right-wing as I could.

00:02:31.660 I usually won, not necessarily because I was more persuasive,

00:02:35.400 but because our editorial boss was John O'Sullivan,

00:02:38.820 a former assistant to Margaret Thatcher, if you can believe it.

00:02:41.880 So, yeah, we were right-wing.

00:02:44.080 And, of course, Conrad Black himself ran the whole ship.

00:02:47.080 When I was quarreling with the red Tories on the editorial board

00:02:50.500 about what our newspaper's official position should be on any given subject,

00:02:54.380 I would sometimes play my trump card by saying,

00:02:57.680 we already have a Globe and Mail, as in we don't need another one.

00:03:01.980 Hmm, what's the point of just being like the other guys?

00:03:05.400 Surely the Globe will always be a better Globe than a second wannabe Globe.

00:03:10.460 So if you're not different, if you're not conservative, what's even the point?

00:03:13.840 I enjoyed my time at the Post, and I met a lot of other writers there, including Andrew Coyne.

00:03:19.880 Well, a third of my life has passed since I left there in 2001,

00:03:24.260 half my adult life, I guess.

00:03:25.600 Yes, I ran for Parliament the next year in Calgary Southwest

00:03:29.280 until I stepped aside to make way for Stephen Harper, the new leader,

00:03:32.740 so he could enter Parliament quickly.

00:03:34.180 Then I practiced law, and I wrote a book about Kyoto.

00:03:37.500 Then I started a conservative magazine called The Western Standard,

00:03:41.060 and I ran that for a few years.

00:03:42.660 I wrote a few more books, including Ethical Oil.

00:03:45.200 I joined the Sun News Network when that was launched.

00:03:48.020 What an adventure that was.

00:03:49.200 And of course, for the past four years, I've been running the rebel.

00:03:54.200 So that's what I've done since then.

00:03:56.720 And Andrew Coyne, well, you know, he's still at the National Post.

00:04:00.880 I don't know if that's out of inertia or comfort or whatever, but he's still there.

00:04:05.220 And he still drones away each week with Chantali Baer and the other liberals on the CBC.

00:04:10.640 What's that, been 15, 20 years now?

00:04:13.480 That's a pretty stale offering.

00:04:15.460 I mean, there's 35 million Canadians, and after two decades,

00:04:19.140 that's the best you can come up with on any given week for the CBC panel.

00:04:23.640 Anyways, a lot has changed at the National Post.

00:04:26.080 Conrad Black still has a column there, but he doesn't own it or run it anymore.

00:04:30.080 The place has really been stripped down to the bones.

00:04:32.720 It's smaller.

00:04:34.480 The newspaper's a lot thinner than it was.

00:04:36.620 A lot of it is just recycled left-wing wire stories from the U.S.

00:04:40.820 I mean, here's an embarrassing example.

00:04:43.140 We are in deep trouble.

00:04:44.280 Greenhouse gas emissions reached record high in 2018, speeding earth towards catastrophe.

00:04:51.660 Really?

00:04:52.640 Hey, guys, did you know we're speeding towards catastrophe?

00:04:56.520 Is that really what's happening?

00:04:58.140 Does anyone believe that?

00:05:01.440 Does the author of that piece believe that?

00:05:03.600 Does the editor believe that?

00:05:06.240 Does the owner of the newspaper, some New Jersey hedge fund that owns the Post now?

00:05:11.160 I'm sorry, that's just embarrassing.

00:05:12.420 They've gone full global warming truther.

00:05:15.760 Forest fires, typhoons, and droughts.

00:05:18.420 Three years after Paris talks, the world braces for Poland. 0.97

00:05:22.520 Yeah, I don't think so.

00:05:24.060 New research predicts heat waves in Canada could become more frequent and five times more deadly.

00:05:28.860 Of course, as I showed you the other day, far more people die from cold than die from heat.

00:05:35.980 This is just weird junk science.

00:05:39.060 Here's another one.

00:05:39.920 Across the Arctic, bubbling lakes are leaking carbon dioxide, methane, and other dangerous greenhouse gases.

00:05:47.100 Is carbon dioxide really dangerous?

00:05:48.880 Because I'm exhaling it now, and I don't want to put anyone in jeopardy.

00:05:52.900 Is any naturally occurring gas that comes out of a pond, is it really dangerous?

00:05:59.480 They've gone so weird on Islamic terrorism, too.

00:06:01.840 They used to be so strong.

00:06:02.900 Here's a crazy story by Terry Glavin.

00:06:04.840 Hey guys, you should be ashamed for not loving a terrorist's parents who lied to police.

00:06:26.080 You should be ashamed for not loving them as much as you love the two beautiful, innocent women that he murdered on the Danforth.

00:06:33.960 Or this one, by an Islamist lobbyist himself, Isangardi.

00:06:38.660 Extremists distort all religions, not just Islam.

00:06:42.660 Muslims have coexisted with people of other faiths quite peacefully all around the world for centuries.

00:06:48.480 Hey guys.

00:06:50.600 Did you know every religion has its terrorists?

00:06:52.600 I mean, not a week goes by when some Christian doesn't hijack a jet plane for Jesus, right? 1.00

00:06:59.160 I'm just going to read some more.

00:07:00.540 Why an 18-year-old groping allegation against Justin Trudeau is not a me-too moment.

00:07:06.580 Really?

00:07:07.660 Yeah, I mean, I think maybe you just experienced it differently?

00:07:13.480 Like I said, I do not feel that I acted inappropriately in any way.

00:07:18.800 But I respect the fact that someone else might have experienced that differently.

00:07:25.680 So he respected her when he sexually groped her.

00:07:29.740 That's absolute peak male feminism there. 1.00

00:07:32.840 Well, look at this one.

00:07:33.580 This is, I think this is a winner.

00:07:35.420 Canada needs more leaders like Joe Clark.

00:07:39.200 With dignity, moral rectitude, and determination, he has worked to make Canada and the world a better place.

00:07:48.820 This is a National Post.

00:07:50.520 Oh my God.

00:07:51.620 Look, I guess I'm used to this by now, and I'm a little bit sad about it.

00:07:56.400 Joe Clark!

00:07:57.380 Because it really used to be my favorite newspaper in the world.

00:08:00.160 I used to work there.

00:08:00.760 I loved it.

00:08:01.540 Now it's just on a steep decline.

00:08:03.180 I still read Rex Murphy and Conrad Black and a handful of others there, but it's about it.

00:08:10.700 But then yesterday I came across a video.

00:08:13.600 The National Post, for some reason, makes videos now.

00:08:16.100 I don't understand the reason.

00:08:17.840 And it was about Robert Mueller's report, the special counsel looking into allegations of Russian collusion with Donald Trump to rig the 2016 election.

00:08:27.160 Now, as you might have heard, unless you've been living in a cave, Mueller found no collusion.

00:08:34.380 Just none.

00:08:35.880 Even the New York Times, look at their headline, and here's the Washington Post.

00:08:39.380 They led the charge on the accusations for two years.

00:08:42.100 They had to admit it.

00:08:43.120 Look at that.

00:08:43.440 That is a real headline.

00:08:45.300 You know it pained them to write it.

00:08:48.100 And you know it was no whitewash.

00:08:49.740 I mean, Mueller had 19 lawyers working for him, all Democrats.

00:08:53.020 He had 40 other staff, including FBI agents, forensic accountants, everything.

00:08:59.280 They literally interviewed 500 witnesses.

00:09:05.400 And they found nothing.

00:09:07.860 Mueller wrote a 300-page report and submitted it to his friend, Bill Barr.

00:09:12.720 That's Mueller on the right, Bill Barr on the left.

00:09:14.360 I mention their friends because they've known each other a lot longer than Trump has known Barr.

00:09:20.660 If you're into conspiracy theories, you would probably be worried that Barr and Mueller and the Democrat lawyers were going to team up to undo Trump.

00:09:28.460 That didn't happen.

00:09:29.200 But if you're just thinking conspiratorially, that's why I mentioned their friends.

00:09:33.120 As you know, Barr has so far only released a four-page summary of the larger report.

00:09:38.600 And in his memo, his four-page memo, he explains why at some length.

00:09:43.420 Let me just quote a little bit.

00:09:44.340 But the relevant regulations contemplate that the special counsel's report will be a confidential report to the attorney general.

00:09:52.380 And then he cites a regulation to that effect.

00:09:55.620 As I have previously stated, however, I am mindful of the public interest in this matter.

00:09:59.500 For that reason, my goal and intent is to release as much of the special counsel's report as I can,

00:10:05.120 consistent with applicable law regulations and departmental policies.

00:10:08.600 So he has to take out parts of the memo that are confidential for legal reasons, like ongoing court cases.

00:10:14.700 For example, you don't want to reveal your case to the public before you go to trial.

00:10:19.540 Anyone who says they're surprised by this not only doesn't know the rules for special counsel's,

00:10:24.140 but hasn't read Barr's summary because he goes into some detail about why he can't just release all 300 pages.

00:10:30.000 Let me read just a little bit more for you.

00:10:31.260 Now, I'm beating a dead horse here, but I'm trying to show you that not only are there strict rules about just dumping a bunch of legally confidential material in the public domain without redacting some pages first,

00:10:58.640 but the bigger point is, Barr and Mueller have been working together on this.

00:11:02.240 He just said so. He said he was talking to the special counsel. That's Mueller.

00:11:06.180 So this isn't some sort of trick that Barr is playing on Mueller.

00:11:10.140 They are working together.

00:11:11.840 And by the way, they're old friends.

00:11:14.080 I guess it's obvious that they've been working together, and you're probably wondering why I'm really emphasizing this,

00:11:19.340 but it's because of the National Post video I want to show you.

00:11:23.200 Let me remind you of just one more thing before we get to the National Post video.

00:11:25.860 Most of this four-page memo is Bill Barr's summary of the 300-page Mueller report, done in cooperation with Mueller and his staff.

00:11:35.100 But there is one line that's copied word for word from Mueller's report, and it's this one.

00:11:40.180 The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.

00:11:49.920 So they were looking for collusion and did not find it.

00:11:55.820 500 witnesses couldn't find it.

00:11:58.820 That's really all you need to know.

00:12:00.980 And that's quoting Mueller himself.

00:12:03.680 And that's why that was the headline in the New York Times and the Washington Post, right?

00:12:06.680 I mean, there's just no collusion. Sorry.

00:12:09.400 It just didn't happen.

00:12:11.740 There was one more question about whether or not Trump tried to obstruct Mueller's investigation.

00:12:16.920 Mueller said he didn't come to any conclusion on that, but handed that over to Barr.

00:12:22.460 And let me quote that part.

00:12:23.560 And I'm almost done, and then I'll show you the COIN video, and you'll understand why I'm going through this.

00:12:28.640 The report's second part addresses a number of actions by the president, most of which have been the subject of public reporting,

00:12:35.580 that the special counsel investigated as potentially raising obstruction of justice concerns.

00:12:39.840 So that's basically Trump, whenever he would tweet that he hates the inquiry, it's a witch hunt, it's unfair, it's all Democrats, 0.80

00:12:47.960 maybe he'd pardon the people who were being investigated, that sort of thing.

00:12:51.360 We already know all about that.

00:12:53.960 Basically Trump being Trump and tweeting.

00:12:56.800 And here's how that was ended by Barr.

00:12:59.060 So two things.

00:13:25.460 After talking to lawyers and considering the tweets and Trump's rants, they just don't think there's enough there to prosecute as obstruction.

00:13:32.060 It's just trumping Trump.

00:13:33.380 But did you see that one name that he mentioned?

00:13:35.780 Rod Rosenstein.

00:13:36.960 He's the deputy attorney general who hired Mueller in the first place.

00:13:43.420 So again, this isn't Barr acting on his own or acting for Trump.

00:13:46.840 It's Barr working with the permanent lawyers of the Justice Department and talking to the absolute guy who started the whole Mueller Odyssey himself.

00:13:57.160 That's why this was done.

00:13:59.620 That's why this is over.

00:14:00.720 Sorry, there's no story here.

00:14:01.780 That's why liberals who are serious journalists, even though they're liberals, that's why they've thrown in the towel on this collusion thing.

00:14:07.580 It's over.

00:14:08.280 There's nothing here.

00:14:09.580 New York Times, Washington Post, everyone.

00:14:12.240 It's over.

00:14:13.280 Except for our friend Andrew Coyne and the National Post.

00:14:20.160 Thank you for listening to me recap all the facts about the end of the Mueller inquiry.

00:14:24.220 And thanks for letting me touch on a few points.

00:14:25.840 The categorical way in which Mueller himself exonerated Trump on collusion.

00:14:29.320 The reason why we don't have all 300 pages released now, but that we hopefully will have more in time.

00:14:34.040 And the fact that Mueller and Rosenstein and others were involved in this memo.

00:14:37.980 The fact that there just isn't enough to prosecute Trump for obstruction because he wrote some angry tweets.

00:14:42.080 So now you see those points freshly in your mind.

00:14:44.720 I showed them to you from Barr's memo.

00:14:46.700 Now let's review this Andrew Coyne video.

00:14:50.060 Let's see what the National Post and their star columnist, Andrew Coyne, said.

00:14:54.620 I am so embarrassed as a Post alumni.

00:14:57.740 Take a look.

00:14:58.180 So the U.S. Attorney General William Barr recently releasing a four-page summary based on special counsel Robert Mueller's report into possible interference by Russia into the 2016 election, basically giving the U.S. president the all clear.

00:15:16.780 Or at least the U.S. president says so.

00:15:18.860 Sort of, yeah.

00:15:19.840 First of all, it's a four-page summary from a not particularly objective source.

00:15:24.380 Barr was appointed because he's a fervent Trump loyalist.

00:15:28.580 And I think we want to absolutely see the full report before we draw any conclusions.

00:15:33.020 Even on that four-page report, that account of Mueller's account, it doesn't say that there's no evidence he did anything.

00:15:41.020 Even on the particular question of collusion.

00:15:43.560 Okay, how many errors, how much spin did you see there in, what, 30 seconds?

00:15:51.960 Barr was appointed because he's a fervent Trump loyalist.

00:15:55.460 Well, I guess any cabinet secretary is going to be loyal to the president.

00:15:59.660 But he was approved by the United States Senate after a confirmation hearing.

00:16:03.180 And moderate Democrats voted for him, too.

00:16:06.440 You heard Coyne imply that we can't trust Barr's summary of the Mueller memo.

00:16:10.920 Even though I just showed you Barr wrote his memo after lengthy conversations with Mueller himself.

00:16:17.160 And he explained why, under the special counsel law, he can't reveal more now.

00:16:21.560 But he wants to soon.

00:16:22.920 But Coyne just told National Post viewers that we can't trust the Barr memo.

00:16:29.320 I think Coyne's a bit of a truther.

00:16:31.840 He really is so paranoid he thinks Barr is lying or tricking the world as if Mueller would remain silent if that were the case.

00:16:39.860 Coyne just said Mueller doesn't exonerate Trump on collusion.

00:16:46.120 Did Coyne even read the memo?

00:16:49.780 The investigation did not establish that the members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.

00:16:57.120 Again, that's quoting Mueller.

00:16:59.760 There's no evidence.

00:17:00.960 There's 500 witnesses, thousands of subpoenas, 40 people hunting for evidence for two years.

00:17:05.220 And they didn't find any.

00:17:08.200 Why did Coyne pretend it's not settled?

00:17:11.280 Or maybe he just didn't even bother to read the memo?

00:17:14.420 He just repeated something maybe he saw on Twitter?

00:17:16.680 Here, watch a little bit more.

00:17:18.160 It doesn't say that there's no evidence he did anything.

00:17:21.300 Even on the particular question of collusion, it simply says there's not enough evidence, according to Barr.

00:17:27.180 Not enough evidence to warrant, you know, further proceedings.

00:17:30.940 That's not the same thing as no evidence.

00:17:33.020 And it's certainly not the same thing as a blanket exoneration that he's never done anything wrong in his life.

00:17:39.000 Hang on.

00:17:39.640 When Barr said there was not enough to prosecute, he was talking about the obstruction issue.

00:17:44.720 You know, Trump tweeting about the special counsel, ranting about how it's a witch hunt.

00:17:49.740 And Coyne is pretending that that part, where Barr says there's not enough to prosecute, Coyne is pretending that that was about the collusion.

00:17:58.220 No, Mueller is categorical.

00:18:00.220 There was no collusion.

00:18:02.100 That whole not enough to prosecute thing is Barr on obstruction.

00:18:05.240 Why is Coyne saying otherwise?

00:18:07.840 Watch some more.

00:18:09.220 It's certainly not the same thing as a blanket exoneration that he's never done anything wrong in his life.

00:18:13.700 Which is the way this is going to be used, by the way.

00:18:15.780 In the simplicity of politics, this is now going to be waived anytime anybody accuses Trump of anything.

00:18:22.340 But I think there's a lot more still to be found, even on that particular question of the collusion.

00:18:26.440 Because what we do know, it's not contested, is that Russian operatives came to Donald Trump Jr.

00:18:32.320 and said, we've got dirt on Hillary that came from Russian sources. 0.99

00:18:36.460 Would you like it?

00:18:37.180 And he said, yeah, I love it, especially if it's as you say.

00:18:39.200 There are multiple meetings of Trump operatives with Russian operatives, which they then lied about,

00:18:46.560 and some of whom have gone to jail over.

00:18:47.920 So there's all kinds of context.

00:18:49.580 Whether it all adds up to collusion or such is another question.

00:18:54.580 No, no, it's not another question.

00:18:57.360 The question has been answered.

00:18:58.960 500 witnesses were interviewed, thousands of subpoenas, two years.

00:19:07.100 It's so evident.

00:19:08.000 I mean, it's true, some people were convicted of lying to Mueller.

00:19:11.700 A couple of guys had frauds in their past unrelated to the Trump campaign.

00:19:17.800 Let me read one more part of the Mueller report summarized by Barr.

00:19:20.480 The special counsel did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired

00:19:30.940 or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from

00:19:36.880 Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.

00:19:42.720 So that was specifically spoken to.

00:19:46.060 It's not an open question.

00:19:48.160 Why is Coyne misleading his viewers?

00:19:50.200 The Russians offered help.

00:19:52.980 Trump and his team did not coordinate, did not take help.

00:19:57.360 Multiple times he said no.

00:20:01.220 That's what Mueller said.

00:20:03.720 Why is Coyne pretending this is a live question?

00:20:06.380 I don't know if Coyne is lying or if he himself is clueless.

00:20:10.820 Or actually, my working theory is that Coyne's just such a Trump hater,

00:20:14.840 he can't bring himself to accept the truth that Trump didn't do anything wrong.

00:20:18.380 He just has to hold out hope that there was some proof somewhere that this two-year, 40-person

00:20:23.260 Democrat-led investigation didn't find.

00:20:25.440 He's like those Japanese soldiers found in the jungle in the 1950s who were cut off from

00:20:30.060 the main army who didn't know that World War II ended.

00:20:32.680 In 1945, they just were cut off and they just kept fighting until the 50s.

00:20:37.160 Coyne literally said there's a lot more still to be found.

00:20:40.340 When he said that, he's a truther, he's that Japanese soldier in the jungle in the 1950s.

00:20:46.140 What's also documented and not in dispute by anybody serious is that the Russians went

00:20:51.780 to great lengths to try and help Trump get elected.

00:20:53.740 Now, whether they did so in collusion with Trump is another matter.

00:20:56.920 But they seem strangely insistent on that they wanted him to be elected.

00:21:01.560 And he's paraded all kinds of strange behaviors of deference towards Vladimir Putin and towards

00:21:06.380 Russian foreign policy objectives.

00:21:08.340 For example, trying to harm NATO, trying to break up the European Union, and so on.

00:21:12.800 Now, this is pure truth or territory.

00:21:15.980 Is Trump trying to harm NATO?

00:21:19.300 Is he really?

00:21:21.040 If so, he's got a funny way of doing it.

00:21:22.860 Here, listen to the head of NATO praise Trump for pressuring the other members of NATO to

00:21:31.740 increase their NATO military spending.

00:21:34.260 Listen to this.

00:21:34.920 After years of cutting defense budgets, they have started to add billions to their defense

00:21:42.520 budgets.

00:21:43.360 And last year was the biggest increase in defense spending across Europe and Canada in a generation.

00:21:49.900 Why was that last year?

00:21:51.420 It's also because of your leadership, because of your clear message.

00:21:54.800 They won't write that, but then.

00:21:57.280 No, I have said it before, but the thing is that it really has, your message is having

00:22:05.000 an impact.

00:22:06.660 He had a bit of an accent and the sound was weak, but he said, you have pressured the

00:22:11.360 governments to spend more.

00:22:12.560 And Trump said, why?

00:22:13.660 And he said, because of your leadership.

00:22:15.360 It's true, as part of Trump's negotiating style.

00:22:19.920 Trump says things like, if you NATO allies in Europe don't ramp up your spending, we're

00:22:24.680 going to pull out.

00:22:26.020 So they ramp up their spending and then they all hug it out.

00:22:29.140 Anyone who thinks Putin likes Trump pumping up NATO spending is paranoid, crazy, conspiracy

00:22:37.820 theorist.

00:22:38.280 I don't know.

00:22:38.700 Trump has put in deeper, harder sanctions on Russia than anything ever done before.

00:22:47.460 Trump's new ambassador to Germany is campaigning, pressuring that country to cancel a big natural

00:22:55.880 gas pipeline from Russia, actually threatening Germany with sanctions if it does business

00:23:00.980 with Russia.

00:23:02.520 And Trump says, why should we defend Germany militarily if Germany's going to buy billions

00:23:08.140 of dollars worth of natural gas from Russia, making Putin rich and putting Germany in the

00:23:11.860 strategic dependence?

00:23:13.060 Sorry, getting that pipeline canceled, that's not deferring to Putin.

00:23:18.360 You know what's deferring to Putin?

00:23:19.940 This is.

00:23:20.660 This is Bill Clinton giving a speech to Putin and taking a half million dollar paycheck right

00:23:26.720 at the same time Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, was signing over American uranium

00:23:31.460 interest to Russia.

00:23:33.160 This is deferring to Putin.

00:23:35.200 And this is Obama promising Russia that he'll be flexible just as soon as he gets through 0.61

00:23:41.260 the 2012 re-election.

00:23:43.420 This is my last last race for you.

00:23:44.920 Yeah.

00:23:45.420 And after my election, I am more flexible.

00:23:48.500 Yeah.

00:23:49.300 Yeah.

00:23:49.560 And this is.

00:23:50.480 I transmit this information to Vladimir and Vladimir.

00:23:54.920 That was Dmitry Medvedev of Russia who will transmit information to Vladimir.

00:23:59.040 I don't think Coyne actually knows anything about this issue.

00:24:05.260 I don't think he knows about Hillary Clinton taking hundreds of millions of dollars into 0.95

00:24:09.780 her Clinton family foundations through Bill Clinton, which is why they, the Russians, you 1.00

00:24:17.000 know, gave the Russians what they wanted politically.

00:24:18.880 I don't think Coyne actually even read the Barr memo.

00:24:22.120 I think he is just a Trump derangement syndrome kook. 0.52

00:24:26.700 And the National Post holds him out as some sort of expert.

00:24:29.940 Here, watch a little more.

00:24:31.300 The other big question, of course, is, was there obstruction of justice in regard to that?

00:24:35.540 And again, one should be suspicious of Barr when he says, if you can't show the underlying

00:24:41.400 crime, then there can't possibly be obstruction of justice in trying to cover up that.

00:24:46.700 First of all, that's just absolutely legal nonsense.

00:24:48.800 No lawyer would agree with that.

00:24:49.940 Second of all, it's logical nonsense, because what it would amount to would be, if you were

00:24:54.180 successful in covering up your crime through obstruction of justice, such that we weren't

00:24:57.860 able to establish it, then you also get off on the obstruction of justice charge.

00:25:01.660 You can't possibly countenance that.

00:25:04.380 But that's not what Barr said.

00:25:06.300 I read to you what he said.

00:25:08.520 That's crazy talk by Coyne.

00:25:10.780 He's a truther.

00:25:13.040 Barr said that he consulted with many lawyers.

00:25:15.940 Coyne isn't a lawyer, by the way, even if he plays one on TV.

00:25:18.700 Barr consulted with lawyers.

00:25:21.020 He consulted with Mueller, as I mentioned.

00:25:23.460 He consulted with Rod Rosenstein, the guy who hired Mueller in the first place.

00:25:28.120 And I read to you what they said.

00:25:30.200 They said that's just not enough to prosecute on.

00:25:32.340 Yeah, he badmouthed the commission on Twitter.

00:25:34.060 They didn't throw out the obstruction charge because they couldn't prove collusion.

00:25:41.160 They didn't say that.

00:25:44.020 Coyne just made that all up.

00:25:45.300 Why is he making it up?

00:25:46.520 Here, watch some more.

00:25:47.880 So the Democrats have called to see this full report.

00:25:50.640 Do you think eventually we'll see it?

00:25:52.260 I have to imagine eventually we will.

00:25:54.880 I think they have powers of subpoena, for example.

00:25:56.960 It would be remarkable if they didn't.

00:25:59.900 The Trump administration nevertheless seems strangely reluctant to release this report

00:26:03.720 that supposedly fully exonerates him.

00:26:06.300 But that will, I think, be both a political and, I suppose, a legal contest, I would expect.

00:26:11.760 He just made that up.

00:26:17.100 I didn't read you the whole thing, the whole bar memo, but several paragraphs in the four-page memo

00:26:22.260 point to precise legal statutes that forbid the report from being issued in public

00:26:29.340 without first having key parts redacted.

00:26:32.020 The very order that created the special counsel in the first place said so.

00:26:38.180 And there are confidential matters before grand juries that must be kept confidential.

00:26:41.800 Why is Cohen?

00:26:42.460 I don't even think he's lying.

00:26:43.420 I think he just made that up.

00:26:46.060 I think he actually didn't even read the memo about which the National Post is pretending

00:26:50.120 that he's an expert.

00:26:51.460 Or more likely, Cohen just gets his news from fellow Trump derangement syndrome sufferers.

00:26:55.880 I love that line.

00:26:57.060 Maybe they'll just subpoena it.

00:26:58.960 Is that how it works?

00:27:00.320 You just issue a subpoena and you can get confidential matters from another lawyer who

00:27:04.920 has them in confidence from a court?

00:27:07.020 What a quack.

00:27:08.080 What a con man Andrew Cohen is.

00:27:09.720 But I don't even think he realizes it.

00:27:11.900 I think he's just repeating garbage that he heard on MSNBC or the Young Turks or Vox or

00:27:17.620 Media Matters or some crazy place.

00:27:19.740 Here's some more.

00:27:20.260 So now the Attorney General has deferred to the Justice Department.

00:27:25.640 So will they be conducting their own investigation completely?

00:27:31.520 Or are they going to be referring to this Mueller report as well?

00:27:34.280 That's a question I don't think I'd be qualified to answer.

00:27:37.160 I would suppose the wheels of justice in America are many and complex.

00:27:42.740 And it's one of the strengths of the system is there are multiple sources of power.

00:27:45.860 It's harder to just shut things down the way you can, for example, in this country.

00:27:50.480 So not just on the obstruction of justice.

00:27:53.320 There are any number of processes that were kicked off by Mueller.

00:27:56.720 For example, in the Southern District of New York, the prosecutor's office there,

00:28:01.720 there are independent processes on different charges that can go ahead.

00:28:04.840 And there are independent sources within the Justice Department.

00:28:07.860 So it's not clear to me whether the Attorney General can just shut things down.

00:28:12.000 And if there are strands still to be pursued there in obstruction of justice, you may well see that.

00:28:18.480 Yeah, the shorter answer to that question would have been no.

00:28:23.120 They're not conducting a new investigation into obstruction.

00:28:27.880 I think Coyne just didn't know the answer to the question.

00:28:30.780 So he just talked word salad for a minute, just making things up.

00:28:35.600 Dude, if you don't know how to answer a question, especially about something technical,

00:28:39.080 just say so and move on to the next question, every single part of his answer there was made up.

00:28:46.120 The Attorney General did not shut things down.

00:28:49.340 Robert Mueller did.

00:28:51.300 The interviewer asked Coyne one last question about pardoning the people caught up in the inquiry.

00:28:56.840 What a great way to end. Take a look.

00:28:59.540 Including his, I'm sure, sincere belief at some level that he's innocent of everything.

00:29:04.780 So it's, it's, it's not inconceivable, but it's, I would say, still at this point, unlikely.

00:29:11.220 I know. Trump is so crazy to actually think he's innocent of collusion.

00:29:20.400 Coyne was chuckling over that.

00:29:22.320 Except that Mueller just said after two years of hunting, they found no collusion.

00:29:29.480 So, yeah, I think Trump does believe they found no collusion.

00:29:35.860 My friends, the National Post has fallen far, far, far.

00:29:39.540 They are an embarrassment every day.

00:29:42.460 And their tired, washed up columnist who comes across as an expert really knows nothing and just makes it up.

00:29:52.000 He just makes it up.

00:29:53.900 That is fake news.

00:29:56.620 That is a conspiracy theorist.

00:30:00.040 And I am so sorry to say that a newspaper that was once Canada's finest,

00:30:06.200 in fact, one of the finest in the world, has fallen so far.

00:30:12.600 Stay with us for more.

00:30:13.620 Thank you.

00:30:26.620 The ayes to the right, 286.

00:30:31.540 The noes to the left, 344.

00:30:35.660 Yay! 0.99

00:30:37.380 The ayes to the right, 286.

00:30:47.960 The noes to the left, 344.

00:30:51.600 So the noes have it, the noes have it.

00:30:54.680 Unlock!

00:30:55.520 Mr Speaker, I think it should be a matter of profound regret to every member of this House

00:30:59.740 that once again we have been unable to support leaving the European Union in an ordinary fashion.

00:31:06.820 The implications of the House's decision are grave.

00:31:11.040 The legal default now is that the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union on the 12th of April,

00:31:15.920 in just 14 days' time.

00:31:17.380 Well, they were supposed to leave today, but now Theresa May says they're going to leave in 14 days' time.

00:31:25.320 I'm not sure if I believe a single word she says.

00:31:28.260 Joining us now via Skype is one of our favourite rebel correspondents,

00:31:31.520 who herself happens to be a member of the European Parliament.

00:31:36.600 And I think her very job as an MEP hangs in the balance.

00:31:41.280 Janice Atkinson joins us now via Skype.

00:31:43.060 Janice, great to see you again.

00:31:44.980 Hi.

00:31:45.640 Hi, Ezra.

00:31:46.220 Yeah, I was supposed to be out of a job in two and a half hours' time, but Parliament has kept me in it.

00:31:52.620 I think maybe just to the 12th of April.

00:31:54.580 Then we can leave on World Trade Organization rules, I hope.

00:31:58.340 Well, that's the thing.

00:31:59.520 I mean, it's been about two and a half years.

00:32:02.440 It's bizarre to me that there's this 11th hour panic and redo.

00:32:07.660 These things should have been ironed out.

00:32:09.420 I remain a sceptic.

00:32:10.940 I think that the Prime Minister Theresa May and the Conservative Party don't actually want to leave.

00:32:17.440 And now they're just in throw anything at the wall mode.

00:32:20.780 But look, I'm not right in the thick of it.

00:32:22.840 What do you think is really going on?

00:32:24.060 We've got to remain Prime Minister, we've got to remain opposition and we've got to remain government.

00:32:30.480 And that's the problem.

00:32:31.340 The people voted to leave and the majority voted.

00:32:36.040 85% of the MPs that were sent to Parliament in a general election just two years ago all stood on a manifesto to leave the European Union.

00:32:46.360 And that's the problem.

00:32:47.180 We've got this enormous disconnect between the voters and the people in Parliament who are not representing us.

00:32:54.400 And I think social media programmes like this, that's opened up that chasm because people don't actually believe that they're being listened to.

00:33:01.980 And I was on the streets today.

00:33:03.600 I was filming for Rebel.

00:33:04.960 We'll be uploading that film soon.

00:33:06.920 And just people are just so angry that their representatives in Parliament have not delivered the will of the people.

00:33:13.600 And Mrs May never actually wanted us to leave.

00:33:16.480 She wanted us to leave on her terms with what's deeply flawed.

00:33:20.100 And we've got a few brave souls in Parliament, a few Brexiteers that are trying to push the real Brexit through.

00:33:27.700 I worry about our democracy, Ezra.

00:33:29.900 We have a first-class post system here.

00:33:32.280 And we've got some elections coming up in a few weeks' time, just local elections.

00:33:37.160 And it's going to be none of the above.

00:33:38.820 They're just going to be voting for Brexit parties or independent parties.

00:33:42.180 I think they've got one almighty shot coming to them in Westminster.

00:33:45.840 They don't deliver Brexit.

00:33:47.000 The new date is now the 12th of April.

00:33:50.100 The EU has already said, Ms. Barney and Mr. Tusk, they have organized an emergency meeting for, I think, the end of next week.

00:33:58.780 Because they don't want us to leave without a deal.

00:34:01.660 They've pushed it to the deadline.

00:34:03.400 She's pushed it to the deadline.

00:34:05.380 We're pushing it to the deadline.

00:34:07.060 And we're saying we leave on the start of April now.

00:34:09.880 No more shenanigans.

00:34:10.820 Well, but, I mean, it's been March 29th for two and a half years.

00:34:17.040 And to say, well, just two more weeks is actually an enormous concession.

00:34:21.560 Because whether it's two weeks or two years, you know, there has been agreement to break that date.

00:34:30.020 And I fear that that is the great, that that is the biggest crack in the dam.

00:34:35.380 And now if you can delay it once, you can surely delay it again.

00:34:38.360 If you can delay it for 14 days, why not delay it for 14 months, 14 years?

00:34:42.720 And I'm worried that a tremendous rage will pour out.

00:34:47.000 I can only imagine if in our country or for the United States, a general election with the largest voter turnout in history, as it was for Brexit, were foiled.

00:34:57.360 People would say, well, if the government doesn't believe in the rule of law anymore, why should I?

00:35:00.780 I think you would see at the very least civil disobedience and perhaps much worse.

00:35:06.600 There was talk about that today.

00:35:08.300 We managed to persuade people that, you know, they shouldn't be storming Parliament because at the end of the day, they got machine guns out there.

00:35:14.280 That's how much people are angry.

00:35:17.640 But it was still good natured on our marches today.

00:35:21.360 There were tens of thousands of people out, although the mainstream media are just reporting thousands.

00:35:26.720 I fear for our democracy because we had people that voted for the first time.

00:35:30.580 We had young people that voted for the first time.

00:35:32.740 We also had people that had refused to vote in a generation because they just didn't believe our politicians were delivering.

00:35:40.160 And we're here and down in Westminster.

00:35:41.920 We listen to you.

00:35:42.980 We want to hear what your views are.

00:35:44.900 Well, now they've been told.

00:35:46.340 And most people have been really let down.

00:35:48.200 So I think there will be civil disobedience.

00:35:50.640 There was a bit today with truckers and others, taxi drivers who had stopped the traffic around the periphery of London and in central London itself.

00:36:00.140 And I think you're going to see more direct action.

00:36:03.420 And those 2nd of May local elections coming up will be the real test.

00:36:07.720 But I agree with you.

00:36:08.800 We've got we had the 29th of March.

00:36:11.300 That's gone nearly.

00:36:12.500 We've got the 12th of April.

00:36:13.740 They'll do everything they can to extend that.

00:36:16.780 And I think they may even try to go into European elections.

00:36:19.880 And that will be each other's view, because what they don't want is a load of Brexiteers being returned to the European Parliament, which we'd just be infecting and disrupting the whole time.

00:36:32.560 That's their fear.

00:36:33.540 They don't want that.

00:36:34.700 So in lots of ways, they actually want us to go.

00:36:36.740 They want our money.

00:36:38.300 But we'll just be there being disruptors.

00:36:41.180 And what do the two main parties, the socialist Labour and the Conservatives, put in their manifesto?

00:36:46.880 How can you go into even a general election, let alone a European election?

00:36:52.880 And what do you say?

00:36:53.800 What do you say on that thing that's been that thing called Europe, which has been pestering away for the past 40 years in this country?

00:37:01.580 They'll be decimated.

00:37:03.960 Do you really think that Brexit will happen on April 12th?

00:37:07.740 Do you think it's most likely?

00:37:10.420 And leaving on WTO terms, that sounds like a good thing, I guess.

00:37:16.060 I mean, if there's no massive payment to the EU from the Brits and World Trade Organization terms, that's good enough.

00:37:22.800 Does it sound like that could actually be, even though it's two weeks delayed, which is a moral travesty, if it actually does happen, am I right to say that would be a good thing?

00:37:33.360 It would be a fantastic thing, because we want to be global Britain.

00:37:37.860 We want to take back control of our borders and our sovereignty and our laws.

00:37:43.040 And that can happen on the 12th of April.

00:37:45.280 There are many great countries ready to go with free trade agreements with us.

00:37:49.720 Australia, America, our Commonwealth friends.

00:37:53.280 So we've got nothing to fear from WTO rules.

00:37:55.600 And actually, the EU, under WTO rules, has to treat us as a favoured trading nation.

00:38:02.280 So nothing will change.

00:38:03.700 And the government has already published a report saying that we will reduce trade barriers, trade tariffs, by about 80%, 87%.

00:38:11.940 So we will have cheaper food, cheaper clothes.

00:38:14.260 What's not to like about that?

00:38:15.900 And then business have certainty.

00:38:17.420 At the moment, businesses have prepared for Brexit.

00:38:20.920 Calais ready, the port in Dover that is closest to Britain.

00:38:24.020 So our ports are ready, the airlines are ready.

00:38:26.620 We're all ready to go.

00:38:28.120 The only people that are not ready to go are the people in Parliament that are stopping it.

00:38:32.140 So will we leave on the 12th of April?

00:38:34.900 I doubt it, because I think the EU will be pushed to the edge, and they'll come out with some magic rabbit-hands of the fact.

00:38:42.800 I don't know what our main Parliament can do.

00:38:46.420 So I think we now have to look to Europe, unless our MPs suddenly discover what democracy means.

00:38:53.500 Yeah.

00:38:54.120 Well, I fear that since they have crossed the red line of moving the date, they can surely do it a second time more easily.

00:39:02.540 Let me ask you what you were doing today.

00:39:04.640 I look forward to watching your video on the rebel.

00:39:08.240 Tell us a little bit about where you were, what you saw, who you heard.

00:39:12.880 Tell us what was going on today at the Parliament buildings.

00:39:15.720 OK, well, we had an enormous stage.

00:39:19.260 It was funded by, well, it was sponsored by Tommy Robinson.

00:39:22.500 UKIP was there.

00:39:23.700 Gerard Batten, the leader of UKIP.

00:39:25.360 We had our veterans there on stage.

00:39:27.680 Many great patriots, all speaking.

00:39:31.220 There were quite a few MEPs.

00:39:33.160 I had a big screen up as well, and we listened to some of my European friends.

00:39:37.400 We had messages of support from MEPs and MPs from various countries, from Greece to Sweden to France, and, of course, the Netherlands, because they want Nexit.

00:39:48.520 Our Swedish friends want Swexit.

00:39:50.280 But we played those videos, and it's important to show to the people there today that you're not alone, that we have other people supporting us.

00:39:59.280 And, you know, the support that we've got for Rebel is absolutely phenomenal.

00:40:03.980 Lots of people said, hi, we love Ezra, we love your reports, Janice, we love what you did in Calais.

00:40:09.100 We laughed so much at the Remainer video that you made last week.

00:40:14.320 Keep up the good work is the message.

00:40:16.300 You've got an enormous fan base over here.

00:40:19.880 Well, that's great.

00:40:20.940 Well, Janice, we're so proud that you're flying the Rebel flag there in the U.K., and I'm very glad you were there, and I look forward to watching the videos.

00:40:27.560 Well, thanks for this update, my friend.

00:40:28.940 I can't say that I'm happy.

00:40:30.420 I thought today would be the end of it, and I am afraid.

00:40:33.540 I mean, I haven't been following it, obviously, as closely as you.

00:40:36.000 You're a proud British citizen, and you're actually a member of the European Parliament.

00:40:40.000 So this is a very important matter for you.

00:40:41.980 But from a few thousand kilometers away, I'm actually quite sad.

00:40:46.400 If it happens on April 12th, this two-week interregnum can be forgotten.

00:40:50.920 But I am terrified that they will pull some more tricks, that they've bought themselves more time.

00:40:55.820 Will you keep in touch with us and let us know how it goes?

00:40:59.480 Yeah, we'll do.

00:41:00.760 And you'll see the report on Monday.

00:41:02.900 All right, I look forward to it.

00:41:04.360 Thanks very much, Janice.

00:41:06.240 Bye.

00:41:06.620 All right.

00:41:07.300 That's Janice Atkinson, a member of the European Parliament, who joined us from her home in the United Kingdom.

00:41:13.440 Stay with us. More ahead on The Rebel.

00:41:26.060 Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Justin Trudeau's smug response to aboriginal protesters.

00:41:31.280 Bruce writes,

00:41:32.880 The shine is coming off the shiny pony.

00:41:36.100 Yeah, you know, I was never entranced by his charms.

00:41:41.280 I never fell for it.

00:41:42.720 So I don't feel disillusioned.

00:41:44.600 I just feel finally everyone's waking up from this lengthy slumber.

00:41:48.980 And I guess, well, better late than never, right?

00:41:51.360 I mean, better now, six months or so before the election campaign, than six months after the next election campaign.

00:41:58.540 Jan writes,

00:42:00.100 Trudeau's mocking the First Nations protesters may just be the final straw for Jody Wilson-Raybould to take action.

00:42:04.580 Yeah, it's funny you say that because today I see news that Jody Wilson-Raybould, in fact, recorded a conversation she had with the PMO.

00:42:12.480 I don't know if it was with the prime minister himself, but with someone she recorded it.

00:42:17.380 Why would you do that?

00:42:18.440 Why would you record a conversation with a colleague?

00:42:21.000 Like, that's really weird.

00:42:23.340 It's because, I would imagine, something terrible was happening, or she was afraid something terrible would happen.

00:42:29.280 Or something that she knew would be denied, so she had to capture proof of it.

00:42:37.020 I am tantalized.

00:42:38.840 And by the time this video goes to air, maybe we'll know what the recording was.

00:42:43.240 But I think Trudeau's clear BS on being an aboriginal supporter, just like it's clear BS and he's a feminist.

00:42:51.600 I'm not saying that's motivating Jody Wilson-Raybould.

00:42:53.760 I don't think it is, actually.

00:42:55.440 I think the corruption is motivating her.

00:42:57.080 But it's certainly exacerbating things, don't you think?

00:43:00.600 Robert writes,

00:43:01.840 Grassy Narrows is asking for more than we can give.

00:43:05.220 Yeah, you know, there is something that has been critically called the Indian industry.

00:43:09.980 It's lawyers and bureaucrats, often white, by the way.

00:43:13.240 Like, the whole Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and frankly, much of the Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women Commission,

00:43:21.580 it's basically white lawyers in Ottawa billing at 500 bucks an hour in the name of grassroots Indians.

00:43:27.800 So there's a lot of BS in the Indian Act.

00:43:30.540 It's like a huge funnel.

00:43:31.460 You pour in billions at the top, and maybe a few drops make it to grassroots Indians on reserve at the end. 0.68

00:43:36.500 But when you talk about mercury poisoning or Minamata disease, I think it's named after a place in Tokyo where the first mercury poisoning was really detected.

00:43:47.460 That's not lying.

00:43:49.140 That's not fooling around.

00:43:50.520 You're not padding lawyers' budgets then.

00:43:54.560 Then it's mercury poisoning.

00:43:56.020 And Trudeau promised a very specific mercury house or something, I think they're calling it, like a very specific health care promise.

00:44:05.560 It's not a BS thing like a political commission.

00:44:09.460 And he hasn't done it.

00:44:10.520 That was the specific ask there.

00:44:12.780 I'm sympathetic.

00:44:14.180 I'm sympathetic.

00:44:14.840 And it's quite pitiful that they had to spend 1,500 bucks to buy a ticket to get a moment of his time.

00:44:20.300 But frankly, it's probably the most effective 1,500 bucks they've spent.

00:44:24.920 Well, folks, that's the show for today.

00:44:26.680 I hope you enjoyed it.

00:44:28.700 I thank you for indulging me for my lengthy critique of Andrew Coyne on Robert Mueller.

00:44:33.460 But I thought it was not only interesting because the Mueller thing is quite interesting,

00:44:36.660 but just whenever you have a dead-to-rights proof that someone is engaged in fake news,

00:44:42.860 I think it's a very important moment to really document it so you never get bamboozled again.

00:44:48.640 All right, folks, till next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:44:51.660 to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:45:06.660 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - March 30, 2019

After Andrew Coyne's “embarrassing” video on the Mueller Report, “maybe the National Post should just shut down”

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